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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bruce. Thanks for pulling up a chair

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Speaker 1: for another bonus episode of Table for Two. Please excuse

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Speaker 1: the voice as I have a little laryngitis. But a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago we published our interview with Adrian Brody.

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Speaker 1: We had an incredible lunch, and this week we have

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Speaker 1: even more to share with you. So ahead of this

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Speaker 1: Sunday's Oscars, where our guest is nominated for Best Actor

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Speaker 1: for his role in The Brutalist, I hope you enjoy

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Speaker 1: this thoughtful and insightful lightning round with Adrian Brody. Okay,

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Speaker 1: mister Brody, So favorite.

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Speaker 2: Cocktail, uh, tequila on the rocks? Oh me too.

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Speaker 1: First big purchase when you made a chunk?

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, I didn't want to elaborate on it, but

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Speaker 2: I got a new car, and and I love cars.

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Speaker 2: I can't give you one word answers. I love cars.

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Speaker 2: I grew up building muscle cars and drags, and none

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Speaker 2: of my parents never owned a new car, and I

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Speaker 2: never owned a new car. And I bought a car

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Speaker 2: for my mom and my dad and myself. Wow, so

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Speaker 2: it was a big thing in my life.

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Speaker 3: Okay, favorite band, mob Deep, first concert.

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Speaker 2: I wish it was mob Deep, I would have. I

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Speaker 2: don't remember. I know I should remember. I mean I

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Speaker 2: really don't like mine was Wings. I'll tell you my

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Speaker 2: first connects. My first favorite band was Kiss and I had,

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Speaker 2: I Had, and I played. I was Gene Simmons for

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Speaker 2: Halloween and my mom is the best picture of me

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Speaker 2: as a little kid, like going with Geene Simmons makeup.

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Speaker 2: But I had eight tracks of Kiss and Pink Floyd

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Speaker 2: okay as a kid.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. Actor who has most influenced you?

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Speaker 2: Only one?

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Speaker 1: It could be.

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Speaker 2: Robert de Niro, Marlon Brando, al Pacino, John Case.

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Speaker 1: You can feel all of them, and you just you know,

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Speaker 1: you can feel all of them.

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Speaker 2: Man crush young Brando. I was gonna say, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean its iconic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's iconic, but anyone who isn't. Yeah. I mean

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Speaker 1: you got to think about yourself.

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Speaker 3: And the advice that keeps giving that was important on you,

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Speaker 3: or advice you want to give to keep giving.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's nice and I really appreciate you saying that

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Speaker 2: people found a degree of kindness in me, and it

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Speaker 2: all stems from having a degree of empathy, which which

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Speaker 2: I feel has been very much cultivated through my work

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I can't give you one answer or anything,

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Speaker 2: but and that all comes back to a state of

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Speaker 2: non judgment, a state of putting yourself in someone else's circumstances.

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Speaker 2: And I've had a vast life, and I've lived many

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Speaker 2: lives through these characters, and I've traveled the world many

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Speaker 2: times over. And even my references to all the most

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Speaker 2: powerful producers in the world last night is I understand

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Speaker 2: how hard it is what you're trying to accomplish. And

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Speaker 2: I appreciate what you've done, not only for yourself, which

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Speaker 2: is incredibly difficult and challenging and competitive, but what you've

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Speaker 2: done for this industry. And I've also produced and put

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Speaker 2: money in a time when I didn't have money in

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Speaker 2: a movie to fix the movie. And I've dealt with

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Speaker 2: the complexities of that side of the world that many

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Speaker 2: actors don't understand and don't realize how privileged they are

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Speaker 2: to not have to deal with those things, to just

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Speaker 2: show up and do their work work. I'm sorry to

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Speaker 2: digress on that, but it stems it speaks to a

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Speaker 2: bigger thing of everywhere you look, we're all yearning for

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Speaker 2: similar things. We all want a sense of home, we

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Speaker 2: all want to feel seen and heard. We all want

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Speaker 2: our families to be safe, we want to succeed on

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Speaker 2: our own levels, and we want to live more harmoniously.

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Speaker 2: And the way you can achieve that is through being

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Speaker 2: more harmonious in your actions as best as you can

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Speaker 2: and seeing others with the perspective of how you would

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Speaker 2: like them to see you and treat you. And even

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Speaker 2: if they're not capable of doing that, that's not personal

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Speaker 2: to you, but you are. You're responsible for your actions

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Speaker 2: and how you will engage. And that's very important and

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Speaker 2: very much a part of how I've grown up. Finally,

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Speaker 2: and that's something I credit my parents for and the many,

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Speaker 2: you know, beautiful life experiences I've had to give me perspective.

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Speaker 2: And I realized that I have quite a unique perspective

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Speaker 2: because I have this vantage point I've struggled for decades

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Speaker 2: as an actor, and I also am able to see

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Speaker 2: how people perceive me and perhaps misperceive qualities about me

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Speaker 2: from another point of view, and it allows me to

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Speaker 2: be very in touch. I'm so not out of touch

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Speaker 2: that it's wonderful. And I tell you, the big thing

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Speaker 2: is and my biggest fear was when I was amidst

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Speaker 2: that whirlwind twenty two years ago, and offers and opportunities

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Speaker 2: and you name it were being presented to me which

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Speaker 2: were never presented to me. I was afraid that I

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Speaker 2: would lose touch, right, and I in fact moved to

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Speaker 2: the countryside and bought an old place to fix up

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Speaker 2: and with a pickup truck and kind of hit away.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think it was probably the best thing

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Speaker 2: to do, but I didn't want to succumb entirely to

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Speaker 2: everything that was available.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, I understand, and I think that was the correct decision.

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Speaker 2: Probably, Yeah, I mean it was the decision, and it's

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Speaker 2: it's it's and it gets you there. It gets you there.

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Speaker 3: So if you've pulled up a chair, thank you so

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Speaker 3: much for joining us on Table for two.

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Speaker 1: Adrian, thank you, and let's do this do it? Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for pulling up a chair.

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Speaker 3: three seven Park and Airmail. Our executive producers are Bruce

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Speaker 3: Bosi and Nathan King. Our supervising producer is Dylan Fagan.

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Speaker 3: Our editors are Vincent to Johnny and Cas b Bias.

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Speaker 3: Table for two is researched and written by Jack Sullivan.

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Speaker 3: Our sound engineers are Mio B. Klein, Jess Krainich, Evan Taylor.

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Speaker 1: And Jesse Funk.

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Speaker 2: Our music supervisor is Randall Poster.

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Speaker 3: Our talent booking is done by Jane Sarkin.

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Speaker 2: Table for two's social media manager is Gracie Wiener.

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