WEBVTT - Sung Kang 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.040 The Craig Ferguson Fancy Rascal Stand Up Tour continues throughout 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.320 twenty twenty four. For a full list of dates and tickets, 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.560 go to the Craig Ferguson show dot com slash tour. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:12.000 See you out there, the. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:17.000 Greig Ferguson show dot com slash Tour. My name is 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:21.799 Craig Ferguson. The name of this podcast is Joy. I 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:26.400 talk to interest in people about what brings them happiness. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:28.600 Today. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.040 My guest is I've got to be honest, he's probably 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.120 cooler than you. But to be fair, he's very much 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.480 cooler than me, which I realize is not a high bar. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:42.159 But he's a very cool guy. Please welcome, Sung Kang. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.760 Are you friends with Jay Lena? I would say, well, 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:52.519 I might admire. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.280 I mean, I've been on this show in his garage. Yeah, 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.480 it's not like I go to his house in Hipdner. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:03.800 No, it does that Jay? Is he? If you did 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:04.600 have dinner with them? 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.200 Yeah, you know he he never has hot like it 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.119 was like he's fiercely against soup, is he? 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:11.039 Yeah? It's weird. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.720 I think he's some weird stuff going on. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:14.800 How do you feel about soup? 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.600 I don't like soup either, really, yeah, I don't. I 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.240 don't like hot food, like. 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:22.160 Dude, you're Korean. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.840 Like there's a little slicy food, right, like soup, Yeah, 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:26.360 that's I don't. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.880 But there are soups involved in Korea. Cusine, there's there's 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.240 a whole soup area, lots of souper. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.920 Yeah, avoided. I like cold. I like the cold noodles, right, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.160 but but hot soup soup is is like that's Polish 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.679 and stuff. You're you're crossing the streams. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.160 And you know, Polish has a lot a lot of 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.400 similarities to Korean food. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.400 Actually really yeah, how does that work? Have you been 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.760 to Poland? Have you spent time? No? But my wife's 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.920 background history is Polish. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.920 Yeah, so I just spent some time in Poland. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:01:58.600 Okay. 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.680 A lot of their food is pickled, that's right, fermented, Yeah, fermented. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:05.440 She's always een pickles all the time. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:10.320 They love beef tongue, they love beef tartar. Right, I 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.040 can see you're kind of right. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:13.560 Yeah. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.280 But also Koreans drink a lot too, though, don't they. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.520 Oh yeah, yeah, Koreans are like they used to say 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.959 this is probably very no okay to say this not 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.720 but they used to say the Koreans are the Irish 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.280 of Europe Asia. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.560 Koreans, I've heard that, like literate drunks. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.440 Yeah, they don't like outsiders, right, and they don't like 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:34.600 each other much either. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:40.080 That sounds like they might be scot then. But let'st 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.280 the a lot of your family still in Korea. Uh, 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:44.800 my mother is in Korea. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.160 I thought you were brought up in uh in California 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:49.919 or Georgia. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:50.400 Georgia. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:55.200 Yeah, so after I graduated high school, right, she decided 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.360 to go back. Oh yeah, she came here for you know, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.600 the kids like me, to give me the American dream, right, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.480 But she always felt like she did feel like a 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.440 second class citizen. Really, yeah, I mean, and you know 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.200 she growing up in the South during the seventies and 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:17.480 the eighties, you know, opportunities for her to work, like 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.720 you know, she was my mother, like was cleaning toilets 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:26.160 like a housekeeper. But you know, she felt like, hey, 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.480 she did her she did her duty. She gave her 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:34.120 kids opportunity to dream, right, or maybe opportunities that we 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.000 wouldn't have had if we were in Korea at you know, 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.400 living there in the seventies. Yeah, and so she felt like, hey, 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.080 you know, I want to go back, and you know, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.160 you know, with friends and have friends. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.600 I think I went by to Scotland, didn't. Yeah, I did. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.760 I went back to Scotland like five or six years ago. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.600 I kind of moved back there and then I'd been 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.400 there for like five or six years, and I'm like, yeah, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.840 that's enough, Mary pay. Yeah, I did go back for 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.120 a while. I think I don't know what you get 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.119 to kind of call for. I don't know you kind 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.000 of go back, would you ever? But you grew up 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.920 in America, so it would be different for you. Wouldn't 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:09.720 think about going to Korea. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.560 I tried, you know, you know when I when I 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.600 was like in my twenties, I said, you know, maybe 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.320 I could go back there and there'd be more opportunities 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:20.800 for me. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.279 As an actor. Right, Okay. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.840 I went back and and my crean's not that good. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.560 So I speak like Korean like a maybe like an 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.360 eight year old, right, So I have an accent when 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.520 I speak Korean, and they know that I'm from America. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.560 Really yeah, it's kind of yeah, it's like if you 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.680 spoke Korean, I sound like you, right, Because I went. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.680 A friend of mine, we went out to Mexico and 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.960 he speaks really good Spanish, but you learned it in Spain. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.279 So when you go out to Mexico and you speak Spanish, Spanish, 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.200 Castilian Spanish, to Mexicans, it sounds like you said, good afternoon, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.599 how very very moveless lovely to see you. There's like 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.599 you sound super polish or something like that. Very strange. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:01.840 So is that the kind of vibe. I guess it 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.080 would be languages language. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.400 Yeah, And then men in Korea they say that I 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.200 sound like a woman because okay, you know, there's a 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.960 certain way of speaking, like informal and formal away female 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.520 would speak, right and a male would speak. And I've 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.200 been taught how to speak Korean by women, my mother 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.240 and my wife. Right, So I sound like. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.679 You know, in these times, that's okay, and that's cool. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.960 I mean, I wonder how languages that have a lot 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.800 of gender identity in them. I wonder if they're COVID, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.960 because gender identity is like changing. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.000 It has Yeah, I don't know if it's changing in 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:40.919 Korea yet. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.599 Right, I don't know, to be I'll be honest with yeah, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.279 I know really nothing about Korea. Yeah, probably do you 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.800 know much about Scotland. No, okay, so we're even that's fine. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.479 But I'll tell you about Scotland, you tell me about Korea, okay, okay, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:59.279 So when we're Korea is probably recent stuff is like 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.239 the split in the country that plays under the Irish 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.279 thing as well, I suppose, isn't it North and South 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.640 split by someone else causes a lot of problems later on? 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:10.880 I mean, do you have any relatives in the North? 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.799 Well, we are from the North. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.720 We are originally my my especially my mother's side, they're 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.200 all North Korean, all right, So she and then during 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.080 the war she left, right, and so that's why she 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.320 grew up so poor because they were North Koreans. And 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.040 then they came to the South the w they knew 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.679 no one, so they had to start over in Seoul. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.480 And you know, so they are North Korean blood and 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.040 our food. So the food that she makes for the 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.680 Korean food that I grew up with would be considered 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.320 North Korean cuisine, right, like like Polish Korean. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.120 Yeah, like a lot of yeah, I get it. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.000 So listen, did they were your parents like really into 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.960 you being an actor? Because that that kind of look, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.920 it's a stereotype. I thought like for I'm an immigrant, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.680 and I don't want my kids to be actors. I 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:05.320 want them to be like you know, CPAs, CPS, that 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:05.920 kind of thing. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.000 Yeah, the well, the art conversation was not something that 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:11.960 we had at home. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.800 You know. It was it was survival. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.720 It was like, you know, my and I had I 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.680 have a stepfather, so you know, he was in the military. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.640 He was like, you know, master sergeant, and you know, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.000 he was very by the book and you know, very 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.640 strict in the way. You know, he felt like a 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.840 young man had to grow up. And he worked, you know, 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.960 he had he worked like two three jobs, right. My mother, uh, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:43.840 she you know, was cleaning dishes and yeah, and uh, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.520 you know, her mind was like i gotta like send 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.560 my kids to college. I'm going to have this money. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.720 I'm going to you know, save some money. So they 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.120 have opportunities to talk about, hey, I want to be 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:55.600 an actor. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.280 It's like crazy talk. It is. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.000 It was where I grew up as well, Like I'm 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.640 going to be in show business. It's like, yeah, I'm 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.320 going to be an astronaut. It's like no, yeah, you're not. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.640 You're going to go and want the shipyards like everybody else. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.160 So did you go to college? 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:08.640 I did? So? What did you study a college? 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:13.240 Political science? I was going to be on political scientist? Right, 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.160 what is the outcome for a political science degree? 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.480 Normally? What's the goal from that? You go to law school? 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.480 You go to law school and become a lawyer. Yeah, man, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.800 you don't want to do that. No, you're way too 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:29.040 cool to be a lawyer. Wow. Yeah No, even if 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.480 they're cool. Defenders are pretty still lawyers, though, aren't they. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.120 I mean, underneath it all, they're still lawyers. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.680 I guess public defenders, right, yeah, but I'm thinking in 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.319 LA terms, I guess, but there are public defenders in LA. Yeah, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.240 you're right. So you squandered your law degree? That did 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:46.679 you finish? 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.160 Did you get a law degree? Now? You left? I never, well, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:50.760 I wanted. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.040 I knew that I was going to be unhappy doing that, right, 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.160 And during the summer I was moving furniture for like 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:05.040 a like aid and my buddy that was kind of 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.600 like an older brother mentor. He was the first Asian 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.160 dude that I ever met that loved films and talked 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.880 about films and he knew the universal studios like tour Monologue. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.800 The dude at the tram that tells you like, yeah. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.200 I went and when I first came here, everybody he knew. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.200 That monologue by heart, just because he loved movies and 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.840 loved you know, the whole you know, like pop culture aspect, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.600 and and we would go watch films together and he 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.319 would open the door for me to go, hey, there's 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.960 there's you know, this art house film and there's this 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.280 like Asian American dude, like he's the lead, Like you could, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.360 let's go, let's go watch it. And you know it's like, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.719 I mean, you should be inspired, like there's opportunities. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.440 So who were you watching at that time? 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.800 At that time, I remember, so I was moving furniture. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.760 And then one day Roy Siaka is my buddy. He goes, hey, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.000 there's this movie called Map of the Human Heart. It's 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:04.320 a French movie with this actor Jason Scott Lee from Hawaii, Okay, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.560 Chinese American. He eventually ended up playing the Bruce Lee 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.040 biopic The Dragon. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.840 Yeah right, yeah, yeah, yeah, the name man. I have 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.800 heard of that movie as well, but I haven't seen it. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.199 Yeah, he was in Jungle Book. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.320 He was a universal soldier. He had you know, he 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.120 had a pretty good career and we went to go 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:28.040 watch this film and I see this dude, Asian American guy, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.080 not doing kungfort, not having an accent, not you know, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.480 being a gangster, not being one dimensional. I was like, wow, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.800 it was three dimensional. And I was like, I got 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.880 to go find this dude. So came back until I 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:42.840 hunted him down. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:43.680 The actor. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.720 Yeah, I was like, where did he go and study? 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.400 How did he become who he became? So then I 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.920 found his teacher, sal Romeo, this Italian guy from the 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.400 East Coast, very method based, very actors studio based, and 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.760 I studied with him, you know, for like ten years, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.120 and he's up the street. He's like the most fearless 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.440 and he had a theater company, so we were allowed 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.600 to go up and just do experimental theater and just 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.080 try just fall on your face and fall on your face. 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.720 And he taught us camera technique. He just he just 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.400 had and he had like every book acting book that 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.080 was ever made. And he was accessible, you know, he 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.520 was like a guru. He was a mentor with Sell 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:24.839 Sell the actors. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:29.079 Pell that's amazing. And so when you got into acting, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.560 then you talked about method. Is that something that is 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.440 practical to do? I mean I know very little about, 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.240 you know, method acting, but I think I kind of 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.920 a layman's idea that you know, like you stay in 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.120 character all the time, you know, is that right? 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.559 Well, with sales approach was like you take what works 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:50.600 for you, you know, and if you want to do that, right, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.240 But then the character is like a heroin junkie. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.880 I don't know, you don't want to be taking Yeah, you. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.319 Know, if the characters like a pedophile, I probably probably 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.959 don't want Like if you're playing cannibal, cannibal, you probably 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.200 shouldn't eat people. Yeah. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.720 Yeah, And there is a certain amount of pretended invauld Yeah. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.880 I mean it's mostly pretending to fights overtect. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.080 It's all yeah, and you gotta have fun. Yeah. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.840 He would say, Hey, it's called the play for a reason. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.000 That's cool, right, He's like a cool guy. The coolest 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.679 is he still around. He's actually really sick. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:21.760 Yeah. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.480 So that's the end of that era. I mean, it's 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.480 it's real. It's unfortunate because there are so many young 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:34.560 actors and actresses that could have benefited from having sal around. Yeah, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.080 because I remember, like, you know, I cannot afford to 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.720 pay for the classes and stuff that he had right, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.240 And I said, sal, you know, like I can't really 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.880 afford all this stuff. And he's he was the type 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.360 of duty. He's like a character out of the movie. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.760 He goes, well, hey, so you want to come seven 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.360 days a week, because it was he kind of ran 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.839 a conservatory, right, so right movement, and you know, and 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.760 it's Donald Slavsky, there's Strawsberry. There's chair work, there's you know, 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.679 substitution work, there's you know, there's I'm gonna work, there's 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.040 voice work, there's you know, there's always something to do, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.800 right improfer And he said, well, hey, you want to 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.440 just clean the studio and you know, run lights at 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.040 the place, and you can wash my car. You know, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.440 if an actor or actress needs like somebody to read 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.760 read for the audition, you come in and you do 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.120 that and you can come every day. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:22.040 Right. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.400 And so he's the reason or people like that, or 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.840 the reason that I was able to kind. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.400 Of and yeah, I know I got help like that 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.040 from a bunch of different Actually one of them was 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.319 a lawyer. Knows I think about it when I go here. Really, yeah, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.520 because I turned out pretty much like you. I didn't 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.199 have you know, I had no connections I didn't know anybody. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.719 I didn't you know, And I met this lawyer. We 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.240 go to talk and he's still my lawyer. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.120 Uh. And they said, uh, he said, we'll take you on. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.080 This guy's like heavy hair, he's like some massive names, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.079 like huge, like icon level clients. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.240 They said, I'll be a lawyer. I said, I don't 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.559 have any money. He said, yeah, I gotta feel it. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:02.400 Don't worry about it. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.120 And he's still my lawyer. And you know, I've made 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.200 him a bit of money over the years. But he 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.280 took me on just kind of like it'll work out. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.480 And I think that's one of the things I do 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.320 love about show business is that there's a lot of 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.240 people like that and that it can work as a plan, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.480 like something will turn up, like did you have did 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.360 you have a career plan in mind? Or you just 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.360 like I just want to act, I just want to 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.840 do it, or I want to do a specific thing. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.160 I want to be that guy in Fast and Furious franchise. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.960 I'm going to be that and that's what I want 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:35.160 to do. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.600 No, no, no, I had no plan, but I knew 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:44.320 growing up. I did not want to leave, you know, invisible. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.400 I did not want to carry on my mom's like 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.120 legacy of feeling like, you know, you're second class citizen 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:51.840 in this country. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.720 You don't feel like that. I did not know. I 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.480 think that was in times have changed, right, right. Did 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.240 you feel like that growing up when you're for sure? 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.440 Oh really? Yeah? Yeah, you felt you got hit with 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.440 racism a lot and stuff. Yeah, I mean that was 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.000 just that's just a norm. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.240 Yeah, you know, it wasn't something like remember there was 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.680 like this Asian hate thing that was happening in the. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.120 News, right, Yeah, I remember, and there's still a bit 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:14.120 of it, you know. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.920 There was something that was just normal for us going 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.800 up in George, in the South. I mean yeah, it's 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.360 just it was just the way it was, you know, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.880 And I think, you know, maybe that's what kind of 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.760 motivated me to go, Okay, I need to leave something behind. Yeah, 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.000 I need to I need to like leave my mark, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.880 like I got to pits on this earth, and then 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.040 then I got I can go right. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.240 The Craike Ferguson Fancy Rascals Stand Up To It continues 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.280 throughout the United States in twenty twenty four. For a 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.600 full list of dates and tickets, go to the Craig 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.320 ferguson show dot Com slash Tour, see you have there? 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.360 What about writing? Did you ever write? 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:07.800 Yeah, I write I right now, that's the next evolution 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.720 of my career is that I would love to really, 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.560 you know, explore more opportunities as an actor as a director. 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.640 I think I think I found the other thing that 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.280 I could be content with doing is directing directly. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:27.680 And it's interesting because that's a very specific mindset. And yeah, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.720 I directed one I heard. Yeah, I did not care 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:35.080 for it. Why, well, I don't know. I can't really 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.640 explain it. I've had a conversations with a couple of directors. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.360 Quentin Tarantino, I was talking to you about that very thing, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.480 and I said I didn't like doing it, and he 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.480 He's like, I can't understand why a person wouldn't love directing, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.280 because of course he lives for it, you know. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.440 I said, I don't know what it is. 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.600 And he asked me a question, he said, did you 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.160 have the movie in your head before you started? And 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.080 I said yeah, and you went, well, that's that's why 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.679 you're not a director. And it's like, okay, so do 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.639 you have that do you have? Like, say, I know 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.840 exactly how I want to see it. I know exactly 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.320 how I want to feel when I'm looking at it. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.480 I want to know how the I mean, look, I 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.600 don't know if all directors have this, but I certainly don't. 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.440 I didn't feel. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.400 That right, I think, Wait, maybe it's like uh, writer directors, right, 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.520 so you write the script. So as you're writing it, 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.560 you you have the vision, right, you see how it's 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.239 going to play out. You see how the words are 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.360 going to be delivered. Your words are going to be delivered. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.720 You understand the message, the why behind yeah film? 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.439 Right, Yeah, But I mean, look, I I mean I 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.760 know not but me. But I wrote this film and 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.119 I directed this film, and I'm in this film, and I. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.119 Don't like it. I don't like it now. I feel 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.440 like it didn't turn out the way I wanted it 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:49.679 to be. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.600 I had a lot of pressure from like there was 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.760 and this is where I made my big mistake casting 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.119 you cast the wrong And what I did is I 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.000 cast myself the film and that was that was. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.720 Really fucking Why did you do that? Why? Because because 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:05.359 it was arrogant. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:06.919 I was like, I'm gonna write it, and I'm going 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.000 to direct it, and I'm gonna be in it, and 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:10.879 it was fine to write it and directed, but I 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.640 think being in it, yea was was a real piece 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.720 of vanity that that really blew up in my face. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.119 I shouldn't have done that because I can concentrate on 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.560 what I was doing. I also had a motorcycle accident 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.919 during the shoot, and I think it knocked my concentration 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.560 a bit because I broke my collar bone in three ReBs. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.879 But we didn't stop filming. I'm not good with what 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:33.879 was the movie about. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.400 It was about a rock star who like comes out 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.640 of a drug canes and finds he's a teenage daughter 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.680 he didn't know about, and it was like his kind 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:45.760 of connection. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.159 Back to her and and her mother and what happened 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.120 and stuff like that is a kind of sweet, little 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:52.480 light comedy thing that was great. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.600 Yeah, it was okay, it was It was a better 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.560 script than it was a movie, and that's what That's 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.040 what I thought, Well, I can't be a director because 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.920 it was a good script. But but I couldn't get 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.560 and I remember, actually, you know, when I think about. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.000 It, I read the script to the movie Braveheart, and 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.359 I was like, I don't get it. To get this 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:12.200 movie at all. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.800 But when I saw the movie, I went, Wow, that's great, 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.360 and I think that's mel Gibson's a really good director 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.560 and I think he saw he knew what he was 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.560 looking at and he could do it. So you write, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:30.080 you're gonna write movies? Yeah, So what kind of stuff 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.400 are you writing? What do you want to write? 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:32.400 What do you do? Well? 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.800