Solo Mio Director Charles Kinnane on Family Filmmaking

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, movie lovers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm open the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So today I have a very special guest for me He is the director of Slow and Mia.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually have one of the kidding problems with And I really love this film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it's very touching and very relatable Let's go ahead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's give a warm welcome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's welcome Chuck to the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The director of Slow Slow and Mia is going ahead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And hey, Chuck, welcome to the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, John, thanks for having me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're very welcome with the pleasure to have you here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I mean, I really enjoy the movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My wife and I were making dinner.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if I were making pasta in size, while watching this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: thing that I really was intrigued with the fact that it was a Kevin James movie, but at the same time though, it's very relatable and it's not over the top, it has a subtleness to it that I really thought it was genuine and the way the Kevin James had those emotional beats whenever he's left at the altar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the things that he's going through, it was just something that I wanted to cry with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to give him a pat on the back thing, hey, look man, that's going to be okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to say you guys did a fantastic job with this film.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, John.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, we're so excited about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kevin's amazing in it, the entire cast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For us, it was the Dream Project.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My brothers and I, we've been wanting to make movies our entire life and have movies, come out and theaters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so for us, every step of the way, this has been the Dream Project.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can imagine, man, like, you go on ahead to make a short film with Kevin James first, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you go, then who ran this idea in their heads?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, like, hey, look, I want to make this a production now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've already got Kevin up front and center right now for a short film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who's idea was it to actually have Kevin in this movie?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How was the process with this film?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so it was a funny story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were in Vancouver working on a movie with Kevin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: a different film and he invited us to crash this lunch with the producers of that movie and we showed up we were not supposed to be there we just came and and and visited the lunch and during lunch the producers mark for son of Jeffrey Greenstein they said the Kevin they said Kevin where do you want to shoot your next movie if you go anywhere in the world where would you want to go and Kevin said I would always I've always wanted to shoot in Rome in Italy

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so we started picture on ideas with the producers and Kevin and Skyler test the Kevin's assistant.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we, you know, we came up with this idea.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We said, hey, what, you know, Kevin wouldn't be funny if you were left at the altar on a destination wedding.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it was my brother John, the youngest in the group, the brothers who said, If you're funny if the movie is Kevin on his honeymoon by himself, he goes on his honeymoon alone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The producers love that Kevin loved it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They said, hey, would you guys want to go and write this and so Pat, my brother, pack an A and John Canane and Kevin went away that night and started writing the movie that night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I was wondering about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw that Kevin was attached to as a writer on this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, wow, that's actually pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kevin is that much, you know, he's that much passion about this project, just as much as you are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's me as a testament to what you guys are doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like he believes in you guys after that first short film was like, hey, look, I want to work with these guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have we have good chemistry back and forth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's try and figure out a way to do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I was to be it's an idea that he had well, being in Rome,

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[SPEAKER_00]: is a rom-com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the thing that I wanted to say too is, like, remember in the early 90s or 2000s or something like that when we could actually go to a movie theater and see a rom-com for 90 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I missed those days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We all missed those days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that that's why Kevin from day one said,

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[SPEAKER_01]: The very beginning, he said, let's make something that feels like a throwback, let's let's make something that feels like one of those movies that we would go and see in the theater.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 20 30 years ago, and that was the e-dick from day one, we wanted to make something that felt like one of these classics and follow the formula of the wrong of the rom com the classic rom coms, but also what we try to do is we tried to have some twists and turns at the end that would flip it on its head, so even though there is some of the formula in there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Our only goal was to create something that would people would leave the theater just smiling like feeling like I just spent a great time with all these amazing people in this beautiful place And kind of leave the theater with that warm feeling that we got from those movies we grew up with Right, and that's something that I really do miss and like you know we can go and watch a movie for 90 minutes, cry together, laugh together, go home talk about all the things that you love and the thing that I really have to praise about is the fact that

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's not the same typical love story or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the twist that you guys do within the movie itself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, okay, because I was actually pointing to and to together at first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, they could have went down this road, but they didn't go down that road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was so happy that it was the way it was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I just think the chemistry between Gia and Matt was just a, it was so electrifying to me to actually see that on screen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: See that dynamic between the two of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, that's to me, and that twist, that was an idea that came from Will Kineen, our executive producer, along with John and Brother John, who's one of the writers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They worked out that twist, and then when they presented the Kevin and the group and the guys, we were like, okay, now we have a movie, you know, we had a cool situation, a guy left at the altar on its honeymoon alone, but now with that twist we have a movie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the whole movie changed, too, with that twist, and then once we cast Nicole Gramado, Nicole Gramado, who plays the opposite Kevin in this movie, just blew us away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the chemistry, as you said, John, the chemistry between them,

