Is Netflix-Warner Bros deal a DEALBREAKER for movie theaters!? Interview with Actor Yunus Quddus

On this week's episode, screen and stage actor Yunus Quddus stops by The Hub on Hollywood studio, Netflix deal with Warner Bros may be a dealbreaker for movie theater industry, "Sinners" and "One Battle After Another" are heavy favorites this awards season, and "Mad Men" 4K mistake!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is the Hub on Hollywood. I'm your co host,
James Rojas.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm the other co host, Jamie Blanco.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
On this week's episode, Netflix has Warner Brothers and its crosshairs.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
What it may mean for the movie theater industry.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Sinners and One Battle after Another are the top contenders
at this year's awards season. Which Boston based movie character
deserves its own statue?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
And Madmen mistake Caught in four K? That and much
much more.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
But first, we are introducing a special guest today, Jamie.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Ooh, yes it's me.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
No, actually, it's our friend here.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hi, Eunice.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
So this is Eunice Caduce, a local actor of stage
and screen, a performer with over twenty years of experience
and a fire in his soul for the craft. Unice.
We are so happy to have you here with us today.
We've got tons of stuff to talk about, both stage,
in screen and the scene here in Boston. But first,

(01:04):
just just to warm us up, Just to just to
warm us up. James has some rapid fire questions for you.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
No thinking, just off the top of your head.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Every day.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, here we go, so quick thinking. There is no
wrong answer, but there are wrong answers. All right, so
we'll go down with the rapid fire comparisons TV shows
or movies.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
Oh wow, I would say master movies, movies, okay, movies
at home or in the movie theater.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Movies at home.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I work a lot, Star Wars or Star Trek Star Wars.
Come on, there you go, that's the right answer. That's
Iron Man or Captain America.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Iron Man, I'm sorry to someone off.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, everybody except for Captain America or guess except for
Iron Man, Robert Downey.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Junior, Hans Solo or Indiana Jones.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Oh my god, both.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
So Han Solo. There we go.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Tough Mission impossible or the James Franchise Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm down down, tough one.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
I'm gonna my mom is gonna be turning over.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
This may be the hardest one. Lord of the Rings
or Harry Potter, Harry.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
Polter must not give back to the village. Harry Pulter.
Harry Polter is Harry Potter.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
It is Yeah, you just pissed off a.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Whole love the Lot of Rings. But Harry Polter, come.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
On, come on, the terminator or RoboCop the terminator. It's
not even close.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
Cool but the terminator get in a chop if you
want to live.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm not sure if that was that movie, but.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
It changes that.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
I will be back. And the writers, I'm the writer,
I write, you perform.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
He knows, he knows, the character knows the character.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
All right, Hot Tub time Machine or the DeLorean Glorian
of course, of course. And lastly The Fast and the
Furious or Transformers.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Of course, Optimus Prime.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I haven't done past like the second Fast and Furious movie.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
I am ridiculous. I have watched every Fast and Furious movie.
I don't have a life all the Transformers.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
I've seen all the Transformers.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, so you're a fair judge.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
I'm a but Transformers is just you. You can't even
Fast vers is cool.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
It's cool.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
But Transformers the movie, the acting, the cinema, photography, the timing,
the pacing is it's not even a compare. It's not
a fair battle, like to me, the two different genres. Okay, okay,
it's just fast versus cool. But Transformers is beyond cool.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
But one thing you can guarantee is that they're just
gonna keep pumping them out. Right. You need to have
a merger. They need to have a combined universe.

Speaker 6 (03:51):
For that A long long time ago. I had this
beat up car and it shouldn't make the movie. I
think they stole my idea. Man, interesting, I had this
beat up car. Is that all kitchen on fire? And
then their first rate they have a car to catchers
on fire.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
I'm like, but I was, I was gonna say you
should go for the voice work because just that, just
that sample you gave us.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
Right there, I'm losing my voice. I think a little
too loud.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
The season, the seas, the season.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Look at the beautiful snow.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I know it is.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
You know, it's just gorgeous.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
It's the leftover leftovers of my voices.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
What you're getting. We'll take a week exactly.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
But yeah, thanks so much for joining us on the Hollywood.
I know you two met on a Can we talk
about that?

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Not really, we can't talk about it, but we can
say that we met on set.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
We can say that we're stand ins.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
That you know that we taught me everything I know
about standing.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I don't know about that. So you can get about everything.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
But what you're currently working on before that, that's all fair.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Game, right.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
And you've been in and you've been in a number
of productions that have been made here, both film and
television and stage and units. I don't know if I've
ever met anyone who who loves acting as much as
you do. I don't have a lie self proclaimed, you know, workaholic.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
Here's the thing, yeah about acting. When I first saw acting,
I never wanted to be an actor. Isn't that crazy?
I never wanted to be an actor. My uncle a
Freedom Theater in Philadelphia. We used to work with him
on the movie sets. He would he would build stuff
and I would clean up. And I'm like, and I've
watched the actress and I was fascinated. At sixteen, I
was fascinated, but I.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
Said, man, that looks really hard. I don't want to
do that. At sixteen, this was where my mind was,
I'm not gonna do that. But I was always around it,
always around it.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
I get to school, taking random art classes, right, and
I took up I started in poetry first. I took
an acting class because I wanted to perform the poems better.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
And the teacher said, I think you could be an actor.
You're pretty good. Whatever. I auditioned for a play that
was twenty years ago.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Here I am nice.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, until right and now, and we found you out
there out in the world, you know, making doing what
you love. And I just I loved your passion right
and just being being on stage.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
People are there, they're.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Working hard, it's long hours, it's so you know, it's
so tough, but you come in with that positive attitude
and like that party atmosphere around you all the time.
And I think a lot of what you bring is
from theater too. So if that's that's where you start,
that's where you started. Like tell us a little bit
about the theater scene in Boston and like kind of
the progression of you know.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
I did theater for I would say thirteen fourteen years
in theater, starting off theater first, not not professional on paide,
you just do it because you love it. Yeah, So,
I mean it was an escape. Being in the theater
was escape from the real world, from yourself, from whatever,
because you're playing this other character. You meet these wonderful people,
everyone's bringing in good energy, You're seeing all these things,

(06:51):
and it just it was an escape for me, you know,
playing these characters, escaping your life and coming back to
life and having entertaining people Like in school I had,
you had to entertain people to keep from like in bullied.
But if you're a funny kid or you're an entertaining kid,
hey you could say it. I could sit at any
table because I could rap, I could do poetry. I
was funny, I made up stupid, crazy stories. They're like,

(07:12):
I could go to any table hang out.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
Because of that. I was like, so now like I'm
getting attention for just being myself. It was really cool.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
But yes, theater, I've done it in school for six years.
Six years in school and then I got to professional
theater in New England, a little bit in Bosson, mostly
in New England, and I did last theater thing I
did was a Trinity rep that was professional professional theis.
It was like the first like.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Paid the first the first part, the first part theater.
It was excellent.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
Hard, it's heck, but excellent. So it's one hundred and
twenty something pages. I had to learn in like two months.
I don't know how I.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Did it, but passion.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
Passion, because like I'm getting paid to do what I love,
So your whole life you're trying to figure out, Okay,
how do I make money doing what I love so
I don't have to go to do something I don't
want to do.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
So yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
What are those opportunities look like here?

