November 14, 2025 • 32 mins
🎙 David Arquette joins Chanel in the City!
Hollywood icon David Arquette (@davidarquette) stops by Chanel in the City to chat with host Chanel Omari about his brand-new film The Perfect Gamble, starring Danny A and Daniella Pick Tarantino and the inspiration behind his character and why he loved making the movie so much!Â
Arquette gives us an exclusive scoop on Scream 7 and shares how it feels to be back in the franchise fans can’t get enough of.
He also opens up about balancing family life with acting, what it’s like being a longtime family friend in the industry, and why—after all these years—he’s still wildly in love with the craft.
Plus, David shares a heartfelt hope: to one day act alongside all of his siblings in a single film.
Don’t miss this fun, warm, and intimate episode with @davidarquette!
Hollywood icon David Arquette (@davidarquette) stops by Chanel in the City to chat with host Chanel Omari about his brand-new film The Perfect Gamble, starring Danny A and Daniella Pick Tarantino and the inspiration behind his character and why he loved making the movie so much!Â
Arquette gives us an exclusive scoop on Scream 7 and shares how it feels to be back in the franchise fans can’t get enough of.
He also opens up about balancing family life with acting, what it’s like being a longtime family friend in the industry, and why—after all these years—he’s still wildly in love with the craft.
Plus, David shares a heartfelt hope: to one day act alongside all of his siblings in a single film.
Don’t miss this fun, warm, and intimate episode with @davidarquette!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, I'm David Arquette and you're listening to Chanelle in
the City on iHeartRadio, and she is the greatest.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Chanelle in
the City on iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Chanelle Omari, and
we have such an incredible, exciting guest on the show today.
He's an icon. He's one of my favorite actors of
all time. He's literally a phenomenal actor.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
He has a new.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Movie coming out called The Perfect Gamble. It's amazing out
in theaters and on streaming platforms all over November fourteenth,
with Danny A and Daniella Tarantino. Please help us welcome
the amazing, the talented, the awesome David Arquette to the show.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Such a sweet intro. I'm doing good. Thanks for having.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Me, Thank you for doing this. This is a dream
come true. I just want to let you know you're
an amazing human being. I got to meet you at
the premiere of Mob Cops, which you were also in.
You were such a beautiful You're just an amazing human being.
I think people should learn from you and all well
rounded human being and you're an amazing actor. I've been
following your career forever. So thank you. Really, you're making
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this girl's dream come true. So I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Agree, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
No, really, And you're a great husband I hear, and
a father and I don't know how you do it all.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And I can't even brush my hair, so.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't know. I don't have excuses anymore. I don't know.
Thank you, So tell us about the movie. This movie
is like, it really gave me chills because it reminded
me of Casino meets Good Fellas, and we haven't had
a mob movie like that in a while. Of course
mob cops. But talk to us about the role, your
role in what the movie is about. What do we
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expect from this movie.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's a really fun movie. There's a lot of energy.
It centers around Initially, two friends stay Charlie and Danny
the director place Felix, and they they're the best bookies
in the city. So they're that they're working the numbers,
they love the odds and just betting on different sports games.
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Uh like run a little illegal sports book. But they
get busted and they have to go to jail, and
when they get out, they decide to go to the
country of Georgia to open an illegal underground casino and
it starts to going great, and then the Russian mob
finds out about it and they come in, and then
all the trouble starts along the way. They meete a
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character named Sonia's played by Daniella picked Tarantino in her
first leading role, and she's really wonderful in it, and
then they fall for each other, Sonya and Charlie, and
then he doesn't know if he can trust her, and
then he doesn't know if he could trust Felix anymore.
And my character, what really appealed to me is that
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he's this, you know, it's a different kind of type
of character that I get to play where he's a
little more serious but there's still some humor involved. But
he's scrambling like he's just trying to stay above water
and all these things are going wrong and he's just
trying to make it all work, and you kind of
see it all come together. There's a lot of action
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and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I know, I love it. Danny A. Speaking of danny A,
who's incredible. Shout out to danny A, we love him,
good friend of ours.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You've you've been.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Acting in movies with a lot of movies. Actually this
is now the thing for yeah, fourth movie. How is
it working with him? Acting with him? You know he
also directed Mop Pops, because that's another movie people should
check out right now. That's a great movie. Talk to
us about working with him too. How is it? How
was that on the Perfect Amble?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It was great. I mean there's a certain like secondhand
and like comfortable nature that you have with friends that
you've known for years. I mean I've known him since,
you know, it's like the early nineties, and and and
so just to be able to act opposite him, I
never really had that opportunity. We're both in mob town,
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but we didn't have any scenes with each other. So
this one we really get to like have these scenes.
It is just so funny and I you know, he's
got you know, his characters really high energy, like coming
at me. My character is a little bit more reserved,
and so it was a fun dynamic to play with.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's awesome. And how did you get into character?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Because I know you did mention this is more of
a serious role, and you're incredible in it. And I
love how you can both be funny and serious. I
think the duality is so incredible for an act as
an actor and me, you know I as up and
coming actors, struggling actors, we look up to you and
be like, oh, how do you transition? So what did
you do to get ready for the role? Like what
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do you usually do? What inspired you?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I love I love Like I've known some professional gamblers,
and then their mentality alone is really interesting to study.
They just have a thing with numbers and things with
odds and things with like the excitement of gambling, and
they do it in this very cool way. It's interesting
to watch. I'm not like that when I'm gambling.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm like, I don't know how to gamble. Okay, I
don't know. I would be the worst poker player because
I don't even have a poker face.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, poker, I love too. So I love the world
and I read a really great book on a bookie
and then just sort of being in the world and
just having these great two actors to work with, I mean,
among others in the movies, but especially Danny and Daniella.
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They were just wonderful characters to work with.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Do you think in real life a lot of us
kind of have that booking mentality where it's like these
ups and downs where you think you're on the right track,
right and then in the movie you said, there's twists
and turns and then you find yourself in this hole.
Like do you do you feel like sometimes in your
life or just you see other friends go down this
path where they think they got it or something's illegal
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and they're like, it's gonna be fine. I gotta make money,
I got to support my family, and then it it's
all taken away from them. I mean, do you feel
like you've ever had that or you can relate to
that in life in real life?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Absolutely? Yeah. I've had moments in my life where I
definitely feel like I'm scrambling trying to like figure it
out and trying to just stay ahead. And you know,
I mean, as silly as it sounds, like, just life
is kind of sometimes like that because it's busy things
going on, you know, obstacles occur and you just have
to kind of hustle.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, I mean it's it's a fun tempo for a
movie because, yeah, like going and then the element of
like violence and danger and this mom and all these
wonderful actors in those roles.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's it's like it's like life's a gamble.
