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Interior Chinatown Cast (Taika Waititi) / Noah Beck, Sienna Agudong & Debora Cox (Sidelined: The QB & Me)

Have you ever felt like a background character in your own life? Join Kyle McMahon as he explore this intriguing concept with the stars of Hulu's "Interior Chinatown," Executive producer Taika Waititi, author Charles Yu and stars Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny...

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Have you ever felt like a background character in your own life? Join Kyle McMahon as he explore this intriguing concept with the stars of Hulu's "Interior Chinatown," Executive producer Taika Waititi, author Charles Yu and stars Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, Sullivan Jones, Lisa Gilroy, Archie Kao and Tzi Ma all speak with Kyle with candid insights into the groundbreaking series.  Based on Charles Yu's novel, these discussions reveal how it humorously challenges Hollywood stereotypes and conventions, while also resonating deeply with personal experiences of identity and representation. 

Switching gears, the episode also highlights a refreshing take on love and vulnerability through the lens of the new romantic comedy "Sidelined: The QB and Me." Grammy nominated Deborah Cox discusses her inspiring role in the film and Sienna Agudong and Noah Beck open up about their creative process and the courage needed to express unconditional love. We discuss the inspiration behind their roles and how personal significance fuels their passion projects.

 From the layered storytelling of "Interior Chinatown" to the heartfelt narrative of "Sideline, the QB and Me," this episode promises to captivate listeners with fresh perspectives and engaging conversations. So, whether you're a fan of thought-provoking television or charming romantic comedies, there's something here for everyone.

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In this week's episode of pop Culture Weekly, I talk

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with the cast of Hulu's Interior Chinatown, including the amazing

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taykow Bit TD, who I love so much. And I

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talk with the cast of Sideline to QB and Me,

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including Deborah Cox and Noah Beck.

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Let's go Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon

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from my Heart Radio, your pop culture news, views, reviews

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and celebrity interviews on all the movies, TV, music and

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pop culture U Crab Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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No no, no, no, no, no, no no it Hello and welcome

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to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I of course

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am Kyle McMahon, and I thank you so much for

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hanging with me for another episode of pop Culture Weekly.

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So in this episode, it's all about the series Interior

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Chinatown on Hulu and the new film Sideline the QB

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and Me starring Noah Beck. These are two great projects,

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two different projects, but great projects, and I think you'll

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enjoy them both. We're gonna start off with Interior China.

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Tound So imagine a world, if you will, for a

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moment where your life feels like a script and every

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day you're playing a role that someone else has written

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for you. Well, welcome to Interior Chinatound, a really groundbreaking

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TV series that blends sharp social commentary with humor, drama,

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and you know, a touch of the absurd.

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You know. I love that.

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It's based on Charles U's award winning novel and it

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explores the life of Willis Wu, a Taiwanese American actor

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stuck in Hollywood's endless loop of stereotypical roles like quote

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generic Asian man unquote and quote Kung Fu guy quote

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end quote.

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But this is more than a showbiz satire.

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It's actually a deeply person exploration of identity and family

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and the invisible systems that shape how we see ourselves

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and other people. So as Willis begins to question this

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script that society has essentially handed him, the series takes

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viewers on a journey of self discovery that is equal

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parts heart.

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Wrenching and really really hilarious.

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It's got a unique storytelling format, a stellar cast, and

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it really just challenges conventions and invites us to rethink

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the narratives that we live by, which is really important

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to me and I think to all of you. So basically,

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Willis Wu He's a background character stuck in a police

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procedural drama.

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That's called Black and White.

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And then one day he accidentally witnesses a crime and

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as he investigates, he starts to uncover family secrets and

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this whole Chinatown criminal underground while learning how it feels

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to be in the spotlight himself.

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It's really really great. I love the show.

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It's funny and Taika, I mean what like, I love him?

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So in any event, uh, let's start off with the

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interviews from Interior China Town. We're gonna start with Ronnie

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Chang and Chloe Bennett. Ronnie plays Fatty, who is Willis's

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best friend and co worker at the Golden Palace, which

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is like the restaurant he works at. And then Chloe

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is Detective Lana Lee, who is a detective who recruits

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Willis to investigate the disappearance of his brother. So let's

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talk with Ronnie Chang and Chloe Bennett. Thank you both

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for joining me. I really appreciate it.

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I hate radio. There you go. Thank you.

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So, first of all, congratulations to Bow. The view on

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the project. Interior or Chinatown is so awesome. It's so

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funny and layered and smart, and I wonder what.

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Drew you to the project.

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Both of you, Well, there was just for some reason,

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I just got sent the book.

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I think because I'm Asian.

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They were just like find it to the Asian.

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I did, just like get the book at my doorstep

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literally in twenty twenty, and I it had really good packaging.

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There was like little treats in there.

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So I read it and I immediately, I think, anyone

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you know, it was an extremely It felt like someone

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had dug out the inside of my brain and was

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able to really organize and in a much more intelligent

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way kind of regurgitate thoughts that have been kind of

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like stagnant in my brain since I can remember.

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I actually to stop reading it because I thought, but

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and I thought, man, if they're going to make this

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into a show eventually, and if I don't get cast

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in this, I have to quit acting. Because if I

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can't play this character, then I can't then I should

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Stakes, for some reason, I made them very high for

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myself right away, and so it immediately spoke to me,

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and I guess that's what drew me to it.

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I love that. And how about for you, Ronnie, what

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drew me to it? Yeah?

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ignorant brain. It doesn't follow traditional story structure, which is

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very interesting to me. And you know, it starts as

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a screenplay and speaking to actors. So when I read

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it as someone who I get, I'm lucky to get

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small roles in stuff in show business in America, so

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obviously it spoke to me as someone who was kind

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of in the background of stuff, you know. And I

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read it and I was kind of the opposite of Chlobe.

