Speaker 1: Welcome to another park Hopper episode, and we are going
Speaker 1: back to something that again I got some ish for
Speaker 1: on the on the old Instagram and Internet machine because
Speaker 1: by and I will well, I'm gonna watch it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna watch it again because people did not love that.
Speaker 1: I did not absolutely love Brink. Uh, so I gotta
Speaker 1: go back and watch.
Speaker 2: But because you're wrong, that's also absolutely possible.
Speaker 3: You're wrong.
Speaker 4: I am wrong more often than I'm right. Just ask
Speaker 4: everyone in my life.
Speaker 5: But no.
Speaker 1: One of the people we got to talk to, though,
Speaker 1: which was so much fun, was Christina Vidal and interview.
Speaker 4: This couldn't have been nicer.
Speaker 1: She's running around with her family in the car at
Speaker 1: the time, which is like the coolest thing in the world. Yes,
Speaker 1: but there's one person that we got asked over and
Speaker 1: over and over again to get and so while we
Speaker 1: normally wouldn't do a second park Opper episode on on
Speaker 1: one movie, we had to because we have the opportunity
Speaker 1: today to talk to him.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: He played val for.
Speaker 6: The bad guy, the bad guy, the villain, the villain
Speaker 6: of Brink with the great with arguably some of the
Speaker 6: greatest hair, certainly some of the greatest skating, which we
Speaker 6: want to get into Yes, but we are very lucky
Speaker 6: today on our park Opper episode to be joined by
Speaker 6: the one and only Sam Horrigan.
Speaker 1: How are you guys?
Speaker 4: Welcome?
Speaker 5: Wow, how's it going?
Speaker 1: You have certainly one of the coolest zoom areas we've
Speaker 1: seen of anybody.
Speaker 5: I put a lot of effort into it. Things were
Speaker 5: moved around just for you, guys. That's how important this
Speaker 5: is for me.
Speaker 3: Looks so good.
Speaker 4: Well, welcome. We're so glad you.
Speaker 5: Could be here.
Speaker 1: We got asked over and over and over again to
Speaker 1: bring you on again.
Speaker 2: Everyone needed to get an interview everyone. The nostalgia would
Speaker 2: Brink is just epic. People were instantly you gotta do Brink,
Speaker 2: you gotta do Brink. So we did, and then it's
Speaker 2: you gotta get Sam.
Speaker 7: We need to talk tobou spoken They did, do you
Speaker 7: Now there's been with what Sabrino saying, there's been this
Speaker 7: enormous resurgence of Brink in the last few years.
Speaker 4: Have you felt this?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I get messages at like three am in the morning.
Speaker 5: Sometimes they'll play it late night and people will be
Speaker 5: reaching out to me like, oh, we just got back
Speaker 5: from the bar and we're all watching Brink and then
Speaker 5: people have actually who used to skate when the movie
Speaker 5: came out, they stopped, they became parents, and then now
Speaker 5: they're back skating again. Yes, that's like there is a
Speaker 5: crazy resurgence of just skating in general of rollerblading.
Speaker 4: Is there really? I didn't know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I would go as far as Sade Usher must have
Speaker 2: been a rollerblader back in his day, because he brought
Speaker 2: us to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5: I'm going to take a little bit of credit for
Speaker 5: the super Bowl halftime, so because I feel like I
Speaker 5: might have been a little bit of inspiration me and
Speaker 5: the rest of the coast just saying.
Speaker 2: I had to have been a Brink fan, had Tom
Speaker 2: There's just no way around it.
Speaker 5: If we do a Brink too, we'll have maybe it'll
Speaker 5: be a musical.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, probably would be for Disney, I can tell
Speaker 4: you that for sure.
Speaker 1: So do you remember we we'd love to kind of
Speaker 1: start with do you remember the first time you heard
Speaker 1: about Brink?
Speaker 4: Did you What was the audition process like where you
Speaker 4: offered the role? What happened?
Speaker 5: Okay, so the audition came through like any other audition,
Speaker 5: But the second I saw it, I just had to
Speaker 5: have it. So when I started acting was when I
Speaker 5: was about ten, and when I was ten, at about
Speaker 5: the exact same time, I started rollerblading too. Wow, when
Speaker 5: I wasn't acting, I was rollerblading, okay, to the point
Speaker 5: where when I did Grace under Fire, I was not
Speaker 5: contractually supposed to roller blade at all, and I ended
Speaker 5: up breaking my rib cage. Oh no, no, I had
Speaker 5: to play it off like I was fine. We got
Speaker 5: through the week. But it was a rough one.
Speaker 2: Oh my, so were you like in full of like
Speaker 2: bandage rib cage pulled together?
Speaker 5: It was nothing you can really do for your ribs.
Speaker 3: No, but you just have.
Speaker 5: To take short breaths because like I had splintered bone
Speaker 5: that my lungs were expanding against.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: That was probably thirteen and a half, maybe a couple
Speaker 5: of years before Brink.
