TV Interview!
Interview with Felix Wolfe of “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” on NBC by Suzanne 4/9/25
I really enjoyed speaking to Felix about his role as Ford on this fun show. He’s young, but he’s been working since he was 2 years old! Now, we’re only allowed to use the audio for this one, but I hope you can enjoy it, anyway. Near the end of our chat, I noticed that he had a large mannequin with a Robin suit (as in Batman and Robin!), so I had to ask him about that, too. You can see the photo below in the “video.” Don’t forget to watch the next episode of the series tonight! He has some juicy story in it.
Here’s the transcript, generated with Descript, but it hasn’t been fully proofread yet. I hope to do that soon.
Suzanne: How are you doing, Felix?
Felix: I’m wonderful. Suzanne, now that I’m with you, how are you?
Suzanne: Pretty good. Pretty good.
Felix: Good.
Suzanne: Suzanne: So, uh, I read on IMDB that you were born in San Diego. Did you grow up there too?
Felix: I, thanks for checking that out. That’s awesome. Uh, I did, I was born in San Diego. No, I, I really, all my fundamental years was, was la I moved to LA when I was like three.
Suzanne: Okay.
Felix: MFelix: y dad’s from la so, so it was like a. Cultural. It was an easy shift, but born and raised. SoCal? Yes, but not. ‘
Suzanne: okay. Well, I’m the opposite because I was born up in Northern California and grew up in San Diego, so that’s why I asked.
Oh, fantastic. Okay. Then you know how good the fish tacos are?
Suzanne: Oh yeah. Although actually they didn’t really have those back when I was growing up. Uh. It’s a more recent, like last 20, 30 years. I’m, I’m a lot older than I looked.
Felix: What you 23, 24?
Suzanne: Yeah. Right, exactly.
Felix: Yeah.
Suzanne: Yeah. Add about 40 years.
Felix: Good on you. You look fantastic.
Suzanne: Yeah. It’s funny. All the Mexican food, we didn’t have much Mexican food when I was growing up there. There weren’t like avocados everywhere, at least in my part of San Diego, but
Felix: Sure, sure. We, they shifted. They’re with us Up and up and up.
Suzanne: Yeah. So what’s it been like working on the show with Melissa Fumero and others?
Felix: I mean, it’s, it’s been fantastic. I mean, Melissa’s the a, a dream to work with. I don’t think it gets better than that. She’s just not only such a well-versed and extremely talented artist, that feels just so wonderful to get to, to play around with on screen. But, but, arguably in even more incredible human being and just such a wonderful, wonderful. I think personality to have on set. She makes everyone, you could just see it. She makes everyone feel so much better and smile and. She has this comforting warmth about her that I feel is so, nice, grateful to be around. So yeah, I feel very grateful. And obviously the rest of the cast is like, yeah.
Suzanne: But you worked with her more than, than anyone.
Felix: I did. Yeah. Yeah, I worked with her the most.
Suzanne: And you, uh, not to have any spoilers, but you have, in this upcoming episode, you have a very emotional scene with her. Was that, uh, challenging?
Felix: It was surprisingly easy, I think because we had spent so much time together and, and, and. Fo Foster. Such an honest, real, I think real life, uh, you know, kind of bond that I, I, I think it just, it translated so easily on screen it in so many ways. The words that I say in those scenes very much stem from a place of like imagining if I was really talking to just her and, um. You know? Yeah. How much I, I, I adore her. And so those sentiments, I think the emotions are stemming from a very real place and I think that makes it extremely easy just because she’s so wonderful.
Suzanne: Well, I’m sure her ears are burning. so your character’s been training to be a pitcher, and had you pitched or played baseball much before this?
Felix: Yeah, I grew up playing baseball. and it was something that when the writers found out, they were very excited about
Suzanne: Oh, good.