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I was like, there's no way they can make this

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into a show. It's too cock you know. Yeah, So

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I wasn't even thinking about the TV show. I was like, man,

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this book is really cool, you know. I wish I

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wish more people.

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Could read it. So, yeah, that's super interesting. And have

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you ever felt in your lives like a background character

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in your own life?

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Hell yeah, man, do you want to go?

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I mean, yeah, for for me, it's a lot of

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the themes that you know, I think I struggle with

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in my life or something and that we mirror on

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the show with Lana is uh, you know, mixed race identity,

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which we play a lot with in the show, very literally,

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also not so literally, but being mixed uh. And I

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think a lot of being a woman, you know. Uh,

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even even as I'm introduced in the show, it's it's

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all through the male gaze.

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It's where it's it's put out.

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She's put on this pedestal.

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And she's assumed.

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There's a lot assumed about her because of something intentionally, Yeah, intentionally,

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which we're all very aware of on the show. And

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I think that's a beautiful metaphor for a lot of

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the ways that you know, I've I've had to navigate

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my career because at the end of the day, you know,

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I've been working for like fifteen years and I've never

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been the lead of something. I've always been the female lead.

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there's always that kind of element as a woman.

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show business. Sometimes in society I think this Asian people,

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Native American people. I'm sure Latinos feel that way. I

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don't speak for them. Pacific Islanders. You know, I like

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you sometimes feel like you are a back out character

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in the movie of America in real life, sometimes like

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your voice doesn't matter. Nobody cares what you think about anything.

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No one's like looking out for you in a way.

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So in that sense, yeah, you know, yeah.

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That's that's so powerful. It's thank you both for speaking

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with me.

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I can't wait for everybody to see Interior China down

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exclusively on Hulu.

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Thank you both.

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Thanks to us, of course, Ronnie Chang and Chloe Bennett.

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All right, moving right along. Next up, we have Lisa

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Gilroy and Sullivan Jones. So Lisa plays Sarah Green, who's

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a detective who leads the investigation of several crimes in

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Port Harbor, along with Sullivan Jones, who plays Miles Turner,

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who you know works right along with her. This is

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a fun group and I can't wait for you to

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hear my interview with them.

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Lisa Gilroy and Sullivan.

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Jones, Hi, thanks for having us.

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Of course. So first of all, congratulations on the series.

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It's it's uh, it's it's.

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and I love how meta it is in many ways.

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What is that what attracted you to the project or

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what attracted you to the project?

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I think on the front, especially for us, it kind

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of presents as like, you know, this cop procedural, which

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is very fun, especially for someone like me who is

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a comedian. It doesn't ever get to say serious things

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or touch a gun. No one has ever allowed that

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before in the history of time, So that's very fun.

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But then when you look closer at the story, there's

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so many different stories going on and there it's not

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always what you think. So I think that's really that's

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titillating if I'm allowed to say.

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Tits so you can, how about for you he Sullivan.

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Aside from being titillating, which doesn't have the word tits

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in it.

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But it's titillating.

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Yeah, aside from being no I read it the first

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time and I was like, wait, what is happening? And

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then I had to read it again, and I feel

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like that's usually typically a good thing, when you're like,

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let me read this again to find out exactly what's

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being rendered. And yeah, and Taiko was involved, Yeah, Lias

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is involved involved.

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Involved. Now you implicate.

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Me in a in a meta way, I guess I

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come that so and then for you, for you both

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and Sullivan, we can start with you and then we'll

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go back because apparently I'm really bad in going it

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in order.

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But uh, did you as an actor are like?

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Do you get the same joy reading it as like

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a viewer does from watching these things unfold, especially because

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there's some some unexpected turns and that sort of thing.

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Or do you view it as from a lens of okay,

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this is who I would be and or or do

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you kind of get to fanboy over it too?

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I think you fat you totally fanboy over it, and

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then once you decide to help make it, then you

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kind of drop into like, all right, what's what's my

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role and how do I participate? But I think the

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fan boying is is like what draws you in in

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the first place?

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M hm? And how about for you?

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Is it?

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For me, I get a script, you know, I read

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just my lines and nothing else.

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Then yeah, okay, No, I'm kidding.

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That's the temptation because you just want to be like,

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what do I get to say?

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Right?

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Actually reads the lines to her. She looked at the

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script the.

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Whole time, really hard not to just get too excited

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about the things that you get to say, but the

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whole story is so juicy and delicious, and I feel

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like on set we would get you know, we'd get

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the scripts ahead of time before shooting the episodes, and

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we would come to set and it would be like

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we had all just watched an episode of our favorite

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show the night before, Like.

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Can you believe that happened?

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Or you said this, or you did this, or so

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and so is pregnant that never happened.

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Energy whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah, And and finally, have you

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ever felt like a background character in your own life.

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Right now, right now?

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Stop?

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I feel like, especially because I came up in comedy

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and it sometimes in the early days, we kind of

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feel like the boys got to mostly be the main

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characters and and women were more supporting, you know, especially

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in improv. I don't know, sometimes I how could I

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keep ending up as the wife.

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Or the dog at every scene?

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So maybe like supporting character I feel like is big

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for women, but definitely been there.

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And how about for you, Sullivan.

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I feel like in certain family dynamics, I'm like, guys,

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what about me? Just because I'm the youngest.

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And I get some respect. Please. You're not going to

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call anybody out, but you know who you are.

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That's why he grew so tall to get attention.

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Yeah, imagine that was my comeback, was to be six

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foot four and be like, yeah, now I can dunk

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on you in the backyard basketball game and.

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See I'm five to seven in an Eli child. So

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it all tracks, you know what I mean? Nice? Really? Yes?

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Yeah, because everyone's set their heads now and I.

