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Meeting Pennywise: Blake Cameron James on IT: Welcome to Derry & We Grown Now. #itwelcometoderry · The Demia Avery Show

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  I have a very special guest on on today.
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  Him and his father. I'm so excited.
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  Y'all know I'm gonna have to look at my
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  notes so I don't mess this up. I have a
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  intro and I got to I believe in giving
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  people flowers. So, I'm going to make
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  sure that I get everything I possibly
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  can in here. So, today we're sitting
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  down with a young star whose face you've
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  definitely seen, whose name you're going
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  to hear a lot more of. He made a
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  powerful impact as leading the film we
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  grown now. Start sharing the screen with
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  industry legends Journey Smlette and S
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  and Path of Merkusen. Now right now he
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  is turning heads as Will Hanland in the
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  hit HBO series It Welcome to Dair part
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  of the iconic Stephen King universe and
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  directed by Andy and Barbara Machete.
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  Now, I've known him since he was much
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  younger through the Avery Agency where
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  he's represented by my partner and
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  sister, Jar Avery. Hey girl. He's here
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  with one of his parents that manages his
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  career, Cameron James. And we will be
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  joined by his mother Tuesday shortly.
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  So, make sure you stick around for that.
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  And we're talking fame, family, big
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  roles, and what's next. Let's get into
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  it. Please welcome Blake Cameron James.
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  Okay.
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  >> Lights, [music]
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  camera, action. Let's shine tonight. Big
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  dreams, big names, and the [music]
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  viables right. We'll talk passion,
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  purpose, power, and goals.
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  Stories you [music] ain't never been
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  told.
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  [music]
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  That was far. Nice.
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  I'm glad you like it. Did I do good?
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  >> No. Feels [laughter] great. Great
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  introduction.
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  >> Awesome. Awesome. So, look, before we
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  get into this interview, make sure you
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  want to hear more entertaining stories
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  like this. But you're not going to be
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  able to beat this one. You probably
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  won't be able to beat this one. But
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  we're going to go ahead and get started.
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  Now again, like I said, I've known Blake
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  since he was about 10 years old through
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  the Avery Agency and now the world is
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  seeing him in major projects now as a
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  family. What does that what does all
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  this mean to you guys? What does it feel
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  like for you guys right now?
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  >> You know, like for for us, like we kind
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  of just take it one day at a time. It's
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  like it's it's kind of hard to do. Um it
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  is surreal in a sense because he's just
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  our son and
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  >> um but we know things have changed you
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  know we get out we see the people and
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  >> they see him it's different now you know
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  so um
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  >> we're still getting used to that part of
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  it. Um but for us it's it's it's
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  humbling, you know. It's humbling and
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  >> um to watch to watch him grow and and
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  morph into you know this actor, you
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  know, that people
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  >> are growing to love. And so for us it's
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  real humbling, man. We we enjoy it.
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  >> Yeah. What do you feel? How are you
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  feeling, Blake?
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  >> It's really crazy to be honest. Like
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  I don't know. you just I grew up looking
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  up to like a lot of people um and so
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  certain things like when it comes to
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  this like really like kind of meant a
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  lot to me and it's like surreal to
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  actually achieve like for a long time
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  like
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  >> when I was younger on TikTok I used to
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  just like follow people just cuz they
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  were verified cuz I feel like they
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  deserved it like if I saw somebody was
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  verified I used to follow them like they
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  definitely don't even notice but then
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  like I don't know I got verified on
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  Instagram and it was just like it was
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  like dang. It was like really surreal. I
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  was like, like God's blessed me so much.
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  So, I don't know. It's all It's all
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  really really crazy to see firsthand and
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  you know, I'm just getting started. I'm
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  excited to show the world what I have to
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  offer when it comes to this.
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  >> I understand that. Now, take me back,
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  Blake. When you got the call that you're
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  going to be uh playing Will Hanland in
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  it, where were you or what was going
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  through your mind when you got that
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  call? What you want to do this one?
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  >> Well, he he vaguely remembers this.
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  That's why he's got me answering this.
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  >> But I remember it because
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  me and my wife were trying to figure out
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  how we're going to approach this.
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  >> Um because Pennywise was his literally
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  his biggest fear in real life.
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  >> You know, his brother did to him his
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  brother did something to him when he was
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  younger and that's a whole another
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  story.
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  >> Okay. Okay.
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  >> So, he's been traumatized ever since by
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  Pennywise. So, we were trying to develop
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  the right approach um to come at him and
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  let him know he got this role, you know.
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  So, I remember we were in the car and
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  when I got the call and um I was asking
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  him did he know who Stephen King was and
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  he was like
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  >> like no. Um, and so I asked and you
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  know,
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  you know the movie it, right? Like and
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  he was like, "Yeah, that's Penny Wise. I
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  don't want to talk about that." You
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  know, so that's kind of how he dismissed
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  it. And
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  >> and so,
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  um, I was like, "Okay." I paused for a
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  minute cuz I was like, "This is not
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  going well." So, um, as we begin to talk
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  more,
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  >> I started asking him, you know, "Hey,
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  how would you feel about, you know,
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  doing a role with that?" and he's like,
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  "Dad,
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  I don't want to play those games."
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  >> You know, and so long story short, um,
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  when we told him, he thought it was a
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  prank, you know, and he was being
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  because he, uh, I think you had
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  auditioned initially for another role
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  >> and it kind of it kind of got confusing
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  and lost in the sauce because it had
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  been so long. So um
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  >> um
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  back to you know current he was he was
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  like dad I I'm not really feeling that.
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  So um I was like but what if they paid
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  you a good amount? He's like ain't no
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  amount of money in the world is going to
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  get up there you know.
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  >> But he woke up the next day. He's like
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  dad I got to conquer my fears. He's like
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  I'mma do you know so I'll let him take
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  it from there.
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  >> Yeah. I mean, filming with Penguino
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  definitely didn't disappoint. It was
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  just as scary as I thought it would be.
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  I'm sure we'll get into that later on.
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  >> Oh my gosh. Okay. Okay.
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  >> Crazy experience. Ser
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  have no regrets.
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  >> Now, okay. Like you said, we gonna get
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  back to that now. This is of course,
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  like you said, um Cameron, this is a
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  Stephen King story with a huge fan base.
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  Was there anything about stepping into
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  that role that made you hesitate at all
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  besides the Penny Well thing knowing how
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  big, you know, knowing how big this was?
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  Or did you know how big this was this
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  role actually was?
