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Giancarlo Esposito Live! The Mastermind Behind Moff Gideon, Breaking Bad's Gus Fring [Spacecon 2024]
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Oct 30, 2024
Giancarlo Esposito, known for his iconic villain roles as Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian and Gus Fring in Breaking Bad, takes the stage at SpaceCon to discuss his brilliant performances. This in-depth Q&A covers his process of bringing some of TV's most terrifying masterminds to life, his experiences in both the Star Wars and Breaking Bad universes, and what fans can expect next. 👇 BEST SUPPLIES FOR THROUGH-THE-MAIL (TTM) AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING 1️⃣ 8x10 photo printing - https://amzn.to/3IthJZS 2️⃣ Forever Stamps - https://amzn.to/3ufru98 3️⃣ 9.5×12.5 inch envelopes - https://amzn.to/3wn2cZi 4️⃣ 9×12 inch return envelopes - https://amzn.to/3qnRr52 👇 BEST AUTOGRAPHED MEMORABILIA SUBSCRIPTION BOXES 1️⃣ Pop Culture Autographed Photo Mystery Subscription - https://bamautographs.com/products/pop-culture-autographed-photo-mystery-subscription?variant=40539704033413 2️⃣ Horror Autographed Photo Mystery Subscription - https://bamautographs.com/products/horror-autographed-photo-mystery-subscription?variant=40539706392709 3️⃣ Autographed Funko Pop Mystery Subscription - https://bamautographs.com/products/autographed-funko-pop-mystery-subscription?variant=40564383383685
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he can read a person he knows what to
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say he knows how to manipulate he knows
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how to get it done his way so another
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one of my favorites as well and then
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Sidewinder well you're going to see that
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come to fruition very soon he's just
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very simply a bad
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ass the question from Patrick Patrick
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will you
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answer oh right over here you would like
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to know what advice would you give to an
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older person on entering into the field
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and he says as well thank you for always
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bringing menacing to the
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screen I I think for any of us we we
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take on a vocation in our lives and and
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we put four years of college into it and
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we put a lot of attention on it and then
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we get there and we're doing the gig and
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it's perfectly fine but it's not really
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exciting us or moving the needle um but
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we chose that and so we stay there and I
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I think that we should not stay there I
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think that many of us have more than one
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career I think that you know um change
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is good and I think if you're entering
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into what I do late in life you have a
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chance to make it if you dedicate
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yourself um to the craft and you go and
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take some theater courses and you go and
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you audition and you read everything and
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you truly develop your inner power and
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your inner character to be able to
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facilitate and manipulate words and then
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you put everything else in between on it
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and you go and do it if you love it
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right to love what you do is to never
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work a day in your life and if you
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choose something that doesn't make you
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happy well you chose it you you have to
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look first at what you learned from it
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and then give it up and move in a
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different direction in our world today
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we have online courses we have college
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we have experience we have things that
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you can do to jump in and just do it and
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you should be happy and satisfied with
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what you do it's not attached to the
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amount of money you're going to make
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although as we get older we have
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responsibility right I got four
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daughters um um um divorced man who is
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raising his kids so that's
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responsibility so then you're tied to
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have to create an economic um machine
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that takes care of your family so while
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you're young remember this if you choose
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something and you think oh I don't know
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if I like this now but I did all these
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things and it took all this time well
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honor that honor what you learned from
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it and move on to something else that
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makes you truly
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[Applause]
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happy this is a fun question no name
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here but how does it feel to be in
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fortnite you know it's kind it's
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Monumental I'm
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told everyone comes to me oh my God
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you're in fortnite oh my God you're in
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fortnite um it's a big deal uh it's
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funny you know in in yoga that they say
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in the philosophy um and I'm just
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remembering this from uh from a lot of
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the yogic writings and philosophies no
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pleasure no pain right um so everything
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is kind of the same and I used to always
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think oh man that means I'm not going to
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enjoy my life I just kind of going down
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the middle of the road um it affected me
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in a way that because the the fans are
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so excited and because I didn't know a
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lot about fortnite um of course I'm
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excited and honor that my character mark
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madian would be invited and I realize
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every day in every con that I go to what
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a big huge deal that is and so I'm
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grateful in the end it's gratitude it's
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excitement um you know I live in a world
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of Wonder enchantment and joy and if you
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don't I invite you to come on the train
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because it's a good place to live yes
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[Applause]
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sir no no name here but uh your role in
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Usual Suspects is never mentioned can
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you tell us more about what it was like
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getting that role as Jack bear yeah you
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know Chris mcari um sent word to me that
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he wanted to be in his movie he
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explained to me his father was an FBI
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agent and that I reminded him of his
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father and I went wow okay so I think
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Chris is from Virginia or somewhere and
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he's a white boy and his father's a
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white guy he said no it's your attitude
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it's who you are it's how you deal with
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any given situation so um I read the
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script I was at con uh Robert a producer
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gave it to me and um one day on the
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first day of my arrival and I was really
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exhausted from getting off the plane but
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I stayed up all night and read it he
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said I have the money I have the cash
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and Chris would really like you to do
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this movie and I read it and I told the
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truth how often in life do we tell the
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truth like honestly tell the truth so on
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the next day he read the script I said
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yeah he said what' you think I said I
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didn't understand
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it he said excuse me I said I I I don't
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get it I I didn't understand it I mean I
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understand what happens but um he said
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okay look read it again I said he said I
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said okay I'll read it again I saw him
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the next day
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uh this the producer and he looked
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downtrod and sad I said what happened he
