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Sweet, Sweet Revenge With ASHLEE EVANS-SMITH From THE WORKOUT · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, you are listening and watching Ashley Evan Smith.
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  Speaker 1: I am a former UFC fighter and I have making
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  Speaker 1: my debut premiere in acting and stunts in the upcoming
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  Speaker 1: film The Workout. It's an action movie that picks ass
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  Speaker 1: and you should check it out.
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  Speaker 2: As you say, your new movie, The Workout is available
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon from October the twenty eight.
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  Speaker 3: So how you feel about the release?
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  Speaker 4: Just very excited in general. I think there's good feelings.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's bad feelings, nervous feelings, not necessarily bad.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of the reviews have already come out and
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  Speaker 1: the director has sent you know, some people have good things,
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  Speaker 1: some people have bad things. But I think it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like with MMA and Fighting My Past. There's
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  Speaker 1: pros and cons to it, and no matter what you do,
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  Speaker 1: people are always going to have something to say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's always going to be heightens no matter
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  Speaker 2: how good you are, there probably going to be more
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  Speaker 2: when you're good.
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  Speaker 4: This is true. This is probably true.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The Workout is described as an intense bad footage film,
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  Speaker 2: but tell us more about the storyline and your role
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. I love the storyline.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically two Army rangers. They former Army rangers. They
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  Speaker 1: have a gym together. Unfortunately, somebody gets caught up in
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  Speaker 1: some bad stuff and the pregnant wife gets killed. Then
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  Speaker 1: you basically go on a revenge journey with these badass
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  Speaker 1: you know actors who are former Army Rangers, I mean, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: these former Army Rangers who are now doing crazy stunts.
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  Speaker 1: And I come in in my part of the movie,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm also a former Army ranger. I'm basically kind
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  Speaker 1: of a little bit who I am in real life,
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  Speaker 1: a big old tomboy but no military background unfortunately, and
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  Speaker 1: I just come in and want to help the guys
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  Speaker 1: seek revenge. And we spend the whole movie kicking butt
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  Speaker 1: and taking names.
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  Speaker 2: You're a muscletist in real life, but what skills, what
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  Speaker 2: training does he character have in the movie?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really fortunate to have met a female former
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  Speaker 1: Army ranger, which don't quote me on how many numbers
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  Speaker 1: there are, but very very few.
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  Speaker 4: This woman, her name was Lisa Jasterer.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I met her many years ago, like a decade ago,
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  Speaker 1: while I was touring for It's called Armed Forces Entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: And so fast forward. It was so cool that the
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  Speaker 1: woman my character Tank was this badass woman that I
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  Speaker 1: had previously met on a military base, just randomly, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I thought that was cool.
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  Speaker 1: So what I did was I read her book and
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  Speaker 1: I loved it, and so you can also get it
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon. I really just, you know, tried to get
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  Speaker 1: in touch with that part of the character, which was
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  Speaker 1: the hardest because I have no freaking idea what it
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  Speaker 1: would be or what it would take to be a soldier.
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  Speaker 4: But I think.
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  Speaker 1: That I got a lot of heart and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of grit in a martial arts aspect, which is obviously
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  Speaker 1: very different. But I tried to just get in touch
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  Speaker 1: with the character in that way, and then all the
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  Speaker 1: other stuff I felt right at home, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: always wanting to be one of the guys and liking
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  Speaker 1: to get dirty and play rough and tough.
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  Speaker 4: So that was easy peasy.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned before that you sort of could relate to
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  Speaker 2: some aspects of that character, but as an actress, like
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  Speaker 2: how much of yourself you lay out to go into
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  Speaker 2: a character, Like is there a point where you sort
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  Speaker 2: of get too far into it or it doesn't limit
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I hope one day I go too far.
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  Speaker 1: This was you know, like I said, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about in the past, this is you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've done smaller roles, but this is legit my first
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  Speaker 1: real acting and stunt experience, and I loved it so much.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to get into the character as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we had more time, that everything was a
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  Speaker 1: learning experience, and I realized it's really a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you know, you just better be ready you get the role,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we we did rehearsal for stunts, but
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  Speaker 1: I feel like.
