September 3, 2025 • 37 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An in-depth conversation with actor Nhut Le, best known for his fan-favorite role as ‘Judomaster’ in the DC Studios series ‘Peacemaker’; Nhut joins the program to preview his highly anticipated return in season 2 of the Emmy-nominated HBO Max hit series…PLUS – Thoughts on the creators of ‘Cobra Kai’ developing a ‘Knight Rider’ movie that ties into a shared universe with ‘Airwolf’ and ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Peacemaker season two on HBO Max. And if you recently
saw the movie Superman directed by James Gunn, or you
saw season one a Peacemaker, it's a part of the
new DCU, that cinematic universe where everything is tied together
and Peacemaker if you didn't see season one. In season one,
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Peacemaker is starring John Cena. He was getting his ass
kicked just about every episode by my next guest. I'm
not exaggerating. His name is Nutt Lee and he plays
Judo Master. In fact, he's going to be part of
five of the total eight episodes of this season of Peacemaker,
and he's going to be debuting in this season in
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episode three, which is getting ready to drop on HBO Max.
And Nutley joins me in studio right now, Mitch Lee,
how are you doing this evening?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm doing well. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I'm doing well because one, I love the show, and
I specifically love your character Judo Master, because you're a
martial arts enthusiast.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You are well.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Let me ask you how much of the stunt choreography
the fighting choreography are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So we do all of the fights, We do all
of our fights, and then the stunt guys they'll come
in take a pass at it, and then the editors will,
you know, cut whatever they need to.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But a fair amount that's you out there throwing kicks
and flipping and everything.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, yeah. So for our season two, my stunt double
he's an acrobat, so you know, he's very good with
like the gymnastics part, and he's a wooshoe champion, so
he's very good at fighting as well.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Did you study wooshoe?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I did. I studied wooshoe for about two years, and
then before that I studied a little bit of shouting
kung fu.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
What I like about not only your story but also
how it applies to Peacemaker is that you had an
incredible journey before you got to this point. And if
you don't know, your name is not Lee spelled Nhut,
which is Vietnamese. You were born in Vietnam. You spent
the first six years of your life in Vietnam. So
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when you came to America, obviously English was not your
first language, but was acting in cinema your first.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Loves it was a part of it. Growing up, I
wasn't encouraged to express myself because growing up in an
Asian family, you know, it's all about doing well in school,
and so anything creative or artistic, we didn't really say that.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Again, you had to do well in school.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Education was a thing, right, Education was a bit thing, Yeah,
for sure. And so my first play I did when
I was in fourth grade. It was a musical called
South Pacific, and I was in fourth grade, but the
production was a high school production.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is that The one was some in Shanto Evening, Yes,
some in Channity Evening. Okay, we're musical folks, Oh yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So they needed two little Asian kids to fill these
two roles.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
So my.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Friend's dad was friends with a director for the high
school and so he called me in. I auditioned for it,
my first time singing, my first time acting.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
In not your birth language.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right yeah yeah. And oddly enough so that character only
spoke in French, so all my lines were in French,
All of my singing was in French.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So are you a polyglot to do languages come rather
easily to you?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I wouldn't say that, but I do like learning a lot.
So I enjoy learning different languages, different skills for you know,
whatever the role is. So it worked out.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
How did you know that this was going to be
your life's work? What was it?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Was it a moment when you were doing a play
and you fell in love with the just the acting,
I'll say, the just the commitment to acting. You know
it's not necessarily a job, but it turned into a
job for you.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
How did you know that this was what you were
going to do.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, I think younger in life it was whenever I
was on stage, it was a chance for me to
express myself and you know, be able to feel happy
or sad and show it, whereas in my home life
it was very stifled. So it was cathartic for me
growing up and being able to express myself. And then
around when I was sixteen, I booked my first television
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show on PBS. It was an educational series. And I
remember because my parents didn't take me to the auditions
or any of the shoots or anything. So as a
sixteen year old with my backpack on, I got on
the Septa, which was the regional rail of Philadelphia. Two
buses later went to the audition bus. My way back,
and then I booked that job and then it was
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the first time I got paid ever, and one hundred
and fifty dollars was like, you know, the biggest everything,
like I've made it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did it mean anything to your parents where you could say, look,
I'm actually making my way in this business. I know
you want to be to be a doctor, to be
a lawyer, something along those lines.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
But did your parents ever start slowly coming around?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They did not until I found more success later on,
you know. And so for a long time, it was
just me motivating myself with my passion and my dreams,
and that's what, you know, propelled me to do, like
to move up to New York by myself, to move
up to LA by myself, you know. So it's all
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of these things that I I really wanted to do
because I just love acting so much.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
How familiar were you with any of the Peacemaker characters
or the DC universe when you audition?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
When I auditioned for Tjudo Master, the the role had
a generic name. The name was Marshall, like Marshall Mathers
hiding the name, so it was Marshall Artists And so
I thought it was just you know, some henchmen, and
in that scene I was supposed to be eating chips.
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I was eating salt and vinegar chips, which are my favorite. Uh.
And at this point I was it was around the
pandemic era, so I was actually about to give up
acting at that point and moved back to Philadelphia and
teach pottery full time.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So that was tea pottery.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Teach pottery.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That's a long ways away from acting.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I was, you know, resigned from the acting world completely.
I had found a house in Philadelphia, was in ascrow
for it, and then I get this audition for Peacemaker.
It was James Gunn was attached, John Cena was attached,
and that's all I knew. That's enough. I'm like, yeah,
of course I'm doing this. So I send it in
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and then or first my manager sends in my stunt
reel because it's you know, a lot of fighting for
Judo Master. And then they liked it, and then they
came back and then they gave me sides for it,
and then I did the sides and had another meeting
and then another audition, and then about a week later, Uh,
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they called me. They're like, they'd like to offer you
judo master. But in my life, I was getting ready
to move, so I was like, I don't know what
to do. So I ended up taking the role of course,
and then also taking the house. But I haven't lived
in that.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
House, but you still have the house.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I saw the house.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, my goodness, that is a wonderful start to this conversation.
If you just tuned me in Lee joins me in studio,
you will. If you don't already know, he plays judo
master on Peacemaker, And if you haven't seen peace Maker,
let me just say it's not for kids.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Let me just say that.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
There's a lot of cussing, there's a lot of fighting,
there's a lot of nudity, there's a lot of sex.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
There's a lot of action, and.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Get you get to kick John Cena's ass just about
every scene that you're in.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It's it's amazing and I love acting for that reason.
