Speaker 1: Shall we head to Italy? I think so. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to I've never said this before with me, Tommy
Speaker 1: di Dario. If there's one thing you know about me
Speaker 1: from listening to the show, it's that I am very
Speaker 1: proud of my Italian roots. I talk about it all
Speaker 1: the time, I know, and today I have on my
Speaker 1: Italian brother from another mother. The brilliant actor Mikel Morone
Speaker 1: joins my show, who is currently starring in the movie
Speaker 1: Another Simple Favor, which is the long awaited sequel to
Speaker 1: A Simple Favor, which also stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.
Speaker 1: Now Mee Kelay is an actor from southern Italy. He
Speaker 1: crossed over to Hollywood in a really big way. His
Speaker 1: franchise three hundred and sixty five Days on Netflix took
Speaker 1: the world by storm and it immediately made him a
Speaker 1: rising star to closely watch, and now some of the
Speaker 1: biggest actors and directors in Hollywood are lining up to
Speaker 1: work with him. Me Kelay is also a singer. He
Speaker 1: plays multiple instruments. He of course, speaks Italian fluently. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not describing the main character in a romance novel. Relax,
Speaker 1: I am describing the one and only meet Kelly Morone.
Speaker 1: So let's see if today we can get me Kelly
Speaker 1: to say something that he has never said before. Kelay Morone,
Speaker 1: how are you, my friend? I'm really good.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I am so happy to be hanging out with you.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time coming. I was saying. We
Speaker 1: met on in twenty twenty on Instagram Live when we
Speaker 1: were locked down and I had a show on there.
Speaker 1: Now we get to meet in real life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's so good to see you. Man, you too,
Speaker 2: You're to be here in New York? Would you in
Speaker 2: your studio? Beautiful vibe?
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, well, thank you. We have a
Speaker 1: lot to celebrate and covered today. I feel like I've
Speaker 1: been so proud from Afar seeing your career grow and
Speaker 1: blossom into what it is. You have a brand new movie. Yeut,
Speaker 1: We're going to get to that. But I love is
Speaker 1: that this amazing artist from southern Italy is now in
Speaker 1: Hollywood working with some of the biggest actors and directors
Speaker 1: in the world. I mean, can you believe it? Are you?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Wow? What is my life?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like, I mean yeah, I'm super super excs about him.
Speaker 2: So I feel so blessed. First of all and the sill.
Speaker 2: I even I don't even have too much time to realize,
Speaker 2: just because I'm working so so much on new films,
Speaker 2: new movies and brands, deals and and all of that.
Speaker 2: So I don't even have the time. Like I think,
Speaker 2: it's a lucky point not to realize right now, otherwise
Speaker 2: I could get crazy in a minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're kind of taking it as it all comes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Well you shot into worldwide?
Speaker 2: Are actually one of the first interviewing me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I saw the film three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five days and then that of course exploded into a
Speaker 1: franchise for you and put you on the map, a
Speaker 1: nationwide worldwide and everyone suddenly knew your name from that franchise.
Speaker 1: What impact did that have on your life personally?
Speaker 2: Look, it's you know, it's you know, the film was
Speaker 2: released in the same day, at the same time on
Speaker 2: the whole world. So I went from being a known
Speaker 2: normal guy and waking up in the next day being
Speaker 2: you know, you know, extremely popular. So that that was
Speaker 2: and a punch in my stomach and a punch and
Speaker 2: my soul, you know, So I had to deal a
Speaker 2: little bit. I need to figure out what to do
Speaker 2: because obviously, you know, everybody wants to be famous, but
Speaker 2: like I think, you know, when you actually are famous,
Speaker 2: it's something that sometimes you just wish you weren't. This
Speaker 2: is not my case, but yeah, it was a deep
Speaker 2: moment for me. Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm dealing much better,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a big adjustment, right, And you can't
Speaker 1: really ever prepare for that. I feel like it just
Speaker 1: kind of happens and you have to you have to
Speaker 1: go with especially when.
Speaker 2: You get you know, you know, you get so popular
Speaker 2: in overnight, you know, because usually you know, you become
Speaker 2: you know, you do a film and then you do it,
Speaker 2: you make another film then, so you grew up slowly,
Speaker 2: you know. With me, it was just you know, that franchise,
Speaker 2: and it took me so far away and over the night,
Speaker 2: so that there was a lot you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, and so much of you was put out
Speaker 1: there very quickly in the movies, right, they're very steamy,
Speaker 1: they're very sexy. If people saw a lot of you.
