1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to another fabulous episode of The Buck 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. Very special guest in this episode, Matthew Marsden 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: is with us. Now he is a British actor. Now, 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,079 Speaker 1: some of you will recognize his voice, those of you 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: who are watching us on YouTube, which you should subscribe 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: to or rumble rubbin dot com slashbuck Sexton YouTube dot 7 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: com slashbuck Sex and check him out. You'll see his face. 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: You'd be like, wait a second, I know that guy 9 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: because you've seen him in Ridley Scott's Blackhawk Down, Transformers, 10 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: Revenge of the Fallen Rambo, just Rambo because it was 11 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: one of the ones. It was the one that came 12 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: after the Roman Numeral Ones, Resident Evil Extinction, Bounty Killer, 13 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: and the film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged. Matthew, great to 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: have you on, sir, Thanks for joining, Thank you for 15 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: having me. All right, I saw I want to start 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: with some of the Hollywood stuff. We're also going to 17 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: talk about life as a as a Texan now for 18 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: you British born but now Texan through and through, you 19 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: went through getting canceled back in twenty ten, he tell 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: us about that, and then America today. So we got 21 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: a lot of ground to cover, but I gotta start 22 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: with this. Of the movies that you were in, and 23 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: you've got some great ones here, which one was the 24 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: most fun to actually be a part of. I mean, 25 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: I think, look, Blackhawk Down is for a lot of 26 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 1: my friends from the special operations community, the best military 27 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: special operations movie ever made. A lot of them would 28 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: say it's the most realistic and the best. So I 29 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: think we can sort up in Blackhakdowns an amazing movie 30 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: a lot. I might even put it in my top ten. 31 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: But in terms of fun movies to do, was it 32 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: Blackhawkdown or was it you know, the rather and evil 33 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: stuff was fun? Yeah, I mean I think it's really 34 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: difficult to say, like which one was the most fun 35 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: because they all have their things right. So like black 36 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: hawk Down my first introduction to you know, it was 37 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: my first movie in Hollywood working with a special operations community, 38 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: which was obviously and amazing. It was for me, it 39 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: was a really great fit, right, I was like, these 40 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: are my people, So I enjoyed that, you know, flying 41 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: around in helicopters, you know, my first experience with a weapon, 42 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: which was awesome. So that and you know, I'm working 43 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: Ridley Scott. You know, every day I was on set 44 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: and I was like, good grief, I'm working with Ridley Scott. 45 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: It was it was so amazing and all those different actors. 46 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: So that was a lot of fun. Rambo was a 47 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: lot of fun, you know because most of us, you know, 48 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: Generation Xes, grew up loving Stallone, you know, so when 49 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: you're there opposite him and he's directing you then and 50 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: that was really really quite So what's what's he like? 51 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you know when he's he's doing it, do 52 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: you just get the sense that he loves he loves 53 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: making movies even this day. Or what is he is 54 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: he super focused in a tense is he pretty laid 55 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: back or what's his vibe? So? Um, he directed me, 56 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: which was which is kind of strange because most people 57 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: would have him as a as a co star and 58 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: whatever or you know, opposite him. So but he was 59 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: he was very well attuned to what an actor needs. 60 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: So like when I got all my gear and so 61 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: so I'll tell you a little bit of a story 62 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: about about how this movie came about. Right, So I 63 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: get a call from my agent and my agents like, hey, 64 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: they do it another Rambo Like it's real, Like dismissive, 65 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: and I was like, they don't know what they do, Rambo, 66 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: You're serious and he was like yeah, I said, you 67 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: want to do you want to meet on it? I 68 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: was like, of course. And actually I read flour it 69 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: originally the character of Lewis, which was an SAS guy, 70 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: and I know a lot of those SAS guys and 71 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: there actually nothing like that character. So I played him 72 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: the way in the audition that guy was he the 73 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: guy in the Rambo movie who was the douche. Basically 74 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: he was a jerk. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah sure, and 75 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: he's actually the sweetest guy in real life. He's an 76 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: absolute sweetheart. But sorry for that rong. I played it 77 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: exactly like the guys I know, you know, the Gray Men, 78 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: very laid back, very you know, understated. And I'll get 79 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: a call and they're like, hey, listen, Stallone wants to 80 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: meet you and he wants you to read for Schoolboy, 81 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: and Schoolboy was actually a team's guy who was a 82 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: Navy seal and so anyway, up, I'll go and meet 83 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: with Slide. It's a really it's a really funny thing 84 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: actually going to his office and I'm like, you know, 85 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm a fan like everybody else. And 86 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: I'll go into the office trying to be cool, you know, 87 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: trying not to get like geeked out. And you know, 88 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: he comes along and we go and sit in his 89 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 1: office and we talk for some time about weapons, super smart, 90 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: like super well read. And I said to him, well, look, 91 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: he said, I want you to play the character British 92 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: and I said, okay, well, I think it'd be cool 93 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: if he's an SPS guy, you know, a special Boat 94 