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INTERVIEW: John Cena, Teyonah Parris & Arturo Castro On Breaking Hollywood Stereotypes, New Film ‘Matchbox’ + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up.
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  Speaker 2: Every day I wake up.
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  Speaker 3: Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. Y'all finished or
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  Speaker 3: y'all done?
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  Speaker 2: Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
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  Speaker 2: We are The Breakfast Club. Lon LaRose is here as well.
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  Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building today.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 2: From the movie Matchbox. We have John Cena, Tiana Paris,
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  Speaker 2: and Arturo Castro.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, guys.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How y'all feeling?
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  Speaker 3: How y'all feeling?
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  Speaker 4: That was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Bless Black and highly favored.
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  Speaker 5: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Not just South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Hopkins.
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  Speaker 3: You from Columbia. I'm from Monk's Corner, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Monk's Corner.
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  Speaker 3: Born in Charleston, raised in Monk's Corner, but I lived
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  Speaker 3: in Columbia, too.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. I grew up listening to you on the radio. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, legit.
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense. Hot 103.9.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Hot 103.9.
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  Speaker 3: We're still on Hot 103.9. Oh, yeah. We come on
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  Speaker 3: in the morning. What's he good then, too?
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  Speaker 5: He wild. Wild ting. Wild ting.
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  Speaker 1: Wild.
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  Speaker 2: He slowed down a lot.
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  Speaker 3: He slowed down a lot. In my 20s too, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He slowed down a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Different era.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's talk about Matchbox, all right? So explain what
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  Speaker 2: Matchbox is.
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  Speaker 4: So obviously people have an idea, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: folks that have an idea of what the Matchbox toys are.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Matchbox cars.
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  Speaker 4: The origins come from the Mattel IP. It's basically the
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  Speaker 4: adaptation of the Mattel IP into a movie. And it's
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  Speaker 4: a great thrill ride about a bunch of friends who
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  Speaker 4: get stuck in a crazy scenario. And a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the through line of the movie is nostalgia because- We
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  Speaker 4: lean into nostalgia in times of crisis, times of the unknown.
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  Speaker 4: We think of a simpler time. We think of, man,
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  Speaker 4: I used to listen to you as a kid and
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  Speaker 4: this was what it meant to me. So I love
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  Speaker 4: about the movie how Mattel uses the Matchbox cars as nostalgia.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like, hey, you put a drop of water
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  Speaker 4: on a small car and it becomes big like a magic.
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  Speaker 4: It's really a story of. friends in some pretty crazy
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  Speaker 4: circumstances just trying to get by.
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  Speaker 7: And it's about when somebody comes from your past, they
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  Speaker 7: come back into your life and completely disrupt.
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  Speaker 4: Who you are.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great takeaway, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Man, that's the great thing about film. You can have
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  Speaker 4: more than one perspective in creative stuff. That's a great takeaway,
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 3: Do any of y'all have.
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  Speaker 7: People from your childhood who can still bring out a
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  Speaker 7: version of you that doesn't exist anywhere else?
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  Speaker 8: My sisters, man.
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  Speaker 1: There's nobody that, like, trolls me harder than my sisters,
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  Speaker 1: you know?
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  Speaker 8: Like, you can see me on the big screen, and
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  Speaker 8: they're like... He's still a chubby-ass kid in my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, how was that necessary?
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  Speaker 8: But nobody liked family, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And this movie has those themes also about... When we
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  Speaker 1: all learn how to use our imagination, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: you get more adult and you lose that sense of play,
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  Speaker 1: I think it strikes to me at the heart of
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  Speaker 1: what it was like, like growing up in Guatemala and
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  Speaker 1: like dreaming about big things.
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  Speaker 8: And we have some of the craziest action we've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this man has a fear of heights and
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  Speaker 1: he's hanging from a helicopter, jumping off ledges. I almost
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  Speaker 1: hurt myself like running to the snack table, which.
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  Speaker 8: Is also dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: But I think you can come for the action, you
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  Speaker 1: can come for the heart, or you can come for
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  Speaker 1: the comedy.
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  Speaker 4: You do your own stuff, yeah. Normally, no.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: This one, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have the budget on this one. Hey, kid,
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  Speaker 2: you got to get out there.
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  Speaker 4: We're a little short. No, our director, Sam Hargrave, his
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  Speaker 4: origin story is a stunt performer, a stunt coordinator, second
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  Speaker 4: unit director, and now a director. And he's been through
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  Speaker 4: it all. And he's brought his whole crew with him
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  Speaker 4: along the way. So he works with the best, most
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  Speaker 4: capable folks in the world. And it's one of those
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  Speaker 4: things where the producers are like, normally we don't do this.
