November 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Join Pam and Dawn on Christmas MuVies Spotlight as they sit down with the talented Ricco Ross, who stars in the upcoming holiday film An Unexpected Christmas, opening in theaters November 7!
 🎄✨Ricco shares what drew him to this heartwarming story, the message behind the film, and some behind-the-scenes moments that made this project extra special. You won’t want to miss this festive and inspiring conversation that captures the true spirit of the season!
🎥 An Unexpected Christmas hits theaters November 7 — make plans to see it on the big screen!
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 🎄✨Ricco shares what drew him to this heartwarming story, the message behind the film, and some behind-the-scenes moments that made this project extra special. You won’t want to miss this festive and inspiring conversation that captures the true spirit of the season!
🎥 An Unexpected Christmas hits theaters November 7 — make plans to see it on the big screen!
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello, and welcome to the special edition of Christmas Movie Spotlight.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm your host Don Mac and I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Here with my friend and colleague and co host Pam.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hey, Pam, how are you.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I'm doing good now that I'm inside the house. Thank you.
I mean it's uh, I'm freezing while you're over there
sitting with the I don't know what you got going
over there with the sunshining and the warmer, warmer weather
it was.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It was warmer today.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It was in the low seventies today, which you know
is not uncommon for North Carolina for this time of year.
We're actually having a real fall this year, so I'm
very excited.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The sun is gone, it's cloudy, and I got a
notification a little while ago that's gonna start raining. So
bye bye sun and seventies because for the next ten
days we're gonna have fifties and sixties for the high which.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Is more your norm.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So I don't know what's going on in North Carolina,
but we're finally having a real fall for the first time,
and I couldn't tell you how long.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And I'm I'm you know, I like to share with you,
so well, you definitely eat that weather your way.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
You're always giving when it comes to the weather, right,
because it seems like the next day I have the
weather you had the day before. But I am really
enjoying this fall because the trees are more vibrant than
they have been in years, and it just feels like
a real fall for change, because we are in fall.
I even said, I said this to my mom the
other day. We had looked out like we had really
(01:54):
a lot of wind that day, so the leaves were
just falling, falling, falling, right, And so I made this,
I did, and intentionally do it. It was I didn't
even think. And I said to hers that it looks
like a fall day because it was kind of overcast
and just you know how it looks for that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And she looked at me and I said, oh, it
is fall.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But I'm just saying this.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Because for so many years it hasn't even felt like fall,
Like it would be nothing to be eighty five degrees
in the late October.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And I know you hate this time of year running
up to winter, but I'm all about it, so bring
it all.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Necessarily, I don't necessarily hate fall, you know, it's just
that I know what's common. So it kind of, you know,
plays on my brain. And just the thought of having
to put a code on today to go outside to walk,
it's like, oh no, it's starting. You know.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
My favorite season is fall because it kicks off all
the things that I love, Like this is my jam
time of the year. Like you know, if there's a
seasonal anything, you know, you've heard of seasonal depression.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I don't think I have that up.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think I have it the rest of the year,
but I know that I it's like I just awakened
from whatever, you know, summer funk. I was in when
fall his And so when you have a year like
we're having where it feels like fall, oh my gosh,
I'm all about it. Like we're there, We're we're enjoying
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every second.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So any just let me clarify for our listeners. I
don't hate winter.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I just don't like the days where there's no sun
and we have sixteen feet of snow, you know what
I mean, And it'sper called out. I mean, that's what
I don't like. Because not every single winter day is
a bad day. A lot of you get a lot
of sunshiny days and you know there's not so much
(04:02):
snow on the ground and you can walk without you know,
killing yourself exactly. So I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, for what it's worth.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm sure there are a lot of people in your
region of the country, like up in the Northeast, even
where they're getting three feet of snow. I mean that
share your sentiment, you know, whereas I'm here going send
me twelve twelve inches of snow.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Please just once, be happy with three inches.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I'd be happy with an inch or a dusting where
it looks like it hits snow, right, I mean, we
have been so snow deprived in recent years. And now
the almanac. You know, you gotta live and breathe by
the almanac this time of year. But they're now saying
that this could be the year we see snow.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And I'm like, yeah, I bring it on. So if this.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fall season is any indication, I think we might see it.
And by the way, by the way, while we're on
the subject, okay, there is a wives tell I'll just
put it that way.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Here in the South.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You may have heard of it where if you cut
open a per semon seed or per semon okay, and
I think it's a per semon anyway. On the inside,
the middle of it will have a shape. It'll either
be the shape of a spoon. It'll either be a
shape of a fork or knife, sometimes dependent upon how
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it grows or whatever. So someone posted on social media
just a couple of weeks back they had started collecting
per semon seeds and so forth and started splitting them open,
and they had posted pictures on Facebook. They were in
North Carolina. Every single one of them that they cut
open were shaped like a shovel on the inside. And
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that means when you see a shovel, it means you're
going to get lots of snow and you're going to
have to shovel do a lot of shoveling.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Have it all?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Have you ever heard of that tradition? Never?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well, it is just chalk it up to the crazy.
Is anything that we do in the South, just like
you never heard of snow cream. We'll have that conversation
another day. But anyhow so, the adage is if it's
you know, if it's if it's a fork, it's you're
gonna have like ice, you know, and that kind of thing.
