November 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Ricky Mabe joins Will and Sabrina to talk about growing up as an actor in Canada, working on the film Phantom of the Megaplex and what he's working on now in his career.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you everybody for joining us on this par copper
episode of Magical Rewind. We are, as we say every week,
incredibly excited to have our guest on, which we are.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We're not lying when we say that we're always excited
to have our guests on, and this week is no exception.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We are being joined this week by a cast member,
one of the sixty two hundred people from Phantom of
the Megaplex. Yes, that was a very large cast. Please
help us welcome Ricky Maybe. Hey, Hello, thank you so
much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We are so excited that you're here. We'd like to
hope that this is the first thirty five to forty
minute interview you've done solely about Phantom of the Mega.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Besides my mother grilling me. I think yes, this is,
no doubt the only group that has been interested.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We are so excited to hear that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You know, we always like to start the same place,
which is what made you just especially with child actors,
you always wonder, you know, what got you into the industry.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Is this something you wanted to do? Were you forced?
How did this work?
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, great question, And you know it was growing up
in Canada, you either played hockey or you did comedy
or acting. And I unfortunately sucked at hockey. And my
dad was actually my hockey coach, and he's like, you know,
you're not having fun out there, are you?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And I was like, no, I want to act.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Luckily for the hockey world, I went into acting, but
it was great. It was in fifth grade. I had
a great, great elementary school teacher who put on plays
and that was my first kind of expose into the
like any kind of entertainment, and then it went from there.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It went. I just ended up going to.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Like the closest acting class in my neighborhood in Montreal,
and an agent ran that, and then I just I
got my first role on a movie called Frankenstein and
Me which I was twelve years old, and it was
Ryan Gosling was in it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Burt Reynolds played my dad, which meant absolutely nothing to
me at twelve.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Your mom was probably freaking out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Stoke.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And he couldn't have been nicer. He brought us to
his house, He showed like he brought us to Universal Studios.
He was incredible. Every every morning I'd go into the
trailer and there'd be like some sort of new thing
signed by Burt Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh god, please tell me you still have them?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I do everything.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yes, Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
He was just a delight And yeah, my mom it
was her first kind of it was the first time
on my a plane for me to come out to California. Wow.
So it was it was exciting and uh yeah, my
parents were great about it. They didn't push me. They
never My mom, you know, obviously came with me on
(03:24):
sets from age twelve to at least sixteen, and uh
never was always felt like she was in the way
and never like never spoke up like she was adorable
and yeah, never not a stage mom at all.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You're one of our first dcom actors that was born
and raised in Canada, So can you talk a little
bit about because it's Canada's sort of one of the Yeah, no, it'
sor right, your friend is one of the uh like
dcom capitals, it's like the world, Yeah, and there's a
lot of local hire.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So what was it did you get?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Was there a benefit to being Canadian when they're filming
all these movies up in Canada?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
One hundred it was it's also nice to like cut
your teeth in a smaller market, right, that's the right term.
But like, yeah, you know, as an actor, I was
exposed to like kind of better roles I think than
I would have been if I started in LA and
like competed on a much more you know, competitive scale.
(04:22):
So uh yeah, growing up in Canada for acting was
perfect because tons of stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I think even Cheetah Girls shot and.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
We did our first one we did.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Yeah, And I loved Toronto, right, that's great city.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
One of my favorite restaurants it was called Marches back then.
Now then it when I went back, it had changed
to like rich Tree or something like that. But it
was like a market and a restaurant you could get
like fresh bread or fresh pasta or sushi.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I mean everything was just so good. I think we
literally ate there almost every night, so good. I loved.
Was my first time being away from my parents too.
I was really young.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I was eighteen, so it was like the first time
filming and I just I felt so.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Safe in Toronto. I really did. I loved everything about Canada.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, And I think with Canadians growing up, you know,
we were not we don't have that competitiveness. We're kind
of just really stoked and oh, I'm so happy one
of us got the job.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Rate except for hockey, there's some competitiveness in the hockey.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
As soon as you.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Put skates on a Canadian, forget, it rolls out the window.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah. I don't know where this violence comes from.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So did you You grew up in Quebec, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
So I was born and raised in Montreal. All my
family is still there. I was the only one that left.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But it was great.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, my very first audition, I met my best friend
still to this day, Jay Bearschel, who's a very successful
Canadian actor.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Wow, And yeah I was eleven, he was twelve, and
we you know, stayed best friends since then.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So did you grow up bilingual?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah, okay, but you don't really know about it, like
growing up there, It's just you grew up speaking two
languages without even thinking about it, right. It was from
kindergarten to fourth grade or at least third grade is
all in French. Even if you even if you go
to an English school, which I do. Wow, by third
(06:25):
grade you start doing classes in English. But yeah, preschool
was all in French. So you're kind of like thrown
to the wolves.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So how old are you the first time you go
to Crescent Street?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Just deep cut was serious?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Why I apologize for my.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Cost I was born and raised in Connecticut, and the
drinking age in Montreal is obviously yes, in the States,
So we would take our drive apart. We had to
take the five hour drive and Crescent Street was great.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
So yeah, that was wow. Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I think everything I've ever regretted in my life was
on Crescent Street.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
No, we started going there.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, I mean sixteen seventeen, and which is hilarious because
I know we're here to talk about a fan of
the Megaplex and I was seventeen at the time. You were, yeah,
and I look like I'm fourteen, So it is wild
to think that they let anybody with that face into
a bar ridiculous but that's the that's the French kind
(07:33):
of vibe, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, So then did you Because I shot in Montreal,
they were always shooting a great show up there was
called Oh God, what is it? The The episode was
the Tale of the Long Goo Locket, but it was
the Dark.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yes, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Did you do
any episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I did an episode of which is hilarious because like
I did all of the Nickelodeon shows, Yeah, Goosebo, are
You'fraard of the Dark, Lassie Big Wolf on campus. There
was like a lunch that shot in Montreal or Toronto,
and we didn't get those channels in Montreal at all.
(08:13):
So I didn't have Nickelodeon. I didn't have Disney Channel.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It was why TV and Nickelodeon. Wasn't it like hy
TV in Canada? Yeah, like you can't do that on
television and stuff like that was all on y TV exactly.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, so they funneled a lot of the Nickelodeon stuff
on there. But like there was like, uh, it was funny.
My partner and I we've been together eighteen years now,
and she she did not. She always said I recognize
you from, like I know you from something, And it
wasn't until like we were going through childhood photos of
myself and she saw it was this I think one
(08:48):
season show called space Cases with Jewel State, and that's
what she had recognized me from. But yeah, we did
a show called flash Forward up there, which was like
Ben Foster and I played it. I played as younger brother.
But there were tons of kids shows that were made
up in Canada. So were you just working all the
(09:10):
time then NonStop? I missed so much of high school
because I started in sixth grade in Quebec. You start
high school in seventh grade, okay, till eleventh grade, which
was very bizarre.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It's weird. So I was.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I was literally twelve years old in high school, four
foot eight and just looked like I was nine. And
my voice I think my voice stopped cracking maybe three
months ago. But it was Yeah, it was. It was fun.
We you know, I grew up with going to a
regular high school that you know, my all my siblings
(09:46):
went to. Come from a big Irish Catholic family, so
they all went there. My mom even graduated from the
same high school I did. Wow, very small, like you know,
very suburban, but I missed half of it by working
and getting tutored.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
But it was such a great way to grow up.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It was I I didn't realize how lucky I was,
all the experiences I had. But traveling, I did this
movie called for Hurst Castle, which is here in California. Yeah,
so it's like, if you take part of the tour,
I play William Randolph Hurst as a twelve year old,
(10:26):
and my mom and I got to go all over
Europe for it for over a month. I did a
movie in Fiji in New Zealand for like two months.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Oh my gosh, you.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Know, while my friends are freezing up in Canada.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, what movie was in Fiji?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It was a hilarious movie.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
It was like a gritty kind of crime drama called
nightmare Man. It was a New Zealand Canadian co production.
