April 25, 2022

Billy Magnussen | The Zen of The Nomadic Actor

Billy Magnussen | The Zen of The Nomadic Actor
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Billy Magnussen | The Zen of The Nomadic Actor

This week on The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with the epic talented and versatile actor, Billy Magnussen.  He’s been working for years in film, TV and is a Tony nominated stage actor.  We chat about his new HBO film, The Survivor, where he co-stars alongside Ben Foster in this film directed by Barry Levinson.  He’s also kicking off season 2 of the HBO Max series, Made For Love with co-star Cristin Milioti.  Billy’s been staying busy, having recently co-starred alongside Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright in the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, as well as  the Sopranos movie The Many Saints of Newark.  This is a great chat with the talent, personality and infectious energy that is Billy Magnussen! SHOW HIGHLIGHTS0:03:45 - COVID's Impact on Auditions and Acting0:06:18 - Actor's Experience as Nazi Officer0:12:51 - Acting in a Weighty Film0:19:48 - Journey Into Acting and Learning0:30:17 - Bond Movie Set Experience0:40:25 - Seven QuestionsListen and subscribe on your favorite podcast app.  Also, check out the show and sign up for the newsletter at www.storyandcraftpod.com. ...#podcast #interview #BillyMagnussen #Actor #TheSurvivor #YomHashoah #MadeForLove #JamesBond #007 #NoTimeToDie #HBO #HBOMax #TheManySaintsofNewark #acting #actorslife #storyandcraft #voiceover

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Marc Preston:

I can see your handsome face.

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Billy Magnussen: Oh, buddy, I see your beautiful face, god,

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Billy Magnussen: that voice, though I want you to talk in

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Billy Magnussen: sleep at night.

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Billy Magnussen: It is beautiful.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Alright, let's do this thing.

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Marc Preston: How are you?

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Marc Preston: Welcome back.

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you.

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Marc Preston: Hopefully it's somewhere near the beach.

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Marc Preston: That sounds really wonderful to me right

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Marc Preston: now.

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Marc Preston: Whatever you're doing, thanks so much for

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Marc Preston: hanging out.

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Marc Preston: Hey, this is your first episode of Story

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Marc Preston: All right, so this week, what do we have

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Marc Preston: going on?

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Marc Preston: Oh yeah, billy Magnussen, what a cool, cool

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Marc Preston: guy.

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Marc Preston: Love his energy.

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Marc Preston: Really enjoyed this episode.

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Marc Preston: Billy's crazy talented.

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Marc Preston: I mean, he's been on film and TV for years.

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Marc Preston: He's even a Tony nominated stage actor.

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Marc Preston: You may know him from movies like Game

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Marc Preston: Night with Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams,

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Marc Preston: maybe the Oath with Ike Barron-Holtz, who I

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Marc Preston: think is one of the coolest actors out

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Marc Preston: there.

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Marc Preston: Also directed that movie, by the way.

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Marc Preston: He has been in the Sopranos movie, the Many

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Marc Preston: Saints of Newark and most recently, of

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Marc Preston: course, he was toe-to-toe with James Bond

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Marc Preston: in no Time to Die.

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Marc Preston: But today we're talking about his new movie,

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Marc Preston: which is called the Survivor.

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Marc Preston: It's an HBO film where he co-stars

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Marc Preston: alongside Ben Foster and it is a phenomenal

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Marc Preston: movie directed by Barry Levinson, coming

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Marc Preston: out on Wednesday, april 27th, which is the

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Marc Preston: same day as Yam Hoshowa, the Holocaust

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Marc Preston: Remembrance Day.

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Marc Preston: This is the perfect movie to come out on

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Marc Preston: that day.

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Marc Preston: I can't say enough great things about it.

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Marc Preston: Watch the movie with the kids a little

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Marc Preston: while back.

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Marc Preston: Really, really phenomenal film.

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Marc Preston: Now Billy is crazy busy.

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Marc Preston: Also season two of the HBO Max series Made

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Marc Preston: for Love is coming out on Thursday April

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Marc Preston: 28th.

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Marc Preston: Check it out.

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Marc Preston: Good stuff, let's do it.

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Marc Preston: It's Billy Magnuson Day here on Story and

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Marc Preston: Craft.

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Marc Preston: How are you doing today, man?

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Marc Preston: Good, good, you're in Europe right now.

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Marc Preston: Where are you at?

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, I'm in Belfast at the moment working

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Billy Magnussen: on a Netflix project.

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Billy Magnussen: Out here, a heartbeat production.

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, way out here you.

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Billy Magnussen: Where are you at?

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Marc Preston: I am in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Marc Preston: I'm a native Texan.

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Billy Magnussen: Holland baby, which name are?

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Marc Preston: you Meterie Meterie.

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Marc Preston: So I'm from Texas, originally lived in

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Marc Preston: Southern California, I'm here and once upon

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Marc Preston: a time used to actually do more on camera

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Marc Preston: work here, and then I went up to Atlanta,

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Marc Preston: as I'm sure you know very well.

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, yeah, ato, look, I got the Atlanta

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Billy Magnussen: United shirt.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I think a lot of it's coming back

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Marc Preston: down here though.

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Marc Preston: So I've talked to some fellow actor friends

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Marc Preston: and they're like oh man, yeah, everything's

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Marc Preston: coming down.

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Marc Preston: And I'm like COVID, I was kind of like.

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Marc Preston: I was like, well, you know, going into

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Marc Preston: auditions can't really do that as much.

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Marc Preston: And you know, the audition thing driving

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Marc Preston: across town it's like oh, no, no, no, no,

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Marc Preston: no man, everything's on camera.

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Marc Preston: Now Nobody goes the casting director

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Marc Preston: anymore.

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Marc Preston: So I'm like oh, really, oh look stinks.

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Billy Magnussen: I missed going in the room.

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Billy Magnussen: Really do Missed it so much.

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Marc Preston: I'm kind of to bounce off somebody and have

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Marc Preston: someone there reading lines with you.

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Billy Magnussen: But also like feeling the energy of someone

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Billy Magnussen: more than anything, like to really be like

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Billy Magnussen: oh, do I even want to work myself with this

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Billy Magnussen: person or something you know?

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Billy Magnussen: That's what I think we're missing, as they

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Billy Magnussen: say acting's reacting.

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Marc Preston: So it's kind of hard when you're just you

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Marc Preston: and staring into a lens and that's it.

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Marc Preston: So but yeah, it's kind of a new thing.

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Marc Preston: A friend of mine was telling me it's like,

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Marc Preston: yeah, I'm even the person where I'm

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Marc Preston: auditioning with I'm having an iPad and

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Marc Preston: they've got a teleprompter, so you don't

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Marc Preston: really even need to memorize all the lines.

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Marc Preston: I'm like now this is getting too easy for

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Marc Preston: me, but I just want to congratulate you

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Marc Preston: real quick.

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Marc Preston: Last night my kids and I we checked out the

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Marc Preston: screener of the survivor man.

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Billy Magnussen: What a you and your kids watch that.

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Marc Preston: Well, they're teenagers, you know ones in

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Marc Preston: It would be a little much if they were like

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Marc Preston: little first graders.

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Marc Preston: But no, we watched it.

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Marc Preston: It was great.

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Marc Preston: You know, we're Jewish.

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Marc Preston: We had a Passover dinner, made the matzah

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Marc Preston: ball soup, like hey, let's watch a movie

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Marc Preston: about our tribe, and I was like man, that

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Marc Preston: was just a, knocked it out of the park, my

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Marc Preston: friend, and of course we'll, we'll get in

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Marc Preston: the weeds on that in a moment.

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Marc Preston: But it's funny because last time we went to

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Marc Preston: the theater we saw you in bond no time to

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Marc Preston: die.

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Marc Preston: I'm like billy keeps showing up in our life

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Marc Preston: man.

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Marc Preston: It's whenever I'm watching a film with my

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Marc Preston: kids and it's kind of fun.

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Billy Magnussen: Actually, look out behind you right now.

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Marc Preston: It's funny because I was.

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Marc Preston: I just I was going over some notes on some

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Marc Preston: stuff with my show and I was like you know

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Marc Preston: what, throughout the life of my show the

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Marc Preston: last few weeks I've had three billies.

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Marc Preston: I have Billy Burke, billy Bob Thornton and

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Marc Preston: you know it's like it's young, it's all,

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Marc Preston: all billies all the time, you know.

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Marc Preston: So it's like only only the best billies

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Marc Preston: should be the name of my show, I think.

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Billy Magnussen: Oh, man, that's all it's like.

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Marc Preston: How was Billy Bob, a nice guy, very, very

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Marc Preston: cool guy.

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Marc Preston: We were talking about his.

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Marc Preston: You know he's a musician.

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Marc Preston: He's in a band called the box masters.

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Marc Preston: Is he another guy?

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Marc Preston: They're on tour right now, so Billy's just

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Marc Preston: as chill as you could possibly imagine, you

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Marc Preston: So you know never.

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Marc Preston: You know it's like you expect.

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Marc Preston: You don't know what to expect with him, but

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Marc Preston: he was as chill as could possibly be and I

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Marc Preston: really enjoyed the chat.

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Marc Preston: But I was curious when you're not in Europe,

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Marc Preston: where are you?

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Marc Preston: Are you posted up in LA or do you live in

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Marc Preston: New York?

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Marc Preston: I know you had some time on Broadway and

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Marc Preston: yeah, no, I had always.

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Billy Magnussen: since college I went to the school in North

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Billy Magnussen: Carolina and then, once I was like 21, 22,

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Billy Magnussen: I moved to New York and had been like based

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Billy Magnussen: in New York till about 2018.

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Billy Magnussen: Like here and there would fly out for a job

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Billy Magnussen: if I got it, very fortunately, you know.

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Billy Magnussen: But after 2018, I kind of haven't lived to

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Billy Magnussen: anywhere, sadly.

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Billy Magnussen: I've been all over the place.

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Billy Magnussen: You're up a lot, have worked in LA, arizona.

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Billy Magnussen: It's man, this life gets tough after a

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Billy Magnussen: while.

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Billy Magnussen: You know.

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Billy Magnussen: you want, you want to build roots somewhere

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Billy Magnussen: and yeah these past five years have been

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Billy Magnussen: challenging for me because I haven't found

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Billy Magnussen: a home and I'm really I'm missing.

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Billy Magnussen: I need it, especially as an older man.

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Billy Magnussen: Now it's like I want that shit.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, it's, it's.

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Marc Preston: It's funny.