And I don't know what it is with the with
(06:26):
the knife, but anyway, the spoon is indicative of a
shovel going to be shoveling. And I mean they had
three or four per simmons they had cut open, and
every single one of them had to shovel.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And it's really the shape of a spoon.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So it's it's crazy how it does that. So I said, well,
you know, farmers back in the old days that didn't
have all this fancymancy weather stuff or the almanac, even
if that's what they use to predict the winners. Hey,
you know, tried and true, right, So.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm keeping my fingers crossed. But anyway, let's talk.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
About today's interview, shall we. I I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I mean, I'm still reeling from this interview, and I'm
talking about the incredibly talented Rico Ross. Oh my gosh,
where do we even begin with this?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I don't know. So what I think is that people
should listen to the interview and we'll see what we mean.
But that name should be alone saying it all. Let's
put it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Exactly exactly. I think.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm just still in shock that we were fortunate enough
to secure the interview with him because he's so busy
right now, he's working like a mad dog and so
but it was such a joy talking with him, And
this is one the fans are absolutely gonna enjoy, no doubt.
If you're a Rico Ross fan, we've got it for you.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Absolutely, I would say, the only other hands we're gonna
give you. If you're not really sure, like you think
you know who he is, but you're not plazzive, let
me just mention aliens. Okay, yeah, we got word.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Be sure to catch Rico Ross in his brand new
holiday movie coming out in the theaters on November seventh,
which is called Unexpected Christmas and catch the trailer. Oh
my gosh, you guys are gonna love this movie.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And we are so excited and honored to bring you
our interview with Rico Ross.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Enjoy the show.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Hi, this is Rico Ross and you're listening to Haam
and DoD.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Hello Rico, and welcome to Christmas Movie Spotlight. We are
so happy to have you here with us.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I'm happy to be here Christmas Movie Spotlight. You couldn't
come up with a better name.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Than that, did you?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yeah? No, Wow? We think it encompasses everything our podcast
is besides Christmas movie, you know, we also talk about
the new albums from Fort Christmas for people that you
know release them this year or every year. So that's
why movies spelled the way it is. So there you
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learn something about us. And now it's your turn.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
I'm actually in Atlanta right now shooting another Christmas movie,
are you really Yes. It's called The Gospel of Christmas,
and this movie is going to be a big hit.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
It's got a lot of famous gospel singers in the movie.
They're also actively and it is going to it is
going to shake up some things. So yours truly plays
an older gentleman in the neighborhood that helps out the
young kids, give some jobs at It's pawnshop, but later
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on you find out that he is not the person
you thought he was. I don't want to give anything away.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Right right, Oh goodness, And you.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Guys know I have a movie coming out called Unexpected
Christmas on November seven in theaters, right, yes, and we'll.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Be speaking about that later in the interview. We want
to get to know a little bit more about you first,
that's about me.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
What would you like to know about me, Well, when did.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
You discover you wanted to be an actor? How did
that come about?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
It's quite a funny story.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
I was a boy, a young boy at the age
of thirteen, who had probably too much energy and it
needs to be guided in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
And a teacher recognized that and told me I was
going to be in her play. And that was how
I got into the business. Got caught doing something that
I shouldn't be doing, and she.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Directed that energy into something that was constructed and told
me I was going to be in her play. And
I fought it until she told me exactly what it entailed,
and basically it was pretending improvised. She said improvisation. I
didn't know what that meant, but she said, basically just pretending.
And I went and checked it out and got in
love with it, did a play, and then shortly after
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that Europe that I think, we did another play where
I was the leader and it was very successful, and
I think that got me the bug. Once I got
into my third year of college, for telling me I
had to choose my major, and I didn't know what
to choose, and the counselor said, well, what are you
good at what do you enjoy and can you make
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a living?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Editor?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
And I thought, I really enjoyed that play, and.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
From the response I got, I was good at it
and two out of three ain't bad.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I thought, hmmm, well, you know, we are more than
glad that you pursue that, because your I mean, your
resume in your career precede you. It's just amazing all
the things that you've done. And many fans know U
Rico from Aliens, which at this point is just a
(12:19):
true classic. So how has been part of such an
iconic film shaped your journey as an actor?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
You know?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
When I got cast in Aliens, I was going to
pass on the film because James Cameron he wasn't really
known then, and I happen to be fortunate enough to
get cast and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket at the
same time. They overlapped one week, but Stanley Kubrick wouldn't
allow me to uh, wouldn't release.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Me after that one week. He wanted to have me
on if you needed me.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
And it was a good decision for him because that
film ended up taking over a year to make. But
I ended up choosing to go with James Cameron film,
because he told me he was going to rewrite the
part and make it a nice part for me. And
also he was going to pay me because Cooper was
only paying people on a scale, which basically means the
lowest impossible, baby, And so I went with that and
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it kind of with the success of that movie, it
kind of it kind of labeled me as bankable, and
I never looked back. As a matter of fact, next
year is going to be that Alien's fortieth anniversary and
we're being honored. We're being honored with a Saturn Award
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in March, and everybody's going to come together.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
For that celebration.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
That's amazing. I mean, who would have thought, you know,
there's just just a handful of films that will run
that forty years or fifty years or something like that.
And to know you were a part of it, that's
such an honor.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
It is an amazing thing.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
And you know, the fans, you know, I can't thank
the fans enough for that film because they keep it relevant.
I go to maybe a sci fi convention maybe once
a month or once every other month all over the world,
and fans are still rabbit about this film and a
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lot of them weren't even born when the film came out.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
It is the fans that keep it alive.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, it's a good thing. You'll have fans for life.
