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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yes, it is cassam Var. How are you, my man,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. How you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm going to be a hundred with you. I'm going
to be one hundred percent honest with you, Okay. Cass
Avar of course, probably best known for the Expanse, but
the popular series. But I mean a hell of a resume.
Been doing a lot of work for a long time.
Some great movies I'm looking at here, some of them
(00:29):
having some underappreciated ones. To punish your war zone, I
always felt underappreciated and Dody fiad with with Naomi Watts
and Diana. Yeah, that's something so rom com seems like
is this your first? Is doing it the rom com?
It seems like it's your pod question? Is it one
(00:51):
of your first?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think it is, Actually it is, Yeah, I think
it's probably. I can't think of another one right now.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, that's a very good observation. It's a it's a
it's kind of a rollicking, kind of bold comedy in
the spirit of the forty year Old Virgin, only this
time it's with a East Indian perspective, with a thirty
year old woman.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Uh, played by Lily Singh.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
If you guys aren't familiar with Lily, Lily started She's
a Canadian performer, started up doing hilarious YouTube videos skits,
blew up from that, got taken to LA, had her
own talk show, and now she is all over the
map and she wrote her first feature and this is
it doing it, And I mean, I'll be honest with you,
(01:39):
it is an amazing first feature. It's super tight, super
well directed, super well acted, looks great, funny as hell. Yeah,
you don't see many first movies like this. Yeah, and
really really well done. And she does a great job
as the lead.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well that that's where I was going to be one
hundred with him and be honest with you all though
I'm thinking, I think I might be wrong. I just
watch the trailer, and I mean the trailer had me
cracking up, and I was thinking, like why, But now
I'm remembering, I think I did catch the trailer once
in the art house theater here in Connecticut. You know,
(02:16):
people keep talking about we got to keep movie theaters open,
and I'm I'm with that obviously, you know, one hundred percent.
But our art house theaters they really fell away during
the pandemic, So I've only got one. Yeah, and I
used to have one right down the street from my
house that I would see stuff that ordinarily, you know,
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you go to the East Village, you might get it
in New York. You're not gonna get it in Connecticut.
So I'm really missing my art house sitter. So I
think I saw the trailer for doing it once at
the arthouse sitter that I kind of got a track
to now, and the trailer's spot on. Man, I mean,
I was laughing during the trailer, and it's by the
gang who not only gave us due revenge, which was
(02:58):
a great flick. But sing Street, sing Street is interesting
to me because my daughter and I love Singh Street.
There's a lot of thing. There's a lot of heart
in Singh Street, though, is there a lot of heart
in doing it?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
There is? Yeah. I mean, I'll just give you an
example the role I play. I play this character named Farhad,
who's this sweet little guy who's come in from a
little engineer, lives next door to the Singhs, not to
the things too. A Lily's character, her mom and her
they live together and he gets an Amazon box accidentally
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shift to his place that belongs to them, so he
brings it over and Lily's character, who lives with their mom,
who's a single mom, we start getting together and the
little sparks fly and these two kind of older characters
start having a little bit of a budding romance and
it's the first time either of them have ever really dated.