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Marc Preston: I was talking with a friend of mine who

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Marc Preston: travels a lot for work and he'd be gone.

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Marc Preston: I don't know, I'm two, three days out of

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Marc Preston: the week and I'm like I just go into

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Billy Magnussen: But, like again, I I'm so proud of this

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Marc Preston: Can't forget this shit.

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Billy Magnussen: We can't forget this shit.

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Billy Magnussen: We see it happening with Russian and

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Marc Preston: That's what I think the likes of the weight

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Billy Magnussen: Their baggage is.

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Billy Magnussen: You know, we did shoot it three and a half,

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Billy Magnussen: four years ago.

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Billy Magnussen: So I just remember having a lot of

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Billy Magnussen: discussions about what is the story we're

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Billy Magnussen: telling.

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Billy Magnussen: What is the story we're telling?

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Billy Magnussen: I did my research.

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Billy Magnussen: I think the you know half the film.

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Billy Magnussen: I speak German to German officers.

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Billy Magnussen: The other half is with the accent.

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Billy Magnussen: I think he gave me a lot of freedom to

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Billy Magnussen: breathe life into a character you know

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Billy Magnussen: create and drastically, and he would, you

475

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Billy Magnussen: know, guide me here this way or that way as

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Billy Magnussen: I move through it.

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Billy Magnussen: I felt a lot of empowerment given by Barry.

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Billy Magnussen: He endowed power to me in this process.

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Marc Preston: Because I'm always curious.

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Marc Preston: You know, as an actor I'm not clearly of

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Marc Preston: knack of nearly as much as you, but you

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Marc Preston: hear stories about some, some, some

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Marc Preston: directors going through many, many, many

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Marc Preston: takes and you have somebody like Clint

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Marc Preston: Eastwood.

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Marc Preston: It's like, all right, go, you know, maybe

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Marc Preston: one take lucky if you get to kind of a

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Marc Preston: thing and you're on.

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Marc Preston: Is this something where y'all really worked

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Marc Preston: at it or is it no?

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Billy Magnussen: no, man, I do like that big scene you're

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Billy Magnussen: talking about.

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Billy Magnussen: I think I had three, three or four runs at

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Billy Magnussen: it.

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Billy Magnussen: That was it.

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Marc Preston: Well, and did you learn German for this, or

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Marc Preston: is that something that that you already

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Marc Preston: kind?

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Billy Magnussen: of had in your really no, I had to learn

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Billy Magnussen: German, man.

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Billy Magnussen: That was crazy.

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Marc Preston: You know the thing I love.

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Marc Preston: You know another thing I will say and I'm

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Marc Preston: lucky that I've spoken with a few people

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Marc Preston: like this that I love being able to watch

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Marc Preston: people with no dialogue, just watching them,

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Marc Preston: you know, and then like you're just an

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Marc Preston: interesting guy to watch.

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Marc Preston: You know, you'd not just, you didn't even

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Marc Preston: necessarily need the dialogue, because I

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Marc Preston: think a lot of, a lot of in that

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Marc Preston: interaction, you know, given the

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Marc Preston: relationship, yet is a lot of non spoken

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Marc Preston: dialogue, a lot of non spoken stuff's going

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Marc Preston: on.

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Marc Preston: I mean, dude, you, I mean you cover a lot

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Marc Preston: of ground.

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Marc Preston: That's all I'm saying.

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Announcer: So Mazel tov.

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Marc Preston: No but what's the story?

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Marc Preston: I love that part of the movie too.

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Marc Preston: But the thing about this and no time to die

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Marc Preston: you're, you're working on, I mean it's got

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Marc Preston: to be.

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Marc Preston: You know, with COVID they push no time to

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Marc Preston: die.

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Marc Preston: Back in that Was it a year.

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Billy Magnussen: We so survivor we shot before no time to

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Billy Magnussen: die actually.

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Billy Magnussen: So I think we shot, yeah, no time to die

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Billy Magnussen: was 2019.

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Billy Magnussen: We did it, yeah, and survivor was shot

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Billy Magnussen: before that.

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Marc Preston: I can't even tell you what I had for lunch

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Marc Preston: yesterday, you know.

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Marc Preston: So here we are talking about, but of course

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Marc Preston: does it.

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Marc Preston: Does it come back to you?

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Marc Preston: I mean, I've heard many actors talk about

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Marc Preston: you know the thing they remember about the

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Marc Preston: movie is necessarily a movie, but the

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Marc Preston: making of it is it still pretty fresh, like

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Marc Preston: you can kind of go back there and remember

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Marc Preston: the beats and the moments.

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Billy Magnussen: There are moments I definitely remember.

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Billy Magnussen: I remember stepping on that set first in

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Billy Magnussen: your original we recreated and stepping

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Billy Magnussen: onto that set and feeling that weight and

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Billy Magnussen: feeling the air and just feeling holy shit.

550

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Billy Magnussen: And then you dress it up with the actors

551

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Billy Magnussen: and the environment and you're just like,

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Billy Magnussen: oh God, it's a visceral thing.

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Marc Preston: I think he directed the crap out of that

554

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Marc Preston: thing, man, it was just so.

555

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Billy Magnussen: I think he did too.

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Marc Preston: One of my favorite things about it and

557

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Marc Preston: again, I'm not giving me anything away, but

558

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Marc Preston: there, of course, harry Haffse, boxer, he's

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Marc Preston: boxing, he's in front of you know, for the

560

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Marc Preston: Nazis it's just the looks, and just the

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Marc Preston: sequences of looks, on the face of the Jews

562

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Marc Preston: in the camp, you know that are watching

563

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Marc Preston: from the behind the fence, that right there

564

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Marc Preston: was.

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Marc Preston: It was such a great film just to watch and

566

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Marc Preston: just kind of take in and I think it's it

567

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Marc Preston: and I think it's going to go down as

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Marc Preston: another one is great educational type films,

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Marc Preston: you know, for the, for the young folk.

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Marc Preston: You know it's like OK, this is a thing that

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Marc Preston: happened.

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Marc Preston: Now, going back a little bit more about I

573

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Marc Preston: know you've been nominated for a Tony,

574

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Marc Preston: which is pretty awesome.

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Marc Preston: I mean you do you do not cover cover comedy.

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Marc Preston: This are you?

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Marc Preston: Did you come from an acting background?

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Marc Preston: I mean your folks is this, is this in your

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Marc Preston: DNA?

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Billy Magnussen: No, I went, you know, funny enough, I think

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Billy Magnussen: I had a great grandpa from Lithuania who

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Billy Magnussen: was an actor apparently.

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Announcer: That's about it.

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Billy Magnussen: Everyone else in my family, my blue collar.

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Billy Magnussen: My father's a carpenter.

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Billy Magnussen: You know, my mom was like a really strong

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Billy Magnussen: stay home mom.

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Billy Magnussen: She also was a personal trainer for a lot

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Billy Magnussen: of her.

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, but no, I don't know where it really

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Billy Magnussen: came from per se.

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Billy Magnussen: I think there was just a moment in my life

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Billy Magnussen: where I found something that intrigued me

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Billy Magnussen: and I kind of just went down that road and

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Billy Magnussen: it kind of like has led me on this journey

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Billy Magnussen: that has led me to here.

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Billy Magnussen: You know it's, it's funny, each project

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Billy Magnussen: that I've ever done, like again, like I

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Billy Magnussen: think you know, as a performer and artist

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Billy Magnussen: you can't really choose what jobs you get,

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Billy Magnussen: but you can choose what you pursue and you

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Billy Magnussen: can work hard on what you do get.

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Billy Magnussen: And I've realized every project that has

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Billy Magnussen: come across my lap and I had the fortune

605

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Billy Magnussen: and opportunity to work on has developed me

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Billy Magnussen: more as a man and made me the man that I am

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Billy Magnussen: today.

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Marc Preston: Weirdly, and I'd be more grateful for that.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I think it's a big part of doing this

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Marc Preston: and just you learn so much about yourself

611

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Marc Preston: because you have to kind of look inside to

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Marc Preston: create stuff.

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Marc Preston: You know you have to, you know has to be

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Marc Preston: something organic and real.

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Marc Preston: And you know, for the hit and rewind, I

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Marc Preston: mean, what was it for?

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Marc Preston: Was it high school drama class or was it?

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Marc Preston: You know, how did you?

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Marc Preston: Kind of jumpstart this thing.

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, you know, I was funny enough, I think

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Billy Magnussen: I was always I had a lot of energy growing

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Billy Magnussen: up as a kid I maybe undiagnosed ADD or

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Billy Magnussen: something like that.

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Billy Magnussen: What?

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Marc Preston: and you're an actor.

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Marc Preston: I've never heard that happen before.

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Billy Magnussen: But no, I was a big jock and stuff like

628

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Billy Magnussen: that, played a lot of sports, I ripped a

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Billy Magnussen: hamstring wrestling and I couldn't take a

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Billy Magnussen: gym class so I was put in an acting class

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Billy Magnussen: and then I just kind of saw my high school

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Billy Magnussen: production of grease and I was like what is

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Billy Magnussen: this?

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Billy Magnussen: I want to see what this is.

635

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Billy Magnussen: And then I thought I was going to go to

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Billy Magnussen: Auburn or some university like that and I

637

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Billy Magnussen: had a theater teacher.

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Billy Magnussen: Renee Denny told me to go audition for the

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Billy Magnussen: North Carolina School of the Arts and I

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Billy Magnussen: surprisingly got in and she was like go on

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Billy Magnussen: this journey, and I kind of just followed

642

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Billy Magnussen: it a little bit.

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Marc Preston: What did you think about North Carolina

644

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Marc Preston: being a guy from?

645

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Marc Preston: You're from the East Coast originally.

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Marc Preston: Right, you're from New York.

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Billy Magnussen: New York originally, but then I did move

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Billy Magnussen: down to Georgia when I was 10.

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Billy Magnussen: I did do my teen years in North of Atlanta,

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Billy Magnussen: yeah.

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Announcer: North.

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Billy Magnussen: Carolina is great.

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Marc Preston: It's a little colder than Georgia, but it

654

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Marc Preston: was great, so funny back in 98, I started

655

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Marc Preston: off in radio and I was 17 years old and I

656

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Marc Preston: ended up long story short.

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Marc Preston: I ended up having a syndicated radio show

658

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Marc Preston: and I was like I want to do one morning

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Marc Preston: show before I'm done doing my radio thing.

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Marc Preston: And I had this potential like offer to do

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Marc Preston: something, and Charlotte and man, I love

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Marc Preston: North Carolina.