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Felt left out.

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I love this.

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Thank you both so much for speaking with me. I

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can't wait for everybody to see exclusively on Hulu. You

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guys are awesome. Thank you, thank you, thank you as well.

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Have a great day, Lisa Gilroy and Sullivan Jones. All right,

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moving right along with the Interior Chinatown cast, we have

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Archie cal and ziem So. Joe Wu is Archie's father

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and he's appeared in shows like The Man in the

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High Castle, twenty four films like Rush Hour, Rush Hour three,

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The Farewell, Kung Fu on the CW and UH and

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Archie has been in Chicago, PD, Power Rangers, Lost Galaxy,

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and CSI. So let's talk with Archie, Cow and ziem

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Let go.

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So, first of all, congratulations on the series.

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It is.

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It's so much fun. It's it's layered, it's funny. What

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drew you both to to the project.

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It's such a thoughtful project, such.

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A you know, when I've said this earlier, it's I

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don't I don't think.

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The fundamental premise of it is simply just that they're

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Asian in Chinatown. Like it's you know, it's an expression

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of their larger humanity and how it feels to be

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a background player in your life and maybe not seen

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in all the ways that you want to be seen

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or feel like you would be it would be a

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contributor to your society at large. And when I saw

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the way that, you know, it was just so well

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expressed in the novel, I just couldn't. I read it

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in one sitting, just I think, like a lot of people,

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I couldn't resist it. In I made my mission to

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hopefully be part of it. And I'm delighted me sitting

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here talking to you about it right now.

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Yeah, the book attracted me. I read the book first.

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A friend of mine sent it to me from New York.

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He said, man, dude, you gotta check out this book.

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I said, okay, fine, So I got the book and

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I said, damn, this is good man. And then then

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our hear said, oh, guess what they want to do

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a series? I said, really, okay, I wonder how.

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They're going to do it.

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I was intrigued, Yeah, because okay, how do you translate

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this beautiful book onto the screen?

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Right?

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And then I started looking at the team that's putting

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this together. I said, all right, I think we got

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a chance. But you never know, right, we commit ourselves

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to projects, sometimes we scratch.

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Our head and go, damn, what the hell happened?

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You know what I'm saying. And now you know you

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kind of go, wow, okay, whatever happened happened?

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Right? Yeah, I'm very proud of it, very proud as

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you should be.

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It is.

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It is so well done and and no, you know,

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and with the both of you contributing greatly to that. So, uh,

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did you you know as you're doing a project like this,

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as in particularly this one, it's so meta, you know,

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there's so many kind of tongue in cheek things that

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are obviously what they're smartly and for a reason. Uh,

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did you feel that as you were doing it, like

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it was almost like you're it's I feel like being

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an actor in this project, it's almost like double meta

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because you're an actor playing uh, these characters.

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In a you know what I mean is that is that?

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Is it that way for you when you were doing this?

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It certainly was for me like I was trying to

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play detective work called I think.

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And you know what you really love about is with

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the team like they were.

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Charlie and the producer is very open to like, let's well,

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let's let's talk about that, you know, let's see how

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this and you know, and and because it's a it

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was it's a bold approach, right to take. It's not

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as simple as the world of Black and White, the

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Parci Traumise, which I mean I spend a great deal

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of my career in that world as well, so I

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feel very familiar with it.

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But this whole like world within a world, I just

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love that approach to it and.

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My my my particular character.

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I know that the media only got episodes one through five,

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but I hope that you'll endure and see like it'll

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all into something more.

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And my character doesn't just yell at people.

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So in my experiences, I never try to get ahead

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of myself, you know, I get into a project, I

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stay in a moment and I continue to explore, you know,

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as we go, because I don't think that it's event.

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The advantage of not jumping the gun. I think, you know,

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it helps me stay in a moment and we're discovering

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all of these processes together, you know, with all the characters,

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me as dad, me as seafool, and me as friend,

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you know, and as husband is the spouse. So all

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of those things are really helpful not to jump the

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gun and take the moment to moment as it comes.

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I love that.

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Hi, Archie, thank you so much for speaking with me.

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I can't wait for everybody to see Interior Chinatown exclusively

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on Hulu.

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Thank you, thank you, Archie cowen Zie Ma.

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Love those guys and don't forget. You can watch the

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video interviews. The video versions of these interviews on my

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Socials pop Culture Weekly Socials. So hit the show links

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and you can find them. Next up, I'm so excited.

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Taika why TD and Charles yu So. Taika is a

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New Zealand filmmaker. He's an actor, He's a comedian. He

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is best known probably direct for direct quirky comedy films

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and He's received numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a

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BEAFTA Award, a Grammy Award. He was named by Time

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as one of the one hundred most influential.

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People in the World just two years ago.

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He's written and directed Boy, Thor Ragnarok which I Love,

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Thor Love and Thunder, Hunt for the Wilder People, Jojo Rabbit,

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What We Do in the Shadows Next Goal Wins. He's

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amazing and Charles U is an American writer who wrote

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the original novel Interior Chinatown that this is based on.

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He's also written How to Live Safely in a Science

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fictional Universe, and in two thousand and seven he was

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named as a five Under thirty five honoree by the

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National Book Foundation and Interior Chinatown. The novel won the

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National Book Award for Fiction in twenty twenty two. In

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twenty twenty upon its release, So let's talk with Charles.

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You and Tai Why t.

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Thank you both for speaking with me. I really appreciate it. Carl.

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It's a pleasure just to hear your voice. That is

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a radio voice, and that is a beautiful voice you've got.

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Thank you. You sound like my parents. They always said,

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I had a voice for radio.

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So.

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No, I'm not doing that. I didn't ask to be born.

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I was like, I want to be a model, and

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they were like, no, you should do radio. So but

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but first of all, congratulations to both of you for this.