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  >> Yes, ma'am. I did. Um, honestly, cuz
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  when I was younger, like, you know, I
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  guess I wasn't like fully like thinking,
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  but the fear was genuinely like an
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  aspect. Um, I mean, thinking back like,
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  you know, it's just a it's just a show
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  and it's just like it's TV film. It's
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  not real, right? But like, I don't know.
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  I guess it was bigger to me back then.
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  >> Um,
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  >> but yeah, I don't I don't know if I
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  really had any other hesitations to be
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  honest. Um, this is I mean, obviously a
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  huge opportunity like you said,
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  >> very very big fan base and
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  [clears throat] you know, I feel like
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  it's a good it would be good for my
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  career. So,
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  >> yeah. Kind of. How did it feel to be on
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  the the set when you finally got to the
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  set, you started meeting the people and
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  you you actually did you get a chance to
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  see Penny Wise put on all his makeup and
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  stuff? Did that that help you at all get
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  over that?
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  >> I didn't see him put it on. No, ma'am.
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  [laughter]
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  I don't even think I met him outside of
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  the makeup actually. I just saw him like
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  like with it fully fully done. Um
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  >> yeah, I wish I would have though,
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  honestly. That that would have been a
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  really cool experience.
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  >> Yeah. Oh, wow. I think I saw something
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  on it was something on YouTube where
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  they had Penny Wise. They showed them
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  how they they put the makeup on and all
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  this other kind of stuff.
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  >> Yeah.
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  Did you see that?
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  >> No, ma'am. I didn't see that. Not real
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  about me. Yeah.
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  >> On um on like YouTube like you said.
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  Yes, ma'am. But not not Yeah.
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  >> Not in person.
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  >> Unfortunately. Unfortunately. Yeah.
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  Well, how about the other cast members?
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  How how were you guys, you know, how was
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  it being on the set with them? Was it
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  was it fun? Was it stressful? How was it
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  for you?
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  >> Um, I mean on offset like it was always
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  it was always greatness. It was always
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  always overly fun with them. Like I made
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  friends for life on the show. I still
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  talk to all I literally texted Tilly
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  today. She texted me today. Um to all of
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  them consistently. So yeah, there there
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  relationships that will last for a
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  lifetime. Um, and onset as well.
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  >> Mhm.
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  >> Of course it was fun, you know, but you
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  know, especially with a show like this
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  that's really emotional and um, you
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  know, screaming, you're you're running,
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  you're this, that, and the third. Um,
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  >> it's it's impossible to not, you know,
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  have some kind of intensity when when
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  going through it. Um, and I feel like we
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  all take our job seriously, so we wanted
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  to deliver and put out a good product.
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  >> Um, which, you know, I feel like I feel
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  like we did. So, um, yeah, it's always a
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  level of seriousness when you actually
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  like step on the set and, you know,
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  everybody
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  >> watching.
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  And let me tell you something. Of
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  course, I knew that how great of an
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  actor you are, but the little piece that
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  I saw cuz look, I'm a punk. I can't
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  watch it. Sister Jar watches the whole
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  thing. I'm a punk so I had to watch like
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  little bits and pieces. I thought you
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  were absolutely amazing and I know no
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  problem. And I know that you're going to
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  go even further. However far that you
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  want to go, you're going to do it. So
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  I'm glad you got over that fear and you
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  were able to just tackle it and you know
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  and make a good impression on everybody.
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  So that is awesome. No problem.
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  >> Thank you.
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  actually because like
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  >> I don't know
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  >> with like how I
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  >> with just me as a person I don't know
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  I'm like overly critical like of myself
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  like really in everything but um with my
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  job
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  >> like I don't know I just I never ever
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  really feel like I I did good enough or
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  like I
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  >> actually did good on anything um so far
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  maybe down the road I'll you know feel
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  that way but I I just I don't know I
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  guess it might be like a competitive
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  spirit or just like always wanted to
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  overachieve and just, you know, do
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  better and better and better. Like I
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  don't even like watching myself. I hate
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  watching myself. I can't understand
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  that.
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  >> Like even like interviews and stuff like
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  I I can't do it. I don't know. I just
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  I'm like, "Dang, I should answer this."
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  Or if it's in a a film or something
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  like, "Dang, I should have done this
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  look instead or I should have focused in
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  more on that or a different inflection
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  on this one." Like I just it's it drives
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  me insane. Like I can't do it.
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  I know. I get that.
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  >> I get that totally because mo but you
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  know what? You're not alone because most
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  creative people, they're like that.
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  They're like that. I'm with you on It
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  took me a long time even with doing the
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  interviews that I do now. It took me a
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  long time to look at myself because I
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  was like, "Okay, I'm going to pick
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  myself apart. Like I should watch my
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  mouth curl up like this." You know what
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  I'm saying? [laughter]
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  >> So that I I think that's great. And
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  don't feel like you're alone in that.
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  You're a perfectionist. And there is
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  nothing wrong with that. That again
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  means that you care about yourself. You
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  care about your craft. So we ain't
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  judging you for that at all. So take it
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  easy on yourself.
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  >> Now
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  what I have to ask this because I know
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  everybody's gonna ask this. Hey, I see
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  [laughter]
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  >> Tuesday. How are you?
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  >> Hey, how are you?
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  >> I'm doing well. Thank you you guys. This
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  is Tuesday. This is Blake's mother, so
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  we're gonna make sure that we talk with
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  her as well. So,
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  I know everybody's going to ask me,
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  "What was the scariest moment on set?
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  >> I feel like from from person to person,
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  it probably varies, but for me
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  personally,
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  >> Uhhuh. I'm not going to lie. When when
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  Penny Wise jumped off the refrigerator
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  >> onto me that that was that was that was
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  >> like you was like, "Okay, I know this is
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  a film and all, but we put in firefight
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  mode in real life." Like dead serious
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  like just crazy. Yeah, that was that was
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  insane. Um, also in the sewers as well.
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  That was pretty frightening. Um, yeah, a
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  lot of moments especially on a show like
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  this, you're you're scared left and
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  right.
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  >> [clears throat]
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  >> Well, let's talk about something more
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  positive. What was it like working with
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  the the director Andy Machete? What was
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  that like for you?
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  >> You know what he
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  I like
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  seeing it seeing him work firsthand.
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  >> Mhm.
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  >> Seeing us work together firsthand like
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  it really made me like realize
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  why he was so
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  respected in the industry. M
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  >> like I I I trust my
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  myself when it comes to some when it
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  comes to the decisions I make like with
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  my character and with my line I feel
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  like I have with my lines I feel like I
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  have a pretty good judgment with it.
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  >> Mhm.
