Talkin with Charles Andrew Payne on Working with Kevin Sorbo

In this episode of "Talent Talk", we sit down with Charles Andrew Payne, actor, comedian & motivational Speaker. Charles discusses the power of saying yes and his time working on set with Kevin Sorbo as Father Bruce Barnes on the film "Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ".

Episode Transcript

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Ja drama in the sense that it'sa faith based film and it stars Kevin
Sorbo, Neil McDonough, Corbyn Bernston, Greg Piro, Sarah Fish are really
great people and this is my thirdtime working with Kevin. But people are
like, oh, you're doing amove with Kevin Sorbo, you know his
political views, And I went,no one's ever asked me about that before,

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you know, And what has thatgot to do with the price of
tea in China. We're actors.We're going to show up on and do
our jobs. Kevin and I getalong very well. We've known each other
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year. Can't thank you enough.Now, today's guest. He's actually been
on the show before. He washere a couple of seasons ago, but
he's been busy, so we wantto find out more about what he's been
doing. He's a stand up comedian, film TV actor, a ton of
credits to his name. One ofhis earlier credits, apologize I'm dating you.

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Uh you know, goes as farback as the original twenty one Jump
Streets series, where he was inthe pilot. Um, He's been on
The Giver, We're Owner, partLand, just to name a few.
His more more recent role, though, is portraying the character of pastor Bruce
Barnes on the Kevin Storbil directed filmBehind Left Behind, Rise of the Anti

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Christ. So please join me andwelcoming Charles Andrew Paine. When you stare
at rattling alphall name credits, I'mlike, who is that as you talking
about? Oh, apparently that's me, that is you. Thank you,
Thanks, thanks for having me back. Yeah no, no, definitely.
So, like I said, you'veactually been busy for the last couple of
years. Maybe you know, giveus the reduced version of what you've been

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doing. The Coles notes. Yes, I like that, you said.
Yes, here's the thing that's mythat's been my mottel for the last few
years. Jess say yes. Soanybody asked me, Hey, we're doing
all independent. You want to bepart of it? Yes? Um,
you want an audition for this?Yes? Hey, where you want to?
I've been doing voiceover work, audiobooks, school presentations, comedy,

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online comedy. During covid Um andwhatever film was willing to hire me,
I showed up. Nice. Thatwas my That was my theme for last
few years. Just say yes.This year's theme is fearless. Okay,
Well, every year you should picka word that you know, it's ambletic
of what you how are you goingto live your life for that year,

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for that year. For this year, it's fear less and not you know,
not one word. I kind ofbroke it into fear less And what
I mean is them facing my fears, like doing publicity things which I never
liked to do. And here Iam. Yeah. And actually just before
the show, you were telling mehow many you've actually been doing over the
last little while. Yeah, sohow intimidating? Has that been scary?

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Yes, it's awkward for me.My wife who is also you know,
she promotes me heavily on my comedyside. She'll sell out comedy shows on
my behalf. And she's the onewho's like no, because she came to
a few shows when I was whenI was touring. And here's my usual
mode of operations. When I doa comedy show. I show up,

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I hide out in the back,I do my set, I get paid,
and I sneak out the back door. And she made me back in
the hotel room. And she's like, so there was a bunch of people
waiting out front wanting to take somepictures and thank you for the show and
maybe get an autograph, and youwere nowhere to be found. And I
said, yeah, you got tostop doing that. I said, I

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don't want to. I did mypart. She says, Nope. After
the show, I wanted to goby the front door and thank people for
coming, and if they want totake a picture, take a picture,
and if they want an autograph,sign an autograph, and just smile and
do it because you are who youare because of those people. And I'm
like, oh god, I gottasay I agree with her. This is
what you signed up for, buddy. No, I signed enough to just

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do the work. It's part ofit. Oh so yes, that's why
this year is fearless because I havebeen in between acting gigs I do.
I am a motivational speaker. Ido a lot of I've been I'll tell
a funny story that came about it. This um after the movie my last
movie was in the theaters came outand all the pr in it and I

