Navigating The Crowded Room: Amanda Seyfried & Sasha Lane Share Their Experiences

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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, it's all about Apple TV pluses the

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Crowded Room. Let's go Welcome to
pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from My

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Heart Radio your pop culture news,
views, reviews and celebrity interviews on all

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the movies, TV, music and
pop culture YU Creve Weekly. Here's Kyle

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McMahon nant. Hello, and welcome
to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle MCMANI of

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course m Kyle McMahon, and this
episode is all about Apple TV plus is

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the Crowded Room. I can't say
enough about this limited series. It is

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really really powerful, really incredible.
It's thriller, it's tight, it's intriguing,

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it's deep. It centers around Tom
Holland, who It takes place in

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Manhattan in nineteen seventy nine and Tom
Holland is arrested for a crime and then

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an investigator is trying to solve the
mystery behind it. Amanda Cifred plays the

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investigator. Tom Holland is the man
you know, a thought to do this

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crime. It is really really really
good. Again, I can't stress enough

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how good this is. I can't
really say too much because it's very twisty

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and I don't want to give you
any spoilers. To be honest, I

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just want you to go in and
love it as much as I did.

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Do yourself a favor. Don't look
up spoilers, you know, enjoy the

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series for how it's meant to be, you know, going cold it is,

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well, it will be well worth
it that way. So, having

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said that, on last the last
episode, I was at the red carpet

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premiere of the crowded room at the
Museum of Modern Art. I'm really upset

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because so I interviewed, you know, most of the cast and Amanda and

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Tom Holland I was next to interview
him, and then he got done with

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the person right next to me while
I was still interviewing Amanda and so as

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publicist, which I totally get,
you don't want I'm just standing around,

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but as publicist, was like,
all right, well let's go in,

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and I'm like, I dude,
I'm next, and I'm last. I'm

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the last person he has to talk
to. So I missed my interview with

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Tom, but that's okay, Well
we'll get him for the next project,

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you know. So those were my
stand up interviews at at on the red

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carpet. Today is my sit down
interviews, So I talk with Amanda Cifred

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and Sasha Lane. Amanda, of
course, you know, I've talked to

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her before, and she's an incredible
actress, Emmy winner, Oscar nominated,

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really really incredible actress. I also
talk with Sasha Lane, who Sasha you

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may know from Loki where she played
Hunter C twenty in season one of Loki

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in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and
she was in Daniel Isn't Real and Amazing

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Stories and really cool. She was
also in a Hellboy the twenty nineteen one

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and she's just a really great actress, really cool person, and I'm really

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glad to talk to her again.
You know, I'm trying not to do

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any spoilers in these interviews, so
it's like difficult, you know what I

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mean, because I want you,
guys to when you're watching, I want

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you to I don't want you to
listen to the show, my show,

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this show that you're listening to now
and then be like, oh man,

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well now I know that part because
this is it's very important to the series

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that you not know anything. So
without further ado, let's just get right

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into it. Let's let's start with
my interview with Sasha lay. So this

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series is extremely powerful. It's riveting, edge of your seat. I really

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really love it. For you,
what attracted you to the project? I

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think I'm I've always been a big
fan of psychological thrillers. I love a

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good like puzzle piece. I also
really love the emotional aspects to it,

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you know, about compassion and healing
and all of that. So it's just

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kind of like an instant yes for
me, m and for you. You

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know, as I was, you
know, watching, I kind of was

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thinking of the you know, the
filmmakers and the cast and all. I

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feel like you would need a chart
to kind of have it all, you

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know, laid out before you as
you're filming. Were you only getting the

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parts that you needed or were you
able to kind of see the whole picture

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before you went into shooting? Like, do you mean if I got the

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full script or if I was kind
of able to focus on everyone else's Yeah,

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exactly, Like did you get the
full script so you could kind of

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get the whole picture of who your
character is in this bigger picture? Yeah?

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I think a little bit before we
went into production, they were kind

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of gradually handing out the episodes because
they were still tweaking them a little bit,

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so it was almost like a discovery
of my own character as I was

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waiting to start, But it was
it was nice to be able to then,

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It's nice to be able to get
the full concept. Obviously I was

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a fan of it, so I
wanted to read it myself. But then

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because there's so many like separate parts
to it, in separate kind of groups

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of characters, I've then just kind
of zeroed in on my world and who

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I interacted with. And how is
that for you? How are you able

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to kind of to kind of do
that where I mean, obviously you're an

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actor, you're a pro, but
you know, mentally, how are you

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able to kind of separate yourself from
this broader picture and bring what you want

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to bring to her? I think, I guess it's kind of how you

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might just function in everyday life of
Okay, I know my end goal is

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here and this is what this world
could look like, But I'm focusing on

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today because that's what's important, is
right now, Versus if I started thinking

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about the weekend, then it's all
going to get consumed and you know,

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you won't be able to like focus
as deep. So for me, the

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rest of the story almost doesn't matter, especially if I'm not meeting them or

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if I'm not that has nothing to
do with what I'm doing today in terms

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of what Arianna is doing that day. You know, so I think it

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it's probably a little bit easier than
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for me. I like to kind
of zero in on something. I love

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that, and that's actually a great, great kind of take home for all

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of our lives. We could just
focus on, you know, right here,

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right now, we won't have to
get anxiety about tomorrow or what maybe

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Ina. I think it's a good
thing with you know, a person who

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struggles with anxiety. It does help
me to be like I, that's not

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even happening yet, there's no point, and she's going to stress me out

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for no reason when this is what
my and I'm being a mom too.

