WEBVTT - James Maslow 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:09.000 Stretch out. I feel very strongly about the merits of 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.560 a good stretch before your podcast, or before you listen 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.400 to a podcast, or really anything feels good. Let's just 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:20.320 do it together, just stretch it out. Oh yeah, okay, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.880 all right, let's go do it. Just run it. This 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.160 is a Wells cast with Wells Atoms and I heart 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:36.159 Radio podcast. All right, stretched out, limburg, loose, ready to roll, 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:43.559 feeling good. How's everyone doing out there? I'm on The 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.440 Bachelor this week barely they cut your boy out, which 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.240 I mean, I'm used to listen, but this week I 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.000 didn't even say anything. I'm just there for like three 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:57.240 seconds then boom, so whatever. I had like seven really 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.920 good jokes. I was so excited for it. I made 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.040 like a Biggie Tupac joke that I thought definitely was 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.639 gonna kill pun intended, and they cut it. Whatever. It's fine. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.119 It's not about means about Matt and his journey. La 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.320 la la la la Claire and Dale. Though. Huh who 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:21.000 saw that coming? Every everyone saw that coming? Got it? Okay? Sorry, certain, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.720 Here's the great thing about my podcast. They can't cut 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.760 me out because I do the cutting. Your boy is 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.920 the editor and also the editors over Abcat Listen, I 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.360 get it. I can't stand myself either, so I'm right 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.000 there with you. But I'm not gonna cutting out our 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:41.759 guest today because this guy literally has done everything. He's 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.119 an actor, he's a singer, he's a songwriter. He started 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.480 out early on a Nickelodeon show, A Big Time Rush, 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.560 part of the best selling mused a group of the 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.760 same name. He's pivoted over to the E d M 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.800 side of the music world. Got a song right now 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.120 that's number one across the pond. Dude won the I 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.760 Heart Radio Rising Star Award. Who was also the last 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:06.120 man standing on Dancing with Stars. Is the current host 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.639 of the CWS Global Talent show of The Big Stage 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.920 with Elizabeth stand He was on the first season of 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.160 CBS Celebrity Big Brother. He's got a new rom com 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.520 out right now called Stars Fell on Alabama. He's got 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.639 a war movie coming out later this year. I mean, 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.600 this guy's on everything except my show until today. Coming 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.720 up on the Wells Cast, we got James Maslow stick around. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:41.000 This is a good one, all right. We are back 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.440 on the Wells Cast. Very excited to have the multi 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.679 talented James Maslow on the show. How are you, my man? 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.440 I'm good, But how you doing? I'm doing really good. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.840 It's been fun doing this show because it's given me 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.959 something to do during the pandemic. But I'm always amazed 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.919 and a little jealous of my guests because they're getting 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.280 to do stuff, and I'm like, how what production company 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.200 allowed this? I don't understand. But you've got a bunch 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.160 of stuff going on. You've got your music going on, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:14.079 You've got this movie going on TV shows. Everything's happening 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.400 for you right now. Let's start with the big kind 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.000 of headline. Stars fell in Alabama. How pumped are you 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.000 for this? I'm extremely pumped. It's it's nice for a 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.200 multitude of reason to see your points. We filmed this 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.359 right before COVID, and we filmed this in November December, 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.640 so this is actually the last movie that I finished, 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.240 and funny enough, the first one coming out. But I 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.640 was lucky to have several projects in the can you 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.120 know I have this and I have two other movies 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.320 that lead coming out this year, which it's more than 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.600 a lot of actors can say, because nothing really did 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.080 film last year. I was lucky to do some stuff 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.080 from like the CW with pop Star and a few 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.400 little hosting things here and there, but for the most 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.240 part it's been focusing on music right here in my 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.960 studio at home, which you know, lucky to have that 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.120 as well, but also just anxious and eager to get 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.680 back to touring. Yeah, it's this kind of weird situation 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.520 where all I had a lot of musicians on and 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.480 it's feast and famine for you guys, because you have 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.000 so much time to create and you have like a 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.320 lot of like emo news stories and just like just 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.799 depression in general to create like a lot of really 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.359 good content, but then you can't go out into the 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.520 world and present it to mass crowds and stuff. So 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.240 it's just it's this great thing, but then this kind 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.960 of crap thing as well. But also going out into 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:37.680 the world having normal freaking human experience is where I 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.359 draw most of my creativity from. So yeah, we have 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.920 more time, but ample time sitting around, you know, alone 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.520 at home like everyone else. So I guess drawing from 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.640 news stories in the way of the world is is 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.719 silver lining some ideas, but definitely not the same. And 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.680 I think I speak for just about all of us 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.680 when I say we prefer it the other way around, 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.080 back to some sort of semblance of normality. Soon, we hope. Yeah, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.760 you just gotta go straight Bob Dylan now and just 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:09.160 be political and it's like, well, it's getting up Twitter, man. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.400 Trying to avoid that as much as possible. I do 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.159 want to get into your music, but I want to 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.000 start on Stars fell in Alabama. Is this your first 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.880 rom com? It's not my first rom com. I filmed 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.200 a little gem called It Happened One Valentine's like five 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.360 years back that I'm very proud of, but didn't get 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.440 nearly the distribution this guy did. This is definitely, uh, 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.280 my first rom com in a long time. I've done 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.919 from big World War two movie to a raunchy comedy. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.960 I think the one before that it played a serial killer. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.799 So it was nice when this came across the desk 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.960 to to do something that's far more accessible and lighthearted, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.360 and man, if there's a time that we need something 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.160 that's just positive and relatable, I'd say it's right now. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.159 It's funny because I do feel like the holidays they're 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.440 such the time for really good rom coms. You know. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.560 I had a little bit of withdrawals because I was like, man, 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.480 I don't have I need the story of the hardened 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.640 New York reporter that's coming home to the small town 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.800 and falls in love with the cookie baker and you know, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:10.880 and then they fall and then I saw this and 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.039 I was like, yeah, back into a baby. So tell 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.039 everyone kind of the story, like, because I love, just 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.839 as someone who's in the industry, I kind of like 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.760 love the premise of this movie, So tell everyone what 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.960 the story is about. Yeah. Well, so I play an agent, 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.440 Bryce Dixon, and he's a very successful Hollywood agents who 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.640 has an up and coming starlett named Madison Bell. So 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.000 Bryce is out having drinks for Premier, gets a call 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.960 from his buddies back home who really want him to 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.800 come to the fifteen year anniversary, and they pressure him, going, hey, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.320 you must have a serious relationship now you know you're 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.120 thirty three. I think the character is like, who is she? 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.000 Is she coming? And there's this kind of undo pressure 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.479 from the South, and so he kind of FIBs and 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.720 says that he does. Then they pressure him more and 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.039 says who is it? Who is it? He's like, I 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.840 can't tell you, and then eventually he slips and looks 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.760 up and see's a billboard of his client, Madison Bell, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.839 and goes Madison. So he puts himself in the situation 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.120 where he's completely lied about dating a client and then 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.480 goes so far as to call a client up and 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.200 try and convince her to fake be his girlfriend and 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.880 go to Alabama and lo and behold he does, and 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:23.280 the comedy and romance ensues. Would you ever? Would you 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:28.000 ever date your agent? Manager? Both my agents think are married, 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.040 Um can have a couple of years on me, and 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.080 I'm in a very happy, committed relationship myself. I'm gonna 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.120 go ahead and say no. Generally speaking, Look, I feel 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.000 like things like this actually happened quite a bit, says 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.320 you know this, it's strange our industry. It's wonderful, but 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.800 if you're not in it, it's hard to explain it, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.080 you know, especially from an acting perspective, Like it's hard 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.000 to explain, Well, I'm gonna go fake date somebody for 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.000 the next two months to ten years in my life, 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.640 depending on the project. So there's some sort of understanding. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.760 I think that happens amongst people in the industry, whether 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.440 you're an actor, musician, agents, morior. So I get it. It 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.680 It happens a lot, but I am very happy that 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.240 my girlfriend does not do any of that. Smart Man, 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.080 Good Answer Stars Fell on Alabama's out now on demand 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.800 and digital. Do you find yourself looking more at scripts 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.120 like this, because I got to imagine it's really really 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.800 fun to go do pictures like this. Absolutely, man. I mean, 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.880 the more I've been lucky to have, you know, quite 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.920 a spectrum of rules, more I enjoy doing stuff the slighthearted. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.360 That's fun because when you're filming a comedy, when you're 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.120 filming over homecount you're having fun on set. If you're not, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:35.840 it's probably not going to be a very enjoyable movie 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.720 to watch, That's the truth. So you know, it's great 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.080 to do character work. It's great to dig in and 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.000 do drama, and I crave that every once in a while. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.800 But I would love to spend the majority of my 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.400 career doing comedies. You know, our action action comedies. That 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.920 whole vein is stuff to me, is really enjoyable. Is 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.640 there any part of the film industry or television um 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.880 that you haven't done that you'd like to do? Quite 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.040 a few? You know the action movie of Reference a 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.880 couple of times now it is called Wolf Found, and 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.360 it's a massive World War two film that I'm very 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.360 proud of and very excited for that when to come out, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.640 and I'd love to do more of that world. In fact, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.079 as a little kid, I've always want to play a superhero, 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.000 and as an adult kid, I still want to play superhero. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.000 So that's on the bucket list for sure. Tell Us 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:23.240 A Wolf Found About Wolf Found is a true story 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.800 to think God didn't come to fruition. It's based on 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:30.679 plans who were discovered about Nazi occupied France the end 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.800 of around nineteen four, towards the end of the war, 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.360 when they were attempting to Trojan Horse shoot down a 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.120 B seventeen American bomber and then Trojan Horse sat with 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.520 a big war ending bomb over London. So it was 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.199 a scary plan that again think God didn't actually happen, 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.000 But it's a story of what would that have looked 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.160 like if that almost went down. So I play a 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.040 P fifty one fighter, Captain Holden, defending a B seventeen. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.240 We get shot down at the beginning of the movie, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.160 and mind you, all of this is shot practically. We're 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.760 actually up in P fifty ones at B seventeens and 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.960 it's being filmed with a half million dollar skycam on 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.320 another plane in the air. It's pretty incredible. Um. And 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.760 then we get shut down and most of the crew 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.040 gets taken captive, and it's me running through the forest 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.560 trying to find them and creating this kind of one 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:23.360 man army approach to stopping this whole thing. You got 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.960 to be up in those old World War two fighters, dude. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.120 The first the very first day of filming, I was 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.000 put into the back seat of a makeshift like jump 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.280 seats and they had one seat and pift ones and 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.720 you know, pretending to fake flood the same way they 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.640 shot Top Gun, just an order plane and put up 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.400 there and said, all right, when you deliver your lines, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.040 press this button so it communicates back down to camera 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.600 and here we go. And then you just started dog fighting. 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.320 I'm in barrel rolls and back turns, and so I 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.960 literally were up that was up there, hitting my lines 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.319 as many times as I could before I was ready 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.680 to almost throw up, which say, what will you? What 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.240 you will? But when you're in the backseat one of 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.520 those planes doing bearables, you can only last for so long. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.920 I don't care who you who you are. So it's like, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.440 all right, buddy, don't want to throw up on your plane. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.640 Less land You'd go no problem, you'd land be down. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.079 I'd go hurl, hang out for three minutes, and go 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.520 back up. I mean that was the start of it. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.400 By the end of the movie, I actually started getting 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.880 my pilot's license and they're comfortable enough to let me 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.920 actually fly a B twenty five bomber. And I don't 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.480 want to spoiler give any spoiler alerts away, but it's 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.240 pretty awesome, man. So you'll see me up there. You 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.000 actually see me, and there was a co captain there 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.880 obviously for safety reasons, but they see g I am out. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.280 So when you see me fly on that plane, it's 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.920 actually me fly on the plane. Stop it super cool. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.600 Did they let you ever fly the fighter? No? I 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.720 mean that one. I had only gotten seven hours of 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.640 my license something so far, so there'd be no way. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.480 It wasn't like his dual control as in a fighter. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.720 So maybe one day, dude, that sounds sick. Man, Yeah, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.959 I want to see that now. When is that coming out? 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.800 That will probably be closer to the end of the year. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.079 I mean, it's a massive production and they work and 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.680 on it. But m after Stars Fell, I'm not exactly 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.400 sure when. But I have a movie called We Need 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.680 to Talk that's a very funny, little more raunchy comedy. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.480 I play one of the biggest gamers in the world 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.040 and that just one best comedy and one Best Actor 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.440 at the first Clance Festival in Phillies. That's pretty exciting. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.080 It's going around and doing the little mini festival circuit 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.000 and uh yeah, those two or two more to look 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.520 forward to after this one. Dude, I'm such like a 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.200 big like Memphis Bell fans, So just hearing about this, 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.400 is it Wolf Found? Is that what's called? Yeah? That 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.400 sounds so sick, dude. Yeah. I mean, look all three 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.680 of these projects and I think about like the slate 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.920 of movies I have coming out already just again, so 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.200 so living in such a state of gratitude not only 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.439 to have the projects, but they're also different. That's what 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.520 every actor wants to do. You know. I do love 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.840 rom coms, but I wouldn't only want to do rom coms. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.680 Same with action movies. They're super fun, but less dialogue, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.680 different skills you know, you have to have for those. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.160 So I'm just grateful to you. Know, be able to 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.959 work on all these different types of projects. Is there 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.920 anything you wouldn't do? I've been offered some absolutely awful 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:05.360 slasher films. Um having said that, I do want to 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:10.520 do one when it's a fantastic project and I feel 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.520 like there are far more bad than good in that world, respectfully, 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.720 but you get like a cabin in the Woods type script. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.600 You're kidding me. I will jump at that in the harpeat. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.360 But I've said no to everyone I've been offered thus 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:26.080 far because you know that it's easy to it's easy 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.960 to get cheesy in that world. What would you rather 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.320 be the good guy or the bad guy in that situation? 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.120 I mean, no situations A bad guys way more fun. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.640 We're gonna do it to it, right, We'll see. It's 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.920 also nice to live potentially have, you know, like a 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.439 trilogy project. So maybe there's a bad guy that does live. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.200 Maybe he's not the bad guy to like the third movie, 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.400 just throw that out there in the universe. Yeah, Mike 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:52.960 Myers is still walking around out there. Soft Halloween's later 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.520 most job security, right exactly, smart man right there. So 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.960 I mean, like this all kind of started with Nicole 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.560 Loodi and big time rush. You've kind of pivoted away 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.959 from that musical project into this more like E d 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.839 M situation. Tell everyone about l t X. Yeah, so 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.480 you know, I put out of my own album years back, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.240 did a bunch of pop singles, many of which I'm 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.640 very proud of. But then my best friend and I 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.960 for fun a few years ago remixed one of my 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.640 songs called how I Like It before we had the 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.640 name l t X. We remixed that as the Tri 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.280 four remix. That's my best friend Eugenia Gorski, the name 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.280 that he d jed under and produced under for a while. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.560 That little remix went to number one in the Netherlands. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.080 It stayed on the charts and all the dance charts 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.720 in all of Europe weeks. I mean, it was like 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.960 beating out ed sheering and like crazy crazy things in 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.680 these markets and in the dance market mind you, But 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.560 for us it was a really good sign, like, hey, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.040 maybe we need to do more of this together. So 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.720 we had a bit of a come to Jesus moment, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.720 if you will. About two years ago, finally had time. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.680 My best friend had finally moved up to l A. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.080 He's living in Europe for about ten years and said, 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:04.440 why don't we why do we do this? Why don't 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.760 we jump in the studio right to create and see 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.960 what happens? And lo and behold, We've created UM I 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.160 think the best music of either of our careers to date, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.680 and are super excited. I feel like we're just getting going. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.800 I mean top we were DJ and we played Liquor 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.600 Box in Chicago. We're still on the line up to 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:28.120 play Summer Camp main stage whenever that happens. But obviously 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.200 the whole world got pushed, so now we're just focusing 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.760 on more releases. So we have an acoustic version of 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.440 our song History coming out soon, another single called Unforgettable 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.360 coming out shortly after that, and just a ton of 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.680 music and hopefully will be tour and play and DJ 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.960 and again very soon. Is there anything that I've missed 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.160 out on that you're currently doing. I think we've covered plenty. Yeah. Yeah, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.880 I feel like, I mean, look, that's this is everything 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.600 that's that's going on. Luckily music I can continue to 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.840 create and produce UM and then otherwise, man, I'm just 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.720 back into UM auditioning as things start to pick up 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.560 again in the acting world, and I'm very eager to 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.080 see you know what the next project there's gonna be. Yeah, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.680 pilot seasons right around the corner. Is there anything that 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.480 you want to talk about or promote that I didn't 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.560 ask you about before we pivot over to kind of 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.120 like my portion of the show. No, man, I feel 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.040 like if you want to follow anything else, just at 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.200 James Maslow across all social media. I tend to post 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.880 things that I'm doing on there. Well. I don't know 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.600 if anyone told you what the premise of this show is, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:31.480 but I am fascinated with origin stories, how people got 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.240 to where they are now, what steps they had to take, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.760 and what roads they had to go down to find success. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.440 And you've done a lot of stuff, so I think 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.480 this is gonna be a really interesting conversation. Do you 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.120 have a couple of minutes to talk about this? Absolutely? Yeah? Yeah? Alright, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.840 quick break and we come back where the hell James 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.720 Maslow came from and how the hell he got here? 0:16:50.760 --> 0:17:01.960 Stick around on the Wealth Guys. Al Right, back in 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.200 the Welles cast. I have James Maslow on the show. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.800 He currently is starring in a movie called Stars Fell 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.960 on Alabama. You might know him from Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.800 or maybe from his musical career doing the E d 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.439 M Project lt X, or maybe from Dancing with the 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.080 Stars or from the CWS the Big States, and he's 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.960 done a lot of stuff. I don't care so much 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.879 about all that stuff, even though it is very impressive. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:28.919 I want to know how the hell you got to 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.159 get all that stuff. So let's go back to the beginning. James, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.120 where the hell are you from? Where the hell am 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.480 I from? I was born in New York, but I 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.520 moved to San Diego when I was a young buck, 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.919 like six years old, So I'm really from the West Coast, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.600 but a family in the East Coast and love it. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:49.720 And fast forwarding just a couple of weeks, I ended 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.800 up attending performing art schools in the eighth grade. Frankly, 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.440 I was in regular school. I was playing sports surfing 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.960 board like any other kid who doesn't realize how good 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.560 they have it, especially place like San Diego. The more 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.000 off tour of the world, the more I realized how 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.719 freaking awesome San Diego is. But decided to go and 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.000 see this musical production. I had a Spanish tutor because 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:12.280 it's the only tutor I've ever had, by the way, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.560 because my Spanish teacher started day one speaking in Spanish. Ironically, 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.560 now I speak decent Spanish, but how do you learn 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.080 I didn't, So I hatt a tutor, and she worked 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.680 at the school called s c p A or the 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.880 San Diego School of Creative Performing Arts. And finally, after 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:28.560 weeks of trying to get me to go see I 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.720 think it was by by Bertie, this production they were doing. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.920 I'd be grudgingly accepted. I wasn't really in the theater 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.040 or musicals or whatever. I was just like a little bro. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.000 Didn't think twice about it. I didn't know anything about it. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.159 But alas I go and see the show, and I 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.480 was just blown away. I was like, holy crap, these 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.760 guys are talented. They're singing and dancing and it looks cool. 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.440 And I just had no idea. I had never been 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.240 exposed to that world. So I decided this seems way 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.040 cooler than my school. I'm gonna go ahead and audition 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.720 into the school. Whatever that means. Might have been singing 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.320 my whole life, so I'm like, okay, I'll use that, 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.360 and I figure out, like how to do a monologu 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.520 or whatever, and I got in. So then from the 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.560 eighth grade on, I guess I was in seventh grades. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.880 From the eighth grade on, she started studying. Musical theater 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.720 is my major. And you know, they threw me like 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.199 jazz stap in ballet, which I hated until you know, 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:18.760 I love because it was fun to learn something new 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.080 and found myself surrounded by all these incredible actors and 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.359 singers and dancers. And I didn't know exactly in what 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:27.800 medium I was going to be, but I knew that 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.119 I wanted to entertain for a living very quickly. What 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.600 are your parents thinking? You know, I don't know if 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.159 like twelve year old Wells could tell my parents, hey, listen, 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.639 I appreciate the school that you put me in, but 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.160 I think I want to go to this other one. 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.919 I think I probably know what's best for me. You know, Like, 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.280 how did that conversation go? I mean, it's not like 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.600 they had put me in private school. Oh is it 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.960 the local public school? I don't think my dad really 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.480 gave a ship for being honest. Um, he was just like, dude, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.720 if you're bored, you're not learning anything, then what's the 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.080 point If you think you're gonna learn something? Here, And 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.639 it's interesting. He was always so supportive of my brother 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.600 and I trying new things. Um, you know, he very 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.239 much made me have to think about it and and 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.560 talk about it and convince him to a point. But 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.760 my dad is one of the most supportive dudes. Um 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.440