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Mira Sorvino · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario a little bit. It's up bon
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez is joinning right now on Zoom. Academy Award
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  Speaker 1: winning actress Mira Sorvino.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Mira, I'm good. How are you? I'm well.
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  Speaker 2: Always nice to see you. Congratulations on this role.
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  Speaker 1: You play the mother of a star high school football
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  Speaker 1: player in the new film.
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  Speaker 2: Signing Tony Raymond. Movie looks cool too. What's the backstory
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  Speaker 2: on this one?
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  Speaker 3: It's it's a really great story. I mean it's about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that feeding frenzy that happens when there's a
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  Speaker 3: new hot kid athlete and this swarm of coaches from
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  Speaker 3: big schools descend upon them, promising them the moon and back,
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  Speaker 3: and then you know where they end up is you
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  Speaker 3: know the thing that gets announced on national television actually,
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  Speaker 3: and this is the story of a small town that
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  Speaker 3: gets kind of ripped apart by all these crazy coaches
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  Speaker 3: trying to get this one boy who happens to be
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  Speaker 3: my son in the movie, played by Jackie k I
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  Speaker 3: and Rob Morgan are his parents, and we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: protect him, and you know, everybody's trying to work us,
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  Speaker 3: and then we start kind of out foxing them and
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  Speaker 3: my characters a little crazy. She has some substance issues,
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  Speaker 3: but she's a good person at heart, but she's a
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  Speaker 3: little nuts. So she's like a firecracker and very outspoken,
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  Speaker 3: very unpredictable. So it was super fun to play.
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  Speaker 2: A bad that. It sounds like a fun character to play.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a very realistic sort of scenario that's happening
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  Speaker 1: right now, although the NIL deals and everything that's going on.
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  Speaker 1: And you had some real NFL stars in the film,
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  Speaker 1: Champ Bailey, Brian Bosworth, Marshawn Lynch.
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  Speaker 2: How are their acting shots? They're good, They're good. Watch
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  Speaker 2: the film.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're all really good. I think I think
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  Speaker 3: they add a little authenticity to it.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, Yeah, did were you familiar at all with this
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  Speaker 1: world of college recruiting and NIL deals?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure you learned a lot.
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  Speaker 3: My son, Johnny Bagus, was a D one baseball player,
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  Speaker 3: so we experienced a little bit of that and nice,
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  Speaker 3: it's a little bit of a crazy world. Yeah, baseball
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  Speaker 3: is not as heated as football, but still some of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, much more difficult sport right there there. And I
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  Speaker 1: saw in your ig you recently announced you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: joining the cast of the new movie called Prima.
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  Speaker 2: What is this one about?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Prima is about It's kind of like it's a
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  Speaker 3: little it's a little black Swan, it's a little the
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  Speaker 3: turning point like all these classic ballet movies. And it's
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  Speaker 3: so funny because ballet is now this topic and the
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  Speaker 3: zeitgeistpeacause of some comments made by a certain actor. But
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  Speaker 3: it's about this little ballet company, very high level that
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  Speaker 3: gets rocked when the artistic director brings in his new
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  Speaker 3: wife played by Betty Gary Burrill, who's a choreographer, and
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  Speaker 3: she wants to change everything and kind of modernize it
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  Speaker 3: and tear down some of the things that she feels
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  Speaker 3: they're holding it back. But we feel are the things,
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  Speaker 3: you know. My character is the financial head of the company,
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  Speaker 3: former Dan, who's trying to preserve classic culture, trying to
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  Speaker 3: preserve ballet, and Faye Dunaway plays the reigning Prima of
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  Speaker 3: the company, sort the sort of matriarch of the company
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  Speaker 3: and cool. Nicola Peltz Beckham plays this ballerina who feels
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  Speaker 3: very threatened by the new direction that is sort of
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  Speaker 3: taking the power away from her because she's a very
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  Speaker 3: classical dancer, and there's all kinds of crazy machinations that
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  Speaker 3: go as she sort of tries to get her place
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  Speaker 3: back in the company. And it's very cutthroat and very
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  Speaker 3: wild and artistic. It's a very interesting movie. It's the
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  Speaker 3: directorial debut of the Morelli brothers, these two Italian filmmakers
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  Speaker 3: who are you know, come from the fashion, photography and
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  Speaker 3: video world, And it's very visually fascinating and it was
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  Speaker 3: really cool to work on. And yeah, Jack Houston plays
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  Speaker 3: the artistic head of the company and I'm his X
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  Speaker 3: and so I have this sort of raw.
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  Speaker 2: Of his new wife.
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  Speaker 3: But it's it's really powerful, dramatic stuff with a lot
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  Speaker 3: of dance in it, which I love because I'm also
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, a part time dancer.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could say, so I love it. No
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  Speaker 2: and great cast. I didn't know Nicola was was an actress.
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  Speaker 2: She looks like she's been.
