Speaker 1: Stretch out. I feel very strongly about the merits of
Speaker 1: a good stretch before your podcast, or before you listen
Speaker 1: to a podcast, or really anything feels good. Let's just
Speaker 1: do it together, just stretch it out. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go do it. Just run it. This
Speaker 1: is a Wells cast with Wells Atoms and I heart
Speaker 1: Radio podcast. All right, stretched out, limburg, loose, ready to roll,
Speaker 1: feeling good. How's everyone doing out there? I'm on The
Speaker 1: Bachelor this week barely they cut your boy out, which
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm used to listen, but this week I
Speaker 1: didn't even say anything. I'm just there for like three
Speaker 1: seconds then boom, so whatever. I had like seven really
Speaker 1: good jokes. I was so excited for it. I made
Speaker 1: like a Biggie Tupac joke that I thought definitely was
Speaker 1: gonna kill pun intended, and they cut it. Whatever. It's fine.
Speaker 1: It's not about means about Matt and his journey. La
Speaker 1: la la la la Claire and Dale. Though. Huh who
Speaker 1: saw that coming? Every everyone saw that coming? Got it? Okay? Sorry, certain,
Speaker 1: Here's the great thing about my podcast. They can't cut
Speaker 1: me out because I do the cutting. Your boy is
Speaker 1: the editor and also the editors over Abcat Listen, I
Speaker 1: get it. I can't stand myself either, so I'm right
Speaker 1: there with you. But I'm not gonna cutting out our
Speaker 1: guest today because this guy literally has done everything. He's
Speaker 1: an actor, he's a singer, he's a songwriter. He started
Speaker 1: out early on a Nickelodeon show, A Big Time Rush,
Speaker 1: part of the best selling mused a group of the
Speaker 1: same name. He's pivoted over to the E d M
Speaker 1: side of the music world. Got a song right now
Speaker 1: that's number one across the pond. Dude won the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio Rising Star Award. Who was also the last
Speaker 1: man standing on Dancing with Stars. Is the current host
Speaker 1: of the CWS Global Talent show of The Big Stage
Speaker 1: with Elizabeth stand He was on the first season of
Speaker 1: CBS Celebrity Big Brother. He's got a new rom com
Speaker 1: out right now called Stars Fell on Alabama. He's got
Speaker 1: a war movie coming out later this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy's on everything except my show until today. Coming
Speaker 1: up on the Wells Cast, we got James Maslow stick around.
Speaker 1: This is a good one, all right. We are back
Speaker 1: on the Wells Cast. Very excited to have the multi
Speaker 1: talented James Maslow on the show. How are you, my man?
Speaker 1: I'm good, But how you doing? I'm doing really good.
Speaker 1: It's been fun doing this show because it's given me
Speaker 1: something to do during the pandemic. But I'm always amazed
Speaker 1: and a little jealous of my guests because they're getting
Speaker 1: to do stuff, and I'm like, how what production company
Speaker 1: allowed this? I don't understand. But you've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff going on. You've got your music going on,
Speaker 1: You've got this movie going on TV shows. Everything's happening
Speaker 1: for you right now. Let's start with the big kind
Speaker 1: of headline. Stars fell in Alabama. How pumped are you
Speaker 1: for this? I'm extremely pumped. It's it's nice for a
Speaker 1: multitude of reason to see your points. We filmed this
Speaker 1: right before COVID, and we filmed this in November December,
Speaker 1: so this is actually the last movie that I finished,
Speaker 1: and funny enough, the first one coming out. But I
Speaker 1: was lucky to have several projects in the can you
Speaker 1: know I have this and I have two other movies
Speaker 1: that lead coming out this year, which it's more than
Speaker 1: a lot of actors can say, because nothing really did
Speaker 1: film last year. I was lucky to do some stuff
Speaker 1: from like the CW with pop Star and a few
Speaker 1: little hosting things here and there, but for the most
Speaker 1: part it's been focusing on music right here in my
Speaker 1: studio at home, which you know, lucky to have that
Speaker 1: as well, but also just anxious and eager to get
Speaker 1: back to touring. Yeah, it's this kind of weird situation
Speaker 1: where all I had a lot of musicians on and
Speaker 1: it's feast and famine for you guys, because you have
Speaker 1: so much time to create and you have like a
Speaker 1: lot of like emo news stories and just like just
Speaker 1: depression in general to create like a lot of really
Speaker 1: good content, but then you can't go out into the
Speaker 1: world and present it to mass crowds and stuff. So
Speaker 1: it's just it's this great thing, but then this kind
Speaker 1: of crap thing as well. But also going out into
Speaker 1: the world having normal freaking human experience is where I
Speaker 1: draw most of my creativity from. So yeah, we have
Speaker 1: more time, but ample time sitting around, you know, alone
Speaker 1: at home like everyone else. So I guess drawing from
Speaker 1: news stories in the way of the world is is
Speaker 1: silver lining some ideas, but definitely not the same. And
Speaker 1: I think I speak for just about all of us
Speaker 1: when I say we prefer it the other way around,
Speaker 1: back to some sort of semblance of normality. Soon, we hope. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just gotta go straight Bob Dylan now and just
Speaker 1: be political and it's like, well, it's getting up Twitter, man.
Speaker 1: Trying to avoid that as much as possible. I do
Speaker 1: want to get into your music, but I want to
Speaker 1: start on Stars fell in Alabama. Is this your first
Speaker 1: rom com? It's not my first rom com. I filmed
Speaker 1: a little gem called It Happened One Valentine's like five
Speaker 1: years back that I'm very proud of, but didn't get
Speaker 1: nearly the distribution this guy did. This is definitely, uh,
Speaker 1: my first rom com in a long time. I've done
Speaker 1: from big World War two movie to a raunchy comedy.
Speaker 1: I think the one before that it played a serial killer.
Speaker 1: So it was nice when this came across the desk
Speaker 1: to to do something that's far more accessible and lighthearted,
Speaker 1: and man, if there's a time that we need something
Speaker 1: that's just positive and relatable, I'd say it's right now.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I do feel like the holidays they're
Speaker 1: such the time for really good rom coms. You know.
