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We've got three bodies in two months. Catch this serial killer before he does it again.
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Three bodies this month? Maybe he's just getting sloppy. How do you know it's a he? Never assume.
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This is the new transfer from Tulsa. Detective Waters, homicide. Good luck. Thank you.
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Ricky McCullum was found dead yesterday. What? I don't suppose you've heard
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of a website. It's called Secrets 666.
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No. My roommate, Vanessa Perkins, she was on that website, and she's been missing for three days.
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How do you know Vanessa? Sex Addicts Anonymous.
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Hello, police. Everybody in there? I just saw that. Love it, cause. Love it.
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We've been partners, say, 12 years, right? Didn't feel right.
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Come on, man. Get on your game.
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He might be in danger. Whoever's responsible is still at large.
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He's definitely a copycat, whatever you're gonna do.
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Cutting heads off his victims, mannequins, that all sounds sexual.
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I created a fake profile that might lead us to our guy. We need all the help we can get.
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I got a bad feeling about this guy. Elise!
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She's in trouble affairs. She's unpredictable.
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Look what I found in your closet back there. I have never seen that in my life, I swear.
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Why didn't you tell me so that I could protect you?
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You might hear some bad things about daddy. You gotta know they're not true.
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Music.
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Hey hey what's up rj hey welcome to
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the show uh we are uncle dad talks i'm uncle dad and with me as always is that
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handsome man right there and that's mike hampton mike say hello handsome man
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where what are you talking about it's rj obviously rj's the right right yes
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hey no no no you guys what a better way to start an interview to challenge each
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other who's more handsome Yeah.
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Is that the Lafayette, Louisiana or what is that? That is. That is correct.
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Talking about my hat there.
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I think my third feature when I was in my young 20s, we shot a movie in Ashton, Oregon and Lafayette.
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And all the producers were from and the director were from Lafayette.
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It was a cool experience.
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Oh, wow. That's fun. You know, I'm glad you mentioned that.
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Yeah, I grew up in Lafayette. And, you know, one of the things when I first
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saw the title of the movie that we're talking about, Crested City,
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Obviously, my mind went right to New Orleans. Yeah.
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This film is actually shot in Arkansas, yeah?
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Yes, yeah. No. So funny enough, with the Crescent City title,
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Rich, the writer, and I, we were doing a movie out in Ukraine in 2019.
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We were talking about serial killers and like he was doing a bunch of research
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and telling me some creepy stories about little things they were doing and things
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they would hide. and then we went down to shoot Grand Isle with Nick Cage in Baton Rouge in 2019.
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And that's where we came up with the name, but we found there's a Crescent City in California.
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And so in Little Rock, we wanted to make it a fictitious town outside of Little Rock.
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So we didn't kind of like freak out any neighborhoods or communities by doing
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this movie there. So that was kind of why we kept it that way.
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I love that. I think, you know, I'm just going to be, you know,
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me and Mike, like, to be honest, and when we were, we were initially talking
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about this project here, he was very excited about that. He was like,
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oh, it's New Orleans. Awesome.
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But you know what? Arkansas is just as cool, man. Arkansas is just as cool,
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I would say, right? We all agree.
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I love them both, man. And they know they both work. So yeah,
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it doesn't know I'm not taking any sides on that.
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Smart. I love both states.
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So I am curious, you know, we're talking about serial killers and whatnot you
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know i kind of want to ask you hopefully this is not a weird question to ask
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somebody but what are your top three serial killers that inspired you for this.
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Wow um you know i don't know if i want to like say names because we did a lot
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of research on a lot of them and i don't know if i get in trouble but it's all
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public domain you know news yeah Yeah,
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what are your top three worst human beings? There you go.
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Well, there's one guy.
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No, I mean, look, I would say that it's a combination of many of them.
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There was, one of them was the I-70 Strangler that motivated a little bit of things.
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But we kind of pulled from different serial killers. But the mannequin side
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of this was definitely motivated by the I-70 Strangler from the 80s and 90s.
