Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Mia Threapleton; Danny & Michael Philippou (Bring Her Back); Robert Patrick

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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, it is action packed.

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I speak with Robert Patrick, Beneccio del Toro in the

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cast of The Phoenicians Scheme, and Danny and Michael Philip

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Howe all about the brand new A twenty four horror

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film Bringer Back.

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Let's go.

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from my

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Heart Radio, your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity

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interviews on all the movies, TV, music, and pop culture

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U CRABE Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Nick No no no, Nick. Hello, Welcome to pop Culture

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Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon.

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I thank you once again for joining me on pop

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Culture Weekly, your backstage pass to the biggest names and

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buzziest things in entertainment and pop culture. I of course

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I'm Kyle, and I'm so stoked about this stacked episode

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for you today. First up, we're going to be honoring

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the spirit of Memorial Day, as we did with the

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last episode where I was live from you know, the

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West lawn of the US Capitol in Washington, d C.

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For our annual National Memorial Day Concert episode where I

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interviewed a bunch of the talent, and you know, it

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was all about that amazing show, which is on demand

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and on Facebook and YouTube for the next two weeks,

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so make sure you check it out. So I have

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an interview from there with Robert Patrick from Terminator and

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The X Files and nineteen twenty three and Peacemaker and

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Reacher and just an awesome guy. So I talked with

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him once again about National Memorial Day concert. Then we're

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stepping into the eerie and electrifying universe of Danny and

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Michael Philip Hoal and their horror world as I talked

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to them about their brand new, amazing and spinting film

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Bring Her Back. It is so good. It is all

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of the things that I loved about. Talk to me

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times ten for Bring Her Back. And then we're diving

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headfirst into the mysterious and thrilling world of Wes Anderson's

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The Phoenician Scheme with its powerhouse cast including Academy Award

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winner Benicccio del Toro, be always compelling Michael Sarah and

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rising star Mia three polten. So trust me, this is

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one you don't want to miss. This is an awesome

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episode and I'm really hyped about it, all right, so

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let's jump right in. My first guest is an amazing

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actor whose career spanned over three decades and include some

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of the most iconic roles in film and TV, from

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terrifying audiences as the relentless T one thousand and Terminator

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to Judgment Day to delivering powerful performances like Agent Douga

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on The X Files and Sons of Anarchy and Peacemaker

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and so many more. He is a true force of

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nature on screen. But today he's not just going to

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be discussing those things, and you know, I got to

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ask him about the X Files, but something far more

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personal and powerful, the National Memorial Day Concert. So please

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welcome the one and only Robert Patrick. Okay, I am

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here once again with the amazing Robert Patrick on the

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West Lawn of the US Capitol. You're here for National

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Memorial Day Concert once again. Why is this so important

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for you to continue to do this show?

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Well, the show is fantastic because it's how we honor

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our fallen men and women that have given the ultimate

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devotion to this nation. I'm very, very proud to be here.

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I come from a military family. My grandfather was a

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lieutenant colonel of the United States Army fought War One,

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World War II, and Korea, and I honor his ser

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us by being here. But I love coming to DC,

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And even if I'm not doing the show, I'm here

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every year. I ride my Harley out here and I

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come out with the Vietnam Vets and we demonstrate. We

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ride through the streets doing rolling Thunder. I'm also involved

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with TAPS. I go out there. I'll be going out

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there shortly after this interview. But to become involved with

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these different organizations, it really helps me make sure that

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I show my appreciation for the men and women of

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our armed forces that have given their lives uses and

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you know freedom, freedom is not free, and somebody sacrificed

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their life for you to enjoy all this. So it's

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a fantastic way to honor them.

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Yes, And you know, you've been in so many amazing projects.

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Some of them some of them not so good.

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Well, you're very kind.

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There's a couple.

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Then you are here, you're doing You're telling somebody's real story.

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You know.

