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Carlo Marks Interview · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi, friends. We recently had the opportunity to participate in
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  Speaker 1: a press junket with Carlo Marx. In this many episode,
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  Speaker 1: we will be sharing the audio from our questions with Carlo,
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  Speaker 1: but within the show notes you can find the full
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  Speaker 1: interview featuring the questions from all of the other podcasters
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  Speaker 1: participating in the junket with Carlo.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Carlo, my name's Megan from Girls Scott Hallmark. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much for meeting with us this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to talk a little bit about the character
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  Speaker 2: of Max in a season two Blossom and if you
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  Speaker 2: can tell me just a little bit about him. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen the movie, but we'd love to hear your take
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  Speaker 2: on him and what aspects of his character drew you
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 3: What Max is, He's an apple farmer, and he's kind
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  Speaker 3: of comes from a long line of apple farmers, so
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  Speaker 3: it's in his blood, it's part of it's his family business.
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  Speaker 3: But he's wanting to branch out, so he's got this
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  Speaker 3: desire to expand into cider and I think I think
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of one of the things that draw me,
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  Speaker 3: drew me to him, is that you know that idea
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  Speaker 3: of holding on to your lineage and kind of what
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  Speaker 3: what you what you grew up in and what your
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  Speaker 3: family does, while at the same time making it your
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  Speaker 3: own and kind of going out into the world on
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  Speaker 3: your own. And I I really relate to that. I
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  Speaker 3: grew up in a community theater, so you know, acting
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  Speaker 3: and performing was kind of in by DNA, but then
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  Speaker 3: I took it a step further and now I do it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, out in the in the big wide world.
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  Speaker 3: So I kind of yeah, there's some parallels between Maxim
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  Speaker 3: myself there.
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  Speaker 2: You talk a little bit about your theater experience, and
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  Speaker 2: it's my understanding that you continue to work in theater
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  Speaker 2: and you also recently directed a theatrical production. How does
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  Speaker 2: your theater work inform your on camera work and what
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  Speaker 2: was it like being in a directorial position.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't done it in a while. I would like
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  Speaker 3: to get back to it, but how does I think
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  Speaker 3: theater informs well, kind of just what I was talking about.
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  Speaker 3: When you have a play, there's so much history and
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  Speaker 3: the characters are so well rounded, hopefully usually, and you
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  Speaker 3: don't always get that in film and TV, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: the lines are a lot quicker, scenes are quicker. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that's something you can learn from doing theater,
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  Speaker 3: is that you have to really flesh out who these
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  Speaker 3: people are. And there's a lot that's not on the page,
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  Speaker 3: but that is hinted at in the writing, So that's
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  Speaker 3: something you can bring. I've directed a couple times and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I think I'd like to do it again.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think the key is just to kind
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  Speaker 3: of what Terry does, is just to let people do
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  Speaker 3: what they're gonna do and make them feel safe that
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  Speaker 3: they can mess around and screw up on the way
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  Speaker 3: to performance. Yeah, I think that's kind of the key.
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  Speaker 2: You talked a little bit about characteristics that are both
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  Speaker 2: on and off the page. Is there anything about the
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  Speaker 2: character of Max that was off the page that you
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  Speaker 2: brought to the role that you felt like was essential
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  Speaker 2: to this character in this role.
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  Speaker 3: I think a sense of humor is one thing I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to bring to any character I do, whether it
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  Speaker 3: makes it to the screen or not, I think that's
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  Speaker 3: so important, a sense of humor on screen and off screen,
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  Speaker 3: to just be having fun and that. Yeah, that really
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  Speaker 3: helped with the chemistry that Emily and I had and
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  Speaker 3: how easy it was to work with her. So hopefully
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  Speaker 3: hopefully that some of that reads yeah, sense of humor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes through. Max is a fun character to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh good.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of your acting resume, you have a lot of work,
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  Speaker 2: both episodic and in movies. Is there a project you've
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  Speaker 2: done that you feel like didn't get the attention it
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  Speaker 2: deserves that you know would serve having a light shine
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  Speaker 2: on it that you wish people would check out again.
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  Speaker 3: I did a movie called The Broken Angel a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years ago that I think was really important. It
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  Speaker 3: was an indigenous woman's story and I think some people
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  Speaker 3: saw that in Canada, but it was Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: that was a really important film that I think people
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  Speaker 3: did see, but I think more people should see.
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  Speaker 1: And I kind of play the bad guy in that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That was a hopeful, hopeful movie and about something
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't always get to be seen by everybody. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's one when.
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  Speaker 4: I would pick.
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  Speaker 2: We have a smooch cho meter on our podcast, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it will rank quite well for this movie.
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  Speaker 4: So good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So what can I ask?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: What makes a kiss more swoony or less swoony? Or
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  Speaker 3: is it?
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes it's not a nameable quality, it's just you know
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  Speaker 5: it when you see it, and it's it's honestly, you're
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  Speaker 5: often surprised when you see like the off the charts
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  Speaker 5: smoochameter moments.
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  Speaker 2: But if we look big picture, like rewind back to
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  Speaker 2: young Carlow, is this the dream? Are you living the dream?
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  Speaker 2: Or is this not the path that you had envisioned
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  Speaker 2: for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I had a path envisioned. Maybe I
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  Speaker 3: should more do that, more like envision it, but I
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  Speaker 3: kind of just go from one thing to the next.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, there's that thing where you you know
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  Speaker 3: where you are in life. Sometimes you're dissatisfied, But if
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  Speaker 3: you go back ten years with that person seeing where
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  Speaker 3: you are now, would blow their mind that you are
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  Speaker 3: where you are. And I think that's yeah, that would
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  Speaker 3: If you know, I could go back ten twenty years,
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  Speaker 3: it would I think my I would be blown that
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  Speaker 3: I am where I am and doing what I love
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  Speaker 3: getting a chance to do that. So that's always a
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  Speaker 3: good thing to keep in mind. Maybe I should be
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  Speaker 3: more intentionable about where I'm going. I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of it is a feeling you want, whether you're acting
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  Speaker 3: or writing or whatever, dancing or accounting, we're doing it
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  Speaker 3: because we want a feeling, we want to commune with
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  Speaker 3: other people, or we want to express ourselves, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: that can surprise us in the form that takes, and
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  Speaker 3: it can be different than what we expected. But I
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  Speaker 3: think that's when it comes down to it. That's the
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  Speaker 3: most important thing and the thing we're looking for.
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  Speaker 2: Do you watch your own movies? And if so, do
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  Speaker 2: you do it by yourself? Do you like to have
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  Speaker 2: a crew with you watching? What's that experience like for you?
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  Speaker 4: I yeah, for the most part, I do. I watch
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  Speaker 4: them usually alone, usually reluctantly, and like you know, with
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  Speaker 4: one eye, and it usually goes like this, It's like
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  Speaker 4: I kind of want to watch this.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't do a very good job, Like okay, oh
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  Speaker 3: that was that bad? Oh that is nice, that was
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  Speaker 3: a nice moment, and then I kind of get drawn
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  Speaker 3: into the story. Usually but yeah, usually I watched alone.
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  Speaker 3: It's too hard to watch with somebody else because then
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  Speaker 3: you're watching them and you're watching for their reaction. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but this one was Yeah, I got like I said,
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  Speaker 3: it started like that, and then I kind of got
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  Speaker 3: sucked into the story, even though I knew what was
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  Speaker 3: going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: All right friends, Before we go, just a quick heads up,
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