December 9, 2025 • 18 mins
Actress Brooke Anne Smith and "Jason the Knife Thrower" (aka, Jason Johnson) stop in to talk about whipping knives around while on horseback (that was Jason) and starring in a Netflix movie with Joey and Matthew Lawrence (that was Brooke).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez. I don't remember how many years ago this was,
but I was in the nine o'clock hour of the
show and I asked super producer of the time, Randy Mack.
I said, I don't have anything scheduled for the next
hour of this show. I want people to call you
and tell Randy why you think you're so amazing and
(00:22):
so important and so interesting that we should interview you
as a guest in this program. I thought that was
kind of a funny bit. I didn't know it was
going to lead to a multi year relationship with a
guy we know lovingly on this program as Jason the
knife thrower. Jason Johnson is back here on eleven ten kfab.
Nice to see him, my friend. Are you buddy look good?
(00:42):
Do you do you remember how long ago that was? Over?
Probably sixteen seventeen years ago. Yeah, you've been noted in
knife throwing competitions. You have been thrown out of a
maternity ward when you wanted to cut your child's umbilical
cord with one of your own knives. And it turns
(01:04):
out the nurses there in the maternity ward take a
dim view to bringing in your own knife to cut
a biblical cord. Yeah. I didn't actually bring in the knife.
I just asked the question. You just asked the question,
can I bring this in? It's an old tradition. Okay, yeah,
it's a And it ended up being a whole thing.
We talked to you about that. And then most recently,
(01:26):
they were looking for a knife thrower for a movie
called Corsicana. Uh, Corsicana, Corsicana, Corsicana, Corsicana. Isaiah Washington was
in the movie, and they they cast you in the
movie hurdling knives around and doing your own stunts and
so now that makes you a Hollywood superstar.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
That's what they tell me, and it was.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It was an experience.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I didn't expect any of that to happen when I
got the invite for that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, now you're hanging out with Hollywood superstars because a
other actor in that film is also here in the studio,
Brooke and Smith is here on eleven ten kfab Welcome
to Omaha. It's good to have you here.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So you meet Jason the knife thrower on course of Canna,
and you guys strike up a friendship, and it's so
great to have you here in Omaha. You A lot
of people know you from a kids show, Max Keebler's
Big Move, which was that's a Disney show for back
(02:32):
in the day.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
He actually was a Disney movie and it came out
in two thousand and one, like right after nine to eleven,
so we are a little We didn't get to have
the big premiere, but it did really well and people
still to this day recognize me from Jenna Jenna from
Max Keeble's Big Move, and so it's it's been a
really fun kind of movie that I've been a part
(02:55):
of a long time ago, kind of jump started my
career a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You grew up in Colorado Den suburb and decided as
a teenager, I want to act and I'm going to Hollywood,
which a number of people do. It doesn't always lead anywhere.
How did your story get you to not just you know,
shows like that, but also now we got a new
Netflix Christmas movie with a couple of the Lawrence brothers,
(03:19):
including Joey Lawrence from Blossom called Mary Christmas m a
r Ry Merry Christmas now available on Netflix. So what
is a little bit of your story Brook.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, so I'll give you a quick little recap. I
actually didn't know I wanted to be an actor. I
thought I wanted to be a marine biologist. And I
was a really shy kid. I was a dancer, did
ballet and all that. And I ended up in this
pageant when I was fourteen, and it was for the
title of Miss Junior America. But you had to in
your state first. I won Miss Junior Colorado. Obviously you're fourteen.
(03:51):
There's no like bathing suit competitions. It was a lot
of like public speaking and things and yeah, and so
I became as Junior Colorado. I had to go to
Los Angeles for the title Miss Junior America. And I
made it down to the top five girls. And when
you did, you had your final question and then you
had to do an improvised acting skit. And that was
the first time I lit up inside and I just
(04:13):
I got bit by the bug. And I actually ended
up winning Miss Junior America at the age of fifteen.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What was the plot of that skin?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So my brother I wanted to borrow his car and
I was just learning how to drive, and I was
trying to get the keys from him. So I was
blackmailing him because I was trying to get him to
I was saying I would get him the number of
a pretty girl he liked. So yeah, I won the pageant.
