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Welcome to the net.
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Paute, Hello, and welcome to a special between Takes episode
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of Missing Frames. I am your host, Sean Eastridge. Normally,
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on Missing Frames, we watch all of the movies we
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should have seen by this point in our lives, but
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these between Takes episodes give me an opportunity to step
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outside of that concept and do whatever my feeble little
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heart desires. And that includes interviews with some of my
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favorite people, film reviews with the franchise boys, and even
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the last year's celebrating Superman series in which I interviewed
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a ton of my favorite Superman people.
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That includes Mark.
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Wade, Dan Jurgen's, Tom King, Philip Kennedy, Johnson, Jason Aaron,
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Jean Luin Yang, Josie Campbell, so many awesome people who
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have been involved with making this character so special. If
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you haven't already checked the those episodes out, what are
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you waiting for? They're out there, Go give them a listen.
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But out of all those interviews, one of my absolute
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favorites from that series was with Ma Kent herself, Miss
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Neva how she is just the loveliest person, such an
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amazing actor. And since it's been almost a year since
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the release of James Gunn's Superman. I know, isn't that nuts?
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It's been nearly a year. We figured now was as
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good a time as any to catch up on everything
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going on with her. We talk about the huge impact
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the film has had on her life. We talk about
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some of the Superman comics she's been reading, She's been
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catching up a little bit on the lore, and we
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also discussed some of her other projects, such as some
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guest appearances on nine to one to one Nashville, and
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her excitement about being one of the main guests at
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Superman celebration in Metropolis, Illinois this June. Are you going
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to that? You should be going to that. I'm going
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to that, but don't let me being there to terry you.
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Niva will be there. Well, her and Tim Daily are
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going to be there. That's right, the Tim Daily, the
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voice of Superman. What more could anyone ask? And naturally,
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I mean Man of Tomorrow is filming, so you know,
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I'm trying to get some information out of her. Are
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Ma and paw Kent coming back. I mean, Niva isn't
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saying anything, but I certainly hope they are. I'm keeping
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my fingers crossed. My Toes crossed everything I can possibly cross.
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I'm doing it because I really want her and Pruitt,
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Taylor Vince back for Man of Tomorrow. So, James, mister Gunn,
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if you're listening, and I know you are, we know
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I'm gonna see Man of Tomorrow four five times in theaters.
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But if you actually.
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Announce that you're bringing mon podcent you're bringing them back
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for Man of Tomorrow, I'll bump those viewings up to
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maybe six, seven or ten. Give the people what they want.
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All right, enough of this nonsense. Let's get to the conversation.
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I really hope you enjoy. And hey, if you do enjoy,
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be a pal like Jimmy and leave me a five
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star review on Apple or Spotify wherever you do your listening.
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I greatly appreciate it. Now available to oh non video cassette.
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All right, Niva, we're back at it.
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Yes, we are back in the saddle. It's been a minute.
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We've had offline discussions.
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Yes, but now we're back in an official capacity.
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How does it feel? How do you feel being in
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the interview seat again, the hot seat?
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Well with you, it's great.
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You know you always made me feel so comfortable Sean,
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and I really appreciate that.
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Well, you're the.
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Best, and you've been so sweet and so supportive, and
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I really appreciate that too.
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But it's been about a year now we talked.
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When we talked, it was I think the end of
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July of twenty twenty five. The film had been out
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for a few weeks. I'd seen it at least twenty
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or thirty times.
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You know, as I want to do, I.
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Think that as I am wont to do.
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Yes, there we go. That makes me sound way smarter.
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But in the years since, how has it been? How
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has your life changed?
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It had just kind of started to explode at that point,
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reflecting back on the past year.
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How does everything look now?
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Well, I went from you know, basically being nobody knew
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me to everybody knew me, and it was really kind
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of surreal. And I will say my little town of
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the community was just so supportive and so excited for me,
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and all the ladies at the apartment complex where I
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live we all went to the theater together and they
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were just as excited as I was to see me
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on the screen.
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So it's been wonderful that way.
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But the biggest blessing I think Sean has been the
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fans meeting the fans, because without fail, there would be
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more than one person who would come up and end
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up in tears talking about how Ma impacted them because
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I reminded them of someone that they had lost and
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who they had loved, and I would be crying right
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along with them. So it's been a huge blessing to
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know that I've been part of something that is really
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touching people's lives.
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Yeah, I love I've gotten to I've been lucky enough
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to come hang out with you.
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At some times.
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And one of the joys for me too is seeing
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your interactions with fans, in the outpouring of love that
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you get. But also everyone it's not just that, hey,
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can I get a photo, it's everyone has the story
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to tell.
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Like you're saying, the film means so much, and.
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Your portrayal of Ma, this wonderful, famous character that's been
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so beloved, has gone down. I think so many fans
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love it, and I have gone on the record, I'll
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go on the record right now as saying You're definitely
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my favorite, my favorite Ma.
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You and Prue it are so special in this role,
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and I love I just love seeing.
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The impact it's had put Taylor Vance. It's one of
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my favorite people on the earth and I just adore
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him and I cannot imagine anybody else playing Paw. And
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I knew it when we read the first time. I'd
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never met him before in my life, and I knew it. Yeah,
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I just knew, man, that's Paw and that's right.
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We talked about it a little bit, just kind of
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the casting was a little bit.
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I think fans when the announcement was made it was like, huh,
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I don't how do we feel about that?
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I know, and I had a similar reaction because I'd
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never seen play that kind of role. But it didn't
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take long.