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said I lost all the money I still have
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the cash did you read it again I said
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yeah I read it again and now I get it he
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said good we want you to do the movie
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let me try to see if I can get the money
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um 7 Days of can I saw him on the sixth
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day before the last day I got the money
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again we want you to do the movie we
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can't pay you anything we have a great
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cast where you'd be a part of it I said
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sure give me a chocolate bar and I'll do
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it
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I talked to Chris morcor and again I my
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ideas were welcome this is a movie it's
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almost 30 years ago yeah and I did a
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scene in San Pedro where I had to come
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in and solve this whole the the opening
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of the movie a big crime that happened
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the boats in the harbor in San Pedro in
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California and uh and the script said he
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looks up he looks around he smoking a
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cigar no I added the cigar in the Hat
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and he goes into a restroom so I look
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and the only restroom closest to me on
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that Pier was a woman's room and without
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hesitation I walked right into the
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ladies room and the director Brian
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Singer and Chris mcy the writer
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absolutely loved it cuz I stop I look up
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you see the woman's sign and I go right
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in I don't care I got to take a
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piss and they were so excited they say
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this is that guy this is who this guy is
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necessity is the mother of invention
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it's right there he goes in so this
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experience on this movie is really great
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I work with of course Kevin spy uh I
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work with um chance palman Terry um the
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Baldwin brother I mean everyone was so
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great and but the wonderful lesson I
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took away from the movie was was bito
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deloro yeah love
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Vio we came into a rehearsal and I no J
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with you
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but I was like what is he saying
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but
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you yeah I'm like that's a brave
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choice but I learned that's what acting
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is and everyone was all I had no scenes
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with Beno but all his scene Partners
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were like this guy's out of his
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mind is he is he really going to talk
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like that and and B he you
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that and it worked and I went Beno
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you're brilliant what a choice to make
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this is the choices we want to make in
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our lives choices that you wouldn't
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think that would be ordinary but it
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comes out of your dream and what you
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believe these are the choices you have
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to make they're bold I had a friend in
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Ireland Paul Davis God bless his soul he
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would look he would he trained dogs he
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trained birds for the hunt he was the
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original Iris expatriate and he'd look
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at his dogs when his dogs would jump on
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the couch and he wouldn't scold them
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right away he'd look at them and go
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that's very
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bold that's very bold get down and I
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never forgot you want to be very bold
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you want to be that bold about the
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choices you make in your life because
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those are the choices that will change
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change is good change your lives for the
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good forever
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[Applause]
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I believe there's a quote that uh is
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related to that fortune favors the B
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right sure does from Gary Gary where you
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at sir right over there in the
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middle uh what was a like working with
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the allstar cast and Spike Lee and do
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the right thing oh my gosh I love this
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movie you know we didn't know what we
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were doing Spike had a vision but the
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rest of us were like oh what does he
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what does he want what's he trying to
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say it was a very turbulent time in New
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York City City spike is um a very
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provocative director who wanted to make
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a change in our society in the way we
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looked at each other and so I give him
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complete credit for his guidance on this
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movie um I played a very bold character
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in Bugan out who had a little
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information and that little information
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for him went a long way uh for him to
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become um an advocate for the black man
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without really even knowing what that
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meant but for the first time in his life
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he could stand up for something this
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movie changed the way we made movies and
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Spike and Ernest Dickerson the
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cinematographer really had a vision for
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displaying how hot it was that summer
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and um the backdrop was political unrest
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in New York and to have a community that
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was just um evolving bed sty being on a
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block in Brooklyn where we kicked all of
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the drug addicts out two families were
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left and we had a Hollywood W set in
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Brook Brooklyn was a Visionary and very
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bold move on Spike's part and then
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couple that with electrifying music that
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allowed us to to further feel the energy
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of what was happening then this is a
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movie that still and will continue to be
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a classic for many years to come
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amen all right lightning round lightning
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round aen wants to know did you ever
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think about stealing the dark saer heck
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yeah they had a million people people
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watching me and I couldn't get it out of
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there final question comes to us from
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Deborah tiny Pledger the Jedi master of
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science I think that's
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her what inspired uh the character moff
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Gideon uh you know for me the
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inspiration was to look at other mths
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like Peter Cushing who uh was very
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graceful and very intelligent and held
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close to the best but what he didn't do
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I wanted to do um I wanted to fly my own
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TIE fighter I wanted to wheel my own
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dark saber I wanted to be the power and
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that power came from the inhabitation of
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Darth Vader by James Earl
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[Applause]
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Jones thank you so much I knew this
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would be absolutely fulfilling in San
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Antonio he brought it like he always
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does yall Mak Some Noise the one and
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only
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