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Johnny Oleksinski, NY Post entertainment critic Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh is Johnny Oh the New York Post. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: check his columns out. But you may have to enter
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  Speaker 1: the Rightish Witness Protection program again, cause I can see you.
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  Speaker 1: Rock Bottom, the Rock in his new movie, man, I
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  Speaker 1: read that review. Really, that bad king of fhlops he
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  Speaker 1: called him.
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  Speaker 2: All I do is come on this program with facts
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  Speaker 2: and figures and data. I'm I can prove my point.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like I just decided that the Rock was
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  Speaker 2: a terrible actor. Though he is. He is a horrible, horrible,
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  Speaker 2: horrible actor. The last five years of films, this guy
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  Speaker 2: has made Molana Jungle Cruise Red one. We're talking hundreds,
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain. The audience
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to go to them. Is whatever appeal he
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  Speaker 2: once had for lugging people and taking folding chairs and
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  Speaker 2: bashing their heads in, it's gone, so nobody wants to
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  Speaker 2: see him anymore.
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  Speaker 3: You're not gonna count Malwana, the animated.
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  Speaker 2: Movie that was That was ten years ago.
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  Speaker 3: No, it wasn't twenty four November twenty twenty four. That was.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's made a billion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Moana two, Okay, it made a bit, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a voice. It's a voice who cares about voices. I
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  Speaker 2: see a lot of animated movies and I couldn't tell
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  Speaker 2: you who the voices are. That that is not The Rock.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't selling Moana. The kids, the little kids that like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Moana doll, that's what's selling Moyna. But
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  Speaker 2: then when he comes out and we actually see him, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we actually see him in his awful screen presence, then
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  Speaker 2: everyone was like, oh, we don't want to see live
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  Speaker 2: action moan.
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  Speaker 1: You know, last week was Shinatra, right, the week before
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  Speaker 1: it was Taylor Swift and her Hillbilly Hedgeman. You must
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  Speaker 1: be have a death wish. A dead man walking is Johnny?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you don't like that Taylor Swift wedding either, So
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  Speaker 2: don't don't don't read write.
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  Speaker 3: History over there.
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  Speaker 4: No, don't you understand if he attacks some icons like
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  Speaker 4: The Rock and Taylor Swift, he's gonna get hits, He's
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  Speaker 4: gonna get read. He doesn't care if he's hated, just
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  Speaker 4: so the people read him and and follow him on
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  Speaker 4: social media.
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  Speaker 3: Am I right?
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  Speaker 2: You know you've been You've been introducing me on this
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  Speaker 2: show for years now. You've been you've been introducing me
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  Speaker 2: for years, and he said, next up the entertainment critic,
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  Speaker 2: critic from the New York Post. And then then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: then one of you will mispronounced my last name. And
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  Speaker 2: that's fine. It's my job is a critic. I'm here
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  Speaker 2: to judge, I'm here to evaluate. I'm here to have opinions. Well,
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  Speaker 2: people don't read that. They don't want to read me,
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  Speaker 2: for it's not Johnny Pedia. They want opinion.
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  Speaker 1: My god, you couldn't have been nicea to the Dolly
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  Speaker 1: Parton Broadway show if you tried any hard hit. I
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  Speaker 1: mean you're like going got got Google.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's I. I have not yet seen it. This
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  Speaker 2: was a story I wrote yesterday about two musicals coming.
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  Speaker 2: There's the Dolly Parton Musical and the Paddington Musical. Both
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  Speaker 2: cost thirty million dollars. There's a lot of money. But
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  Speaker 2: I have sources. My sources tell me that the Dolly
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  Speaker 2: Parton Show is selling surprisingly well the tickets. They've announced
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  Speaker 2: it two weeks ago, and tickets have been moving. She
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  Speaker 2: didn't do any national interviews for it. There hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: any marketing yet, and people are, especially groups of people
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  Speaker 2: are buying tickets and the thing. The show didn't get
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  Speaker 2: very well received when it tried out in Nashville, But
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  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton is just so rawly appealing to people people love.
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  Speaker 2: They don't love the rock, oh they don't love the
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  Speaker 2: rock anymore, but they love Dolly park They do love
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  Speaker 2: the rock.
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  Speaker 4: And you just decided, oh, his one billion dollar movie,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna count because it doesn't make my point.
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  Speaker 2: Because you can't see his face. You can't see his face,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not that it's not about the rock, but
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  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton. I think this musical it has a chance.
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  Speaker 2: It has a chance. Do you like Dolly Parton, Curtis.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, who doesn't like Dolly Parton?
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  Speaker 2: That's well. I think that's a good litmus test for
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  Speaker 2: a quality person because all she is is joy and
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  Speaker 2: good songs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. And she put out a video and
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  Speaker 3: everybody played that video.