So there you go. But you also have done so
much more work that you've gained, you know, more fans
on So you've worked here in the US and internationally.
What's it like to work in the different cultures.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
It's always great when you're if you're a curious person,
to travel with work. I mean, it's no better way
to travel than on somebody else is done. And and
so I've been all over the world three times on
other people's dime. And it's just a blessing, you know,
it's really I'm really grateful for the opportunity because it
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does give you a perspective that you can't get just
staying in your own country. And I've lived abroad for
thirteen years. I went to England to study Shakespeare after
being finding myself being type passed right out of college.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
The first year out of.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
College, I was fortunate enough to get Atlanta recurring role
in Hill Street Blues.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
It was this last year and that TV series was
so popular.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
It was kind of like the blueprint for cop shows,
and cop shows weren't being shot like that before Hill
Street Blues. But the problem with that was that I
played a gang member, and my next four jobs were
pretty much the same character with different names. And me
walking around with a master's degree, I felt I could
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do more than just play a gang member. Coming from Chicago,
playing a gang member wasn't that much of a stress
because I grew up with those guys. And I went
and kind of had a conversation with a professor at UCLA,
and he suggested I go study Shakespeare in London. And
I went there and studied for a year. But the
year went so fast I thought, wow, I can just
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go right back. And one of the things they had
asked the American actors to do when we arrived was
to acquire a British accent, because they didn't want us
to focus so much on accent and really concentrate on
creating character. So by the time the year was over
with my English accent as as good as my classmates,
and so I did what they did. I went out
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and started auditioning for English roles as an Englishman, and
I made up the equivalent of a social Security number
and for the next four years I worked as an
Englishman in London and around London. And after four years
I got my residency and then I worked as an
American and broad for the next time. I guess a
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total of thirteen years I spent there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Now, that's absolutely incredible. And given your vast career, do
you have different ways you prepare for a role depending
upon the genre?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Definitely more not the genre, but more depending on how
much of it is it stretch. For me, for instance,
the Christmas movie that comes out Unexpected Christmas is coming
out November seventh. That movie, I didn't feel I had
to create much of a character because the character was
very much like me. But just there's a TV series
(17:44):
I'm doing right now where the character is quite the contrary.
It's called Beauty and Black. It's on Netflix. As matter
of fact, it's the number one leading show of all
streamers on TV right now, and it's called Thank You,
and that that show was very, very different because the
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character is so much different. It was such a stretch.
So I did have to I had to implement my training,
not only my American training, but my English trained to
make that define that character. Often in America we work
from the inside out as actors. We find the emotions
for each scene and the emotions of that character with
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their temperament. A lot of English people will work from
the outside end. They're working on period pieces. They'll try
and get the right costume, the right wardrobe, the right shoes,
and then they kind of find the character. So I
did a bit of both. I work from the inside out.
I kind of based the character on my father, who
was a well respected man in the neighborhood. He was
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a big man, but he was also well respected for
his personality. But he never shouted. Even in the crisis.
He was not the one to shout. As a matter
of fact, he would often lower his worses when others
would raise, And so that was kind of the foundation.
But then I found the right shoes, I found the outfit.
I found a cigar that actually helped me and my voice.
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And then I found a cane and I started walking
with the cane. I thought, I got you, now, I
got you.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah. Well, as an actor, you have to continuously learn,
you know, to do different things. Although you've accomplished so much,
I can't imagine there's anything new to learn. But I'm
sure it's you know, it goes from movie to movie
on different things.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I think as an actor we are students of life.
You know, we're constantly observing things and life is changing,
so I think the learning process never stopped.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Also, every role is different.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I just come up with a horror movie last week
where I played the Catholic priest, and this week I'm
preparing for a role that we're going to start shooting
and I'm playing the devil.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
So I mean, from one stream to the other, one
stream to.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
The other, you know, you're you're going to learn something.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Right, Well, you've also produced and you've written. What did
you learn from being on the other side of the
camera that helps you?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
As an answer, I guess for as far as for
a writer, I think I've learned I've become better at
writing dialogue from being an actor. And as an actor,
I think I try and and make the language work,
trying to make the dialogue work as best as I can,
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and and if I can't, then I will take a
certain liberty to try and make it, to change it
to fit me. And if the writer doesn't like it,
then they'll often ask you to go back to the
script and I take no offense to that, but often
if I am inspired.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
To change the language it usually they usually want me
to keep it that way.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
As a as a as a as a filmmaker, as
a producer, I found that it's a lot harder than
I thought it would be to make a movie.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
It is not easy work.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
The easy work is getting the project, finding a good script,
but the hard part is getting the funding for it.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
But I'm getting better at that, and that's all.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
That's usually based on relationships with people who find movies,
which as an actor, I never, you know, really tried
to cultivate those relationships because it was not necessary for me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Right right, Well, we have to talk about this new
holiday movie that's coming out in theaters on November seventh,
and Unexpected Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
What can you tell us about this movie without giving
too much.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Away, I gotta tell you right now. I can't wait
for you to see it. I can't wait for you
to see it.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Because I've done I think this is probably the fifth
Christmas movie I've made, but it's the first one where
it's kind of like it's a real comedy.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
It's a real, real comedy, and it's got comedians in it.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
And I just think that the audience are gonna love
it because it deals with real life issues. It deals
with relationship issues, family issues, but because it's done in
a comedic way, it is palatable. I also think that
Unexpected Christmas is going to be one of those movies
that people will watch year after year after year because
once the movie's over with, the conversation didn't start, so
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the movie never really stopped. Because of the different subject
matters that deals with that families deal with, the relationship
people deal with in relationships. I think that this is
going to be a movie that people will we'll talk
about on the way home from the theater, and it
is the type of movie that I think is best
seen on the big screen. So if you can make
it there the first week, that would be amazing, because
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I was shocked myself. We went to the premiere and
in Hollywood last week, and I didn't realize how funny
it was until you I saw it with an audience. Yeah, people,
I mean just burst it into the laughter all at once.
