Hudson Reflects on Overnight Success of HBO Max Series (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Because they've seen a lot of you.

[00:00:02] Speaker 2: Yes, they've seen every crevice and every pore.

[00:00:05] Speaker 1: Hudson, this is your breakout role. And the success of this show to a lot of people was sudden and just absolutely massive. How has it changed your life?

[00:00:18] Speaker 2: It's crazy. It definitely feels like an overnight rapid success. There was kind of a sprinkle of like, oh, maybe it'll do well or maybe it'll sell overseas. And the kind of level, the stratosphere it's reached is it's a little overwhelming. And definitely the privacy feels weird. You know, the relationship with the fans is like, you have to kind of draw the line at points. So it's a lot of people.

[00:00:42] Speaker 3: Because they've seen a lot of you. Lots of you. Yes. They know you. They've seen every crevice and every pore. You guys like never skip leg day. Like my main takeaway is, jeez. Setting the bar real high.

[00:00:59] Speaker 1: I know.

[00:00:59] Speaker 3: Look, you say it happened very quickly. This thing didn't get posted on HBO Max until in the United States, until like Thanksgiving, right? I remember, I surfed looking for good streaming shows all the time I'm going through. I'm like, oh, a hockey show. Yeah. Right? Fun. And it turns out it is super fun. It's not necessarily the hockey show that I thought it was going to be when I just clicked on it. But that was like five weeks ago. And now it's, honestly, you hear people talking about it everywhere.

[00:01:28] Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, none of this, like Connor and I were both like, are we in a bubble? Like, is this actually, people are talking about it as an algorithm that's just catering to us? But it is crazy when you start to go to places. You're like, surely no one will recognize me here or talk about it. And they're like, oh, wow. Yeah.