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And I knew I'd forgot.
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You know what I'd forgot as a major David Lynch fan,
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I'd forgotten that pru It was in his film Wild
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at Heart with Nick Cage and Laura.
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Durn I have a back of the ninety is. You
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probably would not enjoy it.
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David Lynch was awesome. Yeah, but yeah, I don't like
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a certain type of film didn't give me nightmares or
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they're just too disturbing.
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a particular type and now he's gotten to be this
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very warm, loving father. Yeah, and so many people love
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that portrayal, and so many people talk about not just
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his scene with Clark just outside the home, but just
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the scene at the end with the family and the
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robots and punk Rocker playing in the background and.
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Him holding Clark up and Yeah, what father hasn't done
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that at some point exactly?
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You know that was for me, as we've talked about it,
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just as a new father myself, seeing that moment and
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having grown up. Some of my earliest memories are watching
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Superman and holding up my son literally to the Superman
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the John Williams soundtrack, Rory holding him up, and seeing
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that moment reflected in the film, I just had this
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profound moment of like, oh my gosh, my life is comfortsser.
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It's beautiful how it continues to the son. It's a
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Superman quote, the son becomes the father, and the father.
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Of the son, the joy on my nephew's face.
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Yes, you know.
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And when you've shown me videos of Rory, just the
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sheer joy watching it is worth. What's a worth? That's priceless.
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It's absolutely and you're going, I mean, for.
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The rest of time, you get to be part of
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that amazing moment and part of this It's.
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So hard to believe. It is hard to wrap your
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head around.
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You were telling me something amazing about that scene just
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seeing it at the premiere that I don't know if
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we discussed the first time around, just being able to
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see it with Pruit, but just the reaction you two.
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Yeah, yes, at the very end, we both just sat
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there just I mean people were heading out, leaving and everything,
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and Prut sat there even longer than I did, but
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we both just sat and looked at the blank of
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the credits going and just took in the moment of
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that all coming to Fruition and it being just as
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beautiful as we thought it would be when we read
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the script. That was a moment I'll never forget.
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And Nicholas, he came up to you and told you something,
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didn't he at the premiere?
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Well yeah, Well at the after party, I was trying
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to meet everybody, and my nephew found Nicholas and I
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shook his hand and he said, you know, around our
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house the phrase is I cleaned your boots, I'll get
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them for you.
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Well, it's speaking of Nick, I mean, filling is happening
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right now. Man of Tomorrow, I know, and I speak
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for a lot of fans, we want Mom pop back,
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and we don't know.
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Is there anything you can share, We don't know.
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We don't know.
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But we do know that they were filming at a
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prison because that's been released, right, and we know a
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few other things.
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We know Brainiac is the villain.
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Brainiac And oh, I'm just thrilled with Lars.
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I think he was a great choice, like he would
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just step right into that. So everything that I'm seeing
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in the casting is just really yeah.
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And I think the only thing missing is an announcement that.
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Mon and Parr coming back. So it's all appropriate cross
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Cross and our fingers were hoping for the best. Well,
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and something else that we do know about the film
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is there is.
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used to refer to Superman, but I don't know Lex
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maybe taking a.
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Primary role in this.
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I know James has said a few times in interviews,
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you know it might be as much Lex's movie as
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Clark's movie.
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Yes, I think I saw something about it.
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is what gets me the most excited that these two
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are going to have to work together.
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To face a greater challenge.
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BRAINI act probably and just know Nick and David behind
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the scenes their interviews together, they have such a love
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for each.
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Other and their chemistry. They're so funny together.
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I love watching them and interviews them with Rachel as well.
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They just have such a camaraderie between them that it's
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nice to see.
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Yeah, and I'm glad James seems to have recognized that.
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And as a Superman fan of somebody who has read
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a lot of Superman stories, I have to say there
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are stories where Lex and Superman have reluctantly to team up,
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but not I don't know if we've seen many where
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it's the primary storyline, where it's something where it's like
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these two have to work together to defeat this thing
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and they're at odds. There have been stories where Lex
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has realized the air of his ways and wants to be.
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A hero and he works with Superman. Or I know
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Mark Wade, one of my favorite writers, who.
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You gave me one of his comics birthrate Yes, and
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I enjoyed read yes, and well, yes, you're right.
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Yeah, he did up in the Sky for Superman, and I.
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Think educating me.
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You know, you got to learn about your son. You
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got to know what he's doing.
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Now he's out and about, he's doing crazy things, and
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sometimes he doesn't have time to catch up with ma.
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So I'm trying to do you the favor of letting
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you know what adventures he's up to.
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It's greatly appreciate.
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Well, I think there have been stories that feature some
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kind of team up, but.
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I don't know if we've seen it on this level before.
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If we've seen it, we certainly haven't seen something like
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them when he when Clark was in high school and
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they were friends turned to enemies, But I don't know.
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Plus having that and Nick's friendship kind of being the
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anchor for those performances exciting.
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The coming months. We're seeing lots of casting announcements. I'm
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hopeful we'll see something about you improved as well. I
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desperately want you guys back in this movie.
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Oh yeah, well, let's talk to you. You are getting
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a little bit of an education.
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You went into this world not really be you knew
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the Christopher Reeve films, but now you've got a couple
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stories and comics under your belt.
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Do you recall what you've read?
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What you we talked about up in the Sky by
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Tom King and Birthright.
