January 25, 2025 • 42 mins
Brady Ryan shares his journey as a young actor navigating the spotlight while balancing high school and personal interests. He discusses the challenges of fame among peers, the audition process, and his aspirations for the future, all while maintaining a curious perspective on life ahead.
• Discusses early acting experiences and roles
• Shares challenges of being a high school student and a public figure
• Talks about the importance of balancing academics with acting
• Expresses aspirations for college and future roles
• Highlights the auditioning process and the evolution of the industry
• Touches on the importance of maintaining personal interests outside acting
• Reflects on the nature of fame and public perception
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, welcome to Entertain this.
It's a podcast about movies, tvshows, video games and
background static.
Yeah, on technical difficulties, I'm Tom Hayden, I'm Mitch, and
on today we have a specialguest interview with Mr Brady
Ryan, an up-and-coming youngactor with a few good credits to
his name, and we're going to behaving a conversation with him.
Hey, hello, thanks for havingme.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh, thank you for joining with us.
So, Mr Brady, Mr Ryan, I alsosuffer from two first names as
both of my names, so how manytimes have people gotten that
confused for you?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So many, yeah, all the time, like whenever there's
a substitute teacher or thebeginning of a school year, it's
always.
Even though everyone gets theirlast names right with everyone
else, they always switch it.
Yeah, and I couldn't just letit go, but eventually they
realize do you go by?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
uh, brady m ryan, with the m for like your
crediting and stuff.
Yeah, okay, does the m help?
No, not really.
I too have a middle initial.
I just think it adds more chaosto the confusion.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So yeah, it'll still get confused.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
They'll just say it all backwards, so I mean yeah
sometimes we call him hayden,sometimes we call him brandon,
just whatever kind of rolls offthe tongue.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah, I'm 37, I can tell you it doesn't get any
better.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So you just gotta get super famous man.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So and you're already well on your way, yeah, but
what's it like being named aftertwo NFL quarterbacks?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean it's always brought up.
Yeah, it's always.
It's always that combo.
It's like, oh, yeah, theymentioned both of them and I'm
like, no, that wasn't the goal.
But I mean it's the topic ofconversation, I guess.
Do people ask, like, were youborn like during a falcons
(02:10):
patriots game?
I don't even know.
They always ask if it's likeafter tom brady.
I'm like no, it's not.
But I mean sure, like I don'tremember what I said about it.
This is like, yeah, no, it'scool, but no, I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It had nothing to do with that you should start
telling people that make it afunny anecdote.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I should.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You're you know Tom Brady and Matt Ryan's love child
.
He's born during like a playoffgame or the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You're a senior in high school?
Yes, okay, what state?
Do you go to school in Georgia?
Oh, oh, well, we school inGeorgia.
Oh, wow, well, we're all inGeorgia, why?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
didn't you just come on over for this?
I know If I would have known Iwould have.
What county are you in?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, we don't want to give away?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh yeah, we don't want to.
Yeah, someone's going to try tofind him.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You can ask that off air maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, we'll tell you when we we're not recording.
Get that southern education.
Huh, you know a whole historyclass during the civil war
period that the park gets alittle muddied underwater.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But which is?
You and I both went to schoolin the north, yeah, and then I
grew up in new york and movedhere and up there it's like oh
yeah, like the south, like theydid this like seceding nonsense.
So we kind of go down there andstraighten stuff out and, you
know, handle some business.
And then I come down here andit's like the South will rise
again.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, I've lived in Gwinnett County for pretty much
my entire life until, I guess,maybe the last 12 years, so it's
not really that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You do a lot of work out of.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Atlanta yeah, okay, okay, you do a lot of work out
of Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, usually Okay.
I do want to jump into a lot ofyour acting credits and stuff
like that, but we've nevertalked to a high school kid
who's way more successful thanall three of us combined before.
So, what's it like being astudent, you know, I don't know
(04:05):
battling defense against thedark arts for one of your
classes and then having to runoff to a movie set or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's a little difficult but it's not that bad.
The one part about it whichlike is the fact that when
something comes out, or ifthere's a commercial or
something, anything someone willhave seen it.
Yeah, there was one time whereone of my teachers saw it and
then showed all my otherteachers and that's always a
(04:34):
topic conversation and that'snot the best thing to have
happen.
But besides, for that I meanthe time management's a little
difficult but it's handable whydo you say it's not the best?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
you just don't like the attention I.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
it's just like when I'm sitting in a class of people
like oh yeah, did you see this?
And I don't really know how todiscuss that with my teacher.
So it's really awkward,especially when I don't know,
like sometimes there's one timewhere my teacher like called me
over.
I was like oh yeah, this kid iscalled me over and was like oh
yeah, this kid is doing this andit was with other people I
(05:09):
didn't know and I was like ohyeah, and I would say I'm a
little bit awkward when it comesto the first interaction with
new people and especially, Iguess, adults.
So it's not the most fun thing,it's how do I get out of it,
but it's actually kind of fun.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, I mean, you want to be an actor for like the
rest of your life, right?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
You better get used to that kind of attention, man.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I've definitely gotten more used to it, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
At the beginning you're like you've got to sneak
out.
It's like, oh, mrs Smith, Ineed to go to the nurse's office
, my stomach hurts.
And it's like, okay, and youget the hall, pass on sunglasses
and a scarf goes out of awindow.
There's a limo and someonehands him a script and he's just
reading through the lines andit's like, all right, I'm ready.
They just pull right into astudio.
That would be great.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Your publicist told us that you're really into
sports and that you have like a4.0 GPA.
How do you manage all thatwhile acting?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I don't think the three of us combined have a 4.0.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I know, I know the school part itself, I don't, it
isn't that bad.
I mean, I do end up missing alot of homework that I don't do,
but I don't, I can't reallyblame it on acting, it's
probably just me not doingenough.
But I think we have time inschool and I focus during the
(06:23):
classes and, like I know what'shappening so I don't have to put
too much work into making sureoutside of school, so that
part's not bad.
And um, with the sports stuff,like I was, I was gonna play
lacrosse.
I'm not sure if I'm playingright now because we don't have
a lot of people on the team,okay.
So I don't know if, like, wehave enough even for a team at
the moment, but I like practiceand play stuff with my friends
(06:48):
with, like on my free time okay,a lot of time to do it, but I
like playing pickleball andwhenever I can, that is like my
go-to thing okay, I havediscovered pickleball this last
year and boy, howdy does it?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
you move a lot more than you look like you do.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah you definitely do yeah my knees are still
hurting.
Watching it the first time Ireally understand it.
I was like why are we playingthis?
It's like mini tennis.
It doesn't look that fun.
And then started playing.
I was like, okay, it's a lot,and it is fun it is.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
It is so like when you're actually filming and
you're in school cause you, youstarted filming what was black
phone was like your earliest bigcredit.
It was like 2021.
Yeah, a couple of years ago Iwas COVID era, so everybody was
kind of living the gypsyhomework life.
But I mean, you know whatyou're doing today.
(07:41):
Do you do a lot of homework andstudying kind of on the road,
not as much as I think I need to.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
What you're doing today, do you do a lot of
homework and studying kind of onthe road.
Um, not as much as I think Ineed to.
I mean it helps the fact thatall my stuff is online.
I think with school most of ourassignments are online
technology.
If I'm in the car, like I canget my work done or something,
and I can do it like whereverI'm at, so it doesn't, it's not
too bad.
Just like it was his makeupstuff.
(08:06):
That's the hardest part aboutit, but I can get all my work
for every single class from mylike online classes, so it's
really not.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You got teachers.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Like you know, I'll uh, I'll overlook you being late
with this assignment if uh youget me on this movie well I, I
have people like jokingly saystuff like that.
But normally if I'm gone it'llbe oh, I'm sick, or we'll have
some sort of reason that I'm outof town, because it's hard to
(08:32):
explain to your school and getan excuse that you're going to
do acting stuff.
So it's like you're telling meI'm sick and then you have the
time to make up the work whenyou get back.
So I mean, that's just normallywhat I do.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, I tell you not to reveal all your secrets, but
nobody listens to our podcast,so no you talk about it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We have millions of listeners worldwide.
We're very popular in Germany.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
He's been gone for a year.
We've got a lot more popular.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Didn't we get banned in.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
China I don't know, no, I think it was Iraq.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
They wouldn't let us, or no, cause you could listen
to an Iraq.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, well, I was on.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
America, it was.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Iran, you were banned or something, something like
that.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Your secret's safe in Iran.
Okay, cool.
So let's talk about, like, howyou got into acting you know,
many, many years ago, back inwhat was your earliest acting
credit.
Was it commercial work, or didyou just jump straight into film
?
I'm pretty sure it was theBlack Bone.
Okay, how'd you get that role?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So I was like when I moved to Georgia from New Jersey
I started going to school andwe had to take an elective and I
tried band and chorus and Ididn't like either one of them.
