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The Jerel "Xavier" Alston Interview (BMF, The Crowded Room, Respect) · For All Nerds Show

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Well today it's no exception because we have the Jerrell Xavier Austin here in
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this spaceship with us today. He is a sixteen year old Charleston born and
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raised Atlanta. Excuse me, Charleston born Atlanta raised Let's be clear, artists,
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the youngest and seven siblings and the son of local Atlanta actress Selena m
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Austen and Kareem Alston. Between acting and school, Darell has always prioritized carving
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a space for himself to practice his performance skills and excel in his studies.
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Direl works ethic with his craft, is truly distinct that he is constantly hard
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at work, from self takes to acting and writing classes. Darrell can be
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most recently seen on BMF Black Mafia Family Season three, which follows the aspiring
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two legends of two brothers from Detroit, Big Meach and Southwest t Now,
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without further ado, we're gonna speak more with Jirell. How are you,
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Darrell? I'm doing good. Thank you for having me on the podcast,
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of course, Thank you so much for coming. Thank you miss Selina for
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answering our call to have you on this show. We are like really super
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excited to speak to you because you really represent everything that for all Nerves is
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about you are. You're a young black creator, a black leader, and
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someone who wants to do good in this world. You want you have a
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craft, you have a passion and you want people to see that. Right.
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You want to grow in this space. And I've read up a lot
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about you. You know, I've watched your clips, watch all the stuff
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that you've done, and I learned that it was your mom who got you
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and introduce you to acting right, And you know, when when that happens,
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a lot of times the kids are not sure whether they want to do
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it, and sometimes it's like, you know, I really love this.
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Was there a particular project or a script that you worked on or learned where
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you were like, yo, I really love being an actor. I think
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it was probably the first time, actually it wasn't a particular script, but
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it was the first time I had done improv in my acting class, and
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it was just like I had a lot of fun doing it because it was
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just I got to explore things that I didn't usually get to explore it.
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So it was just fun being able to just pretty much do whatever with anything
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and not be denied about it. And just that was you said, it
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was improv. Do you remember, like what the prop was, what they
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made you do. I think one of the games it was this one game
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called a Driver's Seat where it was four people and the chairs were set up
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like get her inside of a car and then and as soon as somebody would
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enter the car, they would you have to change. Everybody in the car
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would have to change in that emotion. That was just really fun to me.
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Oh that's really cool. I like that and it kind of keeps you
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on your feet, right. Improv is a game but also a learning tool
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as an actor that you teach yourself how to be dynamic and be able to
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move within any situation, any environment. Right, And that is clear and
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your body of worked thus far, Like even though you're young, you've done
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some very notable, some heavy work, Like I know you were in the
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Aretha Franklin biopic, respect you were in the Crowded Room, which was led
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by Tom Holland. Like you're already on an incredible path with diverse roles.
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And because of that, I was just like, Wow, you're doing a
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lot of serious type things. Is there anything inside you that goes you know
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what I want to go lighter? Like maybe I want to do something calmed
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or do you really feel like you are a dramatic actor? I one hundred
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percent would not consider myself a dramatic actor. I think I think I can
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do it, but I say i'm I'm more and when I act, I
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think i'm more Like with the natural stuff, like the more realistic stuff that
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happens more rather than just the emotional stuff, because I wouldn't sern myself like
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an emotional person or emotional So yeah, one hundred percent. I think if
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I had the chance to go lighterd percent, but if it's cool, if
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I stands out of drama like people like it. Yeah, yeah, you
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said you wouldn't consider yourself an emotional person, but you are an incredibly emotional
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actor, like you are able to draw out. And this is the feedback
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I've gotten because you you were actually a fan cast almost like a fans had
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asked us to interview you because they just felt that you were so powerful on
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how you expressed your character, expressed emotion and was just going through things.
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So I mean, and I think that also talks to the fact that people
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don't know how to separate the character from the person, right, So how
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are you able to balance that? Like you said, you feel like you're
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you're personally you're not that emotional, but obviously you have some emotional roles.
