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Gaten Matarazzo on Stranger Things, Star Wars, and Saying Goodbye · Kyle Meredith With...

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  [SPEAKER_03]: We've had some great guests drop by lately, Felicity Jones and Kerry Condon were just here to talk about the Netflix movie Train Dreams.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He's going to be the upcoming the last Mrs. Parish Audrey Nuna.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She's one of the voices behind K-pop demon hunters.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She spoke to us about about that show and her own music.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And that's me Kyle Merit today, my guess is Gaden Mataratsu, yes, you know him as Dustin Henderson from Stranger Things, one of the kids who made D&D heroic in 80s nostalgia, a billion dollar industry.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And of course, stranger things, and now, and it's a, and it's final season.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So, Gayden, I get to sit down and talk about that, talk about stranger things, and the long, weird, years-long goodbye that comes along with it, and what it's like to step off of the biggest show on the planet and straight into the unknown.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to get into how he's handling the out-of-work, the second-to-job-ins actor's life.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: his growing love of voice work, what drew him to Andy Circus' new film Animal Farm, the adaptation of Animal Farm, where he plays a brand new character, created just for that film.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We'll also talk fandom from the inside with Lego Star Wars, his dream of diving deeper into theater and not making an album.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: as many of his other Strangerthin castmates have been on this very show to talk about.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So let's get into all of that a more as we discuss Strangerthin's five.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's Kyle Meredith with Gate and Moderato.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: How are you doing, Kyle?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm thinking your, your, I've had almost all of the core cast on my show over the past 10 years except for you now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So whatever you go, we got to, just a little bit of time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Great, exactly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is good to, I'm glad I'm finally on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You look like you've had a very, very busy week already.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a, it's been a bit of a hassle, but I mean, that's kind of what we were expected.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like day three of like a bit of a press tour start, and then we start traveling for the junkets and all that jazz so it can be a bit of a hassle, but it's fun.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This makes it like the long goodbye, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we get to spend a lot of it together, which is really nice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We get to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The press can be a bit tedious, but it can be a lot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We get to travel over the cool places and we get to do it with each other.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's going to be a good time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to make a good time of it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I was thinking because of course there's always like oh the last day, you know the last day of shooting Yeah, you have the party afterwards, but then of course you don't really say goodbye because no rest stuff And now it's split up so many with the seasons split it like I had the same conversation with the co-broke guys You know, it's like how many times do you say goodbye?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean we've been talking about the end of the show since before we released season four, which is over three years ago
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and so all the questions ever since have been dominated by like how does it feel to be saying goodbye to this one like guys we've got three more years I promise we've got a good amount of time we've got to take it easy on that I promise you're going to get sick of asking us that can you put it behind you even at this point is that is that part of the whatever process
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not yet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I ever really want to put it behind me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I love for it to remain something that stays in my present mind and heart because I don't think I can ever let go of something as influential as this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not only such an incredible experience to have at any point, but to have it have in through your formative years is pretty special.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it'll always be a defining chapter of what I do going forward no matter what, and that's like an incredible honor, but I think
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  [SPEAKER_00]: be able to answer that better in like maybe a year or two.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Sure, once a year, yeah, I guess what I was getting at too, because having some of those other conversations, especially Maya's on here a lot, I know she's right over my shoulder there too, but Jo and Finn, like they weren't, they didn't mind saying that there is at least a little bit of freedom in the whole show as well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's fun to experiment with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have always looked at continuing to do the show or always felt very secure in it because even though we get little micro bits of freedom to work on what we want outside of the show during the time between seasons, that security of like we'll always have the next one was like so relaxing and now it really is like all right
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because no matter what, it's such a weird thing because of course the show has provided so many opportunities and is paved away for consistent work afterwards, at least you can hope.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It still is freelance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's still one of those things where you do you finish a job and you go, okay, maybe I'll sit for a second, but I really would like to know that the next one's coming and that's just the job for however long you decide to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's a little nerve-racking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've never done well with downtime, so I think it'll be a learning curve for me.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's what I mean, what a career, right?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's that's that's all part of because that's the thing people have said that like no matter how famous you are once the job is done, you're technically out of work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The technique way out of work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and that's what's great is that the show likes for you to things get you to the creative when you are out of work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not something you have to rush into the next one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's of course provided for for me and for the cast wonderfully in that respect of course.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's where it's very different because it's.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to being a working actor, it's just never a guarantee.