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  >> But he would like every time he would
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  give me a note it would be like
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  an epiphany or like a a revelation like
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  he would be like oh yeah that that was
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  great but like what if you tried to do
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  it this way or like what if what if you
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  did this instead? I'm just like,
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  >> "Yeah,
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  >> dang, that's way better." Like, that's
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  so much better. And
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  >> I don't know. I guess it it made me
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  realize that, you know, I have a lot to
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  learn still. And
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  >> he's just brilliant. He's he's just
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  genius. I've never really had a an
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  experience with somebody like working
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  with somebody that that made me feel
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  like that so many times and to such a
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  drastic effect. Like he is incredible. I
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  really really really hope we get to work
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  again. Um
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  >> a now Is there something in particular
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  that like maybe he left you with
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  something that you will never forget. Is
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  there something in particular like that?
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  >> Like a moment in particular?
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  >> Yeah. Or was it just all of it that you
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  just won't forget? None of it.
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  >> All of it. Honestly, like one thing that
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  is admirable with the show like Welcome
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  to Derry that is so intense and scary,
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  >> he made the sets in the days feel so
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  much fun. Like it was it didn't feel
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  like you were you were running away from
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  a killer clown. It felt like this is a
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  day job with like you know the best
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  people around like he he just he's so
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  incredible man. I love Mr. Andy for
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  sure.
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  >> Oh, that's so awesome. Now this question
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  is for the parents. What's What is it
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  like watching your son take direction
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  for somebody at that level? Any any one
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  of you guys can answer that question.
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  >> Um so I'll jump in. I would say
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  watching him take direction is you just
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  want to make sure that he captures
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  what the director is is wanting. So I'm
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  like, "Okay, I hope he nails it. Okay,
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  does he make this inflection change?
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  Does he make this look change? Does he
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  raise the eyebrow this way or that way?"
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  You know, does he actually capture what
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  it is that the director was trying to
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  convey? Um, so once I notice or realize
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  that he has done that, I kind of hold my
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  breath and then I'm like, "Okay, he did
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  it, you know." Um, because Mr. Andy,
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  he's one that he he's a perfectionist,
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  but in a good way, you know, um, if he
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  does it well and he feels like that
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  Blake can do it better, then he's going
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  to challenge him to do that. So um just
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  and it could be just the smallest minute
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  change you know it could be something so
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  small but it makes a big difference in
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  the overall um I guess goal that he's
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  trying to achieve for that particular
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  scene. So
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  >> So basically you guys were a bundle of
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  nerves over there. Were you guys just
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  nervous at when he was on set?
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  >> Sometimes I think it depended on on the
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  scene you know. Um
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  >> something really big that he was
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  involved in. Um, of course you want you
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  want your child to do well, you know,
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  and then you don't want them to have to
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  retape and reshoot over and over and
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  over and over again, you know, where
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  your child is the one holding things up,
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  you know, for hours and hours, which
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  that never happened thankfully. But, um,
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  it's a thought, you know, it's something
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  that, you know, um, that that comes to
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  mind. self. Now, let me ask you guys
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  personally, is it did you guys at some
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  point feel either one of you feel like
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  um
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  like this is a lot, you know what I
• 17:20
  mean? Like all the the the
• 17:24
  going to the set, staying gone for such
• 17:27
  a long time so that he can be in the
• 17:30
  set. And how did you guys a, you know,
• 17:32
  were able to be like, and you might have
• 17:34
  seen him like maybe he's tired and then,
• 17:37
  you know, those kind of things. How did
• 17:38
  you guys deal with that?
• 17:40
  >> Let you start with that one.
• 17:42
  >> Well, um, for me, the one thing that
• 17:46
  gave me comfort for him
• 17:49
  um, with this show and and just acting
• 17:51
  in general was his confidence level. U
• 17:56
  Blake has always been he's very critical
• 17:59
  as he mentioned he's a perfectionist but
• 18:02
  he's also really confident. So
• 18:06
  >> watching him work with Andy and being on
• 18:08
  set after I realized
• 18:10
  >> you know Andy was the coolest guy on the
• 18:13
  planet you know like
• 18:15
  >> he's just really smart and really good
• 18:16
  at what he does.
• 18:18
  >> Um and to make him feel comfortable I
• 18:22
  was okay with that. and and I started to
• 18:24
  see Blake um be Blake, you know, he
• 18:28
  Blake always,
• 18:30
  you know, he almost thinks like a
• 18:31
  director a lot of times, you know, he
• 18:33
  he's he sees things and he'll be like,
• 18:35
  "Mr. Andy, what if we did this or Mr.
• 18:37
  Andy?" You know, and so
• 18:40
  >> I was able to relax and say, "Okay, he's
• 18:41
  in his element now. He's he's he's in
• 18:44
  his groove." And so,
• 18:46
  >> um yes, it was a big deal.
• 18:49
  >> Um cuz it was a long shoot. you know, we
• 18:52
  had the strike go on. So, I think it end
• 18:54
  up lasting over a year,
• 18:56
  >> you know, uh, back and forth.
• 18:58
  >> And so, when you when you look at the
• 19:00
  time, it it's it can be a lot, but and I
• 19:03
  think for mo for normal kids, it may be
• 19:07
  too much. You know, I always tell
• 19:08
  people, you know, about getting in the
• 19:10
  industry, make sure your kid can
• 19:11
  mentally
• 19:12
  >> That's right.
• 19:13
  >> mentally handle this because it can be
• 19:15
  gruesome because it is work, you know. I
• 19:18
  mean, you see the glory side of it, but
• 19:20
  these kids put in a lot of hours. These
• 19:23
  kids worked a lot of hours and they
• 19:26
  worked hard and there was a standard
• 19:29
  that they had to meet, you know, and so
• 19:32
  that can be taxing on a on a child if
• 19:34
  they're if you don't watch them.
• 19:36
  >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, let me ask you, Blake,
• 19:39
  how did you feel? cuz I know they I mean
• 19:42
  they're watching you and everything, but
• 19:43
  I know you had some days when you were
• 19:45
  were tired as I don't know what. So tell
• 19:48
  us about some of those times.
• 19:52
  >> I mean, I don't even know where to
• 19:53
  begin, honestly. I mean, this is
• 19:55
  >> it's a lot. Like, it really is like
• 19:58
  >> I mean, I I was what, 12, 13 at the
• 20:01
  time, probably. Um, and that's a lot for
• 20:04
  a kid to do, you know, working so long
• 20:07
  and and and so hard for such an extended
• 20:10
  period of time when we were filming for
• 20:11
  a while. Um, so it's definitely it
• 20:14
  definitely comes with a lot. Um, but I
• 20:16
  know God give me more than I can handle.