I'm a five foot zero, one hundred and ten pounds,
soaking wet, and I'm up against John Tena who's like
six three six four, but you're as I'm whooping his
ass every time, and I love it.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And like, so I just touched you and you go flying,
and that's acting.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
When we come back, we'll have more about Peacemaker. We'll
have more with my guest Lee. We're talking about Peacemaker
season two. He plays Judo Master. And look, I don't
know where your stunts begin and your stunt doubles may end,
but I am all in. And you get to have
a smart mouth, you get to you get to taunt
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John Cena's Peacemaker throughout.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It's the best job, the best.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We'll have more with no Lee, just a moment. K
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Speaker 4 (09:51):
And I wish we could show you. I wish we could.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Play for you some a Peacemaker with my guest who
is Judo Master. But it is so profane, so vulgar,
we just can't do it. You're gonna have to take
our word for it and check out Peacemaker season two
on HBO Max. And I wonder because when I see
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a show like Peacemaker, NA, when you have all these
characters and they all have great lines, and you have
this interplay, it would seem to me that there's not
a lot of room for improvisation because the lines are
coming and going so fast. Take me on to the
set with James Gunn. How does he run his set
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when you're doing scenes in Peacemaker.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I love working with James because when he's on set,
there's a sense of ease because you know that he's
always got your back.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So, oh, he's an actress director and.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Actress director one hundred percent. So with some of the
other directors that I've worked with before, you know, will
block the scenes and two whatever. But with James, who
we like, you know, do the blocking and we'll set
up the camera and we'll figure it out afterwards, you know.
So it's it's more character driven. And the great thing
about James is so we'll do several takes of the
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what's written in the script, and if he's got it,
will do like sort of a throwaway take and you
could just sort of improvise here and there and do
whatever you want. But I know a lot of interview
outlets will pick up like, oh, like a lot of
the fun is improvising, But to give credit to James,
like ninety nine percent of what you see on screen
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is actually written in the script and really seems improvised
because he's such a good writer.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It is going so fast.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
How do you find the synergy the timing to be
able to deliver the lines in such a fast paced way.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I think he does also a great job with casting people,
and you know, the chemistry because after the two seasons,
I've become super good friends with like Steve ag Sol Rodriguez,
Danielle Brooks. Like the energy is so natural and so
it just sort of like diffuses its way into the screen.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
When you first stepped on that set, how nervous were you,
if at all?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It was sort of bizarre how not nervous I was,
because you know, you're working with like some of the
titans of the industry, John Cena, James Gunn. But I
think what really helped me out was I've been in
this industry for ten years, you know, struggling doing background work,
being an extra, being a stand in. So I sort
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of cut my teeth on set being the photo double
or the stand in. So I was working with the
camera crews, they set up the lights and I run
through the blocking and so I know all the terminology.
I was super comfortable on set, and so when I
was on set for the first time, I felt so
prepared and it was just like, I get to do
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something that I love so much, you know, and here's
my chance to be the actor and not just standing
in or the background your character.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You're wearing a mask for the most part, and so
it wouldn't surprise me if you still get to retain
a level of anonymity when you walk out. Are you recognized?
Because you're five feet so people, You're going to be
noticeable to people, And I mean that respectfully. Do people
make the connection quickly that you're Judo Master?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I think after because I didn't really do a lot
of press in season one because it was just a
small character. So having him come back in season two
and doing all the press junkets and all that stuff
outside of my mask. I remember right after the premiere,
we were walking down the streets of New York and
some guy ran out of the bodega and was like
(13:52):
Judo Master. I was like, what is going on? So
I think now it's it's more prevalent.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
All right.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Do you do you ever have any not notes for
James Gunner. Do you ever sit down and say or
just have a request for him what you want your
character to be or how much input are you allowed
to offer?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So I think the scripts are pretty packs when we
receive them, but there are some instances here and there,
like in season one, during the convenience scene or the
convenience store scene.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
My character like we were just playing that.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, it's like a little joking dance, like that wasn't
in the script and you did that. I did that. Yeah,
you're basically doing the touchdown dance. Yeah, like emoting on
you know, through video games. Yeah, so that I did
during the day and James loves that bit so much.
So there's I think, as Judo Master, he's so free
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to do whatever he wants, and James sort of recognizes that,
and so he does give some some room that Judo
Master can play.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm curious, and you probably couldn't tell me even if
you know, But my job is to ask the question,
whether you can answer it or not. We know that
James Gunn is real big on crossover and synergy between
the film universe and television universe. In fact, the first
episode of season two don't want to give it away
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too many specifics, but it made it very clear that
this is happening in the time of Superman, the movie,
which just took place. In a cinematic sense. Have you
had any real should I say this? Is there any
possibility that we might see Judo Master on the big screen?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Let me put it that way.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I would love that to be the case, and I
will say following Superman, Peacemaker is a pretty consequential in
the story of DC. You and I'm not sure if
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studio heads are here.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
It's just you and me. Just change.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Gun is not gonna even listen, Okay, he has no
idea what's going on?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Right This is what's gonna make him listen, and then
he'll shut down your show.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
No, he wouldn't do that, but it is something at
least in the back of your mind you could see
the possibility.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Is that fair to ask? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I think you know. He is playing in the realm
of this bigger DC universe for sure, and Peacemaker showed
up in Superman, so it's definitely a through line of
some sort.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
If you're just tuning in. My guest right now in
studio is Lee. We're talking about Peacemaker. Lee plays the
character of Judo Master. And if you haven't seen Peacemaker,
let me just warn you in a good way. It's
very profane, borderline vulgar at times. There's nudity, there's sexual situations,
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there's a lot of violence. It's a great show for
adults like Mark Runner and me and Twala and Sam
and Nick who's in studio.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
It's yeah, it's absolutely no, no.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It is over the top in all the best of ways.
And now do you have a some time. I would
love to have you for one more segment. Yeah, yeah,
for sure, let's do this. It's Later with mo Kelly
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Kelly and six live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
YouTube at mister mom Kelly. And if you're just tuning in,
if you happen to be an HBO Max fed, if
you happen to be a DCU fan, or happen to
be a fan of Peacemaker, you probably enjoying this to
(18:06):
no end. My guest in studio right now is Lee.
