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This is a Ben Frank connection presentation.
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What's going on everybody welcome back with five questions
with ABJ. We are here at Labor of Love and
Attic Brewing here in Philadelphia, PA.
Euphoria, which is going to be asuper exciting show.
Yesterday on the show, my guest today was part of it and I am
here today with. Just this guy who wrestles from
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time to time. Hello everybody.
Paul London in the brewery. Yeah, a fun match yesterday,
Mike Bailey took it up, you know, a notch or two.
And boy, I'm feeling that knees to the back thing that was as
well. I'm going to let him do that
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again. Come on.
But no a lot of fun man. It's a fun show.
You enjoying yourself? I'm.
Having an absolute flat, it's mainly a weekend.
This is this is the Super Bowl for us.
That's right. Being from the Northeast is like
in our backyard. It's great stuff.
Endless amount of shows, endlessamount of wrestlers.
Who will you remember in the end?
Yes, so, so let's get right intoit.
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What is your current goal in life currently?
My current goal in life is to gofrom job to job as an actor and
just find projects that I would want to watch and that I would
want to share with people and just keep telling stories on a
bigger platform. You know what I mean?
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I think cinema is pretty universal and to me that's,
that's, you know, the top. Nice.
What are you currently doing to achieve this goal?
I live out in the the muck of Los Angeles amongst all the
other delusional dreamers like myself.
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And I'm just, I'm constantly auditioning.
I'm auditioning. I've worked more last year than
I have in my entire career. Yeah, I did I think 5 Christmas
movies last year, can't tell youif they're good or not, but you
know, it's it's picking up steam, but I'm not I'm not
satisfied. Yeah, yeah.
So constantly auditioning. I got 2 auditions I got to do
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after this interview today so. Awesome.
Awesome. Yeah.
What is currently holding you back?
Or a possible distraction from your goals.
Well, I have this awesome side gig where I put on spandex and I
travel away from Los Angeles, away from a lot of the
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auditioning jobs. And then I put my body and my
health and my life on the line. And often times I am banged up
and in a lot of pain. But, you know, in an odd way,
depending on the role, that can sometimes assist me as well.
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But I also run an Academy, K FabAcademy in Los Angeles.
And I train young hopefuls, young hungry hopefuls, four days
a week, twice a day, two of those days.
So I'm constantly, you know, I'mat the gym more than I'm at my
home. Yeah, so that's just more
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wrestling stuff that I'm doing in addition to the shows that I
do on the weekends. And so that's the long winded
answer to #4 no #3 so. Who or what motivates or
inspires you to keep going? Wow, that's such a I've such a
there's so many people. I would say artistically as an
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actor, I'm Sam Rockwell's my favorite actor.
He really inspires me. One of my dear friends who also
train, his name's Paul Walter Hauser.
He also inspires me, especially as an actor because he really
helps me understand that, you know, it's not always the best
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person that gets the job. You can be super talented, and
there's just so many other very,you know, variables that are out
of your hands. Even just the other day, I had
one of my friends who's directing a film, and I actually
got an audition for his film. And I sent in the tape and he,
you know, said you were by part of the best tape we got.
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But the girl they cast for the leads pretty young.
I'm like, OK, I get what you're saying.
You know, I can't fit that demographic.
Yeah. I'm like, well, recast her, man.
Come on. Actually, as we're talking, your
match is being. Played Oh my God, I.
Don't know if I. Want to see that?
So what are you grateful for andare you currently happy?
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I am, I am grateful. I'm grateful to countless
people. I'm grateful for my health.
I'm grateful for, you know, people still wanting to see me
in tight clothing and sing songsand, you know, lay on my head.
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You know, I'm, I'm grateful thatpeople seem to enjoy stuff that
I do. That's that's very nourishing.
You left a great impact your your your tag team run alone
slower were were fantastic. You you and Brian were very
insanely entertaining. Thank you and and you brought a
level of wrestling of like maybethis at the time, the smaller
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guy, the high flyer. You brought it an era of
wrestling that was really fun and you left a huge impact for a
lot of people. Thank.