Speaker 1: I had a little bit of withdrawals because I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't have I need the story of the hardened
Speaker 1: New York reporter that's coming home to the small town
Speaker 1: and falls in love with the cookie baker and you know,
Speaker 1: and then they fall and then I saw this and
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, back into a baby. So tell
Speaker 1: everyone kind of the story, like, because I love, just
Speaker 1: as someone who's in the industry, I kind of like
Speaker 1: love the premise of this movie, So tell everyone what
Speaker 1: the story is about. Yeah. Well, so I play an agent,
Speaker 1: Bryce Dixon, and he's a very successful Hollywood agents who
Speaker 1: has an up and coming starlett named Madison Bell. So
Speaker 1: Bryce is out having drinks for Premier, gets a call
Speaker 1: from his buddies back home who really want him to
Speaker 1: come to the fifteen year anniversary, and they pressure him, going, hey,
Speaker 1: you must have a serious relationship now you know you're
Speaker 1: thirty three. I think the character is like, who is she?
Speaker 1: Is she coming? And there's this kind of undo pressure
Speaker 1: from the South, and so he kind of FIBs and
Speaker 1: says that he does. Then they pressure him more and
Speaker 1: says who is it? Who is it? He's like, I
Speaker 1: can't tell you, and then eventually he slips and looks
Speaker 1: up and see's a billboard of his client, Madison Bell,
Speaker 1: and goes Madison. So he puts himself in the situation
Speaker 1: where he's completely lied about dating a client and then
Speaker 1: goes so far as to call a client up and
Speaker 1: try and convince her to fake be his girlfriend and
Speaker 1: go to Alabama and lo and behold he does, and
Speaker 1: the comedy and romance ensues. Would you ever? Would you
Speaker 1: ever date your agent? Manager? Both my agents think are married,
Speaker 1: Um can have a couple of years on me, and
Speaker 1: I'm in a very happy, committed relationship myself. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and say no. Generally speaking, Look, I feel
Speaker 1: like things like this actually happened quite a bit, says
Speaker 1: you know this, it's strange our industry. It's wonderful, but
Speaker 1: if you're not in it, it's hard to explain it,
Speaker 1: you know, especially from an acting perspective, Like it's hard
Speaker 1: to explain, Well, I'm gonna go fake date somebody for
Speaker 1: the next two months to ten years in my life,
Speaker 1: depending on the project. So there's some sort of understanding.
Speaker 1: I think that happens amongst people in the industry, whether
Speaker 1: you're an actor, musician, agents, morior. So I get it. It
Speaker 1: It happens a lot, but I am very happy that
Speaker 1: my girlfriend does not do any of that. Smart Man,
Speaker 1: Good Answer Stars Fell on Alabama's out now on demand
Speaker 1: and digital. Do you find yourself looking more at scripts
Speaker 1: like this, because I got to imagine it's really really
Speaker 1: fun to go do pictures like this. Absolutely, man. I mean,
Speaker 1: the more I've been lucky to have, you know, quite
Speaker 1: a spectrum of rules, more I enjoy doing stuff the slighthearted.
Speaker 1: That's fun because when you're filming a comedy, when you're
Speaker 1: filming over homecount you're having fun on set. If you're not,
Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be a very enjoyable movie
Speaker 1: to watch, That's the truth. So you know, it's great
Speaker 1: to do character work. It's great to dig in and
Speaker 1: do drama, and I crave that every once in a while.
Speaker 1: But I would love to spend the majority of my
Speaker 1: career doing comedies. You know, our action action comedies. That
Speaker 1: whole vein is stuff to me, is really enjoyable. Is
Speaker 1: there any part of the film industry or television um
Speaker 1: that you haven't done that you'd like to do? Quite
Speaker 1: a few? You know the action movie of Reference a
Speaker 1: couple of times now it is called Wolf Found, and
Speaker 1: it's a massive World War two film that I'm very
Speaker 1: proud of and very excited for that when to come out,
Speaker 1: and I'd love to do more of that world. In fact,
Speaker 1: as a little kid, I've always want to play a superhero,
Speaker 1: and as an adult kid, I still want to play superhero.
Speaker 1: So that's on the bucket list for sure. Tell Us
Speaker 1: A Wolf Found About Wolf Found is a true story
Speaker 1: to think God didn't come to fruition. It's based on
Speaker 1: plans who were discovered about Nazi occupied France the end
Speaker 1: of around nineteen four, towards the end of the war,
Speaker 1: when they were attempting to Trojan Horse shoot down a
Speaker 1: B seventeen American bomber and then Trojan Horse sat with
Speaker 1: a big war ending bomb over London. So it was
Speaker 1: a scary plan that again think God didn't actually happen,
Speaker 1: But it's a story of what would that have looked
Speaker 1: like if that almost went down. So I play a
Speaker 1: P fifty one fighter, Captain Holden, defending a B seventeen.
Speaker 1: We get shot down at the beginning of the movie,
Speaker 1: and mind you, all of this is shot practically. We're
Speaker 1: actually up in P fifty ones at B seventeens and
Speaker 1: it's being filmed with a half million dollar skycam on
Speaker 1: another plane in the air. It's pretty incredible. Um. And
Speaker 1: then we get shut down and most of the crew
Speaker 1: gets taken captive, and it's me running through the forest
Speaker 1: trying to find them and creating this kind of one
Speaker 1: man army approach to stopping this whole thing. You got
Speaker 1: to be up in those old World War two fighters, dude.
Speaker 1: The first the very first day of filming, I was
Speaker 1: put into the back seat of a makeshift like jump
Speaker 1: seats and they had one seat and pift ones and
Speaker 1: you know, pretending to fake flood the same way they
Speaker 1: shot Top Gun, just an order plane and put up
Speaker 1: there and said, all right, when you deliver your lines,
Speaker 1: press this button so it communicates back down to camera
Speaker 1: and here we go. And then you just started dog fighting.
Speaker 1: I'm in barrel rolls and back turns, and so I
Speaker 1: literally were up that was up there, hitting my lines
Speaker 1: as many times as I could before I was ready
Speaker 1: to almost throw up, which say, what will you? What
Speaker 1: you will? But when you're in the backseat one of
Speaker 1: those planes doing bearables, you can only last for so long.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you who you are. So it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, buddy, don't want to throw up on your plane.
Speaker 1: Less land You'd go no problem, you'd land be down.
Speaker 1: I'd go hurl, hang out for three minutes, and go
Speaker 1: back up. I mean that was the start of it.
Speaker 1: By the end of the movie, I actually started getting
Speaker 1: my pilot's license and they're comfortable enough to let me
Speaker 1: actually fly a B twenty five bomber. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to spoiler give any spoiler alerts away, but it's
Speaker 1: pretty awesome, man. So you'll see me up there. You
Speaker 1: actually see me, and there was a co captain there
Speaker 1: obviously for safety reasons, but they see g I am out.