Speaker 6 (08:07):
And Boston is a great city. I mean I feel like,
and this is anywhere, not just Boston. This is not
the easiest market to be in, but I've been very fortunate.
I feel that you should create your own opportunities.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
First. You should film, have a podcast.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh my god, we have one of those.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
Get your own camera, make your own own material. But
I mean, there was a time where there's a lot
going on here. I remember when I first started my
first background on the film, was it Stronger?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Stronger?

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Strong was my first film. When I first got in,
it was a lot going on. And theater acting is
different from movie acting. It's a complete like because you're like,
oh my big this and that, and then movie acting
you're the background guy.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
It's like, okay, hey, hey, you gotta take it down.
You got to keep it in the frame, right.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
I'm like, you had to learn that how to like
and taking the mystream class helped me with like just this,
being able to talk to you camera, seeing me I'm
in this frame, I'm in this square with you.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
I know there's a parameter here, there's a.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Box but I can still bring that energy in this
in this frame. So yeah, it really there's a lot
of theater opportunities here. I think for new if someone
said how to get into acting, I think.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
All actors should do theater first.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
If you live at home and you're with mom and dad,
that is the best time to do it. As an adult. Financially,
it's a little.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Bit harder to I don't know how people do this.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
How you have a regular job, get out at five o'clock,
run to the theater at seven, rehearse the nine and ten,
get back up at six, and then you're back in
the office. I respect people to do that. I don't
do that anymore. That is tough, yeah, real like hard.
But it's a lot going on coming back. And the
strike really hurt a lot COVID and then the strike

(10:03):
it was like whoa, okay, how are you gonna survive?
And that's a lot of people said that was the
time to train. That should have been a time to
train and make your own stuff. So now it's coming
back now, so we have a couple movies and things coming.
As an actor, you never know. You just keep working
and keep creating. You don't really know I've been out
to California. It's different out there, completely different. I've never

(10:23):
been to Miami, I don't know. So like to me,
every market, every market, every city has casting agents, right,
so like you go into the city, you connect with
the people, you find out who's casting, what if you
have experienced acting? Whatever city you're in, there is you're
in New York, there's casting agents there. Like this is

(10:45):
before I know all this stuff, you're going up here?
We have what we have Boston Cast.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Slate, Kendl Cooper CP Casting, the secret one.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Not everyone knows about.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
So with with casting over here, it seems like you
can just do a lot of kind of fishing around
because I have, as we mentioned, at least four or
five different casting companies agencies around here. And so you
can you can you know, as I said, you know
fish see who takes the baits, who can move bites.
So when you say there's more opportunity over here, do
you feel like there's plenty.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Of versity versus what city?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Maybe La California?

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Not even no competition?

Speaker 6 (11:24):
You can't even right now, we have a tax incentive
right now that brings more films here. The first person
before that, I don't know how when the tax incentives
came in, but one of the first actors who really
helped bring film and pushed for film here. Mark Wahlberg
was one of the first who really I was like,
how many films are going to do in this city?

Speaker 5 (11:45):
Man?

Speaker 6 (11:45):
But like he helped to bring a lot of films
and before the incentive I believe correctly if I'm wrong,
he was one of the first that really was like,
I'm going to put Boston on the map, and other
people were like, you know what, it's a great place
to film. It's easier to film here. That is nothing
against New York, but it's close the city in New

(12:06):
York and see what happens. New York is like New Yorker.
I'm driving out. I don't care what y'all filming. I'm
driving out in the street. You can't tell me what to.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
Do as some New Yorker ladia.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
But like, filming here is not that hard. Filming in Massachusetts.
We have a thousand cities. Filmers, filmmakers come come to
mass right, So I would say this, this is not
the easiest market, not the business market, not the easiest market.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
But you're not that far from New York. You can
do stuff in New York.

Speaker 6 (12:31):
It's not easy, but there's at least five casting agents
where you can get in a movie and get some experience.
But like they have to know you when they know you,
Like Jamie, they know Jamie.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Everybody knows.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
She doesn't half to audition like Jamie is. Like listen,
a movie came in. We got Jamie. She's gonna she's
gonna do it. You know when you get when you
do it. A lot of people don't want to do background,
and that's the problem. A lot of actors feel like
background is beneath them, you know, like nothing can be
beneath you. I was in a conversation yesterday, well I'm
not doing background because okay.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
And that's always a mistake.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
That's I've talked to a few people who are like that, like,
oh background, and then you don't the directors they feel that,
you know what I mean, if you're not willing to
do the work on the ground level, you're not going
to get anywhere. And I was going to ask him.
Sorry to interrupt you, I know, but we were talking
the other day about some of the big background roles

(13:27):
that you've had and the kind of energy and the
thought process that you brought to those roles, from Spirited
to the other one.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Was it with it, Wohlberg that you were in the background.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
So tell us all of those stories.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
This is a secret I'm putting out. Okay, you guys
are getting a secret when you do background. And maybe
I'm the only one that does this. Maybe I'm a
little weird. You See, I have the book. See what's
on the book. I've got stuff on this book that
says actors movie. I was writing down the things that
I did. Right, this was a film that they just
came out with. I don't know if it's still coming out.
Some football man or whatever. Working on this is like

(14:05):
other stuff. But when I get on a movie set,
whether I have a script or not, I create the character.
I don't care if i'm background. I'm playing a football fan, right,
I'm gonna find out what team it is everything I can.
I'm gonna what's the objective?

Speaker 5 (14:20):
What do I want? Where am I what do I want?
What's happening?

Speaker 6 (14:23):
If one of the pas say, oh, you're gonna walk
from here and over there, why I'm not gonna say
that to them. But I already created a story. What's
over there? Why am I going over there? What what happened?
Me and my friend were in Boston Boston Blue, episode
two or three. We came in late. We already had
a story. Most background are just there the background.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, that's exactly how it happens, right.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
I came in ready to perform. I'm already. My mind
is different. I'm like, so, me and my friend had
her story. I said, listen, I lost four hundred dollars
in a game. You lend me myn me every week.
We do this crap every week. So you let me
four and dollars. I lost money in the game. I'm pissed.
You're pissed at me. We're having a conversation with pantomime.
In this conversation, right as we're talking this out, Donnie

(15:13):
Wahlberg overhears us, and the other lead actor hear us.
They turn around and say, what he said, You got
a backstory, and we just happen to be placed right
behind them. I don't do that, run to the camera,
fight people. I just come in and work. I came in,
they put us right behind the lead actress. We create
this whole story, we wrap it up. They're talking to us.

