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Chris Pratt Speaks on The Birth of His Daughter and New Movie 'The Tomorrow War' | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jun 27, 2021
Actor Chris Pratt has been busy with all of his upcoming films like 'Jurassic World: Dominion' and all of his Marvel Cinematic Universe appearances like 'Guardians of The Galaxy 3' and 'Thor Love and Thunder' as Starlord. But he has managed to squeeze in another major blockbuster release with new Amazon Studios film with the upcoming sci-fi thriller 'The Tomorrow War'. Pratt sits down to talk with Sway and DB about his upcoming films and having a new baby girl during it all.
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Chris Pratt Speaks on The Birth of His Daughter and New Movie 'Tomorrow War' | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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we already had a natural kinship
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we bonded on marvel we bonded on many
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different things
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and now we're about to bond on this new
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project he has and we're going to bond
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on daughters too
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we got a lot to cover today man i want
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to welcome him back to the show to one
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of the only chris pratt ladies and
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gentlemen oh
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thank you so much so good to see you
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sway thank you
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you look great man where where are you
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right now what part of the world
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i'm in la i'm in l.a yeah we're doing
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this uh talking about tomorrow war
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i'm here in a hotel somewhere in beverly
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hills and we're just uh
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chilling i'm in the middle of a
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production on a tv show that's shooting
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here in l.a so
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so uh that's where i am and that's home
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for me so that's nice i've been able to
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sleep in my own bed at night it's kind
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of cool
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okay i got i got a home in tarzana so
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i'm
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like coastal i'll go back and forth but
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i'm never able to sleep at the home in
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tarzana
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now that i know you're there man i'm
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just about to come over i know your
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house is
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really beautiful and i'd love to see it
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yeah come on over man any time
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just invite yourself no problem you say
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we know chris
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[Laughter]
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i brought some accessories so you know
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oh there you go yeah as long as you have
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that mask that's covered friendly
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what is that db what is that
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that's star-lord peter quill wow
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that's nice where'd you get that man
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it's the marvel legends editions with
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the full lights and it even
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you can sync it to a bluetooth and play
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music i got the soundtrack on tape and
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everything i mean come on
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i'm i know we're not here to talk about
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that but i know it's all right i have to
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show my nerd
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side real quick no i love it that's
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that's good that's great we're trying to
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milk everything out of you i know these
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these kind of things go real quick but
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we haven't seen you in a long time man
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and so
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it's it's good to see you
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congratulations on your daughter though
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thank you thank you so much you just
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turned 10 months old yesterday
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okay she was actually conceived
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uh while we were making this movie the
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tomorrow war so we made the movie before
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the pandemic
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and uh and right at the tail end of the
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movies when the pandemic hit so
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we've been pushing release push and
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release kind of waiting for the world to
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come back and in the meantime
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mama had the baby and now she's already
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10 months old
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wow that's amazing so much time has gone
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by and i saw that your shooting schedule
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must have landed around the time she was
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born
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and then and then when you watch the
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actual movie i you know i don't want to
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give up too many things but one of the
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things i loved about the movie were kind
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of the subplots
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and there's a subplot with your
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character and his daughter
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right um i don't know how far deep i
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could go db
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pull me back out of it but when you have
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those type of scenarios
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is it easy to put you know your daughter
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you know the relationship between your
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daughter that dynamic and feed off of
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that
