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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Once up for al Mario Lopez joining me now in studio,
great actor and sayer. Mr Robert Dobby, how are you, sir.
I'm doing well. It's great to be him. Mario. Well,
thank you for taking the time to come. So. Okay,
you're the subject of this new documentary, Dobby's Way. I
saw it, loved it fascinating. I don't want to spoiler
(00:22):
or give away too much, but how would you describe it?
What's what's exactly the premise? Well, the premise was the
brainchild of Danny A as you know, yes, a mutual
friend of ours. Yes, and what had happened. I'd written
a script called The Voice about a guy that was
obsessed with the sound of Sinatra's voice. Then he read
that script. I wanted him to produce it as a
(00:43):
as a as a producer, and he had then subsequently
come to my show on Long Island in front of
ten thousand people, saw me sing and said, you know what,
I'd rather do a documentary following you around doing this
music thing. And that's the genesis of it. And then
it became wanting to do because I want it to
do a hundredth anniversary tribute to Sinatra. By recreating the
main event from nine Love that and that was such
(01:06):
an iconic moment I remembered vividly. I'm also a huge
fan in Jerry Weintroup produced it. He was in the
middle of his boxing ring, um, and that was it
just something that when I think of Sinatra, it really
stands out to all huge fans of course. So what
were the biggest challenges in trying to make this concept
of reality? What was what was the when you laid
(01:26):
it out? What did you envision in what happened? Well,
first off, let me just say I didn't want the
documentary to be sterile, so I said, you know what,
I'm gonna just expose myself. I mean, not to do
that these days that it was an emotional exposing right
right right, So I emotionally exposed myself and wanted to, uh,
you know, and I know with him how to make
(01:47):
things theatrical, you know what I mean, or interesting, So
I had to list open myself up for that. The
challenges were that, um, which you'll see in the film,
was the first to get Madison Square Garden, and then
to get other artists committed to wanting to do the project.
And I kind of like had a bigger idea in
(02:08):
my mind, and I thought there would be more people
rallying around wanting to do this, be part of this event,
which was not the case. You're ambitious. I was ambitious. Yes,
what sparked your passion for Sinatra? Well? Where were your
parents from? Were they from here from? Uh? My parents
are from Mexicox generations? My parents from Italy right, So yes,
(02:31):
So the Italian immigrant population was looked down on back
in the day. So the Italians understood what blacks were
going through. What other generations than Sinatra was the first
artist to come out against anti Semitism and racial bigotry
of any kind. He was great towards Sammy Davis. I
remember when they wanted him to enter through the back
when they're performing in Vegas and he said no, no,
no no. And not only that, Lena Horney deed the
(02:53):
guy at the store club or something when he went
in with her and they said, I'm sorry, do you
have a reservation? He says, yeah, he he's just trying
what's not under your name here? He said, we'll try
Lincoln and then decked the guy. But anyway, he was
very interesting and he was a big iconic figure that
changed the Italian American profile for artists and growing up
(03:15):
his Picasso was contribution into music was just his his
musical contribution, and he was the first method singer. Let's
say so, we conquered acting and he conquered the music world.
And as a young kid, you're looking at this iconic
figure that meant something socially and also artistically with the
same kind of dreams and bingo. And then he was
just super cool. Yeah, he did my first film with
him in I saw that in the Duct. That was awesome.
(03:38):
My wife happens to be a percent Italian, so I
get it. Her name is Matza. I knew it. I
knew what we we said. Yes, yes, we knew what
Giovanni Mazza. I don't know if there's a relations that's
a great man. Um, what's a bigger priority in your
life for passion? Should I say music or acting? Well?
I love both arts forms, but the music is my soul.
(03:59):
I mean the music is I really started out singing
as a kid, and you get saying, I mean your
your discovery album, give you, I'll give you guys all
an album. My first album went to number six Billboard
jazz obvious sings Nato by the way, awesome. I saw
that in the film. Yeah right, you did watch anyway.
