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Tia Carrere · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Fun with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Hie, Mario Lopez joining right now on Zoom actress in
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  Speaker 2: two time Grammy winning singer Tia Carrera.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Tia, Hey, good good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like a mess here, like I got construction go on,
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  Speaker 3: I've got like wood, you know, blocks over here. I'm
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  Speaker 3: like a general contractor and an actress in the biggest
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  Speaker 3: movie in the universe right now.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know I saw you right before the movie
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  Speaker 2: came out. Cut to it's now the biggest movie, the
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  Speaker 2: live action Lelo.
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  Speaker 1: And Stitch film.
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  Speaker 2: I was just telling my wife, I've heard nothing but
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  Speaker 2: great things about it.
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  Speaker 1: People actually getting emotional. How is this one different?
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  Speaker 3: H I brought the kids, man, you got to bring
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  Speaker 3: the king.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I know, well, some of my kids have seen it.
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  Speaker 2: The other ones haven't because we've been traveling. So we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna take them as a matter of fact
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  Speaker 2: this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: But jeez, and you you're busy. I know, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: You were also in the original, but you're playing a
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  Speaker 1: different character in this one.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I played the older sister Nannie. I was the
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  Speaker 3: voice in the cartoon, and now I'm playing missus kekoa
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  Speaker 3: sort of the mentor to Nanny. So it's a great
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  Speaker 3: full circle role as a woman. You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. And the original was back when it's been
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  Speaker 1: a while, nineteen fifty seven.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was a two thousand and two I think
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  Speaker 3: it came up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty three years later.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty three years later, that's onn I break into that.
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  Speaker 2: And of course it takes place in Hawaii, where you
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  Speaker 2: were born and raised.
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  Speaker 1: You got the film there, I'm assuming.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to film in Hawaii. That's the best thing,
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  Speaker 3: is like getting to go back home. You know. My
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  Speaker 3: exit strategy is to end up back in Hawaii, you know,
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  Speaker 3: opening my own you know, Peky bar and singing there
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  Speaker 3: on Aloha Fridays. That's like the dream to me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that sounds awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And I love the story you've told me before, but
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  Speaker 2: I love the story that you It's like an old
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  Speaker 2: school Hollywood story. You basically got discovered in a grocery
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  Speaker 2: store in Waikiki, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was shopping. I was like seventeen, and I guess
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  Speaker 3: I had just come from a modeling shoot, so I
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  Speaker 3: had like full makeup and hair and like a garland
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  Speaker 3: of flowers around my head. And producer's mother and father
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  Speaker 3: came up to me and said, Donnia, gorgeous, you should
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  Speaker 3: be in my son's movie. And that's how I got
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  Speaker 3: my first movie, got a screen Actor's Guild card and everything.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty trippy. I mean I could have been just
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  Speaker 3: working in a hotel, you know, yeah, thing or asking
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  Speaker 3: would you like fries? With that? Who knows? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Now you got another one coming out called The Last Resort,
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  Speaker 2: a romantic comedy, right, what's it about.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So Daisy Ridley is the lead with Alden Aaronrix.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like she's in Star Wars. He's from Young
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  Speaker 3: Hands Solo and they meet cute in the Philippines. So
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  Speaker 3: I got to go to the homeland of my father
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  Speaker 3: and it was they're looking she's looking for a property
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  Speaker 3: to purchase for to add to her father's conglomerates, and
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  Speaker 3: then she falls in love with the islands and falls
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  Speaker 3: in love with the people and realizes that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: happiness is not all you know, glitter and diamonds and
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  Speaker 3: all that big life. You know, I love it's the
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  Speaker 3: island life.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good for you. Congrants on that and I know
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  Speaker 1: you're two time Grammy winner as they introduced you. Any
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  Speaker 1: chance you might be getting back in the studio.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about it. I've been going and touring
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  Speaker 3: all around. I'm gonna be going on a tour with
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  Speaker 3: Daniel Hall and uncle George Kahumok Junior soon, like in October,
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  Speaker 3: going to Australia to do like a one off show
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  Speaker 3: down there in Melbourne. I forget the name of the theater.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna kill me. But anyway, I don't be on
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  Speaker 3: my social media. But yeah, so I'm just singing and
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  Speaker 3: I have an idea for a record and some songs
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  Speaker 3: I've been writing. So that's another part of me. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: how many things can you do in a lifetime?
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  Speaker 1: All of them? I guess that's what I say. There
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  Speaker 1: are no rules, good luck. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And of course one of the most iconic roles was
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  Speaker 2: Cassandra and the Wayne's World films. Right there, and I heard
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  Speaker 2: you still own that red dress from the film, right, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 3: I got to put in like a box so that
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  Speaker 3: like the elastic doesn't keep degrading in the air. It
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  Speaker 3: should be hermetically sealed. And you know something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'd love love to hear it still fits.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. Hey, that's even better. Well, congratulations on everything.
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you get back to your home repairs there
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  Speaker 2: and everyone, Please for sure to catch to you in
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  Speaker 2: the new live action Leelo and Stitch film, which is
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  Speaker 2: in theaters right now.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in.
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  Speaker 3: Aloha, Thanks Mario for always having me on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you got it, sweety, Take care, Looha
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  Speaker 2: Bye with Mario Lopez