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Apr 5, 2022
Jared Leto is known for diving deep into his roles and he has two upcoming roles that are certainly deep for their own respective ways. He checked in with Sway In The Morning to talk about that and much more.
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oh man we waiting on this one db we got
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our brother back we brought our brother
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back hb
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we all
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yeah we got him back db tell him who we
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got
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turn your mic on it usually works better
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that way
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i do that i do that every time but i
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mean
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i'm just so excited that i'm doing a
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million things right now and last time
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we had him on he was here to promote uh
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the little things and i'm glad to have
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him back as you can see in the
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background i still have my blade runner
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2049 blaster i'm a huge fan of this guy
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and right now he's with us to talk about
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the new film that is in theaters this
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friday april 1st he plays dr michael
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morbius in the film morbius please
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welcome back to the show
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jared leto
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jarrod garrett
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what up
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dad happy new year brother thank you
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thank you thank you so much for having
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me i appreciate it
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absolutely man i i was watching you
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while we we played this nas track uh
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prior to um
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introducing you and we was having this
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off the record conversation off my
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conversation citizens and we would just
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commend him nas
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on how he's never run out of things to
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say you know he always has you know
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substance in his rhymes and you know man
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and it seemed to be a shelf life for a
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lot of artists you know especially with
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rap artists but this guy
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seems to excel you know
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i'm curious to you as an artist
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have you ever
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have you ever had like a
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idea had a thought that you might have a
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shelf life or that you may ever run out
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of things to say
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um no i don't really think you do run
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out of things to say as long as you live
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a life worth living i mean you know i
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look at the great artists like uh you
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know picasso
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uh people that were so proficient um
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and and really live these you know lives
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that were
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you know so full and and rich and uh
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i i don't really worry about that sort
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of thing i mean i've i've um i've never
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felt any kind of uh
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fear about that either i mean you know i
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guess an artist
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if you have experiences in life
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and and um
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you you should be able to share those
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experiences
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uh no matter what so i don't really i
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don't really think so you know the thing
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that happens um probably is that you
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just
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maybe you just get
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burnt out by the amount of work that it
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takes to create something
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meaningful because it really i don't
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know if it ever gets easier it always
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takes
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it's like mining bitcoin or something
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you know it always takes a certain
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amount of energy you know
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to squeeze that dirty bitcoin off into
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the universe um
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it uh it takes a significant amount of
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energy and passion and sweat
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um
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to produce you know
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uh a work of art so at some point you
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just might say you know i'm ready to
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just look at the sunset i don't know
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yeah
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and then he looks off into the sunset
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you see that
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that was well done jared i like that
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jared thank you so much for being on the
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show today i'm one of those people that
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go to sleep with the television on i
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know it's not a really good habit but i
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happen to see you in in the trailer for
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this film and i was like oh my gosh our
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nice friend has turned into a monster
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and it was this image in my head i was
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like this is crazy but i also wonder
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when you talk about energy and what goes
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into making a project what's the energy
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like when you come down from that how
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long does it take you to like get out of
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this particular character's space and
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head when you you know you go into your
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sunset light to off you go home project
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wrap do you have to decompress
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yeah and i think that's a normal thing
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to do if you make a commitment to
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something especially for
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a pretty significant amount of time you
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know if you're
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walking or talking an accent and you and
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you work in a really immersive committed
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way those things just because become
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habits um
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you know it can take a little while to
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walk away from those habits and i think
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that's that's normal i mean i had a way
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of walking in this movie um that was
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really intense and it was really hard on