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: Squadron guy, because they're the Raw Marines, you know, they're 95 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: all from the Rawal Marine and the Romer into the 96 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: Green Brace. Right. So and actually my characters meant to 97 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: take over the franchise from Stillon, so m so he 98 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: takes it all in. It's just like a sponge. He 99 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: takes it all in. And then he walks over to 100 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: the DVD player and he puts in this DVD and 101 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: sits down and press his play and it's like and 102 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: I'm like, holy crap, I'm watching Rocky. The trailer for 103 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: Rocky with Rocky Alboa hadn't come out then. It was 104 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: just a very surreal experience for me. And and then 105 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: when we got over to we got over to Thailand 106 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: to do the filming. He'd written all that in, but 107 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: I'm an SPS guy, you know, done all the research, 108 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: put it all in. He wasn't afraid, like have taken 109 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: a good idea that he thought fitted the script and 110 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: he just plugged it in. So there it was. So 111 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: that was that was pretty amazing, man, that was pretty amazing. Yeah. 112 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: And then were you in a Resident Evil movie with 113 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: I assume, although I don't. There's so many at this 114 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: point that I can't keep it all straight. I did 115 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: play the video game as a kid, the original OGE 116 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: Resident Evil, so I have something reli early with it. 117 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: But it was Milla Mila Jovovic in it. Yeah, I 118 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: know Mila and Paul really well, actually Paul Anderson, who's 119 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: a brit um and she's um. She's a real sweetheart 120 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: in real life. She's a real sweetheart, intense, she's a badass, 121 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: you know. She she trained really really hard for all 122 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: those films. So yeah, it's it's that one there. So yeah, 123 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,559 Speaker 1: it was like it's called Resident Evil Extinction. I figured 124 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: that everyone's going to die in this film, and of course, 125 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: you know, they make a lot of money, and so 126 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 1: they come back and do another one and a bit 127 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: of a trivia about that film that was directed by 128 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: a guy called Roussa mulcahy who directed Highlander, and so 129 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 1: I was just like, I want to work with this guy. 130 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: I don't care what it is, I want to work 131 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: with him. So so that was awesome. And he did 132 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: the Queen videos back in the day and the Duran 133 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: Durand videos, so that was a great experience working with him. Now, 134 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: you also were an Atlas Shrug, which to our mostly conservative, 135 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: although we got people of all kinds of political persuasions 136 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: who who listen, but mostly conservatives. I know my people, 137 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: they all know Atlas Shrug. How was that? Well, that 138 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: was a really interesting thing because you know, I tend 139 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: to get I've played a lot of heroes, but I've 140 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: also played a lot of villains, and so you know, 141 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: they cast me as James Taggett, and really I would 142 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: have loved to played Hank Ridden, but so I got 143 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: cast in it is James Taggett, and I'm like, okay, 144 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: so who will I base the character? And I really 145 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: wanted to take someone and base the character on that individual, 146 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: and I just thought that John Edwards was a really 147 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: good fit or for James Taggett. So that's what I 148 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: based the character, the slimy South Carolina politician who was 149 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: almost the Democrat nominee for president and who was still 150 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: to this day is the only person I've ever heard 151 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: on television when caught cheating on his cancer stricken wife. 152 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: Do you remember this, he said in the end of 153 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: I'll Do Well, she was in remission when I cheated 154 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: on her. No, No, that was real. That was a 155 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: real ambulance chaser Morman for that guy. Well, every now 156 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: and then you get the veil slips right and you 157 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: get the real person. And apart from with Trump, who's 158 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: the real person all the time. But yeah, I wanted 159 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 1: to base on that. And you know, I've not heard 160 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: of I'm rand, So I went red and read the 161 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: Fantine ed and I've got into out this drug of course, 162 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: and when you get to the end, it's like that, 163 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: you know that meme that you see, It's like we 164 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: the bad is I'm like, I don't want to play 165 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: I didn't really I wanted to play Hank reading. 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Sign up today, All right, sir. 198 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: By the way, there's another actor who played Cyclops with 199 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: the same last name, no relation. No. Everyone asks me 200 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: that it's really weird because it's kind of a kind 201 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: of an unusual unusual name, right, Like I've never I've 202 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: never have. The only two Mars Dens I've ever known 203 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: of are two guys who are both actors and you know, 204 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: kind of look like you do you have you guys? Ever, 205 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: like people have rage tweeted it me before because I 206 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 1: share the same last name as some like extreme leftist 207 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: writer and they're like, this guy you're cousin. You've got 208 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: to tell him to shut up, you know, like I 209 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 1: have no idea who this idiot is. Like this has 210 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: nothing to do with me. Have you? And have you? 211 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: And and cyclops um, you know James Mars did have you? 212 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: Have you? Guys ever, like just talk to each other 213 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: a little bit, like, hey, other Mars did, No, I haven't. 214 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: I'm sure he's probably getting it worse than me, trust me. 215 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: I mean so I kind of get like I get 216 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: the trolls saying, oh I love doing the X men. 217 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: I'm like, that's so funny. You are so funny. But 218 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: you know what's weird? Like so in England it's kind 219 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 1: of a traditional English name. I mean, it goes back 220 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: to the Doomsday book, right, So when I come over here, 221 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 1: it's really funny. You know, when you go through the 222 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: check out at the grocery store. Yeah, it's always like 223 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 1: this sounds they'll go, thank you, mister, mister, it's okay, 224 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: it's okay, and they can't say it's it's very strange. 