Speaker 1: What was the hardest part doing those films?
Speaker 2: I think the hardest part for me was, you know,
Speaker 2: revealing too much of my myself. You know, I do
Speaker 2: not regret you know, I feel, I feel, you know,
Speaker 2: I will always tank that franchise to you know, to
Speaker 2: set me in the movie industry, especially here in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: But if I right now, I don't think, like with
Speaker 2: the mindset that I have right now, if I would
Speaker 2: you know, accept today too, you know, to to to
Speaker 2: be part of a kind of a film like that,
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, because I had changed a lot in
Speaker 2: this five years, you know.
Speaker 1: So is it because looking back, did you feel like
Speaker 1: you didn't have much privacy from doing it or you
Speaker 1: just write so much out there like yeah, probably felt
Speaker 1: a little exposed, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know when you when you when you when
Speaker 2: you play that kind of character, especially in an Eurotic
Speaker 2: uh franchise on Netflix, it's it's too much because a
Speaker 2: lot of people get to see a lot of your privacy,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of your things. So back then
Speaker 2: I wasn't really aware of this. I was much more
Speaker 2: and mature, I think and I believe. But so today
Speaker 2: I'll like, you know, again, my set, my mindset, it's different,
Speaker 2: you know, So it would take me more than a
Speaker 2: minute to you know, sign a contract like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I also feel like that's just us growing up
Speaker 1: and growing older, right, there are things five years ago
Speaker 1: I would have done, whereas today I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I would have done that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's fine to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, fine, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: I grew up, and you know, we all grew up,
Speaker 2: and even you know, when you get mature, even even
Speaker 2: even the food you didn't used to like maybe now
Speaker 2: you they taste better. You know, you appreciate things that
Speaker 2: you you you did them before, So yeah, why not.
Speaker 2: I mean the process of changing and becoming you know,
Speaker 2: a new a new human being, you know, to completely
Speaker 2: new human. I mean it's exciting, I think. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 2: we wouldn't be so bored to be the same person
Speaker 2: every day for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's very, very true. Was there a moment during
Speaker 1: all of that craziness and chaos of those films coming
Speaker 1: out where you realized, oh, wow, my life changed, like
Speaker 1: I no longer have the privacy I once had. Was
Speaker 1: there kind of that switch for you where you can
Speaker 1: remember something happening or a meeting or a situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Probably, Like I, you know, I'm not able to
Speaker 2: do things that I used to do before, obviously, like
Speaker 2: for example, having a br with a friend or walking
Speaker 2: and you know making you know, just walking and as
Speaker 2: a normal person like like before. But that's part of
Speaker 2: the job. That's yeah, that's the result of something you made.
Speaker 2: And and people stops you because they appreciate what you do,
Speaker 2: not just they don't stop you because you you're a
Speaker 2: shirt killer, you know, actually appreciating your work. So it's cool.
Speaker 2: I deal with this, and you know, I have a
Speaker 2: great relationship with all of my fans, and yeah, I
Speaker 2: always have to thank my fan because I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been here without them, you know. That's that's a fact,
Speaker 2: that's a that's a that's a chain. You know. If
Speaker 2: people do not appreciate what you do, I wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: probably be here talking to you, you know, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's fans are really important, really important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because they're interesting to become like a family,
Speaker 1: you know, to you, yes, and they want to see
Speaker 1: you growl and they want to cheer you on and
Speaker 1: root for you and lead you to where you're going
Speaker 1: to be, which is now in a brand new movie
Speaker 1: called Another Simple Favor, which I feel like people are
Speaker 1: so excited for because the first one was such a
Speaker 1: hit and people just loved it, So tell me about
Speaker 1: your character and this movie.
Speaker 2: I play Dante Versano, which is a mafia boss based
Speaker 2: in the south of Italy. When I first got the scrap,
Speaker 2: when I first you know, Paul called me and it
Speaker 2: was like, I would love to work with you. And
Speaker 2: I was just, my god, what both figures calling? You
Speaker 2: just have to shut up and go on set, you know.
Speaker 2: Then I like, I read the script, I was like,
Speaker 2: oh god again you know this Mafia Bob and all that.
