November 29, 2024 • 21 mins
Gary Interviews Stephen Manas, Actor, Author and Screenwriter on this episode of Ready, Set, Live
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hello, I'm Gary Quinn and welcome to another episode of
Ready Set Live. My guest today is Stefan Manas, a
native French actor known worldwide for his role as Rischard
Mullah in the hit series ted Lasso. But there's so
much more to Stefan than meets the eye. Stefan is
(00:43):
not only a gifted actor, but also a skilled composer,
and he has a new exciting book coming out in
twenty twenty five. With a rich heritage rooted in France,
Stefan's journey has taken him across the world, living and
working in India, London, Tokyo, and Manila before landing here
(01:04):
in Los Angeles. Today, we'll explore his journey from France
to Hollywood and his creative process and what inspires him
to keep him breaking boundaries. Don't go away, I'll be
right back with Stefan. Hello, Stefan, welcome to the show.
(01:26):
Thank you so much. You know I was, I was
really excited to have you in the studio because when
I met you, you have such an interesting, colorful life
of experience at such a young age. I know it
started you were going to business school, right or when
(01:47):
you started Take us back How did it all start
for you? Before you got into acting, you were you
were in France, and then how did it? How did
it start?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So it all started. I'm from a very small town
in the teens with a mom, a suski teacher that
as a art seller. And there was not much to
do in this very small town, you know, so just
lots of schools, lots of sports, lots of music, and
that's all we could do. And one day they were
shooting this very big movie in my hometown and they
(02:18):
were looking for extras. I said, okay, well I was sixteen,
I guess, and we all applied with my friends and
we got the gigs. And on set I discovered what
it was. Oh, actually, movie are made by people. It's
not just what you see on TV. And I saw
the entire process. It was really fascinated, and I got lucky.
They liked me. They gave me a small role in
this stuff. And I staid two weeks on set, so
(02:41):
I discovered what it was, the work, the production, the directors,
all those names that I had no idea, and really
people were walking back in the time. For me, it
was more like, oh, magic, how you Potter is just
a pairing on TV. So no, it's a lot of
work and I really loved it. So that was my
first experience. Then I got graduated and what I was
(03:03):
pretty good in school, so I had a scholarship by
the States, but I had to study what I knew,
so obviously acting and movie were not part of the
scholarships or business schools or engineering, so I did both
of them actually for three years, business schools and make
any engineering electric engineering. But every time on the weekend
(03:25):
I moved to Lyon so biggest city, quite big, let's
say Leon in friends and I was doing short film castings,
music video on my free time. And I did this
for five years. Then in London, study again business schools,
and back in Paris studied business school specialized in marketing.
Then I got my full MBA degrees and I worked
(03:48):
two weeks in the company and I quit. I said, no,
I'm not going to put a tie and stay beyond
the desk. And I knew I sucked as acting because
what I did and studied and I saw myself on
big screen on studio films and I did I wasn't
very very good. So so I thought, okay, my English
is terrible marketing is stable. I have absolutely no money,
(04:13):
and I just thought about which country in the world
could accept me with all those challenges, and only India
was the answer of that equation because it's very cheap,
speak English, and they do sheet a lot of movies
in Bollywood, Alywood, Hollywood. So I went there find an
agency to represent me, and I was the only French obviously,
(04:33):
and they kind of early early caucasion that a lot
of beautiful Brazilian working there. And I started going back
more almost two years and that was great.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And you did lots of films over there, obviously.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Lots very short, always the same, the same, the same,
the same job. Let's say, uh the good looking occasion,
making the lead couple jalous and thinking about the relationships
was very fun.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
After India, you went to Tokyo, Tokyo, and what was
that experience like?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So, without being mean, I love India, tell the bottom
of my heart. I converted to Hinduism. But moving from
India to Tokyo, I feel like there is five thousand
years of development difference. Tokyo is so developed, futuristic, clean
and polite, and India is just very different. And I
(05:31):
really loved it. Tokyo was so cool. I loved it
because I've said three four months, but the lack of
social interaction. Nobody talks super deeper, respectful and talking or
looking in the eye can even be sound disrespectful for them.