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on the body i i was playing a guy who in
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the beginning of the film
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um
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um
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is dying he has a rare disease he's
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searching for a cure for this really
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rare disease he's a brilliant doctor
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um and he has a real difficult time
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walking and i worked with uh
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some people that walked in this specific
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way and
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and learned and walked like this and it
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was really really um quite a a difficult
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thing to walk away from every day
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uh it made a pretty
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significant impact but that the physical
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stuff and and then sometimes the
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psychological stuff in a film can it can
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kind of seep into your
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psyche and be a little hard to uh step
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away from unless you're a sociopath or
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something that's probably
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i read that you met uh daniel espinoza
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while you were on tour with 30 seconds
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to mars right is that true
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yeah yeah he came to uh
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to a concert of ours i can't remember
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what country we were in
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um i think it was germany right it was
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germany
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um yeah that was the first time and then
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i remember because i remember he was at
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the forum in l.a i remember
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seeing him there but the first time was
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was in germany and it's funny actually
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when i got dallas buyers club
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when i decided to do that movie
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i was uh
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i had met the director in in germany as
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well in berlin as well so i guess that's
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a
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lucky good place for me yeah yeah on
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tour you know
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it was there any conversation
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at that time that sealed the deal for
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you getting this role
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well
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to be honest i already had the role when
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i met him
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um
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so it was a different experience um
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which was quite nice you know you you
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kind of earned that experience and it's
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a beautiful one to have where you're a
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partner and a collaborator rather than
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an actor for hire
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and someone who's just there to audition
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with dallas spires club the director
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and
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have the script and had mcconaughey
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lined up and you know they wanted to
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kind of talk to me and meet with me it
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wasn't exactly an audition
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uh but what i did for the meeting is i
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i was in character the whole time to
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give him a sense and that would surprise
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him actually in the meeting i i started
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off i said hello and i reached out and i
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started putting on some lipstick and i
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took off this jacket and i had a little
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um little dress on but um
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and and i and i kind of just like
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you know put a dress on yeah i had a
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dress on for the character appropriate
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for the character um so i i i played the
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the part basically in the meeting that i
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had um but for
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for morbius i already had
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the role it was really about daniel and
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i
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meeting and agreeing to work together uh
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and it's nice man you know you work a
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long time for these opportunities and
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this is the very first time that i've
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starred
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in a really big hollywood uh film this
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is it i mean we know many many years
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um and i'm excited about it
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congratulations congratulations
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congratulations
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and my brother tyrese
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is a part of this as well right and um
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you know tyrese you know i mentioned
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last time we talked you know somebody
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i've known for a long time i've been
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really proud of him and he's playing
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simon the role of simon
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uh which is originally a white character
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right and a lot of times you know the
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avid fans they don't like when you
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change anything about a character from a
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book or a comic book or you know what
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are your thoughts about that
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i mean the world's changed so you change
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with it and it's like the the the face
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of the world has changed the reality the
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world's changed
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and uh
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uh you know i mean why not it's a to me
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it never that that that stuff it's
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always like the most important thing is
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the heart and soul the character as well
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um
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and i think it's interesting to to go to
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the best actor to play
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you know hamlet to go to the best actor
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to play
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the the officer and you know the
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detective and morbius like you know you
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go to the best
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actor sometimes there are things that
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could come up historically that could be
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too distracting maybe but maybe not
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maybe it'd be interesting to see
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uh
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you know different people and different
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faces play different roles and and
