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Billy Zane · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Fun with Mario Lopez. Mario Lopez joining me right now,
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  Speaker 1: actor Billy zaying, how are you, Billy?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mario, how you been long time? No see?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nice to see you. That's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: But I enjoy speaking with you because I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: about your new film called Deadly Vals, based on a
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  Speaker 1: true story.
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  Speaker 3: Film sounds pretty intense. What's the premise?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, it's not.
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  Speaker 4: A woman who escapes the run Iraq war, moves to
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  Speaker 4: Los Angeles to Beverly Hills. I think she gets into
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  Speaker 4: this sound and supportive relationship and some kids and then
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  Speaker 4: suddenly finds her husband's put a hit out on her.
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  Speaker 4: She manages to survive that, and it's about her recovery
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  Speaker 4: and fundamentally, the way she really heals from this insanity
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  Speaker 4: and trauma is through the power of forgiveness. And that's
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  Speaker 4: what attracted me to it. I play an investigating an officer,
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  Speaker 4: a detective who helps her through the journey, and it's
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  Speaker 4: it's just something I felt that it had to be told,
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  Speaker 4: and I had to throw in.
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  Speaker 3: Did you get to meet any of the real life
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  Speaker 3: people her?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: And you know she's a kind of a producer and
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  Speaker 4: Bella and a co director, and it was very it
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  Speaker 4: was It was really quite an amazing journey through the process.
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  Speaker 2: I have to.
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  Speaker 1: Say, speaking of real people, I love that you stepped
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  Speaker 1: into the shoes of legend Marlon Brando for your film
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  Speaker 1: waltzingk with Brando. I'm still really looking forward to, uh
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  Speaker 1: seeing that and why It's just bizarre how Unkenny looked
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  Speaker 1: just like him. What was the makeup process like to
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  Speaker 1: make that transition?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, firstly, you got you can see it today we
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  Speaker 4: go wide on svo D. You can rent it there today.
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  Speaker 4: We dropped, so the timing of this interview is most fortuitous. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can get it on Amazon Prime or Apple or
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  Speaker 4: anywhere you buy and download now rent Okay, so you
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  Speaker 4: can rent it. Have fun with that. Playing him was
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  Speaker 4: you know, an incredible treat and was as far as
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  Speaker 4: the makeup was concerned, we we we created quite a
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  Speaker 4: few of his like significant films, certainly The Godfather, where
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  Speaker 4: he was wearing quite a bit of makeup. We had
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  Speaker 4: the exact kind of molds and appliances going there.
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  Speaker 2: That was a few hours of makeup.
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  Speaker 4: The rest of the time was pretty much a nose
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  Speaker 4: bump and a wig and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, channeling him, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: And when your kids was in the film too, right.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Both.
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  Speaker 4: One is a smaller role jumping on a bed you
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  Speaker 4: just wanted to do and didn't want any dialogue, and
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  Speaker 4: which was fine. But my daughter, that would be g.
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  Speaker 4: My daughter Ava Zane plays Bernard Judge's daughter, Sabrina, and
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  Speaker 4: uh yeah, what a natural you know, and did not
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  Speaker 4: need much kind of coaching, was improvising going toe to toe.
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  Speaker 2: We had a lovely scene together. I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I have a daughter g as well. Yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 3: great name.
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  Speaker 1: You also got another film on the way called Takeover,
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  Speaker 1: just starting alongside Quemo from Migos.
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  Speaker 3: How was that?
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing, little little action movie.
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  Speaker 4: I won't say it's a buddy, you know, we're foils,
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  Speaker 4: but we're you know, in a in a car escaping
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  Speaker 4: a lockdown.
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  Speaker 2: As kids. He's recently released.
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  Speaker 4: A very celebrated driver doing these kind of crazy takeovers.
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  Speaker 4: Are in Atlanta and we we got to run a
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  Speaker 4: gauntlet to get out, and I played this mastermind who
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  Speaker 4: figures that the best time to pull it a heist
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  Speaker 4: is during one such takeover because the cops are pretty occupied,
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  Speaker 4: so it's not just a cool plot.
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  Speaker 2: It's the execution of this, the.
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  Speaker 4: Directory in all of the I guess it's beyond rotoscoping
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  Speaker 4: and animation and integrated animation for since City if you
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  Speaker 4: remember back in the day. This is a very modern,
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  Speaker 4: really beautifully executed mix of almost real live action and
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  Speaker 4: anime and overlay. So you're going to see something you've
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  Speaker 4: never seen before. It's it's really beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Nice man, that's awesome, and just real quick. Your first
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  Speaker 1: movie role was in Back to the Future, which was
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  Speaker 1: forty years ago, and to be part of that class
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  Speaker 1: that you played match one of the kids in Bibs Gangs. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what do you remember about your time on set there?
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy that it's that long ago.
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  Speaker 4: I know, we just celebrated the anniversary, right, yeah, first
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  Speaker 4: film in town I was eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you know, Baptism by Fire was here like two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It was a heard of It landed solf.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, okay, that's so it's always going
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  Speaker 2: to be here. Figure that out quick.
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  Speaker 4: And then so it was a bit of a it
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  Speaker 4: was an education to work you know, back lot at
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  Speaker 4: Universal with such great talent and the setting. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it was a it was a playground. We were watching
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  Speaker 4: state of the art technology being applied motion capture, motion control,
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  Speaker 4: robotic cameras. That was on Part two, I guess, but
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  Speaker 4: it was the industry at its height doing such a
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  Speaker 4: kind of significant, very modern yet retro offering. But running
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  Speaker 4: around Universal back lot with the other guys was just like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, man, it was like camp for six months.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't get better than that.
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  Speaker 3: Man, that's awesome, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: I always enjoyed talking to you, my friend, and listen everyone,
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  Speaker 1: please be sure to check out Billy's new films, Deadly
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  Speaker 1: Vows and Waltzing with Brando, which are out now.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for checking in.
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  Speaker 2: I always a plagued your brother. Thank you, Kenny, you too.
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  Speaker 2: Take care you and your Gina.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Likewise with Mario Lopez