But Margo Kidder from Superman, she was sure she was
in it. And this guy Lee Horsley, who is like
kind of a television Burt Reynolds. Okay, very handsome, lovely man.
(11:09):
I played a son in that, but it was great.
I was fourteen at the time and my character lived
on a sailboat. So when I arrived, they were like, hey,
you're not filming for a couple of weeks, so just
like play outside as much as possible because you're supposed
to be really tanned.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yes, okay, okay, right, yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think that was the last time I ever tanned.
I burnt.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So you know, they always say, especially as a child actor,
the grass is always greener, you know. Again, I grew
up in going to All my work was in New York,
so of course I wanted to be in LA. All
the LA kids are like, oh, the New York scene
is cool, or people wanted to be in Canada. As
a Canadian child actor, did you want to be in
LA in New York or were you like, I'm real
happy with doing Canadian stuff?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, we were all Uh, we were all yeah. I
didn't think we even like knew about the LA market
until a little bit later, until those shows kind of
all started finishing filming in Canada. And then it was
very funny. Yep, we all moved out at the exact
same time it all came out to LA. There was
(12:14):
this place, it's still there. It's next to the Magic
Castle on Franklin, the Highland Gardens, and that was where
every Canadian pretty much stayed really when they moved here.
We would all go for pilot season from January to April.
We'd all stay there extended stay hotel so it was
fully furnished, but like Jay and I got rooms next
(12:36):
to each other. But the first time I came out,
I actually was roommit with this actress who I grew
up with in Canada. Alicia Cuthbert, of course, right. So
her and I we'd done two movies up in Canada together,
one where we played siblings and then one where we
were boyfriend and girlfriend, and then we both moved out
here lived together during pilot seasons. She got twenty four
(12:59):
and yeah, kind of that. That was that, but we
had it was my call, my college experience which I
dropped out of, was was coming out for pilot season
and it had been so fun, like you're you.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Know, okay, So that's why there were no Canadians at
the oak Wood. You had your own.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yeah wood, Alicia and I did.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
We lived at the oak Wood.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You did, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Everyone.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
I swear It's like if the walls that the oak
Wood could.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Talk about how many actors stayed there during pilot season.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It was yeah, got awful. Okay. So was Phantom at
the Megaplex your first d com ever?
Speaker 7 (13:43):
I get?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Your intro into Disney, Like, had you done any of
their shows at that point?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So flash Forward was a Disney Channel okay series which
was Ben Foster and Jewels State played best friends and neighbors.
That was like my first Disney job. And then yeah,
and the Megaplex was like, yeah, the first Disney movie
of the week kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Wow, So what did you think when you read the
script and you were AKA and everyone was Aka? And
then it sounded kind of like you were all garbage
pail kids for some reason, like.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh, will I didn't read scripts? I had them read
to me.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I was a child out much oh being fanned?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yes, yes, no, I mean I was. I was thrilled one.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It filmed in Toronto, which I had all. That's where
we shot the uh, the fast Forward show, so I'd
already spent a lot of time there, so I was excited.
And that time I was old enough that my mom
didn't have to come with me or have a guardian.
She did come to visit, right, but she was very
excited about meeting Mickey Rooney. But it was yeah, a
(14:51):
seventeen to be like in Toronto on my own, staying
in a hotel was.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Yeah, what what's the age in Toronto for you to
be able to work on your own on set?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
That time?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It was sixteen sixteen, Yeah, you could be. You didn't
need a guardian at sixteen.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay, it's so funny to talk to other child actors
because like civilians, it's their first experience. Is like, man,
I remember just going to college and it was so
important to me that first year being.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Aware where for child actors is always like I remember
the first movie I did where I didn't.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Need a guardan to have it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
There was the big two was like not having a
guardian and then not having to do tutoring.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Oh god, when you're.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Done with school.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
When school was done, you never had to go back.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh, absolutely magical.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So we're curious because the film was written by Dcom
we call him the dcom Daddy, Stu Krieger, who has
more credits than any other writer in Disney Channel history.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So we're curious because having just watched.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
The film, we kind of called it the Phantom of
the Megaplex who slightly inconvenienced people at the Moon.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So was there ever a draft.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Where there were like more steaks, you know, that things
were like maybe people weren't getting hurt.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But something other than like, ah, we just got to
the popcorn.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Sure, I'd say like we needed a little bit more
devilish type things, but like.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I mean murder at the movies.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah, a little scary water filled balloons and uh, the
giant lizard that you have to like take a sword to.
Was there any time there was like because I felt
like the bathroom scene kind of started going, oh okay,
we're getting a little creeper.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yeah, but that was kind of it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
There wasn't.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
It was always that nice.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
But I mean when you were when the characters are
like sixteen seventeen, like when love is on the line,
then the biggest steaks, you know, like the yeah, the
lead guy's character when he's like, you know, the worst
thing that could ever happen besides murder or which wasn't
going to happen, was yeah, his Caitlin not.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, being stolen by the Yeah exactly. So you mentioned
because you know, no offense to you. You were wonderful,
But Mick Mickey Mickey Rooney kind of stole this movie.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
He was great.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And what was it like, I mean the legend of legends,
I mean, what is it like working with somebody like
Mickey Rooney?
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Uh yeah, I mean he was eighty years old at
the time, Wow, which is crazy to just think of
some anybody still working at that age. Yeah, so one
for him to actually do it, uh in hats off
to him, but he actually seemed like he wanted to
be there, which was great. Yeah, and he had is
(17:53):
his eighth wife was with him.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Oh my gosh, no way, are you eight times the
charm you when you're Mickey Rooney.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
My girlfriend just finished the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
or the eight Wives, the eight Wives of Mickey Rooney.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wow, he's the eighth.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
To be fair though, his wife that was with him
because he he was at an age where he couldn't
remember his lines, you know, which is completely understandable of course.
So we did have like cue cards, you know, everywhere
on set buying camera.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
For him, which worked out great, but she.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Couldn't have been more kind of helped create the atmosphere
for him to like be comfortable on set, cooled. And
they'd been married from the seventies. So the first seven
wives I think were very quick turnovers and then he
finally got it right.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Well, the guy was born in like eighteen ten, so
it was you know, he'd he'd been around since it
was Old Hampshire, so you know, born with a cigar
in his mouth. Yeah, yeah, he came out.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
They cut the umbilical cord, they put tap shoes on
him and they put him on camera. Yeah, it was
like he's been around for ever.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
They came out and they were like, welcome to the
Great Depression exactly right.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, came out and you were owned by MGM. That's
just kind of kind of the way it was.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Were you on set the day that he did the
Hollywood like his little kind of musical, Yeah, Holly y
for Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Were you on set during that day? I imagine? I
mean will think about it.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
I imagine amazing, everyone just wanting to be there watching
him do his thing, like so great?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
What was it like?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It was amazing.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I mean the dude was married to Ava Gardner, Like,
this guy has been around, Like you can't get more
classic Hollywood. I mean they're black Stallion like like original
Disney movie, like original original Disney movies.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's when Waltz on the set going like, this is
our second movie ever.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I hope it works exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, there's a land in a post World War two I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So true.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And then to see him like just rock up in
the year two thousand on a like Disney movie the
week and him still giving it his all. Yeah, it
was uh, like incredible. It was also being a child actor,
and he's the kind of original like there's temple.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, like literally the two originals. They really were Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, it was like, oh, this guy's made a lifetime
of it, and like he turned out all right.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
He's still he's still okay. I think at least quelled
my mom's fears.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, your mom, I mean again, your mom if she
loved Burt Reynolds. You gotta you know the idea that
now you get to meet Mickey Rooney, it's there.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
These are Hollywood royalty, I.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Mean Hollywood royalty.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, so unbelievably cool.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What was the atmosphere on the set, like, because you've
got there's so many kids hanging out, I mean, this
could have been like summer camp.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh, it exactly was.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Uh So.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Besides Taylor the lead actor, who was wonderfully charming and
just so great, everyone else wore Canadian locals, so we
all kind of either knew each other beforehand or knew
of each other. But it really did feel like, oh, yeah,
(21:20):
we get to just hang out and like it was
just like I'm surprised no one like brought out a
guitar at the trailers, like a Kubaiah, like It was
very and the great thing about this project personally was
it all pretty much takes place over one day, so
we were always in the same wardrobe, which, as fellow
(21:44):
actors like that is just when you don't have to
do wardrop changes all day and you can kind of
just like kick it on set and then get called
when they need you before like having a run and.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Do quick changes or anything.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
It was great, so we actually got to spend a
lot of time together and it was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
We ask a lot of child actors when they come
on Podmet's World. One of the things that we've noticed
is that a lot of us have a serious PTSD
to getting changed, Like still like for some reason you
wake up in the morning, you got to get dressed
as fast as you can, or you have a trouble.