He's one of the co stars of Peacemaker now on
HBO Max, and your debut episode for this season is
dropping next.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
What should we expect?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
You should expect a nice little surprise, you know, seeing
an old friend again. I think the way that Judomaster
is introduced this season's pretty cool, pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And we're playing your reel right now from a Peacemaker
where you're routinely kicking everyone's ass from peacemaker to vigilante.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
How fun is that? Let me ask you a question
a different way.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Do you get the season episode by episode so you
don't know where the season is going to go? Or
do you get the whole season in advance? Do you
understand the character arc so.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
We do get all eight episodes out one so we
know entirely what's going on, and in the way that
it's shot, it's sort of shot like a movie and
not like a weekly episodic thing.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Got you, m.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Is there anything which surprises you after you do a
scene or an episode. Are you gonna sit there and
watch it the moment that it drops or you an
actor who doesn't like to look at yourself on screen.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I love watching Judo Master. I do not like watching
myself on screen. But Peacemaker is so fun to watch
and I sort of black out when I'm filming. So
we're watching it.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
There's a lot that's being asked of you.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah, and so you know when I'm when I'm watching it,
it's like the first time because you know, you read
the script and you have your interpretations of it and
you're on the other side of the camera, But then
what the editors choose, you know, and what takes make
it you. I'm just watching it for the first time.
I'm like, and I forget that it's actually me.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You don't see any of the dailies as you go, rarely.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Very rarely.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Is that by choice?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
In other words, James is not going to share, right, Okay,
it's like a really cool sequence, and you know, you
might see a little here and there, but it's not
like we sit down and we go through the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Now. Is he one of those three takes?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You know, one his way, one he allows the cast
to kind of improvise, and then one just to make
sure he's got it or how is it his directorial
style generally in that regard.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
James is a director who knows exactly what he wants,
and so I remember in season one we did like
this quick little thing and we did one take of
it and I was like, Okay, yeah, that feels good.
Let's let's go again, and he's like, we're moving on.
We already got it, you know, like why beat a horse?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Have you ever hit John Cena in the face unintentionally? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yes, yes, but I mean look at my hands, like
they're so small. He's like a fly, just hit me.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Has he ever hit you unintentionally?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
No, because you know that would maybe break some ribs.
But like he's been a wrestler for twenty years or something,
you know, like he's a pro.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm looking right now at the real and he's slipping
you or your stunt double onto these cars. How much
are you getting slipped around?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
The car? Stuff?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Is all?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
This is season one, So it was Robin. That was
all him. He took the car hits.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
So you get to say, okay, bringing the double, I'm
not doing this. I'm not being thrown on a car today.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Right, Not today, maybe tomorrow. But if we already got
it today, then we don't need to need.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
To do it again.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I know people are listening right now or maybe watching
on YouTube. They want to know more about you, see
more of your work. What to look forward to with
Peacemakers Season two, episode three, which is going to be
dropping shortly.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
How can they find you on social media?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
They can find me on Instagram at it s n
h u t l E. So that again, yes, it
s nhut l E. So it's Nully just my name.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What has been the best part of what you do?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I think the best part of Peacemaker is the cast
and the crew, Like truly, everyone's been so nice, so friendly,
so welcoming, and there's just all such good actors and
creatives and just a pleasure to be around as people.
But then I also just love acting. I just any
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day that I get to act is a win for me.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Let me throw you a question out of left field,
and it's something that I want to know. I have
a job to ask questions that I think the audience
wants to know, and then the questions that I just
want to know. And this goes back to your history
coming from Vietnam. You came from Vietnam, obviously post war Vietnam.
How has the country developed since that time, and did
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that impact your family's decision to come to the United States.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, I think after the war. I wasn't alive during then,
so we came over maybe a few decades after. So
it was our decision to come to America was to
have better opportunities for myself and my family. The education
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system is a lot better here, and they.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
There's that education thing again.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
They like that they do prioritize the education, and it
was it was difficult in Vietnam because I remember going
to school would call money and then everyone after school
would do after school programs or study during the summer,
so you really didn't get summerification and all of those
you had to pay for. So it was a little
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bit more difficult. And I really appreciated growing up in
a small rural town because our schooling system was actually
really good. And I think that definitely attributes to you know,
reading scripts and learning about everything that I would need
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to know as an actor.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You got some i'll say, playful comments in the chat.
I always talk about how when I do my job,
I usually wear a polo, okay, and you come into
studio wearing a polo, I said, I like him.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I like him. I used to have a polo just
like that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It was from the nineteen eighties when Isaad LaCOSA was
huge and they had the small alligator.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Now they usually have the big alligator.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
When he came in with the classic iesod, I said, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know, I did my research.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Great answer.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
There's a pole that you're wearing that I like particularly,
it's a black one with a white stripe. Yes, yeah,
I love that one.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Judo Master is both stealthy and his research and also
in kicking somebody's.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I'm glad, I'm glad my house was in order. This
is what happens when you go on vacation.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I know, but you house Oh sorry, oh no, no, no, no,
what else on vacation?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You say, no, no, no, you're good.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
He's just he's stalking you. It's fine, that's all the time.
Let's just literally call it what it is. It's docky.
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
We've been stalking you, not Lee, and we enjoy you
on Peacemaker obviously from season one. We're getting ready to
see you debut in season two. Can you give me
a roundabout number of how many asses you kick this season? Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
So many? Asses, small assess, I just like kicking ass.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
How about this?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
This has been a great time, but by time this
runs short with you, possibly can you come back maybe
at the end of the season or whenever you have
a project that you're working on in the future.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
There was a little rumor going around that this was
your first radio interview ever, and and I'm just letting
you know. Whoever interviews you after this is going to
be a disappointment. I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I'm already tell, already tell, Yeah, I would love to
come back. Under one condition, all right, next time I
come back will have to be wearing matching polos.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Well, that means you have to let me know in advance.
I mean unless we're gonna be able to Okay, all right, JT.
Can you make sure that happens.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah, that's stupid. It's Later with Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
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Speaker 1 (27:05):
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Speaker 2 (27:11):
Look earlier in the show, oh no, it was yesterday.
We're talking about the car, the classic car that we'd
like to have. I said, I wanted like a Grand
Torino Starsky and Hutch and Doctor Sam Sam, the Sex
Doctor said kit.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yeah. As a night writer, yep.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Today we get to tell you about the Cobra Kai creators.
So that's where the song You're the Best coming from
the Karate Kid. They're getting together to do a night
Writer reboot and it's going to be a shared universe
with Airwolf if you remember that, Oh no way, and
(27:56):
the sixth billion dollar man.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Hell yeah, take my money now, just take my money.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
One.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I trust the Cobra Kait creators what they did with Cobrakai.
In other words, they understand nostalgia, they understand how we
love certain characters.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
They understand how to update a property.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So I trust them with Airwolf, night Writer and a
six billion dollar man, and they will do it justice.
It's one of those things where yeah, okay, I'm on board.