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change the way we we we see things i i
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don't really get that this stuff to me
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i'm pretty open about
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okay all right i like that too jared i
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love you
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and save this you know we we didn't cast
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that role until later in the game and
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you know we didn't expect to get someone
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his
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caliber uh so he really came in
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and saved us and uh does a solid
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i'ma play him this part back to make
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sure he see you saying that man he would
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definitely appreciate that you know how
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he is jared you know how he is man
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so did you like i know you always stay
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in character the full time when you go
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through these works
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you know uh how much interaction did you
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get to have with tyree zada character
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if at all
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none none
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no
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nothing it's safe to say we've never met
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each other um yeah
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but you know i love working in this way
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sway it's a it's a sacred thing to me
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and it's it's exciting and
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it's uh
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a lot of people never talk about how
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much fun it is but it's a lot of fun
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and you know what what happens is every
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moment that camera's rolling every
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moment you're on the set to be honest
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and you and you walk by another
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character you interact with the
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character it's so highly charged
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and you know when you finally look in
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someone's eyes
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and and you're in that moment in that
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scene and everything you've saved
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everything you've wanted to say
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everything you haven't said it's all
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there in that moment and it's quite a
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it's quite a beautiful thing um i i i
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absolutely love it uh jared earlier
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today when we were promoting that you
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were going to be on the show uh we were
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kind of joking about the whole vampire
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uh
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uh ethos basically and so you have
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people out there who will
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look at being a vampire lifestyle as
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being sexy and like oh yeah you know i
10:48
get to float around and be invisible and
10:50
all the stuff and like okay cool if
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that's what you want to think that's
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that's you
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but i want to ask you about sort of the
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core of it because michael morbius is
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faced with the decision of killing
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people so that he can stay alive
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or face his own death his own mortality
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so is there a difference because if i go
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out into the woods right now and kill a
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buffalo or a deer or something so that i
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can survive eat the meat what is the
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difference between that and being a
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vampire because you're simply killing a
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human being i'm still killing a living
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breathing animal
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for for the purpose of survival yeah i
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mean it's an interesting philosophical
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question but for morbius i think he's
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also motivated not to keep himself alive
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but he he knows that he has
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the keys to unlock the door as far as
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far as being able to cure other people
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with this kind of disease like it didn't
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work for me there was a a a a hell of a
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you know a consequence
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but i know that i was close
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and that's one of the things that keeps
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me we don't really talk about the film
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but it's one of the things that keeps
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the character into making these pushes
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of character and making these decisions
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because i know that i've stumbled upon
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um you know i've gotten so close to
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finding a cure for this disease and so
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many like it so that keeps me pushing on
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on the path and it's that age-old you
12:16
know question about good and evil and
12:18
that battle between good and evil and
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fighting your primal self but i think
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you know vampires have always kind of
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been romantic you know
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i remember as a kid and i might i
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couldn't sleep i was in louisiana and my
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grandmother let me stay up
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um usually she chased me around with a
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flyswatter
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[Laughter]
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uh so she would chase me around the fire
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but she let me stay up um and uh
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uh watch dracula with her the old black
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and white one
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and i remember like you know being so
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taken with it i don't know what it is
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about those movies but uh i love that i
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love the anne rice books and and back in
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the day the those were great um
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but i don't know something about it just
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captures our imagination it's a pretty
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weird thing
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if you don't mind i really want to jump
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in just for this real quick question
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because blade is a part of morbius's uh
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universe and i don't think wesley snipes
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gets enough credit for playing blade way
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before you know robert downey jr you
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know chris and all the other people who
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are part of this uh wide mcu right now
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and you know wesley snipes did that back
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in the 90s so uh was there any
13:36
conversation about incorporating blade
