November 4, 2024 • 35 mins
Join host Paul Amadeus Lane on The Entertainment Zone for captivating conversations with the biggest names in film, television, and beyond. This week, Paul delves into the fascinating career of actor and producer Jasper Cole. From his memorable role as Zeke in the cult-classic comedy MacGruber to his intense portrayal of Cory Black in BET's The Family Business,
Jasper has captivated audiences with his diverse range of characters. Now, he's starring in and producing the upcoming horror thriller Final Recovery, a film that explores the dark underbelly of addiction recovery. Tune in as Jasper shares his journey as an actor, the challenges and triumphs of navigating the entertainment industry, and behind-the-scenes stories from his impressive filmography, spanning over 120 projects including The Purge: Anarchy, American Horror Story, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Don't miss this insightful conversation on The Entertainment Zone!
Jasper has captivated audiences with his diverse range of characters. Now, he's starring in and producing the upcoming horror thriller Final Recovery, a film that explores the dark underbelly of addiction recovery. Tune in as Jasper shares his journey as an actor, the challenges and triumphs of navigating the entertainment industry, and behind-the-scenes stories from his impressive filmography, spanning over 120 projects including The Purge: Anarchy, American Horror Story, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Don't miss this insightful conversation on The Entertainment Zone!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ain't you average entertainment show? More to entertainment and what's
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back to the Entertainment Zone. I'm your hostess with
the most is Paul Amadeus Lane. And in our first segment,
if you missed that, we explored NBC's captivating new drama
Brilliant Minds. Do you know it's inspired by the work
of Oliver Sachs. Really fascinating stuff. Now, I want to
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And now it's my pleasure to welcome to the show
actor Jasper Cole as we catch up with him about
his latest project. I am so delighted to have my
next guest with me, actor, producer and host Jasper Cole. Jasper,
what is up brother? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hey, buddy, It's so great to meet you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How are you hey? I'm doing fine and it is
so great to meet you as well. I'm so looking
forward to talking about your latest project and then our
audience to get to know you a whole lot better.
Sore you ready to rock and roll?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm ready, let's hit it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right, let's do this, so Jasper, please tell me
when you were growing up was entertainment? Was the acting
industry something that you saw yourself always doing? If not,
what did you see yourself doing when you got older.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, I've said before, I think I secretly wanted to
be in the TV film acting world, but I didn't.
You know, I grew up in Athens, Georgia, in a
college town, and so I don't think I had any
concept earlier what that would look like or how I
would make that happen. I was your typical, like youngest
of four boys, playing all the sports, you know, following
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in my brother's footsteps. And but I was a TV
a TV kid, you know. I was a child of
the seventies, so you had the Norman Lear the comedies
and all the the man X and the Kojaks and
all that stuff. But I was always fascinated with filmmaking
and TV, and I think I always wanted to do it.
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I just didn't know how that would look. But you know,
like most kids, I wanted to be a lot of
different things, but I think ultimately I thought I would
be like a therapist or a psychologist, which in a
weird way, that's kind of perfect for acting.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's true. That's true. And you can use those skills
not only dealing with others who were a part of
your crew, but also all the things that can help
you out when it comes to dealing with different personalities, uh,
and everything that comes when it comes to the entertainment
world because business, yeah, yeah, because you never know who's
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going to be kind of approachable, who's going to be
kind of standoffish, who's going to be set off, or
who's going to be you know, just just open the chat.
But yeah, you those skills definitely come and come into play.
So when you first got into the.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Acting world, first of all, pardon me, I'm in pond
springs and my allergies are just like I'm not high
or I'm not crying.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But oh, no problem, brother, I have allergies too, so
you might see me doing.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The same all of a sudden. It's always like, right
when you're in the middle of something. But anyway, go ahead,
sorry about.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That, No, no, no, no problem. Hey, you know, it's life, man,
Life happens, right, so we're.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
All use it, use it in the moment, right.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Absolutely, absolutely. So when you first got your your acting gig,
your first everyone, what did that look like and how
did that opportunity to come up?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, I'm also I come from the theater, you know,
that was really where I wanted to start. But my
very first ever on camera thing was a little film
that was shooting in my hometown called Tennessee Stallion. It
was Let's see Vincent Van Patten, Judy and Audrey Landers,
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you know. There it was a sort of a low
budget indie and I made a point to get myself
there and try to be an extra. And I was
an extra and then I got what's called bumped up
where they gave me a couple of lines, and so
then I was just totally hooked. And so that was
my first I think it was nineteen eighty two, I think,
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I yeah, I just graduated high school. But then I
went and started doing theater. And my first on camera
after that was a Sego jewelry commercial in Atlanta, Georgia,
and then that's kind of that was kind of the beginning.
So I was in Atlanta for three years before Atlanta
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was you know, Hollywood of the South, and I was
there for three years. And then in nineteen eighty seven,
a girlfriend and I co wrote and co starred in
a play in Atlanta, and we brought it out to
la and ran it here for a couple of years
and we've been here ever since.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Nice. And when you look at your time in the theater,
what was some of the I guess eye opening experiences
about theater life that that kind of took you by surprise?
And how did you how did you deal with any
of those unknown that that became reality.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, well, looking back like now that I kind of
thought everyone started in theater and it was a natural progression,
like you've moved to camp, so I didn't. Sort of
an eye opening thing for me was when I got
into TV and film just how many people had not
done the theater and but had. But then I learned,
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you know, camera as a whole technique. A lot of actors,
I think, if you don't come in the theater, they're
kind of afraid of like the live aspect of it.
But for me, there's nothing greater than because you know,
you rehearse for three weeks, you do you do all
the notes, of the director and you you workshop and
then but opening night, the moment you step on the stage,
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it's yours from beginning to end, whereas in film you know,
it's it's you don't know which take they're going to
use this the editing. It's when I tell actors, when
you get on the producer side of things, you really
start to see how while we are very important as actors,
we're just a small, like little thing in the wheel
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of getting a film put together. Because but stage, it's
yours for two hours. You know, you're you're in control,
and it's you're the person doing it from beginning to end.
