{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Tracksuit Podcast","title":"David Lawrence - Cancer, Cannes, and a Fake Australian Accent","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3008,"description":"David Lawrence — Cancer, Cannes, and a Fake Australian Accent\nDavid Josh Lawrence (actor, writer, producer, acquisitions at Studio Dome / Bloodstream TV) pulls up a chair in the most eventful tracksuit session yet. What starts as a conversation about his self-produced passion project *Lincoln Must Die* quickly spirals into a deeply honest — and deeply funny — account of how he actually got here: surviving non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at 16, becoming a firefighter in San Bernardino, finding acting through exposure therapy, and learning to write scripts because the 2007 WGA strike shut everything else down.\nTopics & highlights:Lincoln Must Die — how David pitched the story from nothing at Cannes, waited five years, and finally got it made in a month with indie collaborators Leanne Bauer, David Mitchell Park, and Mario Garcia DuenasCancer at 16 — non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the Make-A-Wish negotiation (Jackie Chan was busy, Jet Li was busy, Britney Spears was apparently doable), and why surviving it made everyone else's excuses hard to tolerateFirefighting & exposure therapy — how anxiety attacks on medical calls in San Bernardino led him to a therapist who told him he was actually just an actorThe Australian accent arc — faking a full Aussie identity to book a role, accidentally getting signed by an agent, booking Bundaberg rum and Outback Steakhouse commercials, and the moment it all unraveled at a client mixerBreaking into distribution — filling in for a no-show at the American Film Market and getting offered an acquisitions job by the end of the day; working with mentor Tom MalloyWhy you shouldn't put your indie film on IMDb too early — a genuinely useful breakdown of how festival dating kills your international sales windowComplex Texas, I Have Proof, and the buddy-cop-with-a-monkey movie — the ongoing collaborations between David, James, and BJWeed brownies, alien theories, and the case for just going out and making your movie already","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GXB1BrvHtzqPeMy9oPiV4lrEb-REsPl41ZU7xEFTsXU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMzUy/YTMyZDU4YmIxZmY1/ZGY1NGEyZDA1YThk/ZTY2MS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}