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  Speaker 4: We could have months. We could have done months and
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  Speaker 4: months of more preparation. But and that's probably different with
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  Speaker 4: different budgets and stuff like that. I'm still learning. But
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  Speaker 4: it was just so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could have, Like every day I went
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  Speaker 1: to set, I would drive and ask myself.
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  Speaker 4: Is this really my life?
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  Speaker 1: It's just so much fun, you know, playing literal cops
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  Speaker 1: and robbers and and you know, beating each other up
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  Speaker 1: good guys, bad guys, And it was so so so
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  Speaker 1: much fun. So yeah, sorry, I got off on a
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  Speaker 1: tangent there, But.
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  Speaker 3: What was the question?
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  Speaker 2: That's that's an interesting point, because like you immerse yourself
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  Speaker 2: in this drouble. So I'd like to say you're driving
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  Speaker 2: the a guy like wow, just going then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden it's gone, like the answer, reach back to
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  Speaker 2: normal life.
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  Speaker 1: So to answer your question, I remember, So it was basically,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever gone too far? And no, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: too much of a newbie rookie to have gone too far.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, is there going too far? I mean yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can, like maybe some actor we don't.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about, let's not go down a scary set, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, maybe method acting. I would never you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty, I'm clean and sober. I'm six years over
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  Speaker 1: six years, but you know, over six years sober. So
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  Speaker 1: if I played a badass. Actually, there was a role
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  Speaker 1: that I really wanted. It was a jone Jet type character,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought would be epic, but I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would never not that jone Jet was you know, crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a guy down that ride?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I like, part of me is like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it, but then the other parts like nope.
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  Speaker 4: You know, sobriety's first and foremost always for me. So
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  Speaker 4: I guess I wouldn't go too too far in that regard. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think I would go too far.
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  Speaker 4: I think that it just be easy to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you wouldn't even realize you've gotten too far, would you,
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  Speaker 2: Like you just get to a certain point, then all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the worlds would blend together, and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden you just be like, the hell did
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  Speaker 2: I get it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I would wonder if could I even you know,
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  Speaker 1: be like a Jim Carrey Andy Kaufman type situation where
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  Speaker 1: you know, they stay in character even when are not
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  Speaker 1: on set, Like, maybe that might be going too far,
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like that would mess up relationships. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine a wife or a husband or a
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  Speaker 1: partner being cool with, you know, anyone who's not their.
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  Speaker 4: Partner coming home. So I would probably be going too far.
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  Speaker 3: I probably would.
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  Speaker 2: Now we've mentioned that you are trying to you have
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  Speaker 2: sa fight, and so how easy is it to transition
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  Speaker 2: your skills from its basically a war in the cage
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  Speaker 2: they having to use them in a more controlled environment
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  Speaker 2: on set.
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  Speaker 4: This is a question that I've been asked a couple
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  Speaker 4: of times, and it is a good one.
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  Speaker 1: You think it's either going to transfer really easy or
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  Speaker 1: be scary for my stunt partner.
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  Speaker 4: But a fun fact about and it's both. It's both.
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  Speaker 4: There are times where it feels seamless and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just effortless, and then there are times where
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  Speaker 1: you know, to pull a punch is so taboo in
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  Speaker 1: in you know, my sport. You know, you step all
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  Speaker 1: the way into the punch, you don't pull, and to
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  Speaker 1: train something like that years and years and years, it's
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  Speaker 1: now natural reaction to go full on, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: just do it. So that was a little scary because
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  Speaker 1: I want to be as safe and professional first and foremost.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hurt anyone, and I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hurt myself obviously, and I don't want to mess
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  Speaker 1: up any chances that I have for future opportunities. So
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  Speaker 1: a fun story about the safety in that situation is
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  Speaker 1: in the movie Me and a Bad Guy is my
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend of six years. He's in the movie and we
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  Speaker 1: have this epic fight scene. He's actually a black belt
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  Speaker 1: jiu jitsu black belt and he you know, we get
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  Speaker 1: to do some martial arts and I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil it for you, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a really cool scene. But I may have punched him
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  Speaker 1: a couple times, allegedly for realsies.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I mean it was a really cool
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  Speaker 4: thing that it was my partner.