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[SPEAKER_01]: is is the highlight of the movie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're so much fun together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's how they were.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, when we met Nicole, the very first meeting on Zoom, her and Kevin just talking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we were like, that's, you know, we're already in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody, everybody was on that Zoom call said, there was no, there was no like audition for Nicole Gramata.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just got, she just got on the call with Kevin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they started talking back and forth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the banter that went back and forth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We said, that's, that's the movie right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you got lightning in the bottle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean it with this film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that it's going to be on 3,000 screens is amazing to me because I really like the fact that it's in theaters is not screaming or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really love the fact that it's, you guys are very passionate about this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think that movies are missing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Movies like this need to be shown in theaters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, and that's all thanks to angel studios because angel studios, they, you know, this movie would not end up in any theaters, you know, movies like these, this a small romcom like this does not get released in theaters anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and angels said, hey, let's take the risk.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We think we think our audience would love this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not a faith-based movie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing in there that typical to what the type of movies that angel releases, but they knew their audience would love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They would love Kevin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They would love the story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And their audience fell in love with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now is the reason why it's out in three thousand theaters tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: right or today I guess today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was actually telling my co-workers about this to like, well, is there anything that I need to see?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, you need to see Solomeo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I've been promoting this thing since I got the screener for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, no way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm serious.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, you need to see a lot of me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's like, what's that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, go check out the trailer on your break.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to get accused of anything in HR.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you know, I'm trying to promote us to listen or anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you need to check out Solomeo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great rom-com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you'll laugh together, you'll cry together, you'll wind up loving this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kim Coats in this movie, I really love him from Sounds of Anarchy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Unbelievable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean it, I'm like, I didn't, to get that out of him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So because normally I'm used to seeing him when this tough guy rolls.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, him being the guys like, hey, look, we got a talk.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kevin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unbelievable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just the layers to this movie is just amazing to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The cinematography is fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jared Fidel.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's our cinematographer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unbelievable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's telling him chef kiss because it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like a love letter from Rome to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Beautiful, John.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's really what we try to do with the imagery and

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[SPEAKER_01]: and Jared gave us painting after painting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is a version of this movie that without Jared, it's okay, it's a fun story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He took it to another whole level with his artistry and his vision and how he sees things and collaborating with everybody, with the production designer and the locations and Jared to us is such a special,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unknown talent he's gonna be he Jared is one of those talents that we're gonna be like Wow, we were lucky enough to work with him when you know Yeah, but another thing too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to is the fact that it's not a whisper kind of movie is like Where I have to crank up the volume and then all of a sudden it's blaring I'd like to settle this at the fact that you can hear everything around you and them and then only that But you're also looking in the background of certain things though, too

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because even with the kids, because something happens with the kids and everything that happens to another character that happened to James in the movie, and you're looking in the background to see if that same thing is going to happen to him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I love this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... you know are mixed or casey jenton was incredible he mixed in Italy uh... the Italian crew are colorous uh... michelle has to be uh... who made jared's work look even more incredible with the color and uh... so yeah we i mean just everybody that the crew the Italian crew with this amazing crew that

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've been working in Italy on films for generations.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're part of some of the most incredible historical movies coming out of that country.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so we were lucky enough to work with them and their grandparents or their great-grandparents have been part of these movies that everybody has gone down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's the godfather or, you know, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we were working with those crews who had been a part of that film history in Italy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's very that's a blessing in disguise because I could tell just by the layout of it it had that godfather kind of feel to it like I'm actually especially the part where it's kind of like lady in the tramp but it's not forced or anything or it's like that where they bring out the table and stuff like that it feels so much like lady in the tramp but it also feels like the godfather but the it's atmospheric is what I'm looking for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: John and I think especially in Kevin and the whole cast, you know, Jonathan Rumi was incredible along with, you know, along with Kim Coates, they were, they were in the script, they were written, those parts were written for Kim Coates and Jonathan Rumi from the beginning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a game we were so blessed to have Allison Hannigan, Julie Serta, joined and then Julie Ann Emory, who has worked with Kevin 20 years ago on hitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, so everybody was so generous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Every day was better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, like people probably get on these.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... on these shows and talk about how great it was like it truly was a special special experience making this and our only hope from all the brothers and everyone and uh... and i know i speak for could speak for kevin where we hope that the joy we had making this comes out in the movie when people watch it because you right it is about family it is about uh... it's never too late to start again uh... and we felt and those are themes that are so important for us

