July 30, 2026 • 9 mins
Michael Mando (of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Better Call Saul, Batman: Knightfall, Far Cry 3) comes on to share his hot takes! Will he survive this round of rapid fire questions the fans have been wanting the answers to?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, welcome to Hot Takes and Hangouts with Michael Nando,
the Man of the Summer. I feel like right between
seventy two hours on Netflix and Spider Man. I mean
it is your time, brother. How you going, I'm doing
really really good? Man good. We just had an amazing combat.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Love too.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
There we we love d C, mc U, d C.
We love them all, guys. We had an amazing conversation.
You can check out the full interview on the episode
before this, But for now we're gonna do some hot
takes and hangouts. You ready, I'm ready? All different kinds
of questions. All right, where are we gonna begin? Let's
start with if you could be in any other MCU
story or world, which would you choose? And why? WHOA wow?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't know. Star Wars is not an MCU world.
It's more I mean Disney. But it's okay? Is that
is that affair?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They've all blended together. I don't know what's what anymore?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Right are they mc but it's like it's Disney Star Wars.
I think Wars. I love I love Jedies so much.
I think it's Jedi. Is that it is so cool?
I love the philosophical angle of it?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, solid, Okay. Who would be in your superhero posse?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Wolverine, Scorpion, Venom like those three?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
A lot Batman and Batman? Batman Baan oh, yeah, and Joker.
Did you ever see Bain in the Batman?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Batman and Robin with poison Ivy and like the the
live you know, the live action movie?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Was that the Arnold No Arnold n Yeah, same movie, Baine,
I don't remember, bab was veined up. I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, you gotta go back, got to go back. Okay.
What was the hardest scene you shot in Better call Saul?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The scene the last monologue? I had the rich R A.
D say before the take, this is for your father,
and I started rolling and that was my father I
had just passed away. That was the most beautiful and
probably hard. I remember crying and they had to like
stop and I was just crying for a while and
I was just like letting it go. That was probably
(02:08):
the hardest thing I did. That must be. It was hard,
but it was beautiful too. It was like cathartic.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, and you'll always have that memory there. Yeah, when
you say, oh, is it hard for you to watch
that scene.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Now. I don't like watching myself too much, No, especially
around people. I'd watch later and I look at it
and it's healthier not to watch too much.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah with you. You love music? Are you creating
any music now?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, I'm working on a music album. IM actually really
happy to asked me that I'm working on an album
and releasing it in the fall. Really, it's kind of
like alternative R and B rock. It's it's cool. I'm
very excited to share it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, that's sick.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I want to do like little performances and pubs and
stuff when I'm shooting in different cities and stuff like performance. Yeah,
I just kind of like, do you know fifty hundred
people show up somewhere in New York shooting a movie? Here,
do a little thing, and then it's It's interesting because
with music, you can write a song in twenty second,
like two minutes, and the song is true to what
you just felt. But then you think about it. Do
(03:04):
I really want to release this as like here's you
know what I mean, Here's where I'm at, and you go.
So it's a bit tricky, but I think I got
the album to a selection of songs that I go,
I'm comfortable with this now, and I'm comfortable with this
in a year from now.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, did you play any of the music for it?
But you keep it separate?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I keep it. Yeah. I mean, if it was ready,
I probably would have said, if you know they're interested
in hearing it, of course I would have shared it
with them, but it wasn't ready at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I can't wait for that, man, I can't wait for that.
What's a role you really want to do that might
surprise us?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I really like Star Wars and I really like Star Trek.
I'm a big sci fi guy. I'd love to do
like a psychological kind of sci fi thriller. I love.