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You're like, I can't think about
tomorrow too deep because right now it's dinner

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time, right right. I love
that my therapist quickly, my therapist said

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one time, do what your dog
does. And it took me a while

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to get that, and then I'm
like, wow, my dog Blue is

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always just in the moment, you
know, as dogs are. You know,

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they're not worried about you know,
tomorrow or next week or next month.

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They're worried about right this moment.
And I love that so true.

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Yeah, that's a good one.
That's a good one. Thank you so

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much, Sasha. I can't wait
for everybody to see The Crowded Room.

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It's such an incredible series. Thank
you for your time. Have a good

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day, Sasha Lynne. Really great
person, really good actor, really does

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an amazing job in the Crowded Room. Again, I can't say much.

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I feel like I'm being so mysterious, and I am, but it's for

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your benefit, I promise, all
right. Next up, Emmy Award winner,

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multiple Emmy Nams. She won four. Last year's The Breakout, of

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course, which we talked to her. I talked to her for She's been

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a MoMA, me, a mean
girls, all kinds of great films,

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and she is really amazing in this. I'm telling you there's gonna be Emmy

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Nams for this too. So without
further ado, let's talk with Amanda Cyphred.

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So, first of all, I
want to congratulate you on this.

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It is such an incredibly powerful,
thought provoking series and you do an amazing,

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amazing job in it. I absolutely
love it. I really do.

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Thanks, of course, So let
me ask for you. You know,

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a chunk of this series UM takes
place just you and Tom, you know,

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in a room almost like a play. Do you find that more challenging

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or less challenging than you know,
say something like Mama Mia or something where

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there's you know, all these people
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the project. It's it depends,
it depends, I guess. You know,

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when you're thinking about physicality, it's
a lot easier because you could just

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to sit back and in some ways
you're relaxed in a way that you wouldn't

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be when you're dancing around uh you
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and the you know, the coordination
and the the that just that physical intensity

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can can be really fun and actually
make things easier. But in this,

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in this respect, it's kind of
like the meat. It's kind of like

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what I love about acting most is
that human connection. And when there's nothing

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around else to distract, you can
really get pretty deep and and it's and

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it's and it can get pretty silent
and pretty tense, and little nuances pop

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out in ways that you don't You
just don't see and you aren't affected by

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when it's grand and super comedic,
and you know, it just depends on

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the genre, and depends on the
subject matter, and depends on the circumstances.

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And in this in this sense,
I felt like we had so much

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room to play in this interrogation room
and to build too. We built so

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much on the on these characters.
When they really started coming together and connecting

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and and caring about each other and
trusting each other, was magical to shoot.

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I love that, And does that
I'm not an actor, so I

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don't know, But does that scare
you? That vulnerability, that focus where

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it's just just the two of you. I know you said it excites you

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and all, but I feel like
for me that'd be terrified. Oh well,

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you're pretty stripped down. You know. It's just the bare minimum,

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and you know, the cameras are
close and they're just moving all around trying

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to trying to capture as much as
as they can. And I don't know,

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it can be terrifying if you don't
like the person sitting opposite you.

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It can be it can be hard, it can be a struggle, But

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but it was It was fun because
we we had the same level of enthusiasm

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for our characters and for the story
and for what was developing between us,

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and so it didn't it felt really
safe. Actually, I love that,

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and I think that's so important,
and I think it ends up showing in

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your work. It's it's really an
incredible series. I can't wait for everybody

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to see The Crowded Room. Thank
you so much, man, thank you,

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thanks so much. Of course,
have a great day, Amanda Sifriend.

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I cannot wait for you to see
The Crowded Room. It is out

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today on Apple TV plus. It
is so so powerful, so twisty,

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so psychological, so thrilling, so
edge of your seat so good. It

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is so good. Let's talk about
episode one, okay, because I can.

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I can do that once you've seen
episode one. But I need to

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talk to people about it because you
know, I've seen it. I've seen

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the whole soul and have been unable
to talk about it for a month.

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So let's talk about it. Hit
me up on socials, Facebook, whatever,

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I mean, I guess Twitter,
but Instagram, read it wherever,

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and let's talk the Crowded Room.
If you didn't listen to the last episode.

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Go back and listen to it.
It's my red carpet interviews with the

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cast of The Crowded Room. All
right, I'll see you next week.

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I love you. Yeah. Thank
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