It was just it was just such a such a
great thing. When I was one of college at UCLA,
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I worked as an usher in one of the theaters there,
and one day Michelle Pfeiffer came to the theater and
sat in the back row and watched her movie Grease
and she wants the audience reaction. And I remember thinking,
I'd love to do that as an actor. And this
movie was one of those types of movies where I
will go back to the theater one day and I
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will sit in the back and I will watch this
movie again, which I've never done, and just just to
watch the audience reaction.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I think that would be amazing. Let me tell you,
we watched that trailer and oh my gosh, I cannot
wait to see the movie. When I saw everybody that
was going to be in this movie right there made
me want to see the movie. But then when I
watched the trailer, was cracking up with the the guys
showing up.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I can't wait. I can't wait till you see it.
I really can't wait to see it.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, we're definitely looking forward to it. I tell you
and anybody out there listening, you have to watch the
trailer before you go see the movie. You're going to
fall in love with this cast and everything that happens.
It's gonna be a good one. Well, what's one message
you'd love to share with the viewers for this holiday season?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
A message I'd like to share with each other? I
think in most cases it's a beautiful say all we
need is love. If we have that a lot of
things that a lot, a lot of solutions will come.
So I think, you know, at a time like this
when people can be quite divided, you know, I think
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make a little patiency, a little patience and a lot
of love books a long way.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Mm hmm, well said.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well, before we wrap up, we always like to play
a fun little Christmas game, a lightning round.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
We ask you.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We asked five questions the first thing that comes to mind.
There are no wrong answers, of course, and it's just
a great note to end on, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So here we go.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
What is your favorite? I love you? I love you guys.
Accent you right?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I'm from Chicago. I don't have an accent. You're from Chicago.
You should know.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
No, it's not you, am, he was not referring to you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I am from North Carolina, born and bred, still live
here and try as I might Ricode to sound as
professional as I can.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
The accent that professional.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
It's just it's just a beautiful accent. Well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I really appreciate the compliment. A lot of people guess,
are you from North Carolina or Texas? And so you know,
I guess it could go either way.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But yeah, I'm born and bred in the heart of
North Carolina and I love it. It's a great state.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
So all right, so the light around here we go.
What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I don't want to sound boring, but uh, desert it
at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I love it, love I know, like who doesn't love
deserted Christmas or anytime?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Really?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Right? All right?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Favorite Christmas song? I would say that King Cole. Oh yeah, yes,
White Christmas.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
He has the Christmas song.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Yeah, the Christmas Roasting by an open fire.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm not going to sing.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Okay, And by the way, Rico, I'm just gonna put
this out there to the universe.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
If they ever make a movie about nat King Cole,
I think you should be the lead.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I think you've got a I think you've got a
smooth persona.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
And could just pull it off.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
And so.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I'm just putting it out there. We'll see what happens.
Can we get it let's get let's get a producer
or writer on the phone.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Exactly. I love you.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
I love both of you so much.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
My favorite Christmas movie, it's probably A Christmas Carol and
the black and white version because it was just so
beautiful and it was a lesson, you know, it was
there was certain kind of lessons to be learned by
the movie, and it was to deal with people who
are less fortunate, you know, cool, we're disable, and it
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was general with those subjects and it dealt it in
a way when I was a young kid that it
really meant something to me. As a matter of fact.
On November first, we're doing a celebrity reading of a
Christmas Carol in Beverly Hills at the Saban Theater on
November twenty first, and please people come out there here
in the area. It's for an amazing causes for children
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were rare diseases, and we've.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Done this is the fourth year, the fifth year.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
This will be the fifth year, and every year it
gets bigger and bigger, and it's so much to see
and when you get a bunch of celebrities on stage
and it's a reading.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
They catch fire and I tell you it's just an
amazing knife.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well that sounds beautiful. If only Pam and I were closer.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Right, all right?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And next question, hot tottie or hot chocolate.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
I gotta tell you, I'm going to go with the
hot totty.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
And last time that I'm not one that I'm not
a big drinker, but hot toddy, come on, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, that's right. And last, but not least, white lights
or colored lights?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Can I be gritty and mix it up with both?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Answers. I love I love white lights, but I do
love to accident with color.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
That works for me. I'm telling you, I love lights
no matter what color they are. Long, does it circling?
It's all the lights are off? You know your regular
lights and you got that threw it off, or you're
outside and it's nighttime and you see yep.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I live for that. Yeah, I live to wonderful.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Wow. I'm telling you you were such a joy to
speak with and you were so happy to learn more
about you. We look forward to Unexpected Christmas in theaters
on November seven and everything else that you have coming up.