So then, like seventh gradeyear, I tried drama and I liked
the acting part, but I'm not asinger and I don't really well,
I try but like that's not reallymy thing.
(09:50):
So I found an acting studiolike in my town and I went there
and then we startedself-submitting myself for
auditions and then I got thatWow and so and it was like, oh
okay, this is important.
We rushed over there.
It's like 9 o'clock at nightand I had no clue what was
happening and then I auditionedand then a few weeks later I
(10:13):
heard back about it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, what grade were you in at that time?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I think 7th.
It was either 7th or 8th grade.
God, it was around COVID, yeahgrade.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So he was more than successful than us before he got
to high school.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
In seventh grade, I was still falling out of trees.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I was playing Xbox and running around playing
Airsoft.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
That's wild man.
So you got this game.
What were your parents thinkingat that time?
We struck gold with this one.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
How cool were your parents?
She's, she was full in.
She's like, oh, no, we have togo now.
Like I was literally in themiddle of cooking a pizza as
like I went to go do theaudition, I had to take it out
of the oven, like it justhappened.
I still remember like she'slike no, no, we have to go do it
now.
It has to go do it now.
This is important.
So she's all in like gotta goyeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I mean sorry about the pizza, but I think it's a
sacrifice worth making.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So I think, I think the sacrifice is worth it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, now for for acting like did your parents?
Is that something like theykind of inspired you to want to
do, or is it something that youjust kind of grew an interest in
?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
um, I think it's more of I just grew an interest in
grew an interest in I think it'smore of I just grew an interest
in and then my mom like loves,like acting stuff and art and
everything and she likeswatching TV movies, so she was
supportive of it, okay, and whatwas like the filming?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Did you have to like go to a set?
Did you have to like go toHollywood?
Was it filmed in Georgia?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm pretty sure it was North Carolina that we
filmed it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
How many days of a shoot was it for your part?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Two the first time and then two or three the second
time, like it's only differenttimes.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Okay, did you get like the whole red carpet
premiere and all that fun stuffI did?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I got to go to the red carpet and that was a crazy
experience.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Was it the first rated R movie you ever seen?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, no, no, I don't.
He's like.
I'm trying to think.
I feel like the screen moviesare all rated all right, I think
so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'vewatched all.
I've had watched all those likealready.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So I think I think that's probably the first three
movies one of the questions Iwas going to ask you is where
you film to get like the the 70s, 80s kind of vibe for the movie
, for the black phone.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That's what I was wondering.
Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I guess.
North Carolina probably.
Like I know, I had some familythat lived up there around
Wilmington, north Carolina andthat's where some stuff was.
That's where it was.
Okay, there's some stuff that'sbeen filmed there.
That's they use, that it'sstill got that old look to to
the entire town and everything.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It's weird, north Carolina, I mean, was most of
the production out of Atlanta.
No, I'm pretty sure most of itwas in North Carolina there,
okay, I don't know the taxbreaks for films in North
Carolina.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Georgia's got pretty good ones.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
But, I don't know, maybe somebody just loves North
Carolina.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I mean, I know several things that's been
filmed there.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, so did you get to meet Ethan Hawke.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I didn't get to meet Ethan Hawke, but he was there
when I was filming one of myscenes.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Oh, okay, was he just like judging you like, off to
the side.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He's just standing there like eating a sandwich,
looking at you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I had no clue, because all I know is that my
mom and like the other parentsof like the guys in the scene
with like they were, like didyou see ethan hawk was over
there and I didn't.
I.
I did not see him and I waslike, oh no, I'm not it's like
no, I'm kind of working here, soI'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I had no clue.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And then she's like, oh, it's too late, and I was
like, okay, yeah so, uh, whatwas?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
what was it like, like you know, your first day on
set.
You kind of got the role, youkind of have a vague
understanding how acting works,and then you just like thrust it
into the giant machine of filmproduction.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
And you know, I can only imagine.
It was crazy.
I had no clue what was going on.
I've never done anything likethat before.
And just jumping in and it'slike like big set, there's so
many people working like so much, going on wardrobe, everything.
It's like, okay, this is a lotdifferent than what I expected,
but it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Did you have like a handler, like a guy that's like
not really like an ad orsomething like that?
That was kind of likecorralling the kids, you know,
making sure you guys weren'tgoofing off too much but also
trying to make it kind of funfor you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, there were plenty of people that were there
around helping and like weworked for like the fight stuff,
like we practiced beforehandand like we just went in a day
and did that stuff.
So I mean there was plenty ofpeople helping us in different
parts.
There was never really timelike there was someone
everywhere.
Yeah, no, goofing off much,it's pretty much.
You go here, you're ready.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
You wait, go here next place, wow, so you had to
choreograph a fight.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
What was that like?
Just a?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
bully, backyard fight .
I mean it's just practicekicking and how it's supposed to
look and all the things, andthen just really like doing it
over and over again and gettingit down, yeah, and obviously,
like other people had to do likeharder things.
So if, like you were on theground and stuff you had to
practice, that I mean it wasjust pretty cool.
Okay, you don't have to do thator anything, you're just
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practicing, like this match.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
So it's pretty cool, I know a lot of times you'll
hear stories when people arepracticing like the
choreographing fighting andstuff like that.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
They accidentally hit each other.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
So I was about to ask the same thing because I mean
it's like you and like two orthree other kids like kicking
this kid that's on the ground inthe scene.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
So I was just wondering how that went Well,
actually, like you wouldaccidentally kick him or you
would think it's like the stuntperson, but no, like you didn't
realize who was down there,because like you've been doing
it back and forth and they'dswitch, so you would end up
accidentally.
So let's say everyone's fine,nothing bad happened.
It's just like you mightaccidentally kick him a little
bit.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So just minor injuries.
Yeah, just minor.
Yeah, you can walk it off,you'd be fine rub some dirt on
it all for the craft.
So well, cool uh were youposting all this stuff like on
set, you know, on like socialmedia, like to all your
classmates, just like what's up,I'm in a movie I honestly, I
(16:24):
think when I first filmed it, Ididn't tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I knew why I was gone .
I told everyone I was shit, andit wasn't until stuff started
coming out about it that I waslike oh yeah, that's where I was
.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And it's like, oh, I was in that.
And everyone's like nah, andthen they watch and go, holy
crap it's Brady.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's exactly how it goes every single time Someone
else, it starts with oh, I saidit, and they're like no, no,
you're not.
Then they look it up, they'relike oh, you are.
And then one person willmention it in another class.
It's like no, he wasn't Like.
Why are you lying Like everytime?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I meet someone new and then they look it up, it's.
But when we were in high school, we didn't have social media,
so there was no way to post like, oh, you've been doing this
Because, like I think, myspacehad just come out and Facebook
came out, like when I startedcollege.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, for me it was like Facebook, and then I think
towards like when I got tocollege is when Instagram was
going wild.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Okay, and tweeting, tweeting.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So, yeah, that makes us sound a little older than
what you would think but yeah,we are old, did you ever?
Get tired of working with oldpeople no, you will.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's a good answer.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
So I don't get tired of working with older people.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I think it's pretty cool to work with people like
that have been there and donethings for a long time yeah it
is interesting talking to peoplewho have you know, like you
were, you know, fresh to theacting game, you know a few
years, some good credits, and wetalked to somebody who's been
like a character actor, who hasdone stuff for like 20, 30 years
.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And there's always the same level of enthusiasm.
Yeah, like everybody.
Just like if you're an actoryou just love being an actor.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then we always ask like, do you ever have like
a celebrity moment where youwere starstruck?
So I know you were on two filmsets.
Did you see anybody like famous?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
you're like, holy crap, I'm doing it like I made
it uh, at the red carpet, likethe premiere is, when I saw
people like um, I'm trying tothink there was a lot of people
where I was like whoa.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I'm walking the red carpet for something I'm in with
these other people.
Yeah, that's got to be wild.
That's crazy.
I've never done anything likethis before.
I'm going to be in a movie thatthey're watching and that's
normally the opposite.
That's so crazy.
Who did?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
you see, you were like, oh my God, it's them,
they're here.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Jamie Campbell Bauer.
I saw him.
He's back on Stranger.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Things.
I saw a picture where you hadpictures with him through IMDB.
They had some stuff I didn'tget to talk to him or anything.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But I thought that was super cool because that was
like prime Stranger Things, likethe season that had just come
out.
I had watched it and it was abig deal.
I was like, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, you know there's like a I wouldn't say
there's just like a divide, butthere's definitely like a giant
crowd for child actors nowadaysthat they kind of have their own
following.
It used to be, you know, when Igrew up like kid actors were
just like cause they wereprotected, you know, and they
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didn't have social media andstuff.
Back then you just kind of, youknow, waited until they were 18
and go on talk shows and likehave a personality and stuff
like that.
So you had no idea who thesepeople were off camera.
Now, all these Stranger Things,kids and people like you.
You have such a personality andyou have a distinguishable
(20:03):
character and it still has to bescary.
