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So what do you need now? 25 00:01:13,281 --> 00:01:16,618 So she brought me another shirt, some socks and some shoes. 26 00:01:16,701 --> 00:01:17,535 Yes she did. 27 00:01:17,535 --> 00:01:19,996 So, baby, thank you so, so much for that. 28 00:01:19,996 --> 00:01:21,331 And happy spring, by the way. 29 00:01:21,331 --> 00:01:24,292 I'm so glad that we're in the spring, you know, and it's just wonderful 30 00:01:25,001 --> 00:01:26,711 to almost melted in the park. 31 00:01:26,711 --> 00:01:31,174 I know, I know, it's crazy, but we had a wild winter and it's just so great. 32 00:01:31,174 --> 00:01:33,176 I love spring, I love, I love New England. 33 00:01:33,176 --> 00:01:35,553 I love the Four Seasons, the variety. 34 00:01:35,553 --> 00:01:36,596 I love the Four seasons too. 35 00:01:36,596 --> 00:01:39,349 But you know, the variety of it'll be happy with three. Yeah. 36 00:01:42,852 --> 00:01:43,686 It's good to see you, Joyce. 37 00:01:43,686 --> 00:01:44,229 As always. 38 00:01:44,229 --> 00:01:46,898 Love, love hanging out with you and with you today. 39 00:01:46,898 --> 00:01:48,983 How about you? What's good with you? 40 00:01:48,983 --> 00:01:51,861 I slept last night. 41 00:01:51,861 --> 00:01:52,821 You did? What? Those. 42 00:01:52,821 --> 00:01:53,905 Listen to other shows. 43 00:01:53,905 --> 00:01:56,991 I've had a problem with this, surgical procedure on my left eye. 44 00:01:57,283 --> 00:01:58,493 Yeah, but I'll tell you, it's coming along. 45 00:01:58,493 --> 00:02:01,121 You look great. It's getting there. 46 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:02,455 Almost through the night. 47 00:02:02,455 --> 00:02:05,291 Wow. Wow. Good. So you're ready? 48 00:02:05,291 --> 00:02:06,626 So are you ready for the show? 49 00:02:06,626 --> 00:02:07,293 I'm ready. 50 00:02:07,293 --> 00:02:08,086 All right. 51 00:02:08,086 --> 00:02:09,504 Wait to talk to our guests. 52 00:02:09,504 --> 00:02:10,255 Well, gentlemen, 53 00:02:10,255 --> 00:02:14,008 I had the opportunity to meet, you know, probably a couple of years back. 54 00:02:14,008 --> 00:02:17,053 And just a real gentleman. Really nice man. 55 00:02:17,095 --> 00:02:19,681 You know, he's, Let's talk a little bit about his story. 56 00:02:19,681 --> 00:02:21,891 Law enforcement, but also acting. 57 00:02:21,891 --> 00:02:23,226 He's done a whole bunch of movies, 58 00:02:23,226 --> 00:02:26,229 many of which, you see, maybe, you know, My Left foot, A Few Good Men. 59 00:02:26,437 --> 00:02:28,064 Strange. Strange. 60 00:02:28,064 --> 00:02:30,859 He's part of the Stranger Things, TV series. 61 00:02:30,859 --> 00:02:33,111 I'm only kidding. I'm like it. I'm the stranger person. 62 00:02:33,111 --> 00:02:35,321 I'm living in an alternative universe right now. 63 00:02:35,321 --> 00:02:39,075 But but, but but this guy is just simply amazing and just a real talent. 64 00:02:39,075 --> 00:02:41,536 And I just want to say it's an honor and privilege to have you here. 65 00:02:41,536 --> 00:02:42,412 Greg. 66 00:02:42,412 --> 00:02:42,912 Greg. Not true. 67 00:02:42,912 --> 00:02:45,915 Greg. Appreciate you man. Awesome, awesome. 68 00:02:46,958 --> 00:02:47,333 Yeah. 69 00:02:47,333 --> 00:02:50,628 Greg said no to 135 shows before he said yes to Arts. 70 00:02:53,882 --> 00:02:55,758 And we appreciate you. 71 00:02:55,758 --> 00:02:59,429 So, Greg, tell us a little bit about you, because you've been in so many shows and 72 00:02:59,429 --> 00:03:03,558 I'm sure many of which my wife has seen because she is a hallmark fanatic. 73 00:03:03,892 --> 00:03:05,602 She's watching hallmark movies, 74 00:03:05,602 --> 00:03:08,354 Christmas movies, like so many people in the middle of the summer. 75 00:03:08,354 --> 00:03:10,899 And, and but you've been on more than hallmark. 76 00:03:10,899 --> 00:03:12,400 You've been on many, many of the movies, too. 77 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,902 He's been on so many. 78 00:03:13,902 --> 00:03:17,530 But what shocked me about you and just reading your bio, 79 00:03:17,530 --> 00:03:21,576 because I really only knew your name, you know, as an actor. 80 00:03:22,035 --> 00:03:24,662 So I have to we have to begin that. 81 00:03:24,662 --> 00:03:27,832 He has a total 37 years in law enforcement. 82 00:03:27,957 --> 00:03:31,794 And when I was reading about and I'm wearing this right here, 83 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:35,715 you could see this like you back to blue, baby. Yep. 84 00:03:36,007 --> 00:03:40,303 He was an undercover narcotics officer, a Swat team member. 85 00:03:40,345 --> 00:03:41,971 That's how we first met. When he arrested me. 86 00:03:47,936 --> 00:03:48,686 Yeah, we know 87 00:03:48,686 --> 00:03:51,689 that's a that's another episode. 88 00:03:51,856 --> 00:03:53,858 So you had this 89 00:03:53,858 --> 00:03:59,614 this career in law enforcement, and then it almost sounds like an anomaly. 90 00:03:59,614 --> 00:04:01,699 That you're an actor. 91 00:04:01,699 --> 00:04:02,867 I mean, you did. 92 00:04:02,867 --> 00:04:05,870 You just, like, wash your hands of that and say, you know what? 93 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:08,248 I'm going to be an actor. 94 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:11,334 No, it was, it was a slow progression into, 95 00:04:11,334 --> 00:04:14,420 into the entertainment business. 96 00:04:14,420 --> 00:04:16,506 It was something, you know, as a child, I. 97 00:04:16,506 --> 00:04:19,342 I always had an interest in, 98 00:04:19,342 --> 00:04:22,428 I was a shy kid, but I always had an interest in entertaining 99 00:04:22,679 --> 00:04:25,723 and being like, you know, the class clown and stuff like that. And, 100 00:04:27,433 --> 00:04:31,396 you know, I pursued a career to where I knew I was going to get a paycheck 101 00:04:31,938 --> 00:04:35,566 on a weekly basis because I knew I was I think I was smart enough to know that. 102 00:04:36,109 --> 00:04:38,361 Oh, you mean actors don't get normal every week? 103 00:04:38,361 --> 00:04:38,987 Paychecks? 104 00:04:40,863 --> 00:04:42,198 Unfortunately, probably 105 00:04:42,198 --> 00:04:45,660 close to 99% of actors do not make it. 106 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:47,954 Yeah. It's, 107 00:04:47,954 --> 00:04:52,083 you know, it's a very small percentage of actors that make, an actual living. 