WEBVTT - DeJuan Guy Meets World 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:20.200 Okay, So I have a question, Um, do you ever 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.200 have moments where you think that maybe you're weird? And 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.279 I also have those moments about you all the time. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.920 I know, Well, here's the thing that might So that's life, man, 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.080 Every moment of life is thinking will's weird? How How 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.280 do you put on your socks and shoes? Oh? God, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.120 I put on socks, sock, shoe, shoe. Okay, so yeah, 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.600 then I'm weird Yoh yeah, yeah, why you do one sock, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.440 one shoe? Yeah? So I like, I I sit down 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.599 and I Mr Rogers, did I put one leg up 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.440 over the other? I put on a sock and a 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.599 shoe and tie it and put it down, and then 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.280 put the other leg up and put on a sock 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.800 and shoe and tie it. Like why would I put 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.360 on a put on a sock and then put my 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.000 foot down and put up my other foot and put 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.400 on a sock and then put that down, and then 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:03.840 put up my other foot and put on a shoe 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.720 and put it. Seems like I'm doubling my workload. You know, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.720 I'll go I I put my socks on before I 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.680 put my pants on. M hmm, interesting, Okay, I know 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.560 I think I do that. So the most comfortable order 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.560 for me is I have underwear. I put socks on, 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.120 then I put pants on, then I put shoes on, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:30.399 and don't wear I was gonna say the shirt on shirtless. Yeah, no, 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:35.040 I mean I've never thought about this. Is That's why 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.120 I was curious, because because I I caught a kind 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.199 of a glimpse of myself with just one fully tied 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.640 shoe on one side and one bare foot, and I 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.320 was just went, is this normal? Do most people do this? 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.600 Or am I the weird one? Yet? Again? I think 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.920 it's one of those internet things where you know, toilet 0:01:54.960 --> 0:02:01.040 paper over under like obviously um scandal where people weren't 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.160 washing their legs. Yeah, don't even get me started. It 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:09.120 was hardly a scandal. Someone said, a famous person said 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.280 that they don't wash their legs in the shower because 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.720 the soap just runs down their legs from their upper 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.840 body and gravity. I get it, I get, okay, I 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.520 mean I can't believe you get it. Of course, it 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.720 seems crazy to get that statement. I mean, sure, gravity 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.760 has been dirty, soapy water running down your legs, but 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:34.760 something both dirty and soapy isn't That isn't that you 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.080 are dirty up here and you wash it with a 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.800 washcloth or soap, and now this soap is kind of 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.680 like dirty because it's going to run off your body. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.440 You're clean once the water rinses that off. This dirty 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.079 soapy nous dripping down your legs is not the same 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.880 as cleaning your legs. I don't use soap in the shower, though. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.600 I wash my entire body with head and shoulder shampoo. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:02.000 That's the truth. Okay, No, I do, yeah because of 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.799 dan druff, just because it's there and it's like, I 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.840 don't know, I just grab it and use it. Forget 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.800 wash class. I've never used a wash cloth in my life, 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.040 and I I don't wash my face with anything but 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.640 water and then I just used the shampoo. I like, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.400 I shampoo my hair and then I just use it 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.560 in the rest of my body. All right, I do. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.560 But I'm not wearing shoes in the shower. That's good, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:29.800 That's pretty normal. I Uh. We have a mostly shoes 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.360 off house. Like we don't insist when people walk in 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.160 that they take their shoes off, but we walk around 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.840 our house without our shoes on. So socks and shoes 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.280 is like the last thing I'm doing before I run 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.760 out the door, I get completely dressed and then go 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.480 downstairs barefoot, and then like right before I'm ready to 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.920 run out the door, I'm like quick, put on socks 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.320 and shoes, and then I put on both socks and 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.200 then both shoes. But I'm that way anyway, Like I 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.560 like to complete all of one step. I like an 0:03:54.560 --> 0:04:00.320 assembly line of of production, like when I helped Jensen 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.520 Jensen as a pin company, and when Jensen has made 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.400 a new shirt or he's made a new pin, and 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.760 I want to put all the pins on the paperbacks first, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.720 and then I want to organize them into their piles, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.480 and then I want to put them all in the envelopes. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.640 I don't want to do one order at a time, like, oh, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.839 here's four pins, let me put these four pins on 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.360 these four backs and then put them like I'm not 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:19.719 going to do that once. I want to do it 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.919 for everyone. I'm just very glad you said when you 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.080 help Jensen with his pin company, because when you jumped 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:25.960 in instantly I thought you're gonna say when I help 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.880 Jensen get dressed. Yeah, well he does need a lot 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:34.719 about getting dressed. Wow, Okay, his clothes for him the 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:40.200 night before exactly. Oh my goodness. Wow, well I still 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.080 think you're superhero underwear is somehow even weirder than washing 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.960 your body with shampoo. I got two new marvels and 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.720 an amazing Hulk, But the Hulk is um he It's 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.080 it's like sleeping shorts. I was hoping it was more 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.920 like the jockeys that I could really wear out. But 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.080 they're not. They're like Big Boxer's a warm last night. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:01.800 They are hoak smash. They are great. So yeah, awesome. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:03.680 And let me ask you this, will, was was there 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.039 a phase? Okay, so when you were a little kid, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.799 you were probably superhero underwear. Did you just keep wearing 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.520 superhero underwear all through your life or was there like 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.760 a mini adulthood where you stopped war like boxers or briefs. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.440 I think I went through that. Yeah, I went through 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:26.200 that young life crisis where I tried regular underwear, you know, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.479 But then I realized who I was and stayed true 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.960 to it, and I was like, no, this is not 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.479 me right here. Oh boy, welcome to Pod meets World. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.239 I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm brad Or Strong, and I'm Wilfredell. Well, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.200 let's bring in our guest for today. He is somebody 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.960 we have had the pleasure of watching on Boy Meat's 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.640 World a couple of times now that we're into the 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.359 first season. He is honestly the most fleshed out third 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.240 friend of any of the third friends we had, and 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.640 he's definitely the most memorable. He is best known as 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.479 Jake and Clive Barker's classic horror movie Candy Man. He 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.120 appeared in Little Giants and Baby Boy on TV and 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.480 shows like Fresh, Prince of bel Air, and Living Color, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.000 Sister Sister, and he had a recurring role on Boston Public. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.040 I am really excited to welcome to One. Guy who 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:17.080 played Ellis in two episodes of Boy Meets World. Welcome 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:30.320 to One. Welcome. How are you? I'm doing good? How 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.640 are you? We are doing well? Man, We are so 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:39.200 excited to have you here. You grew up. You grew up? Yeah, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.960 I grew up. I definitely grew up. And I even 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.080 have a grown up. I got a little grown up myself. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.240 How old is your little grown up? Funny one, he 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.360 just became really grown up. You have a real grown 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:59.120 up A definitely. I have four total, four kids, four 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:05.840 kids totalm Wow, that's anyone, fourteen ten and uh four, Wow, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.880 they really run, Yes they do. And my fourth is 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.840 my girl and she has me wrapped around her pink. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.320 That's not totally surprising. Go on, I am dying to know. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.080 How were you cast on Boy Meat's World. What was 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.360 the auditioning process for you? What did you know about 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.840 the role? Tell us everything, he said, tell us, look, look, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.680 look everything, tell us everything. I mean, it was back 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.600 in the day. You had the head shots and you 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.080 go you go in with your head shot and and 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.720 do your audition. And I was just going on so 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.920 many you know, and I went out from Boy Meat's 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.120 World and you know, I got it. I found out, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.240 I booked it, and I was like it was like, okay, 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.600 this will be a fun show to work on, you know. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:56.320 So I remember wardrobe asking what I wanted to wear, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.520 and I wanted to wear cross colors. I remember that. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:05.200 I remember. Uh, there's a lot of things I remember, right. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.040 I remember we went and played basketball with the kids 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.720 from Home Improvement. Yeah, there was a daily occurrence that 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.800 that that that was. That was a fun thing to do. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.480 We have fun on this set. You know. It's funny 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.880 because I don't remember ever being asked what I wanted 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:28.280 to wear. No, I was gonna say that. That was that. Yeah, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.560 So hearing that they got that you got some input 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.800 is pretty great because I would have at least picked 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:38.480 a belt. You didn't get to pick anything. No, not 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.200 not not if memory serves I mean, did you does 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.560 anybody remember having at least in the beginning. I don't 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.000 remember having any input. Maybe as we got older, we 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.320 could have a little input when it came to maybe 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:49.880 they just looked at you and me Will and they 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.880 were like, you guys have no style, so don't worry 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.400 because I had no style. I like, I said, you 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.520 know what that was that. I'm not gonna not going 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.880 to mention other sets. But that wasn't the only set 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.000 that I worked on where they asked me what I 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.079 wanted to wear, what I was into? That was not 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.719 like uncommon in the nineties, I guess, because you know, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.160 I've worked on a lot of different shows and it 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.120 wasn't I mean, it's not like I had a final say, 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.000 but they'd be like, hey, what do you like? What 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.200 are you into? You know? And you know, sometimes I 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.439 get to wear it. Sometimes I wouldn't. And back then 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:30.480 you got to peep clothes sometimes that that that day ended. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.080 I remember when that ended. They used to get after 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.400 everything was shot and done, and they might let you 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.560 keep some clothes. Well, you mentioned other sets. Why don't 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.200 you tell us about some of the other shows you 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.760 did during the nineties and what those experiences were like. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.360 And then I want to ask you about any specific 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.600 memories you have from being on the set of Boy 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.040 Meats World. But tell us about some of the other 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.800 shows you did. Well. I worked on Fresh Prince Bellair. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.040 How fun was that? That was a lot of fun. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.160 It was a very loose set, like it was everybody 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.240 you know, we it was taped in front of a 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.000 line of audience. So what we would do is we're 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.840 getting Will's dressing room and kind of have a little 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.640 hype up moment where he's like rapping and and doing 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.680 all these things, and then um, you know, we're dancing 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.319 around and everybody's getting hyped for the audience. So that 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.199 was fun. That was fun, and Will was so cool. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.480 He even had Nike sent me some shoes for Christmas. So, like, 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.600 like I said, I was getting stuff in the nineties 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:33.520 one way, you know, like I was getting stuff. Um, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.840 let's see what in Living Color Um that was a 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.400 hot show and I needs and I got a chance 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.920 to work on that, and that's one of my favorite shows. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:48.200 So and the thing is what that show is they 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.320 would have skits and sometimes they wouldn't get to your skit. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.880 So I think I got hired like five times and 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.880 then I worked three times. So that show was a 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.280 little different than any thing else that I've worked on 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.719 because usually gonna at least shoot it, even though I 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.079 put you on a shopping black later, at least get 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.959 to shoot it right. But on that show and be like, Okay, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.719 we're not getting to this. Get you can go home now. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.440 But that's really cool because you know, that was obviously 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.319 a show that had like a regular cast, So I mean, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.640 you were really rare in the sense that you were 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.400 like a recurring guest star on the show, where I 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.960 wasn't super common recurring guest star because I did do 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.240 like I said, I did do three episodes. But the 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.480 biggest thing in the nineties for me was Candy Man. Yeah, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.360 that was that was you know, that's the thing that 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.600 has people going to this day is Candy Man. And 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.319 I've done horror conventions and things like that. And people 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.480 have me signing all kind of custom made stuff, mirrors 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.120 with hooks coming out of it, and just you know, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.600 stuff so freaks me out. It's so freak that in 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.440 my head, I'm like, just just talk about in living color, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:51.920 just talk about in living color. I don't want to 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.440 get into the horror stuff. It scared me. You know. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.800 I worked on Baywatch too. I didn't really and they 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.640 made a two part episode where I was like this 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.280 little kid in the wheelchair, and that was one of 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.040 the more challenging roles I did, because of course I'm 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.840 not actually handicapped. I wasn't in a wheelchair, but I 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.839 had gotten shot and I was in a wheelchair, but 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.199 I was actually the character was kind of supposed to 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.280 be in um protective well I don't know, pro technic 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:25.679 custody or not technical. They're supposed to, yeah, protecting there, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.920 you're right. So I'm highly out at this rehab and 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.439 then Daved Householf you know his niche comes in because 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.960 he gets hurt, so he's at the rehab and of 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.320 course he ends up saving the day. But they made 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.120 that a two part episode, which was a big deal, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.240 and they had like a we did like a little 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.719 premier for it and everything it was. It was kind 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.920 of like a big deal. Yeah, so okay, I'm sorry, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.640 I have to have a question because I I'm talking. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.280 It's I don't even know how to word this. Because 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:59.920 Candyman and You've got fresh principal air in living color, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.920 Sister Sister, Boy Me Tworld. It's like some of the 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:09.400 most iconic nineties shows throwing another one on the mix? 