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I don't know which one it was, but I remember
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in one of them, the Fortress of Solitude was actually
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the Camp Farm.
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that what they may have made a reference to it?
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I like that.
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Anything you feel like you've learned from this is that
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you're kind of like, oh, okay, if by any chance
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you were coming back to this character that you might
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bring from one of those stories, I don't know.
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I'd have to think about that. But I haven't read
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them all yet either.
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Yeah, you know me with.
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Those classes, I haven't read the ninety plus years of
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Superman comics that are about the thousands and thousands.
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I don't know. I don't know.
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I haven't even read all the ones you've gat me,
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but I am. I am working on it.
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Well, you also want to be you know, and we've
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talked a little bit about this where James is such
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he loves these characters, but he's not beholden to the
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mythology in a way.
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That's going to drag it down.
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at these things and say like, oh, this is great.
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I remember when I handed you birthright and was telling you, oh,
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it's kind of She's Ma's a little bit younger and
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internet savvy and looking up stuff on the and you
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said to me, you were like, I don't know if
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I would want my MO to be that, And I
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was like, no, I don't want your ma to.
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Be James does. Of course James did.
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We defer to James at all points, but.
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get the.
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Idea she doesn't do a lot with in this DC universe.
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She's not really real tech savvy.
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But is that do you feel kind of kind of
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resistance still looking back, but you want to be cautious
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as an actor, not saying like, well, it's it's done
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this way and fans are so used to seeing her
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that way.
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Yeah, I definitely didn't want to do that because I
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wanted to honor James. The specific vision that James had
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and it didn't take long to realize it was different.
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So I really wanted to stay true to his vision
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as I as best I possibly could.
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But I did watch snippets.
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I think we talked about this of each of the
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mass just so I would understand what it come before
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a little bit. But I did not want to repeat
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or get confused about the different choices because James vision
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was so clear and so I thought beautiful that I
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didn't really want to mess with that by introducing things
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that might have confused it.
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Yeah, that's smart. I think that's the right approach. Well,
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we'll move on from Superman a little bit.
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We'll talk about what you've been doing in the meantime,
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because this is of course, this role has opened up
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new doors, new possibilities for you and your career, and
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most recently, you had a little stint on nine one
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one Nashville.
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Yes, I actually I did two episodes of nine one
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one Nashville. And the character's name is Mema and she
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is Leanne Rhyme's character's grandmother.
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You're Superman's mom and Leanne.
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I'm rocking it. But the thing about nine on Nashville,
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and I think I can say this because it's been
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about a week since it came out, so if you
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haven't seen it, a little spoiler. But Mima's grandma, I mean, yeah,
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Dixie's grandma me. In the first episode, I really felt like, oh,
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it's another Ma Kent.
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She was very warm and loving and caring.
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And then when I came back for the second episode,
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I was shocked. I thought, man, what did she go
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through between the first episode in this one? Because she
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was pretty tough and rough around the edges. So it
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was a great fun.
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Yeah, it was fun because you know, my wife watches
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way more TV than I do. She is more involved.
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She knows the nine one one shows and the spinoff.
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She's very familiar with it. But when you mentioned you
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were going to be honest, I was like, well, now
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I have to check it out. And that was my
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exact thought. The first episode, you're very.
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Kind, I was like, yeah, of course, ma like I
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see it. I see it. And then this latest episode
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where you're.
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Like, and we won't give too much away, but pretty.
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Feisty and tough love. I'm very tough love with Dixie.
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And at first I thought, man, where did the ma
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can't Vibe go? And then I realized it's still there.
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It's just being expressed through a very different personality. But
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she would do anything on earth for Dixie. She loves
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her granddaughter, so in that way, she still has the
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Ma can't spirit. It just looks very different.
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And maybe and we don't know.
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And it's just been reviewed by renewed for a second season,
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so we can hope that there will be more of
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me Ma coming up, but we don't know what happened
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now these two periods. This is a much more hardened
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woman than what.
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Happened to her, what happened in that period of time.
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I hope they will explore it. And Leanne Rhymes is
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just a ball of light. I just had so much
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fun working with her and I was so I don't know,
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shocked and blessed that she posted an Instagram person did
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you see that? And she was talking very positively about
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me that that that was one of her favorite scenes.
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And also she said, I can't wait to see what
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Mema does in season two. So fingers crossed again.
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You'll be able to reprise all the all.
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The I want all of them to come back, and
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you've got another film you're going to start filming later
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This year in the.
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Fall in October.
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Okay, that is another one that I'm very excited about.
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Tell me a little bit about that or what you
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can tell me.
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It's a true story. Maggie Reali is producing and directing it,
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and I met her when I was in LA. Fantastic
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person and very talented. She's also a talented painter. But
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she commissioned this, so we're set to start filming in October,
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and that would be a very interesting role. I don't
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want to give too much away about that, but it's
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very interesting.
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You think morm or Mema?
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Can we say? I think she starts out a little
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bit more like Mema, but at the end I believe
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she might be more like Ma. Okay, so there's both
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of them are going to be in there somewhere.
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That one is more fun for you, well, because when
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I see you in the roles where you get to
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be like a little bit crankier, I can tell you're
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having fun.
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And there's a part of me that feels like because
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you're such a like.
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I tell people that when they're like, oh, you got
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to meet Neva, I'm like, she exudes you watch Superman
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and that warmth and kindness it's her, it's not. My
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wife said it too when she met you. She's like,
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there's no surprise. Why it's no surprise why James picked her.