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And it was really creepy the research that we
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did on all of them so i just don't know if there's
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like certain clearances or whatever you need to
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get when you see these certain things but let's put it this way it's it's
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i didn't i was blown away when we got into the minds of these people and it's
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like it's fascinating and that's why you know i love 90s thrillers like that
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that time frame was phenomenal and i love how you constantly are questioning
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who the killer is all the way to the end. And that's what we did here.
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And you don't know which gender it is. We kind of keep it open all the way to
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the end. You just kind of back and forth, back and forth. And,
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you know, it was very motivated.
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Tony Scott, I love the way he colors his films and his music.
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And, you know, David Fincher is phenomenal with that.
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And those are kind of like two guys that I really, and Denny even was, he's phenomenal.
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But it was kind of like Prisoners, Zodiac, True Detective, all those movies
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kind of crammed into this. It felt like a lot of those pieces were from there.
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Yeah. The shots that you have with the mannequins, like there is something about
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a dark room and a light, a flashlight shining on a mannequin in a dark room
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where it obviously shouldn't be.
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It's definitely creepy. So you definitely captured that.
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So like when you're doing that stuff and you're, you know, there's obviously
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a lot of sexy stuff going on in the story here too.
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The juxtaposition of those two things, like you did a really great job of tying
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those two things together.
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Other well thank you yeah like i said it's kind of the good versus evil
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in this movie right and the temptations of life right so
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we all have our lives but you all you have a decision to
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make every single day whether you're going to go the other way or the
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you know the right way and so we kind of use that and then kind of combined
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it in with a a whirlwind of people that could be the could be the suspect and
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the killer but yeah it does have that kind of like i said so it's kind of that's
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kind of my homage to the 90s thrillers by kind of the little things we added
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like that And that was part of the writer, Rich Ronette. He's phenomenal.
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So we kind of, you know, he really came up with a lot of the story.
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And well, he wrote the script. So it's fun.
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I love that you bring up the 90s. One of our favorite things to talk about is
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the 90s aesthetic of film.
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And so one of those icons of the 90s is legendary actor Bruce Willis.
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Yeah. And so I'm curious, did you ever have the opportunity,
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we always like to ask everybody this, did you have the opportunity ever to work with him in the past?
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Or would you be like to in the future if you could, of course?
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Oh, God. I tried. Believe me. We tried to cast him a few times. Man, I love Bruce.
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I mean, I mean, Moonlighting, come on.
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I mean, Moonlighting, I was obsessed with that TV show.
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And I mean, come on, Die Hard. Actually, you know, it's funny.
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Die Hard's one of the movies I watched in the theater, and I was thinking to
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myself, like, wow, I want to make movies.
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I loved it. I just loved the way it made me feel. I didn't know if it was because
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I wanted to be an actor or what, but funny enough, after I did acting as a kid,
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I kind of realized that I loved making movies, but the acting side of it wasn't
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really what I wanted to do.
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Because when I was on set, I was watching the people in the background, what they were doing.
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And I loved the director and the producers and everybody was there.
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And I was fascinated by it. Even the DP and the film crew, I was like,
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this is cool. I want to do that.
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So I stopped acting. I did a smaller role where I was like a one-day player,
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pretty much like a feature background playing the young Gary Sinise in a movie.
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And I watched Paul Cervino directing and I'm like, I have to do this eventually.
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Eventually but i was like you know i'm going to produce i'm going to
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you know work myself up earn the credits learn the business better
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over years and finally my 40s i decided to go
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for it i love that mike yeah no
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it's great i mean i mean we always try to find a way to wedge bruce willison
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because you know i he's like my favorite all time and i have a tattoo of him
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on my arm oh wow you know you really went for it that's awesome i mean look
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six cents i mean god there's just i can name out so many movies of his.
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I agree. It's like he's amazing.
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Look, I was like, I don't really get, like...
