1 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast. We 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: have Matt Willig on this edition a little bit of 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: a different episode, and you might be thinking that name 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: sounds a little familiar. Well, Willigg played with the Jets 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: ninety three to ninety five. Now he's an actor. Most 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: recently he plays Andre the Giant on Young Rock. You know, 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: it's kind of ironic because I believe WrestleMania WrestleMania thirty 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: seven just happened over the weekend, and when I grew up, 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: I was a huge wrestling fan. Those were the days 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: of Paul Coogan and Roddy Roddy Piper and the Iron 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: Cheek and Junkyard Dog. And Willig, who played offensive linement 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: for the Jets from ninety three to ninety five, plays 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 1: Andre the Giant. Uh in this show. I've been able 14 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: to see clips very impressive, but I have not seen 15 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: the series from start to finish. You know, I was 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: also wrestling fan growing up. Uh. One time my parents 17 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: tried to punish me by not letting me watch wrestling 18 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: like Friday Night SmackDown. I was pretty I was like 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: my punishment, Well, I go back to the days when 20 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: wrestling really hit the mainstream Sentura Night's Main Event like 21 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: Satura Night Live. We know that spot has been NBC 22 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: for forever, right, but wrestling got so big that they 23 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 1: used to have something called Satura Night's Main Event where 24 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: it would happen a couple of times a year, where 25 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: it would take the place of Satura Night's Live. I 26 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: want his ray mysterio once as Halloween, like with the 27 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: mask I was, I have the John Cena US World 28 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: Champion Spinning Belt, not the w w E Champion, the 29 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: the US World Champion belt that I was. I was 30 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: a birthday gift one year. Yeah, and no. Willick was 31 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: not a huge wrestling fan growing up, but he took 32 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: that part very seriously and it was fun, uh catching 33 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: up with him to see the lengths he went too 34 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: to portray Andre the Giant. Yeah, let's just let's not 35 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: spoil anything. Let's just get right into it. Let's hear 36 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: from Matt Willing Mat. How do you consider that this 37 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: has come full circle for you? Considering that early on 38 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: in your career you did a lot of radio spots, 39 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: you got comfortable being in front of the microphone, doing 40 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: stuff in front of the camera. Did you think it 41 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: was gonna be a natural transition down the line for you. 42 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,399 Speaker 1: That's a great start, and you're absolutely right. I mean 43 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: I started as but you know, I spent four years 44 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: there by the part time I got downe by four years, 45 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: that's where I kind of started doing some radio programs, uh, 46 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: some O line stuff. Jeff Chris Wells and names some 47 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: people might remember. He kind of got me into it. 48 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: And this is where I first sort of just got 49 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: comfortable in front of the camera, whether it was just 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: you know, there was audio you know, on the radio 51 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: or or or something doing some tele televised thing. But yeah, 52 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: it was my first sort of uh after getting after 53 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: seeing that I could do it. And uh, I was 54 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: nervous as hell when I first started doing it, not 55 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: knowing how to really you know, talk and all that stuff. 56 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: As I'm doing now. I sound horrible now, but anyway, 57 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it was a lot of fun being a 58 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: California kid going to New York and you know, wide 59 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 1: eyed and just trying to figure it all out. But 60 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: but New York is where I first learned it. All Right, Well, 61 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: you know, there's a thousand things that we're gonna ask you. 62 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: But as someone went to USC, you have ties in California, 63 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: and you spent time on the East Coast. I got 64 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: a couple of questions, you know, just which coast do 65 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: you like better? Right? First off? Second, shake shack or 66 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: in and out? Ha ha, that's a there's a great 67 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: question as well. I gotta be honest. Yeah, I'm a 68 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: Southern California kid and I always will be, especially in 69 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: this day and age when everyone's trying to get the 70 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: hell out of California. Uh, it's really hard for me 71 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: to leave. I love the West Coast. I'm a I'm 72 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: a sun beach guy and I've always in that way. 73 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: Not that I didn't enjoy my times at Jones Beach 74 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: and hanging out on the island. Um and at ninety two, 75 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: and let me tell you, there was some hair spray 76 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: going on, so it was a whole new experience for me. 77 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: But so so definitely West Coast. You know, I have 78 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: a lot of respect for East Coasters, and go ahead, 79 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: in and out, in and out. It's gotta be my first. Yeah, 80 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: it would be a problem if you said shake Shack 81 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: and you're born and raised it on the West Coast, 82 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: so I can yeah, I can say White Castle and 83 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: three guys for a loop. But it starts to bring out, 84 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: it starts to get out. Hey, Matt, so five years 85 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: ago you said, you know, it's hard you try to 86 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: climb the ladder. But I'm getting older. I'm reaching fifteen 87 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,559 Speaker 1: a couple of years, and you never know how long 88 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: this will go on. My goal is to work for 89 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: a good five more years, to maintain the success, have 90 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: some good roles, and then kind of ride off into 91 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: the sunset. You're not riding off into the sunset. Know 92 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: I'm I'm holding on for dear life. Those are things 93 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: you say, you know, I mean, look at I do 94 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: have a plan that that sort of I don't want 95 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: to be doing, you know, working forever, so to speak. 96 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: I've been blessed to have now two solid careers um 97 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: that have been unbelievable to me. And I think, once 98 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: to my my youngest daughter is kind of a freshman 99 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: in high school, and I think, once she gets on 100 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: and graduates and kind of gets into college, that will 101 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: kind of leave me some time to be able to 102 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: travel and do some things. But again, you know, I mean, 103 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: if the roles keep coming and and and things successfully 104 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: keep sort of uh you know, I call it climbing 105 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: the ladder of of of success with with the entertainment world. 