Speaker 1: All right, well wait if we're talking a couple of
Speaker 1: years before Brink. So you did Boy Meets World before
Speaker 1: you did Brink.
Speaker 5: Right, Boy Meets World was my first like real acting job.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 5: You guys sent me off. You guys gave me the
Speaker 5: wind of my sales that I needed to continue forward.
Speaker 1: Do you know you were also inarguably the most famous,
Speaker 1: most popular, most important episode of Boy Meets World ever.
Speaker 5: That's true because that's the first episode the penga.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the first ever episode. Is you being again?
Speaker 1: Kind of you seem to be cast, especially when you're younger,
Speaker 1: as kind.
Speaker 4: Of the bully, jerk guy. Why where did that come from?
Speaker 1: Always was that kind of a thing, as you were
Speaker 1: always cast as the bad kid.
Speaker 3: You were good at it, I guess.
Speaker 5: I love it, yeah, because I feel so. I feel
Speaker 5: like the bad guys have all these different like dimensions
Speaker 5: to him, and it's so fun to play the bad guy. Yeah.
Speaker 5: When it comes to Val, I think that's the reason
Speaker 5: why people take to him so much is because he
Speaker 5: just loved being bad. Yeah. He just took so much
Speaker 5: to light in driving them crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh he was fearless and you were so confident. You
Speaker 3: were so confident. I think that part of your character
Speaker 3: was really appealing.
Speaker 2: Is because we talked about between you and Eric, it
Speaker 2: was kind of this. You know, you were either a
Speaker 2: Val or a brink like girl like as the girl fans, right.
Speaker 5: I think most people were Brits.
Speaker 2: They were either like they loved the bad guy or
Speaker 2: they liked the like squeaky clean brink. He hadn't had
Speaker 2: to choose, right, could like both of us?
Speaker 5: True, maybe they love to hate me sure later in life. Yes,
Speaker 5: I think there's some fans that now are like more
Speaker 5: on the side of X blades, But I kind of
Speaker 5: was was definitely the winner when it came to the
Speaker 5: like Bop magazine fan base.
Speaker 2: Yeah that I mean, in all honesty, your character did
Speaker 2: almost try to kill.
Speaker 5: Yes, almost almost tried tried to kill a girl on
Speaker 5: the Disney Channel, with no remorse whatsoever.
Speaker 2: At the end of the movie, even after it got
Speaker 2: like blown up, you were like, yeah, I did it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whatever, just rides off to come back again unexpectedly
Speaker 5: at any given time. Hasn't learned anything from the entire experience.
Speaker 5: That's so great.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the audition comes through like any other. We
Speaker 1: talked to Christina who said that she had to rollerblade
Speaker 1: for the audition.
Speaker 4: Did you have to rollerblade for the audition as well?
Speaker 5: So the first audition, so there were multiple auditions. Obviously
Speaker 5: they paired us up. They tried to figure out if
Speaker 5: it would work. But the first audition just going in
Speaker 5: was was no skating required. But I came in with
Speaker 5: my skating double bag. So I had my skates that
Speaker 5: were obviously used. They were all like busted up roller
Speaker 5: blades that I would skate and have to like I'd
Speaker 5: break off the wheels or the bearings would break and
Speaker 5: I'd have to like engineer him back together. So I
Speaker 5: showed him. I was like, I can do that, real skater.
Speaker 5: I could. I could do the acting and I can
Speaker 5: skate too, Like, you guys have gotta hire me for this.
Speaker 4: You gotta give me this, you gotta give you this.
Speaker 5: But still I wasn't really sure what was going to happen, right,
Speaker 5: And so when it came to matching up, I walk
Speaker 5: in and Eric vont Detten's in there, and I had
Speaker 5: already done a movie opposite Eric, Escape Twitch Mountain. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I knew that we played well. Isn't he the bad
Speaker 5: guy in him as the rob? And so when I
Speaker 5: saw him, I was like, let's do this, baby.
Speaker 4: Oh man?
Speaker 1: So okay, So did they pair you up the first
Speaker 1: day you were there or was it just single stuff
Speaker 1: the first day?
Speaker 5: No, first day it was just straight normal read with
Speaker 5: the casting director. And then I think this, I think
Speaker 5: it was the second audition was the one where they
Speaker 5: brought in Eric and then we did a table read after.
Speaker 5: It's amazing. I mean, the fan base in the movie.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's enough credit that goes to how
Speaker 5: well it was cast and how amazing the crew was,
Speaker 5: and how awesome the locations were beautiful. I mean it's
Speaker 5: like Miami Vice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really was.
Speaker 1: It was great, even the the graffiti and everything, the
Speaker 1: just how bright the skate parks were, then the ocean
Speaker 1: behind it, just everything pops on screen.
Speaker 4: Was that now?
Speaker 1: Christina said she never got a chance to shoot in Washington.