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Weird or kind of nervous around any actors but bruce
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would be one al pacino and bruce willis and you
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know even alec i was a little nervous when i did my first zoom call with
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him and then we had a great talk though right away and you know we just really
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had a good vibe going from the minute we started talking and he asked me what
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what he wanted what i what i wanted from him and how i saw the story and i told
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him and then he was like great so we really hit it off and he's He's,
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you know, Alec and Terrence,
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all of them, like they're phenomenal actors,
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you know, Oscar nominated, phenomenal actors.
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And it was great to just vibe with them and just have a fun time.
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And you never know until you get into the trenches of people how it's going to go.
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Yeah, I love that. We do have to wrap up here, but before we do,
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what is the one thing you hope our audience gets from watching this film?
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Well, I hope they go on a nice journey on this one. And I just love the twists and turns.
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And I just, you know, these kinds of movies where you don't know who the killer
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is all the way to the end is great because you hook the audience in.
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So our goal was to keep an audience from the beginning all the way to the end.
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And I feel like with this film, we did that.
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I love that. Yeah, so everybody go, please go check out Crest in the City coming out very soon.
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Thank you so much, RJ. Thank you, everybody. And we'll be right back after this. Thanks, guys.
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Hi there, this is Dave Mandel. I'd like to think you know me as a writer for
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Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm or Veep or even Eurotrip or,
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I don't know, the dictator or clerks but you
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probably know me from cat and the hat oh well uh anyway
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you're listening to uncle dad talks all right
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uncle dad and mike are returned or have returned have returned from uh hanging
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out with rj collins the filmmaker behind crescent city now mike for those who
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didn't really know what i was referencing can you tell them the story as to
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why we accepted this interview.
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Yeah, I mean, we're going to talk about it a bit with RJ very briefly.
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But, you know, anytime I think anyone hears Crescent City, you know,
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in the United States, I think the first thing people think about is New Orleans
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because that's the most famous nickname that it has other than the Big Easy,
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because it's shaped like a crescent moon along the Mississippi River.
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So, obviously, me being the New Orleans man that I am, I was very excited to talk about a movie.
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Having to do with the crescent city but it's not and that's okay it's still a great film.
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It's still a great film and also arkansas mike have you been to arkansas and
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honestly i've driven through arkansas a couple times i hear it's pretty beautiful
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like i really i really have heard it's beautiful over there yeah i mean that's
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the thing with the south man it's just you know the it's very lush and you know
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the humidity and the amount of rain that it gets uh you know,
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We spent a lot of our time in California where the hills are very brown.
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You don't see that out in the South. So yeah, it is. It's beautiful.
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Awesome. Yeah, I think whenever we do these interviews, and I want to shout
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out to Annie always for helping us out with some of the best interviews we can get from Lionsgate.
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And one of my things that we do is I always try my best, both of us try our
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best to make sure the content is fresh for you guys listening.
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And I think one of those things I want to point out
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there is I hope you guys all appreciate that we try to make sure
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that we don't ask the same questions all the
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time and sometimes we do like bruce willis but that's
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okay so i just want to throw it out there if you guys have any
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suggestions as to what we can change for our like
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if there's something you guys want to hear specific please email
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me at uncle dad uncle dad talks i would love to see if we can make
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it more for the for the audience what do you think mike
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yeah i mean if anyone has listened
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to our show consistently they know that we always wedge certain
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questions in there one of those being about bruce willis just
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because i'm i still have an obsession with him yeah and
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it's just funny to us and hopefully it becomes
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funny to the people listening and it seems like
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the guests always get a kick out of it but yeah if there's uh if there's anything
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that the listeners want us to wedge into a conversation that may or may not
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fit or may be interesting let us know yeah let us know yeah we We want to make
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it more involved with the audience because this is our show, but it's your show, too.
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So, Mike, you won't be here for the next interview we're partaking in,
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but we are going to be interviewing Nikki Whelan, who is one of the lead actresses in this film.
