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2026 Supporting Actor Nominee Sean Dominic · The Daytime Emmys Specials

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  Speaker 1: Walcome, walcome, Welcome to Ja JA Media's Daytime Emmy Special.
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  Speaker 2: I am jail j You know that uh and this face?
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  Speaker 2: You know his face? If you're not gonna rests fair,
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  Speaker 2: you know who? You know who he be?
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  Speaker 1: And I want to say correctly because these titles. I'm
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  Speaker 1: an Emmy voter, folks and Emmy judge, so I does that,
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  Speaker 1: which I say, it's correctly he is nominated for. These
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  Speaker 1: are long titles Outstanding Supporting Performance in a day in
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  Speaker 1: a daytime Drama Series actor.
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  Speaker 2: As long.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but he is and he plays, so I
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  Speaker 1: want to I want to start calling him again, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Nate Hastings. As the storyline is going, it's like that direction,
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  Speaker 1: but it's seat double wor Hi, Sean, I am good.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see you. First of all, congratulations, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I'm trying to ask this question the right way.
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  Speaker 1: So for all of us who know about the creative world,
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  Speaker 1: the top awards in the US are the Grammys from music,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Stage, Oscars for film, and Emmys, whether it's daytimes matter,
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  Speaker 1: Emmy's for all television stuff. So my question to you,
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  Speaker 1: Sean is have you ever imagined being nominated for an Emmy.
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  Speaker 1: And the second part of that question is was it
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  Speaker 1: different or similar to when you found out you were
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  Speaker 1: actually nominated for an Emmy?
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  Speaker 2: That's the question.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Emmy or just any award in this entertainment ore anyone? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like before you're an actor, you think of
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  Speaker 4: the biggest, biggest, biggest, the biggest awards. So I would
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  Speaker 4: this is hilarious. I would envision me sitting on Oprah's couch.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about my oscar.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, remember when she was her show was the show?
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  Speaker 3: That was the show.
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  Speaker 4: I would try to and you know, you know they say,
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  Speaker 4: you know, think of you know, try to live in
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  Speaker 4: what you want to be, and so I would think
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  Speaker 4: of that, and I'm like, you know, what would I say?
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  Speaker 4: And all these things. So speed to the back to
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  Speaker 4: the present. When I got the nom I got a call,
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  Speaker 4: Like I was so, I had friends in town. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: we were we were taking our kids to the park.
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  Speaker 4: I was in my gee got a call from Matt
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't tell Matt this, but.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, why Matt calling right now?
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I was like, I was like, he'll
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  Speaker 4: text me if it's something important because I was driving
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  Speaker 4: and he called me like within a minute or two again,
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  Speaker 4: and I had this thought. I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know when they're nominating the Emmys, but I think it's
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  Speaker 4: sometimes I'm around this time, I was like, oh you call.
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  Speaker 3: So I picked up Sean Win Sean Wine.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: That's about nickname from high school.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, but I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I forget how exactly how I said it, but
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  Speaker 4: you've been nominated.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what did you say?
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  Speaker 1: He said, you've been dominating, and and uh, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was beautiful because uh, my lady and my my
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  Speaker 1: son heard heard it too because it was on the car.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah right in the speakers right, okay, right.
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  Speaker 4: And so I was like I had so much going
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  Speaker 4: on in my mind. It's I didn't know how to
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  Speaker 4: take it, you know what I mean. And so I
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  Speaker 4: was like, oh, wow, this is amazing, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he kept congratulating me and and we hung up, and
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  Speaker 4: I was just sitting there.
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  Speaker 3: I was like wow, like whoa.
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  Speaker 4: Then texts started coming in and emails and I was
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  Speaker 4: just like and it's a weird thing where I with
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  Speaker 4: I with drew into myself because I had friends and
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  Speaker 4: like we because they was this was this was their
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  Speaker 4: last day in town, and so we were at the
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  Speaker 4: When we got to the park, I told them and
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  Speaker 4: they were excited for me. But you know, we started
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  Speaker 4: talking about life, and so I just like I had
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  Speaker 4: to ignore everything and just like I just drew in,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. You know, it's a weird
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  Speaker 4: I didn't. I would have never expected to be like that.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it would be hype and jumping up in
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  Speaker 4: there if I was by myself in the house, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean. So it's just like it's like
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  Speaker 4: it's surreal, makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: So it's probably feel like, oh, blake, yeah, I thought
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  Speaker 1: you you want you to hope me. Obviously you guys
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  Speaker 1: submitted the whole thing. But you're like, oh, f oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all those birds Really it really happened, right.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of thing, isn't it. Oh that happened. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's like somebody it's like a new comedian signing up
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  Speaker 4: for a show that a comedian put together where they
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  Speaker 4: put your names in a hat or whatever, and they
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  Speaker 4: call his name.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, oh, oh my god, they really called me? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: am I ready?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean like it's so I was like,
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  Speaker 4: oh wow, Like you think about all the big names.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you're growing up and you see all these
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  Speaker 4: big names who won awards and stuff. And I was
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  Speaker 4: there for Michelle Morgan. I get Christian gave her award
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  Speaker 4: and I was high. Like when when we when we
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  Speaker 4: said the leading female Actress, Leading Actress, we opened that.
