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INTERVIEW: Gerard Butler & O'Shea Jackson Jr. On 'Den Of Thieves 2', 50 Cent, Kobe Bryant, California + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, everybody, It's the j n V. Jess, Hilarrys Charlamagne
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  Speaker 2: to God. We are the Breakfast Club. Long the roasters
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  Speaker 2: filling in for Jess, and we got some special guests
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  Speaker 2: in the building. There's been some time since you've been
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  Speaker 2: here before, like seven years last time you're up here
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  Speaker 2: promoting dinner these one Errod Butler and Oh Jackson Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: How how you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Man? He just pretend it's an audience.
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  Speaker 1: Here's no shak appreciate well.
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  Speaker 2: First and foremost, how were you doing? I know you're
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  Speaker 2: out in La and I see the fires are crazy
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  Speaker 2: in La? How is that with you in the family.
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  Speaker 4: I'm literally talking waiting for updates right now. There was
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  Speaker 4: it's something starting near the valley area. So I'm just
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  Speaker 4: checking on my daughter and things like that, so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: little little on edge. But I mean, it's nothing I
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  Speaker 4: gonna do from here except worry.
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  Speaker 2: Is that an evacuation plan? Like if this goes go
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  Speaker 2: this route, I go this or.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, but as much as you can. I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't expecting some of them to be as close as
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  Speaker 4: they are when I got up. But yeah, so I'm
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  Speaker 4: just trying to be a helicopter dad right now as
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  Speaker 4: much as I can.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now, let's talk about DN Thieves two seven years.
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  Speaker 2: Why did it take so long to show to shoot
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  Speaker 2: part two?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, tell us Gerard, Well, you know, because oh, Shay
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  Speaker 5: is a nightmare and he's such a princess trying to
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  Speaker 5: get him to.
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  Speaker 6: I heard.
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  Speaker 5: Uh no, there was it was a bit of that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and a little sprinkle of this, and uh
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  Speaker 5: it just it took longer than we thought. And by
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  Speaker 5: the way, truly for various reasons. One one of the
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  Speaker 5: main reasons is when we first started writing the script
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  Speaker 5: is I thought we we really hit gold in the
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  Speaker 5: first one, and it was very different.
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  Speaker 3: It was very clever. You know.
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  Speaker 5: It took a long time for that first script to
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  Speaker 5: get to that stage. So not to just turn out
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  Speaker 5: something and go, well, here's the second one. You guys
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  Speaker 5: like the first one. But to be honest, it took
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  Speaker 5: a long time to make that script work. This one,
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  Speaker 5: you know, kind of all the twists and turns and
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  Speaker 5: how because there's a lot going on in this movie,
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  Speaker 5: and you would always get to the stage we're okay,
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  Speaker 5: this is good, but this still doesn't work and to
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  Speaker 5: make it all kind of like a like a jigsaw
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  Speaker 5: puzzle and then sing and then other shit happened.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you guys were a part of the writing
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  Speaker 7: or you mean just mean a script that was brought
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  Speaker 7: to you. Guys, you get to kind of dissect it
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  Speaker 7: and say, yes, I know this certain stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I'm involved in the writing. Christian wrote the script,
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  Speaker 5: but then I worked on the development of both scripts,
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  Speaker 5: but especially this one for and this took there was
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  Speaker 5: a good three Yeah, I produced a movie, gotcha, so.
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  Speaker 7: It had it has more of a depth to you
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  Speaker 7: when you're on camera with it too, because it's your
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  Speaker 7: actual baby behind the scenes as well.
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  Speaker 3: Big time.
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  Speaker 5: I have to say that, you know, talk about what
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  Speaker 5: you do to prepare for a rope. Probably my main
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  Speaker 5: preparation is any script I do. Now I've been with
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  Speaker 5: it for a long time, and you're sitting with it
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  Speaker 5: thinking of every moment, every part of the character, where
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  Speaker 5: you can take that. So when you get to the movie,
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  Speaker 5: you both know where you should be and you kind
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  Speaker 5: of hate to say this, you're kind of cheating. You
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  Speaker 5: also know what each moment is kind of going to
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  Speaker 5: hopefully achieve with the audience so yeah, it's been well
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  Speaker 5: thought about.
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  Speaker 2: Now you kill fifty cent in the first one, you
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  Speaker 2: kill they killed fifty cent in the first one. But
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  Speaker 2: he's back on this as an EPE thing we learned,
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  Speaker 2: So why was it important to bring it back as
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  Speaker 2: an EP and how was he working as an EP?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, fifty fifty one. His hand is something. It's
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  Speaker 1: really no denying you know that, dude.
