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One on One: Anthony Azizi · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I am all In. Let's kiss you.
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  Speaker 2: I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
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  Speaker 1: on one interview. We have a very very very special guest.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Azeezi played the role of Luciano for one episode
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and four. He plays a hotel manager
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  Speaker 1: that helps Emily and Rory into their room in Rome, Italy.
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  Speaker 1: The only time we see Anthony as Luciano is in
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  Speaker 1: season five, episode two, A Messenger Nothing More. Anthony is
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  Speaker 1: an actor known for his dramatic film roles. He kickstarted
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  Speaker 1: his career in the comedies like for Richard Poor nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven starring Tim Allen Tom Katz two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 1: His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects
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  Speaker 1: like American East two thousand and seven with Tony Shaloub, Wristcutters,
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  Speaker 1: A Love Story two thousand and seven with Patrick Fugit,
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  Speaker 1: and the Shia Lahbooth smash hit drama Eagle Eye two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eighty. Also working television during these years, including
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  Speaker 1: a part on Threat Matrix, Criminal Minds twenty four, Commander
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  Speaker 1: in Chief, Desperate Housewives Without a trace Las Vegas, Veronica, Mars, Lost,
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  Speaker 1: The Resident with Our Own, Madi Zukui, et cetera. Anthony
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  Speaker 1: is mostly known for acting in the thriller Armed Response
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  Speaker 1: with Wesley Snipes, Transformers, Dark of the Moon, and Priest
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  Speaker 1: So Let's bring him in Anthony is easy? Hey, Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Hub? So? You played Luciano, the hotel manager who helps
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  Speaker 1: Emily and Roy into their hotel room. Had you ever
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  Speaker 1: seen or heard of the series when you when you
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  Speaker 1: got cast for this part?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I did because there was a lot of
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  Speaker 4: heat on on the show because of the writing, and
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  Speaker 4: as you can see now, I mean it's it's the Palladinos,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I read for them and it was good to read
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  Speaker 2: for them. They're they're a really good team. They've been
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  Speaker 2: around now for a long time. And so, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: had heard of the show, and I knew the popularity
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  Speaker 2: of the show, which was a very popular show.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I had heard of the show and I heard.
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  Speaker 1: So so tell us about that day you went in
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  Speaker 1: and read Framian Dan So that was the first time
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  Speaker 1: you met him both and they were both there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was shocked because I would think they'd
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  Speaker 2: be too busy for a role like that, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't say he's my uncle anymore, but
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  Speaker 2: you know he's because he and he kind of Tony
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  Speaker 2: Tony shall Hoop is a very dear friend of mine,
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  Speaker 2: and he's working on their new series, Missus Maslin. You know,
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  Speaker 2: at the level of just I was surprised you were
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  Speaker 2: in the room one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, shoot, I can't I can't believe
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  Speaker 3: they're in the room. Yeah, And I was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whenever you walk into a room and you're
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  Speaker 2: not expecting.
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  Speaker 3: Certain stars to be there or producers to be there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I went in one time and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: Nobody told me Jeff Goldblum was going to be in
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  Speaker 2: the room, and I had to do all this crazy
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  Speaker 2: scenes with Jeff Goldblum and it's kind of shocking. So
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  Speaker 2: I was shocked that they were both in the room. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they were both in.
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  Speaker 1: The room, right, Yeah, I know, I know that feeling
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  Speaker 1: when you walk in and it's like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: there's a movie star right there watching, not reading with me,
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  Speaker 1: but watching, and then there's the big time director there watching. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like that's that's like whoa, yeah, so did
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  Speaker 1: you did you feel but your experience enough at that
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  Speaker 1: point in your career where that that wasn't going to
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  Speaker 1: throw you off, right, I mean it didn't intimidate you.
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  Speaker 2: No, a little bit. It really did a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: It did a little bit, you know, it did it did?
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  Speaker 2: It did a little bit. Yes, it threw me off
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. It threw me off. I knew the
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  Speaker 2: show was very popular. It was a smaller role. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. But you know, when you're starting out
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  Speaker 2: as an actor, you can't you really can't. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: every job matters, like you always think that it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be recurring.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny actors.