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  Speaker 3: An actress for a long time. In uh, I believe
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  Speaker 3: the Transformer series. She's been in a ton of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Why she's she's very heavily featured in the last episode
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  Speaker 3: of The Beauty I think that Ryan Murphy show. She's
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  Speaker 3: a very good actress. Actually, she's been doing it since
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  Speaker 3: she was a child.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, she's been in a lot of big movies
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  Speaker 3: and work with a lot of big directors. Before she
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  Speaker 3: was famous for other things, she was, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: very talented working actress. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's fun to hear.
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  Speaker 1: And I know last fall you made your Broadway debut
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, the Musical House.
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  Speaker 2: That experience for you, it was a joy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean doing Chicago was a dream come true because
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  Speaker 3: I was a you know, lifelong Broadway enthusiast, like going
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  Speaker 3: to see Broadway places when I was a kid with
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  Speaker 3: my parents, we'd lived in New Jersey and we'd go
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  Speaker 3: into the city and see them. And I stopped dancing
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  Speaker 3: when I was like fourteen, Like I was a ballet dancer.
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  Speaker 3: And then I stopped and I didn't switch over to jazz,
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  Speaker 3: which I should have or tap. I just kind of stopped.
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  Speaker 3: And then I did drama wholesale all the time. But
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  Speaker 3: getting to dance and sing on Broadway in the classic
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  Speaker 3: fossy musical, doing the classic choreography, singing all the songs,
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  Speaker 3: getting to embody this wonderful character of Roxy, it was
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  Speaker 3: a dream come true for me. And I'm so glad
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  Speaker 3: that I did it. I felt so alive and I
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  Speaker 3: felt like I grew every night on stage and I
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  Speaker 3: was I don't know, it was thrilling for me.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's awesome. It's incredibly awesome and in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hard work too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Eight it's the eighth show a week schedule.
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  Speaker 2: It's insane.
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  Speaker 3: And I didn't miss a single show. I was very
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  Speaker 3: proud of it. At sick or if I got sick,
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  Speaker 3: I still show to work and I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was very cool.
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  Speaker 3: And the cast in that show and the production people
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  Speaker 3: and the you know, the whole staff are just incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Like I really really was blown away by them as
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  Speaker 3: people and as talents and was a joy.
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  Speaker 2: And there's my dogs tiny.
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  Speaker 1: And Hey, it's funny because right across the street from
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  Speaker 1: the theater where Chicago is, there's a little Italian restaurant
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  Speaker 1: and coincidentally, I happen to have dinner there and your
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  Speaker 1: father was having dinner and I went up to him
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  Speaker 1: and just told him was a big fan.
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  Speaker 2: He was so nice, asked me to sit.
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  Speaker 1: Down, We ended up having wine, told me all about
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  Speaker 1: his art. He was just an I was already a
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  Speaker 1: huge fan. I was a bigger fan afterwards. But I
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  Speaker 1: remember it was directly across the street from where.
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  Speaker 2: The theater is.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think I've gotten I got some pasta
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  Speaker 3: there as lunch between shows once.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, you know what I'm talking about. So that's great.
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  Speaker 3: That's so sweet that that's awesome that you have that
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  Speaker 3: moment with him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, very very cool. And what's up of the rumors
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  Speaker 2: about sequel one.
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  Speaker 1: Of your most iconic films right there Roman Michell's High
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  Speaker 1: School Reunion?
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  Speaker 2: You heard anything on that front?
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  Speaker 3: I can't say anything about it. We're just waiting and
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  Speaker 3: waiting for the final pulling the trigger on it, so
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  Speaker 3: I can't really say anything except that we are ready
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  Speaker 3: to go as soon as we get that word. We
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  Speaker 3: have the script, we have the director, we have me
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  Speaker 3: and Lisa, the original cast.
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  Speaker 2: The script is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It's written by Robin Shift, the original author, and we're
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  Speaker 3: so excited about it. So hopefully we'll have very good
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  Speaker 3: news for everybody very soon. But I don't have an update.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, that's great to hear right there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations, it was so nice catching up and listen everyone,
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  Speaker 1: please be sure to check out Mirra's new movie Signing
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  Speaker 1: Tony Raymond, which is available on Prime Video and Apple
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  Speaker 1: TV right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and people are comparing it. They're saying it's as
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  Speaker 3: good or better than Moneyball, Like people love Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great movie.
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  Speaker 3: And I should give props to Michael Moseley. He plays
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  Speaker 3: the young coach. He's it's a very sort of ted
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  Speaker 3: Lasso story from his side. He comes down the underdog coach,
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  Speaker 3: you know, everything to lose and ends up befriending us
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  Speaker 3: and realizing that, you know, this is more than just
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  Speaker 3: a numbers game. It's like about real human beings. And
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  Speaker 3: he kind of finds his strength throughout the movie. And
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  Speaker 3: he's very funny and likable, and so there's something in
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  Speaker 3: it for everybody. You don't have to know sports to
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  Speaker 3: love this movie, but if you love sports, you'll love
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  Speaker 3: it even more.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and I'm gonna I'm gonna love it. I look
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  Speaker 2: forward to checking it out. Thanks for checking in, Thank you, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: take care of me. Out with Mario Lopez