That's when when you're watch it. There's a lot of metaphors.
You know, there's a lot of metaphors that I was
able to relate to, and I was like, wow, even
if I'm not a gambler, I could totally this is
a great movie. Like you guys really are so phenomenal
in it. It's amazing, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And Georgia, the place Georgia, yeah takes place is just
a beautiful city. I mean it's in Taplisi where we
filmed it, and just this casino and just that whole
kind of world and dynamic really plays a role in it.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Now was this based on a true story?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, it was a fictional story, but yeah, they came
up with a great kind of throwback. There's something about
it feels very new war and like, you know a
movie that might have been made, you know, years ago.
So I like that about it for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, totally, I love it. People's got you guys got
to check it out as you're listening. It's in theaters
November fourteenth, coming out a week before my birthday. Score
Bio sees it. Thank you?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What's your sign? Getting into signs?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I'm a virgo?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You're virgo?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I love Virgos are the best signs in the zodiac.
They say, Oh, I love scor.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Thank you. Let's talk about also.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know, in general, you've I've been acting your whole life,
and I feel like you've done a lot of roles.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Do you want to talk about maybe one of your favorite.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Roles that you've done and and why it was like
a favorite or type of world.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I got to work with Robert Rodriguez early on, which
was really a tremendous experience just being able to work
with him. It was such an incredible filmmaker, and I
got to play this character. It was just like kind
of the coolest character I've ever played. Yeah, it was
opposite Solamahayak. It was just a wonderful experience because that
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I don't know, you don't I don't usually get cast
is like the cool guy, like the tough guy either badass.
So that was fun. And then like just playing Dewey
and working with Wes Craven it changed my life so
much and he had such an incredible impact on my life.
That was really wonderful. But I mean whenever I get
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to work with wonderful actors, like in this movie, you know,
I got to work opposite Jeff Bridges and I worked
with Walter Hill and another amazing director, so that was
really fun. I mean having those opportunities are really just
life changing.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And you've always wanted to be an actor, like since
a kid, you've always like that was obviously you also
come from a family of actors, but that's I think
that's so cool because sometimes you grow up you want
to be an actor and it doesn't happen, or your
family's not as supportive. What do you what's your advice
to actors out there trying to make it any tips
for them?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, the misconception is, like I mean, it depends if
you want to act or if you want to be famous,
Like that's a different thing, you know. I mean they're
doing wonderful plays all the time in every city, you
know what I mean. And you can do short films
or you can do monologues. You could perform you know
whenever or wherever. Once you like, study, put your work
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into it and get out there and do it. There's
community theaters that are really great. But yeah, if you
want to do films. It just takes the stepping stones,
like the ladder to get up there, and all the
experiences I have just kind of lead to that. You know.
I love doing improv as a kid and doing comedy
and stuff. And then in high school I had a
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teacher named Ben Dibaldo who really taught me like the
art behind acting and then gave me the It allowed
me to have the confidence in myself. And that's what
a big part of acting is, just believing in yourself,
grounding yourself in reality, even if there's like outrageous stuff
going on. I say, you can kind of like balance
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between comedy and drama. If you're coming from a place
of it being real, it makes it a lot easier
to stay sort of in a character that's believable. You
just you really want to be real and feel it
for yourself so that it conveys it to the audience.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's amazing. That's so beautifully said. That's true. It's not
about the fame, it's about the art telling the story.
It is and ye with social.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Media performing, I mean that's why people and it's not
the same thing, but that's why people love karaoke, going
up and doing these like improv is a great thing
if there's an improv group in your community, because that's
a way of doing or learning stand up. It takes
a lot of work as well, but it's a performance.
You're going up and you're like entertaining people, and that's
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ultimately what it comes down to, like are you having fun,
are you entertained or are you touched in some way?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I love that, yeah, because you know, not to make
it about me, but I do stand up in bed
to to to really practice that muscle. And you know
my that he's been at least and he's like, I
don't understand what are you going to do with stand up?
And it's when you said, I just wish it's the
articulation of it's doing the art, it's doing the work.
It's just just making people laugh or entertaining them. Like
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you said, it's not about the ego or the theme. And
I'm happy you distinguish that because I think a lot
of people want that advice and they don't know they
don't know where to get it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You know, if you're a performer, you just have to perform.
That's wonderful. You're doing stand up, that's such a challenging.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's so challenging now, yeah, especially as a woman especially. Yeah,
but yeah, the acting business is hard. Do you feel
like there was competition or you just feel like you're
in your own lane. You never compare yourself to anyone.
You kind of like you really believed in yourself, like
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you know what I mean, over the years.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, it's a hard lesson to learn. But you can't
compare yourself to anyone, and you can't be jealous of
anyone else's success. Those are both like kind of recipes
for disaster. Get in your head in the wrong way,
you like start doubting yourself. But it's a challenging business
because it's you know, there's constant rejection within it, and
(13:12):
you have to continue to believe in yourself. You have
to continue to go out there and you get to
continue to get doors slammed in your face and then
sometimes they just open up, and then when you go through,
sometimes those doors just become way more than you ever expected.
So it's just a matter of like believing in yourself,
continuing not like beating yourself up, continuing at the grind
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and continuing to work, Like I try to work constantly
as much as I can, because it is a business
where jobs come few and far between. So when you
get stuff that you like and then this group that
you want to work with, and you never know how
one's going to turn out or not, so that's always
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a gamble too, but that's sort of out of your control.