225 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: It's for an Englishman as well, now an American, but 226 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: someone from England it's very strange because it's it's a 227 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: very old name. Do you have to adjust your accent 228 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: based on the expectations of the character you're playing as in? 229 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: I always find this fascinate. Do you know Leilanie doubting 230 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: by the way, she's uh, I do? I do? Yes, 231 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: She's She's awesome, She's awesome, a lot of fun. We 232 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: had her on the show and I talked to her 233 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: about this and how you know she has a push accent, 234 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: and he order to do with this whole thing. But 235 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: I think it's funny because in theater and film, the 236 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: English accent is whatever, it's a historical piece, even if 237 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: it's said in ancient Rome. They have British accents, right, 238 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: because that makes sense to people for some reason. And 239 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: then the fancy people sound like fancy Englishman, and the 240 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: you know, the the sort of the Stonemasons and the 241 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: you know, the guys, the proles, whatever, they all have 242 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: like a Cockney accent. So do you have to switch 243 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: in and out depending, Yeah, you do. It is funny. 244 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: I had a conversation with a producer about that once 245 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: when I was he offered me a job and I 246 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: was in his and he got this amazing room in 247 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: the studios in Warner Brothers and he was watching Troy. 248 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: Do you remember Troy? Yeah? So so the trailer came 249 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: on and he was like, oh, everybody, why is he 250 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 1: doing an American accent? Like everyone to do a British 251 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: and British accent and historical epic, you know. I was 252 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: like that, I'm okay with that. It keeps me fed 253 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: and water do you're not by doing the British accent. 254 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: But I think it's one of those things where distant 255 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: so it allows the audience to kind of separate, uh 256 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: from the character. So therefore mentally kind of gives them 257 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: that kind of space, you know, to say it's like 258 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: old but but yeah. I mean, I've had the funny 259 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: thing about being a British actor is that agents especially 260 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: think you can do everything, like just everything. I got 261 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: cold one day and they were like, hey, Matt, we 262 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: have no audition for you tomorrow. And I was like okay, 263 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: and they were like, it's seventeen pages in a Louisiana accent. 264 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. So I'll tell you 265 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: something that I'll tell you something. I find that when 266 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: British actors do variations on the American accent. They're much 267 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: better than when they're just like trying to sound liking 268 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: an American. You know, they which I can sniff you 269 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: guys out usually with your American standard American accent. But 270 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: if they do a Southern accent, if they do, you know, 271 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: if they really lean into something that has a particular 272 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: localized flavor to it, it's they're they're generally it's more 273 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: path it sounds more authentic, maybe just because that's not 274 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: what I'm always used to hearing. Well, there's a reason 275 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: for that. And you know, I mean I can hear 276 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: it as well. I mean I can really hear Americans 277 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: doing British. They're not very good at it. The women are. 278 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: The women are passable. But for the most part, you know, 279 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: everyone speaks like this. But so here's a little bit 280 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: of a thing to do the accents. So the first 281 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: thing with Americans is, and this is a common misconception, 282 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: Americans tend to say, like if I said that I 283 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: was going to go to the store, right, I'd say 284 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the store. Americans would say, 285 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: I am going to the store. I'm going to the store, right. 286 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: So people see the inflection on the eye right like them. 287 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: So then that that will give a lot of people. 288 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: That's why you know Americans in Europe or to Britis, 289 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: they'll go, oh, you know, they're full of themselves or 290 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: they're all about me, and it's not. It's just the 291 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: inflection and that on that particular you know what me I. 292 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: And then the other thing to do is the reason 293 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: why Britts do Southern accents so well is because it's 294 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: more sing song right, it goes up and down, whereas 295 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: if you want to do an American accent, like what 296 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: you first do is you close your mouth so you 297 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: don't really move your mouth much, okay, so and then 298 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: you make it like a letterbox. 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I can't even 337 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: He's like a you know, he's a well known actor. 338 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: He's in the notebook. You know. You know what I'm 339 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,479 Speaker 1: talking about with that guy. He's yeah, Ryan Gosling, Thank you, 340 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: Ryan Gosling. And he's just telling he's talking about what 341 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: it's actually like. And it's funny because it reminds me 342 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: a little bit of trying to get into a political 343 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: or news media too. There's people that see it when 344 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: you've been doing I've been doing this now. This is 345 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: my thirteenth year, I guess, and that was after what 346 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: five years in the CIA. People see this and like, oh, 347 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: I want to do that. I'm like, well, if you 348 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: want to do this, understand that it means you're gonna 349 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 1: do a lot of things for free, over a long 350 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: period of time, for very small audiences, for very little appreciation. 