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Speaker 1: It's one or two point seven kiss FM. Shall we

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Speaker 1: bring in m Night and Selica Shamalan. Good to have you.

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Speaker 1: The family is here. It's a family.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having us well.

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Speaker 1: Selika, it's so nice to meet you. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to understand what it was like being the daughter in

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Speaker 1: Star All At the same time, M Night, What are

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Speaker 1: your friends call you?

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Speaker 3: What should I do? I call you M night?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: Just night's fine?

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Speaker 4: Night?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Good, because you know I want to be comfortable, right, yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Let's start by saying we're psyched to have you on.

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Speaker 1: Trap is the suspense thriller that everybody needs to see.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I want to say is we do

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Speaker 1: think of your work as the work of a legend.

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Speaker 1: I know you're still in the youthful phase of your life,

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Speaker 1: but you have done so many legendary things early on

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Speaker 1: in your life that stick with us, and so thank

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Speaker 1: you for all of that. You wrote and directed Trap,

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Speaker 1: which is only in theaters Friday August.

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Speaker 3: Second, but Selika, I want to go to you first.

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Speaker 1: Okay, was your father the kind of guy that was

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Speaker 1: always jumping out from behind trees like when you're a kid.

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Speaker 4: A little bit I mean, he definitely likes to he

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Speaker 4: likes suspense, He likes to tell stories. He would tell

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Speaker 4: us very intricate bedtime stories when my sisters and I

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Speaker 4: were kids, Like they would be like a chapter each

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Speaker 4: night and they go on for months. They were like, Oh,

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Speaker 4: that's so cool. And he'd love to scare us, Like

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Speaker 4: I remember him when if we're not eating our food

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Speaker 4: at dinner time, he'd be like, do you see that

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Speaker 4: door over there. There's a man behind that door, scary man,

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Speaker 4: and he's going to come poor food on your head

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Speaker 4: if you don't finish your meal.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I would ever sleep. I would not

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Speaker 1: have a sleepful night with a dad like that.

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Speaker 4: But it was all with like positivity and fun and love,

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Speaker 4: you know. It was just a creative ways of no racingness.

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Speaker 3: At night. Where did this come from? For you?

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Speaker 1: Where did this ability to capture such suspense both in

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Speaker 1: real life and in art?

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Speaker 3: Where that start for you?

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Speaker 2: You know, I've always you know, I think I was

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Speaker 2: just born at the time when Spielberg and Lucas were

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Speaker 2: doing their these masterpieces for ten eleven twelve year olds

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Speaker 2: that were just I mean, it was like religion, you know,

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Speaker 2: so that inception moment of that happening of getting hit

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Speaker 2: with these incredible things. And then Spike Lee kind of

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Speaker 2: came up right when I was fourteen fifteen, and I

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Speaker 2: was like, Oh, you can go to school for this.

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Speaker 2: This is incredible. And so then you know, I was like,

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Speaker 2: oh wow, you know, because we're an Indian family, Indian

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Speaker 2: immigrant family, so obviously I was going to be a doctor.

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Speaker 3: So this was you know, that was just set. It

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Speaker 3: was that's what was going to happen.

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Speaker 2: And then I was like, hey, you know this, this guy,

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Speaker 2: Spike Lee went to a film school called Tish and

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Speaker 2: I could go there. And my parents were like what

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Speaker 2: And then so that you know, I did that. I

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Speaker 2: luckily got a scholarship and I went, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I think they thought it would just work itself out

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Speaker 2: as a kind of a you know, my like goth

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Speaker 2: punk phase or whatever it is. Yeah, but it worked out.

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Speaker 3: Have you guys heard So let's go back to sixth sense.

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Speaker 3: Listen to this.

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Speaker 1: You know that famous line I see that people. Have

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Speaker 1: you heard Kendrick Lamar's track where he says it at

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Speaker 1: the top.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I haven't heard about that?

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Speaker 3: What shaking her head?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Dad?

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Speaker 1: So he does know he's kidding. All right, So this

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Speaker 1: is the movie. Now, this is the Kendrick tracks. I see,

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Speaker 1: damn people, you know you've made it when Kendrick Lamar

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he actually referenced I think one of my

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Speaker 2: movies in the first track that he did at the end,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's funny.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if there's kids around that are going to

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Speaker 2: now watch sixth times and be like, yo, night stole

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Speaker 2: that from Kendrick.