So I loved it, but I feel like for people
(05:54):
like us who used to different things. I've seen many
friends there. They all told me, three years here you
have to live because like south of France, like Marcille,
you don't know what it is, but people love to talk,
loves to be loud. I've seen some of them over
there doing bie restoration whatever, doing extremely well. After three years.
(06:15):
I have to live because it's so hard not to
connect with people. That's their way to live. And it's
very fine, and I really I suggest everybody who've never
been to Sales, Singapore or Tokyo have a look. It's
very nice.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So after Tokyo, you then went to London, to Manila,
to Manila, Okay, And what was that?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Likevanila was a party time, super fun, very nice people,
amazing clubs, bats cheap, they know how to party, smiles everywhere, Spanish,
English dialog, to speak everything.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's super open to every ethnicity, every community, and beautiful nightclubs,
and so it was more fun time. I staed three months,
the minimum lens of my contract. I had three months
contract that I could extend, and I stayed three months
and one day I said I have to live. And
I remember the agency, said Stephanie, the first European ever
(07:12):
to not extend it. Yeah, because there's a place for party,
there's place for work.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, in some way, you were following your intuition that
it's time to go and I have to go to
the next place. I think sometimes when you're very sensitive
or you're in touch with that consciousness that you know
when things need to move, and then you say, okay,
I have to go, even if it's very scary or
(07:38):
the unknown.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It is scary when you're impatient like me. I guess
you're happy to make many mistakes that not making them,
because if you don't take the risks, you don't know
if it's going to be the right move. So I'm
a terble decision. Being friends with this guy turble decision,
or being coupled with this person urble decision. But if
you don't do, you cannot hear is the wrong path
(08:02):
You've had the right one.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So I think it's also a way of looking it
as a learning experience. Even if you make the wrong
road or choosing you say, okay, well I won't have
that anymore, you know, all right, so moving then after Manila,
you went to London, right, So I went back to.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Friends, okay, with honestly a lot of confidence. Okay, now
I speak English. Two years in India, I lived there.
My acting is much better. I haven't been to acting school,
but what we call school of life, okay, and many
actors have been this way. And actually I could not
afford in his school anyway, So that was my past.
That was the only sense of the journey in Asia.
(08:45):
And I came back to friends with very strong motives
and stuff, and I totally failed. For a year and
a half I had nothing, absolutely nothing. So with my
MBA two, I was back to being a Yuba driver
or a waiter just to return castings. And I really
had nothing, nothing, nothing, And one student film shot in English.
(09:06):
We won a lot of price, not getting paid student
films only in the US. Nothing in France as a
lead actor, best actor of the small festival, not the Oscar,
but still best actor of this, best actor of that.
I said, okay, only in the US, and I found
this agent doing casting online, not in Paris, for French,
(09:29):
only for Hollywood stuff. Long story short, I joined him
and the first casting he gave me was ted Lasso,
and straight after I jumped to UK for more or
less three years coming back, and that's how I ended
up in London for Sometimes Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And then you got ted Laso. And what was that like?
Because here you were thrown into all the background that
you had was also a good sort of experience brought
you to ted Lasso. But what was your first week
like being a ted Lasso.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'm sad, Okay, I should be honest. I just came.
I was having a big flu. I didn't tell them.
I was very sick and very stressed. And the first
day they all welcomed me so nicely. They all hug
me and give me. Oh, that's a French case. I said, oh, guys,
I'm sick. I didn't tell them. Nobody got sick. I
was so scared to disappoint. I was very stressed and
(10:28):
scared to be honest, I didn't know any of them.
I never didn't know who Jason was or other team,
and I just was thrown up into this, I said, well,
that's why I'm here. Do your job and focus. And
I've been so lucky actually to do this rolling character
back in the time. I was twenty seven, I guess.
