{"id":14402,"date":"2025-06-06T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=14402"},"modified":"2025-06-06T22:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:44:16","slug":"mark-tallman-brings-his-athletic-edge-to-your-friends-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=14402","title":{"rendered":"Mark Tallman Brings His Athletic Edge to &#8216;Your Friends &#038; Neighbors&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Tallman is known for appearing in popular shows like <em>Damages,<\/em> <em>State of Affairs,<\/em> and <em>First Wives Club,<\/em> but his latest role as Nick Brandes in <em>Your Friends &amp; Neighbors<\/em> sees him parlay an impressive sporting background in order to bring authenticity to a charismatic character.<\/p>\n<p><em>M&amp;F<\/em> sat down with the athlete-turned-actor to find out how the man from El Paso, TX, likes to train, and we couldn\u2019t resist getting the details behind \u201cthat\u201d seriously memorable basketball scene too.<\/p>\n<p>Living up to his name, the 6\u20193\u201d Tallman towers over most Hollywood stars. In <em>Your Friends &amp; Neighbors,<\/em> his character, Nick, is a former NBA standout who is now retired and living in an affluent community\u2014juggling his \u201cStrong Ass Gym\u201d with other hilarious entrepreneurial efforts, like a space-age toilet that he hopes will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/news\/boxer-george-foreman-death-at-76-leaves-a-long-lasting-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take off just like the George Foreman Grill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smart toilet is something else,\u201d says Tallman of the audience\u2019s reaction. \u201cPeople love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But along with the comedy comes some serious rivalry. In the show, Tallman\u2019s character has recently broken a friendship code and taken the wife of his buddy, leaving John Hamm\u2019s character, Andrew Cooper, out in the cold.<\/p>\n<p>Casting the role would prove difficult because Tallman\u2019s character had to be believable as a confident former athlete while still being likeable despite hooking up with his pal\u2019s partner, played by Amanda Peet. With just a month to prepare, Tallman soon learned that the backstory to his character would require genuine fitness photoshoots for mock magazine covers, along with scenes showing him in the throes of swimming, basketball, and tennis.<\/p>\n<p>While the tennis technique required some coaching, the actor tells <em>M&amp;F<\/em> that he was all-in when it came to that memorable basketball scene in episode 3 which resulted in a friendly (but intoxicated) game going south \u2014 after his opponent got a gnarly broken leg for his efforts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:55.36519386835%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Acotr-Mark-Tallman-role-in-Apple-TV-Your-Friends-and-Neighbors-as-Nick-Brandes-.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" alt=\"Actor Mark Tallman role in Apple TV + Your Friends and Neighbors as Nick Brandes\" width=\"1109\" height=\"614\" data-fallback-img=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Acotr-Mark-Tallman-role-in-Apple-TV-Your-Friends-and-Neighbors-as-Nick-Brandes-.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">@tallmanmark\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Mark Tallman Breaks Down His Memorable Basketball Scene in \u201cYour Friends &amp; Neighbors\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Following the graphic leg break, the scene called for Tallman to continue play while being interviewed by the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it did take a long time to shoot\u201d he shares. \u201cParticularly because of the stunt involved, for someone\u2019s leg to break. But the basketball part, hey man, I\u2019m gonna toot my own horn,\u201d beams Tallman. \u201cI\u2019m being interviewed by the detective and shooting while acting. At the start of the scene, I think I say something like \u2018I hope you don\u2019t mind if I keep getting my shots in.\u2019 I had to shoot throughout that entire scene and in most cases with TV or film, they\u2019ll superimpose cut shots where the actor\u2019s shooting, and then they just show a ball going in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there was more to the shot than meets the eye. \u201cBut if you look closely, they were intentional about putting some full, wide shots in there because I was making them shots. Me and (Jonathan) Tropper, our creator, were going back and forth, and he said he was going to put some money on my percentage of shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Tropper taunting Tallman and telling him not to \u201cchoke,\u201d the athlete-turned-actor rose to the challenge. Of course, the big man wasn\u2019t about to miss a chance to compete. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.numeronetherlands.com\/in-conversation-with\/in-conversation-with-mark-tallman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tallman\u2019s sporting pedigree includes<\/a> being a former Division I football player who earned All-Star honors in high school in three sports: football, basketball, and baseball.<\/p>\n<h2>Mark Tallman Still Loves To Train<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI try to keep it simple,\u201d explains the actor of his attitude to staying in shape. \u201cI mean, I feel like the more complicated you get, the less motivated you are to do the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To avoid injury as he matures, Tallman says he works on his mobility as well as his muscle. The star says that several of his friends who retired as athletes have suffered with torn Achilles in the past, so he makes sure to strengthen that area with moves like bent knee calf Raises. In terms of pumping iron, the actor still loves to sweat it out in the gym, however. \u201cI try to incorporate two push movements and two pull movements,\u201d he explains. \u201cSay a bench press and an overhead shoulder press (for push day) and then on the flip side either pullups or lat pulldowns, and some sort of row, whether it\u2019s an upright row or bent (over) row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tallman tells M&amp;F that he generally opts for three sets of 10 reps per exercise, but when he\u2019s trying to get lean for a specific task, he will increase the volume to four sets of 15-16 reps, \u201cWhere it\u2019s just burnout type of stuff,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Your Friends &amp; Neighbors<\/em> proving to be a massive hit, Tallman has already been picked for Season 2, meaning that he\u2019s found comradery in a solid acting team, just like the bonds he enjoyed in the world of sports. While Tallman once looked to his athletic coaches to improve his game, he now has some highly experienced acting mentors, like the show\u2019s executive producer, John Hamm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he\u2019s a phenomenal actor,\u201d says Tallman.\u201d We all know that, so I already looked up to him from a work standpoint, but it\u2019s been really, really cool to observe the way he carries himself not only as an actor, (but) because he is just what you would hope he\u2019d be. He\u2019s a pros pro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/show\/your-friends--neighbors\/umc.cmc.74o37kzay0yuuub8iumddjsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Your Friends &amp; Neighbors is streaming now on Apple TV+.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tallmanmark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To follow Mark Tallman on Instagram, click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/interviews\/mark-tallman-brings-his-athletic-edge-to-your-friends-neighbors\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Tallman is known for appearing in popular shows like Damages, State of Affairs, and First Wives Club, but his latest role as Nick Brandes in Your Friends &amp; Neighbors sees him parlay an impressive sporting background in order to bring authenticity to a charismatic character. 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