Speaker 2: I was like, I just want to you know, move
Speaker 2: on with this, you know, right. But the way the
Speaker 2: script was written, it was so interesting because it wasn't
Speaker 2: just a story of Mafia Bob. It was you know,
Speaker 2: it has a lot of things that I I like,
Speaker 2: for example, like the dark comedy. You know, Paul is
Speaker 2: amazing in this, and the script was written in a
Speaker 2: really good way. And I had, you know, I thought like, okay,
Speaker 2: now I had the chance to break the rules of
Speaker 2: the classic you know, mafia person right, and that was
Speaker 2: you know, the the clique you know again, I send
Speaker 2: a contract, was like, let's go, let's let's try to
Speaker 2: do something else. Let's not be always this scary motherfucker.
Speaker 2: I can just you know, come and you know, give
Speaker 2: something else, you know, and how the kind of idea
Speaker 2: of a mob, you know, this is more funny, more
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's got is kind of you know,
Speaker 2: it's a kind of idiot, you know. And I like
Speaker 2: to give this idea of a mobs because I'm from
Speaker 2: Italy and we are dealing with mafia since forever man,
Speaker 2: and yeah, we're people are scared of these people, so
Speaker 2: it was kind of interesting to make fun of them
Speaker 2: in this way, like make a ridiculous idiot mob. You know.
Speaker 2: It's kind of I'm making fun of them. I'm making
Speaker 2: them losing the power that they feel they know they have.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, yes, yeah, that's so interesting even for people
Speaker 1: like I'm from New Jersey, I'm Italian, and there's so
Speaker 1: many stereotypes of oh, you have mafia members in your family,
Speaker 1: and people they think that I'm like probably going back
Speaker 1: I do. I mean, yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 1: not today that I know of. But it's such an
Speaker 1: interesting spin on that character.
Speaker 2: Look, Tommy, I get that every day, you know, are
Speaker 2: you're telling whenever I'm in the States, For example, a
Speaker 2: You're talent was like, it's not only that. We have
Speaker 2: a lot of other things. And for me it was
Speaker 2: so important to you know, change the rule of the games,
Speaker 2: you know is to make a look at Maffi and
Speaker 2: Boss ridiculous. For me, it was really important because everything
Speaker 2: people would see in the film in simple favor, it's
Speaker 2: not just whatever. Everything is studied, every single expression and
Speaker 2: every single sentence. You know.
Speaker 1: And in the movie you're getting married to Blake's character,
Speaker 1: you describe her as one of your best friends. Well,
Speaker 1: how did you form that bond in that chemistry so quickly?
Speaker 1: Because it's hard on movie sets sometimes, right, you work
Speaker 1: with a lot of people. You don't always form that,
Speaker 1: but you seem to have formed that pretty fast.
Speaker 2: It happened to me to get so in touch with
Speaker 2: a person like especially like someone like Blake, you know,
Speaker 2: is a huge it is a huge store. And you know,
Speaker 2: we became such a great friend. We we had made,
Speaker 2: you know, such a great relationship between us. We're just
Speaker 2: like brother and sister. I'm a friend, like I'm such
Speaker 2: a good friend with Ryan as well. We can like
Speaker 2: a family. You know, we talk with each other like
Speaker 2: every week, you know, to you know, check on how
Speaker 2: are you what are you doing? You need anything, I'm
Speaker 2: here for you anything you need. You know, we just bonded.
Speaker 2: You know, we just bonded because I think Blake started
Speaker 2: like me and said one day that I made their
Speaker 2: joke and I made her like it's such a like
Speaker 2: weird joke because we were we were talking about our parents,
Speaker 2: what they do and love, and we were waiting. You
Speaker 2: were just seeing there waiting to start shooting.
Speaker 1: Right right. There's a lot of downtime, a lot of downtown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were there. What you do, how's your kids?