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How do you able to make that balance? I think what I do is
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I just remember that I am still playing a character, no matter how similar
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me and Kevin are because me and Kevin we are one hundred percent like very
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similar with how we were would be as people. So when I'm acting,
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I would just act as if it was me, and like I would just
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think, like, oh, how would I react in this situation? But
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then I still remember, oh, Okay, this is just it's just a
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show, and so that is cool, Like I just yeah, yeah,
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yeah, okay. Well I'm glad you mentioned Kevin because like obviously the biggest
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thing on the plate right now is the fact that you know with season three
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of BMF with Kevin, uh you, Kevin Bryan. Actually, before we
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get like too deep into the really heavy stuff, I just wanted to know,
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Jess, as you're working with actors like Steve Harris who played played Kevin's
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dad, Von Bryant, and Cynthia Bailey who played your mom Gloria Bryant or
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Kevin's mom Gloria Bryant, how was it building that relationship with them, like
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often on the camera, it was definitely an experience like on on camera or
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when we're like working. Steve is one hundred percent I consider him like a
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secondary director. He's very professional and he wants things done fast. And he
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he makes little suggestions about the show that not many people would notice, but
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it definitely does help when acting out stuff. And then Aptor camera nicest person
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in the world, but I'm not supposed to say that. He said he
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likes to keep his keep his reputation. His reputation is the mean guy,
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but now he's a teddy. But he's a really nice person. Okay.
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And what about with miss Cynthia. Cynthia, I actually never got to act
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with her, but oh yeah, we were both really sad about that.
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I here, the first time I had seen her was at the premiere,
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and the first thing she was like, oh my gosh, I'm so disappointed
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I never got to act with you. And so she just seems like a
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really nice person. And I had done an interview with her and she was
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talking about how this is pretty much her starting thing with breaking out of other
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things that she had done in the past with acting, and she's trying to
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get more into stuff like this. But I think she one hundred percent this
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is a good start. One hundred percent. Yeah, yeah, And how
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does that make you feel just as a young actor? Where I mean,
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it seems like they both took you very seriously, right, sometimes because when
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we're young, people will look at us like, oh, you don't know
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anything, like you just you know, I'm I'm the elder, and I
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know everything there is to know. You're just like, it seemed like they
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respected you and respected how you were approaching the situation. How did you feel
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about that? Uh? It caught me a little off guard actually, Like
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I was just I would be on set and anything I'd say, like I
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wouldn't expect it to be brushed off, but like I wouldn't expect them to
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take it as seriously as they took it with things that I had said,
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But they they took it like it was an adult saying, you know,
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I appreciate it a lot. Okay, So people were like really listening to
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your thoughts and your input and you just mentioned also like Steve, he was
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kind of like almost a secondary director. Do you think that like that's something
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you're gonna take away going forward or you just think it just depends on the
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project. I think both. I think because what I'm gonna take away from
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that is definitely the just the professionality of it. Yeah, how he was
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just he just he was trying to get the work them, but he was
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also having fun doing the work, and I think that's something Nine could take
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away from what he was doing, like on set, So learn to have
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more fun while you're deep in a role, like I know you mentioned you
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mentioned a lot people like DiCaprio, you mentioned Danzel like as as like almost
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I guess role models in terms of the acting craft, right, What made
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you choose them? Because those are some men who have a crazy deep history
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in acting. I chose them because, first of all, I have grown
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up watching both of them and I always loved their work. But it's just
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something like where the reputation that they have is you see them in the movie
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and you automatically assume it's going to be a great movie, or see them
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in a show project you're going to, you're automatically assume it's gonna be a
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great project. And it's also that versatility that they have that I always trying
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to I've always tried to reach and things like that is just why I chose
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those two in particular, and just you know, I just enjoy them as
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actors. Yeah, what what's your favorite roles of their or what movies of
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theirs or Leonardo DiCaprio. I say, Shutter Island has MM DiCaprio, and
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then for Denzel it's basic but training day. Basically you're sixteen, right,
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I'm fifteen. Oh fifteen, excuse me, it's fine. What did you
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How did you find out about these movies? Did your mom? But you
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wanted these? Yeah? My family we always were just like a We're a
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movie type family. We always be. We always watch movies, like just
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movies and shows. We watch a lot of stuff. So I would got
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my siblings or my older sibs who watching them, or my mom would watch
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them, and that was a good movie. Okay. Also, so you
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were like really looking at these films critically, like okay, like okay,
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I could see how you know they blocked this scene and how like I can
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imagine you sitting there like really going in lucky. Yeah, that's how I
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would approach it. I remember I used to be really critical. I think
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it was it was after the first time. It was it was after I
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did respect and just every movie I've seen, I would be the most critical
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person about it. I'd be like, oh, okay, so that's how
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they did that scene and da da da da. And that's also Another reason
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I like horror movies so much is because also like the background of it,
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like how they accomplished the certain things that they did on set to make it
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look like this. Yeah. Oh oh, we're going to talk about horror
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movies in a little bit, you know, because you look at things like
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these types of this type of art critically. Do you have some actors have
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an issue watching themselves, Like sometimes they watch themselves and they go, oh
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my gosh, and you know, you know, you're like always picking yourself
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apart. A lot of people do that, but especially in acting, do
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you have do you feel weird about watching yourself? I definitely feel weird about
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watching myself because I'm always looking at it and seeing every million things that I
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could have done better. But I think it makes me feel a little better
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because bigger actors that I've worked on set with they also have the same problem.