108 00:04:52,083 --> 00:04:53,543 They have to have another job. 109 00:04:53,543 --> 00:04:57,046 So I pursued law enforcement, and, you know, right from, 110 00:04:57,588 --> 00:05:01,384 you know, I was young, I became a cop when I was 20 years old. 111 00:05:02,093 --> 00:05:05,096 And, it one of the best things I ever did. 112 00:05:05,221 --> 00:05:08,057 What made you want to become a cop? 113 00:05:08,057 --> 00:05:11,060 It was just, you know, the 114 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:13,938 serving others. I just liked helping. 115 00:05:13,938 --> 00:05:17,483 Yeah, yeah, I grew up with my my parents and my grandparents 116 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:20,862 just constantly, always giving and, 117 00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:23,406 going out of their way to help people they didn't know. 118 00:05:23,406 --> 00:05:26,993 I love it, and it just, you know, I think that was just one of the things, 119 00:05:26,993 --> 00:05:28,786 especially my grandfather. He was very, 120 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:31,664 He would 121 00:05:31,664 --> 00:05:35,335 he would literally go out of his way to go help someone else. 122 00:05:36,252 --> 00:05:37,670 You know, he'd be soaking wet. 123 00:05:37,670 --> 00:05:40,298 He'd be freezing cold. He would lose money on it. 124 00:05:40,298 --> 00:05:44,093 And it was just something that I just think, you know, I just that's 125 00:05:44,093 --> 00:05:47,096 probably one of the reasons why I answered law enforcement, but, 126 00:05:47,805 --> 00:05:50,725 I absolutely 127 00:05:50,725 --> 00:05:56,230 every, every, every second of my career, I still do work part time. 128 00:05:56,230 --> 00:05:57,899 I'm not full time anymore. Right. 129 00:05:57,899 --> 00:05:59,776 Retire as a police detective. 130 00:05:59,776 --> 00:06:03,029 But I continue to work, with another agency. 131 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:07,784 For now, a total of 37 years I've been in law enforcement, 132 00:06:08,868 --> 00:06:11,204 and I find that, you know, you're talking about being an introvert. 133 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:14,207 I find that most people in the entertainment business are introverts. 134 00:06:14,374 --> 00:06:17,293 Like, people don't have a hard time believing that. 135 00:06:17,293 --> 00:06:18,503 I'm an introvert by nature, 136 00:06:19,504 --> 00:06:20,046 you know. 137 00:06:20,046 --> 00:06:24,550 Oh, I am, oh, I am, I am Joyce, you know, very much an introvert by nature. 138 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:27,053 But you put yourself in a position where you're an extrovert. 139 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:29,639 But did you spend a lot of time by yourself? 140 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:30,348 It kind of like 141 00:06:30,348 --> 00:06:34,227 imitating doing different voices or acting out certain movies or TV shows. 142 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:36,437 As a kid, when you were on your own as a kid. Yeah. 143 00:06:36,437 --> 00:06:36,979 But know, I 144 00:06:36,979 --> 00:06:41,734 you know, I grew out of that, you know, probably in my, you know, early teens. 145 00:06:41,776 --> 00:06:42,527 I grew out of that. 146 00:06:42,527 --> 00:06:46,114 But I do remember doing, you know, acting out, you know, 147 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,075 voices. Sure. 148 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:52,620 Who are the big influences in your life growing up in the entertainment business? 149 00:06:53,287 --> 00:06:55,164 It's in the entertainment business. 150 00:06:55,164 --> 00:06:56,332 Yeah. Movies, TV, 151 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:01,546 probably early on. 152 00:07:01,546 --> 00:07:07,093 And would be like someone like Robert De Niro would be, some tremendous actor. 153 00:07:07,176 --> 00:07:10,555 Yeah, yeah, he was probably one of the top in my mind. 154 00:07:10,847 --> 00:07:11,597 Yeah. 155 00:07:11,597 --> 00:07:15,309 I just, I just watched, is the movie King King of Comedy? 156 00:07:15,476 --> 00:07:16,018 Oh, yeah. 157 00:07:16,018 --> 00:07:18,980 Yeah, he was fabulous. 158 00:07:18,980 --> 00:07:19,772 Oh, really? 159 00:07:19,772 --> 00:07:22,775 And and as I was watching it, I was thinking 160 00:07:22,942 --> 00:07:25,611 this guy was always so shy. 161 00:07:25,611 --> 00:07:28,614 He never wanted to do interviews, anything like that. 162 00:07:29,031 --> 00:07:31,993 But when he was acting, him 163 00:07:31,993 --> 00:07:34,996 batted that he morphed into the character. 164 00:07:34,996 --> 00:07:37,874 Whatever the character required, he morphed right into it. 165 00:07:37,874 --> 00:07:39,750 Made me uncomfortable. 166 00:07:39,750 --> 00:07:41,961 So my character. Yeah. 167 00:07:41,961 --> 00:07:42,753 Good. Yes. 168 00:07:42,753 --> 00:07:45,673 Yeah. Yes. So you know that feeling? Oh, absolutely. 169 00:07:45,673 --> 00:07:48,468 You know, when you're when you're doing it right. 170 00:07:48,468 --> 00:07:49,177 Yeah. Right. 171 00:07:49,177 --> 00:07:50,344 And you feel good about it. 172 00:07:50,344 --> 00:07:53,973 You did over 75 movies and theater production. 173 00:07:53,973 --> 00:07:57,852 Actually probably over 100. Wow. 174 00:07:58,019 --> 00:07:58,311 Yeah. 175 00:07:58,311 --> 00:08:03,399 So do you feel comfortable, like you just stepped into that, 176 00:08:03,441 --> 00:08:07,570 the shoes that you're meant to be in when you hit the stage or the lights go on? 177 00:08:09,655 --> 00:08:12,783 You know, it's a it's a it's always a work in progress. 178 00:08:12,783 --> 00:08:16,245 You're always learning, you know, you're always you're I'm still, 179 00:08:16,913 --> 00:08:19,749 educating myself, you know, daily. 180 00:08:19,749 --> 00:08:20,249 Weekly. 181 00:08:20,249 --> 00:08:22,752 You know, studying, you know, scripts. 182 00:08:22,752 --> 00:08:26,422 You know, I watch movies differently than. 183 00:08:26,923 --> 00:08:27,715 Oh, sure. 184 00:08:27,715 --> 00:08:28,883 You know, 185 00:08:28,883 --> 00:08:32,929 you're looking at other films, looking at, not looking at what you're looking at. 186 00:08:33,346 --> 00:08:37,266 You know, I'm trying to wonder how it is that that particular character 187 00:08:37,266 --> 00:08:39,101 is just pulling it off. So. 188 00:08:39,101 --> 00:08:43,481 So then are you able to get lost in the storyline like John and I do? 189 00:08:43,481 --> 00:08:46,984 Right? Or I mean, currently watching, right? 