The judges were agents and managers from Los Angeles, and
they started kind of hounding. They had discovered like Jinny
(04:43):
Garth and Tiffany Everthesson at the same pageant, and they
started bugging my mom and dad, and eventually I said, yes,
we'll come out for pilot season and I started acting
right away, and within like two weeks of being in
LA was screen testing for my own show at Warner Brothers.
So it kind of just picked up really fast.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You know, that doesn't always work. I know some people
not well. But they had kind of the same thing
with their son, and everyone like get on to the
parents and go, man, your kid has got it. He's great.
Move out to Hollywood. And he did a couple little
things here, but it never really went anywhere. And it,
(05:22):
you know, like a lot of parents, you get one
that's a lot more Hollywood than the other, and the
whole thing can fall apart. Now I'm putting myself in
the shoes of being your dad, and here comes some
guy going, hey, we're gonna make your daughter a star.
I'm like, I don't know about any of this. How
much were your parents on board? Did they have kind
of a time frame like, look, we're gonna we're gonna
(05:43):
see how this might go, but let's just have fun
with it and not worry about Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So, as you know, I was actually the resistant one
because I, like I said, I thought I wanted to
be a Mariadan biologists, but I was bullied a lot
in school, and when the opportunity came that I could
be in LA for a couple of months, the thought
of going to California was all I needed. So basically
I started taking acting classes back then in Colorado. My
(06:10):
agent manager picked a teacher. They would record my lessons
and then they would send it back via videotape. This
is how I GOO was. And you know, they said, hey, listen,
I could take a couple of years before we think
you're ready to come out and actually like do this
because it is very competitive industry. And I was completely
green no. But I within two three months they were like,
you're coming out for this season. We're ready, And so
(06:30):
my parents were very supportive. They didn't push me but
they said, you know, they see something in you. And
once I started acting, it was the only thing in
my life that made sense. I just knew this is
a forever thing. This isn't just a hobby for me.
I could see myself doing it forever. So I my
mom came out with me to the Oakwood Apartments, which
(06:51):
is kind of a famous thing. They made a documentary
about it, and I started getting auditions and going on
auditions and there's lots of funny stories there. We could
talk all day. We called them the Mafia moms because
you know, the kids and their parents are stealing sides
and trying to steal auditions, and you know, it gets
really crazy. So you have to have parents that are
(07:11):
supportive and also you know, a very under a very
big understanding of how difficult it is. So I had
no expectation when I went out there, like, I don't
know what's going to happen, but you know, you never
know unless you try.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So talking here with Brooke and Smith Jason Johnson aka
Jason the knife Thrower here on here, you got on
course of Kanna because your online videos, your social media
channels and everything of you whipping knives around someone was like,
we need a knife thrower. Is that how it worked?
Did you kind of sell yourself to that movie? So
(07:41):
Isaiah was doing his This is his first direct, Isaiah Washington,
Aiah Washington. It was on Direct Gray's Anatomy, right, doctor.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Burke, And I've known him from the two A community,
so we were friends and he called me up one
time and he's like, hey, I need you to come
out and be a stunt double for me and throw
some knives from my actor. And I just thought I
was going to be a stunt double.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Not a stunt him. No, No, I don't know that
would pass very well. No, yeah, there's not a lot
of similarities. They're a lot more costumed. Yes, right, yeah,
the uh so I just thought I was going to
be an extra.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And then when I came on set, he walked up
and handed me a script and kind of laughed and
said good luck.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And that was the second lead. So that's how they're like, oh,
by the way, you're going to act now? Had you
ever acted before?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I was married once?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well, and there's also your performance videos with the knife throwing.
There's a lot of dramatics and some fun about that.
There's showmanship, Sure about it. You've just the first thing
you got to do here. And trust me, I know
I've never acted in anything of note, but you have
to just turn the part off of your brain that's
self conscious off and just fully dive into whatever it
(08:49):
is you're doing.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And nobody knew that was there on set that I
wasn't an actor, So I was doing a good job apparently.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But yeah, you just got a p or nothing. You
just go with it. And you had knives in your hands,
so you're comfortable.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, I was throwing knives off horseback. Actually, funny story,
so the day before I left to go film that movie,
I separated my collarbone from my shoulder riding mountain bikes
of my kids, like, yeah, let dad show you how
to do this jump. And two days later I was
riding horses throwing knives off a horseback with a separated collarbone.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Who says that the acting is the pampered life? Yeah right.