(10:50):
And they were all so nice with me, and I
was I was to play a French guy and they
will definitely just be yourself proposed, do your thing, do it.
That's a great and every time I would not understand
what they were saying. Always somebody okay, So I said this,
do this, do that. So the perfect environment. This first
season was a little overwhelming. It went very fast. We
(11:10):
sat in three months, I guess, uh, and I guess
it was extremely stressful event for Jason the first season
and then it was much more cooler, like you feel
it on there. But they all did the best. There
were nights that were explaining. They were extremely polite and
we all worked together and that taught me so much
(11:30):
about how to make a hitcher right and if you're
not part of the group, and the happiness you have
simple at this and I was so lucky to have this,
but also to evolve in this environment, and every season
that passed it was even better and better. So yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
While you were on the set. I'm sure you were
also learning great skills, because I think you were getting
on the job training, which is the best way exactly exactly,
So that must have been really a good confidence booster.
You felt really good after the first season.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Exactly, and even more after this third one. You learn
you on set, you just watch, shut up, see how
they do things. Perfect diacters, amazing writers as jo Jiz
and Brendan, all of them. Watch and learn, and you
learn so much. It's priceless. If I was, let's say,
(12:28):
a millionaire and a very young and I want to
be an actor, I would pay a million bucks to
be on set every day just to learn. So this
is the priceless experience out there, and it's very fun
on top of it.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think also, you know, we're divinely guided in our work,
in our lives, and I think when you surrender to
a situation, sometimes you're brought into the magical miracle world,
which you were and you are. And I think it's
also because I know your background, and also you have
(13:01):
a big spiritual book coming out next year. But what
would you say most people fear in life? What's the
biggest fear that people have?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
The unknown? The change. Obviously scary, the unknown, even this
is it way, let's scary that the unknown or taking
the step. And when you realize, well really deeply realize,
you just want life and and just do it. You know,
you just wholly have and if you don't put anybody
(13:34):
else in danger or or it's just a trip, if
you don't like it, come back, it's just a job.
Well I don't like this job. I'm trying another one.
Well it's worse. It's okay, I mean it is okay.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, I think people are afraid thinking. And here's a
good example of you living your passion or your dream
because you chose not to work as a you know,
nine to five person in the corporate world. And a
lot of people would do that, they would stay in
that and they go acting. I'm not going to do it.
But I think when you live your purpose, you have life,
(14:08):
and your purpose is to communicate and to give this
energy of talent and work that you do. But how
do you think most people, you know, I think they're
afraid to step out of the box. You know, why
do you think people are afraid? Is it the unknown?
Or is it because they don't think they have the skills,
(14:28):
or there's no confidence or they don't trust themselves.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Because it just sometimes you're not treaty and that's okay.
The equation of life is so long. Why don't you
do it well? I have a kid, I'm married, I
just got this restaurant. They have a southern reason that
you're not in their issues. You cannot judge people or
just just do it well. I cannot do it. And
some people you would say, they have everything to give
(14:53):
it a try, and they're just so scared. Well, so
their issues is they're just so scared. Maybe luckily for me,
I grew up in some condition. Childhood wasn't very fun.
At some point, I don't give a ask. You know,
when you've been through so much trouble, you're not one
more trouble away. I don't care, and I have no
(15:14):
thing to lose. If I was the son of a
huge company, that stuff is got twenty stars, I would
have been lean into. Okay, that's my responsibility, because that's
how it has to be. But I wasn't. So I
do whatever whatever I want in the end.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But that's the way it is.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So people all have their issues, and maybe they're very
comfortable in their box, and even if it's forty nine
percent comfortable, they don't want to risk closing this and
that is fine. You cannot judge others people and what
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
What keeps you, what keeps you going as your let's
say energy, what pushes you forward, what's the what's the intention?
What's drive? What's your drive? Is it too? The ultimate
result is what your drive.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's very hard job what we're doing, because there's always
this little, tiny, tiny hope. You know that that could
be possible, This could be possible, And maybe I have
too much ambition or too much dream. So I really
want to do like a good movie that inspire people.