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was on the news and what haveyou. One of my neighbors says,
she's become good friends with my wife. I didn't know. I only see
her when I'm out running her walkingmy dog and I'll say hey, right,
and she's like her phone rings andmy wife gets on the phone.
She goes, oh yeah, andshe goes, how did I not know
this? We've been neighbors for howlong? And says, yeah, Charles
doesn't talk about that part of hislife. She goes, well, that's

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fantastic. I didn't know. Andshe goes, it's Black History Month.
We'd love for him to come tothe school. She's a principal. That's
cool. And talked to the juniorhighs and I said, well, you
know, when I do these corporatetype things, it's it's very expensive.
I don't know if you guys canafford me. And my wife's like,
you're gonna do it for free?Okay, fight right now. So I
went and did it. And whathappened is I went and did a talk.

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I talked for about a I talkedto the grade nine seven to nine
grade seven to nine in the middleschool, and I talked for about an
hour, and then I had questions. And afterwards all these kids lined up
and they wanted auto grass and picturesand all of it. Was exhausted,
fun but exhausted. But she sentan email to all of the Catholic schools.

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Okay, I said, you haveto have this guy come and my
inbox and my phone started blowing up. And I've been doing two or three
a week getting paid for tho zones. Oh yes, yes, so yeah,
you know, but I would gladlyhave done it for free because it
was so much fun. It's sogreat to connect with kids, and they
have such fantastic questions. And I'ma storyteller. I just tell the story

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of my life. They want toknow how did you get started, and
what was it like and who didyou work with? And is it scary
you know? You know, AndI was like, yeah, I could
gladly do this all the time.And that part I don't mind. Right,
It's just you don't want people fawningover you, is what you're saying.
Okay, because you know, Ijust go I go home, and

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I still gotta go pick up thedog poop in the backyard. All right.
I'm just a guy who lives inCalgary. You know, you know,
I'm sure you could actually find afan who will pick it up.
You might not want them in yourlife for a long period of time,
maybe, you know, I'm sureyou can find somebody. Yeah. So

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yeah, Actually, let's let's talkabout the new film. Actually when was
it released? It It was releasedmonth ago, month and a half ago.
Yeah, yeah, um left Behind. So there's a great story here
for gar if you'll indulge me.I get the script and they said,

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you know, we'd like you toplay this role. And I said,
okay, fine, I put soI put a little something on tape for
them. But it was kind oflike assume that it was just a given.
And my son, who's he's fifteen, he's also my social media manager
because I don't do that stuff,and he says, oh, this is
based on a series of books andstuff. He goes, so I looked

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it up. I don't think youreally know what you signed up for,
dad, And I said, whatdo you mean? She goes, like,
these books have sold like eighty millioncopies, and they're online groups about
this book, these books, andthey are they're like, they're like Harry
Potter fans. They're fanatical about thecharacters. They're fanatical about them. He

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said, there was movies done before, and they've picked them apart. They
don't like if it doesn't follow thebook exactly, or you deviate from scripture.
And he goes, and your character, Pastor Barnes is one of the
central characters in this book series.You don't know what you signed up for.
And I was like, oh okay, And he goes, you should
watch the movies. I said,I can't because I don't want it to
color, you know, my interpretation. I didn't even know that there was

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a Nicolas Cage version of this movie. And then there was the first one
was done by Kirk Cameron, andand there's there's groups they've picked, they've
picked sides. There's those who lovedthe Nicolas Cage ones and those who liked
the Kirk Cameron Ones and and he'slike, he's telling me, all they
stopped, I'm just gonna go.I liked the story, I liked the

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character. He's a and I'm gonnacome come at it from my own take
a right, he's he's a humanbeing. And the story is Left Behind
is about the rapture, and it'sa very Christian faith based film, and
Pastor Barnes has a crisis of faithin that he's been talking to talk but

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not walking to walk. He doesn'tnecessarily believe what he's preaching. And then
his week gets sepping. The raptureshappened, and his wife and his kids
are gone, but he's left behindand now he has to deal with that,
and he also deal with all theparish and parishioners who who've also been
left behind, and the world goesinto a tailspin kind of thing, and
he's got to deal with the ramificationsthat that's not even about religion. For

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me, that's that's a man inin in crisis. You know, he
starts drinking and all that, soin his belief system has been challenged.
That's what actor wouldn't want to playall of that, right, And the
fact that you know, it's anice, big, juicy role and I'm

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a Canadian actor. Those don't comealong very often. Right as you were
describing everything, I was actually kindof going back and I'm like, I
think I actually auditioned for that role. Really, I think I did.
Yeah, it's possible, or atleast I was. I was definitely an
auditioned for. I don't know ifthere's another Yeah, there's a minister.

