Rebel Wilson & the Cast of Juliet And Romeo

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, it's all about

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the new film Juliet and Romeo. I speak to the cast,

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including Rebel Wilson.

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Let's go.

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from my

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

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interviews on all the movies, TV music and pop culture

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you crave weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Nettn na, no net, Hello, and welcome to pop Culture

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

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I thank you as always for hanging out with me

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for another episode of pop Culture Weekly. I am really

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excited because this episode, I am thrilled to dive into

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the enchanting world of the brand new musical film Juliet

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and Romeo. It's it's like a modern twist on Shakespeare's

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Timeless Tale, and I think it'll be captivating audiences. I

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think it's going to be, you know, one of those

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ones that kind of like the Greatest Showmen, where people

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like discover it and it grows in like popularity and

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all the music is awesome. It's really great. So today

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it's all about Juliet and Romeo. I have the talented

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actors Jamie Ward and Clara Regard who bring the iconic

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characters of Romeo and Juliet to life with their amazing

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chemistry and their emotional depth as well. So we'll be

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exploring their experiences and challenges and that magic that they

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created on screen. And I talk with Timothy Scott Bogart,

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who is the writer, director, creator of Juliet and Romeo.

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He's got a lot of cool insight on, you know,

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this bold reinterpretation of shakespeare classic story. And of course

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I'm very excited to welcome the hilarious Rebel Wilson, who

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takes on the role of Lady Capulet, who is Juliette's mom.

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So I think it's interesting that in this film Juliette's

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mom is like ten years older than Juliet. But you know, Hollywood,

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but Rebel, I'm sure we'll be sharing her take on

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the character and all the fun that she had bringing

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you know, this kind of new dimension into this classic story.

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So let's just jump right into it. Timothy Scott Bogart

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is a writer, director, producer. He created Spinning Gold, which

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is like an incredible movie from I want to say

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twenty twenty three that is the story of his father,

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Neil Bogart, launching Casablanca Records in the seventies, which brought us,

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you know, Gladys Knight, Donna Summers, The Village People, Kiss

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Eisley Brothers, and I love.

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That movie so much.

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So he's behind that we are talking to him today

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about Juliet and Romeo. His take on it is fresh

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and bold and blends like modern elements with timeless themes

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and modern, super catchy music. It's really like just a

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cool take on it. So we are going to speak

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right now with Timothy Scott Bogart as we delve into

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the making of Juliet and Romeo. Here we go, Timothy

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Scott Bogart, Thank you so much, Timothy for speaking with me.

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I really appreciate it for having me Kyle.

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

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Oh well, first of all, I love Spinning Gold, of course,

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but but I love the film. Why did you just

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you know, there's a million versions of this out there?

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Why did you decide it seems like it would be

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almost anxiety inducing at least for me to be like,

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I'm going to take on this, you know, project that

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has been told a million times, and I'm going to

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do it in my way.

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What brought you there?

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Interestingly, I started out in my early career as a

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stage director and directed Romeo and Juliet to play the

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actual Shakespeare text multiple times and always felt I failed,

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like I always felt, and the audience need to like it,

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but I feel there was more story there. So to me,

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I always saw there was other things to do around

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the edges, and it just played me. Truly, for about

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ten years, I kept coming back, kept looking at it,

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and I was actually about ten years ago with my

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brother Evan Bogart, who wrote all the music.

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I remember asking him why did he think of Shakespeare's

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dyamic Contaminor. He said that was the poetry of his time. Said, well,

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that was interesting. What's the poetry of our time?

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He said, watch the young generation. The music isn't something

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they listened to, it's something they are. It breathed through them.

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I said, well, that is the most glo description of

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anything that I could ever hear about what Shakespeare was

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This incredible music that lifts us up.

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and said, my gosh, Ultimately, Shakespeare is about adaptation. Every

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single version you've ever seen, I'm doing it in World

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War two, I'm doing it here. His themes were meant

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to be re explored, and my job ultimately was to

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figure out how to make them for this moment, this time,

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for this audience.

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I love that.

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did you figure out, you know, song wise, because again

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you're you're dealing with material that you know is is revered, revered, reverd.

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a quality of genre of the music and even and

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little more like this.

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ultimately it was so unique as these songs, and I

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do believe it's quite different than many other musicals.