We'd love to know more about the gospel Christmas one
and you're welcome back anytime.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Well, thank you, you guys have been so much fun.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
And anytime you want me back after the show, after
you see the movie, hit me up because I want to.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
I want to talk to you after UC. Unexpected Christmas
sounds good, sounds good good.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Thank you so much, and happy holidays, all.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Right, thank you for having me. Happy holidays, Thank you,
take care you welcome.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Thanks, thank you so much for tuning in to our
latest episode of Christmas Movie Spotlight.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
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marry and we'll see you again real soon.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
M h m hmm
Hello, and welcome to the special edition of Christmas Movie Spotlight.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm your host Don Mac and I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Here with my friend and colleague and co host Pam.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hey, Pam, how are you.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I'm doing good now that I'm inside the house. Thank you.
I mean it's uh, I'm freezing while you're over there
sitting with the I don't know what you got going
over there with the sunshining and the warmer, warmer weather
it was.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It was warmer today.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It was in the low seventies today, which you know
is not uncommon for North Carolina for this time of year.
We're actually having a real fall this year, so I'm
very excited.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The sun is gone, it's cloudy, and I got a
notification a little while ago that's gonna start raining. So
bye bye sun and seventies because for the next ten
days we're gonna have fifties and sixties for the high which.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Is more your norm.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So I don't know what's going on in North Carolina,
but we're finally having a real fall for the first time,
and I couldn't tell you how long.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And I'm I'm you know, I like to share with you,
so well, you definitely eat that weather your way.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
You're always giving when it comes to the weather, right,
because it seems like the next day I have the
weather you had the day before. But I am really
enjoying this fall because the trees are more vibrant than
they have been in years, and it just feels like
a real fall for change, because we are in fall.
I even said, I said this to my mom the
other day. We had looked out like we had really
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a lot of wind that day, so the leaves were
just falling, falling, falling, right, And so I made this,
I did, and intentionally do it. It was I didn't
even think. And I said to hers that it looks
like a fall day because it was kind of overcast
and just you know how it looks for that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And she looked at me and I said, oh, it
is fall.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But I'm just saying this.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Because for so many years it hasn't even felt like fall,
Like it would be nothing to be eighty five degrees
in the late October.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And I know you hate this time of year running
up to winter, but I'm all about it, so bring
it all.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Necessarily, I don't necessarily hate fall, you know, it's just
that I know what's common. So it kind of, you know,
plays on my brain. And just the thought of having
to put a code on today to go outside to walk,
it's like, oh no, it's starting. You know.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
My favorite season is fall because it kicks off all
the things that I love, Like this is my jam
time of the year. Like you know, if there's a
seasonal anything, you know, you've heard of seasonal depression.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I don't think I have that up.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think I have it the rest of the year,
but I know that I it's like I just awakened
from whatever, you know, summer funk. I was in when
fall his And so when you have a year like
we're having where it feels like fall, oh my gosh,
I'm all about it. Like we're there, We're we're enjoying
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every second.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So any just let me clarify for our listeners. I
don't hate winter.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I just don't like the days where there's no sun
and we have sixteen feet of snow, you know what
I mean, And it'sper called out. I mean, that's what
I don't like. Because not every single winter day is
a bad day. A lot of you get a lot
of sunshiny days and you know there's not so much
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snow on the ground and you can walk without you know,
killing yourself exactly. So I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, for what it's worth.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm sure there are a lot of people in your
region of the country, like up in the Northeast, even
where they're getting three feet of snow. I mean that
share your sentiment, you know, whereas I'm here going send
me twelve twelve inches of snow.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Please just once, be happy with three inches.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I'd be happy with an inch or a dusting where
it looks like it hits snow, right, I mean, we
have been so snow deprived in recent years. And now
the almanac. You know, you gotta live and breathe by
the almanac this time of year. But they're now saying
that this could be the year we see snow.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And I'm like, yeah, I bring it on. So if this.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fall season is any indication, I think we might see it.
And by the way, by the way, while we're on
the subject, okay, there is a wives tell I'll just
put it that way.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Here in the South.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You may have heard of it where if you cut
open a per semon seed or per semon okay, and
I think it's a per semon anyway. On the inside,
the middle of it will have a shape. It'll either
be the shape of a spoon. It'll either be a
shape of a fork or knife, sometimes dependent upon how
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it grows or whatever. So someone posted on social media
just a couple of weeks back they had started collecting
per semon seeds and so forth and started splitting them open,
and they had posted pictures on Facebook. They were in
North Carolina. Every single one of them that they cut
open were shaped like a shovel on the inside. And
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that means when you see a shovel, it means you're
going to get lots of snow and you're going to
have to shovel do a lot of shoveling.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Have it all?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Have you ever heard of that tradition? Never?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well, it is just chalk it up to the crazy.
Is anything that we do in the South, just like
you never heard of snow cream. We'll have that conversation
another day. But anyhow so, the adage is if it's
you know, if it's if it's a fork, it's you're
gonna have like ice, you know, and that kind of thing.
And I don't know what it is with the with
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the knife, but anyway, the spoon is indicative of a
shovel going to be shoveling. And I mean they had
three or four per simmons they had cut open, and
every single one of them had to shovel.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And it's really the shape of a spoon.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So it's it's crazy how it does that. So I said, well,
you know, farmers back in the old days that didn't
have all this fancymancy weather stuff or the almanac, even
if that's what they use to predict the winners. Hey,
you know, tried and true, right, So.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm keeping my fingers crossed. But anyway, let's talk.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
About today's interview, shall we. I I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I mean, I'm still reeling from this interview, and I'm
talking about the incredibly talented Rico Ross. Oh my gosh,
where do we even begin with this?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I don't know. So what I think is that people
should listen to the interview and we'll see what we mean.