Speaker 2: And blah blah blah. So what about you? Your mom
Speaker 2: and your dad? I totally like my dad. You know,
Speaker 2: my dad passed away like twenty years ago. And I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I'm so sorry, and she was really
Speaker 2: sorry and I was like yeah, And then she asked
Speaker 2: how did he passed away? And I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Something crossed my mind. I was like, I
Speaker 2: want to make a joke on this, like even if
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's you know, I actually softered, you
Speaker 2: know and paying forever, and I make a joke like,
Speaker 2: you know, I was twelve years old and my dad
Speaker 2: took me and my sister to a zoo and we
Speaker 2: were we were, you know, trying to feeding lions from
Speaker 2: from outside the cage. And then suddenly, you know, I
Speaker 2: had very serious face. I was like, but unfortunately my
Speaker 2: dad like you know, fall into the cage of lion
Speaker 2: and it was eaten by a lion. And she was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, you're so stupid. And I had like
Speaker 2: this face, like I said, oh, okay, I don't worry,
Speaker 2: Like everybody has this reaction whenever I told them, like
Speaker 2: they don't believe it, but I understand. And she like
Speaker 2: quickly started to like, Okay, this is not a joke,
Speaker 2: this is this is something, and it's like I'm She
Speaker 2: was like, I'm so sorry if I laughed, but this
Speaker 2: is who like unique, you know, this is so I'm
Speaker 2: so sorry. I'm so sorry of your dad and stuff
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. I was like, no, no worry,
Speaker 2: blake and don't worry. It's all fun. Everything is fine.
Speaker 2: Everybody reacts in the same way I'm used to.
Speaker 1: You kept going with it. I kept going, oh my god, and.
Speaker 2: She felt so bad and a certain point I couldn't
Speaker 2: handle it anymore and I started laughing. It was like,
Speaker 2: you asshole, really like like I can't believe you just
Speaker 2: made this joke. But did your dad pass away? For
Speaker 2: realized that, Yeah, yeah, it passed away twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: but not eaten by lame. Yeah, he had the disease
Speaker 2: and stuff. And from that moment me and Blake became
Speaker 2: like close lying that, yeah, because she has the same way,
Speaker 2: you know, she she is, she's funny like me, So
Speaker 2: we week click in that moment.
Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, I love that. Sense of humor is
Speaker 1: so important, right, especially when you're on set and you're
Speaker 1: tired and you're working so much, and to do something
Speaker 1: like that and have a reaction that's so genuine and
Speaker 1: then you can laugh about it, I think is so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But also I think that sometimes, like you know,
Speaker 2: there's you know sometimes people that think like there should
Speaker 2: be boundaries on things that we laugh and stuff like.
Speaker 2: But you know, sometimes it's healthier to you know, be
Speaker 2: a little bit less intents when we talk about you know,
Speaker 2: even the death or stuff. It's it's it's okay to
Speaker 2: laugh sometimes. Yes, we don't have to take everything serious,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, tell me right for sure, So
Speaker 2: for sure we click that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing. Did you receive any advice from Blake
Speaker 1: or Anna or anyone on set about Hollywood and the
Speaker 1: machine and the business, because yes, you've been acting for
Speaker 1: a while now, but it is very different than Italy, right,
Speaker 1: So did you get any kind of great pieces of
Speaker 1: advice to just help you along the way?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I did, And I did receive an incredible uh
Speaker 2: advice from Blake because like still, when when I was
Speaker 2: shooting the U, the Simple Favor were in sad and
Speaker 2: and I went into Blake and I asked her something
Speaker 2: about the script and English. I didn't understand word because
Speaker 2: I'm Italian, so English is not my first language, and
Speaker 2: I was trying so hard to reproduce the American accent.
Speaker 2: Who was like, she was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Like I want to talk you know perfect you know
Speaker 2: slang right m hmm. She was like, like, you are
Speaker 2: getting into Hollywood because you are new, because you're you
Speaker 2: come from far away, and people likes you here in
Speaker 2: Hollywood because of you, because who you are and because
Speaker 2: of your accent. We already have a lot of actors
Speaker 2: in America that they speak, you know, proper English. So
Speaker 2: this is not something less because thinking about for example,
Speaker 2: and Tony Bandera's Javier Badan or I don't know Peneta
Speaker 2: pa Cruz. They owe from Spain, they have the accent,
Speaker 2: they're great actors. Yeah, so why you're trying to be
Speaker 2: like us? We need that. We did something new and Dan,
Speaker 2: it clicked something again inside me because I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is true. Why would I be somebody else? Like
Speaker 2: why would I talk like Americans if I'm not Americans?
Speaker 2: So that like clicked something in me is like, okay,
Speaker 2: this is true. She's right.
