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Jake Johnson & Mary Steenburgen · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Fun with Mario Lopez seberl Morio Lopez joining me right
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  Speaker 1: now from the Apple TV news sports comedy The Dink,
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  Speaker 1: Jake Johnson, Mary Steen Bergen, How are you guys, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm well. Congrats on the new film It Looks So Funny,
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  Speaker 1: a sports comedy about pickleball, produced by Ben Stiller. Coincidentally,
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  Speaker 1: I just put a pickleball court in my backyard, so
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  Speaker 1: much for yeah, Hey, come on, we have parties.
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  Speaker 2: Great thing about pickleball.
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  Speaker 1: Kids could play, my parents can play, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a phenomenon. So it's great timing. What's the
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  Speaker 1: what's the premise of the movie.
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  Speaker 3: It's about a former kid who is a little tennis prodigy.
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  Speaker 3: My character is dad played by Ed Harris. Wanted me
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  Speaker 3: to be the best. When I was seventeen, I faced
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  Speaker 3: a young Andy Roddick and he beat me. Kind of
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  Speaker 3: fell off. My father runs a tennis club in Alta Dino,
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  Speaker 3: La Canada area. Courts are coming up. They want more
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  Speaker 3: of the space. Ed Harris hates that and wants to
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  Speaker 3: take him down, so he sets up a duel for
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  Speaker 3: a tennis match, and the winner of that gets the courts,
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  Speaker 3: and my character wants to represent the tennis but I
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  Speaker 3: get hurt, and so I start playing pickleball to recover
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  Speaker 3: in order to be able to play tennis. And I
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  Speaker 3: meet Mary Steenberger's character, who's a pickleballer.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. You know what's ironic about that, as
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  Speaker 1: I recently read an article where pickleball injuries are so
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  Speaker 1: on the right because a lot of the senior folk
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  Speaker 1: play and it's a little twitchy, right, so they're tearing.
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  Speaker 2: The owls, ripping their achillies. But it's still like booby.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, they gotta be careful out there. They
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  Speaker 2: gotta be careful out there. But this is this sounds
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  Speaker 2: like so much fun. I'm definitely gonna worrio.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 4: I mean about older people.
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  Speaker 3: It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of the older people.
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  Speaker 3: What I was expecting, sir, I will say, to be fair,
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  Speaker 3: Mario has torn all of those things. He's a jiu jitsu.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. I've torn everybody says toilet kill. I've torn
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  Speaker 2: it all. But people. My point is, people do pickable
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  Speaker 2: and they.
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  Speaker 1: Think it's safer. Its You gotta be careful still, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be there, especially if you're of a certain age. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how much pickleball experience. Did both of you had prior
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  Speaker 1: to this movie?
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  Speaker 3: This woman played.
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  Speaker 4: Uh No, I had played for exactly two months before
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  Speaker 4: they call me and tell me about the movie. And
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  Speaker 4: so I was a beginner. To be honest, I'm still
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  Speaker 4: a beginner, but I'm a better beginner now than I was.
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  Speaker 3: And I had had none. I didn't know much about
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  Speaker 3: the game. I had heard about it. But when I
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  Speaker 3: first heard about this project, Sean, the writer is an
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  Speaker 3: old friend. He told me about it was so funny.
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  Speaker 3: His story is similar to Dusty's arc that really happened
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  Speaker 3: to him. He was playing in Beverly Hills with some
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  Speaker 3: older women and they were talking a lot of trash
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  Speaker 3: to him, and then they all became friends and would
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  Speaker 3: invite him out to coffee and he would go. But
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  Speaker 3: then he was like, I think I'm becoming friends with them,
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  Speaker 3: and I really like that, and this is all getting
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  Speaker 3: so strange. And so I got into pick a Ball
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  Speaker 3: in order to do the movie because I loved the
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  Speaker 3: idea of the movie so much.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. No, it looks funny. I've seen I've seen
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  Speaker 1: the trailer. It looks really funny.
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  Speaker 4: Great cast too.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned ed Harris, ben Stiller, Patton Oswald, Christine Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: and then you got Andy Roddig and John McEnroe appearing
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  Speaker 1: as well. Where did y'all shoot the movie? Did you
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  Speaker 1: get to stay in the States or we.