106 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: If that keeps happening, there's no question I'll keep going. 107 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: But again, I don't want to be a guy who's 108 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: uh at six ft seven playing the sixty year old 109 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: ex big you know, big guy who because who's been 110 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: knocked around the head too many times. But I'm really 111 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: enjoying and what I'm doing now with young Rock to 112 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 1: have such an iconic role, you know, as Andre the 113 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: Giant has been an amazing sort of turn of events 114 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: for me. Were you're wrestling fan growing up? Did you 115 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: love Andre the Giant? You know? It was that was 116 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: one of those things that I said, do I lie 117 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: about this or not? But early on, no, I was 118 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: not a wrestling fan. I really wasn't. Now did I 119 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: know of Andre the Giant? Absolutely? Did I know the 120 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: of the famous guys, the Hull Cogan's, even the Iron 121 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: Cheeks and those guys back in the day, Yes, But 122 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: I I'm one of six boys. So just to even 123 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: get to be able to watch TV back in the 124 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: day was something that we that we clawed and scratched 125 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: for and on the fifth and six. So I rarely 126 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: get to watch what I wanted. So, uh, wrestling was 127 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: not on the on the on the on the map 128 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: for us as as kids, So I never really enjoyed it, 129 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: never really got into it. It's funny because I got 130 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: several friends around me who were diehards. You know, it 131 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: could tell me everything from the seventy to the eighties 132 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: on up um, it just wasn't me. So even though 133 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: I had a great respect for those guys and UH 134 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: and knew of them as sort of celebrity types or 135 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: people on TV, I never was really a fan. You know, Matt, 136 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: you talked about started, you know, when you're in the 137 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: NFL and you do you make the transition. Was there 138 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: anything that you found, let's say, helpful while playing football 139 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: that is helping you now that you didn't necessarily know? Like, 140 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: I'll give you an example for me in the job 141 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: that I have now. I grew up taking THEAEDER classes 142 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: and that hasn't in turned helped me now. Right. Well, 143 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: you know it has to be sort of in your 144 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: DNA and you have to sort of have that which 145 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: you know to to to be on camera even you 146 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: know and want to do that, you put yourself out there. 147 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: And I had that already, so I had that sort 148 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: of personality, but there was no question that I needed 149 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: help along the way. But getting back to your question, um, 150 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: you know football with just discipline and you know, being 151 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: a part of a team. My role through the NFL 152 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: years was sometimes starter, sometime back up, you know, and 153 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: not just to back up and backup several positions. So 154 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: that became my sort of niche. You know, I knew 155 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: that number one, I was gonna be a character actor. 156 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: Number two I needed to find sort of my placement 157 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: and everything. So yeah, that's a long way to say, yes, 158 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: you know, having the discipline, um, to study, having discipline 159 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: to know your lines, um, being fitting yourself in as 160 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: part of them in a TV series or or a movie. 161 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: All those things kind of are things that I had 162 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: been doing all my life, you know. So um that 163 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: end rejection. You know, for me playing for six teams 164 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: in fourteen years, there was definitely some some rejection going 165 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 1: on there, and so I moved from one of the 166 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: highest rejection rates to I think the highest rejection right 167 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: in the entertainment field. And so those things sort of 168 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: just it's one of those things that you keep your 169 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: head down, you try and learn as much as possible, 170 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: and and you get better as you go on. And 171 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: that was sort of the same thing that happened with 172 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: me in the NFL. You were a Rose Bowl champion 173 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: with USC back in nine. You eventually got a Super 174 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: Bowl ring as well. You play with the Jets, Atlanta Falcons, 175 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Rams, San Francisco Fort Carolina Panthers, 176 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: and then you circle back with the Rams again. Unbelievable. 177 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 1: Did you ever think when you started out with the 178 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: Jets in the early nineties that you would play for 179 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: that long? And what kept you going in terms of 180 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: the average career, as you know so well, is just 181 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: over three years. Yeah, you know it was. It just 182 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: was one of those things where I just said, why 183 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: not me? Now? Did I think I would play over 184 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: ten years? Absolutely not. But I had this sort of 185 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: dumb arrogance that that I just thought somehow I would 186 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: make it. Now, my story with the Jets is pretty 187 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: crazy because I came in as a defensive alignement, defensive end. 188 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: I was playing in the days of Jeff Lagerman and 189 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: Dennis Bird and Marvin Washington and guys like that, and 190 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: I knew I was too slow to pay the NFL. 191 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: But again, I just thought if I worked hard enough, 192 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: something would happen. And sure enough, one day Layton training camp, 193 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: my rookie year, I got pulled over after practice and 194 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: the old line coach said, hey, we want to work 195 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 1: on you with some drills, old line drills, and based 196 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: off that minute sort of audition to use the word 197 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: that I need use now, um, they called me in, 198 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: Bruce cos it calls me in at the end of 199 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: training camp and says, hey, I want you to go 200 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: home to l A, gather your stuff. We're gonna bring 201 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: you back on the practice squad and we're gonna put 202 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: you on as an alignement and see how it goes. 203 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: And there was a part of me that just was 204 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: not overly surprised by it, you know, and that again 205 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: that's just sort of that sort of heading the clouds. 