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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mario fun with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Brother Mario Lopez? Joining on Zoom from Beverly Hills cop
axl actor Judge ryin Hold.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the show Man. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Thank you? We're doing great.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
We had a screening, actually, it was our premiere on
the twentieth on Thursday night, sorry Thursday night, and it
played so well. I'm very excited about it. I think
it's the best one we've done since the first one.
So yeah, we're excited. That's never been a movie before either,
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which is fine.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The screening is that the one that was literally in
Beverly Hills at the Beverly Hills Police Department.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah, and then the mayor was there and they made
it officially Beverly Hills cop Day And I said, does that.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Mean we don't need permits anymore?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And he said, bust out the card when you need it.
It's pretty mind blowing to think that it's forty years,
right since the original, Yeah, for eight years. I absolutely
love that. What what's Rosewood up to in this movie?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, he's not as naive anymore.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
He's uh, he's still a very affable fellow, but he's
a badass. Detective. I mean, I think I think Axel
rubbed off on him and uh, he's uh what what
happens is he he breaks a case, that breaks a lot.
That's kind of all like, it's Axual against tremendous power.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Again, basically fair enough, now, Yeah, would viewers had to
have been familiar with the original or the franchise to
enjoy this one or can neubies just jump in?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We were so interested in having people discover the franchise.
We made sure that that wasn't necessary because we wanted
all of this. Wanted them to go back, and a
new generation that hasn't isn't aware of the other ones.
We wanted them to go back and want to see those. Yeah,
And I'm actually beyond the business part, which I don't
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have anything to do with it. I'm excited about a new
generation experiencing the first one because we're so proud of
the first one, because it it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Really launched a genre.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You know, at the time, Mario, at the time in
eighty four, mixing bringing in the action and the comedy together,
the tonal changes, you know, we didn't know if that
would work, and it was exciting and edgy, and it
paid off.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And we kind of launched a genre.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You know, you really did, because they were all the
all the comp shows were real or the movies, I
should say were were very serious, and they didn't they
didn't blend the two. So you totally launched a genre
to huge success. I was curious in doing this movie
or even in the original, was there a lot of
improv on set working with Eddie or did would you
pretty much stuck to the.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Script, Oh, this one, yeah, or any of them the tour?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, on this one. Well, whenever you have a director
that's one of the writers, you don't really get to
improvise too much because they're pretty precious with the words.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But Eddie did You're not going to tell Eddie whate
to do?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, get away with it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
And I know it sounds hypey, but you got to
see for yourself. But Eddie is very, very funny in
this movie. I was It's just so much fun to
see him play Axel again.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Man, it just fits when the three of us were together,
It just it just works.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's a chemistry. I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
It's it was like we picked up where we left
off that we have a scene in a unmarked car
where he yeah, the three of us are in it,
and that was our first night together and we hadn't
seen each other in years, not like ten years. Eddie
got in the car and looked at us and said, well,
at least we still resemble our character.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Now, you guys are good, man, you guys are good.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Now, why the long hold up?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Because Eddie was saying it took like fifteen years to
kind of tweak the script and to make it just right.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
What what happened is is that they'd get excited about a pitch.
Jerry Bruckheimer wasn't on. He's the original producer. They get
excited about a pitch, they go to draft, they go
to maybe a second draft, and then it just didn't
pan out. So you'd have a really great idea. Then
the script wasn't up to the original idea. So Eddie
would move on because the franchise is it's very very
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important to him. Axel's really important to him, and he
seriously was not going to do it. I didn't know
whether it was going to happen or not, because I
knew he wasn't going to do it unless it was
something special.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And we got Jerry came on.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Board and then it he found this writer named Will
Beale who was an ex LAPD patrolman and a detective,
and it gives it a real nice street sense.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, so Capeles's heroes are back. Baaby.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I love it, man, I cannot wait to check it out,
especially my generation. This is this is so cool and
you've actually been in a few of my favorite films.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I mean, a Fast Time.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Has got to be not just one of the best soundtracks,
but one of the greatest high school films.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It represents such an awesome era.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
The mall no longer essentially exists, and when you look
at Fast Times now with the mall and you work it,
I mean, it was just so awesome At the time.