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So it's like, Okay, so it's not just me. It's like
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a regular thing that every actor is the most critical person, and so anytime
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I watch it, I try to stay away from it, but it's it's
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inevidently going to happen, so I just kind of look at it. I'm
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like, oh, I definitely could have done those things better and just keep
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it in mind. Hmm, okay, all right, you know what it's
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I think people really need to see the things that you've done so far because
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I do believe you deserve more recognition and more of a spotlight being shown on
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young actors like you and get you more opportunity to do all the different things
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that you want to do. Like you mentioned horror, Like what what makes
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you passionate about horror specifically? Like, for the record, I don't like
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horror. I don't, I'm not, and I'll be clear. I mean
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like the stuff where it's like gore and blood and and and so all of
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these like you know, someone's trying to jump out and scare you. I
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like maybe more psychological stuff like you know, final destination type stuff. What
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about you? I like all the genres horror. I think my top two
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hundred percent psychological ORR and gory horror, glory hard because I also grew up
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watching WORRD a lot because my mom also loves so I would watch it all
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the time and my dad is my dad hates gore. But yeah, I
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don't like get fascinated with it. In like movies and stuff, because it's
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just it just takes so much resources and so much for them to do to
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just even like film one type of gory scene. So I'm just like,
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wow, that's really cool. And also with psychological word's just because like it's
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the type of movies where after you watch it in the credits are role you
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just sit there for like're like what ten to fifteen minutes like wow, why
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I just watch watch Or in my case, when I was coming up final
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the destination was the movie, I'm like, this can actually happen. So
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it's really it's it's kind of insane and within like that horror genre, like
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what was there? Like if you think about it, like think of like
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one of your favorite horror movies or any name one that you would have want
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to play in, like if you could have cast yourself in it. I
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don't know exactly how they would fit me into it, but my favorite horror
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movie all time Hereditary. It's just really really good. I would love to
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just have been in there just to see like all the outtakes, even just
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different things that they didn't use in any places that they input improv just to
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see like oh wow, I didn't know, Yeah, Yeah, things like
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that. Yeah, well you're also like you working on your own writing,
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right, maybe you should write like a like a specscript of horror and like
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you put yourself in it, you know what I mean? Yeah? Maybe?
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I mean I'm also very critical by my writing too. I don't know
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why. Just anytime I finished writing something, I'm writing it, I'm like
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thirteen pages in, I'm like, wow, this is really good, and
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I reread it, I'm like, everything about this is terrible. You sound
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like every writer. No, I'm a writer too, So is my podcast
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harder. We look at ourselves and goes, this is trash. But but
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someone else may read it and be like, this is the most incredible thing
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I've ever read before in my life or ever seen before. You know,
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because that that idea of being critical about yourself and and it also manifests in
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something called imposter syndrome, which you may have heard before, where you feel
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like you're not really supposed to be in that place right, Like You're like,
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how did I get here? How did I get this opportunity? Do
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you ever feel that way? Or are you always like you know what I
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earned this, I'm where I'm supposed to be? Nah? I don't.
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I feel I have a lot of impostle syndrome sometimes, I think, because
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like I look at like all the accolades and I'm gidding, I'm like,
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I mean, was it that? Was it that good? Like did I
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really do that good? I don't really think so. I think it was
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good for like a good job bro a little bit, but you know,
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yeah yeah, but the accolades though. But the accolades though, and the
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and the ogs telling you that you got it, like yeah, you think
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like that's a good counteraction to that, like something to be like you know
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what I may be feeling the way I may be even feeling scared, but
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I'm gonna do it scared. I'm gonna keep going because I'm Jarelle and I
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need my opportunities. Like you got to keep moving forward, right. I
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think one thing that's pushing to me is just the amount of people now that
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I just I have to like have success now because like the amount of people
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that's like, wow, you're gonna be something. I gotta be something like
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it is just I was, I was playing it on it before, but
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now more than ever, like I gotta show that I definitely can, Like
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that wasn't wrong. Yeah, yeah, you you are more than something.
