Tim Minear

Dylan Baker ("John Trimble")

IGN TV: Do all actors dream of getting to do a racing show?

Dylan Baker: Well it’s funny, a lot of the people in it, we thought that we would be doing more driving. Because right now, it’s a lot of green screen, and then they let the pros take over. But every now and then, there’s this car... I won’t tell you why, but I’ve been driving a Solstice every now and then, and I’m not actually the one driving it. But the person who is can’t actually drive a stick well, so to get back to the first place, so we can do another take, they let me drive the car back. So I’ve been having a ball, driving this Solstice around! So we get in our driving whenever we can.

IGN TV: What’s it like doing the green screen scenes?

Baker: The great thing is that sometimes you’ll have five or six scenes and they’re cut up and split up. And usually you’d have to film this one and then this one and then go back and film this one. But with green screen, you get to do them all back to back, and you get to have a kind of flow to the thing. So actor’s actually love it! It’s like, okay, I’ll pretend I’m in a car driving. That sounds good! I can do that?

IGN TV: How does your character come to be in the race?

Baker: I am a dad, which is definitely my big thing. And my daughter Violet is with me. I’m a rocket scientist, John Trimble. Basically, he’d never do this, but something happens that you’ll see in episode two on Sunday night that causes me to change my mind and throw myself head first into this race. And it’s all about the competition and all of the sudden having to talk to my 17 year old daughter. And I don’t think she’s talked to me much in the past few years, but now she’s forced to because it’s just the two of us in a car.

IGN TV: How is it working with your TV daughter, Emma, since you have so many scenes together?

Baker: I’m just crazy about Emma Stone. She’s the best. She’s really great. She’s a young actress, but you feel like she’s a Borscht Belt comedian, because she’s always cracking up, but really a good worker and I think we got a good relationship in the show.

IGN TV: Have you had scenes with other characters besides Violet yet?

Baker: A few. It’s been pretty limited so far. I’ve worked with Rochelle Aytes, who’s in another car, but now all of the sudden we got together. And now Taryn Manning, we started having little scenes together. Just in bits and pieces, you start to work together.

IGN TV: How is it working with Tim Minear?

Baker: He’s great! He’s mostly strapped to his keyboard, just writing and writing and writing, because there’s so much to get done. But I love the relationship that he built between me and Emma. I think it’s really fun, and it’ll be fun to explore.

IGN TV: Do you ask a lot of questions about what’s to come for your character?

Baker: I certainly asked, and I said some things like, "Now is this going on? And what about this? And my marriage, what’s going on with that?" And they kind of said, "We’ll think about that..." So I get the feeling that we’re all exploring this as it goes. I mean every time I get a script, I’m like, "Where did this come from?" There’s these huge twists and shifts that I didn’t expect to happen, so it’s pretty interesting. I don’t mind them not telling me, as long as they keep it this good!