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Mario on with Mario

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Lopez Deebra.

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Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom from Dancing

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with the Stars in the Lifetime movie Hunting

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Housewives. Kim Johnson Herzevik,

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Welcome to the show.

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Thanks Mario.

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Oh my gosh, it's been gosh,

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what fifteen years? Wow?

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Very good, very good memory. It has been

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fifteen years, almost sixteen. So

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that's why it's always nice

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to see you. And I'm glad to see you. You're doing

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well and actually found love on the show

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in the show of course, Dancing with the Stars. That

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is great. How long have you been married now? And have

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you guys been together.

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We're going on our

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eight year wedding anniversary this July,

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which I cannot believe.

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Congratulate eight years.

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We have six year old twins while they're almost

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six. That is awesome. I

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know, like you just never know where you're going

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to meet someone.

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No yet, you never know. He's a cool dude

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too. If you remember, please give him my best. That's

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great.

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I will. I will actually in his office

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right now, get away from the kids.

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Yeah, now, I get that.

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I know that.

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Congrats on the movie, Thank

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you. It looks like a drama with some

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moments of a comedy. What's the premise?

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So, I mean, it's the craziest premise.

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Our husbands, you know, send

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us on the Ultimate Girls' Weekend.

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Well that's what we think, but it turns out

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very, very different, and

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we end up getting ourselves.

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In this situation.

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We're stuck out in the wilderness and

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we have to try and survive for

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our lives, really survive the elements and

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try and get out of there.

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And our husbands are Yeah,

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they're not what they seem.

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Oh, where'd y'all shoot that?

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We shot it in Canada. We

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were with my husband and we were living in Canada.

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We're actually just

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moving now, but we've been based in

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Canada for the last five.

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Years, is that right?

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Yeah? And this production company is

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up there, and yeah,

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they produced the movie and it was amazing.

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It was not far from where I live.

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It was great in Vancouver area or

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normal in Toronto?

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In Toronto? Is he from there or why can

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Yeah? Oh he's from there. Okay, Well that that makes sense.

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That makes sense.

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Your co stars Nini Leaks

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Denise Richards. That seems

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like a fun, ecllectic group right there. Do

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you have fun together?

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Right?

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Oh?

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My gosh, we had the best time.

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I mean, I know both of them from

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Dancing with the Stars as well, so

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we already had an instant connection. You

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know what it's like when you do Dancing with the Stars. It is

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you know, such a family and or you

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have this common thing, you know. So

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we got along great, and I

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shot a lot more with Denise, but

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Nini plays my best friend in

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the movie, so we had

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a lot of flashbacks together.

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How did you how'd you like acting?

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Is this something you've always

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want to do? You want to get more to it?

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Yeah, I mean I've always been interested

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in it, and I've always loved more

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so in musical theater.

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That's what I trained in when I was younger, but then bore

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them.

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Dancing sort of took over, and you

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know, I forgot about the rest. But

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yes, since having my kids and I

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can't dance forever. My body just you

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know, you know what it's like. So

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this has been a really great sort of pivot. And

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I did a few little things up north

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for this production company,

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and then this one came about, which

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was, you know, a bigger role, and it was great.

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I really enjoyed doing it.

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It's obviously very different to dancing, sure,

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but yeah, I really enjoyed it.

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I was very rehearsed.

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I think that's the dancer in me.

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And I sort of had to just let that go because

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Coach was like, don't get too married to the lines

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because they're.

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Probably going to change, which they did, you

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know. But it was great. It was really

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fun just being there, being present and

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been creative in a very different way.

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Yeah.

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No, absolutely. Speaking

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of dancing, do you keep up with it at all? Or is

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there is there certain pro dancers that you still stay

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in touch with that are on the show?

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Yeah?

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I mean, I gosh, when we

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went back and did this tribute for languod Men,

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they had a lot of the originals come

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back, and that was

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amazing because I hadn't seen Editor or

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Ana Trouvinskaya.

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I just love saying her name, or Karna

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for ages.

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So it was really nice to actually get

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back and see them and I when we've all sort of gone off and done

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other things and we have families now,

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like the ogs, you know, Cheryl

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I speak to you know,

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we still message each other occasionally,

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but it's not like we see each other that

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often because we're all in different states. But

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we definitely. When we see each

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other, it's like nothing has you know,

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changed?

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Yeah, you know which is this?

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That is?

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No, that's the best right there. You mentioned

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your kids older.

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They again, they're twenty six

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at the end of the mone.

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They're turning six and what are the end to Oh

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my gosh.

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They're into everything. We're

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trying to have them do a bit of everything.

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Like my son plays soccer,

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then he he does singing,

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he's learning piano, they're

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swimming, and my daughter she's she's

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actually a really great dancer and acrobat

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she's doing acrobatics.

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She loves just flipping.

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Everywhere, and so they're

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very theatrical. But we're

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just trying them out, you know, with everything,

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just to see what they actually gravitate to.

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Sure, expose them advice. That's that's awesome. It's so

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much fun. Yeah, I noticed you

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were posting a lot of skiing picks on

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ig.

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Oh my gosh.

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I'm not a skier, but I've married

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into skiing because my husband is a

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great skier.

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I think you have to got

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it, got it, you.

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Know, he grew up doing it. I didn't coming

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from Australia. I mean, we have some

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ski hills industry but it's not. It

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wasn't what my family did. We

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were more at the beach.

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So I Toronto.

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Sure, yeah, and I think

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learning that when you're older, it's

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a lot more terrifying, and I'm

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just afraid for so. My kids

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are amazing, they're great, Robert's great.

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But I don't want to be left behind. So I'm trying,

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like I'm getting out there with them.

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Yeah, well you're athletic. Oh that's awesome to hear. It

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is so nice catching up with you. Congratulations

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on the movie and on everything

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you've got going on. And listen, you can watch

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Hunting Housewives on Lifetime.

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Kim, thanks for hanging out.

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Thanks so much, Mario, was so good to see you.

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You too, all right, take care of bye

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bye

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With Mario Lopez