Julius Onah Redefines Captain America: Brave New World 🛡️ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE

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for Captain America Brave New World in
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theaters today and we have a very
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normally we have our citizen the S the
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Morning Anthony Mackey here today right
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that's our guy that's our big time and I
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know answer to Big Star Harrison for you
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know we we text from time to time do you
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but no
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uh only only text you text but the
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director means the having the director
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here means so much to me for so many
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different reasons when we will tap into
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that momentarily but wanted to make sure
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he got the proper introduction and Mike
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m did a awesome town hall with the cast
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of Captain America on Brave New World
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yesterday for the company and Mike can
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you do the honors man and introduce who
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this man is sitting next to us oh my God
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it will be an honor and a pleasure sway
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to introduce This brilliant mind that we
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have with us in the room I I had the
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chance to watch Captain America A Brave
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New World and I have seen a lot of
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superhero movies I've seen a lot of
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comic book based movies who had lot
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different meanings but when I walked
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away from Captain America A Brave New
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World I was floored at the execution of
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this film this film is more than just a
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comic book it explores The Duality of
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The Human Condition it explores the
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dynamic that we have with our ego um it
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explores the current situation that
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we're experiencing as a society both
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domestically locally politically it has
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such a incredible geopolitical bent um
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and it has so much conversations around
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sovereignty like who we are as Nations
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and nation building and the beauty of
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that audience and to which sway alluded
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to why this film is what it is is
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because the person who directed that
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there is and I talk about this openly I
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I don't like movies and documentaries
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that are so on onbeat with current times
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because when we watch content and
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creativity we still want escapism I
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don't mind you challenging me I don't
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mind you asking questions but I don't
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want to feel like I just watched the
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news for two hours after watching a film
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and what This brilliant director has
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done is he allowed the film to feel so
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untime while still allowing me to escape
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and that is a true gift unto itself and
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so I do believe that we will hear this
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name being mentioned as one of the
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greatest filmmakers of our time when
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it's all said and done with his legacy
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and particularly if he keeps going with
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the type of cannon that I know he's
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going to build ladies and gentlemen the
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incredible Julius Ona
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Julius H my God what
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a thank you so much are you Captain
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America is
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Captain this is a full circle moment for
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Julius and I how so he and I wow
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man I want you to talk about this too he
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and I came to work together I how many
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years ago yeah 2005 2006 2005
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2006 um as I was one of the the the um
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anchors at MTV News at that time and and
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we had a what we called a hit squad of
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individuals who was going to change the
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world with our storytelling and use MTV
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to tell the truth right Sha Lee shahim
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Reed you know uh ratesh you know Jason
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Gallagher all of these different guys we
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all worked on a series called my block
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ah Joseph Patel Joseph Patel we all
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worked on a series called my block where
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we went into different environments and
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pilled you know the nature of what how
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did the music scene get formed but we
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applied it to was going on socially
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economically what was happening on the
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environment all of these different
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things Julius what was your title I was
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an associate producer was an
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AP and so we would do all of these
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projects and we would hand it over to
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him
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and he would supervise the edit and he
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would put the stories together to make
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it all come alive wow this was then and
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look at him now shees and man bro I'm so
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proud of you man that that just changed
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the whole interview man really proud of
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you man because the kind of work you're
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doing I actually want you to speak to
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that because you're at the top of your
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game now but we're talking about a time