So no, it's the music because I don't have to
(04:19):
hide behind a character. You know, You're lucky, I mean,
God bless you because the world knows you and you
can still play a character, so you get to express
who you are me as a character. For so many
years I was boxed into that's who he is. People
assume this is who you are, the bond villain or
some kind of you know, FBI agent, whatever it might be,
and never being able to fully express the romanticism of
(04:41):
which I am really about and that music is so
important to me. And did your mother or father saying,
was it just something born with they sang around the house,
you know, being a Latino and families with music is there,
it's part of our culture. And uh, it was just
music was always a big, big part of my life.
And I started to my grandmother sang. And then I
(05:01):
started to drive my father crazy by listening to records
at ten o'clock at night and trying to imitate these
Mario Linz of records. Right, And he said, when you
shut up, I gotta get up at five thirty, go
to work, and all the while. Of course, I mean,
you've been so busy, You've done literally hundreds of different
rules and you've got another movie in the works at
the moment. Reagan, who are playing in this one? I'm
(05:22):
playing Leonard, who was a big character of Russia at
the time underestimated the character of Reagan. I was idiot.
I thought he was eediot, but it was no idiot.
But I'm also doing a film, another film Danny's directing
called Appelachan that's right, that's right in New York and
(05:44):
a true story. But before we get into that one,
So you know, I don't think there's been too many
films on Reagan as here, I'm not. They did like
a mini series, but it wasn't It wasn't great. Is
playing in this really really took great? But such an
iconic figure, I figured they'd be more. So does it
does it? M Are you allowed to talk about it
(06:05):
is just an insert of his life or is it
the whole thing? Or expands it spans the certain portion
of his life, Yeah, and especially the garbage of war. Yeah,
during the Cold War and how that ball came about,
relationship with Pope John Paul and the you know, was
a part of that small part of that and then
it takes off. But Reagan is just I think this
(06:27):
will be the first film probably that portrays Reagan and
Dennis Quaid is is so heavily into into the character
from what I'm told. Yeah, what an interesting choice right there.
But it's great. Yeah, but did you see it. There's
a kind of interesting part of part of that. Yeah,
and um Appalachian Appelachian appleacan apple an Yeah, I was
(06:47):
mixed up with it too, this one. Yeah, it's a
little yeah, the tongue twister that it's based on a
true story. Yes, about this, correct me if I'm wrong.
I actually read the script. The the the head of
the crime families at the time was at the four seven.
They all got together for a sit down for this
important meeting outside about jo Genovese, who I'm playing, Oh,
(07:08):
you're playing Vito Genovese, playing Vito Genovese, who wanted to
be crowned the cap. This was after Luciano was sent
away and he put hits on Anastasia and Costello backed
out of the whole thing hit on him, and uh, now,
Vito Genovese uh calls the sit down Uh in Apple
laken to By to get a guy named Joe La Barba.
(07:30):
They get to throw this big, big, you know, mafioso
meeting and they all came, They all came, and the
cops came. The bag round up in the mafia. Guys
you ever seen? Yeah? Is that? That's crazy? And then
I'm doing a TV series called Paper Empire, which is
killed that Michael Todgers Jr. And Robert Gilding's Michael's producing
and Robert which is I play a Bernie made Off
(07:52):
kind of character who gets arrested and then his son
comes back and he's involved with the Russian mafia. And
what happens is I then become I'm a genius of
cryptocurrency and digital technology, and I run the Russian mafia's empire,
get sprung from prison, and start creating financial havoc around
the world. It's very interesting premisehopical occurred. I love it
(08:15):
all the Russian I love the Russian Vatties. Yeah, because
of late I mean so many great roles to from
from the Goonies to the Bond film of course and
um Iceman l right, what do people ky Hard die
Hard of course, what do people come up and mention
the most. It depends. There's a lot of Goonies, a
lot of Bond, a lot of die Hard, a lot
of Maniac cop. I mean, it depends on what you know, right,
(08:38):
profile of the TV series I did on NBC for
four years. I mean, there's it's there's it's a combination
of different you know, different characters and current stuff. I
mean there's even somebody like swamp Shark, and I don't
mention that too much. Yeah, I know that's great. One
of those shark movies. There's a big shark movie that's
(09:00):
sponsoring us right now. Well, then the sharks are good,
good for business. Um, I know you have five children? Yes,
five children, that's great. I love hearing and what are
the raging Yeah year old son from the first marriage
and then four from the last marriage, which are and
(09:21):
seventeen year old twins. And I really screwed up my daughter.
