WEBVTT - Spin 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.160 So not to give too much away about today's wonderful 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.120 film that we're going to be talking about, but I 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.000 just wanted to start with were you at all jarred 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.840 by how different a newer dcom is from one of 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:31.720 the older dcoms? Yes? 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.560 Yes, I mean in what we've seen so far that 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.520 Disney somewhat touches but not a ton. We're there out 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.360 in the open, Yeah, and totally comfortable, like it wasn't 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:47.040 It wasn't uncomfortable. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.960 It just was like, wow, this we have like evolved. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.080 Yes, as a one, that's a great word for evolved 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.360 Disney in today's society of things that kids are going 0:00:58.400 --> 0:00:59.080 through right now. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.480 It's also us brighter and the just it looks better. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.319 I know, it's a simple thing to say that it 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.720 looks better, it sounds better, but it's you know, it 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.720 just shows the evolution. You watch a sitcom today and 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.399 it looks better than it does if you're watching a 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.440 sitcom from even the nineties. But when we're coming off 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:19.319 of Dad Napped to today's movie, it was like the 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.560 most jarring thing. That was like going from a like 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.800 a hello, my baby, hello my honey, to watching Star 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:28.520 Wars for the first time. It's crazy. So anyway, welcome 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.200 back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.800 to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn and 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.559 go back to a time when all the houses were smart, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.759 the waves, tsunamis and the high School's musical. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.919 I'm Wilford Dell and I'm Sabrina Bryan. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.280 So today we're getting down on the wheels of steel 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.640 because it's time for our newest d com or should 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:49.080 I say DJ comm Huh? Should I? I probably shouldn't 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.560 our most curry? Yeah, no, I won't. It's twenty twenty 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.600 one's Spin. When announced in March of twenty twenty, Spin 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.680 was first conceived to air on Disney Plus, but just 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.800 five months later it became prime for Magical Rewind when 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.320 it was repositioned as a Disney Channel original movie. It 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.200 was shifted and redeveloped premiere traditionally on cable, with only 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.520 one writer replaced from the original announcement. Okay, Sabrina, So 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.280 we've never really delved into this before, and now we're 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.119 getting into kind of the nitty gritty because we've talking 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.520 about evolution, been looking at the evolution of what we 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.680 call the dcom. But there was like Disney Channel original movies, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.399 Disney Movies, Wonderful World of Disney Movies, Zoog movies. We've 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:28.960 seen that. There was a whole bunch of these. So 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.840 do you think we can yet discern the differences between 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.760 what would be a D com and a Disney Plus 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.280 original movie. I don't think we have that eye yet. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:38.560 I don't think so. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.880 I honestly think it's it was more about marketing than 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.720 it was about was on the channel versus D like 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:47.519 Disney Plus. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.000 I think it's where how kids nowadays watched TV. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.800 Yeah, versus it actually about like where the location of 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:57.120 it is. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.240 It's more about this is just how they watched TV. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.160 And it was funny. I was talking to somebody about 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.560 that exact same thing, about watching a new sitcom on 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.840 something like ABC versus when it streams and is an 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.239 actress from one of the new sitcoms that's on. Who said, Oh, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.680 every promo we do, every press we do, that we 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.560 have to end with and it's airing tomorrow and Hulu 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.960 tomorrow and Hulu because it's like that's how everybody watches 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:19.520 theirs stuff. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:26.080 I think that the only that Monroe has. Let's put 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.120 it this way, She has a bunch of shows on 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:32.200 the Disney Channel that I like Punstruction, Alice Bakery. But 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.720 I record all of those and just she pops them on. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.480 She doesn't sit down whenever it airs. That's never how 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.760 it was, not how it works, Playhouse, all of that 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.600 stuff like those are all just recorded, and I know, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.080 I kind of like, man, it is a shame. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.480 That's just how it is, you know. And it's also 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.280 like easier to access on my phone or on an 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:53.200 iPad for her. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.840 Yeah, then you know if if we're sitting at home, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.600 you know, because then it also is nice because we 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.640 can watch what we want to watch. She can watch 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.600 which of course watch, yeah, but not have to be 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.920 away from us. She could still be like on the couch. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.960 Totally different. Anyway, Spin debut on the channel almost exactly 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.120 one year later, after all this, August thirteenth, twenty twenty one, 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.760 and it became the very first dcom to feature an 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.240 Indian American in the lead role, and only one other 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.400 dcom at all centered around Indian culture. So do you 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:22.680 know what what movie that was? 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.240 I do will Sheeta Girls, One World and living in 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.480 this movie for all of the just oh it was. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.040 I can't wait, can't wait, I can't wait all I 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.680 can't wait either. This aired as part of Disney Channels 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.960 Friday the thirteenth is Fun Lucky. I didn't make that up. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.560 Friday the thirteenth is Fun Lucky night of Premieres, which 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.800 might just be the least catchy promotion name I've ever 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.479 heard of. It's like if they said musty TV is 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:52.240 make sure you watch this television. So true it is, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.080 God It's bad. It showed immediately after the channel premiere 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.080 of Toy Story four and right before Descendants, the Royal 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.000 Wedding and disney He's Magic Bakeoff, So quite a huge 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.920 night of entertainment. Yeah, the film racked in. Now here's 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.279 where it gets strange, because you know, we talk about 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.360 numbers every week, and we're saying this was a big one. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.520 It had five million viewers, that had four million viewers 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.640 then come streaming. So this film racked in five hundred 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.080 and thirty five thousand viewers for its premiere. And this, unfortunately, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.880 was another first. This was the first decom ever to 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.080 score less than a million viewers in its first airing. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.719 And this, my friends, is just the new norm with 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.760 streaming services. Kids don't watch traditional TV, so we just 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.000 talked about it. That's neither of us like it, but 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.840 that's the new way it is. It's just absolutely the 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.360 new normal. Then, even after the scheduling changes, it was 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.599 finally added to Disney Plus and November of twenty twenty 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.840 one as part of Disney Plus Day and annual celebration 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.000 and content dump for the anniversary of the streaming services launch. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.200 I don't think there's any mail service on that day. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.440 I know that I like to celebrate that day alone. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.440 It's just how I observe. It's a mine. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.240 Yeah, what a great occasion I do. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.120 I love it. I get my Disney Plus candles and 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.960 I'm very happy. Spin was the first d com to 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:06.719 be filmed during the pandemic. Yes, it was shot in well, Toronto, Canada, 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.719 so there you go. It gives us a small Utah 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.680 break from October fifth, twenty twenty to November twentieth, twenty twenty, 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.919 so it was right in the mix of an absolutely 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.960 insane time in the world. Very little was filming and 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.880 as you can figure out by the dates, viewers that 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:24.200 ended up waiting three hundred and seventy eight days to 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.839 see the finished product. That is the longest wait ever 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.640 between new dcoms oh Man. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.200 That feels like five years. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.279 Doesn't it a year? Well it is, and in with 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.680 the short attention spans that social media has given us, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.960 three hundred and seventy eight days is nine million years 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.080 and worth noting that Spin was released in India on 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.360 Disney Plus hot Star, which is their version of the 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:47.479 studio subscription service, and Disney International HD, their version of 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.520 the channel, on August fifteenth, twenty twenty one Indian Independence Day. Now, 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.400 obviously this was a very big deal for their country, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.280 so there was a lot of promotion and fanfare to 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.719 coincide with the celebration. Really cool. The soundtrack to Spin, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.200 which is an important element to the movie about DJing 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.279 and EDM, was released two weeks before the movie aired 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.920 and features all the music you hear in the film. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.520 All the songs are written, produced, and performed by Marcus Devrees, 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.920 who is a Grammy winner whose previous work includes movies 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.480 like Coda, Kick Ass, and Sucker Punch. And someone chime 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.400 in if I'm wrong here, but I'm going to assume 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.000 that this was Disney's first foray into music that you 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.240 might hear at a rave Is that right? I mean, 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.600 have we heard other music in Disney? No? 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.120 I guess you're right. I guess a part of this 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:31.720 this genre. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.000 Yeah, this is probably the first that we've seen at 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.000 least absolutely. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.160 You know, I would assume there was more. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.520 But you've got a big musical background. Have you ever 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:40.160 tried to DJ? 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:41.760 I haven't you know it? 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.760 The whole time I was going, how come I haven't 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:44.920 tried this before? 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:45.200 You know. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.640 The closest I got to it was during our tours. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:54.080 We would have musical like dance breaks, Keeley and I 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.280 and Adrian would be working with the producer and I 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.600 would say, like, I want to hear like a like 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.200 glass crashing on the ground, sound like you know, you know, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.440 and like doing like certain accents and audio effects and 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.560 things like that. So we would do that, but it 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.800 was not like with the spinning. I have to have 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.840 a girlfriend Brie who does it like all the time. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.320 And then my girlfriend Asia is really like she gets 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.720 paid and to track. She loves it. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.000 Yeah, And I remember her first like playing with it, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.400 and I just never had much interest in actually doing it. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:27.080 Is it sad that? 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:27.400 No? 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.080 The only DJ I know is DJ pauly D from 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.800 Jersey Shore. Is that that. I know, it's just not 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.760 my thing. It's not my kind of music, but hey, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:41.040 it was impressive also as always, because there's technically dancing 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.960 in this movie, we have to ask you, you know, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.200 a woman with now your own line of dance pants 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.720 and dance tops, which is called what again? Sobri official, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.960 Sobri official? How is the dancing in the movie? You know? 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.200 It took me back and we'll get there, because it 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.720 was a lot of it was and I don't remember 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.839 the movie movements. But what I loved about learning the 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.000 movements from India is a lot of it tells stories 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.319 like what they're doing. They do things like with their 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.920 eyes and it's talking about looking or you know what 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:11.760 I mean, they have their. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.559 Yeah, they had yes clear. It was almost like a 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.200 language onto itself. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.880 The dancing, it absolutely is and I got to learn 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.480 like quite a bit about it through our movie on 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:22.360 the third one. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.679 And so I liked it. It was just enough. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.200 I don't think it needed any more than what we got. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.160 I think it was like just enough and it was 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.959 more so about the actual music and storytelling of the music. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.839 Okay, I did like it. I'm going to talk to 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.280 you about that later, because I don't necessarily agree. I think, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.600 I honestly think it could have used a little more 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.720 of the dance stuff. But really get into that away 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.559 all right now. Spin may have been a quote unquote 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.840 failure when it came to the Nielsen ratings, but critically 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.760 it fared much better. Amy, Okay, now I just want 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.319 to preface everything I'm going to say. In this episode. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.520 There's a lot of names that are very difficult to pronounce. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.840 Uh So I I apologize right off the bat for 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.200 my pronunciations for some of these names. But Amy, a 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.640 Monteglio of Paste, said it really conveys the thrills of 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.040 a first crush or holding someone's hand for the first time, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.920 without making the entire movie just about romance, which she liked, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.120 and I don't disagree with that. Yeah, and it got 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.439 a positive review from Mashable, calling it revolutionary and delightful 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.520 in the dcom movie Library. And this has an eighty 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.880 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. It also received the Reframe Stamp, 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.480 which is an award given by the Gender Equality Coalition. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.040 Reframe an IMDb pro for films or TV projects that 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.360 are proven to have gender balancing hiring, especially women of color, 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.840 in four of the right key roles of production, not 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.280 a common distinction. Unfortunately, it was also nominated for two 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.840 Children and Family Emmy Awards, Outstanding Fiction Special and Outstanding Directing. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.000 All right, we always ask what did you know about 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.000 Spin before it came to our watch? 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.240 Nothing when we released, or when we talked about this 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.720 last time with it upcoming, and you and I hadn't 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.080 seen this yet. I had never seen it. I was 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.839 thinking you got it in my head saying this was 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.959 gonna be like a workout space class, like how are 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:08.959 they gonna do this? 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:10.960 Or it's gonna be like bicycling. 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.880 I really had no idea until obviously when you pop 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.920 it up on Disney Plus you see the head picture. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.679 And you're going, oh, oh, this is gonna. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.240 Be I'm excited to see this. This is so different 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.080 than what we've seen at all. We've not seen and 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.880 we've seen obviously movies about music, but not like not 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.319 to I was really. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:32.960 Looking forward to it. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.200 Yeah, what about you? Will you know? I always say no, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.760 And I didn't know the title, but I did know 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.360 this movie. You don't know how. I don't know if 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.240 I read the script or it was talked about in 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.360 a couple of meetings I had at Disney. But as 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.319 the movie started, I was like, I know this movie. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.480 So I hadn't seen it, but I've either read the 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.679 script or been or talked to producers about this specific 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:02.400 film because I knew you always going from zero to one, right, exactly, exactly, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:03.920 zero to one out. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.120 Of ten out of ten thousand episodes you were once 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:09.760 wild though, kind. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:10.560 Of heard of this movie. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.920 Yeah, that's cool that you kind of maybe read the script. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.880 That's pretty I think I think that's what it was, 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.920 but I can't remember. But either, Okay, why don't we 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.240 get into our synopsis? Fifteen year old Rhya Kumar, who 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.440 lives with her tight knit, multi generational family, realizes her 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.160 true passion is to become an ed m DJ Sabrina 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.559 Early thoughts, What did you think of the movie? 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:36.080 Again, I really didn't know much how to to do this. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:37.120 As soon as it. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.320 Starts and I'm seeing the Indian influenced of their culture 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:46.679 in it, I am like, yes, yep, I'm in, and 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:47.600 I'm so old, I'm in. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:48.480 I'm on it. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.960 This little girl comes on camera and to me, she's 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.679 one of the most stunning little girls. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.280 I'm saying because. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.600 She's I know, she's just younger than me. She's obviously 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:04.400 not a girl, but she's great. Stunning, yeah, stunning young woman. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.360 And a star was I mean just clearly a star. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.840 Clearly From the very first ep or very first scene 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.400 in this movie, it was just so good and I 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.960 was ready to go. And I really didn't know what 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.240 to think. How they were going to do this. I 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.439 couldn't imagine it, and it was great. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.040 Right from the start. That was my early thoughts. I 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:24.040 was like, I'm gonna love this. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.440 I completely and totally agree with you. It was one 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.400 of those things. I think a lot of it helps 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.439 that I'm coming right off a Dad Napped Yes, which 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.679 talk about a different vibe for a Disney movie. This 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:41.880 felt modern, it felt big budget, it felt real, it 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:47.160 felt the acting was incredible, the cast was wonderful. None 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.000 of it felt forced. It was I fully enjoyed this movie. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.280 I again music, so I was like, I don't know 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.920 how Manna feel loved it, and I disagree. I would 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.000 love to have seen a little bit more of the 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.840 Bollywood put into the film. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.520 Two, I thought the rolling credits we were going to 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:06.240 get something. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.280 Like one or two would have been great itself. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.880 In the movie itself, I didn't think it needed it. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.520 I just felt like I would like to see the 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.960 ball yes, but the Bollywood that's like an end thing, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:16.360 you know. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:17.520 I know, I know a lot. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.440 What I do want to say is and I know 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.040 we're gonna about to get to this. But I really 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.440 loved that it was an Indian filmmaker as the director too, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.160 because I think that is absolutely really big and I 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.440 thought that was really very cool for the Disney Channel. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.760 I think so too. And that's a perfect segue here 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.200 because Spin was directed by and again I'm apologizing if 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.040 I'm if I'm butchering these names, but was directed by 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.040 Menjari mac Johnny. I think is how you say it. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.800 The Indian filmmaker and daughter of a veteran Bollywood actor 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.480 is based in La and debuted with the Netflix movie 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.920 Skater Girl in twenty twenty one, and that had a 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.400 very similar plot following a teenage girl who finds her 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.440 identity through skateboarding. Spin was her second feature, but she's 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.840 worked in his assistant director on Wait to Hear This 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.840 This List on some huge releases like Wonder Woman, Mission Impossible, 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.640 Ghost Protocol, and The Dark Night Rises when they were 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.120 all shot in India. Wow Wow, pretty cool. Or the 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.320 list of movies Will Loves and the Movie is filled 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.520 with mostly new faces for Disney, with only two real exceptions, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.240 and the most recognizable is Anna Cathcart. This was actually 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.600 Anna's third d com as You've seen her before in 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.440 Descendance two and three as Dizzy Tremaine, Cinderella's daughter. She 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.000 also appeared in the movie To All the Boys I've 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.720 Loved Before and the TV show and subsequent movies for 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.680 Odd Squad. She can currently be seen on the Netflix 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.040 show Exo Kitty I Love. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.600 It's the big character Kitty again. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.280 I'm saying words. I have no idea what any of 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.160 these things are. It's not mash, I don't get it. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.440 And Avontka stars in Spin as Ria, the girl who 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.880 just came on the screen and Stole it. Born in 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.680 the San Francisco area, she began her career starring in 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.600 Telugu cinema, eventually transitioning to American projects, where Spin was 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.000 her first ever lead role. She since starred in Netflix 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.680 Senior Year and appeared in the comedy musical version of 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.120 Mean Girls, the horror movie Taro, and voices Kamala on 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.600 the Disney animated series Mira Royal Detective and although she's 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.080 currently a student at Columbia University, so she's also really smart. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.920 Set to graduate in twenty twenty seven, she will star 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.680 in the upcoming Disney Plus series A Crown of Wishes 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:23.760 and a thriller theatrical release called Ballerina Overdrive with Matti Ziegler. Yes, 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.440 actually Columbia University. They only accepted one person who was 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.240 not very smart. It didn't work out. His name was 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.280 ryd Or Strong. Abe Dial plays Her father. Arvind Diel, 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.560 is an award winning Indian actor known for his work 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.880 in Hindi films like Manorama, Six Feet Under and a 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:44.120 massive Bollywood blockbuster called Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. And again, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.400 I apologize to everybody out there if I'm mispronouncing these words. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:53.520 Mira Syle is her grandmother. Asha Sile is an English comedian, writer, singer, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.440 journalist and actress. She does it all. My wife loves 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.120 British stuff, so I've seen her a thousand times after 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.240 her breakout as one of the creators of the BBC's 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.080 sketch comedy show Goodness Gracious Me and her role in 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.680 the movie The Kumars at number forty two. She's since 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.280 become one of the UK's best known Asian creators and 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.400 was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship, which is its highest accolade, 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.760 in twenty twenty three. The other pass employee of Disney 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:20.359 is arian Simhardri, who played Rohan. He's really worked at 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.440 the studio an awful lot. You might know him as 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.120 Grover Underwood and the Percy Jackson The Olympians TV show, 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.320 which is actually a great TV show. He also appeared 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.480 in the Disney Plus twenty twenty two remake of Cheaper 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.720 by the Dozen, another movie on the streamer called Trevor 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.040 the Musical, the twenty twenty Disney channel improvs Dotcom Just 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.679 roll with It, and he's also a voice on Mirror 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.000 Royal Detective. Yikes, this kid is a very good thing going. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.199 Just stay with it. Don't make Disney mad because you 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.960 are killing it now. I love the idea that Disney 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.600 was able to weave in some of the regulars but 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.520 also expose their audience to an entirely new film industry 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.919 with some Bollywood and Indian stars. The combination was seamless. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.920 I loved the way they did it, it was really great. 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:06.399 Spin is ninety four minutes? Oh so close, but just 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.480 ignore four minutes will be fine. We like ninety and 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:09.000 that's why. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.119 I know where it could have been cut. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.400 Do you really that? Okay, that's fine, It's yeah, it's 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.520 just it's four too much. It's just four too much. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.040 But it's so close, so we're sorry about that. This 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.240 movie is written by Josh Kagan, a writer whose career 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.600 has included some really impressive young adult projects, starting with 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.760 his first breakout hit, which we've talked about on this 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.040 podcast before, and I Got a little Bit for Bandslam, which, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.359 for Trivia Buffs was also David Bowie's last film. Kagan 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.800 also wrote the movie The Duff and would become a 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.679 Disney go to writing the Kim Possible live action movie 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.040 Upside Down, Magic and under Wraps too. And in just 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:43.680 a few months we are gonna be able to see 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.960 his newest entry into the dcom lexicon, Zombies four Don 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.679 of the Vampires. Maybe we've got to get Josh in 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.320 the podcast. But here's the thing. I I love how 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.440 we break up the movies that we do, but I'm 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.520 really having trouble not hopping forward and watching some of 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.159 the new descend and in some of the news zombies. 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:02.359 I want to get to these things. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:03.320 I know, I know. 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.160 So we got to get Josh on the podcast though, 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:09.639 because he's killing it. He also shares credit with Carly Steiner, 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.639 and it's something that we also see a lot. She 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.920 has no other writing credits, so maybe she was paired 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.080 up with an established writer for her idea. Who knows, 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:17.879