Yahoo TV has your first look at Sunday's all new episode of "Californication."
Oliver Cooper, who plays Hank's (David Duchovny) son, Levon, sets the scene for what's to come in "Getting the Poison Out."
The players: Levon, Hank, Marcy (Pamela Adlon), Karen (Natasha McElhone), a prostitute (chick in the sparkly dress), and her pimp (dude in the Metallica shirt).
The mission: De-virginize Levon.
The plot: "This episode was my favorite episode to shoot, it was the most fun," Cooper told Yahoo TV this week.
In our exclusive clip above, you can see Hank and Marcy scheming to finally get Levon some action. And if they have to pay for it? So what! (Much to Karen's dismay.)
"I don't want to give too much away, but you will want to see how it turns out for him," Cooper told us. "I had a blast making this episode."
Surely when you have a scene with all of those loveable degenerates, someone is going to break character, and Cooper said it was usually him who would start laughing first.
"I always have problems breaking up laughing," he exclaimed. "The last episode with the director when we got in a big fight — every time. I couldn't do a take where I didn't bust up laughing."
Shockingly, Cooper told us they all stick to the script and don't improvise during these scenes.
"Tom Kapinos who writes every episode himself — it's so well written you really don't [improvise]," he revealed. "Maybe a line here or there. I can't even think of something that was improvised in [this] episode or really the show. Maybe a word here to make it seem more like you, but it's very scripted."
So what else can we expect from Levon?
"All I can really say is that the bonding between me and Hank is going to be— it started off as a weird relationship, he is surprised he has a son and the kid's weird, but it [evolves]," he teased. "Starting in this [upcoming] episode it starts to take a turn where Hank sees something in me, he likes me, and we start to bond a lot."
Cooper and Duchovny bonded a lot off set, too, although their chemistry was au natural as they didn't meet before Cooper was cast.
"I never met him before shooting," Cooper told us. "We met at the table read. It's funny, I wasn't sure — I was a little nervous about that. I wasn't sure if he'd like me, I was an insecure actor. I was like, 'F---, I really do hope he likes me.' He is great. I really did genuinely feel like we had good chemistry, on and off camera. He's a really good guy and we're so different. We're such different people in real life, I think we played well off each other and that helped with our characters.
"He was my Mr. Miyagi," Cooper joked. "I learned a lot by watching [David]. I always like to be on set even when I'm not in the scene so I can watch and see how those guys do it."
"Californication" airs Sundays at 9:30 p.m. on Showtime; you can also check out Oliver Cooper in "Four Dogs," On Demand now.
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