My son's in school today so he couldn't come, and
my daughter was gonna come, and uh, she wanted to
get her hair done. This is tough. Your kids are young, right, Yeah,
there's the little dominic and yes, it's so beautiful. God blessed.
I have a Francesca. Yeah, yeah, Frandy, she's twenty six,
(09:42):
God bless you. I know I love her now, babe,
and you'll probably be fine. But me, they turned at thirteen,
Linda Blair and the existence head spin and everything else.
I would want to step out of line. No, they
believe me. I am so softly. You think I'm tough
when they broke my head. One time I had daughters,
my older daughters. I came home and they were probably
(10:04):
eight guys in the living room, come home at eleven
o'clock at night and they're sitting around. They go, what
the hell is going on here? What is a cat house?
These are my beautiful daughters. And I go to all
the guys that go, if you touch my daughter, I'll
have you killed. Every single one. My daughter goes stay laughing.
They loved it, and they go, Dad, They fan of Goonis.
They just wanted to meet you. I screwed up my
(10:26):
daughter's hair, my daughter Isabella's hair. She wanted to go
to this place. They called it a belly yas I
forget what they call this special things. She wanted right,
six hundred dollars alright? Is he? I say? Right, Yeah,
there's another place. There's another place you can go to.
I said, I said, what is it. I've been going
to the same person for like twenty years, right for
(10:47):
a haircut, you know what I mean? Whatever else that's done.
So they said, a hundred dollars will do hair I
go is he? She came with me hundred bucks? Well
guess what she cried? She wasn't happy. She cried, no, no,
this is the worst feeling in the world. You know what,
if your daughter ever wants to spend money on her head,
just get it done more. All of the story is,
(11:09):
don't try to save a few hundred dollars, because cry
is the most painful experience. Yes, I completely agree. All right,
Before I let you go, sir, I'm gonna put you
on the spot. Quick questions, quick answers. Favorite Sinatra song, Oh,
there's too many Top three for once in my life.
I love them my way of course, and I like,
(11:32):
uh um, there's a ballad. Uh. I guess I'll hang
my tears out to dry those three last show you
binge watched mm hmmm uh the reruns of Mario Lopez
on Extra Answer. No, I I don't have I do
(11:54):
haven't you know problem shock Shock week Shock No, the
shock shok tankh shark tank, the shark Tank. Yeah. I
have fun watching that celebrity crush growing up. Celebrity crush
growing up. Like how when I was very very a kid,
Lee Remick, the actress Lee Remic, and then it was like,
(12:17):
who was you mean? Celebrity crush as a female crush? Yeah,
like like like like a movie started. Humprey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Lee,
Marvin nose Cats, those are the guys. Yeah, time travel destination.
If you can go back to enter any era for
like a week, that's a good question. Any era for
a week, I would probably huh. I'd like to see
(12:41):
Michael Angelo paint the Sistine Chapel and have a conversation
with the Pope there. That would be an interesting like that,
It would be an interesting took him a while too,
so you probably just see a little. I was going
back on what what would be an interesting little but
there's so many interesting than what would be yours. I
thought I would go Biblical, Yeah you would it to
the or when you go to and go to that
(13:02):
Sinatra concert, Yeah, there you go. Maybe you go see
that live go back to Madison. S go see that.
That's a good one, you know, the christ Yeah, I
go back to Yeah. I mean if you get heavy
with it. Yeah. Well Davy's way it's theaters on August seventeenth.
You can follow him on Twitter at Robert John Davy
Thanks and Instagram at Robert Davey. Thanks, Mario, Thank you, sir.