TV and film, you know, you shoot out of sequence
and you don't always know how it's going to come together.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, that's true. That is so true. And when you
look at the different challenges that the entertainment world kind
of presents, how do you kind of overcome those challenges
and what kind of gives you that that drive to
continue when when you may hear the nos, you may
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hear the not yet, how do you deal with those?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, you know, I think I'm just turned sixty and
so I'm almost forty years in the business, and I
think it's different at every stage, right. I mean I
used to think and as a kid, when I was
starting out, I really thought everyone knew exactly what they
should be doing and that they were going to succeed. Now,
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I arrogantly somewhere, thank God, had this. I didn't have
any question that I was supposed to be in this business,
that I would work. I mean, I just didn't know
how many years that would take. I didn't know, I
didn't know how many different phases of a career. But
I always had that foundation of knowing I'm doing what
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I'm supposed to be doing. Just hang in there. You know.
I talk a lot about when actors talk about when
I make it in the business, and I used to
do that as a younger actor. And then suddenly when
you get old, you look back and you go, wow,
you know what, I've been making it all the way around,
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all the way through the journey's there's not a moment
where I can say now I've made it. Because I've
worked with big stars, big name people, they don't think
they've made it, you know. They they're grateful for success.
But this business is so like quick saying you know
you're up one moment, you're down there. And I just
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keep saying to people, enjoy the process. In the moment
when you're shooting something, you don't know if it's ever
going to come out. You don't know, you may not
be alive when it does. So you know, this is
old Jazz for telling the younger actors like, just be
in the moment and enjoy. And we can't really predict
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what a career looks like. I know one thing though,
don't just you should stay in the game. Don't take
yourself out of the game, because I will say, the
business changes so fast and it's so different now. You
can't really take a bunch of time off and try
to come back because people forget, they move on. There's
new people coming in, and you just got to get
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your keep yourself in front of the people hiring.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I love that advice, Jasper, because that really makes a
lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I guess that's true in any profession.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Really, Yeah, that's true. And and and I like what
you said about instead of saying when I made it,
when I make it, when I make it, you know
the fact that you're you're working, you're you made it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And I yeah, I mean because I think most people,
for me, every little every job was the next job
was a reinforcement. Okay, you're you're doing the right thing.
You're you're in the game. You're they're hiring you and
you know, and TV I always tell actress, if the
same casting office and producers are calling you back time
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after time after time, you're already a good actor. They're
just trying to find the right role that you fit.
You know it again, if actors could all get on
the other side of the table, well there's no table anymore,
the other side of the the self tape. You know,
you realize how you could be. You could give the
best audition, you could be better than five other people.
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But you're just physical clay. There's your right ear lobe.
It's better than the other guy. It's so non personal.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know, Yeah, that that makes sense. It's something else
you mentioned too, was you may do something and it
may never may never air. We live in a time
now where there are so many platforms out there where
where content can be can be watched consumed, and has
that made.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
It easier now for more opportunities because somebody can shoot something,
put it on YouTube and get ten ten gazillion views
and and make some pretty good money off of it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So has that kind of changed the game too.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, I mean, especially for your people starting in the business,
I think, I mean, I think it would just be
the goal mine, Like, you don't have to wait for
you know, like I said, in my day, it was
you do a play and then you get seen and
casting person calls you in. I mean, now you can
just produce your content, put it up there. There's really
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no excuse for not doing it. I mean you just
have to. You have all this at platforms, and like
you said, the weird thing is, it gives us so
many opportunities for I mean, there are so many shows
I'm sure you feel the same way on platforms that
I'll read in the trades, like season three of Blah
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Blah blah, and I'm like season three, I didn't even
know what was season one. I don't even know what
this show is, right, So there's no dearth of opportunities
for us now. So if you really want to be
in this business, I think you're at a better place now. Now.
The business side of the business has completely changed, especially
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since after the strike last year. I'm always the glasses
half full kind of guy because I've been in this.
I've been in it so long, I've seen it do this.
But I do believe we're in a transition again, like
streamers trying to figure out getting us paid and residuals
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and that's still not happening. But you know, for someone
starting out, they're not going to know any different. So
this is this is how it will be when they start.
So I never want to be that old person like
I don't know, back in the day or because I am,
I am at the age where I go to on
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sets now and you know, I'm the veteran or I'm
the older guy, and I just have to really just
like turn my mouth off so I don't start saying, well,
when I first started or you know, back in nineteen
eighty seven kind of thing. But I still here's the thing.
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I still love between action and cut. I love the
magic of doing the moment. Now I love all the
inertia around the stuff anymore and all that all that
kind of stuff, not really, but I still love doing
the actual work. And so until that changes, I'll be
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in the game. But if the moment I'm not happy
doing that, I need to really retire because nobody wants
that kind of energy around, you know, on a set.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, that makes sense. And I love what you said
too lastly about don't take yourself out of the game.
That can happen a lot, you know when rejection hits,
and then maybe family friends. You know, you don't need
to stop, you need to stop doing that, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
And and I wanted to get a real job.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And have a real job and still be in.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That absolutely, And I think it was was it James
Earl Jones who went into went into acting, the great
James Earl Jones went in acting later in life, and
you know it, and it showed that, you know, just
keep on going, keep on plugging. You never you look
at you look at Samuel L. Jackson, you know some
of the things that he did starting out, and then
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he's one of the highest paid pads now. So I'm
glad you glad you said I keep pushing, keep moving
because you never know.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
What I love about it now Samuel L. Jackson is
a perfect like journeyman actor and you know, he knows
it as a business and he's going to get his check.
And I don't I love the guys like him that
will do blockbuster movies and then do a city, a
city card or visa whatever. You know, he'll he'll cast
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those checks. And there's I love nothing better than reminding
people it's called show business, and business is about eighty
five percent of it. Talent is about ten percent. Yep.
I really I know brilliantly talented actors that are that
don't have an agent, that they they're missing this other factor.