(15:34):
We film it five takes done. That was like, that
was that was beautiful.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Directors.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Now, a lot of people dont understand when you are
in a scene, the directors are watching you. They're watching
what you're doing. They're watching you acting, even if your background.
If you do something remarkable, they're gonna see it. And
sometimes I put you in and sometimes they might remember you,
and sometimes.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
They might offer you something else a little bit bigger.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
So sis you might get offer.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
The road because you came in prepared. So any anything
that I do, they have a they're having a karaoke party, right,
We're having at the party, so the party with SAG
party the same party, so like we're gonna have karaoke,
and I'm like, are you gonna do it? I'm like, well,
I can't really sing.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
I can hold notes, but I'll try it out.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
If it's just karaoke, I'm like yeah, But if it's
an opportunity to perform my best, I'm gonna rock that
whatever it is. I'm gonna find the best song that
I know I can do the absolute best, and I'm
gonna tear that thing down like I'm not because it's
an opportunity.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
If I'm there. I'm there to perform. I'm because you guys.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
You guys are there to network, right, so why not
be able to.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
Exactly?

Speaker 6 (16:49):
So? If you are a background, this is a secret
only for the show. I've told no one this. If
you don't have a script, think about who you are
in a standa look up Stan up Slatsky's question, look
up the questions.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
Who are you?

Speaker 6 (17:02):
What do you want? What is your objective? What are
your tactics? If I want this Seltzer? Right, I want
this Seltzer. My abductive is to get that Seltzer Seltzer
water right, But the problem is it's the less Seltzer
on earth. Now, we all want the Seltzer. Now, let's

(17:25):
say I got one arm. I can't fight you. I
got one arm. I can't fight you, So I'm not
gonna fight you for the selter. What other tactics can
I use to get that Seltzer? Listen, I only got
one arm. I really need the Seltzer. Man Like, listen, you.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Know you're my best friend. I got one arm? Can
you just please? You can have a sip, but can
I have the rest? Right?

Speaker 6 (17:47):
Then you have to use your tactic to get that
Selster and you're gonna use your tactic.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
Dear, now you know you love me. You have to
give everything to your wife and I need that selz
the world's last alter. What do you do to get that?
So in?

Speaker 6 (18:01):
That's Stanosowsky's principles. In those principles, we're all using tactics
to get what we want.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Being nice, the.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
Villain, being mean, being charming, little pig, little pig. Let
me in like that's Meagan from Walking Dead. He uses
a certain rhythm and pace and tactics to get across
his villainous things that he's gonna do, but he does
it in such a smooth, funny way. Comedy is a tactic, right.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
So I was gonna ask you, so what when you
are building a character, a background character, what's your best
advice for other people who are watching this or hearing this,
Like I know you just said, kind of get into
the mindset of what their motive is. You know, what
would your best advice be for somebody who's uncomfortable or
is not used to doing that for that kind of work?

Speaker 5 (18:47):
Who are you put yourself in the real situation? Don't act?

Speaker 6 (18:51):
I know it's the craziest thing I went to school
for freaking a thousand years to learn this one thing. Well,
don't act, just be you be a real person in
a real situation. You're at a baseball game. You don't
have to act. Have you ever been a baseball game?
You're you James at a baseball game in this rare situation, right,
Just be you in a real situation, thinking what do

(19:12):
I want?

Speaker 5 (19:13):
What do I do? What am I?

Speaker 6 (19:15):
And and background acting is acting, it's pantomiming.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
M hm.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
How do you know?

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Have you seen those videos online where it shows like
the background actor is like stealing the attention? Yea, because
there are times where like it works, but like, oh
that's funny, but then you notice that all this person
is doing something like over the top to get noticed.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
I can't help.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Watch videos on YouTube, the hoopers or people like there's
one scene where I think it was the one with
doctor Strange.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
And oh yes, yes, the church scene.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
The woman, the woman, the woman right Behindah, doctor Strange,
you can continue, sorry, interrupt.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
She's doing that.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
She's like talking to somebody off skip but she's like
looking like this. Yeah, it's very unnatural and it draws
the eye away from from Benedict Cumberbatch, the main lead.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
I remember that so much.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, and so what like she's never been to a
wedding before, right.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, and so yeah, so I can't help but like
see people over doing it.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
But then yeah, the thing is, it's kind of they're
doing great.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Work when you don't necessarily notice them, because that means
them fitting into the scene, that fitting with everybody around them.

Speaker 6 (20:24):
And don't be over the top, don't look at the camera,
be a real person. If you've never been in that
situation and you don't know what to do for the camera,
and uh Robert de Niro said this in the video.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
You don't have to do anything. You don't have to
do anything. All you have to do is be. Yeah,
I don't have to move.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
I don't have to the camera sees everything. You don't
have to do so much. You can do too much
and it looks fake. You know, oh wish be this
is like I'm doing too much.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Like you don't have to do so much.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Just be in a scene and be a real human
and then like that. Some people can do that, but
a lot of people when they do background there one
they're excited. Two if that's your first time seeing a movie,
start that by itself is like I have to use
all of my coolness and my acting skills to not
geek out, like, oh my.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
God, yeah, freaking Maggie.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
They're there the work, but I geek out, and the
inner kid is like make gold.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
He's coming over again.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
He's going to talk to me, and I'm trying to
like be cool, be cool, because they don't really.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
Most I don't know.

Speaker 6 (21:34):
Chime in if you if you think most professional actors
don't want a fanboy when they're there, no interact with
and if.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
You're professional, they're going to get that that energy and
they're gonna interact with you more then than if he didn't.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
For people who don't know, tell us what a standing does.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
You basically come in, You help them get the lights
and everything set up. You do everything the main actors do.
You're in there with the main cash, you're hanging out,
you're right near.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
Their dreggering rooms.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
You get a script, you know what's going on, and
when they call second team, you're up. They will usually
jump in. If I'm wrong, she's been doing it longer
than me, stand longer than usually. They'll have a rehearsal,
they'll have the first team. The first team is the
main actors. They'll have the first team rehearsal so you
can see and get an idea what the hell you're doing.
And then they put you on. They put you on

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your marks, some stand ins. They will make you do
the lines.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
Every one's in the blue yeshike. Jamie got thrown on
a spot, so okay, and she rocked it. She they
asked her, oh, do the monologue? What monologue to be?
Your all to be? That is the question.

Speaker 6 (22:37):
No, not that one, like she had to do like
so most you never know, so you have to be
ready for all of that.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
But stand in.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Basically, you're coming in to help the main actors, to
help the camera people get everything set up, and you're
standing in spots. Sometimes you're doing you have to get
your dastual action. Sometimes you have to be able to
walk to the mark. Sometimes you're just staying in a spot.
So basically you're standing in for the original, the original
the first team actor lead actors.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Right, very well done, Please finish.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
If I missed anything there, No, but.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, they'll they'll have the initial rehearsal, the marketing rehearsal.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
But no, you learn it all.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
That book for this anywhere, and when.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
They call cut, you got to be ready to go
when they're you know, moving on, they're you know, you
got to know what the lingo is for when you
got to run.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
In there and get back in front of the camera.
So it's a specialized thing.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
Still getting caught. I'm not She's a standing master, right right,
I'm still learning. I haven't got to the point of mastering.
I'm still I don't even like to leave my scene.
If i'm I'd rather be on than off. If I
know my characters in every scene, I want to be
like five or six feet away, so anytime they call me,

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they can see me.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
I'm ready. You don't know. The scariest thing for me
is if I have to go to bathroom and it.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Is dicey, Yeah, to have to one.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
You're like, we're going, and how much does it cost
per minute?