I couldn't imagine having abig-time life where everybody
could watch you under amicroscope and you're just
trying to be a normal kid at thesame time, you know.
So that work-balanced life Icould barely adjust as a
(20:24):
37-year-old with, you know, mysmall crowd of people, let alone
being what?
Are you 17, 18?
Yeah, I couldn't imagine being17, having to worry about saying
something stupid on Twitter.
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
That's just wild, yeah, because you've got the
people that want to cancelpeople.
They'll find stuff from 10years ago, uh-huh.
So.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, it's like you were tweeting when you were
seven, like new.
Lego movie Awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's like what do you mean?
It was awesome.
It was one of the worst filmsever made.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
The nazis made legos.
Well, you're also in herald thepurple crayon.
How?
What was your experience withthat movie?
So I was only in a scene forthat, but filming that scene was
super fun, like I mean it.
It was a comedy, it's, it waslike heart.
It was fun, like I enjoyedfilming it.
So I mean that was a goodexperience too.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I see on IMDb you're listed as the prank call kid.
Yeah, are you the one who prankcalls Like you're the caller,
or are you the one who gets thecall Caller?
Have you ever prank calledanybody before this?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
And I've always've always like, wanted to.
I don't know why I have it.
You should have done it.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Get in character, man .
Well, back when we were kids itwas a lot easier because you
didn't have caller id.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah, you couldn't just return call the phone would
just ring.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You had no idea who it was on the other side.
You were obligated to answer.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Phones had cords I think, I think I would do it,
but then also I also declinelike any sort of call from a
number I don't know.
So I don't know if I wouldreally actually brain call
someone, but it sounds like itwould be fun, I'd do the same
thing.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
If I don't know the number, I'd just let it go to
voicemail.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Like we would like flip open a phone book and like
look for a funny name and callthem and they'd answer.
And so it's like hello.
It's like you know who?
This is no Good.
Go F yourself and we'd laugh.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And hang up.
So you did a lot of voice worktoo, for commercials, and I saw
on one article there was aBatman.
Was it a TV cartoon orsomething that you did?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was also like a commercial Okay For a toy.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
For a toy.
Okay, were you like like thekid playing with a toy?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
like well, my new batman nah, I mean, I think we
were like looking up at like thebat single in the sky, oh yeah
that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I mean so what, how?
How would you describecommercial work versus film?
You know how how?
Because I I always haveunderstood commercial work to
just be fly by the seat of yourpants.
You got, like you know, one dayto shoot a commercial kind of
thing yeah, that's kind of howit is.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It's like a full day of you're doing this, you're
doing this, and then when you're, when you're sitting there
doing, it's like I don't know, Idon't know what's happening.
It's always like commercialsare always fast and something
like it flips back and forthlike a bunch of things.
It's like I don't reallynecessarily know what's
happening and like I'm filming abunch of scenes for this thing
and then you see the final thing.
You're like oh, oh, it makes alot of sense now.
(23:23):
But it's definitely like whenyou're looking at it, it's okay,
I'm doing something and I haveno clue what the reason for this
is, but then it it all ends inmaking me think.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Well, it's important.
I mean, from my littleunderstanding of acting, even if
it's a dumb product like thePet Groomer 9000 or whatever,
you still have to act like youcare and if you can care about
anything you know as a goodactor A to sell the product.
B to sell yourself then youknow people will notice that
(23:51):
there's a lot of famous actorsthat have gotten their start in
commercial work.
So it's good, yeah.
Yeah, it's a steady job and youget to act.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I think, like Ryan Gosling was in some kind of like
toy commercial like Toys R Usor something like that.
That's where he got his start.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Yeah, Jack Black Remember he sold.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Pitfall on Atari did he really?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
he did.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow, he was wearing his little Indiana Jones outfit
and stuff like that, and if yourcommercial is good enough,
djibouti Dubs will overdub itand make fun of it don't, don't,
don't, look that up.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I don't know if you're old enough, so like what
do you want to study in college?
I everybody would assume acting, but I mean, you know, this
guy's the world's your oyster,what are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I think I want to study business in college.
Okay, that's smart.
I'm not exactly sure.
Maybe also psychology.
I haven't really decided yet,but one of those two things.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Psychology would be an interesting background for an
actor, I think that a lot ofpeople always just go straight
into the thespian arts.
But I think they have adifferent kind of cerebral
mindset.
You know, building yourrepertoire for your acting
credits would be interesting too.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I studied psychology and sociology.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, well, you're a podcaster now.
Yeah, exactly, look how that'sturned out.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Don't follow my path.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I mean a business degree would be good to have,
because acting is a businessAbsolutely.
Especially when you already gottwo good credits, let's say two
years down the road.
You're acting Like Marvel's,like hey, we want you as this
character, we want to do this,we want to do that, and they're
just throwing contracts at youand stuff and you have no clue
and your agent or lawyer theyhired for you.
It's like oh yeah, son righthere could you going to be a
(25:39):
star and it's like you actuallyhave the acumen to read through
it and know a little something.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Go all right, well, wait a minute, yeah, and you
know, kind of protect yourselfso, yeah, I think having a, a
business degree, helps in somany different ways and so I can
know what's happening and I canpursue something with that, or
on the side, or I don't know.
I feel like that's justsomething simple that I'd be
like OK, I don't exactly knowwhat to do and I need to know
what I want to do, but I went tocollege, so if I just do that,
(26:07):
that's like a kind of a sideplan.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
OK, there's a couple of people we've talked to who
did a lot of acting, but nowthey do a lot of directing and
production stuff.
But they've started a lot oftheir own companies.
Yeah, because they had businessdegrees and they knew how to
navigate it and set stuff up sothey could just do their own
projects.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah, I have started an LLC before.
It's a lot of work, so justknowing what you're doing up
front, yeah, very beneficial.
So what you're saying is hiresomebody.
So do you think you're going tokind of like jump in to college
(26:45):
?
Just kind of keep your actinglife separate?
If a good opportunity happenswhile you're a freshman in
college, are you going to takethe risk?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I definitely think I want to go to college, but my
priority would be acting.
Okay, are you going to tell allthe girls, you're an actor, I
would I would.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, Tom would jump on that grenade.
He'd take it.
What did?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I say earlier, I handle that.
So like when people startasking me questions about it,
I'm like I don't really know,it's really awkward, so probably
not yeah.
Until they see your face on likea movie poster, and then
they're like oh well, you know,yeah, after I know someone a
little bit and then they're likeoh well, you know, yeah, after
I know someone a little bit,then it's like oh yeah, you can
know that it's just, uh, thefirst conversation being that
and I have to talk about myself,and it's like I'm like, well,
(27:38):
um, so I did this.
Uh, I'm like it was like this.
And then they ask questionslike, honestly, I know how to
answer that.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
And then I feel like, oh, it's just, it's just a
really weird interaction so soyour bigger movies that you've
been a part of is herald thepurple crayon and black phone
going forward.
What kind of genre of moviewould you like be most drawn to?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I definitely think like both of the genres horror,
comedy, even dramas but like mygoal film that I said like
always is like a slasher filmlike scream, like it's one of my
favorite franchises and I wouldlove to like be the killer in a
slasher film like Scream Likeit's one of my favorite
franchises and I would love tolike be the killer in a slasher.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh yeah, I want to be killed in a horror movie.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I mean at this point, the way Scream's going, you
could be in.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Scream 15.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
They're going to keep going, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I mean I would love for them to keep and I was like,
and if I could be in one ofthose, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
And nowadays the way it goes, eventually they'll
reboot it, so you can make yourown franchise and original and
creative.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So I could try.
Yeah certainly could.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So being part of the younger audience and younger
actors.
Tom and Hayden make fun of mebecause I like comics a lot.
Are you into like the superherostuff?
Like Marvel?
Oh, I love Marvel.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So if either one of them approached you, tom, and
Hayden make fun of me because Ilike comics a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Are you into the superhero stuff?
Oh, I love Marvel.
So if either one of themapproached you and said, hey, do
you want to be a character?
And you got to pick, which onewould it be?
Oh, that's a tough question.
Marvel's going to be coming outwith X-Men stuff soon and DC's
just getting started with theirwhole universe they're trying to
make.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
There's only one right answer I was thinking
about probably like the X-Men isgetting rebooted with, like the
next, the next, like series, somaybe like Nightcrawler or can
you do the accent, yeah?
Probably not, I don't know.
I kind of think it's weird thatthey aren't already currently
(29:34):
in like the MCU timeline,because, well, I mean, they
already have people playing them.
Yeah well.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
So I mean, like the X-Men stuff is something that
they're going to be starting andyou know, being young you could
be.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
You know, if you became Nightcrawler you could be
, Nightcraw worry about, youknow, getting agent out of it
pretty much so yeah if you getthat marvel I think really any
any of the x-men coming up, likethat'd be awesome, because I
mean I haven't seen this stuffin a while so I forget all the
like which characters and stuffare possibilities.
