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I had with Maria Littlepez.

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It's up, Yarl, Maria Lopez, join me out

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in studio. Very talented actor and musician

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Nat Wolf. How are you, man, good man, how

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are you doing? Thanks for having me, Thanks for taking

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the time to come. I know you got a lot going on at the moment.

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But first let's talk about this new movie, semper

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Fy. It looks pretty intense from

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my seeing what Supremise. So

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it's about this group

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of friends and

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mainly about this uh

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uh marine and cop um

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that Jack Courtney plays, and

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I play his younger brother who's always getting

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into trouble, getting into bar fights. And

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then I get into one bar fight and

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I knocked a guy out and he hits his and I'm

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defending myself but he hits his head and he dies and

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I gets sent to jail for twenty five years.

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I'm not at all, you know, I'm just a guest, scrawny

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kid. Even in self defense. Huh, even

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in self defense, I get an unfair sentence and

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said, then my my brother and his friends,

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they you know, band together to to break

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me out of jail. But it's really a character

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study of these two brothers in their relationship

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and it's um, you know, in

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in their their mutual pain and

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love for each other. And yeah, I like that story,

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like based on a true story or not, because it sounds like something

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that it's it's not based on a true story.

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But Henry the director, um, who's

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who's done a really

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beautiful feature distinct but he did a lot of documentaries

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like murder Ball, which you got nominated for an

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Oscar for he um

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murder Ball. Just like murder Ball, you

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know, he's he's met a lot of people with these

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stories that he kind of you know, and he's friends with a lot

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of real marines and cops, and he's sort of he

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kind of got that story from from getting to know

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that from a different bunch of different places exactly

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exactly. You have a brother in real life. I have

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a brother, Yeah, Yeah, Alex, Alex, and he's

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he's he's actually my younger brother. And I got

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the experience of being a younger brother in

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this movie. So now I have a little bit more sympathy

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for him, Not not that much more, but a

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little bit. Yeah, would you do the same thing? Definitely

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not? Yeah, I mean I've had to break Alex out of jail

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weekly, so it's it's

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a huge stress. Uh.

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And you guys got pretty tight filming this, I heard

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right, went out a lot. Yeah yeah,

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I mean, um, I just was on

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some interview earlier and there's like gis going

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on saying, you guys went out for one crazy night,

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and I was like one. But you know,

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GI and those guys um

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were there like a week before I got down there

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there. They were down in New Orleans, which I you

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know, my family, my my dad is from New

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Orleans and his family, so I have tons of family down there.

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So shooting down there was like going back home. I mean, the

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greatest, greatest and a lot of fun to be had.

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Yeah, a lot of fun. Yeah. I got

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into gambling, you know, which is like not a good

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thing to tell your parents, like, you

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know, after filming, but I had never done it before,

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and I went I played, Um,

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I played uh craps

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and wait wait, I played the game we throw the dice?

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What is that craps? And and on my first

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round I won. It

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was my girlfriend

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and I put it all all on on

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three different numbers and we want we wanted

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to come yeah with with a hundred dollars we won,

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was like a full table. We won, and

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then I left and I was like, Okay,

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I'm never going to do it again. That was awesome.

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And then I found myself back again and again

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and I never won again. Yeah, that's

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how they get you right there, right on. Man.

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Well you also got coming out this month The Killed

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Team with Alexander a Scars

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guard and and and this is another military

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sort of basically this movie, this is movie is

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based on true story, really sharrowing

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true story about these guys who

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um who uh,

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these you know, young soldiers who had this evil

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sergeant come in um whose Scars

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guard plays and they started killing

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innocent Afghani's kind of for sport

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and placing guns on them. It's and it's a true story.

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And they were called the Kill Team and is based on a Rolling Stone article.

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And then my character is kind of like the cerplico that's

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trying to bring him down, um,

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but but doesn't doesn't really, I mean kind

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of succeeds, kind of doesn't. And I got to meet with the real

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guy that I played, um, and I stayed at

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his house in Seattle and stuff, and and he's a really complicated,

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interesting, interesting dude. So it was that's

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another Yeah, it's been it's going to be a heavy month.

