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Mini Episode: Tamera Mowry Housley · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Got Hallmark, a Hallmark Review podcast. In
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  Speaker 1: today's mini episode, we're talking to Tamara Mowry-Housley, the star
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  Speaker 1: of the upcoming Haunted Harmony Mysteries Prelude to a Wedding,
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  Speaker 1: premiering on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, September 5th, and available
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  Speaker 1: to stream on Hallmark Plus on Sunday, September 6th. Give
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  Speaker 1: our interview a listen, and of course, we'll be back
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  Speaker 1: next week with our review of Prelude to a Wedding.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I've seen the newest movie. I loved
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  Speaker 1: it so much. Let's start with the character of Gethsemane.
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  Speaker 1: And you picked up the violin for this role.
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  Speaker 2: What was the process like?
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  Speaker 3: So, Megan, a little bit about me.
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  Speaker 2: I am type A. Yes. Never met a challenge you
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  Speaker 2: didn't like?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And when I did the first one, I remember.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's this line where she's telling her students,
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  Speaker 3: all right, let's start with, you know, the sounds, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just the note like E, you know, and.
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  Speaker 2: I had to sing it.
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  Speaker 3: It was so scratchy when I did. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: this is bad. This is this is really bad. The producer,
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  Speaker 3: Joel Rice, who I just absolutely love, he was like,
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  Speaker 3: you want to do like violin lessons?
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're going to do more than one. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, yes, absolutely. I want to do her proud.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want her to look like she doesn't know
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  Speaker 3: what she's doing. And he was like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: playing the violin is one of the most challenging instruments.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, all right, let's go. Let's go. To me,
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark has been a place where I can continue to learn,
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  Speaker 3: grow as a person and an actress. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for that. They've given me so many
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  Speaker 3: opportunities to keep doing that. And, you know, I took
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  Speaker 3: a hiatus from acting to be a talk show host
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  Speaker 3: for seven years. And it's just been a wonderful place,
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  Speaker 3: a safe, you know, place to continue to do that.
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  Speaker 3: So when I had the chance to learn the violin,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, let's go for it.
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  Speaker 2: And now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually, I can play songs pretty well. In the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the wedding song, that's me. I'm actually playing it.
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  Speaker 3: And you can see I've got the posture.
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  Speaker 2: It's so much better than when I did the first one.
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  Speaker 2: I do give myself grace.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard from people about that? People who are violinists?
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  Speaker 1: Have you gotten feedback?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 2: No. But I'm open to it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I know I can watch something and be like, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, we've set up a love triangle in these movies,
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  Speaker 1: and I need to know from you, Tamara, looking at
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  Speaker 1: the character of Gethsemane, if you had, like, who are
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  Speaker 1: you rooting for?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? Where's the love connection? I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I'm going to get in trouble, Megan, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to give you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this is the thing. I, at first, was.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh, I'm Team Griff. I am Team Griff all
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  Speaker 3: the way. He is, you know, I feel like we're
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  Speaker 3: the same. He's a teacher, you know, even though he's
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  Speaker 3: a math teacher.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a music teacher. You know, he works just right
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  Speaker 2: across the hall. He cooks for me. He's so gorgeous.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like, it's a no-brainer. But then I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this truly happens. When I am filming, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I am totally like, I'm team Griff now. I do
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  Speaker 3: love in the fourth one, because in the beginning, it's
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  Speaker 3: an extremely slow burn.
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  Speaker 2: It buried, yes. Okay, what's going to happen? Whereas in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth one, Griff really gets a chance to shine.
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  Speaker 3: And finally.
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  Speaker 2: Finally. And he's so handsome.
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  Speaker 3: And when they have that piano scene and he's, science
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  Speaker 3: meets poetry.
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  Speaker 2: You're just like. Like literally I was shaking in my
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  Speaker 2: boots when we were shooting it.
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  Speaker 3: Because he's just so sweet and so talented and so gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: I was like team Griff all the way. Team Griff.
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  Speaker 2: Team Griff. But then something.
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  Speaker 3: Surprising happened with Detective O'Reilly. What I like about Detective O'Reilly,
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  Speaker 3: there's this scene without giving too much away where she
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  Speaker 3: meets him and she's like, you know, this EpiPen situation.
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  Speaker 3: I want. It was kind of like a flirtatious banter,
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  Speaker 3: you know, back and forth. I think he excites.
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  Speaker 2: Her in a way that Griff doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: And he's, not to say that Griff isn't intelligent, he's
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  Speaker 3: a math teacher, but there's something rugged and hot and
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  Speaker 3: different about Detective O'Reilly.
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  Speaker 2: Like, he will beat somebody up.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: For Gethsemane, you know? And Megan, that's hot. I don't
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  Speaker 2: disagree with you. So, I don't know. What do you
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  Speaker 2: think as a viewer? Like, which one? Well, we've gone
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  Speaker 2: back and forth. I do have to agree.