I love those kind of like big question idea movies.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah, sweet? Did you see Oh my God? The
Ryan Gosling movie came out this year. I'm blanking on
the product help project.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, Brian gous is fun.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I like watching him.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
He's that vibe of a movie you like.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, not like that. I mean not that I wouldn't
do it, but I was thinking more like like Arrival,
you know what I mean, Like it'd be these big
I like these big, existential, existential films. Not that I
wouldn't do projects, you know, but I'm thinking more of like,
you know, those big kind of rotating things where you
kind of leave the theater, like Matrix One. He's an
(04:31):
example of a movie that like changed the way I
see the world. And Star Wars with the Force, you know,
the idea that there's a you know, it's almost like
it's it's not new, but it's a re a re
kind of telling of like ancient you know, spirituality, the
Force and all that kind of stuff. So I like
those kind of questions.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I can't wait for that. Man, You're gonna do it.
If anyone can do it, it's you. What is your
perfect day off?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Say, probably like a spa day and then being with
people I love some more quiet. I think that's my
perfect day off.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Quiet. It's not what you get a lot of. Imagine
you like it when you're can get.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Very introverted man, Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't go
out much, so I I really like I'm you know,
I'm a recluse. I love to be away, you know,
So I like I like that that'd be a good day.
I don't have to think about work, open my phone
or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes, what is something you love about your culture?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I have an eclectic culture. I think what I love
the most about it's I don't I don't know if
it's culture, But I think what I love the most
about the way I look at things is I don't
feel like attached to like a country or a people,
or religion or this or that. I really grew up
in so many different places, and my father was so
open minded, you know, he wasn't like religious or anything.
(05:56):
So the idea that I feel like it's very easy
for me to accept people's point of views and go like,
I see you, and I I see where you're coming from,
and I respect it, and there's value to that, you
know what I mean. I don't like pick a side
and go, no, I'm with these people against those people.
So I kind of like try to keep an open
I think, I don't. I try not to see bad guys.
(06:17):
I think that's the best way to look at it.
I look, I don't look at I don't look at
like these are bad people. These are good people. I
don't try to think of it that way, although sometimes yeah,
you're like these are they're doing something wrong? You know,
in a sense that it's not harmonious, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's a nice way to walk through life.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You try, you try.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, Yeah, would you rather have Spider Man's web shooters
or Wolverine's healing Factor?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think healing factor because you can like get into
trouble and get out, you know, fine, But I would
think it's hard because the webshooters are more fun.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The webhooters are a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's really hard.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Cool. It's a pretty cool thing to have.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, Okay, you joined Sidney Sweeney in the new live
action movie Gone Dumb. Have you began filming it?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We shot that already. We shot in Australia.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
When did you shoot that?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
We shot that in the summer. I think all the
way throughout. Like I think they rapped really recently. They
shot most of our stuff first. There's like a couple
of places that the movie takes place, so they shot
one major location that's the location I was in mostly,
and then they shot the other stuff and they wrapped it.
I think about a month ago or two months ago.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You psyched that one.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Jim Michels, the director,
legendary great production company to be a part of They
were really really cool and it's I think Netflix as well.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, and are you starring opposite Sidney?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So, I'm I don't know if I'm allowed to say. Okay,
there's like two groups, got it, there's like two groups fighting.
Noah Sentinados on one group, Sydney's on one group. I
don't even hope, I hope I can say that, but
I'm I'm on one.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Of their Okay, you know what I mean? Cool?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, it's it's got a good message. It's not like
I like the message of the film. It's like a
very anti war type war film. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So are you doing anything to chill out and take
some time off after all of this work? Man? I mean,
are you you just keep going?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I you know, I'm looking for the next thing right now.
I'm excited for the next thing, taking on more of
a bigger responsibility, I think on the next role and
music is something I want to I really want to
finish the album.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Okay, Yeah, we can't wait for it, man, thank you.
So we might have to have you back to sing Hey.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You know what, I'll come back and from my album.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, and if if you're in the city, come on back. Man,
your little song. I'll do it absolutely, I'll do it
all right. Good well, thank you for hanging out. You
survive rapid fire. You were solid, You were solid. Manage No,
you were great. You were great. A reminder for everyone
at a watch seventy two hours and the new beautiful
Spider Man movie coming on out and listen to the
full interview before this episode that dropped as well, because
(08:59):
it's an amazing conversation. Brother, come back anytime. Thank you
so much, Man, appreciate you. Thank you,
Hey, guys, welcome to Hot Takes and Hangouts with Michael Nando,
the Man of the Summer. I feel like right between
seventy two hours on Netflix and Spider Man. I mean
it is your time, brother. How you going, I'm doing
really really good? Man good. We just had an amazing combat.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Love too.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
There we we love d C, mc U, d C.