206 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't arrogance. I just thought, if I worked 207 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: hard enough, something happened, and and it did, and that 208 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: sort of catapult to me. You know. I worked with 209 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: a guy named Larry Bechtel who was a tactician as 210 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: an offensive line coach, and that really helped, and that 211 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: was immense to kind of getting me to be a 212 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: good old lineman and be able to last as long 213 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,119 Speaker 1: as I did. So that was sort of the transition. 214 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, I didn't think it was. 215 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 1: I didn't know what's gonna happen, but I just had 216 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: a feeling somehow I would sort of force my way in. 217 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: You know, I know we keep going back and forth 218 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: between football and acting, but we're gonna keep doing so 219 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pep I'm gonna pepper you with an acting question. 220 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: What what do you like most about acting or being 221 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 1: on camera? It's every bit of it for me is 222 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: a challenge. Um, it's getting easier, and there are certain 223 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: things that are easier than others. But um, you know, 224 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: it's just I can be playing a thug over here 225 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: one day, and then the next day I'm doing Andrey 226 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: the Giant, And the next day I'm trying to cry 227 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: on camera, and the next time I'm grabbing a guy 228 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: and throwing him with some stunts, or we're doing a fight. 229 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: It's just that back and forth of what you could 230 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: do in this business and what I'd be blessed on 231 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: the fact that that makes on the fact that that 232 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 1: I'm big and I have the physical stature that I'm 233 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: able to do those things. So it's that back and forth. 234 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: I think every actor will say, you know, I love 235 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: doing comedies, but then I love coming over here and 236 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: doing uh, you know, something serious or a drama. It's 237 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: that sort of keeping you on your toes. At any moment, 238 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: I could be auditioning for something like a Young Rock 239 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: with Andre the Giant, or I could be doing something 240 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: you know where I'm putting prosthetics on with agents of 241 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: shield and and dressing up as a character called last. 242 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: You know, it's that's sort of back and forth. It's 243 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: just really really does it for me, you know, It's 244 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: it keeps my brain active in a world where I 245 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: am concerned about my brain as a as an age. Uh. 246 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: You know, I fully am aware of that. Keeping my 247 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,719 Speaker 1: brain active and and working on you know, scripts and 248 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: dialogue and things on, all those things keep me healthier 249 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: than I than I would be if I wasn't doing that. 250 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 1: You've got a more than twenty movies and I think 251 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: close to thirty TV shows. Now, is there a character 252 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: that you most related to personally? Because part of acting 253 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: is you've got to dive into somebody else's shoes. But 254 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: along the way was there a character to where you said, well, 255 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: this is most like Matt Willick. Yeah, that's that's that's 256 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: a great question. Right off the bat. My initial reaction 257 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: is playing Justin Strels excuse me, in the movie Concussion 258 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: with Will Smith, and you know, I could very easily 259 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: relate to Obviously he was an alignman going through the 260 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: trials and tribulations of the NFL, playing with a hurt body, 261 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: all those things that he sort of went through in 262 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: real life and struggles that you know, I have come 263 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: to know. I was a roommate with Junior sayal Um 264 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: that just recently in the last year. Get a story 265 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: on the USC linebackers. When I played at USC, we've 266 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: lost about five different guys, a couple of them to 267 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: uh suicide, you know, based on them having you know, 268 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: signs of CT so uh that hit home with me, um, 269 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: and then doing the preparation for Concussion, I was able 270 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: to meet Justin's widow and his family, UM, and just 271 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: that that really was something that was really personal to 272 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: me and something that I really related to. So that's 273 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: kind of my number one answer. You know, Matt, Oftentimes 274 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: in the NFL, you know, players have a moment where 275 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: they realize, you know what, I belong here, I can 276 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: stick around for a little while. What was that moment 277 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: for you in acting, if there was one, that's that's 278 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: another good question. Um, It's it's little things, you know. 279 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: I don't mean to try to sound sort of so actory, 280 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: but it is. It is little things because there's so 281 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: it's a lot of times there's so little acknowledgement or recognition. 282 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: You know, this has been weird for me with with 283 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: Young Rock that I've gotten some recognition. It's the kind 284 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: of the first time and you know, fifteen year career. Um, 285 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: So it's little things. It's having an actor like Malcolm McDowell. 286 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: When I was in a movie with him, Um, who's amazing, 287 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: and in him say that he didn't even wasn't even 288 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: aware I was in the next Athlete because he, uh, 289 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: he just was impressed with my acting ability. And then 290 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: when I asked, you know, about my acting or my 291 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: athletic career, he had no idea. Little things like that 292 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: where you just get recognition or you know, I mean 293 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: being able to cry the first time on on on 294 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: in a scene. Little things like that where you just go, yeah, 295 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: I'm a little bit closer. You know, um getting on, 296 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: Well what else Scott? I think? Um, isn't that kind 297 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: of like the NFL though, Like what separates people that 298 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: don't make it and do is the little things. Oh 299 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: there's one percent, you know. I I tell people all 300 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: the time, I I was so not the most athletic person. 