Do you have anything with getting dressed or undressed? Because
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it's there's a bunch.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Of us that like, oh my god, I can't believe
you have that too.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
I will say the horror I faced when I realized
that some child actors or actors in general didn't hang
up their wardrobe after putting taking it off.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
My mother would have never allowed that to fly.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
That's all like what I remember and I still to
this day, if I'm taking something off, I'm hanging it
right up.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yes, you've got it too good.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I there was no uh, just because I would always
see the wardrobe department team and like having come over
just like scoop their hands up with like well worn,
like sweaty costs. Like the least I could do is
hang it up for them, right.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
These people are like.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
They're there usually before everyone else on set.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
There.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
You know, they has to put the wardrobe in people's
you know, whether you're trailer, and then they're the last
ones to leave because they have to wash it. They
have to do the lot.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Yes, wardrobe works their butts off, especially if it is
a movie where there are so many pieces of like
if it is a multi day and they've got yeah,
and you've got to you have to be so organized
to keep everything of each actor's stuff together because continuity
(23:48):
you come back, you've come back to it days later,
and you've got to remember what even bracelet goes.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
On, what hand for girls, you know, and things like that.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
It's like wardrobe is I I swear that I had
that same exact thing too, to the point where if
I'm at like a department store and I'm changing.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
I also hang up.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Every single make it organized and easy for them, because
it just is like embedded in my brain that it's
like that's something that people don't do, and I find
it so rude.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
If you went into my closet, you'd be like, oh,
this guy worked at the gap for sure, Like the
way held really no child actor.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You got little cards still attached to it, going C one,
I'm gonna wear this d one scene in the morning excellent.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Were you there on set for Giant Inflatable Day?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I was.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I certainly was weirdly so I did.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
When you guys you know, talked about this and reached out, yeah,
I actually I have like pictures cool?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
But then god, like, yeah this was.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
That.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
We were like literally a lovely crew.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
And did you guys film in a real theater?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
So it was right on Young Street, just uptown from
about a couple of miles uptown from downtown Toronto on
you okay, but yeah, real theater.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Did that build into anything being like tough on set
at all?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I think it, like for me is like just a
crazy movie buffin movie fan to like you know, uh,
I mean in the nineties, I had a dream of
running a video store. I don't think that's a great
dream anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
See, I disagree that's a phenomenal dream. We need it
now more than ever. Dude, I'll all open one with you, right.
Oh my god, Oh man, I'm married because of Blockbuster.
Oh I Like, that's not even a joke. I'm literally
I re met my wife in front of a Blockbuster
when I was turning turning a movie and we ran
and then I proposed her on that same spot five
(26:02):
years later as the Blockbuster closed.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So yeah, Blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Video is responsible for I hate not being able to
go and pick up a movie and flip it over
and looking on the back.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
And I know, I know the.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Original doom scrolling was in a Blockbuster going and seeing
what movies you.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Wanted to watch.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Yeah, And I had one of those subscriptions too, where
I paid like a monthly so I could literally.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You were as many as you want.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Because I love binging.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
I do.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I love like having like a like a Rockefeller.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Geez, it wasn't that expensive.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I think it was like forty bucks.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
A month or something. Unlimited unlimited money.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Bro my god, you couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
I mean there were there were sundays I'd go back twice.
I'd do my three movies and then and get three more.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Okay, so you you said you're a movie buff.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Did you get people together with you to watch this
movie when it came out on.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Disney I don't even think so, because I don't you
guys didn't have it.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I didn't have Disney Channel.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Did they send you a copy?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Did you know I would get?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Which is the amount of VHS that surrounded my life?
Like coming from Canada, we used to always have to
send self tapes, self tapes that just muld be the trauma,
but we did. We used to and I remember vividly like, uh,
Jay Barschel and I would put ourselves like we would
(27:47):
take turns.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know, colignes for each other. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Then you would literally put it on a VHS and
then go to FedEx and mail it to Los Angeles,
so everything was VHS, and then then you'd get VHS
copies of the work you did afterwards. So I remember,
I think I probably watched it at home, maybe with
cousins or simply good And to be honest, I hadn't
(28:14):
seen it in twenty five years since it came out
until you, guys, did you watch about it?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I did?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
What did you think?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It's hard through everyone else's stuff?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It's a it's a weird it's a weird.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Watch this the movie. It's a very strange kind of film.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
It's a very weird watch. And you are so right
about like, yeah, the lack of steaks. Also like the
homage to Hollywood at the beginning too, and then that
kind of doesn't really go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
A lot of marriage, like yeah, we we meet so
many characters in this movie that then you don't really.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Matter do or they go away like the which is
that a thing in Canada?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The fear?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, I don't think that wasn't a thing.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I okay, okay, So we meet her, we see her twice.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, they have all like those kind of freeze frame
moments of like meet so and yes, and then that
was it.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
And that's that's.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Really our biggest part in the movie is that, and
then we're just like peppered and and then weirdly some
of them didn't get that like no moment, but we
still see them. So it was it was, it was
always constructed.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It was.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yes, I think that's a good way to put it,
which is the script was a little strange, which is
weird for for Stu because Stu has written some of
the biggest things they've ever done. We'll talk to him again.
We've interviewed him twice. He'll come back because he loves
coming back, so we'll come back and ask him again. Okay,
So then I can't really ask you what your favorite
DCM was growing up, since you didn't get a chance
to see it.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But unless you did.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I don't know if it was.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
It's a d coom now, but I I do remember
being traumatized as a kid by mister Boogey.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Oh, mister Boogety.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
So it's on Disney now, and it was a Disney movie,
but it was. It was a terrifying horror film from
the late eighties early nineties.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
Really, Yes, we are going to have to.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Thank you for that title, because the sequel too, a sequel, Yeah,
is an electric Boogety.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
What's his name?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Mauser? Mauser and Richard Mauser. Oh, yeah's a lead in it. Okay,
Oh yeah, it's a wild movie.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay. Oh, I can't wait we got to put this
on the list.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Then, okay. So yeah, that's a hard question because you
didn't really get a chance.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I never saw how Leen Town there were a Brink
or any of those kind of names.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Was there any movie that you auditioned for the channel
that you really wanted to get.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
And didn't didn't end up getting? Do you remember one
of those? Because I've got some of.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I mean for me in the late nineties, was Airbud?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
That okay, okay?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
One of your co stars was in it?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yes, yeah, yeah, did two of them?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes in it? Yeah, she did the seventh fetch. Sorry
puns like that anymore and we should. Yeah, the nineties
with great puns.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
They were way We have one of our producers saying
Airbud is coming back.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So now's your time, and now is your time. Now
is your time.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
You gotta go for.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It, called Jay. You guys can sell table. You can
do each other's lines.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
I will send the vhs to the casting.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Great when you were talking about it, we had just
interviewed David Henry who was from Wizards of Waverley Place
and he's doing he's in the reboot now and he
was talking. It made me think of it. He was
talking about how his show was. Some of the acts
that are on it, they're first in person audition because
(32:04):
since they kind of started acting during COVID, they were
putting themselves on tape for everything for a long time.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
And then he said that that was their first in
person audition, and I'm just like.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
That is wild to think, you know, somebody who does,
doesn't live in La or New York. That's all they
did for a long time. I feel like E've been
people that, like Texas, like a.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Lot of Cadians were ready for COVID audio.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
They were, that's just an audition in Canada.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I'm always six feet away from somebody. What's the problem?