(13:26):
With Mario Little Petz
Once up for al Mario Lopez joining me now in studio,
great actor and sayer. Mr Robert Dobby, how are you, sir.
I'm doing well. It's great to be him. Mario. Well,
thank you for taking the time to come. So. Okay,
you're the subject of this new documentary, Dobby's Way. I
saw it, loved it fascinating. I don't want to spoiler
(00:22):
or give away too much, but how would you describe it?
What's what's exactly the premise? Well, the premise was the
brainchild of Danny A as you know, yes, a mutual
friend of ours. Yes, and what had happened. I'd written
a script called The Voice about a guy that was
obsessed with the sound of Sinatra's voice. Then he read
that script. I wanted him to produce it as a
(00:43):
as a as a producer, and he had then subsequently
come to my show on Long Island in front of
ten thousand people, saw me sing and said, you know what,
I'd rather do a documentary following you around doing this
music thing. And that's the genesis of it. And then
it became wanting to do because I want it to
do a hundredth anniversary tribute to Sinatra. By recreating the
main event from nine Love that and that was such
(01:06):
an iconic moment I remembered vividly. I'm also a huge
fan in Jerry Weintroup produced it. He was in the
middle of his boxing ring, um, and that was it
just something that when I think of Sinatra, it really
stands out to all huge fans of course. So what
were the biggest challenges in trying to make this concept
of reality? What was what was the when you laid
(01:26):
it out? What did you envision in what happened? Well,
first off, let me just say I didn't want the
documentary to be sterile, so I said, you know what,
I'm gonna just expose myself. I mean, not to do
that these days that it was an emotional exposing right
right right, So I emotionally exposed myself and wanted to, uh,
you know, and I know with him how to make
(01:47):
things theatrical, you know what I mean, or interesting, So
I had to list open myself up for that. The
challenges were that, um, which you'll see in the film,
was the first to get Madison Square Garden, and then
to get other artists committed to wanting to do the project.
And I kind of like had a bigger idea in
(02:08):
my mind, and I thought there would be more people
rallying around wanting to do this, be part of this event,
which was not the case. You're ambitious. I was ambitious. Yes,
what sparked your passion for Sinatra? Well? Where were your
parents from? Were they from here from? Uh? My parents
are from Mexicox generations? My parents from Italy right, So yes,
(02:31):
So the Italian immigrant population was looked down on back
in the day. So the Italians understood what blacks were
going through. What other generations than Sinatra was the first
artist to come out against anti Semitism and racial bigotry
of any kind. He was great towards Sammy Davis. I
remember when they wanted him to enter through the back
when they're performing in Vegas and he said no, no,
no no. And not only that, Lena Horney deed the
(02:53):
guy at the store club or something when he went
in with her and they said, I'm sorry, do you
have a reservation? He says, yeah, he he's just trying
what's not under your name here? He said, we'll try
Lincoln and then decked the guy. But anyway, he was
very interesting and he was a big iconic figure that
changed the Italian American profile for artists and growing up
(03:15):
his Picasso was contribution into music was just his his
musical contribution, and he was the first method singer. Let's
say so, we conquered acting and he conquered the music world.
And as a young kid, you're looking at this iconic
figure that meant something socially and also artistically with the
same kind of dreams and bingo. And then he was
just super cool. Yeah, he did my first film with
him in I saw that in the Duct. That was awesome.
(03:38):
My wife happens to be a percent Italian, so I
get it. Her name is Matza. I knew it. I
knew what we we said. Yes, yes, we knew what
Giovanni Mazza. I don't know if there's a relations that's
a great man. Um, what's a bigger priority in your
life for passion? Should I say music or acting? Well?
I love both arts forms, but the music is my soul.
(03:59):
I mean the music is I really started out singing
as a kid, and you get saying, I mean your
your discovery album, give you, I'll give you guys all
an album. My first album went to number six Billboard
jazz obvious sings Nato by the way, awesome. I saw
that in the film. Yeah right, you did watch anyway.