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to act through things or i mean i think
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like any time like
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it's impossible not to for at least for
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me
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to to draw it's impossible not to draw
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from my own experience as a parent when
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you're talking about a subplot like
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you're talking about that storyline
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i mean this this film is you know it's a
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big sci-fi action adventure there's
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aliens and time travel and all of that
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stuff that you'd expect in a big
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commercial movie
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but from what drew me to it was
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this really unique and powerful dramatic
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through line
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that focuses on a relationship of
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between a father
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and his daughter and a father and his
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own father and sort of like
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coming to terms with the reality that
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your own parents
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are not perfect and that you yourself as
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a parent are
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imperfect and finding redemption in that
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and the grace to forgive a father and
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the the
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you know the idea of a second chance
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with your own daughter like
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all of those themes really hit home so
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for me i am drawing on that i am
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you know without spoiling it you are
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imagining you know you you dope you do
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put your own child into the into those
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positions in your mind when you're
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really trying to
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like you know evoke an emotional
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response uh
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that's that's like that's what i tend to
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do yeah yeah
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a lot of authenticity in that and and i
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was going to touch on the second chances
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because
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you know man i watched these movies
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chris and my mind goes a lot of places
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right and
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right it's even a line where your
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character um
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your character uh mentions something
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about having second chances
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you know and we were having a
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conversation on radio show about second
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chances what would i do for a second
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chance
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has that ever happened outside of the
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outside of the set for you in your own
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life where you feel like you got a
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second chance
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and you maximized it i mean yeah i feel
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yeah
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i think so i mean i am a man
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who's remarried you know okay and so i
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think that's
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an example in my life i was married and
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had a child
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and that unfortunately for us didn't it
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didn't it ended in divorce
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and now i'm remarried so i feel like i
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have another
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another chance in that in that regard
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this is like
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as far as like being uh you know uh
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being a husband and that and that
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um and having the coolest stepfather i'm
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sorry father-in-law
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yeah yeah that's pretty cool
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yeah he's pretty cool he's pretty cool
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there's a line there's a line in the uh
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in the trailer for the terminal list
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where my character's looking at his
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daughter and he knows he's being drafted
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pulled into the future war
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and and he looks and he says you know
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i will be back and
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i'm about to show this trailer to arnold
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and i'm like i say
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i will be back like it is
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so lame in comparison to the iconic
5:48
times that he said it like
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the way he says i'll be back like you're
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like i'm like oh wow
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it's the least iconic i will be back
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you've ever seen
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and i'm showing it to the master of i'll
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be back but uh he was cool about it he
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said the trailer looked good
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i will be back yeah i
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you a thumbs up on the trailer though
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right yeah he did he gave me the thumbs
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up on the trailer he's like that looks
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good
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that's really a fantastic trailer and he
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focuses because it's
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the relationships work you know if the