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And I think that might feed into why maybe it's
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fun for you to get to play those more curmudgeonly roles.
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We're a little more villainous.
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I really like playing cranky and mean and maunrie and
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you know, silly and stupid and you know, just the
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broader things. But Ma is always going to be probably
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my favorite of anything I ever, do, you know, just
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because of who she is and and because of the fans.
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Yeah, so when will that film you're filming in October?
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And then any idea of I'm sure it has been. Yeah,
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hopefully in the next couple of years people will be
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able to worry that.
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Yeah, that's great. And then talking.
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About you've been going around to the cons, but now
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you're getting to go to Superman celebration in Metropolis, Illinois
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this June, the June.
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Thirteenth, things to the fourteenth.
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I think that's right.
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Yeah, that weekend, that that weekend in June, So you've
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never been to Metropolis.
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I'm just that that one. I am just over the
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moon about I just can't wait. I just know that
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that I'm going to meet some awesome fans there and
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just have such a good time.
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And it's such a blast too. I got to go.
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My first Superman celebration was last.
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Year, and I never I never gone to I always
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wanted to go to Metropolis and I had never gone.
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And and you're going to I will be going there too.
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Oh, I'll be there. You're gonna be there. I'm going
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to be there. Don't you worry. I've made it a tradition.
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I've been able to attend many of the cons that
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you've been at.
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Yeah, you can't break that.
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You got to you gotta stay in the Georgia, the
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Southeast area.
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So I can keep that trend going.
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But no, I it was such a great event and
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so much fun as a fan of Superman, but also
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for you just getting to be a part of this
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wonderful just this incredible mythology now and you'll get to
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see the Superman Museum and the history of this incredible character.
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They've preserved it so beautifully. Morgan Siebert is she's the
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current owner of the museum. Her father, Jim, he was
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the one who gathered this collection and she's now the caretaker.
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But going through that museum and just seeing it and
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like just realizing just how much history this character has,
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that is going to be a lot of fun.
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I'm so looking forward to it, and I'm just so excited, yeah,
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for that one in particular. And Tim Daily is going
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to be there, and I just love him. He is
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the best, love everything he's ever done, and so that
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will be a joy.
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You're and you're the one you told me. I gotta
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watch Wings, absolutely, yeah.
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Because I grew up on the Superman animated show that
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he did, and so now I gotta go back and
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watch Wings.
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And of course, for those.
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Of you who haven't watched it, the League of Superman
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or Superman in which he welcomes his son Sam into
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the realm of Superman very funny.
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Yes, he's great.
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So I'm excited to see him, excited to see you there,
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and everybody should go and hang.
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Out with you.
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Yeah, come on, come on over to Metropolis, the place
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to be.
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And by that point it won't Supergirl will be a
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couple of oh yeah, weeks away.
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So we know that Supergirl's out in outer space.
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We know David has a little bit of a Cameo
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in there, but we likely will not see the Kens
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because the Kents they like to stay in Smallville.
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You know, they're not ready.
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For the big outer space adventures yet. But how do
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you feel about like there's so much stuff? There's Supergirl,
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there's lanterns, there's clay Face coming out. Which of these
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are exciting for you to see as somebody who is
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not direct maybe not directly involved a part of the world.
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Do you get excited about these?
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I do?
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I do, And I think really looks like she's just
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going to nail just got it, you know. The Supergirl.
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I think she's going to be great. And I'm looking
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forward to seeing Lobo. Yes, I think he's perfect.
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Some of us the best.
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Yeah, and clay Face, it's probably going to be amazing,
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But I doubt I can watch it because just the
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just the trailer. I couldn't even watch the whole trail.
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The trailer was very.
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Ill having nightmares. If if I watched the rest of FA.
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I can't blame you. And it's exciting. I mean, there's lanterns, lanterns.
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I'm excited about because I've I've been a fan of
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Cole Chandler for Chandler. Yeah for a long time. Well no,
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but first editions where I love Yes, I fell in
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love with him with that.
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I watched early edition, early watching that.
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Came the day before the Cat. I know, I was
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just so disappointed when it got canceled.
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That was a wonderful show.
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Yeah, he was.
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He's great, and so I.
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Like his subtle you know, he's very subtle, but his
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reactions are just so authentic and I just really enjoyed
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Were We and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart brilliant? Were We?
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Have you seen Friday Night Lights?
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No, because I don't like sports.
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I don't either, Ebody not a football fan, and it
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is top five favorite shows of all time.
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I need to go ahead and watch it. And you know,
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even though I'll just probably fast forward through this the
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football part. To be honest, Woul, you would.
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Love everyone out there. Again, coming from huge nerd, not
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a sports fan. My brother got all the athletic jeans.
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I got all the nerd jeans. If you want to
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see Kyle Chandler just being.
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A little bit Kyle, Yeah, if Kyle's in it, it's
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got to be good. And Connie Britton, you know.
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Yeah, Supergirls technically in the family.
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So I'm guessing that's probably the one you're the most
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excited to see. You are I think you have to
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say that as her I guess you're her aunt quote
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unquote pseudo aunt.
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Yeah, I don't know, but I.
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Have a I feel very Asthma.
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I felt very close.
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To her and felt like, you know, I would like
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to maybe take care of her.
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She needs, she needs a good mind in her life. Yeah,
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she's making some so I don't know if the right decisions.
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She needs somebody to guide her, I.
