Jason Ritter
Appearances
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Welcome back, Jason. Thank you very much. Welcome, Melanie. Thank you. Thank you for having me.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
When I'm actually talking, I try to say as little as possible on a recap because I'm so anxious. I'm just trying to get through it. Just get through.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Oh, did you like it?
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah. Very good. Queenstown is amazing. We got to see that show. We've never seen that.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
How many kids do y'all have?
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Oh yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
It all happens. It happens so quickly like this morning on the way to drop her off to school. She told both of us that our hair was too crazy to do an interview today.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah. Too crazy. We both had to fix our hair before we came. Because she's like, what are you guys doing today? And we're like, oh, we're going to go and do. She's like, well, your hair is too crazy. You've got to fix it. You've got to fix it. Oh, my gosh. We did what we could. Yeah, no, it's looking great now. I don't know what you changed.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
It was always there, I think.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
No, her first word was moon. Moon? Yeah, moon, other than mama and dada.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
She pointed to the sky and she said, moon.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah, it was really cute.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
I mean, I think that's awesome. There really is like at our daughter's school, there's a range. Most people are pretty comfortable. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody said one day they were like, oh, you always know who's in the industry because they're either not here or they're in pajamas. And I was like, they're not pajamas. It's not quite.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
A lot of people are in pajamas.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
We've definitely brought the coffee into, especially assembly mornings. Oh, yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
I think also we have so little time at night. Like once we get our daughter down and then to watch something that's two hours and then like Oscar voting. Oh yeah. We had to watch so many movies.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
And it was like, I don't know. And then we just sort of ended up not getting into it.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
It's always so fun. Like we always do really get into it.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
And I like Grant. It's Grant, right? Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
You know, imagine if you shared what is usually your deepest trauma with somebody and they're just like, thanks for sharing. You just you'd feel so shut down. Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
It is strange that trauma dump dinners.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Is it like a formula? Do they think, oh, it's going to get the viewers on this person's side and make them connect?
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah. Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Thank you.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Thank you.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Thank you.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Thank you.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Thank you. Oh, he was so horrible to her.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
She's come a long way. We may never see another. Or what?
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
You should try.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Just go.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
If they are, if there is some kind of secret romance, it's a very attractive couple.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Oh, yes.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah. Yeah, there's something very, like, very appealing. I get it. I get it, Kyle.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah, I mean, we watch Too Hot to Handle. Oh, yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Well, we love the ultimatum.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
So.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
But you can keep multiple temptresses. Yes.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
We love Jesse Palmer.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Oh, and you're like. Say I was on the other island and I get this video from Jason.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
So annoying. Thank you. So annoying.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
That's pretty common. Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
That does sound interesting. It does sound really interesting.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
We do like the ultimatum, but we like the ultimatum because it's like, like some of these shows, people's like fixation on bodies. It's like they don't know anything about people other than what they look like. And then people are like, oh, my type. Like, that's not my type. That's it's like. Who has such a specific type when you don't, don't you need to know things about people?
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
I feel so scared for like the world sometimes. Because it's like the things that make you fall in love with a person, like people that I've been with, it's like all over the map. Like nobody looks like each other. It's so strange to have like a type, I think, and stick to it so religiously.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
You're my type.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
It's distilling people down to like, not even just bodies, but like body parts, parts of a body that you find appealing. And then the humanity is like stripped away. And of course, like men like that are going to go on a show and be like, well, I get to fuck whoever I want. Because there are body parts that are appealing to me and I'm used to these other body parts.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
And it's like this, I don't know, it just feels like the death of like empathy and feeling.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Even though you have green eyes, I'm finding you attractive. So it's like, what's happening?
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Again, she comes across as such like a... No, I just was feeling for Shantae. What a horrible... Oh my God, you're going to feel... You really do.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
It's also a lot less scary to have your own negative self-belief reinforced back to you than it is to believe in your own goodness and worth. And people just fall into traps where they don't feel good about themselves. They're with someone who makes them feel worse. And it's just like a cycle. They're just like, well, this makes sense to me.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
This works with my brain because that's what I'm already telling myself.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
And I'm on Temptation Island.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
How many seasons now is it on? Three. Yeah, the third season is airing right now.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah. So Matlock has been such a gift because it films here. So when I was doing Yellow Jackets and Jason was filming, I was going back and forth to Vancouver and sometimes I would go up and do a day and come back, you know.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
I came back every time, every chance I got. And most of the older cast is doing that because a lot of us have kids. So there's not a lot of like hanging out together time. It's nice when you do get to.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Oh, nice. A lot of great playgrounds. It's really good for kids. A lot of great kids stuff.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah. But I'm from New Zealand, so I'm used to it.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
On some words. Really? Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
yeah how cool also when you hear other little kids talk and they just fully have an American accent yeah she doesn't yeah yeah she has a little accent oh that's sweet and she's also lived in so many different places since she was born so she's so cool especially like the sound like or like for or something like that she says it much more like
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
It's such a kind of imagine doing it with someone who's like, oh, God, that's so annoying.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Sometimes people will be like, oh, my husband's babysitting tonight. And it's like, he's not babysitting. Just with his kid. You're not paying him to do it. He's parenting like you would. You wouldn't say, I'm babysitting tonight. It's interesting.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Why do we need to have a further conversation? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not like, I'm so grateful. It's like, yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah. I am so grateful. We're grateful for.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Yeah.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
I just can't imagine doing it with somebody who's not as invested.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
But we do other things with her that are fun. So she wants to do the other things. She wants to play. She wants to draw. She wants to do a puzzle. She wants to go somewhere. So I think you have to give them other options. Otherwise, of course, they're going to want to play.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
I think so. I don't know. Yes, Friday.
The Viall Files
E904 - Melanie Lynskey & Jason Ritter, Ari Shaffir, RHOBH, Temptation Island, Parenting & Side Hustles
Fridays.