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Always six never closer? Do not handshake.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
So you've talked about your friend Jay, who obviously went
off and had an amazing career. You've gone off and
had an amazing career. You work a lot with Seth
Rogan as well. You guys are all kind of buds.
So my question is have you all sat down and
watched Phantoms? Do they know about this movie and have
you had a screening of it yet?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
No? It's hilarious, But Jay and Ile text as memes
of our childhood acting stuff, like pictures from our childhood actings.
We did a because him and I worked together a
few times as kids on stuffed that nobody outside of
you know, small town Canada, I think has ever seen, right,
But yeah, so we will like share that kind of stuff,
(33:21):
just kind of to make fun of each other. But
I'm hard to press to watch anything I've ever been in,
like even just watching the scenes from this movie going.
Oh so my acting style was start at ten and
at ten.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Just it was a dec.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yeah, there was one way to deliver every line, and
I did the one way.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I think that's correct. I love that frankly.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Okay, So I can't let you go without first talking
about Goon because this is a cult classic and apparently
has a rabid fan base.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes, yeah, did you know what this movie was gonna
be as you were shooting it?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Did you have any idea of the amount of love
that it would eventually find?
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
No, Like, no idea really, but that was you know,
It's similar to Fantom of the Megaplex that was like
a big cast hanging out in the locker room, right,
So it was like also always the same wardrobe. We
were in hockey gear, so it was like, you know,
when they called cut, we would just skate around the
ice right, like play pickup hockey, which was great, but
(34:34):
I had no idea until it was done and it
came out, and it was the first time everything I
had done in entertainment was validated by my cousins because
I finally made a hockey movie and they were like, oh, yeah, no,
we get what you do now.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
The first thirty years of your career not so much.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Nothing nothing, you know, Yeah, now it's cool.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Well now it's fine because yeah, because I did a
hockey movie.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
Oh man, But that.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I mean, that was just because Jay had wrote that
with our other mutual friend that we went to pretty
much high school with. So it was like such a
gray atmosphere except for having a film in Winnipeg.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I liked, Sorry, I liked Winnipeg. I did.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
What's wrong with Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Nothing, it's little booneyish, they say, yeah, it's got its charms.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I remember in my late teens early twenties I did
stand up in Canada and I did a whole set
once on Winnipeg, and I compared it to that spot
on your back you can't reach in one.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
In Canada, it's like in the middle, Like there's no
reason to be in Winnipeg unless you're specifically going to.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Wait to Winnipeg. Yeah, you don't accident find yourself in Winnipeg.
You're there, you'd.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Rather somebody else kind of scrub that area.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Well, I mean, you and your friends have had massive
success in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
You and say, well you have as well. You're involved
in all these projects. I mean, is this is this?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Is it a source of pride that you get to
kind of do this stuff together.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yeah, I mean that's to be honest, I haven't pursued
acting in a good fifteen years. I went into directing
and I've been directing commercials, and now all of my
acting stuff is really just my friends. Like I did
a day on the studio. Yeah, because Seth hit me up.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
It's like, dude, we're in your neighborhood. Do you want
to come by?
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Come by?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
It was a really good by the way, so good.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
But yeah, so like anytime, like the you know, most
of my I would say, post pursuit of acting, anything
I've done is through those guys, right, just kind of
like hitting me up, and it's great, it's you know,
sag membership up and that kind of thing. So but
it is lovely, but it's yeah, it's definitely not something
I kind of kept up at, right. But the thing
(37:10):
with those guys, you know, whether it's the studio, whether
it's this is the End, whether it's Zach and Mary
make a Porno, it all felt like indie movies or
just a bunch of buddies getting together filming something.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Oh, isn't that the best feeling?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
So it never felt like a big Hollywood thing. There
was never like big suits on set, like when the
big suits are seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg like making it.
It just feels like a bunch of buddies shooting sketches
like it. So it had that quality, and every time
working with them always feels that way. I've never met
two guys so low stress about making things that cost
(37:52):
so much money.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Exactly realize.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
You're rocking up.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's awesome. All right.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well, finally I have to ask if you could go
back and tell your younger self, give your younger self
any advice on the set of Megaplex or any of
your your younger projects.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
What would you tell yourself.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Enjoy every job for what it is, whether it is
a big movie or a small like student, feel like,
just enjoy it. We're so lucky to do it that
it doesn't the outcome doesn't matter, the pay doesn't matter,
all of that. It literally is. It's crazy to think
(38:46):
that most of my home videos are like professionally shot
movies or TV shows, and the flood of memories that
come back from just actually watching the final product just
makes me think about like all the stuff offset and
all the fun I had. So I think it's and
(39:07):
I always have been very appreciative of the journey I've
been on, but I think it's just that is like,
enjoy it while it's happening as much as possible, because
it's you're luckier than ninety nine percent of the rest
of the population.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
So just yeah, to me, the advice I'd give is
just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Well, that's great advice.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
And you have worked with literally some of the biggest
legends in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
It's awesome to see.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, well, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
We so appreciate it and talking about the megaplex.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Big fans of both yours and I just love what
you guys do. And I'm so glad somebody has put
the time and effort to care about things we did
many many years ago.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
You had to.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
It's we're going back and watching all these dcoms, and
some of them are great, some of them aren't, some
of are funny and not on purpose, and it's.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Great, you.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Know, always cheers to Disney for getting so many kids,
so many opportunities to work.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
And be taken care of, you know.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
And and it was it's awesome you know this when
you did this movie. That was during the time of
the Channel that they were cranking them out like once
a month. They were making so many of these movies.
And it's pretty pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Good time, great time. Well, thank you so much for
joining us.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
And we I swear to God, you've got to show
your boys screening together and then we'll talk about it
as we open our video store.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Yeah. Wow, this is terrible.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
It's Disney, Disney, thank you. I'll talk to you later,
all right. God, he was funny.
Speaker 7 (41:09):
Yes, what a career, like what I mean.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
And we're going I would love to tell directing and
everything now, that's really.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Yes, And it sounds like especially with like the Seth Rogan,
like it sounds like exactly how I.
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Would picture being on set with Seth broken.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah, but that's so chill. That's also why they.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Make such good products is because they're they're not stressed
about it.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
It's like, you know, we're making movies here, but we're not.
It's not brain surgery. We're making movies, not saving the
world we're having, and that's that's a big difference. So
Jack cool, Well, thank you Ricky for joining us.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
We cannot thank you enough, and thank you everybody for
joining us another awesome interview. If I do say so myself,
we're getting some incredible people here to come and tell
us what it was like to be on these d
coms back in the day. So thank you everybody for
joining us, and don't forget to join us next time
over on our other feed where we were going to
be watching under Wrapped the New Underwraps. So if it's
the old under Wraps, you're off by twenty some odd years.
(42:04):
You need the new under Wraps, which is the twenty
twenty one under Wraps, which is cleverly titled under Wraps,
So try not to get confused by the titles, people,
but join us over there next time. And we will
see you later.