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This is it's so fun and great and layered and

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it's it really is a great project.

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Charles, if I may start with you, you are you

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know this was your conception from the stark What first

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of all inspired you to write the book?

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And then what made you decide, hey, I want to

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take this, you know, to the screen.

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My parents inspired me. They wanted me to be a

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doctor and I failed at that, so I wrote a

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book instead. And you know, I think the idea of

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getting it do it for screen was just a dream

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come true. And then Tyker signed on and they said,

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let's let's make a show. So it was kind of

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that's it. That's the whole story, that's how it works.

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Yeah, just like that. Just years, yeah, yeah, just a

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very quick twelve years.

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And for you, Tike, you know you obviously you have

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your hand in so many things, which I love all

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of them, by the way, but how uh, why did

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you say, you know, this is a project that I

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want to EP I want to be involved in.

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I want to help bring this to the world.

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I always like to get involved with. I'm as attracted

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to things that make me really nervous. That made me

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feel like I could ruin this for everyone I'm qualified

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for this year. That's I felt like, oh, that's not

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that's like an interesting challenge. And I just loved, you know,

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I love the idea behind it. And coming from New

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Zealand and feeling often that I come from a culture

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and people who are considered on the outskirts of the

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conversation and in the margins, Yeah, this spoke to me greatly.

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So I've really wanted to participate and basically I felt

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like I wanted just to help in the And now

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I'm reading the rewards.

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Have you ever felt like a background character in your

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own life?

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You know, interestingly, I always felt I was a bit

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like the Truman Show. I always felt like everyone was

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put on earth for my entertainment. But then and then

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I would find out in reality through just you know,

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I started off and doing various things before as a

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director of acting, and so it was through acting that

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I realized, oh, yeah, yeah, this is my destiny. To

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be a background character, just to be like the best

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friend character, or just to be somewhere who kind of

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comes in now and then and was never at the front.

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So yeah, I felt that all my life as an artist.

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And how about for you, Charles, Yeah, I think, you know,

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going back to sort of my parents is sort of

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as they immigrated to the US, and I think watching

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them try to assimilate and learn the rules of basically

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a new world, that's what I watched growing up, you know,

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is getting you seeing through their eyes sort of what

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it looks like when you're sort of not seeing I guess.

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And I think that just informed a lot of the

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things that I'm attracted to, and including Tika's films. I mean,

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starting with Boy, I think just this kind of innocence

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and there's this just amazing ability to have empathy and

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heart in his films, and so I think working with

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him was really inspiring, and that's just something I'm always

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looking for in my own writing, is that kind of perspective.

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I love that. Thank you both. You're both a joy

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to talk to and you have the joy to talk to.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I very much appreciate it.

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I can't say goodbye, type it and it does time.

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Yeah, goodbye, goodbye, Thank you, Thank you both.

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I can't wait for everybody to see Inside Chinatown exclusively

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on Hulu. Thank you, Take care, Charles U and Taika

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White TD. I can't believe I talked to Taika White

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TD and Charles you. But Taika is just I'm a

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huge fan of his work and him and he.

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Said, my voice is sexy and amazing. Taika, Taika White TD,

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Taika Tika Okay, thank you so much, Jimmy for speaking

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with me. I really appreciate it.

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Thank you, thank you for coming through of course.

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So first of all, congrats on Interior Chinatown. I love it.

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It is so layered and so funny and uh and

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much deeper than it seems on the surface.

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What attracted you to the role and the project?

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The script?

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00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:01.319
When I first got the it was amazing and I

469
00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:04.000
read the book in like one day. I'm usually not

470
00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:07.680
the fastest book reader, so I really resonated with the story.

471
00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.079
Being an Asian American and oftentimes feeling a lot of

472
00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:14.000
the things that you know Willis felt in his kind

473
00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:16.880
of weird world, but at the same time, it's exactly

474
00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:20.240
what you're saying it's all unexpected stuff. I love surprising

475
00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:23.279
my audience, whether it's things that they don't think I

476
00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:27.519
can do right, like doing drama, you know, or doing

477
00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:30.480
a rom com or you know, doing some martial arts.

478
00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:33.519
But at the same time, also I also love being funny,

479
00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:36.319
you know, so I get to kind of do all

480
00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:38.880
of that and go through a whole gamut of work

481
00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:41.920
on the show. I get to be funny on Tuesday,

482
00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.640
kick some ass on Wednesday, be sore on Thursday, and

483
00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:48.680
then I have to cry in a scene on Friday.

484
00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:52.240
So that was quite a challenge, but you know, very

485
00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:54.200
rewarding for me, and that was something that I really

486
00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:55.200
was excited to take on.

487
00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:56.440
I love that.

488
00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:00.119
And did you you know we're as you're reading the

489
00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:03.759
script and and the book, are you able to I'm

490
00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:06.519
always interested in if an actor is able to kind

491
00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:11.359
of fanboy over, like do you get the enjoyment when

492
00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:13.680
you're reading it the first time as I do, or

493
00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:16.640
another viewer might watching it the first time, or do

494
00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:19.279
you look at it from a lens of like, Okay,

495
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:22.680
this is potential work, this is potentially my character, that

496
00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:23.279
sort of thing.

497
00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:26.640
Yeah, I think that's a great question. I do two reads.

498
00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:30.839
I try to read it as just an audience, a

499
00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:34.920
fan first, and if I find it entertaining and if

500
00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:37.599
it resonates with me, and that read it again putting

501
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.960
myself in the shoes of the character that I might play.

502
00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:44.799
And this one, it was kind of it all hit

503
00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:48.960
me at once because it was such a good story

504
00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:51.599
and a good book and a good script. And at

505
00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:54.640
the same time, I was like, man, this willis character

506
00:26:54.759 --> 00:26:56.640
it might have been based on me, you know, it was,

507
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.359
that's how much I related to him.