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what though you're absolutely right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It did come out through the movie itself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I could tell everybody's having a good time with this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I could see this mile on came coast is face and stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though it's Julian, but I can tell that they're all having a good time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can tell these actors and actresses are just having a good time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and having a good time just filming and in my fact it actually does feel like a family on set and it feels genuine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't feel forced either.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I just have to say, the whole entire layout of the whole entire thing is just fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really feel like I was in Italy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's actually another thing I wanted to know was like, I know that you guys have been making movies together as kids.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just wondering, like, what it's actually

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[SPEAKER_00]: to get along with all your brothers at one time and went kitchen to be able to make something that one person might have another idea, but then another person might have another, or how does that work?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How does that balance?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just kidding.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is something that we work at every day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's never comes easy, like any good project

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not something that comes easy, but we what we love to say is best idea wins and so all of us as a collective.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Even though you think your idea might be the best, it doesn't matter if it's your idea.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The best idea has to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's something that we've always tried to stick to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll fight for our ideas, we'll try to get them in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But as a collective, what's nice is because it's family, you get past, as any family does, you get past the BS right away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can do away with some of the politics, you can do away with some of the worrying about hurting someone's feelings, because you don't worry about hurting anyone's feelings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: it's let's get to the better idea and at the end of the day because we're family, you know, we know we love each other, we have each other's back and at the end of the day we want to make the best project possible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I love that process where in any professional setting you're very careful, you don't want to like hurting anyone's feelings or you want, you want to be liked, you want people to like you so you don't want to, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to say someone's idea is not that great, but in our family, you can be open and honest, like any family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, because it's like, right, exactly, because you guys are bouncing ideas off of each other and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you want to be able to respect each other's ideas and stuff like that and see what's more beneficial for the storytelling and what's more beneficial for the pacing and what needs to go where and stuff like that too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: like the Russo brothers or when you have the Dough for Brothers, for example, too, is because of the fact that it's not just on one person, you can actually share the pressure with other people that's family and be able to help each other.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And let's talk about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what's all about sharing the pressure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And no one can do it alone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we were, I'll share a story with you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were lucky enough to be in contact with Terrence Malik, who is one of my biggest cinema hero.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think his films have had a deep deep impact on me and something he said.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You talk about the author of All Terrors, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Terrence Malik.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He shared with us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, he said, making movies is about leaning on your collaborators, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And no one does it alone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have all these beautiful artists working together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and you lean on on your collaborators and that's how you make something beautiful and that's what we try to do with this and with our family and my, our sister, Janey, she was out in Italy and came on set and she ended up helping with a lot of the artwork.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She did artwork for the cafe, for G is cafe and even the character chair is that you see when they're on the tandem bike trip around Rome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and so, uh, but we were, you know, it was incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like our, um, production designer, Chiara Balducci, um, was amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's worked on huge projects, uh, like Gladiator 2.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's done massive films, um, and we had her, her, and it was amazing working with her because for us, we're, here's, here's the funny part is going into Italy, John.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're wide eyed every location looks incredible right because it's a new experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, yeah, it's like, was he anxiety was like, where do I shoot at?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because everything looks fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and I have to, I have to let film everything exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, and we, and we had to, we had to look at her.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We would read, you know, we would watch her when every walked in a location.

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[SPEAKER_01]: to see her reaction like how did she react so it helped us make a decision on what was the best place and what was going to be the most beautiful but it was amazing like our our Travis will sell one of the producers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was, he kept saying, you know, he's not a ton of movies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He kept saying that each location is more beautiful than the next.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's never had a movie where he's seen so many.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had an incredible, every day was just, are you kidding me?