So Brook and Smith Jason Johnson, both from the film
Corsicana that came out a few years ago. But Brook
has got a new movie on Netflix. Now. We'll talk
about that in just a couple of minutes. Scott Gordies. Well,
you're going news radio eleven ten kfab friends from the
(09:42):
movie Corsakana, Jason Johnson aka Jason the Knife Thrower is here,
and then Brook and Smith is hanging out in Omaha
on loan from her home state of Colorado. You've done
everything from Disney movies to knife Chuck in Western gritty stuff,
and now it's a Netflix Christmas movie. So it's the
(10:05):
full spectrum there from Brooke and Smith. Which do you prefer,
like they're really tough, gritty drama or let's all put
smiles on and have fun.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I would have to say making a Christmas movie was
the best, just because we filmed it in Dear Value,
Utah during like October November, so we got real snow
and it's just really fun to be able to do
something so lighthearted with so much joy. I love Christmas
and so it was a comedy and it's really fun.
And I do do a lot of dark dramatic things,
(10:36):
like I was on a Tyler Perry show where I
played a drug addict, so it's really nice to kind
of segue between different characters. But I really really enjoyed
it was my first Christmas movie, and I really hope
to do more because they're just a lot of.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Fun, right. I mean, you did what a couple of
seasons that Tyler Perry I did Ferris call.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It was called too Close to Home.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Close to Home. You were an abused drug addict, Yes,
and so I'm sure that you go to your agent
and go, look, I'm in I'm having to envelop myself
in a pretty dark place with this character anything that's
completely on the other side of it, and like, oh,
the Lawrence brothers are putting like a Christmas movie together.
You're like, let's do it. So it's Joey Lawrence, who
(11:18):
so many of us eighties kids know from all the
TV shows including Blossom and Whoa and you know all
that kind of stuff. His brothers are involved here, and
your character in Mary Christmas m A R R. Y
is involved with Matthew Lawrence. That's correct. So you're hanging
(11:38):
out with the Lawrence brother it's a couple of fun goofballs, yeah,
and putting together a Netflix Christmas movie. So what was
that experience?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, and actually the whole family was involved. So Andy
Lawrence directed it. That's the baby brother of the Lawrence brothers.
And then Joey and Matt were in it, and Andy
actually was in it as well his mom. Their mother
is also in it, is the grandmother, So it was
a whole kind of family affair. And we filmed in
Deer Valley, Utah for a few I think like three weeks,
(12:07):
in the middle of the cold season, and they're so
much fun and they have that, you know, kind of
that sibling rivalry going on that you can is reflective
in the film itself. So they're just a lot of fun.
And I knew Andy because we worked together on a
Sci Fi Channel movie back in like twenty twelve or
(12:27):
something on the Sci Fi Channel, so we had also
been friends, and working with them was a lot of fun.
And you know, I kind of missed the whole Like
all of my high school friends are like obsessed. They're like,
oh my god, you get to play Matt Lawrence's love
and just like this is so exciting. I had a
poster of him in my locker and I'm like, where
(12:48):
was I. I guess I was in La like already
doing stuff and I just missed the whole wave. But
the brothers, the whole family is just they're amazing, and
there were so much fun to work with them. We're
working on a third film.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
So yeah, this is a sequel to something else that
they did. What's the plot of Merry Christmas? And why
the tweak on the Mary?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yes, so first it was Mistletoe mix up. That was
the first one. The whole premise basically is there's these
two brothers. Obviously they have the same last name. The
actress from the first one, the character who's a different
character than mine, she makes a wish that she wants
to meet mister Wright and then well she she has
to say the wish again, so she says, I want
(13:30):
to meet mister Wright. So she ends up meeting brothers
but not knowing that they're brothers, and they both are
mister Wright. That's their last name R G H T exactly,
and so you know, the brothers compete for her love
to see who can win. And I don't want to
give away the ending of that movie. But then we
go on to the sequel is where I step in
(13:52):
and now they're getting married on the same day at
the same place and they're both there's a only one spot,
so but.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
They don't they don't know they're getting married at the same.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, if they ask us both to marry the both
brothers ask us each to marry them on the same day.