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Marc Preston: It was like it was just a beautiful like

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Marc Preston: lots of trees.

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Marc Preston: That's all I remember.

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Marc Preston: And then I ended up taking a gig in New

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Marc Preston: Orleans.

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Billy Magnussen: So you know, and then New Orleans, man, I

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Billy Magnussen: mean, that's a great city, that is.

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Billy Magnussen: There's this beautiful mysticism, there's

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Billy Magnussen: magic and voodoo there, and it's both.

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Marc Preston: And cholesterol, and cholesterol.

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, everything's right.

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, you want that right.

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Marc Preston: You know, the funny thing is it's it's one

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Marc Preston: of those things.

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Marc Preston: It's it's not a love hate, I'm not gonna

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Marc Preston: say it like that, but there's you got to

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Marc Preston: take like like this is a new studio here

680

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Marc Preston: because the other one got wrecked in

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Marc Preston: Hurricane Ida, maybe it's.

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Marc Preston: It's you kind of take it, but it's like

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Marc Preston: it's a different speed but it's a different.

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Marc Preston: It's everywhere you live is different from

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Marc Preston: somewhere else.

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Marc Preston: But New Orleans is a special kind of

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Marc Preston: different from a lot of other places, you

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Marc Preston: know, but it's every actor I talked to

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Marc Preston: loves coming to shoot here.

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Marc Preston: So it's, it's good.

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Billy Magnussen: So it's got a big sort there.

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Marc Preston: I remember really the big short was shot

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Marc Preston: here.

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Marc Preston: Really I did not know that.

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Marc Preston: Well, was that eight years ago.

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Billy Magnussen: I think I turned 30 when I was there.

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Marc Preston: Again, I can't remember what I had for

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Marc Preston: lunch yesterday, so, but no, the Was.

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Marc Preston: Was the on camera first or was it stage?

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Marc Preston: Because you know, did you progress the

701

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Marc Preston: stage and then jump in the film, or were

702

00:24:39,740 --> 00:24:40,842

Marc Preston: you Kind of do it concurrently?

703

00:24:41,022 --> 00:24:43,327

Billy Magnussen: when you're back then, um, my first job

704

00:24:43,428 --> 00:24:45,552

Billy Magnussen: ever was for the Eugene O'Neill play

705

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Billy Magnussen: running festival and I got fired from it

706

00:24:47,624 --> 00:24:49,470

Billy Magnussen: because I was so nervous I was making up

707

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Billy Magnussen: lines.

708

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Marc Preston: I've done that.

709

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah you know, um, but

710

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Billy Magnussen: then I got the opportunity to do Terrence

711

00:25:01,410 --> 00:25:04,195

Billy Magnussen: McNally's the Ritz on Broadway at Studio 54,

712

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Billy Magnussen: directed by Joe Mantello, and that was like

713

00:25:07,047 --> 00:25:08,631

Billy Magnussen: my first real job.

714

00:25:08,771 --> 00:25:11,586

Billy Magnussen: Actually I'm like it was glorified.

715

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Billy Magnussen: I was a glorified extra that was Turquoise,

716

00:25:14,255 --> 00:25:15,580

Billy Magnussen: speedo and more to cross the stage.

717

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Billy Magnussen: So that was my first theater experience,

718

00:25:18,461 --> 00:25:20,484

Billy Magnussen: but then I got into well, you're the first

719

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Billy Magnussen: person I've ever spoken with.

720

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Marc Preston: it were Turquoise Speedo, so you know thank

721

00:25:23,950 --> 00:25:26,173

Marc Preston: you, yeah well.

722

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Billy Magnussen: I'm wearing it right now.

723

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Marc Preston: You alternate between that and Sequin one.

724

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Marc Preston: Okay, yeah, I got you yeah exactly Um.

725

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Billy Magnussen: And then I got cast, very fortunately, on

726

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Billy Magnussen: as the world turns a soap opera, and I did.

727

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Billy Magnussen: You know, I was a trained theater actor in

728

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Billy Magnussen: North Carolina.

729

00:25:46,564 --> 00:25:49,030

Billy Magnussen: But then you know, you get out into the

730

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Billy Magnussen: real world and you know a school no matter

731

00:25:53,825 --> 00:25:55,349

Billy Magnussen: how great it is, it's still.

732

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Billy Magnussen: You don't know what it tastes like to Be in

733

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Billy Magnussen: there with the wolves.

734

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Billy Magnussen: I guess you can say like to actually.

735

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Billy Magnussen: There's steak there, there is, there's

736

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Billy Magnussen: things on the line, and being a part of as

737

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Billy Magnussen: the world turns was the best learning

738

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Billy Magnussen: experience I could have ever gotten.

739

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Billy Magnussen: It was I had a Professional over.

740

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Marc Preston: I think I think it's amazing how many

741

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Marc Preston: actors have that as part of their Training

742

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Marc Preston: ground.

743

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Marc Preston: I mean, I mean Morgan Friedman was on mine,

744

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Marc Preston: yeah, yeah it.

745

00:26:23,215 --> 00:26:24,540

Marc Preston: Just you gotta show up on time.

746

00:26:24,761 --> 00:26:26,267

Marc Preston: You got to know your lines, you got to hit

747

00:26:26,307 --> 00:26:26,728

Marc Preston: your Marcs.

748

00:26:26,780 --> 00:26:28,383

Marc Preston: You got it and you're if you're going

749

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Marc Preston: through lots of pages, you know, by

750

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Marc Preston: comparison to other forms of 30 to 40 a day

751

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Marc Preston: 40 really.

752

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Billy Magnussen: Yeah, you're doing full scenes and it

753

00:26:38,695 --> 00:26:43,023

Billy Magnussen: forced you to Memorize lines, create on the

754

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Billy Magnussen: spot, basically, and like do a scene within

755

00:26:46,771 --> 00:26:48,153

Billy Magnussen: like 15 minutes.

756

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Billy Magnussen: Man, it was.

757

00:26:49,764 --> 00:26:52,512

Billy Magnussen: It was unbelievable, and also that you know

758

00:26:53,561 --> 00:26:54,848

Billy Magnussen: People's lives are at stake here.

759

00:26:54,908 --> 00:26:56,577

Billy Magnussen: They want to go home see their family get

760

00:26:56,617 --> 00:26:57,120

Billy Magnussen: your shit done.

761

00:26:57,883 --> 00:27:00,172

Billy Magnussen: I remember this woman, ellen Dolan.

762

00:27:00,260 --> 00:27:02,466

Billy Magnussen: She played my mother on the show and I was

763

00:27:02,506 --> 00:27:04,791

Billy Magnussen: having a day like that was maybe a year

764

00:27:04,872 --> 00:27:05,252

Billy Magnussen: into it.

765

00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:07,409

Billy Magnussen: I was just having a day like I was like I'm

766

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Billy Magnussen: not doing.

767

00:27:07,992 --> 00:27:09,076

Billy Magnussen: I'm not hitting it, whatever.

768

00:27:09,177 --> 00:27:09,920

Billy Magnussen: She's like pulled me aside.

769

00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,608

Billy Magnussen: She was like nobody gives a fuck, say your

770

00:27:13,668 --> 00:27:18,104

Billy Magnussen: lines, I want to go home, and it just it

771

00:27:18,144 --> 00:27:19,668

Billy Magnussen: was the biggest slap in the face.

772

00:27:19,728 --> 00:27:22,549

Billy Magnussen: The truth was no one cares, no one cares,

773

00:27:23,012 --> 00:27:23,980

Billy Magnussen: just get your job done.

774

00:27:24,847 --> 00:27:26,701

Marc Preston: I think that's it is, that it's a job, and

775

00:27:26,721 --> 00:27:27,827

Marc Preston: I think when you're coming in from an

776

00:27:27,887 --> 00:27:29,495

Marc Preston: acting, you feel like you've got okay, but

777

00:27:29,516 --> 00:27:30,360

Marc Preston: I've got to perform.

778

00:27:30,541 --> 00:27:32,909

Announcer: I like I'll be a performer I gotta be.

779

00:27:32,949 --> 00:27:34,594

Marc Preston: Yeah, I always use that example, john

780

00:27:34,655 --> 00:27:36,160

Marc Preston: Lovett's character from Saturday Night Live,

781

00:27:36,321 --> 00:27:37,586

Marc Preston: but I'm a fespeon, you see.

782

00:27:39,422 --> 00:27:39,703

Marc Preston: Did you?

783

00:27:39,823 --> 00:27:43,182

Marc Preston: Did you then move from that go, comparing

784

00:27:43,223 --> 00:27:44,248

Marc Preston: it to stage, did you?

785

00:27:44,309 --> 00:27:46,280

Marc Preston: Did you like the idea of going you know,

786

00:27:46,541 --> 00:27:48,025

Marc Preston: you got a few pages a day as opposed to

787

00:27:48,065 --> 00:27:50,572

Marc Preston: having to memorize an entire entire play?

788

00:27:51,701 --> 00:27:52,907

Marc Preston: Stim to stern, I mean what?

789

00:27:52,947 --> 00:27:54,575

Marc Preston: Did you have any preference between the two,

790

00:27:55,017 --> 00:27:55,640

Marc Preston: stage or film?

791

00:27:55,901 --> 00:27:56,885

Billy Magnussen: No, I think.

792

00:27:56,905 --> 00:27:57,427

Billy Magnussen: No, there's.

793

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Billy Magnussen: I think you're always creating character or

794

00:28:00,097 --> 00:28:00,700

Billy Magnussen: telling a story.

795

00:28:01,823 --> 00:28:04,951

Billy Magnussen: I see, like my preparation for a play I

796

00:28:04,971 --> 00:28:07,783

Billy Magnussen: know it's not memorizing line I when I did

797

00:28:07,803 --> 00:28:10,108

Billy Magnussen: the show sex with strangers, it was me and

798

00:28:10,188 --> 00:28:13,941

Billy Magnussen: Anna gun, directed by David Schwimmer, but

799

00:28:13,981 --> 00:28:16,306

Billy Magnussen: it was it was just me and Anna on stage for

800

00:28:16,346 --> 00:28:17,248

Billy Magnussen: two and a half hours.

801

00:28:17,468 --> 00:28:19,492

Billy Magnussen: And I remember preparation for the first

802

00:28:19,632 --> 00:28:20,314

Billy Magnussen: table read.