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You are a star. You really are, and I want you to understand
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that. Like I'm sure you hear it here and there in different ways,
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but I hope that you're like really taking that to heart and feeling that for
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yourself, because everybody's their own star, right, everybody's the main character,
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right, that's what they say. But like, I think it's important,
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like if no one has said this yet, to really recognize your light and
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let your light shine, like even if it just feels weird or you're just
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like I don't know, man, I don't know about this. Just keep
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doing it because it's always what always happens is everybody else catches up. Like
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you may do something and people will be like, oh that was whack or
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I don't know about that, but people didn't catch up to you after the
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fact and they go, you know what, what he did was actually kind
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of fire like, And I don't know if you've ever even experienced that where
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like someone was just like down to you and then they came back like you
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know what he actually was? Right. Yeah, I'm hoping one day though.
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Yeah, yeah, that's it, right, because when we just getting
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back to Kevin for a little bit. You know, he's gone through a
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multitude of like traumatizing experience and like, even though this is fiction, I
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notice can take a toll on yourself as an actor, right because you're able
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to you mentioned earlier, able to separate, but but you're still dealing with
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very heavy concepts. Did the production team or anybody in the team provide like
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counseling or someone to talk to based on these situation since that Kevin was facing.
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I think they they definitely everybody played their own part, like anybody,
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to the cameraman, the people, like anybody. They all just made sure
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that I was okay, like after reporting, like you're good, just like
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making sure that I'm actually okay, and just like asking things and just providing
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me just assurance and just sing like oh yeah, you're gonna be fine.
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I just write that things like that. Mmm. And I would just imagine
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even like you're on screen, well at least your on screen father, like
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he would probably help you through this as well, Like how did he how
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he helped you, like support you through this. I think it's the same
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thing. You just be like like, oh you're good man, you got
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that. That was good and just showing me, like he's just making sure
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that I knew that I was doing good and like that I was doing okay
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and things like that. Yeah, yeah, and I and a lot of
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the people who have listened to us. They mentioned that that asked for you
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to be on They mentioned that like what Kevin went through, like countless people
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have gone through the same or similar situations as Kevin, and like we hope
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that through all the pain that was on screen, that something positive can be
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taken away, right Unfortunately, like you had sins we saw with Kevin,
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Like so too many innocent youth is like taken down right by like neglect by
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from parents, their family, their friends, the system, you know,
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education sometimes school. Like how do you feel about your impact that you've been
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having on people and what positive you think people could take away. I feel
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like even since last season, I think people have always been talking about like
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how, oh you did so good and showing like how bad bullying is and
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like how this is like not a good thing, and I think that's a
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positive people could take away from it. Ites, Yeah, bullying is like
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a real issue, Like it's one hundred percent it should be taken serious because
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like in extreme cases, this is what it could lead up to and things
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may be worse than this, And like I think that's a positive that to
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show that people stopping think about it, like, oh maybe it just maybe
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I should take this more seriously and just talk to people that are going through
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this, make sure they're actually doing okay and they need like if they need
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help, I can to show them help. Things like that. Absolutely.
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Absolutely. You know, speaking of takeaway, it's a different form of takeaway
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because this is your last season. Did you actually take anything away from the
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set as a souvenir. I know a lot of people do that, like
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a reminder of your time. I got. I think what I took away
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was they gave me a jacket, a beam that jacket and a vinyl two
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and I took that away from it. And then we did like after death
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care, Like every time a character dies, they have like a photo shoot
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with angel wings, and so I got to do that. Wait, like
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the hood photo shoot with like the or like you know, like like it's
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a airbrush clouds and stuff. It's like it's like a it's like a yearbook
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photo. But like, god, am I gonna so you got that?
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Are you gonna did you post that yet or are they gonna post that?
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No idea? Oh okay, that that would be cool. They posted that,
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okay, sad, but but you know, I want them to post
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that, okay. And I mean you talked about what the impact that your
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character and what other people would take away. What is your takeaway, your
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personal takeaway, whether professionally or emotionally or whatever. My takeaway is like,
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I really I really can't affect people like in this space. And also bemt
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is a lot bic even I thought I learned that last season. I think
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it was right after it came out and I was at the fair and people
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were coming out to me like, oh you're Kevin. I'm like, okay,
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so you know who I am. I remember one experience in particular.