I'd love to be very successful to make. That's my
(16:28):
ultimate dream, to make like a school where I can
give lessons in acting or directing for free to all
those who don't have the luxury to afford it. And
you don't know how it's gonna work. I mean that's artists.
When you make a song it's gonna be a huge hit.
You don't know that I was gonna be terrible and
(16:49):
it's a huge hit. So the hope, hope that kills
you right, funny funny moment I hope is a good thing,
but I don't know. You're right, you have some fun
people honestly tells you, oh, it's a great job, and
I don't think after some point you can see that
some people are just lying or mean no, pushing you
(17:11):
the wrong direction. But the although you get, the more
those that slams your way, you learn how to do
this and you're trying. You just keep on trying and trying.
You have seen many movies about this, like Tick Tick Boom.
Keep trying until it sticks and you feel that it
could be possible. And some people believed in you, your
family believes in you. Then if all my family there's
(17:33):
not one artist or they have no idea what I'm doing,
They're like, we don't know what you're doing, but but
good luck. And some people working in the industry they
have a look at your work. That's cool, that's cool,
that could work, and that could just help you keep
you pushing.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I know there's a lot of you know, performers or
creative people, and I think their motto is always never
give up and just keep going, no matter or what.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Never give up. Easy to say, hard to do. It's
very hard to do. And let's say, Hollywood could be
the head of the line every time. Every time it's harder.
Every time it's harder. But the more risk, the more
we rolled, let's say, the more fun you could have
and the more impact you could have. What's the goal,
(18:21):
Fame Cash, I don't. The goal is to have fun
and just to continue to have fun because if it works,
you can have more fun on another project and help
more people and more fun and most and stuff. It's
not it's really not a personal journey. If you do
it just for yourself, it's not gonna work. Period. So
and the more you get through stuff, you meet new people,
(18:42):
new podcasts, new producers, new people who believes in you, because,
like I said, you cannot do it yourself. It's a team.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Like it's it's.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's an gnomine of people. If anything you see on
a screen cost five years of work, an anomy So
when you watch something that is so bad, so many
people worked on it for countless years, taking so many risks,
maybe losing a lot of things, but you have to
(19:14):
respect that you risk the risk taken. And I would
never I would never just sit in my couch having
Oh that is so bad. Sometimes it is, but so
much work, so much work.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So answer these questions with a few words. What does
love mean to you?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What does love mean to me? Love means all the
It's not just a relationship. It's about how you do things,
how you commit you doing things. I love writing, I
do this, and I will unless only do that. O
stephan as God, Let's let's have a drink. No No,
because I love what I'm doing right now. I'd love
spending time with you. Love is dedication to what you're doing.
(19:54):
And it's not to a person. That can be to
a place, to some food or any exercise or what's
if you do. It's the ultimate dedication and the feeling
you have, so you can love doing a thousand million things.
It's not with the person and the most important thing obviously,
it's just there. It's just there, yourself on the mirror.
(20:17):
Love what you see. You might hate many things physically
or what you did, but if you don't love what
you're doing in who you are first, it's going to
be a very long road and many negative things going
to come to you health wise, people's wives or accidents.
Try to love yourself and if you don't work on it,
(20:37):
in it because it's definitely the easiest and very possible.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And that's where we do part two when you have
your book that comes out, where you have a new
book that's going to be coming out and we're really
excited about that. What's the title? Can we just say
the title, but we won't give out the secrets.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The title is Pathress. Pathress happles finding yourself in an
unmapped world.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
That is excellent, and that will come out next year
and we'll have you back on the show with the
new book. You but I want to thank you, and
I know that you have this inner power or inner
belief and you're going to do great. I know you're
going to do great, So keep up the good work.