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I call it the hustle factor. Yet to have the
hustle and you can't give that to someone. I believe
you either have it or you don't. And so I
used to say to actors, if you could do anything
else and truly be happy, you really should go and
do that, because what can happen is people wake up
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suddenly at sixty and they go, well, I held off
getting married or having kids because you know, I'm going
to be this actor. And it's like, well, you need
to do all that at the same time, because life
is just you know, life passes you by. And I
just think they're so like into the craft and the
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art of it all, and between you and I, it's
not brain surgery. Yeah, you know, it's a job. It's
a great job. It's a fun job. And I think, yes,
there's every actor brings their own technique to something. But
I'm not the actor that wants to sit around and
pontificate on the acting. And you know, just I want
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to get there and hit my mark. Please the director,
make the crew work less than they have to. Let
everyone be on time and leave in twelve hours, eight hours,
twelve hours and get home and see their family.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, that makes sense. It definitely definitely makes sense.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Or get off the set. Yeah, and what there's four
other actors on call on hold right now that will
step in and just say bye. Yeah, don't have time
for it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's true. And in the hood, instead of saying it's
a show business, we say it show business business all
about that business, because man, that's what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
You know, we were laughing off camera about cash apps
and venmos and all that. I'm like, yeah, just direct
to positive.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, absolutely, that's what I'm like. I smile, I do
all that, but I want my money when I work that.
No money, absolutely absolutely so it Jasper. So let's talk
about your latest project. Yes, you know, and how did
that come about?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And you know, Paul, I'll tell you this isn't this
is fifteen or sixteen years in the making, so Final Recovery.
My new film started out as this amazing drama called
Mountain Boys. My fellow Georgian Jerry Lee Davis shout out
love you brother. He wrote this script and he brought
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it to me, I want to say, two thousand and
six or seven, and it was kind of a Winter's Bone,
a very character driven script about you know, drug addiction.
It was really about the opioid crisis in the Appalachian
Mountain areas of North Carolina in the South, and this
was when it was really being hit hard. And it
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story takes place in sort of a run down, you know,
state run rehab facility and Rodney Garrett, my character, is
kind of a perpetual attic who's just been in and
out of the system for years. And so what happened
was what had happened.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Was yeah, you know, like everything we this almost got
made so many times.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
We had different directors, different people attached back to my
thing about timing is everything and not not giving up
because every few years Jerry and I would drag we
would just drag this script out again, you know, like
but I knew for me, I was not going to
get a role of a lifetime like this often and
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for someone who I am grateful. I'm like the go
to character actor, Cameo, come in, do my two scenes
and leave. This is really would been my opportunity to
be number one on the call sheet, to lead in
a lead role. There are no small parts or any
of that, but I wanted to. I wanted to show
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the industry I could actually carry a movie. And also
I just connected so much to this material. So long
story short. Last year, finally director Harley Waalan, who I
had met on my podcast one on one with Jasper
Cole like three years earlier. We had said, God, I
hope we can work together. One day, we came back
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around together and he's really a horror thriller director, and
we talked to each other and he's like, do you
have anything in that genre? And I said, no, man,
I really I have this passion project, Mountain Boys, but
I don't see how it could ever be a horror film.
And he goes, really, let me take a look at it,
let me read it. So he read it and we
kind of thought maybe there's a way we could turn
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it into more of a thriller horror. So we brought
on Nick Thurror our our young thirty year old. You
got to keep listen. You got to have the thirty
year olds and the twenty five year olds out there.
Praise the Lord to them because you know they're the
next generation. And Nick is already an Emmy winning producer
and writer, so he came on board and Jerry Lee
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and he rewrote the script and turned it into Final Recovery.
The thing I'm most proud of is we kept that
core story with the main characters and it's there intact,
but then we added on the elements of horror. It's
I call it horror light. It's really more thriller, suspenseful.
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And Charlene Tilton from Dallas, who's been a dear friend
of mine for twenty five years. We have tried again.
We have tried to work on projects for many years
and they fall through. And the role of Nanny Lou
and this my producing partner JR. And I. We said,
if we can get Charlene in this, people will not
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believe her how amazing she could show people, you know,
cause Charlene has her fan base from Dallas and people
see her a certain way. And she and I both
were at that point in our career where we want
to show the industry something different in totally different ways.
I've always been the character actor, and I'm not by
any means trying to say I'm a lead actor now,
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but I wanted to do a lead role. She's always
been the beautiful, you know, angenue leading lady, and she's
really an amazing character actress. So we're both at these
turning points in our career and boy did she step
up and just knock it out of the park. So
in her real life daughter, Cherish Lee, who's a noted
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songwriter or singer an actress, she co stars in the
movie with us, and it's the first time Charlene and
she have ever worked together on screen.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, that is that.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
That is awesome, awesome, And and what went through the
process of the other cast members? What what were you
particularly in the team looking for to really kind of
give this, uh, this thriller a pop.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, And I will say, you know, we started trying
to put this production together right in the middle of
the strike last summer, so every week, every month we
had to push it right. It was like and we
were gonna we were shooting this in Michigan. Harley Whalen
is Michigan based. We really didn't intend to shoot it
in the middle of the winter, you know, November December,
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but what happened was the strike finally ended and we
had to just jump and go. But interestingly enough, the
cold and the elements and the snow really added to everything.
But what's great about the casting process is I like
to do what I call not so on the nose casting,
like not so obvious. So I like to try to
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find people that bring something different, two roles that aren't
so obvious, like you can read a part and go, well, yeah,
this guy is perfect because he he fits the look
or whatever. But back to the Charlene thing, you know,
I think I think we found actors. Richard Tyson, a veteran,
veteran actor from you know, all Two Moon Junction and
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something about Mary, who usually plays more the the leading guy.