301 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: And I had seen guys way more talented than me, 302 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: um come and come in and and get bounced quicker 303 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: than than they should have because they just weren't either 304 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: being a pro and you guys, I'm sure you know 305 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: what that means, or just having the the ability to 306 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: learn your plays and be the guy who knows what 307 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: he's doing all the time. And that sort of became 308 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: my m O. You know. Um, I was a good 309 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: raw rock guy, was a good inspirational guy, but I 310 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: knew how to be a pro and how to come 311 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: in and know what I was supposed to do, and 312 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: and you know, and playing for six teams, that was 313 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: always tough. You know, you come in and as a veteran, 314 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: you've gone through six different systems and then you come 315 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: into another one and you gotta learn that as as 316 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: possible otherwise you get bounced. So so yeah, it's it's 317 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: It's amazing that that, Um, that someone with my slow 318 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: ability ability as an offensive lineman was able to play 319 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: as long as I did. You got a lot of 320 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 1: humility for a guy who one a Rose Bowl, went 321 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: to USC playing the league for that long, has been 322 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 1: in all these shows and movies. Um, what don't we 323 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: know about Dwayne Johnson the Rock? And how did this 324 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: come to be? Because I think I heard of story it. 325 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong that you were in the 326 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: weight room one day and you actually approached the Rock. 327 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: We were back, Uh, probably over over a decade ago. 328 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,439 Speaker 1: About it? Yeah, over a decade ago. We're working out 329 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: in the same gym. It was an Equinox gym out 330 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: here in l A. And um, you know, he hadn't 331 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: reached obviously he was, he was an actor already and 332 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: doing well. But you know, he was still working out 333 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: publicly before he had his before he had his Iron 334 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: Paradise going on. So, yeah, we befriended each other just 335 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: a little bit in the gym. I think he sort 336 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: of felt comfortable with me that I wasn't gonna, you know, 337 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,439 Speaker 1: doing awe over him. And uh, you know, we just 338 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: worked out a few times and I had my first 339 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: big movie coming out year one with Jack Black, and 340 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: so there was some things that I kind of he 341 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: was still unaware of, and how do I do this 342 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: and how I promote myself, and so I had I 343 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: pulled him aside one day and asked and asked him 344 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: about that, and uh, got sought some advice from him, 345 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: and he was he was more than cool, and he 346 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: was just so down to earth and sort of open 347 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 1: to helping me and giving me some advice and and 348 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: you know, then he sort of kind of in after 349 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: a couple of months and he was gone out of 350 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: the picture. But it was that that was like from 351 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 1: then on, I wanted to be in a movie or 352 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: something with him, and I had tried for several years 353 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: to get on something with him, and so when this 354 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: came about, you know, he even remarked, he was like, 355 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: I'm so glad we get to work together finally, you know, 356 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 1: because he had known that I was trying to get 357 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: with him for a while. But uh, you know, getting 358 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: back to the original how this happened. I it came 359 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: on an audition although I had literally less than twenty 360 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: four hours to to prepare for. I had to have 361 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: sort of the accent, you know, and there was even 362 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: some French dialogue in it, and UH, in less than 363 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,719 Speaker 1: twenty four hours, I went in. Sometimes it's the best 364 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: way to do it, you know, you go in and 365 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: you don't have a ton of time to think about it. 366 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: You just go and and I went in, and I 367 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: knew I had sort of the stature a little bit. 368 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: And and I went in and met with the UH, 369 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 1: the co creator UH and the writer of the show, 370 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: the NOTR. Cohn, And immediately it just you know, sometimes 371 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: you go into an audition, you just know right away 372 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: if it's if it's working. And and I could feel that. 373 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: It was to the point where afterwards she even asked me, 374 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: she was do you speak French? Because I had done 375 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: a pretty good job at it, And I said, no, 376 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: but I'm learning, you know, one of those things. You know, 377 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: that was where that was where my cockyness came out. 378 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: You're you're a big dude. You're a big dude, though, 379 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: How difficult was it to put it on those thirty 380 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: to thirty five pounds, That's how seriously you took this role. Yeah, 381 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: I knew it was important. I really knew it was 382 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: important to kind of have that shape. I'm not gonna 383 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: be seven foot four or whatever he was. Even if 384 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: he was seven ft I wasn't gonna be that tall 385 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,479 Speaker 1: and have that sort of stature. But I knew if 386 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: I had sort of the look and the body that 387 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,199 Speaker 1: that it would it would come off pretty good. And 388 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: uh I put it on slowly, sort of in like 389 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: ten pound increments, and uh but I tell you what. Yeah, 390 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: once the thirty to thirty five hit when I was 391 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: over in Australia, Um, there was moments where I just said, 392 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: as a fifty year old guy, I shouldn't be doing this. 393 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: It's one thing to go from, like what's one thing 394 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: to go from like two thirty you know, that's that's 395 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: even I'm sure hard for that person. But to be 396 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,239 Speaker 1: over fifty years old and being a kind of that 397 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: I used to carry around two nineties, which even on 398 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: my six seven frame is is pretty athletic, I guess. 