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Is it like ten thousand dollars a minute or something crazy? Right, Yeah,
fifty thousands a minute. If you are not there and
they call second team and.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
They have to wait on you, he might not.

Speaker 6 (24:11):
Get invited back. That's the scariest thing, like, because then you're.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
A cog in this machine that is moving.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
Basically, it's as close as doing the real thing. You're
getting the script, the director, they know your name, your
name's on the call list, they know who you are.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
Your actors know who are the lead actors.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Hey, good morning, cameras.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Who you are?

Speaker 4 (24:32):
Everybody knows.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
I'm just I'm just like the theater background guy.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
And it's not just that, but it's everything that you learn,
every single step.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Everything in the machine, everybody.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
How to work, from everything from the director down to
the PA. And you see how each and every person
works in this big, overall tapestry of a giant machine
that they can't do it without every single person. There's
hundreds of people involved, and it is not just the actors.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
It is so much work.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
And you get to learn and see every single part
of that as a stand in, and you know and
you're you're a.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Part of that.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
And I love think. I love about it. I love
being the leader.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
I love being the lead man, like I love the responsibility.
Like in college, I became like the lead actor. Like
everyone knows, okay, units is that I'm the lead. I've
got the biggest part. I'm gonna do my part and
I'm gonna help the new people coming in and show
the little ropes, the kid going backwards, the kid when

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is the last play I did in college?

Speaker 5 (25:33):
Rights?

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Getting my associates? Kid comes in, new guy. Nobody really
likes this kid. He's a new kid. He's a little awkward.
I say to the other actors, listen, he is with us,
he is on our team.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
We have to help.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
And he struggling with his lines, and I'm gonna help you.
Let me know what you need. I got my lines down.
If you need to meet after school, before school, call
me in the phone, run lines, whatever it takes. He's
you're in a scene with me, right, So if you fail,
I failed, I got to know you.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
I gotta help you.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
I know you see to do improv, right or still?

Speaker 5 (26:05):
I still do so every day I do.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
I did.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I did improv in high school with comedy sports and
so and and one thing that we would do before
every show was like, you know, we huddle up and
we tell each other, I want to make you look good.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
I want to make you look good. I'll make you
look good.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
And everybody told everybody the same thing because if you
because if I make you look good, you're gonna make
me look good.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
I'm wanna make them look good. And so, as you said,
we're on the same team.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
So it's that camaraderie that that we're all in this together,
that really close whatever project you're working.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Together and and and with the standing thing. So that
that kid rocked the role. But he was the first
one that told me about Boston casting and no one
else knew about it. So he was he was doing
the background work already going the other way coming into theater,
but he didn't really have the acting chops, but he
was already making money. And this is in college sophomore year.

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This kid was something else. So he was a little
weirdness sent but he has some other things. So everyone
has something to offer, but no one knew that. So
he actually helped start my career in the movie stuff.
He's not doing it now. He's doing a guitar or
something throwing music now. But it's crazy how that how
that works. You never know who knows who, who's connected

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to what, what director knows anyone. Back to the other
question you asked about being background and being thrown in
the scenes, I want to go there if we finished this,
do we finished this thing?

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Okay, being background this is the greatest background story like ever.
I was, Can I say the name of it?

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Right?

Speaker 4 (27:40):
No? No, no, because it hasn't come out yet, so
I don't want to get you.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
You know, I'm gonna say there's a there. We're swim
in a film. We're working on a film. It's not
out yet, and we're doing this scene. And before I
got there, it's you know, I don't like to play
actors on the spot, especially if they're non actors. But
I'm going to have my story no matter what. So
I'm like, okay, and I'm not Viola Davis talked about this.

(28:05):
I'm not the actor that's coming in saying this is
the plan we're gonna do. I've said I've got an idea.
Do you guys want to go in on this idea
with me? I'm not saying do this, but I'm saying,
do you want it?

Speaker 5 (28:18):
Can we work?

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Because we ran a scene together. I said I'm gonna
do this thing. Can you guys go in on a
story with me? And it came out beautiful. We got
lost in the scene, so lost, and I'm not thinking
about it.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
The director was watching us.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
The director is watching us and laughing. He says, you know,
what he comes with me. I love what you guys
are doing. We're gonna add a line in there. He's
gonna say something, and you guys are gonna do this thing.
So now the director knows who I am and I'm
just the background guy. But he's like people know, like,
wait a minute, that's a real actor right there. He's

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doing some stuff. And we do this whole thing. Then
they added to the script to put us in the
scene and I'm told to be just background. And now
that guy doing another scene. After that we did.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
I did another scene with them.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
So now the director cool, cool director, can'cler no names
cool director, just from doing background. So when you come in,
how you come in ready? Anything is possible. You could
take You could take the littleist Seltzer and turn it
into something epic.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
It's epic Seltzer. Now I might diet.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
So units where can people find you? Because you not
only you know, perform, improv and all of this stuff,
but you also teach and you've got a lot of content.
So where can people find you?

Speaker 6 (29:35):
All you have to do is I mean, I'm on everything.
I try to be everywhere. I'm on TikTok, I'm on Instagram,
I'm on Facebook. That's mostly family, but most of my
art stuff I have. My own website is go to
uniscadooce dot com. It's yu in us qu wedus dot com.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
My website's there, TikTok.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
You look if you google my name, I'm pretty much
I'm easy to find, hard to kill. I hope it's
still alive, so you know, easy to find, but yeah, that's.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
How you find me.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
So are you teaching right now?

Speaker 5 (30:06):
I teach workshops? I teach. I teach.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
What I'm doing now is one on one workshops with
a couple of clients online, which is because I didn't
want to teach, but people kept coming to me asking me.
So I would try to make videos teaching them how
to act, teaching them some basic principles. But I have
clients that need more one on one guidance, like if
my friend Jamine's reader, okay, I'll be your reader. Or

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someone needs help with an audition and wants wants to
me to critique it and then I critique my own
stuff as well.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Excellent.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Well, we will put the website in the link so
everyone can follow you and uh and you know, seek
out your services.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Or even hire you for for up our project.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
But let's let's let's move on to I guess some
of the hottest topics and things going on in the
news right now, right U. And one of them is,
of course, the move that Netflix is going to be
acquiring UH is in the works of hiring Warner Brothers
for eighty three billion dollars.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
Eighty three billion dollars acted.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Now what So this is obviously this is causing quite
the uproar in the entertainment industry. Paramount not not very happy.
Other companies that are in this bidding war not very happy.
But Netflix pretty much releasing a press release saying we
are going.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
To buy it.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Has it still has a lot of regulatory hurdles to
go through. UH. There's gonna be a lot of apparently
lawmakers pushing for and against this. So I think this
is gonna be a very ugly battle that can take
a long way to get there. But if it does
become a real deal and is finalized, this could shake
up not only the streaming services but also movie theater