Did you feel you were doing something special and it
would be a classic or did.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It take a few years to realize that, Judge.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well, we didn't know what the eighties were, you know,
but we did feel right.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But we did feel that we were doing something special.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Because Cameron Crow masqueraded as a senior in a Long
Beach high school for a year. I don't know if
you know the story or not, but he he was
working for Rolling Stone and so he was hired to
create a next pose of high school life, and in
his twenties, he still looked like he could pull up
being a senior, and so he spent a whole whole
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school year transcribing all these great conversations and stuff, and
they made it into the film. So we felt like
we were authentic that way because we knew a lot
of the dialogue came from the kids.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So it was so awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
And I remember it was a seventeen year old Nick
Cage played your coworker. Yeah time, Yeah, what kind of
impression did he leave on you?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Back then?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
They wanted him for Brad really bad, really, yeah, they did,
but because Nick was seventeen, they would have had to
have had child actors and the budget wouldn't have supported
that those kind of hours. So very reluctantly they kept
looking and then they found me.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Worked out, So it worked out, so honest.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Nick was so cool about it, he said he was
he was relieved. He felt like there was a lot
of pressure for him.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I was ready for it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
And then I don't know, I think maybe the same
year he got Valley Girl, you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
The girl.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's another good one right there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, That's what got him going.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Did they ever attempt to make a sequel.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
The Fast Times? Yeah? No, good, that would have been
off the Cameron. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It was just perfect the way it is right there.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
It would have been interesting to have It would have
been interesting to have an expert like revisit these characters
and their struggles if it was authentic. But he was
into other staff. I mean, you could have done it
without it being hokey.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I believe that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I think it would have been great for him to
uh masquerade as like an executive or well see they're
also branched out. So yeah, if you could do that,
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh man, that's another one that holds up and I
love it and another classic of course stripes.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Working with John Candy and Bill Murray, and I heard
stories before to John Candy, Really, you guys shot that
in a dry county, right, there was certain scenes you shot,
was it the razzle Damsel scene? And John Candy, being Canadian,
didn't know what was going on there?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, no, no, I had to explain. I it fell
to me to explain to John what a dry county was.
And this is the King of Molson and he and
He goes.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What do you mean.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I said, you can't buy alcohol. It's a dry county.
Gives what do you mean the weather?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I said no, no, no, no, you can't. He said
you can't buy beer, and I said, that's right. And
he said beer is an alcohol.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
There is an alcohol. He's got a point. He's got
a point.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
That's so what happened was the next day the teamster,
he got the teamsters going that they were in on it,
and they drove to Louisville and his bathtub was always
full of beer for all of this.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You hang out at his plate.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Dude, that's the really I love this. I love it. Judge,
you have a You have a daughter, right.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, eleven she's off a camp. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh that's awesome. Eleven years old. So she said, okay,
what's she intwo.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh, well, she's really into people right now.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I mean, she's just loves her friends and she's very
social and h she I'm just happy that she's having
the childhood of bicycles and the outdoors and she loves
the outdoors, and I'm just happy she's having the childhood
I had.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You know, that's why were you from?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Originally Judge, originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia, outside of DC, but
at that time it was rural Virginia.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, and uh, I went down.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I got a job at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater
down in Supiter, Florida.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
It was one of the first apprentices down there, I know.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And what age you come to la.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
People that I met at that theater, James Best, who
was in Dukes of Hazzard, who is actually he played
a sheriff in Dukes of Hazzard, but it was a
very serious, really terrific, accomplished actor.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That wasn't Roscoe Peacole Train, wasn't that?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, that was him.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He was the best.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That was my mentor.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Roscoe peaco Train was your mentor. Yeah, this story is
getting more awesome.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Jimmy was very different. That was you know that that
role was not him, but.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Freaking love Dukes of Hazzard and I loved him him and.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, yeah he he and Bert went way back.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Jimmy was. He was one of the studio system. He was.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
He told the stories about how when he was a
contract player for Universal. Uh, he would play a Native
American and get shot by a cowboy and in the
same movie, be a cowboy and shoot Shoot the.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
In the same diverse.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
He's got creative flexibility. I like it. Oh these are
great man.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
All all you needed was makeup then yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You need is back there. Oh man, I could talk
to you for all day right here. It's such a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I appreciate you taking the time you and I look
seeing you in person, my man.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You can watch Beverly Hills cop axel F streaming right
now on Netflix. Judge, thanks so much for hanging out
with Mario Lopez.