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Nikki Whelan, you can be honest, are you familiar with her as an actress? Yes.
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Other than watching her in this film, I can't think of what else. But you should tell me.
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I will tell you. But before I tell you that, a fun fact, everybody,
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for people watching Crescent City is that it stars the son of another 90s icon.
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Nicolas Cage. That's right. It stars Weston Cage.
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Now, that really surprised me because I'm like, wow, he kind of like doesn't
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look like his son, but he shares his father's intensity, right?
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Because Nicolas Cage has that in certain intensity, right? Would you agree with that?
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I don't know what you're talking about. That's so weird.
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I'm being sarcastic. Okay. You got me against that because I see video, but...
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Yeah. Yeah, and there's a lot of great actors also in this film.
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We got Terrence Howard. We got Alec Baldwin.
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But yeah, I'm sad I missed the Nikki part of the interview.
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You she's beautiful and i wouldn't mind seeing her on screen here but
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you enjoy that part of the show i certainly
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will and nikki whelan is a lot of unique
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movies one of those movies i wanted to point out is actually
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one of my favorites it's one of my guilty pleasures and it's
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called the binge have you heard of that movie yes but
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just in case our audience hasn't maybe just
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say a quick note about that the binge
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is basically the concept of what's that
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movie where everybody kills each other one day the purge
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it's like the purge right but instead of
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them banning all murder whatever and one day you
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can do it in this universe they ban all drugs all alcohol all whatever forever
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but on one day you can do all the drugs you want all the all the alcohol you
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want like if you haven't seen this movie you really should watch it because
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it's a wild ride And she is in that movie and she plays the pun isher.
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Sounds like every day of my normal life.
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Oh man. I'm being sarcastic again. Sarcasm does exist here.
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And on that note, I will be right back with our interview with Nikki Whelan.
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But before we go, be sure to follow us on Instagram at uncle dad talks.
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And of course, follow Mike and Mike Hampton art, Mike, do you have any shows
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you want to promote real quick that you'll be at?
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Shows that I will be at? I don't know. No. No. Okay.
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Yeah. All right. Sorry, everybody. You won't be able to see Mike. I don't think.
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But you will see me at GalaxyCon San Jose. I'll be somewhere binging.
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You probably will be, to be honest, and I'll be sure to post pictures of that.
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But you can find me at GalaxyCon San Jose, and that'll be the weekend of August
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16th, 17th and 18th at the San Jose Convention Center.
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And I'll be hanging out with my Uncle Dad's gear. And if you see me, please say hello.
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Who knows, you might even get a special gift. But thank you guys so much,
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and we'll be right back with Nikki Whelan.
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Hello, Nikki Whelan. It is such an honor and a pleasure to be speaking with you.
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I have to tell you this right out the gate, you're responsible for two of my
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favorite films of all time, and that's The Flood.
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Yeah, I love The Flood, and I love Maneater as well. I'm very into that.
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Oh my goodness! So thank you for that. There you go!
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I love those kind of films obviously this is very
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different than that but but you know what uh anytime
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i can shout out movies like that i'm so excited so
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first and foremost just when we get into this discussion of this movie for you
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as an actress how much different was it you know in this role versus the other
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roles you've been in every single job i do is so left of center you know i I
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go from comedy to drama to action as,
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you know, from those movies you're talking about to this.
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They're so different. The experiences are completely different,
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especially because some of those were shot in Hawaii, Thailand,
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and now I'm in Little Rock, Arkansas. You know what I mean? Yeah.
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They're just so different and every experience is really interesting and I take away so much.
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In this particular movie, obviously, I'm surrounded by some unbelievable actors,
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Isai Morales and Terrence Howard and Alec Baldwin.
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I mean, you've got award-winning powerhouse men that have done incredible things in their career.
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So I'm now in the mix with them making a movie in this random little town of
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lovely people and we're doing a thriller and it's a lot of emotion.