Speaker 7 (42:18):
Bye, bye,
Thank you everybody for joining us on this par copper
episode of Magical Rewind. We are, as we say every week,
incredibly excited to have our guest on, which we are.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We're not lying when we say that we're always excited
to have our guests on, and this week is no exception.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We are being joined this week by a cast member,
one of the sixty two hundred people from Phantom of
the Megaplex. Yes, that was a very large cast. Please
help us welcome Ricky Maybe. Hey, Hello, thank you so
much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We are so excited that you're here. We'd like to
hope that this is the first thirty five to forty
minute interview you've done solely about Phantom of the Mega.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Besides my mother grilling me. I think yes, this is,
no doubt the only group that has been interested.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We are so excited to hear that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You know, we always like to start the same place,
which is what made you just especially with child actors,
you always wonder, you know, what got you into the industry.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Is this something you wanted to do? Were you forced?
How did this work?
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, great question, And you know it was growing up
in Canada, you either played hockey or you did comedy
or acting. And I unfortunately sucked at hockey. And my
dad was actually my hockey coach, and he's like, you know,
you're not having fun out there, are you?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And I was like, no, I want to act.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Luckily for the hockey world, I went into acting, but
it was great. It was in fifth grade. I had
a great, great elementary school teacher who put on plays
and that was my first kind of expose into the
like any kind of entertainment, and then it went from there.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It went. I just ended up going to.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Like the closest acting class in my neighborhood in Montreal,
and an agent ran that, and then I just I
got my first role on a movie called Frankenstein and
Me which I was twelve years old, and it was
Ryan Gosling was in it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Burt Reynolds played my dad, which meant absolutely nothing to
me at twelve.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Your mom was probably freaking out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Stoke.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And he couldn't have been nicer. He brought us to
his house, He showed like he brought us to Universal Studios.
He was incredible. Every every morning I'd go into the
trailer and there'd be like some sort of new thing
signed by Burt Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh god, please tell me you still have them?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I do everything.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yes, Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
He was just a delight And yeah, my mom it
was her first kind of it was the first time
on my a plane for me to come out to California. Wow.
So it was it was exciting and uh yeah, my
parents were great about it. They didn't push me. They
never My mom, you know, obviously came with me on
(03:24):
sets from age twelve to at least sixteen, and uh
never was always felt like she was in the way
and never like never spoke up like she was adorable
and yeah, never not a stage mom at all.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You're one of our first dcom actors that was born
and raised in Canada, So can you talk a little
bit about because it's Canada's sort of one of the Yeah, no, it'
sor right, your friend is one of the uh like
dcom capitals, it's like the world, Yeah, and there's a
lot of local hire.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So what was it did you get?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Was there a benefit to being Canadian when they're filming
all these movies up in Canada?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
One hundred it was it's also nice to like cut
your teeth in a smaller market, right, that's the right term.
But like, yeah, you know, as an actor, I was
exposed to like kind of better roles I think than
I would have been if I started in LA and
like competed on a much more you know, competitive scale.
(04:22):
So uh yeah, growing up in Canada for acting was
perfect because tons of stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I think even Cheetah Girls shot and.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
We did our first one we did.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Yeah, And I loved Toronto, right, that's great city.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
One of my favorite restaurants it was called Marches back then.
Now then it when I went back, it had changed
to like rich Tree or something like that. But it
was like a market and a restaurant you could get
like fresh bread or fresh pasta or sushi.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I mean everything was just so good. I think we
literally ate there almost every night, so good. I loved.
Was my first time being away from my parents too.
I was really young.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I was eighteen, so it was like the first time
filming and I just I felt so.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Safe in Toronto. I really did. I loved everything about Canada.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, And I think with Canadians growing up, you know,
we were not we don't have that competitiveness. We're kind
of just really stoked and oh, I'm so happy one
of us got the job.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Rate except for hockey, there's some competitiveness in the hockey.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
As soon as you.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Put skates on a Canadian, forget, it rolls out the window.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah. I don't know where this violence comes from.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So did you You grew up in Quebec, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
So I was born and raised in Montreal. All my
family is still there. I was the only one that left.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But it was great.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, my very first audition, I met my best friend
still to this day, Jay Bearschel, who's a very successful
Canadian actor.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Wow, And yeah I was eleven, he was twelve, and
we you know, stayed best friends since then.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So did you grow up bilingual?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah, okay, but you don't really know about it, like
growing up there, It's just you grew up speaking two
languages without even thinking about it, right. It was from
kindergarten to fourth grade or at least third grade is
all in French. Even if you even if you go
to an English school, which I do. Wow, by third
(06:25):
grade you start doing classes in English. But yeah, preschool
was all in French. So you're kind of like thrown
to the wolves.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So how old are you the first time you go
to Crescent Street?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Just deep cut was serious?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Why I apologize for my.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Cost I was born and raised in Connecticut, and the
drinking age in Montreal is obviously yes, in the States,
So we would take our drive apart. We had to
take the five hour drive and Crescent Street was great.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
So yeah, that was wow. Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I think everything I've ever regretted in my life was
on Crescent Street.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
No, we started going there.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, I mean sixteen seventeen, and which is hilarious because
I know we're here to talk about a fan of
the Megaplex and I was seventeen at the time. You were, yeah,
and I look like I'm fourteen, So it is wild
to think that they let anybody with that face into
a bar ridiculous but that's the that's the French kind
(07:33):
of vibe, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, So then did you Because I shot in Montreal,
they were always shooting a great show up there was
called Oh God, what is it? The The episode was
the Tale of the Long Goo Locket, but it was
the Dark.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yes, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Did you do
any episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I did an episode of which is hilarious because like
I did all of the Nickelodeon shows, Yeah, Goosebo, are
You'fraard of the Dark, Lassie Big Wolf on campus. There
was like a lunch that shot in Montreal or Toronto,
and we didn't get those channels in Montreal at all.
(08:13):
So I didn't have Nickelodeon. I didn't have Disney Channel.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It was why TV and Nickelodeon. Wasn't it like hy
TV in Canada? Yeah, like you can't do that on
television and stuff like that was all on y TV exactly.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, so they funneled a lot of the Nickelodeon stuff
on there. But like there was like, uh, it was funny.
My partner and I we've been together eighteen years now,
and she she did not. She always said I recognize
you from, like I know you from something, And it
wasn't until like we were going through childhood photos of
myself and she saw it was this I think one
(08:48):
season show called space Cases with Jewel State, and that's
what she had recognized me from. But yeah, we did
a show called flash Forward up there, which was like
Ben Foster and I played it. I played as younger brother.
But there were tons of kids shows that were made
up in Canada. So were you just working all the
(09:10):
time then NonStop? I missed so much of high school
because I started in sixth grade in Quebec. You start
high school in seventh grade, okay, till eleventh grade, which
was very bizarre.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It's weird. So I was.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I was literally twelve years old in high school, four
foot eight and just looked like I was nine. And
my voice I think my voice stopped cracking maybe three
months ago. But it was Yeah, it was. It was fun.
We you know, I grew up with going to a
regular high school that you know, my all my siblings
(09:46):
went to. Come from a big Irish Catholic family, so
they all went there. My mom even graduated from the
same high school I did. Wow, very small, like you know,
very suburban, but I missed half of it by working
and getting tutored.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
But it was such a great way to grow up.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It was I I didn't realize how lucky I was,
all the experiences I had. But traveling, I did this
movie called for Hurst Castle, which is here in California. Yeah,
so it's like, if you take part of the tour,
I play William Randolph Hurst as a twelve year old,
(10:26):
and my mom and I got to go all over
Europe for it for over a month. I did a
movie in Fiji in New Zealand for like two months.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Oh my gosh, you.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Know, while my friends are freezing up in Canada.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, what movie was in Fiji?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It was a hilarious movie.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
It was like a gritty kind of crime drama called
nightmare Man. It was a New Zealand Canadian co production.