351 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: People are gonna tell you you're not that good at it. 352 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: People going to tell you that you should find other 353 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 1: things to do. You know. So that's the news media 354 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: short version of it. I mean, I can give sort 355 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: of more details one day if people care. But on 356 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: the Gosling thing, he says, it's like, you show up 357 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 1: the audition, all these other guys are handsome and ready 358 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: to go. You find out that somebody already basically has 359 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: the part, so then you're just doing it as an exercise. 360 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: And then you go out and you have a parking 361 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 1: ticket waiting for you on your car, which you didn't 362 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: see that it was in a zone where you couldn't 363 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: park because that's where the audition sign was set up 364 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: in anyway, is like, what was it like breaking in? Well, 365 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: you know, that's absolutely what it's like in Los Angeles. 366 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: I've got to tell you that is exactly right. So 367 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: I think the difference is between coming from England and 368 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: doing it is that you never really think. The great 369 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: thing about America is that you can walk off the 370 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 1: street and become an act and become a star and 371 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: waiting night millions of dollars. The bad thing about America 372 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: is that you can walk off the street become a 373 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 1: star making as adults right. As you've seen by a 374 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: lot of the comments of the people that are in 375 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: that industry, and I believe, you know, one of my 376 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: one of my thoughts on that is they have a 377 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: guilt because it's something that they haven't really earned. But 378 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 1: that's a conversation for another time maybe. But so, but 379 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: for me, I grew up in a very I actually 380 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: went to the same school as Tolkien, which is pretty cool. 381 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: And I had a dream of being an act. It 382 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: was either like going to go and be a late 383 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: I come from a very like poor background, right with 384 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: a single parent, and so I always dreamed of I 385 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,959 Speaker 1: loved American movie is, always dreamed about going to America, 386 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: always dreamed about American films. That was never going to happen, 387 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: you know, But as it turned out, I was really 388 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: good at learning lines and good on stage. So there's 389 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: a filter process in the UK, right, So you have 390 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: to be good at theater first. So you've got to 391 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 1: get in a theater and I got in to something 392 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: called the National Youth Theater, which is like the premier 393 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: kind of young actors go there. Everyone you can think of, 394 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: Helen Mirrorn, Derry Jacoby, Daniel Craig, you know, all those 395 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: guys all went through the National Youth Theater and so 396 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: that's that was kind of a calling card for me, 397 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: Like people take it really seriously if you've managed to 398 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: get that. If I didn't have that, I would have 399 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: had a real uphill struggle because it's very much an 400 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: old boys network. Are you know, you're your your sharing terms, 401 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:44,199 Speaker 1: I'm okay, come on in somebody. But what happened with 402 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: me was I got that and then pretty much I'm 403 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: a first audition, I got a show called Emmadale, which 404 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,959 Speaker 1: is at the time was the third biggest show in 405 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,239 Speaker 1: the country, and that was crazy. I did that for 406 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 1: like three months. And then my second audition, I've got 407 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: the biggest show in the UK called Coronation Street and 408 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: this is it's a soap, but it's like it's a 409 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: national institution. Now the Queen used to sit down with 410 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: a Queen mom to watch it, so it was a 411 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: big deal. Like in McKellen's being in it John Whalley 412 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: Kilm has been been in it. Everyone wants to be 413 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: in that show because it's kind of like a real 414 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: cult classic. It's a British institution. And I was in 415 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: that for I think four months. I won the Best 416 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: Newcomer Award at the National Television Awards. I didn't expect 417 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: that at all, and and then from there I decided 418 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 1: I was only going to be in it for a year. 419 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: And most people, especially with that kind of success, staying 420 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: it forever. But they never lived. There's you know, they're 421 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: they're forty years, have a good living. But I always 422 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: saw myself as I wanted to challenge myself, wanting to 423 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: be better, see a better actor, not better than the show. 424 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: I just wanted to challenge myself. And so I actually 425 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,400 Speaker 1: left there and I got a recording contract with Columbia Records, 426 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 1: which was which was cool. So I did that for 427 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: a year or so and what kind of like rock music? 428 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: What were you doing? No, it was more like R 429 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: and B. I actually did a single with Destinies Child, 430 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: which was with Beyonce, which was which was kind of interesting. Uh, 431 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 1: you were an R and B singer. I mean, we're 432 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: going we're going into the reality. I had no idea. Yeah, yeah, well, 433 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: you know, people discover this about I don't tell many people, 434 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: you know, because I don't know. I mean I don't. 435 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: I don't really talk about it much. But yeah, that 436 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: was pretty cool. I went around Europe singing here's the 437 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: thing in the UK. Like for me, it was a 438 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: survival thing, right. I was like, Okay, I'm probably not 439 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: going to get into movies, but I'll probably get into theater. 