He's playing doctor Potter in this who is you know,
sort of a downtrodden broken man him himself, and so
again I think it's a chance for Richard to show
people that he and truly is a character actor. We're
I think basically this whole film is full of a
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bunch of really good character actors who are getting to
show their stuff, and we brought in much needed diversity
that have that should be in every project period. So uh,
I'd say five of us or LA New York based,
and the core supporting cast are all from Detroit, Michigan
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area that had worked with our director. Harley kind of
has his repertoire of actors there, and let me tell you,
they they brought their a game. They were incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I love that. How did you come up with the
name Final Recovery?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I believe I think Nick and Jerry Lee did that,
you know, because it takes place, like I said, takes
place in Sage, which is a rehab center, and it's
really my character, Rodney is sort of, like I said,
the old guard there and the young guy Dustin comes
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in to be my roommate and he's sort of the
newbie and the center and it's kind of like you're
looking at us like he has there's hope for him
and you don't want him to end up being where
Rodney is. But within that, there's a lot of stuff
happening at the center that's not so upstanding. And we
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dos and I sort of go on this journey to
uncover what's really happening there. And it's run by this
upstanding woman Louise Stamy, who everyone calls Nanny lou And
that's Charlene's character, and she's the quote pillar of society
and she's the martyr and she's been running this place
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for years. But what is she really doing there? Like,
what's what's really happening at the stage and Brodney. I'm
determined to get to the bottom of it, and all
hell breaks lows, you know, at a certain point as
the film goes.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
On, which character would you like for the audience to
really keep an eye on as you're watching watching this film,
any any character in particular maybe yours of Charlene's character.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Which which character are you like?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I mean, you know, typical actor. I mean no, it's funny.
What's great is you'll see the audience will see every
actor brought just brought it. They all have their moments
in this I would say Cherish Lee, who plays Tanya,
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really really pops in this film. And sure Cherish also
has four or five original songs on the son track soundtrack.
Her father is the country singer Johnny Lee from The
Urban Cowboy looking for love in all the wrong places.
And yeah, so she comes from the musical world, Grando
Opry all that. So she she has five original of
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her songs in the movie. And her character Tanya is
also a singer who's just she's also a hot mess
in the rehab center. But I think I think Tanya
is one of my favorite characters. But it's like trying
to pick your favorite kid. I just again, every actor
brought it down to the smallest role, and that's important.
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You know, like you've probably done this. You're watching a
movie and like suddenly, if it's some guy just has
two lines and he's off, it takes you completely out
of the movie, you know. So that's why I always
say there are no small parts ever, because everybody brings
it to make the story.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's awesome. And you know, jas W, I can I
can tell by looking in your eyes that you're very
proud of this accomplishment. And and I'm I'm proud too,
you know, for you and your team make this happen,
because it's uh, you know, it's a struggle out here
in his industry and.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Hard out here for a pimp.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Want to give a shout out I have to say
Harley that, you know, because when I was executive producing
and starring in the movie, so but they I had
so much to do in this film as an actor,
and they just supported me.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
In Michigan, Nolan and Elias r DP, who became our editor,
our post production guy. Nolan really became the superstar who
just recently moved to LA ready to start his career.
But everybody there in Michigan on the set of Paint
and Creek Productions just surrounded me, all of us Charlene
with such support and love. And Damien who plays Dustin
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my cohort in the film, he got with me. We
would get in our hotel rooms and run scenes and
a lot of actors aren't into that, you know, and
he I can't thank him enough. Michael Emery who plays Levi.
These are just solid, solid actors and people and they
just were there as Nolan. As Nolan, our DP always says,
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let's go make a movie.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I know there's no release date as of yet, but
how can one be kept aware of when it will drop?
Is there a website out there or social media? You'll
drive ones too?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah, so I can say thankfully world We just sold
worldwide distribution to a major distributor and there is a
trade announcement coming out which will tell everyone who that
is and more about it will so just know it
will be a holiday release, although it's honestly it's set
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during Christmas, but it's really it's like die Hard, you know,
Diehard's not a Christmas movie, but it's set during Christmas.
I think our film will play well all year, but
but it does take place during the holiday season. So yes,
once that trade announcement comes out, it will hit all
the major platforms. We will premiere on one exclusive to
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start with it, but there will be a trailer and
poster release coming after the trade announcement and that will
have the exact release states, and then of course it
will live on in all the platforms after that.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It sounds good. Well, hey, Jasper, definitely looking forward to it.
And when this movie gets a sequel, and if you
need that quadriplegic power wheelchair actor to grace, let me
tell you.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
We've already between me and you and we we we
we are talking about a sequel, and I am all
about diversity disabled actors or we don't like the word disabled.
What is what is the better term for that?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You know, we don't mind it.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know, I don't know. I just think personal disabilities.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Personal disabilities. Now they say, but you know, you know,
disabled still still acceptable personality.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You know, don't I don't care what the industry says.
We don't see it enough. Yeah, you know, we don't
see it enough. And so as a filmmaker, I again
back to that not on the nose casting right absolutely,
Like like, for instance, I see you and I go like,
what wouldn't it be an amazing character where on the
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page it is supposed to be this, like maybe he
was an Olympic athlete mm hmmm, or he is an
Olympic athlete. Yeah, well we don't know what happened or
didn't happen, but there's Paralympics, you know what I mean.
Like I like that kind of thinking of like let's
go outside the box.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I love that you your creativity is amazing, you know
by saying that, you know you can always holler at me.
I'm definitely there. And I tell you what before the
movie drops to what have you on? You know, once
your trade announcement is dropped, and yeah, and we can
talk about some things about what to look forward to,
and uh and and and any late any other projects
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that you're working on jafter you can talk about now
or you wanna you wanna hold that till next time.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
With Chet, Well, I'll just tell you I I there's
a film that just came out last month, Don't turn
Out the Lights, and it's a horror film. And again
it's one of my Jasper cameos where they gratefully flew
me to New York to shoot this part of Rusty
the Bartender. I love playing these parts that I pop
up in these scenes and it's, you know, pivotal, it's
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a pivotal scene and it got to work with incredible people.
But that's out right now on all the streamers. And
then season one of Kombucha Cure, which is a series
that I co produced. I co star s THEO that's
on two B right now and we've won six Telly
Awards and that's been an amazing journey as well, and
so we're trying to put season two together. And then
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the movie Fall that I did in twenty twenty two,
there are two sequels being shot right now. So you know,
it's a plethora of good, good things for Jasper, so
I can't complain.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I love it and as I should say, award winning
actor and producer and host, Jasper quote great, great catching
up with your brother.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Great to meet you.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Looking forward to doing it again.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Thanks, take care.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Jasper Again, thank you so much for joining me today
on the Entertainment Zone. It was a real pleasure to
get to know you a little better. And to everyone
watching and listening, thank you for tuning in to the
Entertainment Zone. We had a great show today. We spent
some time covering NBC's brilliant minds and chatting with the
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amazing Jasper Cole about his career and new film, Final Recovery.