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relationships work in a movie like this
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the movie works
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okay that's what's up db yeah
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i actually want to touch on um when you
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were talking about second chances and
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you know the father
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child relationship thing because it
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reminded me of you wrote that article in
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gq a few years back about the loss of
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your
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your own father and um how you had to
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sort of
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uh internalize the grief while you were
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filming jurassic world at that time and
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sort of
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still be the leader on set bring your a
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game and that kind of thing and
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since that time um how have you figured
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out
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how to deal with you know the bad days
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when you're shooting a movie
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like do you do you still internalize it
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or do you approach people and just be
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like hey guys listen
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this is just one of those days i'm not
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really feeling it but i'm going to still
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you know show up bring 100
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and get through this shoot so we don't
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you know waste a day
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right well i mean i do i don't i tend to
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internalize it i think you know
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and with the intent though to do the
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latter i mean
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coming i i've had the benefit of like
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my 20-plus year career now that my
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steps towards getting to the position
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i'm in right now have been incremental
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and i did see along the way
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people who were at number one on the
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call sheet the leaders
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and i saw great leadership and i also
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sought
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not great leadership and so being able
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to witness both of those
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from the role of someone who's beneath
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that person i determined in those
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moments like what kind of leader i would
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want to be
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should i ever be given that opportunity
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and it is to be someone you know
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it starts at the top man and your your
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attitude
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and your presence and you know there's
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this adage that rolls downhill
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you know and it's true if you're having
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a bad day
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then you allow everyone beneath you to
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have a bad day
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and and this is a chain of command kind
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of a thing it resembles the military you
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know
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in in filmmaking you have departments
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you have heads of departments you have a
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chain of command
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and so if you allow every head of
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department to start the day with a bad
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day
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their entire department's going to be
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feeling it and having a bad day but if
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you go in there and you have a positive
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attitude even though there's days you're
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feeling sick there's days
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you're just not in it there's days you
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got drama at home
8:27
if you show up and you understand your
8:29
responsibility for me i do internalize
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it
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not to the point of detrimental health
8:35
effects where i'm not talking to
8:36
somebody or don't have a way to
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get that out i just know that acting out
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at work is not the healthy way to do
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that so i show up
8:43
i suck it up and i say all right guys
8:46
it's gonna be an awesome day you know
8:47
and like you show up
8:48
every single day and then no one beneath
8:51
you has an excuse
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yeah because you can't have you can't
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have a worse attitude than your boss you
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know
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if your boss is having a great attitude
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and you're having a bad attitude
9:03
that's grounds for getting getting
9:06
fired but if your boss is having a bad
9:10
attitude
9:11
and you're having a bad dude it's
9:12
because it's your boss's fault you know
9:13
like you know it all rolls downhill so
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so that's how i've always i've always
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looked at it it's important to me
9:18
it's important to me in leadership to to
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to wear that stuff
9:22
you know to internalize it and find a
9:25
healthy outlet for it away from work so
9:27
you're not hurting people's feelings or
9:29
messing up the works i like that man
9:31
chris you got a real human side about
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you
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i can appreciate that bro thank you
9:38
i kind of want to give you a hug um
9:43
we got to see each other we got to do
9:45
see each other in person man yeah
9:47
no man come on i want to ask you this
9:50
question
9:51
a couple questions because i've always
9:53
been fascinated with sci-fi
9:54
advanced technology uh even the
9:57
possibilities of
9:58