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where you was a AP MH and that could be
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frustrating at time
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right there was a great group of people
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there you know I have to give a shout
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out to sha Lee who uh opened the door
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for me there and uh Joanna no who was a
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great partner as well she was the PA who
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worked underneath me uh we also did a
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show called growing up black in America
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that I'm so so proud of we talk about
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that all the time during Black History
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Month that was 200 oh I think it's 2006
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then that one premiered yeah uh Chris
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Brown was in that episod Chris Brown was
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it Mary JY J Mary J BL was it keys I
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think so I think so definitely Mary J M
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and Chris Brown and they all came to my
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the house in tarzanna that y'all been to
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and we filmed it in my house wow it was
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beautiful it was beautiful so you know
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that that was so important for me
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because it was one some of my first
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opportunity to create something that
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people would consume and I still
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remember how proud I was we would finish
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these shows and then run home to watch
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it on MTV on TV you know um and and sway
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was so great and I used to make these
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little spoof videos on S and at first
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when I made the first one I'm like I
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hope I don't get
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fired but but he was so kind and sweet
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and generous and not everybody who was
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an anchor was kind and sweet and
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generous but he was always so supportive
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and so motivating so I don't feel like I
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would be here now without the support of
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people like sway wow Jes this interview
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is
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done yeah well I'm going talk to this
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guy after this how did you make the
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trans position though when did you know
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it was time to stop being the the AP and
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and and go to the next level well I
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always wanted to make movies and before
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before I had uh uh worked at MTV I had
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interned when I was in undergrad for
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[ __ ] Ley and I spent a summer at his
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firehouse and actually just yesterday I
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was in spikes class at NYU a class that
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I had taken wow um and uh shared the
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film and it was another full circle
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moment that that this experience has
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been so gratifying because of those full
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circle moments um but you know so I knew
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I wanted to make movies but then the
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opportunity to also just learn I'll be
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honest MTV also spoiled me a little bit
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and working with y'all spoiled me
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because I knew then the production
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workflow of how to finish something at a
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high level to present to an audience so
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by the time I went to film school it was
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like I don't need to do the post-
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production I don't need the time in the
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Avid I don't need all that time I I know
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what I'm doing here um but you know I
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had that fire burning in me I was in New
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York I was doing something I loved but I
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knew I needed to make movies so I was
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writing scripts on the side and uh uh
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and then I applied to film school after
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about a year at MTV and uh and then I
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luckily got into NYU and um and then I
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just hustled and just worked and worked
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and worked and here we are what do you
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tell um young filmmakers and
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storytellers who are in those footsteps
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you were once in I think first and
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foremost if it's your passion if it's
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what you love to do you do it so there
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were nights when I would come back you
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know when we're finishing a show when
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we're crashing you could be working till
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midnight wait wait hold on I'm me to
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interrupt this who that we got sha Lee
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on the
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line that is the only acceptable time to
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Le I didn't realize you were calling me
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on my
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phone Sean you there that brilliant Sean
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Sean I got Julius in
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the bro I got Julius on the show too
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good I got Julius on yeah he just
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calling me Julius on it's on the show oh
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that's crazy is he there right now he's
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on live
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bro Sean ask him a question we're live
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on there man this is supposed to be a
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whole different type of interview but
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it's a reunion now go wow oh man when
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are we gonna
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do black
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movie I think we're starting right now
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we going to do it now now you know he's