Speaker 1: So when you see me fly on that plane, it's
Speaker 1: actually me fly on the plane. Stop it super cool.
Speaker 1: Did they let you ever fly the fighter? No? I
Speaker 1: mean that one. I had only gotten seven hours of
Speaker 1: my license something so far, so there'd be no way.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like his dual control as in a fighter.
Speaker 1: So maybe one day, dude, that sounds sick. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see that now. When is that coming out?
Speaker 1: That will probably be closer to the end of the year.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a massive production and they work and
Speaker 1: on it. But m after Stars Fell, I'm not exactly
Speaker 1: sure when. But I have a movie called We Need
Speaker 1: to Talk that's a very funny, little more raunchy comedy.
Speaker 1: I play one of the biggest gamers in the world
Speaker 1: and that just one best comedy and one Best Actor
Speaker 1: at the first Clance Festival in Phillies. That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: It's going around and doing the little mini festival circuit
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, those two or two more to look
Speaker 1: forward to after this one. Dude, I'm such like a
Speaker 1: big like Memphis Bell fans, So just hearing about this,
Speaker 1: is it Wolf Found? Is that what's called? Yeah? That
Speaker 1: sounds so sick, dude. Yeah. I mean, look all three
Speaker 1: of these projects and I think about like the slate
Speaker 1: of movies I have coming out already just again, so
Speaker 1: so living in such a state of gratitude not only
Speaker 1: to have the projects, but they're also different. That's what
Speaker 1: every actor wants to do. You know. I do love
Speaker 1: rom coms, but I wouldn't only want to do rom coms.
Speaker 1: Same with action movies. They're super fun, but less dialogue,
Speaker 1: different skills you know, you have to have for those.
Speaker 1: So I'm just grateful to you. Know, be able to
Speaker 1: work on all these different types of projects. Is there
Speaker 1: anything you wouldn't do? I've been offered some absolutely awful
Speaker 1: slasher films. Um having said that, I do want to
Speaker 1: do one when it's a fantastic project and I feel
Speaker 1: like there are far more bad than good in that world, respectfully,
Speaker 1: but you get like a cabin in the Woods type script.
Speaker 1: You're kidding me. I will jump at that in the harpeat.
Speaker 1: But I've said no to everyone I've been offered thus
Speaker 1: far because you know that it's easy to it's easy
Speaker 1: to get cheesy in that world. What would you rather
Speaker 1: be the good guy or the bad guy in that situation?
Speaker 1: I mean, no situations A bad guys way more fun.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do it to it, right, We'll see. It's
Speaker 1: also nice to live potentially have, you know, like a
Speaker 1: trilogy project. So maybe there's a bad guy that does live.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's not the bad guy to like the third movie,
Speaker 1: just throw that out there in the universe. Yeah, Mike
Speaker 1: Myers is still walking around out there. Soft Halloween's later
Speaker 1: most job security, right exactly, smart man right there. So
Speaker 1: I mean, like this all kind of started with Nicole
Speaker 1: Loodi and big time rush. You've kind of pivoted away
Speaker 1: from that musical project into this more like E d
Speaker 1: M situation. Tell everyone about l t X. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you know, I put out of my own album years back,
Speaker 1: did a bunch of pop singles, many of which I'm
Speaker 1: very proud of. But then my best friend and I
Speaker 1: for fun a few years ago remixed one of my
Speaker 1: songs called how I Like It before we had the
Speaker 1: name l t X. We remixed that as the Tri
Speaker 1: four remix. That's my best friend Eugenia Gorski, the name
Speaker 1: that he d jed under and produced under for a while.
Speaker 1: That little remix went to number one in the Netherlands.
Speaker 1: It stayed on the charts and all the dance charts
Speaker 1: in all of Europe weeks. I mean, it was like
Speaker 1: beating out ed sheering and like crazy crazy things in
Speaker 1: these markets and in the dance market mind you, But
Speaker 1: for us it was a really good sign, like, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to do more of this together. So
Speaker 1: we had a bit of a come to Jesus moment,
Speaker 1: if you will. About two years ago, finally had time.
Speaker 1: My best friend had finally moved up to l A.
Speaker 1: He's living in Europe for about ten years and said,
Speaker 1: why don't we why do we do this? Why don't
Speaker 1: we jump in the studio right to create and see
Speaker 1: what happens? And lo and behold, We've created UM I
Speaker 1: think the best music of either of our careers to date,
Speaker 1: and are super excited. I feel like we're just getting going.
Speaker 1: I mean top we were DJ and we played Liquor
Speaker 1: Box in Chicago. We're still on the line up to
Speaker 1: play Summer Camp main stage whenever that happens. But obviously
Speaker 1: the whole world got pushed, so now we're just focusing
Speaker 1: on more releases. So we have an acoustic version of
Speaker 1: our song History coming out soon, another single called Unforgettable
Speaker 1: coming out shortly after that, and just a ton of
Speaker 1: music and hopefully will be tour and play and DJ
Speaker 1: and again very soon. Is there anything that I've missed
Speaker 1: out on that you're currently doing. I think we've covered plenty. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like, I mean, look, that's this is everything
Speaker 1: that's that's going on. Luckily music I can continue to
Speaker 1: create and produce UM and then otherwise, man, I'm just
Speaker 1: back into UM auditioning as things start to pick up
Speaker 1: again in the acting world, and I'm very eager to
Speaker 1: see you know what the next project there's gonna be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pilot seasons right around the corner. Is there anything that
Speaker 1: you want to talk about or promote that I didn't
Speaker 1: ask you about before we pivot over to kind of
Speaker 1: like my portion of the show. No, man, I feel
Speaker 1: like if you want to follow anything else, just at
Speaker 1: James Maslow across all social media. I tend to post
Speaker 1: things that I'm doing on there. Well. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anyone told you what the premise of this show is,
Speaker 1: but I am fascinated with origin stories, how people got
Speaker 1: to where they are now, what steps they had to take,
Speaker 1: and what roads they had to go down to find success.
Speaker 1: And you've done a lot of stuff, so I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a really interesting conversation. Do you
Speaker 1: have a couple of minutes to talk about this? Absolutely? Yeah? Yeah? Alright,
Speaker 1: quick break and we come back where the hell James
Speaker 1: Maslow came from and how the hell he got here?
Speaker 1: Stick around on the Wealth Guys. Al Right, back in
Speaker 1: the Welles cast. I have James Maslow on the show.
