Flula Borg

Actor Flula Borg zooms in to talk new 'Pitch Perfect' series 'Bumper in Berlin' and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is on with Mario Lopeza. Mario Lopez joining me
now on Zoom actor and comedian flew La Borg. Welcome back,
my man. How are you. Good day to you Mario Lopez.
It's me flu Lab. How are you. I'm doing well.
I'm doing well. Very nice to see you again. Congratulations
on the new series Pitch Perfect Bumper in Berlin. That's

(00:21):
a title, tell us a lot of place. Oh, I'm
very excited to be inside this, Mario. I am neither
pitch nor Perfect nor Bumper, but I am in Berlin.
A very exciting show. I reprise my role from pitch
Perfect too. It's very exciting. It's full of music and
ha has and heh he's and dancing in new characters
like Jamila Tramil, Sarah Highland, Lira Abova and me. Of

(00:42):
course I'm not new, I'm old but shiny and new.
And of course Adam Divine crushing it hardcore. That is
a great cast, a lot of fun people right there.
Did you actually shoot in Germany? Yes, we did. There
was zero green screens and many actual events and accounts
and locations in Berlin. Mario, fun fun Who from the cast,
did you really hit it? Off with because you mentioned

(01:04):
Sarah Highland, Jamila Jamil, Adam Divine. I loved all of them.
I like it when there's a love interest that's also
simultaneously rude to you, and that was Jamilla Jamil for me,
which was very fun. I must tell you, Mario, shooting
this was almost like that hit show Name your adventure?
Wait a minute, how do you know if I name
your adventure? Oh? I didn't name your adventure? Binge, Mario.

(01:27):
I learned how to be a sports broadcast with a
very dashing man and a two baseball hat and a friend.
It was very fun. That's awesome. That's awesome. I love you. Listen.
We have not spoken since the pandemic, and I was
so excited to watch Police Navy Dad. Oh my god,
went down a deep rabbit hole. Flula, you have impeccable

(01:49):
taste number one, and I appreciate the effort that you
know what, I've always been a fan of the Pitch
Perfect franchise, and now I'm gonna really make sure I
check out Pitch Perfect Bumper in Berlin. So thank you
so much. I can't believe franchise is still going ten
years later. That's that's awesome. Speaks to the beauty of music. Huh.

(02:10):
Absolutely delicious music, delicious tunes. I've been keeping my legs
very toned, Mario. I'm ready to dance. I'm ready to
do the running Man and the Typewriter of the typing Man,
whatever it's called. Yes, you can keep this going for
fifty sixty years. This is the Star Wars of music franchises.
That's exactly how I thought of it. Um. You were
also recently in the Apple TV animated movie Luck. This

(02:32):
was this a little under the radar. What was this
one about? This was very exciting. This was about the
world of luck. There's good luck and bad luck, but
who knows which one is which. I played Jeff the Unicorn,
a man who wears a very sassy jogging suit and
it's simultaneously having a massive mustache. It was a dream
come true. I hate shaving, Mario, Yeah, I I I
shaving is sort of a pain. I just did a

(02:53):
quick one today. I'm not exactly super clean. Hey, you
know what I want to ask you? Are you still djaying? Oh? Yes,
I d J all the time. I disk all the jockeys.
I like to do it if people are here, if
people are not there. It doesn't really matter. I'm like
that cat in the hat. I'll do what any place
you want, whatever location or Bologney is around, versatile. I
appreciate that you were also in chip in Dale Rescue Rangers,

(03:14):
which one of the Emmy this year Best TV. Yes,
I was DJ speaking of DJs, which was a very
sassy snake. It was very fun and very scary and
very delicious. Fool that do you have to audition for
these particular roles, especially with voice work, or do people
just request your sound because they know how you sound? Yeah,
I'm so specific. I'm like, you know, if like Nutella

(03:35):
had like a mint flavor, like you only want that,
you don't audition mint Newtella, you just give it to people.
So sometimes that occurs, and other times I get very lucky,
pun intended and book a roll. You never know, Mario,
That's a perfect analogy. Totally makes sense. Start the DC
universe now that James Gunn is in charges or any
hope for another Javelin appearance. Could you still into that costume?

(03:56):
I would love this. I have been pumping all the
ions and all the metals, all those dummy bells three
to four days a week with my wonderful trainer, Paul Machiti.
I'm very excited to do this. Yes, count me into
any and all Javelin spinoffs. You get it, get it,
get there, you go. You look fantastic. I can see
you pumping the irons there. Um, what about Thanksgiving? Do

(04:16):
you have plans? Yes? I'm going to gorge myself with
eighty two thou calories. Seventy eight thousand of those would
be sweet potato casse roll. The remaining four thousand would
be Shmogans board. Typical American. You're You've, You've acclimated perfectly.
I'm trying very hard to Kio. What's your favorite turkey
jay dish? I love me a pumpkin pie at the end.

(04:38):
I love pumpkin pie. I'm like, you're you're your basic
white girl. I just love everything pump game. But I
do love to make turkey sandwiches the next day, and
I like the dark meat. I like a little flavor
with my real dark meat. Little turkey sandwiches the next day.
And on the sandwich, I put the meat, I put
the stuffing, and I put the the cranberry and the clamp.

(04:59):
They right there. That's I was hoping. Yes, thank you
for saying cranberries. This made me very excited. You put
it all on the sandwich and next day I'm telling
you it's the move. I'll lead it for these couple
of we got leftovers. I'm a big leftover guy. Are
you a big leftover guy? I'm a big calories that
aren't poisonous guy. So yes, okay, good, good, well we'll
get along great. Where are we speaking to you from
right now? I'm currently in Lis, Belgium. I'm getting ready

(05:23):
to film a very fun film and I can't say
any more than that, but it's very exciting and I'm
happy to be here. Congratulations on the film. Hopefully when
you can't talk about it, you'll come back and join
us in phill Us in on that. I will do
this and I'm very excited for you. Also, Mario, you
look dashing as ever. Let's pump some irons together sometime
in the future. I would love that. I would very
much look forward to that. Are you excited about the

(05:44):
World Cup coming up? I'm very excited. I think my
home team has a chance. You know, deutch Land could
be good, who knows. I think this one is like
wide open like those spaces for the Chick Dixie Chicks
wrote about right, something like that. Actly. Yeah, it's in November,
anything can happen. You're exactly right. I love that. Well. Meanwhile,

(06:04):
we're gonna be watching pitch Perfect Bumper in Berlin out
now on Peacock Flula. Thanks so much for checking in.
Congratulations on the new project. Thank you very much to Mario.
A happy chucky tack to you, you too, buddy. Take
care star with Mario A little bas