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Lilly Singh · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario a little bit sober.
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  Speaker 2: Mario Lopez joining me right now on Zoom from the
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  Speaker 2: new film Doing It, actress Lily say, how are you, Lily?
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  Speaker 1: I'm always great when I'm talking to you. You are
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  Speaker 1: the joy of my life.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, thank you. I love getting to catch up with you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whatever I say the title of your film
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  Speaker 2: Doing It, it just makes me want to say it
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  Speaker 2: in the Llo cool J song, you remember that song.
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  Speaker 1: Doing It, Doing It, Doing It?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Hey, exactly, I love that song and looks like
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna love this movie. It looks like so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: I know you co wrote it. Congratulations. You're also a
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  Speaker 2: star in it alongside Sabriena Jones and and agast I
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  Speaker 2: are very funny. For those not familiar, please tell me
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Doing It It is a raunchy sex comedy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the types that we grew up with. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking in the vein of American Pie forty year Old Virgin.
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  Speaker 1: It is about a thirty something year old virgin who
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  Speaker 1: finds herself teaching sex in so it is la a
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  Speaker 1: lot funny, but it's not. Some good commentary in there
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  Speaker 1: as well. You know, making people think, probably some important conversations.
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  Speaker 2: See that's that's great storytelling right there, and fun projects.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, and I know it's a passion project
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  Speaker 2: because it took about seven years.
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  Speaker 1: Seven years, Mario, My longest and most toxic relationship has
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  Speaker 1: been this movie.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely seven years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I got the first draft of the script, I fell
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  Speaker 1: in love with it. I was like, I absolutely am
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  Speaker 1: obsessed with the idea of there being a sex comedy
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  Speaker 1: with someone that looks like me. Yea, Mario, because growing
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  Speaker 1: up I never saw myself in those movies, which is
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  Speaker 1: probably why I've had such an awkward relationship with sex.
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  Speaker 1: I never got the top, I never really had sex said,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, and this is so important and
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell it. So yeah, seven years and
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  Speaker 1: finally September nineteenth, it's coming out into the world.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I bet it feels amazing. And I love
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  Speaker 2: that your mom was involved in the production. What was
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  Speaker 2: her role again, exactly he.
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  Speaker 1: Is and this is not a vanity credit. Factually, she
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  Speaker 1: help the cultural consultant. So yes, the scenes in the
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  Speaker 1: movie that seemed like they take place in India, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a shop for India, and she made sure that all
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  Speaker 1: the language was correct, all the props were correct, and
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  Speaker 1: it was mirrored off of her childhood classroom, so I
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure it was true to her experience
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's cool, Yeah, cool, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought I would say the words my mom
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  Speaker 1: helped me with my sex comedy. But here we are.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly. That in itself is an.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly that's hilarious the movie yet, but she helped on it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's great, looking forward to again checking it out.
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  Speaker 2: I know you had another film come out this last month,
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  Speaker 2: kids comedy Bad Guys too. We like the first one,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my kids and I good time. And you've done
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  Speaker 2: a few voiceover roles that, you know. It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work. I've been doing that a little bit. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of people think, oh it's great you
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  Speaker 2: could and yes, you could show up how you like
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  Speaker 2: wearing whatever, but all the different takes and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: exhaust It's a lot of hard work, right, It's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of energy.
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  Speaker 3: It does because.
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  Speaker 1: You're only communicating with your voice obviously, but like when
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  Speaker 1: you're on camera, you can like do subtle things with
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  Speaker 1: your facial expressions, with your hand jest. Right, when you're
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  Speaker 1: just doing voice acting, so much energy goes into conveying
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  Speaker 1: every emotion that way. So yes, often when I step
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  Speaker 1: out of a sound booth, I'm winded for the day.
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  Speaker 3: I'm exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right, I was was telling me. I was like, dang,
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  Speaker 2: I did it takes a lot out of you. And
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  Speaker 2: coming up, you're all going to be appearing in season
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  Speaker 2: two of the Tim Allen sitcom Shifting Gears. Can you
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  Speaker 2: tell us anything about that?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: I pay a fun little role. I play someone who
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  Speaker 1: with friends Kat Dennings, and we're two mothers and we
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  Speaker 1: have a quick friendship that kind of goes through some
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  Speaker 1: drama very quickly. And I've had the pleasure of working
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  Speaker 1: with Kat before on Dolphins and with the show runner
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Nader, so felt a little family reunion was such
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  Speaker 1: a warm, lovely set. And I did tell a joke
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  Speaker 1: when the cameras weren't rolling, and Tim Allen did laugh.
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  Speaker 1: So I would like to believe that we're best friends. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's good, because normal comics normally don't laugh. You
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  Speaker 2: get a genuine laugh out of him. That's that's pretty
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  Speaker 2: big time.
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  Speaker 1: The highlight of my day I'm not a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I would I would imagine so. And one last thing,
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  Speaker 2: the Toronto Tempo. You are now officially a co owner
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  Speaker 2: of a new w NBA team. Congratulations, you're making me
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  Speaker 2: sound so cool and pretty darn cool. I think you're
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  Speaker 2: pretty dark.
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  Speaker 3: I am born and raised in Toronto and a huge
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  Speaker 3: basketball fan, and so yes, Toronto Temple is Canada's first
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  Speaker 3: and only WNBA team, and I would have been devastated
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  Speaker 3: if I wasn't involved.
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  Speaker 1: My official is chief hype officer. As you can tell,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty energetic person, and so when we tip off
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  Speaker 1: in May of twenty twenty six, I want to be
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  Speaker 1: their court side, cheering, making sure these ladies hey all
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  Speaker 1: the attention they deserve.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it, and that's that's great.
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  Speaker 2: Toronto's got a lot of a lot of talent coming
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  Speaker 2: out of that town. Let me let me ask you
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  Speaker 2: a question. Since you're a native Toronto, Toronto in or
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  Speaker 2: Canadian mess that up? Who who is selling? Who is
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  Speaker 2: more embraced justin bieber Drake or the Weekend? Oh they're
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  Speaker 2: all massive, but I was just curious who is who
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  Speaker 2: is Toronto?
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Because they're all from Toronto, right,
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  Speaker 2: they're right from Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm biased, but I'm going to die
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  Speaker 1: on this whole. That's fine. I'm gonna go with Drake
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  Speaker 1: just because, like, if we're talking Toronto, I feel you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I feel like he's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of imagery on the sea and tower, like he
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  Speaker 1: makes a lot of references to the Toronto area. And
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  Speaker 1: so I'm going to say Drake. But I'm sure someone's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be mad about that answer somewhere, But that's my answer,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the hell I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: On Yeah, I mean, they're pretty massive. Those are three
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  Speaker 2: massive stars coming out of there.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot of the things going.
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  Speaker 2: On over there, I guess. So congratulations on everything, Lily
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  Speaker 2: and everyone. Please be sure to catch Allie's new film,
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  Speaker 2: Doing It, Doing It, Doing It. No, it's just one
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  Speaker 2: doing it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just one doing it.
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  Speaker 2: It was Mario's interpretation. Fine, that was just getting them
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  Speaker 2: fired up. It's only one doing it and it's in
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  Speaker 2: theaters now. Be sure to check it out, Lily, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for checking in. Okay, take Kessey
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  Speaker 1: With Mario Lopez