Now it'll forget to connect with me on all media platforms.
Paul almadeasling and always stay healthy, stay safe, and I
love you all the life.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back to the Entertainment Zone. I'm your hostess with
the most is Paul Amadeus Lane. And in our first segment,
if you missed that, we explored NBC's captivating new drama
Brilliant Minds. Do you know it's inspired by the work
of Oliver Sachs. Really fascinating stuff. Now, I want to
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give you a huge shout out to everyone tuning in,
whether you are listening on your different podcasts platforms, catching
us on k E, t R, sharing and streaming with
us on Fire TV and rocup. We appreciate your support.
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And now it's my pleasure to welcome to the show
actor Jasper Cole as we catch up with him about
his latest project. I am so delighted to have my
next guest with me, actor, producer and host Jasper Cole. Jasper,
what is up brother? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hey, buddy, It's so great to meet you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How are you hey? I'm doing fine and it is
so great to meet you as well. I'm so looking
forward to talking about your latest project and then our
audience to get to know you a whole lot better.
Sore you ready to rock and roll?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm ready, let's hit it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right, let's do this, so Jasper, please tell me
when you were growing up was entertainment? Was the acting
industry something that you saw yourself always doing? If not,
what did you see yourself doing when you got older.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, I've said before, I think I secretly wanted to
be in the TV film acting world, but I didn't.
You know, I grew up in Athens, Georgia, in a
college town, and so I don't think I had any
concept earlier what that would look like or how I
would make that happen. I was your typical, like youngest
of four boys, playing all the sports, you know, following
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in my brother's footsteps. And but I was a TV
a TV kid, you know. I was a child of
the seventies, so you had the Norman Lear the comedies
and all the the man X and the Kojaks and
all that stuff. But I was always fascinated with filmmaking
and TV, and I think I always wanted to do it.
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I just didn't know how that would look. But you know,
like most kids, I wanted to be a lot of
different things, but I think ultimately I thought I would
be like a therapist or a psychologist, which in a
weird way, that's kind of perfect for acting.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's true. That's true. And you can use those skills
not only dealing with others who were a part of
your crew, but also all the things that can help
you out when it comes to dealing with different personalities, uh,
and everything that comes when it comes to the entertainment
world because business, yeah, yeah, because you never know who's
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going to be kind of approachable, who's going to be
kind of standoffish, who's going to be set off, or
who's going to be you know, just just open the chat.
But yeah, you those skills definitely come and come into play.
So when you first got into the.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Acting world, first of all, pardon me, I'm in pond
springs and my allergies are just like I'm not high
or I'm not crying.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But oh, no problem, brother, I have allergies too, so
you might see me doing.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The same all of a sudden. It's always like, right
when you're in the middle of something. But anyway, go ahead,
sorry about.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That, No, no, no, no problem. Hey, you know, it's life, man,
Life happens, right, so we're.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
All use it, use it in the moment, right.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Absolutely, absolutely. So when you first got your your acting gig,
your first everyone, what did that look like and how
did that opportunity to come up?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, I'm also I come from the theater, you know,
that was really where I wanted to start. But my
very first ever on camera thing was a little film
that was shooting in my hometown called Tennessee Stallion. It
was Let's see Vincent Van Patten, Judy and Audrey Landers,
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you know. There it was a sort of a low
budget indie and I made a point to get myself
there and try to be an extra. And I was
an extra and then I got what's called bumped up
where they gave me a couple of lines, and so
then I was just totally hooked. And so that was
my first I think it was nineteen eighty two, I think,
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I yeah, I just graduated high school. But then I
went and started doing theater. And my first on camera
after that was a Sego jewelry commercial in Atlanta, Georgia,
and then that's kind of that was kind of the beginning.
So I was in Atlanta for three years before Atlanta
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was you know, Hollywood of the South, and I was
there for three years. And then in nineteen eighty seven,
a girlfriend and I co wrote and co starred in
a play in Atlanta, and we brought it out to
la and ran it here for a couple of years
and we've been here ever since.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Nice. And when you look at your time in the theater,
what was some of the I guess eye opening experiences
about theater life that that kind of took you by surprise?
And how did you how did you deal with any
of those unknown that that became reality.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, well, looking back like now that I kind of
thought everyone started in theater and it was a natural progression,
like you've moved to camp, so I didn't. Sort of
an eye opening thing for me was when I got
into TV and film just how many people had not
done the theater and but had. But then I learned,
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you know, camera as a whole technique. A lot of actors,
I think, if you don't come in the theater, they're
kind of afraid of like the live aspect of it.
But for me, there's nothing greater than because you know,
you rehearse for three weeks, you do you do all
the notes, of the director and you you workshop and
then but opening night, the moment you step on the stage,
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it's yours from beginning to end, whereas in film you know,
it's it's you don't know which take they're going to
use this the editing. It's when I tell actors, when
you get on the producer side of things, you really
start to see how while we are very important as actors,
we're just a small, like little thing in the wheel
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of getting a film put together. Because but stage, it's
yours for two hours. You know, you're you're in control,
and it's you're the person doing it from beginning to end.
TV and film, you know, you shoot out of sequence
and you don't always know how it's going to come together.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, that's true. That is so true. And when you
look at the different challenges that the entertainment world kind
of presents, how do you kind of overcome those challenges
and what kind of gives you that that drive to
continue when when you may hear the nos, you may
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hear the not yet, how do you deal with those?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, you know, I think I'm just turned sixty and
so I'm almost forty years in the business, and I
think it's different at every stage, right. I mean I
used to think and as a kid, when I was
starting out, I really thought everyone knew exactly what they
should be doing and that they were going to succeed. Now,
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I arrogantly somewhere, thank God, had this. I didn't have
any question that I was supposed to be in this business,
that I would work. I mean, I just didn't know
how many years that would take. I didn't know, I
didn't know how many different phases of a career. But
I always had that foundation of knowing I'm doing what
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I'm supposed to be doing. Just hang in there. You know.