If you just kind of work on what you can control,
what you can like bring to it, what you can
make real, and then it just it becomes also a
learning experience and once it's done, it's for like the
audience to enjoy. And then the process of like then
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taking on another role and studying as much about this character,
what they're like, or what they believe, or where they
came from or what drives them. There's a wonderful teacher
acting teacher named Roy London, and I studied with a
Vanish Humbach under him. But he said, every scene is
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a love scene in a sense. It's you know, love
you're trying to get from this other character, from your parents,
or the love you didn't get from your parents, or
the love you are hoping that people will have towards you,
or you know, all of these different elements. You know this,
you know the love that the lack of love that
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you got from your friend group. We're kind of put
this negative impression on you or this or that, like
all of these things you could draw from. You could
apply that to like where's this character coming from?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, that's that's beautiful. It's true. That's what that's what
makes such a great actor. Really, and even you with Dewey, right,
like the iconic Dewey from Scream. By the way, Scream
the audience, our audience is obsessed with the franchise.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I know that seven's coming out.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I don't know how much you can tell us.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I literally was told. All I could say is, I'm
so happy to be back as part of the Scream family.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I love. We are happy to have you back. We
are happy to have you back. And it's gonna be cool.
I'm sure there's gonna be twists and turns and not
going to you know. Of course, people who are also
tuning into now the franchise, we don't want to spoil
it for them either. But how does it feel to
just transition? Also being the coming back is that kind
of character. But also you're on fire, You're doing so
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many movies to back, you are constantly working. How do
you have you know, how do you make time for
your family, your beautiful family, I must add your beautiful wife.
That's so cool. I look to you guys, and I'm
like a couple goals. Like there is such a thing
as love in this industry, you know. I swear I
really look at you guys, and I have mad respect
for you.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, I feel very fortunate. Yeah, it all takes juggling.
I mean outside of like you know, doing the work,
and you know sometimes there's long nights and like you
still have to wake up and drive your kids to school.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's all act. It's all kind of you know, it's
not easy being a parent. There's making tantrums, and there's
like of all these you know, activities and all these
things you have to the people you have to deal
with and all the kind of stuff that comes with it. Yeah,
that's trying to roll with it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I mean I have more and more try to not
take things too heavy or serious or like you know,
you know, it'll all be all right. It just keep
on keep hustling.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, that's the secret. I feel like, not taking yeah,
life and stuff too seriously.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, you have to enjoy things come up.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But yeah, I can't wait to be a mom one
day one of these days. Absolutely, a couple more questions
and we'll wrap up. I have, you know, with the
Perfect Gamble. Did you have a certain favorite scene? You know,
sometimes as an actor, you have a scene that you're like,
I just love this scene, and why, Like, was there
a specific moment with Danny and Daniella or even just
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with another actor in the movie.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I had different favorite scenes with both of them. It's
kind of you know, you need those kind of different scenes.
I mean, there's a scene where we have this confrontation,
you know, and we just kind of get all heated
at each other. I just love that because it's like
a passionate acting kind of moment. And then with Danny,
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it was fun just like doing these kind of friend
scenes because you know, he's playing this character is like
an extreme version of himself, and I just gets such
a kick out of like that part of his character anyway,
and my character is a little more subdued and kind
of like but I literally, as I'm watching the movie,
watching me watch him, I could tell him getting such
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a kick as my character is getting such a kick
out of this guy. And why we're friends, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, he's amazing. He's awesome. It is it's awesome to watch,
like we always say, like the alter ego of Danny A.
You know, it's like the nightlife Danny that he reminds
me of in this movie, which is awesome. Talk to
us a little bit about any actors you want to
work with that you haven't worked with yet.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Oh, man, I'd love to work with both of my
sisters and my brother Richmond, and I mean all of
us in something. Would be so much fun.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh that would be yes, Please make it. That would
be epic.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I mean I love like just people I've known throughout
the years, like do other things with them. That's really
mainly like what I would really get a kickoff. I
love working with people I know that I have a
relationship with, or directors that you know, I've I've met
throughout the years that I know and they know me.
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I think you can really find some magical stuff when
there's a history there. You can really kind of explore
that and they know how to talk to you. They
know sort of what button suppressed and they know what
to like talk to you about to get you to
go to a different place.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I agree, And it's funny because you would think it's
it's not that easy to act because your sisters and
your brother. You said, how come you think you have
never done something? Is it not that easy to do?
Or it's just different schedules altogether, Like why like do
you feel you want to do like the show together,
like a show or a movie together altogether?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I don't know. I mean, I'm open to whatever, but
it's just hard to find the right project and all
us to come together, and you kind of need a
writer or a director or combo that has a vision
for something like that. I always think it's fun when
brothers sisters actually play brothers and sisters. I think there's
like a history there that really I'd love to see
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that with different families, like Hollywood families.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
They just did that, you know, with Jake Gillenhall and
Maggie Gillenhall's husband, or that there's a show that they
just did on Apple TV. And because in real life
it was cool, You're right, it is cool to see
that and know that. I think there's something really magical
about that too. So we got to stay tuned for that.
We're putting that in the universe Yeah, anything else you want, Yeah,
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anything else you want to talk about, like any other
projects coming up?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The projects coming up, I mean I have one called
Night Driver with Alyssa Milano and Josh Lucas. That's a
really exciting film. I did The Green River Killer, which
is another amazing move movie with Nick Stahl. Uh. Yeah,
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So I'm working on one now called Hurricane Harvey. I
played Canada's first gay judge. It's really been.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, yeah, talk to us.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
A little bit about Yeah, the challenging.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Oh man, it's been a real challenging role. I mean
just with the you know, legal jargon and just the
sort of density of the performance. But I'm excited for
people to see it once it comes out.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I'm so excited. I'm so excited to see you in
all these different roles. It really excites me, you know,
like we I love it inspires us and and me
especially just you know, seeing all these different roles you
can play. You know, was there ever a favorite role,
like one character from your whole history that you were
just like, I love this character.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I got to work with h Robert Rodriguez and the
road Racers. That really was as far as kool goes.
But but Dewey's really I mean, Wes Craved changed my
life such a huge way personally, like with such an
inspiration and mentor. That really was I'd say the one
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film that had the biggest impact on my mind.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Wow, that's amazing, that's incredible. That's so nice to him.
He's he's a genius. You're both geniuses. It's really cool
to say that, because you know how some people are
like they feel type casted. I love how you didn't
you actually love the role you want to come you know,
you wanted to do a franchise and you still did
other things, which I think people are scared to get
type casted. What's your advice on that, Like, how did
you say that?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I think you just have to really stay you know,
just stay true to yourself. Try to do roles that
are different, that stretch you, that aren't always comfortable. You know,
sometimes play smaller roles that are different characters to show
you in a different light and explore that when you can.