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  Speaker 3: Look.
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  Speaker 2: Marco Grazzini could not be more handsome. So it's hard
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  Speaker 2: not to root for him.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: But I hear what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little more grit to Inspector O'Reilly and there's
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  Speaker 1: something attractive about that.
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  Speaker 2: Marco.
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  Speaker 3: Marco.
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  Speaker 1: Griff almost seems like I wanted him to play a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Not hard to get, but it was clear
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  Speaker 1: that he's all in. And with Inspector O'Reilly, there's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of the push and pull because Gethsemane kind
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  Speaker 1: of is, you know, stepping on his toes.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So they've got that balance. So I'm very curious to
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  Speaker 2: see where it goes. I know. I am too.
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  Speaker 3: But, you know, we may, if it continues, I think
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  Speaker 3: it would be cool to throw in a little third. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, meaning like maybe an X comes back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it forces one of them to make a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more of a move.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but I think it's time for her to make
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  Speaker 3: a move.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I think I want to see now a beautiful, budding
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  Speaker 3: romance and how she does with that. And again, with
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  Speaker 3: Detective O'Reilly... He can show her around Ireland, places he's
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  Speaker 3: never seen before.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe in more ways than one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, we love Gethsemane and Amon's chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: And Wendy and I often say how much we would
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  Speaker 1: love a Ghost Whisperer-style series, like a television series with
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  Speaker 1: those two.
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  Speaker 2: I just think there's so much fun we could have there.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: In this movie, we had a new director, some new writers.
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  Speaker 1: What was that like on set? How was that difference
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  Speaker 1: felt with you guys?
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  Speaker 3: That's a very good question because especially when you're used
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  Speaker 3: to familiarity, and L.L. is one of my favorite directors.
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  Speaker 3: She's actually directing the Christmas film that I'm doing with– Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just say that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I have to say. You could have had
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  Speaker 2: worse co-stars, right?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: He's... I have no words. He's just scrumptious. He is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: But having a different director and a different writer, you're like, oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like, how is this one going to be?
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  Speaker 2: Because the first three, they had the same.
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  Speaker 2: How do I say this? It's like, you know they
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  Speaker 2: are of the same... you know, mystery.
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  Speaker 3: So you're thinking, okay, a new person, are they going
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  Speaker 3: to give us that same vibe that works so well?
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  Speaker 3: And plus with LL, you know, we've been working so
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  Speaker 3: much together. We have a second hand. It's like a shorthand. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: She knows exactly what to say to get me there.
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  Speaker 3: But Allie, there's also something beautiful about having someone new.
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  Speaker 3: They give you a new spin on it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: a new... Fresh eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Fresh eyes. A new perspective.
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  Speaker 3: You took the word right out of my mouth. That's
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  Speaker 3: beautifully stated.
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  Speaker 2: A new perspective.
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  Speaker 3: And I think with this one, this is what I
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  Speaker 3: will say, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts as well.
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  Speaker 3: I love that how each one can stand on their own, right?
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  Speaker 3: Each one is individually like the same, but different. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the first one, the novelty of Ireland. Second one is
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more banter. You know, it's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more joyful, I would say.
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  Speaker 2: There's lots of joy. The captain.
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  Speaker 3: The third one, the castle. I feel like you had
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  Speaker 3: lots of suspects there. That was pretty cool. Where this one,
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  Speaker 3: it kind of just stays in one place. And staying
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  Speaker 3: in one place, to me, feels more like a mystery.
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  Speaker 3: It's more like … You know, Clue.
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  Speaker 2: Like Clue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's all in the same thing. Locked room. Locked in
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  Speaker 2: a room. Someone did it.
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  Speaker 3: Which one? Who? And I thought visually, even though you
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  Speaker 3: didn't see lots of Irish landscape as much as you
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  Speaker 3: would see in the other ones, it was beautifully shot. Yes. Like,
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  Speaker 3: the lighting.
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  Speaker 2: You can see Gethsemane too.
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  Speaker 3: What I loved about her character in this one, she's
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  Speaker 3: a lot more, I would say... Like, not grounded, but, like,
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  Speaker 3: she's confident. She knows where she is. Like, she knows
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  Speaker 3: what she does. And she knows she's good at it.
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  Speaker 3: She's still going to have fun with it. She doesn't
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  Speaker 3: know these people, but she's going to pretend like she does.
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  Speaker 3: And she's going to make sure.
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  Speaker 2: She gets in there and ask, you know, questions. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it just felt slightly different. It felt a little,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's just me, but it felt
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  Speaker 2: a little eerie.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Like, just, like, I think because I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at the lighting, you know, cinematography and And the
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  Speaker 3: fact that this person died and everyone is amongst the killer,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like, and you just don't know who, who
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this has been so fun.
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  Speaker 1: I could talk to you forever, but thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for your time.
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  Speaker 2: And hopefully we can chat soon.
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