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into this storyline
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i mean i know you might not be able to
13:43
give certain things away but is blade a
13:45
part of the conversation of more abuse
13:47
you've got to be real careful in this
13:48
role here because you
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you say if you just start telling the
13:53
truth all kinds of secrets will come out
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uh so you gotta just keep your mouth
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shut but i always love those movies you
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know uh uh and i remember we would go
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see him in the theater and they were
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dark and cool and violent and we just
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love those those films uh and he's so
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iconic in that in that role
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um
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and it'd be fun you know i mean with
14:14
like the multiverse open there's there's
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a lot of room to make
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um
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you know to to experiment and uh who
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knows what's gonna happen
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well jared leto's with us eight eight
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eight seven four two three three four
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five kayla's on the line from atlanta
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kayla rise and shine what up kayla rise
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and shine oh my god i'm about to fan
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girl out
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um sway heather db
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tracy even though she ain't there i love
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y'all i love you too
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i've talked to y'all before but i cannot
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believe that
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i am able to speak to jared right now
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go for it um
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30 seconds tomorrow's
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brings me back
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15 20 years ago
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i love you
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uh requiem for a dream cool in the
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crazy lord of war
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i love you
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but you you have such a way of
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i guess embracing the character how long
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does it take you to
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to really
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you know form into that and how long
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does it take you to come back out of it
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well so i appreciate the the compliments
15:37
yeah you gave you said all those nice
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things and you said the magic where you
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said butt and i was like oh jeez
15:42
[Laughter]
15:45
building me up to tear me down um no
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that's very kind and uh
15:51
you know uh hello to atlanta i actually
15:53
was just there working on something but
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um
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you know uh
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it it takes a while you know every every
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role for me is like um
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it's like giving creative birth and it
16:06
it's it's quite a process you know i
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mean you really
16:10
you you dig deep in in in it happens a
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lot of different ways you know there's
16:15
an intellectual pursuit
16:18
where you're researching and reading
16:19
everything you can and kind of digging
16:22
in and being a detective a journalist of
16:24
sorts and then there's a whole creative
16:27
emotional thing that happens
16:29
um of course a physical uh component um
16:33
and it's i mean usually by the time i'm
16:35
done with the movie i swear i'm never
16:36
gonna do it again
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uh but um you know in recent times i've
16:41
i've really quite fallen in love with
16:43
the process and i think a lot of that is
16:46
like a deep sense of gratitude that you
16:48
get as
16:50
maybe as you get older hopefully
16:53
you get as as you get older
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um just a lot of gratitude to be able to
16:58
do this um
16:59
and and that kind of keeps me in a good
17:02
spot but you know it's a wild thing to
17:05
do i mean just a bizarre thing to do for
17:09
with your life
17:11
can i add on a little bit sway and
17:12
jarrod to kayla's question because i
17:14
kind of asked the same thing in the
17:15
beginning about how long does it take
17:17
him to come down kayla but i was also
17:20
wondering jared when we watch some of
17:22
these iconic actors like yourself play
17:24
these big roles where it's heavy makeup
17:26
and sitting in those chairs for hours
17:29
does that help you build more into it or
17:32
at that point you're already so focused
17:34
and zoned in that the makeup doesn't
17:36
even matter at this point
17:39
i always use first of all there's a
17:41
there's an opportunity cost there like
17:43
if you just sit there and
17:45
you know
17:47
screw around on your phone it's it's
17:49
it's it's a bad use of time like you
17:51
know yeah yeah i've done a lot of
17:54
prosthetic work and a lot of makeup
17:57
transformation stuff and i like to use
17:59
that time to prepare
18:01
and to me is just it's it's a
18:04
i'm the most impatient person you ever
18:06
met but for some reason i'm able to sit
18:08
in that chair for hours and just be
18:11
focused i don't i don't really know what
18:13
that is but uh
18:14
but i really take advantage of that time
18:17
and you know by the time i showed up on
18:19
set i'm ready to go to war
18:21
i'm i'm focused and uh
18:24
you know
18:25
for some reason very disciplined when it
18:27
comes to that stuff in my life and you
18:29
know it's every moment is an opportunity
18:32
to make something
18:34
um valuable something meaningful
18:36
something special and i always remind
18:39
myself not to squander those moments
18:42
love it jared leto and last time we
18:44
talked real quick before we let you go
18:46
we talked about the relationship with
18:48
denzel washington and having a chance to
18:50
work opposite of him and how great that
18:53
was and now you have michael keaton
18:54
reprising his role as vulture when he
18:57
was playing batman you was a teenager
18:59
and now you're co-starring with them
19:01
what what what what that what was that
19:02
experience like for you and did you get
19:04
a chance to fan out
19:06
oh yeah absolutely and he
19:09
he's i don't you know there's these
19:11
actors that somehow they just you you
19:13
you kind of you just make a
19:16
connection to the work and i always
19:17
loved his work you know from batman to
19:19
birdman or to you know the the it was
19:23
just a what a what a career and glad to
19:25
see his back working so much and he's
19:27
thriving
19:28
and i know he had a challenging uh few
19:31
years in there but what a beautiful
19:33
thing to see that and of course like you
19:35
know when you work with people like
19:37
denzel
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you know it's it's uh it's abstract in a
19:42
way because
19:43
he's
19:44
you know like denzel has um
19:47
like a power and a grace to his his
19:51
his work and his life and his his self
19:54
you know he's a person who who's rich in
19:56
self right he's he's got a power to who
19:59
he is even that voice you see him walk
20:02
across a room and it's like the the room
20:05
there's there's you know you can you can
20:07
feel it um that's a that's a it's a
20:10
really it's an inspiration to see that
20:13
in other people and also see humility
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and see the dignity and see
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like you know i look at those things not
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just
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oh is this person great at what they do
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but you know have they gotten to a place
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and are they continuing to walk towards
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a place that is um
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inspiring you know that that's a
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great thing to see
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jared thank you for joining us uh but
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i'm looking forward to seeing it morbius
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uh this friday april 1st is in theaters
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and man and congratulations again
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congratulations okay
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bye guys
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all right take care that's jared leto
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man
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you
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