Felix: …Easily incorporated into the character. Yeah, I, I, I played baseball the way through high school and, uh, we were a pretty good team and I got to be captain and it was really fun. And Pitcher was one of the positions I, I primarily, primarily was shortstop and pitcher and, so pitching was, was something I grew up doing and, and
Suzanne: Oh, that’s nice.
Felix: It’s convenient. It worked out. It worked out.
Suzanne: Yeah. You didn’t have to work with somebody to look like you knew what you were doing or anything. You already did.
Felix: Yeah. Thank, thankfully, I was like, I don’t want to be on any of those, those edits. I please. So, no, that’s right. Tried my best. I don’t know how it turned out.
Suzanne: So you’re 23, but you’re playing a teen. Was that, uh, did that just come easily? ’cause you’ve been a teen or was, did you have to think about What was I like back then or,
Felix: Yeah. Uh, I mean, I. I mean, I’m, I’m 22 years old, but I feel very, I think I still feel very adolescent in so many ways. I think, I think I, I don’t feel understand people are disconnected from that. I wish I was like, oh, back then. But no, I think I’m in a lot of ways still very, very, rambunctious and, and very much, uh, but I think I’ve always just been a bit. Me, like, I don’t know. You know, I, I, even when I was little, I feel like the verse, whoever that kid was at, like eight years old, 17 years old now, 22, it’s kind of always been the same guy. Right? So same. Yeah.
Suzanne: So, but you’ve been in front of the camera since you were pretty young, right? Like five or six or something?
Felix: Uh, yeah. I, I booked my first part technically when I was two, and then I became. When I was six. and yeah, so I’ve been doing it a long, long time, that’s for sure. It’s been ingrained in my life.
Suzanne: That’s amazing.
Felix: Thank you.
Suzanne: I’m always surprised when I hear about some actor, actress that I’ve seen in the movies, and I go and I look at their, their history and go, oh my gosh, she’s been a child actor. Just like, I don’t know. It just always, it is like, why don’t I know that? It’s like I should all know that.
Felix: No, it’s, it’s, it’s totally understandable.
Suzanne: I’m always surprised if somebody does know that. I’m like, oh, wow.
Felix: Thanks.
Suzanne: So, anything, uh, that you can tell us about the, uh, upcoming episodes at all that you’re allowed to tell us?
Felix: Well, I’m very excited about it. I’ve heard great things, from, from people behind the curtain. They seem very excited about it. I remember when we shot it, it was, yeah, I think you kind of touched on it. It reaches some, some emotional places that I think are incredibly powerful. And I meant, I, when I first read it, and then obviously when we shot it, it meant so much for me as an actor to see that the, the creators and the writers were willing to let the character. go there. And I think let those, those relationships reach those kinds of places, for better or worse. So I, I, I’m extremely excited for fans to kind of see, the emotional depth that these characters will reach, especially forward. And I think it’s a big turning point. I think episode eight’s a, a big turning point for him, and, and I remember really enjoying,
Suzanne: And are you gonna, are you gonna have some emotional scenes with your, the foster parents as well?
Felix: Maybe who knows? Maybe can’t tell.
Suzanne: Okay. And, uh, do you have any other projects coming out or that you, or that you’re working on or anything you tell us about?
Felix: Nothing I can say right now. We, well, hopefully soon I can, but, but yeah, I’m, I’m, I will say this, I’m very excited for the future. I feel very honored. And this show is. It’s been wonderful to work on and, and, and, has introduced me to so many incredible new faces and new people. So I’m, I feel extremely fulfilled, uh, as an, as an artist and as a, as a human being. So, yeah, I’m, I’m excited to see what the rest of 2025,
Suzanne: yeah, I’m looking forward to it. I, I am just keeping my fingers crossed for season two. I don’t know if that’s a possibility or not, but. That’s your business. I know, but I’d like to think possibility.
Felix: If you believe in it. I believe in it.
Suzanne: Okay. Okay. Okay. Uh, I just wanna see some kind of closure for the characters if, if it doesn’t have a season two, and I don’t think I want to get that.