We all support you and we want you to do
(21:23):
great things. You are.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thank you, Gary, Thank you everyone for your time spending
some time with us. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm Gary Quinn. Join me for another episode of Ready
Set Live. Until next time, be well,
Hello, I'm Gary Quinn and welcome to another episode of
Ready Set Live. My guest today is Stefan Manas, a
native French actor known worldwide for his role as Rischard
Mullah in the hit series ted Lasso. But there's so
much more to Stefan than meets the eye. Stefan is
(00:43):
not only a gifted actor, but also a skilled composer,
and he has a new exciting book coming out in
twenty twenty five. With a rich heritage rooted in France,
Stefan's journey has taken him across the world, living and
working in India, London, Tokyo, and Manila before landing here
(01:04):
in Los Angeles. Today, we'll explore his journey from France
to Hollywood and his creative process and what inspires him
to keep him breaking boundaries. Don't go away, I'll be
right back with Stefan. Hello, Stefan, welcome to the show.
(01:26):
Thank you so much. You know I was, I was
really excited to have you in the studio because when
I met you, you have such an interesting, colorful life
of experience at such a young age. I know it
started you were going to business school, right or when
(01:47):
you started Take us back How did it all start
for you? Before you got into acting, you were you
were in France, and then how did it? How did
it start?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So it all started. I'm from a very small town
in the teens with a mom, a suski teacher that
as a art seller. And there was not much to
do in this very small town, you know, so just
lots of schools, lots of sports, lots of music, and
that's all we could do. And one day they were
shooting this very big movie in my hometown and they
(02:18):
were looking for extras. I said, okay, well I was sixteen,
I guess, and we all applied with my friends and
we got the gigs. And on set I discovered what
it was. Oh, actually, movie are made by people. It's
not just what you see on TV. And I saw
the entire process. It was really fascinated, and I got lucky.
They liked me. They gave me a small role in
this stuff. And I staid two weeks on set, so
(02:41):
I discovered what it was, the work, the production, the directors,
all those names that I had no idea, and really
people were walking back in the time. For me, it
was more like, oh, magic, how you Potter is just
a pairing on TV. So no, it's a lot of
work and I really loved it. So that was my
first experience. Then I got graduated and what I was
(03:03):
pretty good in school, so I had a scholarship by
the States, but I had to study what I knew,
so obviously acting and movie were not part of the
scholarships or business schools or engineering, so I did both
of them actually for three years, business schools and make
any engineering electric engineering. But every time on the weekend
(03:25):
I moved to Lyon so biggest city, quite big, let's
say Leon in friends and I was doing short film castings,
music video on my free time. And I did this
for five years. Then in London, study again business schools,
and back in Paris studied business school specialized in marketing.
Then I got my full MBA degrees and I worked
(03:48):
two weeks in the company and I quit. I said, no,
I'm not going to put a tie and stay beyond
the desk. And I knew I sucked as acting because
what I did and studied and I saw myself on
big screen on studio films and I did I wasn't
very very good. So so I thought, okay, my English
is terrible marketing is stable. I have absolutely no money,
(04:13):
and I just thought about which country in the world
could accept me with all those challenges, and only India
was the answer of that equation because it's very cheap,
speak English, and they do sheet a lot of movies
in Bollywood, Alywood, Hollywood. So I went there find an
agency to represent me, and I was the only French obviously,
(04:33):
and they kind of early early caucasion that a lot
of beautiful Brazilian working there. And I started going back
more almost two years and that was great.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And you did lots of films over there, obviously.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Lots very short, always the same, the same, the same,
the same job. Let's say, uh the good looking occasion,
making the lead couple jalous and thinking about the relationships
was very fun.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
After India, you went to Tokyo, Tokyo, and what was
that experience like?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So, without being mean, I love India, tell the bottom
of my heart. I converted to Hinduism. But moving from
India to Tokyo, I feel like there is five thousand
years of development difference. Tokyo is so developed, futuristic, clean
and polite, and India is just very different. And I
(05:31):
really loved it. Tokyo was so cool. I loved it
because I've said three four months, but the lack of
social interaction. Nobody talks super deeper, respectful and talking or
looking in the eye can even be sound disrespectful for them.