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  Speaker 1: He's like I was more hype for her at the time, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah no, because we were outside that year. We were
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the Winner circle, and so we were watching
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  Speaker 1: it on there, and so when they said her name,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you all of us out there in
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  Speaker 1: the in the press, we were really happy for her,
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  Speaker 1: like we're just like she made history. She like it
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  Speaker 1: was just like it's just a great actions like that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get that wrong either. It was like wow, I was.
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  Speaker 3: Like crying for it.
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  Speaker 4: When she went to the red carpet to take pictures,
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't stop the tears.
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  Speaker 3: Because I was like, I was like, I love her
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  Speaker 3: as a person.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, And I think all the work I see because
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  Speaker 4: we we rehearsed all the time, and outside of work,
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  Speaker 4: I would help her tape auditions.
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  Speaker 2: All okay, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I see the work she puts into this, and
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  Speaker 4: so I was just I was just so proud.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so proud of her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were. I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: I remember several like we're going to get emotional about this,
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  Speaker 1: that we're the fresh trying to be like taut, which
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to talk to her and I'm not an interviewer, like,
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  Speaker 1: but we were really emotional about it, and she's beautiful
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  Speaker 1: and beautiful dress to then why do what you mean?
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  Speaker 1: It was like you're excited for others when something like
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  Speaker 1: that happened. But see now this is you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but then.
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  Speaker 1: What here's the thing, So maybe we'll say that I
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  Speaker 1: won a few awards in my life. And giving a
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  Speaker 1: speech is the craziest thing because there's a countdown happening
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  Speaker 1: already and all you see is white lights in front
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  Speaker 1: of people are staring at you like you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what I want to I don't want to forget anybody,
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  Speaker 1: right or whatever. So are you going to write down
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  Speaker 1: a speech just thing just in the chance that you
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  Speaker 1: do in an you think, uh, I think I'll write
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  Speaker 1: I'll hit some it's like some some some critical names.
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  Speaker 3: You know you won't be a give everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but from some of the critical names in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, and I got some other things that I
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  Speaker 1: think I would say.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I don't think I threw a full.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, little cliff notes notes. Yeah, yeah, So what did
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  Speaker 2: you submit?
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  Speaker 4: I submitted, uh, the scenes with when uh uh natean
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  Speaker 4: Audra broke up. Yeah, I thought because I looked at
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the scenes from that year, and I
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  Speaker 4: thought they were the most powerful.
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  Speaker 3: And raw, like.
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  Speaker 4: We're all to the point where after we taped, somebody
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  Speaker 4: asked me, was everything okay?
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  Speaker 3: Oh really yeah yeah, And I was like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm acting my job. You're like, wow, yeah, great, which
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  Speaker 2: is great, Which is great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a lot going on. It was even though
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Nate, you know my I guess those that story wasn't
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  Speaker 4: the front story of the show at the time.
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  Speaker 3: So I lost my brother.
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  Speaker 2: Who I just that's right, Oh my god, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: I'm caring for his mother who has cancer, yes, staying
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  Speaker 4: with me, and so I'm kind of lost in this moment.
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  Speaker 4: And and the one person who I thought I could
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  Speaker 4: depend on I found out was lying to me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: So everything just kind of like crumbled and fell apart.
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  Speaker 1: How do you prepare for scenes like that? For stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, I mean, if people are thinking you were real,
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  Speaker 1: do you remember kind of how you prepare to show up,
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  Speaker 1: especially in a medium like subts, like okay, what do
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  Speaker 1: you three go?
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  Speaker 2: And then next scene?
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  Speaker 1: So with those scenes, every so often you'll get scenes
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  Speaker 1: that like, oh, I.