399 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: But to put on thirty five pounds, um, you know, 400 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: by the time I was on shooting, I was. I 401 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: came home immediately and lost like fifteen in the first 402 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: two weeks. You know, I wanted to get off, and 403 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: you know, God willing, I'm knocking on Wood that we 404 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: get to go back and do a season two and 405 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: I'll put a little bit back on Hey man, it 406 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: had been on. Australia sounds pretty nice right now. Is 407 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: a little kind of a cold winner up here. I 408 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: don't know if you know about that. I'm telling you, guys, 409 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: I couldn't have been more happy with Australia. It was 410 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: tough being away from my my, my, my girls for 411 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: several months, but Australia was a bucket list for me. 412 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: Has been for a while that I hadn't been to. 413 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: And even though it was painting the butt to get 414 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: to and do quarantine made a quarantine for two weeks straight, 415 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 1: couldn't leave the room in a hotel. But once we 416 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 1: got out, we were free. And there was no there 417 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: was you know, they were such a bubble that there 418 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: was no fear of COVID and and so once you 419 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: were out, there were no masks, there was there was 420 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: nothing to restrict you. So it was just a lot 421 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,479 Speaker 1: of fun. And over there was there summertime. So again 422 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: we just had a blast. And and uh, it was 423 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: one of those projects where you go and because you're 424 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: all in this little, you know, new little area together, guys, 425 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: A couple of guys came from New Zealand and all 426 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: parts of uh, the United States. Young Dewey who's playing 427 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: the ten year old Dewey came from Canada, and so 428 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: there was all these kids, all these people from around 429 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: and we just bought it really well. It was one 430 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: of those projects where you go, this feels like it should. Uh. 431 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: As far as just being together, everybody going to dinner, 432 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: working out together, all these things that kind of made 433 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: it a really cool experience. What's a Hollywood premier like? 434 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 1: And also are you just dad at home? I love 435 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: the shirt girl dad? Uh? You know, I want to 436 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: get one of those myself. You have the two daughters, 437 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: do they do? They always keep you in check or 438 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: they think it's kind of cool sometimes when you guys 439 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: go out to Hollywood. A little bit, you know, is 440 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 1: that there was that initial when they were really young 441 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: and I was doing a lot of the kids shows, 442 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: the Disney and the uh what's the other one? Uh? Yeah, 443 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: the Disney shows anyways, and I was doing those, and 444 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: so there was a little bit of real pride in 445 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: the girls because they wore saying, yeah, that's my dad 446 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: on TV. Because every all the kids were watching them. 447 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 1: It was funny because I used to have parents come 448 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: to me and go, if I have to hear your 449 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: name one more time, there's Mr Willig on TV like 450 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna kill my kids. But so yeah, 451 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: but nowadays, my kids, you know, they really enjoyed the 452 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: fact that I'm on this show. But for the most 453 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: part there it's they're they're not faced by it. You know, 454 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: they're like, oh, Dad, do you die again in this one? 455 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: So this is what happens to men. Percent of time 456 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: they expected to die. It's some kind of bad guy 457 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: or something. All right, Well, Matt, you know I have 458 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: one final question for you, and you know we could 459 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: talk to you for hours. But with that being said, 460 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: you mentioned Australia being a bucket list item. Who played 461 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 1: in the NFL. I was talking about you want a 462 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 1: Rose Bowl, you want to see Pro Bowl? You're acting? 463 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: What's next? Like, what what are some bucket list items 464 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: in terms of acting that you want to do? And 465 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: you know, also, do you have just any random bucket 466 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: list items you want to do that doesn't even involve acting? 467 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: Tell you what, man, you guys are going deep on 468 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: me here. I'm not sure how to answer these type 469 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:26,719 Speaker 1: of questions, um, where to Uh those are good questions though, 470 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: I mean obviously you know, for me as an actor, 471 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: all I really want to do is work, and people 472 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: say that, and especially nowadays with COVID in the world 473 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: that's got on the last year. Um, the acting jobs 474 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: are so few and far between, and it already is 475 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: for someone like me as a as a big man. 476 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: So you know, I think just continuing to work, um, 477 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 1: getting some good things, getting a chance. Every rung that 478 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 1: you kind of go up is a chance to to 479 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: get some more acting gigs and things that you really 480 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: want to do. Whether that's just for me, I really 481 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: want to be in a big action movie. I want 482 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: I want to hold a huge gun and I want 483 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: to run around and shoot it. That's one of the 484 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: That's one of the goals. And the other one is 485 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: to kind of have something where it's real good dialogue, 486 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: where I can play a big man who has a 487 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: heart or a big man who you know who who's 488 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: got some some depth to him. That's always the key, 489 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: because that's who I am. You know, I'm more than 490 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 1: just people that know me. Said, God, I wouldn't even 491 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: know you played football if I didn't know you played football. 