So no, it's the music because I don't have to
(04:19):
hide behind a character. You know, You're lucky, I mean,
God bless you because the world knows you and you
can still play a character, so you get to express
who you are me as a character. For so many
years I was boxed into that's who he is. People
assume this is who you are, the bond villain or
some kind of you know, FBI agent, whatever it might be,
and never being able to fully express the romanticism of
(04:41):
which I am really about and that music is so
important to me. And did your mother or father saying,
was it just something born with they sang around the house,
you know, being a Latino and families with music is there,
it's part of our culture. And uh, it was just
music was always a big, big part of my life.
And I started to my grandmother sang. And then I
(05:01):
started to drive my father crazy by listening to records
at ten o'clock at night and trying to imitate these
Mario Linz of records. Right, And he said, when you
shut up, I gotta get up at five thirty, go
to work, and all the while. Of course, I mean,
you've been so busy, You've done literally hundreds of different
rules and you've got another movie in the works at
the moment. Reagan, who are playing in this one? I'm
(05:22):
playing Leonard, who was a big character of Russia at
the time underestimated the character of Reagan. I was idiot.
I thought he was eediot, but it was no idiot.
But I'm also doing a film, another film Danny's directing
called Appelachan that's right, that's right in New York and
(05:44):
a true story. But before we get into that one,
So you know, I don't think there's been too many
films on Reagan as here, I'm not. They did like
a mini series, but it wasn't It wasn't great. Is
playing in this really really took great? But such an
iconic figure, I figured they'd be more. So does it
does it? M Are you allowed to talk about it
(06:05):
is just an insert of his life or is it
the whole thing? Or expands it spans the certain portion
of his life, Yeah, and especially the garbage of war. Yeah,
during the Cold War and how that ball came about,
relationship with Pope John Paul and the you know, was
a part of that small part of that and then
it takes off. But Reagan is just I think this
(06:27):
will be the first film probably that portrays Reagan and
Dennis Quaid is is so heavily into into the character
from what I'm told. Yeah, what an interesting choice right there.
But it's great. Yeah, but did you see it. There's
a kind of interesting part of part of that. Yeah,
and um Appalachian Appelachian appleacan apple an Yeah, I was
(06:47):
mixed up with it too, this one. Yeah, it's a
little yeah, the tongue twister that it's based on a
true story. Yes, about this, correct me if I'm wrong.
I actually read the script. The the the head of
the crime families at the time was at the four seven.
They all got together for a sit down for this
important meeting outside about jo Genovese, who I'm playing, Oh,
(07:08):
you're playing Vito Genovese, playing Vito Genovese, who wanted to
be crowned the cap. This was after Luciano was sent
away and he put hits on Anastasia and Costello backed
out of the whole thing hit on him, and uh, now,
Vito Genovese uh calls the sit down Uh in Apple
laken to By to get a guy named Joe La Barba.
(07:30):
They get to throw this big, big, you know, mafioso
meeting and they all came, They all came, and the
cops came. The bag round up in the mafia. Guys
you ever seen? Yeah? Is that? That's crazy? And then
I'm doing a TV series called Paper Empire, which is
killed that Michael Todgers Jr. And Robert Gilding's Michael's producing
and Robert which is I play a Bernie made Off
(07:52):
kind of character who gets arrested and then his son
comes back and he's involved with the Russian mafia. And
what happens is I then become I'm a genius of
cryptocurrency and digital technology, and I run the Russian mafia's empire,
get sprung from prison, and start creating financial havoc around
the world. It's very interesting premisehopical occurred. I love it
(08:15):
all the Russian I love the Russian Vatties. Yeah, because
of late I mean so many great roles to from
from the Goonies to the Bond film of course and
um Iceman l right, what do people ky Hard die
Hard of course, what do people come up and mention
the most. It depends. There's a lot of Goonies, a
lot of Bond, a lot of die Hard, a lot
of Maniac cop. I mean, it depends on what you know, right,
(08:38):
profile of the TV series I did on NBC for
four years. I mean, there's it's there's it's a combination
of different you know, different characters and current stuff. I
mean there's even somebody like swamp Shark, and I don't
mention that too much. Yeah, I know that's great. One
of those shark movies. There's a big shark movie that's
(09:00):
sponsoring us right now. Well, then the sharks are good,
good for business. Um, I know you have five children? Yes,
five children, that's great. I love hearing and what are
the raging Yeah year old son from the first marriage
and then four from the last marriage, which are and
(09:21):
seventeen year old twins. And I really screwed up my daughter.