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  Speaker 4: Like these scenes, like I really like these scenes, and
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  Speaker 4: so I made sure I knew the like you know,
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  Speaker 4: you always try to make sure you know the lines,
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  Speaker 4: but I really hammered these.
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  Speaker 3: Lines, like, so I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes you sometimes I'm sorry, I'm going off on these
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  Speaker 4: different tangents. Sometimes you get scenes so thick every so often,
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  Speaker 4: every so often you have to think it's just so
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  Speaker 4: brown every soft you have to think, yeah, leave it
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  Speaker 4: at that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't have to think, oh got it, got it.
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  Speaker 4: Because it flowed so well. And and and Nate and
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  Speaker 4: Ardor were just emotionally attached right there and we were
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  Speaker 4: just having a conversation. But the prepared, like I just
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  Speaker 4: made sure I remembered what led up to this, m
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  Speaker 4: what led up to this, and let them let this
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  Speaker 4: moment be. I didn't know what was going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Like as far as emotions, however that would work, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know. I wasn't planning. I wasn't planning to cry
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  Speaker 4: or anything like that. I like to take Denzel's.
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  Speaker 3: Quote.
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  Speaker 4: I forget exactly how he said it, but you want
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  Speaker 4: to keep it to where you're fighting it, but the
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  Speaker 4: audience is crying for you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, god no yeah yeah yeah, well it's right
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  Speaker 1: behind the eyes we see it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yah yah yeah yeah a lot of times,
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  Speaker 4: like every so often you'll see something where somebody's balling,
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  Speaker 4: ball and ballingall alright, all right, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, so I I, you know, try to
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  Speaker 3: taper that. But like it was, man, it was. It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a flood.
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  Speaker 2: Do you when you listen like that, you did?
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  Speaker 1: I mean god, they did go through a lot of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: almost said something, a lot of stuff, I know, until
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  Speaker 1: you laid it out like that, I did it.
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  Speaker 2: I did an episode the.
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  Speaker 1: Other day with Roy Gibson, your former co star my
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  Speaker 1: friend for g H, and he listed all these things
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  Speaker 1: that his characters are, like, oh yeah, you got you
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  Speaker 1: think with you all that? Like we watched him, but
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  Speaker 1: I almost forgot when you leave it like that because
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  Speaker 1: we were rooting for your your characters. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I loved you like as a person, as my buddy.
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  Speaker 1: And then she's just she's so beautiful it's not even funny,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's not even and talented, I mean talented
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  Speaker 1: and beautiful, nice and get the whole package right. So
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  Speaker 1: how is she as a as a You've had to
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  Speaker 1: sea h You've been God, You've been to Lucky Amilia Heinely,
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  Speaker 1: You've had her, you had what was because that because
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  Speaker 1: of this particular situation.
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  Speaker 2: What was it like working with you, Laka miss Silver.
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  Speaker 3: I loved working with Suleka.
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  Speaker 4: I like we had I feel like we we had
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  Speaker 4: serious chemistry.
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  Speaker 2: Like I.
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  Speaker 4: Every so often we would have scenes that would it
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  Speaker 4: was just it was just it was just flow. We
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  Speaker 4: were in a flow state. And as an actor, man
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  Speaker 4: like you know, that's that's what you crave, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I I can't thank her enough for those
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  Speaker 4: scenes that she gave me. And and not only her,
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  Speaker 4: not only su Leka the bulk of the scenes in
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  Speaker 4: the beginning, but value Pettiford as well.
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  Speaker 2: About the legend, Yes, Valary.
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  Speaker 3: He's value.
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  Speaker 1: I had valued Pediford the last two scenes on my Imma,
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  Speaker 1: and she like she.
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  Speaker 3: Like wrapped that baby up in a bowt tyfle.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if everyone gets to the end, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but like you just wrapped it up in.
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  Speaker 3: A bow tie for for my scenes, it was it
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  Speaker 3: was beautiful. So she can come to the Emmys, right, right, okay, right,
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  Speaker 3: But she's another one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you got you got her.
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  Speaker 1: In your orbit, in your story and another person who's
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  Speaker 1: amazing in real life and just I mean and hyper talent.
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  Speaker 1: I mean so talented you can't even you know, shake
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  Speaker 1: a stick at and you had to and your but
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  Speaker 1: your relationship was actually very interesting because she wasn't your mother, no,
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  Speaker 1: but she was mother yes, So how did how that?