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We got a short period of time to shoot it and so
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there's there's a lot happening and you sort of have to be able to pivot really
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quickly emotionally and go let's go we're in this let's go we've got this time
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and to think that the the chemistry between esai and terence is really incredible
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on and off screen they really have to have their own thing they're so funny together and,
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rj our director did a great job of sort of bringing us all together and immediately
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making the set a very safe, great place to be in and to be super creative.
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And there's a lot of emotions and a lot of stuff happening. And we just all
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really took care of each other. It was really lovely.
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I love that. And I think too, like when you talk about locations of where you
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filmed, Little Rock is probably one of the most unique locations in the aspect
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that it's probably not the most exciting.
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And I know it's mean that in a bad way, but what did you guys do for fun in Little Rock?
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Well, when we had, we had a big long weekend off and
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all of us and everyone's families flew in and kids went
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out and got a big um rental couple rental sort
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of airbnb places and we went to this crystal farm where they
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you dig for crystals and all the kids and had a
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ball it really felt like a big school camp and it was so lovely you know when
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you spend time in those towns obviously as a movie production you get taken
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care of very well and you eat at the best restaurants in town but the locals
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that worked on the movie were so lovely I'm still in contact with all the make-up
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team, the most wonderful women.
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Some people flew in from LA too, but great little town, would happily go back there and shoot.
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And you've got to go there and experience it. Look, they're not always,
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they don't always feel like home, but you certainly get to experience being
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on a movie, what it feels like to live there because you're there for a chunk
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of time and, you know, you've got to go to the local CVS and get your stuff, you know what I mean?
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So it's like you kind of get to live in the 60s a minute it with a
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little extra treatment special treatment because you're in the movie so
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yeah random locations beautiful neighborhoods i
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really enjoyed it it was very hot shooting there very hot yeah a little stuff
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yeah in the action scenes in the movie we're like driven with sweat i'm like
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so you know there's a lot but great experience and just really loved everyone
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on this i love that and i think you're talking about the film and the cast you
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have so much talent in this film,
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was that ever an intimidation of the sense of like, man, I got to work against,
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you know, not against, but with Terrence Howard,
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Alec Baldwin, how was that feeling like?
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You know, it's giving them all the credit, to be honest with you,
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because they are the powerhouses.
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They are the ones with the huge backgrounds and incredible award-winning actors.
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And so, yeah, you think to yourself, oh my goodness, I'm stepping into this space.
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But you would never know with how they treat you. You are an absolute equal
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on set working opposite them.
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They protect you, give you space, allow you freedom to do everything you need
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to do. You know why they are who they are.
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Because after working with them, you get it. And they're really incredibly gracious,
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humble men, especially with their backgrounds and supporting you.
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So, yes, there is a sense of like, oh, my goodness, I'm walking.
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And everyone's energy is different. And you're managing it very quickly,
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walking onto a set, boom, it's all four of us in the office.
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You know, there's moments where
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I'm like, oh, my goodness, get your shit together. You know what I mean?
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But everyone's laughing, having
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a good time, and we're all showing up and we all want it to look good.
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So everyone's got their best foot forward and is helping each other find
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our way you know in a very short period
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of time so i don't know everyone's so
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cool this was a cool movie this was a cool like we had
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so many laughs on this movie and i
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have such fond memories of it so yeah it's interesting
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you say that too because you know it's like it is a very serious film but
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you could tell that everybody had a lot of
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for me when i watch film i can always feel that energy like
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i feel like i'm kind of empathic about that where it's like oh i can feel that
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everybody's having a great time and you could see that on screen so what
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i'm curious too is when you initially got the script
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so what attracted you to be a part of this film well i'd always i'd worked with
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raja rj our director i call him raja he's a very dear friend of mine 17 years
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ago on a movie that he had produced and he was always looking for something
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for us to do together so when this came about i obviously always wanted to work
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with him jacqueline's a very complicated big character character.
