"I was just exhausted... the show was all filmed on a green screen.... I was in every take of every shot, every day..."

"... with no other actors or props or anything, just sort of standing in a void for years and years. My real job was listening. Most children’s television talks to the camera, right? That’s kind of an established convention. But what 'Blue’s Clues' did that I think was really a breakthrough is we listened. I worked really hard on making that as believable as possible. And that was becoming more and more challenging every day to do. The entire time I was on that show, I was struggling with undiagnosed, severe clinical depression and I didn’t know what was going on. That made my job extra hard."

Says Steve Burns, interviewed in "Steve from ‘Blue’s Clues’ Was Here for Us All Along/The former star of a beloved children’s show survived the rumors of his own demise and then found a new home on social media. He is still ready to listen" (NYT).

It was nice to see this article after running into him on TikTok... where he listens to all of us quite compellingly.