I'll be right there. This is a cinematic universe. This
is not you know, this is not going to be
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a TV show for each one of them.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
These are going to be movies. Now.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I don't know if they're going to set night Writer
in the nineteen eighties I don't know that. I think
they're probably going to bring it forward. We'll hopefully have
an appearance from David Hasselhoff, We'll have some sort of
nostalgia walk down memory Lane, and most likely they will
update it or we'll find out whatever happened to Michael
(29:03):
Knight slash David Hasselhall.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Who, pray tell, do they have playing the lead? Don't
know yet.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Honestly, I can see so many Hollywood A listers jockeying
for position on these roles.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
And one of my favorite TV shows of all time,
especially growing up, was The Six Million Dollar Man with
leave Agers. Of course, I love The Bionic Woman, and
if you think about it, you know that was a
shared universe in and of itself. It just never grew
beyond those two TV shows. But updating it to The
(29:39):
six Billion Dollar Man and now we have the i'll say,
the CGI and special effects where the show is going
to really really make sense and be less campy. I
don't know if he's gonna be fighting Bigfoot again, but
we'll see.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
We got Airwolf in there too. Absolutely, dude.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
For someone my age, I should say Mark Ronner, he's
a little bit older than me.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
It is just a second. It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's perfect for someone who's who's getting ready to hit sixty,
like Mark, Jesus, leave me.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Out of this, it's wrong with you. Well, let me
ask you this of the thing. You don't ask me anything.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I know.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I would ask you.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
The three properties Airwolf, six million Dollar Man, and night Rider.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Which would you be most excited about?
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Well, it depends on how they do it, but clearly
six million Dollar Man is the most fun of any
of those.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I can't wait. It's one of those shows where I
hope they don't go campy. I really do, because a
lot of the shows which were on in the seventies
when they did the remakes and reboots, they've gone for
camp and I would just say, why not do a
semi serious six billion dollar Man? Why not do it
like Jason Bourne Borne identity knocking.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
We have that. We're going. I got Steve Austin, astronaut a.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Man Bury alive.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Say it the technology.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Say it longer, stronger, faster, better, stronger, faster. I thought
it was longer in your version.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Steve Austin will be that matter, better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster, No,
not longer.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
I misunderstood. You just hear what you want to hear.
Who would you choose to play Steve Austin. I had
read sometime ago, and correct me if I'm wrong about this,
but I'd read that Mark Wahlberg was a candidate for
the role. But that was some time ago.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
He was attached, and I don't think it was the
same project.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
No, definitely was not the same project.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
The one Mark Wahlberg was was one that he was
producing and they were aggressively going after. But the project
just physic because they couldn't get backing for it.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
That's fine with me. I'm okay letting that one drop.
You know, he's the it guy right now.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I don't know if this is the right guy, but
I could see them casting someone like Glenn Powell in it.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Now. See here's the thing I think, and we talked
about this before with night Rider and six Menda. You
have to make them comedies. You can't make them serious.
You need to have Will Ferrell replace it. I don't
want it campy, no, but can you imagine the David
Hasselhall Michael Knight character Will.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan I don't think you'd want to
do it r right for it. Oh yeah, he would
be ideal for like today.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
He's got the right humor approach, but he's also got
the look for it.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
You're not gonna have Airwolf for comedy. That doesn't work,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
No, okay, look, okay, but look, if you have Mark Wahlberg,
who can do funny as the Airwolf pilot, you have
Ryan Reynolds as the six million Dollar Man, and Will
Ferrell is Michael Knight, that's that's comedy gold.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I don't want you would love what he wants.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I love Will Ferrell, and I like what he did
with Land of the Loss. I thought that lent itself
to campiness with with slee stack and all that kind
of stuff. It had camp written all over it. Six
million Dollar Man was not campy. It did not have
the special effects for it to do it justice in
the nineteen seventies, but it was for.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
The most part, for the most part serious. Yeah, but
think about this.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
The idea of a car that talks right now, no
one is going to take that serious. The idea of
a helicopter that that's got night vision and guns on it,
No one's gonna take that serious? Why because we already
have those things. What are you gonna do that's gonna
make night Riders special? That's not gonna be campy. Well
you haven't gonna watch it and say like, come on, okay,
But I assume they're gonna update all the storylines. They're
(34:23):
not gonna have the nineteen eighty four transam. Do you
remember when they tried to redo night Rider? You must
not remember that when they when they redid it and
it was one of the newer Mustangs or whatever, and
it was stupid. Why because we already had that stuff
in real life.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Well, they're gonna have to do something to update it.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
You can't bring the nineteen eighty four night Rider out
and have Will Ferrell who's stuck in nineteen eighty four
wearing Michael Jackson or members only jackets, and you know
you can't.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Who's hey there.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
All I'm saying is if you try to take it serious,
it's gonna fail. Kids nowadays are not going to go
for it. But it's a billion dollars going to go
for that.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, But they probably thought the same thing with Cobra Kai.
There's an element for the young generation who don't care
about the older generation. So there's probably an older younger
you know, mentor mentee, which is gonna be maybe David
Hasselhoff handing passing the baton off to the next night
Rider that you could make.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
You could make kid a Waimo car now, and I'd
be okay with that. But the rest has to be serious. Okay,
all right, I would mark on this one. Airwolf has
to be serious. It can't be campy. Michael Knight originally
was not campy.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
No, he wasn't, but he literally wore jeans, loafers and
a member's only jacket in fight scenes.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
That's not action. You fight with what you're wearing at
the time.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Okay, well I had three hey chest hair.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Was in back then. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
The AIRWORLF pilots, all those shows are sick by today's comparison.
No one is gonna watch those and take any of
those film.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
No.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
With cybernetics, uh, I could see a serious six billion
dollar man with the requisite special effects.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
To make the eye and the running much more believable.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Given look, it's basically John Wick with prosthetics.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Look.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Mark Wahlberg thought that they were trying to go serious,
and you know what happened.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
No studio could bite it.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But I think the times are different now they're ready
for That's why they're remaking and rebooting all these things.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Now.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
The time is right. People are ripe for this. They
won't have to show all the action in slow motion,
way right? They name me a serious remake? What are
we talking about? There are any serious remakes? Now?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
They've got to take it on TV.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
They did a serious remake of swat a Hawaii five. Oh,
it's not unusual to adapt those shows into a modern matrix.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, but guess what they did.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
They did Karate Kid, and they did Cobra Kai, which
was campy, and then they did this new movie, which,
by your estimation was garbage. So guess what happens when
you try to go serious.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
It was garbage.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Not because it was serious, It was garbage because the
story was lazy and just a retread of the Karate
Kid beat for beat.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Okay, then you can't do it like there was back.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
No, no, no, you can't do a beat for beat where
you have Michael Knight and they roll out an eighty
four transit.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
If they do it, just like that. No, it's not
gonna work. But is any one of these sexy new Beatles?