• 20:19
  >> That's right.
• 20:20
  >> I mean, nothing's going to be easy.
• 20:23
  Like, if you if you want to actually
• 20:25
  like make an impact and change
• 20:27
  something, then nothing's going to be
• 20:29
  easy. Like, nothing. If you want to be
• 20:31
  successful, then nothing's gonna be
• 20:32
  easy.
• 20:33
  >> So, I feel like
• 20:35
  >> if you go into it with that with that
• 20:37
  mindset and you know, I mean, work is
• 20:42
  work. Like any job you have is going to
• 20:44
  be difficult as well.
• 20:46
  >> Yeah.
• 20:46
  >> And honestly, I'm blessed that that that
• 20:49
  that I have this one. So,
• 20:52
  >> I love that. I love that. Now, I'm going
• 20:55
  to go ahead and and and go backwards a
• 20:56
  little bit to we grown now. Is that
• 20:59
  okay?
• 21:02
  >> That's knowledge right there. That's
• 21:04
  fine.
• 21:05
  >> So
• 21:07
  Blake, I guess. Okay. Between We Grown
• 21:10
  Now and Welcome to Dairy, do you feel
• 21:11
  that you've grown as an actor?
• 21:15
  >> I do. I do. But like I said, I can never
• 21:19
  just appreciate myself like ever. I
• 21:22
  can't ever just be like, "Dang, Blake,
• 21:24
  you did good on this." I'm just like, I
• 21:25
  don't know. I can I can never just like
• 21:27
  give myself my flowers. But I do feel
• 21:29
  like from we growing out to welcome to
• 21:31
  dairy, I did improve, which is what you
• 21:33
  want to see. They were years apart. Um
• 21:36
  if if I didn't feel like I'd improve, I
• 21:38
  probably have some questions for myself.
• 21:40
  But [laughter]
• 21:41
  >> yeah. Yes, ma'am. I I do. I do.
• 21:45
  >> How about How about you guys? How about
• 21:46
  the parents? What changes have you
• 21:49
  noticed like just in the acting? not on
• 21:51
  on a personal on a personal level, but
• 21:54
  more so like in his acting. Do you feel
• 21:56
  he's grown a lot since since his first
• 21:58
  role?
• 22:00
  >> I do. Um I think when he first one of
• 22:04
  the first few days when he got on set um
• 22:07
  at We Grown Now um it was a pretty heavy
• 22:11
  scene and gosh he learned so much from
• 22:13
  Jouri and Mr. Pa um they were just
• 22:17
  amazing to just for him to glean from.
• 22:19
  Um but one of the f one of the first few
• 22:22
  days when Journey came on set, it was a
• 22:23
  really heavy scene. I think maybe a
• 22:25
  funeral scene. So, she was locked in.
• 22:27
  You know, she wasn't talking to anyone.
• 22:29
  She had her headphones in. She was
• 22:31
  literally just focused. And, you know, I
• 22:34
  saw Blake watching her, you know, and I
• 22:37
  think that he learned from that moment
• 22:39
  when I have heavy scenes that are going
• 22:42
  to require emotion and things of that
• 22:44
  nature for me to kind of have to focus
• 22:46
  on that I need to tune everything out. I
• 22:48
  need to block everything out and focus
• 22:50
  on my lines, how I want to deliver, um
• 22:54
  what do I want the audience to see. And
• 22:56
  and I feel like from that moment,
• 22:58
  something clicked in him. Um because he
• 23:00
  had done a Christmas movie prior to
• 23:02
  that. Um and that was a fun, it was a
• 23:04
  few emotional scenes in that, but I feel
• 23:06
  like um just from him being around
• 23:09
  Journey and just seeing her approach to
• 23:11
  the day,
• 23:12
  >> um I helped him significantly. So I can
• 23:15
  say that I feel like he's grown a lot
• 23:16
  since then. She's right about that.
• 23:18
  Honestly, I thought I kind of thought
• 23:20
  she was having a bad day like when she
• 23:23
  would
• 23:24
  >> when she would be like like locked in
• 23:26
  like that and really focused cuz like
• 23:27
  she wouldn't talk to anybody like she
• 23:29
  would have her headphones on like her
• 23:30
  music and just like really lock in on
• 23:32
  what she had to do.
• 23:34
  >> And I guess that's when I realized like
• 23:37
  this is genuinely an art craft an art
• 23:40
  form. This is like this is this is an
• 23:42
  art form and this is like
• 23:45
  true expression. So you like you have to
• 23:47
  like genuinely put your soul in it. Like
• 23:50
  you can't just
• 23:51
  >> like show up and not care. Like it it it
• 23:53
  matters. It has to matter to you. Like
• 23:55
  what you're doing, what you're
• 23:57
  delivering, it has to matter to you. You
• 23:59
  have to make it matter, you know? So
• 24:01
  >> I love it.
• 24:03
  >> I love that. I love that. Now, let's be
• 24:06
  real for a second with We Grow Now,
• 24:09
  Welcome to Dairy, the Christmas movie
• 24:12
  that you were in, people recognizing you
• 24:14
  everywhere now, and the and the girls.
• 24:17
  And the girls, let me tell you guys
• 24:18
  something. I have to say this. So,
• 24:22
  as you know, like I Tuesday, as I was
• 24:24
  telling them earlier that, you know,
• 24:26
  I've known of course Blake since he was
• 24:29
  young. So when we start posting him and
• 24:31
  then then we start posting stuff where
• 24:32
  we grown now, you know, in my head and
• 24:36
  I'm looking he's a boy. He's a little
• 24:38
  boy and this and that. Now I go on his
• 24:41
  Instagram page
• 24:44
  [laughter] and I'm saying he's so fine.
• 24:46
  He I said, "Oh my god." [laughter]
• 24:53
  >> I see it. You see it? [laughter]
• 24:58
  Oh, thank you embarrassing.
• 25:00
  >> I don't really have a comment.
• 25:02
  >> No, but how do you feel that? Not just
• 25:04
  that, but I just mean how do you feel
• 25:05
  that people are starting to recognize
• 25:07
  you now? Like when you go to the the
• 25:10
  store or anywhere else, how how does
• 25:12
  that feel for you?
• 25:15
  >> Surreal. Like I said, like it it's
• 25:18
  honestly a lot of this experience has
• 25:20
  been surreal, but like for somebody to
• 25:23
  genuinely and it's kind of scary too
• 25:26
  >> cuz like I'm really like aware person.