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  Speaker 2: Actors every job they do, they think it's gonna be recurring.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, oh, they didn't kill me, so I might come.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they may they made next season, they may
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  Speaker 2: have killed more girls in Italy, and Luciano will be
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  Speaker 2: beloved and.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna start to make a bust and took it
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  Speaker 3: go crazy crazy to tell you guy.
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  Speaker 2: So to be honest with you, at that point, you're
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  Speaker 2: so desperate for work because you're you're starting out, that
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  Speaker 2: you don't you know, it is a little nerve wracking
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  Speaker 2: because you want you think it's going to be the
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be bigger than what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Right, did you did you practice your accident for the
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  Speaker 1: role I have?
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  Speaker 3: I grew up in New York, in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: And oh, did you really you're a Philly guy.
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  Speaker 3: But Philly guy?
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  Speaker 1: Oh geez? Were you? Did you?
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  Speaker 3: Were you?
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  Speaker 1: Did you live in South Philly?
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  Speaker 3: I did not live in South Philly. I lived off
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  Speaker 3: in Philadelphia outside Philly the.
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  Speaker 2: Main line, and then mostly in in like al tou Bethlin,
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  Speaker 2: Lehigh Valley, and I say Philly.
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  Speaker 3: My dad was was was at the he was at
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  Speaker 3: the children's hospital, he was a job. He's buried. He's
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  Speaker 3: buried in Valley Forge.
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  Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time, you know, in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: growing up.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I was born in Philly. I know, Philly.
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  Speaker 1: That's my area.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, South Philly. You are a South Philly guy.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, No, born there? And then my parents moved over
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  Speaker 1: to South Jersey right away.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, so so because.
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  Speaker 1: My mom my dad's from uh god, my mom's from
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  Speaker 1: Upper Derby and my dad's from God, it'll come to
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  Speaker 1: me at Drexel Hill.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, but see It's so funny because those are
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  Speaker 2: technically not in They're not Philly Philly, but they are
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  Speaker 2: Upper Darby's Philadelphia enough, you know, I mean all that
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  Speaker 2: places are you know, Villa Nova is Philly enough.
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  Speaker 3: You know, britin Maher, all those places.
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  Speaker 2: But I love Philadelphia and I love I love growing
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  Speaker 2: up in those in the in then in that area,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, and then so I grew up with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Italians and then living in New York, I
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  Speaker 2: had so many Italian friends that my.
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  Speaker 3: Accent on that is pretty real.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I spoke Italian at one point pretty fluently,
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  Speaker 2: I speaking. And so it was no problem for me
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  Speaker 2: to do that role, you know, I mean, I know
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  Speaker 2: you guys like that. I worked worked in restaurants for
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  Speaker 2: many years as an Italian, as a waiter in Italian restaurants. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's what it is to be you know that
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  Speaker 2: that type of role is like a service.
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  Speaker 3: He's an Italian server. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So you were your scene was with a Kelly Bishop.
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  Speaker 1: What do you remember working with her? What was it like?
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  Speaker 3: They were with Kelly?
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  Speaker 2: But I think Alexis was in them too, right, Yeah, there,
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  Speaker 2: she's very professional, she's very she's old.
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  Speaker 3: School, uh, proper trained actress.
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  Speaker 2: Who really knows how to hit her mark and say
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  Speaker 2: her lines very well. And she's an old school professional
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  Speaker 2: and and that that's always refreshing, especially on a show
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  Speaker 2: like I think that the Palladinos. I think they really
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  Speaker 2: like to hire talent, you know. I think they're very
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  Speaker 2: talent driven. They're not really bells and whistle and what's
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  Speaker 2: the what's the hot flavor of the months and that
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't. I think they they write something
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  Speaker 2: and then they go who best can do this role?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: And so they always have very strong casts. You know.
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  Speaker 2: They're really good at being able to That's that's one
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  Speaker 2: thing I would say about.
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  Speaker 3: They're very good at being able to adjudicate talent.
