Speaker 1: Hey guys, I'm Tommy d Dario. Welcome to Hot Takes
Speaker 1: and Hangouts. I am hanging out with Michael Johnston. You
Speaker 1: know him from Obsession? How are you, my man? Doing great?
Speaker 1: Are you ready for some hot takes? Let's go rap Okay,
Speaker 1: rapid fire? Here we go? All right? All right, where
Speaker 1: do I want to again? Okay? What's the craziest fan
Speaker 1: theory you've seen online about Obsession?
Speaker 2: That Nicky is actually possessed by the spirit of Bear's
Speaker 2: cat Sandy.
Speaker 1: It's wow crazy.
Speaker 2: It's totally like waiting outside of the bathroom, following around
Speaker 2: waiting for him to get home, all that stuff, like
Speaker 2: it all makes sense. There's a lot of stuff in
Speaker 2: there that could prove that theory.
Speaker 1: That's actually kind of amazing. Yeah, whoever created that, hats
Speaker 1: off to the kudos. Kind of amazing.
Speaker 2: There's a very graphic, extremely bloody scene in the film
Speaker 2: that involves a head being smashed. So in the director's cut,
Speaker 2: after the head is smashed, that character is still alive
Speaker 2: for a little while and she makes some gurgling sounds.
Speaker 2: Oh God, it's horrific, it's so bad. But the first time,
Speaker 2: that was the first cut that I saw then they
Speaker 2: had to take it out. But man, if you're like
Speaker 2: a fan of horror and you know the brutality of it,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's brutal.
Speaker 1: It sounds brutal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. It's it's like one of those things
Speaker 2: that you you you want to watch it, but you
Speaker 2: you have to look away. I just remember that moment.
Speaker 2: I was like, damn, that's dark.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And she did not Sarah did not deserve the thing.
Speaker 2: She didn't deserve it.
Speaker 1: Poor thing. That would have put the rating in like
Speaker 1: a whole different category it did. Wow. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: well we have to see it now now, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got just cut there we go. Do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite horror movie?
Speaker 2: It's so hard to pick one, all right, anything? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I'm a big fan of ari Asta. I
Speaker 2: loved Hereditarian, Midsomar. I'm just go I gotta say one.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I have a bunch. I mean, I love Silence of
Speaker 2: the Lambs, I love the twenty eight Days Later, like.
Speaker 1: The brilliant message. Yeah, I'm like I like a slash
Speaker 1: of like scream and like hollow stuff, but I want darker.
Speaker 2: I like some I like some really dark ship you know.
Speaker 2: That's my dad's fault. He showed me all these movies.
Speaker 2: He showed me Halloween when I was like nine or
Speaker 2: ten or something, and I was terrified. But now I
Speaker 2: have this like morbid curiosity, and anytime a movie can
Speaker 2: get under my skin, like the tone of Blair Witch,
Speaker 2: I'm just like.
Speaker 1: Oh, man, I know, Oh my god, I love it.
Speaker 1: I want more. Did you watch Widow's Bay?
Speaker 2: I did, and I loved it, just so good I expected,
Speaker 2: but no, I know I didn't. I heard that it
Speaker 2: was horror comedy, and I kind of rolled my eyes
Speaker 2: because it's really hard to get that right. But man,
Speaker 2: I was cackling.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna sweep Awards.
Speaker 2: It's oh absolutely. What's the name of the one character
Speaker 2: the the lady and she like closes the door in
Speaker 2: the guy's face and she's so funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget her her name, but.
Speaker 2: Man, she's fantastic everyone in that show.
Speaker 1: So, because you said Halloween or reminded me of the
Speaker 1: episode that was very.
Speaker 2: That's the one I was yeah with the yeah.
Speaker 1: So good show, Me too, loved it. Okay, what is
Speaker 1: the best song to get you out of a bad mood?
Speaker 2: Oh, hmmm, I feel good. That song was playing when
Speaker 2: I was born. Really yeah, my my, my, my leg
Speaker 2: popped out first and my my butt came out, and
Speaker 2: that was the first thing to see the world too.
Speaker 2: I feel good.
Speaker 1: That's what my dad says forever. Yeah, yeah, I feel good. Okay,
Speaker 1: you might need to do a cover of that eventually.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I should take.
Speaker 1: A stripped down acoustic version, just saying I'd love to,
Speaker 1: Just saying, all right, what's something you always do before
Speaker 1: an audition?