Then we find out that we're going to get married
at this on the same day, on Christmas Day, at
the same venue. And so now they're like the confusion
is ensuing because both of them have the last name, right,
so the wedding planners didn't know that it was a
(14:25):
different person. They have the same wedding planner. Uh So
everything just gets really miss messed up, and the fiances,
myself included, are trying to kind of sort through the
mess of the sibling rivalry as we try to like
figure out how we're all going to get married on
the same day at the same time, in the same place,
and hilarity and suit yes, and hilarity and Susan.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's merry Christmas. M A r R. Why so no
one's named Mary. It's not married.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Because we're getting married, that's why. Because we're both getting Mary.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah. Married. When do you think Christmas movies should be watched?
Are you one of those like, all right, that was
a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, We're gonna watch some football and
tomorrow we're all in or are you like I just
need a little Christmas once in a while in the
spring and summer just to kind of keep me moving.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I like to do it right after Thanksgiving and just
have a whole season of Christmas movies. But I also
believe in Christmas in July, because you know, sometimes you
just need to start looking forward to something.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You grew up in Colorado. So Christmas is what we
in the Midwest have come to know. It's you know,
it's snow, it's sledding, it's the beautiful holiday season. You're
in Los Angeles. Now, if it snows in Los Angeles,
something that's gone terribly wrong, very very wrong. So what
does Christmas now feel like to you without all the
snow and all?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, I know, I can't do Christmas in LA I
always have to go home to Colorado. I have my
family there still. I have a little niece and nephew
and my brothers and my dad and everything was there.
So I would go back and bring my mom and
so we'll do Christmas and still keep our tradition. And
so I get it. I get usually a white Christmas
and then I get to sneak back and get back
to the warm real quick.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
What are you working on next brook.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Right now, we're talking Merry Christmas three. It will be
called something else. We're talking about filming it in Hawaii,
so I think it might have I can't give away
too much, but we're gonna be We're gonna probably be
filming that sometime next year.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Do you decide what you're going to do based on
where it's being filmed, Like you know, like, hey, I
did that that hot, sweaty Texas movie with Jason over
here so May, and then we did the cold, snowy
Christmas movie in Utah? What else? Why don't we filming
the next thing Hawaii? Y'all take I'll take it. Do
you want to know your character? No, we're filming in Hawaii.
(16:43):
Let's do this exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I always was always jealous at the shows like Lost
or Hawaii five Oh, because they would film in Hawaii
and sometimes, you know, you get stuck in really weird
places when filming. But hopefully we're going to start keeping
you know, Hollywood home and we'll be doing more filming there,
hopefully with the talks incentives that have come in. But
it's a lot. It's actually a lot of traveling when
(17:05):
being an actor because because of the tax incentives and locations.
A lot of times you have to film other places.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
We got a group here in Omaha working to change
that for Nebraska, so we hope that you get back
here at some point and film stuff here locally. We'd
love to have you back in town here.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I would love that nothing more.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Very nice to meet you.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Lovely to meet you too. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You can see Brooke and Smith with Matthew and Joey
Lawrence in the new Netflix movie Mary Christmas m A
R R Y. Find that on Netflix. It's available right now.
Jason Johnson, Jason the Knife Thrower. You've got more knife
chucking stuff that you've got coming up? What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, I'm stuck in the shop making knives. Yeah, I've
made a lot of customs since all that stuff's gone on,
But I've got a lot of books and podcasts and
stuff already out, so I'm trying to take a break
from all that.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, where can people learn more about you? Your knives,
your performance videos and all that fun stuff everywhere on
social media?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I'm at Pro knife Thrower, so a few not Jason
the Knife throw I thought about the name, but yeah,
that's local only, so Pro Knife Thrower.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That's a kfab exclusive. We're not selling the rights to it.
We make a lot of money and copyright fees on it.