Speaker 1: Did you go to Washington?
Speaker 5: We went to Washington?
Speaker 1: Apparently some of it says some of it. If you
Speaker 1: look on the internet machine, it says some of it
Speaker 1: was shot in Washington, Washington State.
Speaker 5: It's wild. I wonder what that was.
Speaker 4: I wonder if there was any It was maybe b.
Speaker 5: Rolls straight along the shore, every beach you can think of,
Speaker 5: and most of those skate parks were built from scratch
Speaker 5: for the movie. Yes, oh yeah, yeah. So like the
Speaker 5: pit remember in the open end like scene where like
Speaker 5: x Blades comes in. Ye, there was a real there
Speaker 5: was the real Venice Beach pit from the movie. What
Speaker 5: was it Oh, it's with Roland Brashing. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 5: It is It is such a good movie.
Speaker 4: Yes, the rations like air was even before Airborne, wasn't it.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, okay, genre type of film, yeah, yes. And
Speaker 5: so there's they had the real pit, which is like
Speaker 5: a spot where everybody could graffiti, but ours they actually
Speaker 5: built from scratch and just made it amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you guys get a lot of time to just
Speaker 2: kind of play around in there during filming?
Speaker 5: Are you somebody one of the actors would get injured, right,
Speaker 5: So they would tell us like, you need to wear
Speaker 5: all of your pads. You need to wear helmet and
Speaker 5: elbow pads, riskards, all that stuff, and don't skate unless
Speaker 5: you have to, okay, And so we would get a
Speaker 5: little bit in like here and there, and then because
Speaker 5: I could skate, they would allow me to, Like if
Speaker 5: I had a trick that I thought that I could,
Speaker 5: you know, pull off, they would allow me to do it,
Speaker 5: and they'd shoot that, and then they would go to
Speaker 5: the stunt double and they would say, Okay, now you
Speaker 5: do that, and he'd be like, I don't do that trick.
Speaker 5: That's not the way that it works. Like everybody skates differently. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So one of the things we loved about the movie
Speaker 1: was the fact that you couldn't They shot it in
Speaker 1: such a way where there's a lot of times you
Speaker 1: could not tell the difference between the stunt double and
Speaker 1: the people that were.
Speaker 4: Right the actors.
Speaker 3: It was unreal.
Speaker 2: It looked like, look you guys, I mean, well, I
Speaker 2: know that you did quite a bit of it because
Speaker 2: you were at a professional.
Speaker 3: Skater level at what fifteen is when you kind of
Speaker 3: when you.
Speaker 4: Were you a pro skater or close to it.
Speaker 5: I technically I was pro, I guess because of the movie,
Speaker 5: Like that's where the pro title kind of came from.
Speaker 3: Okay, and you were doing a lot of your own skating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do most of the stuff. Yeah, did you really?
Speaker 5: There was I did a lot of Like my thing
Speaker 5: was street skating, and so the street skate, like the downhill,
Speaker 5: that's me.
Speaker 3: You're doing the downhill.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, you're kidding me. You are going down that downhill,
Speaker 3: it's you.
Speaker 5: It was crazy. So the first time we go to
Speaker 5: the actual downhill area is the scene where we're up
Speaker 5: by the Victory bell and or Korean bell. I can't
Speaker 5: remember the exact name, but that amazing area. And so
Speaker 5: I go to Brink right and I tell him there's
Speaker 5: a turn just before Kenner stand the outside, and then
Speaker 5: I skate off kind of backwards, just kind of like
Speaker 5: giving this like evil look, right, and then I make
Speaker 5: this cut, this like abrupt cut, and then and then
Speaker 5: the camera you know, changes to close up of Frodi Gabriella.
Speaker 5: So that cut that I made was because I had
Speaker 5: not gone down that hill yet and it was terrifying.
Speaker 5: It just drops off. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: It definitely looks that way.
Speaker 5: But after that I did Jake Elliot, one of the
Speaker 5: stunt doubles, was like, let's do this, and so I
Speaker 5: went down with him, and then after that I did
Speaker 5: all the other takes and it was invigorating.
Speaker 3: That is awesome.
Speaker 1: Did you know a lot of the stunt guys from
Speaker 1: just your regular skating life?
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean I was like geeking
Speaker 5: out on the pros that we had on there because
Speaker 5: these were the guys that I idolized as as a skater,
Speaker 5: and and so I had grown up with all of them,
Speaker 5: and so when Airborne came out, that was when I
Speaker 5: started skating like that is that was the start of
Speaker 5: all of us, like me and my group skating. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then Brink was like the second movie that they
Speaker 5: got to be a part of, which was Yes, it
Speaker 5: was so cool. I had so much fun and I
Speaker 5: actually got so much better as a skater shooting the
Speaker 5: movie and spending the time with the pros.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh, I guess that makes sense because they're showing you.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like you're trying, You're doing their tricks,
Speaker 1: they're doing your tricks, all that kind of stuff, Right.
