January 16, 2024 • 7 mins
Actress Nina Dobrov talks new movie and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mario fun with Mario Lopez. It's up, you're all Mario
Lopez joining me now on zoom from the new movie
The Brick Layer. Nina Dobra, Welcome to show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Nina. Have you been I'm good. I've been good. It's
my birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I know you beat me to it. Happy birthday, Happy
New Year. How are you celebrating?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you? Honestly, I don't know if it's the evening thing.
I have nothing planned. I'm just so like New Year's was,
you know, usually I feel like we have a little
bit more time after, like we just jumped right into it.
I've been doing press all week in the middle of
a house remodel, two house remodels, actually, so I just
(00:42):
haven't had any time to do anything other than sleep,
eat and work. So I haven't had time to plan anything.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, that's a good way to kick off a new year.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Though.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I did see that you spent New Year's insane Barts, correct,
I did.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, it was absolutely fun. I've never been before. It
was beautiful, it was so pretty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh good good. Well, it's a good, good place to
rejuvenate and get ready. So congrats on the movie The Bricklayer.
What's it about.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So The Bricklayer is about a CIA operative that goes
rogue and is blackmailing the CIA. So my character, Kate Bannon,
who is a newbie sort of new recruit in the CIA,
gets teamed up with a veteran and retired but now
brought out a retirement CIA agent played by Aaron Eckhart,
(01:32):
who who doesn't really want to do anymore, is very jaded,
and so our two personalities together makes for a really interesting,
interesting dynamic that I had a lot of fun exploring.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Where did you get to film it?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
We shot this movie in Greece in a town called Thessaloniki,
which is the second largest city at all of Greece.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh wow, because.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Athens is so popular. I feel like a lot of
foreigners don't really know about Thessaloniki, but it's a really
beautiful coastal town right on the water, and it was
incredible I had It was like a dream location to
shoot in.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I bet did that have to do with the storyline
at all? Or that just happened to be the location
where you shut the film? You know.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The Bricklayer is actually based on a novel of the
same name, and in the novel, if I'm not mistaken.
I think it was maybe Germany is where it was set,
so I think because of tax rebates and logistics, it
made more sense to shooting Greece. So they rewrote the
script and made Greece kind of like another character in
the film.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's awesome. Yeah, I know. I haven't had a chance
to go up. I wanted to always check it out.
Aaron etcard I heard can memorize the script faster than anyone.
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That was my experience with him. I hope he doesn't
get upset that I'm telling his secrets.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But great.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The first day, not even shooting, we were the first
day that I flew into Greece having a wardrobe fitting in.
The director asked me if I didn't mind, you know,
doing a little read through of the script with Aaron,
And so the three of us got in a room
and he started, you know, I had my head down
in my script, and I was like, I'm very proud
of how like I do a lot of research, and
(03:09):
I have color coordinated pens and highlighters, like I do
a lot of of I start a movie and so
I buy my head in my script reading and we're
going through it and then I it wasn't until like ten
minutes into it that I realized that Aaron didn't have
a script in front of him. Table. Yes, the entire
script Pulley memorize already. I was like, Wow, you're really
(03:30):
making me look bad.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Show off.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
He's a consummate professional. He's so so committed to his
craft and and you know, I've just never I've never
met anyone more dedicated and more amazing and it and
it shows. I mean, his his performance in the film
is really is really amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That's cool to hear. Also in the works, you got
a comedy mystery called Reunion. Any timeline on when that's
coming up.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's coming out in the next couple of months. Stay
tuned for that. That was a really fun one with
little Ral Hallary, Jamie Chung, Michael Hitcock, Jamie Bell, Billy
Billy Magnus And it's a really Chase Crawford like. It's
a big ensemble cast, which is awesome. And I also
have another movie that's on demand called Sick Girl that
(04:17):
came out during the strike and I wasn't allowed to
talk about it, So I'm so excited that now I
can tell you about this tiny little Baby indie movie
that we shot in eleven days in Oklahoma a couple
of years ago, and yeah, it came out, so check
that out.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, what is Sick Girl about.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sick Girl is about a woman who is, you know,
she's a little lost. She's in her thirties and her
friends have moved on, they have kids, family, and she
sort of hasn't. She's gotten left behind a little bit
and she's really grasping for straws to keep the friendships alive.