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directed he directed Captain America
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Brave New World is in theaters today
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Sean of course of course and Sean Lee is
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the one that brought you to MTV Sean Le
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is the one I remember my first meeting
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and he was like I think you're all right
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yeah man wow wow anything you want to
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ask him real quick because he has to
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leave soon go ahead no no no just love
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and just continue blessings and success
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and let's catch up soon I'm actually on
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a flight right now about to get off the
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flight so I can't really just get it in
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right now okay appreciate you hit me
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later man all right I just wanted to
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make this is a this is your life Julius
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moment all right yeah yeah all right
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love y'all all right love you too man
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all right man I'm sorry I didn't mean to
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interrupt you man but I think it's
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important that people understand that
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you got to start somewhere and along the
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way you know there's going to be Nuance
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scenarios that you got to learn how to
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navigate and with that said what would
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you tell what do you tell students I
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would say do the work first and foremost
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you know if this is what you're
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passionate about you have to do it and
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so what what I was getting at is there
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would be days you know we are working on
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a show till midnight but if I needed to
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get Pages done I would come home and I
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would write you know even when I was
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also doing the application for film
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school so I would do a full you know
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we'd work weekends but then secondly to
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your point about relationships it's
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about being there and being present and
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being authentic and not always worrying
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about what am I going to get out of this
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but just being there to engage and enjoy
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and to share what you have and that was
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what was so great about the experience
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working with everybody with Sean with
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you with Joanne with Joe Patel we t with
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all those people um it was an
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environment where we were nobody is
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making some of those packages thinking
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well maybe 20 years down the road I'll
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be directing this kind of movie because
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that moment was what was important that
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moment was what was authentic and to
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your point what was so gratifying about
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it too was making things like growing up
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black in America making things like my
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block going to these different
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communities and using that as a vehicle
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there's a way that could have just been
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love but we really genuinely tried to
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represent we really genuinely tried to
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communicate um and you know sometimes
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that can be tricky in these big systems
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that have different sets of priorities
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and agendas um but you just have to be
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authentic and that authenticity you know
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it's part of what I love so much about
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Mackey too yeah Anthony Mackey man get
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man around of class man come on you know
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uh and when I first went to New Orleans
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and spent time with him and we didn't
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get to talk about this yesterday so when
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I interned for Spike Lee there was an
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executive there named Andre Harford who
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I also need to give a shout out to and
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he had produced the short film called
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Crossing with Joe Morton and a young
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Anthony Mackey and he was like oh you
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you got a decent voice can you Loop over
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ADR replace Anthony Mackey's voice in my
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short film so this is me 19 years old uh
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back in 2002 uh never did I think you
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know 20 something years later I'd be
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directing Anthony and I still make fun
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of him like I replace your voice I could
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replace you in this
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movie Fire be careful um this is man I'm
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blown bro I'm a little blown away this
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man another round of applause we're
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talking about Brave New World if you're
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Captain America fan uh you're going to
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enjoy this this is the first solo
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Captain America film led by a black man
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right yep uh how important was it for
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you to bring a whole new fresh
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perspective to the character it was
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incredibly important because I felt like
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this was an incredible vehicle and
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platform you know what you want is a
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story that again feels authentic that's
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leaning into who Macky and who Sam
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Wilson is but also still feels Universal
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right this is a Captain America for all
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people but I also love the idea that it