you know extraterrestrial life forms
10:02
somewhere out there that we we're not
10:05
aware of and
10:06
most recently i don't know if you saw it
10:07
if there's been a lot of footage that's
10:08
been released about ufos
10:10
some retired military guys that you
10:13
could kind of trust what they're saying
10:15
we're seeing all these images i'm
10:17
curious to what's your thoughts about
10:18
extraterrestrial life and
10:21
you know what what have you grappled
10:24
with with this
10:26
well um gosh
10:29
you know it's interesting
10:34
how these i guess they're now uaps right
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unidentified aerial phenomenon
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i think that it's been my belief
10:44
that our understanding of the cosmos
10:48
is so limited
10:52
it's probably laughable how little we
10:55
actually know about what we see now we
10:58
take a collection of
10:59
everything we know that we can observe
11:01
around us physical science
11:03
we know a lot about physical science
11:05
like the the human anatomy
11:07
uh plants animals we can genetically
11:09
engineer
11:10
uh viruses to to fight
11:14
uh to fight things within us like we can
11:17
we've got amazing medical treatments
11:19
this is all advents of science
11:21
and a collection of a great
11:22
understanding and human minds
11:24
focusing on that which we can observe
11:26
and we've taken that
11:28
damn near to the the level of like you
11:31
there's not much more we could possibly
11:32
learn you know what i mean
11:33
like we're we've extended our life
11:36
expectancy we've done so much in
11:37
physical science but when it comes to
11:38
the cosmos
11:40
most and we lump our knowledge of the
11:42
cosmos in with the knowledge of the
11:43
human body
11:44
it's like our best minds are going to
11:46
know as much about the cosmos as we do
11:48
about the human body
11:49
that's just not the case we're basing it
11:51
on stuff we see when we look in the sky
11:53
and the stuff we see when we look in the
11:54
sky is 30 billion years old
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you know we're seeing light yeah and
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that's it
12:00
they're like that's 30 billion light
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years away i'm like so that's not even
12:03
what we're seeing
12:04
we're seeing the image that was
12:06
reflected we don't know about black
12:08
holes
12:08
we don't know about time travel we don't
12:10
even know about our own existence beyond
12:13
three dimensions so i think our
12:15
understanding of the cosmos is
12:16
completely wrong
12:17
and once we identify what that uap is
12:20
that unidentified aerial phenomenon
12:22
and it defies physics there's actually
12:24
no such thing as defying physics
12:26
all there is is re-defining physics
12:30
yeah once we figure out what that is
12:32
we're going to go oh
12:34
okay now we got it figured out
12:37
to know about physics uh we thought it
12:40
was just gravity pulling us towards the
12:41
center of the
12:43
the earth but actually there's this
12:45
explanation now that we and we've
12:47
this is the doctor who figured it out
12:48
we're going to name it after him it's a
12:49
doctor
12:51
yeah whatever dr summer it's the dr
12:54
pratt
12:54
uh effect well oh no we understand it
12:56
because we've given it a name
12:57
it's like we have no effing idea what
13:00
the heck is happening out there
13:01
i think the idea that it's a little
13:03
green man that doesn't really vibe with
13:05
what i believe
13:06
in terms of our existence
13:09
maybe if someone you know maybe i change
13:11
my mind if they show up in my living
13:12
room and you know try to put a probe on
13:14
my butt or something but uh
13:16
beyond that i think we don't know what
13:17
that f's going on
13:19
make sure somebody filmed it so you
13:21
could go viral yeah
13:22
[Laughter]
13:24
like are you sure are you sure that's
13:26
what's waiting for you
13:28
okay do it um well well since we're
13:31
talking about aliens which is you know
13:32
part of the film and and one of
13:34
the core elements of this film i mean
13:35
there's also time travel there's
13:37
a ton of action you've got great
13:39
co-stars and jk simmons and uh
13:41
yvonne strahotsky and she's badass by
13:43
the way like the way she's handling
13:45
this heavy artillery and riding the
13:47
humvees on the beach and
13:48
firing these huge guns i mean you guys
13:50
are on snowmobiles you guys are in
13:52
different
13:52
types of terrain you're in the ocean
13:54
you're in the mountains i mean
13:56
on top of all of that there's also a lot
13:58
of emotional scenes and i'm sitting here
14:00
in my house like why
14:01
who's cutting onions in here like what
14:02
the hell is going on
14:04
you know like like flay mentioned at the
14:06
beginning you know the father child
14:07
dynamic
14:08
is is it comes into play a lot in the
14:10
film
14:11
and in terms of the emotional scene
14:13
because there's a lot and i'm not going
14:14
to go too deep into it but
14:16
how do you prepare for when you need to
14:19
show emotion because you've had to do it
14:20
in other films
14:21
um but there's one thing i hate is fake
14:24
crying
14:24
when you look like you're trying too
14:26
hard like
14:27
you do too much but you can also do way
14:30
too little for a scene that really calls
14:32
for more emotion so what's your approach
14:33
to
14:34
the scene when it comes to you know
14:36
triggering the tears
14:38
well it's you know i've done it enough
14:40
times over the course of my
14:42
career that it's gotten a little easier
14:44
you know i think especially as men
14:45
there's probably an instinct within us
14:47
that if we are going to be pushed to the
14:49
point of emotion that we're
14:50
we have this reflex in us to make sure
14:52
that no one can see us do it
14:54
you know and so we fight it and
14:56
certainly when you're surrounded by a
14:57
hundred people your
14:58
your subconscious is like you wait you
15:00
want me to do what now
15:01
nah you know you're like come on cry
15:04
it's like no bro what are you drunk i
15:07
ain't crying
15:10
as men i think especially we don't
15:12
really want to do that but
15:14
ultimately for me what i found the very
15:16
best way
15:17
to do it is to really just connect
15:21
with the eyes of the person with whom
15:23
you're doing the scene
15:25
and to ultimately base it not on some
15:27
substitution not on like
15:29
oh my character is experiencing this
15:31
loss so let me go back into my mind and
15:33
dig up the subconscious emotion that i
15:37
associated with some loss of my own
15:38
thing i've done that before
15:40
and you can do that and in a pinch you
15:41
will do that but hopefully
15:44
you can have enough empathy for your
15:46
character and the plight that they're
15:48
in to actually just be in it be in the
15:51
fiction of it
15:52
enough to evoke that emotion that's
15:55
required to
15:56
to be shown and sometimes it's not even
15:58
like with tears streaming down your face
15:59
sometimes it's just feeling it and being
16:02
and you can see it in
16:04
sometimes attempting not to cry is the
16:06
best way
16:07
to show the emotion that would be
16:08
conveyed with crying you know
16:10
and so i think for that for that it's
16:12
really just locking with the person
16:15
and understanding that if you don't get
16:17
there that's so okay because you get a
16:18
few takes at it
16:19
and then beyond that there are like
16:22
actually
16:22
tradecraft things that you can do to
16:26
make tears come down to your face if
16:27
like you blew
16:28
your emotional load two takes ago and
16:30
now you're in a wide you need to cry
16:31
again you're like oh man i unpacked all
16:33
that about my dad i don't want to
16:34
do that again
16:35
they can just take some menthol and blow
16:37
it in your eye you get some you get some
16:38
tears and you just kind of put the look
16:39
on your face as if you're crying you can
16:41
fake it
16:42
but you can't fake it the whole time you
16:43
have to give some emotional truth
16:46
and usually it's just a few seconds is
16:47
all it takes and that that's enough to
16:49
resonate through the whole scene
16:51
yeah wow man he just gave up some
16:53
industry gyms right there
16:54
i'm gonna be crying all the time now i
16:56
feel like you're crying out sway got
16:58
real emotional
17:00
real quick over the dude just freestyled
17:02