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that for just for us, for as
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  Speaker 1: black people to see that kind of because you guys acted,
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  Speaker 1: I mean had to say I was acted black. The
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  Speaker 1: it was like, yes, I like that. I mean, well
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the way she spoke, she
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  Speaker 1: spoke like a black mom. She spoke like that. So
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  Speaker 1: I just want to know you're for us on so
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  Speaker 1: you don't see that enough. So now we got Breonna
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  Speaker 1: Gates and all that sounds great. I would say, how
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  Speaker 1: is that for you? How is that you playing that
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  Speaker 1: as actor?
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  Speaker 4: As soon as I got over that, I realized I'm
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  Speaker 4: working with value value Pediford.
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  Speaker 3: It was amazing. Yeah, like, man, like I miss her,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like I miss her. Man just made it
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  Speaker 3: so easy.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: And she was just so warm and just spoke to
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  Speaker 4: everybody on set. Man and and and.
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  Speaker 3: I remember one time. I remember one.
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  Speaker 4: Time she messed up just a few times we all do,
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  Speaker 4: and it bothered her so much.
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  Speaker 3: She was in tears.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, like not onlike woe is me? But like you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, woman, you are a beast. Come on, do
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  Speaker 4: not worry about us. I'm just trying to do my
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  Speaker 4: best when you're here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, it's like you're a legend. Like, don't even
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  Speaker 2: worry about age, your everything.
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  Speaker 3: Girl, Like that's how to love. She has for she
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  Speaker 3: has for it man, And I miss her.
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  Speaker 2: Dare man. Oh, actually I ask you a question about that.
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  Speaker 1: So for you, because you've had other acting jobs and
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  Speaker 1: you've been out there in the world, when an actor
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  Speaker 1: doesn't is not fully present, that happens sometimes as if.
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  Speaker 2: Fully give you.
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  Speaker 1: Then where does Sean Dominic go as an actor to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that he is giving his best performance? Because
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to say when someone's giving it to you, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's the way, that's But what if they're
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  Speaker 1: not giving it to you.
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  Speaker 4: I try to, I try to affect them, keep having
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  Speaker 4: a conversation, because it's all at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: we're having conversations, and so you know, use the words
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  Speaker 4: that are that are written and try try you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and and try to give them something, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean. And sometimes it works, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: can you can see, you can see. It's funny, you
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  Speaker 4: can she had triggered someone's eyes when they're being affected
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  Speaker 4: by you, Like today me and me and Crystal had
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  Speaker 4: some scenes and uh, as I was talking to her,
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  Speaker 4: I see her like click trigger it like uh, and
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  Speaker 4: she was present, not that she wasn't written right right,
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  Speaker 4: just like zone in Like when I'm like trying to
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  Speaker 4: ham her something to her, like she's she is letting
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  Speaker 4: that affect her. It's it's it's an interesting thing to see,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like, cause you can tell
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  Speaker 1: some folks are just there.
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  Speaker 2: They're there, they're doing their job, and you're like, okay, but.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, but but but and as I look at
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  Speaker 1: your category, and and and while I look at your
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  Speaker 1: show with all the so many talented actors on there,
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  Speaker 1: but your category. My buddy Lauren Saint Victor, that's my
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  Speaker 1: dog I mind to So I'm like, how do I She's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna tell you, guys, is not fair? Why is life
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  Speaker 2: to be just a tie? A tie? That's not fair?
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  Speaker 2: Because speaking of one of the nicest people in the industry.
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  Speaker 3: One of the nice peoples.