492 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 1: I'm not a big talker of sports, so again, just 493 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 1: to keep acting, um, you know personally, man, just getting 494 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: the kid, like I got a senior in high school, 495 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: you know, getting her squared away and getting her into 496 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: college and and getting the next one squared away in 497 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: a couple of years is really important to me. Being 498 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: a good dad is important. I tend to I tend 499 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 1: to over coach my girls, and they laugh at that 500 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: a lot, but I think it's it's it's better than not, 501 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 1: you know. Um. And and I'd like to travel. Uh. Finally, 502 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: I'd like to get around. And I haven't been to Europe, 503 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: and I haven't traveled a lot, which is amazing because 504 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: I've had opportunities, I just haven't taking advantage of them. 505 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 1: And so as I've gotten older, I really really do 506 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: want to travel. I want to go back to Australia 507 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: um and spend some time. I'd like to go to 508 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: Europe and spend some time. I want to go back 509 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: to Germany, which is some of my heritage. UM. I 510 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: want to go to the Middle East a little bit. 511 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: And just so so, traveling is definitely on the on 512 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: the bucket list of things that you're coming up, the 513 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: NFL draft is coming up. What are your memories of 514 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: the draft and you share, Um, do you share a 515 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: special bond with guys in the National Football League who 516 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: go on drafted and make it. Because we often spent 517 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: a lot of time here talking about the first round pick, 518 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: the guys who are in the top five or maybe 519 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: Day two or whatever. But there are a lot of 520 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: guys who are drafted either late or they're not drafted 521 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 1: at all, and they make up the National Football League. 522 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: Those are the diamonds in the rough. Those are the 523 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: guys that the little little winning championships. I believe, Um, 524 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,679 Speaker 1: you need your star athletes, you need you guys, you 525 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: need your number once. But I think it's those guys 526 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: that come later on on day two or even day four, 527 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: you know, um, where you're making the team making a difference. 528 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 1: The draft day for me was again, guys, you know, 529 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: you know it's that it's that blinders on where I thought, 530 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: you know, someone's gonna pick me up. You know, I 531 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: had a medium career at USC, you know, and I 532 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: just thought someone's gonna pick me up. And that came 533 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: and went and and and I'll tell another story. There 534 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 1: was a guy named Dale Gross who would actually work 535 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: with the Jets, and he didn't come back to USC 536 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: and he was working in the US the athletics, and 537 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 1: he made a call for me. Um. He made a 538 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: call to UH, to a couple of guys in the 539 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: front office and said, hey, take a chance on that. 540 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: He is a guy. If nothing else, he'll work his 541 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: ass off for you and would be a good and 542 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: he put it plain and simply, he said, it'll be 543 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: a good camp body. So he'll bust his ask for 544 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 1: you. You You know, he's that kind of guy. And so 545 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: that what I remember being on the phone with him saying, 546 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: he said, hey, man, I gave a good word for you, 547 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: and don't disappoint me. And so we even talked to 548 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 1: this day about how I that he owes me now 549 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: because I've given him such good props for making a 550 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: good choice. So, Uh, it was a scary time. I 551 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: didn't even know if I really wanted to play ball. 552 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: I got out to New York and I was a scared, 553 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: scared kid. I just didn't think I was gonna have 554 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: what it took to make it. Um. So it was 555 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 1: a scary time for me and UH. But every year 556 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: or you know, I always do have a kinship even 557 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: when we look at you know, I guy like Wayne 558 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: Corpetti came in a couple of years after me, and 559 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 1: you know who's the Jets fans would know a lot 560 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 1: of And there's always a couple of guys that I 561 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: kind of uh, you know, you give a little nod to, 562 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: Hey man, I know what that feels like. Was your 563 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: favorite memory for you between ninety three and ninety five? 564 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: You imagine Jones Beach. Maybe it's where you lived, Maybe 565 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: it's a night on the town, maybe it's a locker 566 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: room story that you can talk about there. There's a 567 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: ton of them, you know, anybody who goes to their 568 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: first team, there are the memories are so you know, vivid, 569 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: and it's always the first experience with everything. I remember 570 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: going out to New York and just going this is 571 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: a whole different world, you know, this East Coast. Um. 572 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: I remember everybody in the front office being you know, 573 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: just so cool. I have relations had relationships with the 574 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: PR people, and just everybody seemed to be a little 575 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: more personable than it came later on. You know, it's 576 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: such a business now and there's great relationships to be had. Everywhere. 577 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: But I just remember the faces. Uh. Um. I remember 578 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: older guys like James Sweeney and uh Freeman McNeil. Al 579 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: tun was there my firstman year, Kenny O'Brien. These are 580 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:49,959 Speaker 1: guys that, you know, they were at the tail end 581 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: of their careers. And for me to sit in the 582 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: locker room and look at these guys, guys that I 583 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: had seen growing up, what a trip, you know, I mean, 584 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: what a what a what a moment just to sit 585 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: and kind take it all in the equipment. Guys were characters. 586 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: I remember those guys all the time. And there was 587 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: a guy named Mickey Rendan who was a locker room 588 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: guy who went back and forth and tween the Yankees, 589 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: I think, and and the Jets, and he was probably 590 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: in his seventies and he was a character. Guys like that, 591 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: you know. Um, there's a ton of memories. Um. I 592 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: remember Pete Carroll being a defensive coordinator, um, and and 593 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: taking us all bowling. Uh. He had a bowling night 594 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: every every camp that we we did. And that's when 595 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: they said they thought I would be a good player 596 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: because I had really good bend in my knees. Pat 597 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: Kerwin was the guy who took me under his wing. 598 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know who that that is. 599 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: I used to work with the Jets and and still 600 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: obviously very involved in the NFL, but he was a 601 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: guy that really believed in me, and he he does. 602 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: He tells the story goes, when I saw you ball 603 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: and be able to bend your knees and get some flection, 604 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: because that's what I told all the guys that you 605 00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: were going to be a player because you had that 606 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: to do that, and so things like that. I remember, 607 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: you know, I remember Richard co Tight came in, um 608 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: my last year of the Jets, and I just I 609 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: never met a coach that I wanted to hurt so 610 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: bad in my life that he used to play mind 611 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: games with me that I just it's it used to 612 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: drive me insane. Um. But yeah, there's just a ton 613 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: of memories and uh and and then obviously trying to 614 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: finally trying to get into New York and experience that 615 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: whole city. And I did fall in love the New 616 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: York and be in the city and being able to 617 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: do anything you wanted until five in the morning, and 618 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: it was just it was just great to be there. 