Josh Duhamel: I have a lot of experience actually…

Minka Kelly: Acting. 

Josh Duhamel: While drunk. Singing karaoke. 

Minka Kelly: I remember being like, "God, you're so good at this."

[Josh laughs, upbeat country music plays]

["I Only Wanna Be With You" plays, Staten singing drunkenly]

[CLIP] Patron: [cheers] Yeah, Staten. [Staten continues singing] 

Minka Kelly: This is actually one of my favorite scenes that we did.

Josh Duhamel: It was originally Shania Twain, who I think is fantastic, but I was like, "I don't know if this character would be belting Shania Twain in the bar." "Can we do something else?" They're like, "Well, what do you think?" I said, "I love Hootie & the Blowfish." That was, like, my anthem in college. It's always a scary thing to try to play drunk, because it's a very easy thing to overcook. These scenes can go off the rails quickly if you don't have somebody who's great. And you were just fantastic in this.

[Minka laughs]

Josh Duhamel: Here I am afterwards. Trying to get a piece. [chuckles] You're like, "Dude, go to bed." 

Minka Kelly: The part where you … balance yourself and you put your hands up … [laughs]

Josh Duhamel: [laughs] Anybody who's ever been drunk has done that.

[Minka laughs]

Josh Duhamel: "Look, I'm totally fine …"

[Josh groans]

Minka Kelly: This. My favorite. Do you know how hard that was to not laugh?

[both laughing]

[CLIP] Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel): He looked at me and I felt it. 

Josh Duhamel: What I like about this relationship is that we've known each other forever. And he originally had this real thing for you, but he just put the blinders on … I think for the first time he sees you through a totally different lens. And doesn't know how to express it. 

Minka Kelly: And I think in this moment too she's finally like, "I can't fix you." "I might've thought I could this whole time …" Her head and her heart are in such conflict. Her heart wants nothing but to fall into your arms right there, but her brain is just telling her she can't trust this. Typically, in television, this would be the moment where she would go, "Finally." "Thank you. Okay."

[music continues] 

[CLIP] Quinn O'Grady (Minka Kelly): It's too late. [crying] 

Minka Kelly: I remember even watching this with my boyfriend and he was like, "Don't do it." And when she says, "It's too late," he's like, "That's why this is such a great show."

[both laughing] 

[CLIP] Teen Staten (Jack Cain): I was wondering if maybe you'd like to… 

[CLIP] Teen Amalah (Ava Phillippe): I'd love to dance. 

Minka Kelly: Could've corrected her in that moment and said, "Actually …"

Josh Duhamel: [chuckles] Yeah. "I think he was talking to me, bitch."

Minka Kelly: [laughs] Yeah. "Excuse me. I'm pretty sure he was looking at me." I love how easily these two can fall into just bickering with each other. Because they can't just be soft and loving with each other, because it's too scary, it's too vulnerable. So they just jab each other all the time.

Josh Duhamel: Yeah. I love how we decide to finally consummate this relationship during a tornado.

Minka Kelly: Yeah.

Josh Duhamel: What better time?

Minka Kelly: Sounds dangerous.

[both laughing]

Josh Duhamel: Yeah. 

Minka Kelly: The world's ending, we might as well.

[CLIP] Davis Collins (Eoin Macken): What's that smell? Is that lavender?

Josh Duhamel: Davis kind of had it coming.

Minka Kelly: He totally had it coming.

Josh Duhamel: That's what he was trying to do.

Minka Kelly: He did it on purpose.

Josh Duhamel: They're trying to prove I'm a loose cannon. And … apparently I am.

Minka Kelly: Pushed you hard for that.

Josh Duhamel: We broke the table.

Minka Kelly: Oh, yeah. That's right.

[music continues] 

[CLIP] Quinn O'Grady (Minka Kelly): I think that all you want is your own pain. 

Josh Duhamel: Is that a thing?

Minka Kelly: Yeah. Some guys think it's real …

Josh Duhamel: Is there a 12-step program? 

Minka Kelly: … to become addicted to the drama. You can be addicted to it. I grew up in chaos. And so, for so much of my life I kept recreating the chaos and blaming everybody else. I was such a victim, and it was everybody else's fault. Eventually I was like, "Wait, I'm the common denominator in all this."

[Josh laughs]

Minka Kelly: "What am I doing?"

Josh Duhamel: Good for you for figuring that out.

Minka Kelly: Well …

[Josh sighs]

Minka Kelly: It's very human. 

Josh Duhamel: I'm very curious to see where it goes from here, because she's off to New York … Can you imagine this hick, Staten Kirkland, showing up in New York in his boots and hat? [laughs]

Minka Kelly: I just want to see you in your cowboy hat coming up the escalator.

Josh Duhamel: Plays guitar in his …

Minka Kelly: In his underwear?

Josh Duhamel: In his underwear.

Minka Kelly: In Times Square?

Josh Duhamel: And cowboy hat. That's what Staten does.

Minka Kelly: That's where he winds up. 

Josh Duhamel: He ends up making extra money in Time Square. Singing Hootie.

Minka Kelly: Singing Hootie.

[both laughing]