But that name should be alone saying it all. Let's
put it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Exactly exactly. I think.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm just still in shock that we were fortunate enough
to secure the interview with him because he's so busy
right now, he's working like a mad dog and so
but it was such a joy talking with him, And
this is one the fans are absolutely gonna enjoy, no doubt.
If you're a Rico Ross fan, we've got it for you.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Absolutely, I would say, the only other hands we're gonna
give you. If you're not really sure, like you think
you know who he is, but you're not plazzive, let
me just mention aliens. Okay, yeah, we got word.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Be sure to catch Rico Ross in his brand new
holiday movie coming out in the theaters on November seventh,
which is called Unexpected Christmas and catch the trailer. Oh
my gosh, you guys are gonna love this movie.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And we are so excited and honored to bring you
our interview with Rico Ross.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Enjoy the show.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Hi, this is Rico Ross and you're listening to Haam
and DoD.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Hello Rico, and welcome to Christmas Movie Spotlight. We are
so happy to have you here with us.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I'm happy to be here Christmas Movie Spotlight. You couldn't
come up with a better name.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Than that, did you?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yeah? No, Wow? We think it encompasses everything our podcast
is besides Christmas movie, you know, we also talk about
the new albums from Fort Christmas for people that you
know release them this year or every year. So that's
why movies spelled the way it is. So there you
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learn something about us. And now it's your turn.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
I'm actually in Atlanta right now shooting another Christmas movie,
are you really Yes. It's called The Gospel of Christmas,
and this movie is going to be a big hit.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
It's got a lot of famous gospel singers in the movie.
They're also actively and it is going to it is
going to shake up some things. So yours truly plays
an older gentleman in the neighborhood that helps out the
young kids, give some jobs at It's pawnshop, but later
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on you find out that he is not the person
you thought he was. I don't want to give anything away.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Right right, Oh goodness, And you.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Guys know I have a movie coming out called Unexpected
Christmas on November seven in theaters, right, yes, and we'll.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Be speaking about that later in the interview. We want
to get to know a little bit more about you first,
that's about me.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
What would you like to know about me, Well, when did.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
You discover you wanted to be an actor? How did
that come about?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
It's quite a funny story.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
I was a boy, a young boy at the age
of thirteen, who had probably too much energy and it
needs to be guided in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
And a teacher recognized that and told me I was
going to be in her play. And that was how
I got into the business. Got caught doing something that
I shouldn't be doing, and she.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Directed that energy into something that was constructed and told
me I was going to be in her play. And
I fought it until she told me exactly what it entailed,
and basically it was pretending improvised. She said improvisation. I
didn't know what that meant, but she said, basically just pretending.
And I went and checked it out and got in
love with it, did a play, and then shortly after
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that Europe that I think, we did another play where
I was the leader and it was very successful, and
I think that got me the bug. Once I got
into my third year of college, for telling me I
had to choose my major, and I didn't know what
to choose, and the counselor said, well, what are you
good at what do you enjoy and can you make
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a living?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Editor?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
And I thought, I really enjoyed that play, and.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
From the response I got, I was good at it
and two out of three ain't bad.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I thought, hmmm, well, you know, we are more than
glad that you pursue that, because your I mean, your
resume in your career precede you. It's just amazing all
the things that you've done. And many fans know U
Rico from Aliens, which at this point is just a
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true classic. So how has been part of such an
iconic film shaped your journey as an actor?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
You know?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
When I got cast in Aliens, I was going to
pass on the film because James Cameron he wasn't really
known then, and I happen to be fortunate enough to
get cast and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket at the
same time. They overlapped one week, but Stanley Kubrick wouldn't
allow me to uh, wouldn't release.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Me after that one week. He wanted to have me
on if you needed me.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
And it was a good decision for him because that
film ended up taking over a year to make. But
I ended up choosing to go with James Cameron film,
because he told me he was going to rewrite the
part and make it a nice part for me. And
also he was going to pay me because Cooper was
only paying people on a scale, which basically means the
lowest impossible, baby, And so I went with that and
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it kind of with the success of that movie, it
kind of it kind of labeled me as bankable, and
I never looked back. As a matter of fact, next
year is going to be that Alien's fortieth anniversary and
we're being honored. We're being honored with a Saturn Award
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in March, and everybody's going to come together.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
For that celebration.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
That's amazing. I mean, who would have thought, you know,
there's just just a handful of films that will run
that forty years or fifty years or something like that.
And to know you were a part of it, that's
such an honor.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
It is an amazing thing.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
And you know, the fans, you know, I can't thank
the fans enough for that film because they keep it relevant.
I go to maybe a sci fi convention maybe once
a month or once every other month all over the world,
and fans are still rabbit about this film and a
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lot of them weren't even born when the film came out.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
It is the fans that keep it alive.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, it's a good thing. You'll have fans for life.
So there you go. But you also have done so
much more work that you've gained, you know, more fans
on So you've worked here in the US and internationally.