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I was with my friends, like a whole group of my friends, and
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we were at one of those games where like you throw the ball and like
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at the cups and then he he looked at me like my friends were asking
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for like just a free when they was like, come on, like slide
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one. And so I was standing there and he looked at me, was
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like you're an actor, right, And I was like, yeah, not
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slide you one cool experience in my life. I was like, cool,
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and so I got to do it. Still lost the game, but it
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was cool. It was cool. And so that's the first time you were
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like recognized like that. The first time I was recognized was at the fair.
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It was, but it was earlier in the day. I got recognized
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a lot that day, but it was earlier in the day. I was
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standing in the line and they just the people are running me just asked for
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a picture. I was like, oh, wow, that's pretty cool.
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So it was cool. You did you did? You? Were you like?
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Why me? Why are you bothering or what? Was you excited?
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I feel like that would be exciting. I was excited. I was excited.
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I'm always excited anytime I get recognized because it's just like, so they
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really be watching my stuff watching it's real people. We are real. These
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people who are watching you and amploying you and supporting you are real and we
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want you to win for sure. Okay. I love that. And like
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at the fair of all places, was your friends like yeah, that's yeah,
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they're like real, you really famous? No, your friends are always
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the best, the ones that are really behind you, you know. One
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d toes. They'd be like, yeah, that's my friend, what's up?
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You know? I love that. I love that with Kevin's character,
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Like, yeah, there's there's a lot of the down parts that happened with
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him, you know, the things that were sad and very also depressing to
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be honest, But there were also some lights, like you got to see
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the fact that he was in the comics and into like a lot of stuff
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that you personally are into as well. And I also saw that Kevin would
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draw superheroes. Were you the one actually making those drawings? No, Unfortunately
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I cannot talk. Oh okay, that's all right, But who can you
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reveal? Who helped you? Who did it and how that worked? It
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might have been I don't know. I'm might just braining in misinformation, but
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might writers and directors are just somebody said, I did get to color it,
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though you did also for some scenes. I got to do a little
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bit of coloring on it, and that was cool. But they it was
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like fully fledged out stories. And just as as season two progressed, do
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it get darker and darker? Like it started off just like Bruiser being like
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light and stuff, and then as the season went on and asked, Kevin's
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Mitchell state like deteriorated. It just got darker and darker, and I got
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to see I got to see the whole story, and that was really cool.
24:18
It was really cool. That's like very metal like life imitating art and
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then happening again like on screen like that. That's actually really cool too.
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All Right, so we're not one hundred percent, but someone within the cast,
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not the cast, but the crew or writers potentially was drawing this and
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also helping making the stories. Did you have any input on that or it
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was just like yo, I made something, Do you like this? Yeah,
24:41
it was like that, but it's because they already had Kevin's story right
24:45
now, and Bruiser was really imitating because I think for one of the comics
24:51
was just Bruiser had accidentally killed his love interest to have Kel accidentally killing his
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bully. Yeah, Bruiser was really sad bat Kevin was obviously excited about it.
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So it was just like, yeah, so cool. How they like
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tied that together? Yeah yeah, no, I like that parallels and also
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like comics is a way for every for a lot of people to like get
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the expression of their of their emotions or even expression of themselves right, Like
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especially sometimes the people are more quiet or they're not sure how to like interact
25:22
with different people. They use stories, you know, they may use anime,
25:25
they use comics, they may use gaming. You are also a big
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anime person. Yes, I love anime. You got to tell me what
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you're watching right now? What I'm watching right as of right now, I'm
25:41
trying to rewatch You're lying, April. Oh, very good, that's a
25:45
good one. Obviously I'm watching I'm watching re Zero. I don't know why
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it's take me a long time to watch that. It's just such a good
25:52
show. I'm at season two, like I'm now near the end of it.
25:53
I'm caught up to one piece and like the manga and everything that's gonna
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ask for you a one piece of person. Yeah, that's my favorite anime.
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And just anything that i'm watching. I watched I watched The Race a
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couple of days ago, just in one day, and it was it's just
26:08
it's twelve episodes, but still, yeah, I'm watching any type of animes
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that I haven't seen yet. You know, really, my hero, my
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hero low Ki. I stopped watching my ear like, what's I don't know,
26:22
I don't know, I just after I think it was after season four.