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Think, and she's from what I've seen in the of
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course you don't see that much in the trailers, but
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it seems like she's having a hard time, so I
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want I want to Yeah, I'm very protective of her
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in my MA character.
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Yes, as you said, that's kind of.
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What came out when I looked at her. Yeah, So
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we'll see, We'll see what happens.
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It's exciting, well hopefully again as I said, we're it's
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seeing a lot of cast announcements, and I'm hopeful maybe
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we will find out a little bit.
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More about Man of Tomorrow if we get to see
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the Kents again.
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Okay, just stop it. We have to wait, all right.
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So Nita, always lovely to see you, always lovely to
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hang out.
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I feel the same way, and we.
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Will see each other at Superman celebration and catch up there.
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Absolutely, I'm looking forward to it.
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Welcome to the net.
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Paute, Hello, and welcome to a special between Takes episode
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of Missing Frames. I am your host, Sean Eastridge. Normally,
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on Missing Frames, we watch all of the movies we
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should have seen by this point in our lives, but
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these between Takes episodes give me an opportunity to step
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outside of that concept and do whatever my feeble little
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heart desires. And that includes interviews with some of my
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favorite people, film reviews with the franchise boys, and even
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the last year's celebrating Superman series in which I interviewed
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a ton of my favorite Superman people.
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That includes Mark.
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Wade, Dan Jurgen's, Tom King, Philip Kennedy, Johnson, Jason Aaron,
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Jean Luin Yang, Josie Campbell, so many awesome people who
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have been involved with making this character so special. If
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you haven't already checked the those episodes out, what are
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you waiting for? They're out there, Go give them a listen.
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favorites from that series was with Ma Kent herself, Miss
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Neva how she is just the loveliest person, such an
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amazing actor. And since it's been almost a year since
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the release of James Gunn's Superman. I know, isn't that nuts?
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It's been nearly a year. We figured now was as
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good a time as any to catch up on everything
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going on with her. We talk about the huge impact
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the film has had on her life. We talk about
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some of the Superman comics she's been reading, She's been
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catching up a little bit on the lore, and we
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also discussed some of her other projects, such as some
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guest appearances on nine to one to one Nashville, and
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her excitement about being one of the main guests at
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Superman celebration in Metropolis, Illinois this June. Are you going
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to that? You should be going to that. I'm going
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to that, but don't let me being there to terry you.
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Niva will be there. Well, her and Tim Daily are
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going to be there. That's right, the Tim Daily, the
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voice of Superman. What more could anyone ask? And naturally,
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I'm trying to get some information out of her. Are
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Ma and paw Kent coming back. I mean, Niva isn't
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saying anything, but I certainly hope they are. I'm keeping
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my fingers crossed. My Toes crossed everything I can possibly cross.
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I'm doing it because I really want her and Pruitt,
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Taylor Vince back for Man of Tomorrow. So, James, mister Gunn,
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if you're listening, and I know you are, we know
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I'm gonna see Man of Tomorrow four five times in theaters.
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for Man of Tomorrow, I'll bump those viewings up to
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maybe six, seven or ten. Give the people what they want.
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All right, enough of this nonsense. Let's get to the conversation.
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I really hope you enjoy. And hey, if you do enjoy,
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be a pal like Jimmy and leave me a five
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star review on Apple or Spotify wherever you do your listening.
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I greatly appreciate it. Now available to oh non video cassette.
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All right, Niva, we're back at it.
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Yes, we are back in the saddle. It's been a minute.
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We've had offline discussions.
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Yes, but now we're back in an official capacity.
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How does it feel? How do you feel being in
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the interview seat again, the hot seat?
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Well with you, it's great.
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You know you always made me feel so comfortable Sean,
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and I really appreciate that.
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Well, you're the.
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Best, and you've been so sweet and so supportive, and
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I really appreciate that too.
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But it's been about a year now we talked.
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July of twenty twenty five. The film had been out
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for a few weeks. I'd seen it at least twenty
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Think that as I am wont to do.
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Yes, there we go. That makes me sound way smarter.
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has your life changed?
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me to everybody knew me, and it was really kind
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of surreal. And I will say my little town of
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the community was just so supportive and so excited for me,
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and all the ladies at the apartment complex where I
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live we all went to the theater together and they
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So it's been wonderful that way.
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fans meeting the fans, because without fail, there would be
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more than one person who would come up and end
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I reminded them of someone that they had lost and
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who they had loved, and I would be crying right
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along with them. So it's been a huge blessing to
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know that I've been part of something that is really
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touching people's lives.
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to come hang out with you.
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your interactions with fans, in the outpouring of love that
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you get. But also everyone it's not just that, hey,
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can I get a photo, it's everyone has the story
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Your portrayal of Ma, this wonderful, famous character that's been
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so beloved, has gone down. I think so many fans
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love it, and I have gone on the record, I'll
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go on the record right now as saying You're definitely
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my favorite, my favorite Ma.
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You and Prue it are so special in this role,
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and I love I just love seeing.
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The impact it's had put Taylor Vance. It's one of
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my favorite people on the earth and I just adore
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him and I cannot imagine anybody else playing Paw. And
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never met him before in my life, and I knew it. Yeah,
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I just knew, man, that's Paw and that's right.
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never seen play that kind of role. But it didn't
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take long.
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at Heart with Nick Cage and Laura.
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Durn I have a back of the ninety is. You
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probably would not enjoy it.
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a certain type of film didn't give me nightmares or
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they're just too disturbing.