190 00:08:47,109 --> 00:08:48,319 Probably not. 191 00:08:48,319 --> 00:08:51,197 You know, unless I watch it a second time. Yeah. 192 00:08:51,197 --> 00:08:53,115 You know, the educational part of it. 193 00:08:53,115 --> 00:08:54,617 Right. 194 00:08:54,617 --> 00:08:57,828 I generally probably don't get lost in the story. 195 00:08:58,371 --> 00:09:02,833 Unless I again, I'll have to put it aside as far as you know, because I 196 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:05,920 look at the movie, you know, I'm looking at the you look at 197 00:09:07,046 --> 00:09:07,588 the lighting. 198 00:09:07,588 --> 00:09:07,880 Yeah. 199 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:09,382 You know, the, you know, the 200 00:09:09,382 --> 00:09:13,302 why did they choose this location or, you know, what a fantastic choice 201 00:09:13,719 --> 00:09:17,515 to to use that particular entrance and how he's exiting. 202 00:09:17,515 --> 00:09:21,435 And you know why the the characters are doing what they're doing. 203 00:09:23,729 --> 00:09:25,815 Like how the director and the actor, the writers 204 00:09:25,815 --> 00:09:28,818 all kind of came together to make this flawless. 205 00:09:28,859 --> 00:09:31,862 So you're looking at it from an analytical lens and all the aspects of it. 206 00:09:31,988 --> 00:09:34,574 Now, tell me about the first time you went onto a set. 207 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:37,159 Do you remember that day, what it was like? Were you overwhelmed? 208 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:40,913 Did you have that like, oh, jaw dropping situation? 209 00:09:40,913 --> 00:09:46,168 What was it like the first time is I'm really on a set doing this acting thing. 210 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:48,045 Yeah, I do remember, 211 00:09:50,881 --> 00:09:52,633 I don't have as good of a 212 00:09:52,633 --> 00:09:56,387 good memories of my first handful of films because I wasn't that. 213 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:57,680 I wasn't that good. 214 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:59,390 You know, you're you're trying to. 215 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:00,558 You're figuring things out. 216 00:10:00,558 --> 00:10:02,810 Yeah. And it's, learning as you go. 217 00:10:02,810 --> 00:10:04,353 Yeah, you you learn as you go. 218 00:10:04,353 --> 00:10:07,356 I mean, I had, you know, I had done some, 219 00:10:07,982 --> 00:10:11,986 taking some acting classes prior to, you know, my first time on set. 220 00:10:12,987 --> 00:10:16,073 But it's, it takes it takes a handful of, 221 00:10:17,533 --> 00:10:19,493 plays and, you know, short 222 00:10:19,493 --> 00:10:22,580 films and student films to really get comfortable. 223 00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:28,127 I probably wasn't completely comfortable until I at least had probably ten films. 224 00:10:28,336 --> 00:10:28,878 Okay. 225 00:10:28,878 --> 00:10:33,799 Then I started really understanding, you know, how everything works, how I work. 226 00:10:33,924 --> 00:10:35,593 Yeah, right. 227 00:10:35,593 --> 00:10:40,431 You know how I analyzed the script and, you know, really listening, 228 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,601 you know, listening to things, the scripts, I, 229 00:10:43,601 --> 00:10:46,937 I don't know, a lot of actors that are great at memorizing. 230 00:10:46,937 --> 00:10:49,231 It's something that you really got to work on. 231 00:10:49,231 --> 00:10:51,817 It's something that I, I certainly have to work on. 232 00:10:51,817 --> 00:10:53,110 And it's, you know 233 00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:57,031 the, the longer I've been in this business 234 00:10:57,031 --> 00:11:00,868 it's less important now than it was in the beginning. 235 00:11:00,868 --> 00:11:02,453 It was more about at 236 00:11:02,453 --> 00:11:06,082 the beginning was more about the words making sure you got the words right, 237 00:11:06,290 --> 00:11:09,752 which means you're not really listening to the other person. Yes. 238 00:11:10,294 --> 00:11:13,756 You're your next words in dialog are going to be. 239 00:11:13,756 --> 00:11:17,802 So that's one of the things that kind of like you're learning as you're going 240 00:11:17,802 --> 00:11:20,721 like this, this isn't working. How you I got to do something different. 241 00:11:20,721 --> 00:11:23,683 So it's more of I got to listen 242 00:11:24,141 --> 00:11:28,521 to really listen to what the other actor, the other character is saying to me 243 00:11:28,729 --> 00:11:33,109 and not just wait for, you know, my cue to come in and and speak. 244 00:11:33,359 --> 00:11:34,276 That doesn't work. 245 00:11:34,276 --> 00:11:37,571 So, yeah, listening is so important just in life in general. 246 00:11:37,571 --> 00:11:38,114 Because you're right, 247 00:11:38,114 --> 00:11:40,491 because so many people will have a conversation 248 00:11:40,491 --> 00:11:42,576 and they're not listening to what the person says, 249 00:11:42,576 --> 00:11:44,704 and they go right into their next question or statement. 250 00:11:44,704 --> 00:11:47,748 How many times have you run into people, well, how are you today, Greg? 251 00:11:47,748 --> 00:11:50,793 And they don't let you answer and they go right in to talking themselves. 252 00:11:51,127 --> 00:11:53,295 Well, how are you? Pause. 253 00:11:53,295 --> 00:11:56,340 Listen, look them in the eye, have a conversation. 254 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:58,342 And that's and that same. 255 00:11:58,342 --> 00:12:01,512 And with acting you have to be intentional very important. 256 00:12:01,512 --> 00:12:03,556 Listening is probably one of the most. 257 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:06,642 And again when I say listen you really got to be listening to 258 00:12:06,642 --> 00:12:07,727 what they're saying, 259 00:12:07,727 --> 00:12:10,813 why they're saying and how they're saying, because that affects 260 00:12:11,397 --> 00:12:14,817 how I'm going to, you know, okay, if I have something in my mind 261 00:12:14,817 --> 00:12:17,903 where I'm going to be delivering a line to, 262 00:12:18,154 --> 00:12:20,906 let's say you as the other character 263 00:12:20,906 --> 00:12:22,992 and I, you know, meeting you for the first time 264 00:12:22,992 --> 00:12:25,995 and it's you say something in a certain way 265 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,957 that that's not the way I planned for that character. 