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  Speaker 2: Although they've yeah, although they've kind of hired me, although
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  Speaker 2: they've never hired me since.
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  Speaker 1: No, not to their credit. Yeah, they I think for Gilmore,
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  Speaker 1: they could have had anybody that was That was at
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  Speaker 1: a time when movie people were you know, going over
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  Speaker 1: into television. That's when it was all beginning, right because
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  Speaker 1: it was always for boating and it was always separate.
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  Speaker 1: But then into you know, like the late nineties, and
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  Speaker 1: there was a sort of drip of movie people into
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  Speaker 1: as you know, as film projects were drying up and
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  Speaker 1: there were less and less, they wanted to do television.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to stay in town. They didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They wanted a steady gig.
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  Speaker 1: There was not a lot of people make great money
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  Speaker 1: in movies. I mean, there's what ten people in the
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  Speaker 1: world that make great money in films. There's there's probably
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  Speaker 1: a couple of there's maybe one hundred people that make
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  Speaker 1: great money. On TV. There's ten times twenty times many people.
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  Speaker 1: So you know that's they had their pick at that
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  Speaker 1: time of anybody they wanted. Yeah, pretty much. It was
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  Speaker 1: available and everybody's available. Yeah, they they fought for us.
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  Speaker 1: And I bet you it was a fight too. I
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  Speaker 1: bet you that wasn't easy to get this cast, to
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  Speaker 1: get Warner Brothers to agree to this cast, because they're
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  Speaker 1: probably all going nobody ever heard any of these people, right, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Right, there were a lot of there were, Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: That everybody was unknown nobody. I mean, I think Ed
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  Speaker 1: Herman and Kelly Bishop, you know, they were the ones
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  Speaker 1: that came in with the resumes, right, especially at herman.
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  Speaker 1: But Kelly done a lot of great work and been
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great films, but those were really two
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  Speaker 1: nobody else knew who anybody was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think Alexis had done I think
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  Speaker 3: one other thing.
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  Speaker 1: She told me, no, no, no. She came right out
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  Speaker 1: of n y U Film school to do this role.
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  Speaker 1: She never acted before.
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  Speaker 3: Holy yeah, Holy moly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, her first gig. She was a model. Oh I see,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, a smart kid, and she wanted to
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  Speaker 1: write and direct film. She was she was Yeah, she
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  Speaker 1: was an n y U.
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  Speaker 3: She was smart.
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  Speaker 2: It's a sweet, very sweet, very quiet yeah, very quiet set.
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  Speaker 3: It was good.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't didn't know what she was getting into. Man, It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's a lot of hours.
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  Speaker 3: We were getting hold like a like a creative.
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  Speaker 1: Brain like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, all right, so we have a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: fan questions, right, So so let's get to these fan questions. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is from Melissa from Eugene, Oregon. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: a preference on doing a film or a TV series?
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  Speaker 2: Well that's a really interesting question because I when I
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  Speaker 2: first moved to LA my agent at the time was
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  Speaker 2: a very famous agent, Like I mean, he had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of big stars and he and he specialized in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ethnic in minor. He was just he
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  Speaker 2: was from New York. And he had people like Angela
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  Speaker 2: Bassett and uh Rock Dunton and Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of character, a lot of great actors from
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 1: And when I went in, who was who was the agent?
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  Speaker 3: If you don't mind, Lewis Ambrosio?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Was was he an Isam?
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  Speaker 3: No, he's Ambrosio Mortimer.
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  Speaker 1: He had his own Oh he's Ambrosia. Okay, okay, gotcha? Gotcha?
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  Speaker 2: And and I and you know, well, you know he
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  Speaker 2: he had a whole bunch of issues that came up
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  Speaker 2: later that was insane. But I have to say I
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  Speaker 2: loved him because he always gave me. He gave me
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  Speaker 2: a chance when nobody else did. But it's because I
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  Speaker 2: knew people that he knew in New York and a
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  Speaker 2: way when I went in fromhim, I said, Louis, where
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  Speaker 2: do you see me?