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going experiences entirely.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Is more will be going to Netflix more, It's gonna
be going to home theater.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, and maybe even bypassing or just shortening the window
for theater availability because right now Netflix and you know,
the Netflix EO. He's been openly movie theaters saying that,
you know, it's an antiquated system and people want to
watch movies at home now, and so he's been very
vocal against movie theaters. But you know, he said during

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this deal, during this press release to that you know,
they're still gonna have the theatrical experience. There are, however,
sources saying that that inside that they're only planning to
do maybe like a two week, two week release in
movie theaters before they move them onto Netflix or onto HBO.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Max. I don't know what he would acquire with Warner Brothers.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
I don't know that's profitable. You do get money from
those theatrical releases.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
There is there is they're trying to take the films away.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
From shorter releases.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yeah, yeah, see, I can't here's the weird I'm gonna
I'm gonna put this out. I just got an email
for a possible Netflix audition, So I don't know how
much I can.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Speak on this.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, So I don't know.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Yeah, that guy said something fad about us. He's not
getting that role.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, let me say something.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
I can speak freely on this.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
No auditions in the works just yet. But James, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
The Director's Guild of America speaking out the writers Guild,
Producers Guild.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Is also jobs. Is it affecting merger? How does it
happen people?

Speaker 1 (33:30):
What could happen?

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Labor groups and film producers. But their concerns about consolidation
could lead to fewer jobs, less creative for artists, and
potential decline.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Problem that's destroying the cinematic experience.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
So there's gonna be a lot of people rooting against this.
And Warner Brothers. What do we know about Warner Brothers
in the last you know, the last couple of years,
they've made entire films that they've been just canning for
the tax incentives and things like this.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
And if you you can buying them with.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Netflix, you're making an amalgamation that might be even worse
than Disney, you know what I mean in controlling and
stifling creative content.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
It's just is are they going to be taking over
the world? Is it going to be Disney and Netflix?

Speaker 4 (34:16):
And then we're gonna end up like Wally's Universe where
it's big and large, and it's just the two of them.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
I might be concern right now.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
And not only is a theatrical impact, but also I
am a big HBO Max advocates supporter because they have
great shows, great content, and a lot of great stuff.
And so if Netflix acquires Warner Brothers, they acquire.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
HBO Max and then they'll have Amazon.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Do they do they consolidate HBO Max and Netflix? Do
they keep them separate? But you know, separate but same company,
different bundles packages, Like what do you do?

Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's my concern.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
I don't think they're going to cancel shows because there
are so many great stuff on HBO Max. That is
just it's going to be a money maker. It's just
only gonna.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
Get only one thing. I want to add to that.
Anything that eliminates jobs. I do not support eliminating jobs,
not anywhere any because because because I outside of myself,
I think about the person. It's like AI or like
the stop the shop when they got rid of their
tellers and they had the automatic. I'm not against the kiosks,

(35:19):
but when you get rid of five tellers, not tellers,
what do you call the people in the thank you
get rid of the cashiers?

Speaker 5 (35:28):
That's that.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Especially the older cash here is that the fifty year old,
the sixty year old cashier. That's all they do. And
now they're they have they get a little package and
they don't.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Have a job. I have a problem with that.

Speaker 6 (35:40):
I'm not against mergers and automation, but not when it's
taking people's jobs. So we got to figure that out.
So you're not you're not getting those people new jobs.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
No, no, And so right now, of course this is
this does create the.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
I'm definitely auditional. I'm not getting an audition.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
But AI to dub overdub say, I love support this.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
No, no, but this again, this will face a lot
of regulatory hurdles just because this does create the potential
monopoly monopolization of the streaming industry, and and just you know,
just the theatrical cinema, cinematic.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
There is nothing like going to the movie theater. Do
you remember being a kid. I went to see E
T with my father and Star Wars with my mother
as a kid, and I will never forget that. And no,
not go watch movies. I watch Prime at home. I
watched Walking Dead. I watch TV every day at least
for an hour. But there is nothing that can top

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the experience of going to a movie theater with your family.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
And what was it that Leo said, right, I said,
blessed be the cinema, right.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
But it's that that community, right, it's that community experience
and connection.

Speaker 6 (36:59):
I don't want to limit. I don't want to live
eliminate live theater or seeing a movie in a theater.
I don't want to limit. I think we can have both.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Respect we should, we should have both.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
And you, James, you have I think a good solution
to this problem or a protest.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Rather basically, so my wife and I, so we've gotten
rid of Netflix, we got rid of Amazon Prime, we
got rid of.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Prime Video, we got rid of Disney Bus.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Right now we only have HBO Max and and because
of the ever increasing prices, not not only are prices increasing,
but every movie that we want to see is it's
either not on Netflix. So at the time we had
all these swimming services, but yet the movies we want
to see are not on Netflix, not on HBO Max,
not on Amazon Prime, not on Disney Plus. So you
end up renting it on Amazon Prime anyway, So we

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end up renting. We have all these services, the movies
are not on there, so we end up renting it anyway, right,
And so over the past year so we've been you know,
we've been cutting cutting the cable, cutting the cord, yeah,
the digital cord on the streaming services. And we've been
going not only to the public library to go rents
movies out as we did in old Blockbuster days, you know,

(38:09):
Hollywood Video days, but now we're also building up our
own catalog.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
So we're going to like Savers. We're going to Savers,
which which is a local.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Machine sad.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
For Savers for those who don't know from the area.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
It's kind of like Goodwill where people, you know, they
donate DVDs, furniture, clothing, what have you, everything, and then
you they you go buy it for a very you know,
inexpensive amount. So they sell DVDs for like two nine
And these are movies. And so this is my catalog
right now that we built. Recently, planes, trains, automobiles, which
a watch Thanksgiving, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Did Toy

(38:47):
Story Off Space, Paddington Knives Out, Terminator to Jurassic Park,
The Mummy, Something about Mary, The Mask.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Of Zorro, and many more.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
So we are building our physical copy again, We're going
back to the day of physical copies.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
Love it, love it.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
And this is like my concern with with streaming services
consolidating more movie theaters or companies is that they can
limit the number of new hard copy DVDs.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
Speaking at risks, Wow, didn't know they could do that.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
So why would they make more physical DVDs? They don't
have to when they want to convince you to sign
up for the service.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
No, no, me, I'm not. I'm not because I'm in
the movie atmosphere. I put money back into the business, right,
I try to support by whatever they coming out with whatever.
I don't mind putting money back in because that's because
it's research to me to have it. But like, it's
kind of like when you had going way back. It's

(39:42):
like Atari, when you had an Atari, or Nintendo came
out and used to have an Atari. All your friends
have Nintendo, you can't. A friend of mine said, oh,
did you see this show on Netflix about called Boots?
Now I have Netflix at the time, so now I
can't have this conversation with him, and I'm like, down it.
I'm like, now i gotta get this thing so I
can watch this thing. So I can connect with my

(40:03):
friend and have a conversation. And and it's so it's
it's so many movies and films out. You can never
be up on everything. It's almost impossible.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
So what do you do?