619 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: And I really still look fondly back on on my 620 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: years there in New York. Yeah, I gotta know, what, 621 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: what's your best bowling score? I'm just curious. I used, 622 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: I used to be a really good bowler. I was. 623 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,040 Speaker 1: I was. I was in between. I was riding on 624 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: two fifty for a while, you know, I was. I 625 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: wasn't a two hund. I wasn't the three hundred bowler, 626 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: but I was bowling over to hundred every every game, 627 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: and I was trying around. So I was a pretty 628 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: solid bowler. And that was without a I was just 629 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: a brute too, I was. I didn't have the spin 630 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: on it. I was just I picked the I picked 631 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: the lane and through his heart like, okay, so let's 632 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: get to this one done. Let's go back to the gym. 633 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: You and the rock. What are you wearing the gym? 634 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: You're doing a T shirt? Are you doing a tank top? 635 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: And what was it? What does the rock go with? 636 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: That's that's a that's that's a good question. I typically 637 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: like to start with a T shirt over a tank 638 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: and I like to I like to kind of get 639 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: the warm up going and get a small little sweat 640 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: gum before I you know, very slightly removed the shirt 641 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: and show off the guns. Um. Hell, I don't know 642 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 1: what Dayne was wearing. I'm sure he was wearing something 643 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: really really really really tight and as little as little 644 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: fabric as possible. Um, that's been his mo for a 645 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: long time. But you know, it's funny that being able 646 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: to and this has been I've met a lot of 647 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 1: what you call stars in the world, whether it be athletes, 648 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: are in the entertainment field, and I've just never been 649 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: There have been very, very very few instances where I've 650 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: been in awe or you know, for a lack of 651 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 1: words to to speak to someone. And and Dwayne was 652 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: just easy. You know, Dayne was easy. He was a 653 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: really cool guy. Um. He he comes off sometimes people 654 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: have this idea that he's too perfect, but I just 655 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: think he's so genuine and so driven um as someone 656 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: who wants it at all, he really does um. And 657 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: he works ass off and that was evident just seeing 658 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: the gym, keeping his head down, sweating his ass off, 659 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: working hard. Um. And you know, he he left me. 660 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: He wasn't able to be in in Australia when we 661 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: were shooting because he shot all his things in the States. 662 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 1: Because he's by himself, but he made sure he was 663 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: available for us at any point, and so I reached 664 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: out to him and I really wanted to know the 665 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: the the real relations between Andre and and Dwyane as 666 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: a kid. And so he just left me this fifteen 667 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: minute uh message to me. And he got that on purpose. 668 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 1: He said, I want to go leave you this because 669 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: I want you to have it, and I want you to, 670 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 1: you know, look back at it. I'm sorry I couldn't 671 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: be able to talk to you in person, but he 672 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: left me a beautiful fifteen minute message where if I 673 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: had bothered him during the during the call, you know, 674 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: and asked him questions, he would have kind of got 675 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: off on something else. But he was able to talk 676 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: and have this great passionate speech and passionate talk about 677 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,319 Speaker 1: what it meant to him, what the show meant to him, 678 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,879 Speaker 1: what the relationship that Andre had with him meant. It 679 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 1: was really the last thing that I needed to be 680 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: able to kind of get into shooting and kind of 681 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,239 Speaker 1: have that and have that feel kind of going in. So, 682 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: you know, he's the best, and I'm pretty fortunate to 683 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: be part of what he's got going on right now. Well, 684 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 1: we're looking forward to watching of What's in Store coming 685 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: up for You. One of my favorites, one of one 686 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: of my favorite roles for you wasn't where the mill 687 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: that was. That was another one that was a lot 688 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: of fun to shoot. Um, you know, it just had 689 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: a blast with that one whearing one eye. The whole 690 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: time was a treating itself. But working with Jenniferraniston. I 691 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: told this story before, a cute story. I it was 692 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: my first day working on that movie, and it was 693 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: the it was the her strip keys scene, my first scene, 694 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: and as it's written in the script, she's supposed to 695 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,880 Speaker 1: come over to me and dance on me for a second. 696 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: I mean, who could not be a little more than 697 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,439 Speaker 1: excited about something like that. So I got a knock 698 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: at my trailer door about twenty minutes before I go out, 699 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: and they said, hey, just so you know, we're switching 700 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: it up and um, she's not gonna dance on you. 701 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 1: And I was like, Yeah, that's the life of an 702 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,320 Speaker 1: actor right there. Man, things can change in an instant, 703 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 1: especially for someone like me. But she couldn't have been 704 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: better and more sweeter about it. And I just had 705 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,440 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of fun shooting that movie. 