266 00:12:29,999 --> 00:12:33,002 Right? That's beneficial. Yeah. 267 00:12:33,002 --> 00:12:37,006 So I'm kind of thrown off because because I'm sure I'm going to respond 268 00:12:37,256 --> 00:12:40,050 differently than the way it's a job anticipating. 269 00:12:40,050 --> 00:12:41,302 Yeah. 270 00:12:41,302 --> 00:12:44,263 So you were in a movie with Tom Hanks. 271 00:12:44,472 --> 00:12:47,099 You know what Steven Spielberg? Tom Hanks. 272 00:12:47,099 --> 00:12:48,225 Yeah. Wow. 273 00:12:49,351 --> 00:12:50,978 Bridge of spies. 274 00:12:50,978 --> 00:12:53,981 That was a great movie. What was that like? 275 00:12:54,064 --> 00:12:56,150 Wait, wait, how many times did you audition? 276 00:12:56,150 --> 00:12:59,153 Well, let me I'll tell you. 277 00:12:59,445 --> 00:13:02,198 So it was this was approximately 278 00:13:02,198 --> 00:13:05,326 12 years ago, when I did Bridge of Spies. 279 00:13:05,785 --> 00:13:08,537 So I got the call from my agent, 280 00:13:08,537 --> 00:13:09,830 which was, you know, normal. 281 00:13:09,830 --> 00:13:10,915 Hey, you're going on that. 282 00:13:10,915 --> 00:13:14,502 You're going on an audition, which was, you know, pre-COVID, 283 00:13:14,502 --> 00:13:18,380 we used to literally go to New York, take a train, 284 00:13:18,589 --> 00:13:21,592 spend the entire day going to auditions in New York. 285 00:13:22,343 --> 00:13:24,970 And that's, you know, Covid has changed everything, but. 286 00:13:24,970 --> 00:13:28,098 So I get to call and, which was great. 287 00:13:28,098 --> 00:13:32,394 I would go, you know, once, twice a week on auditions, and I got this one. 288 00:13:32,686 --> 00:13:35,981 And I always do a little bit of background 289 00:13:35,981 --> 00:13:39,151 on as much as I can, because they don't give you any. 290 00:13:40,361 --> 00:13:43,364 When you're in the early stages of, 291 00:13:44,532 --> 00:13:46,617 the process, they don't give you any information. 292 00:13:46,617 --> 00:13:49,620 They give you the snake swim baby. 293 00:13:50,788 --> 00:13:53,040 Yeah. 294 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,417 To to, you know, bring to the audition. 295 00:13:55,417 --> 00:13:59,296 And I think it was about three pages of, of dialog that I had to learn. 296 00:13:59,296 --> 00:14:01,048 So I, I looked, I looked it up. 297 00:14:01,048 --> 00:14:04,051 The name of the movie was called, 298 00:14:04,260 --> 00:14:05,594 Saint James Place. 299 00:14:05,594 --> 00:14:07,429 I looked it up. There's nothing. 300 00:14:07,429 --> 00:14:10,182 Right. I couldn't find anything on it. 301 00:14:10,182 --> 00:14:13,185 And and but the casting director was, 302 00:14:14,270 --> 00:14:17,064 a big name casting director, 303 00:14:17,064 --> 00:14:20,067 you know, like, she only does, 304 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:24,947 top, you know, A-list actors, A-list actors, A-list directors. 305 00:14:25,322 --> 00:14:27,741 So I'm like, wow, this this is big. 306 00:14:27,741 --> 00:14:30,619 And usually when I go on auditions, 307 00:14:30,619 --> 00:14:35,833 the you go into a room such as this and you're sitting with 13, 308 00:14:35,833 --> 00:14:41,213 15 other guys that look exactly like me, and they're all studying and, you know. 309 00:14:41,463 --> 00:14:43,924 Right. Nervous and pacing and stuff. 310 00:14:43,924 --> 00:14:49,680 So I walk into this, this big casting agency, and it's just me. 311 00:14:50,264 --> 00:14:51,765 Wow. It's just. Wow. 312 00:14:51,765 --> 00:14:53,934 I don't even know if I'm in the right place. 313 00:14:53,934 --> 00:14:57,897 I don't I don't, I finally figure out where I gotta go and knock on the door. 314 00:14:58,022 --> 00:15:01,233 Shelly opening and and we just, 315 00:15:01,233 --> 00:15:04,236 like, had a conversation like this for, like, five minutes. 316 00:15:04,445 --> 00:15:09,408 And then we did the scene a couple of times, and she thanked me very much. 317 00:15:09,408 --> 00:15:11,452 And, and I went on my way. 318 00:15:12,411 --> 00:15:13,370 A couple of weeks go by, 319 00:15:13,370 --> 00:15:17,625 probably close to a month goes by, which is kind of typical. 320 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:21,629 When it's a bigger job it's typical for you know it's not 321 00:15:22,713 --> 00:15:24,548 you could go two months without getting a call. 322 00:15:24,548 --> 00:15:26,717 But generally it's you know within two weeks 323 00:15:26,717 --> 00:15:29,011 you kind of know whether you, you got the part. 324 00:15:29,011 --> 00:15:31,889 Are you going to get a callback. So I get a call. 325 00:15:31,889 --> 00:15:34,975 About later, I mean, Atlanta, Georgia, 326 00:15:34,975 --> 00:15:38,604 and I get a call from, my agent saying, you got the job. 327 00:15:39,396 --> 00:15:40,230 What? Your job is. 328 00:15:40,230 --> 00:15:43,233 Yes, it's it's that when you audition for, 329 00:15:44,026 --> 00:15:45,653 you know, whatever. 330 00:15:45,653 --> 00:15:48,822 So, again, I looked everything up. 331 00:15:48,822 --> 00:15:50,866 She that the agent didn't know anything about it 332 00:15:50,866 --> 00:15:53,035 other than, you know, they're going to be calling you to. 333 00:15:53,035 --> 00:15:55,454 Do you know, fittings and. 334 00:15:55,454 --> 00:15:57,581 Yeah, stuff like that. So 335 00:15:58,582 --> 00:16:00,459 finally I, 336 00:16:00,459 --> 00:16:03,462 I find out that it's Bridge of Spies. Oh. 337 00:16:04,421 --> 00:16:08,217 So I look up the, the title Bridge of Spies on IMDb 338 00:16:09,009 --> 00:16:12,096 and on my side and I MBB stands for, for those. 339 00:16:13,097 --> 00:16:14,264 Okay. All right. 340 00:16:14,264 --> 00:16:17,142 So I looked it up and it's 341 00:16:17,142 --> 00:16:19,812 the director was Steven Spielberg 342 00:16:19,812 --> 00:16:22,940 and on my sides it had my character's name 343 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:26,151 and the other character who, what was your character's name? 344 00:16:26,151 --> 00:16:29,113 Lieutenant. You could look it up. 345 00:16:29,655 --> 00:16:32,116 Okay. A new New York City. 346 00:16:32,116 --> 00:16:33,534 Okay. Right. 