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  Speaker 4: And Sam would go plead his case and be like,
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  Speaker 4: this is why it's safe. This is what I expect
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  Speaker 4: John to do. These are my wish list things for John.
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  Speaker 4: And all those things I fucking hated. It was really,
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  Speaker 4: really scary. And I did them. And it's not like
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  Speaker 4: I conquered my fear. I'm still very scared.
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  Speaker 2: So you're scared of heights?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Dude, like jumping off of a building, like side
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  Speaker 4: saddle pommel horsing a building and looking over and seeing
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  Speaker 4: there's nine stories down in the concrete. And I got
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  Speaker 4: this rope that I know holds like 3,000 pound stress
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  Speaker 4: and a single carabiner.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: To save my life. Like, it's envisioning you're going to die. Like,
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  Speaker 4: that's not normal. Hanging from a helicopter and, like, eight
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  Speaker 4: fingers between you and the icy Danube, you know, hundreds
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  Speaker 4: of feet below, going 65 miles an hour. Like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: this doesn't feel right. So, like, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: be like, oh, I did it. No, I didn't do anything. No,
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  Speaker 4: I was scared. The tough part was, like, making it
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  Speaker 4: look smooth. Like, yo, I got this. I'm shitting my
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  Speaker 4: pants in the middle of it. Like, I'm still scared
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  Speaker 4: of that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not thinking about it like it's a top rope.
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  Speaker 4: So here's the thing, I think that's where the fear
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  Speaker 4: might originate. I've fallen from the top rope and that
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  Speaker 4: shit hurts.
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  Speaker 3: So that's like five feet.
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  Speaker 4: And I've fallen from like seven feet and like nine
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  Speaker 4: feet through a table. And it's like, yo, I barely
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  Speaker 4: made it through that. I think that's the origin of like,
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  Speaker 4: I know what a fall from this is going to
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  Speaker 4: feel like. You know, maybe that's it. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: figure out why I'm so afraid of it so I
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  Speaker 4: can try to move past it.
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  Speaker 2: But when does your wife come in and say, all right, John,
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  Speaker 2: enough's enough. Stop all this bullshit now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we have open conversations about that. And she was
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  Speaker 4: overwhelmingly supportive of Sam Hargrave because, again, you come with
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of data to say like, hey, I know
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't look like it's safe, but the math is
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  Speaker 4: in your favor.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, my wife's.
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  Speaker 4: An engineer, man. She's like, hey, the guy makes a
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  Speaker 4: great point. Look at his resume. Look at his statistics.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's not going to ask you. And we
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  Speaker 4: did have stuntmen. I didn't do all the stunts. But
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  Speaker 4: in a normal movie, I would do just the fight choreo.
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  Speaker 4: I'm in like 80% of the stuff. And that's not normal.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not that I don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 4: It's just not normal for a movie for insurance purposes. And, man,
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  Speaker 4: Sam's moniker on life is I'm trying to push the envelope.
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  Speaker 4: And that's aspirational for me and inspirational. And he kind
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  Speaker 4: of struck a chord in me. And it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: like one of those guys you want to be drawn
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  Speaker 4: towards his gravity. I don't want to try to do
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  Speaker 4: right by him, too. So he immediately, well, man, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to let this guy down either. So you
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  Speaker 4: want to work hard for somebody like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Tiana, what I like about you, I've seen
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  Speaker 3: you in so many different things, right?
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  Speaker 7: Like from WandaVision to the Marvels to the clone Tyrone,
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  Speaker 7: now Mashbox. Do you feel like Hollywood actually knows what
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  Speaker 7: to do with you?
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  Speaker 5: Um, I feel like.
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  Speaker 9: I have definitely felt like I have been able to
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  Speaker 9: like stay under a radar where people don't actually know exactly.
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  Speaker 2: All that I can do.
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  Speaker 5: And so I have no qualms with auditioning.
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  Speaker 9: And so I think a lot of the things that
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  Speaker 9: I have been able to get is because I'm not
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  Speaker 9: afraid to go in a room and fight for it.
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  Speaker 5: And that way I get to show that I can
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  Speaker 5: do this. I can do that.
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  Speaker 9: I can go from stage to film, to theater, all
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  Speaker 9: of these things. And, I'm not afraid to fight for it.
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  Speaker 9: So whether they know what to do with it or not,
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  Speaker 9: I'm willing to fight to show you that I can
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  Speaker 9: do whatever it is that you put in.
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  Speaker 2: Front of me.
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  Speaker 7: So you don't feel like the industry is giving you
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  Speaker 7: the role that has caused people to really see you yet?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like I've done some really cool shit.