706 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: It was just a great, great, great movie to come 707 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 1: out at the time. I think we really needed a 708 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,879 Speaker 1: big R movie and it was just a lot of fun, 709 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,839 Speaker 1: a lot of fun to shoot. Absolutely fantastic conversation with 710 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: will again, you know, I do. I do hope he 711 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 1: comes to the East Coast and maybe hit the bowling 712 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: lanes a couple of pizza joints. Yeah, and if you 713 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,640 Speaker 1: liveing in l A, you're dying to come back to 714 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: New York for a little pizza. Yeah, Oh yeah, for sure. 715 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,279 Speaker 1: And your question come out you knew the answer. Yeah, 716 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,160 Speaker 1: and now yeah, I was trying to beat him. You know. Well, 717 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,399 Speaker 1: here's the thing. I don't think. I don't think shake 718 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,200 Speaker 1: Shack is a good comparison. It's the only comparison because 719 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: New York doesn't really have like a how old shack 720 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: shake shack, shake shick shake shack is I don't know. 721 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: But it's in the last couple decades. Yeah, it's much 722 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,120 Speaker 1: younger than I don't think it was here in ninety three. 723 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,640 Speaker 1: Willick was planned. Let's put it that way. That is 724 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: also true. Let's see shake Shack opening date, Let's see 725 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:18,279 Speaker 1: what comes up. Um, I don't I don't know what. Yeah, oh, 726 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: hold on founded two thousand four right in and out 727 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,839 Speaker 1: a little longer that do you like it? And yeah, 728 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: I don't mind it. What's your favorite fast food burger chain? Well, 729 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,440 Speaker 1: I don't really have them? Okay, do you do you 730 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,400 Speaker 1: not like? Or yeah, like burgers, but I don't like 731 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,600 Speaker 1: fast food burgers. Yeah it's fair, I would say, in 732 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 1: and out, I think just like I like shake shack, 733 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,400 Speaker 1: but I like it and aut I'm not going to 734 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: McDonald's or burger No, I mean either to me. The 735 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,480 Speaker 1: question is like, is it five guys? Is it? Well? 736 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: Five guys is good? Okay, you know what a burger 737 00:37:56,080 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 1: in Texas? I've never had that before, so you know 738 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:05,319 Speaker 1: it's a it's a hot fifty two. By the way, 739 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 1: I don't you know, I wish I could bowl over 740 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: a hundred. I'm sure you could. I don't think I 741 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: have in my lifetime, which is sad. That's slightly embarrassing 742 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,319 Speaker 1: that I don't know. That's the first time I ever 743 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,560 Speaker 1: actually heard you talk about acting classes before. Well, yeah, 744 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,600 Speaker 1: I said that, but in high school I had the 745 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: option of a second science, business or theater And what 746 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 1: did you play? I we just like, did improv the 747 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 1: entire class. That was a thing, like, we just did improv. 748 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: It wasn't like you needed to go out and act 749 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,719 Speaker 1: and act in a play. So I figured, you know, 750 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,240 Speaker 1: it sounds a little more fun than a second science, 751 00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,440 Speaker 1: which was not even a question for me, not even 752 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,239 Speaker 1: considering that, or business, which was you know, I thought 753 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,120 Speaker 1: about it. But you know what, what a couple of 754 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,719 Speaker 1: my friends were saying, well, we heard the teachers. Really 755 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 1: cool guy, maybe it's an easy a we'll do it. 756 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: But you grew up in the city. Did you know 757 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,680 Speaker 1: of any famous class who would go on to act. 758 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: Um One kid a couple of years older than I am. 759 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:11,000 Speaker 1: You know the commercial, the bud Light commercial with the 760 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 1: poster card in the stands, it's like a cardboard cutout, 761 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,239 Speaker 1: and he that kid went to my high school. He's 762 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,279 Speaker 1: two years older than I am. But that's it. I 763 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: think he was on I think he was in a 764 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:28,200 Speaker 1: Lawn Order episode. But no one like went to my 765 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: school for acting. It was just like it was just 766 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,040 Speaker 1: one of the classes. I just won't want to know 767 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: how much time Dwayne Johnson the Rockets in a day. 768 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,800 Speaker 1: It's it doesn't add up to me. Yeah, I feel 769 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:45,359 Speaker 1: like I feel like he's one of those guys that's 770 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,840 Speaker 1: up before the sun is up and he has his 771 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:53,520 Speaker 1: routine and he just gets after it. Yeah, and you 772 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,560 Speaker 1: got to give will like a lot of credit for 773 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,239 Speaker 1: what he did. You know, we talked about he took 774 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,560 Speaker 1: to undrafted route. It's not like this guy was drafted 775 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,200 Speaker 1: out of US and then he was in the National 776 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: Football League for more than ten years and then an 777 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 1: acting career that has spanned more than twenty movies and 778 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,640 Speaker 1: close to thirty television shows. That's some kind of life. Yeah, 779 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:18,040 Speaker 1: I like how Willig is He basically met Dwayne Johnson 780 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 1: before he went huge, and he was like at the 781 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,239 Speaker 1: Equadox gym, and Matt Willie is probably one of few 782 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,800 Speaker 1: people of similar to equal size as how tall do 783 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 1: you think? The rock is? Probably six four I'll look 784 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 1: it up, So Willig's like six seven, six eight. How 785 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,439 Speaker 1: about going to Australia though I'm putting on the weight 786 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,640 Speaker 1: quarantining there Dwayne Johnson six five, But even still, like, 787 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 1: if you're Dayne Johnson, not a lot of people are 788 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: taller than you and similar stature. Matt Willie probably walks 789 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:48,439 Speaker 1: up and you're like, oh, it was a big dude, 790 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,760 Speaker 1: like we probably have something in common. Super nice guy. 791 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,400 Speaker 1: I'd love to go and follow somebody like that to 792 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,400 Speaker 1: see what a day is shooting is like in Los Angeles. 793 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I mean it's it's similar, like as 794 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,640 Speaker 1: Willig pointed out, but it's also very different. And this 795 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 1: was a fun little diversion from football. But you know, 796 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,280 Speaker 1: interested to see what happens next in Willie's career because, 797 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,520 Speaker 1: like we've talked about and illustrated, undrafted or Rose Bowl champion, 798 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 1: undrafted Super Bowl champion. He worked from the defensive line, 799 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,319 Speaker 1: switches to the offensive line. Now he's acting. Who knows 800 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,640 Speaker 1: what's next for Matt Willig, But that's all we have 801 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,920 Speaker 1: for this episode of the Official Jet Podcast.