So Pro knife Thrower, you got it. You find Jason Johnson,
and of course you can see both Jason and Brook
in course that cana and just do a search on
that on your on demand and it's on Amazon Prime
and that's where you can see that. So guys, thank
(18:30):
you so much, and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And Mary Christmas r R Y.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That is Brook and Jason here on news Radio eleven
ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Scott for mornings nine to eleven on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez. I don't remember how many years ago this was,
but I was in the nine o'clock hour of the
show and I asked super producer of the time, Randy Mack.
I said, I don't have anything scheduled for the next
hour of this show. I want people to call you
and tell Randy why you think you're so amazing and
(00:22):
so important and so interesting that we should interview you
as a guest in this program. I thought that was
kind of a funny bit. I didn't know it was
going to lead to a multi year relationship with a
guy we know lovingly on this program as Jason the
knife thrower. Jason Johnson is back here on eleven ten kfab.
Nice to see him, my friend. Are you buddy look good?
(00:42):
Do you do you remember how long ago that was? Over?
Probably sixteen seventeen years ago. Yeah, you've been noted in
knife throwing competitions. You have been thrown out of a
maternity ward when you wanted to cut your child's umbilical
cord with one of your own knives. And it turns
(01:04):
out the nurses there in the maternity ward take a
dim view to bringing in your own knife to cut
a biblical cord. Yeah. I didn't actually bring in the knife.
I just asked the question. You just asked the question,
can I bring this in? It's an old tradition. Okay, yeah,
it's a And it ended up being a whole thing.
We talked to you about that. And then most recently,
(01:26):
they were looking for a knife thrower for a movie
called Corsicana. Uh, Corsicana, Corsicana, Corsicana, Corsicana. Isaiah Washington was
in the movie, and they they cast you in the
movie hurdling knives around and doing your own stunts and
so now that makes you a Hollywood superstar.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
That's what they tell me, and it was.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It was an experience.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I didn't expect any of that to happen when I
got the invite for that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, now you're hanging out with Hollywood superstars because a
other actor in that film is also here in the studio,
Brooke and Smith is here on eleven ten kfab Welcome
to Omaha. It's good to have you here.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So you meet Jason the knife thrower on course of Canna,
and you guys strike up a friendship, and it's so
great to have you here in Omaha. You A lot
of people know you from a kids show, Max Keebler's
Big Move, which was that's a Disney show for back
(02:32):
in the day.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
He actually was a Disney movie and it came out
in two thousand and one, like right after nine to eleven,
so we are a little We didn't get to have
the big premiere, but it did really well and people
still to this day recognize me from Jenna Jenna from
Max Keeble's Big Move, and so it's it's been a
really fun kind of movie that I've been a part
(02:55):
of a long time ago, kind of jump started my
career a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You grew up in Colorado Den suburb and decided as
a teenager, I want to act and I'm going to Hollywood,
which a number of people do. It doesn't always lead anywhere.
How did your story get you to not just you know,
shows like that, but also now we got a new
Netflix Christmas movie with a couple of the Lawrence brothers,
(03:19):
including Joey Lawrence from Blossom called Mary Christmas m a
r Ry Merry Christmas now available on Netflix. So what
is a little bit of your story Brook.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, so I'll give you a quick little recap. I
actually didn't know I wanted to be an actor. I
thought I wanted to be a marine biologist. And I
was a really shy kid. I was a dancer, did
ballet and all that. And I ended up in this
pageant when I was fourteen, and it was for the
title of Miss Junior America. But you had to in
your state first. I won Miss Junior Colorado. Obviously you're fourteen.
(03:51):
There's no like bathing suit competitions. It was a lot
of like public speaking and things and yeah, and so
I became as Junior Colorado. I had to go to
Los Angeles for the title Miss Junior America. And I
made it down to the top five girls. And when
you did, you had your final question and then you
had to do an improvised acting skit. And that was
the first time I lit up inside and I just
(04:13):
I got bit by the bug. And I actually ended
up winning Miss Junior America at the age of fifteen.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What was the plot of that skin?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So my brother I wanted to borrow his car and
I was just learning how to drive, and I was
trying to get the keys from him. So I was
blackmailing him because I was trying to get him to
I was saying I would get him the number of
a pretty girl he liked. So yeah, I won the pageant.