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is, this is where we're dealing with this country right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is actually, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you see, I come from Italian family, from my originally from Massachusetts, no, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my and there's another thing, it reminds me of my Italian grandmother, because she always put for people, she's like, munga, munga, e.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, you need to eat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it reminds me of back in those days of celebrating when my grandmother, especially with the scene that I mentioned with the restaurant and stuff with the family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then also, too, as an Italian, my grandmother also listened to the same Italian singer as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that also bounced off to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: also too loving other culture of music and things like that and also Italian music, oh yeah, but you know, the culture of Rome is just amazing on what you guys did with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You got every single landmark that could think of.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, I want to go there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to go there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the the other scene that I really love is like when Kevin is actually having eating on high screen phone, he's like in the background and reminds me of that meme, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Where's like, if you look, I'm not the couple in front.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm the guy in the back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, he, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was Sebastian who was our prop master there with those ice cream cones because it was about 100 degrees in Italy and the summer when we were filming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But even you talked about the music, the music was incredible, incredible part of this music, this movie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Our composer, Joy, who was just wrote some of those amazing pieces for this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: as an Italian John, I think, you know, because we have Italian heritage in our family as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On my mom's side, Pieri, and one of the most, one of my favorite scenes in the whole movie is where they're making the, where they're rolling the pasta.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the, yeah, in the kitchen there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, and we, we filmed that in some of the producers were crying, you know, some of the producers that had that experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let me talk about my emotion moments in this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just when Kevin is heartbroken or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's moments like that that you mentioned in the kitchen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because for me, that reminds me of me, with my grandmother, of me making meatballs, homemade meatballs, the stuffed artichokes, the Italian cookies, and stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's very reminiscent to that moment in my time in my life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and watching them do that, I've melted my wife's looking and I mean like what's wrong?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, this is just beautiful, I'm in awe right now because of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, John, beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because it is a beautiful scene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything that you guys did has a purpose is what I want to say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not there, it's not forced.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's there to drive the story in the narrative of the story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's something that I really have to say that I enjoyed the most about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And my local theater, that's actually 20 minutes for my job, because I live an hour away from my job and an hour away from my mom, something that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what I want to say this is they actually have your movie playing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And a mom who hops theater.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, you know what I did?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, you need to check out solo me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, I hope I don't get shut down or deleted for spamming, but I'm telling you guys need to check out Salamillo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they put it in the theater.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Arcadian theaters out in Piccune.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's actually where I go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, that's incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank yeah, please thank them for putting it in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I sure will.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will definitely tell them that because it's a beautiful movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only that, I like the lighting of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not dark.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I could see everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what drives me nuts though in movies where there's a club scene, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's dark.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, yeah, I always see his lips and eyes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys had the perfect lighting when it comes to the club scenes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You had perfect lighting in the dining area, whenever people are eating.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel the atmosphere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can actually smell the food coming off of the entree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you got to go to Italy, John.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think you got to take a trip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's one of my wife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, we are going to Italy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think because we got to go to bed first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, no, we got to go to Italy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's only to do list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually have, that's actually one of the trips I do want to make out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: is just go to Italy, as go to Sicily, go to Rome, do all that stuff, but yeah man, I don't know how much praise I can give this movie because even on Letterbox I gave it like a four out of five because the fact that I just loved it so much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're very welcome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In my matter of fact, I might actually turn that into a five after we get off by

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[SPEAKER_00]: because I need that because what I'd like to do I like to do and written review of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to go back and type out a written review.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot stand just five star ratings and that's it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know why you love something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Show me the reason, just as you'd like to show us, you're a passion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to show my passion through my writing as a reviewer, not only as a reviewer, but also a podcast for a YouTuber.

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[SPEAKER_01]: of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, John, so glad you enjoyed the movie and I want to thank you for for supporting it and having us on the show because it's, you know, we've think people will love it and I hope your audience loves it as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope so too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, in fact, when I'm going to do is, I'm thinking about, even though my reviews like four minutes, I might connect the interview in there with it, with the review.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Mike, man, I hope that you have a great and safe night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Seriously, tell your brothers that's at high.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to actually meet them one day and just talk to them too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, I understand schedules and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not something that you can watch on the phone or on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, because just seeing it on the phone, you don't get the full landscape.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't get the atmospheric levels that I was excited.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that was telling everyone about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You only see a small portion of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I'm going to go out and see it in the data tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I'll show my proof that I actually went.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to go to the sky since I'm going to go to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, we're going to go to it too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's so cool because we've dreamed of making movies

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's going to be so much fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go to our local theater here where we saw our first movie when we were a little kids.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to go watch it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go buy a ticket and go in and see it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wish you guys a lot of success with this film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm proud of you guys for making a film that you both generally love.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm happy for the success that it's going to have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I am hoping that I have a chance again to actually.

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[SPEAKER_00]: interview you again interview your brothers um thank you so much for taking the time out of your day I do appreciate this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, thank you, John.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for thank you for getting the word out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We really appreciate it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You've already helped me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll get all the brothers on uh for the next ones.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got another one in the works.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're excited.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be in touch soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, sounds good, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well guys, that's gonna be very in as far as the show goes, but uh I hope you get you guys uh check out

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[SPEAKER_00]: February 6th and everyone have a great and safe day and we'll catch you guys on the next one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bye guys.