Speaker 1: We have a Friday Night Girls Night sponsored this evening.
Speaker 1: It's a movie that you're gonna want to see this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's titled Forever My Girl on My Kids and I
Speaker 1: My family and I had a sneak peek last week.
Speaker 1: It's opening in theaters tonight. It's a wonderful story about love,
Speaker 1: about overcoming bad choices, about being redeemed. It's called Forever
Speaker 1: My Girl. It's in theaters this weekend. We loved it.
Speaker 1: It's got a great soundtrack attached to Forever My Girl.
Speaker 1: Is this Alex Hi, Alex, I have a confession to
Speaker 1: make its Confession Session. We do this on my radio show,
Speaker 1: Confession Session. I got the premiere, a preview copy of
Speaker 1: your movie, and I watched it with my teenage daughters. Right, So,
Speaker 1: so you broke the rules, is what you did? Well?
Speaker 1: Know what I did is I created monsters. Because they're
Speaker 1: now like, oh my god, Mom, Oh my god, mom,
Speaker 1: can you get that guy on the radio? Please? Oh please,
Speaker 1: please please please? Can you talk to him on the radio? Please? Amazing?
Speaker 1: That's what their names. Should we give them a shout
Speaker 1: you should you should give a shout out to Blessing,
Speaker 1: to bridget to angel to my niece Teresa c C. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you really created a few fans for me there.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. You are absolutely adorable. I I
Speaker 1: just my little heart went pitter pat as I watched
Speaker 1: the movie. And what is the name of the little girl,
Speaker 1: the actress that played your daughter in the movie. Her
Speaker 1: name is Wright a fourth to them, and she is
Speaker 1: She's incredible. She's so funny, and yeah, she's so smart.
Speaker 1: You know, you know when you find a kid that's like,
Speaker 1: she's eight years old, but she's she's like, I feel
Speaker 1: like she's smarter than me, and I feel like I
Speaker 1: can't let her know. And the energy between the two
Speaker 1: of you was dartling. I believed it. I mean I
Speaker 1: believed that that the relationship, the way that it just
Speaker 1: developed naturally, it was very well done, very believable. So
Speaker 1: kudos to both of you. Thank you. Yeah, she's I
Speaker 1: was very lucky that she was done to improvise and uh,
Speaker 1: and I was kind of figuring out how I've never
Speaker 1: worked with a with a child actor before, so I
Speaker 1: was trying to as Liam was kind of figuring out
Speaker 1: how to how to kind of be a father of
Speaker 1: some sort. I was trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: how to act without me. So it was kind of
Speaker 1: this uh yeah, there was. I think it. I think
Speaker 1: it made the chemistry good on the screen because I
Speaker 1: was trying to figure it out as I was going off.
Speaker 1: So is it true you did not sing before this movie?
Speaker 1: Because I thought when I saw it, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: just a really cute, young, hot country singer, and they are,
Speaker 1: you know, using this movie to get how good he
Speaker 1: is out there. And then I'm like, no, no, he's
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not even from the South. He's not
Speaker 1: even Southern. He's British. And I also, yeah, I've never
Speaker 1: I've never really sung in public before, to be honest,
Speaker 1: this was the first audition I've ever gone to where
Speaker 1: I was actually singing um And yeah, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit of a closeted singer and
Speaker 1: didn't more we broke that closet door down. But yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was really lucky that I got to work
Speaker 1: with this guy called Brett boy Yett who's been in
Speaker 1: the country scene for quite a while, and he really
Speaker 1: showed me who to listen to. I was listening to
Speaker 1: some Ducks Bentley and some Brett eld Rich and I
Speaker 1: listened to a little bit of Chris Stapleton, but realized
Speaker 1: that I definitely couldn't sing like Chris Stapleton. Um and yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of focused more on on on other on other types.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, I yeah, I had to work
Speaker 1: really hard to try and sound like I could actually
Speaker 1: sing country. I wish I could tell you that it
Speaker 1: just like came really easily to me, but it didn't.
Speaker 1: It was hard work. It was hard work. And the
Speaker 1: little girl was it hard work for her as well?
Speaker 1: Was that really her voice when you two were doing
Speaker 1: the duet, Yeah, that was really her voice. Yes, she
Speaker 1: learned how to she learned how to play the banjo.
Speaker 1: She was she and her voices has incredibly cute too.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of practice sessions together and she
Speaker 1: was great on stage. She wasn't like crazy nervous or anything.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was it was a good bonding experience
Speaker 1: for us to to learn the song together. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you nailed it. It was Darling. Loved the movie. Cute story,
Speaker 1: sweet romance. Wonderful to see the evolution of your character
Speaker 1: from kind of a jerk. Yeah, I just I feel
Speaker 1: like it's we've We've had a lot of screening and
Speaker 1: stuff around the country, and like families have been going
Speaker 1: to see it, and they're coming out with the kids
Speaker 1: from with like various ages from like teenagers to like
Speaker 1: five six years old, and they've enjoyed it all for
Speaker 1: different reasons. I like singing along to the songs and stuff.
Speaker 1: And then you've got like couples that are going to
Speaker 1: see it and they've had a great date night. And
Speaker 1: then you've got friends that are going in, like hordes
Speaker 1: of friends going to see it. And Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: it's cool to make a movie that like it seems
Speaker 1: to have quite a wide reach, you know that a
Speaker 1: lot of people seem to be enjoying for different reasons. Well,
Speaker 1: we have all age groups, my nine year old, my teenagers,
Speaker 1: my young adults, and and me who's kind of out
Speaker 1: of all of those categories, and we all loved it.
Speaker 1: It's darling, just very very sweet. Like you said, really
Speaker 1: good family movie would be a fun date. Uh. But
Speaker 1: I was just really um impressed when I found out
Speaker 1: that this that that you weren't a music artist, that
Speaker 1: they were just giving a movie to, that you're an
Speaker 1: actor that learned how to sing and play like that.
Speaker 1: I was very impressed. Yeah, that means a lot of
Speaker 1: your opinion on that means a lot. That my dad
Speaker 1: was in a country band. My dad was the lead
Speaker 1: guitarist and singer in the country band my whole life
Speaker 1: growing up. And we're talking old school country, you know,
Speaker 1: like bucko On's in the Buckaroos and like I walk
Speaker 1: the line, that kind of country. So you know, I
Speaker 1: grew up on it. That was the first genre I heard.
Speaker 1: And uh, And I'm very impressed with you, young man.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what you do next. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. I really Yeah, that means that means
Speaker 1: a lot coming from you, Alex. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for taking time to talk to us on the Delilah Show.
Speaker 1: Good luck with Forever My Girl. This is the perfect
Speaker 1: movie to slip out to with your best friends, your girlfriends.
Speaker 1: It's opening in theaters tonight. It's got a great soundtrack
Speaker 1: attached to Forever My Girl. You're listening to the line
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