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Speaker 1: All right. Have you ever had a job you regretted taking? Well,

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Speaker 1: imagine if that job put you in the spotlight. Whoras. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: No matter how quickly you move on, everybody can see

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Speaker 1: what you did for all time. That's the case with

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Speaker 1: some really famous movie stars like Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock,

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Speaker 1: Jacob E, Lordie, Richard Gear, and Julia Roberts. I'm Patty Steele,

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Speaker 1: stars who admit that some of their flicks really sucked,

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Speaker 1: at least in their eyes. That's next on the backstory.

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Speaker 1: The backstory is back, Okay, admit it. You have taken

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Speaker 1: a job you're not particularly proud to put on your resume, right,

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Speaker 1: Maybe you thought it would be something different than it

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Speaker 1: turned out to be. Maybe somebody talked you into taking it,

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Speaker 1: or maybe you just needed the money. Honestly, I think

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Speaker 1: there are very very few of us who've loved and

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Speaker 1: been proud of every job we've had. And that's okay.

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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I took some jobs in

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Speaker 1: radio and also making commercials. And I look back now

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Speaker 1: and I sometimes run into old audio and video from

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Speaker 1: those days. That makes me kind of grip my teeth.

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Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to see or hear. I remember

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Speaker 1: doing a commercial for a little haircare company where they

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Speaker 1: didn't like the way my bangs hung down over my face,

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Speaker 1: so they just walked up with a pair of scissors

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Speaker 1: and without a word, snipped a full inch off one

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Speaker 1: side of my head. Yeah. In another case, I took

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Speaker 1: a late night job on the radio with a really touchy,

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Speaker 1: feelly boss I had to hide from, and on top

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Speaker 1: of it, I was playing music I had no passion for.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, those jobs and others like them

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Speaker 1: paid the bills until I began getting offers for jobs

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Speaker 1: that I really loved. Well, imagine you're Sandra Bullock. She

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Speaker 1: had just crashed onto the Hollywood scene in her first blockbuster,

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Speaker 1: Speed with Keanu Reeves voila instant movie star. Right then

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Speaker 1: came time for the sequel, and Sandra says I should

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Speaker 1: have known not to do it. When Keanu opted out

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Speaker 1: of it. She went on to make what is regularly

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Speaker 1: considered to be the worst blockbuster sequel of all time,

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Speaker 1: as well as the worst action film of all time,

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Speaker 1: Speed two Cruise Control. In it, Sandra and her new

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Speaker 1: costar Jason Patrick try to stop their cruise ship from

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Speaker 1: crashing into an oil tanker after an angry ex employee

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Speaker 1: of the boat takes control. The original Speed has a

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Speaker 1: ninety five on Rotten Tomatoes, while Speed two has a

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Speaker 1: pathetic four. Yeah you heard me four. Sandra says. No

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Speaker 1: one went to see that movie, and I'm still embarrassed

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Speaker 1: I was in it. It makes no sense. Slow boat

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Speaker 1: slowly going toward an island. Duh. Brad Pitt has been

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Speaker 1: able to write his own ticket almost since he first

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Speaker 1: popped on movie screens in nineteen ninety one's Thelma and Louise.

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Speaker 1: He went on to make more early hits like A

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Speaker 1: River Runs Through It, Legends of the Fall, and Ocean's

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Speaker 1: Eleven and all those Ocean sequels, but that didn't prevent

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Speaker 1: him from making a few sucky choices. In particular, in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, he made The Devil's Own with Harrison Ford.

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Speaker 1: Says Brad, I thought it could be a good movie,

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Speaker 1: but it was ridiculous, irresponsible filmmaking. If he can't even

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Speaker 1: call it that. We had nothing. It was a victim

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Speaker 1: of this drowning studio head who said, I don't care,

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Speaker 1: We're making it shoot something. Brad tried to get out

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Speaker 1: of his contract a week before filming started, but the

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Speaker 1: studio said he would have to pay them sixty three

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Speaker 1: million dollars to walk away, so he made it. It

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Speaker 1: wound up with a Measley thirty seven on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Speaker 1: Then there's the Australian heart throb Jacob el Lordy. He

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Speaker 1: was just twenty years old when he got his big