(23:22):
And then yeah, especially within plays, you can often find
roles that you can explore. And the thing about plays
is that you're doing them so often and you're gonna
have some serious time to reverse hopefully that you can
really start discovering different stuff about yourself. I mean, that's
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a lot of it bringing what you know about yourself,
which learn about yourself to these different.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Characters exactly right, and not really caring what others say
about you or not. And how do you feel about
this whole social media world?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Oh my gosh, it's an interesting world trying to figure
it out stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
With the yourself. I love watching your socials is awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Good. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like I don't
really know how to do it, so I got to
just try my best. I don't have any social media
kind of person and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So do you think it's important though for acting, because
like you know how there's like the old school way
of acting and then now there's the new school of
social media and having followers. Do you think that matters?
Or again, it's just being.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Absolutely I mean, what's kind of really cool about it
is they are finding a lot of incredible talent that
you wouldn't necessarily be able to have discovered in the past.
But it's giving an avenue to make a voice for themselves,
to find their sort of humor, and they're there. You know,
you know their audience. That really kind of it's you
(24:48):
speak to them, and it's giving an opportunity for people
to express themselves and then they could really be discovered.
Some people frown on that stuff and like this person's
you know, influence, So how are they doing this? I
mean I don't I don't prescribe to that kind of
way of thinking. I like being open to like people,
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you know, having opportunities to find their talent. And you know,
I think it's as far as like for you know,
that's a great way to be able to let people
know that Perfect Gamble's coming out on fourteenth. You can
put it in there and you can let it out,
select cities or whatever they can look up and you know,
(25:32):
we'll have a list on there or what cities it
is playing it, or what streaming services you can find
it on. So that kind of thing it's great to
as an opportunity to promote.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I love that. I love that you're open minded about that.
That's fair, you know, it's really fair to say.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And the other way being jealous or angry or like
you know, bitter about it. It's just it's kind of
too heavy to take on. And plus there's amazing people
like you see like this incredible like a lot of
the humor and the tempo and the stuff I can
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watch like whoa. I like learned from them, learn Like
I watched something after like the Scream seven trailer came out.
I was like a fan and I'm watching it. I'm
really excited. I haven't seen much and I'm like, oh
my gosh. But then I saw a little thing under
it and it had just come out like I had
already done like a breakdown of the thing. I was like,
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oh my gosh. I clicked on it, and this incredible
person was like talking about all these like things about it,
all these little clues, and I was like, oh my gosh,
I didn't even think about it.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I know. The audience asked me to ask you, actually,
would you ever think about doing stand up, like just
a stand up tour David.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Arkiett's stand up tour.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I would love it. I mean for me, it'd probably
be stories, because yeah, a lot of really funny, crazy
stories that people don't know about, So yeah, I would
enjoy that. I do love entertaining people, and I do
love the comedy theater environment. I'm a fan of it,
and I laugh. I love seeing really talented comedians do
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their jobs. Yeah, and I've tried it a couple of
times and I've bombed already, so I'm not afraid of that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, that's well that. I mean, I was gonna say,
there's no way you bomb, because I feel like you do.
You do fantastic, bomb.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Bombed in ways that it became like the other side
of comedy where it's like so uncomfortable that that then
becomes funny.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Did you ever have a comedian that you like, liked
like that you wanted to work with too?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh my gosh. I mean, there's so many incredible comedians.
I just met Naper Gedsy. Yes, amazing. I'm a huge
fan of his. But George Carlin was like one of
my favorites. Like I loved his humor, you know, yeah,
to make me Richard Pryor back in the day, which
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was amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's legendary.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's with Eddie Murphy. That would be incredible.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That would be incredible.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, I love you know, there's there's so many really
wonderful comedians.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm looking forward for it. I'm putting it in the universe.
I would like to come see it. I would like
to come see your No. I think it's going to
do well. I think it's gonna be sold out in
every city. Mark my words, mark my words.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I know we only have two more minutes left.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Anything you'd like to share yourself, like with the audience
about just of course stay tuned to Perfect Gamble and
all the movies you're working on, but just in general, like,
would you ever direct, because that's another thing I think
I want to direct.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Directed in the past, the Three D Shore. I directed
an episode of c S I Miami. I directed a
film called The Tripper, which is a horror film that's
kind of and some underground cult elements like love for it.
So I love directing. I'd love to do it again.
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I just hope the right thing comes on. I've written
some stuff that I'd like to get made at some point.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's really cool too. Yeah, you would think that, like
it's right, It's just hard and struggle.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, it's hard to get people to read scripts. It's
hard to get people to finance things. It's hard to
get people to see your vision for.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
It, right. People. A lot of people, like we were
talking in the comedy community, how right, there's a lot
of money that has to back up to get you
to the next level and get those rooms filled. It's
not as easy as talent. Just talent's not enough unfortunately,
you know.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, but it's Hulso a lot of it is self
propelled hustle, not giving up, really believing in yourself and
having confidence and not taking rejection personally. That's a big
part of it because you can let that stuff just
break you down and like not. But then it's also
just like keep at it.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Be at it. That's one meant would you say, that's
one tip for the mental health, Like, let's say you
keep getting rejected in life, what's something that gets you through?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Like for the mental health, that's a whole other level
on other side. And that's even just beyond performer being
a performer whatever. I mean, doing something creative really helps me.
Going for a walk really helps me. Hanging out with
people I feel comfortable with and laughing really helps. Doing
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something really physical helps, sweating, like you know, all those
things help.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, Stalking your ex boyfriends guys on Instagram from a
fensa account does not help.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So help. It does not help, But it's also like
you know, I like to look at those kind of things,
like this is a beautiful little moment in my past
where we share this thing and that left can still exist,
but it's not here anymore, and it's not something you
pine about, like you know, go back on. I mean,
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you know, everyone's sort of guilty on like uh, you know,
just in personal lives, like oh I wish I wouldn't
have done that, or you know some things I cringe
about just thinking about I did in my past, like
just being a knucklehead. But it's just also is not helpful.
So I just think could be in the moment, move ahead,
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just kind of keep hustling, keep moving, try to laugh
as much as possible. Find people that you feel comfortable
laughing with.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Love that and any favorite place when you come to
New York City that we should check out that you
like going to or escaping to or eating at.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Oh Man the Civilian Hotel is really beautiful. There's a
really glazing place. I love like theaters, so seeing some
of their like their theater collection there. And then right
next door there's an amazing oil shop where you could
go and you could get I love vanilla oils and
different oise was from like India and stuff. If you
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could find them there.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That's so cool. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
That's awesome, too nice. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Well, David Arkette, I wish I could talk to you forever.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But I know you're a busy man. You have been incredible.