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could represent a specific history and a
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specific community and make that also
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feel Universal you know because
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sometimes when you when you think about
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Captain America as a symbol and this is
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a character that's been on the screen
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for 81 years MH it becomes the standard
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Bearer mhm much the same way as the
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office of the presidency becomes a
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standard Bearer and we are saying that
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that experience and that identity can be
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one that everybody sees themselves in so
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it was very important to me that it felt
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authentic to who macki was and who Sam
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Wilson is but still felt like something
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everyone can see themselves yes Anthony
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Mackey too man I you know I was reading
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up about the movie and I'll just be
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transparent I wasn't able to see the
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movie yet I'm going to tell you that um
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but I was able to read up and and and
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see as much as I could to prepare for
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this conversation and I saw a part where
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um Anthony Mackey talked about being so
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nervous you know that he was flubbing
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the first few scenes and then all of a
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sudden being opposite of Harrison Ford
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can you imagine bro of course I can't
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imag Harrison Ford uhhuh as he said he
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lost some lines and somebody of his
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stature and training that's not because
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he wasn't prepared it was because of the
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gravity of the scene and who he was
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working with and that Harrison forb took
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him to the side and gave him advice yeah
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I remember that day I remember that day
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you know I wasn't there with him okay
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you know that was a oneone exchange but
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Harrison was you know he one thing that
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he said to Macky that I thought was
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great was I'm here to support you uh
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this is your movie and that was true he
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said that to ma he said that to Mackey
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you know so beautiful you know um and
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and that's a real generosity and it was
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a generosity extended to me when I was
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nervous too you know after he signed on
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the movie I went over to his house and
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you know he poured me a drink and he
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just said what what he pour you whiskey
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I can't remember exactly what kind of
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whiskey but it was a whiskey um and
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um har
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for found lost treasures and he just
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started cracking jokes and I knew what
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he was doing he was saying hey I'm a
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human being I'm here to create with you
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don't worry about this whole I'm
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Harrison Ford movie star da d d d d da
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um and that kind of genuine just
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providing and giving of yourself doesn't
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always happen you know I I feel so
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fortunate to have some of these
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experiences and meet some of these
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people who you know just want to be
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there for the right reasons and to your
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point Mike that's how I think this movie
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was able to do some of the things it did
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just because people were so giving of
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themselves amen Tracy get into before I
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want to ask about the Red
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Hulk [ __ ] it I'm already there well we
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all know that um Marvel operates at such
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an enormous scale and there's like I
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don't even know an innumerable amount of
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moving parts for you as a director
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what's an aspect that perhaps a lot of
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people don't realize is as challenging
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as it is you know I would say one of the
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things that is just incredibly
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challenging but also incredibly
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gratifying is I think sometimes people
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imagine that it's like a machine and you
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input this and you output that and they
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forget that it's still a creative
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process it's just a creative process at
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a massive scale so you need to have room
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for Discovery you need to have room to
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iterate when you think about so many
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Classic Movies we love from Wizard of Oz
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to to to Jaws to Star Wars those were
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all movies that were discovered as they
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were being shaped and made and edited
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and that is how movies get made and even
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at this high level even at a company at
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as you know illustrous and as successful
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as Marvel that is part of the process
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too so for me obviously that was some
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real heavy lifting but I had a great
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team I also have to shout out our
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producer on the film Nate Moore who was
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incredibly supportive I got to shout out
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Kiana Davidson as well and of course
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Kevin feige lud Esposito we had another