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He is the junior pastor, andthere's another individual he gets taken right,
maybe that's the one. Yeah,okay. And it was something to do
with I'm happy to hear that youaudition because that It was also an interesting
thing because I had some actor friendsin my in my circle of actors who
some were like, there's a greatrule and others are like, oh,

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I don't know if i'd want todo this role Charles, And I was
like, oh, wow, okay, you know, such drama behind the
scenes for me with this film,such drama. Well, do tell some
of the drama, yeah, becauseI gotta get the readings up. So
no, the drama in the sensethat it's a faith based film and it

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stars Kevin Sorbo, Neil McDonough CorbynBurnson, Greg Piro, Sarah Fisher,
really great people. And this ismy third time working with Kevin. You
know, we did Andromeda together numberof years ago, and then I did
another film with another faith based filmwith him, where again I play I
play a minister in that one calledMiracle in East Texas. And and then

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so when they called me for this, you know, it was kind of
like Kevin would like you to playPastor Burns blah blah blah. Great,
but people are like, oh,you're doing a movie with Kevin Sorbell,
you know his political views. AndI went, no one's ever asked me
about that before, you know,and what has that got to do with
the price of tea and China.We're actors. We're gonna show up on

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and do our jobs. Kevin andI get along very well. We've known
each other for years now. LikeI said, my third time with him,
he's all. He's a fantastic director. He's very right. But some
people have their you know, welive in an interest in world now where
you can't have a discerning opinion fromsomebody else's without and then say, hey,
you know what, we can agreeto disagree and move on. These

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days, everybody's got to affirm andyou got to pick a side, and
I'm like, not picking a side. Sorry, here's the side that I'm
on, journeyman actor, happy tobe on a movie set. Love the
character that I'm getting to play.I'm gonna go and tell a little story.
And that's all there is to it, fair enough, right, But
there was that, and you knowit was an interesting thing too. It

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was like I have played in mycareer drug dealers, cops, delinquent youth.
When I was first started on mycareer, the first ten or soul
things on my resume is me beinga delinquent because I was young when I
started, and then I was tooold to play delinquents. And I didn't
work for two and a half yearsbecause I wasn't old enough for older roles.

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And then finally I got I bookedsomething as a detective, and then
so then I started playing lawyer,doctor, cop, professor, teacher.
And not once as anybody ever said, oh, you're playing a lawyer,
so what's your law background? Butfor this film, oh you're playing a
Christian pastor, so are you religious? You don't. Many times I got

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to ask that, and I waslike, huh, Okay, I play
a senator in my next movie.Don't ask me what my political affiliation is,
just because I don't have one,right, right, Yeah, It's
just it was so interesting some ofthe questions that came up because if it's
a faith based film, and it'snot really, it's a faith based film,

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but if you take that piece out, it's about the human condition.
It's people dealing with crisis. Wejust went through a crisis. We're all
survivors. That's why I always sayto people, we survived a pandemic.
Yeah, and it changed our worldand it changed our lives, and it

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taught us or a question, madeus question what we valued and what was
important to us when things were takenaway from us and we're our movement was
restricted or you know, we hadto wear a mask and some of us
wanted to and some of us didn't. We came through all of that to
survivors. Wow. Right. Yeah, And kind of going on that topic

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a little bit. I don't wantto spend too much time because I try
not to get too political. However, Yeah, the pandemic did create a
huge division between two groups of people, right, And I'm wondering I'm not
even pertaining to the short specifically necessarily, but in your experience since COVID's kind
of hit, have you found thatthose political divides have affected film in any

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way or working with people. Idon't know if it's it's affected how we
do things. Some people, againlove it, others don't. I'm on
the side of I like it.I like that I don't have to get
in my car and drive someplace foran audition and rearrange my whole day.
I like, you know, puttingauditions on tape. I love that the

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freedom that it gives you, theprep and take your time and put your
best foot forward. I still treatit like an actual audition in that once
I've walked downstairs to my studio thatI have set up for recording stuff,
then I'm at the audition. There'sno going back. Now, there's no
change in your mind, there's nolast minute prep. You're in the room.

