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Joy Bryant · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, y'all?
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez joining you right now, actress and model Joy Bryan.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, Joy? I'm good. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
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  Speaker 2: The last time I saw you, dude, was like before
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  Speaker 2: the world. Like, I think we I saw I think you. I,
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  Speaker 2: you interviewed me like right before like COVID and the
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  Speaker 2: world shut down. Dang.
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  Speaker 3: So it's nice talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: Like March, 2020.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. So the book ends right now that we're talking
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  Speaker 3: to you. We survived. We survived. We're here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of surviving, you got this new movie all
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  Speaker 1: about survival on lifetime called survival.
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  Speaker 3: Pardon me.
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  Speaker 1: Soul survivor of flight one 19. And that that's based
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  Speaker 1: on true story, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's inspired by actual events and the book. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, so crazy. Like when I, um, I got
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  Speaker 2: the script, I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: I just was like, Oh, I can read this.
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  Speaker 2: Great. Cool. And then after that, I was like, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, this isn't, this actually happened or a version
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  Speaker 2: of it. Right.
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  Speaker 3: What happened? So what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Well, in terms of the actual events, I mean, basically
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  Speaker 2: it's based on someone who was the sole survivor of
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  Speaker 2: the plane crash. Oh, wow. I mean, my character is
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  Speaker 2: more of a composite of two people, but yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: what it's inspired by, which is pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It is pretty crazy. And your character, Rebecca, is an
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  Speaker 3: airline executive, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So, um, Rebecca Till, she's an airline executive and
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  Speaker 2: her company's plane is a plane that crashed and she's
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  Speaker 2: sort of reluctantly thrown into the, uh, search and rescue efforts. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: through that she becomes connected to one particular passenger's family.
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  Speaker 2: And with that, that brings up a lot of her
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  Speaker 2: own past trauma and stuff. And, um, And so it's
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  Speaker 2: about her reconciling her path and also finding and sort
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  Speaker 2: of on the search for, to rescue, to find a survivor.
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  Speaker 2: And then also the, it's kind of two-hander. So then
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  Speaker 2: there's the Lisa Foster, who is actually the woman who
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  Speaker 2: survives the crash of her journey in the wilderness and
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  Speaker 2: to fight for her own survival and get back to
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  Speaker 2: her child. So it's a really, yeah, it's a really interesting,
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  Speaker 2: cool story. Story that I think people would really, will
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  Speaker 2: really dig. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you had me at, uh, based on true events.
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  Speaker 1: So that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And, and, and I can't believe this, but it's been
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  Speaker 1: almost 25 years since your breakout role in Antoine Fisher.
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  Speaker 3: Um, alongside Fanzel, of course.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you and I both. How was that experience now
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  Speaker 3: looking back?
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  Speaker 2: Um, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Um, well, one, I mean, it's still the fact that
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  Speaker 2: I even got it.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but to start my career, essentially, I mean, I,
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  Speaker 2: I've done the, um, hip hop with Carmen movie with,
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  Speaker 2: with Beyonce. So we, that was at both our breakout roles,
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  Speaker 2: but to, um, have experience, um, you know, to have
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  Speaker 2: worked with Denzel at that, at that point. point in
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  Speaker 2: my career I mean I just it just it just
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  Speaker 2: put me on the right path yeah like and so
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  Speaker 2: to look back on it now I mean to say
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  Speaker 2: 25 years is crazy I mean that's half my life I.
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  Speaker 3: Know it goes by quick huh goes by quick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah so to say that I've been in this business
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  Speaker 2: yeah that long um well one it was crazy but
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  Speaker 2: also I feel so grateful to be able to.
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  Speaker 1: I survived yes exactly that's what it's all about surviving
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  Speaker 1: and sticking around um listen I saw on IG too
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  Speaker 1: that you're into like action sports, surfing, snowboarding and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, more so snowboarding than anything. I'm not like,
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  Speaker 2: my surfing is pretty limited.
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  Speaker 3: Did you grow up in like a snowy area or something?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Mario, I grew up in the Bronx. Whoa, what? How'd
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  Speaker 3: you get into it then?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Um, I mean, I think just, I mean, definitely
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  Speaker 2: living in California, but like over time, I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was just something that I was interested in and then
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  Speaker 2: I did it and then stuck with it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't trying to get up there. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: if I didn't grow up doing it. Are you more
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  Speaker 3: of a beach guy? I am more beach guy.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't grow up, like I grew up in Southern
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  Speaker 1: California right here, but I never went, I never went skiing.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that goes and tries, it wipes out
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  Speaker 1: and they get, I'm like, nah, I'm too old for that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to stay in my lane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Snowboarding is pretty like, it's hard to, it's different
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  Speaker 2: from skiing.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's snowboarding.
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  Speaker 2: It's like hard to get up and get around, but
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  Speaker 2: once you do, you can progressively quickly. Whereas with skiing,
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  Speaker 2: you can get up. You can get up pretty easily.
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  Speaker 2: And then, but it's harder to progress. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck and be careful out there.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, everyone, please be sure to check out Joy's
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  Speaker 1: new movie, Soul Survivor of Flight 119 on Lifetime and
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  Speaker 1: streaming on Hulu.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like a good one. Congratulations, Joy. Thanks for checking in.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully we won't let another six years go by. I know.
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  Speaker 3: Or a pandemic. Or a pandemic, exactly. All right, take care.
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  Speaker 3: On with Mario Lopez.