347 00:16:33,534 --> 00:16:35,369 So it was, on the sides. 348 00:16:35,369 --> 00:16:39,289 It was, New York, police lieutenant, 349 00:16:39,289 --> 00:16:42,292 which was made sure the name of the other character. 350 00:16:42,376 --> 00:16:45,045 So I look that up and it's Tom Hanks. 351 00:16:45,045 --> 00:16:47,715 Oh, wow. 352 00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:53,178 I have three pages of dialog in, you know, a huge movie with Tom Hanks 353 00:16:53,387 --> 00:16:54,096 because you're like, heart 354 00:16:54,096 --> 00:16:57,182 going like this, like, whoa, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg. 355 00:16:57,349 --> 00:17:00,477 It was. I mean, come on, it was, it was 356 00:17:01,770 --> 00:17:04,356 it was an unbelievable experience. 357 00:17:04,356 --> 00:17:08,527 Just just finding that information out that my scene was going to. Wow. 358 00:17:09,403 --> 00:17:13,157 So you know, between that time 359 00:17:13,157 --> 00:17:16,368 and the time the movie actually shot was probably 360 00:17:17,619 --> 00:17:19,580 less, from the time I was notified to 361 00:17:19,580 --> 00:17:22,583 the time the movie was shot was probably two months. 362 00:17:22,666 --> 00:17:24,752 It was a lot of, you know, I had to go to New York 363 00:17:24,752 --> 00:17:27,713 to get fittings and pictures and 364 00:17:28,005 --> 00:17:29,131 trimmed my hair. 365 00:17:29,131 --> 00:17:32,134 I mean, everything, but how exciting. 366 00:17:32,301 --> 00:17:34,386 What a journey. Very exciting. 367 00:17:34,386 --> 00:17:36,972 But I'm also nervous because, you 368 00:17:36,972 --> 00:17:39,975 know, it's Steven Spielberg, 369 00:17:39,975 --> 00:17:42,561 right along with Tom Hanks. 370 00:17:42,561 --> 00:17:44,188 It's it's it's unbelievable. 371 00:17:44,188 --> 00:17:49,693 So the day of the again leading up to it, it's it's phone calls. 372 00:17:49,693 --> 00:17:50,319 It's email. 373 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:53,113 Right. It's you know just every you know assistants calling. 374 00:17:53,113 --> 00:17:54,740 Yeah. To make sure you got that. 375 00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:56,200 Here's the six. 376 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,452 It was in a good way controlled chaos. 377 00:17:58,452 --> 00:18:01,246 Good has it. The day of the shoot. 378 00:18:01,246 --> 00:18:05,709 I go to I drive to it was in was Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. 379 00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:08,754 I drive to a certain area in Brooklyn, and they pick me up 380 00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:12,091 and they bring me to, set. Right. 381 00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:14,802 You know, I've been on a lot of sets, you know, 382 00:18:16,136 --> 00:18:17,054 indie productions. 383 00:18:17,054 --> 00:18:18,597 Yeah, I got a couple of trailers. 384 00:18:18,597 --> 00:18:20,390 You got a few generators. 385 00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:24,228 You got 20 or 30 crew members here and there, you know, bouncing around. 386 00:18:24,645 --> 00:18:27,231 But this particular, 387 00:18:27,231 --> 00:18:30,192 set that I went to, it was just 388 00:18:30,484 --> 00:18:34,947 tractor trailers, equipment generator. Wow. 389 00:18:35,030 --> 00:18:35,989 Yeah. 390 00:18:35,989 --> 00:18:37,533 It's not your typical indie. 391 00:18:37,533 --> 00:18:39,451 You you didn't know at all, right. 392 00:18:39,451 --> 00:18:42,955 So as, as I'm approaching, you know, I'm walking up to set, 393 00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:44,748 and it's just, it's overwhelming because. 394 00:18:44,748 --> 00:18:47,751 Yeah, again, I've been on many sets 395 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:51,547 and half of the size, and this was just tractor trailer after tractor trailer 396 00:18:51,547 --> 00:18:56,510 with equipment and people buzzing around and tents and trailers everywhere. 397 00:18:56,802 --> 00:18:59,805 So I meet this assistant 398 00:19:00,389 --> 00:19:01,306 like everybody had. 399 00:19:01,306 --> 00:19:03,142 There was an assistant of an assistant, 400 00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:05,853 I'm sure, kind of like what we have here in the podcast. Joyce, 401 00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:10,899 brings me to to the trailer 402 00:19:10,899 --> 00:19:14,069 to do makeup and all that and, you know, wardrobe and get in everything. 403 00:19:14,069 --> 00:19:16,780 And then another assistant comes 404 00:19:16,780 --> 00:19:20,450 in, brings me, and I'm going to go, I'm going to have you meet, Tom. 405 00:19:20,450 --> 00:19:23,662 Tom now or, or Tom or on a first name basis now. 406 00:19:24,288 --> 00:19:26,748 So I'm just like, this is not. 407 00:19:26,748 --> 00:19:28,584 Yeah. You know, I'm not. 408 00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:29,293 I'm. Yeah. 409 00:19:29,293 --> 00:19:32,880 You know, this is not it's surreal from Hollywood. 410 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,256 I'm not from Los Angeles. 411 00:19:34,256 --> 00:19:37,050 This is not I didn't grow up like this. Right. 412 00:19:37,050 --> 00:19:38,594 So I'm going to be Tom Hanks. 413 00:19:38,594 --> 00:19:41,597 So I'm going to bring in that I want you to meet Tom. 414 00:19:42,931 --> 00:19:44,183 Oh my god okay. 415 00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:46,935 So I go we finally we meet Tom. 416 00:19:46,935 --> 00:19:48,145 Tom comes out of his trailer. 417 00:19:48,145 --> 00:19:49,980 He's got, you know just a regular t shirt on. 418 00:19:49,980 --> 00:19:52,983 He had just shaved a little, little tiny cut. 419 00:19:53,108 --> 00:19:55,903 So he is real. He's real. Yeah. 420 00:19:55,903 --> 00:19:56,904 So he comes out. 421 00:19:56,904 --> 00:19:58,906 He knew exactly who I was, shook my hand. 422 00:19:58,906 --> 00:20:01,992 And he just like, the calmest, most 423 00:20:01,992 --> 00:20:05,662 generous, kindest guy down to earth. 