You're really you were. I just want you to know
that when we met at the other premiere for Mobtown,
and you were so nice and you were so genuine,
and I just want you to know how thankful I am,
how kind you are, and you're an amazing actor.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
And guys, check out The Perfect Gamble.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I'm telling you, it's such a good movie. I'm about
to watch it twice now November fourteenth, out theaters, streaming platforms.
They could also follow you at David Arquette right for
more info all social media platforms, and really, thank you.
Hello, I'm David Arquette and you're listening to Chanelle in
the City on iHeartRadio, and she is the greatest.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Chanelle in
the City on iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Chanelle Omari, and
we have such an incredible, exciting guest on the show today.
He's an icon. He's one of my favorite actors of
all time. He's literally a phenomenal actor.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
He has a new.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Movie coming out called The Perfect Gamble. It's amazing out
in theaters and on streaming platforms all over November fourteenth,
with Danny A and Daniella Tarantino. Please help us welcome
the amazing, the talented, the awesome David Arquette to the show.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Such a sweet intro. I'm doing good. Thanks for having.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Me, Thank you for doing this. This is a dream
come true. I just want to let you know you're
an amazing human being. I got to meet you at
the premiere of Mob Cops, which you were also in.
You were such a beautiful You're just an amazing human being.
I think people should learn from you and all well
rounded human being and you're an amazing actor. I've been
following your career forever. So thank you. Really, you're making
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this girl's dream come true. So I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Agree, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
No, really, And you're a great husband I hear, and
a father and I don't know how you do it all.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And I can't even brush my hair, so.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't know. I don't have excuses anymore. I don't know.
Thank you, So tell us about the movie. This movie
is like, it really gave me chills because it reminded
me of Casino meets Good Fellas, and we haven't had
a mob movie like that in a while. Of course
mob cops. But talk to us about the role, your
role in what the movie is about. What do we
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expect from this movie.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's a really fun movie. There's a lot of energy.
It centers around Initially, two friends stay Charlie and Danny
the director place Felix, and they they're the best bookies
in the city. So they're that they're working the numbers,
they love the odds and just betting on different sports games.
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Uh like run a little illegal sports book. But they
get busted and they have to go to jail, and
when they get out, they decide to go to the
country of Georgia to open an illegal underground casino and
it starts to going great, and then the Russian mob
finds out about it and they come in, and then
all the trouble starts along the way. They meete a
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character named Sonia's played by Daniella picked Tarantino in her
first leading role, and she's really wonderful in it, and
then they fall for each other, Sonya and Charlie, and
then he doesn't know if he can trust her, and
then he doesn't know if he could trust Felix anymore.
And my character, what really appealed to me is that
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he's this, you know, it's a different kind of type
of character that I get to play where he's a
little more serious but there's still some humor involved. But
he's scrambling like he's just trying to stay above water
and all these things are going wrong and he's just
trying to make it all work, and you kind of
see it all come together. There's a lot of action
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and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I know, I love it. Danny A. Speaking of danny A,
who's incredible. Shout out to danny A, we love him,
good friend of ours.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You've you've been.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Acting in movies with a lot of movies. Actually this
is now the thing for yeah, fourth movie. How is
it working with him? Acting with him? You know he
also directed Mop Pops, because that's another movie people should
check out right now. That's a great movie. Talk to
us about working with him too. How is it? How
was that on the Perfect Amble?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It was great. I mean there's a certain like secondhand
and like comfortable nature that you have with friends that
you've known for years. I mean I've known him since,
you know, it's like the early nineties, and and and
so just to be able to act opposite him, I
never really had that opportunity. We're both in mob town,
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but we didn't have any scenes with each other. So
this one we really get to like have these scenes.
It is just so funny and I you know, he's
got you know, his characters really high energy, like coming
at me. My character is a little bit more reserved,
and so it was a fun dynamic to play with.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's awesome. And how did you get into character?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Because I know you did mention this is more of
a serious role, and you're incredible in it. And I
love how you can both be funny and serious. I
think the duality is so incredible for an act as
an actor and me, you know I as up and
coming actors, struggling actors, we look up to you and
be like, oh, how do you transition? So what did
you do to get ready for the role? Like what
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do you usually do? What inspired you?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I love I love Like I've known some professional gamblers,
and then their mentality alone is really interesting to study.
They just have a thing with numbers and things with
odds and things with like the excitement of gambling, and
they do it in this very cool way. It's interesting
to watch. I'm not like that when I'm gambling.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm like, I don't know how to gamble. Okay, I
don't know. I would be the worst poker player because
I don't even have a poker face.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, poker, I love too. So I love the world
and I read a really great book on a bookie
and then just sort of being in the world and
just having these great two actors to work with, I mean,
among others in the movies, but especially Danny and Daniella.
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They were just wonderful characters to work with.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Do you think in real life a lot of us
kind of have that booking mentality where it's like these
ups and downs where you think you're on the right track,
right and then in the movie you said, there's twists
and turns and then you find yourself in this hole.
Like do you do you feel like sometimes in your
life or just you see other friends go down this
path where they think they got it or something's illegal
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and they're like, it's gonna be fine. I gotta make money,
I got to support my family, and then it it's
all taken away from them. I mean, do you feel
like you've ever had that or you can relate to
that in life in real life?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Absolutely? Yeah. I've had moments in my life where I
definitely feel like I'm scrambling trying to like figure it
out and trying to just stay ahead. And you know,
I mean, as silly as it sounds, like, just life
is kind of sometimes like that because it's busy things
going on, you know, obstacles occur and you just have
to kind of hustle.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, I mean it's it's a fun tempo for a
movie because, yeah, like going and then the element of
like violence and danger and this mom and all these
wonderful actors in those roles.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's it's like it's like life's a gamble.
That's when when you're watch it. There's a lot of metaphors.
You know, there's a lot of metaphors that I was
able to relate to, and I was like, wow, even
if I'm not a gambler, I could totally this is
a great movie. Like you guys really are so phenomenal
in it. It's amazing, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And Georgia, the place Georgia, yeah takes place is just
a beautiful city. I mean it's in Taplisi where we
filmed it, and just this casino and just that whole
kind of world and dynamic really plays a role in it.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Now was this based on a true story?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, it was a fictional story, but yeah, they came
up with a great kind of throwback. There's something about
it feels very new war and like, you know a
movie that might have been made, you know, years ago.