The judges were agents and managers from Los Angeles, and
they started kind of hounding. They had discovered like Jinny
(04:43):
Garth and Tiffany Everthesson at the same pageant, and they
started bugging my mom and dad, and eventually I said, yes,
we'll come out for pilot season and I started acting
right away, and within like two weeks of being in
LA was screen testing for my own show at Warner Brothers.
So it kind of just picked up really fast.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You know, that doesn't always work. I know some people
not well. But they had kind of the same thing
with their son, and everyone like get on to the
parents and go, man, your kid has got it. He's great.
Move out to Hollywood. And he did a couple little
things here, but it never really went anywhere. And it,
(05:22):
you know, like a lot of parents, you get one
that's a lot more Hollywood than the other, and the
whole thing can fall apart. Now I'm putting myself in
the shoes of being your dad, and here comes some
guy going, hey, we're gonna make your daughter a star.
I'm like, I don't know about any of this. How
much were your parents on board? Did they have kind
of a time frame like, look, we're gonna we're gonna
(05:43):
see how this might go, but let's just have fun
with it and not worry about Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So, as you know, I was actually the resistant one
because I, like I said, I thought I wanted to
be a Mariadan biologists, but I was bullied a lot
in school, and when the opportunity came that I could
be in LA for a couple of months, the thought
of going to California was all I needed. So basically
I started taking acting classes back then in Colorado. My
(06:10):
agent manager picked a teacher. They would record my lessons
and then they would send it back via videotape. This
is how I GOO was. And you know, they said, hey, listen,
I could take a couple of years before we think
you're ready to come out and actually like do this
because it is very competitive industry. And I was completely
green no. But I within two three months they were like,
you're coming out for this season. We're ready, And so
(06:30):
my parents were very supportive. They didn't push me but
they said, you know, they see something in you. And
once I started acting, it was the only thing in
my life that made sense. I just knew this is
a forever thing. This isn't just a hobby for me.
I could see myself doing it forever. So I my
mom came out with me to the Oakwood Apartments, which
(06:51):
is kind of a famous thing. They made a documentary
about it, and I started getting auditions and going on
auditions and there's lots of funny stories there. We could
talk all day. We called them the Mafia moms because
you know, the kids and their parents are stealing sides
and trying to steal auditions, and you know, it gets
really crazy. So you have to have parents that are
(07:11):
supportive and also you know, a very under a very
big understanding of how difficult it is. So I had
no expectation when I went out there, like, I don't
know what's going to happen, but you know, you never
know unless you try.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So talking here with Brooke and Smith Jason Johnson aka
Jason the knife Thrower here on here, you got on
course of Kanna because your online videos, your social media
channels and everything of you whipping knives around someone was like,
we need a knife thrower. Is that how it worked?
Did you kind of sell yourself to that movie? So
(07:41):
Isaiah was doing his This is his first direct, Isaiah Washington,
Aiah Washington. It was on Direct Gray's Anatomy, right, doctor.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Burke, And I've known him from the two A community,
so we were friends and he called me up one
time and he's like, hey, I need you to come
out and be a stunt double for me and throw
some knives from my actor. And I just thought I
was going to be a stunt double.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Not a stunt him. No, No, I don't know that
would pass very well. No, yeah, there's not a lot
of similarities. They're a lot more costumed. Yes, right, yeah,
the uh so I just thought I was going to
be an extra.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And then when I came on set, he walked up
and handed me a script and kind of laughed and
said good luck.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And that was the second lead. So that's how they're like, oh,
by the way, you're going to act now? Had you
ever acted before?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I was married once?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well, and there's also your performance videos with the knife throwing.
There's a lot of dramatics and some fun about that.
There's showmanship, Sure about it. You've just the first thing
you got to do here. And trust me, I know
I've never acted in anything of note, but you have
to just turn the part off of your brain that's
self conscious off and just fully dive into whatever it
(08:49):
is you're doing.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And nobody knew that was there on set that I
wasn't an actor, So I was doing a good job apparently.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But yeah, you just got a p or nothing. You
just go with it. And you had knives in your hands,
so you're comfortable.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, I was throwing knives off horseback. Actually, funny story,
so the day before I left to go film that movie,
I separated my collarbone from my shoulder riding mountain bikes
of my kids, like, yeah, let dad show you how
to do this jump. And two days later I was
riding horses throwing knives off a horseback with a separated collarbone.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Who says that the acting is the pampered life? Yeah right.