Speaker 1: He currently is starring in a movie called Stars Fell
Speaker 1: on Alabama. You might know him from Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush,
Speaker 1: or maybe from his musical career doing the E d
Speaker 1: M Project lt X, or maybe from Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars or from the CWS the Big States, and he's
Speaker 1: done a lot of stuff. I don't care so much
Speaker 1: about all that stuff, even though it is very impressive.
Speaker 1: I want to know how the hell you got to
Speaker 1: get all that stuff. So let's go back to the beginning. James,
Speaker 1: where the hell are you from? Where the hell am
Speaker 1: I from? I was born in New York, but I
Speaker 1: moved to San Diego when I was a young buck,
Speaker 1: like six years old, So I'm really from the West Coast,
Speaker 1: but a family in the East Coast and love it.
Speaker 1: And fast forwarding just a couple of weeks, I ended
Speaker 1: up attending performing art schools in the eighth grade. Frankly,
Speaker 1: I was in regular school. I was playing sports surfing
Speaker 1: board like any other kid who doesn't realize how good
Speaker 1: they have it, especially place like San Diego. The more
Speaker 1: off tour of the world, the more I realized how
Speaker 1: freaking awesome San Diego is. But decided to go and
Speaker 1: see this musical production. I had a Spanish tutor because
Speaker 1: it's the only tutor I've ever had, by the way,
Speaker 1: because my Spanish teacher started day one speaking in Spanish. Ironically,
Speaker 1: now I speak decent Spanish, but how do you learn
Speaker 1: I didn't, So I hatt a tutor, and she worked
Speaker 1: at the school called s c p A or the
Speaker 1: San Diego School of Creative Performing Arts. And finally, after
Speaker 1: weeks of trying to get me to go see I
Speaker 1: think it was by by Bertie, this production they were doing.
Speaker 1: I'd be grudgingly accepted. I wasn't really in the theater
Speaker 1: or musicals or whatever. I was just like a little bro.
Speaker 1: Didn't think twice about it. I didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: But alas I go and see the show, and I
Speaker 1: was just blown away. I was like, holy crap, these
Speaker 1: guys are talented. They're singing and dancing and it looks cool.
Speaker 1: And I just had no idea. I had never been
Speaker 1: exposed to that world. So I decided this seems way
Speaker 1: cooler than my school. I'm gonna go ahead and audition
Speaker 1: into the school. Whatever that means. Might have been singing
Speaker 1: my whole life, so I'm like, okay, I'll use that,
Speaker 1: and I figure out, like how to do a monologu
Speaker 1: or whatever, and I got in. So then from the
Speaker 1: eighth grade on, I guess I was in seventh grades.
Speaker 1: From the eighth grade on, she started studying. Musical theater
Speaker 1: is my major. And you know, they threw me like
Speaker 1: jazz stap in ballet, which I hated until you know,
Speaker 1: I love because it was fun to learn something new
Speaker 1: and found myself surrounded by all these incredible actors and
Speaker 1: singers and dancers. And I didn't know exactly in what
Speaker 1: medium I was going to be, but I knew that
Speaker 1: I wanted to entertain for a living very quickly. What
Speaker 1: are your parents thinking? You know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: like twelve year old Wells could tell my parents, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the school that you put me in, but
Speaker 1: I think I want to go to this other one.
Speaker 1: I think I probably know what's best for me. You know, Like,
Speaker 1: how did that conversation go? I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: they had put me in private school. Oh is it
Speaker 1: the local public school? I don't think my dad really
Speaker 1: gave a ship for being honest. Um, he was just like, dude,
Speaker 1: if you're bored, you're not learning anything, then what's the
Speaker 1: point If you think you're gonna learn something? Here, And
Speaker 1: it's interesting. He was always so supportive of my brother
Speaker 1: and I trying new things. Um, you know, he very
Speaker 1: much made me have to think about it and and
Speaker 1: talk about it and convince him to a point. But
Speaker 1: my dad is one of the most supportive dudes. Um
Speaker 1: you know, let me try everything from BMX racing to
Speaker 1: horseback riding to performing arts. And I'm so grateful that
Speaker 1: he did, you know. And I found that this is
Speaker 1: what I really love to do and continued with it.
Speaker 1: And look, the more dedication I showed towards it, the
Speaker 1: more support he gave me. So you change schools. You
Speaker 1: go to this creative and performing arts school. I read
Speaker 1: something about going to some acting camp I went to.
Speaker 1: I did laya Playhoffs Conservatory one summer. That was a
Speaker 1: very notable one. Um, I mean dude. From there, I
Speaker 1: went to the corner of School of the Arts. It
Speaker 1: just kind of became a an obsession. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to learn and train with as many people as I could.
Speaker 1: Do you remember how old you are when you got
Speaker 1: your first agent. Yes, it was strange because I had
Speaker 1: shout out to one of the reasons that I do
Speaker 1: what I do today least scare. It was my vocal
Speaker 1: coach in San Diego, who I believe still teaches if
Speaker 1: you guys are in San Diego and want a badass
Speaker 1: lady to help you out from performance to sitting it.
Speaker 1: And she was just she was like one of the
Speaker 1: most strict people I've ever met in my life. But
Speaker 1: for me, she was the nice ling in the world.
Speaker 1: It's like hard to explain that everyone else she was
Speaker 1: so hard on it, so strict. And then for me
Speaker 1: she was like James, whenever you want to take your time,
Speaker 1: you know, and you just like eventually I asked her
Speaker 1: not to sit the sidebar two much, gonna ask him, like, hey,
Speaker 1: why are you so nice to me? You know you're
Speaker 1: not exactly nice to all your students. And she's like, James,
Speaker 1: you're the hardest person on yourself. I could never compete
Speaker 1: with that. You're hard on yourself than anybody ever. Man.
Speaker 1: I guess that's that's how I was as a kid.
Speaker 1: So she's likes that a doubling down on that. I
Speaker 1: need to give you the other side of things. And
Speaker 1: so she was just such a great person, so aware
Speaker 1: and anyway she set up One day there was an
Speaker 1: equity department, you know, theater department for a small agency
Speaker 1: in the valley in l A, actually in Studio City,
Speaker 1: and we went up there randomly one afternoon and I
Speaker 1: was sixteen or fifteen or something and auditioned. And then
Speaker 1: when I auditioned for that, I literally got like recruited
Speaker 1: by the other agents on the floor that you know,
Speaker 1: more commercial acting, traditional film and TV type people, and
Speaker 1: got signed across the board. So I was like, I
Speaker 1: guess this is a happy coincidence. Let me start driving
Speaker 1: up to l A. And so that's what I did.