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.920 Is there one that when you look back on, that's 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:18.040 the one where you say sister? I think with Sister 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.760 Sister too again, every every one, So is there one 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.040 you look back on and say, Yeah, that's the one 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.000 I'm the most proud of because of whatever reason. But 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.800 it's the last ridiculous when it comes to nineties shows 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:36.200 that you're on. Yeah, wow, almost it was World. No, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:50.000 It's okay, answer why definitely? But I had a lot 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:51.800 of fun. I had a lot of fun work. I 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.160 even worked with Simbad and the late great Green Hinds. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.960 The first movie I actually worked when ever was Boy 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.800 Is in the Hood. My scene got cut, so I 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.000 got the experience of being on the chopping block first 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.360 before there was Boys in the Hood. What developed my 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.360 relationship with John Singleton, the late John Singleton, and I 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.800 later did Baby Boy when I got a little older. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.839 I did the movie Baby Boy with you know Tyreese 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.280 and wait, let's go, let's take a step back, Joan, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.640 how did you get started? Like, how did you become 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.920 an actor? You? You grew up in We're right where 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.600 we need to be because it was the Boys in 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.160 the Hood story. Okay, so this is what happens. I'm 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.800 not even living in Los Angeles. I'm living in Dayton, Ohio. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.120 My aunt lives in Los Angeles, and I visited her 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.000 during the summer and go to like this acting school, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.400 Marley Gibbs Acting School, if you remember anybody knows of 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:51.240 course she had with women Mayo from Tamford and Son. Uh. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.480 They had an acting school. And at this acting school 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.440 there were classes for the adults and their classes for 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.080 the kids. I did the classes for the kids. But 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.480 what happened. She was doing a scene from A Raisin 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.000 in the Sun and she had me come in and 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.800 and play the sun. And then John Singleton was in 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.160 that class, and he was like, I want him for 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.880 Boys in the Hood. But I eight and they needed 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.560 like a twelve year old and I was eight and 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.840 I looked six, probably because I always looked young for 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.600 my age, and you know, you know Plumbia Pictures now Sony, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.200 they were like, you know, no, uh, this is not 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.120 gonna work for because it was like a lot of 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.360 profanity and all of that. You know, it wasn't gonna 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.640 work with this little kid doing it. They weren't. They 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.120 were gonna have that where you supposed to be at 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:39.840 the beginning when it was when there was all of 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.560 them younger. It was gonna be the young trade, which 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:48.520 later good. So um, but what he did have me do, 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.960 He had me do this little part and I ride 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.640 up on my bike and I say, I'm not gonna 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.920 say it because it's kind of uh provocative when I 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.280 say this line to Cuba and his girlfriend on the 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.000 porch because they're kissing. And then I ride off with 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.880 my friends and he throws rocks at us and I 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.960 ride off with my friends. That's what I shot. That's 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:14.160 what I actually did, and that got cut and then later, um, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.440 how it really was kind of similar to the Baby 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.000 Boy was did you find out it got cut before 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.080 or did you go to the movie thinking that you'd 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.120 see it. I found out I had gone back to Ohio, 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.520 and I found that. My aunt told me because she 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:35.480 had went to the screening and she told me she 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.840 got cut too because she had a partner movie too, 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:42.440 and they cut hers too because it is it's a 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.800 it's a rough It's a brilliant film, but it's a 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:49.280 rough film. Would you have been allowed to see it? Um? 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.640 What I've been allowed? I did see it? You did 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.600 when you were eight? They like you what you saw? 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:55.920 Boyzen hood? Okay. I was wondering if they you know, 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.400 it was one of those things where it was too rough, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.000 they wouldn't were gonna let you watch it. I don't know. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.720 It was a different day in a different time. I saw. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:08.840 I saw horror movies. I saw Freddy Cooper Baby wasn't 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.119 uh people today they'd be like, oh, hey, you're watching that, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.760 But did you did you occasionally get the eyes the 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.240 hand in front of the eyes. That's what I would 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.280 get with my mom or dad would put their hands 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.680 like that would stop something. Yeah, yeah, definitely, we'll get 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.560 their hand over there eyeing the nudity scene or something 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.720 like that. But yep, yep, same. So I want to 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.000 go into how did you get candy man? Candy man. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.200 All right, candy man, lots of kids. I just shoot 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.720 your candy man. And the part I remember is the 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:46.240 last audition. Virginia Mason comes running out to the parking. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:47.879 I tell me you got it, you got it, you 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.480 got the park you know, and I'm like, whoa, that 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.639 never happened. Only other times that happened was on Baywatch. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.000 And I walked out of the casting room knowing that 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:03.480 I got casted, and everybody was still in their uh 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:08.040 wait in the audition. I thought you were gonna say, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.600 Virginia Madsen came running after you, saying you got Baywatch, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.639 you got Baywatch? Oh no, no, no, that it was 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.640 Handyman and Baywatch A two times that I found out 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.080 like instantly that I was cast. That's fine, that's kind 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.200 of the old school Hollywood way. You get that kind 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.479 of you know, congratulations, you got the part. Kid. They 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.000 don't do that anymore. Yeah, days out with that everything. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.280 They don't even let you come in an audition anymore. Yeah. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.760 And you guys are seeing Henry Thomas's audition for et. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.800 It's unreal. One of the craziest things in the world. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.560 It's they it's you just see, it's a close up 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.600 of his face and you can hear Steven Spielberg saying 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.480 giving him instructions like okay, that the alien's going away 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.080 and you just want have to say goodbye to him 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.920 and he's your best friend, and he improvises the saying 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.679 don't don't take him away, and he starts crying and 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.600 it's the most emotion. It's like, it's one of the 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.479 most incredible. It's almost better than he is in the movie. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.639 It's like, it's amazing, just came to life. And then 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:04.960 he stops in the New Year Spielberg, Well, you got 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:12.320 the park kids, so it's amazing. Speaking of stillborn Steven Spielberg, 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:17.120 I worked with him too. It was yeah, little giants. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.719 Oh my gosh, you literally were a part of every 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:26.760 iconic nineties thing. Yes, that's another crazy story. Um, if 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.320 I might just I'll tell you real quick. Basically, you know, 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.680 I went an audition, probably for one of the regular 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.600 parts like everybody else, and I didn't really fit for 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.680 what they were looking for. But still, from what I heard, 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:42.960 Spielberg wanted me to be in the film anyway, so 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:44.879 they put me in the beginning of the film when 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.080 they're like the sixties and they're like playing like a 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.240 little game of football in the park and his you know, 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.840 a little brother doesn't get picked and all that. So 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.639 that was a lot of fun. Talk about junk food 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:03.160 on set. Every it was like ice crape bars, like 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.399 it was totally catered to kids. Like that set was 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.439 loaded with like just all the stuff that kids would like, 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.879 all the you know, the candies, the ice cream, the 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:19.240 jump food. How long did you shoot that? How long 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:24.439 was was that production? Um? I actually I worked a 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.760 few days, but I only shot like I don't think 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.240 maybe one or two days I shot or something. They had. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.520 That was one of those sets where you might just 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.160 come and hang around all day a book your school 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:40.239 out do your was three hours of school, get your 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.719 school booked in, and then you're just hanging out, Hey, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.520 hanging out. You know, Yeah, we do a lot. I'm 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.560 sure you remember doing a lot of that hanging out. Well, 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.280 that's that's a good question. Do you do you remember? 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.199 I mean, how much of your schooling when you were 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:58.640 growing up was actually done on set? Schools? A good 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:04.440 amount between fourth in the eighth grade, wow, between the 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.000 fourth and eighth grade, a good amount. It was like 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.760 once I got the high school, things slowed down because 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.360 you know, how would you the cash you at eighteen 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:20.520 to play twelve? But basically, um, between fourth grade and 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.200 eighth grade, I was definitely doing a lot of school 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.720 on the set, which uh, and my teachers were great. 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.359 I went to a private school, so they did you 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.200 move out to l A at that point or were 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:38.399 you I moved out to l A right before Candy Man, Okay, 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.160 so it was like right after the Boys in the Hood. 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.399 I went back to Ohio and then my mom was like, look, 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.439 if this looks like this might be a gig for you, 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.560 or you know, this looks like this might be a thing. 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.600 You know, if you book something else, you can stay 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.879 out there with your aunt and you know my uncle. 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.840 And that's what happened. I book Candy Man and let 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:03.159 me color and I just started working. So my stage 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.200 I went to a private school, which, um, I think 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.320 it was good coming up being that I was in 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.560 the city, so you know, we had prayer in school 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:14.280 and all that good stuff. So that so he was 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:16.280