Speaker 4 (40:13):
I don't know, but I like I like James's idea
of I'm trying going back to the physical and that's something.
Let's start the movement, okay, because there's gotta.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Be something so similarly bringing all our DVDs.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yes, yeah, we'll just sit in like a little pile
and like.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Look and the thing is too, and the thing is
And one thing that we'll talk about in a minute
is the mad the mad Men mistake because they they
put Mad Men on HBO Max and the there was
a blooper or a mistake where they they're uploading they.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Uploaded the wrong copy.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
They uploaded the wrong con the copy like production.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
It was pre post production.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yeah, so basically there's a scene where this guy vomits
and then but but in in HBO Max, they uploaded
the wrong scene or cut so you can see the
guy with the vomit machine, that crew member. And so
there are things where like they can change whatever they
want on any streaming service to cut include or or
or whatever. If you have the physical copy, you have

(41:13):
the copy, you have that DVD. That's never changing, it's
never getting taken away from you. If you have if
you have Netflix and you love a movie or whatever,
they can't take it away from you. They can't like, oh,
we lost the rights of that now it's on this
streaming service.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
One question, Yeah, what about the bad movies that are on?

Speaker 6 (41:28):
I think it's it might be. I don't know if
Amazon is the one, but I've seen some movies that
know names. I saw this one movie and it was
it was just the production. It looked wonderful. The packaging
looked nice, the title scream. All of the film, the
cinemas and cinema photography was nice.

Speaker 5 (41:49):
The script was terrible. The acting was terrible.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
And I'm a firm believer that every actor is offering something,
but it was so bad.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
I'm like, why is this online? Why is this presented?

Speaker 6 (42:02):
I'm happy that they got it out, but it's like
somebody has to look at it to be like, we
gotta do better, So.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
You want them not to be on the streaming service or.

Speaker 6 (42:10):
I feel like if a movie is I don't know
who gets to rate the movies as good or bad.
I feel like a movie should be at least a
five out of ten. If it's a two, it shouldn't
be on line. I try to watch everything. That's how
I try bad movies. And how do you come across movies?
So back in the day, go to Blockbuster, go to
with a Hollywood video. So you know, you go into

(42:32):
a movie and you pick a movie based off the cover,
kind of a book based movie off the cover.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Sometimes it's a really good movie.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Sometimes it's a really bad movie, but you picked it
because it showed interest. Now, the movies that that pop
up on your home screen, it's all algorithms, right, and
so it's pushing movies, pushing shows that it wants you
to watch because it'll feed into maybe another movie or
take it down another rabbit hole. There's so much AI
or not AI algorithm algorithmic control and intense behind it

(43:02):
to keep you on the streaming service, to keep you
hooked with with garbage content, with brain rots as. But
but the thing is like, but if you're selecting stuff
like say at the public library, you go over there
and you're like, oh, I want to see this movie
I heard it's great or you're looking around like, oh,
this looks interesting.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
I'm picking.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
I'm choosing to take it home and watch it. Whether
it's a good movie or bad movie, it's your choice.
We need that control.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
We're losing that control to theft.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
So we get that control back. We start the movement
back to hard.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
Support support the library read books, not.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Because there are there are many libraries who are investing
and wanting and expanding their DVD collection. They're expanding their
video game collection because they know there are people like
myself that are fed up and and tired of having
twenty streaming services and start.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
To rent a movie because it's not on any one
of them.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
They're like, what am I paying for?

Speaker 6 (43:56):
I asked my wife the other day, because she's the
one that like has the setup for all this stuff,
and I'm like, and I'm like writing our bills down,
and like, what is this thing that came out from here?

Speaker 5 (44:05):
What is this? What are all these things they get?

Speaker 6 (44:08):
I only watched TV an hour day if I'm lucky,
at the end of the day, played a game half
an hour TV an hour two for study purposes, and
then I'm going to bed. We're not watching that much TV.
You're not even my WAT doesn't even watch all the
movie services that we have. We have all the services,
and like, we're not even watching them.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Yeah, and I'm like, and not not to interrupt, but
there are some movies that I think there are the
best movies of the year, both Sinners and One Battle
after Another that came out this year, and I saw
them both on Imax, And those are movies that I've
and I've reviewed on the podcast and have told people,
you have to see this in the theaters before it
leaves now because the theatrical experience is amazing. And so

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if you have this kind of streaming new setup where
how they want it to be, where they released the
movie for one or two weeks, what if you can't
go to the theater that one or two weeks while
it's out right, and then you have to watch it
at home. You're not missing the what the director with
the filmmaker. You're not getting that experience that they wanted
you to experience. Because I will tell you Sinners, there's

(45:07):
a sequence in there that I've talked about where you
feel literally hypnotized by this musical sequence. There's a there's
a chase scene in one Battle after another. Watching it
on Imax is also hypnotizing and one of the best
chase sequences I've ever seen. It's not like spinning donuts,
fire jumps ramps. It's literally a highway that with with
with a rolling street that that we're rolling highway that

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dips up and down. But the way it's filmed and
and the way it's captured on the big screen and
taken in on the big screen, it's it's mesmerizing, and
you can't have the same experience on your phone.

Speaker 6 (45:41):
You so watching movies. I'm not against watching movies on
the phone, but it doesn't compare to going to the movie.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yeah, it's I watching Dune on your phone.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
You speaking of those two movies, James best movies of
the year.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
I think they are right now. They're in the running.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
They're getting nominated by so many different organizations, including the National.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Board of Review, A five, a bunch of other groups.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
They're saying Sinners and One Battle after another are top contenders.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
They're gonna be.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
I think at every award show it's gonna be either
or it's gonna be a top you know, a flip
of a coin of who's gonna win Best movie, best Director,
best Actor.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
I gotta ask you for a list, if you could pick.

Speaker 6 (46:25):
The best movies of all time, it doesn't even it
doesn't even matter how long the list is. I want
to know your list. The first movies that pop into
your head when you think of the best movies that
influenced you as a man, Like as you saw it,
you were like, you could never forget it.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Paddington to Star Wars, Back to the Future, Back to
the Future too, yes, Jurassic Park.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Now, as for horror movies, Halloween, the original Halloween movie,
that's a great one. Let's see Event Horizons have We've
talked about this movie on the podcast before. Has scarred
me but left a very deep, deep long love for
a Sin Matt for the cinema experience. So those are
just some movies the top of my head where I
saw all those in theater except for Jurassic Park.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
I was too young at that time, but VHS watching it.

Speaker 6 (47:08):
I remembered watching VHS that was the greatest era. You
get the VC You're like, oh my god, you.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Go to Blockbuster, you get the video into the future.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
So man, yeah, So those are some movies top of
my head that are my favorite.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
I could watch every single day.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
And again they've made the list of like physical hard copy.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
That Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I was watching that not
too long ago. I was like this, who ever thought
this would have been so good? Yearsually it is like
this was, And when you're watching it at the moment,
you don't know that you're looking at something that's legendary,
that's a timeless classic. And some actors is tough get
stuck in these roles because they play it.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
So good, like Steve Herkle Jello White this is his
real name. They play a.

Speaker 6 (47:58):
Role so good and we see them in that that
we cannot detach and see them in anything else.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
Unfortunately.

Speaker 6 (48:05):
Yeah, but it's like, so what you you kill that role? Okay, Carlton,
You're going to be Carlton yea yeah forever?

