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Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Elvis Duran in the Morning Show. Do you know we

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Speaker 2: love what we do. We get to meet the most

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Speaker 2: interesting people, make friends along the way. Yeah. So when

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Speaker 2: we heard we had an opportunity for yar Ashihidi to

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Speaker 2: come visit us to talk about tinker Bell, which she

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Speaker 2: is in, which premieres this Friday on Disney Plus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Peana Pan and Wendy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But look, you know she has quite the list.

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Speaker 2: I mean, starting with Blackhish and then her character Zoe

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Speaker 2: rolled over to Grownish, now tinker Bell. This is interesting.

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Speaker 2: If you grow up as a little girl and you

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Speaker 2: read little stories or bedtime stories whatever you'd ever dream

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Speaker 2: in a millionaires, one day you're going to play that character.

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Speaker 3: So cool, what's the best ever?

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Speaker 2: But when you do that, play that character, you make

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Speaker 2: it your character. So we have to talk to Yara

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Speaker 2: about that. Is she ready to go?

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Speaker 4: She?

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Speaker 2: Is it time for love? All right? Interview lounge, Thank

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Speaker 2: you for coming over, Nice to see you. Is it

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Speaker 2: nerve wracking just walking into a room full of people

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Speaker 2: you don't know, Like, okay, we're on there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of which button issue on here? Here we go. There

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Speaker 2: you are. I found your button, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's so good to see you.

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Speaker 4: Good to see you.

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Speaker 2: And when we heard we heard about Peter Pan and

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Speaker 2: Wendy on Disney plus this this Friday, We're like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: even an old, cranky guy like me, I can relate.

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Speaker 2: It's been around that long. I mean, the story has

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Speaker 2: But when they say, hey, would you like to audition

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Speaker 2: or would you like the part of tinker Bell? Your

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Speaker 2: first thought is.

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Speaker 4: What My first thought was, Oh, you're joking, Like, I

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Speaker 4: don't know. I think the thing is it came so

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Speaker 4: out of the blue. We were in the middle of

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Speaker 4: the pandemic, we hadn't even gone back to shooting grown

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Speaker 4: Ish that when you get a call and you have

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Speaker 4: like three of your agents on, it's like, oh, tinker Bell,

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Speaker 4: question mark. I don't know if I even assessed it

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Speaker 4: And then I got really exciting because it was just

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Speaker 4: a real full circle moment. I mean, when do you

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Speaker 4: get to play a faery?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Why do every day?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, don't you have to audition for it or did

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Speaker 1: they just say we want you.

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Speaker 4: It was an offer, but it was. It started with

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Speaker 4: really just a series of conversations, so they'd reached out.

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Speaker 4: But then I ended up talking to the director, David Lowry,

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Speaker 4: and that was so fun. I was in the middle

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Speaker 4: of taking an Old English class and he was in

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Speaker 4: the middle of wrapping up The Green Night, so we

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Speaker 4: ended up having a lot to talk about in regards

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Speaker 4: to Old English.

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Speaker 2: I needed to take an Old English class, I do.

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Speaker 4: Okay, it's crazy because people think it's Middle English, but

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Speaker 4: it's like a different l language.

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Speaker 2: There's a middle language. You've lost us.

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Speaker 4: No, it's really It was my hardest class at Harvard.

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Speaker 2: I have to say, Harvard, we'll talk about it though.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you get good pizza there, so you can't.

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Speaker 2: You cannot complain. But I know so old English. I mean,

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Speaker 4: All I remember is the phrase the King said, which

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Speaker 3: That's not English.

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Speaker 2: It's a different language anyway, it's more English than the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, neither here nor there, But anyway, we had a

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Speaker 4: because you just get two nerds on the phone.

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Speaker 2: I know, but how fabulous because there's it's there's it's

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Speaker 2: take a shower and you have your private shower moments,

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Speaker 2: like those moments where your head just kind of meanders

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely. I think was initially nervous because they

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I think it was a moment of excitement

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those shower moments. We should not be allowed those.