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Uh, this is probably one of the hardest acting jobs

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to do because you're gonna tell one of these heroes,

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one of these men that has actually been in combat

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and seeing his brothers fall and witness the horror of war,

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and tell it from his perspective, in his words, his

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point of view, and try to find a tone that

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he will he he will approve of. And he's going

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to be sitting right there, so the pressure is on.

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I was gonna ask you if you can't, I can't

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play Don Graves, but I hope I tell his story

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very well.

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Well rehearsal you certainly did well.

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I had. It was a good rehearsal. Today. Let's hope

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we didn't blow that for the for the performance, because

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you only get so many of those everyones.

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Finally, I'm a huge X Files fan. I've asked you

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about it before. Sure, Ryan Coogler is kind of rebooting

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it with Fox.

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Yeah, I'm so old. They don't want me. I'm sixty

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six years old. They don't want me out there being

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the X Files. I guess some young, sexy, thirty year

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old guy, forty year old guy I'd be out there

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doing that. There's nothing for me to do in the

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X Files except maybe play the aged John Doggett. But

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I have a Since you brought up John Doggett, I'm

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going to talk to you. About John Doggett. You know,

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John dogget was marine Don Grays's marine. John Doggett was

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an FBI agent. I told everyone at the end of

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the X Files. People said, what do you think happened

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to John Doggett? And I said, well, John Doggett ran

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off and joined the Motorcycle Club and he's living as

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a hermit somewhere in the Southwest. So that's where John

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Doggett is.

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Thank you, Sarah.

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It's always a pleasure, my pleasure.

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I appreciate it.

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God, bless you, buddy. There's the handshake here.

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Thank you, Thank you, God, bless you, Thank you God.

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All right, buddy, Okay. Robert Patrick such an awesome guy.

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He's funny, he's so talented, and his dedication to you know,

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our nation's heroes is really just so touching and inspiring.

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So you can still catch the National Memorial Day Concert

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on demand on PBS's website, on Facebook, and on YouTube.

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We'll have the links in the show notes and check

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it out. It is really really powerful stuff. Capitol Concerts

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always does such a great job, and this year was

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no exception. So all right, next up, Danny and Michael

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Philippal exploded onto the scene with their breakout horror hit

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Talk to Me, which you know I raved about when

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it came out, and they proved that not only can

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YouTubers make the leap to filmmaking, but they can freaking

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crush it. So now they're back with their highly anticipated

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follow up film, Bring Her Back, a twisted, emotional and

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terrifying ride that is sending shock waves through the horror community.

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I mean there's this one part no spoilers that I

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honestly thought about not leaving totally the you know, the movie,

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but getting up and standing outside for a moment because

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it was crazy. But anyway, Danny and Michael are they're

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also you know, they're Australian brothers, and they always bring

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a unique electric energy to everything they do. Their YouTube

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is amazing, now their films are amazing, and their bold

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vision is really helping to reshape modern horror. So please

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welcome to Pop Culture Weekly the wildly talented and brilliantly

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unhinged duo Danny and Michael Philippa. Thank you so much

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both of you for joining me. I really appreciate it.

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Oh my gosh, yeah, I think of having us. Thank you.

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Of course, First of all, I love talk to me

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and I love this film. Who Hurt you guys.

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A multiple people. Yeah, it's like any time.

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That you're writing any sort of horror film, you're drawing

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from everything that makes you uncomfortable. You look back on

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every single experience, you look back on anything that like

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sticks with you in like a sort of bad way,

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and then like the film is our way to exercise

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that sort of stuff.

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It's it's amazing to me because it's just both films are.

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It's I feel like it's I'm a huge genre fan,

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huge horror fan, as both of you are. I feel

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like it's it's helping to elevate the genre, you know.

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It's I mean, there's a place and a time for

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like silly, mindless slashers or whatever, and I love those two.

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But I feel like the work that you guys are

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doing are helping to lift it to be taken more

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seriously as films. You know.