We love them all, guys. We had an amazing conversation.
You can check out the full interview on the episode
before this, But for now we're gonna do some hot
takes and hangouts. You ready, I'm ready? All different kinds
of questions. All right, where are we gonna begin? Let's
start with if you could be in any other MCU
story or world, which would you choose? And why? WHOA wow?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't know. Star Wars is not an MCU world.
It's more I mean Disney. But it's okay? Is that
is that affair?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They've all blended together. I don't know what's what anymore?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Right are they mc but it's like it's Disney Star Wars.
I think Wars. I love I love Jedies so much.
I think it's Jedi. Is that it is so cool?
I love the philosophical angle of it?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, solid, Okay. Who would be in your superhero posse?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Wolverine, Scorpion, Venom like those three?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
A lot Batman and Batman? Batman Baan oh, yeah, and Joker.
Did you ever see Bain in the Batman?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Batman and Robin with poison Ivy and like the the
live you know, the live action movie?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Was that the Arnold No Arnold n Yeah, same movie, Baine,
I don't remember, bab was veined up. I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, you gotta go back, got to go back. Okay.
What was the hardest scene you shot in Better call Saul?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The scene the last monologue? I had the rich R A.
D say before the take, this is for your father,
and I started rolling and that was my father I
had just passed away. That was the most beautiful and
probably hard. I remember crying and they had to like
stop and I was just crying for a while and
I was just like letting it go. That was probably
(02:08):
the hardest thing I did. That must be. It was hard,
but it was beautiful too. It was like cathartic.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, and you'll always have that memory there. Yeah, when
you say, oh, is it hard for you to watch
that scene.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Now. I don't like watching myself too much, No, especially
around people. I'd watch later and I look at it
and it's healthier not to watch too much.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah with you. You love music? Are you creating
any music now?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, I'm working on a music album. IM actually really
happy to asked me that I'm working on an album
and releasing it in the fall. Really, it's kind of
like alternative R and B rock. It's it's cool. I'm
very excited to share it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, that's sick.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I want to do like little performances and pubs and
stuff when I'm shooting in different cities and stuff like performance. Yeah,
I just kind of like, do you know fifty hundred
people show up somewhere in New York shooting a movie? Here,
do a little thing, and then it's It's interesting because
with music, you can write a song in twenty second,
like two minutes, and the song is true to what
you just felt. But then you think about it. Do
(03:04):
I really want to release this as like here's you
know what I mean, Here's where I'm at, and you go.
So it's a bit tricky, but I think I got
the album to a selection of songs that I go,
I'm comfortable with this now, and I'm comfortable with this
in a year from now.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, did you play any of the music for it?
But you keep it separate?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I keep it. Yeah. I mean, if it was ready,
I probably would have said, if you know they're interested
in hearing it, of course I would have shared it
with them, but it wasn't ready at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I can't wait for that, man, I can't wait for that.
What's a role you really want to do that might
surprise us?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I really like Star Wars and I really like Star Trek.
I'm a big sci fi guy. I'd love to do
like a psychological kind of sci fi thriller. I love.
I love those kind of like big question idea movies.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah, sweet? Did you see Oh my God? The
Ryan Gosling movie came out this year. I'm blanking on
the product help project.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, Brian gous is fun.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I like watching him.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
He's that vibe of a movie you like.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, not like that. I mean not that I wouldn't
do it, but I was thinking more like like Arrival,
you know what I mean, Like it'd be these big
I like these big, existential, existential films. Not that I
wouldn't do projects, you know, but I'm thinking more of like,
you know, those big kind of rotating things where you
kind of leave the theater, like Matrix One. He's an
(04:31):
example of a movie that like changed the way I
see the world. And Star Wars with the Force, you know,
the idea that there's a you know, it's almost like
it's it's not new, but it's a re a re
kind of telling of like ancient you know, spirituality, the
Force and all that kind of stuff. So I like
those kind of questions.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I can't wait for that. Man, You're gonna do it.