But I definitely know likeseeing certain characters comes
(30:09):
into you would be awesome and ifI could play one of them that
would be great yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
So what, what is your ?
What is your goal to kind ofsell yourself moving forward?
I know you got people like anagent and a publicist and stuff
that kind of like.
Are you know, hopefully justguiding you like what's, what's
the plan to move forward foryour career?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
um, I mean, I think I'm just gonna keep on trying to
do what I'm doing now, likewhenever opportunity comes my
way, I'll take it Okay and workon that, and then I'll hopefully
bigger, bigger things, and I'llkeep on moving up like that.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Have you been auditioning for stuff?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, I've been auditioning for stuff, okay.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You got anything coming up you can tell us about.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I do have stuff coming up, but I can't really
say anything about it.
Ah, secret.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
He's keeping secrets, man.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
He's good.
He's saving his job, he's doingthe right thing, you passed the
test.
Well done.
This is all a big test, you gotthe job.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
You're hired kid, you're going to be a star.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
That's cool man.
You know, what is theauditioning experience like for
you?
Is it mostly online or videocall or whatever?
Have you done an in-personaudition?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I've done an in-person audition, but most of
it's self-tape or Zoom call Okay, almost all of it that I've
done any personal auditions, butmost of it's self-tape or zoom
call okay, like almost all of itthat I've done is that which
would you prefer to do.
I think I like the self-tapethe best, but also I think in
person you can see likepersonality and they can do
better, so it's you have to doless.
(31:51):
I would guess.
Like is what I'm saying likebecause you have to make it a
little bit more obvious, likewhen you're making it across the
screen yeah not much, but justa little bit.
I think there, like you can seeeverything happening with your
like surroundings and how you'reacting, so I mean I think it's
pretty cool well you also get alittle bit of feedback too, when
you do in person as well butit's definitely easier to not
have to go to LA to film anaudition.
(32:15):
Yeah, or like go in personaudition when I can film it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I want to say, with the self-tape though, you know
it gives you the opportunity tolike, do several of them and,
you know, pick your best onesyeah.
Give them your best.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You know, first impression that you can, that's
true, yeah, I'm sure there's agive and take, um.
So what do you?
Do you feel I, I this isprobably a kind of a difficult
question to answer your, uh,your publicists and your agents
and stuff like that, the peoplewho are trying to help you
(32:47):
figure out your career are howinvasive are they like as a as a
child actor, so to speak,because you're the first kid
that we've talked to?
That's like it, like thisthat's not over 18?
yeah, how, how often are theylike like giving you work to do?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
oh, all the time.
Whatever like if it fits likethe description of something and
they can submit it, they willlike they're really good about
that, like they'll send me stuff, even even if it's like it's a
little bit like out of the agerange or something like I'll
still still get it and they'llsee if I can get the audition
for it.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
So I mean, they work really hard to get like new
stuff, which is great and do youfeel comfortable like if school
is becoming too much work andyou need to focus on that?
You feel comfortable, kind oftaking a step back and they,
they ease up and stuff I, if itcame to that, maybe.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
But I mean, I graduate in a few months and I
think, at the point where I amnow, like I would be fine, like
I would focus more on whateverlike they give me.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I don't think okay, we get it.
You're a smart student.
I'm just messing with you, Itried mr 4.0 gpa.
God, yeah, uh, do you have anidea of what college you want to
go to?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
do you feel comfortable saying I actually
have no idea where I want to goreally none of us did either I'm
being completely honest, like Ikeep on starting applications
and I'm like, do I want to go?
and then I think about it and Istart more, and then I don't
submit and then I'm like maybenot.
So I actually have no ideawhere I'm going to go, but I
(34:22):
really need to figure this outsoon.
A lot of the deadlines are inFebruary or within like the next
week or two, so I need tofigure this out it's a tough
time because I mean, a lot of ushad to go through it.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I had two choices a scholarship here, a scholarship
there.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
That's the only way I could get in.
I didn't get scholarships and Ionly applied to one school when
I got in.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Mine was just go to sports and that was it.
Everything was just like youhave to go to college.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
If you don't go to college and be in debt.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I hate to sound like the old guy, but I have a
daughter who's a little bityounger than you.
Like Tom said, when I was goingto college, my parents were
just basically holding a gun tome saying you will get educated.
I think that it is okay to taketime, for you know, I'm just a
(35:15):
stranger across the microphone,but, like, I think it's okay, if
you want to take a year tofigure out what the rest of your
life is going to be like, youtry acting and if it, if it
doesn't pan out, hey, there'snothing wrong with starting
college when you're 20 orsomething like that.
So you know, no, no pressure,just don't jump into something
and then be committed to a jobyou don't want to do see, unlike
(35:38):
us, he actually has the gradesto get into pretty much any
college he wants to go to.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
You sound like you have yourhead screwed on more straight
than we do, even at our age soyou know, but this kid can go to
harvard.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
We went to like slippery rock technical college.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I don't know.
It's definitely like people 4.5and everything like it goes
above 4.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
It goes above 4 now.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I don't know what about 4?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
what's the highest?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
um, I mean for, like I don't know, it depends on the
college, like normally it's on a4.0 scaling, but like with
splashes, like I don't know, itdepends on the college, like
normally it's on a 4.0 scaling,but like with classes and honors
and stuff, the balance there'slike higher balances.
So you'll have likevaledictorian with a 4.5, like
weighted, or like 4.2,unweighted.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
So where's your .5?
You studying?
Are you too busy running aroundon acting sets?
Yeah the.5 is not there.
I'm starting to getdisappointed.
We have no room to talk, no meand my solid 3.1?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
yeah, it's.
It's not just grades too.
Like colleges want you to likedo community service, you know
they want you to like feed thehomeless and you know solve
peace and stuff like that they.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
They want people to be productive members, good
colleges yeah, like they wantyou to be SGA president, student
body president.
Have 10,000 hours in communityservice so wild and like work,
so like it's like there's somuch stuff they need.
Now Are you doing any of thatstuff?
Yeah, I do stuff like that, butI like I'm in student
government, I like I help around.
(37:11):
But compared to some of theother people who have a really
long list of doing everyactivity, everything outside of
school, working in a courthouseor something or doing all sorts
of things, it's competitive.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
What you should do is find out how many streaming
hours your movies have and sayyou provided entertainment to
these people for this many hours.
Work that away into your essayor something.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Honestly, it's all about articulation.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Your life stresses me out.
I couldn't imagine having todeal with all that at 17.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I'd be sabotaging my own like campaigns for like
student body government I'd belike.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Vote for.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Tom, bringing dignity back to corruption.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
I'd take a gap year, man, I'd go travel.
Have you been out of the States, yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I've been out of the States.
Okay, I've left the countryonce now.
I left the country last year.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Well, he's already tied with me.
I've been to what was it?
Bahamas once, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
That's not leaving, that's not really leaving.
It's not part of the US.
It's not another continent or ahemisphere.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I've only flown once, so Wow, okay.
I flew to Miami.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
We are in North Georgia, the more sophisticated
side Mitch is the one that gotaway, but the rest of us, you
know.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I've never been west of Alabama and I've never been
north of Virginia.
So, oh man, Wow.
Eh, it is what it is, and hereyou are giving this kid advice.
I need to travel.
No, I'm not giving advice.
Hayden's giving advice.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
You've been to all 13 colonies?
No, have you yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
He drove down them.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
That doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Yeah, he drove down.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
That doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Well.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Brady, I'm excited to see what happens for you.
You know that I'm sure you've,like you said, you've got stuff
you're working on, but, likethis is a crucial moment in your
life I mean graduating highschool so I hope we can kind of
keep in touch and see you knowwhat next year looks like for
you, if you've got anythingcoming out or if you're just you
know going to be the next Bezosor something like that, after
your business degree orsomething like that.
(39:23):
So you know yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
In five years, when you're on, you know all these
movies and doing talk shows withConan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon
and I don't know, probably notJimmy Kimmel.
I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
And then I'll be like hey we talked to that guy first
, you have to come back and talkto us too.
Oh yeah, of course so.
Is there anything you want topromote?
Is there anything you want tosay you got some sort of play or
something you're doing?
No, I don't think so.
Okay, sort of like play, orsomething you're doing?
No, I don't think so, okay,okay, you got some sort of
(39:54):
Twitch account, some Call ofDuty feed or something like that
we can watch.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
I in fact do not.
Oh, I'm not good enough at mygames.
Well, nobody is.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
We're not good either .
We just pretend like we knowwhat we're doing.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Oh yeah, you don't have to be good, you have to.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Well, hey, man, it was nice talking to you.
I hope the best for you.
We'll be watching and, you know, when you're playing Deadpool
2.0, we'll be like, ah, we werethere, we saw that guy Sounds
great when we were in our 40s.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Look at that kid.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
He took my advice.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It's like yeah, 10 years from now you'll be on some
talk show.