What is he?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Peacemaker season two on HBO Max. And if you recently
saw the movie Superman directed by James Gunn, or you
saw season one a Peacemaker, it's a part of the
new DCU, that cinematic universe where everything is tied together
and Peacemaker if you didn't see season one. In season one,
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Peacemaker is starring John Cena. He was getting his ass
kicked just about every episode by my next guest. I'm
not exaggerating. His name is Nutt Lee and he plays
Judo Master. In fact, he's going to be part of
five of the total eight episodes of this season of Peacemaker,
and he's going to be debuting in this season in
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episode three, which is getting ready to drop on HBO Max.
And Nutley joins me in studio right now, Mitch Lee,
how are you doing this evening?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm doing well. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I'm doing well because one, I love the show, and
I specifically love your character Judo Master, because you're a
martial arts enthusiast.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You are well.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Let me ask you how much of the stunt choreography
the fighting choreography are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So we do all of the fights, We do all
of our fights, and then the stunt guys they'll come
in take a pass at it, and then the editors will,
you know, cut whatever they need to.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But a fair amount that's you out there throwing kicks
and flipping and everything.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, yeah. So for our season two, my stunt double
he's an acrobat, so you know, he's very good with
like the gymnastics part, and he's a wooshoe champion, so
he's very good at fighting as well.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Did you study wooshoe?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I did. I studied wooshoe for about two years, and
then before that I studied a little bit of shouting
kung fu.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
What I like about not only your story but also
how it applies to Peacemaker is that you had an
incredible journey before you got to this point. And if
you don't know, your name is not Lee spelled Nhut,
which is Vietnamese. You were born in Vietnam. You spent
the first six years of your life in Vietnam. So
(02:28):
when you came to America, obviously English was not your
first language, but was acting in cinema your first.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Loves it was a part of it. Growing up, I
wasn't encouraged to express myself because growing up in an
Asian family, you know, it's all about doing well in school,
and so anything creative or artistic, we didn't really say that.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Again, you had to do well in school.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Education was a thing, right, Education was a bit thing, Yeah,
for sure. And so my first play I did when
I was in fourth grade. It was a musical called
South Pacific, and I was in fourth grade, but the
production was a high school production.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is that The one was some in Shanto Evening, Yes,
some in Channity Evening. Okay, we're musical folks, Oh yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So they needed two little Asian kids to fill these
two roles.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
So my.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Friend's dad was friends with a director for the high
school and so he called me in. I auditioned for it,
my first time singing, my first time acting.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
In not your birth language.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right yeah yeah. And oddly enough so that character only
spoke in French, so all my lines were in French,
All of my singing was in French.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So are you a polyglot to do languages come rather
easily to you?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I wouldn't say that, but I do like learning a lot.
So I enjoy learning different languages, different skills for you know,
whatever the role is. So it worked out.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
How did you know that this was going to be
your life's work? What was it?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Was it a moment when you were doing a play
and you fell in love with the just the acting,
I'll say, the just the commitment to acting. You know
it's not necessarily a job, but it turned into a
job for you.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
How did you know that this was what you were
going to do.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, I think younger in life it was whenever I
was on stage, it was a chance for me to
express myself and you know, be able to feel happy
or sad and show it, whereas in my home life
it was very stifled. So it was cathartic for me
growing up and being able to express myself. And then
around when I was sixteen, I booked my first television
(04:56):
show on PBS. It was an educational series. And I
remember because my parents didn't take me to the auditions
or any of the shoots or anything. So as a
sixteen year old with my backpack on, I got on
the Septa, which was the regional rail of Philadelphia. Two
buses later went to the audition bus. My way back,
and then I booked that job and then it was
(05:20):
the first time I got paid ever, and one hundred
and fifty dollars was like, you know, the biggest everything,
like I've made it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did it mean anything to your parents where you could say, look,
I'm actually making my way in this business. I know
you want to be to be a doctor, to be
a lawyer, something along those lines.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
But did your parents ever start slowly coming around?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They did not until I found more success later on,
you know. And so for a long time, it was
just me motivating myself with my passion and my dreams,
and that's what, you know, propelled me to do, like
to move up to New York by myself, to move
up to LA by myself, you know. So it's all
(06:05):
of these things that I I really wanted to do
because I just love acting so much.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
How familiar were you with any of the Peacemaker characters
or the DC universe when you audition?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
When I auditioned for Tjudo Master, the the role had
a generic name. The name was Marshall, like Marshall Mathers
hiding the name, so it was Marshall Artists And so
I thought it was just you know, some henchmen, and
in that scene I was supposed to be eating chips.
(06:39):
I was eating salt and vinegar chips, which are my favorite. Uh.
And at this point I was it was around the
pandemic era, so I was actually about to give up
acting at that point and moved back to Philadelphia and
teach pottery full time.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So that was tea pottery.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Teach pottery.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That's a long ways away from acting.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I was, you know, resigned from the acting world completely.
I had found a house in Philadelphia, was in ascrow
for it, and then I get this audition for Peacemaker.
It was James Gunn was attached, John Cena was attached,
and that's all I knew. That's enough. I'm like, yeah,
of course I'm doing this. So I send it in
(07:23):
and then or first my manager sends in my stunt
reel because it's you know, a lot of fighting for
Judo Master. And then they liked it, and then they
came back and then they gave me sides for it,
and then I did the sides and had another meeting
and then another audition, and then about a week later, Uh,
(07:46):
they called me. They're like, they'd like to offer you
judo master. But in my life, I was getting ready
to move, so I was like, I don't know what
to do. So I ended up taking the role of course,
and then also taking the house. But I haven't lived
in that.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
House, but you still have the house.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I saw the house.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, my goodness, that is a wonderful start to this conversation.
If you just tuned me in Lee joins me in studio,
you will. If you don't already know, he plays judo
master on Peacemaker, And if you haven't seen peace Maker,
let me just say it's not for kids.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Let me just say that.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
There's a lot of cussing, there's a lot of fighting,
there's a lot of nudity, there's a lot of sex.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
There's a lot of action, and.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Get you get to kick John Cena's ass just about
every scene that you're in.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It's it's amazing and I love acting for that reason.
