April 27, 2023 • 31 mins
You've seen him in The West Wing, 24, Desperate Housewives, Criminal Minds, Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy and Lost.
One of his earliest roles was as Luciano in “A Messenger, Nothing More”.
Anthony Azizi remembers auditioning with Amy and Dan in the room!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am all In. Let's kiss you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
on one interview. We have a very very very special guest.
Anthony Azeezi played the role of Luciano for one episode
in two thousand and four. He plays a hotel manager
that helps Emily and Rory into their room in Rome, Italy.
The only time we see Anthony as Luciano is in
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season five, episode two, A Messenger Nothing More. Anthony is
an actor known for his dramatic film roles. He kickstarted
his career in the comedies like for Richard Poor nineteen
ninety seven starring Tim Allen Tom Katz two thousand and one.
His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects
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like American East two thousand and seven with Tony Shaloub, Wristcutters,
A Love Story two thousand and seven with Patrick Fugit,
and the Shia Lahbooth smash hit drama Eagle Eye two
thousand and eighty. Also working television during these years, including
a part on Threat Matrix, Criminal Minds twenty four, Commander
in Chief, Desperate Housewives Without a trace Las Vegas, Veronica, Mars, Lost,
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The Resident with Our Own, Madi Zukui, et cetera. Anthony
is mostly known for acting in the thriller Armed Response
with Wesley Snipes, Transformers, Dark of the Moon, and Priest
So Let's bring him in Anthony is easy? Hey, Anthony,
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how you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Hub? So? You played Luciano, the hotel manager who helps
Emily and Roy into their hotel room. Had you ever
seen or heard of the series when you when you
got cast for this part?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You know, I did because there was a lot of
heat on on the show because of the writing, and
as you can see now, I mean it's it's the Palladinos,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I read for them and it was good to read
for them. They're they're a really good team. They've been
around now for a long time. And so, yeah, I
had heard of the show, and I knew the popularity
of the show, which was a very popular show.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So yeah, I had heard of the show and I heard.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So so tell us about that day you went in
and read Framian Dan So that was the first time
you met him both and they were both there.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, And I was shocked because I would think they'd
be too busy for a role like that, you know.
I mean, I don't say he's my uncle anymore, but
you know he's because he and he kind of Tony
Tony shall Hoop is a very dear friend of mine,
and he's working on their new series, Missus Maslin. You know,
at the level of just I was surprised you were
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in the room one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I was like, oh, shoot, I can't I can't believe
they're in the room. Yeah, And I was.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know, whenever you walk into a room and you're
not expecting.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Certain stars to be there or producers to be there.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I mean I went in one time and I didn't
Nobody told me Jeff Goldblum was going to be in
the room, and I had to do all this crazy
scenes with Jeff Goldblum and it's kind of shocking. So
I was shocked that they were both in the room. Yes,
they were both in.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
The room, right, Yeah, I know, I know that feeling
when you walk in and it's like, oh my god,
there's a movie star right there watching, not reading with me,
but watching, and then there's the big time director there watching. Yeah,
and it's like that's that's like whoa, yeah, so did
you did you feel but your experience enough at that
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point in your career where that that wasn't going to
throw you off, right, I mean it didn't intimidate you.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No, a little bit. It really did a little bit.
It did a little bit, you know, it did it did?
It did a little bit. Yes, it threw me off
a little bit. It threw me off. I knew the
show was very popular. It was a smaller role. I mean,
I didn't know. But you know, when you're starting out
as an actor, you can't you really can't. Uh, you know,
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every job matters, like you always think that it's gonna
be recurring.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's funny actors.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Actors every job they do, they think it's gonna be recurring.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
They're like, oh, they didn't kill me, so I might come.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You know, they may they made next season, they may
have killed more girls in Italy, and Luciano will be
beloved and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
He's gonna start to make a bust and took it
go crazy crazy to tell you guy.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So to be honest with you, at that point, you're
so desperate for work because you're you're starting out, that
you don't you know, it is a little nerve wracking
because you want you think it's going to be the
it's going to be bigger than what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Right, did you did you practice your accident for the
role I have?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I grew up in New York, in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And oh, did you really you're a Philly guy.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But Philly guy?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh geez? Were you? Did you?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Were you?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Did you live in South Philly?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I did not live in South Philly. I lived off
in Philadelphia outside Philly the.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Main line, and then mostly in in like al tou Bethlin,
Lehigh Valley, and I say Philly.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
My dad was was was at the he was at
the children's hospital, he was a job. He's buried. He's
buried in Valley Forge.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I spent a lot of time, you know, in Philadelphia
growing up.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So yeah, I was born in Philly. I know, Philly.
That's my area.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Oh wow, South Philly. You are a South Philly guy.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
No, No, No, born there? And then my parents moved over
to South Jersey right away.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh okay, so so because.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
My mom my dad's from uh god, my mom's from
Upper Derby and my dad's from God, it'll come to
me at Drexel Hill.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well yeah, but see It's so funny because those are
technically not in They're not Philly Philly, but they are
Upper Darby's Philadelphia enough, you know, I mean all that
places are you know, Villa Nova is Philly enough.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You know, britin Maher, all those places.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But I love Philadelphia and I love I love growing
up in those in the in then in that area,
and yeah, and then so I grew up with a
lot of Italians and then living in New York, I
had so many Italian friends that my.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Accent on that is pretty real.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I mean I spoke Italian at one point pretty fluently,
I speaking. And so it was no problem for me
to do that role, you know, I mean, I know
you guys like that. I worked worked in restaurants for
many years as an Italian, as a waiter in Italian restaurants. Basically,
that's that's what it is to be you know that
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that type of role is like a service.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
He's an Italian server. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So you were your scene was with a Kelly Bishop.