I talk a lot about when actors talk about when
I make it in the business, and I used to
do that as a younger actor. And then suddenly when
you get old, you look back and you go, wow,
you know what, I've been making it all the way around,
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all the way through the journey's there's not a moment
where I can say now I've made it. Because I've
worked with big stars, big name people, they don't think
they've made it, you know. They they're grateful for success.
But this business is so like quick saying you know
you're up one moment, you're down there. And I just
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keep saying to people, enjoy the process. In the moment
when you're shooting something, you don't know if it's ever
going to come out. You don't know, you may not
be alive when it does. So you know, this is
old Jazz for telling the younger actors like, just be
in the moment and enjoy. And we can't really predict
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what a career looks like. I know one thing though,
don't just you should stay in the game. Don't take
yourself out of the game, because I will say, the
business changes so fast and it's so different now. You
can't really take a bunch of time off and try
to come back because people forget, they move on. There's
new people coming in, and you just got to get
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your keep yourself in front of the people hiring.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I love that advice, Jasper, because that really makes a
lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I guess that's true in any profession.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Really, Yeah, that's true. And and and I like what
you said about instead of saying when I made it,
when I make it, when I make it, you know
the fact that you're you're working, you're you made it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And I yeah, I mean because I think most people,
for me, every little every job was the next job
was a reinforcement. Okay, you're you're doing the right thing.
You're you're in the game. You're they're hiring you and
you know, and TV I always tell actress, if the
same casting office and producers are calling you back time
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after time after time, you're already a good actor. They're
just trying to find the right role that you fit.
You know it again, if actors could all get on
the other side of the table, well there's no table anymore,
the other side of the the self tape. You know,
you realize how you could be. You could give the
best audition, you could be better than five other people.
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But you're just physical clay. There's your right ear lobe.
It's better than the other guy. It's so non personal.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know, Yeah, that that makes sense. It's something else
you mentioned too, was you may do something and it
may never may never air. We live in a time
now where there are so many platforms out there where
where content can be can be watched consumed, and has
that made.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
It easier now for more opportunities because somebody can shoot something,
put it on YouTube and get ten ten gazillion views
and and make some pretty good money off of it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So has that kind of changed the game too.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, I mean, especially for your people starting in the business,
I think, I mean, I think it would just be
the goal mine, Like, you don't have to wait for
you know, like I said, in my day, it was
you do a play and then you get seen and
casting person calls you in. I mean, now you can
just produce your content, put it up there. There's really
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no excuse for not doing it. I mean you just
have to. You have all this at platforms, and like
you said, the weird thing is, it gives us so
many opportunities for I mean, there are so many shows
I'm sure you feel the same way on platforms that
I'll read in the trades, like season three of Blah
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Blah blah, and I'm like season three, I didn't even
know what was season one. I don't even know what
this show is, right, So there's no dearth of opportunities
for us now. So if you really want to be
in this business, I think you're at a better place now. Now.
The business side of the business has completely changed, especially
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since after the strike last year. I'm always the glasses
half full kind of guy because I've been in this.
I've been in it so long, I've seen it do this.
But I do believe we're in a transition again, like
streamers trying to figure out getting us paid and residuals
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and that's still not happening. But you know, for someone
starting out, they're not going to know any different. So
this is this is how it will be when they start.
So I never want to be that old person like
I don't know, back in the day or because I am,
I am at the age where I go to on
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sets now and you know, I'm the veteran or I'm
the older guy, and I just have to really just
like turn my mouth off so I don't start saying, well,
when I first started or you know, back in nineteen
eighty seven kind of thing. But I still here's the thing.
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I still love between action and cut. I love the
magic of doing the moment. Now I love all the
inertia around the stuff anymore and all that all that
kind of stuff, not really, but I still love doing
the actual work. And so until that changes, I'll be
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in the game. But if the moment I'm not happy
doing that, I need to really retire because nobody wants
that kind of energy around, you know, on a set.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, that makes sense. And I love what you said
too lastly about don't take yourself out of the game.
That can happen a lot, you know when rejection hits,
and then maybe family friends. You know, you don't need
to stop, you need to stop doing that, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
And and I wanted to get a real job.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And have a real job and still be in.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That absolutely, And I think it was was it James
Earl Jones who went into went into acting, the great
James Earl Jones went in acting later in life, and
you know it, and it showed that, you know, just
keep on going, keep on plugging. You never you look
at you look at Samuel L. Jackson, you know some
of the things that he did starting out, and then
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he's one of the highest paid pads now. So I'm
glad you glad you said I keep pushing, keep moving
because you never know.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
What I love about it now Samuel L. Jackson is
a perfect like journeyman actor and you know, he knows
it as a business and he's going to get his check.
And I don't I love the guys like him that
will do blockbuster movies and then do a city, a
city card or visa whatever. You know, he'll he'll cast
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those checks. And there's I love nothing better than reminding
people it's called show business, and business is about eighty
five percent of it. Talent is about ten percent. Yep.
I really I know brilliantly talented actors that are that
don't have an agent, that they they're missing this other factor.
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I call it the hustle factor. Yet to have the
hustle and you can't give that to someone. I believe
you either have it or you don't. And so I
used to say to actors, if you could do anything
else and truly be happy, you really should go and
do that, because what can happen is people wake up
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suddenly at sixty and they go, well, I held off
getting married or having kids because you know, I'm going
to be this actor. And it's like, well, you need
to do all that at the same time, because life
is just you know, life passes you by. And I
just think they're so like into the craft and the
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art of it all, and between you and I, it's
not brain surgery. Yeah, you know, it's a job. It's
a great job. It's a fun job. And I think, yes,
there's every actor brings their own technique to something. But
I'm not the actor that wants to sit around and
pontificate on the acting. And you know, just I want
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to get there and hit my mark. Please the director,
make the crew work less than they have to. Let
everyone be on time and leave in twelve hours, eight hours,
twelve hours and get home and see their family.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, that makes sense. It definitely definitely makes sense.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Or get off the set. Yeah, and what there's four
other actors on call on hold right now that will
step in and just say bye. Yeah, don't have time
for it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's true. And in the hood, instead of saying it's
a show business, we say it show business business all
about that business, because man, that's what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
You know, we were laughing off camera about cash apps
and venmos and all that. I'm like, yeah, just direct
to positive.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, absolutely, that's what I'm like. I smile, I do
all that, but I want my money when I work that.