508
00:26:58.640 --> 00:26:59.640
He started off stuck in.

509
00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:01.960
The back, and it got bit parts and it became

510
00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.240
the tech guy, which is what he was allowed to do,

511
00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:05.599
which is what I what I.

512
00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:08.799
Did on Silicon Valley for many years and then leading

513
00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:09.400
up to now.

514
00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:12.799
I'm not going to give too much away, but I

515
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:16.839
just absolutely resonated to it as an actor, as an

516
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:20.319
Asian American, and also just as a fan.

517
00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:26.759
You know, there's mystery, there is aware procedural inner center

518
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:28.720
of it. There's beautiful family drama.

519
00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:31.440
There's almost like a well day won't day thing, and

520
00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:33.359
there's action and comedy.

521
00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:35.039
So how could I not love it?

522
00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:35.720
Yeah?

523
00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:37.799
I love how meta it is, you know what I mean?

524
00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:43.759
It's very self aware, but not but smart, you know

525
00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:44.200
what I mean?

526
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:47.680
Yeah, like not hitting you over the head with it, right.

527
00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:51.759
It's not like a scholarly essay, although that message is

528
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:56.319
in there somewhere, But first and foremost, it's just entertaining

529
00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:59.720
and like very different in a way, like I hope

530
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:03.279
it's something that it's unlike anything anyone has seen before.

531
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:04.079
It is.

532
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:06.799
I think everybody's gonna love it. I absolutely love it,

533
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:10.559
Interior Chinatown. Thank you so much, Jimmy for speaking with me.

534
00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:14.119
I can't wait for everybody to see it exclusively on Hulu.

535
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:15.440
Thank you so much.

536
00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:17.519
Appreciate you, Thank you, sir so.

537
00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:22.759
In any event, Interior Chinatown is available exclusively on Hulu

538
00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:25.880
right now. I highly suggest you watch it, and I

539
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:27.720
want to know what you think about it. Hit me

540
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541
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542
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sends me a voicemail with whatever you want to say

543
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:39.640
and I just might feature you on the show. Or

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546
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:49.039
All right, we're gonna take a quick break and pay

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548
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549
00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:58.039
A sideline The QB and Me in Court, including.

550
00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:03.720
Deborah Cox, Cna Agadung, and the one and knownly Noah

551
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:12.400
Beck will be back in sixty Welcome back. Thank you

552
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554
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555
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every single week with you.

556
00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:26.240
I love you.

557
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:30.240
Thank you for hanging out with me. All right, So sidelined.

558
00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:35.000
Sidelined The QB and Me is exclusively This film is

559
00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:39.440
exclusively available on two B. It is a heartwarming sports

560
00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:42.799
drama that combines the thrill of football with the deep

561
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:47.599
emotional resonance of personal growth and connection at its core.

562
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.000
Sideline The QB and Me is a film about overcoming challenges,

563
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:59.799
forging unlikely friendships, and rediscovering one's purpose. It stars Gramming

564
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.720
dominated singer and actress Deborah Cox, whose magnetic presence anchors

565
00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:09.759
the film, as coach Olivia Green, a former athlete turned

566
00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:13.400
high school coach with a knack for inspiring those around her,

567
00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:19.240
and she is joined by Sienna Agadong playing Lucy Rivera,

568
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:23.519
a fiercely determined student whose love for football shakes up the.

569
00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:27.359
Traditional team dynamics if you Will.

570
00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:33.359
And then completing this cast is social media superstar Noah Beck,

571
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.079
who has stepped into the role of Jason Carter, the

572
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:43.200
charismatic quarterback whose journey from ego driven to maybe team

573
00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:48.559
oriented provides some emotion to the film. It is funny,

574
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.400
it's got heart and drama. It's not just a story

575
00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:57.960
about sports, honestly, it's a celebration of resilience and teamwork

576
00:30:58.119 --> 00:31:01.720
and the power of believing in yourself and others. So

577
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:11.079
we're gonna start with the one and only Deborah Cox singer, songwriter, producer, actor.

578
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:16.119
She has been in show business since age twelve and

579
00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:22.079
signed to Arista Records under Clive Davis. And she had

580
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:25.920
that amazingly huge song Nobody's supposed to be here?

581
00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:33.759
Hell did you gety? Nobody's supposed to be anyway.

582
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:38.640
Deborah Cox is so awesome and let's just jump right

583
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:44.200
into it. She's been in films like Love, Come Down, Influence,

584
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:49.119
Love On Layaway. She's been in on TV, Nash Bridges,

585
00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:55.000
First Wives, Club Station eleven, and now is starring in

586
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:58.799
the new two be film sidelined The QB and me.

587
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:02.279
Let's talk to are debrah cos.

588
00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:03.440
Nice to meet you.

589
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:06.559
Nice to meet you. So, first of all, tell me

590
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:09.880
what drew you to the role of Miss Alicia.

591
00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:13.119
What drew me to the role of Miss Alicia.

592
00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:16.880
I was thrilled about playing the role of a dance teacher,

593
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:19.680
someone who is a mentor.

594
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:24.079
I loved the characters. I really wanted to work with

595
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:27.319
director Justin Wu. I loved the script. There were so

596
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.200
many things to love about it. And uh, and I

597
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:30.799
just dove in.

598
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:34.680
Were you familiar with the Watt pad at all?

599
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:36.319
I was not?

600
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:40.000
No, I was I wasn't. I wasn't familiar with it

601
00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:40.519
at first.

602
00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:43.000
And then I did sort of a deep dive on

603
00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:46.480
you know, the book and and and read the script

604
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:49.759
and kind of checked out the differences and how things

605
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:51.400
were interpreted.