My son's in school today so he couldn't come, and
my daughter was gonna come, and uh, she wanted to
get her hair done. This is tough. Your kids are young, right, Yeah,
there's the little dominic and yes, it's so beautiful. God blessed.
I have a Francesca. Yeah, yeah, Frandy, she's twenty six,
(09:42):
God bless you. I know I love her now, babe,
and you'll probably be fine. But me, they turned at thirteen,
Linda Blair and the existence head spin and everything else.
I would want to step out of line. No, they
believe me. I am so softly. You think I'm tough
when they broke my head. One time I had daughters,
my older daughters. I came home and they were probably
(10:04):
eight guys in the living room, come home at eleven
o'clock at night and they're sitting around. They go, what
the hell is going on here? What is a cat house?
These are my beautiful daughters. And I go to all
the guys that go, if you touch my daughter, I'll
have you killed. Every single one. My daughter goes stay laughing.
They loved it, and they go, Dad, They fan of Goonis.
They just wanted to meet you. I screwed up my
(10:26):
daughter's hair, my daughter Isabella's hair. She wanted to go
to this place. They called it a belly yas I
forget what they call this special things. She wanted right,
six hundred dollars alright? Is he? I say? Right, Yeah,
there's another place. There's another place you can go to.
I said, I said, what is it. I've been going
to the same person for like twenty years, right for
(10:47):
a haircut, you know what I mean? Whatever else that's done.
So they said, a hundred dollars will do hair I
go is he? She came with me hundred bucks? Well
guess what she cried? She wasn't happy. She cried, no, no,
this is the worst feeling in the world. You know what,
if your daughter ever wants to spend money on her head,
just get it done more. All of the story is,
(11:09):
don't try to save a few hundred dollars, because cry
is the most painful experience. Yes, I completely agree. All right,
Before I let you go, sir, I'm gonna put you
on the spot. Quick questions, quick answers. Favorite Sinatra song, Oh,
there's too many Top three for once in my life.
I love them my way of course, and I like,
(11:32):
uh um, there's a ballad. Uh. I guess I'll hang
my tears out to dry those three last show you
binge watched mm hmmm uh the reruns of Mario Lopez
on Extra Answer. No, I I don't have I do
(11:54):
haven't you know problem shock Shock week Shock No, the
shock shok tankh shark tank, the shark Tank. Yeah. I
have fun watching that celebrity crush growing up. Celebrity crush
growing up. Like how when I was very very a kid,
Lee Remick, the actress Lee Remic, and then it was like,
(12:17):
who was you mean? Celebrity crush as a female crush? Yeah,
like like like like a movie started. Humprey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Lee,
Marvin nose Cats, those are the guys. Yeah, time travel destination.
If you can go back to enter any era for
like a week, that's a good question. Any era for
a week, I would probably huh. I'd like to see
(12:41):
Michael Angelo paint the Sistine Chapel and have a conversation
with the Pope there. That would be an interesting like that,
It would be an interesting took him a while too,
so you probably just see a little. I was going
back on what what would be an interesting little but
there's so many interesting than what would be yours. I
thought I would go Biblical, Yeah you would it to
the or when you go to and go to that
(13:02):
Sinatra concert, Yeah, there you go. Maybe you go see
that live go back to Madison. S go see that.
That's a good one, you know, the christ Yeah, I
go back to Yeah. I mean if you get heavy
with it. Yeah. Well Davy's way it's theaters on August seventeenth.
You can follow him on Twitter at Robert John Davy
Thanks and Instagram at Robert Davey. Thanks, Mario, Thank you, sir.
(13:26):
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