So I loved it, but I feel like for people
(05:54):
like us who used to different things. I've seen many
friends there. They all told me, three years here you
have to live because like south of France, like Marcille,
you don't know what it is, but people love to talk,
loves to be loud. I've seen some of them over
there doing bie restoration whatever, doing extremely well. After three years.
(06:15):
I have to live because it's so hard not to
connect with people. That's their way to live. And it's
very fine, and I really I suggest everybody who've never
been to Sales, Singapore or Tokyo have a look. It's
very nice.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So after Tokyo, you then went to London, to Manila,
to Manila, Okay, And what was that?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Likevanila was a party time, super fun, very nice people,
amazing clubs, bats cheap, they know how to party, smiles everywhere, Spanish,
English dialog, to speak everything.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's super open to every ethnicity, every community, and beautiful nightclubs,
and so it was more fun time. I staed three months,
the minimum lens of my contract. I had three months
contract that I could extend, and I stayed three months
and one day I said I have to live. And
I remember the agency, said Stephanie, the first European ever
(07:12):
to not extend it. Yeah, because there's a place for party,
there's place for work.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, in some way, you were following your intuition that
it's time to go and I have to go to
the next place. I think sometimes when you're very sensitive
or you're in touch with that consciousness that you know
when things need to move, and then you say, okay,
I have to go, even if it's very scary or
(07:38):
the unknown.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It is scary when you're impatient like me. I guess
you're happy to make many mistakes that not making them,
because if you don't take the risks, you don't know
if it's going to be the right move. So I'm
a terble decision. Being friends with this guy turble decision,
or being coupled with this person urble decision. But if
you don't do, you cannot hear is the wrong path
(08:02):
You've had the right one.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So I think it's also a way of looking it
as a learning experience. Even if you make the wrong
road or choosing you say, okay, well I won't have
that anymore, you know, all right, so moving then after Manila,
you went to London, right, So I went back to.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Friends, okay, with honestly a lot of confidence. Okay, now
I speak English. Two years in India, I lived there.
My acting is much better. I haven't been to acting school,
but what we call school of life, okay, and many
actors have been this way. And actually I could not
afford in his school anyway, So that was my past.
That was the only sense of the journey in Asia.
(08:45):
And I came back to friends with very strong motives
and stuff, and I totally failed. For a year and
a half I had nothing, absolutely nothing. So with my
MBA two, I was back to being a Yuba driver
or a waiter just to return castings. And I really
had nothing, nothing, nothing, And one student film shot in English.
(09:06):
We won a lot of price, not getting paid student
films only in the US. Nothing in France as a
lead actor, best actor of the small festival, not the Oscar,
but still best actor of this, best actor of that.
I said, okay, only in the US, and I found
this agent doing casting online, not in Paris, for French,
(09:29):
only for Hollywood stuff. Long story short, I joined him
and the first casting he gave me was ted Lasso,
and straight after I jumped to UK for more or
less three years coming back, and that's how I ended
up in London for Sometimes Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And then you got ted Laso. And what was that like?
Because here you were thrown into all the background that
you had was also a good sort of experience brought
you to ted Lasso. But what was your first week
like being a ted Lasso.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'm sad, Okay, I should be honest. I just came.
I was having a big flu. I didn't tell them.
I was very sick and very stressed. And the first
day they all welcomed me so nicely. They all hug
me and give me. Oh, that's a French case. I said, oh, guys,
I'm sick. I didn't tell them. Nobody got sick. I
was so scared to disappoint. I was very stressed and
(10:28):
scared to be honest, I didn't know any of them.
I never didn't know who Jason was or other team,
and I just was thrown up into this, I said, well,
that's why I'm here. Do your job and focus. And
I've been so lucky actually to do this rolling character
back in the time. I was twenty seven, I guess.
(10:50):
And they were all so nice with me, and I
was I was to play a French guy and they
will definitely just be yourself proposed, do your thing, do it.
