Brian, can I ask you a question?

Brian Austin Green: Nah, I'm just here for breakfast. I wasn't told I was asking any questions.

Last year you sort of had the challenge of overcoming--well maybe it wasn't so much of a challenge--maybe it was just us--but overcoming--

Brian Austin Green: it was more of a challenge for you, yeah.

But this year people can accept you for the character that you played already. So what do you see this character going forward?

Brian Austin Green: Well that's up to Josh, you know.

Josh Friedman: before this breakfast I had big plans for him.

Brian Austin Green: Yeah

Josh Friedman: but he's been such a dick to me this whole breakfast--

Brian Austin Green: I'm down to a 3 out of 10 contract unfortunately--after this breakfast.

Josh Friedman: it's been very painful, because Brian and I actually do know each other biblically. It's been very painful.

Brian Austin Green: surprisingly gentle, Josh.

That's a picture I don't need in my head.

Brian Austin Green: no, he's a sweetheart.

Josh Friedman: I was very gentle with him. He's also played the urinal a couple of times.

Shirley Mason: Okay, time out everybody.

Brian Austin Green: Holy shit. Golly. Alright, I play a urinal sometimes, yes. I'll pick up with that one, thanks. Um, I really don't know what's coming up. I'm kind of, I'm surprised from episode to episode what's going on. I don't know too far in advance what's happening, I know the next episode.

You feel more comfortable in this guy's skin now, obviously.

Brian Austin Green: Um, yes and now. I mean, I don't know if I ever could completely feel comfortable, acting. It's a strange process. Like Shirley was talking about a little bit, it's really different from other things. In the sense of you do what you do but that's all you really have control over. The rest of it is up to everybody else. It's up to the director and the editors and you know. So you don't really know how it's going to turn out until you see it. Which is, luckily I really enjoy watching the show because I'm always happy with how it turns out.

Do you enjoy that, the not knowing where the character is going in the whole arc?

Brian Austin Green: it's interesting.

If you do a movie you obviously know where the character is going

Brian Austin Green: yeah. It's interesting. Um, it's fun. It can be a bit confusing at times, I have to ask a lot of questions. We shoot out of order here which is even more confusing, so the front page of our script is usually a description of what's happened before this script that we haven't read and don't know anything about. So it'll say okay, this is episode 6 but in episodes 4 and 5 this is what happened, you know, so you're kind of reading this short run down and synopsis of what's going on. But Josh is always on set, James Middleton's always on set, so they're really good at giving us whatever information we need.

Do you find yourself making decisions about things that might be undone in later episodes in plot-forward episodes?

Brian Austin Green: If you ask the right questions, no, and that's all I can do. I can ask as many questions as I feel I need in a scene to make sense of what I'm doing and why, and then that's it.

And Josh will give you the answers?

Brian Austin Green: Josh will give me the answers, always.

How about you Shirley, on the sort of not knowing and playing the character in the moment of the episode but not knowing what the future is?

Shirley Mason: I’m good with it simply because I've known nothing else. I've not had another acting job where I've had the full arc of the character described to me before hand, so it is what it is, and I feel like, as Brian says, if you ask the right questions then you know, like any human being or robot or any life experience, there are certain decisions you can make that aren't going to interfere with the timeline, if that makes any sense. There's always the core--

Brian Austin Green: I mean, television is a much, has a much more drawn out long life than films do. They're just a completely different monster that way. A lot of film scripts are almost direct time, they're within the timeline, so they'll be an hour and a half of time in this person's life, or a week of life. We're playing a year's worth of time, so I don't necessarily need to know how it ends or where it's going as long as I know how I'm getting there. Then they can throw whatever they want at me and its just the natural progression. You make it the natural progression.

What episode are you guys on right now?

Brian Austin Green: eight.

Shirley Mason: nine I think. ten.

Josh Friedman: nine.

Brian Austin Green: it's the ninth one--no after this one--doesn't matter. Ninth episode.

Are there going to be more--at what point do you and the writers say to yourselves no more people from future?

Josh Friedman: not for a while. I don't know, there are some people who are 'why do people keep coming back?' well first of all I think, well, there's not a lot of people that come back from the future. We've had really only one person, one group of--well, four people came back but only one of them have survived. That was only one event. I know that originally in the mythology it was all like it's very difficult for people to come back and we don't want to see you know, I would never want to try to come back--

One of the most interesting episodes last year was when you had the flash forward to the future.

Josh Friedman: yeah.

Are you going to do that again you think?

Josh Friedman: yeah. we've done it.

So we're going to see more of the future?

Josh Friedman: yes, yes.

Is Shirley going to sing anymore?

Josh Friedman: no, no, she's done, she's not required to sing anymore.

Did you watch 90210?

Brian Austin Green: No, I missed it. I'm going to watch it tonight, though.

So you're not avoiding it, that’s a chapter of my life that's passed--

Brian Austin Green: no.

Were you aware of everyone that's back and Silver being a character and--

Brian Austin Green: yeah, yeah.

Shirley Mason: it's his mythology. Well no, I mean it is.

Do you feel sort of a proprietary aspect to it? Like if they might screw up your back story and--?

Brian Austin Green: I don't know if you could possibly screw up my back story any more than it was screwed with over ten years. Um, no, it's a new start, it's a new show, and the audience that's watching is new. A lot of them were too young to watch ours. So it's a new cast and it's a new take on it. I can't, sort of a new cast? Well, you've got the two that came back, you know. Shannon and Jennie.

She said some very nice things about you.

Brian Austin Green: she did. I know, I actually sent her a text message yesterday.

Given that the character is still sort of in the background of the story, is there any chance under which you'd drop in for five minutes?

Brian Austin Green: I don't know.