No money, absolutely absolutely so it Jasper. So let's talk
about your latest project. Yes, you know, and how did
that come about?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And you know, Paul, I'll tell you this isn't this
is fifteen or sixteen years in the making, so Final Recovery.
My new film started out as this amazing drama called
Mountain Boys. My fellow Georgian Jerry Lee Davis shout out
love you brother. He wrote this script and he brought
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it to me, I want to say, two thousand and
six or seven, and it was kind of a Winter's Bone,
a very character driven script about you know, drug addiction.
It was really about the opioid crisis in the Appalachian
Mountain areas of North Carolina in the South, and this
was when it was really being hit hard. And it
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story takes place in sort of a run down, you know,
state run rehab facility and Rodney Garrett, my character, is
kind of a perpetual attic who's just been in and
out of the system for years. And so what happened
was what had happened.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Was yeah, you know, like everything we this almost got
made so many times.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
We had different directors, different people attached back to my
thing about timing is everything and not not giving up
because every few years Jerry and I would drag we
would just drag this script out again, you know, like
but I knew for me, I was not going to
get a role of a lifetime like this often and
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for someone who I am grateful. I'm like the go
to character actor, Cameo, come in, do my two scenes
and leave. This is really would been my opportunity to
be number one on the call sheet, to lead in
a lead role. There are no small parts or any
of that, but I wanted to. I wanted to show
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the industry I could actually carry a movie. And also
I just connected so much to this material. So long
story short. Last year, finally director Harley Waalan, who I
had met on my podcast one on one with Jasper
Cole like three years earlier. We had said, God, I
hope we can work together. One day, we came back
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around together and he's really a horror thriller director, and
we talked to each other and he's like, do you
have anything in that genre? And I said, no, man,
I really I have this passion project, Mountain Boys, but
I don't see how it could ever be a horror film.
And he goes, really, let me take a look at it,
let me read it. So he read it and we
kind of thought maybe there's a way we could turn
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it into more of a thriller horror. So we brought
on Nick Thurror our our young thirty year old. You
got to keep listen. You got to have the thirty
year olds and the twenty five year olds out there.
Praise the Lord to them because you know they're the
next generation. And Nick is already an Emmy winning producer
and writer, so he came on board and Jerry Lee
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and he rewrote the script and turned it into Final Recovery.
The thing I'm most proud of is we kept that
core story with the main characters and it's there intact,
but then we added on the elements of horror. It's
I call it horror light. It's really more thriller, suspenseful.
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And Charlene Tilton from Dallas, who's been a dear friend
of mine for twenty five years. We have tried again.
We have tried to work on projects for many years
and they fall through. And the role of Nanny Lou
and this my producing partner JR. And I. We said,
if we can get Charlene in this, people will not
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believe her how amazing she could show people, you know,
cause Charlene has her fan base from Dallas and people
see her a certain way. And she and I both
were at that point in our career where we want
to show the industry something different in totally different ways.
I've always been the character actor, and I'm not by
any means trying to say I'm a lead actor now,
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but I wanted to do a lead role. She's always
been the beautiful, you know, angenue leading lady, and she's
really an amazing character actress. So we're both at these
turning points in our career and boy did she step
up and just knock it out of the park. So
in her real life daughter, Cherish Lee, who's a noted
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songwriter or singer an actress, she co stars in the
movie with us, and it's the first time Charlene and
she have ever worked together on screen.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, that is that.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
That is awesome, awesome, And and what went through the
process of the other cast members? What what were you
particularly in the team looking for to really kind of
give this, uh, this thriller a pop.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, And I will say, you know, we started trying
to put this production together right in the middle of
the strike last summer, so every week, every month we
had to push it right. It was like and we
were gonna we were shooting this in Michigan. Harley Whalen
is Michigan based. We really didn't intend to shoot it
in the middle of the winter, you know, November December,
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but what happened was the strike finally ended and we
had to just jump and go. But interestingly enough, the
cold and the elements and the snow really added to everything.
But what's great about the casting process is I like
to do what I call not so on the nose casting,
like not so obvious. So I like to try to
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find people that bring something different, two roles that aren't
so obvious, like you can read a part and go, well, yeah,
this guy is perfect because he he fits the look
or whatever. But back to the Charlene thing, you know,
I think I think we found actors. Richard Tyson, a veteran,
veteran actor from you know, all Two Moon Junction and
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something about Mary, who usually plays more the the leading guy.
He's playing doctor Potter in this who is you know,
sort of a downtrodden broken man him himself, and so
again I think it's a chance for Richard to show
people that he and truly is a character actor. We're
I think basically this whole film is full of a
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bunch of really good character actors who are getting to
show their stuff, and we brought in much needed diversity
that have that should be in every project period. So uh,
I'd say five of us or LA New York based,
and the core supporting cast are all from Detroit, Michigan
(25:08):
area that had worked with our director. Harley kind of
has his repertoire of actors there, and let me tell you,
they they brought their a game. They were incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I love that. How did you come up with the
name Final Recovery?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I believe I think Nick and Jerry Lee did that,
you know, because it takes place, like I said, takes
place in Sage, which is a rehab center, and it's
really my character, Rodney is sort of, like I said,
the old guard there and the young guy Dustin comes
(25:46):
in to be my roommate and he's sort of the
newbie and the center and it's kind of like you're
looking at us like he has there's hope for him
and you don't want him to end up being where
Rodney is. But within that, there's a lot of stuff
happening at the center that's not so upstanding. And we
(26:10):
dos and I sort of go on this journey to
uncover what's really happening there. And it's run by this
upstanding woman Louise Stamy, who everyone calls Nanny lou And
that's Charlene's character, and she's the quote pillar of society
and she's the martyr and she's been running this place
(26:31):
for years. But what is she really doing there? Like,
what's what's really happening at the stage and Brodney. I'm
determined to get to the bottom of it, and all
hell breaks lows, you know, at a certain point as
the film goes.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
On, which character would you like for the audience to
really keep an eye on as you're watching watching this film,
any any character in particular maybe yours of Charlene's character.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Which which character are you like?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I mean, you know, typical actor. I mean no, it's funny.