803

00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:25,048

Billy Magnussen: I hired this person to Literally come over

804

00:28:25,108 --> 00:28:26,896

Billy Magnussen: every day and just read an act with me for

805

00:28:26,936 --> 00:28:27,680

Billy Magnussen: about a month and a half.

806

00:28:28,203 --> 00:28:30,578

Billy Magnussen: We just read an act, never memorize it,

807

00:28:30,618 --> 00:28:30,900

Billy Magnussen: they're right.

808

00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,005

Billy Magnussen: We just read it every day, over and over

809

00:28:33,025 --> 00:28:34,789

Billy Magnussen: and over again and then by the first table

810

00:28:34,829 --> 00:28:35,070

Billy Magnussen: read.

811

00:28:35,551 --> 00:28:36,453

Billy Magnussen: I didn't have to look down.

812

00:28:37,802 --> 00:28:40,687

Marc Preston: Really, that is that is really impressive,

813

00:28:40,707 --> 00:28:41,651

Marc Preston: because I I don't.

814

00:28:42,514 --> 00:28:44,300

Marc Preston: I'm really bad at memorizing lines.

815

00:28:44,441 --> 00:28:45,465

Marc Preston: I've got my whole system.

816

00:28:45,881 --> 00:28:47,347

Marc Preston: I teach voiceover and I know, I teach my,

817

00:28:47,387 --> 00:28:48,129

Marc Preston: teach all my students.

818

00:28:48,642 --> 00:28:49,728

Marc Preston: I got into this thing where I would always

819

00:28:49,788 --> 00:28:51,677

Marc Preston: highlight the other actors lines right

820

00:28:51,718 --> 00:28:52,180

Marc Preston: before mine.

821

00:28:52,261 --> 00:28:53,480

Marc Preston: So I knew, because the guy like okay, I

822

00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:54,665

Marc Preston: know gonna react to that, and then

823

00:28:54,785 --> 00:28:56,572

Marc Preston: theoretically that that was my little trick,

824

00:28:56,672 --> 00:28:58,579

Marc Preston: remembering what they were saying would

825

00:28:58,679 --> 00:28:59,783

Marc Preston: help me Remember what I was saying.

826

00:29:00,244 --> 00:29:02,251

Marc Preston: But my brain, normal, you know.

827

00:29:03,401 --> 00:29:04,122

Billy Magnussen: Know that works.

828

00:29:04,182 --> 00:29:05,766

Billy Magnussen: Again, everyone has their own approach to

829

00:29:05,806 --> 00:29:05,986

Billy Magnussen: this.

830

00:29:06,026 --> 00:29:08,210

Billy Magnussen: That's what's kind of the amazing part of.

831

00:29:08,912 --> 00:29:10,094

Billy Magnussen: That's why you're an artist, right?

832

00:29:10,980 --> 00:29:12,806

Marc Preston: Exactly one of the things I'm curious.

833

00:29:12,826 --> 00:29:13,909

Marc Preston: But you said mentioned you were directed by

834

00:29:13,949 --> 00:29:14,451

Marc Preston: David Schwimmer.

835

00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,307

Marc Preston: What was like being directed by Ike Baron

836

00:29:16,347 --> 00:29:18,636

Marc Preston: holds, because I'm just like that that the

837

00:29:18,716 --> 00:29:19,620

Marc Preston: oath the oath.

838

00:29:19,901 --> 00:29:22,127

Marc Preston: I was like there's some about that guy that

839

00:29:22,188 --> 00:29:24,885

Marc Preston: is like he just I Don't know why, I want to

840

00:29:24,905 --> 00:29:26,453

Marc Preston: know more about that experience, but I mean

841

00:29:26,855 --> 00:29:27,900

Marc Preston: he seems like the coolest dude.

842

00:29:28,221 --> 00:29:29,326

Marc Preston: What was that like being directed by?

843

00:29:30,241 --> 00:29:31,325

Billy Magnussen: Ike's a great guy.

844

00:29:31,426 --> 00:29:33,373

Billy Magnussen: Ike's a really fun guy.

845

00:29:33,573 --> 00:29:37,749

Billy Magnussen: He is passionate, he is driven and man.

846

00:29:38,231 --> 00:29:38,733

Billy Magnussen: He's just.

847

00:29:38,773 --> 00:29:40,560

Billy Magnussen: He really made a great environment.

848

00:29:41,003 --> 00:29:42,753

Billy Magnussen: It was funny to like be acting in the scene

849

00:29:42,934 --> 00:29:46,039

Billy Magnussen: as he's directing it, so like you ever see

850

00:29:46,059 --> 00:29:48,888

Billy Magnussen: that Cut of like Barbara Streisand

851

00:29:48,928 --> 00:29:51,938

Billy Magnussen: directing was it gentle or what was the

852

00:29:51,978 --> 00:29:52,660

Billy Magnussen: thing she directed?

853

00:29:53,001 --> 00:29:55,051

Billy Magnussen: I haven't seen any scenes of her directing

854

00:29:55,111 --> 00:29:57,846

Billy Magnussen: it, so yeah, so she's like in a tense scene

855

00:29:57,886 --> 00:29:59,571

Billy Magnussen: and, as the other actors yelling at her,

856

00:30:00,001 --> 00:30:01,485

Billy Magnussen: she's like in the scene but telling the

857

00:30:01,526 --> 00:30:03,050

Billy Magnussen: camera to like, get over here, catch it

858

00:30:03,090 --> 00:30:04,627

Billy Magnussen: from here, but let's take it back, take it

859

00:30:04,647 --> 00:30:04,788

Billy Magnussen: back.

860

00:30:04,888 --> 00:30:07,000

Billy Magnussen: And she's still in it while directing it.

861

00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:07,402

Billy Magnussen: So it was.

862

00:30:07,904 --> 00:30:10,093

Billy Magnussen: It was a bit chaotic but at the same time

863

00:30:10,234 --> 00:30:13,447

Billy Magnussen: so fun, you know, because, like I don't

864

00:30:13,467 --> 00:30:15,374

Billy Magnussen: know independent films that you can, you're

865

00:30:15,394 --> 00:30:16,940

Billy Magnussen: just trying to grip it, rip a little bit.

866

00:30:17,342 --> 00:30:18,147

Marc Preston: Yeah, because you got him.

867

00:30:18,187 --> 00:30:19,877

Marc Preston: You got a J Doop Plaster, another New

868

00:30:19,917 --> 00:30:20,320

Marc Preston: Orleans guy.

869

00:30:20,741 --> 00:30:22,265

Marc Preston: That seemed like that was a fun movie to

870

00:30:22,305 --> 00:30:23,568

Marc Preston: make the oath, you know.

871

00:30:23,608 --> 00:30:24,851

Marc Preston: Just seem like it was kind of cool.

872

00:30:26,221 --> 00:30:27,405

Marc Preston: Now going real quick.

873

00:30:27,425 --> 00:30:30,985

Marc Preston: Just kind of go back to the Bond Movie and

874

00:30:31,025 --> 00:30:31,688

Marc Preston: again it's like it's.

875

00:30:31,708 --> 00:30:33,355

Marc Preston: So we're in a time right now that there's

876

00:30:33,395 --> 00:30:34,500

Marc Preston: so much content to digest.

877

00:30:35,302 --> 00:30:36,909

Marc Preston: I'm assuming everybody who wanted to see it

878

00:30:37,270 --> 00:30:38,054

Marc Preston: see it has seen it.

879

00:30:38,094 --> 00:30:39,560

Marc Preston: But I don't give any spoilers.

880

00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,470

Marc Preston: But of course you're there and yeah, we're

881

00:30:42,490 --> 00:30:45,086

Marc Preston: with Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright.

882

00:30:46,301 --> 00:30:47,506

Marc Preston: You know it was.

883

00:30:48,361 --> 00:30:49,885

Marc Preston: You know you're not quite revealed as to

884

00:30:49,925 --> 00:30:52,752

Marc Preston: who you really are for some time in that

885

00:30:52,792 --> 00:30:55,568

Marc Preston: film, but what was it like?

886

00:30:55,949 --> 00:30:57,093

Marc Preston: Just kind of being on set.

887

00:30:57,134 --> 00:30:59,965

Marc Preston: Because that's it's a very I Think it's a

888

00:30:59,985 --> 00:31:01,758

Marc Preston: kind of a unique club to be able to say,

889

00:31:01,798 --> 00:31:02,946

Marc Preston: first of all, you've been in a Bond film

890

00:31:03,006 --> 00:31:05,180

Marc Preston: and you've been to go toe-to-toe with Bond,

891

00:31:05,581 --> 00:31:06,183

Marc Preston: you know what was.

892

00:31:06,704 --> 00:31:08,289

Marc Preston: Was that kind of have to pinch yourself

893

00:31:08,389 --> 00:31:08,890

Marc Preston: ever and go?

894

00:31:09,011 --> 00:31:09,973

Marc Preston: Okay, I'm doing this thing.

895

00:31:11,398 --> 00:31:14,373

Billy Magnussen: I Was in a really unique place with my life

896

00:31:14,413 --> 00:31:15,980

Billy Magnussen: when I was doing that project.

897

00:31:16,802 --> 00:31:19,268

Billy Magnussen: I would have to say first for personal

898

00:31:19,308 --> 00:31:23,426

Billy Magnussen: reasons, but yeah, it's not until it came

899

00:31:23,527 --> 00:31:25,335

Billy Magnussen: out that I really pinched myself because,

900

00:31:25,355 --> 00:31:26,560

Billy Magnussen: like when you you're doing the work.

901

00:31:26,681 --> 00:31:27,928

Billy Magnussen: You're doing the work and you're trying to

902

00:31:27,968 --> 00:31:29,880

Billy Magnussen: like you know you're doing your job.

903

00:31:31,144 --> 00:31:33,310

Billy Magnussen: So it's actually it's been when it came out

904

00:31:33,350 --> 00:31:35,697

Billy Magnussen: that I like realized what I was being a

905

00:31:35,737 --> 00:31:36,138

Billy Magnussen: part of.

906

00:31:36,620 --> 00:31:38,866

Billy Magnussen: Yeah, here and there I was like, oh wow, in

907

00:31:38,887 --> 00:31:40,111

Billy Magnussen: a Bond movie, that's cool.

908

00:31:41,862 --> 00:31:42,385

Billy Magnussen: But it wasn't.

909

00:31:42,506 --> 00:31:43,652

Billy Magnussen: It really wasn't, till it came out.

910

00:31:43,752 --> 00:31:45,801

Billy Magnussen: So, like in those moments I'm just trying

911

00:31:45,821 --> 00:31:48,527

Billy Magnussen: to be like I hope no one sees it, or no one

912

00:31:48,548 --> 00:31:49,590

Billy Magnussen: sees that I don't know what.