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  Speaker 4: He's been very instrumental and you know my thought process
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  Speaker 4: on a lot of things, especially moving forward. Super excited
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  Speaker 4: about this. He's been giving me some great words of praise.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, he's the man and whatever he touches
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  Speaker 4: really turns in the goal. So he knew he couldn't
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  Speaker 4: let go to dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Thy you've stop it now, you got whipped a lot.
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  Speaker 2: They whip chat.
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  Speaker 1: That's the worst part of the first one. But you
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  Speaker 1: grow so good.
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  Speaker 7: Though, because you wouldn't like towards the end of it,
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  Speaker 7: it all turns around. You would have never expected it
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  Speaker 7: because you played the character so well as like this
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  Speaker 7: person that was not in control, but you were very
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  Speaker 7: in control.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always funny.
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  Speaker 4: When that movie was coming out to see people's tweets
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  Speaker 4: from the beginning of the movie where it was just like, man,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I was cute, I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: let him did this. And then by the end they
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  Speaker 4: you know, they talk about how dope the film was,
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  Speaker 4: but it really was our imitating life a little bit
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  Speaker 4: because Dinner Thieves won.
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  Speaker 1: That's my third movie ever, and.
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  Speaker 4: There was already and there's already an ideology of who
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  Speaker 4: I am because of my father and what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: bring to the table, or a sense of entitlement or
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  Speaker 4: that I'm not here to work.
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  Speaker 1: And Donnie in.
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  Speaker 4: The first one, it's just somebody who wants to keep
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  Speaker 4: his head down, focus on what you gotta do, get
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  Speaker 4: in and get out.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the same with me at that portion
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  Speaker 1: in my career.
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  Speaker 4: And then for the for the second one, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for it to take as much time as it had,
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  Speaker 4: I got a lot more projects under my belt, so
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  Speaker 4: the confidence was there for me to be able to lead,
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  Speaker 4: get it down, get me a crew to be in
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  Speaker 4: charge of, and not get my ass kicked for two hours.
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  Speaker 2: So are you tired of that? I feel like it's
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  Speaker 2: over now. I feel like you proved yourself enough with
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  Speaker 2: people are not saying the only reason you're in this
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  Speaker 2: industry is because of your dad or do you still
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  Speaker 2: get that a lot? Do you still feel like you
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  Speaker 2: gotta fight through that?
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  Speaker 4: It'll forever be there, you know? And I don't have
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  Speaker 4: a problem with that. It's just people that don't know.
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  Speaker 4: And I can't. I can't concern myself with people who
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  Speaker 4: just ignorant to it or try to fight it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I got a kid. I gotta focus on
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  Speaker 1: me man getting it done.
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  Speaker 5: Can I think in a couple of those people are
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  Speaker 5: going to be looking at ice Cube going.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, look there's.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have a very time.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a very powerful voice, so I have
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  Speaker 5: to get close to that.
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  Speaker 8: I forget it.
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  Speaker 7: So in the second one, because now we know kind
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  Speaker 7: of like your role a bit more, and how did
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  Speaker 7: you prepare differently? Because the first time you're prepared as
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  Speaker 7: an actor, it's like you got to kind of hide
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  Speaker 7: who you really are the whole time. This time it's
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  Speaker 7: like it's you know, it's big you, not the little one.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that was that was really my excitement was
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  Speaker 4: that I'm able to play the same character but a
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  Speaker 4: different character at the same time. And a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the prep was just remembering where Donnie is who Donnie
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  Speaker 4: really is. And honestly, I watched a lot of John Jones.
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  Speaker 4: John Jones and the beginning of his fights is just
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  Speaker 4: so cold and just stick ill, and you can tell
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  Speaker 4: just his his focus and his prep and it's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the same things with Donnie and what he does.
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  Speaker 9: So you learned the fighting this one because in the
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  Speaker 9: first one, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Kicking ass, and but just the idea of a fighter
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  Speaker 4: where it's it's what how Donnie thinks in its simplest
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  Speaker 4: form of one simple mistake and I'm done one simple
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  Speaker 4: mistake and Donnie is in prison forever. So the same
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  Speaker 4: thing with a fighter, if one slip up and you sleep,
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  Speaker 4: you know. So it was a lot of studying studying
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  Speaker 4: fighters for me.