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And so you get to see Lily's character, who is
this tech gu trying to sell her app very very
intelligent and powerful, kind of independent, self actualized woman who
happens to be a virgin, can't get a job in tech,
so she ends up substitute teaching at a high school,
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and she gets stuck teaching sex at and she's never
had sex before, and so the whole movie she's trying
to figure out who she is, where she's at, about
her status and what she should be doing with her
life and all sorts of crazy comedy in Susan. Meanwhile,
her mom and me are having this sweet, little limosine
(04:39):
kind of romance. On the side, Well, she's going through
all this emotional.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Turmoil, yeah yeah, and her bests lots of heart, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely,
but lots of it seems like twice as many laughs.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
As yeah, definitely, as I will be honest with you
and I will say you want me one hundred when
you see this movie. The first ten minutes of this
movie had me cracking up and my jaw dropped, like
I've never seen anything quite as bold as what Lily
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did with the first like she did not want to
start this out a slow bird. This movie starts like
in your face, how bang wham, Yeah, like you guys
will have your socks knocked off.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, it's interesting to see. You know, the ladies
have taken the reins as far as like, yeah, the
raunchy comedy is concerned like the days of super Bad. Yeah,
like there was one Bottoms. I don't know if you
know the film Bottoms from a few years ago and
even due Revenge just as I say right here, and
those are the producers behind doing it too. It's like
(05:52):
Ladies of Front and Center with the raunchy humor nowadays. Yea, yeah,
I bet you it is shocking.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, funny man, it's funny as hell.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Now you got me intrigued by this. And I see
here too that the movies largely doing an art house
circuit like they are. Liaison sent me everywhere that it's playing,
and you know, it's it's all over the country, but
in a lot of our AMC's all over. AMC cast
(06:22):
has become kind of like the independent film.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Really, I think. So I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, that's where I see all my indies now because
I lost my independent you know theater.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, your little art house, so I know,
I mean, I missed those two. I used to have
like two of them near me when I was living
in Montreal, two beautiful little art house theaters. They're they're
they're installed in these gorgeous kind of like old theaters
that you know they still have like the sconces on
the wall and the molding and the paintings on the
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ceilings and everything like that. I love going there with
the old weathered velvet seats and no more, no more.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No more. And also they had like weirder candy. It's like,
you know, you're in an art house there. Yeah, when
the candy is like yeah this is this is.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's weird rainbow of crunchy stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah. You had asked the concessions girl for milk duds
and she makes a weird face at you, and it's
like a really, but what is next for cass On
far beyond doing It? And I can't wait to see
it because it does look hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean, it's got I got a big year. I
got I got with doing It. I got four films
coming out this year, so I'm pretty happy I've got
Doing It coming out. I got this post apocalyptic kind
of dystopian futuristic film called Viper, which is a bit
of a kind of like a RoboCup in the future
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of the world is controlled by corporations, and we my
character whose name is Razor, we're part of a military
uh theme that gets hired to go and knock out
a chemical biological weapons factory in the jungle. And our
lead guy, whose code name is Viper, he's a retired
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commando who comes out of retirement because he has to
raise enough money to get his little girl cancer treatment,
because in this kind of dystopian future, nobody gets health care.
You have to pay for everything. Not too far from
the truth from where we're at, and we go to
the jungle that blow up this biological weapon, and then
(08:31):
we find out that it's actually a medical facility that's
trying to raise create a cure for cancer, and we
realize we've been duped, We've been hired by a pharmaceutical
company and trying to knock out the competition. And so
we go through this whole thing, steal the medical and
spend the entire movie basically running for our lives, trying
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to trying to stay alive and save our buddies, little
girl and ourselves. So the whole movie's in action.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, I mean, a further proof that doing it, as
far as cast var is concerned, is a one off.
It is the only catch. When does Viper come out?
When can we expect that?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I think we're expected at the end of this year.
And then I think it's gonna be followed by another
movie called Weight of Darkness, which is a psychological thriller.
Oh and wait, we hear the cast Envieber. We got
Peter Fatchinelli from Twilight. We've got Jonathan rees Myers, we
got Neil McDonough and myself, and uh, yeah, I think
(09:33):
that's it, but it's an amazing cast ye in the
and then Weight of Darkness we got Doug Jones, we
got Corbyn Burnson, we got Angus McFadden from Brave Heart,
and uh and and myself doing the psychological thriller. I
play the best friend of a psychologist. I'm a psychologist myself,
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and he's having all sorts of nightmares and disturbing dreams,
very very very upsetting things. And as the movie goes on,
you start to realize that the things that he's dreaming
about are not all dreams, is actually tapping into something real.
And then the whole movie turns dark and goes very
very supernatural and gets kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Again. I say further that it is the one off,
so I'm looking forward to seeing I'm looking forward to seeing, uh,
the chemistry that you exact.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, let's see where it goes with your love interest?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
If you're doing the game with the Amazon package, Yeah,
yeah you have.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
A love interest. Do you ever go through your scripts
and you're like another movie with no love interest?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
For cash Man, you would even like you, you, you
would know you know what, You're right? You are absolutely
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That could be a good title for your memoir one day?
Can I get a love interest?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Can I get a love interest? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I love it? Man continued success. I'm really looking forward
to doing it. I think it's really going to perform.
These are hot. I have a twenty two year old
daughter right now. I mean, these movies are so hugely
popular and I can't wait to see it, and it's
cast on far continued success. You got a bunch of
movies following that one, and it was a pleasure chatting
with you this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Me too, Vinnie. You take care all right
Speaker 1 (11:19):
We'll see the best