That's a great and every time I would not understand
what they were saying. Always somebody okay, So I said this,
do this, do that. So the perfect environment. This first
season was a little overwhelming. It went very fast. We
(11:10):
sat in three months, I guess, uh, and I guess
it was extremely stressful event for Jason the first season
and then it was much more cooler, like you feel
it on there. But they all did the best. There
were nights that were explaining. They were extremely polite and
we all worked together and that taught me so much
(11:30):
about how to make a hitcher right and if you're
not part of the group, and the happiness you have
simple at this and I was so lucky to have this,
but also to evolve in this environment, and every season
that passed it was even better and better. So yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
While you were on the set. I'm sure you were
also learning great skills, because I think you were getting
on the job training, which is the best way exactly exactly,
So that must have been really a good confidence booster.
You felt really good after the first season.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Exactly, and even more after this third one. You learn
you on set, you just watch, shut up, see how
they do things. Perfect diacters, amazing writers as jo Jiz
and Brendan, all of them. Watch and learn, and you
learn so much. It's priceless. If I was, let's say,
(12:28):
a millionaire and a very young and I want to
be an actor, I would pay a million bucks to
be on set every day just to learn. So this
is the priceless experience out there, and it's very fun
on top of it.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think also, you know, we're divinely guided in our work,
in our lives, and I think when you surrender to
a situation, sometimes you're brought into the magical miracle world,
which you were and you are. And I think it's
also because I know your background, and also you have
(13:01):
a big spiritual book coming out next year. But what
would you say most people fear in life? What's the
biggest fear that people have?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
The unknown? The change. Obviously scary, the unknown, even this
is it way, let's scary that the unknown or taking
the step. And when you realize, well really deeply realize,
you just want life and and just do it. You know,
you just wholly have and if you don't put anybody
(13:34):
else in danger or or it's just a trip, if
you don't like it, come back, it's just a job.
Well I don't like this job. I'm trying another one.
Well it's worse. It's okay, I mean it is okay.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, I think people are afraid thinking. And here's a
good example of you living your passion or your dream
because you chose not to work as a you know,
nine to five person in the corporate world. And a
lot of people would do that, they would stay in
that and they go acting. I'm not going to do it.
But I think when you live your purpose, you have life,
(14:08):
and your purpose is to communicate and to give this
energy of talent and work that you do. But how
do you think most people, you know, I think they're
afraid to step out of the box. You know, why
do you think people are afraid? Is it the unknown?
Or is it because they don't think they have the skills,
(14:28):
or there's no confidence or they don't trust themselves.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Because it just sometimes you're not treaty and that's okay.
The equation of life is so long. Why don't you
do it well? I have a kid, I'm married, I
just got this restaurant. They have a southern reason that
you're not in their issues. You cannot judge people or
just just do it well. I cannot do it. And
some people you would say, they have everything to give
(14:53):
it a try, and they're just so scared. Well, so
their issues is they're just so scared. Maybe luckily for me,
I grew up in some condition. Childhood wasn't very fun.
At some point, I don't give a ask. You know,
when you've been through so much trouble, you're not one
more trouble away. I don't care, and I have no
(15:14):
thing to lose. If I was the son of a
huge company, that stuff is got twenty stars, I would
have been lean into. Okay, that's my responsibility, because that's
how it has to be. But I wasn't. So I
do whatever whatever I want in the end.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But that's the way it is.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So people all have their issues, and maybe they're very
comfortable in their box, and even if it's forty nine
percent comfortable, they don't want to risk closing this and
that is fine. You cannot judge others people and what
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
What keeps you, what keeps you going as your let's
say energy, what pushes you forward, what's the what's the intention?
What's drive? What's your drive? Is it too? The ultimate
result is what your drive.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's very hard job what we're doing, because there's always
this little, tiny, tiny hope. You know that that could
be possible, This could be possible, And maybe I have
too much ambition or too much dream. So I really
want to do like a good movie that inspire people.