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Speaker 2: So how did you do on the set today? Yard, Well,

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Speaker 2: I flew into a ball. Didn't have to do that

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Speaker 3: I feel like your life is fascinating and amazing in

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Speaker 3: a life that I would want. You started, obviously with Blackish,

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Speaker 3: and then you transition to Grownish, so you've grown up

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Speaker 3: on TV, and then you go to Harvard. Are people

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Speaker 3: Or is it like a we're at Harvard, we're all coders.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, I think it's kind of the latter. People are

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Speaker 4: my props for like, oh cool, congrats you're the Tinkerbell

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Speaker 4: Well that was happening. So yeah, and so yeah, people

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Speaker 4: really more so that everyone has their own thing going on,

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Speaker 4: I'd be out there waving at folks, try to make friends. Yo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but an experience, and it's you're still

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Speaker 2: ready to go?

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Speaker 1: Michelle Obama wrote your recommendation letter like it's just like

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Speaker 1: Can you help me out?

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Speaker 4: So did my ap CALC teacher. I notably was the

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Speaker 2: Everyone here is going ap col.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I tried to forget all of that.

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Speaker 1: Now you friends with the Obamas.

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Speaker 4: I mean friendly. I think it was really wonderful. In

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Speaker 4: so you know, I was in DC quite often. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: what a lovely family. I think. What's so funny we

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Speaker 4: always note the fact that we never met Sasha and

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Speaker 4: be at these events, but they were always in school,

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Speaker 4: and it wasn't until we were actually like in class

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Speaker 2: So don't start with me.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't a threat. It was more so very exciting.

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Speaker 2: You know. During my travels recently we took last week off,

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Speaker 2: I was in Europe and you go to the bookstores.

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Speaker 4: Very wait do they have pigs for that?

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Speaker 2: Is that they used dogs. They used trouble dogs, and

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Speaker 4: What kind of breed is a truffle dog? It is?

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Speaker 2: It sounds bougie on this, but when you're there, when

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Speaker 2: I mean when they took they took the truffles, our

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Speaker 2: one of the things I loved about travel is going

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Speaker 2: to the bookstores in the airports and showed Obama's book

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Speaker 2: still right there under best sellers around the world.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and so we carry.

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Speaker 2: Exactly and you know, her message even during Obama's uh

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Speaker 2: always thought that was just pretty strong to know that

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Speaker 2: she wrote a recommendation for you, I mean, congratulations, thank you.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Yara Shahidi is here. Yara is of

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Speaker 2: course tinker Bell and Peter Pan and Wendy, which premieres

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Speaker 2: Disney plus this fry. Okay, let's talk about tinker Bell

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Speaker 2: because this is the story we all grew up with

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Speaker 2: and I never really stopped to think, hmmm, who was

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, have you read any of the conspiracy theories

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Speaker 3: Yeah, think about this. That's why none of the kids

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Speaker 1: Of course, this is not true that Now she's like,

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Speaker 2: Everything, but when you see the story, when you hear

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Speaker 2: that were nowhere near you know, the Prince of Death.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there are great issues about it, like and

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean I think that was the interesting thing.

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Speaker 4: There's a really interesting storyline about families in it.

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Speaker 1: And there's the Lost Girls now too.

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Speaker 2: different layers of Tinkerbell, what do they all add up to?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think for a long time, tinker Bell has

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Speaker 2: Of course, Peter Pan and Wendy is premiering on Disney

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm always that type of person. But what I

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Speaker 2: And this weekend, let's all strive to leave a trail

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Speaker 4: Yes I always see, Yeah, I know, I.

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Speaker 2: Try every weekend.

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Speaker 1: Make that.

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Speaker 2: Michal. It is such an honor to have you here.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Y Are Shahiti. Your story is sounds as magical as

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Speaker 2: have some fun watching, and thank you for coming to

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