• 25:30
  Um like when I'm when I'm out and stuff
• 25:33
  like that and like I'm always kind of
• 25:34
  like always looking like not on guard
• 25:36
  cuz like you know but like just like you
• 25:39
  know aware just looking and and
• 25:41
  cognizant of everything that's going on.
• 25:44
  And still it'll be times that like
• 25:46
  people come up to me and I just didn't
• 25:48
  see them. And that for me is a little
• 25:50
  bit frightening because of like
• 25:53
  how how long have you seen me and I
• 25:55
  haven't seen you like I don't I don't
• 25:57
  it's it's a [laughter]
• 25:58
  >> but I mean I know most people have good
• 26:00
  intentions but even for the 1% that
• 26:03
  might not like
• 26:05
  >> what are you going to do? Like you know
• 26:07
  it's I don't know but
• 26:09
  >> I guess that's a that's a different you
• 26:10
  know whatever. But yes, for me on the
• 26:12
  other side, it has been really really
• 26:15
  cool and really really surreal like I
• 26:17
  said. Um,
• 26:18
  >> yeah,
• 26:19
  >> I mean uh yeah, it's a crazy position to
• 26:21
  be in. I'm so blessed.
• 26:22
  >> Well, how about how about the parents?
• 26:24
  How do you guys handle handle that now
• 26:27
  that you guys are seeing and people
• 26:28
  know, you know, know who he is now and
• 26:31
  all of that. How are you guys handling
• 26:33
  all of that?
• 26:35
  It's um for me it's still taking some
• 26:38
  getting used to um because
• 26:42
  >> as I said earlier to us he's Blake our
• 26:45
  son
• 26:46
  um but we you know pretty much
• 26:51
  anywhere we go around here you know
• 26:53
  we're going to have some type of
• 26:55
  encounter and so it still catches me off
• 26:58
  guard you know and they're like you know
• 27:01
  and it went from you know from his other
• 27:04
  projects like are you Blake to now it's
• 27:07
  like you're Blake you're Blake hey hey
• 27:09
  Blake you know so it's like they know
• 27:11
  who he is like
• 27:13
  >> can't wear beanies anymore cuz he got so
• 27:15
  many pictures with beanies so that don't
• 27:17
  work you know so it's like
• 27:19
  >> low key though I don't think I'll ever
• 27:21
  well I kind of am but like with the like
• 27:25
  people like celebrities I don't whatever
• 27:28
  but with the people that don't like
• 27:30
  repeat fits and stuff like that maybe
• 27:32
  I'll get there one day But you you don't
• 27:34
  see me in a particular
• 27:38
  multiple times.
• 27:40
  >> Yeah.
• 27:41
  >> So,
• 27:42
  >> but back to what you were saying.
• 27:44
  >> Okay. So, when you're not acting, Blake,
• 27:46
  and this is I want people to know who
• 27:48
  you are because most people just see
• 27:50
  what they see, you know? So,
• 27:54
  when you're not acting,
• 27:57
  what's what is Blake like? What is What
• 28:00
  does he do? Do you do what do you do for
• 28:03
  fun? I guess I should say.
• 28:05
  >> Thank you for asking that. Yeah, that
• 28:06
  was that was a great question right
• 28:07
  there. Thank you. Um I like video games.
• 28:10
  >> No, you love video games.
• 28:11
  >> Okay. Yeah, what she said. I love video
• 28:13
  games. Lately, I've been on 2K a lot. I
• 28:16
  don't even know how many builds I have
• 28:17
  at this point. They're just taking my
• 28:20
  money. I need to be better with that.
• 28:21
  But um
• 28:24
  uh yeah, NCAA, I mean, Fortnite
• 28:26
  sometimes. Like I kind of play
• 28:28
  everything. Um, basketball. I love to
• 28:31
  hoop. I need to go hoop soon. Um,
• 28:34
  guitar. I've been learning guitar. I
• 28:36
  actually might do like a guitar video
• 28:38
  sometime soon on like TikTok or
• 28:39
  something like that.
• 28:41
  >> Oh, you play.
• 28:44
  >> You can. Okay. Little little bit. A
• 28:46
  little something.
• 28:47
  >> I'm like fresh learning. Like I can't
• 28:49
  even switch chords and stuff like that
• 28:50
  fast, but I'm getting there. I'm getting
• 28:52
  there. I promise. Um.
• 28:53
  >> Okay.
• 28:54
  >> Uh, music. I can talk about music. I can
• 28:57
  literally talk about music for hours.
• 28:59
  Like I Yeah, I want to do something
• 29:01
  where I can talk about records. I like
• 29:03
  collective vinyls. Music is so so
• 29:05
  important to me. So important to me. Um
• 29:08
  >> yeah, those are a few of my interests.
• 29:09
  Thanks. Thanks for asking. It's great.
• 29:11
  >> No [clears throat] problem. No. How
• 29:12
  important is it for you guys to to make
• 29:16
  sure because that industry can swallow
• 29:18
  you up. So how important is it for you
• 29:21
  guys to make sure that he stays grounded
• 29:24
  and he stays his age? if you if you
• 29:27
  understand what I'm saying. How
• 29:29
  important to you guys is that for you?
• 29:32
  >> Um well, for um I'll say this um
• 29:36
  what Blake makes it easy um
• 29:40
  because he's naturally a humble person.
• 29:44
  >> So, um the success and the fame has not
• 29:48
  gotten to his head. Um you know, but if
• 29:52
  it did, I'll be there with the needle to
• 29:54
  pop it, you know. Um, but he's always
• 29:57
  been kind of like, you know,
• 30:00
  >> he knows how he wants to treat people
• 30:02
  because he knows how he wanted to be
• 30:04
  treated when he looked up to certain
• 30:06
  people.
• 30:08
  >> And so he's had good encounters and bad
• 30:10
  encounters with people that he looked up
• 30:12
  to. So he's always told us that he don't
• 30:15
  want to be that person,
• 30:16
  >> you know. So, um, I think that's for me.
• 30:20
  He's been doing really well in in that
• 30:22
  department. I can say. Um, so for us, I
• 30:26
  haven't had really any concerns there
• 30:29
  because he's been the same old Blake.