What's it like to work in the different cultures.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
It's always great when you're if you're a curious person,
to travel with work. I mean, it's no better way
to travel than on somebody else is done. And and
so I've been all over the world three times on
other people's dime. And it's just a blessing, you know,
it's really I'm really grateful for the opportunity because it
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does give you a perspective that you can't get just
staying in your own country. And I've lived abroad for
thirteen years. I went to England to study Shakespeare after
being finding myself being type passed right out of college.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
The first year out of.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
College, I was fortunate enough to get Atlanta recurring role
in Hill Street Blues.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
It was this last year and that TV series was
so popular.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
It was kind of like the blueprint for cop shows,
and cop shows weren't being shot like that before Hill
Street Blues. But the problem with that was that I
played a gang member, and my next four jobs were
pretty much the same character with different names. And me
walking around with a master's degree, I felt I could
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do more than just play a gang member. Coming from Chicago,
playing a gang member wasn't that much of a stress
because I grew up with those guys. And I went
and kind of had a conversation with a professor at UCLA,
and he suggested I go study Shakespeare in London. And
I went there and studied for a year. But the
year went so fast I thought, wow, I can just
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go right back. And one of the things they had
asked the American actors to do when we arrived was
to acquire a British accent, because they didn't want us
to focus so much on accent and really concentrate on
creating character. So by the time the year was over
with my English accent as as good as my classmates,
and so I did what they did. I went out
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and started auditioning for English roles as an Englishman, and
I made up the equivalent of a social Security number
and for the next four years I worked as an
Englishman in London and around London. And after four years
I got my residency and then I worked as an
American and broad for the next time. I guess a
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total of thirteen years I spent there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Now, that's absolutely incredible. And given your vast career, do
you have different ways you prepare for a role depending
upon the genre?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Definitely more not the genre, but more depending on how
much of it is it stretch. For me, for instance,
the Christmas movie that comes out Unexpected Christmas is coming
out November seventh. That movie, I didn't feel I had
to create much of a character because the character was
very much like me. But just there's a TV series
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I'm doing right now where the character is quite the contrary.
It's called Beauty and Black. It's on Netflix. As matter
of fact, it's the number one leading show of all
streamers on TV right now, and it's called Thank You,
and that that show was very, very different because the
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character is so much different. It was such a stretch.
So I did have to I had to implement my training,
not only my American training, but my English trained to
make that define that character. Often in America we work
from the inside out as actors. We find the emotions
for each scene and the emotions of that character with
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their temperament. A lot of English people will work from
the outside end. They're working on period pieces. They'll try
and get the right costume, the right wardrobe, the right shoes,
and then they kind of find the character. So I
did a bit of both. I work from the inside out.
I kind of based the character on my father, who
was a well respected man in the neighborhood. He was
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a big man, but he was also well respected for
his personality. But he never shouted. Even in the crisis.
He was not the one to shout. As a matter
of fact, he would often lower his worses when others
would raise, And so that was kind of the foundation.
But then I found the right shoes, I found the outfit.
I found a cigar that actually helped me and my voice.
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And then I found a cane and I started walking
with the cane. I thought, I got you, now, I
got you.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah. Well, as an actor, you have to continuously learn,
you know, to do different things. Although you've accomplished so much,
I can't imagine there's anything new to learn. But I'm
sure it's you know, it goes from movie to movie
on different things.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I think as an actor we are students of life.
You know, we're constantly observing things and life is changing,
so I think the learning process never stopped.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Also, every role is different.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I just come up with a horror movie last week
where I played the Catholic priest, and this week I'm
preparing for a role that we're going to start shooting
and I'm playing the devil.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
So I mean, from one stream to the other, one
stream to.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
The other, you know, you're you're going to learn something.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Right, Well, you've also produced and you've written. What did
you learn from being on the other side of the
camera that helps you?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
As an answer, I guess for as far as for
a writer, I think I've learned I've become better at
writing dialogue from being an actor. And as an actor,
I think I try and and make the language work,
trying to make the dialogue work as best as I can,
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and and if I can't, then I will take a
certain liberty to try and make it, to change it
to fit me. And if the writer doesn't like it,
then they'll often ask you to go back to the
script and I take no offense to that, but often
if I am inspired.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
To change the language it usually they usually want me
to keep it that way.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
As a as a as a as a filmmaker, as
a producer, I found that it's a lot harder than
I thought it would be to make a movie.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
It is not easy work.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
The easy work is getting the project, finding a good script,
but the hard part is getting the funding for it.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
But I'm getting better at that, and that's all.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
That's usually based on relationships with people who find movies,
which as an actor, I never, you know, really tried
to cultivate those relationships because it was not necessary for me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Right right, Well, we have to talk about this new
holiday movie that's coming out in theaters on November seventh,
and Unexpected Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
What can you tell us about this movie without giving
too much.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Away, I gotta tell you right now. I can't wait
for you to see it. I can't wait for you
to see it.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Because I've done I think this is probably the fifth
Christmas movie I've made, but it's the first one where
it's kind of like it's a real comedy.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
It's a real, real comedy, and it's got comedians in it.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
And I just think that the audience are gonna love
it because it deals with real life issues. It deals
with relationship issues, family issues, but because it's done in
a comedic way, it is palatable. I also think that
Unexpected Christmas is going to be one of those movies
that people will watch year after year after year because
once the movie's over with, the conversation didn't start, so
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the movie never really stopped. Because of the different subject
matters that deals with that families deal with, the relationship
people deal with in relationships. I think that this is
going to be a movie that people will we'll talk
about on the way home from the theater, and it
is the type of movie that I think is best
seen on the big screen. So if you can make
it there the first week, that would be amazing, because
(22:57):
I was shocked myself. We went to the premiere and
in Hollywood last week, and I didn't realize how funny
it was until you I saw it with an audience. Yeah, people,
I mean just burst it into the laughter all at once.