Speaker 1: Isn't that funny? How sometimes we try to assimilate or
Speaker 1: be something that other people we perceive want us to be.
Speaker 1: But in reality, you're doing what you're doing and cementing
Speaker 1: your place in Hollywood because of exactly who you are,
Speaker 1: exactly right. So it's such a good reminder that keep
Speaker 1: bringing who you are to the table because people want that.
Speaker 2: But look Tommy, for us, for Italians and people that
Speaker 2: come come from other countries, you know, especially for like
Speaker 2: I'm talking about actors. For an actor, the biggest dream
Speaker 2: they have is to break into Hollywood, right, So when
Speaker 2: they got to do that, they just want to be
Speaker 2: you know, they have the American dreams and stuff, and
Speaker 2: it's fine. So they want to they want to be
Speaker 2: like the American actors because also sorry, also the math
Speaker 2: the mathod that you house is something else. The moving
Speaker 2: industry here is one of the biggest industry that this
Speaker 2: country hasn't so they want to probably reproduce that and
Speaker 2: they do it like as I did. But then, like
Speaker 2: we were on set and she told me, like, this
Speaker 2: is not this is not a mistake. Your accent is
Speaker 2: not a mistake.
Speaker 1: Because not everybody has that. Yeah, you have.
Speaker 2: It, of course, I mean I speak good English, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course I have an accent. But this is not
Speaker 2: a mistake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really cool being the native Italian. Did you
Speaker 1: feel the responsibility on set to show people the Ropes
Speaker 1: cook a dinner? I mean, were you like the residents
Speaker 1: and the resident guru of a sauce?
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, Italian that does not anything, doesn't
Speaker 2: know anything about football, doesn't even know how to im.
Speaker 1: You can't make a me, you can't make a mepal.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Oh man, I'm not my mom. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm probably the only person on earth that you know,
Speaker 2: was able to burn the pasta in the water. The water,
Speaker 2: I mean, it was it was a lot, you know,
Speaker 2: so I I I'm the worst person on cooking and
Speaker 2: doing you know, even playing football for example, all the
Speaker 2: talents you know, Yeah, I'm here. What do you like?
Speaker 2: Which team do you like? A football? Is like, I
Speaker 2: don't even know what the fuck is on half side?
Speaker 1: You know, right?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, fair enough, fair enough if you speak it,
Speaker 1: that's enough. People love to hear you speak the language
Speaker 1: and you know what, that's all you need. That's all
Speaker 1: you need.
Speaker 2: I mean, just need to speak in English and you know,
Speaker 2: get the right you know, proposals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Well you were you are busy in books.
Speaker 1: We can't wait for this film. It's it just looks
Speaker 1: like a fun pre summer blockbuster that everyone's really really
Speaker 1: excited in the backdrop of Italy, nonetheless, which is just
Speaker 1: so dreamy and beautiful. You also are working on The Housemaid,
Speaker 1: right with Sidney Sweeney and Amanda Scifred. People are very
Speaker 1: excited for that. I believe that comes out later this year,
Speaker 1: towards the end of the year. What can you tease
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 2: I was. I was incredibly happy when called when Paul
Speaker 2: called me, because he's directed by Paul fig Mickey. I
Speaker 2: want you again, like we need to work like we
Speaker 2: need to work together again. And even Laura Fisher, you know,
Speaker 2: the the amazing producer called me. It was like, Mickey,
Speaker 2: we want you for this film, this franchise and all
Speaker 2: that was like yeah, a man, Yeah, and what do
Speaker 2: you what's the rule? It's the Italian Gardener obviously right.
Speaker 2: It was so fun. I was like, yeah, I'm in whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's do it. And it's a film. It's a really
Speaker 2: smart film. It's based on The Houseman, the book you
Speaker 2: know that sold millions of copies all around the world.
Speaker 2: And there's a funny story about this because that shocked
Speaker 2: me actually because one month before, one month and a
Speaker 2: half before I got the I got the offer for
Speaker 2: for the role of and so my manager called me.
Speaker 2: My manager, Chuck James called me. He's based in La
Speaker 2: called me. And I wasn't Milan. It's like, hey, I
Speaker 2: just read this book. It's called The Houseman. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: send it a copy to you because ore and I
Speaker 2: told him just go buy the book. You should read
Speaker 2: it because I think it could be a good film.