and it really brought the emotion out of
17:04
the way he's spinning some fire bars and
17:07
sways dark crying
17:08
um but to tomorrow the tomorrow
17:12
war um it's coming out on amazon
17:16
july 2nd right and um
17:19
day before my birthday i don't know if
17:21
y'all going to do a premiere if
17:23
you want me to come out or something
17:24
just is that your birthday
17:26
it's the day before my birthday okay
17:28
that's close enough
17:29
you know close enough i tried to make a
17:31
tie was it a reach it might have been a
17:32
little reach
17:33
no no it's not that's fine for your
17:35
birthday okay great thanks uh
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uh thank you i'll accept that uh i'm
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born on may 2nd just i don't know if
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that means anything either but you know
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just in case
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no very little very little yeah it means
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nothing i mean
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two things though man one thing i like
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that you did you might think
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you know you might think this is awkward
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but sam richardson keith powers i
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can't think of the other guy that was in
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it edwin
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you the black guy yeah yep edwin i love
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seeing black men in the future
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thank you
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it's a lot of times in these movies we
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don't have a role
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chris sam was killing it all the way
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through
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we had rogue we had real lines right um
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i won't harp on that but i appreciate
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that
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that should be noted especially in
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hollywood hollywood has had its
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challenges
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in diversity so i like seeing that thank
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you i mean listen
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i i i will watch literally i will watch
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anything that sam does
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from this point forward i was a huge fan
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of his from veep from his character
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richard split i thought he was really
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funny in fact i see a little bit of
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myself in sam
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because he was this kind of side
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character on this big ensemble show
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and he really stood out and people liked
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him because he brilliantly
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not not to call this about myself this
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is going to sound real bad now they said
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this but
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he played he plays dumb really
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brilliantly you know he plays a guy
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who's a little unaware
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and it's hilarious and it's only the
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very tip
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of the iceberg of what sam is capable of
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as an actor and so putting him in this
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role
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we were like all right let's see
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richard's split and he started doing
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some of that but then he started doing
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some other stuff
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and now he and i are working together on
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developing something else for him
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and i promise you i cannot wait to show
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you
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i cannot wait for the rest of the world
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to see what i know about sam because
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that dude is like really
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a triple threat like he's actually a
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crazy martial artist
19:36
sam is yes it doesn't have
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the body necessarily i know dude you
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wouldn't think he can do that he can
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straight
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sam he can jump and do the splits he can
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like do
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he's like and he can sing like nobody's
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business he's got an
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insane voice and it's like people don't
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know this about him so i'm really
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excited for
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to work with him and i worked with edwin
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hodge uh years ago
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13 years ago and uh we did a movie
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called
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what's your number and we played these
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kind of two douchey kind of frat boys
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and and then i hadn't kept in touch with
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him or anything like that and i saw this
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audition come through for the role
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i was like how do i know that guy i know
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that guy somehow
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and i was like dude like that's one of
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the few men like that i've seen really
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read for this role he's a man like
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there's
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very masculine very uh you know
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tough there's a lot of testosterone he's
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like
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strong and i was like who is that dude i
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looked him up i was like
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that's edwin like i had seen because i
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hadn't witnessed it happen it was like i
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watched
20:38
edwin in my mind was still the kid who
