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Speaker 1: One to two point seven Kiss FM.

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Speaker 2: Well, Zindeia is here as expected, punctual to the minute, Yes,

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Speaker 2: on time, try I try, I mean a well oiled machine.

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Speaker 2: This show and our guests, so Zindia. We were actually

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Speaker 2: just reminiscing before we get into life as you know

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Speaker 2: it right now. We were reminiscing about the first time

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Speaker 2: that you were here in the studio on this show,

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Speaker 2: and it was twenty twelve. Oh wow, it was twenty twelve.

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Speaker 2: It was you and Bella Thorne and I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: play a little clip of it because you had.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, it's not it's great.

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Speaker 2: The clip is great because you had wisdom and a

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Speaker 2: vision at fifteen years old when you were here. Listen

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Speaker 2: to Zendaia from twenty The Zendaa you know from the

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Speaker 2: billboard I drive past all the time is z Indaya

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Speaker 2: twenty twelve.

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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: It opens up a lot of doors for you to

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Speaker 3: do what you've always wanted to do. And it's not

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Speaker 3: just like we're going out there and doing acting. There's

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Speaker 3: other things. There's other platforms that we're able to step

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Speaker 3: onto and join. And I think everyone has their own

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Speaker 3: career path and me and Bella. Have had an amazing

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Speaker 3: time so far, and I just can't wait to grow

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Speaker 3: up and just have fun.

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Speaker 1: So you knew exactly about this movie back then.

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Speaker 3: Grow up and have fun not what we all want.

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Speaker 3: I wish it was that simple, right.

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Speaker 1: Does it seem like that was so long ago?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah, that was that was I mean I was

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Speaker 3: a baby, you know, and now I'm knocking on thirty,

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Speaker 3: so it's a little bit it's different.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you got your past? What like?

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Speaker 2: Did you visualize I mean, obviously that's very young, but

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Speaker 2: when you're in early twenties, do you sort of visualize

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Speaker 2: a path for the different things creatively that you wanted

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Speaker 2: to do, the things you wanted to accomplish, or how

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think when you're when you're younger. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's I think for me it's

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Speaker 3: I had a you know, like a it's a complicated

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Speaker 3: you don't really exactly know what you're signing up for,

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Speaker 3: you know, but you're just doing it and it's it's

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Speaker 3: hard to think about, you know, much else because you're

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Speaker 3: a kid, you know, you're just doing what you do

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Speaker 3: and every day. You know, days are longer because it's

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Speaker 3: it's a it's a smaller portion of your life at

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Speaker 3: that time. You know, a bigger portion of your life

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Speaker 3: at that time, you know, and as you get older.

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Speaker 3: I think for me, it's been more about you know,

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Speaker 3: your your purpose changing, right, It's like you know, when

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Speaker 3: you're a kid, you don't really have that insight yet,

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Speaker 3: but I think over time, just wanting to be happy

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Speaker 3: searching for that things that stretch you and and push

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Speaker 3: You just you just grow and you find out what's

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Speaker 2: Well you've definitely found something in Challengers that has resonated

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Speaker 2: as the number one movie in America. Congratulations. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: so you you you hear about this. You read a

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Speaker 2: script that like that initial moment for you and Challengers,

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Speaker 2: What was it? And how did you know this was

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Speaker 2: something that struck you in a unique way.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was just like it jumped out of

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Speaker 3: brilliantly written, and it was it almost felt like every

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Speaker 3: this intense back and forth, and these characters were so

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Speaker 3: I was saying before, is like, you know, wanting to

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Speaker 3: have jobs or take roles that that push you creatively

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Speaker 3: and inspire you and sometimes scare you a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And I think that this character definitely did that, and

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Speaker 1: Have fun, you know. Is that part of it too, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's part of it too, But yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: it was just yeah, I mean the script. It starts

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Speaker 3: and I'd want to work with him for you know,

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Speaker 3: many years, and being a fan of his work, and

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Speaker 3: something new that he had hadn't quite taken on before.

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Speaker 3: And there was like a clear vision from the beginning

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Speaker 3: so I don't know, it's just like all the pieces

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Speaker 1: Today is on with us here.

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Speaker 2: What do you when you're always say when you're in

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Speaker 2: the wild, like when you're out in the wild, like

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Speaker 2: you're in real life, real world, what a fan say

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Speaker 2: to you? Like, what is something that they bring up?

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Speaker 2: What are the kinds of things that they can't wait

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Speaker 2: to tell you or say?

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Speaker 3: You know. The beautiful thing is it really changes every day.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday at the airport, so I was like, oh, I

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Speaker 3: just saw Dune like I loved it, you know. Or

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Speaker 3: someone will say, oh, my kids are obsessed with the

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Speaker 3: Greatest Showman. You know. It's like they won't stop playing

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Speaker 3: kind of emotional connections to her or the guy literally

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Speaker 3: in TSA, like as I was going through, he was like,

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Speaker 3: just saw Challengers and it was me and Darnel, who

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Speaker 3: was like my brother and my assistant as well, who's

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Speaker 3: also in the film, and he's like, you guys did

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Speaker 3: a great job, you know.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, so that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome. You know. It's it's cool to see how people,

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Speaker 3: how so many different people, how art can connect you

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Speaker 3: to so many different people and what resonates with them

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Speaker 3: in their life, and that's, you know, incredibly special to me.

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Speaker 1: That's why going through the airport can be fun.

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Speaker 2: Hearing things like that, right, it can be stressful, but

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Speaker 2: when you get that from storry like this was well

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Speaker 2: worth waiting in line and going through everything, well, then

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Speaker 2: day here Challengers in theaters now, it's great to see you.

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Speaker 2: Continued success, really really happening. We'll be watching the met

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Speaker 2: gala as well. We'll see you there, yeah, and we'll

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Speaker 2: see well, we won't see you there, we'll see we'll

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Speaker 2: see you there.

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Speaker 1: When I say we'll see you there, we'll see pictures

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Speaker 1: of you there.

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Speaker 3: We'll see pictures of you there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, take care, thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Good to see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you.

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Speaker 2: Challengers in theaters now. If you haven't seen that, do

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Speaker 2: check it out.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about it.

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Speaker 2: It's the one I want to say about Billy Otis.

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Speaker 2: Take us next, and we are into Ryan's roses