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Strung On Peacock Horror Suspense And Movie Mystic From Malcom D Lee · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I am excellent. Thank you for asking.
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  Speaker 1: I love it when people say excellent. That means you
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  Speaker 1: live it. You know how to get to it when
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like it's there. Ah. Yeah, give me
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  Speaker 1: five minutes. I'll be back to being excellent.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I love the way that you
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  Speaker 1: did this movie. I have experienced it and it is
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  Speaker 1: an experience, and I think one of the big stars
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  Speaker 1: of this movie is the pacing. You give me so
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  Speaker 1: much room to be able to sit down and really
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  Speaker 1: pull this story in and as much as I think
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  Speaker 1: I can predict, it ain't going that way. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what I love about what you've done here. Malcolm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: You know the script was very much like that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted to make sure I honored that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I could not put the script down.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was so so well written and such
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  Speaker 3: a page turner.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, pace is very very important, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it does draw you in and you're constantly guessing, well,
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  Speaker 3: what's this?
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  Speaker 2: What does this mean? And what does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Particularly this kind of movie, you're just like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you just can't guess it, and then when you think
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  Speaker 3: you do, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And then the twist is such a great one at
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  Speaker 2: the end.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's still with me, dude. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: can't shake it because I'm still trying to. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: I literally we experienced it, and I went, you got
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  Speaker 1: to watch it again because I know that he puts
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  Speaker 1: some sort of Easter eggs in there that gave us
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  Speaker 1: every body of the clues. That's what I love about
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  Speaker 1: this is that you're going to go back and watch
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  Speaker 1: it again and again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, the clues are very very subtle, but
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  Speaker 3: if you're paying attention, you really you see very early on. Okay, oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's why they were asking this, and that's why they
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  Speaker 3: were saying that, So you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's yeah, we we listen.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's we feel very, very fortunate that we
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  Speaker 3: made this movie and I got great performances and with
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  Speaker 3: some with some great talent and actors and a great crew.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think that one of the main reasons why
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  Speaker 1: we're so attracted to this storyline is because of what
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  Speaker 1: you put in the background, Because I mean, even the
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  Speaker 1: old fashioned diner with the jukebox that played such an
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  Speaker 1: important role, and it took my imagination into an area
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  Speaker 1: of connection, because that's the way it really was. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: would bebop a song, honor, they'd be messing around on
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  Speaker 1: a jukebox, look over their shoulder, and oh, my god,
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  Speaker 1: look who's sitting behind me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that scene. That's one of my favorites
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  Speaker 3: in the movie. I remember it wasn't it was. It
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  Speaker 3: was in an earlier version of the draft that I
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  Speaker 3: hadn't read, and then they said, oh, yeah, there's another
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  Speaker 3: version of this when they of of Marcus and Layla's
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  Speaker 3: meet cute and.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is the falling in love
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  Speaker 2: scene and this is so good.
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  Speaker 3: And so it took us a while to find that location,
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  Speaker 3: but it was perfect and really romantic and all the
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  Speaker 3: things I have really enviitioned for the film.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for saying it. And I love their
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  Speaker 2: connection through music.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank you for bringing that up. Because
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  Speaker 1: I even looked at my wife, I said, you got
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  Speaker 1: to please tell me that there's gonna be a soundtrack
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  Speaker 1: to this, because what you do with those piano pieces,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. It was like, I gotta have this.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I kept hitting that little Jim and I
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  Speaker 1: on my phone trying to figure out, Okay, who's the
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  Speaker 1: artist of this, what's going on? How can I find
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  Speaker 1: this song? I've got to have this piano piece in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we were very fortunate to have some great
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  Speaker 3: needle drops and some music that was created for the
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  Speaker 3: movie as well by Chloe Bailey, Coco Jones, Partisan Fontaine,
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  Speaker 3: and we had the composers Ali Shahid Mohammad and Adrian Young,
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  Speaker 3: who have both hip hop and jazz backgrounds, and they're
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  Speaker 3: both has it. They did a great job in you know,
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  Speaker 3: providing a creep factor, providing a party factor, providing tension factor.
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  Speaker 3: It was really really great to work with them, and
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  Speaker 3: they're they're tremendous musicians and you know, we were very
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  Speaker 3: fortunate to you know, it's funny Blumhouses not used the
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  Speaker 3: type of use this much music in their movies generally speaking,
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  Speaker 3: but we knew that this was going to call for it.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously there's on screen performances like that Layla does
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  Speaker 3: right from the get go playing Mendelssohn.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so it runs the gamut.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you bring up that point about Blumhouse and
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time for them to be able
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  Speaker 1: to put music and stuff like that together. I looked
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  Speaker 1: at my wife right in the middle of it, I said,
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  Speaker 1: Blumhouse just went to a brand new level of story
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  Speaker 1: sharing the thrill, the love story, the the ambition. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there were times where I laughed. I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 1: there was so much emotion wrapped up in this that
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  Speaker 1: it was like this was an experience more than just
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  Speaker 1: a movie.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for saying that. Listen.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it is a roller coaster ride and that's
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  Speaker 3: what we intended. You know, it's it's the first time
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  Speaker 3: I've done this type of movie, but I was glad
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  Speaker 3: to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's one of those times you're in
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  Speaker 2: the editing room and kind of like, is this working.
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  Speaker 2: Is this how people are? You know, because it's not
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  Speaker 2: it's not.
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  Speaker 3: Like a comedy where you like, you get your laughs
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  Speaker 3: right and you know, and you get you get that reaction.
