by the totality of the pandemic. many restaurants around the country are closed and many of the us may not reopen. when you look at big moments like that, how do you face it? what do you do? it was so not in our playbook. the guy who started his pizza joint in the back of a grocery store in 1988 had by now expanded to four restaurants in phoenix, arizona. there we go. get a good shot there. there it is. the first time i showed up at your place, the maitre d was telling people, it s four hours. now, i know you re used to this. but that s a remarkable thing to have in a constant basis. people have been waiting in lun for four hours to eat your pizza. all of a sudden the pandemic hits. what do you do? it was like a movie we could never imagine in the country. i didn t have a strategy. i have had that st. petersburg. i pizza. it s very good.
you know, yeah, i think i would. and the other question is, i read somewhere that at the time you were making that movie, both you and he, rodrigo santoro, had been dumped in real life. yes. we had been. and that you both enjoyed having a kissing scene. we were both brokenhearted. we really were. and we looked at each other, guess what? we get to make each other feel better today. it was very, very sweet. still to come, linney reveals the secret behind playing her most famous role as the ruthless mom in ozark. and the ripple effect it s had in real life. i walk into restaurants and the maitre d s get nervous very quickly. versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv
i mean, shows don t come along like ozark very often for an actor. it was a perfect environment in which to work. jason bateman was the greatest leader that you could have. it was just a heavenly situation. and she was just fun because she is so impulsive and she s wildly immature. she s very, very shrewd. and she s very smart. but she is not a mature human being. impulsively, she s all over the place, very reactive. and i am not that way. i am fairly cautious. i can certainly explode, like everybody, but it doesn t happen very often. and i am a little controlled. note to file, don t piss laura linney off. i walk into restaurants and the maitre d s get nervous very quickly. i can see a little twitch in someone s face. let s talk about the breadth your career. you ve been described as an actor s actor. juilliard trained.
and the fact that the mccanns and their friends spent each evening at the tapas bar may have made them a target. reservations were made for them every evening. they block-booked a table, the same table by the pool, within the holiday complex. and they kept to a pretty rigid timetable. they would eat, more or less, at the same time each night. and, of course, the maitre d would ve been, like, great, okay, reservation book, scribble at the top, you know, the mccanns and friends will eat every night at this table. there s a belief that maybe the abductor or the person who took her saw that note, knew she was sleeping back there. operation grange was spending a lot of money, trying to do all the efforts to find madeleine. there are lots of opportunities, lots of new leads, and new information crucially emerging, which will be incredibly useful for taking us forward.