• 30:33
  >> Blake has always been really
• 30:37
  simple from a standpoint that he doesn't
• 30:39
  ask for much. So whenever he does ask us
• 30:44
  to do something or for something,
• 30:46
  >> we normally, you know, I don't want to
• 30:48
  say give in, but we normally just say
• 30:50
  yes because, you know, Blake is content
• 30:53
  playing his video game and just hanging
• 30:55
  out with his friends that he's had since
• 30:58
  elementary school, you know, great
• 31:00
  weekend for him. So, um, he doesn't ask
• 31:03
  to do much. So, he hasn't made it hard
• 31:05
  to, you know, to stay grounded. He's
• 31:08
  he's been that. He is that. So, um,
• 31:10
  that's a blessing. But like said, if
• 31:12
  that were to change, we're right there,
• 31:14
  you know, to make sure we bring them
• 31:16
  back. And, you know, we we still go to
• 31:18
  church pretty much every Sunday together
• 31:19
  as a family. We try to keep our same
• 31:22
  routine that we've always done. Um, so
• 31:24
  that, you know, no changes are just kind
• 31:27
  of drastic and, you know, he start going
• 31:29
  going to the left, to the right. We want
• 31:31
  to kind of stay centered. And
• 31:32
  >> yeah.
• 31:33
  >> Well, and honestly, I feel like it's
• 31:37
  cool and good to be confident, but it's
• 31:38
  a different from confidence and
• 31:40
  arrogance. And [clears throat] once you
• 31:42
  once you start getting to the to the to
• 31:46
  the side where you like need to be
• 31:47
  humble and arrogant or cocky, like God
• 31:51
  can or prideful, God can and will take
• 31:54
  take it away from you.
• 31:55
  >> Yeah. So,
• 31:58
  >> I don't know. God God has really like
• 32:02
  shaped me as a person now. Not cuz like
• 32:07
  when you're younger you you you know you
• 32:09
  kind of just follow whatever your
• 32:11
  parents say or
• 32:12
  >> right
• 32:13
  >> you know whatever people think you
• 32:14
  should do but there's a point in time
• 32:16
  where
• 32:17
  >> you know your parents aren't always
• 32:18
  monitoring you and it and it really is
• 32:21
  just like an integrity thing like it's
• 32:24
  just like it is just you and God. So,
• 32:26
  are you going to do this like because
• 32:29
  your parents are looking or are you
• 32:30
  going to do this like because it hurts
• 32:32
  God's heart? Like, you know, I don't
• 32:33
  know. That's kind of a different combo,
• 32:35
  but like
• 32:36
  >> No, but it's an important combo. So, I'm
• 32:38
  I'm glad you said that. I love that.
• 32:41
  That That shows you you guys had great
• 32:43
  parenting. Great parenting. And you're
• 32:46
  such an amazing young man. That is so
• 32:48
  awesome. Now, I do have to ask you about
• 32:50
  your dreams.
• 32:52
  dreams beyond welcome to dairy and
• 32:56
  [laughter] now and all of that. Now, if
• 32:59
  you you can answer either one of these
• 33:01
  questions. If you work with an act uh if
• 33:03
  you could work with an actor,
• 33:06
  >> who would it be? Or what's your dream
• 33:08
  role? One or the other.
• 33:10
  >> Thank you. Thank you for asking. This is
• 33:11
  always great. My favorite actor is Dam
• 33:15
  Idris. Um
• 33:17
  well known for his role in uh in
• 33:20
  Snowfall's Franklin Saint. Mhm.
• 33:22
  >> Man, I tell you, he that watching that
• 33:25
  show literally like gave me a new
• 33:27
  passion for acting and a new passion for
• 33:31
  my job. Like genuinely. Um
• 33:33
  [clears throat]
• 33:34
  he he just made me like want to go get
• 33:37
  it. Like he made me like like
• 33:40
  I don't know. I can't even explain it
• 33:42
  all because I mean I've already been
• 33:43
  talking a lot, but like I don't know.
• 33:45
  He's he he Yeah. He's he's the one for
• 33:47
  me. Also, um Mr. Denzo Washington. Um,
• 33:54
  >> of course, like who doesn't want to want
• 33:55
  to work with him? Um, join us all. I
• 33:58
  mean, yeah, that I I want to work with
• 34:02
  Tim with Mr. Timothy Shaomi as well.
• 34:04
  >> Um, he's really inspired me. I think
• 34:07
  he's
• 34:08
  he's um
• 34:11
  revolutionizing
• 34:14
  the art of acting. Me personally,
• 34:17
  >> um, by him, Mr. Damners, man. I want to
• 34:20
  work with them so bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:23
  And then um Dream Roll.
• 34:25
  >> Yeah.
• 34:26
  >> I've seen a lot of people talk about
• 34:29
  Miles Morales um and that that
• 34:32
  possibility. And I've also seen like
• 34:34
  people saying how like he should be
• 34:38
  mixed with with um Puerto Rican and
• 34:40
  Black cuz I'm pretty sure in the show he
• 34:42
  I mean in the movie of course he's
• 34:44
  Puerto Rican and black. Um,
• 34:46
  >> and it's kind of funny because that's
• 34:48
  what I'm mixed with. I'm Puerto Rican
• 34:49
  black as well.
• 34:51
  >> Like my
• 34:52
  >> what is it? Grandma's dad. She's
• 34:54
  >> he's 100% Puerto Rican. So
• 34:58
  >> it's it's it's crazy. So that that would
• 35:00
  definitely be a dream for sure. That
• 35:03
  would be crazy. That would be that would
• 35:04
  be absurd.
• 35:05
  >> That's awesome because I was going to
• 35:07
  ask you about that because I've been
• 35:08
  seeing that all over the internet.
• 35:13
  I even saw somebody like edit me in a
• 35:15
  Spider-Man suit. That was so tough. So
• 35:18
  >> I bet he was like [laughter]
• 35:23
  >> now when you saw that and you actually
• 35:25
  seen like, you know, so it's one thing
• 35:27
  for somebody to say, "Yeah, he should
• 35:28
  play this and play that." But they
• 35:30
  actually did the character of you being
• 35:33
  that that character. How did that feel?
• 35:36
  >> I think about that a lot. like not just
• 35:39
  that in in particular, but like the AI
• 35:43
  stuff as well and like people like
• 35:45
  editing you on things. I'm like, dang,
• 35:47
  that's me and they actually took time
• 35:49
  out of their day to like go and do
• 35:51
  something like that. Like that is just
• 35:52
  crazy to me. It blows my mind.
• 35:54
  >> Yeah.
• 35:55
  >> Makes me feel special, man. It does.
• 35:57
  >> Oh, that's because you are swe. Now,
• 36:00
  what advice I I want to ask the parents.
• 36:02
  I asked the parents and I want to ask
• 36:04
  Blake at the same time. I mean, you
• 36:06
  know, afterwards. What advice would you
• 36:08
  give parents navigating in the
• 36:11
  entertainment industry with their with
• 36:13
  their kids? Because we get a lot of, you
• 36:15
  know, because of the agency, we get a
• 36:16
  lot of uh parents that are managers and
• 36:20
  sometimes they don't know exactly what
• 36:24
  it is to be a manager. And because you
• 36:28
  guys are in a in a certain way right
• 36:31
  now, you you got it firsthand. You know
• 36:33
  what it's like. So, if you had any
• 36:36
  advice, what would you what would you
• 36:37
  give?