Speaker 2: And I went and I bought the book and I
Speaker 2: read it and I got so into the book. It
Speaker 2: was like, whoa, this is a fucking cool story. I
Speaker 2: like it. Yeah, but thanks for advising me this. A
Speaker 2: month and a half later we got the offer for
Speaker 2: the Houseman. It was and we didn't know they were
Speaker 2: you know, we're preparing the film. That's a weird story
Speaker 2: actually that I always liked to tell whenever I'm doing
Speaker 2: an interview because it's the first time in my life
Speaker 2: that happened something weird like that. Because you advised me
Speaker 2: in the book. I read the book. I liked the
Speaker 2: book could be a good film. A month and a
Speaker 2: half later, they offered me the film and the role,
Speaker 2: and it was like, wow, yeah, what what's happening?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't believe in coincidence. You know, that was
Speaker 1: clearly meant to happen for you, and it was already
Speaker 1: not to be like woo woo wee, but it was
Speaker 1: written for you, like you're written in the universe. So
Speaker 1: I think that there are things that you are meant
Speaker 1: to do and that was one of them. And we
Speaker 1: can't wait for that one too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait for that too. It's a weird though,
Speaker 2: Like it's my character and so he's a sweet weird
Speaker 2: though I like to. I like to, you know, talk
Speaker 2: about him in this way because you don't know if
Speaker 2: it's good or bad. You know, this kind of creeps
Speaker 2: that follows you and look at you in a way like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: what do you want? Why you're looking at me like that?
Speaker 2: You're making me nervous? And he is the one. And
Speaker 2: I like to play someone that is extremely far away
Speaker 2: from from the way I am. And I like to
Speaker 2: play characters that they have something different the usual common people,
Speaker 2: you know, because it makes you know, you know, my
Speaker 2: you know, that makes my brain grow up, you know.
Speaker 2: I like this. For example, it just actually yesterday night
Speaker 2: came out there was the premiere of another film that
Speaker 2: I've shot called Home, Sweet Home. And it's a film,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a fantasy horror film based
Speaker 2: on a video game, just just like about Zombies, right
Speaker 2: where I play this uh, this homeless that is running
Speaker 2: away from the police and then gets stuck in a
Speaker 2: place with no axis and and you know, gets possessed
Speaker 2: by a demon and he becomes a demon. And that
Speaker 2: was so interesting to to play because I had to
Speaker 2: get into like, okay, you want to play a lawyer.
Speaker 2: You just go and talk with the lawyer, and you know,
Speaker 2: you absorb the way a lawyer works and all that.
Speaker 2: I want to play a doctor. I want to play something.
Speaker 2: But you can't have a meeting with a demon.
Speaker 1: I hope not.
Speaker 2: I mean it would be so interesting in my opinion,
Speaker 2: But I had to create this, this this character based
Speaker 2: on what what what? What? What is the demon? The
Speaker 2: first time I got the script, was like, okay, you
Speaker 2: have to play this demon. What it is a demon?
Speaker 2: I asked myself. I think demon is something that scares people.
Speaker 2: And I thought, okay, what scares me the most? So
Speaker 2: I can scare other people? And I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: I think the most scary things is I I'm afraid
Speaker 2: of disease. And I thought like, okay, what if I
Speaker 2: play a disease. So I thought the entire process I
Speaker 2: was actually playing thinking about that I was a kind
Speaker 2: of virus and I wanted to scare people, like a virus.
Speaker 2: Remember when we're during the COVID. Yeah, but we're so
Speaker 2: fucking scared of this virus. They were scared of this virus.
Speaker 2: So I was like, I can't talk with a demon,
Speaker 2: but I want to scare people. And I have to
Speaker 2: be a demon. So my underline to play it, the
Speaker 2: character could be being a disease, being like an unknown virus.
Speaker 1: It's so cool getting inside an artist brain because so
Speaker 1: much goes into the work that you do, and you
Speaker 1: have so much going on. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: so inadequate sitting across from you. You speak fluent Italian, you
Speaker 1: have all these movies coming out. You're a musician, you
Speaker 1: play instruments, you sing. What can't you do? And are
Speaker 1: we getting some more music from you? What's what's going on?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm actually working on a new album featuring
Speaker 2: with two Feet is one of the best artist that
Speaker 2: I ever work with. He reached out and was like,
Speaker 2: I love your music, Mickey, can we do something together?
Speaker 2: I was like, whoa, I love your music too. Let's
Speaker 2: let's yeah, let's work together. So we're we're making an
Speaker 2: entire album together, made by ten trucks. Actually, one of
Speaker 2: the trucks is the soundtrack of the Home, Sweet Home.
Speaker 2: It's called Unattainable. So I'm working so much, like you know,
Speaker 2: in the music, I can really I feel, I can
Speaker 2: really release part of my soul. Every time as a
Speaker 2: new single comes out, it's a part of my soul
Speaker 2: coming out. So it's the real me, you know. I
Speaker 2: divided this because in films I need to be someone else,
Speaker 2: right So it's a kind of anti stress to release
Speaker 2: a part of me, you know, through the through my music,
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a beautiful process.
Speaker 1: Well, you put so much passion in everything you do
Speaker 1: that's very very obvious. And you do it all with gratitude,
Speaker 1: which is really cool to see. And you strike me
Speaker 1: as someone who's just drunk on life, Like you love life? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you love what you do?
Speaker 2: You know, tell me I believe. Like when you know
Speaker 2: a lot of guys right now they ask me, like,
Speaker 2: what's the secret? How did you become you? You were
Speaker 2: someone working as a gardener, Like how did you fucking
Speaker 2: break into Hollywood and making all of these things? The
Speaker 2: most important thing I think for me is you have
Speaker 2: to be obsessed with your life, because when you're obsessed
Speaker 2: with your life, you don't want to waste it. If
Speaker 2: you're obsessed with your life, you want to leave every
Speaker 2: day as if it's the last day. So what would
Speaker 2: you do if it was your last day? I probably
Speaker 2: would do everything. And this is what I want to do.
Speaker 2: For example, why am I work in the movie industry
Speaker 2: and plus and the music? Why do I paint? Why
Speaker 2: do am I the face with all changaban An? Why
Speaker 2: do I do a lot of things? Because I don't
Speaker 2: want to waste my life doing only one thing that
Speaker 2: I love. I want to use my life to do
Speaker 2: everything because I just have one. I can't live this
Speaker 2: life and being an actor. Okay, in the next life,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a singer, and then next life I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be a painter. No, like, I'm craving for my passion.
Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with my passion. And this is why I'm unstopped, unstoppable,
Speaker 2: because I don't like the feeling to ghost sleep knowing
Speaker 2: that I didn't create anything. You know, It's just like
Speaker 2: a waste of time for me. And sometimes this is
Speaker 2: a weapon against you because it feels frustrated when you're not,
Speaker 2: for example, inspired about something you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm very much like you. Like when I
Speaker 1: walk to the gym every single day, I literally say
Speaker 1: to myself, I am so grateful I'm here, and like,
Speaker 1: thank you universe for choosing me to be here, because
Speaker 1: I will right now because I want to live every
Speaker 1: day to the maximum. And exactly what you said is
Speaker 1: the mentality I share. I think that's I think that's
Speaker 1: so important, Keela, and the reason why you're so successful.
Speaker 2: You know, now? How important? Is like when I hate
Speaker 2: when people they just waste their lives. Yeah, I hate
Speaker 2: it because it's like life is so beautiful, Yes, it's
Speaker 2: so it's it's such a great gift. Yes, you know,
Speaker 2: why would you spend your old time being in a
Speaker 2: fucking public park using drugs or being drunk? Like what
Speaker 2: are you doing? You know? Yeah, of course I cannot
Speaker 2: judge because those kind of people, like they probably have
Speaker 2: much more going on inside them mm hm as a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, But I personally feel sad when I
Speaker 2: see people wasting their lives, for example, staying with someone
Speaker 2: they don't want to just because they have no cards
Speaker 2: to be alone, or for example, like doing a job
Speaker 2: they don't like for the rest of their life. Just
Speaker 2: drop everything, fuck and try what you like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like's too short, man.
Speaker 2: And I was a gardener. I dropped everything. I had
Speaker 2: two kids, I had no money. Uh you know, I
Speaker 2: had nothing, and I did Like, who cares, what's gonna change?
Speaker 1: You made it work?