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executive there Jillian Henry it was a
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great group of people who really really
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gave me support as I was taking on this
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challenge so um yeah yeah that that's
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something I think that's sometimes
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people aren't aware that we have to
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discover and find things that's I'm glad
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you highlighted that because it requires
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a lot of fluidity on your part and I can
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often times as creative sometimes we can
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be more
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perfectionist and for you what you do in
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your work does it also help you to shed
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perfectionism in your personal life yes
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yes it does you know look we all want to
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operate at the highest standard possible
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um but one of the things that really
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became clear to me over the course of
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making this is you have to iterate to
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innovate iterate to innovate you know
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you have to be willing to try things you
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have to be willing to fail you have to
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be willing to have things not work to
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make real discoveries because if you're
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not surprising yourself then you're not
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surprising the audience you know so that
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is a really valuable lesson that I um
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take to heart from this it's like it's
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it's one thing when you know something
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in concept but it's another thing when
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you know it from experience um um and
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again to what Mike was saying you know
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I'm I'm really proud of the things that
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we were able to uh put in this movie The
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ideas we were able to to experiment with
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the ideas we're able to express but that
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all came from finding him in an
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authentic way and then finding a way to
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balance that with the spectacle with the
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escapism because it's not just a movie
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about these issues it's also a movie
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about a guy with vibranium wings flying
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around fighting a Hulk who's red and hot
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and you know you still get the escapism
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of a Marvel adventure and a larger than
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life story uh and I think in this moment
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in time that's what we need we need to
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be able to hold ideas and also have an
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experience of escapism at the same time
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and enjoy that Duality and that was what
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was so important for me with this movie
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Julius onai here you speaking on the
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Hulk
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um people were so excited about uh
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Harrison's character turning into the
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Red Hulk right which is we know the
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traditional Hulk to be green right um
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why is the Hulk red this time and then
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what was it like for you to direct the
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battling scenes between the Hulk and
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Captain America well this uh goes back
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to publishing and the Hulk is read this
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time because of how he got his powers
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which comes from a character named The
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Leader okay um and he also has a
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different set of attributes he gets hot
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you know he has some flame and fire
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capabilities as well um he also has some
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extreme healing powers so it's a
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different flavor of uh of a Hulk um
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think a bit like Godzilla almost like
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the different types of Godzilla like one
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is like the regular kind then one's like
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a fire breathing one you know what I
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mean it's kind kind of like that yeah
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and in terms of directing it it's
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challenging that's another one of those
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challenges but it's so gratifying we had
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a great team a company w a digital did
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our visual effects uh and there were
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some great people there Dan Cox and
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Sydney and you know some days you're
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working with h a stunt person who's a
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double for Red Hulk who's got you know
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literally a photo of the Hulk attached
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to the back of him so he can be the
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right height so Macky needs to have the
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right eyeline he can't be looking right
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he's got to be looking at somebody tall
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so sometimes you're shooting that
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sometimes we' have Harrison there you
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know but again they're relating to each
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other but macky's got to look up you got
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to look up and then there's other times
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there's nothing there and macky's got to
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use that brilliant juliard training as
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you were saying you know Mackey's a guy
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who has done Shakespeare Mackey's a guy
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who's been on Broad Mackey's done
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everything and bringing all that into a
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movie like this and you know working
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against nothing and making it believable
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and emotional so you still see the whole