What's great is you'll see the audience will see every
actor brought just brought it. They all have their moments
in this I would say Cherish Lee, who plays Tanya,
(27:24):
really really pops in this film. And sure Cherish also
has four or five original songs on the son track soundtrack.
Her father is the country singer Johnny Lee from The
Urban Cowboy looking for love in all the wrong places.
And yeah, so she comes from the musical world, Grando
Opry all that. So she she has five original of
(27:48):
her songs in the movie. And her character Tanya is
also a singer who's just she's also a hot mess
in the rehab center. But I think I think Tanya
is one of my favorite characters. But it's like trying
to pick your favorite kid. I just again, every actor
brought it down to the smallest role, and that's important.
(28:11):
You know, like you've probably done this. You're watching a
movie and like suddenly, if it's some guy just has
two lines and he's off, it takes you completely out
of the movie, you know. So that's why I always
say there are no small parts ever, because everybody brings
it to make the story.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's awesome. And you know, jas W, I can I
can tell by looking in your eyes that you're very
proud of this accomplishment. And and I'm I'm proud too,
you know, for you and your team make this happen,
because it's uh, you know, it's a struggle out here
in his industry and.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Hard out here for a pimp.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Want to give a shout out I have to say
Harley that, you know, because when I was executive producing
and starring in the movie, so but they I had
so much to do in this film as an actor,
and they just supported me.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
In Michigan, Nolan and Elias r DP, who became our editor,
our post production guy. Nolan really became the superstar who
just recently moved to LA ready to start his career.
But everybody there in Michigan on the set of Paint
and Creek Productions just surrounded me, all of us Charlene
with such support and love. And Damien who plays Dustin
(29:35):
my cohort in the film, he got with me. We
would get in our hotel rooms and run scenes and
a lot of actors aren't into that, you know, and
he I can't thank him enough. Michael Emery who plays Levi.
These are just solid, solid actors and people and they
just were there as Nolan. As Nolan, our DP always says,
(29:58):
let's go make a movie.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I know there's no release date as of yet, but
how can one be kept aware of when it will drop?
Is there a website out there or social media? You'll
drive ones too?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah, so I can say thankfully world We just sold
worldwide distribution to a major distributor and there is a
trade announcement coming out which will tell everyone who that
is and more about it will so just know it
will be a holiday release, although it's honestly it's set
(30:37):
during Christmas, but it's really it's like die Hard, you know,
Diehard's not a Christmas movie, but it's set during Christmas.
I think our film will play well all year, but
but it does take place during the holiday season. So yes,
once that trade announcement comes out, it will hit all
the major platforms. We will premiere on one exclusive to
(30:59):
start with it, but there will be a trailer and
poster release coming after the trade announcement and that will
have the exact release states, and then of course it
will live on in all the platforms after that.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It sounds good. Well, hey, Jasper, definitely looking forward to it.
And when this movie gets a sequel, and if you
need that quadriplegic power wheelchair actor to grace, let me
tell you.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
We've already between me and you and we we we
we are talking about a sequel, and I am all
about diversity disabled actors or we don't like the word disabled.
What is what is the better term for that?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You know, we don't mind it.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know, I don't know. I just think personal disabilities.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Personal disabilities. Now they say, but you know, you know,
disabled still still acceptable personality.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You know, don't I don't care what the industry says.
We don't see it enough. Yeah, you know, we don't
see it enough. And so as a filmmaker, I again
back to that not on the nose casting right absolutely,
Like like, for instance, I see you and I go like,
what wouldn't it be an amazing character where on the
(32:29):
page it is supposed to be this, like maybe he
was an Olympic athlete mm hmmm, or he is an
Olympic athlete. Yeah, well we don't know what happened or
didn't happen, but there's Paralympics, you know what I mean.
Like I like that kind of thinking of like let's
go outside the box.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I love that you your creativity is amazing, you know
by saying that, you know you can always holler at me.
I'm definitely there. And I tell you what before the
movie drops to what have you on? You know, once
your trade announcement is dropped, and yeah, and we can
talk about some things about what to look forward to,
and uh and and and any late any other projects
(33:11):
that you're working on jafter you can talk about now
or you wanna you wanna hold that till next time.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
With Chet, Well, I'll just tell you I I there's
a film that just came out last month, Don't turn
Out the Lights, and it's a horror film. And again
it's one of my Jasper cameos where they gratefully flew
me to New York to shoot this part of Rusty
the Bartender. I love playing these parts that I pop
up in these scenes and it's, you know, pivotal, it's
(33:39):
a pivotal scene and it got to work with incredible people.
But that's out right now on all the streamers. And
then season one of Kombucha Cure, which is a series
that I co produced. I co star s THEO that's
on two B right now and we've won six Telly
Awards and that's been an amazing journey as well, and
so we're trying to put season two together. And then
(34:02):
the movie Fall that I did in twenty twenty two,
there are two sequels being shot right now. So you know,
it's a plethora of good, good things for Jasper, so
I can't complain.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I love it and as I should say, award winning
actor and producer and host, Jasper quote great, great catching
up with your brother.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Great to meet you.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Looking forward to doing it again.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Thanks, take care.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Jasper Again, thank you so much for joining me today
on the Entertainment Zone. It was a real pleasure to
get to know you a little better. And to everyone
watching and listening, thank you for tuning in to the
Entertainment Zone. We had a great show today. We spent
some time covering NBC's brilliant minds and chatting with the
(34:49):
amazing Jasper Cole about his career and new film, Final Recovery.
Now it'll forget to connect with me on all media platforms.
Paul almadeasling and always stay healthy, stay safe, and I
love you all the life.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Ain't your average in the team is shown more than entertainment.
Then we're on the screen, connecting dots on what you see.
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