What do you remember working with her? What was it like?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
They were with Kelly?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
But I think Alexis was in them too, right, Yeah, there,
she's very professional, she's very she's old.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
School, uh, proper trained actress.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Who really knows how to hit her mark and say
her lines very well. And she's an old school professional
and and that that's always refreshing, especially on a show
like I think that the Palladinos. I think they really
like to hire talent, you know. I think they're very
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talent driven. They're not really bells and whistle and what's
the what's the hot flavor of the months and that
I don't I don't. I think they they write something
and then they go who best can do this role?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And so they always have very strong casts. You know.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
They're really good at being able to That's that's one
thing I would say about.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
They're very good at being able to adjudicate talent.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Although they've yeah, although they've kind of hired me, although
they've never hired me since.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
No, not to their credit. Yeah, they I think for Gilmore,
they could have had anybody that was That was at
a time when movie people were you know, going over
into television. That's when it was all beginning, right because
it was always for boating and it was always separate.
But then into you know, like the late nineties, and
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there was a sort of drip of movie people into
as you know, as film projects were drying up and
there were less and less, they wanted to do television.
They wanted to stay in town. They didn't want to
you know what I mean. They wanted a steady gig.
There was not a lot of people make great money
in movies. I mean, there's what ten people in the
world that make great money in films. There's there's probably
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a couple of there's maybe one hundred people that make
great money. On TV. There's ten times twenty times many people.
So you know that's they had their pick at that
time of anybody they wanted. Yeah, pretty much. It was
available and everybody's available. Yeah, they they fought for us.
And I bet you it was a fight too. I
bet you that wasn't easy to get this cast, to
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get Warner Brothers to agree to this cast, because they're
probably all going nobody ever heard any of these people, right, right,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Right, there were a lot of there were, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That everybody was unknown nobody. I mean, I think Ed
Herman and Kelly Bishop, you know, they were the ones
that came in with the resumes, right, especially at herman.
But Kelly done a lot of great work and been
a lot of great films, but those were really two
nobody else knew who anybody was.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, I mean I think Alexis had done I think
one other thing.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
She told me, no, no, no. She came right out
of n y U Film school to do this role.
She never acted before.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Holy yeah, Holy moly.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, her first gig. She was a model. Oh I see,
and you know, a smart kid, and she wanted to
write and direct film. She was she was Yeah, she
was an n y U.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
She was smart.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's a sweet, very sweet, very quiet yeah, very quiet set.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Didn't didn't know what she was getting into. Man, It's
like it's a lot of hours.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
We were getting hold like a like a creative.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Brain like that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's like, all right, so we have a bunch of
fan questions, right, So so let's get to these fan questions. Uh,
this is from Melissa from Eugene, Oregon. Do you have
a preference on doing a film or a TV series?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well that's a really interesting question because I when I
first moved to LA my agent at the time was
a very famous agent, Like I mean, he had a
lot of big stars and he and he specialized in
a lot of ethnic in minor. He was just he
was from New York. And he had people like Angela
Bassett and uh Rock Dunton and Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi,
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a lot of character, a lot of great actors from
New York.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And when I went in, who was who was the agent?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
If you don't mind, Lewis Ambrosio?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay? Was was he an Isam?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
No, he's Ambrosio Mortimer.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He had his own Oh he's Ambrosia. Okay, okay, gotcha? Gotcha?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And and I and you know, well, you know he
he had a whole bunch of issues that came up
later that was insane. But I have to say I
loved him because he always gave me. He gave me
a chance when nobody else did. But it's because I
knew people that he knew in New York and a
way when I went in fromhim, I said, Louis, where
do you see me?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Anthony? Anthony, stop bothering me. You're you're a film guy, Anthony,
I said.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
But see, it was funny because at the time, at
the time, I don't know how I saw this in
my mind.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
But I knew that television was a better beast for
me for those reasons you said, so, she would you.
I knew that the would be greater longevity. Okay, there
would be longer.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
There would be if I got on a series that lasted,
I'd be on the series for longer, and I would
be able to.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I would be able to make a better living.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I would make more money because I didn't see myself
as a film star. And then as as as Murphy's
Law would have it, my first big job was getting
a pretty big role in a major motion picture for
Universal Studios.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
But I have to say.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I prefer series because of this. I like the grind.
Some actors don't like the grind.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I liked. I was the guy when I had my series.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The different series I had, they would always schedule me
in the mornings very early and then at night late
because they knew I would show up and I and
I'd love to be there at grind.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I mean, after a twelve.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Hour day, I was making everyone on the set laugh,
and because I just love being on sets, So at
the twelfth hour, when everyone's exhausted, I come in there
and I'm not like, let me get the hell home.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I'm like, let's do this, everybody, let's go and let's
have fun. And you know that was me.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
So yeah, I prefer television and I always have. And
I'm glad because I started to get more television work
and then as you know, it turned and it became
very much more now with all the series it's and
all the you know, all the streaming, it's all about
the series, you know, Breaking Bad and all the same.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I mean, there's still films, but the film.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Industry is tough now, you know, unless you're going to
be a superhero, it's tough.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay, So this is from Clarice from Dallas, Texas. Uh,
what has been your favorite project to film?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, is that a TV series or a film?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Any your favorite? Your favorite doesn't matter, favorite experience so low.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I mean, I'm really been lucky, man.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I mean for you know, because when you look at
someone like Seinfeld, you know, he's a multi millionaire, but
he was stuck for sixteen or whatever. Friends they were
stuck on that one set their whole careers, you know,
And I've been I've been in so many different ones.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I would say one of them is lost. There's no way.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I can, you know, working for Damien Carlton Q's JJ
Abrams with such a diverse cast, shooting on the island
of o Wahoo and my childhood friend Daniel day Kim
played h Jin I think the name of the character was.
