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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Mandy Moore Required a Crash Course in Football for Her Upcoming Show The Land · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Mandy Moore is back in familiar territory, reunited with former
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  Speaker 2: boss Dan Fogelman, the showrunner and creator of their hit show,
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  Speaker 2: This Is Us, for an upcoming drama called The Land.
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  Speaker 2: But what isn't familiar to her is its subject matter, football.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so The Land is centered on a family that
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  Speaker 3: runs an NFL team, and Mandy is playing the daughter
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  Speaker 3: of the owner whose primary mission in life is to
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  Speaker 3: inherit his position and all the power that comes with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mandy describes her character as an absolute B word
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  Speaker 1: if you catch my drift, which is also unusual for
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  Speaker 1: her because she almost always plays the nice girl. But
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  Speaker 1: the biggest learning curve by far has been learning football
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  Speaker 1: both on and off the field.
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  Speaker 2: She tells Variety everybody did crash courses to learn the nuances,
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  Speaker 2: and she still has a lot to learn. But a
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  Speaker 2: huge help has been meeting with real women who hold
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  Speaker 2: similar positions in the NFL and getting to pick their brains.
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  Speaker 3: Being an outsider suddenly thrust into the world of NFL
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  Speaker 3: made her relate to somebody else who's experienced that. Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 2: Mandy truly knew nothing going in, but the show is
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  Speaker 2: now shooting and she's learning day by day. Look for
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  Speaker 2: The Land on Hulu, likely next year.
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  Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.