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  Speaker 3: Anthony? Anthony, stop bothering me. You're you're a film guy, Anthony,
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  Speaker 3: I said.
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  Speaker 2: But see, it was funny because at the time, at
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  Speaker 2: the time, I don't know how I saw this in
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  Speaker 2: my mind.
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  Speaker 3: But I knew that television was a better beast for
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  Speaker 3: me for those reasons you said, so, she would you.
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  Speaker 3: I knew that the would be greater longevity. Okay, there
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  Speaker 3: would be longer.
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  Speaker 2: There would be if I got on a series that lasted,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be on the series for longer, and I would
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  Speaker 2: be able to.
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  Speaker 3: I would be able to make a better living.
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  Speaker 2: I would make more money because I didn't see myself
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  Speaker 2: as a film star. And then as as as Murphy's
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  Speaker 2: Law would have it, my first big job was getting
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  Speaker 2: a pretty big role in a major motion picture for
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  Speaker 2: Universal Studios.
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  Speaker 3: But I have to say.
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  Speaker 2: I prefer series because of this. I like the grind.
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  Speaker 2: Some actors don't like the grind.
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  Speaker 3: I liked. I was the guy when I had my series.
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  Speaker 2: The different series I had, they would always schedule me
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  Speaker 2: in the mornings very early and then at night late
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  Speaker 2: because they knew I would show up and I and
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to be there at grind.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, after a twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Hour day, I was making everyone on the set laugh,
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  Speaker 2: and because I just love being on sets, So at
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  Speaker 2: the twelfth hour, when everyone's exhausted, I come in there
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not like, let me get the hell home.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, let's do this, everybody, let's go and let's
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  Speaker 3: have fun. And you know that was me.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I prefer television and I always have. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad because I started to get more television work
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  Speaker 2: and then as you know, it turned and it became
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  Speaker 2: very much more now with all the series it's and
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  Speaker 2: all the you know, all the streaming, it's all about
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  Speaker 2: the series, you know, Breaking Bad and all the same.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's still films, but the film.
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  Speaker 2: Industry is tough now, you know, unless you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be a superhero, it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay, So this is from Clarice from Dallas, Texas. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what has been your favorite project to film?
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  Speaker 3: Well, is that a TV series or a film?
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  Speaker 1: Any your favorite? Your favorite doesn't matter, favorite experience so low.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm really been lucky, man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean for you know, because when you look at
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  Speaker 2: someone like Seinfeld, you know, he's a multi millionaire, but
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  Speaker 2: he was stuck for sixteen or whatever. Friends they were
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  Speaker 2: stuck on that one set their whole careers, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And I've been I've been in so many different ones.
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  Speaker 3: I would say one of them is lost. There's no way.
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  Speaker 2: I can, you know, working for Damien Carlton Q's JJ
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  Speaker 2: Abrams with such a diverse cast, shooting on the island
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  Speaker 2: of o Wahoo and my childhood friend Daniel day Kim
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  Speaker 2: played h Jin I think the name of the character was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we grew up together in in in Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 2: and Philly and outside Philly, and and it was just
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  Speaker 2: it was just a great that The Loss is definitely
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  Speaker 2: one of the great jobs that I worked on. There's
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  Speaker 2: no question that always comes and I like my character,
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  Speaker 2: and I just I like the show.
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  Speaker 3: I would say.
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  Speaker 2: The other the other one that really really comes to
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  Speaker 2: mind simply because it I mean it was just grand
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  Speaker 2: was Commander in Chief with Geena Davis and Donald Sutherlan
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  Speaker 2: just because the Rod Lourie had assembled a real that
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  Speaker 2: was I think Donald's.
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  Speaker 3: First TV series.
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  Speaker 2: And of course I got to go to work every
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  Speaker 2: day with Geena Davis, who has She's an icon.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she's Academy Award, Golden Globe.
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  Speaker 2: I mean everything, emmy, So it was cool to go
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  Speaker 2: to work with her every day. She's awesome, she's brilliant,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful person. And uh yeah, that the Commander in Chief
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  Speaker 2: was a big one for me for sure.