It's like so, like how did youmake all these decisions, do
stuff?
It's like, well, I, I did apodcast with these guys and of
course I got hate.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
He was just, they were yelling at me telling me
all this stuff and I was likehuh those guys are right, it all
worked out yeah, that's how wego, all man.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Thanks for talking to us.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Thank you for having me.
I'm out.
Hey, welcome to Entertain this.
It's a podcast about movies, tvshows, video games and
background static.
Yeah, on technical difficulties, I'm Tom Hayden, I'm Mitch, and
on today we have a specialguest interview with Mr Brady
Ryan, an up-and-coming youngactor with a few good credits to
his name, and we're going to behaving a conversation with him.
Hey, hello, thanks for havingme.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh, thank you for joining with us.
So, Mr Brady, Mr Ryan, I alsosuffer from two first names as
both of my names, so how manytimes have people gotten that
confused for you?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So many, yeah, all the time, like whenever there's
a substitute teacher or thebeginning of a school year, it's
always.
Even though everyone gets theirlast names right with everyone
else, they always switch it.
Yeah, and I couldn't just letit go, but eventually they
realize do you go by?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
uh, brady m ryan, with the m for like your
crediting and stuff.
Yeah, okay, does the m help?
No, not really.
I too have a middle initial.
I just think it adds more chaosto the confusion.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So yeah, it'll still get confused.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
They'll just say it all backwards, so I mean yeah
sometimes we call him hayden,sometimes we call him brandon,
just whatever kind of rolls offthe tongue.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah, I'm 37, I can tell you it doesn't get any
better.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So you just gotta get super famous man.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So and you're already well on your way, yeah, but
what's it like being named aftertwo NFL quarterbacks?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean it's always brought up.
Yeah, it's always.
It's always that combo.
It's like, oh, yeah, theymentioned both of them and I'm
like, no, that wasn't the goal.
But I mean it's the topic ofconversation, I guess.
Do people ask, like, were youborn like during a falcons
(02:10):
patriots game?
I don't even know.
They always ask if it's likeafter tom brady.
I'm like no, it's not.
But I mean sure, like I don'tremember what I said about it.
This is like, yeah, no, it'scool, but no, I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It had nothing to do with that you should start
telling people that make it afunny anecdote.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I should.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You're you know Tom Brady and Matt Ryan's love child
.
He's born during like a playoffgame or the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You're a senior in high school?
Yes, okay, what state?
Do you go to school in Georgia?
Oh, oh, well, we school inGeorgia.
Oh, wow, well, we're all inGeorgia, why?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
didn't you just come on over for this?
I know If I would have known Iwould have.
What county are you in?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, we don't want to give away?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh yeah, we don't want to.
Yeah, someone's going to try tofind him.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You can ask that off air maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, we'll tell you when we we're not recording.
Get that southern education.
Huh, you know a whole historyclass during the civil war
period that the park gets alittle muddied underwater.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But which is?
You and I both went to schoolin the north, yeah, and then I
grew up in new york and movedhere and up there it's like oh
yeah, like the south, like theydid this like seceding nonsense.
So we kind of go down there andstraighten stuff out and, you
know, handle some business.
And then I come down here andit's like the South will rise
again.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, I've lived in Gwinnett County for pretty much
my entire life until, I guess,maybe the last 12 years, so it's
not really that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You do a lot of work out of.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Atlanta yeah, okay, okay, you do a lot of work out
of Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, usually Okay.
I do want to jump into a lot ofyour acting credits and stuff
like that, but we've nevertalked to a high school kid
who's way more successful thanall three of us combined before.
So, what's it like being astudent, you know, I don't know
(04:05):
battling defense against thedark arts for one of your
classes and then having to runoff to a movie set or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's a little difficult but it's not that bad.
The one part about it whichlike is the fact that when
something comes out, or ifthere's a commercial or
something, anything someone willhave seen it.
Yeah, there was one time whereone of my teachers saw it and
then showed all my otherteachers and that's always a
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topic conversation and that'snot the best thing to have
happen.
But besides, for that I meanthe time management's a little
difficult but it's handable whydo you say it's not the best?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
you just don't like the attention I.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
it's just like when I'm sitting in a class of people
like oh yeah, did you see this?
And I don't really know how todiscuss that with my teacher.
So it's really awkward,especially when I don't know,
like sometimes there's one timewhere my teacher like called me
over.
I was like oh yeah, this kid iscalled me over and was like oh
yeah, this kid is doing this andit was with other people I
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didn't know and I was like ohyeah, and I would say I'm a
little bit awkward when it comesto the first interaction with
new people and especially, Iguess, adults.
So it's not the most fun thing,it's how do I get out of it,
but it's actually kind of fun.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, I mean, you want to be an actor for like the
rest of your life, right?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
You better get used to that kind of attention, man.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I've definitely gotten more used to it, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
At the beginning you're like you've got to sneak
out.
It's like, oh, mrs Smith, Ineed to go to the nurse's office
, my stomach hurts.
And it's like, okay, and youget the hall, pass on sunglasses
and a scarf goes out of awindow.
There's a limo and someonehands him a script and he's just
reading through the lines andit's like, all right, I'm ready.
They just pull right into astudio.
That would be great.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Your publicist told us that you're really into
sports and that you have like a4.0 GPA.
How do you manage all thatwhile acting?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I don't think the three of us combined have a 4.0.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I know, I know the school part itself, I don't, it
isn't that bad.
I mean, I do end up missing alot of homework that I don't do,
but I don't, I can't reallyblame it on acting, it's
probably just me not doingenough.
But I think we have time inschool and I focus during the
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classes and, like I know what'shappening so I don't have to put
too much work into making sureoutside of school, so that
part's not bad.
And um, with the sports stuff,like I was, I was gonna play
lacrosse.
I'm not sure if I'm playingright now because we don't have
a lot of people on the team,okay.
So I don't know if, like, wehave enough even for a team at
the moment, but I like practiceand play stuff with my friends
(06:48):
with, like on my free time okay,a lot of time to do it, but I
like playing pickleball andwhenever I can, that is like my
go-to thing okay, I havediscovered pickleball this last
year and boy, howdy does it?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
you move a lot more than you look like you do.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah you definitely do yeah my knees are still
hurting.
Watching it the first time Ireally understand it.
I was like why are we playingthis?
It's like mini tennis.
It doesn't look that fun.
And then started playing.
I was like, okay, it's a lot,and it is fun it is.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
It is so like when you're actually filming and
you're in school cause you, youstarted filming what was black
phone was like your earliest bigcredit.
It was like 2021.
Yeah, a couple of years ago Iwas COVID era, so everybody was
kind of living the gypsyhomework life.
But I mean, you know whatyou're doing today.
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Do you do a lot of homework andstudying kind of on the road,
not as much as I think I need to.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
What you're doing today, do you do a lot of
homework and studying kind of onthe road.
Um, not as much as I think Ineed to.
I mean it helps the fact thatall my stuff is online.
I think with school most of ourassignments are online
technology.
If I'm in the car, like I canget my work done or something,
and I can do it like whereverI'm at, so it doesn't, it's not
too bad.
Just like it was his makeupstuff.
(08:06):
That's the hardest part aboutit, but I can get all my work
for every single class from mylike online classes, so it's
really not.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You got teachers.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Like you know, I'll uh, I'll overlook you being late
with this assignment if uh youget me on this movie well I, I
have people like jokingly saystuff like that.
But normally if I'm gone it'llbe oh, I'm sick, or we'll have
some sort of reason that I'm outof town, because it's hard to
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explain to your school and getan excuse that you're going to
do acting stuff.
So it's like you're telling meI'm sick and then you have the
time to make up the work whenyou get back.
So I mean, that's just normallywhat I do.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, I tell you not to reveal all your secrets, but
nobody listens to our podcast,so no you talk about it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We have millions of listeners worldwide.
We're very popular in Germany.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
He's been gone for a year.
We've got a lot more popular.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Didn't we get banned in.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
China I don't know, no, I think it was Iraq.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
They wouldn't let us, or no, cause you could listen
to an Iraq.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, well, I was on.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
America, it was.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Iran, you were banned or something, something like
that.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Your secret's safe in Iran.
Okay, cool.
So let's talk about, like, howyou got into acting you know,
many, many years ago, back inwhat was your earliest acting
credit.
Was it commercial work, or didyou just jump straight into film
?
I'm pretty sure it was theBlack Bone.
Okay, how'd you get that role?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So I was like when I moved to Georgia from New Jersey
I started going to school andwe had to take an elective and I
tried band and chorus and Ididn't like either one of them.
So then, like seventh gradeyear, I tried drama and I liked
the acting part, but I'm not asinger and I don't really well,
I try but like that's not reallymy thing.
(09:50):
So I found an acting studiolike in my town and I went there
and then we startedself-submitting myself for
auditions and then I got thatWow and so and it was like, oh
okay, this is important.