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  Speaker 1: I learned a lot of lessons and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: probably would be I would have been I know, I
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  Speaker 1: would have been even more careful if it was not
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  Speaker 1: my partner.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I could be a little extra.
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  Speaker 3: If you mess up a little bit, you get away
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  Speaker 3: with it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and I did, and I got away with it.
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  Speaker 1: But moving forward, I'm like, okay, more professional, more more
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  Speaker 1: stut trading.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're right, Like when you're trying to like you,
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  Speaker 2: you get told to follow through with the punches, and
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  Speaker 2: you easy hips this stuff, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: you've got to pull it on someone and.
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  Speaker 3: It carries against every natural instinct in your body to
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  Speaker 3: pull a punch.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, and and and a kick, and you know, grappling
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  Speaker 1: was pretty easy. That that was, you know, that transitioned.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a couple of times, like there's a warehouse
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  Speaker 1: scene and I fall and I just I do my thing,
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  Speaker 1: I act right, but like I just the mat was
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  Speaker 1: not placed strategically perfectly, so I kind of like knocked
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  Speaker 1: my nugin a little bit, and it's just, yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of little things that are different than fighting.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's not always going to be a matt there.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you need to check ahead of time.
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  Speaker 2: Did the director and the scriptwriter and the stunt team
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  Speaker 2: do they work closely with you on fight scenes and
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  Speaker 2: ask your advice? So did I more map it out
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  Speaker 2: and you just got to follow their instructions?
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  Speaker 1: No, it was well, I mean I think it was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of both because again nubie, but really.
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  Speaker 4: Fortunate to work with the stunt coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: His name's Luke Lafontain, so many years of experience, kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy that could just chat your ear off and
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  Speaker 1: every story is like what really, you know, you just
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  Speaker 1: you want more stories, okay, and they're after all true
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  Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And so he is somebody who actually while he was showing.
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  Speaker 1: All of you know, the Army Rangers what we should
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  Speaker 1: be doing, he would actually say, Okay, this is why
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  Speaker 1: we're actually going to fight like this.
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  Speaker 4: It wouldn't make sense if we fight like this.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I mean, I'm not an action buff
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  Speaker 1: like some people, but I had never even thought like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to see some person doing you know
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  Speaker 1: karate w they have a different Yeah, yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 4: So that was really really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Like and then he would ask, you know, like do
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  Speaker 1: you feel comfortable doing this or doing this?
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  Speaker 4: So I think both right.
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  Speaker 1: He took what he thought was best and then also
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  Speaker 1: asked our opinion, and then we got to collaborate on
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  Speaker 1: what we did, which was so freaking cool.
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  Speaker 2: Because like you you know, but like I can imagine
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  Speaker 2: one day it's going to happen that someone says, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do this move and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: you know in your head that that just won't work.
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  Speaker 2: But they'd be like that, this is what you got
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  Speaker 2: to do, Like that's it. They should listen to people
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  Speaker 2: like yourself because you know what works and you know
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  Speaker 2: what doesn't. And you know, if it's going to look
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  Speaker 2: goodly no, like if it's going to look like you
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  Speaker 2: jumped off a trampoline and kicked him in the face,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like it's but.
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  Speaker 4: You know what you would be surprised because I think,
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  Speaker 4: like we go.
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  Speaker 1: Back to does it transfer the real martial arts and acting?
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes you know, like Luke would be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're doing this, but you know the angle is offered.