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  Speaker 9: I'm very proud of it. Thank you, Monica Rambeau. They
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  Speaker 9: cloned Tyrone. I feel like I'm doing what I want
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  Speaker 9: to do and the art that I want to share
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  Speaker 9: and the stories I want to tell is not my
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  Speaker 9: place whether.
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  Speaker 5: People get it or not or what they see for me.
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  Speaker 9: I'm very proud of of what I've been able to
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  Speaker 9: accomplish out here and the artists I've been able to
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  Speaker 9: collaborate with.
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  Speaker 6: Girl, you killed, you killed your role in They Clones.
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  Speaker 5: You carried the movie. Thank you. Now, that was a
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  Speaker 5: group project for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Next to John Boye. Next to Jamie.
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  Speaker 5: That was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: For the women.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Can I hype my girl up for a second?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you can.
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  Speaker 1: I get front row seats to watch T and to
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  Speaker 1: watch this cast do their thing. You know, I'm still
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  Speaker 1: at that level, no matter how much I work, that
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  Speaker 1: I'm so aware of how lucky I am to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you're working with somebody as alive as
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  Speaker 1: T is, you know, she's just so loose.
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  Speaker 8: With it, man.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something from each one of these cast members
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  Speaker 1: that I wanted to emulate something. But now that I'm
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  Speaker 1: focusing on Tiana... She keeps it fresh every single take.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not something you see usually.
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  Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying? My Venmo is ArturoCastro.com.
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  Speaker 2: I paid for that shout out. Bro, you were in Narco.
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  Speaker 2: You came here at 19 and you're killing it your
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  Speaker 2: damn self.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a documentary, man. I was just
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  Speaker 1: out there swinging stuff. And suddenly it's like somebody had
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  Speaker 1: a camera. I was like, whatever, this is my life.
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  Speaker 8: You know what I mean? But you know what's ironic?
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  Speaker 3: I'm an immigrant. And so.
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  Speaker 8: Don't say that.
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  Speaker 3: Too loud now.
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  Speaker 8: Shut up.
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  Speaker 1: But immigration officers were a lot nicer to me crossing
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  Speaker 1: the border after Narcos than before.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm like, they're like, we don't need to check you, bro.
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  Speaker 3: Come on through.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, what a good ploy that would
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  Speaker 1: be if I am actually a Narco, but I played
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  Speaker 1: one so nobody would ever bother me.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? So Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Escobar, if you're listening.
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  Speaker 7: When it comes to Hollywood, Arturo, have you ever had
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  Speaker 7: to fight against like somebody's limited?
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  Speaker 3: Imagination of what you can do?
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  Speaker 1: My friend, my first role on television was a character
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  Speaker 1: called Dishwasher Juan on The Good Wife. Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, your first TV show was The Good Wife?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was mine too.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, were you Dishwasher too?
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  Speaker 5: Somebody took my role.
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  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 8: But my only question about that is like, how many.
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  Speaker 1: Juan's Werther in that episode that you have to specify
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  Speaker 1: what I can do.
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  Speaker 2: There's Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Juan.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe it was this Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Juan.
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  Speaker 8: And they're just like, I don't know, put a J
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  Speaker 8: on it. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, but it has, you know, we've had so
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  Speaker 1: many pioneers, John Leguizamo, like Oscar, everybody's been doing such
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  Speaker 1: great work that we get to do three-dimensional roles now.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, of course, at first you just have, like
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood's like, I don't know what to do with you
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  Speaker 1: unless Antonio Banderas is shooting at you.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm like, yeah, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: That is interesting, because all three of y'all, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 3: have been stereotyped in different ways, right? Like, John, you the...
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  Speaker 3: wrestler you know big muscular guy.
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  Speaker 7: They don't know what you can do in front of
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  Speaker 7: the camera or Taro you're the funny Latino guy Tiana
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  Speaker 7: of course you're a black woman.
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  Speaker 2: Wait what.
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  Speaker 3: Which stereotype you think has been the hardest to get over.
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  Speaker 4: Goodness, that's a complex question. We're humans. We use snap judgment.
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  Speaker 4: We use first impressions. That's why that term, first impressions,
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  Speaker 4: are so important. We use our senses and our awareness
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  Speaker 4: and our wisdom to formulate an opinion about somebody. I always,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not afraid to lean into that. If somebody needs
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  Speaker 4: me to be the big muscular guy, because that's what
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  Speaker 4: they see and that's all they feel that I am,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just going to do the best job I can
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  Speaker 4: with that. And if someone's bold enough to place a
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  Speaker 4: bet on me, to be like, man, I think you
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  Speaker 4: could be this. I'm going to try to make good
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  Speaker 4: on their investment. I think that's all we can do.