We rushed over there.
It's like 9 o'clock at nightand I had no clue what was
happening and then I auditionedand then a few weeks later I
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heard back about it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, what grade were you in at that time?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I think 7th.
It was either 7th or 8th grade.
God, it was around COVID, yeahgrade.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So he was more than successful than us before he got
to high school.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
In seventh grade, I was still falling out of trees.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I was playing Xbox and running around playing
Airsoft.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
That's wild man.
So you got this game.
What were your parents thinkingat that time?
We struck gold with this one.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
How cool were your parents?
She's, she was full in.
She's like, oh, no, we have togo now.
Like I was literally in themiddle of cooking a pizza as
like I went to go do theaudition, I had to take it out
of the oven, like it justhappened.
I still remember like she'slike no, no, we have to go do it
now.
It has to go do it now.
This is important.
So she's all in like gotta goyeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I mean sorry about the pizza, but I think it's a
sacrifice worth making.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So I think, I think the sacrifice is worth it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, now for for acting like did your parents?
Is that something like theykind of inspired you to want to
do, or is it something that youjust kind of grew an interest in
?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
um, I think it's more of I just grew an interest in
grew an interest in I think it'smore of I just grew an interest
in and then my mom like loves,like acting stuff and art and
everything and she likeswatching TV movies, so she was
supportive of it, okay, and whatwas like the filming?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Did you have to like go to a set?
Did you have to like go toHollywood?
Was it filmed in Georgia?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm pretty sure it was North Carolina that we
filmed it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
How many days of a shoot was it for your part?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Two the first time and then two or three the second
time, like it's only differenttimes.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Okay, did you get like the whole red carpet
premiere and all that fun stuffI did?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I got to go to the red carpet and that was a crazy
experience.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Was it the first rated R movie you ever seen?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, no, no, I don't.
He's like.
I'm trying to think.
I feel like the screen moviesare all rated all right, I think
so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'vewatched all.
I've had watched all those likealready.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So I think I think that's probably the first three
movies one of the questions Iwas going to ask you is where
you film to get like the the 70s, 80s kind of vibe for the movie
, for the black phone.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That's what I was wondering.
Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I guess.
North Carolina probably.
Like I know, I had some familythat lived up there around
Wilmington, north Carolina andthat's where some stuff was.
That's where it was.
Okay, there's some stuff that'sbeen filmed there.
That's they use, that it'sstill got that old look to to
the entire town and everything.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It's weird, north Carolina, I mean, was most of
the production out of Atlanta.
No, I'm pretty sure most of itwas in North Carolina there,
okay, I don't know the taxbreaks for films in North
Carolina.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Georgia's got pretty good ones.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
But, I don't know, maybe somebody just loves North
Carolina.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I mean, I know several things that's been
filmed there.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, so did you get to meet Ethan Hawke.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I didn't get to meet Ethan Hawke, but he was there
when I was filming one of myscenes.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Oh, okay, was he just like judging you like, off to
the side.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He's just standing there like eating a sandwich,
looking at you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I had no clue, because all I know is that my
mom and like the other parentsof like the guys in the scene
with like they were, like didyou see ethan hawk was over
there and I didn't.
I.
I did not see him and I waslike, oh no, I'm not it's like
no, I'm kind of working here, soI'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I had no clue.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And then she's like, oh, it's too late, and I was
like, okay, yeah so, uh, whatwas?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
what was it like, like you know, your first day on
set.
You kind of got the role, youkind of have a vague
understanding how acting works,and then you just like thrust it
into the giant machine of filmproduction.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
And you know, I can only imagine.
It was crazy.
I had no clue what was going on.
I've never done anything likethat before.
And just jumping in and it'slike like big set, there's so
many people working like so much, going on wardrobe, everything.
It's like, okay, this is a lotdifferent than what I expected,
but it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Did you have like a handler, like a guy that's like
not really like an ad orsomething like that?
That was kind of likecorralling the kids, you know,
making sure you guys weren'tgoofing off too much but also
trying to make it kind of funfor you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, there were plenty of people that were there
around helping and like weworked for like the fight stuff,
like we practiced beforehandand like we just went in a day
and did that stuff.
So I mean there was plenty ofpeople helping us in different
parts.
There was never really timelike there was someone
everywhere.
Yeah, no, goofing off much,it's pretty much.
You go here, you're ready.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
You wait, go here next place, wow, so you had to
choreograph a fight.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
What was that like?
Just a?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
bully, backyard fight .
I mean it's just practicekicking and how it's supposed to
look and all the things, andthen just really like doing it
over and over again and gettingit down, yeah, and obviously,
like other people had to do likeharder things.
So if, like you were on theground and stuff you had to
practice, that I mean it wasjust pretty cool.
Okay, you don't have to do thator anything, you're just
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practicing, like this match.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
So it's pretty cool, I know a lot of times you'll
hear stories when people arepracticing like the
choreographing fighting andstuff like that.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
They accidentally hit each other.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
So I was about to ask the same thing because I mean
it's like you and like two orthree other kids like kicking
this kid that's on the ground inthe scene.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
So I was just wondering how that went Well,
actually, like you wouldaccidentally kick him or you
would think it's like the stuntperson, but no, like you didn't
realize who was down there,because like you've been doing
it back and forth and they'dswitch, so you would end up
accidentally.
So let's say everyone's fine,nothing bad happened.
It's just like you mightaccidentally kick him a little
bit.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So just minor injuries.
Yeah, just minor.
Yeah, you can walk it off,you'd be fine rub some dirt on
it all for the craft.
So well, cool uh were youposting all this stuff like on
set, you know, on like socialmedia, like to all your
classmates, just like what's up,I'm in a movie I honestly, I
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think when I first filmed it, Ididn't tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I knew why I was gone .
I told everyone I was shit, andit wasn't until stuff started
coming out about it that I waslike oh yeah, that's where I was
.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And it's like, oh, I was in that.
And everyone's like nah, andthen they watch and go, holy
crap it's Brady.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's exactly how it goes every single time Someone
else, it starts with oh, I saidit, and they're like no, no,
you're not.
Then they look it up, they'relike oh, you are.
And then one person willmention it in another class.
It's like no, he wasn't Like.
Why are you lying Like everytime?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I meet someone new and then they look it up, it's.
But when we were in high school, we didn't have social media,
so there was no way to post like, oh, you've been doing this
Because, like I think, myspacehad just come out and Facebook
came out, like when I startedcollege.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, for me it was like Facebook, and then I think
towards like when I got tocollege is when Instagram was
going wild.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Okay, and tweeting, tweeting.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So, yeah, that makes us sound a little older than
what you would think but yeah,we are old, did you ever?
Get tired of working with oldpeople no, you will.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's a good answer.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
So I don't get tired of working with older people.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I think it's pretty cool to work with people like
that have been there and donethings for a long time yeah it
is interesting talking to peoplewho have you know, like you
were, you know, fresh to theacting game, you know a few
years, some good credits, and wetalked to somebody who's been
like a character actor, who hasdone stuff for like 20, 30 years
.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And there's always the same level of enthusiasm.
Yeah, like everybody.
Just like if you're an actoryou just love being an actor.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then we always ask like, do you ever have like
a celebrity moment where youwere starstruck?
So I know you were on two filmsets.
Did you see anybody like famous?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
you're like, holy crap, I'm doing it like I made
it uh, at the red carpet, likethe premiere is, when I saw
people like um, I'm trying tothink there was a lot of people
where I was like whoa.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I'm walking the red carpet for something I'm in with
these other people.
Yeah, that's got to be wild.
That's crazy.
I've never done anything likethis before.
I'm going to be in a movie thatthey're watching and that's
normally the opposite.
That's so crazy.
Who did?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
you see, you were like, oh my God, it's them,
they're here.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Jamie Campbell Bauer.
I saw him.
He's back on Stranger.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Things.
I saw a picture where you hadpictures with him through IMDB.
They had some stuff I didn'tget to talk to him or anything.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But I thought that was super cool because that was
like prime Stranger Things, likethe season that had just come
out.
I had watched it and it was abig deal.
I was like, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, you know there's like a I wouldn't say
there's just like a divide, butthere's definitely like a giant
crowd for child actors nowadaysthat they kind of have their own
following.
It used to be, you know, when Igrew up like kid actors were
just like cause they wereprotected, you know, and they
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didn't have social media andstuff.
Back then you just kind of, youknow, waited until they were 18
and go on talk shows and likehave a personality and stuff
like that.
So you had no idea who thesepeople were off camera.
Now, all these Stranger Things,kids and people like you.
You have such a personality andyou have a distinguishable
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character and it still has to bescary.
I couldn't imagine having abig-time life where everybody
could watch you under amicroscope and you're just
trying to be a normal kid at thesame time, you know.
So that work-balanced life Icould barely adjust as a
(20:24):
37-year-old with, you know, mysmall crowd of people, let alone
being what?
Are you 17, 18?