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So we know he lives

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Scars Guard, we don't know about his character. Then you don't

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know, we don't know. Well, I

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mean maybe this maybe you want the suspensive

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note he does live. Because it was strange. We were at

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a Q and a UM and I've always been like, you

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know, terrified of this character is sort of they're

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the real life person and scars Gard playing. I mean,

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I'm good love scars Garding. We're actually about

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to work together again, but he is this character

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was very terrifying. And we were at a Q and A and

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some guy raised his hand and

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said, thank you for portraying my my good

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friend. I talked to him three times a week like that at

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Scars Guard when we were like, well and he's you know,

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it's like a really intense that's the best compliment. Yeah,

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where'd you shoot the scenes for Afghanistan?

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I can't tell him in Afghanistan? No, I'm just kidding. Um.

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We shot in Canary Islands,

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so we spend a lot of time. I'm in a

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lot of the shoe was in in Madrid,

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but then we did like real battle stuff. It was

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in Canary Islands. Yeah, so abroad

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the whole, the whole, It was abroad the whole time. You get

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to work in cool locations. I know. That's really

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really nice. Yeah yeah. And and also

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in the works, he had another project, Body Cam.

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Uh this is a horror movie with Mary J. Blige. Yeah,

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she's the greatest, the greatest.

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Yeah, it's this one about This

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one is about a I

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don't know when this one's coming out, so I don't

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have too much information on it. I haven't I haven't seen yet.

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But it's about a uh cop

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who is haunted by

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the spirit of a

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young African American boy

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who was killed unfairly

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by the by the police. And and she's

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trying to solve the case. And

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I'm I'm her partner.

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You're her partner. Yeah wow, wow,

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this sounds like it could be a true story too, right,

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Yeah, body great? Name about

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that? And with all that going on, you're also gonna you make

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in your directorial debut, short

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film called Youngest Yeah

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I'm met. Yeah, yeah, I've never I've never done

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it before, so it's a lot of learning. But I how short

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is the film? Because they you can qualify a third film

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now, right, it could be like three minutes or

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it could be like twenty nine right it's

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thirty or under right, Yeah it's thirteen

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seconds long. No, I'm just it's it's

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everybody. Yeah,

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it's twenty it's twenty two minutes long. It's

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the star of it is is my girlfriend's

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little sister who's eight years old, who she

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was seven when we're filming, and she is had

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never acted before, but she's such a brilliant personality.

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So my idea was just try to capture

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this moment in time. So it's almost like a

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very like elaborate home home video.

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But but it's but it really directing

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is um is its own is

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its own challenge. But but I was so

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happy on set like that. I didn't wasn't you know? The actors

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gave so much to it. I mean, it's Michael

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Gandelfini, who's gonna be playing the young Tony soprano.

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He's James Son, he's in it um

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and Austin ab rooms from you for you, and

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had a really great actors and stuff for

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you. Did you get to stay local that one or yeah,

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it's really local. Is at my parents apartment there

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you go, like they

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were away in vacation and then then they came back

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and they were like, well, you guys are never doing that again.

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But at least I got one good

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short film out of their apartment. And we're in we're

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his home away from originally New York City. So yeah,

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downtown by Washington Square Park is where

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they were, um, where we grew up.

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So you actually go right in the heart of Manhattan, right in

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the heart of Manhattan. Yeah, that's a trip, man. I always fascinated

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by because you know, you visit there and

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it's so quick and hust you in l a kid or where

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you from im an l A. Yeah, yeah, total

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southern California. Go, And I love New York going there,

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But man, I'm always exhausted when I leave. And I have a lot of

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friends that are from this side, but I'm always blown away, Like wow,

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growing up here must be a trip totally. I mean,

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I can feel like downtown where I grew

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up, is a little more relaxed than then

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if you grow you know, then then a lot of times when

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I come in for those little trips. But you're probably doing work

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stuff too. Yeah, you're spending a lot of time in Time Square,

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which is kind of but but being downtown

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is I mean, it's it's um,

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it's it always still feels like home. I've I've

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sort of bounced around, um,

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you know, renting places and stuff. But

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but right now I'm I actually don't really live

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anywhere because I've been going from set to set, so I don't

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you know, I'm trying a bit of a nomad nomad

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man, I'm living on the lamb there. You could go, by

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the way, next time you use your parents apartment and make a film,

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they get upset. That's when you drop that. By

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the way, I'm also into gambling. And right

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completely, I

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was like, where what

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happened to this kid? Someone wrote

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online that you should be cast as rick O

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Kasick in a movie about the Cars. I

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can I can't totally see that,

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by the way, And I was a fan. Are you familiar with their music?

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I'm a huge Cars fan. Yeah, I mean I was.

