“It was really like an amazing NBA team, the Lakers or the Chicago Bulls back then, everybody played their position, so everybody got the rock and everybody scored.”
“People who meet me and get to know me for the first time often say, ‘I never thought you would be like this,’ because of the character that I played, which is most often a good thing. Tommy always said it takes a smart person to play dumb.”
One of leading man Martin’s best friends since childhood, the character of Cole was often labeled “stupid” by others on the show, but according to Payne, he was more “naive” and eccentric than an actual imbecile, not unlike other scene-stealing oddball characters such as Phoebe from “Friends” or “Seinfeld’s” Cosmo Kramer.
After some thought, however, Payne concedes that he was also a bit naive as a young man in the business, having child-like expectations early on that were adjusted as he slowly learned the ins and outs of his industry. “Sometimes it’s gotten people in trouble because they think they know you,” Payne says of fans who associate him with the character a bit too closely. Remember, it’s just a character, just a job.
Payne most recently found his love for directing, taking the helm for several episodes of Nickelodeon series, “Young Dylan.” “Oh, that’s my new s–t,” Payne tells us of his love of directing. “I’m all in. You get to be at your most creative, but it’s also a lot of responsibility, because you are the captain of the ship.”
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