But Margo Kidder from Superman, she was sure she was
in it. And this guy Lee Horsley, who is like
kind of a television Burt Reynolds. Okay, very handsome, lovely man.
(11:09):
I played a son in that, but it was great.
I was fourteen at the time and my character lived
on a sailboat. So when I arrived, they were like, hey,
you're not filming for a couple of weeks, so just
like play outside as much as possible because you're supposed
to be really tanned.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yes, okay, okay, right, yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think that was the last time I ever tanned.
I burnt.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So you know, they always say, especially as a child actor,
the grass is always greener, you know. Again, I grew
up in going to All my work was in New York,
so of course I wanted to be in LA. All
the LA kids are like, oh, the New York scene
is cool, or people wanted to be in Canada. As
a Canadian child actor, did you want to be in
LA in New York or were you like, I'm real
happy with doing Canadian stuff?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, we were all Uh, we were all yeah. I
didn't think we even like knew about the LA market
until a little bit later, until those shows kind of
all started finishing filming in Canada. And then it was
very funny. Yep, we all moved out at the exact
same time it all came out to LA. There was
(12:14):
this place, it's still there. It's next to the Magic
Castle on Franklin, the Highland Gardens, and that was where
every Canadian pretty much stayed really when they moved here.
We would all go for pilot season from January to April.
We'd all stay there extended stay hotel so it was
fully furnished, but like Jay and I got rooms next
(12:36):
to each other. But the first time I came out,
I actually was roommit with this actress who I grew
up with in Canada. Alicia Cuthbert, of course, right. So
her and I we'd done two movies up in Canada together,
one where we played siblings and then one where we
were boyfriend and girlfriend, and then we both moved out
here lived together during pilot seasons. She got twenty four
(12:59):
and yeah, kind of that. That was that, but we
had it was my call, my college experience which I
dropped out of, was was coming out for pilot season
and it had been so fun, like you're you.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Know, okay, So that's why there were no Canadians at
the oak Wood. You had your own.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yeah wood, Alicia and I did.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
We lived at the oak Wood.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You did, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Everyone.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
I swear It's like if the walls that the oak
Wood could.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Talk about how many actors stayed there during pilot season.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It was yeah, got awful. Okay. So was Phantom at
the Megaplex your first d com ever?
Speaker 7 (13:43):
I get?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Your intro into Disney, Like, had you done any of
their shows at that point?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So flash Forward was a Disney Channel okay series which
was Ben Foster and Jewels State played best friends and neighbors.
That was like my first Disney job. And then yeah,
and the Megaplex was like, yeah, the first Disney movie
of the week kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Wow, So what did you think when you read the
script and you were AKA and everyone was Aka? And
then it sounded kind of like you were all garbage
pail kids for some reason, like.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh, will I didn't read scripts? I had them read
to me.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I was a child out much oh being fanned?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yes, yes, no, I mean I was. I was thrilled one.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It filmed in Toronto, which I had all. That's where
we shot the uh, the fast Forward show, so I'd
already spent a lot of time there, so I was excited.
And that time I was old enough that my mom
didn't have to come with me or have a guardian.
She did come to visit, right, but she was very
excited about meeting Mickey Rooney. But it was yeah, a
(14:51):
seventeen to be like in Toronto on my own, staying
in a hotel was.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Yeah, what what's the age in Toronto for you to
be able to work on your own on set?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
That time?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It was sixteen sixteen, Yeah, you could be. You didn't
need a guardian at sixteen.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay, it's so funny to talk to other child actors
because like civilians, it's their first experience. Is like, man,
I remember just going to college and it was so
important to me that first year being.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Aware where for child actors is always like I remember
the first movie I did where I didn't.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Need a guardan to have it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
There was the big two was like not having a
guardian and then not having to do tutoring.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Oh god, when you're.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Done with school.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
When school was done, you never had to go back.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh, absolutely magical.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So we're curious because the film was written by Dcom
we call him the dcom Daddy, Stu Krieger, who has
more credits than any other writer in Disney Channel history.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So we're curious because having just watched.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
The film, we kind of called it the Phantom of
the Megaplex who slightly inconvenienced people at the Moon.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So was there ever a draft.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Where there were like more steaks, you know, that things
were like maybe people weren't getting hurt.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But something other than like, ah, we just got to
the popcorn.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Sure, I'd say like we needed a little bit more
devilish type things, but like.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I mean murder at the movies.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah, a little scary water filled balloons and uh, the
giant lizard that you have to like take a sword to.
Was there any time there was like because I felt
like the bathroom scene kind of started going, oh okay,
we're getting a little creeper.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yeah, but that was kind of it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
There wasn't.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
It was always that nice.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
But I mean when you were when the characters are
like sixteen seventeen, like when love is on the line,
then the biggest steaks, you know, like the yeah, the
lead guy's character when he's like, you know, the worst
thing that could ever happen besides murder or which wasn't
going to happen, was yeah, his Caitlin not.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, being stolen by the Yeah exactly. So you mentioned
because you know, no offense to you. You were wonderful,
But Mick Mickey Mickey Rooney kind of stole this movie.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
He was great.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And what was it like, I mean the legend of legends,
I mean, what is it like working with somebody like
Mickey Rooney?
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Uh yeah, I mean he was eighty years old at
the time, Wow, which is crazy to just think of
some anybody still working at that age. Yeah, so one
for him to actually do it, uh in hats off
to him, but he actually seemed like he wanted to
be there, which was great. Yeah, and he had is
(17:53):
his eighth wife was with him.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Oh my gosh, no way, are you eight times the
charm you when you're Mickey Rooney.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
My girlfriend just finished the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
or the eight Wives, the eight Wives of Mickey Rooney.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wow, he's the eighth.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
To be fair though, his wife that was with him
because he he was at an age where he couldn't
remember his lines, you know, which is completely understandable of course.
So we did have like cue cards, you know, everywhere
on set buying camera.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
For him, which worked out great, but she.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Couldn't have been more kind of helped create the atmosphere
for him to like be comfortable on set, cooled. And
they'd been married from the seventies. So the first seven
wives I think were very quick turnovers and then he
finally got it right.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Well, the guy was born in like eighteen ten, so
it was you know, he'd he'd been around since it
was Old Hampshire, so you know, born with a cigar
in his mouth. Yeah, yeah, he came out.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
They cut the umbilical cord, they put tap shoes on
him and they put him on camera. Yeah, it was
like he's been around for ever.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
They came out and they were like, welcome to the
Great Depression exactly right.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, came out and you were owned by MGM. That's
just kind of kind of the way it was.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Were you on set the day that he did the
Hollywood like his little kind of musical, Yeah, Holly y
for Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Were you on set during that day? I imagine? I
mean will think about it.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
I imagine amazing, everyone just wanting to be there watching
him do his thing, like so great?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
What was it like?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It was amazing.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I mean the dude was married to Ava Gardner, Like,
this guy has been around, Like you can't get more
classic Hollywood. I mean they're black Stallion like like original
Disney movie, like original original Disney movies.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's when Waltz on the set going like, this is
our second movie ever.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I hope it works exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, there's a land in a post World War two I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So true.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And then to see him like just rock up in
the year two thousand on a like Disney movie the
week and him still giving it his all. Yeah, it
was uh, like incredible. It was also being a child actor,
and he's the kind of original like there's temple.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, like literally the two originals. They really were Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, it was like, oh, this guy's made a lifetime
of it, and like he turned out all right.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
He's still he's still okay. I think at least quelled
my mom's fears.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, your mom, I mean again, your mom if she
loved Burt Reynolds. You gotta you know the idea that
now you get to meet Mickey Rooney, it's there.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
These are Hollywood royalty, I.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Mean Hollywood royalty.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, so unbelievably cool.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What was the atmosphere on the set, like, because you've
got there's so many kids hanging out, I mean, this
could have been like summer camp.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh, it exactly was.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Uh So.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Besides Taylor the lead actor, who was wonderfully charming and
just so great, everyone else wore Canadian locals, so we
all kind of either knew each other beforehand or knew
of each other. But it really did feel like, oh, yeah,
(21:20):
we get to just hang out and like it was
just like I'm surprised no one like brought out a
guitar at the trailers, like a Kubaiah, like It was
very and the great thing about this project personally was
it all pretty much takes place over one day, so
we were always in the same wardrobe, which, as fellow
(21:44):
actors like that is just when you don't have to
do wardrop changes all day and you can kind of
just like kick it on set and then get called
when they need you before like having a run and.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Do quick changes or anything.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
It was great, so we actually got to spend a
lot of time together and it was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
We ask a lot of child actors when they come
on Podmet's World. One of the things that we've noticed
is that a lot of us have a serious PTSD
to getting changed, Like still like for some reason you
wake up in the morning, you got to get dressed
as fast as you can, or you have a trouble.
