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Vale is last words before she died on

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the hot one show was

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hey what's going on everybody for first

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week Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're

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watching hot ones it's the show with hot

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questions and even hotter wings and

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today we're joined by Viola Davis she's

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one of the most decorated actors of the

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21st century from the Broadway stage to

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Emmy an academy award-winning

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performances and TV and film her Memoir

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of Finding Me topped the best sellers

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list earlier this year and she has a

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brand new film on the way as well the

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historical epic the woman King which is

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in theaters now Viola Davis welcome to

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the show thank you how are you around

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spicy food before we get started you

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know I I grew up around spicy food South

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Carolina you know you can't get hot

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enough but you know as I've aged

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some things going on my digestive system

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but I'm I'm I'm hopeful

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oh my God is that a good look oh my God

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oh my goodness okay I'm I should Pace

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myself but this is so good

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oh my goodness just one more mm-hmm

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oh my God

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so the woman King which you've described

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as a black female-led Braveheart tells

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the story of an all-woman Warrior Army

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that fought to defend Africa's the homie

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Kingdom in the 19th century how do you

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break down the mechanics of shooting

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epic battle scenes at the size and scale

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that you see in this film like when you

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have hundreds and hundreds of extras on

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set what is the atmosphere or

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environment like in the moments leading

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up to the director saying action the

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environment is just complete and total

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fear

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like when we shot the first Village rage

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scene that's what it's called it was two

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o'clock in the morning okay no I'm at

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the bone

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I'm just gonna suck it off

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there you go I'm in with you so

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it's fear

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because you have to like toss 200 and

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something pound of them

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over your shoulder you're with you know

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swords you're trying not to get hurt

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we train five hours a day wow and we did

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all the stunts ourselves no CGI it was

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all us and sprinting at 9.410

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on a treadmill by the way and did I tell

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you I'm over 50. impressive you know

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once you get up there in the heart rate

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you lose oxygen and the fact that I'm

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sitting here right now eating hot wings

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and I'm still alive is a testament to

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the training of this movie

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bar I'm afraid I'm gonna disappoint you

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further down the line you know

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you're not disappointing me so far sir I

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love that I love that

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so in your Memoir finding me you tell a

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story about auditioning at Juilliard and

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jeans and a sweater while other hopefuls

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practice yoga poses and did ballet and

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thinking back on those days what's an

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acting exercise or warm-up technique

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that you found to be actually helpful

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and then can you give us another one

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that stands out in your mind because

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it's just you know kind of silly um

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an acting exercise that's really helpful

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is a breathing exercise where

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you take a deep breath from your

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diaphragm and you sing a song like happy

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birthday like but you take it syllable

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by syllable so say you take a breath

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and then you really release

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and you just let it all go take another

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breath

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and by the end you're either laughing

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crying both you're hyperventilating but

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the reason why it's helpful is because

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it accesses your emotions

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so I like that exercise a lot of the

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rest put me right the damn sleep like

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when you have to lay on the floor and

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imagine yourself as an animal and all of

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that remember the first time I did that

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in class this is at Juilliard and I

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think they said imagine that you're a

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cloud but I fell asleep during the damn

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exercise so then I woke up and I thought

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that they said imagine you're a plow

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so then I woke up and everybody's like

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floating and floating I'm like that

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doesn't look like a a a plow so I I

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started pretending I was a plow so I was

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crawling around my all fours going

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and I remember the teacher coming up to

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me and saying okay

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this is interesting just keep working on

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it though okay just keep working on it

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was like oh okay

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tell the friends of them I don't know

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I'm telling you I'm buying the odds

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right now

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I love this one I love this one this is

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so I want to stay on the topic of

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theater because when we had Kevin Bacon

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on the show he talked about his time at

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the Circle in the Square Theater which

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is a place that I know that you likewise

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thrived what is the difference in the

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kind of training that you get there

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compared to like a prestigious

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Circle in the Square was more about you