I'd love to be very successful to make. That's my
(16:28):
ultimate dream, to make like a school where I can
give lessons in acting or directing for free to all
those who don't have the luxury to afford it. And
you don't know how it's gonna work. I mean that's artists.
When you make a song it's gonna be a huge hit.
You don't know that I was gonna be terrible and
(16:49):
it's a huge hit. So the hope, hope that kills
you right, funny funny moment I hope is a good thing,
but I don't know. You're right, you have some fun
people honestly tells you, oh, it's a great job, and
I don't think after some point you can see that
some people are just lying or mean no, pushing you
(17:11):
the wrong direction. But the although you get, the more
those that slams your way, you learn how to do
this and you're trying. You just keep on trying and trying.
You have seen many movies about this, like Tick Tick Boom.
Keep trying until it sticks and you feel that it
could be possible. And some people believed in you, your
family believes in you. Then if all my family there's
(17:33):
not one artist or they have no idea what I'm doing,
They're like, we don't know what you're doing, but but
good luck. And some people working in the industry they
have a look at your work. That's cool, that's cool,
that could work, and that could just help you keep
you pushing.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I know there's a lot of you know, performers or
creative people, and I think their motto is always never
give up and just keep going, no matter or what.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Never give up. Easy to say, hard to do. It's
very hard to do. And let's say, Hollywood could be
the head of the line every time. Every time it's harder.
Every time it's harder. But the more risk, the more
we rolled, let's say, the more fun you could have
and the more impact you could have. What's the goal,
(18:21):
Fame Cash, I don't. The goal is to have fun
and just to continue to have fun because if it works,
you can have more fun on another project and help
more people and more fun and most and stuff. It's
not it's really not a personal journey. If you do
it just for yourself, it's not gonna work. Period. So
and the more you get through stuff, you meet new people,
(18:42):
new podcasts, new producers, new people who believes in you, because,
like I said, you cannot do it yourself. It's a team.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Like it's it's.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's an gnomine of people. If anything you see on
a screen cost five years of work, an anomy So
when you watch something that is so bad, so many
people worked on it for countless years, taking so many risks,
maybe losing a lot of things, but you have to
(19:14):
respect that you risk the risk taken. And I would
never I would never just sit in my couch having
Oh that is so bad. Sometimes it is, but so
much work, so much work.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So answer these questions with a few words. What does
love mean to you?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What does love mean to me? Love means all the
It's not just a relationship. It's about how you do things,
how you commit you doing things. I love writing, I
do this, and I will unless only do that. O
stephan as God, Let's let's have a drink. No No,
because I love what I'm doing right now. I'd love
spending time with you. Love is dedication to what you're doing.
(19:54):
And it's not to a person. That can be to
a place, to some food or any exercise or what's
if you do. It's the ultimate dedication and the feeling
you have, so you can love doing a thousand million things.
It's not with the person and the most important thing obviously,
it's just there. It's just there, yourself on the mirror.
(20:17):
Love what you see. You might hate many things physically
or what you did, but if you don't love what
you're doing in who you are first, it's going to
be a very long road and many negative things going
to come to you health wise, people's wives or accidents.
Try to love yourself and if you don't work on it,
(20:37):
in it because it's definitely the easiest and very possible.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And that's where we do part two when you have
your book that comes out, where you have a new
book that's going to be coming out and we're really
excited about that. What's the title? Can we just say
the title, but we won't give out the secrets.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The title is Pathress. Pathress happles finding yourself in an
unmapped world.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
That is excellent, and that will come out next year
and we'll have you back on the show with the
new book. You but I want to thank you, and
I know that you have this inner power or inner
belief and you're going to do great. I know you're
going to do great, So keep up the good work.
We all support you and we want you to do
(21:23):
great things. You are.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thank you, Gary, Thank you everyone for your time spending
some time with us. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm Gary Quinn. Join me for another episode of Ready
Set Live. Until next time, be well,
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