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Yeah no, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
So so on your list, James, where where would RoboCop
land in your list?

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Robo Cop would probably not in the top twenty or
top thirty, but it's it's high.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
It's an iconic film, and yet people love it enough
that there's a statue going up.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Yes, right, of course, Well, robo Cop is a fantastic film.
Don't get me wrong, like like it may not be
in my top twenty, but it is a fantastic, nearly
perfect film and a real like uh you know, classic.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
A classic. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
And so Detroit, the folks of Detroit, because it takes
place in Detroit, not filmed in Detroit, but takes place
in Detroit, they have officially unveiled like a twenty foot
tall RoboCop statue, a permanent mixture of the city.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
So that may be.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Think what are some movie statues, you know, movie of Boston, Massachusetts,
maybe New England based movies characters that should be immortalized
and statue firm here in Boston.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
American Buffalo was filmed. It was filmed in Rhode Island.
This is back in the eighties and nineties, right in Patuck.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
It what would you do? What would the statue be?

Speaker 6 (49:16):
It would be a con man. I think they were
like conman all trying to like it would be it
would be a con man doing some like some sneaky,
risky business.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
American Buffalo. I don't think I've seen it.

Speaker 6 (49:27):
Oh, you got to see it. And it's it's by
David Mammont. There's there's a theater version there's a movie version.
The movie version is on YouTube. You can watch it
now because I was in it. I did American Buffalo
at the stage play hardest, one of the hardest fings
I've ever done. I was the lead don one hundred
and two, one hundred and three pages.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
I had learned. I was supposed to be the backup.
The league guys said, yea, man, you're good.

Speaker 6 (49:49):
You got this, Like, oh my god, No, I'm thinking
I'm the understudy.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
Darn it. So no, you're not. Now, you're not. Now
you got to see it.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Great, But American Buffalo's on the list.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
America Buffle's great. It's written in.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
It would be a con man like slinking somewhere, like
being sneaky, like.

Speaker 6 (50:07):
Maybe too con men like, maybe like a worker and
a like a two con men. One is a business
guy who really doesn't really is trying to do the
right thing, but he's still kind of sneaky, and then
other guys really like, I'm gonna okay, So we.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Have a statue of too sneaky looking.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
Man, yeah, over trying to get the American Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
We'll put that right in the common I like.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
Your suggestion about Jaws. I think that we need. We
need like a job statue we need, yeah, the shark
like coming after the guy or the guy going we
need a bigger boat, you know, like something like that,
like I think.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
In front of the garden, right from the garden.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
So yeah, So with other contenders, I think a lot
of people have been saying, Robin Williams some good bill hunting.

Speaker 6 (50:46):
Yes, yes, but that statue, Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
That's like a one.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Let's see, how about legally Blonde's character just put a
statue of her up in Harvard?

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Yeah, maybe filmed in Harvard.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
They know the movie the filmed the hat usc and
U C l A in California, head the Bear, Teddy.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
Bear headed Mark Wahlberg.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
You know, my final recommendation would be Ben Affleck. My
kind of recommendation for a statue would be Ben Affleck
dropping his duncan boxes and donuts.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Have you seen the pictures of him?

Speaker 3 (51:20):
I have a bunch of pictures Ben Attle Google Ben
Affleck dropping Dunkin donuts and there's so there's like Paparassi
photos of him outside of his house because they had
delivered Dunkin like drinks and boxes of donuts whatever, and
he just like he's like just dropping it like in
the moment. So they got these pro photos of Ben
dropping his dunkin stuff, and so I think I want
to immortalize that, just him like doing that.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
I think there's so many.

Speaker 6 (51:44):
Coffee and donuts is like a Boston thing. You get
your Boston cream, you get your bus, you get your
you get your coffee. You can get about it. Then
you go, you go to the package, you get what
you get to order the package, you get yourself with
a box of smokes.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
Forget about it. You're all, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Think we need we need Ben Affleck wearing the Duncan
suit to what what was the dunking the dunkings.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
One of my.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
Favorites though, is just his exasperated look in general, but
there was I think he was like putting Jalo in
a car or whatever, and he's like having his looks exasperation.
I just really enjoy that from from Ben.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
I think we all agreed we need a Ben Affleck
type of statue.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Yeah, exactly like the Circle of All Exhaustman.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Yeah so Batman, no, no, no, no, Boston.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
Didn't play that.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
He didn't play but not in not in Boston based
movie Regional movie.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
There's already perfect storm, you know statues, but that was dedicated.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
To the real statue, real people.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
All right, So what statue would you recommend people who
are and listening right now? What do you think what
Boston based movie celebrity moments should be immortalized forever?

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Like Tom Brady?

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Yeah, all right, like what movie Boston movie statue needs
to exist? Let us know in the comments down below,
And James, where can people find us?

Speaker 3 (53:19):
You can find us anywhere you listen to podcasts, So
we're on iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, streaming anywhere.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Just listen, follow and all that jazz.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
We're also on YouTube, so if you're not listening, or
if you're not watching us right now, watch us run YouTube.
So how about Hollywood like subscribe comment down below, join
the conversation. We're on all the social media's too, at
hob on Hollywood, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
You gotta be everywhere, r everywhere, you gotta be everywhere.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yeah, I can't wait for Netflix to acquire all the
social media stuff.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Eat those ups anyways.

Speaker 4 (53:53):
But you know, if you happen to have Netflix anyway,
what are we watching what's going on or I've watched a.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Couple of good stuff.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Yeah, the movies in a hot minute, But recently I
watched bad Lands, the new Predator movie or Predator bad
Lands that takes place with like on an alien planet.
You have this young like novice predator hunter who's trying
to prove himself to his father, and so he goes
to this to this I know the world is called
like death World or like the death planet, and literally

(54:21):
everything on the planet is trying to kill you. But
I give me, it's like a really great scenario for
a predator who is kind of becoming the prey, but
also he's on the hunt for a big game kind
of a thing again to bring this trophy back. And
Al Fanning it plays a cyborg who is a Wayland cyborg,
which is a connection to the Alien franchise, so he

(54:41):
kind of had that fun Alien franchise connection to Predator.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
But you know, it's a fun movie.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
I want to say it's the best movie in the world,
maybe not the best Predator movie in the in the franchise,
but it's a fun, different take on the on the world.
So I recommend. I'm not sure if it's still on
streaming or not on in theaters right now. But Predator
bad Lands check it out. Also still watching it. Welcome
to Dary on HBO Max. You know it The Clown

(55:07):
the TV series. Seriously serious, fantastic, It's it's great. It
comes out every Sunday night. So those are my recommendations.

Speaker 5 (55:15):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Not sure what you guys are watching recently.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
Oh man, I have three.

Speaker 6 (55:19):
Well, because I personally believe anytime that you are in
a film, you should be watching it.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
You should be all the way in. Maybe I'm crazy.

Speaker 6 (55:28):
So because I am working.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
On a show, you you're binging it now.

Speaker 6 (55:37):
I'm binging the show, older versions of the show and
trying to understand what's happening. But the let I watched,
I watch Extra Boots. My friend told me Dennis told
me about Boots, and I was like, I'm not really
into referrals because I'm like, if someone tells me about show,
I'm like, okay, are they coming at it as an
actor or a person? So I was a little like,

(55:57):
to watch a TV show, it's a bigger investment. You know,
a movie, you can run right in and watch it
that night, go to bed. Be a TV show to
get through the whole thing and have that conversation. You
might not you can't do that today, you know, not,
not in a couple of hours. So I watched some
of them watching Boots. I saw Profess peels stay off

(56:18):
and I try to Oh Harlem, I saw Harlem recently.
I love it, but cause anyon I don't like about it.
What's about Harlem is basically it's a show based on
four black women in Harlem and the New World dealing
with men problems. It's a beautiful show, beautiful balance. But

(56:38):
what I don't like about it. It's a fun show
to watch. But for the good men, it's a little
bit of a men a little bit of men bashing
on it, but it's just showing their journey and what
they're going through. So I'm like, it's like, oh, but
it's a really good show. But then as a man,
you're like, oh, men can suck. Yeah, But it's like
when you're a good guy, you're like, hey, I like

(57:00):
not all like that.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
But it's a little bit of a love story mixed in.

Speaker 6 (57:03):
It's just a good it's a fast it feels like, uh,
we are living and seeing it feels like that. It's
a good show. It's a good show. So I've been
watching a little bit of that. But like me and
my wife have different shows that we agree. She'll come
in and and like I'm like, say some other stuff,
and I'm like, let me enjoy my show. Why do
you watch that teeny bopper women's show?

Speaker 5 (57:24):
An actor? I gotta watch everything.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
I have to research, research.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
And tell us a little bit. What what Boots is about?

Speaker 6 (57:32):
Oh, Boots is about military. It's it's about being a marine.
It's a TV show that's very authentic about a young
man who joins the Marines, and it shows the experience
of what that's like, really good show.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
And he's a gay man and he's got to go.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Hid this on Netflix.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
This is Netflix.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
I know.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
I didn't like that had the.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Government speak out like this is a I know it's authentic,
by I know.

Speaker 5 (58:00):
I didn't like.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
I don't buy into the whole woke like woke propaganda.
It's like it's a show. It's like there are gay
people in the military, like right, yeah, used to it.

Speaker 6 (58:09):
But at the time that it came out that they
are addressing that my friend, my friends in the military,
that you can't.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
The donuts don't tell you you could.

Speaker 5 (58:17):
You couldn't talk about it.

Speaker 6 (58:18):
You couldn't be I mean now, I don't know if
it's changed or whatever, but back then, ten, fifteen, twenty
years ago, you couldn't be openly.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Yeah, gay, Yeah, I've been wanting to start that too.
So I've definitely definitely got to.

Speaker 5 (58:31):
Get it's a good show. It's a good show.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
So, and I've watched Wicked in the theater, Wicked for good.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
You get too furious, too Wicked, too furious.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
Basically, I don't love musical, so it's Wicked good.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
I don't really it is very good.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
It is very good, and I want more musicals. I
love musicals.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
I yeah, yeah, sounds great.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
I think the music is fantastic. But the story is
really smart. The story is really smart. How they tie
it in, you know, from the new material to the
original Wizard of Oz and they kind of make the
entire plot makes sense. But it's very it's very timely
the way that they sort.

Speaker 6 (59:09):
Of it's in theaters right now.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the social commentary is very on point.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
And I got to say, I.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Haven't seen the movie. Yeah, I haven't seen the movie.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
But I've seen a lot of white people are instagram
talking about it, so we can do a spoiler review
maybe next week or something.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
Yeah, this is just in general review right now. But
I really deeply enjoyed it. I was crying at some points.
I feel like I'm Fierro. I won't get too deep
into that, but like I identify most with the Fierro character,
and it was just very beautifully done.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
I was very happy with Wicked.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
If you haven't seen it, already, run to the theaters
before it's gone. And the last thing that I'm trying
to watch desperately is Frankenstein, which is out in the
streaming services right now. But in a house with a
bunch of you know, screaming feral children, I watch about
twenty minutes at a time. I've still got like I've
still got like an hour to go on the movie.
So when I finished watching Frankenstein, guys, I can have

(01:00:09):
a review of that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
But so far, so good.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
I have to make sure that I have like time
set aside to watch something I don't like cutting in
between like.

Speaker 6 (01:00:18):
Movies sometimes you have to, yeah com and like for me,
I'm like I.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Needed to block it. I love movie theaters, get in there.

Speaker 6 (01:00:28):
It's no distractions, no food, there's no other phones. Movie, right,
It's one hundred percent. You're in the moment. And that's
what acting is about, being in the moment. No distractions,
no phone, no nothing. You and the movie and that's
all you got.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
And humanity and your humanness.

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
So I have to ask both of you. I want
to make a list because I'm always trying to study
and like.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
What movies do you feel?

Speaker 6 (01:00:56):
I don't care how long the listen is that every
person should see, Like if you have this, you better see.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
It now that the Princess Bride.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
I'm gonna write, gonna write this. I'll right, we're gonna
write this list later, Princess Bride. If anyone hasn't seen
Farist Beautile, they off.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
Go see it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
It's all but it's good America too, Gotta go see that.
Gotta go see it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
My wife and I just watched the movie at home
that we hadn't seen in a while. What was it?
It's on my list of DVD collections. We just let's
see hold on because we just watched it and we're
just talking about like how great it was.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
And what about you guys out there, so there are
a movie that you absolutely must watch as human beings.
Comments down below help help you this out.

Speaker 5 (01:01:46):
There's so many movies.

Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
It's so there's only so much time to study and
watch and in that theater that's a whole other trying
to watch the theater stuff and keep up on everything
and work.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
It's like it's a lot bro One thing I would
recommend this year again, it's Sinners with Sinners and One
Battle after Another my two top favorite movies of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:02:06):
Guy out of ten, one out of ten with.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Sinners like nine point five out of ten, One Battle
after another like nine point four, just like because like
I love it is a hair slight difference, so I
let that, yeah, And.

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
I hate feeling. I hate that feeling.

Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
I don't think this is me. I hate the feeling
when I haven't seen something or I don't know something.

Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
That's the worst. Like, oh man, because there's so much
out there.

Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
There's just even at home and you're scroll through there's
so many movies you can't watch them all right and work,
and like I want to see you know it all.
I'm weird, Like I just want to know everything. I
want to be on everything, especially with film wise, but
then theater. Studying theater, that's a whole other bowl game.
Or knowing all your Shakespeare's, knowing all your classic plays,

(01:02:55):
being up on those conversations, it's it's never ending man,
never ending study, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
Thank you so much for being with us here on
the Hub on Hollywood and sharing your knowledge and your
experiences and your passion. Thank you for having We're very
happy to share that with you. Best of luck and
everything that you continue to do until the.

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
Day I can't breathe. We're going to push it there.
We go as far as possible. I don't know where
it's going, but it's going somewhere, all right, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Well, let's go to the movie theaters. Let's go. We're
going to be there too, Hollywood. I'm James, I'm Jamie.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
We'll see you next time.