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  Speaker 4: Or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that, yeah, I know the moves, but
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  Speaker 1: but also it's different when it's in a movie, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so you wouldn't do certain moves that are you know, deadly,
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  Speaker 1: not deadly, but like really you know, just killer, great moves,
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  Speaker 1: but they're just not as flashy, So maybe you don't
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  Speaker 1: put those in the movie or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Right, it's practicality of real life in the flashiness and
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  Speaker 2: maybe to two different things exactly exactly, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned Elia, like this is a fan footage action
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  Speaker 2: maybe which involves paper Jackie camera sort of shocks this uplight?
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  Speaker 3: Did it take time to get used to filming like that?
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  Speaker 3: Like did it sort of dog your head in a
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  Speaker 3: little bit? Wuldn't it?
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  Speaker 1: That was very very on the job learning, but not
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  Speaker 1: hard really. It was you become the camera yourself. So
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  Speaker 1: you're not acting, you know, physically, but you're still verbally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're still feeding the lines to your other actors,
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  Speaker 1: but you are the camera person and acting at the
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  Speaker 1: first time.
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  Speaker 4: Now priority you are the camera. Your body moves to.
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  Speaker 1: Get the footage, but you're still saying and speaking a
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  Speaker 1: certain way. And we all learned this on. I learned
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  Speaker 1: this on set and just so much fun. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, now I'm a camera woman as well.
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  Speaker 2: Now you sort of touched on this before, but I
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  Speaker 2: had a look online about the movie to do a
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  Speaker 2: bit of research, and there's a heap of reviews out
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  Speaker 2: of the movie already and it still doesn't come out
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  Speaker 2: for another two and a half weeks. Right, did you
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  Speaker 2: ever write do you read those reviews or would you
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  Speaker 2: rather avoid them in case they are negatives.
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  Speaker 1: So we're like in this big group chat with all
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  Speaker 1: the you know, director and all the actors, the whole
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  Speaker 1: cast and crew, and the director sometimes sends us the
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  Speaker 1: reviews and it'll just say the percentage on Rotten Tomatoes
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. And if it's good, I'll read it. If
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  Speaker 1: it's bad, I don't give a crap. I'm only looking
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  Speaker 1: for positive energy, and regardless of what they say, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to keep doing my thing.
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  Speaker 4: And so all the rest of us so.
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  Speaker 3: Refreshing, refreshing to hear.
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  Speaker 2: The answer to this now after talking is I didn't
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  Speaker 2: realize there was your debut film. But I looked at
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  Speaker 2: about half a dozen sites last trying to do a
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  Speaker 2: bit of research and every one of them. They had
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  Speaker 2: all the cast members and there was a photo of
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  Speaker 2: them next to their description, but.
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  Speaker 3: None of them had your photo.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's about half a dozen, and not one's got
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  Speaker 2: a photo of you on there.
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  Speaker 3: You're the only one without a photo. It's strange.
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  Speaker 1: I will have to talk to somebody about this because
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  Speaker 1: it's like it's just like a little gray square box.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, I'm sure she doesn't look like that
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  Speaker 2: in real life.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what someone who?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everything in this industry is based on pretty
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  Speaker 1: much looks and talent as well.
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  Speaker 4: But you're right, I should have my picture on there.
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  Speaker 3: To promote it.
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  Speaker 2: In all seriousness, it did stand out or it was
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  Speaker 2: like I've been after about the fifth one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, like, what did with this girl? How come
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  Speaker 3: you don't want a photo up there?
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  Speaker 4: No, No, I would love it. I don't need you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about IMDb.
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  Speaker 2: I am being there was rotten Tomatoes. There's about four
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  Speaker 2: other ones. I'll let it all this bit out. I
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  Speaker 2: won't keep it in, but there's about there's about probably
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  Speaker 2: six of them all up, and it was just like
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  Speaker 2: a little hazy gray square with a plus or something
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of it, and that was you were the
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  Speaker 2: only one out of all of them. It looked like
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  Speaker 2: wanted you in their gang.