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  Speaker 4: It's just like one step at a time, you know,
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  Speaker 4: one piece of work at a time. And I believe
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  Speaker 4: if you just do good work, that's the way you
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  Speaker 4: open up doors and you open up more of yourself
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  Speaker 4: and more of your skill set. You know what I'm saying? Again,
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  Speaker 4: that's just my perspective, but that's kind of what's worked
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  Speaker 4: for me. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to take it out?
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  Speaker 10: Do you want other roles outside of the typical roles
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  Speaker 10: they see John Cena in, like, Would you want to
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  Speaker 10: do a Forrest Gump type of role that's like, I
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  Speaker 10: don't see John, but John killed it.
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  Speaker 2: Would you want to do something like that?
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  Speaker 4: Man, I'm truly just leaning into gratitude at this point.
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  Speaker 4: If the powers that be who write the checks, who
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  Speaker 4: I have no control over, sat down and be like, hey, pal,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to let you create, but you're always going
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  Speaker 4: to have to wave your.
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  Speaker 2: Hand in front of your face.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be like, all right, let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: And the next time and the last time, I'll do
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  Speaker 4: it every night, like the first time. I did that
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  Speaker 4: for 23 years. playing the hit every night, like it's
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  Speaker 4: the first fucking time. And never once was it a burden,
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  Speaker 4: it was always a blessing. So yes, of course, we
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  Speaker 4: have skills, we wanna show the world, but it's all
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  Speaker 4: about what the audience wants to see. So if it's like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: you might wanna do this, but we like to see
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  Speaker 4: you do this, we feel comfortable with that. And there's
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  Speaker 4: moments where you can push outside that comfort zone for
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  Speaker 4: people to be like, whoa, I didn't know you had that.
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  Speaker 4: And if I get to play dress up for a
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  Speaker 4: living by being what you see is what you get, Gosh, man,
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  Speaker 4: I like playing dress-up for a living. You know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying? So I'm okay with it.
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  Speaker 2: And is there an extra fee for that?
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  Speaker 5: Like, do you say, I want this, but if you
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  Speaker 5: want this.
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  Speaker 2: If you want that hand.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be there, but if you want that hand.
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  Speaker 7: I want to ask Tiana and Arturo that question, though.
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  Speaker 7: What stereotype have you had to overcome?
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  Speaker 5: A stereotype? I don't know, guys.
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  Speaker 9: I don't... I mean, like you said, I exist as
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  Speaker 9: a black woman, so I guess that's just always there,
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  Speaker 9: but I.
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  Speaker 5: Don't look at that as a burden, like a huge
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  Speaker 5: part of what.
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  Speaker 9: I've wanted to do with my work and with the
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  Speaker 9: opportunities God has blessed me with is to tell the
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  Speaker 9: stories across the diaspora and show that we have so
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  Speaker 9: many different levels and layers to us and experiences and
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  Speaker 9: that that can look any different way. And I, I, again,
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  Speaker 9: I do the work that I want to do that
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  Speaker 9: I am blessed to be able to do. Like, it's
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  Speaker 9: very much like I can't control what y'all see or
• 13:20
  Speaker 9: what y'all experience. I can only focus on what I'm
• 13:22
  Speaker 9: trying to do and the stories I'm trying to tell
• 13:25
  Speaker 9: and that has worked for me.
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: Minding my business, staying in my lane, like, you know
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: what I mean? Like, do it, keeping my head down
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: and doing the work. That's it.
• 13:34
  Speaker 9: I cannot control what other people think. It's very freeing
• 13:38
  Speaker 9: watching you in your career because you do, it doesn't seem, like,
• 13:41
  Speaker 9: you kind of just float through the things that you
• 13:43
  Speaker 9: want to do.
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: Not aimlessly, but like, It's just a little bit like
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: it feels unbothered. You know what I mean?
• 13:49
  Speaker 9: I would like to say it feels intentional and very
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: focused in a way that I cannot control. And I
• 13:58
  Speaker 9: really it doesn't matter what is happening around me and
• 14:01
  Speaker 9: what others think. I want to work with this group
• 14:04
  Speaker 9: of artists, this group of artists to tell this story.
• 14:07
  Speaker 5: And that's what I'm a focus on. And I put
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: my all into it.
• 14:09
  Speaker 9: And I've been like that since the very beginning of like.
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: What are the stories I want?
• 14:13
  Speaker 9: And they're not always going to be shiny and polished
• 14:16
  Speaker 9: and pretty and funny.
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: Like, this is really fun.
• 14:18
  Speaker 9: This is a group of people who have heart and
• 14:21
  Speaker 9: have gone through some crazy things together. But there's also
• 14:24
  Speaker 9: stories I've told where, you know, they are down and out.