440 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: And if I get into theater, I need to do 441 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: more than just theater. I need to do a musical 442 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: theater as well. So I learned how to sing, so 443 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: I've got a singing classes so I could just I'll 444 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: my possibilities of work. It was just survival really so 445 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: but I always had that flavor, you know, because I 446 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: wasn't like massively classically trained, so I always had a 447 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: little bit of a bit of the soul. So I 448 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 1: did that. Then I found out that there was a 449 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: movie being made called China with Michael Caine, and so 450 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: I took a year off and I trained with a guy. 451 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: It was the WBC Super Middleweight Champion of the World. 452 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: It was a boxing film. So I trained with him 453 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: for a year in a kind of cool in a 454 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: power station in Telford. It was like this huge, like 455 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: industrial power station. So I trained with him for a 456 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: year and then I auditioned for the role. And when 457 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: they asked me, you know, could I fight put a box, 458 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: I said, I'll fight anyone for this role. So you 459 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 1: can put me in the ring with anybody. I'll fight 460 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,479 Speaker 1: for it. And I got that role. And because Michael 461 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: was nominated for sider House Rules at that time, everyone 462 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: there was a lot of focus on this film and 463 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: who's this kid? You know, it's a kid. I was 464 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. You know, who's this kid who's in 465 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: this movie with Michael Caine and who's holding his own 466 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: opposite him? And Star Wars. I was auditioning for Star 467 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: Wars at that time. I was I was getting whittled down. 468 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: So my name was going around Hollywood. And the thing 469 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: about Hollywood is they want to get on whoever's new thing. 470 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: So you know, we have a reputation as British actors 471 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: as being kind of serious actors. And it is pre 472 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: mcu R. It's pre before all the big roles went 473 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: to British actors and uh and I had a manager. 474 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: I had a few managers come over and agents come 475 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: over and asked me flight to London and asked me 476 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: to come to America. And so I said to one 477 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 1: of them I really vibed with. I said, okay, I'll 478 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,920 Speaker 1: see you on Friday. And nobody ever does that, but 479 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: it's always say they never do that. So bo plane 480 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: ticket came over and I got black Hawk down. Wow. 481 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: So you came to America and you you hit black 482 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 1: Hawk down on your first shot in America, which, as 483 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: you well know, I mean one of the I think 484 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 1: one of the greatest war certainly the greatest modern war 485 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,959 Speaker 1: movies of all time. And Ridley Scott. I mean, if 486 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: I could pick somebody to do a historical epic or 487 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,120 Speaker 1: a war movie, Ridley Scott would be my first choice. 488 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: Right if I got to like write my dream script, 489 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: I think Ridley Scott would be the director that I 490 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: would want. So obviously Gladiator. If those watching Gladiators, a 491 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,479 Speaker 1: Ridley Scott movie, absolutely phenomenal. There's so many of them. 492 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,719 Speaker 1: So that's really cool. Is that how you got linked 493 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: in with the special operations community and the military side 494 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: of things. I know you're a big military supporter. Yeah, 495 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,719 Speaker 1: so I didn't know what a ranger was. I had 496 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: no idea. I thought rangers were like Texas Rangers, you know, 497 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: and I had no idea. So we came over and 498 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: we did We did a week of training, like intense training. 499 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: That was kind of the thing back then. You know, 500 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 1: they did it with They did it with Pearl Harbor. 501 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: I think they did it with Private Ryan as well, 502 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: saving Private Ryan. Yeah, but so we came r We 503 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: went to Fort Benning and it was really useful. You know. 504 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 1: We we they said, this is range orientation. It is 505 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: not rip. You know, you are not going through range 506 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 1: of scorebacks, not what it is. And so we were right, 507 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: we were like okay, And they taught us a lot 508 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 1: of stuff there. And one day we're outside the CQB 509 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: area where they were teaching us to go in and 510 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 1: clear houses, and there was a guy sitting under the 511 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,679 Speaker 1: under the tree. It was like a hot day and 512 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 1: it was could have been any older than twenty two, 513 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,880 Speaker 1: twenty three years old. And I said, you know, doing 514 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: the actor thing. So why did you join? You know, 515 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: because for me, my buddies that joined the military were like, 516 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: you're either going to get to jail or you're going 517 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 1: to go on the military, right, I mean, it wasn't 518 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: like they didn't do it for any kind of like 519 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: love of country, to be honest. And so this guy said, 520 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: I joined for freedom, to fight for freedom. And I 521 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: was just a shocking thing for someone to say to me, 522 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,959 Speaker 1: you know, because that's mocked in Europe, you know, like freedom, fries, 523 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: American man. Freedom. Not that I ever felt that way, 524 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: but you know, you hear that all the time. And 525 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: to have a guy sitting in front of me, who 526 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: who was going to put his life on the line 527 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: for freedom and not just like America. I did it 528 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: for the United States, like for freedom. And I said 529 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: to him, you die for me, wouldn't you? And he said, yes, sir, 530 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: And I just thought, this is just the greatest thing 531 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: I've ever heard in my life. I want to know 532 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: who these men are. I want to know why they're 533 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: willing to do this. I want to know more about 534 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: this country because you know, you, in your young head, right, 535 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: all I'm thinking about is I'm going to go and 536 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: get another movie. I'm going to get another movie, blah 537 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. I'm not really thinking about, you know, 538 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: the fabric of this country and why it's so great? 