I mean, we grew up together in in in Pennsylvania
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and Philly and outside Philly, and and it was just
it was just a great that The Loss is definitely
one of the great jobs that I worked on. There's
no question that always comes and I like my character,
and I just I like the show.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I would say.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The other the other one that really really comes to
mind simply because it I mean it was just grand
was Commander in Chief with Geena Davis and Donald Sutherlan
just because the Rod Lourie had assembled a real that
was I think Donald's.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
First TV series.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And of course I got to go to work every
day with Geena Davis, who has She's an icon.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I mean, she's Academy Award, Golden Globe.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I mean everything, emmy, So it was cool to go
to work with her every day. She's awesome, she's brilliant,
beautiful person. And uh yeah, that the Commander in Chief
was a big one for me for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You you worked with Matt Zukri on The Resident, tell
us about.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
That he's a really sweet guy. Man, Yeah he is,
he really? I mean, god, what uh I've had hearing
these nightmare experiences. But of all these different actors, and
especially the young ones, no way, man, Matt Man, Matt,
I love him. I mean he's such Oh yeah, that
was the point up for me.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
But that you know that that job was one of
those incidents is where they said you are going to
be like, you know, every job an actor, so I'm
going to recur.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And I did recur in a couple couple I forgot how.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Many episodes I did, but I was supposed to come
back even more. And then they used because they didn't
want to spend money on me, they used an extra
to be me and used the back of my head
in all the scenes and I didn't say anything. They
just got a guy to look like me. So but
Matt was Matts, lovely guy, good actor, very good actor.
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And I really liked working on The Resident. I love
that job. That was a fun job for me. I
played like the crown princess of some Saudi or some
Arabic country.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Her personal bodyguard slash father figure. So it was fun cool,
it was cool. It was a cool job.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, we love we love Maddie over here. He's he's
been on the show a couple of times. He is
a lovely guy and really really really is.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
What you see is what you And so was the
I forgot his name, the couple of his partners on
the show, the whole, the whole, I think.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I think Maurice Chestnut was on that show. Maurice Chestnut
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
They had a great cast, and of course there's a
there was an Indian doctor who was played they had
I forgot his name. Sweetest guy everybody who's just so sweet.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So we know you have two teenage sons. What's that?
What's a like grown raising teenage boys.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, they're about to drop their their.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Which is called Twin Talk LA and they decided to
do it because they are teenagers growing up in Los
Angeles that have had, you know, friends die from overdose,
friends die from suicide. They have these takeovers with cars
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like kids, kids going to these takeovers. I mean, there
are just so many things that are quintessentially Los Angeles
things that I think people would be interested to hear
about that would affect teenagers all over the country, teenage
drug use, teenage sexuality. So raising those two kids in
LA I thought would be a nightmare. But they're such
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good kids. Oh man, I am so lucky. I love
the I love being with them. You know, some divorced,
but I'm a real I just love being a dad
and we have the best time. They're two great kids.
They're both athletes, big soccer players. And they decided that
their friend died and they decided that they wanted to
They wanted an outlet of talking about these teenagers issues
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that are happening in LA with other teens, and so
they're gonna they started this podcast.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We have about ten of them, ten or twelve of
them recorded.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
We're not going to start dropping them until we have
a bunch and then we'll start dropping them and it'll
be very interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, it's really cool raising kids.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
But I'm lucky because raising kids in Los Angeles and
teens in Los Angeles, it's probably difficult anywhere, but LA
it's challenging, you know, I mean it's challenging.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
We I have a young son and yeah, I'm uh,
we're facing all of the issues at a time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
LA is a different kind of a place, it is,
for sure. Uh so they had do they have any
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interest in following in your footsteps getting in the acting game.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well, they keep saying it because you know, they've been
around it. They've been on sets since they were kids.
And then I had that Broadway show. I think the
Broadway Show really was good and bad. I think having
them moved to New York and seeing you know, living
in a cool ass apartment, going to Lincoln Center every night,
and then all the people they met after the shows,
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including the Clinton's.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Tom Hanks, John Lithgot.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I mean, I mean, it's the list is endless of
people who came to see the show because the show
won a bunch of major awards.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I think they got the bug a little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I think they just like being they're very they're very
social kids, and they they they like talking to people,
they like listening to people, and.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Uh, you know, they're they're they're they're soccer players. That's
their performance art.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And you know, one of them, both of them may
have aspirations to even do that professionally. I don't know,
but they're good students. So I don't really necessarily. I
want them to do what they love, but I don't
push them toward this business. No way, right, this is too.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Crazy, right right? So what are you working on now?
You have anything coming out?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I am, I'm working I guess. I guess this job
would be up in the top great jobs. I'm working
on a series for Apple TV called Tehran and it
just won the Emmy for Best International TV Series. They
have they have Emmys for International and our own local Emmys.
It's a it's an Sbiona show about Israelis and Iranians
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and it's dope. The acting is dope, the writing is dope.
I mean, Glenn Close was on last season. Hugh Lourie
is one of the guys on this season that they
always do, like a very big name stunt cast.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
And Hugh his House. I don't know. For those of
you who watch, you know he's doctor House.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And Glenn closest film and television icon in her own right,
and I'm working on that right now. We shooting Greece,
so I've been going back and forth from LA to Greece,
so it's been a little challenging, but I'm really I
love Greece and I love the Greek people, but I
really love the show that the people on it. The
director Daniel Serkin is one of the He's just a
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gem of an artist, human being. There's a handful of directors.
