WEBVTT - Marcus Toji Meets World 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.560 I want to talk about the charity event. I missed 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.040 the charity event due to looking like I had a 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.480 flesh eating virus. You did, please tell me about it. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:28.360 What was it like? 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.160 First of all, we raised eighty thousand. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.519 Dollars, oh my gosh for charity. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:33.880 Which is great. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.400 And one of the trapper keepers, Matt's trapper keeper, went 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:37.680 for nine grand. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:39.720 Just because he. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.920 Included all his notes like on the game, like his 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.320 whole story notes and everything people, so I kind of 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.800 wanted to keep it nine grand. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.000 But yeah, yeah, So we had so much fun and 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.080 it was funny because one of the things we talked 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.760 about during the so we all, you know, we're playing 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.319 dagger Heart, which is critical roles like the game they 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.280 invented that they've been working on for years years, their 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.319 role playing game system, and Matt gmmed for us, Matt Mercer, 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:09.600 and we had so much fun. But one of the 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.800 things you get you're allowed to pick your different like 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.120 the things you have in your pockets, all the equipment 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:15.800 that you have with you. 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:20.640 And one of the things that I think was it Stacey. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.160 Did Stacy have a Youth in Film Award? Who had 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.280 the youth that was Ashley Johnson. Ashley had a Youth 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:27.000 in Film Award. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.280 No, it was that that wasn't her object, that was 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:30.480 her background experience. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.200 We were trying to think, like because we were trying 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:33.400 to think what skills do we have? 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:34.880 And it was like, well it should be linked to 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.720 something you've done, and your character is done in their life. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.480 So if you were come from a sailing family, you 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:41.800 would know how to tie knots and. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.080 You know that would be your experience. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.720 So like I picked up my guy. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.480 It was like good with card tricks and could do 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.960 like poker, and she's just like, I have a Youth 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.600 in Film Award and we're all like, what is that? Well, 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:57.040 actually that's okay, and we kept playing with it, and 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.240 how did she use it? She used it in the 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:00.040 game I think. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.640 Because she remember she turned into the guy. She she 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.360 was actually able to morph into another character. And her 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.280 experience as an actor when she won a Youth and 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:13.160 Film Award allowed her advantage on her role to today. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.240 Worked and she got like a critical role so that 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.240 he was like, okay, I guess you just convinced you know, 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.640 you as this fifteen year old girl just convinced the 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.760 security guards that you're the head of the studio. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:24.840 Oh my god. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:31.400 And it made me go through my stuff and find awards. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:32.600 You were nominated. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.000 My nomination for my Youth and Film Award, Yes for 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:41.280 outstanding contribution to the Entertainment industry recognition of acknowledging. My 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.160 nomination is outstanding Hope for a youth magazine, news or 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.519 Game show for totally Kids Sports in nineteen ninety two. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.600 Look at that. Thank you very much, SOE for philm Freedom. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.200 So you missed, you missed a fun night. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.119 One of the funnest times I've had in a long time. 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:57.560 It was really. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:58.920 Everybody got into it. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.639 It was surprising how much joy it brought me. It 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.880 was like I came home and I was like buzzing. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.000 I couldn't go to sleep, and I just wanted to 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.040 play again the next day. And then Christine Laken, who 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.000 had never played before, and Jodie Sweeten, who had never play. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.320 I started getting texts the next day like can you 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.560 do this again? Yeah, we should get a home we 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:19.040 have to. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:20.280 Now I'm so into it. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:21.600 I realized it. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.600 Like I was trying to explain it to Alex because 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.800 she's never done role playing, and you know, she's always 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:26.880 kind of been like what D and D. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:27.880 I don't quite get this. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.000 And you know, I think a lot of actors think 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.360 of it as like kind of a waste of time 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.440 or like a waste of their creative energy, you know, 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.520 because it's like, oh, I'm an actor. I pretend to 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.520 be people all the time. So the idea of like 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.720 doing that for fun, but this it specifically tapped into 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.640 playing on the playground with friends when you're a kid 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.880 and you're like just telling a story together and you're like. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.200 Now you're a pirate and now we're running over here. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.680 It brings that feeling back, which is a very specific 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.720 type of play, and I just couldn't get over. I 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.680 was like, I just want to do this again and again. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.640 It was really fun and really funny. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:05.480 Oh my god. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.720 I mean there was one like we're the best, the best, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.680 my favorite moment. At one point, Christine Laken as her 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.960 objects in her backpack or whatever she decided, and she 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.640 hadn't told us this, but in the middle of the game, 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.479 we needed to like sneak across an area and she 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.560 was like, guys, I have ten backwards baseball hats and 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.240 we could, and Jody Sweeten. 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:31.000 Just goes wouldn't those just be hats lost it and 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.320 we all just lost it for like. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.960 Two minutes of not of not being able to tre laughing. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.719 So I were like, yes, you would just have hats 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.719 and you put them on back. No, no, no, there's 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:45.719 there's no bills. You can't say this. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:50.480 It was. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.359 It was really really fun. And their system, their dagger 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.000 Heart system, it's very fast. You don't for anybody who 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.839 knows D and D. There's a lot more to D 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.960 and D meaning there's like you have to roll for initiative, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.680 you have to do it, and they kind of cut 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.839 through all that with dagger Heart, so you're just kind 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.000 of playing. It's a great system. It's really fun. Yeah, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.960 we had and Matt Mercer is just clearly the best. Yes, 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.839 he's the best game master I've ever seen anybody like 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.080 sEH because he's. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.360 So committed, he's so responsive, he never hesitates, he just goes, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.359 and he's so giving but also harsh. Like it was 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.280 hard at times. Yeah, I mean we didn't make our Yeah, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.880 Will didn't. I didn't make it his character sacrifice to 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.400 save us. I sacrificed myself or three of us also 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.799 got unconscious and new death at times. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.719 It was I went out in a blazing glory, Joey 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.920 Squawk Powers went out in a blazing glory and blaze 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:39.279 of glory. 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:39.800 He really did. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.719 Yeah, it also sounds like a blaze of gory. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:43.200 It was. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.200 It was glory glory. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.080 Yeah, we were battling aliens. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.840 Uh yeah, studio executives. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.120 I was sad to miss it. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.640 I did see one person comment in the live stream 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.840 I think Danielle tore her him string just to avoid. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.559 This, You're just trying to do first split. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.600 I'm like, no, I'm actually I'm really sad I missed it. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.479 It looked really fun and it was probably less painful 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.440 than the thing I was. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.719 I would say, it's going there, Welcome to vad meets World. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.600 I'm Danielle Offishal, I'm right or Strong, and I'm wil Fredell. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.200 The side quest of looking to talk to everyone who 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.680 appeared on a Boy Meets World episode has been an 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.960 arduous one. It's a difficult task, but we committed to 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.560 it years ago and were sticking to it. So this 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.479 week we are talking to a busy child actor who 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.520 made not one but two stops on our set that 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.800 without this podcast we would have never seen again, and 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.640 we'd be so bummed because he has quite a story 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.479 to tell. He was the definition of a character actor 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.560 even before he hit his teen years. When people think 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.000 of our industry, it often gets lost that actors can 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.880 make a living and pursue their art without ever needing 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.800 to be a leading man. And today we have an 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.680 example of someone who's been perfecting the drive by for 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.160 over thirty years and he has never had a pause 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.440 on his resume. He's been on TV shows like Family Matters, 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.160 Party of Five, The West Wing, Zoe, One oh One, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.560 thunder Alley, Patriot, and Workaholics. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.960 That's it, Yeah, I know right. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.320 And he's been in movies like Jingle All the Way, 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.760 Karna Corinna, Dear God, and Max Keeble's Big Move. But 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.920 you'll know him best from Little Giants, a Bad News 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.480 Bears inspired Pop Warner football movie from nineteen ninety one 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.400 where he was coached by Rick Moranis and surrounded by 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.800 other adorable young actors spending a few months putting on 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.440 the pads and making a movie together. And we were 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.760 lucky enough to have him in two season four episodes 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.200 Janitor Dad and Quiz Show, and Yes, in. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.280 Perfect Boy, Meets World fashion He played. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.680 Kid Number one and Einstein Kid two, completely different yet 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:03.240 unnamed character. Now we are thrilled to welcome to the 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:08.640 podcast to mark off another guest star. It's Marcus Toji. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.000 Hello, how are you. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.640 I'm good, Good to see you all. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:14.800 Nice to see you. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.360 Thank you so much for being here with us. You 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.440 are a two timer on Boy Meets World. Two episodes, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.960 two different characters, which Boy Meets World did often with 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.200 actors we loved, but yours is especially rare because you 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:36.160 did them in the same season. So I want to 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.240 talk to you about that. Where did What is your 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.480 origin story to Hollywood, because by the time you made 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.680 it to us on Boy Meets World, you were already 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:43.440 a seasoned VET. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.480 Yeah. I mean I started acting. I'm born and raised 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.760 in La. I'm sure a lot of people are, but 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.479 I started acting when I was like three, doing like commercials, 0:08:55.720 --> 0:09:01.360 oh wow. And and then you know, just doing you know, 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.480 guest spot co star stuff on lots of kids TV shows. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.800 Uh And then I mean I think was it the 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.840 the year before, I like, I just recently listened to 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:19.080 your podcast with Maddie and uh so he did the 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.320 Sandlot And then the year later they started casting for 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:28.120 Little Giants, which is a football movie, and but that 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.320 was what everyone was. You know, everyone's eyes were on 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.320 the sandlot because it was so good. Yeah, and so 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.800 we you know, auditioned for that, got it, and then 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.080 you know that's over, and then you go back to 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.800 the grind, you know, just auditioning, and then and then 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.280 I you know, I get onto Boy Meant's World, which 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.280 was like, I mean, there was season four. You guys 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.079 all knew what you were doing. You were you were 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.640 in the thick of it, and so you know, I'm 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.520 just coming on and I'm I'm a younger kid that 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:01.320 that that Sean is is picking on and uh yeah, 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.559 I mean it was. It was. It was a great 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.480 experience because we all knew the show. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:10.400 You know, so you started at three? What was it 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.599 about you? I'm assuming your parents. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.960 Who was it who said this kid has what it takes? Who? 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:18.680 And what was it about you they saw? 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.240 So the story is like a little a little fuzzy 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.240 on the details because I just hear it. 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.400 From my mom. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.120 So my oldest brother. I think it was one of 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:37.640 those like mall things like some person, yeah pictures. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.840 And my mom was like a cigar of course. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.040 Pictures kid, Hey, exactly do you mind if I take 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:44.560 your picture? 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:45.960 Yeah? 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.880 Now, yeah, you can't do that now. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.360 It used to happen to me at the park, real. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:57.760 Crazy your kids and you thing. Yeah so we uh 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.360 so he he didn't do anything. I have two older brothers. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.160 He he like, I think they took head shots and 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:04.480 he was like, this is dumb. I don't want to 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.000 do this. And then my middle brother, he actually went 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.360 on some auditions, did some commercials, but my mom always 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.400 had to like drag me along, uh to take him 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.120 to auditions anyways, and I always wanted to go in 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.240 the room because for commercials, like they take all the 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.080 kids in the room and they always come out. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.440 Laughing yeah you know, oh yeah, and so you know, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:26.720 I mean yeah. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.640 Yeah, yeah, depending on how depends on there, how how 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.240 much pressure your parents put on it and uh. And 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.760 so eventually they're like, yeah, bring him, you know, bring 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.520 him in. And then I had a great time, and 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.040 and then they were like okay, you know, my mom's 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.160 like sure, let's let's sign them up. And my agent, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.599 you know that agent, uh, sign me up. And and 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:49.640 then I've been doing it ever since. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.320 So you don't ever remember not acting exactly. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.160 Yeah, I mean did you ever take classes or like 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.599 get into acting as a craft or did it just 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:01.640 keep coming naturally? 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.679 No? No, I uh, I mean, you know, like being 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.440 a kid actor. I mean I feel like everyone you 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.560 all experience this is that your skill, your your like 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.800 natural talent as a kid only takes you to a 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:18.040 certain point. Yeah, exactly, and then you have to like go, oh, 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.280 I can't be the precocious, you know, six year old anymore. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.000 I need to be a little I need to deliver 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.640 the line a little bit better. Or now it's I 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.240 can't just do one line, I've got to do five 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.680 lines and then wait, you know, and then do the 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.440 next one. So yeah, so like constantly kind of taking 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.120 class throughout my life. And then I think it was 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.959 in like you take little classes here that you're as 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:42.640 a kid there you can't be in like. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:47.319 A four hour you know, uh workshop script works. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:48.320 Yeah. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.199 So uh yeah, so I took classes. I mean I 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.520 like school, like even just like elementary school or like 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.000 middle school, high school. I got more. That was the 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.679 time for me, whereas like, well do I want to 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.640 keep doing this or do I not? Because that's the 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.520 perfect time to go I'm out, and I wanted to 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.080 keep doing it, so I got more into you know, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.719 like theater in high school and then and then from 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:16.000 there I took classes like the well known classes in 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.880 LA and you know, I learned a lot from them. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.360 I'm actually like, I should probably go back because because 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:27.120 acting changes, like you know, just like what's funny right now, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.679 in five years is gonna be like well, you kind 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.559 of have to follow the trends of what's on TV 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.000 or you know, or film. Yeah. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.680 Well, growing up in Los Angeles at your school, were 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.840 you the only actor because we're we're you know, we're 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.600 not from around here where it's like born and raised 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.720 in Los Angeles. So did you have other child actors 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.440 that you were actually going to school with. I mean, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.000 your school must have been kind of used to the 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:50.840 idea of, oh, they have to leave for auditions. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.240 I think no one's like used to it, like like 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.680 like you know, teachers and stuff. But in California, like 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.680 Los Angeles, it is a legit reason to leave school. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:07.040 Like it's the same as like sick or breathement. And 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.320 so there was always like, oh, he's gonna be just 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:16.559 gone for a week for like for something Okay, let's 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:20.040 see elementary school. I mean, I'm sure there were people 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.640 that were, like there might have been kids who were actors, 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.840 like as like a hobby like where they did it 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.880 for maybe like a year and then quit. And then 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:33.000 like middle school, I don't think anyone. Uh, but at 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.360 that point, like I had done a few things. I'd argued. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.040 By the time I was in middle school, I already 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.320 done Boy Meets World and I had done some other things, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.520 so people kind of like recognize me, so they're like, oh, okay, 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.760 he's that he's that kid. But then that was the 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.120 first place I had like any kind of like theater stuff. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.880 So like the teacher she was also my English teacher, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.920 but she was also also the drama teacher, and uh, 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:59.200 I think she kind of was like seriously, like you're 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:05.200 going on, like you get to work right by uh. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:06.720 And then high school, I think there was quite a 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.400 few people who was like parents were like producers, right, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.200 and so none of the kids haired like I had 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.160 friends that did homeschool because they would get like bullied 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.320 in in their school, like, oh, kids would just give 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.360 them a hard time and stuff. And I mean I 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.600 was very lucky that it didn't happen because I wasn't special. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:31.400 You know, it wasn't like, oh he thinks he's hot, 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.600 but you know, it was like, yeah, well my dad, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.280 you know, produced blah blah blah. Or I think I 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.480 think a girl I knew his father directed a Break 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:41.680 into Electric Boogaloo. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.640 So great movie. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.760 God, that's when they danced to save the Youth Center. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.440 So great movie. Great movie. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.240 One of your first jobs was a guest spot on 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.040 a show called Drexel's Class Right. It was starring a 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.600 big name that Will worked with too. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.320 Dad Coleman. Yes, what do you remember from that job? 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.400 So that one. I think that was one of my 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.160 first jobs where I was there like the whole week. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.800 I was like, I was like looking at it, I 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.080 was like, I didn't need to be there the whole week. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:19.800 It's the Dabney Coleman is like he's a teacher at 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.920 this like inner city school, and for some reason he 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.800 has to go around being Santa Claus at like malls, 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.600 and so I'm like a kid that you know, like 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.640 comes to the mall like we take a picture, and 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.960 I'm like asking for all these things and he's like, yeah, yeah, whatever, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:35.200 just write it down and you know, and then he 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.080 moves on to the to the next kid. But I 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.200 remember it was it was kind of amazing. It was 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:45.200 that like it was the to be on a multiicam set, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.160 like you know, you guys, you guys lived it. But 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.040 it's like it's very strange for everybody else to be like, oh, 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.160 that's the school, and right on the other side of 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.560 this wall it's his apartment, you know, and right on 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.560 the other side of that wall is a restaurant, you know, 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:04.240 and and so it is kind of you know, you know, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.320 mind boggling to be like I'm gonna walk through one 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.800 door and just end up in a completely different space. 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.359 And then I think one kid had like he it 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.560 was it wasn't a musical, but like he does a 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.680 rap in the middle of this thing. So just watching 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.840 a kid who's not much older than me do something 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.720 like that in front of all these people was was 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.080 pretty cool. Wow. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.600 Yeah, but that was pretty inspiring. You were like, look 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:28.199 what he can do. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:29.400 Yeah, exactly. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.600 And then in nineteen ninety four you end up in 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.680 two huge movies. First is Karina Krina with Whoopi Goldberg 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:41.760 and Rayleiota. That is a big first movie were you. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.159 Nervous to try something outside of TV. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.680 Not nervous to get out of TV. It's like it 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.919 was an audition like any other. Yeah, you know, you 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:55.359 go into a office and you know this person, They're like, hi, okay, 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:55.919 let's do it. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:56.440 Mm hmm. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.880 It was it was a one liner, you know, and 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.200 and uh, it was supposed to be like my mom. Oh, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.439 the woman who plays my mom is supposed to be 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.520 interviewing for the job that will be Goldberg gets okay, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.320 and so but she's like I think she yeah, she's 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.760 she is Japanese because in the sixties, like there's plenty 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.359 of like Japanese school, but she only spoke Japanese and 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.320 so she's so Rayleiota is like interviewing her, and she's 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.920 I'm the translator and uh uh as as I as 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.879 I learned a lot of kids were for their you know, uh, 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:32.600 non English speaking parents. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:33.800 Uh uh. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.480 And you know, she says like, you know, I don't 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.080 do windows, and so I'm like, and no windows, and 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.720 I had to do like an accent and I do 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.560 not speak Japanese. Uh, and I don't have an accent, 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.920 and so it was kind of like, oh, okay, and 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:48.320 like it didn't have to be good, you know, it's 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:49.800 like one of those things like his kids like didn't 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.560 have to be good, just had to be good enough. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.840 But I did get to meet Rayleiota and he was 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.159 very nice, you know, like it's I guess might be 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:02.560 you would think that big celebrities like don't have time 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.760 for kids, but but in my experience, they were just 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.720 very nice. They're just cordial. They they they realize like 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.879 you aren't unless they learn very quickly that you're a 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.639 piece of boot where they're gonna be nice to. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.160 Yeah, yeah, that's good. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.560 I think big actors actually take more time to be 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.560 nice to kids sometimes than other big actors like the 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.720 you know, they're they're nice to the kids, and the 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:28.520 adults on the side did. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.679 Not always have really yeah, I never had a bad 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.040 I never had a problem with the adults. 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.400 I've talked about my Bert Reynolds time, and I hear 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.480 Burt Reynolds had a problem with basically everyone in the world. 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.760 It starts exactly yeah. 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:44.760