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As soon as I walk on,I turn on the lights, and
then my crew, my wife andmy children are there to read and run
the camera for me. You're inthe audition room. That's it. And
I treat it that way. AndI don't do fifteen twenty takes because you
don't get fifteen twenty takes in theroom, right, do your job,
be professional. Go. Now.The downside of that is there's a lot

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more opportunity. It's a broader world. My competition is everywhere. Yeah right,
I'm auditioning. I'm getting way moreauditions for really great stuff. That's
the upside. And the downside isI'm getting way more auditions for really great
stuff, and I'm competing with abig, bigger pool. And you don't

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get the feedback in the room,people say, And that's true too,
But sometimes you didn't get the feedbackin the room anyhow, No he didn't.
Yeah, yeah, thanks for comingout. Yeah, so you'll call
me. Yeah, yeah, thanksfor coming, But thanks for coming,
you know. Or sometimes it's disconcertingbeing in the room because the producers and
the director and everyboy sitting there,and the only person to make an eye

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contact with you is the casting directeverybody else is looking down or eating their
lunch. Yeah. Yeah, there'sdefinitely a couple of those. Yeah,
you know, look up and youguy. I don't know, was that
good? Was that not good?At least? At home? I finish
it? My wife says, she'susually my reader. My son handles the
camera. He's also an actor andsoon to be a model. He's six

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foot two at fifteen. Oh wow, and he's my so like I said,
he's my social media manager. AndI'll tell you how that came about.
Start doing all this pr for differentshows that I'm doing and stuff.
And then they invite me to talkat schools and he says, you know,
they're not going to know who youare. And I said why.
He goes, well, they're teenagers, Dad, they're like me. Their
medium is social media and you're noton social media. And I said,

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dude, we're talking about I havefive thousand followers on Facebook. And he
starts, happen, Dad, Grandpa'son Facebook. So I now have Instagram?
And what else I got? Heput signed me up. I got
Instagram. I have something called TikTokthat I don't know anything about. But
he's filmed and thrown a few videosup there for me. And I said,

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okay, you know what, thisis your job. You post this
stuff for me. I had noidea what the post half the time.
So he's been recording stuff and whenI have a show, he'll post and
stuff. So you see stuff onFacebook nine percent time, it's not me,
it's him. I do want tojump back to the film a little
bit because the thing I've heard aboutyour character, actually, like I've talked

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to a few different people about it, is people love that character. And
I've actually heard people who've seen themovie with you in it, and they
love your portrayal of the character.Thank you, thank you. So I'm
just kind of curious what your prepwas to get into that character. Do
you use well? I look forthe humanity in every character, right playing

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That's what draws me in. It'snot it's about the human condition, the
human connection, the you know whatwhat? First of all, where where
do we have things in common?Um? I was an altar boy.
I was raised Catholic, So thereligious portion of that I got right.
But he had a wife, hehad children, and he was doing a

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job and it says so in writinga dialogue, and that's the part that
I focused on. He was sayingthe words, but he didn't necessarily believe
it. And I was like,how many times do people, you know,
doing a job Your say is you'renine to five your day in,

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day out, but you really,you know, you have embodying to what's
going in You're you're working because youneed a job and need to provide for
your family, but you're not fullyvested in bought it. And that's kind
of where I thought he was,you know, because I've had jobs where
it's like, well, I needto do this in between gigs, so
here we go. But I don'treally love this. And you know,
or you you you show up incorporate corporate world and they say this is

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going to be the best year ever, and you're sitting there going, no,
it's not. But everybody has adrink in the kool aid, So
I guess I better put my handup and go rah rah rah. But
I don't have to believe it.And that's where I jumped in with with
Pastor Barnes, is that he didn'tbelieve it until it actually happened, and
then he had to really find thetruth in what he'd been proselytizing. And