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Speaker 3: Yes, for sure, that's exactly what will happened. All right.

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Speaker 1: So, Selika, you're playing the artist that the star, the

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Speaker 1: pop star at a concert in this film.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to give anything away. We do know

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Speaker 3: there's a serial killer.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you should you should tread lightly on what happened

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Speaker 1: so we don't give something away.

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Speaker 3: But tell us about your role.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about performing on stage and working with your

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Speaker 1: dad in this I mean, it.

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Speaker 4: Was it was just an incredible experience. We got to

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Speaker 4: kind of create an entire concert for this movie, and

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Speaker 4: we prepped it like a concert, so you know, we

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Speaker 4: had choreography, we did intricate costumes through the whole thing.

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Speaker 4: Production designed for the stage, and then I wrote and

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Speaker 4: recorded fourteen original songs for the movie. You hear all

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Speaker 4: of them in the movie to different degrees, and they

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Speaker 4: all have different roles in the film, but you really

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Speaker 4: get to experience them in this live form, which is

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Speaker 4: something that's so new and something that we really, you know,

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Speaker 1: It's called Trap. It's only in theaters. You got to

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Speaker 1: see it with the community. Only in theaters August at night.

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Speaker 1: Why only in theaters?

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Speaker 3: Oh, And that's what I do for a living.

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Speaker 2: That's it's that, that is the that is the art form,

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Speaker 2: that's the highest art form. It's where when we watch

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Speaker 2: a story together we become a collective thing. And it's

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Speaker 2: that collective id we all learn from each other and

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Speaker 2: become this incredible thing. And in COVID, I think just

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Speaker 2: made us realize how much we need to be together.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I you know, for me, everyone keeps

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Speaker 2: trying to kill the movie theaters and I'm like, leave

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Speaker 3: Man, We're we're we're we're going to be here forever. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I agree, you know, don't don't let these.

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Speaker 2: Corporations and the streamers and everybody make you think anything otherwise,

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Speaker 2: they want what we have, which is this beautiful in

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Speaker 2: depth experience, uh, when we're together and seeing a concert,

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Speaker 2: you know, and a movie and a thriller. So these

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Speaker 2: suspense that comes from a you know, a top thriller

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Speaker 2: at the same time. And that was kind of our

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Speaker 2: our inspiration because we were we were talking, as Sleek

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Speaker 2: four years old, this, Hey, you know, you could write

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Speaker 2: an album for a movie and that it would be

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Speaker 2: diegetically watched by the characters that there it's not score

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Speaker 2: on top of the movie, but there the characters actually

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Speaker 2: watching this music being played. And we would We talked

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Speaker 2: a lot about Purple Rain and how about that movie

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Speaker 2: he did and what Warner Brothers did at that time,

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Speaker 2: how rare that was even today, yeah, Prince yeah, And

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Speaker 2: and so we said, can we do that with a thriller?

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Speaker 2: Could you write directly? And so then we started talking

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Speaker 2: and building it from there and saying, hey, we could

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Speaker 2: be in a concert, we could set it in a concert. Ooh,

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Speaker 2: that's very Hitchcockian. And then we could everyone it could

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Speaker 2: be just in an arena and you can't get out,

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Speaker 2: and well, what's happening? Why would that be? And then

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Speaker 2: and then the idea of a trap came and and on.

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Speaker 3: And on and on. It's even you guys are both

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Speaker 3: so talented.

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Speaker 1: Get the triple threat of your daughter and and uh

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Speaker 1: writing and directing this one. It's called trap. Check it out,

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Speaker 1: huge fans. Thank you both for coming on and continued success.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, night, I love that you've got

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Speaker 1: your technogym workout gear in your office because you are

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Speaker 1: a dude. All right, brother, thanks again, it's like it's

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Speaker 1: so nice to meet you. Continued success, guys, take care

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Speaker 1: Seeyboddy bye.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys. You know a phrase I'm gonna throw it

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Speaker 3: every once a while. It's cocky in Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 3: it sounded so.

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Speaker 1: Cocky, right, very very hitch cocky in over there today,

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Speaker 1: very hitche cocky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Coming up Court of the Day for this Friday and

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Speaker 1: Sysney gonna tell us what's new this morning.