And an act of desperation, she lies and tells her
friends that she has cancer. So she's yeah, yeah, and
(04:56):
so then the whole rest of the movie she's sort
of unraveling and trying to keep up with this lie.
But it just it gets worse and worse, and so
it's it's a dark comedy.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That seems very like I think I've heard that a
few times, right, like it's happened.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know, it's funny. Is before we shot this movie
years and years ago, and you know, to the striking
COVID it was a delay. But since we shot the movie,
it came out. There was like a Vanity Fair article
about a woman who was lying about having cancer in
her workplace, and and I actually knew that woman. She
worked on Vampire Diaris as a writer. Oh wow, wait, yeah,
(05:33):
I know, and I was playing the character. And you
know our movie is not based on her, but may
as well have been.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That. We'm have to check that out too. Is it
true you're pretty good surfer? I read that.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Uh no, I'm not. Look I I've been to Kelly
Slater's surf franch a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Fun.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's the most fun, and for a non surfer like me,
like you end up learning and progressing a lot faster
than you would in the ocean because the wave is
exactly the same every single time. But you know, they
also have photographers there and videographers, so the entire I mean,
I probably ate shit like ninety eight thousand times, but
there was one wave that I like kind of got good,
(06:18):
and so of course I posted the video and the
photos one time. So it looks like I'm a really
good server, but I am not. I don't know if
I could translate that to the ocean. I probably drown.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Surfers one of those things, though. It doesn't even matter
really if you get up all the time just being
out in the water and when the sun it's just
it's just fun, just the whole process, right, that's all.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I agree. I do have a lot of fun with it,
but I don't have a lot of upper body strike
that kind of have like chicken arms, so it it's
hard for me to paddle out there. And that's one
thing at Kelly's Surf Branch that you don't have to paddle.
They just like jet see you into the way of
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, or like, I'm definitely have to check that out. Well,
congrats on everything you've got going on. That's cool. You're
killing it right there. Meanwhile, everyone check out The Bricklayer,
which is out now in theaters and on demand. Hina,
thanks for hanging out, and more importantly, happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Thank You's so Loudy
Speaker 1 (07:14):
With Mario Lopez.
Mario fun with Mario Lopez. It's up, you're all Mario
Lopez joining me now on zoom from the new movie
The Brick Layer. Nina Dobra, Welcome to show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Nina. Have you been I'm good. I've been good. It's
my birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I know you beat me to it. Happy birthday, Happy
New Year. How are you celebrating?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you? Honestly, I don't know if it's the evening thing.
I have nothing planned. I'm just so like New Year's was,
you know, usually I feel like we have a little
bit more time after, like we just jumped right into it.
I've been doing press all week in the middle of
a house remodel, two house remodels, actually, so I just
(00:42):
haven't had any time to do anything other than sleep,
eat and work. So I haven't had time to plan anything.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, that's a good way to kick off a new year.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Though.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I did see that you spent New Year's insane Barts, correct,
I did.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, it was absolutely fun. I've never been before. It
was beautiful, it was so pretty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh good good. Well, it's a good, good place to
rejuvenate and get ready. So congrats on the movie The Bricklayer.
What's it about.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So The Bricklayer is about a CIA operative that goes
rogue and is blackmailing the CIA. So my character, Kate Bannon,
who is a newbie sort of new recruit in the CIA,
gets teamed up with a veteran and retired but now
brought out a retirement CIA agent played by Aaron Eckhart,
(01:32):
who who doesn't really want to do anymore, is very jaded,
and so our two personalities together makes for a really interesting,
interesting dynamic that I had a lot of fun exploring.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Where did you get to film it?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
We shot this movie in Greece in a town called Thessaloniki,
which is the second largest city at all of Greece.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh wow, because.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Athens is so popular. I feel like a lot of
foreigners don't really know about Thessaloniki, but it's a really
beautiful coastal town right on the water, and it was
incredible I had It was like a dream location to
shoot in.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I bet did that have to do with the storyline
at all? Or that just happened to be the location
where you shut the film? You know.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The Bricklayer is actually based on a novel of the
same name, and in the novel, if I'm not mistaken.