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that's me. I was like,yeah, I get you, I understand
you, all right. And thenit was learning all of the dialogue because
it's based on a book, becauseit's faith based, because it's scripture,
and he's the pastor. I cannotdo my usual as an actor, which

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is you don't have to get allthe lines one hundred percent correct. As
long as you get ninety eight percentof it correct, you can, you
know, miss a few. Youcan truncate it so it comes out of
your mouth properly, no verbatim,especially on the scripture. Oh my.
So that was the prep. Andthen we were also while filming they were
still doing rewrites. And so whenyou have like pages and pages of dialogue

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to memorize and scripture to memorize.And I remember one night I was at
home. I'd just got an offset. We worked to fourteen hour day,
and I'm prepping my poor wife,she's my reader and my prepper, and
and I'm running my lines. Arethere anything? And then my phone beeps
and I looked out and they said, there's been a rewrite. Ignore the
sides that you have for tomorrow.You'll get new sides when you arrive.

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It's seven pages of dialogue for mefor tomorrow. And I'm going to get
new sides when I arrive? Areyou kidding me? I was not able
to sleep that night, and Ishowed up on set three hours earlier than
my call time. Where's the script. Right, got my car, went
back home. Honey, let's gothrough this. Let's go through this line
by line, make sure I've gotit memorized. And yeah, it is.

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What is you show up and youdo your chab for sure, and
kind of at the beginning of youryour comment here you you stated the usual,
So is this kind of your generalapproach is finally humanity and your character
first. Find the humanity and thecharacter first. Every single time, why
is he doing what he's doing?There are no such thing as bad people.
There are people who make bad choices. So I've played bad guys.

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You know this by this, Butin my world, they're not bad guys.
There are people making bad choices basedon their circumstance. They don't think,
oh, I'm gonna go out hereand I'm going to be a bad
guy. They're going out here.I'm gonna do what I gotta do to
protect my family, provide from myfamily, put food on the table.
And if this is the only avenueyou for me to, that's where I'm
going to go and we can justifyour behavior. That's where I start every

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single time. Right, It's notwell, those guys a bad guy.
I'm like no, he's not.I bring humanity to the character. He's
making a choice, and what's hisrationale for making his choice? And if
it's not in the script, makeit up. That's always my process.
Why are am I doing what I'mdoing? What circumstances is it? And
how do I get through it?Right? And then you find the humanity

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and that's how you can make abad guy quote unquote a human being right,
right, And then you find andthen I also try to always find
the humor in every scene. Oh, every scene's got some funny in it.
Human beings are funny, all right. You do stuff, but you
don't know it's funny until people lookat it. But sometimes I've gotten cast

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because I'm the only one who cameinto the audition and found the humor in
the humanity. And the director andthe writer said, that's what we've been
looking for. I find the humorin every scene. There's always one.
It's kind of funny you mentioned that, because uh, the role I got
on a known herb um. Thatwas the approach I took when I did
the audition was more yeah, funnyyea. And Ronda came back and said,

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you were the only one who actuallymade it funny. Yeah, so
that's why we brought you back in. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, because
we're you know, that's the thing, you know, I love the craft
of acting. That's why I doit, the study of it, the
craft of it. But what weare at the end of the day,
we are storytellers. We are reflectors. Doesn't matter what the medium is of

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what's going on in the world,and it doesn't matter what's going on,
you're still people. And sometimes welaugh when we're sad, and we cry
when we're happy. Right, there'salways humor underline, it's not to be
overt. There's always love. There'salways humor. Right, There's always those

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two and then the third, thethird piece that I always factor in,
you know, given away my actingsecret. Every conversation between a man a
woman is about what sex. Youhave to put that layer in there.
You when a man's talking to awoman, you recognize it, the feminine
energy across from you. Doesn't meanyou're attracted to her and you're gonna get
naked, but you have to havethat understanding. That layer has got to

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be there, and there's always youknow, the humor, the interaction,
the what makes us people. That'swhere you start. I do that with
It doesn't matter if it's one lineor one hundred lines. I do that
with every audition, every character,as I start find the humanity, who,