913

00:31:49,790 --> 00:31:51,013

Billy Magnussen: I don't know what I'm doing, you know.

914

00:31:52,961 --> 00:31:53,323

Marc Preston: You know.

915

00:31:53,624 --> 00:31:55,431

Marc Preston: So no, I think you did a wonderful job, man,

916

00:31:55,491 --> 00:31:56,013

Marc Preston: I really did.

917

00:31:56,053 --> 00:31:56,957

Marc Preston: I think that was just.

918

00:31:57,559 --> 00:31:59,708

Marc Preston: You know how things wrapped up between the

919

00:31:59,728 --> 00:32:00,552

Marc Preston: two of you in the movie.

920

00:32:00,572 --> 00:32:01,957

Marc Preston: You know how many people could say Bond did

921

00:32:01,978 --> 00:32:02,540

Marc Preston: that to somebody.

922

00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,066

Marc Preston: It's like I'm one of those guys bond took

923

00:32:04,166 --> 00:32:04,287

Marc Preston: out.

924

00:32:05,361 --> 00:32:06,466

Billy Magnussen: Yeah, so right.

925

00:32:06,847 --> 00:32:08,915

Marc Preston: But you know you said you now you shot the

926

00:32:08,955 --> 00:32:10,060

Marc Preston: survivor before that.

927

00:32:10,702 --> 00:32:13,650

Billy Magnussen: I think I was shooting the survivor and the

928

00:32:13,690 --> 00:32:16,799

Billy Magnussen: sopranos movie like right at the same time

929

00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:17,120

Billy Magnussen: period.

930

00:32:17,461 --> 00:32:19,065

Billy Magnussen: They were like right on top of each other.

931

00:32:19,626 --> 00:32:21,731

Marc Preston: I still, I still want to see, I still have

932

00:32:21,771 --> 00:32:23,929

Marc Preston: not seen that there's so much like again,

933

00:32:23,949 --> 00:32:24,834

Marc Preston: there's so much stuff out there.

934

00:32:24,855 --> 00:32:25,740

Marc Preston: I want to see the sopranos.

935

00:32:26,122 --> 00:32:28,392

Billy Magnussen: So much content, man, I can't, I can't even

936

00:32:28,432 --> 00:32:29,095

Billy Magnussen: keep up with it.

937

00:32:29,196 --> 00:32:30,100

Billy Magnussen: There's so much content.

938

00:32:30,361 --> 00:32:31,344

Marc Preston: Who did you play in the?

939

00:32:31,404 --> 00:32:33,290

Marc Preston: In the sopranos movie is about playing

940

00:32:33,310 --> 00:32:33,751

Marc Preston: walnuts.

941

00:32:35,561 --> 00:32:38,651

Marc Preston: Yeah that's that again.

942

00:32:39,041 --> 00:32:40,285

Marc Preston: There's some things I got to put down on

943

00:32:40,305 --> 00:32:40,666

Marc Preston: the list.

944

00:32:40,686 --> 00:32:41,830

Marc Preston: You know, now my kids a little bit older,

945

00:32:41,890 --> 00:32:42,964

Marc Preston: now we all gonna sky-guy.

946

00:32:43,466 --> 00:32:45,563

Marc Preston: Whatever we're watching, it has to be kind

947

00:32:45,584 --> 00:32:47,048

Marc Preston: of sort of like not family-friendly

948

00:32:47,089 --> 00:32:48,384

Marc Preston: necessarily, but something that everybody

949

00:32:48,424 --> 00:32:49,148

Marc Preston: would want to watch.

950

00:32:49,570 --> 00:32:50,856

Marc Preston: But you know the kids, you know they're

951

00:32:50,896 --> 00:32:51,318

Marc Preston: they'll.

952

00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:53,123

Marc Preston: You know, like the girls last night just

953

00:32:53,143 --> 00:32:54,687

Marc Preston: kind of drifted in their telephones during

954

00:32:54,707 --> 00:32:55,650

Marc Preston: the movie during part of it.

955

00:32:55,670 --> 00:32:57,924

Marc Preston: I'm like watch the movie More kids.

956

00:32:57,944 --> 00:33:02,082

Marc Preston: We didn't bring the bones in a movie, but

957

00:33:02,122 --> 00:33:03,949

Marc Preston: go, we walked up, hell getting there.

958

00:33:05,241 --> 00:33:08,488

Marc Preston: Both ways and but the survivor for that,

959

00:33:08,829 --> 00:33:10,232

Marc Preston: for that film I think it's gonna really

960

00:33:10,272 --> 00:33:12,726

Marc Preston: come out In the grand scheme thing is gonna

961

00:33:12,746 --> 00:33:13,570

Marc Preston: be an important movie.

962

00:33:13,831 --> 00:33:15,438

Marc Preston: It was just so well-directed, it was very

963

00:33:15,479 --> 00:33:18,386

Marc Preston: well-written and I just think that you just

964

00:33:18,587 --> 00:33:20,511

Marc Preston: executed across where I like the way you

965

00:33:20,571 --> 00:33:21,453

Marc Preston: kept showing up.

966

00:33:22,781 --> 00:33:24,926

Marc Preston: Just it was almost like you kept showing up

967

00:33:25,127 --> 00:33:28,185

Marc Preston: as a very pivotal memory Throughout the

968

00:33:28,225 --> 00:33:29,676

Marc Preston: film and I think that that's I mean.

969

00:33:29,696 --> 00:33:31,763

Marc Preston: Without you, I think it would be harder to

970

00:33:31,823 --> 00:33:34,790

Marc Preston: to clearly define what Harry Haft's story

971

00:33:34,870 --> 00:33:35,130

Marc Preston: was.

972

00:33:42,425 --> 00:33:42,726

Billy Magnussen: I'm wondering.

973

00:33:42,746 --> 00:33:44,329

Billy Magnussen: To go back to the past, is that cool?

974

00:33:44,670 --> 00:33:45,732

Marc Preston: Absolutely, absolutely.

975

00:33:46,860 --> 00:33:48,564

Billy Magnussen: So you were saying, like you know, pinch

976

00:33:48,584 --> 00:33:52,253

Billy Magnussen: yourself moments with the meaningfulness of,

977

00:33:52,380 --> 00:33:53,866

Billy Magnussen: like, doing Bond or something like that,

978

00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:57,392

Billy Magnussen: it's funny doing the survivor that it felt

979

00:33:57,473 --> 00:33:57,854

Billy Magnussen: different.

980

00:33:58,195 --> 00:33:59,962

Billy Magnussen: You know, when you do a movie like that, it

981

00:34:00,022 --> 00:34:02,128

Billy Magnussen: feels different.

982

00:34:03,340 --> 00:34:05,945

Billy Magnussen: There's a lot more not weight, but yeah,

983

00:34:05,986 --> 00:34:08,351

Billy Magnussen: maybe weight, but there's an importance

984

00:34:08,491 --> 00:34:09,132

Billy Magnussen: element to it.

985

00:34:10,001 --> 00:34:13,298

Billy Magnussen: There's something that you're yeah, pride.

986

00:34:13,700 --> 00:34:16,287

Billy Magnussen: There's something there that you're like I

987

00:34:16,407 --> 00:34:17,911

Billy Magnussen: really want to tell this story.

988

00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:18,441

Billy Magnussen: This is.

989

00:34:18,722 --> 00:34:21,308

Billy Magnussen: There's something more than just a big

990

00:34:21,488 --> 00:34:22,772

Billy Magnussen: action scene or something.

991

00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:28,010

Billy Magnussen: It's like we're really expressing life.

992

00:34:30,041 --> 00:34:31,365

Marc Preston: I think it's a great, I think it's a

993

00:34:31,505 --> 00:34:33,110

Marc Preston: wonderful film to watch right now.

994

00:34:33,641 --> 00:34:35,912

Marc Preston: I think that what we were talking about

995

00:34:35,932 --> 00:34:37,299

Marc Preston: before I mean you're talking about what's

996

00:34:37,319 --> 00:34:38,844

Marc Preston: happening in Ukraine and Russia and you're

997

00:34:38,864 --> 00:34:42,555

Marc Preston: looking at the okay, what's old is new

998

00:34:42,595 --> 00:34:44,400

Marc Preston: again and the worst way possible.

999

00:34:44,722 --> 00:34:45,989

Marc Preston: It's just sort of like okay, what's that

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00:34:46,029 --> 00:34:47,839

Marc Preston: part of our human experience that just

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00:34:47,899 --> 00:34:49,425

Marc Preston: can't seem to be extinguished, to keep

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00:34:49,485 --> 00:34:49,967

Marc Preston: showing up?

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00:34:50,981 --> 00:34:53,529

Marc Preston: Ultimate power curbs baby, Indeed, indeed,

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00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:54,323

Marc Preston: but it was.

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00:34:54,825 --> 00:34:55,547

Marc Preston: But it was kind of nice.

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00:34:55,660 --> 00:34:57,410

Marc Preston: I did have that little opportunity within

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00:34:57,430 --> 00:34:59,320

Marc Preston: the film to kind of know for you, to kind

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00:34:59,340 --> 00:35:01,785

Marc Preston: of express your as the character,

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00:35:01,826 --> 00:35:03,710

Marc Preston: expressing why you're doing this, what you

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00:35:03,730 --> 00:35:06,423

Marc Preston: think about it and being philosophical

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00:35:06,464 --> 00:35:06,845

Marc Preston: about it.

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00:35:07,085 --> 00:35:08,409

Marc Preston: Like I said, it's a very well written film

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00:35:08,449 --> 00:35:10,844

Marc Preston: and I cannot recommend it highly enough but

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00:35:10,944 --> 00:35:13,651

Marc Preston: also want to touch on made for love.

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00:35:14,140 --> 00:35:16,587

Marc Preston: Admittedly, I've only seen one episode from

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00:35:16,828 --> 00:35:18,162

Marc Preston: back in the day, Like I was.

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00:35:18,222 --> 00:35:18,865

Marc Preston: It was last year.

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00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:20,503

Marc Preston: I think we all kind of went into a COVID

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00:35:20,563 --> 00:35:21,204

Marc Preston: time warp.

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00:35:21,305 --> 00:35:23,268

Marc Preston: You know a lot of the things kind of yeah,

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00:35:23,709 --> 00:35:24,551

Marc Preston: yeah, yeah.