Speaker 5: You see what's possible. Yeah. Once you see somebody else
Speaker 5: do the trick that you thought was impossible, all of
Speaker 5: a sudden you realize that maybe it's possible for you too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then that's why like backflip and motocross impossible. Nobody
Speaker 5: can do it. One person does it, and then like
Speaker 5: by the next year, there's like fifty people that could
Speaker 5: do the trick already. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you talked about fracturing your ribs while you were
Speaker 1: doing Grace Underfire?
Speaker 4: Is that what it was?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So Christina told us that she actually got hurt while filming.
Speaker 1: She slammed her tailbone.
Speaker 3: Down when she was dropping in when she was doing.
Speaker 5: A dropping definitely happened. Yeah, did you get hurt?
Speaker 4: It all while well filming the movie.
Speaker 5: So the pink ramp in the in the semi final yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: where Brin comes in with his shades on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you didn't recognize him because he got the
Speaker 1: shed look.
Speaker 5: But it come with some skating attached. So that pink ramp.
Speaker 5: It was metal, and I was not used to skating
Speaker 5: on metal ramp. And then the fact that it was
Speaker 5: painted it like the wheels stuck to it. So when
Speaker 5: I first the day before, I came to just kind
Speaker 5: of test out the ramp, and I couldn't do huge
Speaker 5: tricks on half pipes. We had a half pipe that
Speaker 5: was in like the closest big city that I would
Speaker 5: get to like here and there, so I could I
Speaker 5: could drop in, I could do some jumps, I could
Speaker 5: do a little bit of grinding. But I wasn't the
Speaker 5: guy doing all the flips in the movie. And so
Speaker 5: I went to see how much air I could get,
Speaker 5: and as I went to jump up, I actually jumped
Speaker 5: out straight down. But luckily, I mean, if you skate,
Speaker 5: you it's like if you were a w W wrestler
Speaker 5: like you, you have to know how to fall, so
Speaker 5: luckily no brakes or anything like that. I did sunburn
Speaker 5: my eyes because I was like Casper, the friendly ghost
Speaker 5: in the movie, and we shot outside in the sun
Speaker 5: every day. I guess the biggest injury I had.
Speaker 4: You burned your eyes?
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, they were putting like like I dropped in
Speaker 5: them all the time. They were like.
Speaker 3: Super I've never heard of that. I never heard of that.
Speaker 5: What's amazing is the fact that we shot the entire
Speaker 5: movie outside and I never got any color whatsoever. And
Speaker 5: then Eric like phenomenal, Tan, don't.
Speaker 4: You love people like that? It's just like, how are
Speaker 4: you constantly Tan?
Speaker 1: One of the questions we get asked a lot is
Speaker 1: the worm sandwich?
Speaker 2: Okay, I was just gonna oh, yes, I almost puked.
Speaker 2: I literally almost puked watching that again. I don't remember
Speaker 2: it being so realistic and disgusting. What was that like?
Speaker 5: Well, because puke?
Speaker 3: If I had to act that out as a.
Speaker 5: As a fifteen year old kid shooting a movie and
Speaker 5: seeing that in the script, I will honestly tell you
Speaker 5: I was a little concerned with whether or not I
Speaker 5: was actually going to be getting real worms. Yeah, you
Speaker 5: never know, Like, how big is the budget? On this stuff.
Speaker 4: Just give them worms, He'll be fine.
Speaker 5: So we used uh, they were like fishing worms. So
Speaker 5: they were like these giant rubbery kind of like rubber
Speaker 5: band type of things. And but that shot in the
Speaker 5: film is one continuous shot. It's incredible where there's real
Speaker 5: worms on the sandwich, Gabrielle picks it up, walks around,
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden it's swapped out with the
Speaker 5: other one, same continuous shot. So cool.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, that is cool.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank god that they swapped it out in time,
Speaker 1: because you could have that could have been a really
Speaker 1: bad day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it would have been an entirely different film.
Speaker 4: Oh that's so funny. The other thing we get asked
Speaker 4: about quite a bit.
Speaker 1: That's something we have to address because I had this
Speaker 1: in the nineties as well.
Speaker 4: Phenomenal hair in this movie.
Speaker 5: Just the hair.
Speaker 1: Top was your hair hair routine to keep the middle
Speaker 1: part bad guy haircut alive.
Speaker 5: So my hair was much longer when I got the job.
Speaker 5: I may actually cut it shorter.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: For the movie. I was like a skater rocker kid.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, they were trying to like cast me
Speaker 5: for like rock star movies and stuff like that. At
Speaker 5: that time.
Speaker 4: So it was like, really, it was just it was
Speaker 4: my hair.
Speaker 5: It was just I didn't do anything to it at all.
Speaker 5: Just I always wore a backwards hat. That's just that
Speaker 5: was my look.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh, I love that so much.