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  Speaker 1: You you worked with Matt Zukri on The Resident, tell
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  Speaker 1: us about.
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  Speaker 5: That he's a really sweet guy. Man, Yeah he is,
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  Speaker 5: he really? I mean, god, what uh I've had hearing
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  Speaker 5: these nightmare experiences. But of all these different actors, and
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  Speaker 5: especially the young ones, no way, man, Matt Man, Matt,
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  Speaker 5: I love him. I mean he's such Oh yeah, that
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  Speaker 5: was the point up for me.
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  Speaker 2: But that you know that that job was one of
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  Speaker 2: those incidents is where they said you are going to
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  Speaker 2: be like, you know, every job an actor, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to recur.
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  Speaker 3: And I did recur in a couple couple I forgot how.
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  Speaker 2: Many episodes I did, but I was supposed to come
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  Speaker 2: back even more. And then they used because they didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to spend money on me, they used an extra
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  Speaker 2: to be me and used the back of my head
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  Speaker 2: in all the scenes and I didn't say anything. They
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  Speaker 2: just got a guy to look like me. So but
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  Speaker 2: Matt was Matts, lovely guy, good actor, very good actor.
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  Speaker 2: And I really liked working on The Resident. I love
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  Speaker 2: that job. That was a fun job for me. I
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  Speaker 2: played like the crown princess of some Saudi or some
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  Speaker 2: Arabic country.
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  Speaker 3: Her personal bodyguard slash father figure. So it was fun cool,
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  Speaker 3: it was cool. It was a cool job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we love we love Maddie over here. He's he's
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  Speaker 1: been on the show a couple of times. He is
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a lovely guy and really really really is.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: What you see is what you And so was the
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I forgot his name, the couple of his partners on
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: the show, the whole, the whole, I think.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I think Maurice Chestnut was on that show. Maurice Chestnut
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: was awesome.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: They had a great cast, and of course there's a
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: there was an Indian doctor who was played they had
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I forgot his name. Sweetest guy everybody who's just so sweet.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I love that. I love that.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: So we know you have two teenage sons. What's that?
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: What's a like grown raising teenage boys.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Well, they're about to drop their their.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Which is called Twin Talk LA and they decided to
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: do it because they are teenagers growing up in Los
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Angeles that have had, you know, friends die from overdose,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: friends die from suicide. They have these takeovers with cars
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: like kids, kids going to these takeovers. I mean, there
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: are just so many things that are quintessentially Los Angeles
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: things that I think people would be interested to hear
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: about that would affect teenagers all over the country, teenage
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: drug use, teenage sexuality. So raising those two kids in
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: LA I thought would be a nightmare. But they're such
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: good kids. Oh man, I am so lucky. I love
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the I love being with them. You know, some divorced,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: but I'm a real I just love being a dad
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and we have the best time. They're two great kids.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: They're both athletes, big soccer players. And they decided that
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: their friend died and they decided that they wanted to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: They wanted an outlet of talking about these teenagers issues
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: that are happening in LA with other teens, and so
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: they're gonna they started this podcast.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: We have about ten of them, ten or twelve of
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: them recorded.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: We're not going to start dropping them until we have
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: a bunch and then we'll start dropping them and it'll
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: be very interesting.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really cool raising kids.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: But I'm lucky because raising kids in Los Angeles and
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: teens in Los Angeles, it's probably difficult anywhere, but LA
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it's challenging, you know, I mean it's challenging.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: We I have a young son and yeah, I'm uh,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: we're facing all of the issues at a time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: LA is a different kind of a place, it is,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: for sure. Uh so they had do they have any
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: interest in following in your footsteps getting in the acting game.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Well, they keep saying it because you know, they've been
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: around it. They've been on sets since they were kids.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: And then I had that Broadway show. I think the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Broadway Show really was good and bad. I think having
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: them moved to New York and seeing you know, living
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: in a cool ass apartment, going to Lincoln Center every night,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: and then all the people they met after the shows,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: including the Clinton's.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Tom Hanks, John Lithgot.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, it's the list is endless of
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: people who came to see the show because the show
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: won a bunch of major awards.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I think they got the bug a little bit.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I think they just like being they're very they're very
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: social kids, and they they they like talking to people,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: they like listening to people, and.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, they're they're they're they're soccer players. That's