606
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:52.200
Uh.

607
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:54.400
And I just loved the storytelling. I love that it

608
00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:58.400
was this this heartwarming love story between these two you know,

609
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.759
passionate you know, kids who love you know, dance in

610
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.519
the sports world and those worlds colliding and romance mixed

611
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:09.720
in it all and stuff. It was just like the

612
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:13.920
perfect combination of like all things that I actually love

613
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:14.839
and I want to see it.

614
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:15.799
I love that.

615
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:19.039
And for you, as you're reading, you know, a script,

616
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:23.920
are you reading it through the lens of I am

617
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.079
miss Alicia, or are you reading it like first as

618
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:29.400
let me read the script and see how the story

619
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:31.240
plays out, Like, how does that process work for you?

620
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:31.640
Yeah?

621
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:36.200
I read it as a fan of a romantic drama,

622
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.880
and I read it from that lens. I love all

623
00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:44.839
the layers in it, the complexities of these relationships, Noah

624
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:48.799
and his father, you know, Sienna and her and her

625
00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:52.160
brother and then her you know, just all of the

626
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:57.079
tug of war that goes along with the story. As

627
00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:59.720
you read more and more, and then you kind of

628
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.039
under stand why all of these characters are the way

629
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.279
they are. So Yeah, that part of me was really intriguing.

630
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:11.039
That part of the story, to me was most intriguing.

631
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:15.199
So you're able to kind of fanboy fangirl out and

632
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:16.719
read it.

633
00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:21.239
As as somebody who enjoys you know, like you said,

634
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:24.039
watching romantic comedy or whatever.

635
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:25.880
Okay, Yeah, I.

636
00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:31.320
Love love stories. I love romantic traumas, I love drama.

637
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:39.239
I love human behavior, you know, I love watching people

638
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:40.280
figure out.

639
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.400
And navigating complex relationships.

640
00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:48.039
Those kind of things, you know, when you see them

641
00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:51.519
on screen and it's done well, that kind of stuff

642
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:51.800
I love.

643
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.639
Awesome. And was there a miss Alicia for you in

644
00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:56.280
your life?

645
00:34:57.519 --> 00:34:57.679
Oh?

646
00:34:57.880 --> 00:34:58.760
Yeah, yeah.

647
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.239
My mother has been that person, that anchor, that person

648
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.519
that was really exuded a lot of tough love and

649
00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:15.599
and hard work and discipline and instilled in me that

650
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:18.800
if there's something that I'm passionate about is something that

651
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:20.960
I want for my life, I got to go go

652
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:22.880
after it and go get it. No one else is

653
00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:24.599
going to be able to do that for me but me.

654
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:29.920
So I came up with that kind of hard you know,

655
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:35.480
hard work, you know, attitude, very very ambitious and I

656
00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:39.840
think you know, when you when you are really passionate

657
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:44.960
about something, it can be difficult to find romance and

658
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:48.039
relationship because you're dedicating so much of your time and

659
00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:50.679
so much of your heart into the craft, you know,

660
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:51.559
to just get better.

661
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.920
But then you know you have to find ways to

662
00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:56.840
navigate around that.

663
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:02.639
Yeah, I've I've heard Stevie Nick similarly say in interviews

664
00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:05.960
that she feels, especially as a woman, that she almost

665
00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:08.159
had to make a choice between a career and a

666
00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:11.800
traditional you know life, and for.

667
00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:14.119
Her it was her career obviously, you know.

668
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:17.880
Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's very very true.

669
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:22.599
I mean in my early early days, I fell in

670
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:26.719
love before I became you know, a celebrity and became

671
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:29.239
a recording artist, So I had the opportunity to really

672
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:34.679
commit to making my relationship and my marriage work, before kids,

673
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.239
before all of that, and then it became our journey

674
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:40.199
together as you know, a married couple. But it was

675
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:43.840
very difficult to like navigate. There were some days where

676
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:45.480
I didn't want to be the artist. I wanted to

677
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:49.000
just be you know, Deborah the person and to find

678
00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:52.320
that balance. And you know, experience is the best teacher.

679
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:54.679
Like it's not until you actually go through that you

680
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:55.440
know how.

681
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:58.760
To handle it, you know. So yeah, there are many

682
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:01.000
in many ways I could relate to this story.

683
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:06.599
That's awesome. And then finally, what what's next for you?

684
00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:11.880
We're getting another more music? Are we getting another project?

685
00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:12.000
What?

686
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:12.320
What?

687
00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:14.360
Where are you? Where? Where can we expect for?

688
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:18.559
For Yeah, I've been I've been doing you know a

689
00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:21.039
lot of musical theater these these days.

690
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:22.039
And then.

691
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:26.400
I'm going to revisit them my music again and get

692
00:37:26.440 --> 00:37:29.800
back into the studio right after my vacation, you know,

693
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:31.400
Broadway was a lot.

694
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:33.840
Eight shows a week was no joke.

695
00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:40.079
But I really just loved being on stage and having

696
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:43.280
the Broadway you know look. And then I got nominated

697
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:46.480
for a Grammy, so I got to, you know, celebrate that.

698
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:50.440
But I love, uh focusing on my wine business. I

699
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.559
have a rose business as well, because I soon named

700
00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:56.280
after my three kids, and so I've been putting a

701
00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:58.559
lot of energy and emphasis into that.

702
00:37:59.159 --> 00:37:59.559
Awesome.

703
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:01.400
But back in the studio top of next.

704
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:03.440
Year, sweet and then come back on the show. I

705
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:06.400
can't wait for everybody to see Sidelined.

706
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:10.599
Exclusively on to B Thank you so much, Yes, thank you.

707
00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:13.039
I have a great day, you too, Thank you.

708
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:13.559
Take care.

709
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:16.199
Deborah Coggs.