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00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:27,044

Marc Preston: What was it like filming during COVID for

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00:35:27,084 --> 00:35:27,184

Marc Preston: you?

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00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:28,850

Marc Preston: Everybody's had a different experience.

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00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:29,766

Marc Preston: What was it like for you?

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00:35:31,256 --> 00:35:33,779

Billy Magnussen: Oh yeah, I'm like I hated it.

Speaker:

00:35:34,221 --> 00:35:35,705

Billy Magnussen: I hated it, I hated it.

Speaker:

00:35:35,845 --> 00:35:36,968

Billy Magnussen: I absolutely was.

Speaker:

00:35:37,349 --> 00:35:37,910

Billy Magnussen: I hated it.

Speaker:

00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,269

Billy Magnussen: I'm like we're filming and stuff like that,

Speaker:

00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:43,227

Billy Magnussen: we're getting tested a million times a day,

Speaker:

00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:45,508

Billy Magnussen: Like this is the safest place to be.

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00:35:46,588 --> 00:35:47,659

Announcer: Like I hated it.

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00:35:48,242 --> 00:35:48,904

Billy Magnussen: I hated filming.

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00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,201

Billy Magnussen: I absolutely hated it all of it Mitch, have

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00:35:52,241 --> 00:35:52,622

Billy Magnussen: you seen?

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00:35:52,662 --> 00:35:55,527

Marc Preston: have you seen the bubble on Netflix?

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00:35:56,008 --> 00:35:56,669

Marc Preston: Yes, Jetaptive.

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00:35:56,729 --> 00:35:58,914

Billy Magnussen: Oh my God, Is that triggering that movie?

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00:35:59,380 --> 00:36:00,765

Billy Magnussen: I think only people in the industry are

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00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:01,588

Billy Magnussen: like fuck.

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00:36:02,702 --> 00:36:03,765

Marc Preston: How on point was that?

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00:36:06,082 --> 00:36:07,647

Billy Magnussen: As you know, people are getting shot.

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00:36:07,988 --> 00:36:09,956

Billy Magnussen: Yeah, yeah.

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00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,963

Announcer: The frustration comes from.

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00:36:13,686 --> 00:36:17,111

Billy Magnussen: the intention of all this fanfare and show

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00:36:17,272 --> 00:36:19,520

Billy Magnussen: is not to actually protect people, it's to

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00:36:19,541 --> 00:36:21,507

Billy Magnussen: protect the people with the money.

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00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:24,525

Marc Preston: Well, I did like the scene when the bubble

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00:36:24,545 --> 00:36:25,587

Marc Preston: where they said something about okay,

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00:36:26,108 --> 00:36:26,910

Marc Preston: somebody got sick.

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00:36:27,030 --> 00:36:28,333

Marc Preston: It was a person bringing him the coffee,

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00:36:28,862 --> 00:36:30,227

Marc Preston: you know, it wasn't like one of the actors

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00:36:30,347 --> 00:36:30,588

Marc Preston: you know.

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00:36:31,385 --> 00:36:33,179

Marc Preston: It was like a game night.

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00:36:33,219 --> 00:36:35,025

Marc Preston: Yeah, what was that experience like?

Speaker:

00:36:36,580 --> 00:36:39,007

Marc Preston: That seems like for me would be one hell of

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00:36:39,027 --> 00:36:39,669

Marc Preston: a fun time.

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00:36:39,889 --> 00:36:40,350

Marc Preston: It was.

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00:36:41,461 --> 00:36:42,263

Billy Magnussen: I was actually shooting.

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00:36:42,443 --> 00:36:45,589

Billy Magnussen: We shot that in Georgia to be around an

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00:36:46,070 --> 00:36:49,304

Billy Magnussen: amazing ensemble like that, it was a treat

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00:36:49,364 --> 00:36:52,224

Billy Magnussen: every day going to set and I feel bad for

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00:36:53,749 --> 00:36:55,815

Billy Magnussen: John Daly and Jonathan Goldstein directing

Speaker:

00:36:55,875 --> 00:36:58,163

Billy Magnussen: us because we were cracking each other up

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00:36:58,203 --> 00:37:00,883

Billy Magnussen: through that whole movie and I'm surprised

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00:37:00,903 --> 00:37:02,791

Billy Magnussen: they cut a movie together because we were

Speaker:

00:37:02,832 --> 00:37:05,322

Billy Magnussen: just literally egging each other on

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00:37:05,623 --> 00:37:06,446

Billy Magnussen: constantly.

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00:37:06,486 --> 00:37:08,724

Billy Magnussen: Through that project I also gained, like,

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00:37:09,005 --> 00:37:10,129

Billy Magnussen: really great friends.

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00:37:10,260 --> 00:37:11,664

Billy Magnussen: You know, I think you might have

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00:37:11,704 --> 00:37:14,050

Billy Magnussen: experienced this, I'm assuming through the

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00:37:14,070 --> 00:37:16,504

Billy Magnussen: industry, like you meet a lot of wonderful

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00:37:16,564 --> 00:37:19,600

Billy Magnussen: people and they're just acquaintances, but

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00:37:19,620 --> 00:37:21,486

Billy Magnussen: through this project I gained some friends

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00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:24,704

Billy Magnussen: and that was what was the best part about.

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00:37:24,744 --> 00:37:26,588

Marc Preston: It was gaining friends through this

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00:37:26,668 --> 00:37:27,289

Marc Preston: experience.

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00:37:27,610 --> 00:37:28,091

Marc Preston: It's so funny.

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00:37:28,111 --> 00:37:28,972

Marc Preston: You look at Jason Bateman.

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00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:30,503

Marc Preston: I think I really that quick.

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00:37:30,523 --> 00:37:31,808

Marc Preston: Then you heard him on his podcast.

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00:37:32,124 --> 00:37:33,239

Marc Preston: I got like butter dude.

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00:37:34,042 --> 00:37:38,052

Billy Magnussen: He is smooth witty, so dry, so funny.

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00:37:39,244 --> 00:37:40,086

Billy Magnussen: He is that guy.

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00:37:41,503 --> 00:37:43,101

Marc Preston: Watching you that to see my friend.

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00:37:43,121 --> 00:37:43,924

Marc Preston: You got some range.

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00:37:43,964 --> 00:37:44,647

Marc Preston: That's all I'm saying.

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00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:45,987

Marc Preston: Want to know what you got coming up,

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00:37:46,008 --> 00:37:47,157

Marc Preston: because you know I'll go ahead and buy,

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00:37:47,218 --> 00:37:48,684

Marc Preston: I'll go and drink the Kool-Aid for whatever

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00:37:48,725 --> 00:37:49,247

Marc Preston: you got coming up.

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00:37:49,287 --> 00:37:50,542

Marc Preston: Next, what are you working on?

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00:37:50,563 --> 00:37:51,747

Marc Preston: Around that's going to be coming out soon.

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00:37:52,661 --> 00:37:54,067

Billy Magnussen: Right now it's called Lift.

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00:37:54,340 --> 00:37:58,701

Billy Magnussen: It's again with heartbeats and Netflix, so

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00:37:58,761 --> 00:38:03,189

Billy Magnussen: I'm excited and the first made for love is

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00:38:03,490 --> 00:38:03,731

Billy Magnussen: coming out.

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00:38:03,751 --> 00:38:05,857

Marc Preston: I think the 28th, I think April 28th, I

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00:38:05,877 --> 00:38:06,843

Marc Preston: believe, is when it's rolling out.

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00:38:07,841 --> 00:38:10,449

Marc Preston: And the 27th for the survivor.

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00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:13,628

Marc Preston: What a great, what a damn great friend.

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00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:16,465

Marc Preston: But tell you what, real quick, got my seven

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00:38:16,486 --> 00:38:17,469

Marc Preston: questions going to wrap it up.

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00:38:17,660 --> 00:38:21,047

Marc Preston: I know you're a busy guy but I like to ask

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00:38:21,087 --> 00:38:23,452

Marc Preston: questions that are kind of fun because I'm

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00:38:23,472 --> 00:38:23,913

Marc Preston: a goofball.

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00:38:25,063 --> 00:38:26,321

Marc Preston: First one out of the gates what's your

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00:38:26,341 --> 00:38:27,346

Marc Preston: favorite comfort food thing?

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00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,069

Marc Preston: You just that like whenever you're sitting

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00:38:29,089 --> 00:38:30,840

Marc Preston: down you're watching a movie, whatever that

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00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:32,364

Marc Preston: thing you just kind of go to and you're

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00:38:32,384 --> 00:38:34,149

Marc Preston: saying you bounce around set to set to set,

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00:38:34,631 --> 00:38:35,985

Marc Preston: but you got to have that one thing with you

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00:38:36,005 --> 00:38:36,407

Marc Preston: all the time.

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00:38:36,743 --> 00:38:38,039

Marc Preston: Do you like to munch on?

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00:38:38,421 --> 00:38:41,310

Billy Magnussen: I don't usually like this comfort food.

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00:38:42,021 --> 00:38:45,227

Billy Magnussen: I mean dark chocolate, of course, or like

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00:38:45,267 --> 00:38:46,750

Billy Magnussen: you know, I like nibble on some dark

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00:38:46,790 --> 00:38:51,107

Billy Magnussen: chocolate, or the prawn crackers.

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00:38:51,147 --> 00:38:52,010

Billy Magnussen: You know prawn crackers.

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00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:53,306

Marc Preston: I know exactly what you're talking about.

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00:38:53,380 --> 00:38:55,904

Marc Preston: Yes, you get them for the Asian Marcets, oh

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00:38:55,984 --> 00:38:56,526

Marc Preston: my God.

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00:38:57,380 --> 00:38:59,006

Marc Preston: So ones I like are little ones to wrap in

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00:38:59,046 --> 00:38:59,909

Marc Preston: seaweed or whatever.

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00:39:00,260 --> 00:39:02,592

Marc Preston: You know those little like, whatever I

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00:39:02,632 --> 00:39:02,853

Marc Preston: don't know.

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00:39:02,953 --> 00:39:04,280

Marc Preston: I'm kind of a friend of mine who's in

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00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:05,606

Marc Preston: Taiwan that sent me some of those.

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00:39:06,102 --> 00:39:07,481

Billy Magnussen: I know the name either, I just know.

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00:39:07,621 --> 00:39:08,804

Billy Magnussen: I know which one to grab.

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00:39:09,245 --> 00:39:12,231

Marc Preston: Exactly, can't read the package, okay,

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00:39:12,272 --> 00:39:13,882

Marc Preston: second question Three people.