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what, why, when and where? That's why do we exist?
Right? Absolutely? And the otherone that you you I think you left
out was the awkwardness. Sometimes theawkwardness everybody has, you know, running
commentary in the back of their headall the time, and it's like we
forget as actors with oh I'm acting, No you're not. You're reacting to

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what's happening. And sometimes that's whatmakes it great is because you can do
all the prep you want, asyou well know as an actor yourself,
and then you show up on setand the director has a total different vision
or or you imagine how the otheractor is going to deliver their line,
and then you do the rehearsal andthey say it in a different cadence or

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a different speed, or a differenttone or a different energy then you were
expecting, and you have to switch. But what you have to do is
be in the room and respond accordingly, because it's not how you'd mapped it
out in your head, not howyou rehearsed it at home with your poor
wife, who's your reader, right, and now you're oh, I was

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expecting your your cadence to go thisway and your inflection on that word to
go up and you went down.Oh, and all that's got to be
processed, and you respond because that'swhat acting is. It's reacting. It's
not. Yeah, so fun forsure. And like you said, like,
yeah, it doesn't really matter howyou did it in the audition.
Once you're I'm said totally different.Definitely been there a few times, yeah,

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like oh well, no, no, this is not how I read
it at all. Yeah, youought to find somebody else for this,
Yeah, never never said that.No. What I've had happened is the
writers looked up from his lunch andwent, oh, that's not how I
envisioned it when I wrote it.But I like what you're doing. Do

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that again and give me a littlemore. Okay, you know, what
what are you doing for the nexttwo weeks? You're hired. I've had
that happen in the room. That'svery nice. We're actually almost out of
time. So what I'm gonna dois I'm going to ask you two relatively
quick qu questions. The first oneis kind of what's coming up for you?

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What's coming up? Well. Onthe comedy side, I'm kind of
in the middle of an unofficial tour, so I've got a bunch of shows
booked and you know, Canadiana Medicine, halflesh Bridge, Saskatoon, Regina in
the next few weeks, so that'sfun. I also have a film that's
going to come out I hope soon. It's in post production, so that's

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kind of nice. Ties That Bind, which was done locally with some really
fantastic local people. And then Ijust found out this morning I'm going to
be playing Senator nor Norm Johnson ina Shadow Recruit, which is another local
production that's coming up. And soyeah, I got stuff going on.

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So definitely knock On would be happy. And hopefully we have the year that
they tell us that we're going tohave. The writers don't go on strike.
Yeah, but you know what,if there isn't work as an actor,
then I just go to Plan B. I go back to doing stand
up and I go back to doingthe mo motivational speaking. I'm also have

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a script that I wrote with mymom. I wrote it. It's being
produced by myself and my friend PatrickCreery and being directed by my other friend
Nadine, and that it's going togo to camera in September. I'm called
choice, so I got yeah.I'm always got a million things going on
at once. That's the only wayI like it. I don't like when
I have nothing on my agenda.I think my schedule is clearer for September.

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Final question I'll kind of ask youis for yourself. What would you
say is your biggest attribute as anactor? My biggest I'm not quite sure
to answer that, And I thinkwhat I bring to the table is my
attitude. I show up on amovie set and I'm the happiest guy on
set. It's like people ask meall the time why you always had this

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big grin on your face. I'ma Canadian actor on a movie set.
Seriously, That's why I'm When weget I get to do what I love
and what brings me joy. It'smy happy place. Performing is my happy
place. It's my outlet for mycreativity. Give me any opportunity to do

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that. I just want to dothe work, well, I said,
it's the fluff that comes around itsometimes that weirds me out. But doing
the actual work. I come withthe greatest, greatest of gratitude in my
attitude. When I'm on set,you know, Co'm going to do stuff
like this, greatest of gratitude,you know, because this is the fun

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part. Yeah yeah, the otherstuff is whatever. Absolutely yeah, so
perfect, Thanks man, Thank you. Um that's we'll kind of wrap it
up there. I want to thankCharles for coming on board again. Yes,
thanks bad at Me, and thanksagain to the sponsors who have helped
us out this year. And thanksfor Garitus with Forkflo Film for you know,

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the camera work, and uh Reaganfor doing this out. So thank
you guys, appreciate that and we'llsee you next time. Take care.