• 14:26
  Speaker 9: And those stories are just as important to tell. And, yeah,
• 14:30
  Speaker 9: I just try to be really intentional about it.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 14:33
  Speaker 6: When we all first heard that they were making a
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: movie inspired by Matchbox Cars, right, what was the first reaction?
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: How the fuck are they going to do this? Is
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: it an animation?
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: Not only that, I'm, I'm a fan. Like some of my,
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: I don't have many childhood memories, but like some of
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: the vivid ones are like, I can still see the
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: worn paint. There was a journalist who brought a red
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: fire truck. He's like, this is, this is from my
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: mom's house. And the paint was worn and I grabbed
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: the car and it like took me to a, another universe.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Cause like my Oldsmobile 442 was this red paint, but,
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: It's now steel. You see, this is actually proof of concept.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: The Matchbox paints wears off. This was my car. So
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: immediately he hands me this car. And because of the
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: way the paint was, I got transported back to this time.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: And the reason why I was like, how the fuck
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: are they going to do that? Because I was like,
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: how are they going to take what's in here and
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: put it on screen? And that's why I was really
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: proud about like the car is a unit of nostalgia.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: That way, if you have a different memory, if you
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: have a different memory, it doesn't It doesn't poo-poo anyone's
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: memories because it captures the feeling of like, yo, this
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: brought me back to when I was a kid. That's
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: what the cars are doing, bringing you back to that
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: time when it's like, dude, those were great times, weren't they?
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Why don't you have many childhood memories?
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: You know what? Honestly, my wife is like a steel trap.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: She will rattle off things that happened to her like three, four, five.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I don't. No, my timeline starts at 11, 12.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: For real, and I don't know why. I don't know.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: I didn't have a lot of photos as a kid.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: As a baby, I did.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Did they see you in them?
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: They couldn't.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: A little foreshadowing, maybe? Bringing back that hand, man. I
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: don't know. But for some reason, that's kind of where
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: my timeline starts. That's a good question. I've tried to
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: figure it out, but I don't know why I can't
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: remember anything from that span.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: So this movie is very, very deep for you, too,
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: because that's a part of what you do remember.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Well, just those IPs, right? It's most famous in the
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: comic book genre. Are they going to do the comic
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: book justice? There are fans out there that you have
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: to please. It's not just making a great film. It's
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: like when you use an IP, you better please the
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: fan base that got you to the dance. And that's
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: when I was like, well, this one's kind of, this
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: could be bad. And it ended up reading like, oh, okay.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: know about Matchbox, and our director was great enough to
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: put super Easter eggs in there if you're a collector.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: And if you're not, and if you know nothing, it's
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: a great film. I thought they rode that balance well.
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: Well, the good thing about it, those Matchbox cars weren't
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: too expensive. So as a kid, you could always get one.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: To this day.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: You can buy them at Walgreens, CVS, at like $ 2, $ 4.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: So you can.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Still get those cars. They're not too expensive.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Me and my brothers had the bucket. Community toys, but
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: we just dumped the bucket out, and then we had
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: the draft. You know, because it was a it was
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: a toy that we could all have as five kids.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: In the comics, do you know what happened to Monica
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: Rambeau after Marvel's? Are you just waiting for Kevin Feige
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: to tell you like the rest of us?
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: The latter.
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: I mean, I saw what y'all saw.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: I experienced what y'all experienced. She ended up in a.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Different timeline.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Look, she said she's going to keep them intentional jobs.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: You got Duels Day.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: You got Secret Wars. You got X-Men films coming up.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: They haven't told you nothing.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: He trying to mess with your check.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: They have not told me nothing. I can confidently say
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: they have not told me anything. Just believe her.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: It's okay.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: It's okay to believe her.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: She don't know. That's the truth. That's the truth.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: What can you tell us about your character.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And your history? You know, in the movie, obviously, this movie.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: That you're here for.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: What can you tell us about your character and how
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: you are with the friend group, like your history with Sean?
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I play Charmaine in Matchbox, the movie. And
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: she and.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: I keep calling Arturo, but it's not Arturo.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: Armando.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Armando, yes.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to say the character's name.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, not one.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Matchbox one.
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: Matchbox one.
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: She, Sean, Amy, and Crosby, she's married to Crosby, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: they all were friends growing up.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: And she and Crosby ended up finding love on their own.
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: And what I loved about this script is the actor, Sam,
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: who plays Crosby, we were able to have this... Married couple,
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: this black married couple at that have this be in
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: this relationship and come to a point where I think
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: it happens in a lot of marriages where you're like,
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: we're happy.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: But where do we go from here?
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: Because there's things Charmaine has dreams and ambitions of her
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: own that. She's like, I love you, but I also
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: have these things that I want to accomplish. And how
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: do we make this marriage work but still honor the
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: things that make.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Us who we are?