It was just it was just such a such a
great thing. When I was one of college at UCLA,
(23:17):
I worked as an usher in one of the theaters there,
and one day Michelle Pfeiffer came to the theater and
sat in the back row and watched her movie Grease
and she wants the audience reaction. And I remember thinking,
I'd love to do that as an actor. And this
movie was one of those types of movies where I
will go back to the theater one day and I
(23:38):
will sit in the back and I will watch this
movie again, which I've never done, and just just to
watch the audience reaction.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I think that would be amazing. Let me tell you,
we watched that trailer and oh my gosh, I cannot
wait to see the movie. When I saw everybody that
was going to be in this movie right there made
me want to see the movie. But then when I
watched the trailer, was cracking up with the the guys
showing up.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I can't wait. I can't wait till you see it.
I really can't wait to see it.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, we're definitely looking forward to it. I tell you
and anybody out there listening, you have to watch the
trailer before you go see the movie. You're going to
fall in love with this cast and everything that happens.
It's gonna be a good one. Well, what's one message
you'd love to share with the viewers for this holiday season?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
A message I'd like to share with each other? I
think in most cases it's a beautiful say all we
need is love. If we have that a lot of
things that a lot, a lot of solutions will come.
So I think, you know, at a time like this
when people can be quite divided, you know, I think
(25:00):
make a little patiency, a little patience and a lot
of love books a long way.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Mm hmm, well said.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well, before we wrap up, we always like to play
a fun little Christmas game, a lightning round.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
We ask you.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We asked five questions the first thing that comes to mind.
There are no wrong answers, of course, and it's just
a great note to end on, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So here we go.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
What is your favorite? I love you? I love you guys.
Accent you right?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I'm from Chicago. I don't have an accent. You're from Chicago.
You should know.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
No, it's not you, am, he was not referring to you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I am from North Carolina, born and bred, still live
here and try as I might Ricode to sound as
professional as I can.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
The accent that professional.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
It's just it's just a beautiful accent. Well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I really appreciate the compliment. A lot of people guess,
are you from North Carolina or Texas? And so you know,
I guess it could go either way.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But yeah, I'm born and bred in the heart of
North Carolina and I love it. It's a great state.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
So all right, so the light around here we go.
What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I don't want to sound boring, but uh, desert it
at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I love it, love I know, like who doesn't love
deserted Christmas or anytime?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Really?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Right? All right?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Favorite Christmas song? I would say that King Cole. Oh yeah, yes,
White Christmas.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
He has the Christmas song.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Yeah, the Christmas Roasting by an open fire.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm not going to sing.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Okay, And by the way, Rico, I'm just gonna put
this out there to the universe.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
If they ever make a movie about nat King Cole,
I think you should be the lead.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I think you've got a I think you've got a
smooth persona.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
And could just pull it off.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
And so.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I'm just putting it out there. We'll see what happens.
Can we get it let's get let's get a producer
or writer on the phone.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Exactly. I love you.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
I love both of you so much.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
My favorite Christmas movie, it's probably A Christmas Carol and
the black and white version because it was just so
beautiful and it was a lesson, you know, it was
there was certain kind of lessons to be learned by
the movie, and it was to deal with people who
are less fortunate, you know, cool, we're disable, and it
(28:02):
was general with those subjects and it dealt it in
a way when I was a young kid that it
really meant something to me. As a matter of fact.
On November first, we're doing a celebrity reading of a
Christmas Carol in Beverly Hills at the Saban Theater on
November twenty first, and please people come out there here
in the area. It's for an amazing causes for children
(28:24):
were rare diseases, and we've.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Done this is the fourth year, the fifth year.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
This will be the fifth year, and every year it
gets bigger and bigger, and it's so much to see
and when you get a bunch of celebrities on stage
and it's a reading.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
They catch fire and I tell you it's just an
amazing knife.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well that sounds beautiful. If only Pam and I were closer.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Right, all right?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And next question, hot tottie or hot chocolate.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
I gotta tell you, I'm going to go with the
hot totty.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
And last time that I'm not one that I'm not
a big drinker, but hot toddy, come on, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, that's right. And last, but not least, white lights
or colored lights?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Can I be gritty and mix it up with both?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Answers. I love I love white lights, but I do
love to accident with color.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
That works for me. I'm telling you, I love lights
no matter what color they are. Long, does it circling?
It's all the lights are off? You know your regular
lights and you got that threw it off, or you're
outside and it's nighttime and you see yep.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I live for that. Yeah, I live to wonderful.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Wow. I'm telling you you were such a joy to
speak with and you were so happy to learn more
about you. We look forward to Unexpected Christmas in theaters
on November seven and everything else that you have coming up.
We'd love to know more about the gospel Christmas one
and you're welcome back anytime.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Well, thank you, you guys have been so much fun.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
And anytime you want me back after the show, after
you see the movie, hit me up because I want to.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
I want to talk to you after UC. Unexpected Christmas
sounds good, sounds good good.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Thank you so much, and happy holidays, all.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Right, thank you for having me. Happy holidays, Thank you,
take care you welcome.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Thanks, thank you so much for tuning in to our
latest episode of Christmas Movie Spotlight.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
You can find our podcast on iHeartRadio, Spotify, iTunes.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Sprinker, and more.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Just search Christmas Movie Spotlight spelled M view v i
e X.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
For even more, visit us online at Christmasmovie Spotlight dot com.
Follow us on our social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram.
Follow at Christmas Movie Spotlight and on X Follow us
at Christmas Movies, which would be X M A S
m U v I e S. Until next time, stay
(31:05):
marry and we'll see you again real soon.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
M h m hmm
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