424 00:20:06,705 --> 00:20:07,873 Wow, 425 00:20:07,873 --> 00:20:10,626 I wasn't I was expecting that, but I didn't. 426 00:20:10,626 --> 00:20:15,422 I wasn't expecting how overwhelmingly nice and generous with his time. 427 00:20:15,714 --> 00:20:17,591 Yeah. With me, because he didn't. 428 00:20:17,591 --> 00:20:18,425 He doesn't have. 429 00:20:18,425 --> 00:20:19,301 Sure. 430 00:20:19,301 --> 00:20:20,802 You know, he's he's. 431 00:20:20,802 --> 00:20:22,429 Tom says a lot about him. 432 00:20:22,429 --> 00:20:23,180 Says a lot about him. 433 00:20:23,180 --> 00:20:25,307 It says a lot about him. 434 00:20:25,307 --> 00:20:27,059 So I had a little chat with him. 435 00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:28,894 We're walking and chatting at the same time. 436 00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:30,145 He goes, I want you to. 437 00:20:30,145 --> 00:20:32,773 He says, I want to come in. 438 00:20:32,773 --> 00:20:34,608 I want you to meet Steven Spielberg. 439 00:20:34,608 --> 00:20:37,611 Oh, it keeps getting better. 440 00:20:38,654 --> 00:20:39,988 And I'll never forget this. 441 00:20:39,988 --> 00:20:42,991 But as I'm walking and we're walking towards 442 00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:45,202 to where he's bringing, he knows where. 443 00:20:45,202 --> 00:20:46,870 Steven Spielberg, right? Right. 444 00:20:46,870 --> 00:20:50,916 I don't know for sure, but he's bringing me to go meet, Steven Spielberg. 445 00:20:51,708 --> 00:20:55,212 He walked as, as we're approaching, he walks out of the, 446 00:20:56,505 --> 00:20:58,006 tent where he was. 447 00:20:58,006 --> 00:21:00,342 He goes, oh, good. Greg's here. 448 00:21:00,342 --> 00:21:01,551 Oh, and he is. 449 00:21:01,551 --> 00:21:03,929 Oh, good. Greg's here from Steven Spielberg. 450 00:21:03,929 --> 00:21:06,014 Wow. He how we. 451 00:21:06,014 --> 00:21:07,683 You know, he knows. 452 00:21:07,683 --> 00:21:10,102 Yeah. Yeah, I just couldn't I couldn't get. 453 00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:11,812 I'll never get over that. Right. 454 00:21:11,812 --> 00:21:14,815 But looking back at it, 455 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:18,735 they know that 456 00:21:18,735 --> 00:21:20,070 they're bringing in someone who. 457 00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:20,362 Yeah. 458 00:21:20,362 --> 00:21:23,699 I've been in a lot of films, but I've never been in a monster film 459 00:21:23,699 --> 00:21:24,324 like this. 460 00:21:24,324 --> 00:21:28,954 And they know that they have to have me do the best job, but I'm sure. 461 00:21:29,871 --> 00:21:30,956 So they're. 462 00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:33,500 They're bringing everything down. 463 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:34,876 Earth, you know, the every. 464 00:21:34,876 --> 00:21:36,003 Hey, relax. Right. 465 00:21:36,003 --> 00:21:38,922 You're not saying that, but they're they're making me at home. 466 00:21:38,922 --> 00:21:40,632 Yeah. Comfortable. 467 00:21:40,632 --> 00:21:42,884 This isn't a big deal. This is going to be a big game. 468 00:21:42,884 --> 00:21:45,679 We're going to have a great time, which is a smart move on their part. 469 00:21:45,679 --> 00:21:47,055 Absolutely smart move. 470 00:21:47,055 --> 00:21:50,058 Again, thinking back at how, why and how they did that. 471 00:21:50,058 --> 00:21:51,810 Because I'm it's just me. 472 00:21:51,810 --> 00:21:53,020 You know they don't have to do that. 473 00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:57,983 But it's smart on their part because if I'm all, you know nervous right. 474 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:00,235 I'm not going to perform well. 475 00:22:00,235 --> 00:22:02,112 Exactly. And they know that right. 476 00:22:02,112 --> 00:22:03,322 For 40 years. 477 00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:03,613 Yeah. 478 00:22:03,613 --> 00:22:07,242 So they know that they have to they did the right thing and they did. 479 00:22:07,242 --> 00:22:10,245 They brought me right down. 480 00:22:10,704 --> 00:22:13,206 Everything just went perfectly from there. 481 00:22:13,206 --> 00:22:16,209 You must have been floating, you know, after from that point on, 482 00:22:16,626 --> 00:22:18,378 did you get pictures? 483 00:22:18,378 --> 00:22:20,047 So no. 484 00:22:20,047 --> 00:22:23,050 Oh, no, I didn't get any pictures. 485 00:22:23,258 --> 00:22:24,468 Wow. Yeah. 486 00:22:24,468 --> 00:22:27,763 That was one of the things that I just said to myself. 487 00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,097 I said, you know what? 488 00:22:29,097 --> 00:22:31,016 I know how to do this. Yeah. 489 00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:33,727 I'm not doing this. I don't want 490 00:22:33,727 --> 00:22:36,104 I don't I didn't want to turn it into. 491 00:22:36,104 --> 00:22:36,730 Yeah. 492 00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:39,941 You know, I get it, I get I just I'm sure. 493 00:22:40,233 --> 00:22:43,987 But looking back now because I have, I spent so much time with, 494 00:22:44,404 --> 00:22:47,657 I spent the whole day with him and we would have lunch together. 495 00:22:47,657 --> 00:22:49,493 We would have coffee during breaks. 496 00:22:49,493 --> 00:22:51,203 I could have easily just pulled out with my head. 497 00:22:51,203 --> 00:22:53,372 You might have caught. He would have. Let's do. 498 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:55,123 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 499 00:22:55,123 --> 00:22:57,084 He clearly would have no problem with it because. 500 00:22:57,084 --> 00:22:58,794 Yeah, well we were on set. 501 00:22:58,794 --> 00:23:02,839 There was a huge audience off on the sidewalk. 502 00:23:02,839 --> 00:23:03,840 Yeah. Filming. 503 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,968 And he would every once in a while he would go and take pictures. 504 00:23:06,968 --> 00:23:09,763 So yeah, he was being a gentleman like that. 505 00:23:09,763 --> 00:23:12,557 But I got to tell you one other interesting story with, 506 00:23:14,059 --> 00:23:17,479 with this particular scenario, I certainly hope you folks 507 00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:20,482 have your popcorn, because this is really good. 508 00:23:20,482 --> 00:23:21,108 Yeah. 509 00:23:21,108 --> 00:23:25,070 This one that this is another thing that I'll, you know, I'll never forget, 510 00:23:25,445 --> 00:23:28,448 you know, again, I've been in this business of, you know, 511 00:23:28,740 --> 00:23:31,618 25 years, roughly. 