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: And so we get to see those two navigate that
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: throughout the movie while there's things blowing up, trucks driving
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: off of the side of bridges, John climbing.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Bridges and hanging off the helicopters.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Scared but still doing it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: You have all of these different elements working at the
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: same time and I think that's really, really cool A
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: huge part of what drew me to the movie is
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: that we're balancing so many different genres, storylines.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: It really is a true.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: five-hander you would look at it and you're like oh
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: you have John and the gang but no it's the
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: gang and we actually save his.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Ass you know what I'm saying like we come through
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: and save him.
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: So I thought the director and the writer David did
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: a really great job of giving us all something to
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: hang on to something to fight for keeping the stakes
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: up for all of us as individuals and as the
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: whole gang and.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: For the movie and the world saving the world did y'all.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Really drive those cars and ride those motorcycles Oh, we did.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: We did. We definitely did. I mean, well, I wrote
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: it once and then they put me on training wheels.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But, you know, I got to I just want to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: run back to something you asked earlier about stereotypes and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: why this movie means so much to me. And for me,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the thing to overcome or the thing I don't understand is,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you know, this narrative that immigrants are this lazy people.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I have never met a more hardworking person. than somebody
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: who's trying to make a better life for themselves, no
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: matter where they come from. So that's a stereotype that
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I've had to fight against. And what I love about
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: this movie, beyond the action and beyond the comedy, is
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that our characters are from all different walks of life, but.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: It's not a big deal.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: It's not about the pain of being Latin or we're
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the bad guys.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: None of that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: It's about this group of friends, man. getting on this adventure,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and even if you don't look like me, you can
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: relate to, wow, if I was a chemistry teacher and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: suddenly I'm handcuffed to a plane that I've never been
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: around before, I can relate to that feeling. And I
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: think if there's anything about our medium, I don't have
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: a grandeur about it. I don't think we're saving the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: world with acting. But it is important for you to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: see somebody that doesn't look like you or that you...
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you never met before and be like, whoa, I can
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: be there. I have more in common with that person
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: than I have a difference with them.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Even if it's not in acting, you just see success.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: You can achieve some level of success.
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And that you need to see what you can aim for.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: That's why it's important for me, representation. It's because when
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I was in the 90s, I never saw somebody that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: looked like me doing something three dimensional like this. So
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the hope is that if you're a kid in Guatemala
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and you're seeing this guy through these emotions with his
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: friends and he's a three dimensional character.
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: Listen, being neurotic is not.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: A purely Caucasian sport, my friend. OK, because my family
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: is neurotic as fuck. And so if you get to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: see that, then you're like, oh, maybe that's not so
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: hard to aim for.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: And this movie really celebrates that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Is there a stereotype that y'all are lazy? I never
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: heard that one.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I'd say out in the political world, it's like they're here,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: like they're here. They just want to get on, you know,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: take all of our benefits.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: And not work for them. I'm like, my dude, I
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: don't know. Like, have you seen the pyramids we built, man?
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: That's a long time.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: There's a comedian that says, you know, everybody's like... you know,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the pyramids in Egypt, they must be the aliens. And
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the pyramids in, you know, Mexico.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: Guatemala, they're like, oh no, they built that shit.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's Andrew Schultz.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Andrew Schultz, yeah, yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: That makes me laugh so.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Much because nobody's ever questioned about aliens.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I wanted to ask about, you know, with Narcos, I
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: was a huge Narcos fan.
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: Were you surprised of the success of Narcos, especially here
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: in America?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You know, we came into an already successful show because
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Pablo Escobar was the first two seasons.
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: And so our job was to not fuck it up.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: I can curse?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: No, I'm asking my mom.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: She's in my ear.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Mama? Yeah, okay.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: She says good.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And so we were already fans of this franchise when
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: we got in it. So what was fascinating about that
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: show is that you're like, normally you have to be like, oh,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: what must it be like being in this massive drug
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: dealer's mansion that I'm playing? And they're like, dude, the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: government confiscated their mansion and we're shooting it right now.
