Castle's Jon Huertas on A**hole Directors and His Own Glee Fantasy

Did you encounter any adversity as a musical theater major in the military?

No, not at all. The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and our comfort zones and our families. So there was a solidarity in the military, a brotherhood. So the nerdier, the weaker guys -- even though everyone has to be pretty strong to be in the military -- we were all brothers. There are always those odd circumstances where someone gets bullied but for the most part, all of those guys are my brothers and I think they think the same way of me. The loudest applause I got onstage at that time was always from my military brothers.

Every working TV actor always talks about what a joy and blessing it is to be on a TV series but what can you tell me honestly about working on Castle? There have to be some downsides.

Oh jeez. There are really no downsides. I've guest starred on other shows and there are some just nasty people that work on other shows. It really is such a joy to work on my show though. It's one big party. It's like a family reunion every day. We're all excited to see each other and be together. I'm trying to think of something bad I can say. Sometimes the air conditioning doesn't work?

That's all you've got?

There's no drama! There are lots of practical jokes that always go right. No one gets in trouble. No one's gotten hurt on the show. No one's gotten fired.

I don't believe that.

No, no one's gotten hurt or fired on the show. It's funny. When we did the pilot, we kind of all gathered around, the cast and producers, and said, "This is fun. We're having a good time doing this. Let's keep this going. If the show gets picked up, let's establish a No A**holes Policy." From that moment on, we've stuck to that.

I will say that during the first season, there was one director that came in. We were shooting a scene with a lot of background artists who had a very important cue timing-wise and they got it wrong probably three times in a row, by no fault of their own. It was just a really hard cue to make. But the director was getting frustrated and yelled out loud in front of everyone and it sounded like it was directed at them. As soon as it happened, I went up to the director and said, "Hey, I don't know if you heard but we've got a No A**holes policy. And what you did was, I'm not even going to say borderline, it was leaning towards an a**hole move. We don't do that here. We don't talk to people we work with like that."

He went back onto set and apologized out loud to those two guys and he's one of our best directors now. He's one of the top three directors in terms of how many episodes we've made. So he's been adhering to the No A**hole policy since that incident. That's the only time that I can think of something going wrong.

So you're pretty much the No A**hole policy enforcer.

I will call myself that but I think pretty much every single person on our show should call themselves that because what if I'm not there and Nathan [Fillion] has to bounce someone. He has to be ready.

I heard that your character has a big episode coming up.

There is an episode coming up that is informative about my character and maybe another character on the show. It's right after the holidays.

We also saw the pictures of Beckett and Castle finally kissing on set. That episode is supposed to air in January. Do you think that Beckett and Castle consummating their relationship will be a bad move for the series?

I think that if they just hook up and it's strictly a hook-up, I don't think it's a huge deal. If it becomes a relationship, I think that it could become something that's not so good for the show. But I think hook-ups are good things!

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