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  Speaker 2: Did y'all ask about fifty I just walked into Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we had about fifty ep.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, how did how did that happens?
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 8: Why aren't all the all producers on the film? How
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  Speaker 8: does he die in the first movie?
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  Speaker 1: They come back? You gotta check the credits.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask, you know what this movie? It
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  Speaker 2: seemed like this movie leveled up a lot, right it
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  Speaker 2: as far as scenes action, it looks totally different. Do
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  Speaker 2: you guys do your own stunts? And how was the
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  Speaker 2: process of it leveling up so much the first one?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say. I mean you could just tell
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  Speaker 2: just from the airplane scene and the airport like they
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  Speaker 2: spent a lot of money on that. Does that mean
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  Speaker 2: more pressure the definitely.
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  Speaker 4: You know, with a sequel, there's so many things that
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  Speaker 4: go into it that could make it go the wrong way.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of times sequels will rely so much on
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  Speaker 4: the first one, giving you so many nods to the
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  Speaker 4: first one that it kind of cheapens why you fell
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  Speaker 4: in love with it in the first place. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Budget that's like really gerards, you know point,
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  Speaker 4: But like, definitely you have to step it up. But
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  Speaker 4: we were able to change the entire dynamic of the film,
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  Speaker 4: and the first one is more cops versus robbers, and
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  Speaker 4: this one is much more of a buddy action and
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  Speaker 4: I think we use that to our advantage. Plus I'm
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  Speaker 4: a different character than I was in the first one,
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  Speaker 4: So you're gonna you're getting a film that can not
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  Speaker 4: only stand alone, but at the same time give you
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  Speaker 4: what you already loved from Genni.
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  Speaker 7: Fili even the coloring is different, like I noticed that too.
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  Speaker 7: Like in the first one, I feel like it was
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  Speaker 7: a lot warmer. This one's a lot more like cooler tones.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if that was on purpose too, but
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  Speaker 7: it just changes the energy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now I think the idea was to
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  Speaker 5: give a very kind of different tone. Like Christian's a
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  Speaker 5: big fan of kind of new wave of European cinema.
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  Speaker 5: So it's like Osh says, yeah, you keep the same
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  Speaker 5: that the same story. Basically you're following these characters, but
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  Speaker 5: you cinematically it looks very different and it's still kind
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  Speaker 5: of has a grittiness to it, but it also it
• 9:24
  Speaker 5: looks very beautiful and captivating and shows a different kind
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  Speaker 5: of esthetic in a different tone. So I'm glad you
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  Speaker 5: noticed that because it is cinematically this movie is beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: If that's all it was, we still look amazing.
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  Speaker 5: But fortunately there's a hell of a lot more going
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  Speaker 5: on than just the you know.
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  Speaker 3: The scope, but the scope is huge too. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot more money for this one, and well we did
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  Speaker 5: basically that's it. We got more money and we got
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  Speaker 5: more time. I mean, people make a joker, how long
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  Speaker 5: it took. It's true, it shouldn't have taken that long.
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  Speaker 5: But the thing that did give is was to get
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  Speaker 5: everything in order and to get those little more magic moments.
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  Speaker 5: Always find that when you developed in a script, if
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  Speaker 5: you know, often the more time you get to let
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  Speaker 5: it kind of sit there and think about it, and
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  Speaker 5: then you find all these extra moments and more layers
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  Speaker 5: and more nuanced and maybe even bigger surprises. Because this
• 10:13
  Speaker 5: movie is it's so full of twists and turns and surprise.
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  Speaker 5: You just never know where it's gonna go, Where He's
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  Speaker 5: gonna go, where I'm gonna go, where the panthers are
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  Speaker 5: going to go?
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  Speaker 3: Who the hell?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
• 10:22
  Speaker 5: We have a ton of people after is too. In
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: the heist itself is just there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 5: So it's kind of throwing you all around.
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: It's so crazy how you turn off your well, how
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  Speaker 2: I don't hear the accent in the movie like in
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  Speaker 2: the movie American all day long, but but now I
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: can hear it go in and out. Is crazy. How
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  Speaker 2: you're able to do that as an actor? Yeah, is
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  Speaker 2: that difficult.
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  Speaker 6: It takes work.