I'm a five foot zero, one hundred and ten pounds,
soaking wet, and I'm up against John Tena who's like
six three six four, but you're as I'm whooping his
ass every time, and I love it.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And like, so I just touched you and you go flying,
and that's acting.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
When we come back, we'll have more about Peacemaker. We'll
have more with my guest Lee. We're talking about Peacemaker
season two. He plays Judo Master. And look, I don't
know where your stunts begin and your stunt doubles may end,
but I am all in. And you get to have
a smart mouth, you get to you get to taunt
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John Cena's Peacemaker throughout.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It's the best job, the best.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We'll have more with no Lee, just a moment. K
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Speaker 4 (09:51):
And I wish we could show you. I wish we could.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Play for you some a Peacemaker with my guest who
is Judo Master. But it is so profane, so vulgar,
we just can't do it. You're gonna have to take
our word for it and check out Peacemaker season two
on HBO Max. And I wonder because when I see
(10:16):
a show like Peacemaker, NA, when you have all these
characters and they all have great lines, and you have
this interplay, it would seem to me that there's not
a lot of room for improvisation because the lines are
coming and going so fast. Take me on to the
set with James Gunn. How does he run his set
(10:37):
when you're doing scenes in Peacemaker.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I love working with James because when he's on set,
there's a sense of ease because you know that he's
always got your back.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So, oh, he's an actress director and.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Actress director one hundred percent. So with some of the
other directors that I've worked with before, you know, will
block the scenes and two whatever. But with James, who
we like, you know, do the blocking and we'll set
up the camera and we'll figure it out afterwards, you know.
So it's it's more character driven. And the great thing
about James is so we'll do several takes of the
(11:13):
what's written in the script, and if he's got it,
will do like sort of a throwaway take and you
could just sort of improvise here and there and do
whatever you want. But I know a lot of interview
outlets will pick up like, oh, like a lot of
the fun is improvising, But to give credit to James,
like ninety nine percent of what you see on screen
(11:35):
is actually written in the script and really seems improvised
because he's such a good writer.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It is going so fast.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
How do you find the synergy the timing to be
able to deliver the lines in such a fast paced way.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I think he does also a great job with casting people,
and you know, the chemistry because after the two seasons,
I've become super good friends with like Steve ag Sol Rodriguez,
Danielle Brooks. Like the energy is so natural and so
it just sort of like diffuses its way into the screen.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
When you first stepped on that set, how nervous were you,
if at all?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It was sort of bizarre how not nervous I was,
because you know, you're working with like some of the
titans of the industry, John Cena, James Gunn. But I
think what really helped me out was I've been in
this industry for ten years, you know, struggling doing background work,
being an extra, being a stand in. So I sort
(12:41):
of cut my teeth on set being the photo double
or the stand in. So I was working with the
camera crews, they set up the lights and I run
through the blocking and so I know all the terminology.
I was super comfortable on set, and so when I
was on set for the first time, I felt so
prepared and it was just like, I get to do
(13:01):
something that I love so much, you know, and here's
my chance to be the actor and not just standing
in or the background your character.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You're wearing a mask for the most part, and so
it wouldn't surprise me if you still get to retain
a level of anonymity when you walk out. Are you recognized?
Because you're five feet so people, You're going to be
noticeable to people, And I mean that respectfully. Do people
make the connection quickly that you're Judo Master?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I think after because I didn't really do a lot
of press in season one because it was just a
small character. So having him come back in season two
and doing all the press junkets and all that stuff
outside of my mask. I remember right after the premiere,
we were walking down the streets of New York and
some guy ran out of the bodega and was like
(13:52):
Judo Master. I was like, what is going on? So
I think now it's it's more prevalent.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
All right.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Do you do you ever have any not notes for
James Gunner. Do you ever sit down and say or
just have a request for him what you want your
character to be or how much input are you allowed
to offer?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So I think the scripts are pretty packs when we
receive them, but there are some instances here and there,
like in season one, during the convenience scene or the
convenience store scene.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
My character like we were just playing that.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, it's like a little joking dance, like that wasn't
in the script and you did that. I did that. Yeah,
you're basically doing the touchdown dance. Yeah, like emoting on
you know, through video games. Yeah, so that I did
during the day and James loves that bit so much.
So there's I think, as Judo Master, he's so free
(14:48):
to do whatever he wants, and James sort of recognizes that,
and so he does give some some room that Judo
Master can play.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm curious, and you probably couldn't tell me even if
you know, But my job is to ask the question,
whether you can answer it or not. We know that
James Gunn is real big on crossover and synergy between
the film universe and television universe. In fact, the first
episode of season two don't want to give it away
(15:20):
too many specifics, but it made it very clear that
this is happening in the time of Superman, the movie,
which just took place. In a cinematic sense. Have you
had any real should I say this? Is there any
possibility that we might see Judo Master on the big screen?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Let me put it that way.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I would love that to be the case, and I
will say following Superman, Peacemaker is a pretty consequential in
the story of DC. You and I'm not sure if
(16:04):
studio heads are here.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
It's just you and me. Just change.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Gun is not gonna even listen, Okay, he has no
idea what's going on?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Right This is what's gonna make him listen, and then
he'll shut down your show.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
No, he wouldn't do that, but it is something at
least in the back of your mind you could see
the possibility.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Is that fair to ask? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I think you know. He is playing in the realm
of this bigger DC universe for sure, and Peacemaker showed
up in Superman, so it's definitely a through line of
some sort.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
If you're just tuning in. My guest right now in
studio is Lee. We're talking about Peacemaker. Lee plays the
character of Judo Master. And if you haven't seen Peacemaker,
let me just warn you in a good way. It's
very profane, borderline vulgar at times. There's nudity, there's sexual situations,
(17:06):
there's a lot of violence. It's a great show for
adults like Mark Runner and me and Twala and Sam
and Nick who's in studio.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
It's yeah, it's absolutely no, no.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It is over the top in all the best of ways.
And now do you have a some time. I would
love to have you for one more segment. Yeah, yeah,
for sure, let's do this. It's Later with mo Kelly
kf I AM six forty. We're live on Facebook, We're
live on Instagram and the iHeartRadio app and also YouTube.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Kelly and six live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
YouTube at mister mom Kelly. And if you're just tuning in,
if you happen to be an HBO Max fed, if
you happen to be a DCU fan, or happen to
be a fan of Peacemaker, you probably enjoying this to
(18:06):
no end. My guest in studio right now is Lee.
He's one of the co stars of Peacemaker now on
HBO Max, and your debut episode for this season is
dropping next.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
What should we expect?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
You should expect a nice little surprise, you know, seeing
an old friend again. I think the way that Judomaster
is introduced this season's pretty cool, pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And we're playing your reel right now from a Peacemaker
where you're routinely kicking everyone's ass from peacemaker to vigilante.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
How fun is that? Let me ask you a question
a different way.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Do you get the season episode by episode so you
don't know where the season is going to go? Or
do you get the whole season in advance? Do you
understand the character arc so.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
We do get all eight episodes out one so we
know entirely what's going on, and in the way that
it's shot, it's sort of shot like a movie and
not like a weekly episodic thing.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Got you, m.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Is there anything which surprises you after you do a
scene or an episode. Are you gonna sit there and
watch it the moment that it drops or you an
actor who doesn't like to look at yourself on screen.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I love watching Judo Master. I do not like watching
myself on screen. But Peacemaker is so fun to watch
and I sort of black out when I'm filming. So
we're watching it.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
There's a lot that's being asked of you.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah, and so you know when I'm when I'm watching it,
it's like the first time because you know, you read
the script and you have your interpretations of it and
you're on the other side of the camera, But then
what the editors choose, you know, and what takes make
it you. I'm just watching it for the first time.