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She's a tomboy. She's badass. You know, I like that stuff. It's my vibe.
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It's my jam. Like let's throw it. And now it's very emotional.
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She's got a lot of layers.
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Like who, it's a, who did it kind of movie thriller and I'm surrounded by bosses.
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So yeah, it's pretty easy. Yes. For me.
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Awesome. And you know, we're talking about like getting into the characters.
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What do you have to do for yourself to like connect to that?
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Like, okay, I like these attributes, but how do I really become this character?
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You know, with such little preparation time and short shooting time,
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it's really, for me, I just must always be present.
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Being present allows things to be authentic and allows me to stay in the moment of what's happening.
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It kind of sounds cheesy, but it's the truth. It's the same in life.
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You just stay in the moment and the reality of what's happening.
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I know who Jacqueline is.
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That's the fun of playing a character over a period of time
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you get to know the character you start realizing what she enjoys
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to do and it's weird you develop the second sense of
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who this woman is after you've been living her and that's
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the the joy of getting to act and be it
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first couple days are always hard because we're trying to find our
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food it's like the first day of school you don't know who's who and
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how to and but these movies are shot in two
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and a half weeks so you got to pivot quickly
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and adapt quickly that in itself is its
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own art form we're all
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just trying to figure it out life is so quick everything
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is so quick it's like keep up or fall off so you know just jump on board and
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and be vulnerable enough to allow you know allow some truth to come out in these
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moments and be safe enough to let them sort of play out you know i love that
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And I think being present, too, is also in our form in itself,
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because I've had challenges with that just in my personal life in general.
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And then I'm learning more and more to just to be present, because sometimes
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I think we also often think about how do we how do we fix whatever problems
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happening instead of being in the moment?
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But really, reality is that problem is still going to be there,
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whether we're here or not. Right.
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Like we need to focus on the product of the hand and then we can worry about that problem later.
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So what I'm curious is, was there what was probably the most challenging scene
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for you to film as an actress?
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I don't know if you'd say challenging, but I think there's moments,
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there's a couple of moments where Jacqueline is at home and we had such little
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time to shoot them and she was very emotional.
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And trying to, I literally got 20 minutes to shoot this scene and I'm like,
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where am I, you know, I don't know.
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Just trying to find in such a, you know, real life emotions can,
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things will happen and jolters into tears instantly.
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Other things that happen over time, you know, it's just, they're challenging
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because you're trying to be authentic and bring, you want your audience to feel stuff.
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You want them to fight for you that you want them to keep the screen, this movie on and care.
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So I just try and it's when I'm by myself and I've got to get very emotional,
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I need a minute and they don't usually give me a minute.
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So I'm like, damn it. Where are we pulling this from?
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You know, some actors can just do it like that.
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And it depends on any day because as a human, some days we feel great and I
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don't feel like crying today.
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So you're going to have to dig deep. You know, that's, they're the challenges,
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you know, to stay, to bring up an emotion that's maybe been suppressed and you're feeling really good.
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Okay awesome well we have to wrap up here but
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before we do what is the thing that you hope the audience takes
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away from the film you know it's a lot of
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people have been saying it's got a little bit of a 90s vibe to it when
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some of the best thrillers were ever made you know i hope they
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kind of watch it with that kind of it's fun it's one
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of those fun movies that you just kind of who did it you really
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have no idea there's so much going on there's so
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many surprises and shocks along the way and I don't
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know it's just it's a good fun watch it's a
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little dark a little sexy so I just I
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think I really think people hopefully take that away from it and
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see that it's got a bit of a 90s energy to it which people
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love I love that and my last thing to say
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about the flood real fast is I hope that you
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and Cassandra and Dean will do more movies in the future we will I love him
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and his wife are my favorite people I have full contact with them I love them
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so me too okay awesome awesome thank you so much i absolutely appreciate it
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everybody go please go please see crest in the city when it comes out very soon
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thank you again nikki william for your time i appreciate it thanks love thank you.