Speaker 5: One thing that I would And I bring this up
Speaker 5: because this is a claim the fame of my life
Speaker 5: that took place in the movie that is probably completely
Speaker 5: unnoticeable to anyone else but me.
Speaker 4: These are the best.
Speaker 5: So after Brink organizes, me and the rest of my
Speaker 5: team getting beaten up by the adults, weird, weird, And
Speaker 5: then the first day a school, I come back and
Speaker 5: I take Gabrielle's shoes and tuck them over there. I
Speaker 5: lobbed those shoes up and get them on the wire.
Speaker 5: I actually threw those on that wire.
Speaker 4: Did you really?
Speaker 5: Yes? Yeh.
Speaker 4: Take.
Speaker 5: So this is the thing they like. Before we showed
Speaker 5: up on set, the crew was there with the director
Speaker 5: and everybody. They were trying to get an actual shot
Speaker 5: of the shoes flying from ground level up there, and
Speaker 5: they just weren't going to show the actual person who
Speaker 5: threw them. And they kept trying, and they kept trying,
Speaker 5: and everybody was all the grips were coming up to
Speaker 5: be like, I can do it, you know I can
Speaker 5: do that. Nobody could get it. So what they do
Speaker 5: is they put a crew member up on a crane
Speaker 5: and he had a pair of shoes and they had
Speaker 5: the camera shot go down. And so they come up
Speaker 5: to me and they're like, listen, it's impossible, like nobody,
Speaker 5: nobody can get that up there. Just throw it up
Speaker 5: as high as you can and then he's gonna drop
Speaker 5: the shoes into the shot on the wire.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: And so I just take the shoes and I lobb
Speaker 5: it up there and it hits. And it took everything
Speaker 5: in me not to just or even like it was
Speaker 5: someone who cuts out of the super Bowl.
Speaker 4: That's I gotta go back and watch that seat together.
Speaker 1: If here ain't those things, And it's like, now I
Speaker 1: got to go back and now I just have to
Speaker 1: watch your face to see like that.
Speaker 4: I think that's so funny. When is the when's the
Speaker 4: last time you watched the movie?
Speaker 5: Oh? Man? Really say last year? I watched it? Okay,
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it brings back so many good memories. I mean,
Speaker 5: I had it was it was crazy, like I am
Speaker 5: so thankful to be a part of this movie. If
Speaker 5: I was not an actor in it, I would be
Speaker 5: just as much of a huge fan of it. And
Speaker 5: I do feel like the characters were so awesome, The
Speaker 5: storyline was so awesome, the directing and the locations were
Speaker 5: so cool that if they would have put another actor
Speaker 5: playing Vow, it would have been awesome. The fact that
Speaker 5: I got the opportunity to be val is just it's
Speaker 5: so cool.
Speaker 1: Oh oh man, I have to go back and watch again.
Speaker 1: I know people got mad at me because I'd never
Speaker 1: seen it before. Wait, I had that wasn't little because
Speaker 1: I was a little older, So I like, you know,
Speaker 1: by the time Brink came out, I was like twenty,
Speaker 1: so I wasn't watching dcon and so I watched it.
Speaker 1: I watched it twice and I came in and I
Speaker 1: was like, here are my criticisms. And people went nuts.
Speaker 1: They're like, don't criticize Brink.
Speaker 5: I'm darious.
Speaker 4: They did not like it. I'm like, I'll watch again.
Speaker 4: I'll watch again. Oh it was so funny.
Speaker 2: Oh man, You've got some loyal fans out there. They
Speaker 2: also really loved you in talking about little Giants.
Speaker 5: Most people do not put two and two together. Really,
Speaker 5: that bow is also Spike.
Speaker 4: How do they not really, they don't.
Speaker 5: Like people's mind get blown when they figure out that
Speaker 5: that I'm I'm one and the same actor. Now what's
Speaker 5: wild is Joey Simmeren, who is Worm according to Gabriella
Speaker 5: on X Blades, is also on The Cowboys and Little Giants. Oh,
Speaker 5: he's also my like's secondhand.
Speaker 4: Like, fine, it's such a sinner.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: Which film did you have more fun doing? I know
Speaker 1: it's tough, but I mean your rollerblading, So I figure because.
Speaker 5: That's here, I would say that because of the overlap
Speaker 5: with the skating brink.
Speaker 3: Yeah, two of your loves combinding.
Speaker 5: Every acting job I've ever done was a dream come true.
Speaker 5: Boy meets world dream come true. But Brink has this
Speaker 5: like special place in my art.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can see that bow is still.
Speaker 5: In my being. Yes, I did a cameo last week,
Speaker 5: and they asked me to just like kind of pull
Speaker 5: upon val because this was a cameo someone was purchasing
Speaker 5: for a friend who purchased them a cameo from brink
Speaker 5: eron and so I came in like with full roast
Speaker 5: level one hundred. Oh. Very offended by the fact that
Speaker 5: Brink was called upon for the first cameo, so I
Speaker 5: made my presence known as well. That awesome.
Speaker 1: So all of the kind of jerk characters you've played,
Speaker 1: where does Val rank?
Speaker 4: Top five?
Speaker 5: Vowel m hm. I mean, so I've played a guy
Speaker 5: that In One Tree Hill, we kidnapped the two main
Speaker 5: characters who we were from a rival school, and they
Speaker 5: beat us. So we kidnapped them, stripped them down to
Speaker 5: their boxers, and then left them in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 5: So that was pretty rough. Yeah, Spike definitely had serious,
Speaker 5: serious like our Yeah, he could be very bad. He
Speaker 5: would probably be ranked up there with like a young
Speaker 5: Mike Tyson maybe oh okay, wow and uh, but Val
Speaker 5: would be the topper. Yeah. He almost killed the girl
Speaker 5: on the Disney Channel, no remorse whatsoever. Now in his defense,
Speaker 5: in VAL's defense, I would say that Brink was really
Speaker 5: instigating a lot of that.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, if you watch Karate Kid again, it's
Speaker 1: actually Daniel's fault.
Speaker 2: I keep thinking the same thing I keep thinking about
Speaker 2: because it was the same that kid had no remorse either,
Speaker 2: got his leg.
Speaker 5: Off and not kidding me, he called upon a bunch
Speaker 5: of adults to beat us up because we took over
Speaker 5: the skating area. He sent me a bunch of worms
Speaker 5: that obviously could have killed me. That could have been fatal.
Speaker 5: Nobody knows, you know.
Speaker 1: In all fairness, when you when you first rolled into
Speaker 1: the skate park, the first thing you did was knock
Speaker 1: him down.
Speaker 5: That's true. Well, I distracted him a little in a way,
Speaker 5: you know, a comedic like nobody messing with your friends.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm glad you're here. Here's the page.
Speaker 5: We were friends, but apparently we weren't. Now.
Speaker 1: Could you ever see because because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day you got the same passions.
Speaker 4: Could you see a world where Val and Gabriella end
Speaker 4: up together?
Speaker 3: There's no chance?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 5: I mean that was very charming.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that would be that would result in a
Speaker 2: really really bad reality.
Speaker 5: Storyline.
Speaker 1: Or would Gabriel eventually say, hey, Brink, you're a nice guy.
Speaker 1: Soul skating is making you no money, whereas is now
Speaker 1: the captain of X Blades and making several thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year doing what I love.
Speaker 4: It's really nice to see you, Bronc. It's Brank. Whatever
Speaker 4: do you I mean? I see a possibility of that happening?
Speaker 5: Come on? I always like to think about like where
Speaker 5: everybody would be. Now, I was just gonna they stayed
Speaker 5: upon the same course in life, and I don't know
Speaker 5: where the soul Skaters would be. I would worry about them.
Speaker 5: They would be struggling.
Speaker 4: Where's val val Will probably.
Speaker 5: Would have avenged himself against Jimmy. Yeah, he probably would
Speaker 5: have found a way to eat, to take over Team
Speaker 5: X Blades, or to create another company that would destroy
Speaker 5: Team X Blades. And then I think that he would
Speaker 5: probably make sure that he got the final word and
Speaker 5: the last laugh with the soul Skaters law.
Speaker 3: I think so che sinister dun dund dum.
Speaker 1: All Right, what was because I know we're gonna we
Speaker 1: could talk Brink all day, because I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Brink all day. But you got to work with
Speaker 1: some pretty incredible people throughout your career, and there's one
Speaker 1: specifically who is just a legend that I want to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about.
Speaker 4: What was it like Working with Rick moranis awesome?
Speaker 5: That was another one where totally starstruck. Honey, I shrunk
Speaker 5: the kids. I mean, like like Blockbuster, one of the
Speaker 5: coolest movies ever. You know, working with him was phenomenal.
Speaker 5: I didn't have a whole lot of scenes directly with him.
Speaker 5: We were in the scene together, right, but when the
Speaker 5: time that I did spend he was obviously like a
Speaker 5: guy who wore his heart on his sleeve. Awesome. He
Speaker 5: was going through so much while we were shooting that movie,
Speaker 5: which many of us knew, right, and the fact that
Speaker 5: he could even continue through and finish the movie was amazing.
Speaker 5: And the way that he stepped out of Hollywood to
Speaker 5: step up as the father of his house after everything
Speaker 5: that happened is extremely commendable and hopefully I would love
Speaker 5: to see him back of me the best.
Speaker 4: That's what I say.
Speaker 1: It's like, did you did he ever feel like he
Speaker 1: was a coach? Like you kind of looked up to him?
Speaker 5: Or well, I mean no, because I was on the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: So you know, I was just wondering if he's still
Speaker 4: just because he's there.
Speaker 5: You know, Ed O'Neill was my coach.
Speaker 1: Ed O'Neill would always feel like a coach, would never
Speaker 1: it never felt.
Speaker 5: Right when I was on The Little Giants?
Speaker 4: What did Evil? What was that O'Neill like?
Speaker 1: Because that O'Neil was is a classically trained yes stage
Speaker 1: actor who then has the people are like Oh no.
Speaker 4: He started on Marriti Children like No. I remember seeing
Speaker 4: he was at the Hartford stage.
Speaker 5: Watch him on Miami Vice.
Speaker 4: Oh really, have you ever seen No.
Speaker 5: What Miami Weis? Episode? Now you will have a newfound
Speaker 5: higher respect for him as an actor. He is incredible
Speaker 5: in that he ends up getting killed in it. It's crazy.
Speaker 5: He's like an undercover agent that gets caught up in
Speaker 5: it all and lost in it and then I can't
Speaker 5: wait to see this one back out and then he
Speaker 5: ends up dying at the end. Wow, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's one of those actors where people he was like
Speaker 1: a Leslie Nielsen, where people know him as being funny,
Speaker 1: and then you go back and go like.
Speaker 4: No, this was a classically trained actor. I mean these
Speaker 4: are stage actors.
Speaker 5: That he could have gone any which way.
Speaker 4: That's what made them so good, and he was He
Speaker 4: would have.
Speaker 5: Been successful whichever direction they went, absolutely and he was.
Speaker 5: He was great. I mean again, not a whole lot.
Speaker 5: I mean we did our scenes together, which was phenomenal, awesome,
Speaker 5: but then there were times where we actually got to
Speaker 5: kind of like chit chat and that was the best. Wow.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Brink two, so you get the script for
Speaker 1: Brink two tomorrow.
Speaker 4: What is the ideal script for you? What is Brink two?
Speaker 4: Pitch us? Brink took too?
Speaker 5: Yes, I would imagine that. Obviously, now everybody's older, there's
Speaker 5: probably a resurgence in skating and that's where their past
Speaker 5: cross once again.
Speaker 4: Oh do you think it'd be their kids going at it?
Speaker 5: Or would they?
Speaker 4: And they're like the head of the team.
Speaker 3: Can you still rollerblade? Do you still rollerblade?
Speaker 5: I can do you. I don't fall like I used to,
Speaker 5: None of us do. So I this middle finger left hand.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The last time I was skating, well like aggressive skating
Speaker 5: was about two years ago, and I was at a
Speaker 5: skate park and I was just kind of like getting
Speaker 5: back into it and getting my like you know, sea.
Speaker 4: Legs, your sea legs back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And so there was a ledge that I was going
Speaker 5: to grind and it was a curved one, which is
Speaker 5: you know, we didn't have a lot of those back
Speaker 5: in the day, And so I was going out a
Speaker 5: little bit and then finally I was like, okay, I'm
Speaker 5: going to like hit it one more time, go for
Speaker 5: this completely commit. I'm like I'm probably gonna get hurt,
Speaker 5: but that's not a big deal, like you have to
Speaker 5: accept that before you start skating. But I gauge shit
Speaker 5: a little wrong. Instantly new that I broke the finger,
Speaker 5: which was fine, but me and my overconfident old school
Speaker 5: skating self, I just put a splint on it and
Speaker 5: didn't even go to the doctor. And it's the joint together,
Speaker 5: so I needed to get a surgery so that I
Speaker 5: could move it again. Oh yeah, So that's probably my
Speaker 5: worst injury, which was like from doing the simplest thing.
Speaker 4: Ever, that's always the way it works.
Speaker 5: I never felt more like a soul skater.
Speaker 4: You hurt yourself for freak like the soul skaters.
Speaker 5: Did I know how Gabrielle and the rivalry continues, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You're you're reaping what you sew for somebody going in
Speaker 1: like I'll take him out and just putting something on
Speaker 1: the on the grinding thing.
Speaker 5: Is it a rail that somebody could have? Maybe it
Speaker 5: was brink. I didn't even think about that, is it?
Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't see it?
Speaker 5: Eric out of nowhere, Gabriella is hiding behind a tree,
Speaker 5: throws some rocks out there. Just taking me.
Speaker 4: Out got you back? Speaking of which, do you talk
Speaker 4: to anybody from the film anymore.
Speaker 5: Periodically, I'll talk to so man. It was it was
Speaker 5: such a bummer because Eric invited me to his fortieth
Speaker 5: birthday party. Oh man, I was so excited to go,
Speaker 5: and but then I got a East coast event that
Speaker 5: that conflicted and so I uh, and then we did
Speaker 5: we did like a kind of like a reunion type
Speaker 5: of thing, just through like a video call. But that's
Speaker 5: that's it so far.
Speaker 1: Oh my, everything is coming back and Brink is one
Speaker 1: of those things.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you're aware of this, but they
Speaker 4: did a we talked about this.
