Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome Sho Murray joy
Speaker 1: not Sean May Joyna. Welcome to the show. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, so good to have you here. You you
Speaker 1: are experiencing a trajectory that few people have ever experienced. Obviously,
Speaker 1: people love you on Cobra Kai. You know, every outlet
Speaker 1: from a news all the way through to like every
Speaker 1: publication online is just like you all. I think I
Speaker 1: read somewhere they said you are the Internet's boyfriend. The
Speaker 1: Internet's boyfriend. Okay, that's I haven't heard that one before.
Speaker 1: I should have heard it either. Maybe wrote that maybe
Speaker 1: she was she was. I think maybe she was putting
Speaker 1: in a good word for me. But you really are
Speaker 1: having a great run. Congratulations. I mean Cobra was the
Speaker 1: season five now season five? Yeah, yeah, I hope we
Speaker 1: get to do an it seems like five season to
Speaker 1: see that you will. It's a very popular show. I've
Speaker 1: always wondered this, you know, because the show is so popular.
Speaker 1: I grew up watching The Karate Kid, right, and then
Speaker 1: I see this show and then you're on it, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you weren't even alive when The Karate Kid
Speaker 1: came out. I was barely alive. When the Jaden Smith
Speaker 1: one came out, I know I had seen it though,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's pivotal, Okay, yeah, like everyone has
Speaker 1: seen it, right I I yeah, it's it definitely. Is
Speaker 1: is something that only until the show had released did
Speaker 1: I realize was so close to so many people's hearts.
Speaker 1: It's like it's it's it's part of the law, it's
Speaker 1: part of you know, it went around the world. It's
Speaker 1: like they got their own Marvel Cinematic universe. They're bringing
Speaker 1: people from the past there. Yeah, there, it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like that. Let's talk a little bit about the show itself.
Speaker 1: You know, you you you're learning martial arts and everything.
Speaker 1: You're learning your characters. Do you do you actually learn
Speaker 1: because I like how people get to learn the stuff
Speaker 1: on the shows they're doing. Can you fight? I can fight? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can fight. Well, I think
Speaker 1: if I were to be in the fight in real life,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, can you throw it with the other hand?
Speaker 1: I'd only know how to block it on this Yeah,
Speaker 1: if there's a camera, I'll beat you up right now,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly exactly. But uh, you know, I was very
Speaker 1: fortunate that the character didn't know karate either at the beginning,
Speaker 1: so I was able to play it along. Like I
Speaker 1: remember being in the chemistry read and and faking that
Speaker 1: I couldn't do a push up, and they were like,
Speaker 1: this guy is hilarious, this guy's these guys are a
Speaker 1: guy And I was like, this timing, But now you've
Speaker 1: gotten better, but now I can do a push up. Yes, um,
Speaker 1: you know the show was beloved. You are also somebody
Speaker 1: who people are getting to know. You've You've You've had
Speaker 1: a really interesting journey. I mean, you started acting at
Speaker 1: the age of ten. I believe, like, how are you normal?
Speaker 1: I as honestly, I feel like a lot of child
Speaker 1: stars aren't well adjusted, and as they grow up they
Speaker 1: become they become like and I understand what happens to them.
Speaker 1: I'm blaming them. But you seem normal. You know. I
Speaker 1: met your mom. She's great, and she's like you all, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's normal as well, you know, I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I went to a public school most of my life.
Speaker 1: I like, I I even in high school. I was
Speaker 1: I kept along with the curriculum. I was in a
Speaker 1: regular high school. I I and my my core group
Speaker 1: of friends are the friends that I've had for the
Speaker 1: longest time, I think. And I was also really blessed
Speaker 1: that Cobra Kai blew up over the pandemic. So I
Speaker 1: wasn't I wasn't out and about. There wasn't like walking
Speaker 1: around with you know, the stranger things kids like, oh god,
Speaker 1: take pictures. It was it was I was at home, like,
Speaker 1: oh man, going to Trader Jones with my mask, like
Speaker 1: you guys, do you know? Yeah, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: been so cool to see you your rise, because I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously Cobra Kai's gate, but now I mean to be
Speaker 1: a superhero. This is this is almost everyone's dream. You know.
Speaker 1: DC tapped you as the Blue Beetle, which is historic.
Speaker 1: And what's so impressive is that you they can't ask
Speaker 1: you too audition for the role. No, I think, you know.
Speaker 1: I was very fortunate. I had met the director on him, Manto,
Speaker 1: Who's who's you know. I I give him credit for
Speaker 1: all of this because he really believed in me. And uh.
Speaker 1: I had met him at at Sundance a few years
Speaker 1: prior to the movie, and and I guess I left
Speaker 1: somewhat of an impression. And he had watched the show,
Speaker 1: and he was like, I think this is perfect. And
Speaker 1: obviously we had had conversations. It wasn't like I got
Speaker 1: a call like you got it, you're the guy, and
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, that would that would be okay.
Speaker 1: A package got sensed with the scaup no no, no um.
Speaker 1: But we had conversations about it, and I think we
Speaker 1: were really on the same page with what the movie.
Speaker 1: What the movie meant, you know, not only to myself
Speaker 1: and him, but to the greater community, the greater uh
Speaker 1: you know, Brown community community, and and we're on the
Speaker 1: same page. So we're like, let's do it. It means
Speaker 1: so much the community. It also means so much just
Speaker 1: see somebody as young as you in an industry that
Speaker 1: for so long was defined in a certain way, redefining
Speaker 1: what that industry is, you know, I wanted to even
Speaker 1: beyond how people perceive you, how do you process the
Speaker 1: world that you in, you know, with social media, with
Speaker 1: all these things, because the previous generation of actors and
Speaker 1: and celebrities didn't have to deal with that. Do you
Speaker 1: have a find that there's a lot of pressure to
Speaker 1: be in two worlds. You can't just focus on what
Speaker 1: you do. You have to focus on how people see
Speaker 1: you online or is that just part of your life. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think it definitely is something to think about. But
Speaker 1: also I'd like to have fun. I like I, I
Speaker 1: definitely have a big proponent of like, you can't you
Speaker 1: can't take yourself too seriously like I, I would love
Speaker 1: to do Vogue and stuff like that. But also I
Speaker 1: pull out my but cheeks all the time, like I. I.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely a normal twenty one year old. And I
Speaker 1: and my family was super like they are also always
Speaker 1: like just you're also a kid, like you can be
Speaker 1: a kid and that's okay. And and obviously there's a
Speaker 1: sense of professionalism that comes with being in this industry,
Speaker 1: but that all kind of came naturally working around adults
Speaker 1: all the time. And the first show that I ever
Speaker 1: worked on for a couple of years, uh, was the
Speaker 1: show called Parentet, and I was around only adults, so
Speaker 1: it was it was kind of odd being around like
Speaker 1: Ray Romano or these guys, and I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're we're having regular conversations. Yeah, these are my co workers.
Speaker 1: And then I would go back to school, like nobody
Speaker 1: would believe me because nobody as a middle school or
Speaker 1: watched Parenthood. They were like, so they were like, my
Speaker 1: mom's cry to you, but I don't. I don't know this.
Speaker 1: So I I was, you know, with the social media,
Speaker 1: I've been able to uh kind of just do me.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like, I think that's a great
Speaker 1: modo for life. It's like, you know, do what you do,
Speaker 1: work really hard, but always remember to pull your butt
Speaker 1: cheeks out, always remember to pull your buchias out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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