So I like that about it for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, totally, I love it. People's got you guys got
to check it out as you're listening. It's in theaters
November fourteenth, coming out a week before my birthday. Score
Bio sees it. Thank you?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What's your sign? Getting into signs?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I'm a virgo?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You're virgo?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I love Virgos are the best signs in the zodiac.
They say, Oh, I love scor.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Thank you. Let's talk about also.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know, in general, you've I've been acting your whole life,
and I feel like you've done a lot of roles.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Do you want to talk about maybe one of your favorite.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Roles that you've done and and why it was like
a favorite or type of world.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I got to work with Robert Rodriguez early on, which
was really a tremendous experience just being able to work
with him. It was such an incredible filmmaker, and I
got to play this character. It was just like kind
of the coolest character I've ever played. Yeah, it was
opposite Solamahayak. It was just a wonderful experience because that
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I don't know, you don't I don't usually get cast
is like the cool guy, like the tough guy either badass.
So that was fun. And then like just playing Dewey
and working with Wes Craven it changed my life so
much and he had such an incredible impact on my life.
That was really wonderful. But I mean whenever I get
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to work with wonderful actors, like in this movie, you know,
I got to work opposite Jeff Bridges and I worked
with Walter Hill and another amazing director, so that was
really fun. I mean having those opportunities are really just
life changing.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And you've always wanted to be an actor, like since
a kid, you've always like that was obviously you also
come from a family of actors, but that's I think
that's so cool because sometimes you grow up you want
to be an actor and it doesn't happen, or your
family's not as supportive. What do you what's your advice
to actors out there trying to make it any tips
for them?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, the misconception is, like I mean, it depends if
you want to act or if you want to be famous,
Like that's a different thing, you know. I mean they're
doing wonderful plays all the time in every city, you
know what I mean. And you can do short films
or you can do monologues. You could perform you know
whenever or wherever. Once you like, study, put your work
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into it and get out there and do it. There's
community theaters that are really great. But yeah, if you
want to do films. It just takes the stepping stones,
like the ladder to get up there, and all the
experiences I have just kind of lead to that. You know.
I love doing improv as a kid and doing comedy
and stuff. And then in high school I had a
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teacher named Ben Dibaldo who really taught me like the
art behind acting and then gave me the It allowed
me to have the confidence in myself. And that's what
a big part of acting is, just believing in yourself,
grounding yourself in reality, even if there's like outrageous stuff
going on. I say, you can kind of like balance
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between comedy and drama. If you're coming from a place
of it being real, it makes it a lot easier
to stay sort of in a character that's believable. You
just you really want to be real and feel it
for yourself so that it conveys it to the audience.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's amazing. That's so beautifully said. That's true. It's not
about the fame, it's about the art telling the story.
It is and ye with social.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Media performing, I mean that's why people and it's not
the same thing, but that's why people love karaoke, going
up and doing these like improv is a great thing
if there's an improv group in your community, because that's
a way of doing or learning stand up. It takes
a lot of work as well, but it's a performance.
You're going up and you're like entertaining people, and that's
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ultimately what it comes down to, like are you having fun,
are you entertained or are you touched in some way?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I love that, yeah, because you know, not to make
it about me, but I do stand up in bed
to to to really practice that muscle. And you know
my that he's been at least and he's like, I
don't understand what are you going to do with stand up?
And it's when you said, I just wish it's the
articulation of it's doing the art, it's doing the work.
It's just just making people laugh or entertaining them. Like
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you said, it's not about the ego or the theme. And
I'm happy you distinguish that because I think a lot
of people want that advice and they don't know they
don't know where to get it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You know, if you're a performer, you just have to perform.
That's wonderful. You're doing stand up, that's such a challenging.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's so challenging now, yeah, especially as a woman especially. Yeah,
but yeah, the acting business is hard. Do you feel
like there was competition or you just feel like you're
in your own lane. You never compare yourself to anyone.
You kind of like you really believed in yourself, like
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you know what I mean, over the years.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, it's a hard lesson to learn. But you can't
compare yourself to anyone, and you can't be jealous of
anyone else's success. Those are both like kind of recipes
for disaster. Get in your head in the wrong way,
you like start doubting yourself. But it's a challenging business
because it's you know, there's constant rejection within it, and
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you have to continue to believe in yourself. You have
to continue to go out there and you get to
continue to get doors slammed in your face and then
sometimes they just open up, and then when you go through,
sometimes those doors just become way more than you ever expected.
So it's just a matter of like believing in yourself,
continuing not like beating yourself up, continuing at the grind
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and continuing to work, Like I try to work constantly
as much as I can, because it is a business
where jobs come few and far between. So when you
get stuff that you like and then this group that
you want to work with, and you never know how
one's going to turn out or not, so that's always
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a gamble too, but that's sort of out of your control.
If you just kind of work on what you can control,
what you can like bring to it, what you can
make real, and then it just it becomes also a
learning experience and once it's done, it's for like the
audience to enjoy. And then the process of like then
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taking on another role and studying as much about this character,
what they're like, or what they believe, or where they
came from or what drives them. There's a wonderful teacher
acting teacher named Roy London, and I studied with a
Vanish Humbach under him. But he said, every scene is
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a love scene in a sense. It's you know, love
you're trying to get from this other character, from your parents,
or the love you didn't get from your parents, or
the love you are hoping that people will have towards you,
or you know, all of these different elements. You know this,
you know the love that the lack of love that
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you got from your friend group. We're kind of put
this negative impression on you or this or that, like
all of these things you could draw from. You could
apply that to like where's this character coming from?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, that's that's beautiful. It's true. That's what that's what
makes such a great actor. Really, and even you with Dewey, right,
like the iconic Dewey from Scream. By the way, Scream
the audience, our audience is obsessed with the franchise.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I know that seven's coming out.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I don't know how much you can tell us.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I literally was told. All I could say is, I'm
so happy to be back as part of the Scream family.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I love. We are happy to have you back. We
are happy to have you back. And it's gonna be cool.
I'm sure there's gonna be twists and turns and not
going to you know. Of course, people who are also
tuning into now the franchise, we don't want to spoil
it for them either. But how does it feel to
just transition? Also being the coming back is that kind
of character. But also you're on fire, You're doing so
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many movies to back, you are constantly working. How do
you have you know, how do you make time for
your family, your beautiful family, I must add your beautiful wife.
