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He served as an executive producer 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: and starred on one of my popular a very popular 10 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: movie called what Sony called The Perfect Guy, which open 11 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,959 Speaker 1: number one at the box office. When I work with him, 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: executive produced the movie, very popular movie. I think everybody 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: knows Think like a Man, and Think like a Man too. 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: And you're started about Last Night and action vampire movie, Underworld, Semma, 15 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: Underworld Guide. You know if you know Underworld, Underworld Awaken, 16 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: he was in there. I was like man Underwear Awaken. 17 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: That's my movie. His television credits include The Good Wife, 18 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: Common Law, Almost Human, which I really loved that was 19 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: on Fox, and Sleeper Sale which is on Showtime Networks. 20 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: Another one of those movies. Seriously, I really like and 21 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: he was nominated for a Golden Globe a war He 22 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,479 Speaker 1: is on the show today discussed several projects in TV 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: and film, including the Sony thriller The Intruder opts my 24 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: man Dennis Quaid. He's a Texan, That's why I call 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: him my man. I'm a Houston Texan. And Megan good 26 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: which his theaters may three, please welcome to money making Conversations. 27 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: My man, Michael Eally, what's up? I'm really really good Man. 28 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: So on thing I always like about to Michael, you 29 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: keep a low key personality, but you can do so 30 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: many different roles. How does how does that? How does 31 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: that work? You know? You know a good question. I 32 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: think for me, I think if you live your life 33 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: out loud, it's really hard to to slip into characters 34 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: um that are you know, kind of intricate and unique 35 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: and it's it's I always say that, you know, it's 36 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: important to take breaks and to kind of live life 37 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: a little bit so that when you try to reflect life, uh, 38 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: you have something to draw from, you know. I think 39 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: in this climate right now, everybody's just obsessed with social 40 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: media and everything and putting it out there all the time, 41 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: putting their lives up there all the time that you know, 42 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: it's it's it's hard to step back and actually live 43 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: and it just observed for a little while. And because 44 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: it's my job to kind of observe life and then 45 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: turn around and and reflected on the screen. For me, 46 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: I just have to live a little bit differently. In 47 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: addition to the fact that I'm pretty much probably one 48 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: of the few private people in this business. Very true 49 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: because social media. I had social media. Wouldn't you want 50 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: a big social media guy? When I first met you? 51 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: And I wasn't you know? That was a funny conversation 52 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: because I I we sat down and I just we 53 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: talked about social media. Why did you resist to social media? 54 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: And how are you using social media to your advantage now? 55 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: Because you're private, that's one thing about you. You really yeah, 56 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: you really are. If you if you ever around him, 57 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,519 Speaker 1: he's not a guy that's gonna seek out a party, 58 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: gonna seek out publicity. He's on the red carpet because 59 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 1: he's there for that movie. He's that type of guy. 60 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: Now your social media, You've got a million followers on Instagram? 61 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: Mm hmm, you know. Um, first and foremost, I think 62 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: I got more I just think they won't. Whatever they won't, 63 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: they increase my numbers. So it is what it is. 64 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: But that being said, he never thought I'd say that. 65 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: Uh you know, um no, listen, you know when we 66 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: sat down, I think there was a fear on my 67 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: part of feeling like the whole thing, the whole structure 68 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: of blueprint of social media is about approval from me, 69 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: you know, when you get likes and followers and all 70 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: of that stuff. I've just lived my life and I've 71 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: kind of lived through my career in a position where 72 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: I never really wanted to need that. There's something disturbing 73 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: about needing followers and needing likes and in that sense 74 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: of approval. And I think, you know, you can see 75 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: it with what's happening to the youth. You know, suicide 76 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: rates are up and cyber believing is up, and we're 77 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: raising a generation of kids right now who seek approval 78 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: and not just from their inner circle, they seek approval 79 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: from the public. And when I grew up, that wasn't 80 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: you know your inner circle was was it right? That 81 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: was that was it? It was your friends, you know. 82 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: But now I think there's something, you know, and perhaps 83 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: clinically wrong with seeking public approval. It really is, it 84 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: really is. And I think that, uh, you know, like 85 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: I have a daughter, she's in college and she lives 86 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: a life on her phone and I and I constantly 87 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: pull her off of it just in conversation. I make 88 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: her watch the news. That's the news is reality. I 89 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: was the news is