Speaker 2: Are we talking about like the old days where you
Speaker 2: kind of show up when you go in person?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's changed now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the tapes. It's almost all tapes. Something that I
Speaker 2: learned from a little bit of theater that I've done
Speaker 2: is to sort of kind of be aware of the
Speaker 2: surroundings and kind of like find a way to kind
Speaker 2: of root myself in this in the space where I am.
Speaker 2: So something that I loved to do when we did that,
Speaker 2: when we used to go into the rooms, was just
Speaker 2: sort of like really kind of take in everything around me, like,
Speaker 2: so I'm learning my lines, I got my lines, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. But then the last thing that goes through
Speaker 2: my mind is like just kind of be very like
Speaker 2: there's a table there, there's a rug here, like feel
Speaker 2: like just kind of try to like ground myself in
Speaker 2: the current moment, because once you're there, the preparation's done,
Speaker 2: you gotta just let it go. If you don't know
Speaker 2: the lines that well, you know, just vacant acting.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I do have a crazy story though on I'm I.
Speaker 2: It was like Pilot season when that was a thing
Speaker 2: and I was running driving all around town. He's spend
Speaker 2: like three hours in the car, and I messed up
Speaker 2: and I thought I was a different audition and I didn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't prepared enough and a guy was coming out
Speaker 2: of the room and I just like snatched his lines
Speaker 2: out of his hand and went straight in. It was really.
Speaker 1: Bad, like without any concept. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: I was like hanging up brow that he was like,
Speaker 2: oh wait, and then I like was I was reading
Speaker 2: like basically cold reading and he had like notes in there,
Speaker 2: and oh it was. It was awful. I did get
Speaker 2: that rule. I did, and then that and now from
Speaker 2: now on, I'm like, geez, I'm always so stressed about this.
Speaker 2: Just just throw it away, just be yourself. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe that's terrible advice.
Speaker 1: It depends on the rule. No, oh, I like that advice,
Speaker 1: and that guy now is gonna.
Speaker 2: Be like, I can't believe that I shouldn't have done it,
Speaker 2: but I just panicked and I just kind of made
Speaker 2: a decision. You got to just sometimes you.
Speaker 1: Just gotta look, it was game day. How to do it?
Speaker 1: How to make a decision? Okay, which Obsession cast member?
Speaker 1: Would you want to be stuck on an island with you?
Speaker 2: Megan Lawless?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Because she's just a sweetheart and we just like giggle
Speaker 2: together and I feel like we might not survive, we'll
Speaker 2: have a great time.
Speaker 1: Okay, I guess it counts for something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if I'm thinking in terms of like who
Speaker 2: hm survival? Well, Indy loves well No, Cooper really knows
Speaker 2: all these interesting facts. He's very wise. He has a
Speaker 2: lot of trivia on his brain, so he might be
Speaker 2: a good choice. But also Indy is a hardcore gamer
Speaker 2: and she used to like stream so maybe she's played
Speaker 2: a lot of games. We have to survive. That's a
Speaker 2: tough one. I'd probably be the most useless one.
Speaker 1: So he would you take them all?
Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh man, we gotta make a mattress.
Speaker 1: Like you know, it would be like not the most
Speaker 1: important thing, right, sleep in the sand?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like I need some bugs, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so a combination of all of them. We'll take it.
Speaker 1: You're doing fine. Oh here's a nice one. Oh perfect
Speaker 1: first date.
Speaker 2: Oh, perfect first date.
Speaker 1: Hmmm.
Speaker 2: A walk. I love a good walk, just you know,
Speaker 2: because it's nice because if it's not going great, you
Speaker 2: can kind of like probably wrap it up. You can
Speaker 2: figure that out. And if it is going great, it's
Speaker 2: it'll last. It could last a little longer. Or if
Speaker 2: if you're kind of like having some butterflies while you're walking,
Speaker 2: so you don't like look at them the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like I like a walk.
Speaker 2: I don't get people who go to the movies for
Speaker 2: a first date. You're not even like talking to each other. No,
Speaker 2: I don't like that unless you go to see Obsession. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a great first.
Speaker 1: Dage suttle plug all right, my man, Well, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. You survived the rapid fire around and everybody.
Speaker 1: If you want more from this amazing dude sitting right here,
Speaker 1: you can hear our full interview, which is out now,
Speaker 1: so go listen and go watch obsession. You can watch
Speaker 1: us from the comfort of your couch right now. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, thank you