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was the frat boy and then i saw him
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become this man in the character
20:42
especially the character dorian and the
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way it was originally written was even
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much
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darker than it turned out and so like to
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see him
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that was that was dope and and uh and
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keith's like a young up-and-coming guy
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so handsome and amazing and he's like
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you look at keith and you're like yeah
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that's what the people in the future
20:58
that's like what guys that's what they
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should look like the future looks like
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yeah they figured out
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uh genetic genetic engineering people
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and making perfect symmetry on their
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faces
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yeah yeah yeah yeah man yeah i
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appreciated that man and
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i even just the whole plot db brought it
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up earlier the whole idea of the concept
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of time travel
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and i know i think maybe every person on
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this planet has pondered
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if i had the ability to time travel
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would i do it would i travel back to the
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past and correct my wrongs or make
21:28
slightly different choices or would i go
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to the future to see what i turned out
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like
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if you had an opportunity to time travel
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which direction would you go
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well the truth is okay there's the funny
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answer you know there's the funny answer
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that like you would go forward you get
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the lotto numbers
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and you know you would you do like the
21:45
bif tanning thing from
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back to the future too and you get the
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sports almanac and you know how to
21:49
battle i saw that conversation you had
21:51
on twitter with james gunn about why the
21:52
parents didn't recognize marty man
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yeah yeah right yeah and
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yeah that's that's the one thing um
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but the real answer is we have like
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that's like the if we had like three
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seconds to talk about it but like the
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real answer is i wouldn't want to mess
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with any of it
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i wouldn't want to do i wouldn't want to
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do it in like if in on the real like if
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i was really
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presented with that as a possibility i a
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i would not want to go back into my past
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and do anything to prevent myself from
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having the life that i'm leaving right
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living right now
22:21
if i want to try to tell young chris hey
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everything's going to be all right
22:25
this is who you're gonna turn out to be
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i wouldn't had all the struggles
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that required that i went through that
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got me here you know what i mean like
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thickened my skin i wouldn't have to be
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you know like all of
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all of the choices i made out of
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desperation like
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that all led me to this point i wouldn't
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want to mess that up
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and to go into the future if i saw
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something
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that i was like oh my gosh that happens
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to me
22:48
like what if i look at myself as
22:49
something is really wrong and then i'm
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going to come back to this moment and be
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like
22:53
i have to alter the course of my life
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because i don't want that thing to
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happen now i'm living in fear you know
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what i mean
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so i i i wouldn't want the anxiety i
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would this is it'd be like a hard pass
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like no you stay in the present i like
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that there's nothing wrong with that you
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got a beautiful present
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yeah the only thing i might only think i
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might do is go back in time
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knowing that there's absolutely no if i
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could be guaranteed to not alter the
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course of events i would like to see
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uh my dad's dad i never met him i would
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like to hear his voice
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and kind of like just witness what he
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looked like and walked like and
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i'd like to see my dad's dad and i
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i'd like to see my dad as a young man
23:30
i'd like to see them together and kind
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of just get that vibe just look at them
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and
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that would be cool like if i could have
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lunch with him that would be neat just
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to meet him you know i never met him
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that'd be cool that got really real man
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like when you talk i
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imagine myself i would have loved to i