Brian Spicer, Rob Lourie, the late Mike Nichols, Daniel Sirk.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I mean, there's just real great.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Mike Nichols was directing an episode.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
You're serious, I've worked with.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I'm just just saying, there's okay, handful of directors that
I just have been like wow or I really love
being around them and they're so gracious to me. And
Daniel's amazing. He's a really really talented guy.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Where are you shooting in Greece?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Athens mostly? And it's all.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Do you have any downtime while you're there? You get
to enjoy the place.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I do. I do.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
And I've gone to a few places, and you're I
have family all over Europe.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
So I went to Germany, and.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I'm gonna go to Istanbul on the next ride and
then maybe go to maybe go to Israel. Maybe goes
that family in Israel. I have family, and I have
family in Italy, France.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
There's a lot of choices. Yeah, but what you do.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It's because because once you're out there, and Athens is
pretty central to Europe, so you can jump on a
plane and in two hours be anywhere in Europe.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
All right, we're gonna we're gonna get into a little
thing we call rapid fire. So I'm gonna fire questions
at you about the show, and you're gonna fire answers
back at me as fast as you possibly. Ken, Anthony,
are you ready?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'm gonna try. Sure, rapid fire my brain works. But
by the way, this white beard is for oh but
it does. Like my kids call me Papa Smurf. It
ages me, so my brain I feel like I'm a
nine year old guy.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Nah man, you're looking good, brother, What are you talking about?
Come out here we go. All right, here's the first question. Ready,
how do you like your coffee?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Black?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Are your team Logan, Team Jess or Team Dean Team Dean?
What is your favorite Gilmore Girls couple Luke and Lorelei
or Richard.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And Emily Richard and Emily?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Would you what would you order at Luke Stiner, Fries,
Jackson or tailor Taylor for town selectmen?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Taylor?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Well, would you rather listen to hep Alien or the
Troubadour's cover.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Songs, Troubadour's cover songs.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Harvard or Yale?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Harvard?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Why Harvard?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Because I think that if you go to Harvard you'll
get paid more money when you get out of I
don't think for some reason Yale is an IVY League too.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
But you never.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Every time, anytime anyone talks about an IVY League school. Shit,
there's nine of them, man, there's eight of him. You
never mentioned any of them. You never hear about Cornell
or Dartmouth. You never all you hear, You never hear
about Brown.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
All you hear is Harvard, Harvard, Harvard. Oh you want
to Harvard? You want to Harvard Harvard. That's the only
reason why.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
What's Rory's bigger mistake? Crashing the car her boyfriend built
for her or sleeping with her ex who is.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Married, sleeping with her ex who was married.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Gotcha, happens to be the same guy. But who from
Gilmour would you not want with you stuck on a
deserted island?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I would probably say the role that herman played, Richard.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, Richard, you you would not want him on the
desert island. No, I would not want rich I tell
me why because he went to Yale.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Because because he just he's gonna talk too much, and
he's I don't don't really want to hear. You know,
the even are really great, Richard.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He's gonna talk to uh something in your life. You
are all in on.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Soccer.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
There you go, big soccer guy.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Huh, big soccer guyself and my kids they that's all
they do.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I mean, who's your team?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Who?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Who you? Who's your European team?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Our European team, and I don't know the results I thought.
My kids keep texting me, is Chelsea? Okay, that's our
European team. But we also have European teams all over
like like Like I said, I have family and friends
that are like in France, so we support certain teams
in France.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Like in Greece.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
We have for all the relationships I have with the
Greek people, not only did I work, but I know
we love the Greek soccer. Their club system is great
because we know the teams and we're when fans were
kinda panath and I.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Say that ten times real fast, go ahead, but.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We have shirts and everything from the team and the
I just can't even say the name of the club.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You know, I was in UH. I was in Germany
in nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty eight, one of
those years when Germany won the World Cup. Oh wow,
I was there. I was in that country. I was
in God, where was I was in Hamburg at that time?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Oh my god? That was the people going.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Crazy, losing their minds. It was like the entire country
erupted and the celebration went on and on. I mean
it was quite a weekend, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, which all my German friends were just going they
were going nuts. It was fun.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Oh yeah, they're nice people. Just in Germany. I was
just so when you say took it. I was in
Frankfurt last time, when I was in a I love Germans.
They're great. They're great people.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, they're they're very you know, once they get to
know you a little bit, they they're they're they really
warm up and they're just so funny and so smart
and warm. It's it's one of the you know, my
uh mother's mother is from Frankfurt. Actually, so when I
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landed in Germany the first time, I kind of felt
like I was home.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I understood the people. I just understood their their mentality.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Well, they're very quiet people, they're very proper people.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
It's ironic that it's such a radical movement of hatred
arose from such really soft spoken, loving kind people.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
It's it's it blows my mind.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
That that that they could have had such a a
dark period in their in their existence, because they're really
good people, like I mean, they're very sweet people.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
They've gone above and beyond since those days is post
World War two, to make up for all the you know,
the sins of the father and really wonderful people.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I've done a couple of conventions over there in the
last couple of years, and man, they show up and
droves and they are wonderful. Yeah, they are just they're
just really filled with joy and filled with love, and
it's it's really an amazing country and beautiful country. Wow,
what aful country.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yes, I can't wait to go back to Europe anyway, Anthony,
thank you so much for waiting, apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
And thank you for having me. What a joy and
what a pleasure. You're a lovely person yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I feel your energy and I wish that's with whatever
your endeavors are, because you're a very sweet man.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You're thank you. You're a good good man yourself, and
good luck with everything, and have fun and.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Great thank you. I'm gonna eat some soul for you.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yes man. Gosh, you're making me want to go to Europe. Man,
I'm getting the bug because the weather's warming up a
little bit and I just want to go to Europe. Anyway.
All the best to you, Anthony, and uh and good
luck with your son's podcast. Where can we what is
the name of it again.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's twin Talk l A. And it'll be up and
running in the next spot two or three months and
you can get it on all the platforms, Spotify, Apple.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Those places.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
All right, great, and everybody do that because you know
it's it's interesting, interesting topics for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Funny man, dynamic kids. You'll like it. They're funny, they
have a I mean, we have some crazy episodes.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
All right, good deal man, all right, all the best.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
You too, man, Thank you, good talking to you.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
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I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
on one interview. We have a very very very special guest.