Speaker 2: The worst case in I'm not gonna still have money,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be famous, Like what's gonna change. But
Speaker 2: people are afraid because we are all good on having
Speaker 2: the dream. But when you gotta have to go out
Speaker 2: there and prove yourself the road to reach the dream
Speaker 2: you have, it's not easy, right, And that is the
Speaker 2: That is the problem, because people dream, but they have
Speaker 2: no cargs to suffer for their dreams, and that's the problem.
Speaker 1: This is a sign for anyone listening who wants to
Speaker 1: make a change, to make the damn change. There's no
Speaker 1: better time to do it, and life's too short. And
Speaker 1: I love what you're saying with it, Mikely. I could
Speaker 1: talk to you for another hour, but we have to
Speaker 1: wrap it up. And I end every conversation with a
Speaker 1: question based off the title of the show, and the
Speaker 1: show is called I've never said this before, So I
Speaker 1: bring guests on and I ask, you're making me scared
Speaker 1: all of my guests this question. And it was born
Speaker 1: from the place of on a carpet and a junket.
Speaker 1: You get three minutes with somebody. It's not real conversation,
Speaker 1: it's sound by conversation. You all say the same things
Speaker 1: to every outlet, we all ask the same things. I'm
Speaker 1: bored of it. I want to have real humans on
Speaker 1: and you've already been so open and vulnerable today. But
Speaker 1: I wonder, is there anything else that you can think
Speaker 1: of that you've never said before? Whatever that means to you,
Speaker 1: no right or wrong answer, that gives us a little
Speaker 1: more insight into you as a human that you want
Speaker 1: to say?
Speaker 2: WHOA, There's so many things I've never said, so many
Speaker 2: I need to pick one. I think I never Okay,
Speaker 2: I have it. I never said I never be more
Speaker 2: sorry for something that I've done on the set of
Speaker 2: Home Sweet Home, because while we were shooting the film,
Speaker 2: I had an exxtreme bad reaction during the filming with
Speaker 2: the directors and the producer of the film. I got
Speaker 2: so so so mad about something that happened on set
Speaker 2: that I actually exploded in a way that doesn't belong
Speaker 2: to me. And I'm still surprised about it. And I
Speaker 2: never I said sorry for that so many times, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take this opportunity to say sorry again because
Speaker 2: it will never be enough for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's really cool, you know what. That's cool
Speaker 1: because we've all been there and we've all said something
Speaker 1: or done something we wish we haven't, and it takes
Speaker 1: a real man, a real humans who admit that and
Speaker 1: to own it and and hope that everyone can accept it.
Speaker 1: Is a really cool thing. Forgiveness is just as important
Speaker 1: as being able to say I'm sorry. So on the
Speaker 1: other end, on the other end, hopefully everybody can let
Speaker 1: go and everyone can move on.
Speaker 2: Because you're not for you know, apologize to someone. It
Speaker 2: doesn't only you're not just apologizing and you want to,
Speaker 2: you know, you're it helps to you need that to
Speaker 2: feel good, Yeah, because you've done it.
Speaker 1: Well and you need it to feel good when you
Speaker 1: meet it, which clearly you do. Absolutely, you're a man
Speaker 1: who means what he says. You do what you mean.
Speaker 2: I love them so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know. I respect that about you. I
Speaker 1: think you're such a talent. I think you're a very
Speaker 1: real person, in touch with everything going on around you.
Speaker 1: And I'm very excited to see where you continue to
Speaker 1: grow and sore. And we met in twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: years later, we meet again. Let's do this sooner, Okay.
Speaker 2: Not five years, you know, let's wait five.
Speaker 1: Years, okay, please please, Maybe we'll take you.
Speaker 2: There's another film that I'm shooting right now with Hansony Opkins.
Speaker 1: Ok, we need to oh name drop excuse me, let
Speaker 1: me pick that name up off the floor. Anthony Hopkins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is a great human being. I'm shooting the
Speaker 2: film on the story of Mazerati, you know, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: And I'm playing so is there and I'm sharing crazy
Speaker 2: things with this, you know, like God is God on
Speaker 2: earth obviously. Anton.
Speaker 1: All right, well let's talk again. Another simple favor is
Speaker 1: out right now. Everybody go watch it. It's amazing, Mikela
Speaker 1: is amazing. Until we meet again, my friend. Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me here, Thank you for hanging out.
Speaker 2: Thank you, of course, thank thank you, thank you.
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