539 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: And that really like spun me off on a voyage 540 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: of discovery to see, like, why is America so great? 541 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: Why are these guys so willing to promote freedom? What freedom? 542 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: Isn't it always there? Like? You know that because you 543 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: grow up under that kind of ignorance. I guess. I 544 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: mean as Brits we were very close, right, but there 545 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: was a little bit the channels was the only thing 546 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: for a while that was stopping us getting invaded. But 547 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: the concept of freedom and liberty is not explained like 548 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: it is here or used to be. I don't know 549 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: if it is so much anymore. So, you know, I 550 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 1: started on that journey of looking into why is America 551 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: so great? Oh, there's this thing called the you know 552 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: revolution there was I wonder why I was never taught 553 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: it at school and I read it and I'm like, 554 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: hang on a minute. I'd be on the side of 555 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: the Colonials, right, I'd be on their side. I wouldn't 556 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: be on the side of the British. I'd want to 557 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: fight against them. And then you find out by George 558 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: Washington and just an incredible person, and then all those 559 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: people coming together to create the Declaration of independence in 560 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and you're just like, 561 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: this is the greatest thing. This is just the greatest 562 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: thing ever. And then of course you want to that 563 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: extrapolates out right two different things like why you know 564 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: the states like this, finding out the history, and then 565 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: it's very difficult not to get involved, right, very difficult, 566 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: but to get involved because you realize that it's a 567 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: very precious thing that should be fought for. I want 568 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: to ask you about your situation of cancelation in Hollywood, 569 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: which you've mentioned to me, and I want you to 570 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: dive into that for us in just a second. 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You get black Hawk down? 596 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: You're in all these cool movies, you know, you get 597 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: to you get to hang out with Mila Djoviovic, who 598 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: when I was like a teenager I thought was like amazing, 599 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: And you get to hang out with Sylvester Stallone, Who's 600 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Schwartzenegger stallone, people go back and forth. 601 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: One of the greatest action heroes of all time, number 602 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: one or number two, I think, in any reasonable world. 603 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: But then you hit some issues. What happened? Well, I mean, 604 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: I think, really it's kind of weird. It kind of 605 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: all comes together with what I was saying about before 606 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: I started, like becoming more aware of things, like I've 607 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: got married, I've got more into my faith, all right. 608 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: So so that straightaway is like, you know, I'm not 609 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: doing that job. I'm not doing that job. I'm not 610 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: doing that job because you know there's a conflict. But 611 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: that still didn't matter because I was still getting enough working. 612 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: And then I went to a couple of friends of 613 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: mine said, hey, listen, we want to do a pitch 614 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: to a group of investors so we can just do 615 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: family friendly movies. That was it. It It was just like, 616 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: you know, kid, you movies. How will you come out 617 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: with me and do that. I was like yeah. So 618 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: I went out with them, and it was a group 619 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: of Republicans, and I wasn't like nor here nor there 620 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: on politics at that point. I mean, I was asking 621 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: a lot of questions. I asked a lot of questions 622 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: because I thought that the stuff with Obama when people 623 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: just you know, when they were talking about Reverend Right, 624 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: that kind of I had had a few issues with 625 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 1: that right because I was saying, well, either you know, 626 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 1: you have been in that queue for twenty seven years 627 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,720 Speaker 1: or however long it was, and I actually listened to 628 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: him and you believe him, which is a problem, or 629 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: you've been in a pew for twenty seven years and 630 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: you haven't listened to him, which is then a problem 631 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: because what are you doing going there? So you know, 632 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: and I was just asking these questions. I was understanding 633 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,720 Speaker 1: that that was my first kind of experience of people 634 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:23,720 Speaker 1: not answering the question right because it was uncomfortable. So anyway, 635 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: I went to this thing, which was a bunch of Republicans, 636 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: and as I'm coming out, there was a reporter there. 