Anthony Azeezi played the role of Luciano for one episode
in two thousand and four. He plays a hotel manager
that helps Emily and Rory into their room in Rome, Italy.
The only time we see Anthony as Luciano is in
(00:41):
season five, episode two, A Messenger Nothing More. Anthony is
an actor known for his dramatic film roles. He kickstarted
his career in the comedies like for Richard Poor nineteen
ninety seven starring Tim Allen Tom Katz two thousand and one.
His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects
(01:02):
like American East two thousand and seven with Tony Shaloub, Wristcutters,
A Love Story two thousand and seven with Patrick Fugit,
and the Shia Lahbooth smash hit drama Eagle Eye two
thousand and eighty. Also working television during these years, including
a part on Threat Matrix, Criminal Minds twenty four, Commander
in Chief, Desperate Housewives Without a trace Las Vegas, Veronica, Mars, Lost,
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The Resident with Our Own, Madi Zukui, et cetera. Anthony
is mostly known for acting in the thriller Armed Response
with Wesley Snipes, Transformers, Dark of the Moon, and Priest
So Let's bring him in Anthony is easy? Hey, Anthony,
(01:46):
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Hub? So? You played Luciano, the hotel manager who helps
Emily and Roy into their hotel room. Had you ever
seen or heard of the series when you when you
got cast for this part?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You know, I did because there was a lot of
heat on on the show because of the writing, and
as you can see now, I mean it's it's the Palladinos,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I read for them and it was good to read
for them. They're they're a really good team. They've been
around now for a long time. And so, yeah, I
had heard of the show, and I knew the popularity
of the show, which was a very popular show.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So yeah, I had heard of the show and I heard.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So so tell us about that day you went in
and read Framian Dan So that was the first time
you met him both and they were both there.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, And I was shocked because I would think they'd
be too busy for a role like that, you know.
I mean, I don't say he's my uncle anymore, but
you know he's because he and he kind of Tony
Tony shall Hoop is a very dear friend of mine,
and he's working on their new series, Missus Maslin. You know,
at the level of just I was surprised you were
(03:02):
in the room one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I was like, oh, shoot, I can't I can't believe
they're in the room. Yeah, And I was.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know, whenever you walk into a room and you're
not expecting.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Certain stars to be there or producers to be there.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I mean I went in one time and I didn't
Nobody told me Jeff Goldblum was going to be in
the room, and I had to do all this crazy
scenes with Jeff Goldblum and it's kind of shocking. So
I was shocked that they were both in the room. Yes,
they were both in.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
The room, right, Yeah, I know, I know that feeling
when you walk in and it's like, oh my god,
there's a movie star right there watching, not reading with me,
but watching, and then there's the big time director there watching. Yeah,
and it's like that's that's like whoa, yeah, so did
you did you feel but your experience enough at that
(03:50):
point in your career where that that wasn't going to
throw you off, right, I mean it didn't intimidate you.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No, a little bit. It really did a little bit.
It did a little bit, you know, it did it did?
It did a little bit. Yes, it threw me off
a little bit. It threw me off. I knew the
show was very popular. It was a smaller role. I mean,
I didn't know. But you know, when you're starting out
as an actor, you can't you really can't. Uh, you know,
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every job matters, like you always think that it's gonna
be recurring.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's funny actors.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Actors every job they do, they think it's gonna be recurring.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
They're like, oh, they didn't kill me, so I might come.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You know, they may they made next season, they may
have killed more girls in Italy, and Luciano will be
beloved and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
He's gonna start to make a bust and took it
go crazy crazy to tell you guy.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So to be honest with you, at that point, you're
so desperate for work because you're you're starting out, that
you don't you know, it is a little nerve wracking
because you want you think it's going to be the
it's going to be bigger than what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Right, did you did you practice your accident for the
role I have?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I grew up in New York, in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And oh, did you really you're a Philly guy.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But Philly guy?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh geez? Were you? Did you?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Were you?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Did you live in South Philly?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I did not live in South Philly. I lived off
in Philadelphia outside Philly the.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Main line, and then mostly in in like al tou Bethlin,
Lehigh Valley, and I say Philly.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
My dad was was was at the he was at
the children's hospital, he was a job. He's buried. He's
buried in Valley Forge.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I spent a lot of time, you know, in Philadelphia
growing up.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So yeah, I was born in Philly. I know, Philly.
That's my area.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Oh wow, South Philly. You are a South Philly guy.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
No, No, No, born there? And then my parents moved over
to South Jersey right away.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh okay, so so because.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
My mom my dad's from uh god, my mom's from
Upper Derby and my dad's from God, it'll come to
me at Drexel Hill.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well yeah, but see It's so funny because those are
technically not in They're not Philly Philly, but they are
Upper Darby's Philadelphia enough, you know, I mean all that
places are you know, Villa Nova is Philly enough.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You know, britin Maher, all those places.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But I love Philadelphia and I love I love growing
up in those in the in then in that area,
and yeah, and then so I grew up with a
lot of Italians and then living in New York, I
had so many Italian friends that my.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Accent on that is pretty real.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I mean I spoke Italian at one point pretty fluently,
I speaking. And so it was no problem for me
to do that role, you know, I mean, I know
you guys like that. I worked worked in restaurants for
many years as an Italian, as a waiter in Italian restaurants. Basically,
that's that's what it is to be you know that
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that type of role is like a service.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
He's an Italian server. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So you were your scene was with a Kelly Bishop.