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Speaker 1: break making the first The Kissing Booth movie for Netflix

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. He plays a high school bad boy

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Speaker 1: who's crushing on a girl in school when she opens

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Speaker 1: a kissing booth at the school carnival. Now the problem

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Speaker 1: is it was such a huge hit. They did two

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Speaker 1: sequels and he had to do them, and he couldn't

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Speaker 1: wait to be done with them, says Jacob. I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to make any of those movies. Before I made

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Speaker 1: any of those movies, those movies are ridiculous, not universal,

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Speaker 1: They're just an escape. He went on to star in Euphoria,

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Speaker 1: Saltburn and in Priscilla, where he plays Elvis Presley. Eddie

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Speaker 1: Murphy made a comedy in two thousand and two called

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Speaker 1: Pluto Nash that was a major bomb. It cost one

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Speaker 1: at the box office. Eddie says he's only met two

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Speaker 1: or three people who actually liked the flick, and he said,

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Speaker 1: when he needs a good cry, I watched Pluto Nash

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Speaker 1: and that breaks me down. That breaks me all the

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Speaker 1: way down. Charlie's then called her two thousand and seven movie,

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Speaker 1: Reindeer Games, which she started in with Ben Flick, a bad,

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Speaker 1: bad movie. Woody Allen hated his movie Manhattan so much

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Speaker 1: when it was finished he begged the studio not to

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Speaker 1: release it, and he blamed himself. The studio said, you're nuts.

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Speaker 1: was actually a huge success. Go figure. Alec Baldwin starred

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Speaker 1: in the movie musical Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise,

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Speaker 1: Catherine Zada Jones, and Paul Giamatti. He says, despite that

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Speaker 1: great cast, he soon realized it was gonna suck, and

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Speaker 1: he remembers thinking, this is a complete disaster. I was

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Speaker 1: just like a week in and I thought, oh God,

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Speaker 1: what have I done. Channing Tatum is a little more

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Speaker 1: blunt when it comes to his least favorite movie. Early on,

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Speaker 1: make Gi Joe The Rise of Cobra. He loved Gi

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Speaker 1: Joe when he was a kid, So what could go wrong? Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: he says, now, I'll be honest, I epping hate that movie. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Then there are two movies I personally love and I

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Speaker 1: was devastated when their star said they hated making them.

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Speaker 1: One was nineteen sixty five's The Sound of Music, Christopher

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Speaker 1: the most beloved movie musicals ever made, but Christopher never

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Speaker 1: got it, and he said The Sound of Music was

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Speaker 1: the toughest role for me because it was so awful

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Speaker 1: and sentimental and gooey. I had to work terribly hard

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Speaker 1: to try and infuse some minuscule bit of humor into it. Wow,

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Speaker 1: Captain von Trapp. But The Sound of Music did go

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Speaker 1: on to win five Oscars, including Best Picture, and was

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Speaker 1: one of the most financially successful films of all time.

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Speaker 1: And this is going to shock you. I mean, who

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Speaker 1: doesn't love the nineteen ninety flick Pretty Woman. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you who. Both Julia Roberts and her co star Richard

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Speaker 1: I mean wow. Richard called Pretty Woman his least favorite

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Speaker 1: thing I've tried to forget it. It was a silly,

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Speaker 1: romantic comedy. He said. His wealthy businessman character makes guys

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Speaker 1: like that seem dashing, which is so wrong. Today, he says,

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Speaker 1: we're all more skeptical of those kinds of guys, and

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Speaker 1: Julia simply says, I thought it would be darker and

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Speaker 1: grittier when I first read the script. I had absolutely

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Speaker 1: no business being in a movie like that. It is

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Speaker 1: all kind of hindsight, and truthfully, in a lot of cases,

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Speaker 1: these movies, like them or not, made these stars their careers,

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Speaker 1: and they made them a bundle of money. But think

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Speaker 1: about this. If we were all able to remove the

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Speaker 1: survival instinct from the equation and simply concentrate on what

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Speaker 1: we do as a passion project or an intellectual challenge

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Speaker 1: or a work of art, they've given the chance for

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Speaker 1: a do over, would any of us have chosen the

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Speaker 1: path we actually took. I hope you're enjoying the backstory

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