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  Speaker 5: I've done it a lot now, but yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 5: every morning when I go to set. I have to
• 10:45
  Speaker 5: do like forty minutes of voice lessons, you know, the sounds,
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  Speaker 5: learning to kind of speak, like make more of the vowels,
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  Speaker 5: because in Scotland we hit the consonants, right, we hit
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  Speaker 5: the c's and the k's and the t's, and in America,
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  Speaker 5: you guys come off the constance. You're more like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so I started exercises, but actually I do. I do
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  Speaker 5: exercise like well, and you start talking.
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  Speaker 1: Like this, and now you're.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, America, because that pic Nicks is the.
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  Speaker 1: Whole time, and it depends where you act.
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  Speaker 9: I say I'm from South Carolina, so I say straight
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  Speaker 9: street strong.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah that's true.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if it's more urban than like just playing
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  Speaker 5: in this country, no, but I just played that a
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  Speaker 5: New York character and that was very much like, you know,
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: yeah dude, he did he didn't, you know, like that.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of thing so urban urban, but that was like
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  Speaker 3: that was that was New York. That was New York
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  Speaker 3: master urban.
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  Speaker 4: Wait his his American murder versus your Scotland murder.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's just calling you go. And then America
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  Speaker 3: is kind of like murder.
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  Speaker 5: And I couldn't say that took me years and there
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  Speaker 5: was a movie once I was shooting.
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  Speaker 3: What I had to say, no, not if you murdered.
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  Speaker 3: And I couldn't say. I'm like, no, not if he's
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  Speaker 3: murdered because we have such a thick R and D
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  Speaker 3: you know, but.
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  Speaker 8: You an American nigga in a Scotland nigga.
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  Speaker 4: So it's not about it's about the challenge.
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  Speaker 6: Ye, how many careers is he ruined?
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  Speaker 2: It's not about the money. Is about the challenge. Let's
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: talk about that phrase. That's a phrase that's mentioned a
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  Speaker 2: lot in the movie. Do y'all live by that?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: You know, like I was talking to him and uh
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: for more pressed for this because that quote keeps coming up.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little bit about the money, like you're I'm
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  Speaker 4: robbing the Federal Reserve in the World Diamond Center.
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  Speaker 9: It's a little bit about thought some about in real life.
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  Speaker 1: Real life. That's about real life.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know about Dion Sanders and my pops
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  Speaker 4: have a quote, you know, if everybody doing it for
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  Speaker 4: the love, I'll do it for the love. But if
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  Speaker 4: everybody you know, we all getting paid, we all getting paid.
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  Speaker 4: It's just the world that we live in. But you
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  Speaker 4: have to take those challenges to uplift yourself, to get
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  Speaker 4: yourself to a new tier. I'm very I'm easily content.
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  Speaker 4: It's easy to get stagnant when you don't need much.
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  Speaker 4: So if you don't take those challenges, if you don't
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  Speaker 4: take those risks, you're just going to be in the
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: same spot every single time. And one of the there
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  Speaker 4: was a portion in my career where I felt stagnant
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  Speaker 4: where I felt like, you know, we're not We're not
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  Speaker 4: going up, but we're not going down either, And one
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  Speaker 4: night I might have been faded. I DM Kobe Bryant
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  Speaker 4: and Kobe Yeah, I asked him. I was like, dude,
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  Speaker 4: you've done everything. How do you keep yourself wanting more?
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  Speaker 4: How do you keep like away from being comfortable? Give
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: me some movies, give me some books, give me a quote,
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  Speaker 4: a mantra or anything.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me his.
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  Speaker 4: Number, so I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Not about to call Kobe like right then and there.
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  Speaker 4: So I hit him and he was like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna call you in a few days. So for
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  Speaker 4: like two weeks I was waiting by my phone, just
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  Speaker 4: waiting for Kobe to hit me. And then I was
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: in an uber coming back from a table read and
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  Speaker 4: he called me, and I remember I told the Uber driver.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: I was like, hey, can you turn the radio down.
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: Kobe Bryant's calling me. He was like, yeah, So now
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  Speaker 4: the driver is looking in the mirror while I'm on
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  Speaker 4: the phone.
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  Speaker 1: And I talked to Kobe for twenty five minutes.
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  Speaker 4: He said that feeling that you have not done enough,
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  Speaker 4: or that where you are isn't good enough and you
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  Speaker 4: want more and you don't know why you want more,
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  Speaker 4: hold on to it because that's the only thing that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna make you want to take shots, take risks and
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  Speaker 4: uplift yourself. And then like that was the first and
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: only conversation I had with my hero, because two months
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: later he was gone, Wow, I would.