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: And so the.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Reality was right there with you. So yeah, it was
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: a surprise, but it was also kind of a big
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: responsibility to keep that sort of warning story going.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: I didn't glorify it. Everybody ends up dead or in jail.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, I must show this as honestly as possible.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: Were you nervous that if you fucked up that one
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: of the members... of his team and be like, you
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: know what, come here, let me talk to you for
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: a second.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: Dude, I know John Cena, bro.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And more importantly, I know Tiana, dude. Tiana will whoop
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: some ass.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: You heard me say.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: I stay over in my lane. You heard it out there, okay?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Tiana is coming for you.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: Leave my ass out of here. Were you nervous at
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: all with the cartel or anything?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: This guy that I portrayed was like, put out this article, like,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you made me look like a psychopath.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Fuck you.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, you killed a bunch of people, bro.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: What do you think you look like?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Did you say that, like, via letter?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't say it, but I thought it really was.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: That is so hard.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: I tweeted it at myself.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: At somebody else.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: On your burner account.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I was also like, listen, man, these people that we're portraying, obviously,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I don't want any beef with the cartel.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Please don't let this be the thing.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: But I'm also, there's a sense of sort of, I'm
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: pissed that this is how people see us in the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: world because some people wanted to make easy money, you know?
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: And about the terror that they've raised in our country.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So if I had the opportunity to portray this guy
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: as he really was, and he's.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: Pissed about it, like, the fuck? Also, he's in prison.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So that's how I felt a little safer.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: I want to congratulate you too, John, because Coyote versus Acme.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: It was basically done, right?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: And that was made over 100 million worldwide. People love it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Do you feel vindicated?
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: So that's an interesting perspective. I was never in search
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: for vindication. As a creative, you do work for audiences.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: But also, I didn't bankroll the movie. Not my loss.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: You know, we spent.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: half a year around the world, my body getting thrashed
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: and thrown around and I was paid for my services
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: and we had a great time. I've made friends to,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: for this work, not to see the light of day. God,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: that's disheartening, but also not my choice. I didn't bankroll it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: If I had bankrolled Coyote Acme and chosen to shelve it, well,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: maybe I got to look within and ask myself why,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: but I was paid for my services. I made great
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: friends and Will and BJ and Dave Green, the director and,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: A lot of folks on the cast. I got better
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: as a performer. So the drawback was, oh man, this
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: movie that everybody seems to like isn't going to see
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: the light of day. That's disheartening. But I wasn't searching
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: for an I told you so or vindication at all.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: The fact that the fans weren't BSing about like, put
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: this movie out and we'll go see it. They have
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: gone to see it in droves. And that's cool because
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: something creative entertained their day and got them to lighten
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: their backpack a little bit. So I understand why there
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: might be that sentiment of like, we did this. Why
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: aren't you putting it out? The simple answer is because
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: we own it and we can do what we want
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: with it. You know, like everybody was paid. Everybody was
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: even paid because we shelved it. Like, I don't know, guys.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: It's kind of our deal. So they take the heat
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: and they're the ones accountable for their choice. But, you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: we got the movie out and people actually like it,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: which is, I think it's a very cool success story.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, somebody got it wrong, clearly, though. And man,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: the creative business is just that. It's only people's perspective
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: of like, I think the audience will love this. It's
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: just a guess. We're just trying to guess. So yes,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: someone got it wrong. And it's a nice success story.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Tiana, what's up with you?
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: Have you had any conversations with Kevin about Monica's future?
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: No, actually, I can confidently say that. No, I told
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: you earlier, nobody caught me.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: You confidently know what she talking about. I have not
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: spoken to anybody.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: No, I just like these moments when they pop up
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: in the movies later and then everybody goes back to
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: these interviews and say, damn, she played that good.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I'm not acting.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: I'm here as Tiana telling you I have not talked
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: to nobody.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: How far out do you get that? Matchbox.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Thank you, John.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Thank you, John.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: You don't get like a heads up or like, because
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: normally they'll put you on hold for certain stuff sometimes too, like.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: That is how movies normally look.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: That is. I've heard that too.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: If you don't know her name, then you might know something.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I told y'all.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Well, she's here today.
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: Holding my breath till October 9th.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Matchbox. Matchbox.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: That will be out.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I'm going to just assume you're going.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: To be in G.I.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Joe.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Because then you had an appearance in Barbie, too. Am
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: I making that up?
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: No, no. I was a merman in Barbie. I love
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Danny McBride. I know he's writing that. I know Bradley
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: just got cast in that. Dude, Dan, if you're listening,
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: I've worked with Jody Hill, directed Peacemaker.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I'm trying.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I'm trying right now. I don't have control over the decisions,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: but I love the property. I love working with those guys. Man,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I'd just walk across the screen with a broom on
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: that one. It would only make sense.