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  Speaker 1: As my first time meeting him, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a solid brother.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, first time, so some people it takes a while, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Because you know whatever, you know, a lot of a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people are guarded because of life. Yes, open,
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  Speaker 4: he was straight, open, silent brother. And we went to
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  Speaker 4: Monte Carlo. He was in mon Carlo when I was
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  Speaker 4: in mine cars Oh okay, okay, and we linked up
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: out there a little bit too. So, uh great brother, man,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: man this category.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Let me let me continue, folks. Then we got Timmin
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: in there doing his best work on Beyond the Gates.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I mean talking about I mean talking about this strong,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: big black man just working it out with the emotions
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: and working out.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Brother. Right, I've never met him so as I think, yeah.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: But he's notminated against you, of course.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And then Mike Manning been around for a long time,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: it was on Beyond the Gates, and.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Then you got the legend Roger Howarth.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I was like, man, why are you in my category?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Another legend from your show?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Another legend? Man? Yes, it's I to be nominated with him.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I'm sure, that's what I'm saying.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So it's it's just that you you have an embarrassment
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: of riches just being being in a category with strong man,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: but also working with a strong cast.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: And because how long you been on there now?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Seven seven years? Wait a minute, time flies, wait, wait
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: a minute.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen, so I've known you about seven years.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Then I think I interviewed when the first and it
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: was when he came on, Like I said, you got
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a kidn me.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was pre pandemic, pre pandemic a year
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: before pandemic.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, first week of March of twenty nineteen.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: That okay, that's crazy, that's crazy. That's crazy.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Well, the story you start touch just a little bit
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: because he can't get any spoilers, why folks don't ask
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: you can't no spoilers. But when they took you out
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of the the doctor medicine field and went into business.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: You know what We're told you had a double major
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and all canto gind of stuff.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: But you' say they're hinting back is.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Now you're working with another legend who I worked with
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: on in a movie. It Vivica a Fox. I did
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Second Chance for Christmas. You can check it out. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: was an actually an actor nice and she was super sweet,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: oh my, oh my god, prepared, super sweet. So I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: want to know your thoughts with Vivica and going back
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: into possibly as they're leading this direction. You can't go spoilers, fuck,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: just leaning direction of the being back to being a doctor.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Uh well, I don't think I've still got over working
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: with the Vivia Fox.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna keep it right there. Okay, I'm still like,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it's Vivica. It's iconic, so many movies, so many everything.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm hoping if a lot of your
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: audience doesn't know this movie, I want you to go
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: and find it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, Booty call, I I know it. You know I
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: know it. You know I know it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: One of my favorite movies because it's it's a comedy.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: It's so funny.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Amazing.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, I saw the theater.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: I saw in the theater too, Vivcal Fox, Jamie Jamie Fox,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Tommy Davison.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Tommy Davidson Hello, oh yeah yeah, I think the name
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is to me, I can't remember her name. Who's the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: other lady? But it's so good Independence Day. Oh my gosh,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: she's iconic. I mean, kill Bill one, uh, set it off,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Set it off exactly.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: You kill Bill, kill that.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: That whole scene in the kitchen.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Scene, that whole thing, kill a scene. So she's been
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: in this business for so long, man, and seeing the
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: ups and downs. Just a straight worker bit all business.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Uh so I try to pick her brain when I can,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: you know, just you.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Know, yeah yeah, uh but it's man, it's amazing to
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: work with her. I'm sorry, I'm like like going on.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And on about you can't please.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: But also amazing person, amazing person, like came came in
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: here and just like hammering away. Like they threw a
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: bunch of lines at her when she first came first week.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: He was like, and she got through it, got through
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: it with without having an aneurysm, you know what I mean.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Pace is fast and some folks who are really talented
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in other mediums. Doude, you see that have a hard
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: time when it comes to the daytime. It's not it's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: not first flat and hard.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I tell I tell people all the time, have your
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: favorite act to come on the soap dude, we'll give
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: it a month, right, I don't care how great they
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: are in the movies, You're gonna see a little difference.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: And because it moves so fast. Yeah, you know, it
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: just happens.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: And it's a different mindset because it moves so fast.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Because unlike movies, you can do four or five ten
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: twenty takes, or four or five days of rehearsal or
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: six pages of you know, on one day.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: It's way different.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: It's amazing, dog, it's amazing.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: As a soap actor, i'd be like, are we done?
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: What?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: You know? That's how somebody's like, that's the pacing that
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: before things are not sobs? Are are? Are you now?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Is your muscle now fully strengthened in this soap world?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Because I mean now you're doing seven years for seven years?