So Brook and Smith Jason Johnson, both from the film
Corsicana that came out a few years ago. But Brook
has got a new movie on Netflix. Now. We'll talk
about that in just a couple of minutes. Scott Gordies. Well,
you're going news radio eleven ten kfab friends from the
(09:42):
movie Corsakana, Jason Johnson aka Jason the Knife Thrower is here,
and then Brook and Smith is hanging out in Omaha
on loan from her home state of Colorado. You've done
everything from Disney movies to knife Chuck in Western gritty stuff,
and now it's a Netflix Christmas movie. So it's the
(10:05):
full spectrum there from Brooke and Smith. Which do you prefer,
like they're really tough, gritty drama or let's all put
smiles on and have fun.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I would have to say making a Christmas movie was
the best, just because we filmed it in Dear Value,
Utah during like October November, so we got real snow
and it's just really fun to be able to do
something so lighthearted with so much joy. I love Christmas
and so it was a comedy and it's really fun.
And I do do a lot of dark dramatic things,
(10:36):
like I was on a Tyler Perry show where I
played a drug addict, so it's really nice to kind
of segue between different characters. But I really really enjoyed
it was my first Christmas movie, and I really hope
to do more because they're just a lot of.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Fun, right. I mean, you did what a couple of
seasons that Tyler Perry I did Ferris call.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It was called too Close to Home.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Close to Home. You were an abused drug addict, Yes,
and so I'm sure that you go to your agent
and go, look, I'm in I'm having to envelop myself
in a pretty dark place with this character anything that's
completely on the other side of it, and like, oh,
the Lawrence brothers are putting like a Christmas movie together.
You're like, let's do it. So it's Joey Lawrence, who
(11:18):
so many of us eighties kids know from all the
TV shows including Blossom and Whoa and you know all
that kind of stuff. His brothers are involved here, and
your character in Mary Christmas m A R R. Y
is involved with Matthew Lawrence. That's correct. So you're hanging
(11:38):
out with the Lawrence brother it's a couple of fun goofballs, yeah,
and putting together a Netflix Christmas movie. So what was
that experience?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, and actually the whole family was involved. So Andy
Lawrence directed it. That's the baby brother of the Lawrence brothers.
And then Joey and Matt were in it, and Andy
actually was in it as well his mom. Their mother
is also in it, is the grandmother, So it was
a whole kind of family affair. And we filmed in
Deer Valley, Utah for a few I think like three weeks,
(12:07):
in the middle of the cold season, and they're so
much fun and they have that, you know, kind of
that sibling rivalry going on that you can is reflective
in the film itself. So they're just a lot of fun.
And I knew Andy because we worked together on a
Sci Fi Channel movie back in like twenty twelve or
(12:27):
something on the Sci Fi Channel, so we had also
been friends, and working with them was a lot of fun.
And you know, I kind of missed the whole Like
all of my high school friends are like obsessed. They're like,
oh my god, you get to play Matt Lawrence's love
and just like this is so exciting. I had a
poster of him in my locker and I'm like, where
(12:48):
was I. I guess I was in La like already
doing stuff and I just missed the whole wave. But
the brothers, the whole family is just they're amazing, and
there were so much fun to work with them. We're
working on a third film.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
So yeah, this is a sequel to something else that
they did. What's the plot of Merry Christmas? And why
the tweak on the Mary?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yes, so first it was Mistletoe mix up. That was
the first one. The whole premise basically is there's these
two brothers. Obviously they have the same last name. The
actress from the first one, the character who's a different
character than mine, she makes a wish that she wants
to meet mister Wright and then well she she has
to say the wish again, so she says, I want
(13:30):
to meet mister Wright. So she ends up meeting brothers
but not knowing that they're brothers, and they both are
mister Wright. That's their last name R G H T exactly,
and so you know, the brothers compete for her love
to see who can win. And I don't want to
give away the ending of that movie. But then we
go on to the sequel is where I step in
(13:52):
and now they're getting married on the same day at
the same place and they're both there's a only one spot,
so but.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
They don't they don't know they're getting married at the same.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, if they ask us both to marry the both
brothers ask us each to marry them on the same day.