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: their performance art.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: And you know, one of them, both of them may
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: have aspirations to even do that professionally. I don't know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: but they're good students. So I don't really necessarily. I
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: want them to do what they love, but I don't
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: push them toward this business. No way, right, this is too.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Crazy, right right? So what are you working on now?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You have anything coming out?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I am, I'm working I guess. I guess this job
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: would be up in the top great jobs. I'm working
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: on a series for Apple TV called Tehran and it
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: just won the Emmy for Best International TV Series. They
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: have they have Emmys for International and our own local Emmys.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: It's a it's an Sbiona show about Israelis and Iranians
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and it's dope. The acting is dope, the writing is dope.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, Glenn Close was on last season. Hugh Lourie
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: is one of the guys on this season that they
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: always do, like a very big name stunt cast.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: And Hugh his House. I don't know. For those of
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: you who watch, you know he's doctor House.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: And Glenn closest film and television icon in her own right,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: and I'm working on that right now. We shooting Greece,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: so I've been going back and forth from LA to Greece,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: so it's been a little challenging, but I'm really I
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: love Greece and I love the Greek people, but I
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: really love the show that the people on it. The
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: director Daniel Serkin is one of the He's just a
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: gem of an artist, human being. There's a handful of directors.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Brian Spicer, Rob Lourie, the late Mike Nichols, Daniel Sirk.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's just real great.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Mike Nichols was directing an episode.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: You're serious, I've worked with.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I'm just just saying, there's okay, handful of directors that
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I just have been like wow or I really love
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: being around them and they're so gracious to me. And
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Daniel's amazing. He's a really really talented guy.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Where are you shooting in Greece?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Athens mostly? And it's all.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Do you have any downtime while you're there? You get
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to enjoy the place.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I do. I do.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: And I've gone to a few places, and you're I
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: have family all over Europe.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: So I went to Germany, and.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to Istanbul on the next ride and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: then maybe go to maybe go to Israel. Maybe goes
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: that family in Israel. I have family, and I have
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: family in Italy, France.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of choices. Yeah, but what you do.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: It's because because once you're out there, and Athens is
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: pretty central to Europe, so you can jump on a
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: plane and in two hours be anywhere in Europe.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: It's cool.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna we're gonna get into a little
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: thing we call rapid fire. So I'm gonna fire questions
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: at you about the show, and you're gonna fire answers
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: back at me as fast as you possibly. Ken, Anthony,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: are you ready?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try. Sure, rapid fire my brain works. But
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: by the way, this white beard is for oh but
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: it does. Like my kids call me Papa Smurf. It
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: ages me, so my brain I feel like I'm a
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: nine year old guy.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Nah man, you're looking good, brother, What are you talking about?
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Come out here we go. All right, here's the first question. Ready,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: how do you like your coffee?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Black?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Are your team Logan, Team Jess or Team Dean Team Dean?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: What is your favorite Gilmore Girls couple Luke and Lorelei
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: or Richard.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: And Emily Richard and Emily?
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Would you what would you order at Luke Stiner, Fries,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Jackson or tailor Taylor for town selectmen?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Taylor?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Well, would you rather listen to hep Alien or the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Troubadour's cover.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Songs, Troubadour's cover songs.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Harvard or Yale?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Harvard?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Why Harvard?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Because I think that if you go to Harvard you'll
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: get paid more money when you get out of I
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: don't think for some reason Yale is an IVY League too.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: But you never.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Every time, anytime anyone talks about an IVY League school. Shit,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: there's nine of them, man, there's eight of him. You
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: never mentioned any of them. You never hear about Cornell
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: or Dartmouth. You never all you hear, You never hear
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: about Brown.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: All you hear is Harvard, Harvard, Harvard. Oh you want
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: to Harvard? You want to Harvard Harvard. That's the only
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: reason why.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: What's Rory's bigger mistake? Crashing the car her boyfriend built
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: for her or sleeping with her ex who is.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Married, sleeping with her ex who was married.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, happens to be the same guy. But who from
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Gilmour would you not want with you stuck on a
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: deserted island?