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Seven years? You got it right?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Man, I finally feel comfort the bowl like and also
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: we have the added benefit of knowing our characters.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: So throughout.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: As the years go on, you know more and more
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: about your character and so the lines come a little
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: bit easier because you know who you are, you know
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: so that part, and you just were constantly using this
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: muscle every week.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Every week.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I I was.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I was sitting on set with Yesterday I'm sorry, day
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: before Yesterday, with Crystal brighton Uh, Melissa Way the Gang,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: and I was like, isn't it crazy, Like because we
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: were about to do a long scene. I was like,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: it's crazy, like, we're about to make this into something special.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: We we didn't have a bunch of rehearsals or anything.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: We're just about to like have a conversation. Yeah, for
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: all pretty much the first time.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: And I'm similar sing for you and many of us
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: who don't assume we're gonna be on the soap opera.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just not especially for people of color,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: it's not just naturally assuming you'll be on a soap opera.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: There's very few roles. There's more now by the time
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: when we're coming up, you're not just thinking can be
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: on there, and you're on a soap being able to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: flesh out a character. Yeah, go on storyline arcs and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you really get you are getting the full experience, aren't you.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: It's it's like it's like a never ending play stage play.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: We get to keep going and we get to keep working,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like that's and that's a
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: tough part of being an actor, like if if that's
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: it's a tough part.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: But that's the.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Blessing of being a soap actor. We get to constantly
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: work on our craft. Yes, work, Yeah, it's it's I'm
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: like before I before I booked this role, I was like,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I remember hitting up one of my acting coaches and
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I was like, hey, they want to I'm saying. It's
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: like I'm somebody special saying it's like I got money.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, it's like this is what I sound like, Hey,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: they want to offer me this role and the soap.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Do you think I should take it? He said, you
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: want to be a working actor, right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: You're like yeah, I'm like.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. So that that that that cleaned me up
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: right away, like somebody.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, You're like, but here, but here's the thing and
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: just and for and just a quick little serious form
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: from all the actors out think who are looking for work.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of actors. You're still actors whether
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you're working or not. But there are a lot of
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: actors who are not getting gigs and getting one of
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the gains. So I mean, so it really is a thing.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It's like, okay, folks, when you get an opportunity, do
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: you take it and is it something you want to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: be happy with? And you can stand by it? And
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: luckily you can. You can stand by this role. You
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: can stand by this opportunity.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: You know what happened when I started in and in
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: my career in acting, a bunch of non working actors.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about, oh soaps, don't do.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Soaps actors, I'm not talking about working. So they've got
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: into my ear before before I booked the show. I'm like,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: where are they now?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Right? I wonder what they're doing. It's like, uh, don't
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: poo poo, don't poo poo.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Stuff that good work comes from all areas, can come
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: from anything. Seriously, you can come from any piece of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: work that you do.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Valley Pip vivicat Fox.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow More, who never gets the soap roots never Beasts,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: came back after being gone for twenty thirty years. Yep, right,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: what were these people thinking I pay check now variety.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Last thing whant to ask you is just that. So
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: do you get recognized out in public?
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Every so often.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: L A is a is a different place where like
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: I'm sure some people do recognize you. They don't just
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: keep it on eight. But every so like, uh where
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: was I every so I don't get recognized like I
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: was at I was at Sprouts a lot of times.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I love Sprouts.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: A lot of times I keep like I'm trying to
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: keep sunglasses and the hat on the case. Lady was
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: like very nice and polite. She was working there.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: She was like I knew you.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Oh's funny.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, man, you got some good good eyes.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It's like, how you how you recognize me?
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: It's like you, Yeah, you're on the rest of my
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: favorite self.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, it's uh, well, when I get go
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: outside of l A, like especially.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: In the South, Okay, definitely get recognized. In Canada, you
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: definitely get recognized. Yeah, yeah, it's funny by a big joking.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: We we I'm friends with Wally Kirk. He's over on
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: days and g h. I've been friends for years and
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: we go to the same rouse.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, so and one time we range each other at
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: that Rouse, and we couldn't stop laughing because he's like James,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: well quiet gybody. Nobody else say anything. So it's funny
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: we recognized we started, we can stop laughing. So always
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: always like joke and I'll see you Rouse one Sunday,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Sunday after after work.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Rouse.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It's always our joke. But it's like, it's not like
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: because la is one place you can run to people.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: You know, Celebrities are everywhere. Celebrities are everywhere.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: You're right, you're right.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: If you go go out enough, you'll run it to
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: one eventually.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Right, And a lot of people in l A kind
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: of understand the whole, like not just running up to you,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and they kind of they don't.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: They don't.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: You're right something the same as other places outside of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the big cities, I think, and New York.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: New York is even he's even better like New York.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: They'll just keep it walking, you know what I mean?
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Very true, very true. I love New York.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Sandominic, congratulations and I'll be root for you, and I
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: hope to be there at the Emmies this year, so
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I will be there and I'll see you in the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: red carpet and we can talk there and ye see
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: what you're wearing.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Do you have the outfit? You have an outfit yet?
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It's October? But do you have an outfit yet yet?
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Working on it?
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Working on it, hopefully, hopefully we find something nice.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I'm working on mine to have an outfit. I'm trying
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: to work on.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: So I like to stand I like to stand out
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: at the Emmys, even though impressed, like to stand out
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, like it's me, but so
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: usually one of the taller ones there too, like, oh
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: there's James.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Wait, were there.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: For my bald head? I'm so proud of you. Congratulations,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: thank you man.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 31:00
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• 31:03
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