Yeah, I couldn't imagine being17, having to worry about saying
something stupid on Twitter.
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
That's just wild, yeah, because you've got the
people that want to cancelpeople.
They'll find stuff from 10years ago, uh-huh.
So.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, it's like you were tweeting when you were
seven, like new.
Lego movie Awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's like what do you mean?
It was awesome.
It was one of the worst filmsever made.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
The nazis made legos.
Well, you're also in herald thepurple crayon.
How?
What was your experience withthat movie?
So I was only in a scene forthat, but filming that scene was
super fun, like I mean it.
It was a comedy, it's, it waslike heart.
It was fun, like I enjoyedfilming it.
So I mean that was a goodexperience too.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I see on IMDb you're listed as the prank call kid.
Yeah, are you the one who prankcalls Like you're the caller,
or are you the one who gets thecall Caller?
Have you ever prank calledanybody before this?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
And I've always've always like, wanted to.
I don't know why I have it.
You should have done it.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Get in character, man .
Well, back when we were kids itwas a lot easier because you
didn't have caller id.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah, you couldn't just return call the phone would
just ring.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You had no idea who it was on the other side.
You were obligated to answer.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Phones had cords I think, I think I would do it,
but then also I also declinelike any sort of call from a
number I don't know.
So I don't know if I wouldreally actually brain call
someone, but it sounds like itwould be fun, I'd do the same
thing.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
If I don't know the number, I'd just let it go to
voicemail.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Like we would like flip open a phone book and like
look for a funny name and callthem and they'd answer.
And so it's like hello.
It's like you know who?
This is no Good.
Go F yourself and we'd laugh.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And hang up.
So you did a lot of voice worktoo, for commercials, and I saw
on one article there was aBatman.
Was it a TV cartoon orsomething that you did?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was also like a commercial Okay For a toy.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
For a toy.
Okay, were you like like thekid playing with a toy?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
like well, my new batman nah, I mean, I think we
were like looking up at like thebat single in the sky, oh yeah
that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I mean so what, how?
How would you describecommercial work versus film?
You know how how?
Because I I always haveunderstood commercial work to
just be fly by the seat of yourpants.
You got, like you know, one dayto shoot a commercial kind of
thing yeah, that's kind of howit is.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It's like a full day of you're doing this, you're
doing this, and then when you're, when you're sitting there
doing, it's like I don't know, Idon't know what's happening.
It's always like commercialsare always fast and something
like it flips back and forthlike a bunch of things.
It's like I don't reallynecessarily know what's
happening and like I'm filming abunch of scenes for this thing
and then you see the final thing.
You're like oh, oh, it makes alot of sense now.
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But it's definitely like whenyou're looking at it, it's okay,
I'm doing something and I haveno clue what the reason for this
is, but then it it all ends inmaking me think.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Well, it's important.
I mean, from my littleunderstanding of acting, even if
it's a dumb product like thePet Groomer 9000 or whatever,
you still have to act like youcare and if you can care about
anything you know as a goodactor A to sell the product.
B to sell yourself then youknow people will notice that
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there's a lot of famous actorsthat have gotten their start in
commercial work.
So it's good, yeah.
Yeah, it's a steady job and youget to act.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I think, like Ryan Gosling was in some kind of like
toy commercial like Toys R Usor something like that.
That's where he got his start.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Yeah, Jack Black Remember he sold.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Pitfall on Atari did he really?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
he did.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow, he was wearing his little Indiana Jones outfit
and stuff like that, and if yourcommercial is good enough,
djibouti Dubs will overdub itand make fun of it don't, don't,
don't, look that up.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I don't know if you're old enough, so like what
do you want to study in college?
I everybody would assume acting, but I mean, you know, this
guy's the world's your oyster,what are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I think I want to study business in college.
Okay, that's smart.
I'm not exactly sure.
Maybe also psychology.
I haven't really decided yet,but one of those two things.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Psychology would be an interesting background for an
actor, I think that a lot ofpeople always just go straight
into the thespian arts.
But I think they have adifferent kind of cerebral
mindset.
You know, building yourrepertoire for your acting
credits would be interesting too.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I studied psychology and sociology.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, well, you're a podcaster now.
Yeah, exactly, look how that'sturned out.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Don't follow my path.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I mean a business degree would be good to have,
because acting is a businessAbsolutely.
Especially when you already gottwo good credits, let's say two
years down the road.
You're acting Like Marvel's,like hey, we want you as this
character, we want to do this,we want to do that, and they're
just throwing contracts at youand stuff and you have no clue
and your agent or lawyer theyhired for you.
It's like oh yeah, son righthere could you going to be a
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star and it's like you actuallyhave the acumen to read through
it and know a little something.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Go all right, well, wait a minute, yeah, and you
know, kind of protect yourselfso, yeah, I think having a, a
business degree, helps in somany different ways and so I can
know what's happening and I canpursue something with that, or
on the side, or I don't know.
I feel like that's justsomething simple that I'd be
like OK, I don't exactly knowwhat to do and I need to know
what I want to do, but I went tocollege, so if I just do that,
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that's like a kind of a sideplan.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
OK, there's a couple of people we've talked to who
did a lot of acting, but nowthey do a lot of directing and
production stuff.
But they've started a lot oftheir own companies.
Yeah, because they had businessdegrees and they knew how to
navigate it and set stuff up sothey could just do their own
projects.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah, I have started an LLC before.
It's a lot of work, so justknowing what you're doing up
front, yeah, very beneficial.
So what you're saying is hiresomebody.
So do you think you're going tokind of like jump in to college
(26:45):
?
Just kind of keep your actinglife separate?
If a good opportunity happenswhile you're a freshman in
college, are you going to takethe risk?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I definitely think I want to go to college, but my
priority would be acting.
Okay, are you going to tell allthe girls, you're an actor, I
would I would.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, Tom would jump on that grenade.
He'd take it.
What did?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I say earlier, I handle that.
So like when people startasking me questions about it,
I'm like I don't really know,it's really awkward, so probably
not yeah.
Until they see your face on likea movie poster, and then
they're like oh well, you know,yeah, after I know someone a
little bit and then they're likeoh well, you know, yeah, after
I know someone a little bit,then it's like oh yeah, you can
know that it's just, uh, thefirst conversation being that
and I have to talk about myself,and it's like I'm like, well,
(27:38):
um, so I did this.
Uh, I'm like it was like this.
And then they ask questionslike, honestly, I know how to
answer that.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
And then I feel like, oh, it's just, it's just a
really weird interaction so soyour bigger movies that you've
been a part of is herald thepurple crayon and black phone
going forward.
What kind of genre of moviewould you like be most drawn to?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I definitely think like both of the genres horror,
comedy, even dramas but like mygoal film that I said like
always is like a slasher filmlike scream, like it's one of my
favorite franchises and I wouldlove to like be the killer in a
slasher film like Scream Likeit's one of my favorite
franchises and I would love tolike be the killer in a slasher.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh yeah, I want to be killed in a horror movie.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I mean at this point, the way Scream's going, you
could be in.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Scream 15.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
They're going to keep going, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I mean I would love for them to keep and I was like,
and if I could be in one ofthose, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
And nowadays the way it goes, eventually they'll
reboot it, so you can make yourown franchise and original and
creative.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So I could try.
Yeah certainly could.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So being part of the younger audience and younger
actors.
Tom and Hayden make fun of mebecause I like comics a lot.
Are you into like the superherostuff?
Like Marvel?
Oh, I love Marvel.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So if either one of them approached you, tom, and
Hayden make fun of me because Ilike comics a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Are you into the superhero stuff?
Oh, I love Marvel.
So if either one of themapproached you and said, hey, do
you want to be a character?
And you got to pick, which onewould it be?
Oh, that's a tough question.
Marvel's going to be coming outwith X-Men stuff soon and DC's
just getting started with theirwhole universe they're trying to
make.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
There's only one right answer I was thinking
about probably like the X-Men isgetting rebooted with, like the
next, the next, like series, somaybe like Nightcrawler or can
you do the accent, yeah?
Probably not, I don't know.
I kind of think it's weird thatthey aren't already currently
(29:34):
in like the MCU timeline,because, well, I mean, they
already have people playing them.
Yeah well.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
So I mean, like the X-Men stuff is something that
they're going to be starting andyou know, being young you could
be.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
You know, if you became Nightcrawler you could be
, Nightcraw worry about, youknow, getting agent out of it
pretty much so yeah if you getthat marvel I think really any
any of the x-men coming up, likethat'd be awesome, because I
mean I haven't seen this stuffin a while so I forget all the
like which characters and stuffare possibilities.
But I definitely know likeseeing certain characters comes
(30:09):
into you would be awesome and ifI could play one of them that
would be great yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
So what, what is your ?
What is your goal to kind ofsell yourself moving forward?
I know you got people like anagent and a publicist and stuff
that kind of like.