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00:39:13,902 --> 00:39:15,909

Marc Preston: If you're going to sit down grab coffee,

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00:39:17,582 --> 00:39:18,844

Marc Preston: who would you like to sit down with and

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00:39:18,884 --> 00:39:21,467

Marc Preston: have a conversation, just for fun,

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00:39:21,627 --> 00:39:22,764

Marc Preston: enlightenment or whatever have you?

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00:39:25,013 --> 00:39:26,757

Marc Preston: Oh, that's a good one.

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00:39:27,539 --> 00:39:28,922

Billy Magnussen: I thought about this before.

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00:39:29,884 --> 00:39:31,327

Billy Magnussen: I would sit down with Elon Musk.

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00:39:31,388 --> 00:39:31,891

Billy Magnussen: I really would.

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00:39:31,911 --> 00:39:34,056

Billy Magnussen: I would like to chat with that guy.

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00:39:34,096 --> 00:39:37,310

Billy Magnussen: He's an innovator and, like such a, I would

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00:39:37,370 --> 00:39:39,153

Billy Magnussen: just want to know what's going on.

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00:39:39,213 --> 00:39:43,200

Billy Magnussen: Man like how he operates and how he thinks.

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00:39:46,285 --> 00:39:47,633

Billy Magnussen: Who else would be huge?

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00:39:48,635 --> 00:39:50,900

Billy Magnussen: Ironically, I think I would sit down with

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00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,183

Billy Magnussen: Tesla as well, Nikolai.

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00:39:53,454 --> 00:39:53,655

Marc Preston: Tesla.

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00:39:53,735 --> 00:39:55,000

Billy Magnussen: Oh, we can do dead people.

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00:39:55,422 --> 00:39:57,189

Marc Preston: Yeah, Tesla is actually one is like where's

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00:39:57,249 --> 00:39:58,292

Marc Preston: all your, where are all your notes?

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00:39:58,653 --> 00:39:59,475

Marc Preston: We need them right now.

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00:39:59,535 --> 00:40:02,042

Billy Magnussen: Yeah, I want to know what's going on, I

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00:40:02,082 --> 00:40:02,691

Billy Magnussen: want to know what's.

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00:40:03,171 --> 00:40:11,101

Billy Magnussen: And then who else, oh man, who else would

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00:40:11,161 --> 00:40:12,123

Billy Magnussen: inspire me to?

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00:40:14,446 --> 00:40:16,493

Billy Magnussen: I would love to sit down with Robin

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00:40:16,533 --> 00:40:16,915

Billy Magnussen: Williams.

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00:40:17,598 --> 00:40:18,984

Marc Preston: On the category leftist too soon.

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00:40:19,024 --> 00:40:20,851

Marc Preston: Definitely, he's like on the Mount Rushmore

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00:40:20,871 --> 00:40:21,814

Marc Preston: have left us too soon.

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00:40:22,135 --> 00:40:24,521

Marc Preston: Absolutely, that's great.

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Marc Preston: Well, the next one.

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Marc Preston: We'll scoot on over the next question,

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Marc Preston: which is who was your celebrity crush when

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Marc Preston: you were growing up?

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Billy Magnussen: That was my celebrity crush when I was

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Billy Magnussen: growing up.

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Billy Magnussen: Oh man, Maybe what's her name.

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Billy Magnussen: I can't think of it.

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Marc Preston: It's Natalie Portman, yeah.

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Marc Preston: Natalie Portman Probably all those Natalie

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Marc Preston: Portman, of course.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's like.

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Billy Magnussen: Charlie's Throne too.

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Marc Preston: Very good, very good.

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Marc Preston: Now, if, okay, if you're gonna go to, let's

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Marc Preston: say you're gonna go to Nile not actually an

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Marc Preston: island, you want to be on exotic island but

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Marc Preston: for one year you can only bring one CD I'm

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Marc Preston: sorry DVD one movie and you can only bring

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Marc Preston: one album with you and that's all you got.

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Marc Preston: You don't have to have a cell phone or

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Marc Preston: computer or anything but album and DVD.

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Billy Magnussen: What would that be One movie, one album.

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Marc Preston: Yes, sir.

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Billy Magnussen: And what was the other thing?

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Marc Preston: No, just one movie and one album or movie

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Marc Preston: or DVD.

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Marc Preston: I say DVD but nowadays it's like you can't

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Marc Preston: really, you're on an island, you can't

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Marc Preston: stream anything, so it has to be one movie

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Marc Preston: on DVD.

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Billy Magnussen: Oh man, this is gonna be such a bad answer.

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Billy Magnussen: I would say Dumb and Dumber.

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Billy Magnussen: It's just every time I watch that movie

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Billy Magnussen: it's so you find something else that those

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Billy Magnussen: guys came up with and it was just

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Billy Magnussen: hysterical and it's a bad answer and I'll

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Billy Magnussen: accept it.

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Billy Magnussen: I don't care.

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Marc Preston: I mean two or three times I've had people

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Marc Preston: say planes, trains and automobiles, so

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00:41:46,268 --> 00:41:48,496

Marc Preston: comedies, I think kind of rise to the top.

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Billy Magnussen: I mean, yeah, like the album, fuck.

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Billy Magnussen: Oh, then that's because I'm such a

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Billy Magnussen: different move all the time, Like I could

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Billy Magnussen: literally go to like anything Louis

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00:42:07,033 --> 00:42:10,302

Billy Magnussen: Armstrong or Louis Armstrong or Ella

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00:42:10,342 --> 00:42:13,310

Billy Magnussen: Fitzgerald does, but then at the same time

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Billy Magnussen: I could go like rage against the machine or

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Billy Magnussen: like Radiohead.

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Billy Magnussen: I don't know, man.

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00:42:24,728 --> 00:42:27,334

Billy Magnussen: I'm the weird guy that can drive in the car

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Billy Magnussen: without playing music.

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Billy Magnussen: I could be in silence.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I.

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Marc Preston: Sometimes I do that like wait a minute, why

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00:42:32,281 --> 00:42:33,387

Marc Preston: am I not listening to something?

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00:42:33,407 --> 00:42:34,955

Marc Preston: It's gonna my kids battle it out.

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00:42:34,975 --> 00:42:37,105

Marc Preston: My youngest, my 16 year old, is in the

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00:42:37,145 --> 00:42:39,414

Marc Preston: country music now and the other two like

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00:42:39,454 --> 00:42:40,858

Marc Preston: please, no country music, she's not in the

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00:42:40,878 --> 00:42:42,061

Marc Preston: car, can we listen to something else?

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00:42:44,210 --> 00:42:46,543

Marc Preston: So if you were to go stem to stern from the

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00:42:46,634 --> 00:42:48,676

Marc Preston: time you wake up to time you put your head

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00:42:48,768 --> 00:42:51,175

Marc Preston: down in the pillow, how would you define a

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00:42:51,215 --> 00:42:52,197

Marc Preston: perfect day for you?

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00:42:52,438 --> 00:42:54,731

Marc Preston: Like this is how I want to live, this is

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00:42:54,771 --> 00:42:55,673

Marc Preston: where it's at right here.

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Billy Magnussen: Oh man.

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Billy Magnussen: So in Georgia one of my favorite things to

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Billy Magnussen: do in the morning is make my cup of coffee,

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Billy Magnussen: grind my beans, do that whole meditation

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Billy Magnussen: for myself, and I go outside and water my

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Billy Magnussen: garden, my vegetable garden, and like talk

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Billy Magnussen: to my plants and mess with that thing.

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Billy Magnussen: I would love to get a workout in or some

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Billy Magnussen: physical activity, either it be a hike or

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Billy Magnussen: bike ride or some sort of adventure.

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00:43:25,037 --> 00:43:28,245

Billy Magnussen: Have a wonderful bath, have a romantic

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Billy Magnussen: dinner and then probably a bonfire with

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Billy Magnussen: friends.

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Marc Preston: Man, that's the most dynamic and badass day

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Marc Preston: I've heard of, but you kind of start the

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00:43:37,693 --> 00:43:37,894

Marc Preston: same.

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00:43:38,055 --> 00:43:39,402

Marc Preston: I've never heard somebody say that grinding

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Marc Preston: the beans.

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00:43:39,703 --> 00:43:42,095

Marc Preston: There is a meditative thing about starting

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00:43:42,115 --> 00:43:44,284

Marc Preston: the day with making the coffee and they'll

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00:43:44,304 --> 00:43:45,730

Marc Preston: have many great movies start off like the

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00:43:45,911 --> 00:43:46,976

Marc Preston: even 40 year old virgin.

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00:43:46,997 --> 00:43:48,806

Marc Preston: You know Steve Carell how he starts his day.

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00:43:48,846 --> 00:43:50,132

Marc Preston: You know it's, it's meditative.

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00:43:50,152 --> 00:43:51,537

Marc Preston: It's our space in the world.

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00:43:51,618 --> 00:43:53,926

Marc Preston: You know grinding coffee beans and I'm a

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00:43:53,987 --> 00:43:55,875

Marc Preston: snob about coffee, so but if I got my

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00:43:55,895 --> 00:43:57,804

Marc Preston: little, a little thermos here, even the one

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00:43:57,825 --> 00:43:59,171

Marc Preston: that can't tip over, because I got all this

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00:43:59,211 --> 00:44:00,214

Marc Preston: recording gear right here.

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00:44:00,294 --> 00:44:01,959

Marc Preston: So I got this special little cup.

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00:44:02,561 --> 00:44:03,844

Marc Preston: I'm a nerd, I know I love it.

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Marc Preston: Last two questions If you weren't doing

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Marc Preston: what you were doing now and what else could

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00:44:10,068 --> 00:44:11,512

Marc Preston: you do or would you be doing?

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00:44:11,552 --> 00:44:13,717

Marc Preston: You would find joy and say, like I could do

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00:44:13,757 --> 00:44:14,138

Marc Preston: this gig.

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00:44:14,519 --> 00:44:16,403

Billy Magnussen: Culinary arts cook chef.

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Marc Preston: And you and I have so much in common here

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00:44:18,975 --> 00:44:20,580

Marc Preston: Now then you get to always feed yourself.

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Marc Preston: Indeed, Indeed.

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00:44:22,114 --> 00:44:24,284

Marc Preston: I tell my spirit animals Anthony Bourdain

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Marc Preston: man, I want that guy, oh yeah.

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Billy Magnussen: Oh, that would be one of the guys I would

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00:44:28,997 --> 00:44:30,921

Billy Magnussen: totally have to deal with.