What do you remember working with her? What was it like?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
They were with Kelly?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
But I think Alexis was in them too, right, Yeah, there,
she's very professional, she's very she's old.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
School, uh, proper trained actress.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Who really knows how to hit her mark and say
her lines very well. And she's an old school professional
and and that that's always refreshing, especially on a show
like I think that the Palladinos. I think they really
like to hire talent, you know. I think they're very
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talent driven. They're not really bells and whistle and what's
the what's the hot flavor of the months and that
I don't I don't. I think they they write something
and then they go who best can do this role?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And so they always have very strong casts. You know.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
They're really good at being able to That's that's one
thing I would say about.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
They're very good at being able to adjudicate talent.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Although they've yeah, although they've kind of hired me, although
they've never hired me since.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
No, not to their credit. Yeah, they I think for Gilmore,
they could have had anybody that was That was at
a time when movie people were you know, going over
into television. That's when it was all beginning, right because
it was always for boating and it was always separate.
But then into you know, like the late nineties, and
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there was a sort of drip of movie people into
as you know, as film projects were drying up and
there were less and less, they wanted to do television.
They wanted to stay in town. They didn't want to
you know what I mean. They wanted a steady gig.
There was not a lot of people make great money
in movies. I mean, there's what ten people in the
world that make great money in films. There's there's probably
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a couple of there's maybe one hundred people that make
great money. On TV. There's ten times twenty times many people.
So you know that's they had their pick at that
time of anybody they wanted. Yeah, pretty much. It was
available and everybody's available. Yeah, they they fought for us.
And I bet you it was a fight too. I
bet you that wasn't easy to get this cast, to
(09:33):
get Warner Brothers to agree to this cast, because they're
probably all going nobody ever heard any of these people, right, right,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Right, there were a lot of there were, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That everybody was unknown nobody. I mean, I think Ed
Herman and Kelly Bishop, you know, they were the ones
that came in with the resumes, right, especially at herman.
But Kelly done a lot of great work and been
a lot of great films, but those were really two
nobody else knew who anybody was.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, I mean I think Alexis had done I think
one other thing.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
She told me, no, no, no. She came right out
of n y U Film school to do this role.
She never acted before.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Holy yeah, Holy moly.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, her first gig. She was a model. Oh I see,
and you know, a smart kid, and she wanted to
write and direct film. She was she was Yeah, she
was an n y U.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
She was smart.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's a sweet, very sweet, very quiet yeah, very quiet set.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Didn't didn't know what she was getting into. Man, It's
like it's a lot of hours.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
We were getting hold like a like a creative.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Brain like that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's like, all right, so we have a bunch of
fan questions, right, So so let's get to these fan questions. Uh,
this is from Melissa from Eugene, Oregon. Do you have
a preference on doing a film or a TV series?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well that's a really interesting question because I when I
first moved to LA my agent at the time was
a very famous agent, Like I mean, he had a
lot of big stars and he and he specialized in
a lot of ethnic in minor. He was just he
was from New York. And he had people like Angela
Bassett and uh Rock Dunton and Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi,
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a lot of character, a lot of great actors from
New York.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And when I went in, who was who was the agent?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
If you don't mind, Lewis Ambrosio?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay? Was was he an Isam?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
No, he's Ambrosio Mortimer.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He had his own Oh he's Ambrosia. Okay, okay, gotcha? Gotcha?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And and I and you know, well, you know he
he had a whole bunch of issues that came up
later that was insane. But I have to say I
loved him because he always gave me. He gave me
a chance when nobody else did. But it's because I
knew people that he knew in New York and a
way when I went in fromhim, I said, Louis, where
do you see me?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Anthony? Anthony, stop bothering me. You're you're a film guy, Anthony,
I said.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
But see, it was funny because at the time, at
the time, I don't know how I saw this in
my mind.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
But I knew that television was a better beast for
me for those reasons you said, so, she would you.
I knew that the would be greater longevity. Okay, there
would be longer.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
There would be if I got on a series that lasted,
I'd be on the series for longer, and I would
be able to.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I would be able to make a better living.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I would make more money because I didn't see myself
as a film star. And then as as as Murphy's
Law would have it, my first big job was getting
a pretty big role in a major motion picture for
Universal Studios.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
But I have to say.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I prefer series because of this. I like the grind.
Some actors don't like the grind.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I liked. I was the guy when I had my series.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The different series I had, they would always schedule me
in the mornings very early and then at night late
because they knew I would show up and I and
I'd love to be there at grind.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I mean, after a twelve.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Hour day, I was making everyone on the set laugh,
and because I just love being on sets, So at
the twelfth hour, when everyone's exhausted, I come in there
and I'm not like, let me get the hell home.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I'm like, let's do this, everybody, let's go and let's
have fun. And you know that was me.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
So yeah, I prefer television and I always have. And
I'm glad because I started to get more television work
and then as you know, it turned and it became
very much more now with all the series it's and
all the you know, all the streaming, it's all about
the series, you know, Breaking Bad and all the same.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I mean, there's still films, but the film.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Industry is tough now, you know, unless you're going to
be a superhero, it's tough.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay, So this is from Clarice from Dallas, Texas. Uh,
what has been your favorite project to film?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, is that a TV series or a film?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Any your favorite? Your favorite doesn't matter, favorite experience so low.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I mean, I'm really been lucky, man.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I mean for you know, because when you look at
someone like Seinfeld, you know, he's a multi millionaire, but
he was stuck for sixteen or whatever. Friends they were
stuck on that one set their whole careers, you know,
And I've been I've been in so many different ones.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I would say one of them is lost. There's no way.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I can, you know, working for Damien Carlton Q's JJ
Abrams with such a diverse cast, shooting on the island
of o Wahoo and my childhood friend Daniel day Kim
played h Jin I think the name of the character was.
