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While making Dope Thief, Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura developed a friendship that will last a lifetime. In the new Apple TV+ series, the actors play two men who pose as DEA agents to rob drug dealers while both characters battle addiction. The premise is enough to be compelling, but it's the connection between Henry and Moura that ties it all together.
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I'm 48 and I've been doing this
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Why do you feel they need to tell everybody away? Because you said, you said I was 51
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This one, I said that I was 51 in the day of my birthday
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It really is about the person, right? Like, Wagner already in and of itself is one of the most amazing talents I've ever seen
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But then when you get to meet the man, we knew in order to tell the truth of Ray
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and Manny, it involved a lot of care. It involved a lot of closeness
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It involved a lot of vulnerability. And I'm so grateful that Wagner is all those things as a person
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And then when he added those layers to the character, it just elevated everything
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It ends with us, you hear me? The only people that can stop, this is me and you
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Just me and you. We really wanted people to see that because, like
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if you have this story where you following these two petty criminal that you know are kind of anti If the relationship isn there and the care isn there it going to be hard to follow
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And because you're seeing these two men who have been in each other's lives in the most dire
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of circumstances and had so many restrictions placed upon them and they're just trying to survive
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I think that it would not have worked in any other way if it didn't have someone who has the spirit like Wagner
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Well, I don't know what to say. I mean, I'm four. and I've been doing this..
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Why do you feel that you tell everybody, right? Because you said... I did
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Because you said I was 51. This was my f*** said that I was 51
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In the day of my birthday, in my life, right? I've been doing this since I was 15, right
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And then for me, from the bottom of my heart, what really matters nowadays is this
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Is the encounters, the people that I meet. You know, of course I want the things that I do to be super successful
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I want these people to, I want people to see, but we really matters to me the people that I meet and the relationships that the things that I live the places that I the things that I learned you know and meeting Brian was a very very special thing
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I think we sort of mirror the relationship of Ray and many because I was in a very vulnerable situation in many moments of a, throughout the show
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And I knew I had him there. And I still do always will, you know, and I love
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And the other thing is like, the other thing that you try to, as an actor
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you want to work with the best actors. Like, you want to elevate your game
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You want to be with the best. Yeah. And Brian is one of the best American actors
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Yeah, there's a phrase that goes around on set, starts from the top
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That's the phrase. And that has to do with a lot of things. Mostly it has to do with morale and energy and care
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is what I noticed. Like, because I'm on the ground, you know I know what it like to have the 5 a pickup To sit in hair and makeup what this prep looks like Okay then the costume happens How long does it take for these grips to get this up The setups look like this Okay well what is I care about that stuff
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because there's... Every individual, it takes an individual in that department to do this thing and make it happen
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It's a collaboration. Like, no one person is bigger than this show. And I would say that all the time
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I was like, no one person is bigger than this show. That includes me. Like, no one... We are all coming together
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We are all leaving our families, leaving our homes. We are laying in the middle of the street
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It's 30 degrees. We were doing all these things. And I cannot, I absolutely cannot do it without them
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And all I really wanted was for everyone to understand that I knew that
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and that I felt that and that they were seen and that they were taken care of
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Because, like, we're asking people to come and run around and follow us in the land of
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Maple Leaf for however many hours a day. Every single person had a hand on a break that built that foundation
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And I just always wanted to always let them know that. It was grueling, but it was also the most satisfying thing
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ever done in my career, truly
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