I'm like, and I forget that it's actually me.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You don't see any of the dailies as you go, rarely.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Very rarely.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Is that by choice?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
In other words, James is not going to share, right, Okay,
it's like a really cool sequence, and you know, you
might see a little here and there, but it's not
like we sit down and we go through the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Now. Is he one of those three takes?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You know, one his way, one he allows the cast
to kind of improvise, and then one just to make
sure he's got it or how is it his directorial
style generally in that regard.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
James is a director who knows exactly what he wants,
and so I remember in season one we did like
this quick little thing and we did one take of
it and I was like, Okay, yeah, that feels good.
Let's let's go again, and he's like, we're moving on.
We already got it, you know, like why beat a horse?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Have you ever hit John Cena in the face unintentionally? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yes, yes, but I mean look at my hands, like
they're so small. He's like a fly, just hit me.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Has he ever hit you unintentionally?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
No, because you know that would maybe break some ribs.
But like he's been a wrestler for twenty years or something,
you know, like he's a pro.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm looking right now at the real and he's slipping
you or your stunt double onto these cars. How much
are you getting slipped around?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
The car? Stuff?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Is all?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
This is season one, So it was Robin. That was
all him. He took the car hits.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
So you get to say, okay, bringing the double, I'm
not doing this. I'm not being thrown on a car today.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Right, Not today, maybe tomorrow. But if we already got
it today, then we don't need to need.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
To do it again.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I know people are listening right now or maybe watching
on YouTube. They want to know more about you, see
more of your work. What to look forward to with
Peacemakers Season two, episode three, which is going to be
dropping shortly.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
How can they find you on social media?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
They can find me on Instagram at it s n
h u t l E. So that again, yes, it
s nhut l E. So it's Nully just my name.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What has been the best part of what you do?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I think the best part of Peacemaker is the cast
and the crew, Like truly, everyone's been so nice, so friendly,
so welcoming, and there's just all such good actors and
creatives and just a pleasure to be around as people.
But then I also just love acting. I just any
(22:50):
day that I get to act is a win for me.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Let me throw you a question out of left field,
and it's something that I want to know. I have
a job to ask questions that I think the audience
wants to know, and then the questions that I just
want to know. And this goes back to your history
coming from Vietnam. You came from Vietnam, obviously post war Vietnam.
How has the country developed since that time, and did
(23:17):
that impact your family's decision to come to the United States.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, I think after the war. I wasn't alive during then,
so we came over maybe a few decades after. So
it was our decision to come to America was to
have better opportunities for myself and my family. The education
(23:43):
system is a lot better here, and they.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
There's that education thing again.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
They like that they do prioritize the education, and it
was it was difficult in Vietnam because I remember going
to school would call money and then everyone after school
would do after school programs or study during the summer,
so you really didn't get summerification and all of those
you had to pay for. So it was a little
(24:12):
bit more difficult. And I really appreciated growing up in
a small rural town because our schooling system was actually
really good. And I think that definitely attributes to you know,
reading scripts and learning about everything that I would need
(24:33):
to know as an actor.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You got some i'll say, playful comments in the chat.
I always talk about how when I do my job,
I usually wear a polo, okay, and you come into
studio wearing a polo, I said, I like him.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I like him. I used to have a polo just
like that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It was from the nineteen eighties when Isaad LaCOSA was
huge and they had the small alligator.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Now they usually have the big alligator.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
When he came in with the classic iesod, I said, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know, I did my research.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Great answer.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
There's a pole that you're wearing that I like particularly,
it's a black one with a white stripe. Yes, yeah,
I love that one.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Judo Master is both stealthy and his research and also
in kicking somebody's.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I'm glad, I'm glad my house was in order. This
is what happens when you go on vacation.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I know, but you house Oh sorry, oh no, no, no, no,
what else on vacation?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You say, no, no, no, you're good.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
He's just he's stalking you. It's fine, that's all the time.
Let's just literally call it what it is. It's docky.
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
We've been stalking you, not Lee, and we enjoy you
on Peacemaker obviously from season one. We're getting ready to
see you debut in season two. Can you give me
a roundabout number of how many asses you kick this season? Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
So many? Asses, small assess, I just like kicking ass.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
How about this?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
This has been a great time, but by time this
runs short with you, possibly can you come back maybe
at the end of the season or whenever you have
a project that you're working on in the future.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
There was a little rumor going around that this was
your first radio interview ever, and and I'm just letting
you know. Whoever interviews you after this is going to
be a disappointment. I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I'm already tell, already tell, Yeah, I would love to
come back. Under one condition, all right, next time I
come back will have to be wearing matching polos.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Well, that means you have to let me know in advance.
I mean unless we're gonna be able to Okay, all right, JT.
Can you make sure that happens.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah, that's stupid. It's Later with Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Be sure to watch Peacemakers Season to available right now
on HBO Max. We'll live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Look earlier in the show, oh no, it was yesterday.
We're talking about the car, the classic car that we'd
like to have. I said, I wanted like a Grand
Torino Starsky and Hutch and Doctor Sam Sam, the Sex
Doctor said kit.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yeah. As a night writer, yep.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Today we get to tell you about the Cobra Kai creators.
So that's where the song You're the Best coming from
the Karate Kid. They're getting together to do a night
Writer reboot and it's going to be a shared universe
with Airwolf if you remember that, Oh no way, and
(27:56):
the sixth billion dollar man.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Hell yeah, take my money now, just take my money.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
One.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I trust the Cobra Kait creators what they did with Cobrakai.
In other words, they understand nostalgia, they understand how we
love certain characters.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
They understand how to update a property.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So I trust them with Airwolf, night Writer and a
six billion dollar man, and they will do it justice.
It's one of those things where yeah, okay, I'm on board.