512 00:23:31,618 --> 00:23:34,371 But, so after I had met Spielberg. 513 00:23:34,371 --> 00:23:36,081 Yeah, 514 00:23:36,081 --> 00:23:40,085 we went we were we had me and Tom walked back to where 515 00:23:40,168 --> 00:23:44,965 I love this, me and Tom, I mean, it's, Yeah, yeah. 516 00:23:45,674 --> 00:23:49,302 And our trailers, and he goes, hey, you, you mind if we run lights? 517 00:23:50,220 --> 00:23:51,304 Oh, wow. 518 00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:51,680 You know. 519 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,515 Yeah, I, 520 00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:56,518 I, you know, right there for 521 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,688 I'm going to be in a scene with it's but not Tom. 522 00:23:59,896 --> 00:24:02,607 It's very common, you know. Hey, let's sit down. Yeah. 523 00:24:04,651 --> 00:24:06,570 That's totally normal. 524 00:24:06,570 --> 00:24:08,989 But to hear Tom Hanks ask me. 525 00:24:08,989 --> 00:24:11,616 Hey, do you mind if we run lines? 526 00:24:11,616 --> 00:24:14,619 I, I couldn't believe, 527 00:24:15,162 --> 00:24:16,872 but it gets better. 528 00:24:16,872 --> 00:24:20,292 So the the the three pages of dialog that I had, 529 00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:24,796 I've memorized upside down backwards, you know, holding my breath. 530 00:24:25,046 --> 00:24:28,049 Yeah, it was Tom. 531 00:24:29,634 --> 00:24:31,428 Memorized everything perfectly 532 00:24:31,428 --> 00:24:34,431 as you should, as an actor. 533 00:24:34,473 --> 00:24:37,392 And, so we're we start 534 00:24:37,392 --> 00:24:40,437 walking at seconds after he said, do you mind if we run like that? 535 00:24:40,437 --> 00:24:41,480 Yeah. It's great. 536 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,022 He start. 537 00:24:42,022 --> 00:24:45,525 He starts some nice kind of sounds from. 538 00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:47,319 What's he talking about? 539 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:51,031 He's running the dialog, but it's not the dialog that's in the script. 540 00:24:52,365 --> 00:24:55,035 But I get, you know, he's Tom Hanks. 541 00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:57,787 He can do whatever he wants. He's just making up his own. 542 00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:01,791 You know, within the context 543 00:25:01,791 --> 00:25:05,629 of the of the diet of the script, kind of like paraphrasing things and. 544 00:25:05,754 --> 00:25:07,047 Yeah. Yeah, everything. 545 00:25:07,047 --> 00:25:08,173 Wow, wow. 546 00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:11,176 So I had to, 547 00:25:11,676 --> 00:25:14,012 know this is such a huge production. 548 00:25:14,012 --> 00:25:14,804 Yeah. 549 00:25:14,804 --> 00:25:18,600 Berg and the writer, they want everything perfect to work, you know? 550 00:25:18,850 --> 00:25:20,810 Yeah, everything's got to be perfect. 551 00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:25,398 I'm thinking it was the three pages of dialog that I studied. 552 00:25:25,398 --> 00:25:27,734 I could very well never even read it. 553 00:25:27,734 --> 00:25:31,780 Wow. I had to do was respond to what he was saying. 554 00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:33,156 That's incredible. 555 00:25:33,156 --> 00:25:34,991 Just like paraphrasing there. 556 00:25:34,991 --> 00:25:35,408 Yeah. 557 00:25:35,408 --> 00:25:38,578 I just, you know, I just and again, it goes to, to listening 558 00:25:39,162 --> 00:25:42,374 you just you if I wasn't, if I was just waiting for dialog, 559 00:25:42,374 --> 00:25:47,003 you know, that was on the page that I had, I would have been lost. 560 00:25:47,420 --> 00:25:49,756 But I just responded to whatever he said. 561 00:25:49,756 --> 00:25:51,424 I heard Clint Eastwood was like that. 562 00:25:51,424 --> 00:25:53,260 Or is like that with a lot of his actors. 563 00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:56,888 He gives them a lot of freedom, a lot of freedom to respond the way they want. 564 00:25:56,888 --> 00:26:00,600 It's all about the integrity of the film and a lot of, directors. 565 00:26:00,976 --> 00:26:01,685 Right. 566 00:26:01,685 --> 00:26:06,565 So with Tarantino, you can't you can't change anything or inflections. 567 00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:07,732 Right. 568 00:26:07,732 --> 00:26:13,405 But when you were responding, you knew it so well, I did I, I, I, 569 00:26:13,446 --> 00:26:17,492 you know, again, my the dialog that I responded with probably wasn't, 570 00:26:17,492 --> 00:26:20,579 probably wasn't on the page. 571 00:26:20,787 --> 00:26:22,998 I don't even, you know, I can't even remember, but 572 00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:26,334 because because it wouldn't have worked if I responded with the dialog that was on 573 00:26:26,334 --> 00:26:26,793 the page 574 00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:29,796 responding to what he that wouldn't talk. 575 00:26:29,796 --> 00:26:34,801 It was more, you know, but I have to keep it in the context of his story. 576 00:26:35,719 --> 00:26:37,012 Craig. Yes, that's amazing. 577 00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:39,180 And, now you're working on something. 578 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:43,852 Now, you just started filming or started working on a brand new project? 579 00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:44,477 Yeah. 580 00:26:44,477 --> 00:26:49,482 This is something that I, I wrote and we start filming, next week, right? 581 00:26:49,816 --> 00:26:52,110 Yeah. So it's all everything's ready to go. 582 00:26:52,110 --> 00:26:54,195 We have the locations, cast, crew. 583 00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:56,615 Can you give us a little hint? This is your own production. 584 00:26:56,615 --> 00:26:57,490 This is my own. 585 00:26:57,490 --> 00:27:00,869 Wow. A little hint of what it's about. 586 00:27:01,036 --> 00:27:01,870 Okay. 587 00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:05,206 Can you let the What's good audience maybe get a little preview? 588 00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:05,874 Yeah. 589 00:27:05,874 --> 00:27:08,877 It's about, it's about two brothers. 590 00:27:09,210 --> 00:27:13,214 One. One, respected, hard working businessman. 