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Michael Chiklis · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Real fun with Mario Lopez's.
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  Speaker 2: Up old Mario Lopez, Jordy right now, any whinny actor?
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  Speaker 2: My man, Michael Tickliss, How.
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  Speaker 1: You doing, Michael, I'm great, Mario, are you, man?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well sometimes to see you. Your new movie
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  Speaker 2: looks fascinating. It's called The Senior. It's based on the
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  Speaker 2: true story of a guy who went back to college
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  Speaker 2: and played college football at the age of fifty nine
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  Speaker 2: after being expelled when he was younger. I remember this story.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad it's finally being a movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a great story. Man. When I read this,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, could this really be? I mean, did
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  Speaker 1: this actually happen? And sure enough it did? And I listen, man,
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  Speaker 1: I played. I was the captain of my football team
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  Speaker 1: in high school and I still have aches and pains
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  Speaker 1: from that experience. Right, I like, how did this guy
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  Speaker 1: do this? And meeting Mike, I'm like, okay, yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: did this. He's kind of a He's a beast.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable being how physical it is. Now the guy
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  Speaker 2: who the film was based on, Mike Flint, was actually
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  Speaker 2: on the set too, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that was daunting because you know, I've done
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  Speaker 1: some bio pictures in the past, and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: idea of having the guy there, I was like, is
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  Speaker 1: he going to be here every day? Right? Exactly? So
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  Speaker 1: at first there was daunting, but once I got to
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  Speaker 1: know the guy, he's just lovely. It ended up being
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  Speaker 1: an incredible tool that he was there because I could
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  Speaker 1: turn around and go to him and say, hey, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: you know when this was going on, what were you
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  Speaker 1: going through at the time. I ended up using him
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  Speaker 1: as a resource, you know what I mean. It was fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually beneficial for me, and Eileen was great
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  Speaker 1: to his wife. And they weren't like they were completely unobtrusive.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't stick their nose in it. They were fascinated
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  Speaker 1: by the process. They had never seen a film being made,
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  Speaker 1: and they were all stricken by the amount of work
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  Speaker 1: we do. Like they were blown away by the work
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  Speaker 1: ethic in twelve and fourteen hour days. They had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of people out there
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  Speaker 1: think we just live a glamorous life and go to parties,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, they don't realize that we work those
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  Speaker 1: our tails off and you know, it's hard work.
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely, most people are blown away when they finally
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  Speaker 2: get the opportunity to kind of wuse it firsthand. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, when he did decide to go back and
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  Speaker 2: play at fifty nine, could he still play?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean you know that you couldn't make a
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  Speaker 1: college team, especially in West Texas, unless you could run
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  Speaker 1: with it. Wow. The thing is, Mike happened to be
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  Speaker 1: a strength trainer and a coach for some major universities,
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  Speaker 1: so he always used to say, I'm thirty days away
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  Speaker 1: from being in field shape. Yeah. He always kept himself,
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  Speaker 1: He'd always put himself through adversity physically, always so that
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  Speaker 1: when he decided to do this, he was able to
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  Speaker 1: get himself tuned up so that when he went into
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  Speaker 1: two days, he was ready for it. Two days Man
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  Speaker 1: and August in Texas at fifty nine. It hurts thinking
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  Speaker 1: about absolutely. When I was making this movie, we were
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  Speaker 1: playing football for twelve hours a day. My eyebrows hurt,
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  Speaker 1: everything hurt me, and and you don't have the same recovery.
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  Speaker 1: You're briddled, you know, or believe me? I know.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I love this movie and everything about it
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  Speaker 2: is so inspiring, and the fact that it's true is
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  Speaker 2: obviously even even better. I still participate in violent activities
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  Speaker 2: like boxing and jiu jitsu, and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Man too, you know, I listened, and that thing is
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  Speaker 1: i've I'm an actor. I've. I was just coming off
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  Speaker 1: of playing Red Horobox, so I was heavy, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're playing the guy in his early seventies. And I
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  Speaker 1: had six weeks and I had to just work my
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  Speaker 1: ass off to get there. I'm sorry. I had to
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  Speaker 1: work as hard as I could to get to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of it. And you know, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so up and down and up and down. You know. So,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, no more of that now. If anyone
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  Speaker 1: wants me to get heavy to use AI, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: doing it.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard. At my age. I won't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Just for my own health, I don't want to do
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  Speaker 1: it anymore. Yeah, you know, I'm staying down. I'm staying fit. Baby.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you, man, you look great. You look great.
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  Speaker 1: Really quick.
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  Speaker 2: I know you got another film on the way with
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  Speaker 2: Liam Neeson and Rissa Toomey.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, The Mongoose.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fun you know, it's a it's a fun
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  Speaker 1: action flick and it's really smart. Actually, when I read it,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, there's Shakespeare references in this piece,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And Liam is awesome. And Marissa Tomay and
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  Speaker 1: I went to college together at Boston University.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: We had never gotten a chance to work together. That's fun.
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  Speaker 1: I love Melbourne, Australia. I love Australia period. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I love about Australia The Australians. And do you
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  Speaker 1: know why if you ask an Australian what do you
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  Speaker 1: guys say when something goes wrong? The first thing they
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  Speaker 1: say is, maris might She'll be right. They are the
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  Speaker 1: most can do people. They didn't. They're unflappable, like things
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  Speaker 1: could be on fire and they're like, no, ourries, she'll
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  Speaker 1: be right. They don't. They just don't panic. I love
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  Speaker 1: just no panic in them, and so I really enjoy
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  Speaker 1: that about them as a group.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great learned I learned that in Crocodile Dundee.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: You came out with that should be right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me say all right, last question. You were
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  Speaker 2: recently on the cover of Cigar and Spirits magazine. I
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  Speaker 2: happen to have grace that cover myself. You got a
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  Speaker 2: favorite cigar.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I do. I love the my father beju. It's
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  Speaker 1: a torpedo. It's not for the faint of heart. It's
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  Speaker 1: a strong cigar. But it's that last thing of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you're when everything's quiet. Yeah, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just once in a while, I like
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  Speaker 1: to have me a nice strong cigar and a little
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  Speaker 1: scotch and there you go. Likewise, that would a man
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  Speaker 1: of taste. I love it. After all the hard work.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you deserve it. Congratulations on the film. I really
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  Speaker 2: look forward to checking it out. Hope to get to
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  Speaker 2: see you in person, and everyone be sure to check
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  Speaker 2: out Michael in the new film The Senior, which hits
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  Speaker 2: theaters on September nineteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in, Michael, Hey, thanks for being with me.
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  Speaker 2: Pau with Mario Lopez.