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I would probably say the role that herman played, Richard.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Richard, you you would not want him on the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: desert island. No, I would not want rich I tell
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: me why because he went to Yale.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Because because he just he's gonna talk too much, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: he's I don't don't really want to hear. You know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: the even are really great, Richard.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: He's gonna talk to uh something in your life. You
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: are all in on.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Soccer.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: There you go, big soccer guy.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Huh, big soccer guyself and my kids they that's all
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: they do.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, who's your team?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Who?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Who you? Who's your European team?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Our European team, and I don't know the results I thought.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: My kids keep texting me, is Chelsea? Okay, that's our
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: European team. But we also have European teams all over
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: like like Like I said, I have family and friends
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: that are like in France, so we support certain teams
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: in France.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Like in Greece.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: We have for all the relationships I have with the
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Greek people, not only did I work, but I know
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: we love the Greek soccer. Their club system is great
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: because we know the teams and we're when fans were
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: kinda panath and I.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Say that ten times real fast, go ahead, but.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: We have shirts and everything from the team and the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I just can't even say the name of the club.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: You know, I was in UH. I was in Germany
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty eight, one of
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: those years when Germany won the World Cup. Oh wow,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I was there. I was in that country. I was
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: in God, where was I was in Hamburg at that time?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Oh my god? That was the people going.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Crazy, losing their minds. It was like the entire country
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: erupted and the celebration went on and on. I mean
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: it was quite a weekend, I'll tell you.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which all my German friends were just going they
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: were going nuts. It was fun.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're nice people. Just in Germany. I was
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: just so when you say took it. I was in
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Frankfurt last time, when I was in a I love Germans.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: They're great. They're great people.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're very you know, once they get to
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: know you a little bit, they they're they're they really
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: warm up and they're just so funny and so smart
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and warm. It's it's one of the you know, my
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: uh mother's mother is from Frankfurt. Actually, so when I
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: landed in Germany the first time, I kind of felt
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: like I was home.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I understood the people. I just understood their their mentality.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Well, they're very quiet people, they're very proper people.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: It's ironic that it's such a radical movement of hatred
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: arose from such really soft spoken, loving kind people.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: It's it's it blows my mind.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: That that that they could have had such a a
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: dark period in their in their existence, because they're really
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: good people, like I mean, they're very sweet people.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: They've gone above and beyond since those days is post
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: World War two, to make up for all the you know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the sins of the father and really wonderful people.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I've done a couple of conventions over there in the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: last couple of years, and man, they show up and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: droves and they are wonderful. Yeah, they are just they're
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: just really filled with joy and filled with love, and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: it's it's really an amazing country and beautiful country. Wow,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: what aful country.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Beautiful.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, I can't wait to go back to Europe anyway, Anthony,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for waiting, apologize for that.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: And thank you for having me. What a joy and
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: what a pleasure. You're a lovely person yourself.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I feel your energy and I wish that's with whatever
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: your endeavors are, because you're a very sweet man.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: You're thank you. You're a good good man yourself, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: good luck with everything, and have fun and.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Great thank you. I'm gonna eat some soul for you.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Yes man. Gosh, you're making me want to go to Europe. Man,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I'm getting the bug because the weather's warming up a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: little bit and I just want to go to Europe. Anyway.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: All the best to you, Anthony, and uh and good
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: luck with your son's podcast. Where can we what is
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the name of it again.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: It's twin Talk l A. And it'll be up and
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: running in the next spot two or three months and
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: you can get it on all the platforms, Spotify, Apple.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Those places.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: All right, great, and everybody do that because you know
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: it's it's interesting, interesting topics for sure.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Funny man, dynamic kids. You'll like it. They're funny, they
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: have a I mean, we have some crazy episodes.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: All right, good deal man, all right, all the best.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: You too, man, Thank you, good talking to you.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: All right, see you hey, everybody, and don't forget follow
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