Speaker 1: For years. I would drive from s D to l
Speaker 1: A sometimes four times a week. It got absolutely absurd
Speaker 1: um and then just because of a bunch of things
Speaker 1: that happened in my life, including almost losing my brother
Speaker 1: my junior year, you know, I realized life is short,
Speaker 1: and I just took a gigantic risk and graduated early
Speaker 1: and moved up to l A when I was seventeen.
Speaker 1: How did your parents take that decision? I mean it
Speaker 1: was hard to argue with life is short after what
Speaker 1: we had just gone through. My brother was in a major,
Speaker 1: major motorcycle accident. I see you for about six months
Speaker 1: of life unconscious for most of that was pretty gnarly,
Speaker 1: and thank god he is alive and well today was
Speaker 1: in Chicago crushing it in the field of tech. I
Speaker 1: couldn't explain half of what he does. That's how bright
Speaker 1: I feel like this, um. But you know, after all that,
Speaker 1: I've missed so much school. I was going into my
Speaker 1: senior year and I had taken most of the courses
Speaker 1: I needed to take all the aps and everything, so
Speaker 1: it's like that the basics. Anyways, I was like that,
Speaker 1: I don't need to be here. This is absurd, this
Speaker 1: is done. Um. So he allowed me to go to
Speaker 1: an independent study school that actually my brother had done
Speaker 1: to you before. So I still got my education and
Speaker 1: just did it in a very strange way my last
Speaker 1: year and basically said, hey, give me a year, let's
Speaker 1: see what happens. Were you the most talented person in
Speaker 1: terms of the performing arts at the performing arts school?
Speaker 1: Were you like the m v P zach More? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I mean I landed some big roles, like in the
Speaker 1: ninth grade, I got Danny Zooko and Greece, which was massive.
Speaker 1: That was like, we have sports teams those equivalent to
Speaker 1: like being imagine being a varsity captain on any sports
Speaker 1: team as a freshman rarely, if ever happens. So look,
Speaker 1: I was dedicated, and I was good and trying to
Speaker 1: get better and better, but there were so many talented people.
Speaker 1: It's like, how do you ever say, are you the best?
Speaker 1: Second you think you're the best, First of all, you're wrong.
Speaker 1: There's too many people. There's just so many freaking talented
Speaker 1: people out there, the most talented which you probably never
Speaker 1: heard of. Um, But you also lose that tenacity and
Speaker 1: motivation to continue to train, and so that like fear
Speaker 1: that there's somebody on my heels or there's somebody better
Speaker 1: than me that I have to work hard to try
Speaker 1: and beat or emulate or live up to. That's still
Speaker 1: the same type of fear motivation that I thrive on today.
Speaker 1: I feel Tom Brady kind of does this a lot
Speaker 1: where there's probably a part of him that knows he's
Speaker 1: arguably the greatest quarterback that's ever lived, but he does
Speaker 1: this thing where he is a little delusional and thinks
Speaker 1: that everyone's against him and he has to prove something
Speaker 1: like the media's against him or something, and he creates
Speaker 1: this dialogue in his mind that continues to motivate him.
Speaker 1: And also when I was watching the that Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: documentary kind of did the same stuff for sort of
Speaker 1: making things up that like players never said to him,
Speaker 1: but continue to motivate him. I think that's a good
Speaker 1: lesson to learn, is that the great ones know how
Speaker 1: to continue to be great, and they have to use
Speaker 1: tricks and stuff to continue to motivate themselves up and beyond. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think it's a fine line between doing that
Speaker 1: and keeping it healthy. Yeah, I think it's very easy
Speaker 1: to let that attitude become unhealthy. Having said that, it's
Speaker 1: a blessing and a curse, you know, right, Like you
Speaker 1: could try and go halfway with this, probably only be
Speaker 1: half as good as you could if you just said it.
Speaker 1: Everybody hates meybe wants me to fail. I'm gonna prove
Speaker 1: them wrong. I try not to live in a state
Speaker 1: like that, you know, Like the chip that may have
Speaker 1: been my shoulder when I was younger, I hope isn't
Speaker 1: as large these days. But I think that, Look, these
Speaker 1: are some of the greatest athletes, most successful people in
Speaker 1: general and history, and I think everybody shares a little
Speaker 1: bit of this. We need to constantly get better, and
Speaker 1: constantly train, and constantly stand er a game or someone
Speaker 1: else is going to take our spot. You graduate early,
Speaker 1: you move up to Los Angeles. What's what happens once
Speaker 1: once you get to Hollywood. Well, I'm initially sleeping on
Speaker 1: my godmother's couch, which was let me just knock on
Speaker 1: some wood and say thank you for you know, being
Speaker 1: in my own home at this point, you know, a
Speaker 1: very very different situation when I first came up here.
Speaker 1: But it was not. One of the earlier auditions that
Speaker 1: I had was big time rush. I started when I
Speaker 1: was seventeen. I was in the very first round of
Speaker 1: auditioning they ever did, and that lasted for two full year.
Speaker 1: They did four screen tests for national tours, recasting every
Speaker 1: single time, even shot a pilot. The third time around,
Speaker 1: a million dollar pilot, recast one of the characters from
Speaker 1: the pilot. If you can believe, a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know that. And all along I'm sitting there doing
Speaker 1: like and I carly you know, guests start here and
Speaker 1: tiny LONDI movie here and trying to figure it out
Speaker 1: and eating ramen and tuna fish so I can afford
Speaker 1: to pay for gas to go to auditions. I mean
Speaker 1: that's how it was. You know, everything happens for a reason,
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that it stuck it out. I
Speaker 1: think I actually end up getting an offer from Disney
Speaker 1: for a small movie or something, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, this is after almost two years, they went,
Speaker 1: you know, funny enough, we're gonna move forward. Now the
Speaker 1: contracts are actually done. And that's that's how it started.
Speaker 1: And after all that, it could have been a failure.
Speaker 1: You have no idea how something's gonna work out. But
Speaker 1: luckily people gravitated towards it. The premiere, remember, was like
Speaker 1: the largest live action premiere in the history of Nickelodeon,
Speaker 1: which is just incredible way to start. And then people
Speaker 1: took to it, and the music took off, and we're
Speaker 1: a tour of the world and film and just what
Speaker 1: a killer way to to start a career, you know.