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story on his face um and then you trust
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these incredible digital artists they're
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artists as well to work with you on set
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and then also over the course of post
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production where yet again you are
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iterating to create this lifelike
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looking character that is red Hulk and
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I'm so proud of the work they did but
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the other thing I was really proud of is
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that the Red Hulk relationship and Sam
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Wilson Captain America relationship is
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not just the action the action's great
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but it's also emotional it's also about
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the theme and for me this notion of
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empathy was very important in this
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especially now especially especially now
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this notion of empathy uh Julius man I'm
20:41
looking at you dude and damn near
20:43
disbelief you know this is awesome man
20:46
DB you want to jump in yeah I just want
20:48
to point out that it was really cool
20:49
that this movie's coming out during
20:50
black history month and I know that
20:52
there's a ton of challenges that come
20:53
with trying to get a movie to release
20:55
either in a month or a specific week or
20:57
whatever it is so can you talk about
20:58
some of the behind the scenes things you
21:00
know the goal of trying to get this
21:02
movie to release this month were there
21:03
any challenges with that you know it's
21:06
we really planned and worked hard and
21:08
you know there were so many layers to
21:10
this but it was so important that we
21:13
could celebrate Sam Wilson and celebrate
21:15
this character and what it means and the
21:17
other thing that also is a layer here is
21:20
81 years ago was the first time we saw
21:23
Captain America on the big screen
21:24
February 5th 1944 wow black history mon
21:28
and here we are 81 years later in
21:30
February with Sam Wilson as our Captain
21:32
America so there is an element of the
21:35
Cinematic Legacy there's obviously what
21:37
it means for Black History Month and
21:39
this is why I think there's something so
21:40
magical about how this movie came
21:42
together but in terms of the work we
21:44
grinded we grinded you know I'll be
21:46
honest we I finished my work on this
21:49
movie January 24th you know oh my SS
21:52
like a couple of weeks
21:53
ago because you want everything to look
21:56
the best it can be you final touches it
21:59
is tweaking little things little things
22:02
like you
22:03
know I don't want to spoil too much of
22:05
the movie but like let's say how a
22:07
cherry blossom is falling you know and
22:09
I'm I'm I'm open about that because I
22:11
think it's important to know that for
22:13
the audience that have the best
22:14
experience possible all these artists
22:16
were always working and on every movie
22:18
you know I've been behind the scenes on
22:19
a lot of big movies we are working this
22:21
way because you can always make it
22:24
better you can always plus it is what
22:26
you know is often said at Marvel so
22:27
you're Plus until the last minute to
22:29
make sure you have the best experience
22:31
for the audience but that's why again I
22:34
feel so gratified to hear Mike saying
22:36
what he saying go go man I was going to
22:37
just jump in I know into this question
22:39
that cherry blossom moment to hear you
22:42
say you've been working on that since
22:44
January 25th was just a couple of weeks
22:46
ago that cherry blossom moment that was
22:49
one of the moments that stood out to me
22:50
in the film so that shows the hard work
22:53
was worth it about the details because
22:56
that cherry blossom moment plays such a
22:58
significant role in the storytelling so
23:01
cheers to you uh for being that diligent
23:04
and doing the work because that matters
23:06
small moment yeah we got Lonnie light by
23:10
the way you know you you're sitting with
23:12
people who are part of the Marvel
23:14
Universe I don't know if your if your
23:16
handlers know this either but you know
23:18
Heather and I did you know starring Luke
23:20
Cage just want to let y'all know I'm
23:22
family go ahead multi way yes yes yes
23:25
how you doing Julius how you doing man
23:26
good I'm actually a big Marvel and I I
23:29
went and saw the film yesterday so I
23:31
wanted to ask you a question so with
23:33
this Brave New World you know Sam Wilson
23:35
AKA Captain America he's entering into a
23:37
new era so I wanted to know like how
23:39
does this phase of the MCU like how does
23:42
it set up for the next phase of the MCU
23:45
well I'm not going to give too many
23:46
spoilers but we're at the end of phase
23:48
five here there's one more movie called
23:50
Thunderbolts and uh as you know there
23:52
haven't been Avengers you know so what's
23:55
critical in this story is it's about
23:57
also setting up am and Captain America
24:00
has typically been the leader of the
24:01
Avengers setting him up as somebody who
24:04
can lead an Avengers team now what
24:07
that's all going to look like I don't
24:08
want to say too much but let's just say
24:10
we're going to have some interesting
24:12
things going on with the Avengers going
24:13
forward but this is the reset this movie
24:16
is the one that sets the stage for that
24:18
so you know I encourage everybody to go
24:20
see it to understand also where Sam's
24:22
coming from emotionally and why he's
24:24
going to make some of the decisions he
24:25
makes going forward that I think are
24:27
going to pay off really really exciting
24:29
ways I'm there tonight man that's going
24:30
to be my Valentine Day movie is tonight
24:32
man go see the IMAX too go see it and
24:35
and IMAX you all right man give it up
24:37
for this guy man Julius listen Julie
24:41
we this is this has nothing to do with
24:43
with the movie but the movie industry
24:45
because I watch a lot of international
24:47
films you know and I go into these uh
24:49
like I watch Bollywood and I watch
24:51
Nollywood I'm saying you're Nigerian
24:54
right do you have aspirations of going
24:56
to Nigeria and building projects through
24:59
the Nollywood industry absolutely you
25:01
know I made a little short film called
25:03
Big Man there through a program called
25:05
Africa first and another person I need
25:06
to shout out K Kesha camer Dingle who
25:08
was very supportive and helped bring me
25:10
in uh to that program uh I made a little
25:12
short film there to test the waters
25:14
because I really want to go back you
25:16
look at a movie like Slum Dog
25:17
Millionaire and how that was able to
25:19
take elements of Bollywood and make it
25:21
very International and there's such a
25:23
rich reservoir of experience and so much
25:25
amazing talent in Nigeria um I
25:28
definitely there's a Nollywood film
25:30
coming there one coming there's one
25:32
coming all right okay good man that's
25:33
important that's a big industry and
25:35
they're getting better and better the
25:36
films that I'm seeing coming out of
25:38
Nollywood and man I I can't express
25:40
enough how proud I am of you and honored
25:44
I am that I've had a chance to be in the
25:46
early stages of your career and that it
25:49
made such an imprint on you thank you
25:51
you know and and the the other thing is
25:53
I feel so lucky because I know I'm going
25:56
to be in one of these damn movies there
25:57
you go
25:58
go I know he's going y he's going to
26:00
cast Julius you you going cast us man
26:03
exactly you was editing my face 20 years
26:08
ago now you got to cast my face I will
26:11
but anything you want to leave our
26:13
audience with about this movie um you
26:15
know what I was saying before it's a
26:16
movie about empathy it's a movie about
26:17
seeing what's good in each other and um
26:20
that was so important to me everybody in
26:22
this room there's been a goodness I've
26:24
been able to experience from our history
26:27
just getting to meet meet you trace
26:29
everybody you know I'm so thankful for
26:31
this and that thanks I wanted to put
26:33
into this movie it's a movie to share
26:36
with communities it's a movie to share
26:38
across the world so I encourage
26:40
everybody to go out there and have a
26:41
good time Valentine's
26:42
Day go and I commend you because you
26:45
make sure you name check everybody along
26:47
the way that that's very impressive and
26:50
I know you saying names of people who
26:52
names we never hear yeah so man
26:55
congratulations Julius onak man get his
26:57
man hi jul movie out today Captain
27:00
America Brave New World oh man love you
27:03
brother proud of you man proud of you
27:05
man

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