Do you have anything with getting dressed or undressed? Because
(22:24):
it's there's a bunch.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Of us that like, oh my god, I can't believe
you have that too.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
I will say the horror I faced when I realized
that some child actors or actors in general didn't hang
up their wardrobe after putting taking it off.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
My mother would have never allowed that to fly.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
That's all like what I remember and I still to
this day, if I'm taking something off, I'm hanging it
right up.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yes, you've got it too good.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I there was no uh, just because I would always
see the wardrobe department team and like having come over
just like scoop their hands up with like well worn,
like sweaty costs. Like the least I could do is
hang it up for them, right.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
These people are like.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
They're there usually before everyone else on set.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
There.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
You know, they has to put the wardrobe in people's
you know, whether you're trailer, and then they're the last
ones to leave because they have to wash it. They
have to do the lot.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Yes, wardrobe works their butts off, especially if it is
a movie where there are so many pieces of like
if it is a multi day and they've got yeah,
and you've got to you have to be so organized
to keep everything of each actor's stuff together because continuity
(23:48):
you come back, you've come back to it days later,
and you've got to remember what even bracelet goes.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
On, what hand for girls, you know, and things like that.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
It's like wardrobe is I I swear that I had
that same exact thing too, to the point where if
I'm at like a department store and I'm changing.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
I also hang up.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Every single make it organized and easy for them, because
it just is like embedded in my brain that it's
like that's something that people don't do, and I find
it so rude.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
If you went into my closet, you'd be like, oh,
this guy worked at the gap for sure, Like the
way held really no child actor.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You got little cards still attached to it, going C one,
I'm gonna wear this d one scene in the morning excellent.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Were you there on set for Giant Inflatable Day?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I was.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I certainly was weirdly so I did.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
When you guys you know, talked about this and reached out, yeah,
I actually I have like pictures cool?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
But then god, like, yeah this was.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
That.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
We were like literally a lovely crew.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
And did you guys film in a real theater?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
So it was right on Young Street, just uptown from
about a couple of miles uptown from downtown Toronto on
you okay, but yeah, real theater.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Did that build into anything being like tough on set
at all?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I think it, like for me is like just a
crazy movie buffin movie fan to like you know, uh,
I mean in the nineties, I had a dream of
running a video store. I don't think that's a great
dream anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
See, I disagree that's a phenomenal dream. We need it
now more than ever. Dude, I'll all open one with you, right.
Oh my god, Oh man, I'm married because of Blockbuster.
Oh I Like, that's not even a joke. I'm literally
I re met my wife in front of a Blockbuster
when I was turning turning a movie and we ran
and then I proposed her on that same spot five
(26:02):
years later as the Blockbuster closed.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So yeah, Blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Video is responsible for I hate not being able to
go and pick up a movie and flip it over
and looking on the back.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
And I know, I know the.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Original doom scrolling was in a Blockbuster going and seeing
what movies you.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Wanted to watch.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Yeah, And I had one of those subscriptions too, where
I paid like a monthly so I could literally.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You were as many as you want.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Because I love binging.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
I do.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I love like having like a like a Rockefeller.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Geez, it wasn't that expensive.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I think it was like forty bucks.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
A month or something. Unlimited unlimited money.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Bro my god, you couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
I mean there were there were sundays I'd go back twice.
I'd do my three movies and then and get three more.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Okay, so you you said you're a movie buff.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Did you get people together with you to watch this
movie when it came out on.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Disney I don't even think so, because I don't you
guys didn't have it.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I didn't have Disney Channel.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Did they send you a copy?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Did you know I would get?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Which is the amount of VHS that surrounded my life?
Like coming from Canada, we used to always have to
send self tapes, self tapes that just muld be the trauma,
but we did. We used to and I remember vividly like, uh,
Jay Barschel and I would put ourselves like we would
(27:47):
take turns.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know, colignes for each other. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Then you would literally put it on a VHS and
then go to FedEx and mail it to Los Angeles,
so everything was VHS, and then then you'd get VHS
copies of the work you did afterwards. So I remember,
I think I probably watched it at home, maybe with
cousins or simply good And to be honest, I hadn't
(28:14):
seen it in twenty five years since it came out
until you, guys, did you watch about it?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I did?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
What did you think?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It's hard through everyone else's stuff?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It's a it's a weird it's a weird.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Watch this the movie. It's a very strange kind of film.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
It's a very weird watch. And you are so right
about like, yeah, the lack of steaks. Also like the
homage to Hollywood at the beginning too, and then that
kind of doesn't really go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
A lot of marriage, like yeah, we we meet so
many characters in this movie that then you don't really.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Matter do or they go away like the which is
that a thing in Canada?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The fear?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, I don't think that wasn't a thing.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I okay, okay, So we meet her, we see her twice.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, they have all like those kind of freeze frame
moments of like meet so and yes, and then that
was it.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
And that's that's.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Really our biggest part in the movie is that, and
then we're just like peppered and and then weirdly some
of them didn't get that like no moment, but we
still see them. So it was it was, it was
always constructed.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It was.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yes, I think that's a good way to put it,
which is the script was a little strange, which is
weird for for Stu because Stu has written some of
the biggest things they've ever done. We'll talk to him again.
We've interviewed him twice. He'll come back because he loves
coming back, so we'll come back and ask him again. Okay,
So then I can't really ask you what your favorite
DCM was growing up, since you didn't get a chance
to see it.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But unless you did.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I don't know if it was.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
It's a d coom now, but I I do remember
being traumatized as a kid by mister Boogey.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Oh, mister Boogety.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
So it's on Disney now, and it was a Disney movie,
but it was. It was a terrifying horror film from
the late eighties early nineties.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
Really, Yes, we are going to have to.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Thank you for that title, because the sequel too, a sequel, Yeah,
is an electric Boogety.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
What's his name?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Mauser? Mauser and Richard Mauser. Oh, yeah's a lead in it. Okay,
Oh yeah, it's a wild movie.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay. Oh, I can't wait we got to put this
on the list.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Then, okay. So yeah, that's a hard question because you
didn't really get a chance.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I never saw how Leen Town there were a Brink
or any of those kind of names.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Was there any movie that you auditioned for the channel
that you really wanted to get.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
And didn't didn't end up getting? Do you remember one
of those? Because I've got some of.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I mean for me in the late nineties, was Airbud?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
That okay, okay?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
One of your co stars was in it?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yes, yeah, yeah, did two of them?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes in it? Yeah, she did the seventh fetch. Sorry
puns like that anymore and we should. Yeah, the nineties
with great puns.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
They were way We have one of our producers saying
Airbud is coming back.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So now's your time, and now is your time. Now
is your time.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
You gotta go for.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It, called Jay. You guys can sell table. You can
do each other's lines.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
I will send the vhs to the casting.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Great when you were talking about it, we had just
interviewed David Henry who was from Wizards of Waverley Place
and he's doing he's in the reboot now and he
was talking. It made me think of it. He was
talking about how his show was. Some of the acts
that are on it, they're first in person audition because
(32:04):
since they kind of started acting during COVID, they were
putting themselves on tape for everything for a long time.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
And then he said that that was their first in
person audition, and I'm just like.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
That is wild to think, you know, somebody who does,
doesn't live in La or New York. That's all they
did for a long time. I feel like E've been
people that, like Texas, like a.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Lot of Cadians were ready for COVID audio.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
They were, that's just an audition in Canada.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I'm always six feet away from somebody. What's the problem?