Speaker 1: So because big time Rush took off, the Disney thing
Speaker 1: dissolved quite immediately. Yes, it was. It was like the difference,
Speaker 1: you like, hey, let me accept a role in like
Speaker 1: a small movie and who the hell knows what this
Speaker 1: or let me take you know, a series that has
Speaker 1: the potential to be big they've been working on for
Speaker 1: two years. I obviously wanted to do this one. You know,
Speaker 1: I loved Scott Fellows, the creator, I loved the cast
Speaker 1: members I was working with, Like it just made a
Speaker 1: lot more sense. But you know, I think they had
Speaker 1: us on a retainer of like fift a month, which
Speaker 1: when you're making zero money, sounds like a lot. But
Speaker 1: when you're living on your own in l A, paying
Speaker 1: for gas, it wasn't even enough to really get by on.
Speaker 1: And it just came a point where I was willing
Speaker 1: to break my contract to go in make money to
Speaker 1: eaton and live. So hey again, it all worked out, man,
Speaker 1: But what a wild what a wild process. I think
Speaker 1: one thing that a lot of people out there don't
Speaker 1: realize about the entertainment industry, especially maybe listeners of this show,
Speaker 1: is like, in your case, you booked this Nickelodeon thing,
Speaker 1: so obviously Nickelodeon and Disney are not friends. And in
Speaker 1: the perfect world you probably would have been like, well,
Speaker 1: I would love to do the movie, and I would
Speaker 1: also love to do this television show and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: make all the money, and Disney says, no, fuck you,
Speaker 1: you can't work for the glode and Nicolas, you cannot
Speaker 1: go work for Disney. I hate that mouse, and so
Speaker 1: you have to make a decision, which is so tough,
Speaker 1: I imagine, especially as a kid. So how long This
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite questions to ask people, especially
Speaker 1: people who started really early. When did you realize things
Speaker 1: were popping for you? It's a good question, to be honest.
Speaker 1: It was hard to really understand it at first, not
Speaker 1: because we didn't know things were happening, because we were
Speaker 1: literally so insulated by how much we were working. We
Speaker 1: filmed a single camera show, so we're up at five
Speaker 1: in the morning. Beyond set at six, you film a
Speaker 1: minimum of twelve hours and you just go home and
Speaker 1: learn your lines, go back to work. Then we have
Speaker 1: like a ten pm cut off with a police escort
Speaker 1: to make it to the airport to go and fly
Speaker 1: somewhere and play three shows and be back at six am.
Speaker 1: We did this for months, years on end, so it's
Speaker 1: really hard to like understand what was going on. We
Speaker 1: get numbers and it'say, like, oh, that's cool, but until
Speaker 1: you actually play music, so you actually get out in
Speaker 1: front of a crowd, and then you're like, we're playing
Speaker 1: for how many people? Holy sh it like there's ten
Speaker 1: thousand people here, there's twenty thousand people here, and you know,
Speaker 1: you realize that at least a few people like it
Speaker 1: at that point. And then there's there's always those really
Speaker 1: cool moments to stick in the back of your head.
Speaker 1: Like one of the first concerts we ever did was
Speaker 1: in the middle of Times Square. Most people will never
Speaker 1: get to experience Times Square, but for one of our
Speaker 1: first concerts, we had every single Billboard filming us live.
Speaker 1: It took over the entire place, a stage had thousands
Speaker 1: of people, um, and of course it starts raining right
Speaker 1: before we go one stage, and we think that's the
Speaker 1: sickest thing ever. We feel like rock stars. We're out
Speaker 1: there and we know like three songs, four songs maybe,
Speaker 1: and so we do our thing and get off, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't really recognize how cool that stuff
Speaker 1: is until years later when you're like, that's some once
Speaker 1: in a lifetime opportunity. And yeah, the bars set a
Speaker 1: little high after that first gig, I guess it was.
Speaker 1: It was so then our second gig, first ticketed gig.
Speaker 1: This is actually a fantastically embarrassing story. The first time
Speaker 1: we ever sold a hard tickets I guess we had
Speaker 1: played like some random things or like you know, pop
Speaker 1: up performance shows, but we actually charged people money to
Speaker 1: see us performed. It was at Henderson, Nevada um at
Speaker 1: the Henderson Pavilion, I believe. So I don't know a
Speaker 1: few thousand people maybe, And I guess they made it
Speaker 1: clear that we only knew five songs, but the fans
Speaker 1: don't read the fine print. They don't know that we
Speaker 1: only know five songs. So what we do? We were
Speaker 1: not out there playing the track, you know, no band, nothing,
Speaker 1: little choreography and crush our five songs and go off
Speaker 1: stage and don't realize that everybody's chanting for an article.
Speaker 1: And we did not have an encore. We didn't have
Speaker 1: any more music, so we felt so bad. They're like
Speaker 1: screaming like they're psyched. You know. I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're all they want us to come out and see
Speaker 1: one more easily song. We didn't fucking know one. So
Speaker 1: we got in our cars and they're like waving goodbye
Speaker 1: and feel like such assholes, like we gotta go learn
Speaker 1: some more music, but never forget it. So how long
Speaker 1: did Big Time Rush run for? I guess our last
Speaker 1: tour was in like something like that. Um, the show
Speaker 1: did four seasons, almost a hundred episodes, did a movie
Speaker 1: or two in there, get a Beatles album, did a
Speaker 1: bunch of music. I mean, we did so much stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I guess we stopped touring around there and
Speaker 1: then what happens next. Look, everybody was ready for a break.
Speaker 1: You know. Everybody had spent day in, day out years
Speaker 1: together doing this one thing, playing this one character, singing
Speaker 1: these specific songs, and that's amazing. But any artists wants
Speaker 1: to mix it up. You know, you don't become an
Speaker 1: artist to do the same thing for your entire life.
Speaker 1: So for me, it was very much about hey, let
Speaker 1: me I was focused on acting before I was focused
Speaker 1: on my music, and I guess in retrospect would have
Speaker 1: a nice I had like a bunch of music ready
Speaker 1: to go, but that's not where my head was at,
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to go and do gritty roles.