I mean, we grew up together in in in Pennsylvania
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and Philly and outside Philly, and and it was just
it was just a great that The Loss is definitely
one of the great jobs that I worked on. There's
no question that always comes and I like my character,
and I just I like the show.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I would say.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The other the other one that really really comes to
mind simply because it I mean it was just grand
was Commander in Chief with Geena Davis and Donald Sutherlan
just because the Rod Lourie had assembled a real that
was I think Donald's.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
First TV series.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And of course I got to go to work every
day with Geena Davis, who has She's an icon.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I mean, she's Academy Award, Golden Globe.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I mean everything, emmy, So it was cool to go
to work with her every day. She's awesome, she's brilliant,
beautiful person. And uh yeah, that the Commander in Chief
was a big one for me for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You you worked with Matt Zukri on The Resident, tell
us about.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
That he's a really sweet guy. Man, Yeah he is,
he really? I mean, god, what uh I've had hearing
these nightmare experiences. But of all these different actors, and
especially the young ones, no way, man, Matt Man, Matt,
I love him. I mean he's such Oh yeah, that
was the point up for me.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
But that you know that that job was one of
those incidents is where they said you are going to
be like, you know, every job an actor, so I'm
going to recur.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And I did recur in a couple couple I forgot how.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Many episodes I did, but I was supposed to come
back even more. And then they used because they didn't
want to spend money on me, they used an extra
to be me and used the back of my head
in all the scenes and I didn't say anything. They
just got a guy to look like me. So but
Matt was Matts, lovely guy, good actor, very good actor.
(16:59):
And I really liked working on The Resident. I love
that job. That was a fun job for me. I
played like the crown princess of some Saudi or some
Arabic country.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Her personal bodyguard slash father figure. So it was fun cool,
it was cool. It was a cool job.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, we love we love Maddie over here. He's he's
been on the show a couple of times. He is
a lovely guy and really really really is.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
What you see is what you And so was the
I forgot his name, the couple of his partners on
the show, the whole, the whole, I think.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I think Maurice Chestnut was on that show. Maurice Chestnut
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
They had a great cast, and of course there's a
there was an Indian doctor who was played they had
I forgot his name. Sweetest guy everybody who's just so sweet.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So we know you have two teenage sons. What's that?
What's a like grown raising teenage boys.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, they're about to drop their their.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Which is called Twin Talk LA and they decided to
do it because they are teenagers growing up in Los
Angeles that have had, you know, friends die from overdose,
friends die from suicide. They have these takeovers with cars
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like kids, kids going to these takeovers. I mean, there
are just so many things that are quintessentially Los Angeles
things that I think people would be interested to hear
about that would affect teenagers all over the country, teenage
drug use, teenage sexuality. So raising those two kids in
LA I thought would be a nightmare. But they're such
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good kids. Oh man, I am so lucky. I love
the I love being with them. You know, some divorced,
but I'm a real I just love being a dad
and we have the best time. They're two great kids.
They're both athletes, big soccer players. And they decided that
their friend died and they decided that they wanted to
They wanted an outlet of talking about these teenagers issues
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that are happening in LA with other teens, and so
they're gonna they started this podcast.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We have about ten of them, ten or twelve of
them recorded.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
We're not going to start dropping them until we have
a bunch and then we'll start dropping them and it'll
be very interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, it's really cool raising kids.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
But I'm lucky because raising kids in Los Angeles and
teens in Los Angeles, it's probably difficult anywhere, but LA
it's challenging, you know, I mean it's challenging.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
We I have a young son and yeah, I'm uh,
we're facing all of the issues at a time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
LA is a different kind of a place, it is,
for sure. Uh so they had do they have any
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interest in following in your footsteps getting in the acting game.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well, they keep saying it because you know, they've been
around it. They've been on sets since they were kids.
And then I had that Broadway show. I think the
Broadway Show really was good and bad. I think having
them moved to New York and seeing you know, living
in a cool ass apartment, going to Lincoln Center every night,
and then all the people they met after the shows,
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including the Clinton's.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Tom Hanks, John Lithgot.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I mean, I mean, it's the list is endless of
people who came to see the show because the show
won a bunch of major awards.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I think they got the bug a little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I think they just like being they're very they're very
social kids, and they they they like talking to people,
they like listening to people, and.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Uh, you know, they're they're they're they're soccer players. That's
their performance art.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And you know, one of them, both of them may
have aspirations to even do that professionally. I don't know,
but they're good students. So I don't really necessarily. I
want them to do what they love, but I don't
push them toward this business. No way, right, this is too.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Crazy, right right? So what are you working on now?
You have anything coming out?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I am, I'm working I guess. I guess this job
would be up in the top great jobs. I'm working
on a series for Apple TV called Tehran and it
just won the Emmy for Best International TV Series. They
have they have Emmys for International and our own local Emmys.
It's a it's an Sbiona show about Israelis and Iranians
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and it's dope. The acting is dope, the writing is dope.
I mean, Glenn Close was on last season. Hugh Lourie
is one of the guys on this season that they
always do, like a very big name stunt cast.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
And Hugh his House. I don't know. For those of
you who watch, you know he's doctor House.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And Glenn closest film and television icon in her own right,
and I'm working on that right now. We shooting Greece,
so I've been going back and forth from LA to Greece,
so it's been a little challenging, but I'm really I
love Greece and I love the Greek people, but I
really love the show that the people on it. The
director Daniel Serkin is one of the He's just a
(22:12):
gem of an artist, human being. There's a handful of directors.