Felix: So maybe, I mean, I feel satisfied with, with the, the ending of season one, but that does not mean that I’m not exci incredibly eager for season two.
Suzanne: Right. Right, right. Well, it’s been a good dramatic show for you. You’ve done a lot of sitcoms and things. I know you’ve done some drama, but would you say this was more drama than you normally deal with in new shows?
Felix: Yeah, I would say that it’s, it’s the, the prolonged, I think the overarching storyline, you know, for, for a character. Uh, my characters had a substantial amount of time to really grow within a dramatic space. So I feel very, um. Grateful for that. Yeah. ’cause usually the more dramatic stuff has been more, you know, episodic or, or, you know, momentary kind of wrapped up in an hour or 30 minutes or less kind of a thing.
Suzanne: Right.
Felix: So this opportunity has, has allowed, you know, for me, for months to perform and then obviously over an entire season I character to really grow and reach a lot of different places within, within himself. And that’s been really fun to, to kind of get, to dig deeper within that. So yeah, it’s been, it’s been great.
Suzanne: Okay. Well, thank you for talking to me. I appreciate it.
Felix: Thank you, Susanna. I really appreciate it.
Suzanne: Which Superhero, is that behind you? Is that Robin?
Felix: That, that’s Robin, yeah. It gray. Okay. Yeah, I wanna be, uh, I’m, I’m aiming for, I know James Gunn’s cooking something up at d dc in the DCU, so I want be Dick Rayon, so we’ll see.
Suzanne: That would be great. I would love to see that.
Felix: I built, I built that. That’s mine.
Suzanne: Oh, wow. What is, I mean. Suit.
Felix: It’s a suit that you built.
Suzanne: Okay. Yeah.
Felix: Yeah. It’s like an armored suit. It’s like all the pieces are separate and everything. Wow. So, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I, I designed that and then I hired some people to be like, can we put this together? And then we’re that
Suzanne: neat. I like that. Do you go to Comic-Con.
Felix: I’ve been once once. Isn’t that crazy? Yeah. And I dress with Spider-Man ’cause he is my favorite.
Suzanne: Oh, okay.
Felix: Yeah, I haven’t busted this one out yet.
Suzanne: I have three older brothers and they were on the first San Diego Comic-Con, uh, committee, so I used to go a lot when I was a kid. I haven’t been in a long time though, because I don’t live there any more.. That’s Well, hopefully. Hopefully I’ll, hopefully I’ll be there. Honestly, I’d love to go for like. Roll if I’m doing, you know?
Felix: Yeah, that’d be great. Thank, hopefully I see you.
Suzanne: Thank you so much, and I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you to play, Robin.
Felix: Oh, thank you, Suzanne. I appreciate it.
Suzanne: And from season two of this show.
Felix: Thanks
Suzanne: both of them.
Felix: Let’s do it. I appreciate, I hope to see you at the Comic-Con.
Suzanne: All right. Bye-bye.
Felix: Cheers.
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Felix Wolfe
Ford, “Grosse Pointe Garden Society”
Felix Wolfe plays Ford on the new NBC drama “Grosse Pointe 
Garden Society.”
Wolfe booked his first role at the age of 2 with a gradual climb up the talent pool of young Hollywood. Since then he has honed his craft with roles in Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender’s “Zero” as well as Disney’s “Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything” and “Raven’s Home.”
Other TV roles on Wolfe’s resume include “Bones,” “The Mentalist” and “House” as well as voiceover for “The Land Before Time – Journey of the Brave” and the Emmy Award-winning children’s series “Pete the Cat” on Amazon Prime.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society
Series Premiere Feb 23 on NBC (10pm ET/PT)
“Grosse Pointe Garden Society” follows four members of a suburban garden club who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.
The cast includes Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport, AnnaSophia Robb, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge, Nancy Travis and Felix Wolfe.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society is written and created by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs. They serve co-showrunners and executive producers alongside Casey Kyber.
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