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the films can exist as a drama film, Like if

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you took all the horror elements out, you could still

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tell this story as like a real life story, and

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well that just helps the horror when you can if

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you can connect with the characters and they feel real

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when these things happen. It gives them more impact. So, yeah,

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we love the mindless slash of stuff.

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I do as well.

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Yeah, but for our stuff, it's like we like trying

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to create stuff that's like with three dimensional characters and purpose.

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comes out and it's your first big feature film and

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kind of explodes why did you choose for Bring Her Back?

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Why did you choose this story?

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and to go bolder, and it felt this felt like

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the right story to tell.

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And there were so many offers that came in.

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There were so many big, exciting projects, but this felt

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like the most personal.

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wrote Talk to Me. So it was something that we

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just wouldn't be able to get out of our heads

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unless we actually made it. Anytime I would have been

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on anything, I would have just been.

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think that always makes the best art.

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When you're being as personal as possible. It is kind

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of in a way, it's bigger that it's bigger in

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a different way. Yeah, it's definitely more violent.

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last night and there was a scene that I was like,

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I wish that I didn't have ears and eyes at

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that moment, if you know what I'm talking about. And

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but for me, it really boils down to grief and

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you know, what, what will we do? What could we

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do for our loved ones? Do you how is that?

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Does that resonate with the both of you?

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Like it was tapping into those fears, Like the idea

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of a never ending grief is so terrifying, the idea

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of never being okay ever again, the idea of not

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being able to let someone go. Manifesting that in your

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mind and picturing what that looks like and what does that.

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It's all consuming, it's all encompassing, and it's like twisting

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someone so beautiful into someone you know, horrific.

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So yeah, that was a very very big inspiration point

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for sure.

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And do you feel, you know, as you're doing a

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film like Bring Her Back, do you feel that you know,

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putting these emotions in like in other words, is that

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something that's extremely conscious from the beginning as you're conceptualizing

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the project, like this is a story on as you said,

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you know, not being able or whatever to let somebody go.

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Is that a concept that then conceptualizes into a bigger

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story or how does that process work for you?

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Guys?

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you're writing, and it's always moments and scenes and characters,

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and it's sort of like you're putting these things together

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and the story finds itself as you write. But yeah,

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the biggest inspiration point for this movie was a friend's

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little sister who's non sighted and.

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Her wanting to catch the boss.

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to let her do that, because you know, it can

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be really dangerous. But in her mind, she's like, I

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need to learn how to be independent, I need to

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learn how to navigate the world. And I could see

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both sides of the argument, and so that was a

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really fascinating thing. And I started writing on that and

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talking to her a little bit more and like asking

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what she feels, like, what what do you think that

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would be like to be able to see? And she said,

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I'm glad I can't see because now I don't have

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to see the ugly things in the world, And like

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that statement was so poignant and that became like the

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thematic base for the entire film.

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came from.

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scenes for sure.

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That's incredible when you're doing a film like this. Obviously,

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as genre lovers yourself, do you find inspiration in other

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films and if so, what were some of those projects

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for for Bringer Back.

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I mean, we looked at a bunch of psycho baby

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films from the fifties and sixties, and so whatever happened

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to Baby Jane was a big one. Wait until Dark

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was a big one. Se you know, Evil was a

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big one. Yeah, mouse Hunt was a big one. Uh,

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Michael loves this movie called mouse Hunt.

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Uh film mouse Hunt, the the with Nathan Lane or whatever.

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Yeah, that's the one baby.

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Ye a few scenes we guess which once.

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When? And you guys essentially started out on YouTube as

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you are, you know at that time creators obviously, you know,

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as artists, we all envision bigger for ourselves. But do

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you ever think, you know, in five years, ten years,

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three years, two years, I'm going to be you know,

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we're going to be creating projects for We're causing bidding

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wars and being with eight twenty four And was that

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ever on your radar? Then it's just.