Speaker 1: In the in the pod when we were rewatching it
Speaker 1: for the first time. They did a list of where
Speaker 1: people rank these movies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Brink was number one.
Speaker 3: This was not that long ago.
Speaker 4: This was not a small publication.
Speaker 1: It was like they ranked all of the dcoms of
Speaker 1: all time and Brink was number one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely it's it's got a cult following and
Speaker 5: it's one of those movies that if you're if you
Speaker 5: don't know, like it, like it always feels good to
Speaker 5: watch it. Yeah for me, like like those so my
Speaker 5: my like number one all time favorite movie. Back to
Speaker 5: the Future first.
Speaker 4: One great movie perfect movie.
Speaker 5: Any day I can put that on. I'm gonna love it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna enjoy it. Know all the lines, I know
Speaker 5: exactly what's gonna happen when it happens, and and every
Speaker 5: time it's phenomenal. Yeah, and Brink is similar to that.
Speaker 5: It reminds us of this, like this time in film,
Speaker 5: like the nineties classic film, and just the style of it,
Speaker 5: and the characters and the good guys are super good
Speaker 5: and the bad guys are super bad, and and you know, somehow,
Speaker 5: somehow the good guy's gonna win, somehow, the bad guy's
Speaker 5: gonna he's gonna learn a lesson, not with Val, but
Speaker 5: no learning that Val.
Speaker 3: But the skating is so good too, you know.
Speaker 2: And I think for the young generation of that time,
Speaker 2: it's awesome to look back and go, man, I just
Speaker 2: remember thinking, you know.
Speaker 3: Foul was so cool, he was so good. And same
Speaker 3: with Brink, like just you got again.
Speaker 2: The way they were able to edit to where it
Speaker 2: literally looks like the entire cast that's rollerblading is doing
Speaker 2: it the whole time. It does not look obvious. We've
Speaker 2: watched other movies where it is obvious.
Speaker 5: There was no CGI back then. We didn't have any of.
Speaker 3: That, and it makes a difference in the movie. Is
Speaker 3: it's wholesome.
Speaker 2: It's got such a great you know, a great message,
Speaker 2: and you know, beyond that.
Speaker 3: It's like, it's got great hair. And that's what the
Speaker 3: girls want. They wanted a lot of hair and the
Speaker 3: hair with.
Speaker 4: A lot of hair and a lot of cute boys.
Speaker 4: That's what they got.
Speaker 5: That could be us the plot line too, you know,
Speaker 5: but we have competing hair salons.
Speaker 1: They've done that. I think, what are you doing now?
Speaker 1: And where can people find you?
Speaker 5: Me? Well, I do a lot of charity type of
Speaker 5: work with a church and teach kindergartener's Sunday school. Wow,
Speaker 5: the Pokemon pictures.
Speaker 1: And sorry, well from Brink is a Sunday school teacher.
Speaker 4: Right, that might be the best thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5: Love that every single person's redeemable. Apparently that would.
Speaker 3: Have to be in the second Brink movie. That would
Speaker 3: have to be part that all.
Speaker 1: From Brink is a Sunday school teacher. How do we
Speaker 1: not leave it there? Thank you so much for joining us,
Speaker 1: and uh hopefully you'll be back for Brink two. This
Speaker 1: time it's personal.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 5: Thanks you guys, Thank you. I have a great day too.
Speaker 1: I love meeting people that are we talk about this
Speaker 1: on Podmet's World because we all had so much fun
Speaker 1: doing the show. I love meeting people that did something
Speaker 1: that mattered to other people, but it so mattered to
Speaker 1: them too, having so much fun doing it, and they
Speaker 1: love talking about it and being involved in it. And
Speaker 1: so when you see his face light up when he's
Speaker 1: talking about Brink, yes, that was really cool.
Speaker 2: And to know, I mean again, it meant so much
Speaker 2: to him because I remember that with the Cheetah Girls
Speaker 2: and things that you get to collaborate multiple loves like
Speaker 2: his love for rollerblading and the sport, and then he
Speaker 2: gets to do that in a role acting like you know,
Speaker 2: he went to that audition.
Speaker 3: I mean, he brought his whole uffle bag.
Speaker 2: He was like, no, you can hire somebody who can't skape,
Speaker 2: but you could hire me and I can.
Speaker 3: Like tear it up out there. I am like the
Speaker 3: legit real thing, like I there's no one better for
Speaker 3: this job than.
Speaker 2: Me, and I love that. And kid actors are so
Speaker 2: fearless like that. You know, child actors, you go in,
Speaker 2: you don't you don't worry about boasting or you know,
Speaker 2: you you want to convince them why you are the
Speaker 2: best for the job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just throw down. Love that. Thank you for
Speaker 4: joining us.
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Speaker 1: pretty great anyway, this next time. Thank you everybody, and
Speaker 1: thanks to Sam for stopping bye because that was really
Speaker 1: really cool and we will see you next time.
Speaker 4: Bye bye.