591 00:27:13,965 --> 00:27:16,968 And the other brother is, you know, a 592 00:27:17,135 --> 00:27:19,679 a troubled has a troubled past. 593 00:27:20,764 --> 00:27:23,141 Anything, you know, right in his life. 594 00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:24,142 Yeah, yeah. 595 00:27:24,142 --> 00:27:27,604 The, the good brother is, who I play. 596 00:27:27,729 --> 00:27:30,732 His name is Frank. 597 00:27:31,608 --> 00:27:33,943 Gets a knock on the door, 598 00:27:33,943 --> 00:27:37,489 early morning and, has to make a decision 599 00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:40,784 whether to help his brother out with the, 600 00:27:40,784 --> 00:27:43,787 particular situation that he's got himself in. 601 00:27:44,204 --> 00:27:47,207 And it's it's a kind of, 602 00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:49,542 Oh, yeah. 603 00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:52,545 Story to where, you know, does does his does 604 00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:55,799 Frank help his brother? 605 00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:57,884 With this, 606 00:27:57,884 --> 00:28:00,720 terrible situation that he has found himself in? 607 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:01,346 Yeah. 608 00:28:01,346 --> 00:28:04,182 Knowing that, you know, I have to, you know, 609 00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:07,185 I have a family that I have to, take care of. 610 00:28:07,185 --> 00:28:10,188 And if I if I help them, 611 00:28:10,313 --> 00:28:13,316 there's a good chance that I'm going to go, 612 00:28:13,942 --> 00:28:16,653 I can, you know, spend the rest of my life in prison. 613 00:28:16,653 --> 00:28:19,656 Oh, boy. Wow. I mean, you you. 614 00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:21,616 I can't wait to see this. 615 00:28:21,616 --> 00:28:22,158 I hope so. 616 00:28:22,158 --> 00:28:24,536 So when you're done shooting, what happens after that? 617 00:28:24,536 --> 00:28:26,413 You pitch it to. Yeah. 618 00:28:26,413 --> 00:28:28,915 So I'll pitch it to, So I have a. 619 00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:30,083 So this is a short film. 620 00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:35,880 I have the, the feature, ready to go after this is, 621 00:28:36,089 --> 00:28:39,592 so it's basically, I'll be submitting it to, to festivals, 622 00:28:39,592 --> 00:28:43,596 but it will also be submitting it as a proof of concept. 623 00:28:44,264 --> 00:28:45,223 Oh, okay. 624 00:28:45,223 --> 00:28:46,141 As a feature. 625 00:28:46,141 --> 00:28:46,516 Right. 626 00:28:46,516 --> 00:28:49,853 Gets funded as a feature, maybe Spielberg a fund to for you find out. 627 00:28:49,853 --> 00:28:50,854 Yeah, I'll give him a call. 628 00:28:50,854 --> 00:28:52,981 You never know. Or Tom, your buddy Tom. 629 00:28:54,441 --> 00:28:57,527 But, Greg, it's been a blast, you know, how could people get in contact with you? 630 00:28:57,527 --> 00:29:02,699 Have any, they could, my contact info was, easily. 631 00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:05,493 We could we could get that up. Right. Joyce. 632 00:29:05,493 --> 00:29:06,244 But, Greg. 633 00:29:06,244 --> 00:29:08,496 Greg, you've been an absolute joy. 634 00:29:08,496 --> 00:29:09,664 You know? And thank you so much. 635 00:29:09,664 --> 00:29:11,416 Congratulations on your career. 636 00:29:11,416 --> 00:29:14,043 Best to you and your family by the way too. 637 00:29:14,043 --> 00:29:16,254 And we just appreciate you stopping by what's good. 638 00:29:16,254 --> 00:29:19,257 And just to hear your stories, it's because we're both movie freaks. 639 00:29:19,758 --> 00:29:20,592 I want to hear more. 640 00:29:20,592 --> 00:29:23,011 We may have to bring you back down the line. 641 00:29:23,011 --> 00:29:24,262 You're coming back. 642 00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:26,473 But thank you so much for tuning in to what's good. 643 00:29:26,473 --> 00:29:29,058 You can actually subscribe to us on all platforms. 644 00:29:29,058 --> 00:29:33,480 We suggest YouTube for free, like it and share it with everybody. 645 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,357 You know, because there is good news out there. 646 00:29:36,357 --> 00:29:37,358 It's right here. 647 00:29:37,358 --> 00:29:38,443 Yeah, so much negativity 648 00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:41,571 and divisiveness in the world today, and at least this is a soft place to land. 649 00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:42,947 No politics. 650 00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:44,449 None of that stuff here are just good 651 00:29:44,449 --> 00:29:46,910 inspiring stories like we just heard from Greg Joyce. 652 00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:48,369 Always a pleasure, Greg. 653 00:29:48,369 --> 00:29:48,953 Thank you. 654 00:29:48,953 --> 00:29:51,331 And we'd like to thank everybody here behind the scenes as well, 655 00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:53,583 because they're the ones who make us look semi good. 656 00:29:54,918 --> 00:29:58,129 John Cadillac, Seville and Joy and many, many blessings for you and your family. 657 00:29:58,213 --> 00:29:59,422 Till next time. 658 00:29:59,422 --> 00:30:01,090 Hey, I heard you got engaged. 659 00:30:01,090 --> 00:30:02,258 Congratulations. 660 00:30:02,258 --> 00:30:04,093 Now it's time to book the DJ. 661 00:30:04,093 --> 00:30:05,053 And that's where we come in. 662 00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:07,722 Hi, I'm John Cadillac, Seville with John Seville entertainment. 663 00:30:07,722 --> 00:30:11,100 Wedding wire and the knot 2026 Couples Choice Awards winner. 664 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:12,519 You can call me directly if you'd like it. 665 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:14,854 (200) 398-8065 eight. 666 00:30:14,854 --> 00:30:18,358 We'll set up your free consultation or go to John cashman.com. 667 00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:22,821 That's (203) 988-0658 or John cashman.com. 668 00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:26,032 We offer excellent peace of mind and a great time 669 00:30:26,032 --> 00:30:30,036 for all John Seville Entertainment a name you know and can trust.