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this show has provided that guarantee that if there is a cushion of time between parts that there is nothing to worry about there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's a breath of fresh air and a sigh of relief for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm very grateful for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I love to do what I do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like a lot of downtime between my jobs because I've been lucky enough to make a career out of my favorite hobby.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so I just want to keep doing it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And we'll be right back right after this.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's Kyle and Meredith with Gate and Madaratsu.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, of course, you've got animal farm, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's right.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Animal farm.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So you're lucky that one of the, there's a new character in the animal story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Which yeah, that was something, I love the original piece so much.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So here that there was a new character was scary to me, but what was really cool pitch is that so many issues with the last,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: iterations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's never worked on film yet, and one of the last, I think one of the primary reasons is that the narrator or the lens in which you see the story through is completely impartially entire time, which is eerie and scary because you see their system of, of whatever any kind of crumble in the rules change, with the writing on the wall, literally the writing on the wall,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: their rulebooks changing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's weird because you never really had an impartial look at it, which kind of took away from, I think, a vital part of that story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And lucky they pitched was like the most impartial that one could be because he grows of a very privileged place being what would become like in animal farm representation of a higher class system there, where it was kind of the pitches like a bit of like a Hitler youth figure of like,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, looking right away, everybody's great.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is great for me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then getting older and then looking around and saying like, oh shit, but not really having much of a perspective outside of it being very close to like boxer and one in the best for everybody, but not really seeing firsthand how much of a benefit he has there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so he could look kind of and partially be like, what do you mean?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything's awesome right now as it starts to not be.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And of course it's geared differently.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is
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  [SPEAKER_00]: it is a movie made to reflect today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a movie made to be observed and absorbed by younger audiences so that they can ingest that kind of a story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't shy away from the ugliness of what that original, but I mean
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  [SPEAKER_00]: perfect novel represents, um, but is definitely a different type of movie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're very, the, the production team was very clear about that going in that it is going to be there's a take there for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Was that was that part of any of the reason why you want to take it?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, obviously, the only thing further you would have went down that is if this was a movie about night of 1984, right?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: How about that was on your mind when you said yes to that?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I knew when it came for it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was like, there really isn't a world right.
• 9:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you say no to this?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's very risky, of course.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But once I saw when Andy circus was not only a part of the creating a but directing it himself, he's a brilliant mind, and somebody I don't think anybody would.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Turnedown working with him in any capacity and that was just an absolute deal breaker not only is it a matter of like even if it's something I didn't like I would be absolutely over the moon to go and work with him and thankfully it was something I did and something I was very excited to be a part of so that was really cool and it was a long process We filmed like we're recorded the whole thing and then I went back in for several years after that I figured I had regrets and changed some things and I
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  [SPEAKER_00]: had new directions that were taking.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it took a while for me to actually see it all come together, but it was always such a pleasure working with Andy.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Especially because he did all the off-camera acting with me and he's an incredible voice actor and is one of the most expressive performers in the industry.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: So being able to just even with him sitting on Zoom reading off of the page, he brought something so special to each character that I would read with and that was an opportunity you don't say no to.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I know it's voice acting so, you know, you're, you're silo, but you're right.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Nobody said no to him, right?
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because I'm looking at that set.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: That cast was a Steve Buschimmy, Glee, close, liver, cocks, cathlete, turner, gym parts.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, carry talking.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like, holy cow.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a pretty great lineup.
• 10:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that doesn't really, I don't, I never want that to be like a deciding factor in why I do something.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, that's really cool for them, but like, I don't want to just be like, oh, fun.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to put my name on a list of other people who have done great work, but I think it just fell into play to some God that he could be, I think, and he was a big part of why people have shown that project was because not only is it a classic piece that everybody, I mean, it's like one of those like standards he reading high school that I think most people go and end up revisiting at some point.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's that as well as working with one of, I believe, to be the more brilliant minds just creatively alive today doing it.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure I don't know if you would agree with me saying that, but I believe it for hardly.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: I've always been a passion project for a long time to see it finally realized in 2025 feels a bit kismet, as I was kind of.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Before that, but it's...
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: I look forward to seeing what you all have done with it, too.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, thanks.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: But I mean, this is, this is further on your development as a voice actor, too.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you're coming again off of, like, Ostar Wars, which, again, I've been a whole cow, right?