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be like a proper four minute radio cut, right, but

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it plays over eighteen minutes in the movie. So verse

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comes in, it goes into score, something else comes in

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and goes in. So it really was like a writer's

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room working hand in hand every second, even to the

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point we're in Italy. I'd suddenly be shooting something and

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we were doing a live capture and go, oh my gosh,

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the horse is taking four more seconds to get from

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here to there. You guys have twenty minutes. You have

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to re architect the song right now, go to the

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mobile recording studio that was kind of slanted on the

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mountain and get it back to us. So it really

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was hand in hand understanding the needs and understanding the

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desires that we wanted. But it was a remarkably cool

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experience musically.

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I love that, and I love you know.

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The end product is incredible and I can't wait for

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everybody to see Juliet and Romeo.

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Thank you so much, Timothy, Thank you, Kyle, have a

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great day too.

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Timothy Scott Bauguard such an awesome creator, and I love

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his vision in in on Love, his vision in Love,

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his vision on Romeo, Juliet, and Romeo in Juliet, whatever

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it is. I love his vision with the new pop

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musical film Juliet and Romeo.

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All right.

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Next up talented actors Jamie Ward and Clara Regard, who

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bring the iconic characters of Romeo and Juliet to life.

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They both give really powerful performances and like I said,

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the fresh kind of take on the story is really awesome,

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and especially with like the kind of modern pop music,

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I just think people are gonna love it. So let's

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talk to Romeo and Juliet themselves. Jamie Ward and Clara Regard, thank.

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You both so much for joining me. I really appreciate it.

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Thank you you as well.

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So tell me, you know, first of all, congrats on

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the film.

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What is it like to play?

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I mean, these are iconic characters that everybody in the

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world knows and has for you know, Ever, what's it

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like to play characters like that?

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What's it like?

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It's a good question. It's definitely different to from reading it.

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You know, reading it is one thing, but to get

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to experience each pivotal moment that they went through sort

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of over the course of three or four months. I

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was in this sort of state of melancholy throughout throughout

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the entire process, I think, and I had this like

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nineties kind of playlist going on, so I was definitely

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in a different state. Felt not that I was going,

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you know, a method or anything, but it definitely felt

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that was where Romeo was. That's how Romeo was feeling

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and where he was in that time, and just what

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he was going through with his family and how his

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name it sort of was trapping him. And this idea

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of love and not being able to love the person

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you want. Those are really relatable feelings that we all have.

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And yeah, and how about well, I'm sorry, and how

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about for you?

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I The beautiful thing about this adaptation is that it's

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it's written in very accessible language and also with the

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pop music that's sort of intertwined and runs through the

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whole story, it it feels very relatable for and for

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a modern audience. And it really helped me get underneath

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the skin of of Juliet and in this version and

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understand how sort of complexity and nuances and moxy yeah.

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to kind of separate what you this kind of history

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that these characters have and be like, Okay, no pressure,

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this is my take on these characters. Or do you

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feel some kind of responsibility in some way?

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I mean you go, yeah, I mean I felt responsibility

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for sure, but I think the fear went away when

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we knew what world we were going to be playing.

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It's it's so different. It's it is an adaptation, and

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it's it's a pop musical. So I never really felt

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the pressure. I don't know whether you feel the same, Clara,

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but I never really felt the pressure to be like

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Leo or to be like to do a national theater

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production or something. It just it felt different and special.

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Yeah, I think I would completely agree. And I also

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think once you go down that rabbit hole of you know,

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all the amazing performances that have been of Romeo and Juliet,

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you can quite easily start spiraling. I think so cocon

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mechanism for me as well, was leaning to this very

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different and modern and bold reimagining of the characters.

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I love that, and you guys have both now put

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your mark on these iconic characters with this awesome film.

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Thank you so much for joining me, and I can't

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wait for everybody to see Juliet and realmea.

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Thanks Carl, Thanks, have a good day.

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Guys, Jimmy Ward and Clara regard Romeo and Juliet themselves.

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What I think is interesting, by the way, is that

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Jamie Ward, in his last feature played Jesus. So now

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he's gone from playing Jesus to Romeo. He's kind of

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racking up those iconic characters. I mean, not that Jesus

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is a character, but you know what I'm saying, iconic

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roles for his career already. All Right, we're gonna take

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a quick break, and when we come back in sixty seconds,

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we're gonna talk with the one and only, the amazingly talented,

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hysterically funny and lovely person, Rebel Wilson.