710
00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:20.480
Love her, Love that I got to talk to her.

711
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:25.920
Love her in Sidelined. She's really great in Sidelined, She's

712
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:28.880
really great and everything she does. But but love her

713
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:34.280
role and her her in Sideline. So all right, Next up,

714
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:37.840
we're talking to Sianna Agadong and Noah Back.

715
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:41.920
Sienna is best known for her role on the Nick.

716
00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:46.440
Series, Nickelodeon series Star Falls and the next the Netflix

717
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:49.840
series No Good Nick and Resident Evil. She also was

718
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.880
recently in the Kevin Smith I Love Kevin Smith. She

719
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:55.800
was recently in the Kevin Smith film, The four thirty Movie.

720
00:38:56.320 --> 00:39:00.199
And then there is Noah Beck. Noah is a t

721
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:03.639
faceted talent who has captured the heart of literally tens

722
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:07.920
of millions as a social media sensation. He is an

723
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:13.719
actor and he rose to fame through TikTok, becoming one

724
00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:17.599
of TikTok's most recognizable figures, and he's earned a massive

725
00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:22.440
following from that. So let's talk with Sianna Agadung and

726
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:25.719
Noah Beck. All right, first of all, thank you no

727
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:28.760
on Sienna for speaking with me on Pop Culture Weekly

728
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:29.679
at iHeartRadio.

729
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:32.559
How you guys doing great.

730
00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:35.559
I'm doing well. Thank you so much. First of all,

731
00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:40.880
congratulations on the film. Tell me what drew you to Sidelined?

732
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:43.960
Yeah, I can take it.

733
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:48.440
I think this project first came to me about a

734
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:50.559
little over two years ago, which is crazy to think.

735
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:51.920
It's been quite a process.

736
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.199
But when I first read the script, I fell in

737
00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:57.880
love like immediately, and then I saw that it was

738
00:39:58.039 --> 00:39:59.480
adapted from a book, and so I was like, I

739
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.519
need to read book now and do a little a

740
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:03.679
little bit of cross examination here.

741
00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:06.400
And so after reading both, I was like, I want

742
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.079
to be a part of this what do I gotta do?

743
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:12.119
And yeah, it was just an immediate like love at

744
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:12.559
first sight.

745
00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:16.119
And how about for you, Sienna, I think.

746
00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:18.840
It's I've never done anything like this, so of course

747
00:40:18.840 --> 00:40:22.039
there's always that excitement of doing something new and then

748
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:27.960
growing from it. But obviously it's it's an adorable rom

749
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.920
com and it's based on Tay Miley's book lot Pad Sensation,

750
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:33.639
so it's an honor to be a part of and

751
00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:37.800
even being considered. But after when of you, I was

752
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.599
so excited to do something new, and then also just

753
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:42.199
to train and dance.

754
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:48.639
And and work with not of course, and for for you,

755
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:51.079
when as you both of you, as you're reading the script,

756
00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:54.239
are you doing it through the lens of like I

757
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:57.280
will be this character in here? Are you reading it

758
00:40:57.440 --> 00:40:59.840
like as a fanboy or fan or you know, like

759
00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:02.920
a work and you're just consuming the work and then

760
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:04.800
you go back later and you're like, okay, now let

761
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:06.760
me redo it, Like what's your process for that?

762
00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.039
That is such a cool question. I've never been asked that.

763
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:13.559
I think that I have always never thought through that,

764
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:17.880
but I believe I always read the script as myself already,

765
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:20.599
Like that's interesting, like that person that the role that

766
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:23.679
I'm playing, it's never outside of myself at that point.

767
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:25.280
If I get the script and I know which character

768
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:30.159
I'm playing, then it's it's me at that point, Like

769
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:32.840
I'm reading it and like I'm embodying it and I'm

770
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:38.199
like living that whole storyline beginning to end. Yeah, I

771
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:38.960
don't know, I feel like that.

772
00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:42.920
Yeah, that's a great question. And I kind of piggyback

773
00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:45.480
off Sanda here. I was trying to think of that

774
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:47.519
as well, Like when I first read the script, obviously

775
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:49.639
I knew the part that I was going for, and

776
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:51.159
I knew the part that I was being considered for,

777
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.960
And so I think some subconsciously you.

778
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:54.320
Try to.

779
00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:59.159
You try to kind of go into it not really

780
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:01.679
being too biased, of being like, I didn't want to

781
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:04.639
read this story and be like, Okay, well how's my part.

782
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:07.239
You know, I wanted to read this story in and

783
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:11.960
of its entirety and be like, is this just a

784
00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:13.960
good script and is it a good book and is

785
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:15.440
it something that I want to be a part of

786
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:16.480
despite who.

787
00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:19.119
Like my guy is.

788
00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:21.920
And so yeah, that's that's a good question.

789
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.599
But I think at first kind of like what Cianna

790
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:29.119
was saying, I read it knowing my role and being like,

791
00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:34.440
I think I automatically just placed myself there, but try

792
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:37.239
to keep just like an open mind and keep it broad.

793
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:40.559
And being like, is it a good story before?

794
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:43.840
Is it a good role? If you will? Yeah, yeah,

795
00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:44.760
I always Yeah.

796
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:48.360
I asked that a lot to people because it's interesting

797
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:50.440
because everybody kind of has a different process. Some people

798
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:52.880
that I've talked to or like, you know, I read

799
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:55.840
it like dry first, just as a read through, and

800
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.840
then I'll read it again as my character, and other

801
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:01.000
people are like, you know, I read it from the start,

802
00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:02.559
So it's always interesting to me to see.

803
00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:06.000
Yeah, for sure, you know creators or how they approach it.

804
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:10.760
What's the craziest thing that you guys have done for love?

805
00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:16.440
If you know what you feel comfortable telling.