637 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: I said, Hey, Matt, what are you doing here? Because 638 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: I just don't ram about and then I just don't 639 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: Transformers and I spent six months on Transformers. So it 640 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: was a long film, which they managed to mess up 641 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: my credit at the end of that, like to the 642 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: delight of all the trolls. But it was But anyway, 643 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: I come out and this reporter says that, and I said, 644 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: you know, I'm just here for family friendly movies, to 645 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 1: raise money for family friendly movies. And then few days later, 646 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,239 Speaker 1: the Huffington Post did an article out there. It was 647 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 1: one of their contributors, and it was basically saying that 648 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 1: what was I doing here with all these conservatives and 649 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: the farm stop bringing that? Was it? Like, you know, 650 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: because you're going through meetings with people and they'll love you, 651 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it just goes away. 652 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 1: And that article was really damaging because there weren't many 653 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: people back then that were speaking out about politics. And 654 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: what it did was the first movie after that, I 655 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 1: was hired by a bunch of libertarians to do out 656 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: the Shrug. So I didn't work for a year, and 657 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,760 Speaker 1: then everything, you know, if you if you're not working, 658 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,279 Speaker 1: then what is your worth in the industry? Like what 659 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: is your worth to your agents, to your managers? And 660 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:52,280 Speaker 1: that's it. Just so I had to kind of go, Okay, 661 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: that happened, So I need to pivot. And because I'm 662 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: a survivor, you know, I started looking in to you know, 663 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,800 Speaker 1: doing writing, producing, doing other things. I'd still get the 664 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 1: odd job now and then and then again that kind 665 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,360 Speaker 1: of went really out the window when I out my 666 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: gob about the vaccine and about mandates, because I just thought, 667 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 1: this is it. I just this is something. And by 668 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,759 Speaker 1: the way, I never said anything political. I was not 669 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 1: political at all, never said a word. There was no 670 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: reason for them to think that I was being political. 671 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:31,319 Speaker 1: But it my cancelation. Even though many people wouldn't know it. 672 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 1: I was on the up right, So they were like, Okay, 673 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 1: we've got to shut that guy up. And there was 674 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: there was a lot of There was ripples throughout the 675 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:44,319 Speaker 1: acting industry, and people were like, hey, listen, you know, 676 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 1: but not say anything because that's what's going to happen. 677 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 1: What's going to happen to him, What'll happen to you? Yeah, 678 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: I've I've had conversations before with friends in the let 679 00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:00,360 Speaker 1: me let me think, friends from the arts, including like 680 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 1: the theater, like Broadway, friends from even the fitness influencer world, 681 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 1: friends who have done stuff that's really pure history or 682 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,759 Speaker 1: entered who are saying, hey, I think I want to 683 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,719 Speaker 1: I think I want to start speaking my mind to 684 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: be conservative. And I always say, look, that's what I do. 685 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,239 Speaker 1: I love it. It's amazing. I love my job. I 686 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,759 Speaker 1: love my audience. I love what I get to do. 687 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: You just need to understand the following things that it's 688 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 1: once you once you pull that lever, there's no there's 689 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: no unpulling it. Right. Once you ring that bell, you 690 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 1: can unring it, and it comes with stuff, and you 691 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: know you're seeing even just wanting to learn, just speak, 692 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 1: being curious, being willing to ask the important questions, and 693 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 1: not accepting bullcrap answers. That actually alone is enough to 694 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,520 Speaker 1: get you canceled in a lot of in academia, in Hollywood, 695 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,640 Speaker 1: certainly in the news media if you're not an out 696 00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 1: of the closet conservative. So that is the reality that 697 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,239 Speaker 1: people will end up seeing and facing. By the way, 698 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,920 Speaker 1: even in the CIA when I was I was a 699 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: CIA officer, and the people that were always I felt 700 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,680 Speaker 1: engaged in kind of partisan sniping where it was always 701 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,000 Speaker 1: the Libs, always the big Libs. Note the people that 702 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,879 Speaker 1: would complain about something called a Hatch Act violation, which 703 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,719 Speaker 1: somebody actually complained about me for when I was there, 704 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,840 Speaker 1: which is like talking about you know, republic, like literally 705 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,880 Speaker 1: talking about politics in a pro conservative way in the office. 706 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,839 Speaker 1: Some people would report you like, you know, like you're 707 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,760 Speaker 1: supposed to be arrested by the STAZI or something. Anyway, 708 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,840 Speaker 1: that's the reality of it. Unfortunately, because the left is 709 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 1: insane onto happy things. What are you doing now? I mean, 710 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,920 Speaker 1: I know that you know, you're active on Twitter and 711 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,120 Speaker 1: you've got you've got a following that loves that. We 712 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: have an actor with some awesome credits to his name 713 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 1: who still loves freedom in America. A brit who has 714 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,840 Speaker 1: become an American, A Texan, which is some would argue 715 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: the first or second best kind of America and after 716 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 1: a Floridian, but anyway close to be sure. So so 717 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: what's up? What's up for you now? What's on the agenda? Well? Um, 718 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,359 Speaker 1: I mean, first of yeah, I'd like to say that 719 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,480 Speaker 1: the reason why I started speaking out was because, you know, 720 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:21,360 Speaker 1: my relationship with the veterans of America and you know, 721 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: being so privileged to become an American. I think that 722 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,839 Speaker 1: that combination really made it so that I couldn't see 723 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,839 Speaker 1: that that tyranny that I was seeing and what I 724 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,480 Speaker 1: was seeing in California like keep going on without saying anything, 725 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 1: because I just felt like that would be very cowardly, 726 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: especially when you have a bunch of guys that you know, 727 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,120 Speaker 1: lose their lives, they lose their limbs for my freedom. 