I'll be right there. This is a cinematic universe. This
is not you know, this is not going to be
(28:37):
a TV show for each one of them.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
These are going to be movies. Now.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I don't know if they're going to set night Writer
in the nineteen eighties I don't know that. I think
they're probably going to bring it forward. We'll hopefully have
an appearance from David Hasselhoff, We'll have some sort of
nostalgia walk down memory Lane, and most likely they will
update it or we'll find out whatever happened to Michael
(29:03):
Knight slash David Hasselhall.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Who, pray tell, do they have playing the lead? Don't
know yet.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Honestly, I can see so many Hollywood A listers jockeying
for position on these roles.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
And one of my favorite TV shows of all time,
especially growing up, was The Six Million Dollar Man with
leave Agers. Of course, I love The Bionic Woman, and
if you think about it, you know that was a
shared universe in and of itself. It just never grew
beyond those two TV shows. But updating it to The
(29:39):
six Billion Dollar Man and now we have the i'll say,
the CGI and special effects where the show is going
to really really make sense and be less campy. I
don't know if he's gonna be fighting Bigfoot again, but
we'll see.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
We got Airwolf in there too. Absolutely, dude.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
For someone my age, I should say Mark Ronner, he's
a little bit older than me.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
It is just a second. It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's perfect for someone who's who's getting ready to hit sixty,
like Mark, Jesus, leave me.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Out of this, it's wrong with you. Well, let me
ask you this of the thing. You don't ask me anything.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I know.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I would ask you.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
The three properties Airwolf, six million Dollar Man, and night Rider.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Which would you be most excited about?
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Well, it depends on how they do it, but clearly
six million Dollar Man is the most fun of any
of those.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I can't wait. It's one of those shows where I
hope they don't go campy. I really do, because a
lot of the shows which were on in the seventies
when they did the remakes and reboots, they've gone for
camp and I would just say, why not do a
semi serious six billion dollar Man? Why not do it
like Jason Bourne Borne identity knocking.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
We have that. We're going. I got Steve Austin, astronaut a.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Man Bury alive.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Say it the technology.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Say it longer, stronger, faster, better, stronger, faster. I thought
it was longer in your version.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Steve Austin will be that matter, better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster, No,
not longer.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
I misunderstood. You just hear what you want to hear.
Who would you choose to play Steve Austin. I had
read sometime ago, and correct me if I'm wrong about this,
but I'd read that Mark Wahlberg was a candidate for
the role. But that was some time ago.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
He was attached, and I don't think it was the
same project.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
No, definitely was not the same project.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
The one Mark Wahlberg was was one that he was
producing and they were aggressively going after. But the project
just physic because they couldn't get backing for it.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
That's fine with me. I'm okay letting that one drop.
You know, he's the it guy right now.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I don't know if this is the right guy, but
I could see them casting someone like Glenn Powell in it.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Now. See here's the thing I think, and we talked
about this before with night Rider and six Menda. You
have to make them comedies. You can't make them serious.
You need to have Will Ferrell replace it. I don't
want it campy, no, but can you imagine the David
Hasselhall Michael Knight character Will.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan I don't think you'd want to
do it r right for it. Oh yeah, he would
be ideal for like today.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
He's got the right humor approach, but he's also got
the look for it.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
You're not gonna have Airwolf for comedy. That doesn't work,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
No, okay, look, okay, but look, if you have Mark Wahlberg,
who can do funny as the Airwolf pilot, you have
Ryan Reynolds as the six million Dollar Man, and Will
Ferrell is Michael Knight, that's that's comedy gold.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I don't want you would love what he wants.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I love Will Ferrell, and I like what he did
with Land of the Loss. I thought that lent itself
to campiness with with slee stack and all that kind
of stuff. It had camp written all over it. Six
million Dollar Man was not campy. It did not have
the special effects for it to do it justice in
the nineteen seventies, but it was for.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
The most part, for the most part serious. Yeah, but
think about this.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
The idea of a car that talks right now, no
one is going to take that serious. The idea of
a helicopter that that's got night vision and guns on it,
No one's gonna take that serious? Why because we already
have those things. What are you gonna do that's gonna
make night Riders special? That's not gonna be campy. Well
you haven't gonna watch it and say like, come on, okay,
But I assume they're gonna update all the storylines. They're
(34:23):
not gonna have the nineteen eighty four transam. Do you
remember when they tried to redo night Rider? You must
not remember that when they when they redid it and
it was one of the newer Mustangs or whatever, and
it was stupid. Why because we already had that stuff
in real life.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Well, they're gonna have to do something to update it.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
You can't bring the nineteen eighty four night Rider out
and have Will Ferrell who's stuck in nineteen eighty four
wearing Michael Jackson or members only jackets, and you know
you can't.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Who's hey there.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
All I'm saying is if you try to take it serious,
it's gonna fail. Kids nowadays are not going to go
for it. But it's a billion dollars going to go
for that.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, But they probably thought the same thing with Cobra Kai.
There's an element for the young generation who don't care
about the older generation. So there's probably an older younger
you know, mentor mentee, which is gonna be maybe David
Hasselhoff handing passing the baton off to the next night
Rider that you could make.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
You could make kid a Waimo car now, and I'd
be okay with that. But the rest has to be serious. Okay,
all right, I would mark on this one. Airwolf has
to be serious. It can't be campy. Michael Knight originally
was not campy.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
No, he wasn't, but he literally wore jeans, loafers and
a member's only jacket in fight scenes.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
That's not action. You fight with what you're wearing at
the time.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Okay, well I had three hey chest hair.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Was in back then. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
The AIRWORLF pilots, all those shows are sick by today's comparison.
No one is gonna watch those and take any of
those film.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
No.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
With cybernetics, uh, I could see a serious six billion
dollar man with the requisite special effects.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
To make the eye and the running much more believable.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Given look, it's basically John Wick with prosthetics.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Look.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Mark Wahlberg thought that they were trying to go serious,
and you know what happened.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
No studio could bite it.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But I think the times are different now they're ready
for That's why they're remaking and rebooting all these things.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Now.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
The time is right. People are ripe for this. They
won't have to show all the action in slow motion,
way right? They name me a serious remake? What are
we talking about? There are any serious remakes? Now?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
They've got to take it on TV.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
They did a serious remake of swat a Hawaii five. Oh,
it's not unusual to adapt those shows into a modern matrix.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, but guess what they did.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
They did Karate Kid, and they did Cobra Kai, which
was campy, and then they did this new movie, which,
by your estimation was garbage. So guess what happens when
you try to go serious.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
It was garbage.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Not because it was serious, It was garbage because the
story was lazy and just a retread of the Karate
Kid beat for beat.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Okay, then you can't do it like there was back.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
No, no, no, you can't do a beat for beat where
you have Michael Knight and they roll out an eighty
four transit.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
If they do it, just like that. No, it's not
gonna work. But is any one of these sexy new Beatles?
What is he?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yes to have something? Never mind can't? By anxious forty
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Speaker 1 (37:42):
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