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a particular type and now he's gotten to be this
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very warm, loving father. Yeah, and so many people love
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that portrayal, and so many people talk about not just
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his scene with Clark just outside the home, but just
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the scene at the end with the family and the
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robots and punk Rocker playing in the background and.
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Him holding Clark up and Yeah, what father hasn't done
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that at some point exactly?
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just as a new father myself, seeing that moment and
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having grown up. Some of my earliest memories are watching
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Superman and holding up my son literally to the Superman
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the John Williams soundtrack, Rory holding him up, and seeing
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that moment reflected in the film, I just had this
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profound moment of like, oh my gosh, my life is comfortsser.
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Superman quote, the son becomes the father, and the father.
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Of the son, the joy on my nephew's face.
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sheer joy watching it is worth. What's a worth? That's priceless.
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It's absolutely and you're going, I mean, for.
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that amazing moment and part of this It's.
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So hard to believe. It is hard to wrap your
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You were telling me something amazing about that scene just
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seeing it at the premiere that I don't know if
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we discussed the first time around, just being able to
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see it with Pruit, but just the reaction you two.
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Yeah, yes, at the very end, we both just sat
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there just I mean people were heading out, leaving and everything,
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and Prut sat there even longer than I did, but
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we both just sat and looked at the blank of
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the credits going and just took in the moment of
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that all coming to Fruition and it being just as
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beautiful as we thought it would be when we read
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the script. That was a moment I'll never forget.
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And Nicholas, he came up to you and told you something,
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didn't he at the premiere?
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to meet everybody, and my nephew found Nicholas and I
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shook his hand and he said, you know, around our
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house the phrase is I cleaned your boots, I'll get
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them for you.
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right now. Man of Tomorrow, I know, and I speak
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for a lot of fans, we want Mom pop back,
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Is there anything you can share, We don't know.
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We don't know.
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But we do know that they were filming at a
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prison because that's been released, right, and we know a
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few other things.
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We know Brainiac is the villain.
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Brainiac And oh, I'm just thrilled with Lars.
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I think he was a great choice, like he would
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just step right into that. So everything that I'm seeing
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in the casting is just really yeah.
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Mon and Parr coming back. So it's all appropriate cross
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Cross and our fingers were hoping for the best. Well,
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and something else that we do know about the film
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is there is.
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used to refer to Superman, but I don't know Lex
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maybe taking a.
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I know James has said a few times in interviews,
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you know it might be as much Lex's movie as
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Clark's movie.
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is what gets me the most excited that these two
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are going to have to work together.
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To face a greater challenge.
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BRAINI act probably and just know Nick and David behind
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the scenes their interviews together, they have such a love
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for each.
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Other and their chemistry. They're so funny together.
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I love watching them and interviews them with Rachel as well.
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They just have such a camaraderie between them that it's
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nice to see.
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a lot of Superman stories, I have to say there
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are stories where Lex and Superman have reluctantly to team up,
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but not I don't know if we've seen many where
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it's the primary storyline, where it's something where it's like
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these two have to work together to defeat this thing
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and they're at odds. There have been stories where Lex
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has realized the air of his ways and wants to be.
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A hero and he works with Superman. Or I know
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Mark Wade, one of my favorite writers, who.
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I enjoyed read yes, and well, yes, you're right.
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Think educating me.
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You know, you got to learn about your son. You
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got to know what he's doing.
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Now he's out and about, he's doing crazy things, and
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sometimes he doesn't have time to catch up with ma.
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you know what adventures he's up to.
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It's greatly appreciate.
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kind of team up, but.
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I don't know if we've seen it on this level before.
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this in live action. Smallville has kind of talked about
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them when he when Clark was in high school and
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they were friends turned to enemies, But I don't know.
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Plus having that and Nick's friendship kind of being the
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anchor for those performances exciting.
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hopeful we'll see something about you improved as well. I
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desperately want you guys back in this movie.
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Oh yeah, well, let's talk to you. You are getting
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a little bit of an education.
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the Christopher Reeve films, but now you've got a couple
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stories and comics under your belt.
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What you we talked about up in the Sky by
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Tom King and Birthright.
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in one of them, the Fortress of Solitude was actually
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the Camp Farm.
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that what they may have made a reference to it?
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I like that.
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Anything you feel like you've learned from this is that
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you're kind of like, oh, okay, if by any chance
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you were coming back to this character that you might
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bring from one of those stories, I don't know.
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them all yet either.
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Superman comics that are about the thousands and thousands.
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but I am. I am working on it.
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talked a little bit about this where James is such
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he loves these characters, but he's not beholden to the
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mythology in a way.
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That's going to drag it down.
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at these things and say like, oh, this is great.
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I remember when I handed you birthright and was telling you, oh,
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it's kind of She's Ma's a little bit younger and
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internet savvy and looking up stuff on the and you
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said to me, you were like, I don't know if
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was like, no, I don't want your ma to.
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get the.
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resistance still looking back, but you want to be cautious
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as an actor, not saying like, well, it's it's done
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this way and fans are so used to seeing her
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that way.
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wanted to honor James. The specific vision that James had
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and it didn't take long to realize it was different.
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as I as best I possibly could.
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I think we talked about this of each of the
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mass just so I would understand what it come before
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a little bit. But I did not want to repeat
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or get confused about the different choices because James vision
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was so clear and so I thought beautiful that I
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didn't really want to mess with that by introducing things
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that might have confused it.
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we'll move on from Superman a little bit.