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  Speaker 4: All right, But they keep telling me that, Chris, I
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  Speaker 4: will work on it.
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  Speaker 2: So if you was someone up the workout to a
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  Speaker 2: friend that you were trying to convince to go and
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  Speaker 2: see the movie, what would you say?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm?
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  Speaker 4: I would say you would mix a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit of John Wick and what's another and it's
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  Speaker 1: like a good military movie, a little like patriotic movie,
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  Speaker 1: little little little action, little patriotism, revenge all mixed into one.
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  Speaker 1: And I go asked, like, what what would you tell
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  Speaker 1: the audience about the film, And I'll tell you I
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  Speaker 1: don't want you know, I am not a movie encyclopedia,
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  Speaker 1: but this is probably one of the action movies that
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  Speaker 1: you will see and it will be NonStop action just
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the found footage, whether you like it
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  Speaker 1: or not, it makes it even more exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like we just say over all that having yourself
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  Speaker 2: that knows fighting from both angles, now, I guess haven't
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  Speaker 2: you in the movie would make the fight scenes more
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  Speaker 2: realistic because I know a lot of people watch fight
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  Speaker 2: scenes and they're just like that's boast.
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  Speaker 3: You can tell that's bosh it. But having yourself in
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  Speaker 3: there that knows what they're doing, do you think that
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: will make it more realistic for people?
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I think definitely the specific scene I told you about
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: where you know, my black belt boyfriend and I. I think
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: we try to be as realistic as possible while making
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: a movie and being safe and uh, you know the
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: other stuff, which there's so much that there's not just fighting,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: there's nice, there's there's a you know.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Lots of like baseball bats, Yeah, lots of.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Fun stuff like that, And you know, I mean that's
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: hard like to say, like is that realistic?
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Is I mean if I knew what it really looked like.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: To see a guy's a knife go through a guy's
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: head or smash a baseball over their head, then I'm
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: probably there's.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Something wrong with me.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: But it seems like all these these effects too were
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: very realistic.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Like there's there's some gore in the movie for sure,
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: which I love.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: So what's next for Ashley Evan Smith?
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Then you've got your debuty out of the way, what
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: are you planned next?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: So I was really lucky that right after we wrapped
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: the workout, I got a call back from a movie.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Remember I said, I've done a lot of small roles.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: It was one of the roles where basically it was
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: like right this way, and they called me back and
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: they were like, hey, I don't know the details specifically.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I think like, I definitely know that there was a
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: pause in filming the movie, and I don't know if
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: they needed more scenes to fill gap or whatever, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: they said, hey, we want to basically kill you in
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the movie. It's you know, some more scenes. So I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: went back and filmed. It's called only seven Days. It's
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: a horror earthquake where Wolf horror movie to make.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was super fun.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: It was just you know, a couple extra days on
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: set of this movie. But it was funny because even
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: in the movie the first scene, I'm like a museum
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: greeterer and I like, you know, am.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I right this way right?