That's so cool. I look to you guys, and I'm
like a couple goals. Like there is such a thing
as love in this industry, you know. I swear I
really look at you guys, and I have mad respect
for you.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, I feel very fortunate. Yeah, it all takes juggling.
I mean outside of like you know, doing the work,
and you know sometimes there's long nights and like you
still have to wake up and drive your kids to school.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's all act. It's all kind of you know, it's
not easy being a parent. There's making tantrums, and there's
like of all these you know, activities and all these
things you have to the people you have to deal
with and all the kind of stuff that comes with it. Yeah,
that's trying to roll with it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I mean I have more and more try to not
take things too heavy or serious or like you know,
you know, it'll all be all right. It just keep
on keep hustling.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, that's the secret. I feel like, not taking yeah,
life and stuff too seriously.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, you have to enjoy things come up.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But yeah, I can't wait to be a mom one
day one of these days. Absolutely, a couple more questions
and we'll wrap up. I have, you know, with the
Perfect Gamble. Did you have a certain favorite scene? You know,
sometimes as an actor, you have a scene that you're like,
I just love this scene, and why, Like, was there
a specific moment with Danny and Daniella or even just
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with another actor in the movie.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I had different favorite scenes with both of them. It's
kind of you know, you need those kind of different scenes.
I mean, there's a scene where we have this confrontation,
you know, and we just kind of get all heated
at each other. I just love that because it's like
a passionate acting kind of moment. And then with Danny,
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it was fun just like doing these kind of friend
scenes because you know, he's playing this character is like
an extreme version of himself, and I just gets such
a kick out of like that part of his character anyway,
and my character is a little more subdued and kind
of like but I literally, as I'm watching the movie,
watching me watch him, I could tell him getting such
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a kick as my character is getting such a kick
out of this guy. And why we're friends, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, he's amazing. He's awesome. It is it's awesome to watch,
like we always say, like the alter ego of Danny A.
You know, it's like the nightlife Danny that he reminds
me of in this movie, which is awesome. Talk to
us a little bit about any actors you want to
work with that you haven't worked with yet.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Oh, man, I'd love to work with both of my
sisters and my brother Richmond, and I mean all of
us in something. Would be so much fun.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh that would be yes, Please make it. That would
be epic.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I mean I love like just people I've known throughout
the years, like do other things with them. That's really
mainly like what I would really get a kickoff. I
love working with people I know that I have a
relationship with, or directors that you know, I've I've met
throughout the years that I know and they know me.
(19:29):
I think you can really find some magical stuff when
there's a history there. You can really kind of explore
that and they know how to talk to you. They
know sort of what button suppressed and they know what
to like talk to you about to get you to
go to a different place.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I agree, And it's funny because you would think it's
it's not that easy to act because your sisters and
your brother. You said, how come you think you have
never done something? Is it not that easy to do?
Or it's just different schedules altogether, Like why like do
you feel you want to do like the show together,
like a show or a movie together altogether?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I don't know. I mean, I'm open to whatever, but
it's just hard to find the right project and all
us to come together, and you kind of need a
writer or a director or combo that has a vision
for something like that. I always think it's fun when
brothers sisters actually play brothers and sisters. I think there's
like a history there that really I'd love to see
(20:29):
that with different families, like Hollywood families.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
They just did that, you know, with Jake Gillenhall and
Maggie Gillenhall's husband, or that there's a show that they
just did on Apple TV. And because in real life
it was cool, You're right, it is cool to see
that and know that. I think there's something really magical
about that too. So we got to stay tuned for that.
We're putting that in the universe Yeah, anything else you want, Yeah,
(20:55):
anything else you want to talk about, like any other
projects coming up?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The projects coming up, I mean I have one called
Night Driver with Alyssa Milano and Josh Lucas. That's a
really exciting film. I did The Green River Killer, which
is another amazing move movie with Nick Stahl. Uh. Yeah,
(21:20):
So I'm working on one now called Hurricane Harvey. I
played Canada's first gay judge. It's really been.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, yeah, talk to us.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
A little bit about Yeah, the challenging.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Oh man, it's been a real challenging role. I mean
just with the you know, legal jargon and just the
sort of density of the performance. But I'm excited for
people to see it once it comes out.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I'm so excited. I'm so excited to see you in
all these different roles. It really excites me, you know,
like we I love it inspires us and and me
especially just you know, seeing all these different roles you
can play. You know, was there ever a favorite role,
like one character from your whole history that you were
just like, I love this character.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I got to work with h Robert Rodriguez and the
road Racers. That really was as far as kool goes.
But but Dewey's really I mean, Wes Craved changed my
life such a huge way personally, like with such an
inspiration and mentor. That really was I'd say the one
(22:37):
film that had the biggest impact on my mind.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Wow, that's amazing, that's incredible. That's so nice to him.
He's he's a genius. You're both geniuses. It's really cool
to say that, because you know how some people are
like they feel type casted. I love how you didn't
you actually love the role you want to come you know,
you wanted to do a franchise and you still did
other things, which I think people are scared to get
type casted. What's your advice on that, Like, how did
you say that?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I think you just have to really stay you know,
just stay true to yourself. Try to do roles that
are different, that stretch you, that aren't always comfortable. You know,
sometimes play smaller roles that are different characters to show
you in a different light and explore that when you can.
(23:22):
And then yeah, especially within plays, you can often find
roles that you can explore. And the thing about plays
is that you're doing them so often and you're gonna
have some serious time to reverse hopefully that you can
really start discovering different stuff about yourself. I mean, that's
(23:42):
a lot of it bringing what you know about yourself,
which learn about yourself to these different.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Characters exactly right, and not really caring what others say
about you or not. And how do you feel about
this whole social media world?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Oh my gosh, it's an interesting world trying to figure
it out stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
With the yourself. I love watching your socials is awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Good. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like I don't
really know how to do it, so I got to
just try my best. I don't have any social media
kind of person and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So do you think it's important though for acting, because
like you know how there's like the old school way
of acting and then now there's the new school of
social media and having followers. Do you think that matters?
Or again, it's just being.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Absolutely I mean, what's kind of really cool about it
is they are finding a lot of incredible talent that
you wouldn't necessarily be able to have discovered in the past.