• 36:41
  >> Um,
• 36:43
  I would say for them to make sure that
• 36:47
  this is something that their child
• 36:49
  really wants to do and not something
• 36:52
  that they want for their child because
• 36:55
  Demia, as you know,
• 36:57
  >> um, you get a lot of nos before you get
• 36:59
  a lot of yeses. Yes. Um, and that's what
• 37:01
  I tell people all the time because
• 37:03
  people think that, you know, we have
• 37:05
  this magic wand and we can just make
• 37:07
  their child an actor because Blake
• 37:10
  started so young. And they're like, tell
• 37:12
  me how to get in. Tell me what to do.
• 37:14
  And I'm like, you know,
• 37:16
  it really was just I don't have a
• 37:19
  formula for it. You know, it kind of
• 37:21
  just happened. Um, we had kind of
• 37:24
  expressed some interest and um, Blake
• 37:27
  could sing and just so happened for the
• 37:30
  movie The Sound of Christmas, they
• 37:32
  needed a young boy who could sing and it
• 37:35
  was fast quick notice and Jared sent
• 37:38
  something and she was like, "Hey, I need
• 37:39
  Blake to sing a Christmas Carol." So,
• 37:41
  we're like, "Okay,
• 37:43
  so
• 37:45
  we video that. We sent it." He She was
• 37:47
  like, "Can you do one more? They like
• 37:48
  it." So, I was like, "Okay, yeah, sing
• 37:50
  something else." But, you know, you get
• 37:52
  a lot of nos and your child has to have
• 37:56
  thick skin because it can devastate them
• 37:59
  if they feel like they're not good
• 38:02
  enough and it could affect their
• 38:03
  self-esteem, you know. So, um you just
• 38:06
  have to make sure that you can keep your
• 38:08
  emotions in check as well as the parent
• 38:11
  when they are told no or when they are,
• 38:13
  you know, passed over a role because
• 38:15
  their hair is different or their eye
• 38:16
  color is different than what the parent
• 38:18
  is in the show and they're trying to get
• 38:20
  a Look, I mean that's happened, you
• 38:22
  know, a few times. So, um
• 38:25
  >> I would say just to make sure it's
• 38:27
  something that the child really wants to
• 38:29
  do and that the child um has thick skin.
• 38:32
  Honestly, that's my take.
• 38:35
  >> Okay. Well, you have anything um
• 38:38
  Cameron? No, I was just going to say
• 38:40
  that I I do um to piggy back off what
• 38:43
  what she says, I really feel like um
• 38:46
  it's it's your parents job to to to know
• 38:48
  your child and know what they can and
• 38:51
  cannot handle.
• 38:52
  >> It's true.
• 38:52
  >> Uh like I we have two boys, but they're
• 38:56
  polar opposites.
• 38:57
  >> Yeah.
• 38:58
  >> So I wouldn't try to put my oldest in
• 39:00
  this industry. It's a different animal.
• 39:03
  >> So and I wouldn't try to put him in his
• 39:06
  industry. So you have to know that your
• 39:10
  child can mentally take this you know
• 39:13
  because um it what's more important your
• 39:16
  child or or your child's career you know
• 39:19
  acting career. So at the end of the day
• 39:21
  I see a lot of parents that
• 39:23
  >> to our point to try to push their child
• 39:26
  into something that I don't I'm not sure
• 39:28
  that they even know at this point. You
• 39:30
  know Blake was um we're a sports family
• 39:33
  so Blake was um he's an athlete. He
• 39:36
  plays basketball and football and he's
• 39:38
  he's really good at it,
• 39:39
  >> but he had to give that up
• 39:42
  >> to follow his dream. This was
• 39:45
  >> slightly more important to him. This was
• 39:48
  but we let him make that choice as to
• 39:50
  what he want do and because of that now
• 39:53
  we don't have any regrets or we we move
• 39:56
  any differently because this is
• 39:57
  something he wanted to do.
• 39:59
  >> And so uh for us
• 40:02
  >> we have peace in knowing even when it
• 40:03
  gets hard this is his choice. this is
• 40:06
  what he wants to do. He know he can
• 40:07
  always we can always revisit if
• 40:10
  something changes but right now you know
• 40:13
  he loves to do this and so he know we we
• 40:16
  firm believe is hey your gift will make
• 40:18
  room for you and bring you before great
• 40:20
  men and it that's what acting has done
• 40:23
  for him you know is really open up doors
• 40:26
  so we don't we don't have a blueprint
• 40:28
  for
• 40:29
  you know success in acting all we can
• 40:31
  tell you is that you know hey know your
• 40:33
  child know what um know your purpose and
• 40:36
  and trying to help your children
• 40:37
  navigate through all of that.
• 40:39
  >> I love that. Now, Blake, how about you?
• 40:42
  That's okay. How about you? What advice
• 40:44
  would you give to someone your age or or
• 40:47
  or younger, I don't know, that's has
• 40:50
  dreams of acting?
• 40:53
  >> I would say that
• 40:57
  the sacrifice is probably going to be
• 40:59
  bigger than you realize. M
• 41:01
  >> um I know for me it it it it was like
• 41:06
  just dealing with things that you just
• 41:08
  never would even thought of. Like when
• 41:10
  you when you think of something like
• 41:12
  this that just never would have even
• 41:13
  crossed your mind, you're like, "Dang,
• 41:14
  this sucks too." But also like don't
• 41:19
  feel forced to do it as well. Like
• 41:23
  and and don't really well I say don't
• 41:26
  feel the pressure, but that's that's
• 41:27
  kind of easier said than done. And I I
• 41:30
  still kind of feel pressure with stuff
• 41:32
  sometimes, but
• 41:35
  for me personally, like this is what I
• 41:38
  want to do. Like this is what I want to
• 41:42
  achieve greatness in and this is what I
• 41:43
  want to leave my legacy in. And you
• 41:46
  know, this is this is this is this is it
• 41:48
  for me. But
• 41:49
  >> yeah,
• 41:52
  >> if somebody just wants to do it casually
• 41:54
  or just do it for fun or just do it for
• 41:57
  this reason because, you know, just
• 41:59
  because they like it or just to like try
• 42:00
  like that's cool. It doesn't have to be
• 42:03
  like all in or all nothing. Like it's
• 42:05
  it's up to you in your brain and make
• 42:07
  sure like you're healthy with it like
• 42:10
  with the decision that you make. Like if
• 42:13
  you want to stop, but you feel like
• 42:16
  pressured to keep going,
• 42:19
  just just just maybe take a break or
• 42:22
  something like that cuz you don't ever
• 42:23
  want it to affect you mentally to the
• 42:25
  point where
• 42:27
  >> you're burned out or you're just like
• 42:29
  you have resentment towards acting
• 42:31
  itself or you know, you have resentment
• 42:34
  towards the people that that forced you
• 42:35
  to be in it. Like you know, you just
• 42:36
  want to have a healthy balance with it,
• 42:38
  you know.