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  Speaker 3: In a movie like this, you're kind of like you're waiting,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're getting the ebb and flow of the
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  Speaker 3: audience and then you just kind of feel the energy
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  Speaker 3: in the in in in the room and see what
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  Speaker 3: how that's playing. Then like when you get your jump
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  Speaker 3: scars and things like that and where you expect the reaction,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's your telltale sign. But you know it took
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  Speaker 3: it took a minute to kind of like find our
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  Speaker 3: footing in the editing room with it.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Malcolm d Lee
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. The name of the movie on Peacock
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  Speaker 1: is Strung. We are back with Malcolm d Lee. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't take your time getting to start this movie. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I mean the way this movie opens up
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  Speaker 1: with that live performance, because right away you're going, you're going,
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  Speaker 1: oh what did I just get myself into? And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden intrigue. It's engaged. We're on our way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's it's It's one of those kind
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  Speaker 3: of classic uh you know, horror or thriller openings that
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  Speaker 3: you know, really hooks the audience and it lets them
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  Speaker 3: know that they're about to be on a arrive and
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  Speaker 3: uh you know, I you know, amazing performances from from
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  Speaker 3: Chloe Bailey, you know, like you know, not only does
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  Speaker 3: she have to play music and you know, and and
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  Speaker 3: and be a violinist, but she has to you know,
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  Speaker 3: just play vulnerability and emotion and be sexy and be
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  Speaker 3: you know, coquettish and maternal.
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  Speaker 2: All the things that she got to play on this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Is it's really really she did a really tremendous job.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do a spoiler alert here, and
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  Speaker 1: I won't, but I will tell you though, the scene
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  Speaker 1: with the violin and the note that is a game
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  Speaker 1: changer in this story. And I hope, I hope I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong with with the listeners because I
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  Speaker 1: want them through experience this. But when that violin and
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  Speaker 1: that note come together in this film, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: it totally sets me up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, no, that's a great one though. It's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's one of those scenes. Also, He's kind of like,
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  Speaker 4: let's see it if we can pull this off. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's it's you know, I'm very grateful that that
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  Speaker 4: that people are responding to the way that they did,
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  Speaker 4: that they are and they don't really even know who
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  Speaker 4: to root for sometimes in this movie, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think, I think it it's it shifts
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  Speaker 3: and and changes from from from from scene to scene
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  Speaker 3: sometimes and so you know, it's it's it's tough. But
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  Speaker 3: but at the same time, I love that that it
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  Speaker 3: keeps people on their toes and keeps them guessing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you mastered that art. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: spoil it, but you know what goes on about three
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  Speaker 1: quarters are a little bit over that in this movie
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  Speaker 1: when all of a sudden there's a knock at the
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  Speaker 1: door and it's like, what what is he doing here?
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  Speaker 1: And I'll you know everything, Oh my god, dude, and
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't even knock. Oh that's true, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: But still, I mean, it's it was one of those
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going, Okay, everything I assumed was gonna go
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  Speaker 1: on with this movie just went out the dang door.
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  Speaker 1: Leave it to the writers, man, go in there and
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  Speaker 1: experience this movie. Don't write it for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, listen, I thank you for saying it. I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad that that that it hits you in that way.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted again to do honor to the script that
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  Speaker 3: was written that I read, that I read, that I experienced,
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  Speaker 3: and I want to bring that to the to the masses.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me ask you this question only because
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  Speaker 1: I've been associated with promoting Tyler Perry for decades now,
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  Speaker 1: and this thing right here would play out on a stage.
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  Speaker 1: Do you not see that that you could see this
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  Speaker 1: on a live stage somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting on a stage, I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm such a cinema person. Yeah that like I think
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  Speaker 3: like like it's it's I think it's it would be
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  Speaker 3: more difficult that some subtleties and some close ups.
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  Speaker 2: I don't that you can really do. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 2: a mixed media thing, you might be able to do it.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's, you know, the way it was written,
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  Speaker 3: it is a cinematic experience. And I think that you know,
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  Speaker 3: people are going to enjoy it, you know, alone, or
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  Speaker 3: they gonna enjoy it with a group of people that.
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  Speaker 2: I watch party.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think that's gonna be like you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the telltale sign.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna watch it alone maybe the first time, but
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  Speaker 1: that's the end time because the next time they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: watch it with a group, because they're gonna say, see, cee,
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  Speaker 1: see I told you this.
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  Speaker 3: This is the w Yes they should see they just
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  Speaker 3: see it with the group.
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  Speaker 2: They should have watched parties from the get go.
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  Speaker 3: Like they just get get at least three people together
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  Speaker 3: and watch the movie. Get some get some popcorn, gets
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  Speaker 3: getna get a nice stiff drink and and and enjoy
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  Speaker 3: this movie with with the friend.
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  Speaker 1: And that mask. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 4: You?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the very first second that that arrives inside
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  Speaker 1: this storyline, that mask took over my mind because now
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  Speaker 1: I had to see the face behind the mask. I
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  Speaker 1: had to know the story right where there was something
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  Speaker 1: bigger and greater about ready to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we we really took a lot of
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  Speaker 3: a long time to figure out like what that mask
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  Speaker 3: was gonna look like. We didn't want it to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, overtly scary when on on to be so busy.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to be you know, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 3: a plane in its design and also be very stark
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  Speaker 3: and and we you know, we we borrow from many
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  Speaker 3: different African countries and many different African masks to come
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  Speaker 3: up with that amalgam on that that design, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's very very effective.
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  Speaker 2: Thankfully.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, you got to come back to this show anytime
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  Speaker 1: in the future. I love where your heart is when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to creativity and cause it's like you almost
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  Speaker 1: see us and you're going watch this. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: get them to move.
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  Speaker 3: That's always my intention, whether I'm doing a comedy or
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  Speaker 3: a movie like Strung Well.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. You have yourself a brilliant day today, Okay, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: You too,