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Jesse L. Martin · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On with Mario Lopez. Tell you old Mario Lopez joining
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  Speaker 1: me right now on Zoom. Actor Jesse L. Martin.
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing Jesse, I'm doing very well, sir. How
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  Speaker 2: about yourself?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well. Thank you for taking the time. Your
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  Speaker 3: new movie looks pretty wild and very topical, called pH One,
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  Speaker 3: about a politician having his life essentially destroyed by things
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  Speaker 3: being posted on social media.
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  Speaker 1: By a hacker. Right, yes, ooh, I like that premise,
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  Speaker 1: very real.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, old school political thriller.
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  Speaker 3: Nice, that's my kind of that's my kind of flick.
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  Speaker 3: And the trailer kind of gets into how things posted
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  Speaker 3: on social can become facts without any real proof or
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know if you essentially have to have
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  Speaker 3: them proven as facts. The fact that they're out there
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  Speaker 3: is enough to bother people these days. How did how
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  Speaker 3: did you have you ever dealt with anything like this?
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  Speaker 3: By the way, No, not really.
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  Speaker 4: I mean maybe it's a gen X thing, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't do a whole lot with social media. I think
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  Speaker 4: maybe we're told we're supposed to now, right, Yeah, as actors, performers, entertainers,
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  Speaker 4: we're supposed to have a presidence, We're supposed to have
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  Speaker 4: numbers we're supposed to.
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  Speaker 2: Have all those things. I haven't ever been great at it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, smart, I'm a gen x for myself too,
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  Speaker 3: And you're right, they kind of, you know, encourage it
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  Speaker 3: at work. It's kind of fun, but you do have
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  Speaker 3: to be careful because I know many people that have
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  Speaker 3: kind of experienced this, and even personally I had to
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  Speaker 3: kind of deal with a little something. So I'll have
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  Speaker 3: to check this film out. You play a professor in
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  Speaker 3: the film. How's your character fit into the plot.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I am part of the media that shows up
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  Speaker 4: to condemn the man during the day that he's trapped
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  Speaker 4: into in his pehouse.
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  Speaker 5: That's what Penthouse one is at that pH one is
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  Speaker 5: pehouse one.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm a professor who has an academic sort of
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  Speaker 4: angle to all the problems that he sees with this.
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  Speaker 2: This aspire not aspiring rising politician.
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  Speaker 1: Got it? Got it? This isn't based on a true story?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't no? Because it seems like it could be a
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  Speaker 1: sort of leading story. Yes, yes, okay, got it? Got it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: congrats on that. Look forward to checking it out.
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  Speaker 3: You're also in a new episode of Percy Jackson and
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  Speaker 3: the Olympians over on Disney plus what's going on in
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  Speaker 3: that episode?
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  Speaker 4: Man, Well, I'm not sure how much I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 4: say because that whole season hasn't even come close to
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  Speaker 4: airing yet. What I can say is what they announced
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  Speaker 4: is that I play one of the lead characters, fathers
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  Speaker 4: and if you know the books, I play Annabeth's dad.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, fun, that's fun.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, back in the nineties, you were part
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  Speaker 3: of the og cast of the hip Broadway show Rant
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  Speaker 3: along with the dns, Bell and Tate Diggs.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rapp just blew.
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  Speaker 3: Up and became iconic, change your life. I gotta imagine,
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  Speaker 3: what do you remember most about that particular period in time.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that was it was overwhelming.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you've been on TV forever, right, and I
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  Speaker 5: was used to just being on stage where you've got
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  Speaker 5: some press, sure, but you didn't get that kind of attention.
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  Speaker 5: I mean we were doing magazine spreads and you know,
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  Speaker 5: performing at conventions like the Democratic National Convention on every
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  Speaker 5: talk show there was.
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  Speaker 2: It was absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Overwhelming, but amazing to do, especially with a project like that,
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  Speaker 4: because it meant so much to everybody and it meant
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  Speaker 4: so much to us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is New York still home or is La home?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, New York. I've never been in La guy really
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  Speaker 2: so much.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I get it. I get
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  Speaker 1: New York. I love it. I love the pride. Are
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  Speaker 1: you Are you from the originally?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm from Virginia originally, Okay, I was born in Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: Grew up in Buffalo, New York.
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  Speaker 3: Of all places, you grew up in Buffalo, I did.
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  Speaker 3: That's funny that you say that. I've spent a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time in Buffalo. There's a lot of production going
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  Speaker 3: on there, Jesse.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do that too. The tax and Sanders movie
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  Speaker 2: in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: You've done one long while ago. Yeah, I like it, man,
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  Speaker 1: I like Buffalo. People are really cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool town.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's called the City of fucking Cold though, let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you, it is cool fucking cold for a
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  Speaker 3: long time.
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  Speaker 1: That's my only thing about what Buffalo is like. They're
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  Speaker 1: playing around right there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a real winter. That's probably why. They also
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  Speaker 4: have some.
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  Speaker 2: Of the best comfort food I've ever had.
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  Speaker 3: They really do the beef on wat and those taken
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  Speaker 3: wings beef wack.
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  Speaker 4: You brought it back, and Buffalo wings are Buffalo wings
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  Speaker 4: for a reason.
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  Speaker 3: They say, are that's right Buffalo wings for reasons to
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  Speaker 3: happen to know Actor William Fickner.
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, yeah, you know him if you see him,
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  Speaker 1: and it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I know who he is.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you know it. He's from Buffalo. That's why.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bunch of people in Buffalo that I
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  Speaker 2: actually have never met.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm supposed to have something like, well
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  Speaker 4: we all get together and say, yeah, Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Well it's funny, guys.
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  Speaker 3: I just interviewed him and he brought up Buffalo because
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  Speaker 3: he knew somebody that I was working there with in
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  Speaker 3: the in the film commission and stuff. He's got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of pride for Buffalo. He was going on and on.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, Okay, you're not as fired up
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  Speaker 3: about Buffalo, but.
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  Speaker 2: Fired up about Buffalo.
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  Speaker 4: But it's not my home now, all right, I'd say
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  Speaker 4: something funny about the pride of Buffalo. Back in the eighties,
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  Speaker 4: they had a whole campaign where, like you know they will,
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  Speaker 4: the whole premise was talking Proud, meaning you're talking proud
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  Speaker 4: about Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: Bucalos got the spirit talking proud. Look it up.
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  Speaker 4: I'll have to check it out for that's for a reason,
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  Speaker 4: because people who live there are very very proud of
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  Speaker 4: that city.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it right off, man, Well listen everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Be sure to catch Jesse.
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  Speaker 3: In the new political thriller p H One, which is
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  Speaker 3: out now in select theaters and available on digital.
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  Speaker 1: On demand as well. Jesse, thanks for checking in.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much man for having me.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, brother, have a good day, all right with
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez.