On this week's episode:
James and Jamie talk about how "The Last of Us" may be losing viewers follwing the death of a popular character, "Andor" season 2 makes "Rogue One" even better, behind the scenes of "The Walking Dead: Dead City" and an interview with the director and cast of "Another Day in America," a movie filmed and based in Massachusetts.
The Hub on Hollywood, hosted by Jamie and James, delves into the thriving film industry in New England. The podcast explores the production of various projects, including commercials, television shows, and full-length feature films.
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James and Jamie talk about how "The Last of Us" may be losing viewers follwing the death of a popular character, "Andor" season 2 makes "Rogue One" even better, behind the scenes of "The Walking Dead: Dead City" and an interview with the director and cast of "Another Day in America," a movie filmed and based in Massachusetts.
The Hub on Hollywood, hosted by Jamie and James, delves into the thriving film industry in New England. The podcast explores the production of various projects, including commercials, television shows, and full-length feature films.
The podcast insights into New England’s growing film industry, as well as entertainment news and reviews. Subscribers can access the podcast on the iHeartRadio app and follow the hosts on Instagram and TikTok for updates.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host James Rojas.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And I'm Jamie blonco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, Jamie sits down with the director
and cast of a new movie that was filmed right
here in Massachusetts and is coming to select vaters. One
of the best shows of the last decade just wrapped
up and Or season two and it's brilliant. Jamie takes
us behind the scenes of the Walking Dead, Dead Cities,
(00:36):
Dead City. At this point, I'm sure the spinoff, the
sequel will be more cities, more dead cities, even deadlier deadlier.
Yees that local casting. But first, Jamie, let's talk about
you know what everybody's kind of talking about, and that
is the second season of the Last of Us. You
are a big fan of it. I'm a big fan
(00:57):
of it. But apparently, reportedly people are dropping off like flies,
like infected. It the loss of Pedro Pascal. He's not
not of Pedro Pascal, of his character. We still have.
We still have Pedro. Don't worry. Sorry to scary body.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh god, yes, we protect Pedro with our lives, absolutely,
But how reportedly Okay, because I know that I'm still
watching it and episode three, like right after the you know,
his brutal spoiler alert guys, if you haven't watched The
(01:38):
Last of Us you know spoilers here after his brutal
loss in episode two, Episode three was fantastic. I am
still really really enjoying the story. I am enjoying the
chemistry between the remaining characters and where it is going
(02:00):
and what is happening. It's other people's loss if they
just turn it off because we've lost Pedro. I feel
like the spirit of Pedro is still there, right, I
don't know, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, the fact is, and I think I've said this before,
that we're still going to see Joel reappeared throughout the season,
and we got that at the glimpse of the last episode,
like the teaser for the next episode, and we see flashbacks,
we see that Joel and Ellie are going to be
having more conversations. And so Pedro Pascal is not gone.
He's still in.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Still a serious show.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He's still in the show, even though his physical form
is a live, living form, isn't there. But the reason
why people are saying that that there's been a drop
a decline in viewership following you is because again more
information needs to come out. But if you looked at
the at the audience scores per episode, there was a
(02:58):
significant drop of audio scores for the episode after episode
three and four compared to the pre the first episode
and second episode and of course the first season, and
so people are using that as a metric showing there's
less interest less people putting reviews in because of their
(03:18):
disappointment and what happened, whether they knew that Pedro Pascal's
character was going to die or whether you know it
was a big surprise. A lot of people say that,
you know that is one big reason, you know, killing
off Joel, that we're seeing this kind of decline or
shift in viewership. And that's one thing that I asked
you because obviously you we are both big Pedro fans,
(03:41):
but I didn't ask you know, and you and you,
I'm not sure if you actually saw the episode where
he does de heart.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I watched all the way up to his departure, and
then I skipped past that because I can't, okay, because.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I did asks we're gonna watch afterwards, and you said
you were going to maybe not watch that scene, but
you were going to continue, Yes, and I have.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I have to what I have been able to watch.
Life is very busy, James, I'm not sure what episode
they're on so far. I'm at four.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I think okay, we're pretty much there. I think we're
coming about five.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, so I mean I feel like I'm pretty caught up. Actually, then,
I don't know. I think that people are grasping its straws.
I think that there's always people with an agenda who
are going to be upset no matter what you do
or what you say or what is in the show,
that are trying to maybe create a controversy. Right, They're
(04:35):
trying to create drama around this, And I don't know
if that's good or bad, you know, because sometimes bad
press is good press. Any press is good press and
can bring more attention back to the show. But you know,
I think if you really are just gonna not watch
it just because your favorite character died, you know, and
(04:57):
not give the rest of the show a chance, you
are really missing out.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I did bring up though, that you know, people were
people who knew about the game's twist and now the
series twist. They were saying that, you know, if you're
playing the video game, it's easy to continue that story
even though you are very disappointed in what happened. It's
much different when it comes to a television series or
a movie to be to keep that investment, you know strong.
(05:24):
So yeah, I wasn't initially or really surprised that there
would be a dip in viewership, but but you know,
it's sad to see because the story is continuing. It's
a great story and as you mentioned, the drama, the
people that are bringing up you know, oh, the Last
of Us is now terrible, it's unwatchable. There is you know,
there's the people who are being who are being I
(05:47):
don't know what's the right word, genuine, genuine about their
concerns and you know their their disappointment. But then there's
also that part of the internet where you have people
who are upset about the actress Bella Ramsey who plays Ellie.
Even since the first season, there are many people who
were like livid that she was selected as that character
because they say she looks nothing alike Ellie in the
(06:08):
video game. You know, Pedro Pascal doesn't look exactly exactly
like Drol in the video game. But nobody had a
problem with that. But they had a problem with with
Bella taking that taking that role, and so I think
this is just another thing people can add on and
throw throw on top of, you know, more baggage and
and you know, just rant online about you know, why
(06:29):
this is a bad show or why Ellie or Bella
is such a bad person to be in this in
this show. So I think that's a part of there's
a mix of genuine disappointment and those who are excited
and happy to be adding to the drama, and that in.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Fighting, happy to add to the drama. You know what
they say, James, haters gonna hate hate, hate, hate, and
you have just got to shake shake, shake, shake it off,
shake it off.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
We're gonna get demonetized now. Thanks, don't know, Oh god.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know who else is shaking it off? Our beloved Pedro,
our beloved Pedro. James just speaking about him. He was
at Cannes recently and had been asked about, you know,
the political turmoil happening in a country and the way
people fight each other online and things like that. And
(07:25):
I really think that Pedro's philosophy applies here as well.
And he's like f the people that try to make
you scared fight back, don't let them win. They try
to make you scared so that they can win, so
that they can take your power away. And just f
that he said over and over again. So that has
(07:46):
just become like this beautiful thing that's exploding online because
it's so simple, so pure, but so true. So it's
just one of the many reasons why we love Pedro.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
All right, go Pedro and go with the last of Us.
We're actually coming up on episode six, so we're recording
this Sunday. Episode drops tonight, And like I said, I'm
a fan of the actors, I'm a fan of the series.
I never played the video game, but I knew about
the twists, so I knew it going in. So maybe
that's why I'm not as heavily invested as all these
other people that are crying online. But I'm enjoying it
(08:21):
and I'm very excited to see where this goes because
at the last episode there was another twist developments, and
so this is going to take the series into a
whole other direction. So I'm really excited for that. And
we should also be really excited for new casting news
regarding a film that's based on one of the most
famous chefs and in all of the world mister Anthony Bourdain.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Mister Anthony Bourdaen Shooting for the film Tony, about the
life of Anthony Bourdeen is kicking off in Earnest in
New England, in Boston and out on the cape. Boston
Casting is the one handling this one, guys. So if
you haven't already, go to bostoncasting dot com, set up
(09:07):
your free profile, get the get the alerts and the emails,
and see if you can get put in the movie.
Right now, they're looking for a ton of people. They're
looking for gnarly looking fishermen, general background, they're looking for children.
They're looking for who's scruffy looking, gruffy looking nerfhurder that's
(09:28):
what they're looking for. Scruffy looking nerf herders to be
fishermen in Tony. So uh, if that sounds like you,
you're gonna want to go to Boston Casting. Check out
those those listings, sign up, throw your name in the hat,
in the ball, and then you know, see if you
get out on the boat. Boston Casting.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What's that make some waves, make a big splash.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Make some waves exactly. I don't think that that's part
of it. Would be more like Jaws. But anyways, also
also casting, Grant Wilfree Grand Wilfilly Casting is looking for
kids to portray high school students age fourteen to seventeen
(10:15):
for a new A twenty four horror series. This is
filming I believe in Connecticut and New Jersey and that
it's called Mama's Boy. It's going to be shooting June
through August. So they are looking for kids high schoolers
for that one. That is Grant Wilfree Casting. Mucho exciting.
(10:40):
You're gonna want to send an email to Mama's Boy
at GWC NYC dot com with the subject blind high
school high schooler and all your information, the kid's name,
their guardian, SAG number if they're SAG or non SAG, height, weight, pictures,
(11:03):
all that jazz, all that wonderful, wonderful stuff. Just backtracking
a little bit back to Boston Casting, they were celebrating
a pilot, a TV pilot that they helped put together
and that had recently premiered, called the Provider. A ton
of local talent involved in that one, So we'll see
(11:26):
where that project goes from here. And also big ups
to Kendall Cooper Casting who were behind a lot of
the castings for the Walking Dead, Dead City Season two,
which has premiered on AMC Plus and various other streaming
(11:46):
services that have a MC. So that's really exciting. Also,
we're going to be talking more about that and giving
you a little behind the scenes glimpse of the Dead
City and how they transformed Boston into a post apocalyptic
New York. But before we get there, James, what else
(12:08):
are we talking about here on the on Hollywood?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Well, speaking of transforming, this latest series and or season
two is in the books and it has transformed the
way many of us Star Wars fans are watching the
original trilogy and Star Wars Rogue one a Star Wars story.
It's fantastic. It's some of the best again I think
television or you know TV series that's streaming over the
(12:34):
past decade. It is brilliantly written, brilliantly acted, brilliantly. How
many times can I say that it's beautifully shot? And
the season two just wrapped up and it takes it
takes us right into Rogue one, which then takes us
right into a new Hope. And this is again, are
(12:54):
you watching the show right now? Are you have you
been able to start it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm trying to start it. I'm trying to start it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Have you seen season one?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No, I'm bad, remember bad, bad, bad, Jamie bade Jar.
Maybe you can help me here, James, because I have
been I just feel like my heart has been burned
by Star Wars with the sequel trilogy. And you know,
there's just so much like emotional roller coaster between all
(13:22):
the different Star Wars projects. I know that and Or
is good. I know this intellectually, but I don't know
that I'm ready to let it into my heart if
I commit the time to watch the show, James, am
I going to be heartbroken? Is it? Or? Is it
like so diametrically opposed to all of the movies that
(13:43):
it's It doesn't feel like the same kind of Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
No, it feels like the original Star Wars. It feels
like the original trilogy. And and you need to have hope.
You need to have hope and go into this series.
And actually, I'm kind of jealous that you haven't seen
season one because being able to watch it for the
first time is one of those experiences that you know,
when you watch a big movie, you wish like man,
(14:06):
I wish could I wish I could clear my mind
and experience that movie for the first time. That's how
I kind of feel with Andor like like you're in
an incredible position right now to binge entire seasons one
two and then pick up the story with Rogue one
and then leap right into a new hope. It is
so seamless. That is why it feels such like a
(14:28):
like the original trilogy is that it seems so so
much like the original time period, the original era, and
it's great. Yeah, for those who are unfamiliar, Diego Luna
he plays Cassie and or Denise Goff as Dedra Stellan
Scarsgard as Luthan, one of the main characters who is
pulling all the strings and bringing the rebellion and different
(14:50):
factions together. We have Audria Orhana as bix, Elizabeth Doolah
as Clea, and Ellen Tudic reprising his role as that
big lovable droid K two s O and and again.
One thing, one thing that this series does is it
makes Rogue one even better. Because when Rogue one came out,
(15:13):
I think a lot of people they were saying, oh,
this feels so much like a different kind of Star
Wars movie. This is like a war, like an actual
like it feels like a real war, very grounded, you know,
without the Jedi and the lightsabers to the very end.
But you have a very realistic version, grounded version of
the Star Wars universe. And and you know that was
that was very fun and kind of gritty and stuff.
(15:34):
And so people had one perception of that, including myself,
not not that it was bad. A lot of people
enjoyed it before and Or, but they said, you know,
it's a great different kind of different kind of way
to tell the Star Wars story. And then when you
have and Or come in, and this actually was a
series that I wasn't really looking forward to because I
was like, and Or, this is you're building an entire
series about this character. In this movie, I wasn't on,
(15:56):
you know, too thrilled. But it really does does a
great job at adding character depth to these to these characters.
And and and we're building the world and showing you
all the steps that have led up to the rebellion,
you know, growing in numbers and growing its strength and
(16:17):
eventually standing up to the empire. And and in it
is it takes such a grounded This is the good
thing and bad thing about the show is that so
realistic that it reminds you of modern day things and events,
of empires rising to power, of propaganda being used to
(16:39):
divide people, of how fear is a tactic to try
to suppress, suppress, suppress rebellion, and to extinguish any hope
there is and so. And the thing is this show
is written five years ago, and so take so the
director and writer Tony Gilroy, he actually looked at past history,
like the history of you know, of different eras all
(17:02):
around the world about rebellion and tyrants and civil wars
and all that stuff to tell this story. And it
just shows you that history repeats itself unfortunately too many times.
And so that's one of the creative one of the
beautiful things. And how timely this is, and that makes
and Or fantastic. I want to go into spoilers because
if you haven't watched it, like yourself, Jamie, I highly
(17:22):
recommend you do it. Just know that this is peak
Star Wars. This is right up there with the Empire
strikes Back. People are saying even better than the Empire
Strikes Back. And I will be very easily swayed to
agree with that. So if you love the original trilogy,
if you love you know espionage, you know secret spies,
(17:46):
and a slow burned to an amazing climax, this is
the series for you to watch right now, especially during
our current times.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Okay, all right, I.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Believe you.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Everybody's yelling at me watch and watch and or watch it. Fine,
I will.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but yes, as.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Long as you guarantee that it won't break my heart.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I mean, you already know what happens to end if
you've seen Rogue. Have you seen Rogue one? Okay, yeah,
so you already know what happens to and Or and
engine or so at the end.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But and Or.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, so you'll you'll definitely have feels again if you
watch Rogue one after and or season two, then there's
more weight to deaths. There are more there's more weight
to moments, and so it makes Rogain, like I said,
Rogue one and even better film because after I finished
Season two, I went right into Rogue one, rewatched it again,
and right after Rogue one, I went straight into a
(18:52):
New Hope. And it's just one long, seamless transition from
show to the movie It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
A chef's kiss, chef's kiss, chef's kiss. Good, good good.
I'm happy to hear that. I'm happy to hear that
makes me feel a little bit better about starting it,
and perhaps I can compartmentalize my despair over the sequel
trilogies and just pretend like that didn't happen. You know what,
(19:23):
But you shouldn't pretend didn't happen. Are the incredible shows
that get made here in New England. And one of
those is now available to watch and stream on AMC Plus,
and that is called Dead City season two. James, have
(19:45):
you did you watch Walking Dead? Did you watch all
of it? Have you watched any of the spin offs?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I kept up with The Walking Dead up until like
season three was the last season. Probably I watched maybe four,
But after three or four, I was like, that's tapping out. Yeah,
I'm walking done, you're walking done.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah. I think you know. The part of my my
husband and I's issue with it was that you never
found out like what happened or why, or like it's
just it doesn't seem like there's any cure or anything
that's gonna happen. It's just I don't know, but either way,
still a very a very strong fan base and a
(20:29):
great series and a series of spin offs that continue,
including this one. Dead City season two, which was filmed
here in Massachusetts, and James I got to spend a
little over a month actually working on this one when
they were here, and it was just one of the
(20:53):
most fun, most interesting experiences that I have ever had
on set here in New England. So I'm just super
super excited about all the local people that were featured
in this one. And uh, if you're cool with it,
I'd like to kind of share what what that was
(21:14):
like when they were filming here.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I suppose I'll be cool with it. Yes, of course,
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, Well, this is my first time like working with
zombies and like real movie monsters and things.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I know, you wanted to be a zombie or be
a monster.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I wasn't tall enough, so for this one they only
wanted like super tall, skinny people for for the walkers,
which makes sense right because you.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Can argue short zombies are pretty scary too. They're like,
get away from you gonna bite my ankle, ankle, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Anyways, you gotta have like a short Latina zombie man.
They're out there like just you know, the cell saying
across towards you and never mind, I don't know where
that's going. But uh, that was a really interesting experience.
So they had like three levels of zombies depending on
(22:08):
how close you were to the camera. They had the
full prosthetic zombies who were you know, for the closest,
closest up shots. They had zombies with just the rubber
like latex mask and a costume. And then they had
deep background zombies that just kind of had like a
little nylon on their head and we're just going, ah,
(22:30):
you know, deep back around. It was worth it, but
I felt really bad for these folks too. So I
was both an extra, a background extra on Dead City
and a stand in for one of the principal characters.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
First was that were you a standing character for a
standing for Nagan?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I was not a stand in for Nigan, he's just
a little tall for me. I was a stand in
for Ginny, for the fourteen year old Jinny, who's one
of the kids starring in this show with Lauren Cohen
obviously walking dead to Maggie, which was just really really exciting.
(23:15):
But I was gonna say on the days that I
was a background extra. I come out on season season two,
episode one, Guys, Season two, episode one, I am a
soldier because I'm so menacing James, right, I'm so like intimidating.
But let me tell you what I got. I mean
mugged the heck out of Maggie all right, out of
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Lauren Cohen. There's a scene where she's walking out of
these double doors and she's standing off in front of
like this group of soldiers and I'm right in the front,
James right in the front, giving her that mean mug
and like lifting my chin and I've got my hand
on a gun and just ready, like I was just
acting my ass off.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You should have improvised based and just started shooting like
like bang bang bang bang bang noise.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, you could do that once. You can do anything
once and then they'll fire you. But this was also
my first time using weapons on set. And when they
were filming this last year, this was right after the
on set shooting of Helena Hutchins. Yeah, right on the
(24:25):
set of Rust, and so when it came to getting
our prop guns, it was very locked down. It was
very you know, every single weapon was checked by three
different people. Even though these were completely inoperable things. They
were taking no chances whatsoever. It took forever to get
(24:46):
that gun, you know, into my holster and then out
of my ulster, into my holster, out of my holster
because you weren't allowed to go to the bathroom with it,
you weren't allowed to reset with it. So that was
my first experience with weapons. On set with Monsters, I
got to watch this whole scene where Maggie and Jenny
are fighting zombies in a corral, which was all shot
(25:08):
in Taunton. This location in Taunton was a real abandoned building,
a real abandoned like brick factory building where we were
shooting at and actually the night before, a couple of
nights before we shot this big outdoor scene, one of
the buildings collapsed. Oh wow, it actually collapsed and they
(25:32):
had to corner a lot of it off and we
had to have a safety briefing because it was still
glass and debris you know, all over this area where
we were going to be filming. So that was not intentional,
but it looked great in the background, but it was
completely unintentional. So it was just a really exciting experience.
(25:55):
There were tons of fans that were there, like Walking
Dead fans that were camped outside of these shooting locations
every single day. Uh so that was really nice to
be walking by in full costume and waving to folks.
And it was just such a great energy Lauren.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Walking Dead Dead fans have like a nickname or anything,
like the dudes, the Walking dead Heads.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Perhaps I don't know the Walking dead Heads. Maybe I
wish I knew. I wish I knew, But they were
so enthusiastic and and fun, and they were all, you know,
looking out for Meagan and looking out for Lower and Cohen,
and so it was just a lot of really great energy.
(26:43):
And Lauren Cohen just brought the energy as well. Not
only was you know, being across from her like this
masterclass in acting. She's just spectacular and kind, but she
also directed a number of these episodes. I got to
watch her direct, which was fantastic. As I mentioned, I
also got to be a stand in for Ginny. So
(27:05):
a lot of these scenes, I'm you know, I'm there
for the eye line, for the camera's eye line or whatever.
But there were a few scenes where I was literally
sitting across the table from the principal actors when Ginny
didn't need to be in the scene, but they needed
eye lines. So They're shooting the back of my head,
and I'm sitting in the scene with the main characters
(27:28):
of this show giving them all of the emotion that
they need, staring into Maggie from The Walking Dead's eyeballs,
you know, is staring into her soul while she stares
into my soul and acting my ass off off camera,
you know, in support of a big actor like it
was just such an incredible experience, James, And it's just
(27:49):
one of those magical things that you can do here
in New England because not only are there opportunities and
so many movies and TV shows that get made here,
there's not as much competition as there is like in
La or New York or whatever. Like, it's just it's
a marvelous place, right It's it's a magical sort of
sort of region where where dreams like this can happen
(28:12):
and and come true. So I just I had such
an amazing experience on this set in so many different ways. Oh,
the stunts as well. There were explosions on boats and
a boat on a rig and a warehouse and god,
the explosions were so cool. Everybody needs to watch the show.
(28:36):
You should go watch it and check out all of
the all of the great local talent that are in
featured background roles, day player roles. Just hundreds, if not
thousands of local folks working on this one.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
What episode are you and I am an episode?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I am an episode? Yeah, very first one. I get
like three whole seconds of screen time of my face,
like mean mugging magnet, so very excited.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Excellent, excellent. All right, go out there watch the Walking Dead,
Dead City, and then eventually they're spin offs dead towns
and dead quarries and dead canyons. It's spreading, just like
an virus.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
All right, James. Speaking of local projects that people need
to watch, there is a film locally made about to
start a theatrical release before heading to streaming, called Another
Day in America. We had the opportunity to speak with
the director and two of the actors involved in this
very interesting, very gosh aggressive project. I want to say,
(29:48):
and it's based on a true story about something that
happened in our region as well. So without further ado,
here's our interview with the cast and director of Another
Day in America. And today we are talking with the
cast and the director of Another Day in America. Really
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excited to talk about this one. It is a film
that is about to start. It's a limited theatrical release.
We've got director Amelia Morrow as well as two of
the stars, Gary Bloom and Daphney Blunt to thank you
guys for joining us.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
So. Another Day in America is a bold, genre defying
feature directed by Amelia Morrow that is in theaters April
twenty fifth. Based on true events. It's a dark, radical
film that dissects the modern workplace through a piercing and
satirical lens.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
And so I.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Watched the trailer for this. It seems like it starts
off like a normal day in the office and it
just gets very quickly things go south. Emilio, I want
to start with you. Tell us a little bit about
what thought you started on this project and what you
wanted to accomplish with it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I have this idea of the story that you know
has this ending that sort of it's tough because you know,
I have to make the decision or spoil it or not,
but it has this kind of ending. I guess you
have to spoil it because Gary's here. But the movie
essentially is about an office shooting that took place in
nineteen ninety nine at a company and a technology company
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and Wakefield, Massachusetts. And what struck me about that office
shooting at the time was that it was a day
after Christmas. So it's the first time that I thought
about the people that went into the office that because
obviously the day after Christmas is not a typical workday.
You bring it in my you know, other whatever happened
to the day of Christmas, you probably bring it into
that next day. So obviously I didn't want to do
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that because you know, I didn't want to really touch
the Christmas thing. But essentially, a bunch of people that
went out the night before or some things happened the
day before, and that's the next day, and we chronologically,
hour by hour, go through the workday. So what I
wanted to accomplish was what maybe those people felt on
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that day, that they're just dealing with their lives and
then all of a sudden, towards the end of the day,
this tragic event, right, And.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
It's all about that that internal and external pressure. You
can definitely see in the trailer how all of these
divides and conflicts and tensions sort of build up throughout,
and I just wanted to go over to Gary and
Daphne really quickly. Daphne will start with you, but same
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question for both what got you into this project and
what it's cited or challenged you the most about it?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Well, I got into the project Amilio found me on
like an old list of actresses as he was sorting
through looking for people and just kind of reached out
to me and wanted to see if i'd audition. And
I had taken a break from acting for a while
and was looking to get back into things, So it
was kind of perfect timing. And when I read the script,
I was like, obviously so intrigued and so captured. I
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don't come across a lot of scripts like that that
touch on so many interesting topics. But it was nothing
like anything I'd ever done before. I've done like comedy
and family shows before this, so I was like really
excited to challenge myself to be in this like drama,
to be like a main character. I had to cry,
I had to do all these things that I'd never done,
So it was a really exciting adventure and it definitely
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pushed me in my acting and my process to really
work on this character.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Thank you and Gary.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I was brought onto the project in a completely different way.
My cousin, Jonathan's Fire, who's one of the other actors
in the project, reached out to me and said, hey,
we're looking for a guy for a particular role and
we think you could do it. We want you to
meet with Emilio. So I remember Amelio, I think where
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we sit in some downtown newberry St yep. And we
talked and as we left, Amelio was like, you know,
you're a good fit for the role. Let's do it.
So my approach was, you know, through my cousin, and
I'll always be appreciative to him and to Amelio for
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this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
And what did you feel about this role? Taking on
this role in particular with this character.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
So this role.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Was different for me because I'm not usually and I
don't want to give away too much, but I'm not
usually the bad guy, and I'm kind of the bad
guy in this film. But so it was just a
different type of role for me. But I think one
of the most powerful messages of the film, and there
are actually many powerful messages. One of the powerful messages
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is it helps put things in perspective and you realize
that what seems so incredibly important because you didn't get
this raise, you didn't get this promotion, or you know,
somebody insulted your work, all of a sudden, you realize
that it's not so important after all in the big
picture of things.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Well, I want to back up just a little bit,
back to Emilio. So this movie is not only locally filmed,
local talent, it's based on a local tragedy. Emilio, I
want you to talk to me a little bit about
filmmaking in New England, storytelling in New England, and the
stories that need to be told from here.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah, I don't really see this as like a Boston story.
I think that what happened at that office that day,
it was just more of a like an emotional reaction
to something that I wanted to tell, story of a
group of people that went to work one day and
a lot of them didn't come home and they were
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dealing with things from the day before. Obviously, like I mentioned,
as far as doing things locally, man, I love Boston.
I love Boston films. I'd love to do more of them.
I wouldn't specifically say this setting. It's pretty obviously it's
Boston because there's some sole locations that you can see
that as Boston.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
But.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
This isn't a film about Bostonians. Like Daphne is in
la I don't think you've ever been to Boston, only
only in the movie. Yeah, And like recruiting the actors
was interesting because like you know yet, like I remember
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when John sent me Gary, He's like, I think that's
the guy. I'm like him right away. I was like yeah.
And with Daphne, I saw her in a magazine that
like ranked like the thirty most up and coming African
American actresses. So I actually had a friend recruiter because
I didn't have any way to get over so it
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was just easier a friend. Like I think, I think
we're kel d ending right, Yeah. Yeah, So it's just
kind of like you know, and like two of the
guys that Joey and the guy who plays Deuce Man,
they're they're both from Texas, so there's definitely a local
influence as factors. But like Richie, Paul Natasha, I mean
like we actually for a small movie, we actually flew
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a lot of people in to work on this, so
and I really wanted to be clear that it wasn't
this like Boston story. Like, for instance, Oliver who plays Scott,
who's Aaron who plays Taffany plays Eron. He uses a
British accent. So it's just like it's another day in America,
not like another day in Boston. So I just want
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to be clear that it's not a Boston thing. But
as far as generally speaking, I think, you know, Boston's
are an amazing city, and then we have a lot
of great stories here. I just don't think this is
actually one of them. Uh. This is just the universal
story that could really go happen in any city at
any time.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
So it's a universal human story. Yeah, something that happens
in America every day. But what was it like making
the film here in New England versus La New York?
What are the program.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yeah that's allowed me to use uh local influence that
I had, or any local favors from renting the office
to the investors that investing. I think all the investors
are actually local. So I will say that it's a
true friends and family type film. I always say back,
like I would say, I made like a nineties film,
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you know, where everyone like chipped in their money and
made a film.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
And everyone who who worked on this is really just
brought their a game and really took it as like, Hey,
this is like a film that I want, I want
to that I love, and I don't want to make great.
So it was like all hands on deck every day.
So it was just great. I don't know if I
would have gotten that if I went to Oklahoma to
go make this.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Help Gary and Daphne talk to me a little bit
about working here and what it was like on set
once you finally got on set and you were dealing
with the material in the shooting. Kind of take us
through your process and your experience on set, and we'll
start with Gary this time.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
The experience on set was amazing. You know, Emilio had
a top notch crew. The DP was fantastic. We had
an amorer on set because there were some weapons involved.
He sat me down, he trained me on the two
different weapons that were used that day. You know, it
was just a great experience. Everybody was professional, everybody knew
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their job. It was a really tight run set, which
I think is about the biggest compliment you can pay
to a set. It was very tightly wrung.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Great, Yeah, that is good to hear. I'm on set
a lot too, and I've seen some of the best
and some of the worst, So that is a big compliment.
And Daphne, what was the experience for you?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Like, it was fantastic?
Speaker 7 (40:17):
It was.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I think I was on set the most days of
any of the actors. I was there a lot, and
it just getting to see everything going on. Everybody really
was working really well together, and we were filming in
an actual office, so it like you could very easily
immerse yourself in the ambiance and the setting of what
was going on. Like every time I would go to
the bathroom, like the people from the other businesses would
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come out into the hallway and be like, what are
you doing? Why are you here? So it was a
very it was a very immersive experience. And like I said,
I had never been to Boston before filming this, and
I loved it. I love going to new places and
getting to explore. I was very amused by everyone's accents
and like the different like food, culture and just all
of those things. And it was snowing. Doesn't it doesn't
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snow in Los Angeles. So it was really it was
really fun experience.
Speaker 8 (41:05):
Wonderful And as far as what you hope people take
out of the film and your character, what do you
hope that they get out of it?
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Yeah, I feel like Aaron is such the embodiment like
maybe like a little bit of a drastic version, but
like such the embodiment embodiment of like a gen Z
girl who like has all these dreams. She's kind of
stuck in like the old world where you need to
get a corporate job and you need to pay your
bills and do all these things. And and I think
it's really easy to perceive her in a negative way,
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but really she's just kind of the o, her own
hero of her own life. And I hope it gives
people a little bit of insight and compassion when they see,
you know, girls going for these things that can be
very easily perceived as like vain or materialistic.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I love that answer, Amelio. Back to you, so, tell
us a little bit about your journey as a director
growing up here, how you got into film and the
kind of stories that you like to tell. You know,
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how have we gotten here to this point with you? Wow?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
It's like a long question. I'll try to give you
like the shortest version of it. I'm always everyone loves movies,
if you're not, if you're in the movie businesses, because
you love movies, and especially if you want to work
behind the camera. I I you know, I'm influenced by
the movies that I saw as a kid at that
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I thought were real, right, like, oh I know that person,
I feel that you know so, and I just yeah,
I started up early. I guess it's like a student filmmaker.
I stopped all that and went through this other path
in life and then I started writing again with somebody
and we got some luck early on. But I think
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that the one thing that you know, I mentioned this
a lot in these interviews, is that I never wanted
to direct. I just liked writing. And uh, I thought
my contribution on my writing would be like producing, like
because prices get the hands on a lot of things.
But I realized at the end of the day that
just through my journey that whatever I write, I probably
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have to direct. And that's why I directed this. This
was my first time directing, and honestly, directing was just
an expansion of my writing. It was it was as
natural to me as writing it, while oddly producing fields
are very unnatural to me. So yeah, so I don't
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think ans any question, but I think I did it.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah and so, and now we're going to the theatrical release.
Tell us about how we secured the theatrical release and
where people can go and see this film.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
So, uh, you know, I've been around a little bit.
So a company called x y Z represented the film,
a very prominent sales company. They found a distributor that
really loved it, and I think they did a small
theatrical release. And now I think we're all kind of
gearing up with this like June seventeenth, like nationwide digital
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release that'll be on like Google plas, Amazon, Apple where
people can rent it or buy it. So I think
that's kind of where because it's in a small film
and a lot of the commentary, it kind of lives
on like a digital platform like like x or Twitter
or whatever you want to call it now or you know,
Like it's funny, if you watch the film, you'll see
a lot of the dialogue kind of it's like comes
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a lot. It's like almost like a comment section of
like a very polarizing tweet, right, So that's like, so
I kind of you know, I always said early on
in the press of this film is that film lose
out in real time to the Internet. So but what
film has is the power narrative, the power storytelling, and
that's why films that are fifty years old is still
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awesome to watch. So I wanted something that's timeless the
way The Breakfast Club is timeless. And like you go
back and watch The Breakfast Club and even to the
eighties movie, you only what eighties problems they resonate. So
that was really my ultimate goal is to literally compete
against the internet, compete against the commentary that we lose
in real time on a you know, and I love
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podcasts like the Joe Rogan podcast, but give them something
that has those narrative components that can survive time. And
so we'll see, we'll see what, We'll see what people
thinking about a month.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Okay, well, I'm excited to see this one. I'm excited
to see everyone's performances in it. I think a last
question for the whole group would just be what is
your advice for actors or filmmakers who are up and
coming want to do? What you're doing and what are
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you watching now? Those two advice and what you watching now,
that's usually what we end up. So why don't we
start with Daphne?
Speaker 5 (46:05):
Yes, I mean my advice would just be to get
yourself out there, like, find friends, make films, get yourself
on the sites. If you're looking to audition, get hotshots,
like just get out there and start doing it. I know,
fear is something that holds a lot of people back,
and that's just really a big thing to get over.
And then what am I watching now? I'm like, oh
my gosh, I watched so many random things. I just
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watched this really good I love like crime series. I
just watched a really good series called The Stolen Girl.
That's what I would recommend, all.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Right, very own theme.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
How about you? Gary?
Speaker 6 (46:37):
I give the most common advice which everybody gives, which
is just don't give up because you never know what
opportunities around the corner. You know, winners never win, and
winners never quit. Just keep going and you're work hard enough,
your chance will come. As far as what I'm watching now,
I'm almost a little embarrassed, but I'll admit to watching
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the old reruns of spencer for hire.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Nothing embarrassing about that don't work? What about you, Amelia?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
What I'm watching, I'll do what I'm watching first. I'm
just I'm a big h I like it's odd because
small film, but I like production value. And I'm a
big franchise Spain. So I'm watching and or season two
and uh, I like Marvel stuff too. I mean, I'm
just like, you know, like James Gun's new Superman will
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be there, right, So it takes a lot. I'm going
to get into the theater too, So those are things
that get me to theaters. My advice is that be
prepared to suffer, okay, and uh and if you have it,
you have it like you got it.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
You got to keep it real.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
The business is changing. Who knows, who knows who will
be in five years, I'll be a bot. I'll lead
some AI director. Right, well, they'll clone me a something.
I don't know. It's just our business. So I think
I'm sorry to tell tell it, find a way to
tell it theater, write a book, put it on film.
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I don't know, you know, It's just like I wish
I could the advice I would give in the nineties
as an advice I would give today. So just know that, like, yeah,
think you really he is, so you got to suffer,
like there's no there's no shortcuts, you know. So but
what once you do do and is a really great
accomplishment and in terroiship.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
I really appreciate the realism because that is how it is.
So yeah, we appreciate it. And James and I were
constantly talking about, you know, the challenges of the filmmaking
of keeping movies alive, and you know, AI can't tell
human stories. I write humans tell human stories, and we
hope that that continues into perpetuity. Where can people find
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this film or more of yourself if you're like on
Instagram on the socials, where can they learn about the movie?
And then you We'll go through Gary and Daphne too,
all right.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
I don't use social media anymore. I think it's like
counterintuitive of who I am as an artist. I just
I do like YouTube reels, you know, I'll go because
that's just to be for some reason, the algorithm works
for me. But yeah, I don't do like the whole
following follow back type thing. What was your other question?
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Where can you find the film?
Speaker 3 (49:28):
June seventeenth available everywhere, so it'll be everywhere, so like Amazon, Apple,
Google Plus. I mean, this is all of them, like
wherever you write your films, if you want to buy it,
and then we'll after that, hopefully you know, one of
the streamers they'll pick it up. We just don't know
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which one yet, but I suggest if you're going to
watch it, might as well just watch it. Put seventeen and.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Gary, you're a local guy. Where can people find you?
Not your house address?
Speaker 6 (49:59):
Just you know, well I am in Witsec right now,
so I can't reveal my house address. So I'm Gary
bloom Acting and that's on Instagram, Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, So
Gary bloom Acting finds me just about anywhere on social media.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
And Daphne, it seems like we've got a lot of
projects coming in the future, very much looking forward to
where everyone goes after this. Where can people find you?
Speaker 5 (50:28):
Yeah, it's just my name, Daphne Blunt on all platforms,
I have them all wonderful.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
So the movie again is Another Day in America limited
release starting April twenty fifth, on streaming in June. Thank
you guys so much for being here on the hob
on Hollywood Amilily. If you like those reels.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Check us.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
We've got plenty of funny reels, lots of marvels on
houb on Hollywood, on Youtubehub on Hollywood, everywhere on the
social media's as well. Thank you guys again, and best
of luck with this film and all your future and
thank you all right. Thank you again to the director
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a while, and that is cine Quotes one of our
favorite games to play. I think we If you look
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at our stats, we have a We've won seventy six games,
We've lost eighteen, so we have eighty percent win rate
with a seven game win streak.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
I have we won that many?
Speaker 1 (52:35):
We've won that many. We're just that good. But I
will admit today is a Sunday stumpa, which means these
are notoriously harder for those who don't know cine quote.
It's a game. It's a mystery movie of the day,
and you have to guess what the movie is based
on a number of quotes. You have up to five
guesses with five different quotes, each one getting progressively easier,
(52:58):
I suppose. But again, this is the Sunday stumpa, so
hopefully at least stump sene quote. Jamie, are you ready
to knock this out?
Speaker 2 (53:08):
I am ready as ready as I'm going to be, James,
Let's give this a.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Shot, all right. We'll hit the first quote in three, two, one.
Speaker 4 (53:16):
Oh goodness, Oh god, so this is not English already,
this sounds like a foreigner film.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
What language is this?
Speaker 1 (53:32):
I don't know? This is translated into English. This has
grown up getting married soon. God knows what the future
will bring, it'll be just the same. Yeah, what a
what a way to start sene quote? Again, I'm not
quite sure, so we could try the next quote. Okay, Okay,
(53:53):
we'll do the next quote and three to one. Yeah,
we're not gonna do very well with this.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
This Japanese. I'm just trying to identify the language. No,
not Japanese. Uh, let's see. I'm gonna go on to
the next quote.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess just because I don't
know what language this is. But I'm gonna guess Godzilla
minus one. Okay, three two one? No, okay, So next quote,
next quote in a three two one.
Speaker 7 (54:51):
It's Chinese? Okay.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
How about flying tiger, hidden dragons.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
Sure, we're just naming like the most obvious, like Chinese movies, flye.
What is it? Crouching tiger, right.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
Crouching tiger. Yeah, crouching tiger, hidden dragon, dragon.
Speaker 1 (55:28):
Oh my god, it is good job, Jamie. Yes, my
next guest, My next guest was gonna be like Shanghai
Noon or something, Shanghai Knights. All right, Yeah, I knew
we had this in the bag. I wasn't worried. I
wasn't concerned. This is us, We're in the hub on Hollywood.
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If that's not a reason enough to subscribe and like
and follow, I don't know what is. But yeah, what
a great episode for those listening and watching. Let us know,
join the conversation. What are your thoughts on the whole
last of us debates? Whether are you watching it still?
Did you drop off? What do you think about people saying,
you know, it's not worth watching anymore now that Pedro
Pascal's character is gone. Don't forget the local casting news
(56:14):
for Tony the Anthony Bourdain movie that's coming out, as
well as some other projects and or have you dived
into and or and are you binging everything else in
the original trilogy? Let us know down below, and don't
forget to check out Another Day in America. But yeah, Jamie,
I think that's it. I think that's everything.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
James, Yeah, that was that. We've covered a lot of ground.
Thank you for joining us here on mahaf on Hollywood. Like, subscribe,
reach out to us, share some ideas. We love, to
keep talking, and maybe we'll make somebody mad again next
to next episode. I don't want to get anybody mad
at me this episode. I think Key exactly exactly until then.
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Until then, I'm Amy, I'm James see by
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host James Rojas.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And I'm Jamie blonco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, Jamie sits down with the director
and cast of a new movie that was filmed right
here in Massachusetts and is coming to select vaters. One
of the best shows of the last decade just wrapped
up and Or season two and it's brilliant. Jamie takes
us behind the scenes of the Walking Dead, Dead Cities,
(00:36):
Dead City. At this point, I'm sure the spinoff, the
sequel will be more cities, more dead cities, even deadlier deadlier.
Yees that local casting. But first, Jamie, let's talk about
you know what everybody's kind of talking about, and that
is the second season of the Last of Us. You
are a big fan of it. I'm a big fan
(00:57):
of it. But apparently, reportedly people are dropping off like flies,
like infected. It the loss of Pedro Pascal. He's not
not of Pedro Pascal, of his character. We still have.
We still have Pedro. Don't worry. Sorry to scary body.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh god, yes, we protect Pedro with our lives, absolutely,
But how reportedly Okay, because I know that I'm still
watching it and episode three, like right after the you know,
his brutal spoiler alert guys, if you haven't watched The
(01:38):
Last of Us you know spoilers here after his brutal
loss in episode two, Episode three was fantastic. I am
still really really enjoying the story. I am enjoying the
chemistry between the remaining characters and where it is going
(02:00):
and what is happening. It's other people's loss if they
just turn it off because we've lost Pedro. I feel
like the spirit of Pedro is still there, right, I
don't know, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, the fact is, and I think I've said this before,
that we're still going to see Joel reappeared throughout the season,
and we got that at the glimpse of the last episode,
like the teaser for the next episode, and we see flashbacks,
we see that Joel and Ellie are going to be
having more conversations. And so Pedro Pascal is not gone.
He's still in.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Still a serious show.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He's still in the show, even though his physical form
is a live, living form, isn't there. But the reason
why people are saying that that there's been a drop
a decline in viewership following you is because again more
information needs to come out. But if you looked at
the at the audience scores per episode, there was a
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significant drop of audio scores for the episode after episode
three and four compared to the pre the first episode
and second episode and of course the first season, and
so people are using that as a metric showing there's
less interest less people putting reviews in because of their
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disappointment and what happened, whether they knew that Pedro Pascal's
character was going to die or whether you know it
was a big surprise. A lot of people say that,
you know that is one big reason, you know, killing
off Joel, that we're seeing this kind of decline or
shift in viewership. And that's one thing that I asked
you because obviously you we are both big Pedro fans,
(03:41):
but I didn't ask you know, and you and you,
I'm not sure if you actually saw the episode where
he does de heart.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I watched all the way up to his departure, and
then I skipped past that because I can't, okay, because.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I did asks we're gonna watch afterwards, and you said
you were going to maybe not watch that scene, but
you were going to continue, Yes, and I have.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I have to what I have been able to watch.
Life is very busy, James, I'm not sure what episode
they're on so far. I'm at four.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I think okay, we're pretty much there. I think we're
coming about five.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, so I mean I feel like I'm pretty caught up. Actually, then,
I don't know. I think that people are grasping its straws.
I think that there's always people with an agenda who
are going to be upset no matter what you do
or what you say or what is in the show,
that are trying to maybe create a controversy. Right, They're
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trying to create drama around this, And I don't know
if that's good or bad, you know, because sometimes bad
press is good press. Any press is good press and
can bring more attention back to the show. But you know,
I think if you really are just gonna not watch
it just because your favorite character died, you know, and
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not give the rest of the show a chance, you
are really missing out.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I did bring up though, that you know, people were
people who knew about the game's twist and now the
series twist. They were saying that, you know, if you're
playing the video game, it's easy to continue that story
even though you are very disappointed in what happened. It's
much different when it comes to a television series or
a movie to be to keep that investment, you know strong.
(05:24):
So yeah, I wasn't initially or really surprised that there
would be a dip in viewership, but but you know,
it's sad to see because the story is continuing. It's
a great story and as you mentioned, the drama, the
people that are bringing up you know, oh, the Last
of Us is now terrible, it's unwatchable. There is you know,
there's the people who are being who are being I
(05:47):
don't know what's the right word, genuine, genuine about their
concerns and you know their their disappointment. But then there's
also that part of the internet where you have people
who are upset about the actress Bella Ramsey who plays Ellie.
Even since the first season, there are many people who
were like livid that she was selected as that character
because they say she looks nothing alike Ellie in the
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video game. You know, Pedro Pascal doesn't look exactly exactly
like Drol in the video game. But nobody had a
problem with that. But they had a problem with with
Bella taking that taking that role, and so I think
this is just another thing people can add on and
throw throw on top of, you know, more baggage and
and you know, just rant online about you know, why
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this is a bad show or why Ellie or Bella
is such a bad person to be in this in
this show. So I think that's a part of there's
a mix of genuine disappointment and those who are excited
and happy to be adding to the drama, and that in.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Fighting, happy to add to the drama. You know what
they say, James, haters gonna hate hate, hate, hate, and
you have just got to shake shake, shake, shake it off,
shake it off.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
We're gonna get demonetized now. Thanks, don't know, Oh god.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know who else is shaking it off? Our beloved Pedro,
our beloved Pedro. James just speaking about him. He was
at Cannes recently and had been asked about, you know,
the political turmoil happening in a country and the way
people fight each other online and things like that. And
(07:25):
I really think that Pedro's philosophy applies here as well.
And he's like f the people that try to make
you scared fight back, don't let them win. They try
to make you scared so that they can win, so
that they can take your power away. And just f
that he said over and over again. So that has
(07:46):
just become like this beautiful thing that's exploding online because
it's so simple, so pure, but so true. So it's
just one of the many reasons why we love Pedro.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
All right, go Pedro and go with the last of Us.
We're actually coming up on episode six, so we're recording
this Sunday. Episode drops tonight, And like I said, I'm
a fan of the actors, I'm a fan of the series.
I never played the video game, but I knew about
the twists, so I knew it going in. So maybe
that's why I'm not as heavily invested as all these
other people that are crying online. But I'm enjoying it
(08:21):
and I'm very excited to see where this goes because
at the last episode there was another twist developments, and
so this is going to take the series into a
whole other direction. So I'm really excited for that. And
we should also be really excited for new casting news
regarding a film that's based on one of the most
famous chefs and in all of the world mister Anthony Bourdain.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Mister Anthony Bourdaen Shooting for the film Tony, about the
life of Anthony Bourdeen is kicking off in Earnest in
New England, in Boston and out on the cape. Boston
Casting is the one handling this one, guys. So if
you haven't already, go to bostoncasting dot com, set up
(09:07):
your free profile, get the get the alerts and the emails,
and see if you can get put in the movie.
Right now, they're looking for a ton of people. They're
looking for gnarly looking fishermen, general background, they're looking for children.
They're looking for who's scruffy looking, gruffy looking nerfhurder that's
(09:28):
what they're looking for. Scruffy looking nerf herders to be
fishermen in Tony. So uh, if that sounds like you,
you're gonna want to go to Boston Casting. Check out
those those listings, sign up, throw your name in the hat,
in the ball, and then you know, see if you
get out on the boat. Boston Casting.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What's that make some waves, make a big splash.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Make some waves exactly. I don't think that that's part
of it. Would be more like Jaws. But anyways, also
also casting, Grant Wilfree Grand Wilfilly Casting is looking for
kids to portray high school students age fourteen to seventeen
(10:15):
for a new A twenty four horror series. This is
filming I believe in Connecticut and New Jersey and that
it's called Mama's Boy. It's going to be shooting June
through August. So they are looking for kids high schoolers
for that one. That is Grant Wilfree Casting. Mucho exciting.
(10:40):
You're gonna want to send an email to Mama's Boy
at GWC NYC dot com with the subject blind high
school high schooler and all your information, the kid's name,
their guardian, SAG number if they're SAG or non SAG, height, weight, pictures,
(11:03):
all that jazz, all that wonderful, wonderful stuff. Just backtracking
a little bit back to Boston Casting, they were celebrating
a pilot, a TV pilot that they helped put together
and that had recently premiered, called the Provider. A ton
of local talent involved in that one, So we'll see
(11:26):
where that project goes from here. And also big ups
to Kendall Cooper Casting who were behind a lot of
the castings for the Walking Dead, Dead City Season two,
which has premiered on AMC Plus and various other streaming
(11:46):
services that have a MC. So that's really exciting. Also,
we're going to be talking more about that and giving
you a little behind the scenes glimpse of the Dead
City and how they transformed Boston into a post apocalyptic
New York. But before we get there, James, what else
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are we talking about here on the on Hollywood?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Well, speaking of transforming, this latest series and or season
two is in the books and it has transformed the
way many of us Star Wars fans are watching the
original trilogy and Star Wars Rogue one a Star Wars story.
It's fantastic. It's some of the best again I think
television or you know TV series that's streaming over the
(12:34):
past decade. It is brilliantly written, brilliantly acted, brilliantly. How
many times can I say that it's beautifully shot? And
the season two just wrapped up and it takes it
takes us right into Rogue one, which then takes us
right into a new Hope. And this is again, are
(12:54):
you watching the show right now? Are you have you
been able to start it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm trying to start it. I'm trying to start it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Have you seen season one?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No, I'm bad, remember bad, bad, bad, Jamie bade Jar.
Maybe you can help me here, James, because I have
been I just feel like my heart has been burned
by Star Wars with the sequel trilogy. And you know,
there's just so much like emotional roller coaster between all
(13:22):
the different Star Wars projects. I know that and Or
is good. I know this intellectually, but I don't know
that I'm ready to let it into my heart if
I commit the time to watch the show, James, am
I going to be heartbroken? Is it? Or? Is it
like so diametrically opposed to all of the movies that
(13:43):
it's It doesn't feel like the same kind of Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
No, it feels like the original Star Wars. It feels
like the original trilogy. And and you need to have hope.
You need to have hope and go into this series.
And actually, I'm kind of jealous that you haven't seen
season one because being able to watch it for the
first time is one of those experiences that you know,
when you watch a big movie, you wish like man,
(14:06):
I wish could I wish I could clear my mind
and experience that movie for the first time. That's how
I kind of feel with Andor like like you're in
an incredible position right now to binge entire seasons one
two and then pick up the story with Rogue one
and then leap right into a new hope. It is
so seamless. That is why it feels such like a
(14:28):
like the original trilogy is that it seems so so
much like the original time period, the original era, and
it's great. Yeah, for those who are unfamiliar, Diego Luna
he plays Cassie and or Denise Goff as Dedra Stellan
Scarsgard as Luthan, one of the main characters who is
pulling all the strings and bringing the rebellion and different
(14:50):
factions together. We have Audria Orhana as bix, Elizabeth Doolah
as Clea, and Ellen Tudic reprising his role as that
big lovable droid K two s O and and again.
One thing, one thing that this series does is it
makes Rogue one even better. Because when Rogue one came out,
(15:13):
I think a lot of people they were saying, oh,
this feels so much like a different kind of Star
Wars movie. This is like a war, like an actual
like it feels like a real war, very grounded, you know,
without the Jedi and the lightsabers to the very end.
But you have a very realistic version, grounded version of
the Star Wars universe. And and you know that was
that was very fun and kind of gritty and stuff.
(15:34):
And so people had one perception of that, including myself,
not not that it was bad. A lot of people
enjoyed it before and Or, but they said, you know,
it's a great different kind of different kind of way
to tell the Star Wars story. And then when you
have and Or come in, and this actually was a
series that I wasn't really looking forward to because I
was like, and Or, this is you're building an entire
series about this character. In this movie, I wasn't on,
(15:56):
you know, too thrilled. But it really does does a
great job at adding character depth to these to these characters.
And and and we're building the world and showing you
all the steps that have led up to the rebellion,
you know, growing in numbers and growing its strength and
(16:17):
eventually standing up to the empire. And and in it
is it takes such a grounded This is the good
thing and bad thing about the show is that so
realistic that it reminds you of modern day things and events,
of empires rising to power, of propaganda being used to
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divide people, of how fear is a tactic to try
to suppress, suppress, suppress rebellion, and to extinguish any hope
there is and so. And the thing is this show
is written five years ago, and so take so the
director and writer Tony Gilroy, he actually looked at past history,
like the history of you know, of different eras all
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around the world about rebellion and tyrants and civil wars
and all that stuff to tell this story. And it
just shows you that history repeats itself unfortunately too many times.
And so that's one of the creative one of the
beautiful things. And how timely this is, and that makes
and Or fantastic. I want to go into spoilers because
if you haven't watched it, like yourself, Jamie, I highly
(17:22):
recommend you do it. Just know that this is peak
Star Wars. This is right up there with the Empire
strikes Back. People are saying even better than the Empire
Strikes Back. And I will be very easily swayed to
agree with that. So if you love the original trilogy,
if you love you know espionage, you know secret spies,
(17:46):
and a slow burned to an amazing climax, this is
the series for you to watch right now, especially during
our current times.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Okay, all right, I.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Believe you.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Everybody's yelling at me watch and watch and or watch it. Fine,
I will.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but yes, as.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Long as you guarantee that it won't break my heart.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I mean, you already know what happens to end if
you've seen Rogue. Have you seen Rogue one? Okay, yeah,
so you already know what happens to and Or and
engine or so at the end.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But and Or.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, so you'll you'll definitely have feels again if you
watch Rogue one after and or season two, then there's
more weight to deaths. There are more there's more weight
to moments, and so it makes Rogain, like I said,
Rogue one and even better film because after I finished
Season two, I went right into Rogue one, rewatched it again,
and right after Rogue one, I went straight into a
(18:52):
New Hope. And it's just one long, seamless transition from
show to the movie It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
A chef's kiss, chef's kiss, chef's kiss. Good, good good.
I'm happy to hear that. I'm happy to hear that
makes me feel a little bit better about starting it,
and perhaps I can compartmentalize my despair over the sequel
trilogies and just pretend like that didn't happen. You know what,
(19:23):
But you shouldn't pretend didn't happen. Are the incredible shows
that get made here in New England. And one of
those is now available to watch and stream on AMC Plus,
and that is called Dead City season two. James, have
(19:45):
you did you watch Walking Dead? Did you watch all
of it? Have you watched any of the spin offs?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I kept up with The Walking Dead up until like
season three was the last season. Probably I watched maybe four,
But after three or four, I was like, that's tapping out. Yeah,
I'm walking done, you're walking done.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah. I think you know. The part of my my
husband and I's issue with it was that you never
found out like what happened or why, or like it's
just it doesn't seem like there's any cure or anything
that's gonna happen. It's just I don't know, but either way,
still a very a very strong fan base and a
(20:29):
great series and a series of spin offs that continue,
including this one. Dead City season two, which was filmed
here in Massachusetts, and James I got to spend a
little over a month actually working on this one when
they were here, and it was just one of the
(20:53):
most fun, most interesting experiences that I have ever had
on set here in New England. So I'm just super
super excited about all the local people that were featured
in this one. And uh, if you're cool with it,
I'd like to kind of share what what that was
(21:14):
like when they were filming here.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I suppose I'll be cool with it. Yes, of course,
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, Well, this is my first time like working with
zombies and like real movie monsters and things.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I know, you wanted to be a zombie or be
a monster.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I wasn't tall enough, so for this one they only
wanted like super tall, skinny people for for the walkers,
which makes sense right because you.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Can argue short zombies are pretty scary too. They're like,
get away from you gonna bite my ankle, ankle, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Anyways, you gotta have like a short Latina zombie man.
They're out there like just you know, the cell saying
across towards you and never mind, I don't know where
that's going. But uh, that was a really interesting experience.
So they had like three levels of zombies depending on
(22:08):
how close you were to the camera. They had the
full prosthetic zombies who were you know, for the closest,
closest up shots. They had zombies with just the rubber
like latex mask and a costume. And then they had
deep background zombies that just kind of had like a
little nylon on their head and we're just going, ah,
(22:30):
you know, deep back around. It was worth it, but
I felt really bad for these folks too. So I
was both an extra, a background extra on Dead City
and a stand in for one of the principal characters.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
First was that were you a standing character for a
standing for Nagan?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I was not a stand in for Nigan, he's just
a little tall for me. I was a stand in
for Ginny, for the fourteen year old Jinny, who's one
of the kids starring in this show with Lauren Cohen
obviously walking dead to Maggie, which was just really really exciting.
(23:15):
But I was gonna say on the days that I
was a background extra. I come out on season season two,
episode one, Guys, Season two, episode one, I am a
soldier because I'm so menacing James, right, I'm so like intimidating.
But let me tell you what I got. I mean
mugged the heck out of Maggie all right, out of
(23:36):
Lauren Cohen. There's a scene where she's walking out of
these double doors and she's standing off in front of
like this group of soldiers and I'm right in the front,
James right in the front, giving her that mean mug
and like lifting my chin and I've got my hand
on a gun and just ready, like I was just
acting my ass off.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You should have improvised based and just started shooting like
like bang bang bang bang bang noise.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, you could do that once. You can do anything
once and then they'll fire you. But this was also
my first time using weapons on set. And when they
were filming this last year, this was right after the
on set shooting of Helena Hutchins. Yeah, right on the
(24:25):
set of Rust, and so when it came to getting
our prop guns, it was very locked down. It was
very you know, every single weapon was checked by three
different people. Even though these were completely inoperable things. They
were taking no chances whatsoever. It took forever to get
(24:46):
that gun, you know, into my holster and then out
of my ulster, into my holster, out of my holster
because you weren't allowed to go to the bathroom with it,
you weren't allowed to reset with it. So that was
my first experience with weapons. On set with Monsters, I
got to watch this whole scene where Maggie and Jenny
are fighting zombies in a corral, which was all shot
(25:08):
in Taunton. This location in Taunton was a real abandoned building,
a real abandoned like brick factory building where we were
shooting at and actually the night before, a couple of
nights before we shot this big outdoor scene, one of
the buildings collapsed. Oh wow, it actually collapsed and they
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had to corner a lot of it off and we
had to have a safety briefing because it was still
glass and debris you know, all over this area where
we were going to be filming. So that was not intentional,
but it looked great in the background, but it was
completely unintentional. So it was just a really exciting experience.
(25:55):
There were tons of fans that were there, like Walking
Dead fans that were camped outside of these shooting locations
every single day. Uh so that was really nice to
be walking by in full costume and waving to folks.
And it was just such a great energy Lauren.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Walking Dead Dead fans have like a nickname or anything,
like the dudes, the Walking dead Heads.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Perhaps I don't know the Walking dead Heads. Maybe I
wish I knew. I wish I knew, But they were
so enthusiastic and and fun, and they were all, you know,
looking out for Meagan and looking out for Lower and Cohen,
and so it was just a lot of really great energy.
(26:43):
And Lauren Cohen just brought the energy as well. Not
only was you know, being across from her like this
masterclass in acting. She's just spectacular and kind, but she
also directed a number of these episodes. I got to
watch her direct, which was fantastic. As I mentioned, I
also got to be a stand in for Ginny. So
(27:05):
a lot of these scenes, I'm you know, I'm there
for the eye line, for the camera's eye line or whatever.
But there were a few scenes where I was literally
sitting across the table from the principal actors when Ginny
didn't need to be in the scene, but they needed
eye lines. So They're shooting the back of my head,
and I'm sitting in the scene with the main characters
(27:28):
of this show giving them all of the emotion that
they need, staring into Maggie from The Walking Dead's eyeballs,
you know, is staring into her soul while she stares
into my soul and acting my ass off off camera,
you know, in support of a big actor like it
was just such an incredible experience, James, And it's just
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one of those magical things that you can do here
in New England because not only are there opportunities and
so many movies and TV shows that get made here,
there's not as much competition as there is like in
La or New York or whatever. Like, it's just it's
a marvelous place, right It's it's a magical sort of
sort of region where where dreams like this can happen
(28:12):
and and come true. So I just I had such
an amazing experience on this set in so many different ways. Oh,
the stunts as well. There were explosions on boats and
a boat on a rig and a warehouse and god,
the explosions were so cool. Everybody needs to watch the show.
(28:36):
You should go watch it and check out all of
the all of the great local talent that are in
featured background roles, day player roles. Just hundreds, if not
thousands of local folks working on this one.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
What episode are you and I am an episode?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I am an episode? Yeah, very first one. I get
like three whole seconds of screen time of my face,
like mean mugging magnet, so very excited.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Excellent, excellent. All right, go out there watch the Walking Dead,
Dead City, and then eventually they're spin offs dead towns
and dead quarries and dead canyons. It's spreading, just like
an virus.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
All right, James. Speaking of local projects that people need
to watch, there is a film locally made about to
start a theatrical release before heading to streaming, called Another
Day in America. We had the opportunity to speak with
the director and two of the actors involved in this
very interesting, very gosh aggressive project. I want to say,
(29:48):
and it's based on a true story about something that
happened in our region as well. So without further ado,
here's our interview with the cast and director of Another
Day in America. And today we are talking with the
cast and the director of Another Day in America. Really
(30:13):
excited to talk about this one. It is a film
that is about to start. It's a limited theatrical release.
We've got director Amelia Morrow as well as two of
the stars, Gary Bloom and Daphney Blunt to thank you
guys for joining us.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
So. Another Day in America is a bold, genre defying
feature directed by Amelia Morrow that is in theaters April
twenty fifth. Based on true events. It's a dark, radical
film that dissects the modern workplace through a piercing and
satirical lens.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
And so I.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Watched the trailer for this. It seems like it starts
off like a normal day in the office and it
just gets very quickly things go south. Emilio, I want
to start with you. Tell us a little bit about
what thought you started on this project and what you
wanted to accomplish with it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I have this idea of the story that you know
has this ending that sort of it's tough because you know,
I have to make the decision or spoil it or not,
but it has this kind of ending. I guess you
have to spoil it because Gary's here. But the movie
essentially is about an office shooting that took place in
nineteen ninety nine at a company and a technology company
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and Wakefield, Massachusetts. And what struck me about that office
shooting at the time was that it was a day
after Christmas. So it's the first time that I thought
about the people that went into the office that because
obviously the day after Christmas is not a typical workday.
You bring it in my you know, other whatever happened
to the day of Christmas, you probably bring it into
that next day. So obviously I didn't want to do
(32:01):
that because you know, I didn't want to really touch
the Christmas thing. But essentially, a bunch of people that
went out the night before or some things happened the
day before, and that's the next day, and we chronologically,
hour by hour, go through the workday. So what I
wanted to accomplish was what maybe those people felt on
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that day, that they're just dealing with their lives and
then all of a sudden, towards the end of the day,
this tragic event, right, And.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
It's all about that that internal and external pressure. You
can definitely see in the trailer how all of these
divides and conflicts and tensions sort of build up throughout,
and I just wanted to go over to Gary and
Daphne really quickly. Daphne will start with you, but same
(32:53):
question for both what got you into this project and
what it's cited or challenged you the most about it?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Well, I got into the project Amilio found me on
like an old list of actresses as he was sorting
through looking for people and just kind of reached out
to me and wanted to see if i'd audition. And
I had taken a break from acting for a while
and was looking to get back into things, So it
was kind of perfect timing. And when I read the script,
I was like, obviously so intrigued and so captured. I
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don't come across a lot of scripts like that that
touch on so many interesting topics. But it was nothing
like anything I'd ever done before. I've done like comedy
and family shows before this, so I was like really
excited to challenge myself to be in this like drama,
to be like a main character. I had to cry,
I had to do all these things that I'd never done,
So it was a really exciting adventure and it definitely
(33:47):
pushed me in my acting and my process to really
work on this character.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Thank you and Gary.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I was brought onto the project in a completely different way.
My cousin, Jonathan's Fire, who's one of the other actors
in the project, reached out to me and said, hey,
we're looking for a guy for a particular role and
we think you could do it. We want you to
meet with Emilio. So I remember Amelio, I think where
(34:14):
we sit in some downtown newberry St yep. And we
talked and as we left, Amelio was like, you know,
you're a good fit for the role. Let's do it.
So my approach was, you know, through my cousin, and
I'll always be appreciative to him and to Amelio for
(34:34):
this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
And what did you feel about this role? Taking on
this role in particular with this character.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
So this role.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Was different for me because I'm not usually and I
don't want to give away too much, but I'm not
usually the bad guy, and I'm kind of the bad
guy in this film. But so it was just a
different type of role for me. But I think one
of the most powerful messages of the film, and there
are actually many powerful messages. One of the powerful messages
(35:06):
is it helps put things in perspective and you realize
that what seems so incredibly important because you didn't get
this raise, you didn't get this promotion, or you know,
somebody insulted your work, all of a sudden, you realize
that it's not so important after all in the big
picture of things.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Well, I want to back up just a little bit,
back to Emilio. So this movie is not only locally filmed,
local talent, it's based on a local tragedy. Emilio, I
want you to talk to me a little bit about
filmmaking in New England, storytelling in New England, and the
stories that need to be told from here.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah, I don't really see this as like a Boston story.
I think that what happened at that office that day,
it was just more of a like an emotional reaction
to something that I wanted to tell, story of a
group of people that went to work one day and
a lot of them didn't come home and they were
(36:06):
dealing with things from the day before. Obviously, like I mentioned,
as far as doing things locally, man, I love Boston.
I love Boston films. I'd love to do more of them.
I wouldn't specifically say this setting. It's pretty obviously it's
Boston because there's some sole locations that you can see
that as Boston.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
But.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
This isn't a film about Bostonians. Like Daphne is in
la I don't think you've ever been to Boston, only
only in the movie. Yeah, And like recruiting the actors
was interesting because like you know yet, like I remember
(36:46):
when John sent me Gary, He's like, I think that's
the guy. I'm like him right away. I was like yeah.
And with Daphne, I saw her in a magazine that
like ranked like the thirty most up and coming African
American actresses. So I actually had a friend recruiter because
I didn't have any way to get over so it
(37:08):
was just easier a friend. Like I think, I think
we're kel d ending right, Yeah. Yeah, So it's just
kind of like you know, and like two of the
guys that Joey and the guy who plays Deuce Man,
they're they're both from Texas, so there's definitely a local
influence as factors. But like Richie, Paul Natasha, I mean
like we actually for a small movie, we actually flew
(37:30):
a lot of people in to work on this, so
and I really wanted to be clear that it wasn't
this like Boston story. Like, for instance, Oliver who plays Scott,
who's Aaron who plays Taffany plays Eron. He uses a
British accent. So it's just like it's another day in America,
not like another day in Boston. So I just want
(37:50):
to be clear that it's not a Boston thing. But
as far as generally speaking, I think, you know, Boston's
are an amazing city, and then we have a lot
of great stories here. I just don't think this is
actually one of them. Uh. This is just the universal
story that could really go happen in any city at
any time.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
So it's a universal human story. Yeah, something that happens
in America every day. But what was it like making
the film here in New England versus La New York?
What are the program.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yeah that's allowed me to use uh local influence that
I had, or any local favors from renting the office
to the investors that investing. I think all the investors
are actually local. So I will say that it's a
true friends and family type film. I always say back,
like I would say, I made like a nineties film,
(38:47):
you know, where everyone like chipped in their money and
made a film.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
And everyone who who worked on this is really just
brought their a game and really took it as like, Hey,
this is like a film that I want, I want
to that I love, and I don't want to make great.
So it was like all hands on deck every day.
So it was just great. I don't know if I
would have gotten that if I went to Oklahoma to
go make this.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Help Gary and Daphne talk to me a little bit
about working here and what it was like on set
once you finally got on set and you were dealing
with the material in the shooting. Kind of take us
through your process and your experience on set, and we'll
start with Gary this time.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
The experience on set was amazing. You know, Emilio had
a top notch crew. The DP was fantastic. We had
an amorer on set because there were some weapons involved.
He sat me down, he trained me on the two
different weapons that were used that day. You know, it
was just a great experience. Everybody was professional, everybody knew
(39:52):
their job. It was a really tight run set, which
I think is about the biggest compliment you can pay
to a set. It was very tightly wrung.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Great, Yeah, that is good to hear. I'm on set
a lot too, and I've seen some of the best
and some of the worst, So that is a big compliment.
And Daphne, what was the experience for you?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Like, it was fantastic?
Speaker 7 (40:17):
It was.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I think I was on set the most days of
any of the actors. I was there a lot, and
it just getting to see everything going on. Everybody really
was working really well together, and we were filming in
an actual office, so it like you could very easily
immerse yourself in the ambiance and the setting of what
was going on. Like every time I would go to
the bathroom, like the people from the other businesses would
(40:39):
come out into the hallway and be like, what are
you doing? Why are you here? So it was a
very it was a very immersive experience. And like I said,
I had never been to Boston before filming this, and
I loved it. I love going to new places and
getting to explore. I was very amused by everyone's accents
and like the different like food, culture and just all
of those things. And it was snowing. Doesn't it doesn't
(41:00):
snow in Los Angeles. So it was really it was
really fun experience.
Speaker 8 (41:05):
Wonderful And as far as what you hope people take
out of the film and your character, what do you
hope that they get out of it?
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Yeah, I feel like Aaron is such the embodiment like
maybe like a little bit of a drastic version, but
like such the embodiment embodiment of like a gen Z
girl who like has all these dreams. She's kind of
stuck in like the old world where you need to
get a corporate job and you need to pay your
bills and do all these things. And and I think
it's really easy to perceive her in a negative way,
(41:37):
but really she's just kind of the o, her own
hero of her own life. And I hope it gives
people a little bit of insight and compassion when they see,
you know, girls going for these things that can be
very easily perceived as like vain or materialistic.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I love that answer, Amelio. Back to you, so, tell
us a little bit about your journey as a director
growing up here, how you got into film and the
kind of stories that you like to tell. You know,
(42:13):
how have we gotten here to this point with you? Wow?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
It's like a long question. I'll try to give you
like the shortest version of it. I'm always everyone loves movies,
if you're not, if you're in the movie businesses, because
you love movies, and especially if you want to work
behind the camera. I I you know, I'm influenced by
the movies that I saw as a kid at that
(42:38):
I thought were real, right, like, oh I know that person,
I feel that you know so, and I just yeah,
I started up early. I guess it's like a student filmmaker.