You we did the best we could with what we were able to to do.
Yeah. You know, again, it's one of
those things where you think, well, we have to take care of
what we what we can put in our hands, what we can do, you know,
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and that was always, you know, working out and working on our
wrestling skills. And, you know, yeah, we did the
best we could with what we had, and we're grateful for that.
You know I am. Yeah, so where can people find
and support you? I'm not so much of A social
media whore, but I I do dabble on Twitter from time to time,
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but I use Instagram more. But those are the only two
things I really use. And it's at London Foo.
It's my last name and then FU like Kung Fu London Foo.
And it means nothing else but Foo, right?
That's it, yeah. Yeah, just like ABJ doesn't mean
anything but my initial exactly.Yeah.
And people try to make these acronyms.
Yeah. It's like, oh, you're perverted,
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ABJ No, it's. My name?
I'd ask for several at least. Yeah.
So Twitter, Instagram at London Foo.
I have, I have, I have a movie called Maternal Sin, I think on
Amazon Prime. It's whatever.
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It's fun, you know it's, you know.
Awesome. Well that's going to do it. 5
questions at ABJ. We'll catch you on the next one.
We're out of here, so. OK, thanks for watching this
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scene here with Paul London. So you, you said you're getting
an act, you're doing the acting,you're auditioning for a lot of
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roles. Is there a genre that you prefer
over other? Like are you, you like the hard,
do you like the suspense? Do you like drama?
Like is there a role that you that a style you would like to
do more than others? Yeah.
I mean, what and, and to to actually rewind a bit, I was an
actor as a kid. So I was an actor before I was
ever a wrestler. Yeah, yeah.
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And that's, I think that helps in going into the whole
storytelling aspect, you know, because as an actor, you're
really just kind of a cog in this big wheel.
And it's such an ensemble that you can only really hope to work
with better actors that are going to help you, you know, and
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you're going to be like, well, they made me look great.
You know, this person was reallygenerous.
And you hope the same thing in wrestling.
And but with the genre of films,I, I grew up on horror.
I love action, martial arts films.
I think anything that I can besthighlight my abilities and my
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skills, but also, you know, of course, the the goal really is
to move people and to hopefully give them moments.
And so for me, if the story's great, it doesn't matter if
it's, you know, a gay comedy. I don't, you know, I gay
romantic. I mean, whatever.
I'm not, you know, I've answeredthat question in some circles
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were like, ah, would you, you know, kiss man or something like
if the part calls for it and it's a good role, like, yeah,
because I'm, you know, it's, it's basically what am I, what
is it about me that what am I infusing in this character?
You know what I mean? And it's not me, right?
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So it's really how good is the writing?
The writing is a huge thing because bad writing is really
hard to ask. Yeah, you.
Know sometimes those bad movies,they'll stick more to you like
yeah, you go do a bad movie and it becomes like a cult classic
that's. So true.
That's so true. You tear me apart, Lisa.
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I I, I really appreciate your time.
Please go check it out. Is there any movies that maybe
people can go, I know you're talking about on Amazon, Yeah.
I mean, these are all whatever'sI did.
I yeah, they're nothing off the top of my head that I want to
share. Nothing good that I want to
share just. But there is some stuff coming
out. If you go to like my social
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media at London Foo, that's easier where I post stuff
because then I have the green light to be like, OK, you can
talk about this now. Awesome.
Well, I appreciate your time. Thank.
You enjoy? Manny Weekend.
You like Mike? Wise you too.
It was awesome. We had a great job.
You're already kicking speedballin the.
Head. Oh God.
Oh come on, you can. Commentate your match.
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Oh, no. I wish we could hear it.
Yeah, I. I appreciate your time.
Thank. You so much likewise, brother.
We'll see you on the next one. Yeah, that was awesome.
Thank you.