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being honest tapping into your emotion

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tapping into the moment you know and

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speech breathing

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staying then

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um but Juilliard was helpful I feel like

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I give Juilliard a bad rap a lot of

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times I'm surprised they haven't called

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me but but

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um that was a difference

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from your one woman show where you did

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17 different characters to early

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Renditions of hot out Baltimore Romeo

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and Juliet is there a student production

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that you think disproportionately shaped

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your ethos as an actor

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the one-woman show definitely

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it really shaped me because

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there's nothing like being on stage by

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yourself there's no one to sort of save

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you there's no one to bounce off of

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except the audience and

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I just thought I was badass back then

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you know nothing had broken me down yet

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I thought I was like really slick to

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just be this one actor just performing

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all these characters gotta always got a

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standing ovation I thought that was it

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you know well I've got news for you

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Viola's still a badass look at you

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taking on this hot ones Gauntlet

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crushing it taking everything down to

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the bone are you ready to move on here

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to Sauce number four already yes I am I

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can see it

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thank you

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oh my God

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oh my god did I tell you that back in

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the day

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my husband's ex-football player they

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call him headache ball

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because he could just because he said I

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could rattle somebody's helmet for you

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as soon as I you do because if you kill

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the head the body will die he was a

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linebacker and he said he would eat a

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you know whole package of bacon

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just to get big he had a 52 inch chest

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and I said Julius

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I could have out eaten you back

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so that's what I say to you I now eat

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no arguments from this side yeah

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what would you say is the biggest

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difference between like a great TV show

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runner and then like a great film

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this is just my opinion now butterfly

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Let it Fly

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a great showrunner is going to lead the

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writers to always

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the writing always has to in my opinion

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be consistent and just get better

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that's very hard when you're doing a

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show of 22-26 episodes all of them have

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to be connected to the truth and life

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that's what makes a good showrunner that

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that's what makes a great film director

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that's what makes a great teacher life

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and the more people recognize life

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and TB the stage and all the

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collaborators are involved in doing that

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then you feel less alone as an audience

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member and you do not forget the

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experience it's tattooed in you right

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all right Mike drop now let me suck on

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I'm seeing the many faces of Viola

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through the hot ones gauntlet

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these are so good they are oh my God you

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know you can't taste it through the

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camera when you're watching the show but

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Academy Award nominated performance in

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doubt it lasts about 10 minutes but it's

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the emotional heart and soul of the film

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what do you see as the opportunity for

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an actor when your performance is

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limited to a single scene

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uh see I disagree with the term there

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are no small roles only small actors

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even though I understand exactly where

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it's coming from there are some small

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roles I had a you know a line in

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Kate and Leopold where I told Hugh

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Jackman's character pick up your poop

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pick up your dog's poop and that was it

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that's a small role Mrs Miller was not a

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small world even though it was like one

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scene it's written within an inch of its

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life you know exactly who that woman is

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is you always have to approach a

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character as if you're creating a human

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who is she what does she live for

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what does she want based on what she

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needs in life

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a need is always just a basic thing like

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the need I don't know to heal

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when you do all of that and here's the

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last thing you got to do

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you got to take a risk

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so whatever you're thinking in your mind

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make a bold Choice even if it's even if

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you think you're running in the wrong

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direction make a choice so bold and so

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out there and maybe maybe it'll stick or

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maybe you'll fail which I've done a lot

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maybe it'll stick and with that I felt

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like I made a bold move especially

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um

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Steady Hand Steady Hand

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I'm a stronger I'm

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not a warrior I know I saw the movie I

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know I know you know what wait a minute

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wait wait wait wait because you know

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what I just swallowed the piece

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I'm going down yeah why put me down the

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rabbit hole no I'm sorry I'm sorry yeah

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so in 2020 you executive producer were

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featured and giving voices a documentary

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that put a spotlight on six students as

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they competed for a chance to win the

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August Wilson monologue competition is

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there like a science to picking out the