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The most impossible thing to imagine. And it just this

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is always the dream. The dream was always to be

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able to make movies that we wanted to make. We

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have no kind of limitations, like whatever idea we wanted

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to do to.

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Create it, that was always the dream.

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So yeah, it's so surreal that like we're able to

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be in this position and we feel so lucky and

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so honored that we get to do it, and yeah,

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it's it's scary, so like please don't go away, because

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it's just like, yeah, it's that that's a terrifying thing

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as well. And yeah, and I could feel the pressure

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mounting off to talk to me where I was like

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getting scared to make another movie, Like I was like.

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Am I supposed to top this? Am I?

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There's a certain expectation now, And like I could feel

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myself getting paralyzed by that, and the only way to

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sort of overcome that was just the sign onto the

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next one and be like quickly like the doors open, go,

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let's go, and don't think about it, just just jump in.

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I'm so glad you did. And I know everybody that

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sees it is going to feel the same when when

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you're doing, you know, a film like Bring Her Back.

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Do you ever, and I kind of mean this more literally,

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do you ever put parts of yourself into these characters?

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I mean you're you're both, you know, writing and directing.

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It's gotta I feel like kind of be hard not to.

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Is that accurate?

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Yeah? Yeah, I do not write with Michael. Michael did

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not write this. I did. He did not.

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We have a co writer named Bill Hinsman who's so

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incredible to collaborate with. And yeah, it's interesting, like you

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draw from everywhere, you draw from yourself, You draw from

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people that you know, experiences that you've had, and just

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listening to stories of people and talking to certain people

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as well, like talking to a bunch of different mothers

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and talking about like how far would you go for

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your kid? And even our producer Samantha Jennings is such

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an incredible creative producer as well. Conversations with her, deep

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conversations with her. It's such an intimate thing when you're

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writing a script, and I think the way to make

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it the most unique is to make it the most personal.

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And yeah, so I think there's bits of everything in that.

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I love that. Thank you boys both so much. I

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can't wait for everybody to see this. And I'm already

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excited for your next projects. And thank you.

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Awesome, thanks, thank you Danny and Michael philipp.

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Love those guys, love their work, love talk to me,

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love bring Her Back, and I can't wait to see

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what they do next. I can't wait for you to

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see Bring Her Back so we can talk about it.

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It is so good. I really really loved it, and

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I think you will too. So once you see it,

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hit me up on social or email, or leave a

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feature you on the next episode. So all right, we're

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gonna take a quick break. When we come back, we

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are speaking with the cast of Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme,

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including Nicccio del Toro, Michael Sarah, and Mia Threppleton. See

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you in sixty All right, welcome back. Thanks for supporting

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and help me bring it to you so we can

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continue to do this and I can continue to interview

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you know, these amazing talents and talk about movies and

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music and streaming and TV. So all right, our next

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guests are starring in the latest cinematic adventure from the

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endlessly inventive Wes Anderson. I love Wes Anderson. The Phoenician Scheme.

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That's his newest film. It is a visually stunning, emotionally rich, and,

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as always with Wes, a delightfully offbeat tale that only

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he could bring to life. So he is an Oscar

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winning actor known for his magnetic intensity and unforgettable roles

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in everything from Traffic to The French Dispatch. The legendary

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Benicio del Toro, and joining him is a comedic genius

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who's charmed Us in Super Bad, Arrested Development and Scott Pilgrim,

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and is now diving headfirst into Anderson's whimsical world. The

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brilliantly understated Michael Sarah and rounding out the trio. She

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is a rising star and actually she is the daughter

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of Kate Winslet, and she's making serious waves on her

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own with powerful performances the incredibly talented Mia Threppleton. So

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let's jump right in and get a peak behind the

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pastel curtains of the Phoenician scheme. Here they are Benicio

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del Toro, Michael Sarah, and Mia Thripleton. Thank you all

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for joining me. I really appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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So. First of all, the film's incredible. And I got

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to ask, Benicio, you've worked with Wes Anderson before. Uh,

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he builds these like worlds that are so unique and incredible.