I stopped all that and went through this other path
in life and then I started writing again with somebody
and we got some luck early on. But I think
(43:00):
that the one thing that you know, I mentioned this
a lot in these interviews, is that I never wanted
to direct. I just liked writing. And uh, I thought
my contribution on my writing would be like producing, like
because prices get the hands on a lot of things.
But I realized at the end of the day that
just through my journey that whatever I write, I probably
(43:21):
have to direct. And that's why I directed this. This
was my first time directing, and honestly, directing was just
an expansion of my writing. It was it was as
natural to me as writing it, while oddly producing fields
are very unnatural to me. So yeah, so I don't
(43:42):
think ans any question, but I think I did it.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah and so, and now we're going to the theatrical release.
Tell us about how we secured the theatrical release and
where people can go and see this film.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
So, uh, you know, I've been around a little bit.
So a company called x y Z represented the film,
a very prominent sales company. They found a distributor that
really loved it, and I think they did a small
theatrical release. And now I think we're all kind of
gearing up with this like June seventeenth, like nationwide digital
(44:17):
release that'll be on like Google plas, Amazon, Apple where
people can rent it or buy it. So I think
that's kind of where because it's in a small film
and a lot of the commentary, it kind of lives
on like a digital platform like like x or Twitter
or whatever you want to call it now or you know,
Like it's funny, if you watch the film, you'll see
a lot of the dialogue kind of it's like comes
(44:39):
a lot. It's like almost like a comment section of
like a very polarizing tweet, right, So that's like, so
I kind of you know, I always said early on
in the press of this film is that film lose
out in real time to the Internet. So but what
film has is the power narrative, the power storytelling, and
that's why films that are fifty years old is still
(45:02):
awesome to watch. So I wanted something that's timeless the
way The Breakfast Club is timeless. And like you go
back and watch The Breakfast Club and even to the
eighties movie, you only what eighties problems they resonate. So
that was really my ultimate goal is to literally compete
against the internet, compete against the commentary that we lose
in real time on a you know, and I love
(45:23):
podcasts like the Joe Rogan podcast, but give them something
that has those narrative components that can survive time. And
so we'll see, we'll see what, We'll see what people
thinking about a month.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Okay, well, I'm excited to see this one. I'm excited
to see everyone's performances in it. I think a last
question for the whole group would just be what is
your advice for actors or filmmakers who are up and
coming want to do? What you're doing and what are
(45:56):
you watching now? Those two advice and what you watching now,
that's usually what we end up. So why don't we
start with Daphne?
Speaker 5 (46:05):
Yes, I mean my advice would just be to get
yourself out there, like, find friends, make films, get yourself
on the sites. If you're looking to audition, get hotshots,
like just get out there and start doing it. I know,
fear is something that holds a lot of people back,
and that's just really a big thing to get over.
And then what am I watching now? I'm like, oh
my gosh, I watched so many random things. I just
(46:26):
watched this really good I love like crime series. I
just watched a really good series called The Stolen Girl.
That's what I would recommend, all.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Right, very own theme.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
How about you? Gary?
Speaker 6 (46:37):
I give the most common advice which everybody gives, which
is just don't give up because you never know what
opportunities around the corner. You know, winners never win, and
winners never quit. Just keep going and you're work hard enough,
your chance will come. As far as what I'm watching now,
I'm almost a little embarrassed, but I'll admit to watching
(46:58):
the old reruns of spencer for hire.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Nothing embarrassing about that don't work? What about you, Amelia?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
What I'm watching, I'll do what I'm watching first. I'm
just I'm a big h I like it's odd because
small film, but I like production value. And I'm a
big franchise Spain. So I'm watching and or season two
and uh, I like Marvel stuff too. I mean, I'm
just like, you know, like James Gun's new Superman will
(47:27):
be there, right, So it takes a lot. I'm going
to get into the theater too, So those are things
that get me to theaters. My advice is that be
prepared to suffer, okay, and uh and if you have it,
you have it like you got it.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
You got to keep it real.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
The business is changing. Who knows, who knows who will
be in five years, I'll be a bot. I'll lead
some AI director. Right, well, they'll clone me a something.
I don't know. It's just our business. So I think
I'm sorry to tell tell it, find a way to
tell it theater, write a book, put it on film.
(48:06):
I don't know, you know, It's just like I wish
I could the advice I would give in the nineties
as an advice I would give today. So just know that, like, yeah,
think you really he is, so you got to suffer,
like there's no there's no shortcuts, you know. So but
what once you do do and is a really great
accomplishment and in terroiship.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
I really appreciate the realism because that is how it is.
So yeah, we appreciate it. And James and I were
constantly talking about, you know, the challenges of the filmmaking
of keeping movies alive, and you know, AI can't tell
human stories. I write humans tell human stories, and we
hope that that continues into perpetuity. Where can people find
(48:52):
this film or more of yourself if you're like on
Instagram on the socials, where can they learn about the movie?
And then you We'll go through Gary and Daphne too,
all right.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
I don't use social media anymore. I think it's like
counterintuitive of who I am as an artist. I just
I do like YouTube reels, you know, I'll go because
that's just to be for some reason, the algorithm works
for me. But yeah, I don't do like the whole
following follow back type thing. What was your other question?
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Where can you find the film?
Speaker 3 (49:28):
June seventeenth available everywhere, so it'll be everywhere, so like Amazon, Apple,
Google Plus. I mean, this is all of them, like
wherever you write your films, if you want to buy it,
and then we'll after that, hopefully you know, one of
the streamers they'll pick it up. We just don't know
(49:49):
which one yet, but I suggest if you're going to
watch it, might as well just watch it. Put seventeen and.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Gary, you're a local guy. Where can people find you?
Not your house address?
Speaker 6 (49:59):
Just you know, well I am in Witsec right now,
so I can't reveal my house address. So I'm Gary
bloom Acting and that's on Instagram, Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, So
Gary bloom Acting finds me just about anywhere on social media.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
And Daphne, it seems like we've got a lot of
projects coming in the future, very much looking forward to
where everyone goes after this. Where can people find you?
Speaker 5 (50:28):
Yeah, it's just my name, Daphne Blunt on all platforms,
I have them all wonderful.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
So the movie again is Another Day in America limited
release starting April twenty fifth, on streaming in June. Thank
you guys so much for being here on the hob
on Hollywood Amilily. If you like those reels.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Check us.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
We've got plenty of funny reels, lots of marvels on
houb on Hollywood, on Youtubehub on Hollywood, everywhere on the
social media's as well. Thank you guys again, and best
of luck with this film and all your future and
thank you all right. Thank you again to the director
(51:09):
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Apple podcasts everywhere we are there, So yeah, thanks so
much and reach out, Jamie. We haven't done this in
a while, and that is cine Quotes one of our
favorite games to play. I think we If you look
(52:20):
at our stats, we have a We've won seventy six games,
We've lost eighteen, so we have eighty percent win rate
with a seven game win streak.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
I have we won that many?
Speaker 1 (52:35):
We've won that many. We're just that good. But I
will admit today is a Sunday stumpa, which means these
are notoriously harder for those who don't know cine quote.
It's a game. It's a mystery movie of the day,
and you have to guess what the movie is based
on a number of quotes. You have up to five
guesses with five different quotes, each one getting progressively easier,
(52:58):
I suppose. But again, this is the Sunday stumpa, so
hopefully at least stump sene quote. Jamie, are you ready
to knock this out?
Speaker 2 (53:08):
I am ready as ready as I'm going to be, James,
Let's give this a.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Shot, all right. We'll hit the first quote in three, two, one.
Speaker 4 (53:16):
Oh goodness, Oh god, so this is not English already,
this sounds like a foreigner film.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
What language is this?
Speaker 1 (53:32):
I don't know? This is translated into English. This has
grown up getting married soon. God knows what the future
will bring, it'll be just the same. Yeah, what a
what a way to start sene quote? Again, I'm not
quite sure, so we could try the next quote. Okay, Okay,
(53:53):
we'll do the next quote and three to one. Yeah,
we're not gonna do very well with this.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
This Japanese. I'm just trying to identify the language. No,
not Japanese. Uh, let's see. I'm gonna go on to
the next quote.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess just because I don't
know what language this is. But I'm gonna guess Godzilla
minus one. Okay, three two one? No, okay, So next quote,
next quote in a three two one.
Speaker 7 (54:51):
It's Chinese? Okay.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
How about flying tiger, hidden dragons.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
Sure, we're just naming like the most obvious, like Chinese movies, flye.
What is it? Crouching tiger, right.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
Crouching tiger. Yeah, crouching tiger, hidden dragon, dragon.
Speaker 1 (55:28):
Oh my god, it is good job, Jamie. Yes, my
next guest, My next guest was gonna be like Shanghai
Noon or something, Shanghai Knights. All right, Yeah, I knew
we had this in the bag. I wasn't worried. I
wasn't concerned. This is us, We're in the hub on Hollywood.
(55:50):
If that's not a reason enough to subscribe and like
and follow, I don't know what is. But yeah, what
a great episode for those listening and watching. Let us know,
join the conversation. What are your thoughts on the whole
last of us debates? Whether are you watching it still?
Did you drop off? What do you think about people saying,
you know, it's not worth watching anymore now that Pedro
Pascal's character is gone. Don't forget the local casting news
(56:14):
for Tony the Anthony Bourdain movie that's coming out, as
well as some other projects and or have you dived
into and or and are you binging everything else in
the original trilogy? Let us know down below, and don't
forget to check out Another Day in America. But yeah, Jamie,
I think that's it. I think that's everything.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
James, Yeah, that was that. We've covered a lot of ground.
Thank you for joining us here on mahaf on Hollywood. Like, subscribe,
reach out to us, share some ideas. We love, to
keep talking, and maybe we'll make somebody mad again next
to next episode. I don't want to get anybody mad
at me this episode. I think Key exactly exactly until then.
(56:59):
Until then, I'm Amy, I'm James see by
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