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Speaker 1: Welcome to fearlessly Failing hot Seat. In this EPP, I

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Speaker 1: fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not so good

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Speaker 1: at the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the hot seat. Oh my god, I'm terrified.

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Speaker 1: Don't please, don't be It's so much fun. If you

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Speaker 1: answer longer than a hot seat totally fine as well.

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Speaker 1: I always think it's so tricky of me to ask

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Speaker 1: beautiful actors or acting teachers, acting coaches these kind of questions,

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Speaker 1: said Leslie Khann.

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Speaker 2: Is an honor to have you here today. Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: thank you. I'm terrified.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite movie or a movie you

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Speaker 1: can always watch on repeat?

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Speaker 3: You know that kind of No, I can't watch anything

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Speaker 3: on repeat, but I will say, I don't know that

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Speaker 3: it's my favorite movie.

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Speaker 2: But the end of the original Planet of the Apps.

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Speaker 3: That's probably why we're sitting here having this conversation today. Really,

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Speaker 3: I was very little we saw it in a movie theater.

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Speaker 3: I was sitting next to my father and if you

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Speaker 3: guys haven't seen it, you need to see it. And

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Speaker 3: at the end, I'm not going to At the end,

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Speaker 3: there was a scene and I turned to my father

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Speaker 3: and I had to be five or six, and I

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Speaker 3: said to him, Daddy, does that mean? And he turned

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Speaker 3: to me and he went, yes, Lessie Fressi, it does.

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Speaker 3: And I have It's so many years later, and I

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Speaker 3: have chills now from that unbelievable surprise. And you know,

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Speaker 3: we talk a lot about reversal and surprise and Aristotle

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Speaker 3: and petitpetia here. That was probably my first conscious experience

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Speaker 3: of a cinematic moment of unbelievable surprise.

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Speaker 2: And I live for it. I live for it.

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Speaker 1: I just have one of the actives from the New

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Speaker 1: Planet of the Apes on the park and they all

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Speaker 1: got trained by Suris like Andy Serkis came back on board,

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Speaker 1: trained them on like having because he had all weights

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Speaker 1: on his I think he wasn't obviously it wasn't in

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Speaker 1: the original, but he was Caesar three biggies, Yeah, wow,

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Speaker 1: all cast out of here shot in Australia. Wow. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what about a play because I know you're theatrically trained,

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Speaker 1: and you mentioned yesterday beautiful Tennessee Williams and cat on

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Speaker 1: a hot tin roof my favorite I'm a Maggie.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, I'm sure I'm going to regret this, but

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Speaker 3: I cannot again say that I have a favorite play,

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Speaker 3: but I I probably have a favorite moment in the theater.

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Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 3: There was a play by Landford Wilson called Barman Gilead

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Speaker 3: and they did it at Circle in the Square, No

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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think it was called Circle in

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Speaker 3: the Square at the time, which was in New York

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Speaker 3: in the village right at Christopher Street and Greenwich. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was a little theater and Steppenwall Theater Company did it.

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Speaker 3: And there's a moment in the play again toward the

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Speaker 3: end that shocked me so much that I feel it

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Speaker 3: here yes today. And that was I was in my twenties,

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Speaker 3: So that's a couple of years ago, you guys, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: just a couple and I'll never forget that moment in

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Speaker 3: the theater and how I feel it even today. Ah.

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Speaker 2: That's the magic, it is.

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Speaker 3: It's the magic of the theater, it's the magic of cinema.

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Speaker 2: That's why we're here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's why. It's literally why we go. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: it's why we want to be in it. So you

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Speaker 3: and I we go and we have those feelings and

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Speaker 3: we're like, I want to do that when I grow up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to make people feel that or I

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Speaker 2: want to feel that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, A thousand percent final question. A lot of young

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Speaker 1: actors listen to this. What's something that they could implement

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Speaker 1: today to go just to make a change, whether it's

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Speaker 1: like get into class, focus on text now, Like it's

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Speaker 1: hard because text analysis with you is different to text

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Speaker 3: All of it would require so much explanation. So I'm

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Speaker 3: going to make it simple and I'm going to say,

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Speaker 3: just notice what you're doing right now. I love it.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing right now? You are judging the

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Speaker 2: shit out of me and may probably both of us.

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Speaker 2: We're both being very judged.

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Speaker 3: And they would be judging Khalisi and talking thinking about

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Speaker 3: how cute she is if they could see her. That's

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Speaker 3: what people do, and we as actors forget that.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're supposed to be doing when we're acting.

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Speaker 3: We're supposed to behaving like people, but instead, too often

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Speaker 3: we act like actors, and you know, actors have objectives,

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Speaker 3: actors have once right and again, none of that is bad.

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Speaker 3: It just takes nine months or many, many weeks for

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Speaker 3: that too. One of the things I always like to

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Speaker 3: say is, so you you rehearsed your play for four

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Speaker 3: weeks and you opened after four weeks.

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Speaker 2: Were you happier with your performance?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: When did you get happy about week eight? Right? So

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Speaker 2: I need you to be happy.

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Speaker 3: I need you to be happy generally within about two hours,

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Speaker 3: but I need you to be able to be blissed

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Speaker 3: out after looking at the script for ten minutes, because

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Speaker 3: that's the business we're in right now. So if you

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Speaker 3: can be aware of what people do, then maybe you

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Speaker 3: can do what people do in your acting and not

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Speaker 3: do what actors do, which will make you believable and

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Speaker 3: will make people want to give.

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Speaker 2: You a job.

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Speaker 1: Leslie Khan, you are wonderful. Thank you, sorry so wonderful,

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Speaker 1: low up, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Thank