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I was really sad to hear that he had he had

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passed. Um, it's a pretty

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good long life though super young. I mean we should

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be you know, yeah, he didn't live an amazing

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life. Yeah, and uh, and and that

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would be it. That would be a that

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would be so exciting if there's

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one movie could tell based on a

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biopic. Who would be some story.

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Well, there's a movie that I've that I've really

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wanted to do for a long time that I'm

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that I'm attached to to play one of the Replacements,

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uh you know the Banded Replacements with Paul Westerberg

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and uh and and they have

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been one of my favorite bands my whole life. And so I got

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the got this part. So it's been a long development

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thing. But that's one of the dream the dream roles.

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Yeah, I'm gonna play um

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like just a really degenerate gambler every

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film. Now. Yeah, yeah, I've been doing

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research and my guys, it's been research for a movie that's

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not written or conceived yet. How do

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you I'm twenty four. See, I went

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through that phase. It was funny because I was about your age for about

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a good five six years.

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And then you start running out of money

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you started it starts getting scary. Where were you

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doing it? Vegas? Because it's so

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you can drive? Then the drive is so beautiful.

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Yeah, so you know, it's just it's

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fun, is it? But then it's it's fun and so you're

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off the gambling. Know, I don't really, you know, I'll

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do like a little sports betting here and there

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just for fun. But I used to. I used to like hit

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the table scrape specifically to ye furious,

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I know, and it kind of gets your blood. Yeah,

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if you can be disciplined, which is that's the

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tough part right there, that you don't have fun? Man, Yeah, I

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mean it sounds really it sounds probably your response.

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But but after that, of all the all

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the losing, I thought, I'm

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losing so much, I'm gonna win big. I

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feel like I'm gonna win. Those big casinos

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are there for I literally have to win this back.

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There's no I'm not going to do at any moment like

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famous last words before I let you go, I'm and put you on

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the spot. Quick questions, click answers, all right. Current

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song of session, Um,

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I love uh to this

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band tops. I love the song outside.

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Okay, last concert

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you win two? Um

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I went.

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I'm trying. It's hard to remember what the last one? Oh

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I saw. I

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saw my friend Owen Smith

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play in New York. That was the last one I saw. So

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it's a good plug for him. Okay. Celebrity

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crush growing up Uh

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Drew Barrymore in The Charlie's

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Angels and Kate Hudson and

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almost Famous good You've

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got you got it type, I like it go

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to cocktail, Um,

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I when I went to Italy, I mean it's not cocktail.

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But I went to Italy and I got into wine. So

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I was never into wine. Always thought it was kind of like

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like gave me a headache. But now I'm now I'm getting

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into the art of it. Now you're

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appreciating actor

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you'd love to direct. Oh

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that's a great question. Um,

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probably just

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Andrew Garfield. Yeah, I'm like, probably

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Andrew. I just worked with Andrew garfieldly such a

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great actor, and he'd be he'd be fun to direct.

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Yeah. Is that a project you can talk about or no? Yeah,

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it's a movie called Mainstream that Gia

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Coppola directed. I was in her first

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movie called pal Alto, and she's

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a genius and and the movie is is

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about this this Internet. They're

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the street performer that Andrew plays that

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becomes this huge sensation and

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then becomes a sociopathic

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asshole kind of And my character is like

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the good guy and it's almost a love triangle between

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me him and then the main girl is played

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by Maya Hawk. Oh wow. Cool cast

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could also be a story right

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exactly, time travel destination.

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You can go back at any point in history for

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a week. I would go to like

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nineteen six, and then I would go to John

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and Paul is the Beatles, and I would say,

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hey, guys, I got this great song yesterday. I would

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you like that? And then I'd

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be like, guys, you gotta put me in the band, and

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you're publishing. Your kids would be taking care of you would

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right that I'd be able to gamble,

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gamble, Yeah,

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I'm gonna I'm gonna leave some advice from

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being from being a pretty good kept crafts

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player from back in the day. Double

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up your back bet, don't play the come

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line all the time. That's a trap. Hit

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your even numbers and play um

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even. People say you don't hit your even

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numbers, but player six and eights and and keep and double

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them up. After you hit them one time, keep doubling them up. You win

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quick. You win. And I'm telling

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you because once you hit once, you hit

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your hit and you'll keep it up. Semper five. Meanwhile,

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it's the October four. You can follow

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him on Instagram at nat and Alex

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thanks for something by me. Thank you so much, man I really appreciate

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it. With Mario

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Lopez