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never met my dad's dad so that's uh
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yeah but i i never thought that so
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thank you man you don't
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write that down the menthol is
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coming out he's in the tears
23:56
he's doing i don't know if i can trust
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him no no no that's okay
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you get with the last question man i
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know we got to let chris fly
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yeah i appreciate that um so chris i
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don't know if you've seen some of these
24:06
conversations or articles that have been
24:07
online where certain filmmakers and
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people in hollywood have voiced their
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opinions about how
24:13
films that are based on comic books uh
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don't necessarily
24:16
meet the same i guess standards of what
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a real movie is you know and
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i'm not gonna name any names but you
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know it's almost as if to say
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like a marvel or a dc film
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is rap and the godfather is hip-hop you
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know what i mean like they're trying to
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make this distinction
24:32
of why the the superhero films don't get
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nominated for the major awards unless
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it's you know
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computer effects or sound or something
24:40
like that or or costume design
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but they don't really get put up for
24:44
best picture best director that kind of
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thing so i just wanted to get your
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your take on that conversation
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oh i hadn't i hadn't really seen that
24:52
conversation going i mean
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i guess i guess i could see that though
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you know uh
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there's a certain sense in
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at least it had been this way that
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there's really like a two-prong attach
25:05
anytime you have art
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and industry merging you really need
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them to support one another you need the
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art to support the industry
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and you need the industry to support the
25:18
art and so i think that commercial
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viability
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and commercial success
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money just getting success at the box
25:27
office is enough
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to support those big brand tent pole
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movies
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they pay the studios electric bill they
25:34
do all that you know like that's enough
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to support a studio
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and under that umbrella you have studios
25:40
that can create a bunch of great
25:42
independent films because they're after
25:44
the accolades
25:44
they're after you know the oscars if you
25:47
look at the oscars this year the best
25:48
picture winners the
25:49
total combined box office of all the
25:51
best picture winners was like five
25:52
million dollars
25:53
so it's like though those types of
25:55
movies
25:56
will not get made if you don't have the
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oscars
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i've been part of independent movies
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that are not good
26:04
and inexpensive and the reason people
26:07
are doing this because they think
26:08
there's a chance that it could be
26:09
sideways they're thinking it's a chance
26:11
it could be
26:12
a an oscar winner they're thinking that
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there's a small chance it could be
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parasite
26:15
maybe hey look we're doing something who
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knows maybe we'll get up there in lights
26:19
you know so there you have the art the
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industry
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essentially supporting the art
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so if you take that that that stage
26:30
that's designed to essentially be the
26:33
carrot that
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creates all of this work those guys
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don't make money on these
26:37
movies these independent movies they
26:38
lose money you get a rich donor to give
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you money to make this movie you make
26:41
this piece of movie as an art that will
26:43
live forever and it's not going to make
26:45
money back
26:46
you know if you didn't have the oscars
26:48
if you didn't have something
26:49
there to drive
26:52
people to support these types of films
26:56
they just would not get made
26:57
and so if you take those types of awards
26:59
and you give them to movies that will
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exist without the oscars
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then you're going to lose the movies
27:03
that would would not exist without the
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oscars
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do you see what i'm saying absolutely
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chris pratt man uh man we appreciate you
27:12
bro thank you man you gotta do the round
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of applause db
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you know give a round of applause
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absolutely man congratulations on the
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movie
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thanks um being able to work right now
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during these times
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you know you can't take that for granted
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right congratulations on the family man
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it's good to see you chris you look
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great
27:30
i can't wait till we open up the
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building and you can come sit down and
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maybe spit some m m lyrics or something
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i don't know i'd like that
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i know we need to do that again that'll
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be good
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i appreciate you guys absolutely man
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take care brother congratulations all
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right
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take care god bless you guys
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