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right audition monologue like is there a

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right or wrong way to do it I think so

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I think that when you audition for

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something

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I think that you should always pick a

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monologue that's closer to who you are

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and I think you should always and always

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chew

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and don't talk for too long I know some

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people have monologues they're just 10

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minutes nobody wants to sit 10 minutes I

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think you got about three four minutes

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at the most okay and here's the other

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thing because I always like

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I'm gonna do my ceiling monologue glass

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so I can blow their minds I'll end with

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blowing their minds that's [ __ ] you

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start with your best monologue first so

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you get their attention right away

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and I say that because I see it all the

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time people say I'm gonna do King Lear

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and you see them doing kick layer and

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you're like that's not good and you're

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20 years old you're doing King land

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model don't do that [ __ ] but um I did

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Celie from color purple and Martine from

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learned ladies

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the more team was like and looking back

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I was like

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but there is a science you do something

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Dynamic you want to be memorable you

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want to wake people up they've already

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seen 50 people before you they don't

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want to work at it

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[Music]

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I had to burp

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[Music]

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another level

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but we're here but we're here you must

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have a hell of a liability cloth but

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people can I mean you need to topple

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over

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from what I gather about how you prepare

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to deliver an honest performance it

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starts by gathering all of the facts and

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then to quote if I don't think the scene

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is answering my questions I'll bother

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the hell out of the director of the

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characters you've played which one would

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you say had the biggest transformation

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or Evolution from the way the character

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was written in the script to ultimately

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what materialized in the performance on

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screen analy's Keating for sure

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that pilot that we shot I remember

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because it was my first sex scene

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so

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and I remember Billy Brown was who

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played Nate

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and he was my boyfriend

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and I had a husband

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so boyfriend husband which sounds really

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great until it comes time to shoot it

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and we shot it 12 it was 12 degrees in

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Philadelphia and she meets Nate and they

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have sex on top of the car I'm not the

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hood

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right outside of my house while my

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husband's in in his office

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you know no disrespect but I didn't

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believe that they wrote from a

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perspective of making her real

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I just felt like she was coming from a

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past where there was trauma and sexual

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abuse ping ping so you see you're

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painting the character and then she

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changed her name why is she changing her

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name whoever she was

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she hated so there was a level of

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self-love that wasn't there and

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juxtaposed that with this badass

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criminal defense attorney then you start

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shaping a person

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and so but that kept like conversations

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had to keep happening

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for me to do that

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so that's it

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[Music]

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[ __ ] I'm shaking me too

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[Music]

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I know

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[Music]

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immediately

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[Music]

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nothing redeemable about it

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nobody's ever whooped your ass after all

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these chicken wings

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when we had Idris Alba on he stopped the

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show and goes whose idea what is it the

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Creator Chris Schoenberger he actually

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traveled with us to London to shoot this

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episode Idris at that time he owes Chris

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can you fight like he challenged Chris

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to a fight in the studio and Chris is

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not here all the time but he actually is

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here today

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oh my mm-hmm

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totally different level

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so when we had David Harbor on the show

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called Law and Order the Dick Wolf

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subsidy for the Arts what do you see as

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the significance of law dramas and soap

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operas was like an endowment for

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performers

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you gotta repeat that damn question

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the thing about law dramas is it really

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challenges your process as an actor

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it's hard to tap into emotion because

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I know

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I'm I'm surprised I'm not pissing in my

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pants right now

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I was not a puddle and piss right here

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well I'm going down that damn rabbit

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oh [ __ ] anyway

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when you're doing a courtroom scene you

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have to pull out all your Technique

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because a lot of it is just technical

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terms but it has to be still Dynamic

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emotionally connected

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and

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and

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you're working with so many different

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actors you're working with the actors

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playing the judge people who understand

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you feel like you have more of an

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audience in the courtroom and that's it

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because you know what I can't talk

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anymore I mean my lips are burning off

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and I got some lips

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[Music]