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: There's a need for a sidekick, I believe.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I got the hand.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I got the hand and the hand could.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Make it come to me.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: I can do something.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: We had my South Carolina sister, Danielle Brooks.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: She was up there.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: And she said that Peacemaker 3, no Peacemaker. She said
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: there's no Peacemaker 3.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: No, there isn't. That's a certainty.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: They can't be doing this stuff. They just sent you
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: in a whole other universe just like they did Tiana.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: They just left you there.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: You know that conversation we just had a few seconds
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: ago about like, I do the work and that's the thing.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: I don't own any of it. It's beyond my control.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Sometimes folks are like, hey, this isn't where we're going.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: As far as that goes, James wrote Peacemaker when he
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: was done with Disney. He got to direct the Suicide
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Squad when he was done with Guardians. And then COVID
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: happened and he got bored. I got killed off in
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: the Suicide Squad. There's a James Gunn rule. It's like,
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: if I kill somebody off, I never bring them back.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: He calls me up in COVID. He's like, hey, you
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: want to do Peacemaker? I'm like, Peacemaker's dead. What are
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: you doing? He's like, no, no, I figured it out.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Don't worry about it. We're good. So now we're off
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: to the races with this unknown character that some people
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: like and they want to see more of. And then
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: James gets the head job at DC. And instead of
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: having to create toys that he can orchestrate to play with,
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: now he has the responsibility for some high-end IP that
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: you have to get out. You have to serve the
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: fan base. Superman, got to figure out the direction of Batman.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: And then there's the Joker. And then there's Wonder Woman.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: And then there's Supergirl. There's so many lanterns. There's so
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: many entities that he has to, not gets to, you
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: have to... get that out to the fan base. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I know, you know, I was like a utility guy
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: getting that ninth spot in the lineup, and I'm sitting
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: on a bench for a bit. But I'd like to
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: believe that we did good work, and, you know, hopefully,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: crossing my fingers, we'll figure something out. But, like, I
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: get it. I get it. I get that there's more
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: important stories to be told than the one we've told.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: And I also get that there's an audience around the
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: world who likes what we did. So I just hope
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: that that's enough to get us another shot.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: When Matchbox comes out this Friday.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: I was going to say, so in the movie, Sean
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: comes back to his friends after like being gone for
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: some time.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Do they ever explain without giving the movie away?
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Like what happened that made him a different person?
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: I guess you can't tell us.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, we can dive into that. Yeah.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: In the beginning.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: So, uh, I mean, I, I went to boarding school
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: as a young man and I kinda, I kinda lived
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: the same journey of at a, 15-year-old, when you establish
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: social connections, you're trying to figure yourself out. If you
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: wear the wrong thing to school one day, everybody picks
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: on you. Now it's exponentially worse with social chatter. Your
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: life goes through an abrupt change. His mom dies and
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: he has to move away from home because his dad
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: is struggling with seeing familiar things. He applies for a
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: new job. He gets the new job. So Sean is
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: kind of ripped out of his environment and placed in
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: a new one. And the story furthers of like, Well,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: the mentors he found and the relationships and the opportunity
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: he found put him in the direction of service and
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: CIA service. And that life has a certain personality profile.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: He's curated for it, and that's why he is the
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: way he is. So when you get dropped back in
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: that environment of like, no, dude, you're the guy. He's
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: been living so long for over two decades as this
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: other human being where all of those, like, trust, no way. Vulnerability,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: that's weakness. I need to be mission forward and I
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: need to do these things and I live my life
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: by these rules. And these people are like, no, but dude,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: you're the same kid. Come on. And that's kind of
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: the problem of the gang. It's weird. Like the movie's
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: a fish out of water movie where a journalist and
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: a chemistry teacher go on this whimsical adventure to try
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: to stop a nuclear bomb. But that's a normal day
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: as the office for a CIA guy. The fish out
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: of water story for Sean is, hey man, you have
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: to lean into trust. You have to lean into vulnerability.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: You can't do it alone. Asking for help is not
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: a weakness, it's a strength. It's on all sides. So yes,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: they do explain that. Some of the work is the
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: character work you do that audiences may never know, but
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: it's that nuanced work that helps you get through. But
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: that's well explained.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: And then they save your ass. That's right.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: So again, asking for help is a strength, not a weakness.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: And here's this guy who thinks, I can shoulder the burden,
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: I'll do it without you guys. I'm just bringing you down.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: And they're like, no, dude, you're a fucking idiot. We
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: can offer stuff here. Let us do our thing and
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: stop trying to micromanage the whole thing. And they come
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: and kick ass and save the day.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Well, it comes out this Friday.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: One more question. Tiana, have you filmed anything with Monica Rambeau?
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: Persistence, persistence, persistence.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: I love it, man.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Macbox is out. We appreciate you for joining us. Tiana,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I am so sorry about your South Carolina bedroom. I
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: am so sorry.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I see how you do me.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us, John Cena. Thank you for
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: coming again. Macbox comes out this Friday. Go see it.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: It's on Apple TV.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: See it wherever you want.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Watch it on a big screen. Watch it on your phone.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: I don't care.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Just watch it.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Just watch it. It's The Breakfast Club.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Thank you, guys.