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Sam Jaeger · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: What's off?
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  Speaker 3: You're on? Mario Lopez joining to me right now.
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  Speaker 2: One of the stars of the Emmy winning show The
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  Speaker 2: Handmaid's Tale on Hulu, actress Sam Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, Sam good Man?
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  Speaker 1: Good to do with your Thanks well.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for taking the time.
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  Speaker 2: And we are in the sixth and final season of
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  Speaker 2: the show, which just premiered on Hulu. Man, I remember
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  Speaker 2: the first season, y'all took nice little long hiatuses in
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  Speaker 2: between these these.
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  Speaker 1: A slow show. In fact, coming from a different show,
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  Speaker 1: I hopped on this and I was kind of startled
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  Speaker 1: at how slow the whole process is. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: shoot like four four pages a day, and I was
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  Speaker 1: used to just being like, hey, let's bang these scenes out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I think there's a reason for it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people like you know, there's a lot of thought put
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  Speaker 1: into what it looks like, to how even the images
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  Speaker 1: you know, helped to show how confined and restricted a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the characters are. So there is a method
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  Speaker 1: to the incredibly slow, methodical madness.
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  Speaker 2: We got to wait for I imagine, where does the
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  Speaker 2: season pick up and what's your character up to?
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  Speaker 1: So we we're in this season where you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Haymad's tale is about Gilead taking over most of North
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  Speaker 1: America and at this point there's only two states in
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  Speaker 1: the United States left, Hawaii and Alaska, and even the
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  Speaker 1: Canadians at the start of this season they don't want
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  Speaker 1: Americans in their country anymore, and they're pushing them out,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we get to see kind of all
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  Speaker 1: these characters who have been losing the battle just kind
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  Speaker 1: of fight back in whatever way they can, and desperate
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  Speaker 1: times call for desperate measures, and it's a It's pretty
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  Speaker 1: cool because you know, a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: shows like this, they get to the end of the series,
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  Speaker 1: and there are shows that are famous. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to mention what they are, but there are a couple
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  Speaker 1: of shows famous for not sticking the landing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're leaving audiences hangings, and I'm glad this Yes, maybe
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  Speaker 1: possible Game of Thrones, maybe Game of Thrones, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and there we certainly didn't want that. So we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure we ended this series on a high
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  Speaker 1: and thankfully, the scripts were amazing and I have a
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  Speaker 1: feeling the end it's going to be really satisfying for
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  Speaker 1: people watching.
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  Speaker 3: Oh good.
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  Speaker 2: So you're happy with the way it ended, I am okay, okay, nice.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. It fits with the way the series was built,
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  Speaker 1: you know, which is not like you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: they all, you know, drive off, you know, holding hands.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not that, but it's thankfully it feels
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  Speaker 1: true to this series and is thankfully a relief for
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  Speaker 1: fans who stuck with us this far.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: It's always tough to say goodbye after after a long
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  Speaker 2: run like this. What was the final day on set?
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  Speaker 1: Light Cold? So Cold? I mean, we've shot this show
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  Speaker 1: in Toronto in the dead of winter for seasons, and
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  Speaker 1: so we wrapped it two in the morning in you know,
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  Speaker 1: like perfect can Maide's tale, Like we're on some like
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  Speaker 1: dirt road in the middle of a forest with these
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  Speaker 1: crew that are freezing their butts off, and so the
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  Speaker 1: good Bible was brief and yeah, but I just said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I love you guys, I love working with you,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope I get to do it again because
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  Speaker 1: it's rare to work. I'm going to show that you
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  Speaker 1: feel proud of and then you get to work with
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  Speaker 1: people who were all in line. They're trying to tell
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  Speaker 1: the best story and get their egos out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: I know exactly what you mean, Sam, regarding cold and
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  Speaker 2: saying goodbye. I was just in Buffalo for about a month.
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  Speaker 2: Is not too far from trying to sow. Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 2: exactly right those exterior shots, man, and i's just.
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  Speaker 1: The noses running.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even I'm not bitter, just it was a
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  Speaker 2: hot mess or cold painful.
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  Speaker 3: It's exactly what it is. It is painful. That cold
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  Speaker 3: is next level.
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  Speaker 2: You also just had a movie come out, Wolfman, a
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  Speaker 2: reboot of the iconic universal film back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: For people who don't know the story, I've always loved
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  Speaker 2: Wolfman stories. Here what what's the premise of this film?
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  Speaker 1: The premise of this film was this, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: story of a guy who comes back to the farm
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  Speaker 1: he grew up on. His father was you know, ex
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  Speaker 1: military and really you know, hard on him and trying
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  Speaker 1: to teach him to survive on his own because he
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  Speaker 1: knew that there was something out in the woods there
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  Speaker 1: that was you know, that could kill you easily. And
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  Speaker 1: so his son returns to the land to try and
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  Speaker 1: you know, see what it's like and immediately realizes that
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  Speaker 1: he's that whatever was out there is still out there,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to shoot it in New Zealand, which
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  Speaker 1: was epic. It was stunning, and you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: it was a beautiful shoot to do. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever been in New Zealand, but
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend no.
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  Speaker 2: I heard it's incredible. Oh that's nice during during the
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  Speaker 2: summertime or winter time or.
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  Speaker 1: It was a spring so it was there fall, early fall. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was amazing. Yeah, a lot of the Lord of
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  Speaker 1: the Rings locations. Yeah, it was epic. So but that
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  Speaker 1: was a that was a fun show to do. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's got surprising elements to it. The
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  Speaker 1: guy who created it, Lee Wantall, wrote saw and he
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  Speaker 1: did a invisible woman actually invisible man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah those are Elizabeth Moss.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but he uh you know, but he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to keep a franchise alive. He was
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  Speaker 1: just trying to tell a good, riveting thriller. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we did that very cool.
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  Speaker 3: You also got you also got three kids, right.
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  Speaker 1: I got three boys and my stepdaughter. It's it's packed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that must be. That must be.
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  Speaker 2: Uh that house must be a mess.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely mess. This is the only televisable portion of the whole.
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  Speaker 1: I found this tiny little corner I could shove myself into.
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  Speaker 1: I got three. The rest of it is legos and
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  Speaker 1: baseball and baseball bats all over the house. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they're little guys. Then they're young.
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  Speaker 1: Well they're eight, ten and fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah fine.
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  Speaker 1: Then my step yeah so, and my stepdaughter is thirty.
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  Speaker 1: So thankfully she can get dressed in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: and get herself to work on her own and she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't need me for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's cool, man, that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, congrats on everything, and everyone be sure to
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  Speaker 2: stream the sixth and final season of The Handmaid's Tale.
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  Speaker 2: New episodes are coming out every week through May.
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  Speaker 3: Sam, thanks for checking.
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  Speaker 1: In, Mario man, great to see you, you too so much.
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