806
00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:20.280
Oh boy love?

807
00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:23.599
Yeah, that's crazy itself right there.

808
00:43:26.199 --> 00:43:28.880
I might I might not. I might not answer that one.

809
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.360
Yeah, I'm drawing blanks, but but I will say, like,

810
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:35.039
I think that's a great answer. I think offering someone

811
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.519
love and sometimes even can be unconditional love like that

812
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:42.480
in and of itself is terrifying, and that and of

813
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:48.280
itself is like, yeah, that that can be identified as

814
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:49.519
crazy as well.

815
00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:52.239
So yeah, that that kind of falls into a lot.

816
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:52.960
Yeah, for sure.

817
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:56.039
There's a book by Brene Brown called The Power of Vulnerability,

818
00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:59.320
and yeah, it's so dope. It's such a dope book

819
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:02.559
and it's scary to like be vulnerable and be like

820
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:04.039
I love you or whatever.

821
00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:05.840
Yeah, of course.

822
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:06.280
Yeah.

823
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:06.920
Uh.

824
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:11.000
Finally for you guys, you know, you both have been

825
00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:14.559
in various projects in you know, all in entertainment.

826
00:44:14.679 --> 00:44:18.599
But but what is something that you.

827
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.599
Have been able to like kind of look back and say,

828
00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:26.559
this is something that I would give up nothing for,

829
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:31.519
you know what I'm saying, like like a sport or

830
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:35.039
a career path or whatever. You know, what's something that

831
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:36.719
you've like kind of drawn a boundary for.

832
00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:44.840
Family? Can I what can you put everything into that

833
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:45.280
you would not?

834
00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:50.000
Absolutely yes, I understand.

835
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.320
Yeah, I'm trying to be as spoiler free as possible

836
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:54.440
as I say it, So I understand that's kind of

837
00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:57.159
like a weird way that I ended up saying about it.

838
00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:00.280
But basically, like, is there something in your life that

839
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.760
you were like, like, for instance, family, like there you know,

840
00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:04.760
I will never waiver with family.

841
00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:05.760
Family always comes first.

842
00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:10.519
Blah blah blah, or football or you know whatever it is, right, Okay,

843
00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:11.920
then I'm.

844
00:45:11.880 --> 00:45:14.239
Gonna stick with I'm gonna family. I'm gonna stick with

845
00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:18.000
like the two things that sort of are who I am.

846
00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:20.360
I don't this you take that out.

847
00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:24.960
I think I'm just a blank, blake canvas. Yeah, that

848
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:29.199
is just what I'm built off of. Nothing more humbling

849
00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:29.440
than that.

850
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:31.239
I love that. How about for you? Noah?

851
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:41.760
Yeah, following that, I feel shallow. Yeah, exactly exactly. I

852
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:44.159
mean shallow as it may sound.

853
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:46.880
Soccer was the most important thing in my life, like

854
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:51.440
before acting, to be honest, and this entertainment space that

855
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:54.559
I've kind of been thrust it into. And I think

856
00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:58.079
I think acting, I mean not to get too far

857
00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:01.039
with family. Of course for me, I'm a huge family guy,

858
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:05.880
so that obviously is we'll do anything for And I

859
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:06.360
think that.

860
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:08.920
Is my answer.

861
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:13.039
But going back to something a little bit more of,

862
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:15.519
you know, honing in on one thing, I think.

863
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:21.880
I will say acting has become something that is a very.

864
00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:27.679
It is a very close second to my passion for soccer,

865
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:29.360
which is what I did like my whole life and

866
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:32.119
kind of with the pandemic and everything kind of got

867
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:34.760
like stripped away from me. I had the pivot, and

868
00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:38.119
then the pivot ended up becoming a new lifestyle and

869
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.480
worked out, and now we're here. And I think having

870
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.239
this been my first time on a set and answering

871
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:47.320
all the questions about acting that I had going into it,

872
00:46:48.519 --> 00:46:53.679
I will say that acting has become a very just

873
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:56.239
exciting new thing in my life that I've become very

874
00:46:56.280 --> 00:47:00.719
passionate about. And I'm if the industry will have me.

875
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:03.159
I'm stoked to be here and I want to continue

876
00:47:03.159 --> 00:47:03.960
to do more projects.

877
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:06.280
Awesome, Thank you both so much. I can't wait for

878
00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:11.360
everybody to see Sidelined exclusively on to B. Thank you guys, right,

879
00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:13.559
thank you, appreciate it. Have a good day.

880
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:20.400
Likewise, thank you, Cienagadog and Noah Back really really really

881
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:23.480
loves speaking with them. You can see them right now

882
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:30.119
in the to be exclusive film Sidelined the QB and me.

883
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:32.760
It's really great. Check it out. You won't regret it

884
00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:34.000
and let me know what you think.

885
00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:36.880
Hit me up on socials or email me, or use

886
00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:39.639
the talkback button on the free iHeartRadio app or the

887
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:44.840
talkback button on podcasts dot Popcultureweekly dot com, and you

888
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:49.440
just might hear yourself on the show. That's our episode

889
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:53.480
for today. Now that's our episode. Here's the end of

890
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:57.440
our episode. Whatever, And I'm looking forward to seeing you

891
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.159
next week where we have a Sebastian mana scalp Go

892
00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:05.719
return for his series Bookies and so much more so,

893
00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:08.760
I will see you for the next episode. I love you,

894
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:10.039
See you next week.

895
00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:14.119
Well, thank you for listening to pop Culture Weekly. Here

896
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:17.159
all the latest at popcultureweekly dot com.

897
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:35.159
Oh good you Getty. Nobody's supposed to be I try

898
00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:43.519
to learne it for the last time. My heard says no, no,

899
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:46.079
nobody's supposed to be.