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We'll talk about what you've been doing in the meantime,
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because this is of course, this role has opened up
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new doors, new possibilities for you and your career, and
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most recently, you had a little stint on nine one
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one Nashville.
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one Nashville. And the character's name is Mema and she
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is Leanne Rhyme's character's grandmother.
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You're Superman's mom and Leanne.
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I'm rocking it. But the thing about nine on Nashville,
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and I think I can say this because it's been
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about a week since it came out, so if you
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haven't seen it, a little spoiler. But Mima's grandma, I mean, yeah,
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Dixie's grandma me. In the first episode, I really felt like, oh,
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it's another Ma Kent.
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She was very warm and loving and caring.
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I was shocked. I thought, man, what did she go
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through between the first episode in this one? Because she
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was pretty tough and rough around the edges. So it
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was a great fun.
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Yeah, it was fun because you know, my wife watches
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way more TV than I do. She is more involved.
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She's very familiar with it. But when you mentioned you
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were going to be honest, I was like, well, now
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I have to check it out. And that was my
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exact thought. The first episode, you're very.
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Kind, I was like, yeah, of course, ma like I
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see it. I see it. And then this latest episode
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where you're.
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Like, and we won't give too much away, but pretty.
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Feisty and tough love. I'm very tough love with Dixie.
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can't Vibe go? And then I realized it's still there.
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It's just being expressed through a very different personality. But
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she would do anything on earth for Dixie. She loves
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her granddaughter, so in that way, she still has the
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Ma can't spirit. It just looks very different.
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And maybe and we don't know.
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And it's just been reviewed by renewed for a second season,
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so we can hope that there will be more of
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me Ma coming up, but we don't know what happened
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now these two periods. This is a much more hardened
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woman than what.
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Happened to her, what happened in that period of time.
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I hope they will explore it. And Leanne Rhymes is
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just a ball of light. I just had so much
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fun working with her and I was so I don't know,
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shocked and blessed that she posted an Instagram person did
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you see that? And she was talking very positively about
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me that that that was one of her favorite scenes.
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And also she said, I can't wait to see what
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Mema does in season two. So fingers crossed again.
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You'll be able to reprise all the all.
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The I want all of them to come back, and
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you've got another film you're going to start filming later
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This year in the.
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Fall in October.
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Okay, that is another one that I'm very excited about.
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Tell me a little bit about that or what you
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can tell me.
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It's a true story. Maggie Reali is producing and directing it,
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and I met her when I was in LA. Fantastic
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person and very talented. She's also a talented painter. But
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she commissioned this, so we're set to start filming in October,
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and that would be a very interesting role. I don't
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want to give too much away about that, but it's
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very interesting.
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You think morm or Mema?
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Can we say? I think she starts out a little
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bit more like Mema, but at the end I believe
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she might be more like Ma. Okay, so there's both
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of them are going to be in there somewhere.
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That one is more fun for you, well, because when
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I see you in the roles where you get to
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be like a little bit crankier, I can tell you're
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having fun.
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And there's a part of me that feels like because
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you're such a like.
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I tell people that when they're like, oh, you got
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to meet Neva, I'm like, she exudes you watch Superman
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and that warmth and kindness it's her, it's not. My
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wife said it too when she met you. She's like,
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there's no surprise. Why it's no surprise why James picked her.
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And I think that might feed into why maybe it's
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fun for you to get to play those more curmudgeonly roles.
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We're a little more villainous.
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I really like playing cranky and mean and maunrie and
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you know, silly and stupid and you know, just the
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broader things. But Ma is always going to be probably
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my favorite of anything I ever, do, you know, just
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because of who she is and and because of the fans.
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Yeah, so when will that film you're filming in October?
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And then any idea of I'm sure it has been. Yeah,
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hopefully in the next couple of years people will be
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able to worry that.
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Yeah, that's great. And then talking.
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About you've been going around to the cons, but now
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you're getting to go to Superman celebration in Metropolis, Illinois
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this June, the June.
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Thirteenth, things to the fourteenth.
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I think that's right.
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Yeah, that weekend, that that weekend in June, So you've
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never been to Metropolis.
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I'm just that that one. I am just over the
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moon about I just can't wait. I just know that
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that I'm going to meet some awesome fans there and
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just have such a good time.
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And it's such a blast too. I got to go.
433
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My first Superman celebration was last.
434
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Year, and I never I never gone to I always
435
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wanted to go to Metropolis and I had never gone.
436
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And and you're going to I will be going there too.
437
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Oh, I'll be there. You're gonna be there. I'm going
438
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to be there. Don't you worry. I've made it a tradition.
439
00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:31.640
I've been able to attend many of the cons that
440
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you've been at.
441
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Yeah, you can't break that.
442
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You got to you gotta stay in the Georgia, the
443
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Southeast area.
444
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So I can keep that trend going.
445
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But no, I it was such a great event and
446
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so much fun as a fan of Superman, but also
447
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for you just getting to be a part of this
448
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wonderful just this incredible mythology now and you'll get to
449
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see the Superman Museum and the history of this incredible character.
450
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They've preserved it so beautifully. Morgan Siebert is she's the
451
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current owner of the museum. Her father, Jim, he was
452
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the one who gathered this collection and she's now the caretaker.
453
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But going through that museum and just seeing it and
454
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like just realizing just how much history this character has,
455
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that is going to be a lot of fun.
456
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I'm so looking forward to it, and I'm just so excited, yeah,
457
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for that one in particular. And Tim Daily is going
458
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to be there, and I just love him. He is
459
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the best, love everything he's ever done, and so that
460
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will be a joy.