• 42:39
  >> Yeah. Yeah. Now,
• 42:43
  I'd ask you guys some serious stuff.
• 42:46
  Now, we gonna have a little bit of fun.
• 42:48
  That's not all serious. Now, [laughter]
• 42:51
  in my on my show, I always I'm a old
• 42:55
  school lover of m music. Okay.
• 42:59
  >> Okay. So, [clears throat] I always ask
• 43:01
  my guests, is it Tuesday? So, I always
• 43:04
  ask my guests uh different things about
• 43:07
  old school. So, we're gonna play a short
• 43:09
  little game. Now, I would imagine if
• 43:11
  Tuesday is is the person that always has
• 43:14
  a lot of old school. She plays music.
• 43:16
  So, I would imagine that Blake knows
• 43:18
  some of this some of the music that that
• 43:21
  Right.
• 43:22
  >> Maybe maybe.
• 43:23
  >> Okay. So, we'll do it
• 43:24
  >> slightly before my time. Slightly.
• 43:26
  >> Oh, I'm sure it's before your time. But
• 43:28
  if you were anything like me, my
• 43:30
  parents, well, my mother played a lot of
• 43:34
  music and people can't even believe some
• 43:37
  of the stuff that I remember from her
• 43:39
  playing. Yeah. So, we're going to play a
• 43:42
  little game and I'm going to It's old
• 43:45
  school, but it's not too old school.
• 43:47
  It's maybe like early 2000s. Okay.
• 43:51
  >> Okay.
• 43:53
  [laughter]
• 43:54
  And look, I wanted to make sure that
• 43:56
  that Blake might be able to to to
• 43:58
  [laughter]
• 44:01
  Okay. So, I'mma sing a little bit of the
• 44:04
  song and you guys got to finish the
• 44:06
  line. Okay. You ain't got to sing it all
• 44:08
  now. Just Just finish the line for me.
• 44:10
  Is that cool?
• 44:12
  >> Okay. All right.
• 44:14
  The first one. I love
• 44:18
  the way
• 44:21
  you kiss me.
• 44:26
  >> I know that one,
• 44:30
  man. You put me on that.
• 44:33
  That's far.
• 44:36
  >> Okay, the next one.
• 44:41
  >> Yeah, I was just listening to this.
• 44:44
  Yeah. I want to know your name.
• 44:49
  Can we talk
• 44:52
  >> for a minute?
• 44:54
  >> Yeah.
• 44:58
  I'm two for two. We're two for two.
• 45:00
  We're two for two.
• 45:00
  >> We're two for two. Okay.
• 45:03
  >> This is the last one. You don't have to
• 45:06
  call.
• 45:08
  It's okay, girl.
• 45:14
  Yeah.
• 45:16
  >> You don't have to come.
• 45:19
  Awesome. Awesome. So, it's Ursa, baby.
• 45:22
  [laughter]
• 45:24
  >> See, I knew you would know some of this.
• 45:26
  Okay, real quickly. Old school artist.
• 45:29
  Who's your favorite?
• 45:32
  Anybody go first?
• 45:33
  >> Classify old school.
• 45:35
  >> Whatever you consider as old school,
• 45:38
  >> man. Okay. We if we talking '9s R&B,
• 45:42
  Joe's my guy. Joe's my guy.
• 45:45
  >> Okay. Love it. Love it. Okay. How about
• 45:48
  you, Tuesday?
• 45:49
  >> I probably gotta go with Auntie Anita.
• 45:51
  Anita Baker. That's my girl.
• 45:54
  >> That's my girl. [laughter]
• 45:57
  >> Okay, Blake, what you got?
• 45:59
  >> I'mma be honest.
• 46:01
  >> Yeah,
• 46:02
  >> I'm not too on old school. I mean, me,
• 46:05
  you'll catch me bumping like Rod Wave,
• 46:07
  you know? That's my favorite artist. But
• 46:10
  >> I would say New Edition
• 46:13
  >> would be my favorite
• 46:15
  >> old school. Yeah, that that
• 46:17
  >> Michael too, right?
• 46:21
  >> Michael Jackson.
• 46:23
  >> Why do I feel like he's underrated?
• 46:26
  >> Like in today's time, why do I feel like
• 46:27
  he's underrated? I can, like I told you,
• 46:29
  I can go on a tangent when it comes to
• 46:31
  music.
• 46:32
  >> Michael is genuinely fire. Like even
• 46:34
  now, his music hold All right, I'mma
• 46:36
  chill.
• 46:38
  Why? Michael Jackson is Yeah, he's one
• 46:40
  of the ones for sure.
• 46:41
  >> I love it. I love it. See, I knew you
• 46:43
  guys raised him, right?
• 46:49
  >> Hey, guys. So, I'm gonna let Blake and
• 46:51
  his family get back to whatever they
• 46:54
  were doing, relaxing, chilling, doing
• 46:57
  your work, whatever it is. Um, any shout
• 47:00
  outs you guys want to do before we go?
• 47:04
  >> Shout out to our other son, Chase. He
• 47:06
  >> Hey, Chase.
• 47:09
  >> My boy. Yeah, he's working hard.
• 47:11
  >> Doing great things.
• 47:13
  >> Awesome. Awesome. And of course, I want
• 47:16
  to give a special shout out to my sister
• 47:18
  Jar Avery over at the Avery Agency. Hey,
• 47:20
  >> J.
• 47:23
  >> All right. And look, you guys, thank you
• 47:25
  so much for joining me today. Blake, we
• 47:28
  wish you so much in with your career and
• 47:31
  in your personal life. We just
• 47:33
  absolutely adore you. So,
• 47:38
  we wish all of you guys just just love,
• 47:42
  happiness, and of course, success. And
• 47:45
  we are out of here, guys. We'll talk to
• 47:47
  you later. All right. Bye-bye.
• 47:48
  >> Talk to you later, Dia. Thank you for
• 47:50
  having me.