Then we find out that we're going to get married
at this on the same day, on Christmas Day, at
the same venue. And so now they're like the confusion
is ensuing because both of them have the last name, right,
so the wedding planners didn't know that it was a
(14:25):
different person. They have the same wedding planner. Uh So
everything just gets really miss messed up, and the fiances,
myself included, are trying to kind of sort through the
mess of the sibling rivalry as we try to like
figure out how we're all going to get married on
the same day at the same time, in the same place,
and hilarity and suit yes, and hilarity and Susan.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's merry Christmas. M A r R. Why so no
one's named Mary. It's not married.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Because we're getting married, that's why. Because we're both getting Mary.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah. Married. When do you think Christmas movies should be watched?
Are you one of those like, all right, that was
a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, We're gonna watch some football and
tomorrow we're all in or are you like I just
need a little Christmas once in a while in the
spring and summer just to kind of keep me moving.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I like to do it right after Thanksgiving and just
have a whole season of Christmas movies. But I also
believe in Christmas in July, because you know, sometimes you
just need to start looking forward to something.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You grew up in Colorado. So Christmas is what we
in the Midwest have come to know. It's you know,
it's snow, it's sledding, it's the beautiful holiday season. You're
in Los Angeles. Now, if it snows in Los Angeles,
something that's gone terribly wrong, very very wrong. So what
does Christmas now feel like to you without all the
snow and all?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, I know, I can't do Christmas in LA I
always have to go home to Colorado. I have my
family there still. I have a little niece and nephew
and my brothers and my dad and everything was there.
So I would go back and bring my mom and
so we'll do Christmas and still keep our tradition. And
so I get it. I get usually a white Christmas
and then I get to sneak back and get back
to the warm real quick.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
What are you working on next brook.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Right now, we're talking Merry Christmas three. It will be
called something else. We're talking about filming it in Hawaii,
so I think it might have I can't give away
too much, but we're gonna be We're gonna probably be
filming that sometime next year.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Do you decide what you're going to do based on
where it's being filmed, Like you know, like, hey, I
did that that hot, sweaty Texas movie with Jason over
here so May, and then we did the cold, snowy
Christmas movie in Utah? What else? Why don't we filming
the next thing Hawaii? Y'all take I'll take it. Do
you want to know your character? No, we're filming in Hawaii.
(16:43):
Let's do this exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I always was always jealous at the shows like Lost
or Hawaii five Oh, because they would film in Hawaii
and sometimes, you know, you get stuck in really weird
places when filming. But hopefully we're going to start keeping
you know, Hollywood home and we'll be doing more filming there,
hopefully with the talks incentives that have come in. But
it's a lot. It's actually a lot of traveling when
(17:05):
being an actor because because of the tax incentives and locations.
A lot of times you have to film other places.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
We got a group here in Omaha working to change
that for Nebraska, so we hope that you get back
here at some point and film stuff here locally. We'd
love to have you back in town here.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I would love that nothing more.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Very nice to meet you.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Lovely to meet you too. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You can see Brooke and Smith with Matthew and Joey
Lawrence in the new Netflix movie Mary Christmas m A
R R Y. Find that on Netflix. It's available right now.
Jason Johnson, Jason the Knife Thrower. You've got more knife
chucking stuff that you've got coming up? What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, I'm stuck in the shop making knives. Yeah, I've
made a lot of customs since all that stuff's gone on,
But I've got a lot of books and podcasts and
stuff already out, so I'm trying to take a break
from all that.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, where can people learn more about you? Your knives,
your performance videos and all that fun stuff everywhere on
social media?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I'm at Pro knife Thrower, so a few not Jason
the Knife throw I thought about the name, but yeah,
that's local only, so Pro Knife Thrower.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That's a kfab exclusive. We're not selling the rights to it.
We make a lot of money and copyright fees on it.
So Pro knife Thrower, you got it. You find Jason Johnson,
and of course you can see both Jason and Brook
in course that cana and just do a search on
that on your on demand and it's on Amazon Prime
and that's where you can see that. So guys, thank
(18:30):
you so much, and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And Mary Christmas r R Y.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That is Brook and Jason here on news Radio eleven
ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Scott for mornings nine to eleven on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB
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