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You're and you're the one you told me. I gotta
462
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watch Wings, absolutely, yeah.
463
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Because I grew up on the Superman animated show that
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he did, and so now I gotta go back and
465
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watch Wings.
466
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And of course, for those.
467
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Of you who haven't watched it, the League of Superman
468
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or Superman in which he welcomes his son Sam into
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the realm of Superman very funny.
470
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Yes, he's great.
471
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So I'm excited to see him, excited to see you there,
472
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and everybody should go and hang.
473
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Out with you.
474
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Yeah, come on, come on over to Metropolis, the place
475
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to be.
476
00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:09.319
And by that point it won't Supergirl will be a
477
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couple of oh yeah, weeks away.
478
00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:13.799
So we know that Supergirl's out in outer space.
479
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We know David has a little bit of a Cameo
480
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in there, but we likely will not see the Kens
481
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because the Kents they like to stay in Smallville.
482
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You know, they're not ready.
483
00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:27.039
For the big outer space adventures yet. But how do
484
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you feel about like there's so much stuff? There's Supergirl,
485
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there's lanterns, there's clay Face coming out. Which of these
486
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are exciting for you to see as somebody who is
487
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not direct maybe not directly involved a part of the world.
488
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Do you get excited about these?
489
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I do?
490
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I do, And I think really looks like she's just
491
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going to nail just got it, you know. The Supergirl.
492
00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:56.359
I think she's going to be great. And I'm looking
493
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forward to seeing Lobo. Yes, I think he's perfect.
494
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Some of us the best.
495
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Yeah, and clay Face, it's probably going to be amazing,
496
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But I doubt I can watch it because just the
497
00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:11.039
just the trailer. I couldn't even watch the whole trail.
498
00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:12.519
The trailer was very.
499
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Ill having nightmares. If if I watched the rest of FA.
500
00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:21.440
I can't blame you. And it's exciting. I mean, there's lanterns, lanterns.
501
00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:24.920
I'm excited about because I've I've been a fan of
502
00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:31.319
Cole Chandler for Chandler. Yeah for a long time. Well no,
503
00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:34.400
but first editions where I love Yes, I fell in
504
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love with him with that.
505
00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:41.680
I watched early edition, early watching that.
506
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Came the day before the Cat. I know, I was
507
00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:46.400
just so disappointed when it got canceled.
508
00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:47.640
That was a wonderful show.
509
00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:48.400
Yeah, he was.
510
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He's great, and so I.
511
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Like his subtle you know, he's very subtle, but his
512
00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:59.799
reactions are just so authentic and I just really enjoyed
513
00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:05.079
Were We and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart brilliant? Were We?
514
00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:07.519
Have you seen Friday Night Lights?
515
00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.319
No, because I don't like sports.
516
00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:14.480
I don't either, Ebody not a football fan, and it
517
00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.079
is top five favorite shows of all time.
518
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:19.480
I need to go ahead and watch it. And you know,
519
00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:24.000
even though I'll just probably fast forward through this the
520
00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:28.160
football part. To be honest, Woul, you would.
521
00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:31.599
Love everyone out there. Again, coming from huge nerd, not
522
00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:34.319
a sports fan. My brother got all the athletic jeans.
523
00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:35.920
I got all the nerd jeans. If you want to
524
00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:37.400
see Kyle Chandler just being.
525
00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:39.720
A little bit Kyle, Yeah, if Kyle's in it, it's
526
00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:43.319
got to be good. And Connie Britton, you know.
527
00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:46.279
Yeah, Supergirls technically in the family.
528
00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:48.200
So I'm guessing that's probably the one you're the most
529
00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:51.440
excited to see. You are I think you have to
530
00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:55.519
say that as her I guess you're her aunt quote
531
00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:57.039
unquote pseudo aunt.
532
00:26:57.319 --> 00:26:58.839
Yeah, I don't know, but I.
533
00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:00.839
Have a I feel very Asthma.
534
00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:03.359
I felt very close.
535
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.079
To her and felt like, you know, I would like
536
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:08.359
to maybe take care of her.
537
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:10.640
She needs, she needs a good mind in her life. Yeah,
538
00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:14.519
she's making some so I don't know if the right decisions.
539
00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:16.519
She needs somebody to guide her, I.
540
00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:19.799
Think, and she's from what I've seen in the of
541
00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:22.119
course you don't see that much in the trailers, but
542
00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:25.640
it seems like she's having a hard time, so I
543
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:29.039
want I want to Yeah, I'm very protective of her
544
00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:30.519
in my MA character.
545
00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:32.079
Yes, as you said, that's kind of.
546
00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:35.960
What came out when I looked at her. Yeah, So
547
00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:37.799
we'll see, We'll see what happens.
548
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:40.960
It's exciting, well hopefully again as I said, we're it's
549
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:43.920
seeing a lot of cast announcements, and I'm hopeful maybe
550
00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:45.359
we will find out a little bit.
551
00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.240
More about Man of Tomorrow if we get to see
552
00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:49.000
the Kents again.
553
00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:56.200
Okay, just stop it. We have to wait, all right.
554
00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:59.400
So Nita, always lovely to see you, always lovely to
555
00:27:59.440 --> 00:27:59.799
hang out.
556
00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:01.200
I feel the same way, and we.
557
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Will see each other at Superman celebration and catch up there.
558
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Absolutely, I'm looking forward to it.