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  Speaker 3: Shot it in Altadina, So we were here, but at
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  Speaker 3: the country club?
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  Speaker 1: Was there?
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  Speaker 3: We were in you know, lots of talabas. Nice, but
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  Speaker 3: it was an l a movie.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that's great, that's great. I love that and Jake,
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  Speaker 1: you also have a TV series on Apple TV called
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  Speaker 1: Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. Reviews have been great. Congrats on that
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  Speaker 1: For people who may not be familiar. What's that one about?
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  Speaker 3: H That is a thriller about a woman who gets
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  Speaker 3: involved with like a the the underbelly of some like
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  Speaker 3: sketchy stuff. But I play her ex husband and I'm
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  Speaker 3: a custody battle with her for our dog her. So
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  Speaker 3: she's involved in a lot of madness and I'm involved
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  Speaker 3: in a custody battle.
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  Speaker 1: Got it?
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  Speaker 2: Got it?
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  Speaker 1: That's a promise, But it's a great show.
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  Speaker 3: I highly recommend it.
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  Speaker 1: Nice and Mary, you've had such an incredible career of
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  Speaker 1: films like Parenthood, Philadelphia, Back to the Future, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Step Brothers. What set did you laugh the most on
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  Speaker 1: Step Brothers?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Wows A close second though, Oh nice, ink is
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  Speaker 4: right up there. Yeah, and that's really a compliment because
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  Speaker 4: I loved doing step Brothers because I love to laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, it just it's so funny. That's awesome that it
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  Speaker 1: was such a fun said too, is a true random
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  Speaker 1: question that you were originally discovered by Jack Nicholson.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, wow, Yes, here in New York actually a few
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  Speaker 4: blocks from here. I was not supposed to be meeting
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  Speaker 4: with him. I met with a casting director and then
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  Speaker 4: I said, torre you casting anything in particular? And she said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm casting a movie call going South, but I don't
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  Speaker 4: think I can get you in on it because we're
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  Speaker 4: going to just have you know, famous actresses. And I was, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in a comedy improv group and I was
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  Speaker 4: a waitress, and so I said, well, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: go sit out there and wait until you maybe give
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  Speaker 4: me a script. And then I go out there and
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  Speaker 4: I'm sitting down and I'm thinking I've got to go
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  Speaker 4: back in and apologize because that was so pushy. And
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  Speaker 4: then I see these two and I hear this unmistakable
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  Speaker 4: voice going, are you waiting to see me, and I
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  Speaker 4: realized Jack Nicholson is not in la He's in this
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  Speaker 4: office or something.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And then I look up and it really is him.
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  Speaker 4: He said, are you waiting to see me? And I
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  Speaker 4: said no, and he goes, he grabs the script and
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  Speaker 4: he goes, here, come tomorrow. You've got ten minutes tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: And that was the moment that changed my life.
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  Speaker 1: That is such an awesome story, you know, and goes
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  Speaker 1: to show there really are no rules when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Hollywood.
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  Speaker 4: I guess right, it's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That is cool.
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  Speaker 4: I ended up having this screen test with a lot
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  Speaker 4: of huge stars at Paramount in La It was my
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  Speaker 4: first time to go to La Wow. And I was
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  Speaker 4: on my way home on the last day. I'd run
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  Speaker 4: out of all my money and I went in to
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  Speaker 4: get me for the one night's hotel bill from the
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  Speaker 4: Chateau More month that they owed me, and they I said,
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  Speaker 4: would you mind giving it to me in cash because
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  Speaker 4: I've got a head home from my waitressing ship And
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  Speaker 4: he's smoking a big cigar and he goes sit down
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  Speaker 4: and worry about a kid. You're on the payroll.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Hey, that's so cool. What a great time. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: very sing that that is awesome. Well, guys, congrats on
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  Speaker 1: the film. I look forward to checking it out and everyone.
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  Speaker 4: Plase Mario, it's fun a pickleball court.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a pickleball guy. I'm gonna be all over it.
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  Speaker 1: The wife and I are looking forward to it and
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  Speaker 1: everyone please be sure to check out the new comedy
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  Speaker 1: The Dink, which h's Apple TV Plus on July twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Earth and Uh, I appreciate your time. Thanks for checking in.
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  Speaker 1: Take care, guys with Mario Lopez