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Always six never closer? Do not handshake.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
So you've talked about your friend Jay, who obviously went
off and had an amazing career. You've gone off and
had an amazing career. You work a lot with Seth
Rogan as well. You guys are all kind of buds.
So my question is have you all sat down and
watched Phantoms? Do they know about this movie and have
you had a screening of it yet?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
No? It's hilarious, But Jay and Ile text as memes
of our childhood acting stuff, like pictures from our childhood actings.
We did a because him and I worked together a
few times as kids on stuffed that nobody outside of
you know, small town Canada, I think has ever seen, right,
But yeah, so we will like share that kind of stuff,
(33:21):
just kind of to make fun of each other. But
I'm hard to press to watch anything I've ever been in,
like even just watching the scenes from this movie going.
Oh so my acting style was start at ten and
at ten.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Just it was a dec.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yeah, there was one way to deliver every line, and
I did the one way.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I think that's correct. I love that frankly.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Okay, So I can't let you go without first talking
about Goon because this is a cult classic and apparently
has a rabid fan base.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes, yeah, did you know what this movie was gonna
be as you were shooting it?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Did you have any idea of the amount of love
that it would eventually find?
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
No, Like, no idea really, but that was you know,
It's similar to Fantom of the Megaplex that was like
a big cast hanging out in the locker room, right,
So it was like also always the same wardrobe. We
were in hockey gear, so it was like, you know,
when they called cut, we would just skate around the
ice right, like play pickup hockey, which was great, but
(34:34):
I had no idea until it was done and it
came out, and it was the first time everything I
had done in entertainment was validated by my cousins because
I finally made a hockey movie and they were like, oh, yeah, no,
we get what you do now.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
The first thirty years of your career not so much.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Nothing nothing, you know, Yeah, now it's cool.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Well now it's fine because yeah, because I did a
hockey movie.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
Oh man, But that.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I mean, that was just because Jay had wrote that
with our other mutual friend that we went to pretty
much high school with. So it was like such a
gray atmosphere except for having a film in Winnipeg.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I liked, Sorry, I liked Winnipeg. I did.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
What's wrong with Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Nothing, it's little booneyish, they say, yeah, it's got its charms.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I remember in my late teens early twenties I did
stand up in Canada and I did a whole set
once on Winnipeg, and I compared it to that spot
on your back you can't reach in one.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
In Canada, it's like in the middle, Like there's no
reason to be in Winnipeg unless you're specifically going to.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Wait to Winnipeg. Yeah, you don't accident find yourself in Winnipeg.
You're there, you'd.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Rather somebody else kind of scrub that area.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Well, I mean, you and your friends have had massive
success in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
You and say, well you have as well. You're involved
in all these projects. I mean, is this is this?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Is it a source of pride that you get to
kind of do this stuff together.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yeah, I mean that's to be honest, I haven't pursued
acting in a good fifteen years. I went into directing
and I've been directing commercials, and now all of my
acting stuff is really just my friends. Like I did
a day on the studio. Yeah, because Seth hit me up.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
It's like, dude, we're in your neighborhood. Do you want
to come by?
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Come by?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
It was a really good by the way, so good.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
But yeah, so like anytime, like the you know, most
of my I would say, post pursuit of acting, anything
I've done is through those guys, right, just kind of
like hitting me up, and it's great, it's you know,
sag membership up and that kind of thing. So but
it is lovely, but it's yeah, it's definitely not something
I kind of kept up at, right. But the thing
(37:10):
with those guys, you know, whether it's the studio, whether
it's this is the End, whether it's Zach and Mary
make a Porno, it all felt like indie movies or
just a bunch of buddies getting together filming something.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Oh, isn't that the best feeling?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
So it never felt like a big Hollywood thing. There
was never like big suits on set, like when the
big suits are seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg like making it.
It just feels like a bunch of buddies shooting sketches
like it. So it had that quality, and every time
working with them always feels that way. I've never met
two guys so low stress about making things that cost
(37:52):
so much money.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Exactly realize.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
You're rocking up.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's awesome. All right.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well, finally I have to ask if you could go
back and tell your younger self, give your younger self
any advice on the set of Megaplex or any of
your your younger projects.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
What would you tell yourself.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Enjoy every job for what it is, whether it is
a big movie or a small like student, feel like,
just enjoy it. We're so lucky to do it that
it doesn't the outcome doesn't matter, the pay doesn't matter,
all of that. It literally is. It's crazy to think
(38:46):
that most of my home videos are like professionally shot
movies or TV shows, and the flood of memories that
come back from just actually watching the final product just
makes me think about like all the stuff offset and
all the fun I had. So I think it's and
(39:07):
I always have been very appreciative of the journey I've
been on, but I think it's just that is like,
enjoy it while it's happening as much as possible, because
it's you're luckier than ninety nine percent of the rest
of the population.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
So just yeah, to me, the advice I'd give is
just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Well, that's great advice.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
And you have worked with literally some of the biggest
legends in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
It's awesome to see.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, well, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
We so appreciate it and talking about the megaplex.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Big fans of both yours and I just love what
you guys do. And I'm so glad somebody has put
the time and effort to care about things we did
many many years ago.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
You had to.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
It's we're going back and watching all these dcoms, and
some of them are great, some of them aren't, some
of are funny and not on purpose, and it's.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Great, you.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Know, always cheers to Disney for getting so many kids,
so many opportunities to work.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
And be taken care of, you know.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
And and it was it's awesome you know this when
you did this movie. That was during the time of
the Channel that they were cranking them out like once
a month. They were making so many of these movies.
And it's pretty pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Good time, great time. Well, thank you so much for
joining us.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
And we I swear to God, you've got to show
your boys screening together and then we'll talk about it
as we open our video store.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Yeah. Wow, this is terrible.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
It's Disney, Disney, thank you. I'll talk to you later,
all right. God, he was funny.
Speaker 7 (41:09):
Yes, what a career, like what I mean.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
And we're going I would love to tell directing and
everything now, that's really.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Yes, And it sounds like especially with like the Seth Rogan,
like it sounds like exactly how I.
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Would picture being on set with Seth broken.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah, but that's so chill. That's also why they.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Make such good products is because they're they're not stressed
about it.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
It's like, you know, we're making movies here, but we're not.
It's not brain surgery. We're making movies, not saving the
world we're having, and that's that's a big difference. So
Jack cool, Well, thank you Ricky for joining us.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
We cannot thank you enough, and thank you everybody for
joining us another awesome interview. If I do say so myself,
we're getting some incredible people here to come and tell
us what it was like to be on these d
coms back in the day. So thank you everybody for
joining us, and don't forget to join us next time
over on our other feed where we were going to
be watching under Wrapped the New Underwraps. So if it's
the old under Wraps, you're off by twenty some odd years.
(42:04):
You need the new under Wraps, which is the twenty
twenty one under Wraps, which is cleverly titled under Wraps,
So try not to get confused by the titles, people,
but join us over there next time. And we will
see you later.
Speaker 7 (42:18):
Bye, bye,
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