But it's giving an avenue to make a voice for themselves,
to find their sort of humor, and they're there. You know,
you know their audience. That really kind of it's you
(24:48):
speak to them, and it's giving an opportunity for people
to express themselves and then they could really be discovered.
Some people frown on that stuff and like this person's
you know, influence, So how are they doing this? I
mean I don't I don't prescribe to that kind of
way of thinking. I like being open to like people,
(25:10):
you know, having opportunities to find their talent. And you know,
I think it's as far as like for you know,
that's a great way to be able to let people
know that Perfect Gamble's coming out on fourteenth. You can
put it in there and you can let it out,
select cities or whatever they can look up and you know,
(25:32):
we'll have a list on there or what cities it
is playing it, or what streaming services you can find
it on. So that kind of thing it's great to
as an opportunity to promote.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I love that. I love that you're open minded about that.
That's fair, you know, it's really fair to say.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And the other way being jealous or angry or like
you know, bitter about it. It's just it's kind of
too heavy to take on. And plus there's amazing people
like you see like this incredible like a lot of
the humor and the tempo and the stuff I can
(26:09):
watch like whoa. I like learned from them, learn Like
I watched something after like the Scream seven trailer came out.
I was like a fan and I'm watching it. I'm
really excited. I haven't seen much and I'm like, oh
my gosh. But then I saw a little thing under
it and it had just come out like I had
already done like a breakdown of the thing. I was like,
(26:31):
oh my gosh. I clicked on it, and this incredible
person was like talking about all these like things about it,
all these little clues, and I was like, oh my gosh,
I didn't even think about it.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I know. The audience asked me to ask you, actually,
would you ever think about doing stand up, like just
a stand up tour David.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Arkiett's stand up tour.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I would love it. I mean for me, it'd probably
be stories, because yeah, a lot of really funny, crazy
stories that people don't know about, So yeah, I would
enjoy that. I do love entertaining people, and I do
love the comedy theater environment. I'm a fan of it,
and I laugh. I love seeing really talented comedians do
(27:16):
their jobs. Yeah, and I've tried it a couple of
times and I've bombed already, so I'm not afraid of that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, that's well that. I mean, I was gonna say,
there's no way you bomb, because I feel like you do.
You do fantastic, bomb.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Bombed in ways that it became like the other side
of comedy where it's like so uncomfortable that that then
becomes funny.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Did you ever have a comedian that you like, liked
like that you wanted to work with too?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh my gosh. I mean, there's so many incredible comedians.
I just met Naper Gedsy. Yes, amazing. I'm a huge
fan of his. But George Carlin was like one of
my favorites. Like I loved his humor, you know, yeah,
to make me Richard Pryor back in the day, which
(28:05):
was amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's legendary.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's with Eddie Murphy. That would be incredible.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That would be incredible.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, I love you know, there's there's so many really
wonderful comedians.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm looking forward for it. I'm putting it in the universe.
I would like to come see it. I would like
to come see your No. I think it's going to
do well. I think it's gonna be sold out in
every city. Mark my words, mark my words.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I know we only have two more minutes left.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Anything you'd like to share yourself, like with the audience
about just of course stay tuned to Perfect Gamble and
all the movies you're working on, but just in general, like,
would you ever direct, because that's another thing I think
I want to direct.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Directed in the past, the Three D Shore. I directed
an episode of c S I Miami. I directed a
film called The Tripper, which is a horror film that's
kind of and some underground cult elements like love for it.
So I love directing. I'd love to do it again.
(29:08):
I just hope the right thing comes on. I've written
some stuff that I'd like to get made at some point.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's really cool too. Yeah, you would think that, like
it's right, It's just hard and struggle.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, it's hard to get people to read scripts. It's
hard to get people to finance things. It's hard to
get people to see your vision for.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
It, right. People. A lot of people, like we were
talking in the comedy community, how right, there's a lot
of money that has to back up to get you
to the next level and get those rooms filled. It's
not as easy as talent. Just talent's not enough unfortunately,
you know.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, but it's Hulso a lot of it is self
propelled hustle, not giving up, really believing in yourself and
having confidence and not taking rejection personally. That's a big
part of it because you can let that stuff just
break you down and like not. But then it's also
just like keep at it.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Be at it. That's one meant would you say, that's
one tip for the mental health, Like, let's say you
keep getting rejected in life, what's something that gets you through?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Like for the mental health, that's a whole other level
on other side. And that's even just beyond performer being
a performer whatever. I mean, doing something creative really helps me.
Going for a walk really helps me. Hanging out with
people I feel comfortable with and laughing really helps. Doing
(30:30):
something really physical helps, sweating, like you know, all those
things help.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, Stalking your ex boyfriends guys on Instagram from a
fensa account does not help.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So help. It does not help, But it's also like
you know, I like to look at those kind of things,
like this is a beautiful little moment in my past
where we share this thing and that left can still exist,
but it's not here anymore, and it's not something you
pine about, like you know, go back on. I mean,
(31:04):
you know, everyone's sort of guilty on like uh, you know,
just in personal lives, like oh I wish I wouldn't
have done that, or you know some things I cringe
about just thinking about I did in my past, like
just being a knucklehead. But it's just also is not helpful.
So I just think could be in the moment, move ahead,
(31:25):
just kind of keep hustling, keep moving, try to laugh
as much as possible. Find people that you feel comfortable
laughing with.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Love that and any favorite place when you come to
New York City that we should check out that you
like going to or escaping to or eating at.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Oh Man the Civilian Hotel is really beautiful. There's a
really glazing place. I love like theaters, so seeing some
of their like their theater collection there. And then right
next door there's an amazing oil shop where you could
go and you could get I love vanilla oils and
different oise was from like India and stuff. If you
(32:01):
could find them there.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That's so cool. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
That's awesome, too nice. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Well, David Arkette, I wish I could talk to you forever.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But I know you're a busy man. You have been incredible.
You're really you were. I just want you to know
that when we met at the other premiere for Mobtown,
and you were so nice and you were so genuine,
and I just want you to know how thankful I am,
how kind you are, and you're an amazing actor.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
And guys, check out The Perfect Gamble.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I'm telling you, it's such a good movie. I'm about
to watch it twice now November fourteenth, out theaters, streaming platforms.
They could also follow you at David Arquette right for
more info all social media platforms, and really, thank you.
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