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  Speaker 8: Think maybe I'm just just me in my mind and
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  Speaker 8: what I think your life is, Like I thought you
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  Speaker 8: was having being around these type of people all the time.
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  Speaker 8: I'm around them, but it's not like I ain't got
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  Speaker 8: the number to just be like, you know, hit them
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  Speaker 8: up and call them. But it's just one of those
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  Speaker 8: things like if I didn't take that challenge, that risk
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  Speaker 8: to even message him.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have never had that conversation. Do you ever
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  Speaker 1: ask your pops like your pops.
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: Can you connect me to such and such that you
• 15:17
  Speaker 9: just always try to make your own connection.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: No, I try to do it on my own. I don't.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: You know. It's just so it's realer if you do
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: it organically.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: So, you know, luckily I've been able to work with
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: some amazing people where I can call you know, fifty,
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: ask him some stuff. I can talk to Girard, I
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: can you know, rest in peace radio to being able
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: to work with him and things like that. So it's
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: just about keeping my head down and then when I
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: when I see the opportunity to take a challenge, knock
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: it out.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: The part question did you go to school for screen
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: writing USC? Yeah, University of Southern California.
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: So it's interesting to me, Like I MB said it earlier,
• 15:52
  Speaker 8: just he asked the question about you know, do you
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: still do you get respect for yourself?
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: I'm like, you know, you really put in the work,
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: like what really studied your your craft?
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: They don't give it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: Damn get dragged for the nepotism conversation. I think you
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: unfairly get that too.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I love it. You know what I mean.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: You're not about to make.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Me feel bad of just like, oh, you had a
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: good life. I'm sorry, man, you know, I hope y'all
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: all grow to have nepple babies yourself.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: But I'm not. I'm not running from that.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: You're not about to make me feel bad for you know,
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: my blessings or my family and.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Try to run from it.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: You know, get mad, get glad, get heavyweight trash bags.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I don't give a damn.
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: We always felt like that.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I mean no, it takes a lot for you to
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: get there. You you start to believe and listen to people.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Any talks of that getting out of a shadow are
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: from the outside looking in. It's not a shadow man,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Your your parents or whoever did not put it in
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: the work for you to feel ashamed.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: For all the sacrifice that they went through.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: So it's just like the way that I look at it,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: it's been happening for centuries. It's not a shadow. It's
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: taking the Jackson name and pushing it even further. And
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: then when when she's ready, my daughter is gonna have
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: to do the exact same thing. So when you look
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: back at the you know, the ends of time were
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: still there.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Are you surprised by your voice? Sometimes? Like like how
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: big people look at you like I seen when I
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: think it was you said something about Andrew Schultz, right
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: and with viral like crazy. Were you surprised about that
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: or was it one of those things you just with
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the homie like this is how I feeling. You just
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: thought it was gonna in there?
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah I did.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: I mean I didn't think my mind words even meant
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: that much.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And I don't have a problem with Scholtz at all.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I just thought the comment was weird.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: It's not that I had some soapbox moment where I
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: put up four or five paragraphs on Twitter or even
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: continue to do so. It's just I mean, the comment
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: was weird, and that's it. I don't I sometimes don't
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: recognize that people give a shit because I've said so
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: much that you didn't give a shit about before, So
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: like you know, they pick and choose what sticks, and
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: you never know what does, and you know, sometimes I
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: gotta just remember that you do have a little bit
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: of way, And you know, I don't mean nothing by it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: It just was on my mind.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: And you said you was a fan, Yeah, exactly, bro, Like,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: first of all, he's fucking hilarious and tires love tires,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: But like it's just it's just how.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: People are going wrong with it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: And even when you do interviews and stuff like that,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: you have to be conscious of like what's gonna get clipped,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: what's going to be spread out there?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: People are not going to click the link to.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: The full interview. It's just not gonna happen. So you
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: just got to be mindful of the stuff. It's just
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: the game of the internet.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Has La, how has LA changed from everything that's going
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: on in the last year. Right, you're a huge LA fan,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: huge Lakers fan, huge Dodges.
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: Fan, huge Kendrick fan.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've seen this has been laz last year.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: So how have you seen the change of LA. As
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: far as people are outside the.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Scene, I feel like every region, every now and then,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: whether it be the South, you know, East, East coast,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: West coast, every now and then there's something that jokes
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: them where they got the sound and right now I
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: feel like with Dot with Tyler.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: We got the sound.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: You know, my Pops and Snoop put out album, like
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: the sound is there. There's absolute blue Lips like you like,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: the sound is there right now? And uh, even other
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: artists like Thojah and Billie Eilish. My man evinced like,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: we got like twenty people out right now, and so
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: it's a you know, it's a beautiful time. On top
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: of the Dodgers just being disgusted. I'm sorry, New York Bro,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Like that nothing with the base sound so clear?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Was it? Listen? He take it serious, Bro, this is what's.