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  Speaker 4: We played it here in the air, they played it
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  Speaker 4: on an entertainment tonight, saying please come to New York
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  Speaker 4: and watch Shoe.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right, I would think.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of a celebrity that's more love
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  Speaker 4: than Dolly Parton. I can't come up with one.
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  Speaker 2: No, she's the great Uniter. She's the great uniter because
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  Speaker 2: she's a political she's she just gives to wonderful charities.
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  Speaker 2: She's she's always herself. Dolly is always Dolly. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't like jukebox musicals. But even just talking about it now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm convincing myself.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go, Hey, I'm sure you've seen The Odyssey. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm dying to see the Odyssey? Did you see it
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  Speaker 3: on an Imax screen? Do you see it on a
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  Speaker 3: wide screen?
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  Speaker 2: As an elite, privileged critic, I got to go to
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  Speaker 2: a free press screening of The Odyssey on the biggest
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  Speaker 2: Imax screen in America, which is the one on sixty
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  Speaker 2: eighth Street in the So it just fills your entire
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  Speaker 2: field of vision. You're watching, you know, all these people
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  Speaker 2: galloping on horses on a giant beach, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: Trojan horse, and it's it's just incredible. It's so much money.
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  Speaker 2: You just look at it and you go, God, that
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  Speaker 2: costs a lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: They already made the money back, though, That's what's incredible
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  Speaker 4: about it. They I mean, and they spent a fortune
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  Speaker 4: on this, what two hundred and fifty million or something, they.
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  Speaker 2: Spell it's it's up there with the most expensive movies
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  Speaker 2: ever made. It's like Avatar money.
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  Speaker 3: But to make it back in a weekend is incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Is it that good? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I think what's great. What's great is we're kind of
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  Speaker 2: returning back to the nineteen seventies a little bit. Not
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  Speaker 2: in the way that the Curtis would like us to,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, back when you go to a movie
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  Speaker 2: because because Martin Scorsese directed it, because Woody Allen directed it.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're in this era where you go to a
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  Speaker 2: movie because Christopher Nolan directed it, or Ryan Coogler, Greg Ger.
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  Speaker 1: They're just I can't go to Woody Allen movie because
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  Speaker 1: of the Epstein Files. I'm sorry, I can't go.
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  Speaker 2: I know, well, we're not in the seventies anymore. Back back,
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  Speaker 2: let me back in your slugging thugs in Times Square.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you about the guy who grew up
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  Speaker 1: in Jackson Hitch. I remember seeing him in Mulin Rouge
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  Speaker 1: the movie, and then the one that wasn't good, the
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  Speaker 1: Spike Lee movie about the Son of Sam Oh. Is
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  Speaker 1: that a bomb?
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  Speaker 2: John?
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  Speaker 3: A little bit? O?
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  Speaker 2: John Lezamo, I can't have a bit, but he do
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  Speaker 2: his last name as well as you do mine.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to him while he was performing in the
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  Speaker 1: Ulyssesh movie?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is so I like it again. I love
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  Speaker 2: the Odyssey great four stars, but I method acting. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it grinds my gears. The method actors. John like Ozamo.
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  Speaker 2: He plays a blind friend of Odysseus. He said he
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  Speaker 2: wore contexts that blocked out his vision for fourteen hours
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  Speaker 2: a day. I do I think that changed his performance
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  Speaker 2: so much. No, I think it's kind of stupid to
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  Speaker 2: do something like that when you're doing scenes on a
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  Speaker 2: cliff side. Imagine what if he tumbled off?
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  Speaker 1: Got you even find something negative about this blockbuster? Right? John?
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  Speaker 1: A hometown guy?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But it's just when I read a headline like that,
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  Speaker 2: I think, oh, I don't want to talk to this
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  Speaker 2: guy at dinner. You know, have you heard the great.
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  Speaker 4: Worry about Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman in method acting?
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna tell me it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh when Marathon Well, they were doing Marathon Man and
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  Speaker 4: he decided he was supposed to be beat up and
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  Speaker 4: he was running, and so he stayed up for for
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  Speaker 4: overnight and he didn't get any sleep, and he ran
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  Speaker 4: and he showed up and Lawrence Olivier said, my.
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  Speaker 3: God, what happened to you?
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  Speaker 4: Because he was all sweaty and dirty. And he says, well,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I have to live this role. I'm supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be tired. I'm supposed to be running for twenty
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  Speaker 4: four hours. And he said, why don't you just act?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, just just stand in place and say your lines.
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  Speaker 1: Well you don't, Johnny, Oh, you've acted enough in his
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  Speaker 1: stint with us today