If anyone can do it, it's you. What is your
perfect day off?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Say, probably like a spa day and then being with
people I love some more quiet. I think that's my
perfect day off.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Quiet. It's not what you get a lot of. Imagine
you like it when you're can get.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Very introverted man, Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't go
out much, so I I really like I'm you know,
I'm a recluse. I love to be away, you know,
So I like I like that that'd be a good day.
I don't have to think about work, open my phone
or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes, what is something you love about your culture?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I have an eclectic culture. I think what I love
the most about it's I don't I don't know if
it's culture, But I think what I love the most
about the way I look at things is I don't
feel like attached to like a country or a people,
or religion or this or that. I really grew up
in so many different places, and my father was so
open minded, you know, he wasn't like religious or anything.
(05:56):
So the idea that I feel like it's very easy
for me to accept people's point of views and go like,
I see you, and I I see where you're coming from,
and I respect it, and there's value to that, you
know what I mean. I don't like pick a side
and go, no, I'm with these people against those people.
So I kind of like try to keep an open
I think, I don't. I try not to see bad guys.
(06:17):
I think that's the best way to look at it.
I look, I don't look at I don't look at
like these are bad people. These are good people. I
don't try to think of it that way, although sometimes yeah,
you're like these are they're doing something wrong? You know,
in a sense that it's not harmonious, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's a nice way to walk through life.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You try, you try.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, Yeah, would you rather have Spider Man's web shooters
or Wolverine's healing Factor?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think healing factor because you can like get into
trouble and get out, you know, fine, But I would
think it's hard because the webshooters are more fun.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The webhooters are a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's really hard.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Cool. It's a pretty cool thing to have.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, Okay, you joined Sidney Sweeney in the new live
action movie Gone Dumb. Have you began filming it?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We shot that already. We shot in Australia.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
When did you shoot that?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
We shot that in the summer. I think all the
way throughout. Like I think they rapped really recently. They
shot most of our stuff first. There's like a couple
of places that the movie takes place, so they shot
one major location that's the location I was in mostly,
and then they shot the other stuff and they wrapped it.
I think about a month ago or two months ago.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You psyched that one.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Jim Michels, the director,
legendary great production company to be a part of They
were really really cool and it's I think Netflix as well.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, and are you starring opposite Sidney?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So, I'm I don't know if I'm allowed to say. Okay,
there's like two groups, got it, there's like two groups fighting.
Noah Sentinados on one group, Sydney's on one group. I
don't even hope, I hope I can say that, but
I'm I'm on one.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Of their Okay, you know what I mean? Cool?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, it's it's got a good message. It's not like
I like the message of the film. It's like a
very anti war type war film. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So are you doing anything to chill out and take
some time off after all of this work? Man? I mean,
are you you just keep going?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I you know, I'm looking for the next thing right now.
I'm excited for the next thing, taking on more of
a bigger responsibility, I think on the next role and
music is something I want to I really want to
finish the album.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Okay, Yeah, we can't wait for it, man, thank you.
So we might have to have you back to sing Hey.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You know what, I'll come back and from my album.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, and if if you're in the city, come on back. Man,
your little song. I'll do it absolutely, I'll do it
all right. Good well, thank you for hanging out. You
survive rapid fire. You were solid, You were solid. Manage No,
you were great. You were great. A reminder for everyone
at a watch seventy two hours and the new beautiful
Spider Man movie coming on out and listen to the
full interview before this episode that dropped as well, because
(08:59):
it's an amazing conversation. Brother, come back anytime. Thank you
so much, Man, appreciate you. Thank you,
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