reality. I don't know what's on 90 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: that phone. It's not because you know they people go 91 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: on these phones and google health cures for cancer and 92 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: all types of illnesses because they think and it could 93 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: be written by a grandma and idahope, and you think 94 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: that's that's legitimate. And that's where you really say that 95 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: the character of understanding what's going on. You have to 96 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: live your life and you keep it structured. Now, when 97 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: I when I when I say that, you know, like 98 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: I said, he was in the Underworld. You know, you 99 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: played a policeman in that. Then you you can do comedy, 100 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: you know, and then you can be a violet, you know, 101 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 1: a stalking type character. Then you could be suave, could 102 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: come on, Michael, that's a lot, man, that's a lot. 103 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 1: I can might. I might can do just the angry guy. 104 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: That's me Rissell. I could do angry. But how are 105 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: you doing all these roles? Man? What are you? What? What? 106 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: What are you? What? Is what's prepping you to be 107 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,239 Speaker 1: able to pull those different characters off? Honestly, you sean 108 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: like what you're saying right now is probably the highest 109 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: compliment you can give me, right and that if you 110 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 1: tell me I can play all of these characters in 111 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: a credible way. That was That was the goal that 112 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: I set for myself when I got started. I didn't 113 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: want to just be, especially with the way that I look. 114 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: I didn't want to just be, you know, this romantic 115 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: leading man for the rest of my career. I didn't 116 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: if I if I didn't love acting, perhaps I could 117 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: have just made a living doing right. But for me, 118 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: it's about stepping into different people's shoes and circumstances. When 119 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: I did for Colored Girls, you know, for me, that 120 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 1: was that was massive because it gave me the opportunity 121 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: to step into the shoes of someone who on the 122 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: surface seems like the worst person in the world, but 123 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: in truth, you know, everybody has I'm not saying everybody 124 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: has an excuse, but the character of both really in 125 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: and for Colored Girls, he was suffering from PTSD in 126 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: the commentary of that is what are we doing with 127 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: our veterans? Because sending people to wars seems like a 128 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: great idea and a very valiant thing to do, But 129 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: what are the consequences, the real life consequences that are 130 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: affecting the soldiers that are going there and the secondary 131 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: PTSD which is affecting their families and their caretakers when 132 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: they come home. And so for me, it was not 133 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: you know what I do is also an opportunity to 134 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: kind of shed light on what's really going on. And 135 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: you know, I just never really wanted to just sit 136 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: back and kind of, you know, play one character. If 137 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: that was the case, I would have been still playing 138 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: Ricky from Barbershop right now, right right, you know what 139 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: I mean? That Cybord character almost human right when like yeah, yeah, yeah, 140 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: trader android and that you know that that and that 141 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: that's that to me is like the one job that 142 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: kind of got away from me because I mean, obviously 143 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: they canceled it. But I really like the commentary of 144 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: that one because ultimately, you know, here I am playing 145 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: an android who's facing discrimination. It's like I got it. 146 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: I can tap into this. I know, I know a 147 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: whole species of people who can tap into this going 148 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: to focus. My man Michael Eale has established himself as 149 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 1: one of Hollywood's leading means, seamlessly jumping from TV to film. 150 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: He will soon be started in the upcoming sony thriller 151 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: The Intrue to opposite my man Dennis Quaid and Making 152 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: Good which his theaters May three. When we come back. 153 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: That's all we're gonna talk about this movie. Because see, 154 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 1: whenever I buy a new house, I get nervous about 155 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: my locks on my doors, so so I always make 156 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: sure they all get changed. And so I saw the 157 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: trailer and we're gonna talk about more with my man 158 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: Michael Eally, Mr Social Media, Michael Eli, my man, Hi, 159 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: This Rashan McDonald and you're listening to money making conversation. 160 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: It's the home of information if you want to know 161 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: information to get comments or get support or motivation and 162 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: entertainment as well as entrepreneurship on the phone. Is very talented. 