I think it was maybe Germany is where it was set,
so I think because of tax rebates and logistics, it
made more sense to shooting Greece. So they rewrote the
script and made Greece kind of like another character in
the film.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's awesome. Yeah, I know. I haven't had a chance
to go up. I wanted to always check it out.
Aaron etcard I heard can memorize the script faster than anyone.
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That was my experience with him. I hope he doesn't
get upset that I'm telling his secrets.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But great.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The first day, not even shooting, we were the first
day that I flew into Greece having a wardrobe fitting in.
The director asked me if I didn't mind, you know,
doing a little read through of the script with Aaron,
And so the three of us got in a room
and he started, you know, I had my head down
in my script, and I was like, I'm very proud
of how like I do a lot of research, and
(03:09):
I have color coordinated pens and highlighters, like I do
a lot of of I start a movie and so
I buy my head in my script reading and we're
going through it and then I it wasn't until like ten
minutes into it that I realized that Aaron didn't have
a script in front of him. Table. Yes, the entire
script Pulley memorize already. I was like, Wow, you're really
(03:30):
making me look bad.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Show off.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
He's a consummate professional. He's so so committed to his
craft and and you know, I've just never I've never
met anyone more dedicated and more amazing and it and
it shows. I mean, his his performance in the film
is really is really amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That's cool to hear. Also in the works, you got
a comedy mystery called Reunion. Any timeline on when that's
coming up.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's coming out in the next couple of months. Stay
tuned for that. That was a really fun one with
little Ral Hallary, Jamie Chung, Michael Hitcock, Jamie Bell, Billy
Billy Magnus And it's a really Chase Crawford like. It's
a big ensemble cast, which is awesome. And I also
have another movie that's on demand called Sick Girl that
(04:17):
came out during the strike and I wasn't allowed to
talk about it, So I'm so excited that now I
can tell you about this tiny little Baby indie movie
that we shot in eleven days in Oklahoma a couple
of years ago, and yeah, it came out, so check
that out.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, what is Sick Girl about.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sick Girl is about a woman who is, you know,
she's a little lost. She's in her thirties and her
friends have moved on, they have kids, family, and she
sort of hasn't. She's gotten left behind a little bit
and she's really grasping for straws to keep the friendships alive.
And an act of desperation, she lies and tells her
friends that she has cancer. So she's yeah, yeah, and
(04:56):
so then the whole rest of the movie she's sort
of unraveling and trying to keep up with this lie.
But it just it gets worse and worse, and so
it's it's a dark comedy.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That seems very like I think I've heard that a
few times, right, like it's happened.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know, it's funny. Is before we shot this movie
years and years ago, and you know, to the striking
COVID it was a delay. But since we shot the movie,
it came out. There was like a Vanity Fair article
about a woman who was lying about having cancer in
her workplace, and and I actually knew that woman. She
worked on Vampire Diaris as a writer. Oh wow, wait, yeah,
(05:33):
I know, and I was playing the character. And you
know our movie is not based on her, but may
as well have been.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That. We'm have to check that out too. Is it
true you're pretty good surfer? I read that.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Uh no, I'm not. Look I I've been to Kelly
Slater's surf franch a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Fun.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's the most fun, and for a non surfer like me,
like you end up learning and progressing a lot faster
than you would in the ocean because the wave is
exactly the same every single time. But you know, they
also have photographers there and videographers, so the entire I mean,
I probably ate shit like ninety eight thousand times, but
there was one wave that I like kind of got good,
(06:18):
and so of course I posted the video and the
photos one time. So it looks like I'm a really
good server, but I am not. I don't know if
I could translate that to the ocean. I probably drown.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Surfers one of those things, though. It doesn't even matter
really if you get up all the time just being
out in the water and when the sun it's just
it's just fun, just the whole process, right, that's all.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I agree. I do have a lot of fun with it,
but I don't have a lot of upper body strike
that kind of have like chicken arms, so it it's
hard for me to paddle out there. And that's one
thing at Kelly's Surf Branch that you don't have to paddle.
They just like jet see you into the way of
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, or like, I'm definitely have to check that out. Well,
congrats on everything you've got going on. That's cool. You're
killing it right there. Meanwhile, everyone check out The Bricklayer,
which is out now in theaters and on demand. Hina,
thanks for hanging out, and more importantly, happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Thank You's so Loudy
Speaker 1 (07:14):
With Mario Lopez.
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