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Yeah, it was after season four. It was a fight between Class
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one A and Class one B, and I was like, mmm, I'm
26:32
just gonna in your defense. It does kind of go a little weird after
26:36
that, like it's like a lot of filler type stuff after that, but
26:38
it picks up again, so I don't know, maybe give another try.
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Yeah, I'm gonna give another try, Get another try. Yeah. Well
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okay, well I gotta we got a twelve shop real quick. Wait.
26:48
Tack On Titan. I love Attack on Site. That's one of my favorite
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animes. Finally I got my dad to watch it. He said he liked
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it after it's it. It took like what halfway into season two because he's
27:00
really critical about stuff that he watches, but he said he liked the second
27:03
time. You know, but you team team Aaron, Team Aaron. Oh
27:08
Aaron can't do nothing wrong. Okay, he stopped out the world. I'm
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nothing wrong though, So okay, okay, I get that all right.
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Oh man, there are so many good anime nowadays, especially I mean,
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are you also up on the classics like DBZ? Yes? Yes, I
27:32
think that's that's where I started because my dad was watching it. And like
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one core memory I have where I was just like standing up in my crib
27:40
and just I heard I heard her the intro. But that's it because I
27:42
was supposed to be sleeping, but I heard her in the intro and that's
27:45
like, I just that's just something I remember weirdly. So you do remember
27:49
that. It's wow. Wow. Do you see the effect parents have on
27:53
us? That is insane? Okay, we we gotta how to also do
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like a little thing maybe another time, just to like really get onto where
28:04
you are with the anime stuff, because this I feel like a lot of
28:08
people don't understand, like especially black people, like we on anime heavy,
28:12
like we're the one. So would you go to like a comic con or
28:15
something. I've been to comic cons and things like that. I've gone to.
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It was this thing in Atlanta where it was like, uh, I
28:22
forgot what it was called. It was Momo Con. Kanye, Yeah,
28:25
I went to Mamocon and my uncle because he likes anime too, and it
28:27
was just like a really good experiences walking around seeing all the costumes and how
28:32
the comics and how the manga and just we went to some seminars to talk
28:37
about uh just even black creators with their comics and just just regular creators,
28:41
just people who create. And it was really cool. Yeah. Yeah,
28:47
just an anime recommendation for you if you've have you ever seen Cycle Paths or
28:52
heard of Cycle Pass. I've heard of Psychopath. I think I watched up
28:57
into the part. I think it was after NA. Actually I haven't watched
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it. Watch that. I will watch that. Put it on you to
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watch this. I don't know if you have crunchy roll whatever you have,
29:08
watch it. I think because based on the stuff you were saying, I
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think you might like it. I think you might like it. You know
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what's really cool like the fact that, like you are so professional and like
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you're clearly gifted, but like, at the same time, you are a
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kid, And I think people forget that, especially when they see black kids.
29:30
They're just they tend to make them want to, you know, age
29:33
them up and like have to go through life so quick and grow up too
29:37
fast. And what do you say to that, Like, especially as a
29:41
sixteen year old in twenty twenty four, Like stuff is different from when I
29:45
was sixteen, So I mean, what do you how do you feel right
29:48
now in this and the way the world is right now, I say it's
29:52
still it's still like you can feel that you're being a kid. But I
29:57
think it's definitely we is speeding up the process growing up a little bit like
30:03
being a kid. Four is just like a lot a lot of people are
30:06
just speeding up the maturity level, our maturity process. And but I think
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I've gotten really lucky because I really I have the most free time in the
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world, so I always have time to just be doing something and watching something
30:18
and listening to music and stuff like that. And so I think I've gotten
30:22
time to just experience having a childhood, especially since like I have all the
30:26
other siblings who have done it, so like I know, I know what
30:30
to do. That's excellent. That's excellent. What music? What's your favorite
30:33
music? Like? What's your favorite artists are? Andred Kendrick Wamar and also
30:37
the second place of Jedd for me. Okay, actually just came from Dreamville
30:42
this past weekend. Yeah it was it was you would you would have loved
30:48
it. But wait a minute, so what did you think about the whole
30:52
this situation? Wow, I'm one Kensrick. It's just like and then Jacole
31:00
responding and apologize Misshits. I mean, it's Kencry I'll blame it's kendriy Oh,
31:07
so you're like he did the right thing. Yeah, I think so.