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is like, I hesitate to call myself a voice actor because voice acting itself is a completely,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: separate like beasts of its own, people spend their entire lives creating a repertoire of different voices that they can do and completely manipulating themselves vocally to do the most incredible things.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I've basically been lucky enough to play myself through this point, different versions of my own voice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you come, I've gone in for them, that's been the, the, no, is it like we like what you bring them to your other stuff.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so please keep that quality and please just use your voice with varying degrees of shifting it up a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so I've basically just played exaggerated versions of myself in the booth.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I struggle to say I'm a voice actor, though I've, I've done voice over work, I will say.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's very fun to do.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love it very, very much.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, I think at some point, you know, you're selling yourself short because I'm blanking on his name right now.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm kicking myself.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: He played Spachemon in 30 rock.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: He came from SNL.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He's on a Richard Rick and Morty Chris.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: Or he's on Archer, you know, I played a Cyril on Richard and everything.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just thinking like, like, he is one of those like you get the same voice every time.
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: But he's now made a career basically at some point.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: If you keep doing this, you're going to have to call yourself a voice.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: If I do enough, I think I'd never really have to say that, though, I assure a lot of people who invest a lot of time in voice acting would roll their eyes at that.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because there is a trend, I don't necessarily know about it, unfortunately, but there is a present trend of a lot of times projects, and I'm guilty of being a part of some of them, of where they come forward, like they're like, let's just get a bunch of
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  [SPEAKER_00]: People from other things outside of the voice over world to like jump in and maybe we can put those names on the title sequence and hopefully that makes a difference and getting people to see the movie Which I understand is like a part of that business and it receives a lot of frustration.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think rightfully so I don't think animal farm really represents anything like that because I think Andy knows New that a lot of these actors could bring something very specifically to the parts that they were playing and there was a lot of intention behind that but I love doing it and I'm I'm honored to be a part of it and work on stuff like that
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even though I understand there's something I think I wouldn't say problematic and not in that practice, but definitely something to take note of.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And we'll be right back right after this.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's Kyle Meredith with gated moderato was was it for Star Wars then with Legos was that more of just the fandom was that we're going from anything when that came through.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was a bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was a joke.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My dream was to be a part of anything Star Wars related since I was six years old and I was like, oh, so it must be like candy or something or it must be just a pitch or maybe something.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a full fledged ready to go Star Wars show that they want to be deleted and that was.
• 14:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: such a pinch me because I love I like working in the booth a ton and the part is so they're so indicative of the way I feel about Star Wars.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is like Sig is a Star Wars fan which is really funny to play a Star Wars fan in the Star Wars universe.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's such a charming take and a cool little stepping off point for the show to go to and it's just such a great
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Cresso director like the entire group is is really fun just a room full of
• 15:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: really devoted Star Wars fans hoping that Lucasfilm would let us greenlight our references that were never canon before this.
• 15:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I guess technically still aren't because it's a galaxy reshuffle, but we did get to talk about like characters from the expanded universe and little references that got like popular on Reddit, like character, and stuff that really only like the Deep Star Wars fans know about and let get the throw those and it was insane that they let us do it, but so much fun.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's been like the beauty of the Lego, the
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: You get some minions that you get to do that.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: Does this, has the expanded universe held your attention?
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, always has.
• 15:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think for the most part, I had a huge showcase on where I invested so much and learning about.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's like a history devoted to every single side character, like in the Jedi Council, that like everybody knows their name, with their backstory, and what they specialize in, and where they're from, and I devoted a good showcase on my time and going down those little rabbit holes for sure.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, to be yeah, I understand to be a part of that even if it's so fun to agree.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's what you always get to have that now.
• 16:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like that's really cool.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's now now as I'm still looking at those names back on that as I told you a lot of the the core of the Stranger Thing cast has been on here.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Almost every one of them I've talked about an album with.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, cool.
• 16:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was a single, you know, it's, but you've not given that.
• 16:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: You've not given that, you've not given that yet.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't play music, and I don't write, and I just sing in other things people have written in musicals and such.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Music plays a huge factor in my love for what I do, and I like to create music in that respect and in that way.
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I just always feel, I don't know if I necessarily have much to say yet, or I haven't found a drive to really feel like I could contribute well to that world, and I don't want to jump into a space that I don't feel as earned.
• 16:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: For myself, there's so many times that people jump into making music because they're like, I guess I can give it a go, and it's so tough because so many incredible
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: really an artist has such a hard time gaining that platform and not to say that using a platform authority there to like expand to new outlets is necessarily a bad thing at all in fact I think it's incredible that people have those opportunities but I just would like to have a take there you know what I mean before jumping into that world if I ever wanted to.
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think it starts with me learning how to play an instrument, which I only play my throat.