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: And I have a shaved head on one side because
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: it's like three years two and a half years ago.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: And then they did the callback you know, six months
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: or something like that, and it's grown out and they
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: were like it and I'm like, no, I had that
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: hairdo for like ten years, you know, and I rocked it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I liked it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I have a tattoo underneath, but I was like, I
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: can't do it for a tiny little scene, you know,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: like like it was a cool scene.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Definitely watched the movie, but I can for just be.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, yeah, I couldn't. I'm like, so I'm actually
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: wearing a beanie in that movie, which is funny.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Compromise, compromack, that'd be funny. You go.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Actually, I've got a little segment that I do. It's
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: called photo bombs. So basically, I've trolled through your social
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: media before you've had a chat, and I've found a
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: couple of photos that want to talk a little bit
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: more about, Like there's no nasty ones day. You've got
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: some great photos there, but there's a lot I wouldn't use. Okay, okay,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: this one, this one is just plain cute. Like a
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: lot of people, a lot of people just sort of
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: assume that because you're a fighter, that you're the same
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: rough half warrior outside of the ring. But even bloodthirsty
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: warriors need to be pampered every now and then.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean, I've been a tumble in my
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: whole life.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: But even as you can see, like look at these
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: long nails, that's so different. I've usually had short nails
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: my whole life, but since I've been retired from mixed
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: martial arts the last couple of years, I can do
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: things like that, get petticures and you know, be girly
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and I am embracing the femininity of Ashlesmith.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: You know one thing I've always wanted to ask a fighter,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: And I don't want names to you because we don't
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: want to don't want anyone to feel bad. But on
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the subject to feed, like, have you ever bought anyone
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that you've gone in to put a leg lock on
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: or you went up bracklin with him and they've got
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: smelly feet or really bad bo?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Like, how do you deal with that?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: So I have a story, not smelly feet, not not
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: bad bo. I mean there was bo, but the most
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the thing that stuck out the most because my background
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: is wrestling. So I wrestled on a boys' high school team.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Then I went to college. We had female, full female
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: team in college, and then got into mixed martial arts.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: So backtrack in high school, I'm.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: On a boys team. I'm doing, you know, not that great.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I'm getting my ass kicked whatever I go up against.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: My first girl in a high school match, and I
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: was so excited because I was like, finally the playing
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: field is even I did. She was my first real win,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: my first real match that I actually won when I
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, sophomore or something like that.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: And I will never.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Forget that this girl had a full armpit bush like,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and I'm you know, you know, I'm gotta like this,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's just like in my face and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I can smell it, and I'm like, I.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Want this wind so bad, I don't even care. And
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I got the win.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: But but that that happened, yeah, you.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Know, but now I've got one more.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Like I searched for agents to try and find a
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: fighter that would helped heavy raiders connect with you a
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: little bit more, and I finally found it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Like if this is a real purge, which is a.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Real ice freely your middle and spot.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's okay. This picture is so good because I'm
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: so young here. I'm actually an amateur MMA fighter, so
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely graduated from college.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: I must be twenty one, twenty two. I probably twenty
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: two right there.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, So this is in Las Vegas on
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Freemont Street.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: If you guys are not familiar with Fremont Street in Las.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Vegas, it's basically where it would be like the Times
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Square of Vegas where you see all the people, or
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles it would be the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and people just dress up crazy and you take pictures.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: You pay him a couple of dollars to take a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: picture with them. And actually the person taking this picture
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: is my dad r I P. And it's just so
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: funny because actually this was all this is such a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: great picture. My dad takes this picture, He's gone, love you, dad,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And this was actually an amateur fight and my only
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: fight that my dad went and saw.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not the real life freely No.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: And I don't think those boobs are real either.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, but I wasn't gonna say the
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: just gonna ask if you throw those diamonds were real.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: So have you got any prayer rages listeners?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Have you got any any metal friends, any any metal
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: in the family of any.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Metal? Well?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I do consider him like a brother, but I do
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: have a homie who plays bass in a popular death
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: metal band called Suicide Silence, Dan Kenny.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: He is my dinghis for I love him so much.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: We've been friends for I think like over eleven years
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of Instagram memory popped up the other day and yeah,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: it's been like at least a decade, which is wild.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And he's a huge MMA fan. He loves I'm trying
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to think of his favorite fighter. Actually, I know his
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: brother's favorite fighter is BJ, but big MMA fan. They
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: watched the fights all the time. And I had told
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you previously that there's a funny, little kind of like
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: running joke that we have. We always say, like, man,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: if I could have any other job, I would have
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: your job. And he always wants to, you know, be
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: an MME fighter, which you know, I can't play an instrument.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: And I don't think he's going to get into the
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: cage anytime.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: But as far as to dreams, really respect each other's
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: professions for sure.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Oh that that's just legitimized you to the whole of
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: us giant rights. So well done.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks very much.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: The workout comes out on Amazon about Charbage twenty s.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: She's a bloody good film. It's good to see some
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: real fighters and mayb