31:10
And plus that just opens up another door for them to potentially make a
31:14
collap album. I don't know if they're gonna do it after this, but
31:17
hopefully what if Kendrick just comes back and distance them anyway. I mean,
31:22
Ja Cole said he would just take it, but like, what if that
31:23
happens. I mean, I'm gonna listen to it. I'm abuve the song.
31:27
You're like, sorry to Jacob, sorry to this man, but I
31:33
love it. I love it all right. You are such an incredible young
31:37
creator. I really appreciate you and everything that you've been doing. And I
31:41
love that you're so self aware. I think that's also super duper important.
31:47
A lot of people don't even realize at any age, Like sometimes people just
31:49
don't realize like how they affect other people, or like how anything you do
31:56
can have later implications. How do you move in the world, like with
32:00
that understanding. I think my parents one hundred percent, they they said that
32:07
all the time, and so it's just kind of been like jammed into my
32:08
brain. Like I always think about like what I'm doing. Sometimes it's not
32:12
still not the smartest thing, like it's okay, like like the future applications
32:17
of what I'm doing and just yeah, you know, I always try to
32:22
do the right thing, is to do something to uplift somebody, because you
32:25
know, that's that that could make somebody's dame. And that's always my uh,
32:29
that's always my implications and what I'm doing absolutely, all right. I
32:36
really appreciated this conversation. Before we go, I want to do a BRAP
32:40
segment with you. We have called and what we do is we give you
32:45
some quick questions and you just answer with the first, you know, the
32:49
first answer that you think speaks to you the most, you know, whatever
32:53
you like, and I might ask you why, or I might just keep
32:55
going. All right, you ready, all right? Question Magneto or Professor
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X Professor X. My mann name is Xavier. So I wasna My name
33:07
is supposed to be Charles Xavier. Are you serious? Yes? Was that
33:10
your dad's or your mom's idea? That was my dad's. That was my
33:15
dad's dad, So I was my grandpa and it was going to name me
33:16
Charles Xavier, but he put the Xavier partic's my dad's as Wait did he
33:21
do that specifically to like its? No, mom, I mean yes,
33:23
your grandpa the monster professor x Oh, that's fire. You should still do
33:30
it anyway. You should still tell people that's your whole name. You gonna
33:32
say the whole thing. I love it. My name is Jerrell because it
33:36
sounds like Superman's dad Joreore. Wait a minute, your parents is tea.
33:42
I love this. Look, this is what we live for. We live
33:45
for comics and and everything and fandom. So that is an amazing You are
33:50
a superhero. Look at that. Just already you should. That's also where
33:53
you probably go for a superhero movie. I'm saying, you know, China,
33:57
people been saying like, I look like Myles Moraley. I was gonna
34:00
say, you want to you wanna be Mius? You know what I'm saying,
34:04
and and and listen. It could be live action, it could be
34:07
animation where you do voice like yeah, like expand your thoughts of what this
34:10
can be like. You would be incredible in that space. Okay, cool,
34:14
cool, cool, I have another question for you, Superman or Batman.
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Batman, you said, wait, you said that way too fast,
34:21
waiting. I always think Superman, Why you don't like sum I like Superman,
34:25
but I've always just like Batman more. I think it's just because I
34:30
have the first movie, the first the first one I heard of was Superman,
34:32
but then I got Mar's a Batman, and I've just always been reading
34:37
his comics more and just he's just I think he's a cooler character because he's
34:40
doing all of this with not a single superpower, and he's just he's still
34:44
on like the top of just the power scaling thing, and just like he's
34:47
still a threat to people who can blow up planets, and I think,
34:51
like, wow, you can do that as a regular union. That's cool.
34:53
This is this is true. Okay, I'm gonna test your horror knowledge
34:58
real quick or your horror passions. Let's see between the three Mike Myers,
35:05
Freddy or Jason. Who's winning in the fight? Who's winning to fight?
35:09
Who you picking? Whatever? I got Jason? You got Jason? Why
35:15
Jason? Because so I'm talking like in a fight. So Jason already beaten
35:22
Freddy Krul before, right, Well, I mean kind of I counted as
35:27
a win. You counted as okay, right, and I don't know what
35:30
he's doing. I don't know if I don't know if Michael Myers is gonna
35:35
do anything. I don't know Michael Myers are doing anything to Freddy. You
35:37
don't think Mike got hands. I don't think Michael Myers can hang with Jason.