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Is that part of the attraction of doing another West film?

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Yeah? Absolutely, I think. I think he also creates these

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characters that are very that are full of contradictions, that

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are like that are you know, very human, and you know,

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uh so it's a challenge for for any actor to

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try to, you know, be that character and bring it

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to life.

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Uh.

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And it's it's it's a lot of fun, you know,

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that that contradiction, the arc. Also, the all three of us,

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you know, had characters that evolved, you know, and you

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know that's to have three in the same movie. It's

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that's that's like, you know, they don't make them like that,

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movies that have character. You know, all these actors, all

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these characters are evolving. It's kind of it's really really

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really exciting and a compliment to us his writing.

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I love that. And Michael, you've had a interesting You

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have an accent that obviously you don't normally have, did

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you like at the practice that like tell me a

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little bit about that.

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Yeah, it took a little work, and it was kind

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of a matter of Wes and I delicately kind of

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finding where, you know, how far you can take that

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without ruining the movie basically or just you know, tipping

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it into like being ridiculous or just you know, being

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too loud of an element in the movie. So it's

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kind of a fine line. But I mean the character

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was written as Norwegians, so it was sort of and

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you know, not to spoil anything, but like then there's

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a twist later that where the character I'm kind of

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spoiling it, but anyway, it kind of turns, and that

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turn was kind of you know, kind of depends on

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the accent in a way too, because so that you

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can kind of create a like a before and after.

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So yeah, it was like a matter of working with

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Wes and both of us like taking a deep breath

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and just going for it. At a certain.

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Point, that's great and in me, this is your first

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starring role in a big you know, a big film.

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What is that like?

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I mean, that's so awesome.

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It was.

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Unbelievable, and not just as a hyperbolic thing to say it, truly,

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I did not believe that it was happening to me.

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I got the first email, which was a self tape

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request with dummy sides, sides that were or audition pages

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that were not from the original film script. So I

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and so I sort of did that and had that

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moment of thinking, right, Okay, well it's out in the

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universe now. If nothing else comes of this beyond this point,

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then I will still be very I'll still feel very,

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very grateful and very happy that I got to send

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in a self tape to Wes Anderson, somebody who I've

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loved and admired his work since I was eight years

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old and literally have been dreaming of hopefully maybe fingers

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cross wish on all of the stars, wanting to work

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with that person. And then, yeah, complete disbelief when that

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moment came, when my agent called me and said they'd

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like to offer you the job. I did burst into

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tears and did not stop crying for possibly a good day.

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Maybe I didn't. I still don't really know how this

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is happening, but I'm sort of waiting for someone to

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sort of wait me up from this dream. I don't know.

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I still feel like I'm dreaming.

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Well, I think it's real, and I think you've earned it,

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and you're amazing in it, as all of you are.

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So thank you all very much. I can't wait for

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everybody to see the film. It's so great.

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Thank you.

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A good game, Nicio del Toro, Michael Sarah me a

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Thriple team, Love those guys, Love the Phoenician Scheme, Love

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Wes Anderson, and I got to know. If you're a

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Wes Anderson film, go see The Phoenician Scheme and let

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me know what you think. I love him. He builds

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these like worlds that are just you don't find anywhere else,

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you know what I mean, Like you're You're I always

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feel like I know it's a Wes Anderson film by

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the look and the cast and the script and the

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just everything about it. He just puts you in the

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unique world of Wes Anderson. So anyway, that's our show

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for this episode. Let me know what you think. What

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are you watching, what are you not watching? What are

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you loving? What are you not loving? Let's talk about it.

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It was an action packed episode, an action back episode.

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We had Robert Patrick, Beniji Yountora, the Philip Brothers, Michael

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Sarah and week Forget Me Fenya. He was a knocking

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pact show