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how can you say you're being my friend

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I mean you're a very lovely man and

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you're sort of cute too oh but let me

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tell you something

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I don't believe you

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that this one's not as bad as the last

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one no I would never lie to you I would

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never lie to you Viola Davis

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all right

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so this is unique garlic here

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from pucker butt pepper company

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it's no walk in the park but

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a little bit easier than the last one

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did I tell you I had to panic attack

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once no I didn't you didn't tell me this

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Meryl Streep who's a very lovely woman

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by the way but she did something to me

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she could not go to the first Critics

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Choice Award and she knew she was good

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some awards you know you're gonna win in

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advance this is way back in the day

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and she said viola

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can you accept my award for me I want

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you to do it because I can't be there I

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said yeah

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oh that's such an honor oh my God now I

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forgot that this was the first award

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show I had ever been to I go that award

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show and I proceed to have the worst

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panic attack just like I'm having right

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now with my legs couldn't stop moving

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I began to cry

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I couldn't I literally could not move

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and I had to get up on that stage and

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accept the word for Meryl Streep and

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guess what what she didn't tell me what

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to say

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so I'm saying that to you now because

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my legs are moving yeah

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well the good news is we're almost to

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that finish line here

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all right Viola Davis

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I'll believe you with this one

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I didn't lie to you I didn't lie to you

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about the last one did I did that tell

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you have a really big husband that used

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to play football and ate 12 eggs a day

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but he can swing a really good baseball

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bat so you better do it really here

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I said to look around

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keep my head on a swivel

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you do this one mm-hmm

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it's not open

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so like so you can't you can't you're in

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the clear mm-hmm

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this is a hard one

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they're all hard they're all hard at

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this point but

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we're there

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[Music]

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[Music]

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I know

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so we've hit the clip notes on just a

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sliver of your amazing journey but to

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close things out I've heard you quote

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the famous mythologist Joseph Campbell

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and as the saying goes the privilege of

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a lifetime is being who you are what

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does that mean to you

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now we're about to get deep yep

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well I'm choking today

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that's the show

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Viola's last words before she died on

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the hot one show was

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I just feel like our whole journey in

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our life is becoming our ideal selves

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you know we get stripped away as we go

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along the journey

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where it's like I've gotten to the point

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in my life it's like I've been sold a

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bill of goods

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you know that really at the end of the

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day you come into this world you are

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absolutely who you are then your parents

520
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come along and they try to imprint

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themselves on you your friends

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Society you know this is a school you

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have to go to this is how pretty you

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have to look this is what you have to

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wear

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and I think somewhere along the line is

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a voice deep within you that tells you

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exactly who you are you just have to

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have the courage to do that that's what

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the Journey of the hero is all about you

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know you're born into a world where you

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don't fit in

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and then you answer the call to

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Adventure and you

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deny the call and then at one point you

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then set out on your path

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all right and you slay dragons you do

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all of that and then at some point you

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come face to face with not a God but

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yourself

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okay

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and somewhere along line and you get it

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your aha moment your Elixir and you go

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back to your Ordinary World and you

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share it with others

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and I think that's the journey

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and I think that's the privilege of

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being absolutely Who You Are

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belonging to yourself

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and being brave

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slaying dragons

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was it a battle against the spice or a

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battle against ourselves either way

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Viola Davis we came out on top and now

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there's nothing left to do but roll out

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the red carpet for you this camera this

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camera this camera let the people know

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what you have going on in your life

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foreign

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the woman King September 16th see it in

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theaters

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oh my God

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first of all the wings are really good

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but

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fantastic questions oh well thank you so

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much are you an actor dude no I've only

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played myself one time uh opposite Maya

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Rudolph and the Apple TV show Luke

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hey what's going on hot ones fans we

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brought the heat to the freezer aisle

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with our hot ones boneless chicken bites

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our wildest expectations so what did we

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do we made more that's right we are in

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with five new flavors of hot one's

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