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Billy Magnussen: Oh man, that would be Anthony.

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00:44:33,432 --> 00:44:35,477

Billy Magnussen: Yeah, yeah, that's, that's, that's one.

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Marc Preston: I just I remember my daughter was.

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00:44:36,981 --> 00:44:38,977

Marc Preston: My daughter was in LA and she called me.

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00:44:38,997 --> 00:44:40,706

Marc Preston: It's like hey, daddy, did you hear what

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00:44:40,727 --> 00:44:41,330

Marc Preston: happened to Anthony Bourdain?

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00:44:41,431 --> 00:44:42,478

Marc Preston: I thought she was goofing on me because you

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00:44:42,499 --> 00:44:43,385

Marc Preston: know I love that guy.

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00:44:43,425 --> 00:44:45,113

Marc Preston: And she told me he's like oh yeah, I broke

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00:44:45,133 --> 00:44:47,218

Marc Preston: my heart, but, but, definitely, being a

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00:44:47,258 --> 00:44:49,263

Marc Preston: chef, being able to make, create, make

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00:44:49,450 --> 00:44:51,037

Marc Preston: people happy, which you're already doing,

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00:44:51,177 --> 00:44:53,406

Marc Preston: so it's just another form of it.

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00:44:53,426 --> 00:44:55,032

Marc Preston: But last question, man, if you're to jump

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00:44:55,072 --> 00:44:57,859

Marc Preston: into your, your DeLorean you got a DeLorean

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00:44:57,879 --> 00:44:59,933

Marc Preston: you're going to go back in time, 16 years

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00:45:00,094 --> 00:45:00,214

Marc Preston: old.

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00:45:00,254 --> 00:45:01,560

Marc Preston: You got a piece of advice you're going to

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00:45:01,580 --> 00:45:04,451

Marc Preston: give yourself that you're like Okay, this

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00:45:04,491 --> 00:45:06,158

Marc Preston: is going to get you on even better track.

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00:45:06,219 --> 00:45:07,825

Marc Preston: What's that piece of advice you would give?

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00:45:08,066 --> 00:45:08,930

Marc Preston: 16 year?

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00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,501

Marc Preston: old Billy Damn sorry, take all the time you,

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00:45:21,581 --> 00:45:22,282

Marc Preston: all the time you need.

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00:45:26,966 --> 00:45:29,552

Billy Magnussen: In this moment I want to say, I would tell

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00:45:29,572 --> 00:45:31,217

Billy Magnussen: them just don't look back.

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Billy Magnussen: It's not profound?

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00:45:33,003 --> 00:45:35,049

Billy Magnussen: Yeah, no, no, no, it's it's.

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00:45:35,069 --> 00:45:36,335

Marc Preston: No, I, no, no, I like that.

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00:45:36,375 --> 00:45:36,957

Marc Preston: That's, that's.

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00:45:37,038 --> 00:45:39,388

Marc Preston: I totally get it, because you know, if

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00:45:39,408 --> 00:45:40,532

Marc Preston: you're constantly in the mode of second

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00:45:40,552 --> 00:45:42,357

Marc Preston: guessing yourself, then it's going to be a

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00:45:42,397 --> 00:45:42,899

Marc Preston: rough ride.

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00:45:43,039 --> 00:45:45,333

Marc Preston: You know, you got to, you got to go in many

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00:45:45,373 --> 00:45:45,613

Marc Preston: ways.

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00:45:45,673 --> 00:45:45,934

Marc Preston: That's.

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Billy Magnussen: I get it.

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00:45:48,058 --> 00:45:49,480

Billy Magnussen: It's not about career.

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00:45:50,963 --> 00:45:51,825

Billy Magnussen: It's not about career.

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00:45:53,110 --> 00:45:53,792

Billy Magnussen: Still look back.

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Marc Preston: Take it Then, billy your time.

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00:45:58,863 --> 00:46:01,669

Marc Preston: I appreciate you being exceptionally

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00:46:01,709 --> 00:46:02,372

Marc Preston: generous with it.

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00:46:02,412 --> 00:46:03,840

Marc Preston: I know you're a busy, busy guy.

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00:46:04,182 --> 00:46:05,248

Marc Preston: I'm envious you're in Europe right now.

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00:46:05,288 --> 00:46:05,449

Marc Preston: I need a.

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00:46:05,710 --> 00:46:06,412

Marc Preston: I need a vacation.

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00:46:07,434 --> 00:46:09,078

Billy Magnussen: Come on by man, we'll play some golf.

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00:46:09,419 --> 00:46:10,923

Marc Preston: Oh, hey, next time you're in New Orleans,

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00:46:10,930 --> 00:46:11,784

Marc Preston: man, you're, you're.

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00:46:11,850 --> 00:46:13,741

Marc Preston: Your next meal and beverage is on me, and

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00:46:13,807 --> 00:46:15,304

Marc Preston: actually I'm buying a set of clubs here in

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00:46:15,324 --> 00:46:15,764

Marc Preston: the next week.

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00:46:16,025 --> 00:46:19,067

Marc Preston: I'm teaching my son how to play golf, so

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00:46:19,087 --> 00:46:20,008

Marc Preston: join us on the links, man.

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00:46:20,410 --> 00:46:20,571

Marc Preston: Hey.

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00:46:20,871 --> 00:46:22,956

Marc Preston: I want to thank you again, my friend.

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00:46:22,996 --> 00:46:25,342

Marc Preston: Best of luck, health, happiness, prosperity,

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00:46:25,810 --> 00:46:28,256

Marc Preston: all of it, all of it to you, and I will

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00:46:28,697 --> 00:46:30,421

Marc Preston: preach the gospel of the survivor.

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00:46:30,441 --> 00:46:32,834

Marc Preston: What a, what a stellar film and you, you,

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00:46:33,035 --> 00:46:34,600

Marc Preston: you helped elevate it, most certainly.

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00:46:34,780 --> 00:46:36,432

Billy Magnussen: I want to thank you for your time as well.

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Marc Preston: Man.

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00:46:37,274 --> 00:46:38,017

Marc Preston: I appreciate it.

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00:46:38,198 --> 00:46:40,425

Marc Preston: My friend, go have yourself a killer rest

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00:46:40,506 --> 00:46:42,411

Marc Preston: of your shoot here and hopefully we'll

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00:46:42,432 --> 00:46:43,214

Marc Preston: catch up down the line.

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00:46:43,494 --> 00:46:44,858

Billy Magnussen: Cheers brother Peace.

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00:46:47,444 --> 00:46:51,594

Marc Preston: What a cool dude, huh, billy Magnuson, I

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00:46:51,614 --> 00:46:52,676

Marc Preston: got to tell I love his energy.

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00:46:53,077 --> 00:46:53,919

Marc Preston: Really good that.

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00:46:53,959 --> 00:46:55,402

Marc Preston: And he's crazy talented.

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00:46:55,642 --> 00:46:57,593

Marc Preston: Really really enjoyed this chat.

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00:46:58,616 --> 00:47:02,967

Marc Preston: Again, his new movie, the Survivor, coming

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00:47:03,087 --> 00:47:06,214

Marc Preston: out Wednesday, april 27th Yam Hsioa,

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00:47:06,434 --> 00:47:09,340

Marc Preston: holocaust Remembrance Day Perfect, perfect

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00:47:09,380 --> 00:47:10,202

Marc Preston: movie to come out.

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00:47:10,322 --> 00:47:13,435

Marc Preston: The Survivor Billy just knocks it out of

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00:47:13,455 --> 00:47:13,836

Marc Preston: the park.

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00:47:13,896 --> 00:47:15,761

Marc Preston: I mean he's amazing in this movie, also

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00:47:15,801 --> 00:47:16,442

Marc Preston: been foster.

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00:47:16,750 --> 00:47:19,376

Marc Preston: I got to give a tip of the hat to him.

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00:47:20,298 --> 00:47:21,781

Marc Preston: I got to tell you, if he doesn't get an

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00:47:21,861 --> 00:47:24,353

Marc Preston: Oscar nomination for this movie, I will be

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00:47:24,974 --> 00:47:26,556

Marc Preston: very, very surprised.

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00:47:27,718 --> 00:47:30,804

Marc Preston: Now also, april 28th, hbo Max series made

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00:47:30,824 --> 00:47:33,514

Marc Preston: for love, season two coming out.

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Marc Preston: So make sure to check Billy there as well.

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00:47:36,661 --> 00:47:37,081

Marc Preston: Don't forget.

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Marc Preston: You can find out everything, story and

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Marc Preston: craft at storyandcraftpod.com social media,

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Marc Preston: Send me a note, send me a voicemail, don't

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Marc Preston: forget.

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Marc Preston: Two days a week, that's right.

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Marc Preston: Story and craft is in your podcast app,

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Marc Preston: pretty much all of them on Thursdays as

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Marc Preston: well.

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Marc Preston: So Tuesdays and Thursdays we will be coming

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Marc Preston: out with episodes.

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Marc Preston: And again, thank you so much.

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Marc Preston: Please, by all means, leave a little review

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Marc Preston: going on here Does mean a lot to me that

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Marc Preston: you are making story and craft part of your

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Billy Magnussen

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Billy Magnussen is establishing himself as one of the most promising and versatile character actors, having worked with award-winning directors including Steven Spielberg, Cary Fukanuga, Dan Gilroy, Barry Levinson, and Guy Ritchie, among others.

Upcoming, Magnussen stars alongside Cristin Milioti and Ray Ramano in the second season of HBO Max’s hit dark comedy series, MADE FOR LOVE, as well as Barry Levinson’s HBO Original post-World War II biopic, THE SURVIVOR, which made its world debut at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival.

Recently announced, Magnussen has joined the cast of Netflix’s LIFT, starring Kevin Hart, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Yun Jee Kim, Viveik Kalra and Paul Anderson. Directed by F. Gary Gray, written by Dan Kunka, and produced by Simon Kinberg, Audrey Chon, Matt Reeves and Adam Kassan, LIFT falls under Hart and HartBeat Productions’ creative partnership with the streaming giant.

Magnussen is also set for the ensemble comedy film REUNION, for which he serves as an executive producer, and an untitled Sharon Horgan comedy series for Amazon.

This past fall, Magnussen graced the big screen in two major blockbusters: “The Sopranos” movie prequel THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK, and the Cary Fukanuga directed NO TIME TO DIE, the 25th installment in the James Bond film franchise.

Previously, he could be seen in the live action adaptation of Disney’s ALADDIN, directed by Guy Ritchie;

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