Brian Spicer, Rob Lourie, the late Mike Nichols, Daniel Sirk.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I mean, there's just real great.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Mike Nichols was directing an episode.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
You're serious, I've worked with.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I'm just just saying, there's okay, handful of directors that
I just have been like wow or I really love
being around them and they're so gracious to me. And
Daniel's amazing. He's a really really talented guy.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Where are you shooting in Greece?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Athens mostly? And it's all.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Do you have any downtime while you're there? You get
to enjoy the place.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I do. I do.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
And I've gone to a few places, and you're I
have family all over Europe.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
So I went to Germany, and.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I'm gonna go to Istanbul on the next ride and
then maybe go to maybe go to Israel. Maybe goes
that family in Israel. I have family, and I have
family in Italy, France.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
There's a lot of choices. Yeah, but what you do.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It's because because once you're out there, and Athens is
pretty central to Europe, so you can jump on a
plane and in two hours be anywhere in Europe.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
All right, we're gonna we're gonna get into a little
thing we call rapid fire. So I'm gonna fire questions
at you about the show, and you're gonna fire answers
back at me as fast as you possibly. Ken, Anthony,
are you ready?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'm gonna try. Sure, rapid fire my brain works. But
by the way, this white beard is for oh but
it does. Like my kids call me Papa Smurf. It
ages me, so my brain I feel like I'm a
nine year old guy.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Nah man, you're looking good, brother, What are you talking about?
Come out here we go. All right, here's the first question. Ready,
how do you like your coffee?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Black?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Are your team Logan, Team Jess or Team Dean Team Dean?
What is your favorite Gilmore Girls couple Luke and Lorelei
or Richard.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And Emily Richard and Emily?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Would you what would you order at Luke Stiner, Fries,
Jackson or tailor Taylor for town selectmen?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Taylor?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Well, would you rather listen to hep Alien or the
Troubadour's cover.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Songs, Troubadour's cover songs.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Harvard or Yale?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Harvard?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Why Harvard?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Because I think that if you go to Harvard you'll
get paid more money when you get out of I
don't think for some reason Yale is an IVY League too.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
But you never.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Every time, anytime anyone talks about an IVY League school. Shit,
there's nine of them, man, there's eight of him. You
never mentioned any of them. You never hear about Cornell
or Dartmouth. You never all you hear, You never hear
about Brown.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
All you hear is Harvard, Harvard, Harvard. Oh you want
to Harvard? You want to Harvard Harvard. That's the only
reason why.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
What's Rory's bigger mistake? Crashing the car her boyfriend built
for her or sleeping with her ex who is.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Married, sleeping with her ex who was married.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Gotcha, happens to be the same guy. But who from
Gilmour would you not want with you stuck on a
deserted island?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I would probably say the role that herman played, Richard.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, Richard, you you would not want him on the
desert island. No, I would not want rich I tell
me why because he went to Yale.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Because because he just he's gonna talk too much, and
he's I don't don't really want to hear. You know,
the even are really great, Richard.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He's gonna talk to uh something in your life. You
are all in on.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Soccer.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
There you go, big soccer guy.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Huh, big soccer guyself and my kids they that's all
they do.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I mean, who's your team?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Who?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Who you? Who's your European team?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Our European team, and I don't know the results I thought.
My kids keep texting me, is Chelsea? Okay, that's our
European team. But we also have European teams all over
like like Like I said, I have family and friends
that are like in France, so we support certain teams
in France.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Like in Greece.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
We have for all the relationships I have with the
Greek people, not only did I work, but I know
we love the Greek soccer. Their club system is great
because we know the teams and we're when fans were
kinda panath and I.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Say that ten times real fast, go ahead, but.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We have shirts and everything from the team and the
I just can't even say the name of the club.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You know, I was in UH. I was in Germany
in nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty eight, one of
those years when Germany won the World Cup. Oh wow,
I was there. I was in that country. I was
in God, where was I was in Hamburg at that time?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Oh my god? That was the people going.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Crazy, losing their minds. It was like the entire country
erupted and the celebration went on and on. I mean
it was quite a weekend, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, which all my German friends were just going they
were going nuts. It was fun.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Oh yeah, they're nice people. Just in Germany. I was
just so when you say took it. I was in
Frankfurt last time, when I was in a I love Germans.
They're great. They're great people.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, they're they're very you know, once they get to
know you a little bit, they they're they're they really
warm up and they're just so funny and so smart
and warm. It's it's one of the you know, my
uh mother's mother is from Frankfurt. Actually, so when I
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landed in Germany the first time, I kind of felt
like I was home.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I understood the people. I just understood their their mentality.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Well, they're very quiet people, they're very proper people.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
It's ironic that it's such a radical movement of hatred
arose from such really soft spoken, loving kind people.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
It's it's it blows my mind.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
That that that they could have had such a a
dark period in their in their existence, because they're really
good people, like I mean, they're very sweet people.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
They've gone above and beyond since those days is post
World War two, to make up for all the you know,
the sins of the father and really wonderful people.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I've done a couple of conventions over there in the
last couple of years, and man, they show up and
droves and they are wonderful. Yeah, they are just they're
just really filled with joy and filled with love, and
it's it's really an amazing country and beautiful country. Wow,
what aful country.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yes, I can't wait to go back to Europe anyway, Anthony,
thank you so much for waiting, apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
And thank you for having me. What a joy and
what a pleasure. You're a lovely person yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I feel your energy and I wish that's with whatever
your endeavors are, because you're a very sweet man.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You're thank you. You're a good good man yourself, and
good luck with everything, and have fun and.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Great thank you. I'm gonna eat some soul for you.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yes man. Gosh, you're making me want to go to Europe. Man,
I'm getting the bug because the weather's warming up a
little bit and I just want to go to Europe. Anyway.
All the best to you, Anthony, and uh and good
luck with your son's podcast. Where can we what is
the name of it again.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's twin Talk l A. And it'll be up and
running in the next spot two or three months and
you can get it on all the platforms, Spotify, Apple.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Those places.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
All right, great, and everybody do that because you know
it's it's interesting, interesting topics for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Funny man, dynamic kids. You'll like it. They're funny, they
have a I mean, we have some crazy episodes.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
All right, good deal man, all right, all the best.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
You too, man, Thank you, good talking to you.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
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