• 17:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm looking to jump into piano soon, I've had things come up with like, hey, do you play?
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't.
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: You should probably play because there's parts that come through that, especially in theater where it would be useful too.
• 17:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: to know.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully that takes up a good chunk of my new year.
• 17:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a resolution I have.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thought about one.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The whole theater side, because I know that's that's still such a huge side of your career.
• 18:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know if my perception is wrong, but I almost feel like, it's a very comfortable, like, are you more comfortable on that side?
• 18:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: Is that side drive you more or is that just how it's landed workwise?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: where it does and I don't really know why.
• 18:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think originally it's just how I learned to develop a low for it so it's very nostalgic for me, not just the type of work that it is, but the schedule and what the room feels like and the community and the family that is grown in a theater which is just
• 18:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not better or worse, it's just very different from anything that happens in film and TV, but it is weird, I feel more comfortable in that space, which I think the whole point of view is that it's supposed to chuck you right out of your comfort zone.
• 18:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: There really isn't anything to fall back on it, it just is basically skydiving every day and hoping it goes well.
• 18:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know why I love that process.
• 18:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love the anxiety.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like in the adrenaline junkie type.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: of a thrill to it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And weirdly enough, I love this schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I love knowing what the day off is going to be.
• 19:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love knowing that I can go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same time the next morning.
• 19:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: And once my body is in a schedule, I tend to take care of myself more.
• 19:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I tend to feel physically better.
• 19:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mentally feel better.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Though, it's a hassle for everybody in my life around the baby because I have no free time.
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: at all.
• 19:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have weekday afternoons and Mondays, but weekends are completely packed, usually two-shodays on both days.
• 19:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's not much of a social life or downtime, but really I'm fine with that.
• 19:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really do love the process quite a lot.
• 19:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, fighting any kind of consistency in this job, I mean, when you get that kind of repetition, you know, that's, yeah, why wouldn't you hold on it?
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: And to have the versatility that, you know, if one thing isn't striking you right now, right, you know, right offers in there, or it's just not where your interest is, you still have that other side.
• 19:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: So have that.
• 19:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have branches to go into.
• 19:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: And theater is far because it does.
• 20:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is a commitment no matter when you start, whenever the process for a show begins,
• 20:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Whether you're jumping into an existing production and replacing an actor that's already been there That's just moving on to something new or ending their contractor whatever reason that may be a lot of Just move on to do things a bunch, so that's why they cycle through and if you're so if you're replacing an actor in a show You have a three week rehearsal period and however long the round is which should be a few months They want you there for a good amount of time They don't just want you to do like a two week thing because the turn around's hard because if you're only there for a month They have to do the whole rehearsal process again
• 20:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: almost overlapping with your run.
• 20:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they want a chunk of time devoted to you being there.
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it is at least a multi a several month process.
• 20:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then if you're starting a show from scratch, a lot of times your workshop in you're in the development process, you start rehearsing of a show books a theater and then you take and then you open and that can take a year in itself.
• 20:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's it's not something that has been
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: as consistent as I would have loved it to be because you only have a certain amount of months between seasons.
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: But now, it would love to jump into something that takes a long time there.
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: Is that the plan?
• 21:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think so.
• 21:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think my, my, like, my managers and my agents are specifically like,
• 21:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: we know that's what you love, but I haven't done a lot of film and like maybe don't squash opportunities that come through in that department.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just because it's great to diversify its great to try to jump into new fields when the opportunity strikes.
• 21:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do live in New York cities so the opportunity to workshop here is to jump into something on stage when the time opens up is going to be there just based on the fact that I live here.
• 21:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I do understand
• 21:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: maybe taking a deep breath and waiting and not rushing a process too much.
• 21:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to come off, of course, all of this attention and the high of this final season and the last range of things.
• 21:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: And honestly, I don't think I properly complimented you because it is the world that you all created together and have given us.
• 21:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because that's also the interesting thing, right?
• 22:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: What we see in what your memories are are two completely different things.
• 22:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they are.
• 22:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm rarely remember that.
• 22:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but that's but but what we have seen it's it's been magical and everything and um, you know, so congratulations Thank you, your questions, man.
• 22:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I appreciate that.
• 22:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's pretty it's a pretty incredible thing to be a part of I don't I don't take it for granted.
• 22:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it was so great to have you on here finally.
• 22:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, likewise, Kyle I really appreciate it.
• 22:27
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• 22:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, hopefully we'll do this again on the next project.
• 22:30
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• 22:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, can't wait
• 22:32
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