728 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,560 Speaker 1: So you know, when when the COVID thing came around, 729 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,239 Speaker 1: I was just like, I'm not doing this, Like, you're 730 00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:55,640 Speaker 1: not going to do this. I'm not going to come 731 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,239 Speaker 1: to America being American and you're going to force to 732 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,759 Speaker 1: some It's not going to happen, especially if you look 733 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,359 Speaker 1: at all the all the information was actually there, if 734 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,960 Speaker 1: you took five minutes to sift through it, you know, 735 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,720 Speaker 1: it was very clear that none of it made any sense. 736 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,920 Speaker 1: And so I was like, you know what, you guys 737 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 1: like canceled me before. So here we go. I'm just 738 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,359 Speaker 1: going out of my mouth and and that is it. 739 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,240 Speaker 1: And I think buck that what we should be doing. 740 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 1: And conservatives are really bad at this is sticking together, right. 741 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 1: We don't look after the people that are in these 742 00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,359 Speaker 1: these difficult situations. And I was seeing people getting really 743 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 1: stressed out, panicking. I'd see them on Twitter because I 744 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: didn't I didn't want to say anything, but I saw 745 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:39,920 Speaker 1: them on Twitter and the like, what am I going 746 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,759 Speaker 1: to do? What I'm you know, I feel isolated. So 747 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,120 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, here we go, this is my opportunity 748 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,440 Speaker 1: to reach out to people and perhaps even in my 749 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,279 Speaker 1: own little way, help them. So anyway, that was that. 750 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 1: But what am I doing now? Im you know? As 751 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,799 Speaker 1: it turns out, I'm pretty good writer. Of my first 752 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,319 Speaker 1: script that I write, I sold, My second script I 753 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,239 Speaker 1: made into a film that I directed. The third one 754 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:10,120 Speaker 1: was although I'm not purchased, was went up the flagpole 755 00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,600 Speaker 1: at one of the one of the biggest companies in 756 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: the United States, and they want to work with me. 757 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,759 Speaker 1: So I'm writing right now even though I'm just like 758 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,280 Speaker 1: the world's worst writing. They were like, they were like, listen, 759 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 1: let's work together. I'm like, and I'll just write it 760 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,959 Speaker 1: on my own time, you know what I mean? Because 761 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,760 Speaker 1: I don't like the pressure of doing something. And also 762 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,360 Speaker 1: there are so many people that think they can do something, 763 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,280 Speaker 1: like you say, you know, oh I can act, Oh 764 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,839 Speaker 1: I can do what you do. Actually, you know, that's 765 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,120 Speaker 1: really hard. So for me to be spoken to as 766 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,879 Speaker 1: a writer is really hard. It's a it's a real 767 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,880 Speaker 1: difficult change of mentality. So I'd rather just like do 768 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,880 Speaker 1: it and see where it goes. I was meant to 769 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,960 Speaker 1: direct a film this year that's been put on hold, 770 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 1: and acting a movie actually that they're both. It's been postponed, 771 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,279 Speaker 1: which happens all the time for the next you know, 772 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,600 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks at least, and then we'll figure 773 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,640 Speaker 1: out what we're doing with it. But but you know, 774 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,239 Speaker 1: I've just been I've been super busy doing that. I've 775 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,080 Speaker 1: got baby, another baby on the way, which have three 776 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:19,359 Speaker 1: hundred children amazing, So yeah, this is baby. It's my 777 00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:27,760 Speaker 1: ninth child. Yeah, I'm dead serious. Yeah, I have nine kids. 778 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: That is amazing. It's hard to hide, you know that, 779 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,239 Speaker 1: you you you're open to life when you have that 780 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: many kids, Like, there's no there's no hiding. So yeah, no, 781 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,920 Speaker 1: I'm doing that. Oh, I've got a movie I just 782 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,359 Speaker 1: did I did in November that will be coming out 783 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,759 Speaker 1: pretty soon. It's going to be very controversial. It's going 784 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,560 Speaker 1: to be super controversial. Great, but yeah, no, but it's 785 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,160 Speaker 1: it's it's going to be great. I know a guy, 786 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,200 Speaker 1: I know a guy who co hosts the biggest radio 787 00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,359 Speaker 1: show in the country that has millions of people every 788 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,400 Speaker 1: day listening. You should tell him when these projects come 789 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,800 Speaker 1: out and you can come on the very large radio 790 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: show and talk to him and his best buddy Clay 791 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,960 Speaker 1: about what you're doing. Right on. Oh well, I'd love 792 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,720 Speaker 1: that if I'm welcome that you are more than welcome. 793 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,799 Speaker 1: Do you have a website or anywhere where people can 794 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,920 Speaker 1: go to check out what you're up to? Well, I 795 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:25,600 Speaker 1: just have my If they want to see who I 796 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,520 Speaker 1: am and look me up, it's Matthew Marsden dot com 797 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,640 Speaker 1: and Matthew D. Marsden isn't my handle and Twitter. I'm 798 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,839 Speaker 1: really bad, Like I'm really I really suck at that, 799 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,200 Speaker 1: Like I'm kind of the old school guy that really 800 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:38,840 Speaker 1: what I would like to do is go into my 801 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 1: work and disappear into the background and nobody know anything 802 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,520 Speaker 1: about me. But things have changed, don't they. I mean, 803 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,839 Speaker 1: things aren't like that anymore. Everybody's a marketing brand. It's 804 00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,439 Speaker 1: just a question of I know how much they're doing 805 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,800 Speaker 1: it and what they're marketing. So Matthew Morris then everybody. 806 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,200 Speaker 1: Hey man, it has been an honor. I hope you'll 807 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:57,680 Speaker 1: come back and hang with us in a few months. 808 00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,840 Speaker 1: As we roll along here, we'll follow up on some 809 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,160 Speaker 1: of this stuff. And thanks for thanks for the chat. 810 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,000 Speaker 1: It was good to meet you. Thank you. Nice to 811 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:06,480 Speaker 1: meet you too.