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: The reason that they want?
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Like, how do you feel about that? Like they're like, oh,
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: he's the reason part, Like he's a part of the wind,
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Like he's a part of the motivation of doing that's
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: the guy.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Talking about. Dave Roberts. Bro, Dave Roberts, Yeah, that's wild,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: but uh, it was.
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: It was a beautiful feeling.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It was. It was a beautiful feeling. You know.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm not gonna act like I'm this die hard
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: baseball fan. I've always said baseball needs more dunks and touchdowns.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: But so going to that game, seeing that field, having
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: that nervous feeling of the World Series, and then watching
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: my guy walk the entire field doing his thing, being
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: in his element, it being so clear, and him knocking
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: it out of the park.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It's just one of the one of the proudest moments
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that I've had as his son.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: And when he was done, I looked over at my brother.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And my sister and was just like, man, he did it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: You know. It's just one of those weird feelings that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: are out of a movie.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Help that we won too, because I and man, it
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: would have been I would have been upset. But even
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: for him to do it at the parade, it's just
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: one of those things where it's just like, how could you?
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: How could I ever run away from being blessed by
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: that dude?
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: I want to say I wanted. I got a couple
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: more questions for you. But we talked about l A.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: I feel like LA really needed the year that it
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: just had. Yeah, I don't think we talk about the
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: loss of Nipsey, the loss of Kobe. La took some
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: real big other And there was a part when during
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: the Popular Show, Kendrick said that Kendrick, because like Yoda,
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: City ain't felt the same since.
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: Nipsey died, And I don't think people talk about that enough.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think period at the time of Nipsy passing,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: he was so obvious like this is gonna be yeah,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: like and so when you take away, you know, just
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: like it's just like a ripple effect, and yeah, man,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: they're they're still not over it, you know. I was
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: just like, I can't help but talk about Kobe. We
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: were just talking about Nip last night at the after
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: after party. So it's it's it really was a feeling.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: This is this the healing factor that that had to
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: take has finally come to a spot where we are
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: forced to be wrecking with right now. I know a
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: lot of people are gonna be tired of it, but
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: like it is what it is, but.
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Not what you just said is a good way to
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: put it in paraphrasm. But yeah, it feel like the
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: city's healing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's here.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: And then like right now I'm looking at my phone
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: to see who's affected by the fires right now. So
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: like it's just it's just another another thing. But we're
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: in a beautiful place artistically, and I'm proud of everybody
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: who who's from the city doing their thing.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: They gotta go too.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: Okay, when it comes to screenwriting, what did you learn
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: at USC that your that your father didn't learn because
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: I'm only getting this from the strade out of Compty
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: movie just writing Friday in his house like it was nothing,
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: just just.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: What you know what goes into the just the in
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: and out the difference really the difference between mean popcorn
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: movies and cinema. You know what they view as cinema.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: We've all seen a movie have crazy box office, but
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: don't get no oscar recognition because there there's a mindset
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: within Hollywood of popcorn films and cinema and just the
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: difference in what that goes into. And I mean personally,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: I feel like, Girard, you don't get enough credit for
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: you being able to pull off that American accent. Like
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: there's so many actors that get this praise for their
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: dialect and all this stuff when you've been doing it forever.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: So I just want to give you big ups while
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: this topic is there that you deserve so much more
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: recognition for doing it as much as you did, because
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: it still trips me out when you start talking like
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: how to train your dragon?
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: One word you could say right now that would make
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: everybody be like, oh wow.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I get I don't care.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: This weekend.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: One know I've been looking this way.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Butler, oh Jackson, we appreciate you. Dinner Thieves three that
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: are threeves Dead of Thieves three working on it. Maybe
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: possibility a long time.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: So yeah, this one, by the way, that's if everybody
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: goes to see this movie. You know, come on, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: think you're getting a great movie. But I yeah, there's
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: something I wouldn't even say in the works. There's there's
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: an idea that's brewing right now, but it's just an idea.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you all for joining us. Make sure you'll
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: go see it this weekend. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: wake that ass up in the morning.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club