Speaker 1: So I remember like buzzing off my hair for the
Speaker 1: first time, going and do one my first gritty roles
Speaker 1: of Benny Boom movie called forty eight Hours to Live
Speaker 1: where Tommy Flann again, Amelia Rivera, d Ray Davis, like
Speaker 1: all these fucking killer. Actors were in it, and it
Speaker 1: was about like underground drug scene and that some dancing
Speaker 1: in it, and like some fight scenes and I got
Speaker 1: to kill someone and it's just you know, it's one
Speaker 1: of the first ones I remember. But that was it
Speaker 1: was so exciting, you know, like this is what I
Speaker 1: want to do. And then after doing you know, ten
Speaker 1: independent films, like you realize, like, ironically, more people will
Speaker 1: probably see this small rom com you know, stars spelling
Speaker 1: at Obama, which I'm also very very proud of, and
Speaker 1: some of these other roles that took you know, maybe
Speaker 1: three times as long to film and create because of
Speaker 1: all the effects your dance or fights or whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: And that's just the way the wild works. So I
Speaker 1: just went out and did as many movies as I
Speaker 1: could and then started getting back in and creating my
Speaker 1: own sound. That took a very long time. And it
Speaker 1: really wasn't until lt X a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: that I found the niche that I really want to
Speaker 1: do with music, you know, But hey man, just grateful
Speaker 1: that it all bigger than that. Eventually, the story is crazy,
Speaker 1: it's so interesting and I just can't wait to see
Speaker 1: what happens next. Because you're so versatile. If you could
Speaker 1: only choose one form of art to continue doing, what
Speaker 1: would you choose. I've never given a direct answer to
Speaker 1: this question, not that I'm trying to avoid it, but
Speaker 1: I truthfully don't know. If anything, I would lean towards
Speaker 1: music in the sense that it's more versatile in terms
Speaker 1: of doing one thing for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: You can be in a different city every day, you
Speaker 1: can create a new song every day. To turnaround on
Speaker 1: creating music, you know, and putting out the world is
Speaker 1: a lot faster than a movie. But you know, I
Speaker 1: would miss the out of acting. You know, there are
Speaker 1: days where I feel like I'm a better actor than
Speaker 1: musician in their days, or I feel like I'm a
Speaker 1: better singer than actor, and like I just go back
Speaker 1: and forth my own head about that. And something that
Speaker 1: keeps me saying is the ability to do both and
Speaker 1: be in one location for a few months film and
Speaker 1: something and then tour and again. This is a in
Speaker 1: a normal year, So I don't know, it'd be tough
Speaker 1: to choose. Very grateful to do both, and I hope
Speaker 1: to continue to do both for the rest of my career.
Speaker 1: Are you super high energy guy, do you not sit
Speaker 1: down a lot? But I love that about myself. I
Speaker 1: found as I've gotten older, I'm able to be aware
Speaker 1: of it now. When I was younger, it was definitely
Speaker 1: a little more just kind of this energy all the
Speaker 1: time and like super excited and like I love that,
Speaker 1: and that's still in me, but it's different. I can
Speaker 1: kind of hone it in, focus it for a workout,
Speaker 1: or focus it for an interview, and I can also
Speaker 1: sit down and you know, zone out now and read
Speaker 1: a book for half a day. You know, I'm just
Speaker 1: progress into how I can focus it. But it's it's
Speaker 1: this that's called energy for lack of a better word, um,
Speaker 1: that's kept me going, that's allowed me to be focused.
Speaker 1: It's the same energy that had me like too focused
Speaker 1: when I was a young actor and a young musician
Speaker 1: in the industry. I mean I remember like show runners
Speaker 1: coming in just be like, hey, do you gotta like
Speaker 1: enjoy it a little bit because I was so overprepared
Speaker 1: and everything I was piste off of my co stars
Speaker 1: didn't like that should happens, we'll show up not in
Speaker 1: other lines. But I learned as I got older, like
Speaker 1: it's not my concern, you know. I hope they do
Speaker 1: for their sake, for my sake, for production sake, But
Speaker 1: if you want to be an asshole and not do
Speaker 1: your job, well, it really doesn't affect me. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show up, do my thing, and like the best thing
Speaker 1: you can do is just like live and let live,
Speaker 1: which after to remind myself to this day, but I'm
Speaker 1: a lot better at it than I used to be.
Speaker 1: What stuff are you watching right now or absorbing that
Speaker 1: you're loving? You know, I hadn't watched The Crown until recently,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's on this fourth season now, I think,
Speaker 1: and I'm just in the middle of the second. But
Speaker 1: just awesome. I mean from a historic perspective as well,
Speaker 1: you know, in a cinematic perspective, don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've seen it, but part of the way that
Speaker 1: this show tells chronologically where it's at in history is
Speaker 1: by focusing in on what type of camera equipment they're using.
Speaker 1: I don't know you ever picked up on that when
Speaker 1: you watched it, but you see like throughout each season
Speaker 1: you've jumped five ten years in places, or at least
Speaker 1: several because you've gone from like one scene is here
Speaker 1: recording and the next scene it's like a little know
Speaker 1: nikon looking thing and it's just there's no flashes and
Speaker 1: it dissolves and just brilliance. On an equal note. At
Speaker 1: the Queen's Gambit, which is another Netflix miniseries, was bloody
Speaker 1: brilliant and then not a more fun note. Man, I
Speaker 1: would love to do a show like Hunters. Have you
Speaker 1: seen Hunters? Yes? Yeah? Baas being Jewish mad respect you're
Speaker 1: gravitating towards period pieces? Is that a byproduct of the
Speaker 1: World War two movie that you've got coming out. I
Speaker 1: didn't even draw that connection, and so you said it maybe,
Speaker 1: And I think there's also a sense of character development.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're playing somebody in everything is the
Speaker 1: same that it is in your day to day life,
Speaker 1: and you know, you have to figure out ways to
Speaker 1: get out of your head and out of your life
Speaker 1: and into that character and in those shoes. But when
Speaker 1: you're in a period piece and the clothes fits different,
Speaker 1: and the cars are different, and the scenery is in
Speaker 1: many ways different, it's a lot easier to jump in
Speaker 1: and just become a completely different character. So maybe that's
Speaker 1: why I like it, But you know, down for all
Speaker 1: of it, I know the future one. Next, what's the
Speaker 1: best piece of advice you've either learned or been given
Speaker 1: by co star director, you know, DP, whatever, it's the
Speaker 1: same type of advice. You should drive me crazy to
Speaker 1: be overprepared, but still drives me today to just get
Speaker 1: better every day whatever that means. And better also means
Speaker 1: different different acting coaches and classes and trying new ship. Um.
Speaker 1: And that is that success comes when preparation meets opportunity.