Are you know, hopefully justguiding you like what's, what's
the plan to move forward foryour career?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
um, I mean, I think I'm just gonna keep on trying to
do what I'm doing now, likewhenever opportunity comes my
way, I'll take it Okay and workon that, and then I'll hopefully
bigger, bigger things, and I'llkeep on moving up like that.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Have you been auditioning for stuff?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, I've been auditioning for stuff, okay.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You got anything coming up you can tell us about.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I do have stuff coming up, but I can't really
say anything about it.
Ah, secret.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
He's keeping secrets, man.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
He's good.
He's saving his job, he's doingthe right thing, you passed the
test.
Well done.
This is all a big test, you gotthe job.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
You're hired kid, you're going to be a star.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
That's cool man.
You know, what is theauditioning experience like for
you?
Is it mostly online or videocall or whatever?
Have you done an in-personaudition?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I've done an in-person audition, but most of
it's self-tape or Zoom call Okay, almost all of it that I've
done any personal auditions, butmost of it's self-tape or zoom
call okay, like almost all of itthat I've done is that which
would you prefer to do.
I think I like the self-tapethe best, but also I think in
person you can see likepersonality and they can do
better, so it's you have to doless.
(31:51):
I would guess.
Like is what I'm saying likebecause you have to make it a
little bit more obvious, likewhen you're making it across the
screen yeah not much, but justa little bit.
I think there, like you can seeeverything happening with your
like surroundings and how you'reacting, so I mean I think it's
pretty cool well you also get alittle bit of feedback too, when
you do in person as well butit's definitely easier to not
have to go to LA to film anaudition.
(32:15):
Yeah, or like go in personaudition when I can film it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I want to say, with the self-tape though, you know
it gives you the opportunity tolike, do several of them and,
you know, pick your best onesyeah.
Give them your best.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You know, first impression that you can, that's
true, yeah, I'm sure there's agive and take, um.
So what do you?
Do you feel I, I this isprobably a kind of a difficult
question to answer your, uh,your publicists and your agents
and stuff like that, the peoplewho are trying to help you
(32:47):
figure out your career are howinvasive are they like as a as a
child actor, so to speak,because you're the first kid
that we've talked to?
That's like it, like thisthat's not over 18?
yeah, how, how often are theylike like giving you work to do?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
oh, all the time.
Whatever like if it fits likethe description of something and
they can submit it, they willlike they're really good about
that, like they'll send me stuff, even even if it's like it's a
little bit like out of the agerange or something like I'll
still still get it and they'llsee if I can get the audition
for it.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
So I mean, they work really hard to get like new
stuff, which is great and do youfeel comfortable like if school
is becoming too much work andyou need to focus on that?
You feel comfortable, kind oftaking a step back and they,
they ease up and stuff I, if itcame to that, maybe.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
But I mean, I graduate in a few months and I
think, at the point where I amnow, like I would be fine, like
I would focus more on whateverlike they give me.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I don't think okay, we get it.
You're a smart student.
I'm just messing with you, Itried mr 4.0 gpa.
God, yeah, uh, do you have anidea of what college you want to
go to?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
do you feel comfortable saying I actually
have no idea where I want to goreally none of us did either I'm
being completely honest, like Ikeep on starting applications
and I'm like, do I want to go?
and then I think about it and Istart more, and then I don't
submit and then I'm like maybenot.
So I actually have no ideawhere I'm going to go, but I
(34:22):
really need to figure this outsoon.
A lot of the deadlines are inFebruary or within like the next
week or two, so I need tofigure this out it's a tough
time because I mean, a lot of ushad to go through it.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I had two choices a scholarship here, a scholarship
there.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
That's the only way I could get in.
I didn't get scholarships and Ionly applied to one school when
I got in.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Mine was just go to sports and that was it.
Everything was just like youhave to go to college.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
If you don't go to college and be in debt.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I hate to sound like the old guy, but I have a
daughter who's a little bityounger than you.
Like Tom said, when I was goingto college, my parents were
just basically holding a gun tome saying you will get educated.
I think that it is okay to taketime, for you know, I'm just a
(35:15):
stranger across the microphone,but, like, I think it's okay, if
you want to take a year tofigure out what the rest of your
life is going to be like, youtry acting and if it, if it
doesn't pan out, hey, there'snothing wrong with starting
college when you're 20 orsomething like that.
So you know, no, no pressure,just don't jump into something
and then be committed to a jobyou don't want to do see, unlike
(35:38):
us, he actually has the gradesto get into pretty much any
college he wants to go to.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
You sound like you have yourhead screwed on more straight
than we do, even at our age soyou know, but this kid can go to
harvard.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
We went to like slippery rock technical college.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I don't know.
It's definitely like people 4.5and everything like it goes
above 4.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
It goes above 4 now.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I don't know what about 4?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
what's the highest?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
um, I mean for, like I don't know, it depends on the
college, like normally it's on a4.0 scaling, but like with
splashes, like I don't know, itdepends on the college, like
normally it's on a 4.0 scaling,but like with classes and honors
and stuff, the balance there'slike higher balances.
So you'll have likevaledictorian with a 4.5, like
weighted, or like 4.2,unweighted.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
So where's your .5?
You studying?
Are you too busy running aroundon acting sets?
Yeah the.5 is not there.
I'm starting to getdisappointed.
We have no room to talk, no meand my solid 3.1?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
yeah, it's.
It's not just grades too.
Like colleges want you to likedo community service, you know
they want you to like feed thehomeless and you know solve
peace and stuff like that they.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
They want people to be productive members, good
colleges yeah, like they wantyou to be SGA president, student
body president.
Have 10,000 hours in communityservice so wild and like work,
so like it's like there's somuch stuff they need.
Now Are you doing any of thatstuff?
Yeah, I do stuff like that, butI like I'm in student
government, I like I help around.
(37:11):
But compared to some of theother people who have a really
long list of doing everyactivity, everything outside of
school, working in a courthouseor something or doing all sorts
of things, it's competitive.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
What you should do is find out how many streaming
hours your movies have and sayyou provided entertainment to
these people for this many hours.
Work that away into your essayor something.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Honestly, it's all about articulation.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Your life stresses me out.
I couldn't imagine having todeal with all that at 17.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I'd be sabotaging my own like campaigns for like
student body government I'd belike.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Vote for.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Tom, bringing dignity back to corruption.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
I'd take a gap year, man, I'd go travel.
Have you been out of the States, yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I've been out of the States.
Okay, I've left the countryonce now.
I left the country last year.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Well, he's already tied with me.
I've been to what was it?
Bahamas once, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
That's not leaving, that's not really leaving.
It's not part of the US.
It's not another continent or ahemisphere.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I've only flown once, so Wow, okay.
I flew to Miami.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
We are in North Georgia, the more sophisticated
side Mitch is the one that gotaway, but the rest of us, you
know.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I've never been west of Alabama and I've never been
north of Virginia.
So, oh man, Wow.
Eh, it is what it is, and hereyou are giving this kid advice.
I need to travel.
No, I'm not giving advice.
Hayden's giving advice.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
You've been to all 13 colonies?
No, have you yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
He drove down them.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
That doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Yeah, he drove down.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
That doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Well.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Brady, I'm excited to see what happens for you.
You know that I'm sure you've,like you said, you've got stuff
you're working on, but, likethis is a crucial moment in your
life I mean graduating highschool so I hope we can kind of
keep in touch and see you knowwhat next year looks like for
you, if you've got anythingcoming out or if you're just you
know going to be the next Bezosor something like that, after
your business degree orsomething like that.
(39:23):
So you know yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
In five years, when you're on, you know all these
movies and doing talk shows withConan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon
and I don't know, probably notJimmy Kimmel.
I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
And then I'll be like hey we talked to that guy first
, you have to come back and talkto us too.
Oh yeah, of course so.
Is there anything you want topromote?
Is there anything you want tosay you got some sort of play or
something you're doing?
No, I don't think so.
Okay, sort of like play, orsomething you're doing?
No, I don't think so, okay,okay, you got some sort of
(39:54):
Twitch account, some Call ofDuty feed or something like that
we can watch.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
I in fact do not.
Oh, I'm not good enough at mygames.
Well, nobody is.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
We're not good either .
We just pretend like we knowwhat we're doing.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Oh yeah, you don't have to be good, you have to.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Well, hey, man, it was nice talking to you.
I hope the best for you.
We'll be watching and, you know, when you're playing Deadpool
2.0, we'll be like, ah, we werethere, we saw that guy Sounds
great when we were in our 40s.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Look at that kid.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
He took my advice.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It's like yeah, 10 years from now you'll be on some
talk show.
It's like so, like how did youmake all these decisions, do
stuff?
It's like, well, I, I did apodcast with these guys and of
course I got hate.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
He was just, they were yelling at me telling me
all this stuff and I was likehuh those guys are right, it all
worked out yeah, that's how wego, all man.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Thanks for talking to us.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Thank you for having me.
I'm out.
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