163 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: One of the one of the leading men who seems 164 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: like it stated earlier prior to the break or jumped 165 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: from TV to film and I I had him doing 166 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: a comedy, I had him doing a romantic lead. I've 167 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: seen him be uh be a sale may be the 168 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: dual roles. He plays an android. He he plays a 169 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: guy that you you hate you dated because next that 170 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: he's clingy, you know, and now he's on this show 171 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: with he's on this next movie where my man Dennis Quade, 172 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 1: The Intruder and the very talented and lovely Megan Good, 173 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: which comes out May three from Sony. Tell us about 174 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: that movie, Mike, Yeah, The Intruder is its kind of 175 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: interesting thriller where you know, you kind of take the 176 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: American dream of you know, uh, you know, being a 177 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: newly wed couple and you go out to buy your 178 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: house and start your family, and you're holding onto the 179 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: dream and you're doing all the right things, you know 180 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: what I mean, Like you're investing in yourself. And you 181 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: turn around and that, uh, that previous owner has found 182 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,319 Speaker 1: a way to turn that dream into a nightmare. And 183 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: that's that's essentially what happens in this in this particular film, 184 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: And what I love most about it is that there 185 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: are no you know, bulletproof suits and special effects or 186 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: anything like that. This is a grounded, grounded human story 187 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 1: and it's it's rooted in reality because it could happen 188 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: to anyone. It could happen to anyone who is, you know, 189 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: trying to buy a house and not perhaps doing the 190 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: research you should do on the previous right, right, and 191 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: and learning that you know, maybe this ain't a great 192 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: fit right And and I like, I bought at least 193 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 1: four homes in my life, and there is always that 194 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: to me, you know, because I immediately get security, I 195 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: get I get my A D T H A security 196 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: longe system set up, and I immediately changed all the locks. 197 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: So that basically plays it. I played this movie plays 198 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: int I think that anybody's fears about home ownership or 199 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: moving into a condo or an apartment, and and somebody 200 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,719 Speaker 1: coming back knocking on the door, they want to come in. 201 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: And basically that's what this movie is about. Somebody wanted 202 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: to come in and you say, hey, can you just 203 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: move on? Did you just move home? You know? I 204 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: take it one step further, Sean, and I say, it's 205 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: more I mean Dennis for Dennis Quay's character, he plays 206 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: a guy in Charlie Peck, it's more about for him 207 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: not letting go of what old, not letting go of 208 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: you know, the past, and you know, thinking he's got 209 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: a second shot, you know, in terms of his future. 210 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's it's it's dark in that way. 211 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: It's it's it's dark in that way. And I think, 212 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: you know, they'll definitely be people who watched this movie 213 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: and we'll see, um, you know, some contemporary theme that 214 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: that that holds you as we speaking about that when 215 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: you say that, you know, because you know, I think 216 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: that you really came to my by teaching from an 217 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: acting standpoint on a sleeper sale, you know, and you 218 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: were nominated for a Golden Globe and and really the 219 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: reason why because because this character I know, just in 220 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: African American, I know that I'm gonna how is he 221 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 1: playing this role? You know, and and it's so believable 222 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: with such a high level of credibility. And so when 223 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,199 Speaker 1: I go back to you and I'm just yeah, when 224 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: I because I had a Franker face on it on 225 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: the radio, and I've had Curtis Curtis uh underminding, Curtis 226 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: Hall that all these all these individuals just like you 227 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: that can just jump from role in the role and 228 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: just y'all just regular people, man, not just regular people, 229 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: but when you take on these characters, they become very rememberable. 230 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: How how do you do that? Because I asked them 231 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: each one of them the same question, but your younger 232 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: version of them, so your body of Marga is gonna 233 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: be crazy when you get their age. How do you 234 00:13:54,880 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: do that? It's a god giving gift. I gotta be 235 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 1: honest with you. I think it's a guy giving gift. 236 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: And I think, you know, with the proper training. M 237 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: Vandi actually came and directed an episode of Sleeper, so 238 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: I love working with him. Um, you know you can. 239 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: You're actually trained to do this right. So, UM, the 240 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: key is to find something that you can relate to 241 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: in each character. To go back to what we were 242 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: saying for the Intruder. I was actually renovating my house 243 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: when this movie came to me, and I remember feeling like, 244 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: what I love about this story is that my wife 245 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: and I had just been out in the street looking 246 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: at houses trying to find, you know, because we were 247 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: about to have another baby, and we were like, we 248 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: need some more space, and you know, let's look at 249 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: houses that we don't have to renovate, and da da 250 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: da da da, and ultimately like we couldn't find, you know. 251 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: I was more like my character Scott I'm walking around 252 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: the houses like I ain't really trying to pay this 253 