Speaker 1: The way I look at that is everybody's going to
Speaker 1: have opportunities in their life. Some people can get a
Speaker 1: lot more. That's the way life is. Life isn't fair,
Speaker 1: but everybody's going to get some and the more prepared
Speaker 1: you are, the better chance you're gonna have at those opportunities. So,
Speaker 1: in fact, for those of us that may not have
Speaker 1: gotten as much starting out, or don't feel like you're
Speaker 1: getting a lot right now, I'm implore you to work
Speaker 1: that much harder and be that much more prepared. If
Speaker 1: you feel you're only gonna get a few opportunities, well
Speaker 1: that's life you better damn well be prepared for. So
Speaker 1: whatever that means to you. You You don't figure out what
Speaker 1: your hobbies are, what you like doing and just keep
Speaker 1: doing it if you enjoy doing it, get better and
Speaker 1: better and keep it going because eventually the world will
Speaker 1: conspire to make those dreams happen if you don't stop.
Speaker 1: And I do think that success begets success like you
Speaker 1: get more opportunities the more that you are prepared for
Speaker 1: the situation and kick ask the first one you know,
Speaker 1: so you can kind of question. You can create your
Speaker 1: own badassory if you will. Well. In fact, so many
Speaker 1: of my roles came to me because of the work
Speaker 1: ethic I on previous movies. Yes, the job I did,
Speaker 1: but also everybody talks more now than ever. It's a
Speaker 1: lot easier if you're casting somebody. Oh I probably know
Speaker 1: somebod I know somebody was in that movie. It's a
Speaker 1: hundred people on a movie at least, And if you're
Speaker 1: in the industry, you probably know once you go and
Speaker 1: you ask, hey, was this guy easy to work with?
Speaker 1: Or I want to spend the next you know matter
Speaker 1: months or years of my life with this person. All
Speaker 1: that ship is as relevant as it is how good
Speaker 1: you are for the job, in my opinion, because when
Speaker 1: they get to that, all right, you and this person
Speaker 1: are both good enough they're really going to go down to, like,
Speaker 1: who do I want to be around more? So, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to be nice than to be
Speaker 1: an asshole too, in my opinion. Um, and just forget
Speaker 1: any of the old stereotypes about like the famous people
Speaker 1: have egos and attitudes and all that. Like day, let
Speaker 1: me tell you, the most famous people that I've worked
Speaker 1: with or mets are like the nicest, chilliest, most humble,
Speaker 1: And that's motivating to me to be the same way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally agree. It's so much easier to book a
Speaker 1: gig if everyone is excited to be around you. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at the rock He's literally made not only a career,
Speaker 1: but like the biggest fucking career just being a likable guy.
Speaker 1: Like he's still not the greatest actor. I mean, don't
Speaker 1: be wrong. I love watching his stuff, but it's because
Speaker 1: of who he is, you know, and it's a it's
Speaker 1: pretty inspirational. Listen, I'm running out of time with you.
Speaker 1: Before let you go, you got some time for some
Speaker 1: rapid fire questions. Let's go rapid fire questions with James Maszow.
Speaker 1: Number one, what's one thing that's always in your fridge?
Speaker 1: One thing on your bucket list to get my pilot's
Speaker 1: license fully? What animal do you wish you could talk to?
Speaker 1: An eagle? Physical trait you notice about someone you are
Speaker 1: attracted to, smile, last person you texted? My best friend
Speaker 1: Eugene and my partner in LTx. What was your high
Speaker 1: school yearbook supprolative? Most likely to be something in entertainment?
Speaker 1: I guess do you believe in soulmates? Yes, but I
Speaker 1: think there may be more than one. How would you
Speaker 1: describe your high school self? Flip flops, hair down on
Speaker 1: my shoulders, fish out of water, but I never cared,
Speaker 1: so you were like high functioning Spaccoli. I love that.
Speaker 1: Who is your childhood hero? Sho? That's a tough question.
Speaker 1: I mean my brother, my dad, and maybe acting wise
Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds. Who is your celebrity crush currently? Sure? I
Speaker 1: haven't thought about that question in a long time. I
Speaker 1: used to say, uh, a'ma, Oh my lord, it's been
Speaker 1: so long. Yes, I was like Harry Potter. Why can't
Speaker 1: I think of that? Um? And I suppose still gradually,
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about this question a while. I guess
Speaker 1: that's part of adulting. Your lady is very happy about
Speaker 1: how you answer that. I suppose what's your biggest pet? Peeve?
Speaker 1: People who talk on their cell phones like this when
Speaker 1: they're driving a hund thousand dollar car. It most certainly
Speaker 1: has Bluetooth. Who's the most famous person in your phone?
Speaker 1: That's a very good question. I don't don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of. Just say, d Ray Davis. Throw
Speaker 1: it out there. What was your first car? Nissan Box?
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was the actual name, but
Speaker 1: it's how I remember it was your favorite book owned
Speaker 1: the day by Audrey Marcus. And last one when you
Speaker 1: win your oscar? Who are you going to thank? First?
Speaker 1: Probably my dad for supporting me, letting me go through
Speaker 1: this wild path of being an entertainer. I love it.
Speaker 1: James Maslow, you have been an absolute delight to chat
Speaker 1: with everyone out there. Go watch Stars Fell on all Obama.
Speaker 1: It's available now on demand and digital. Go stream and
Speaker 1: download and buy all his stuff. L t X is
Speaker 1: the project. Keep an eye out for like five other
Speaker 1: movies that he's got coming out in one James, Where
Speaker 1: can people go? Follow you on the social Media's just
Speaker 1: at James Maslow on Instagram, Facebook and occasionally Twitter Like
Speaker 1: faces you haven't been expelled from Twitter. That's good to know.
Speaker 1: I've not been expelled. I've been abstinate, but still allowed. Dude,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for taking the time. Continued success, and
Speaker 1: when this is all over, it's good a beer. I
Speaker 1: would love him at a It's super fun chatting with you.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time. You are damn good at your job.
Speaker 1: Keep it up, thanks buddy. When this is all over,
Speaker 1: I want you to take me up in the air.
Speaker 1: I want that right. Let me get my license and
Speaker 1: the extra practice hours. Yeah. Look, I don't want to
Speaker 1: kill myself either, so I feel like you're probably pretty safe,
Speaker 1: all right, James, Thanks buddy. That was great. Love that dude.
Speaker 1: You can tell that guy's given a lot of inner views,
Speaker 1: very very good interviewee. And as someone who's interviewed probably
Speaker 1: I don't know, well over a thousand people, I appreciate
Speaker 1: that for sure. Bro. Anyone else find it funny when
Speaker 1: when he said one of his his childhood hero was
Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds, because the whole time I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: you sound so much like Ryan Reynolds. Go back and
Speaker 1: listen to a little of him talk and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my, that's Deadpool right there. Anyways, James Naso, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being on the show. That was
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