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The brand new film, the musical pop musical movie kind

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of retelling of the classic story of Romeo and Juliet

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and I love it. I really love the how it

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just how it takes a timeless story and you know,

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makes it modern and kind of combines those two things.

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It's really you know smart, I think, all right, So

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I mean Rebel Wilson, come on. She is a queen

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of comedy, known for her unforgettable roles in movies like

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The Pitch Perfect Films and Bridesmaids. She brings a unique

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blend of humor and heart to every project she touches,

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and in Juliet and Romeo, she takes on the role

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of Lady Capulet, Juliet's mom, so she brings a fresh

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twist to this classic character. And Lady Capula is really

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a standout I think in Juliet and Romeo. So here

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she is the one and only rebel. We'll say, Hi, Revel,

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thank you so much for speaking with me.

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Hi Kyle say good to chat.

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Yes, So, first of all, congratulations on the film it is.

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I love how it's like a fresh take on this.

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What drew you to Juliet and Romeo.

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I think the pop music, like it's so cool, Like

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these are such great like standalone pop songs. And I

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love when I saw movies like Greatest Showman and they

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had all these like killer songs. I think this movie

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has got that. It's just got these anthemic type songs

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that are really cool. And so I heard the songs

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the demos and I was like, oh, yeah, okay. I

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wasn't thinking Romeo and Juliet adaptation would be on my radar,

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but when I heard the music, I was like, damn

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like this. I think this is going to be really good.

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And for you, you know, as you play Lady Capulet, you know,

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on an character that's been around forever, how do you

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like kind of find your own way to put your

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and a lot of really famous actresses throughout the centuries

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have played her. And I guess I tried to play

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the dilemma of you want your daughter to marry somebody

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who they're you know, not in love with, but playing

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it in that I was that girl twenty years before,

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and I had to marry somebody in the movie. It's

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Rubit Everett, and I had to marry him when I

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was her age. And how I related to that is

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like in my family, a lot of things that my

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grandma had, you know, struggled through also my mom struggled

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through and then also I struggled through, and so it

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kind of that that relatability of that element.

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That's that's interesting.

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And so you're able to pull those pieces through your

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life and kind of channel that into your version of her.

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less villainous because often she's just played as outright evil

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and yeah, and hopefully this portrayaler is slightly you know,

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she doesn't do the right thing by her daughter, but

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she definitely struggles with it.

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You've done so many great characters.

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Do you take each one as like you know, you're

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waking up and today you're doing this character or is

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in other words, I feel like it would be hard

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when you're doing you do such a range of characters

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to like be very specific for this character, for this project,

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some of the big Hollywood comedy films, A lot of

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it is a lot of me. So like playing fat

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Amy and the Pitch Perfect movie is like a lot

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of it is. I'm not really doing any prep, just

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come into work and hanging out with my friends and

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just being having a laugh, whereas Juliet and Romeo is different.

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It was more back to my early days of playing

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playing characters. And I hadn't have an accent for the film,

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like a British RP accent. And it's set in thirteenth

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century Verona, so it's not like I've just woken out

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of bed and you know, IM then dressed in these

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corsets and these kind of queenly outfits and in these

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medieval castles. So I did, for the two weeks that

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I shot for this film really kind of lived that

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lady capulate life. It was freezing. It was like zero degrees.

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kind of smoke coming out of our ou out of

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our faces because it was so freezing, and so being

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in that environment, I just you know, I wasn't going

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home and watching Real Housewives or something at night. I

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was most living in that thirteenth century, just just for

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the two weeks of the filming of the Yeah. Yeah,

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And so I think it gives the performance just a

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Well it works, and I thank you so much. I

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can't wait for everybody to see it. You're so great

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in it and everything you do. Thank you, Rebel, Ah,

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thank you, Rebel. Will see.

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Love love love her.

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She's hysterically funny, she's so sweet, and she's so talented,

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and I just I'm I love that she is on

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the show. Juliet and Romeo is out. Now go see it.

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Let me know what you think. I really think. You know,

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if you like films like The Greatest Showman, which I

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absolutely loved, you know those kinds of musicals, or you're

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a rom com fan, or you're a fan of you know,

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classic Shakespearean stuff, You're gonna really love Juliette and Romeo.

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So make sure you see it. Let me know what

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you think. Hit me up on socials and we will

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talk all about it and I will see you next episode.

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All right, I love you.

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