35:42
I think Jason is one hundred percent is stronger one. He's had just
35:45
better feats. And Michael Myers he can still get cut like he don't got
35:51
regeneration tech. Well he does, obviously, what's gonna say? He's really
35:58
already kill but he can die. And I think that's why I got Jason,
36:00
because Jason, he can't die stupid, He's already dead. He's a
36:04
zombie. So yeah, it'll be tense lines harder to kill him, but
36:07
just like a knife from bare hands. All right, solid reasoning. I'll
36:09
give you that. Excellent job. What's your favorite comic book or comic book
36:15
hero? My favorite comic book hero is Batman, But my favorite comic book
36:20
I have to say, HM, DC Zombies or Marvel Zombies, one of
36:25
those two. Do you watch what If? On Disney Plus? That zombie
36:32
episode was crazy? That was that was really good? Exact way. Yeah,
36:37
yeah, oh man, that's crazy all right. In any movie or
36:44
story or TV show, what character's death hurt you the most? I don't
36:50
want you can't say your own character. I think it was in Better Call
36:58
Saul. Hm hmm. I think it was I forget, Oh it was
37:01
Howard's mm hmm. Anybody but Howard's death that messed you up? That was
37:09
so unexpected, like I didn't wow, I didn't know that was going to
37:13
do that. That was really good. It's such a good show in general.
37:15
Like, I think that's that's up. That's up the ranking one of
37:17
my favorite shows. Yeah mm hmm. Okay, your favorite superhero movie of
37:23
all time? Here's a weird movie. I gotta think about this one my
37:30
brand ticket time. I have to say I always find myself. I wouldn't
37:37
say it's number one, but the first one that comes to mind. I
37:38
always find myself going back to Spider Man Homecoming. Mm hmm. It's really
37:44
really, really good. It's exceptional. It's one of the more exceptional ones,
37:49
right, okay, excellent? Hhmm. Star Wars or Star Trek Star
37:57
Wars. I was never I was never really raised around Star Trek. My
38:01
dad really likes Star Wars, so like I just kind of inherited that.
38:06
But yeah, Star Wars, okay, not problem, not a problem.
38:10
If you could have any one superpower one, what would it be? Luck
38:17
manipulation. But if you have to basic, I choose teleportation. That's it?
38:23
Right? Wait wait wait wait wait wait luck, luck manipulation or teleportation.
38:29
M I think luck manipulation. I gotta yeah, that's you could just
38:35
do anything with that really, like you make it so the probability that you
38:40
fall off this ledge and hurt yourself is like zero percent or something, I
38:45
don't know. You get lucky and like fall on a tarp that's passing nearby,
38:47
that was blown in the wind hundred miles away or something. Just you
38:52
can do cool things with that power. No splash damage there, right,
38:55
I love it. Speaking of splash damage, what is your favorite game?
39:00
Red De Redemption too? I think I got top three is red De Redemption
39:06
to and uh nba two K? You got two K? You gotta throw
39:12
in two K just like for the down time too, right, you gotta
39:15
be playing two K in between shooting two like shooting Okay, I thought so.
39:21
And then in terms of like luck manipulation, you know there's like a
39:22
lot of characters that have that, Like there's Domino. I think one in
39:27
particular there isn't been stated. I don't think it's been stated that she has
39:30
it. But squirrel girl. M m, she's too lucky to not have
39:35
some type of you think she's too lucky. Yeah, she's too lucky for
39:38
that. But yeah, Domino, I really like that. I wish stay
39:42
back for the third one, but nah, I know, I know.
39:45
So you're looking forward to seeing the new the new Deadpool. I'm really excited
39:49
for that one. Excellent. Okay, well you have survived the black segment,
39:54
you have survived the interview. Thank you so much, Javelle for your
39:58
time. It was a great time talking to you. Before we go,
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please let everyone know any of your future projects that you can talk about and
40:07
then where they can find you and anything else you want to plug. One
40:10
plug I have is my Instagram. My name is Darrell is simple, get
40:14
no space is. My name is Darrel. Any future product I have,
40:16
I don't know if I can say. I can't talk about it, but
40:19
I have one future product that it's a it's been recently greenld to go for
40:23
shooting and so I don't get five inches taller fingers crossed, I got it
40:30
O come back? What are you six foot right now? Wow? And
40:34
you and you bawling right? You play basketball too. Wish I was gonna
40:37
back, wasn't. You're not good at it. No. I can only
40:40
get and play defense. That's all I can do. That's why everybody has
40:45
a role. That's okay, Thank you so much, and fan fam will
40:50
be back with more for Owner Hill other than those mans.