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: money today, Like I'm not really trying to pay this 254 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: money for I don't really like I don't like not 255 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: knowing what's behind these walls, you know what I mean, 256 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: Because a house can be a money pick. You know, 257 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: it can look amazing, and then you know, then things 258 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: started going wrong and it's like, well, you don't know 259 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: what's behind those walls, and renovating or building a house 260 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: from the ground up was the only way in which 261 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: you can kind of know what you're working with. So 262 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: for me, in terms of understanding the character of Scott 263 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: in this movie, it was the subject matter was relevant 264 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: to me recently, and so it was like the perfect 265 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: way for me to jump into this character and play 266 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: it the right way. Also, just being married was enough 267 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: because as you're seeing in the movie, my character Scott, 268 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: he's not thrilled with the house, but because his lovely 269 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: wife I'm making Good really really wants this house, he 270 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: goes along with it absolutely And we all been there. 271 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: Absolutely happy wife, happy life. That's exactly right. And this 272 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: movie is coming out May third, is called The Inn. 273 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: It's quite making Good. I want to I want to 274 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: flipped the switch a little bit, because you got another 275 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: project that's coming down called Jacob's Ladder right now, you'll 276 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: be executive producing that project. What happens when you put 277 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: that hat on, the executive producer hat on? Oh good question. Um. 278 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: First of all, um, you finally have some stay and 279 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: as an actor, a lot of people don't understand his 280 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: actors were typically just worked for higher people, right, And 281 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: in the last decade or so, more actors have become 282 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: more involved off and invested in their careers by producing. 283 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: And the beautiful thing about producing is that you're not 284 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: just being told what to do. You have input regarding 285 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: story development, casting, um uh, promotion, release. So it's basically 286 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: you start to learn how to make your baby your baby. 287 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: You learn how to really make it your baby. And 288 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 1: I will say that if I'm gonna bank on anyone, 289 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 1: I'd rather bank on myself. And and that's, you know, 290 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: in in the hard work that I'm going to put 291 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: in in terms of story development and and all of that. 292 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 1: And I'm you know, it doesn't mean you don't have 293 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: to work with people. You do. You have to work 294 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: with you know, p and A people and make sure 295 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: because they're they're the experts at what they do. But 296 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: at the same time, you're not just being kind of 297 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: told what to do. And that was the way it 298 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: was for many years. And now actors having active say 299 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: in what you know, how a movie is promoted, the storyline, 300 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: all of that, all of that is big is better 301 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: for us now and that makes you feel good because 302 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: of the fact that he's absolutely right. Uh. I've been 303 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 1: a sitcom writer, I've done talk shows, I've done everything 304 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: until you put on that producer title and active you 305 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: you really just come on the set. No, no, you can't. 306 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: Don't do the worry about that line. We got you. 307 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: We're changed the lines and you this is what you're 308 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: gonna say tomorrow. You know that's what you're gonna say. 309 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: And you know this the funny part. They'll tell you, Okay, 310 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: you can do that line, but they lineup make the movies. 311 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: When you're executive, do you say you can do that line? 312 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: Your line will make the movie? To make the movie. 313 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: That's a great way of putting it. It is. It 314 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: is a way to be much more assertive. And what 315 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: I learned from Perfect Guy was it actually makes you 316 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: more invested in looting the movie now obviously done a 317 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: bunch of movies with with Will Packer, and you know 318 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: you end up, you know, promoting the movie a lot anyway. 319 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: But well he learned from that is you're much more 320 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 1: invested in the promotion of the movie because you've been 321 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: more invested in the project as a whole. It's it's 322 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: it makes so much more sense. Thank you, makes so 323 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,199 Speaker 1: much more sense. Yeah, I got my man here, you know, 324 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 1: on the phone. Uh, just promoting, just poting his brand, 325 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: you know. Uh. The movie comes out of May third. 326 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: It's called The Intruder and stars Dennis Quaid. Um A 327 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: girl Making Good is a movie that you gotta go see, 328 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: a movie that you like. It's like I said, happy wife, 329 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: Happy home, Happy wife, Happy Home, Happy Intruder. Yea, and Michael, 330 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: thank you man for calling on the show Money Making Conversations. 331 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 1: Tell my girl, thank you or allow you to schedule 332 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: to be on this show. I appreciate both of y'all. 333 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: Appreciate you making conversation. 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