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It's not all blood, guts and gore on the big
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screen this Halloween. There's also a family friendly film called Grow.
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Joining us now. Star of that movie, Jeremy Swift. How
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are you, sir?
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I'm very well. How are you?
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I'm doing very well as well. We're going to get
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to Grow in just a second, because there's no way,
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no way, we don't start off by talking a little
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ted lesso because we've got Higgins on the hotline. Oh
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my goodness, is there anyway? Was there any way to
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know what you were getting into when ted Lasso was
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first pitched like this was three seasons of perfection? Sir?
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Absolutely not no. And you know when I first when
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I first was told about it by my agent, when
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she kind of pitched it to me, she said, it's
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you know, I am not a football person. I'm not
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really a sporty person, and she did about football, and
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I literally went, oh no, because quite often I found
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that I didn't usually get jobs, not that you can
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make a sort of rue that I didn't have an
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affinity with. But when I saw the script and I
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saw what fun it was and how warm it was,
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I was I was completely in of course, But there
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was no way on this earth that I could know
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the phenomena that it became no way, which happened really quickly,
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by the way, in about four or five episodes, people
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were going crazy about it.
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Sneak absolutely hooked. In fact, the wife and I are
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going back through it for the third time now, So
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just did the well when the announcement came out that
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y'all be come back for a fourth season. By the way,
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how did you take that? Because everybody wants more, But
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at the same time, you know, the cardinal rule of
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Lady felling them wanting more that three seasons was perfection.
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Was there any kind of conflict that I'll say, no,
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sign me up for a fourth.
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I know what you mean? And they rounded it off beautifully,
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and it was. The episode was written by Jason for
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the last episode of season three. But at the same
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time there were some little plant that seeds being planted
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there for you know, for for future shows in a
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future arc. So I wasn't surprised, and I was in
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fact hopeful that you know, it would be that it
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would come back, And yeah it was. I mean, the
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announcement was made just over a year ago. I was
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really excited to be back on board, and it's been such.
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Fun well again and we're looking forward to it absolutely.
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One more quick side note. The wife and I were
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out at a at a bar and they had a
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jazz trio and the whole night we just kept calling
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the bass player Higgins. I think he got a little
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annoyed with us, but he knew we were coming from
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a place of love. So all right, grow was coming up.
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Let's move from from football to pumpkins. Tell us all
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about the film.
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Yeah, well, same shank, really. Yeah. The film is a
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great heartwarming comedy family film. It's coming out on October
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the seventeenth in theaters all over America, and it's about
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a little girl called Charlie and who's played by the
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excellent Pria rose Brookwell, who's only like ten, and she's
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just so talented. You can't believe she's only like five
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minutes old. How did that happen? He's just battling anyway.
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This is Charlie has been abandoned by her family and
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she goes to live with her Auntie, who's very grumpy,
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and she lives in the countrysid she runs a farm,
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and you know, the last thing she needs is a
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little kid. On the farm because you know, farms are
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toughing up, and we as the audience, discovered that Charlie
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has this kind of almost magical way of communing with plants,
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and she's she can much plants to notice if they're well,
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or they're in the wrong conditioners they should be in
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the sun, or they need more watering, or if they've
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been given too much fertilizers. And so she has this
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propensity to it's the gross stuff incredibly well. And in
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the village each year, of course, in the country side
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there is there is this huge pumpkin festival competition and
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and so they enter it and it's really about saving
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the farm as much as anything. And of course there
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are some crazy characters in the village and I play
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one of them. I work for a fertilizer company, a
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little bit of a bad guy, mister Gregory, and he
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grows his dumpkin in lab conditions, you know, completely artificial environment,
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the complete opposite to what Charlie is doing, you know,
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which is like attuning herself to her pubpkins. And it's
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just a lot of fun. The kids, kids will love
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it and moms and dan grandparents bring you you know,
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just bring your whole family, your aunts and your uncles.
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Bring your dog, bring you cat, I will, I will
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step in right there. Do not bring your dogs? No, no, no no,
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do not bring your dogs. Bring the whole family. Yes,
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but we could draw a line right there. Dog, I
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gotta ask you, and I know from time to time
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actors will give me the answer whatever pays the bills.
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But do you have a favorite when it comes to
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whether or not you're making a series or making a movie,
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Because on a movie, you can dive all in on
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our project. On a series, there's that longgoing basis of
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growing and evolving characters. Do you have a favorite a
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passion that you like to dive in on more?
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Well, it's not in just in terms of in terms
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of what you know, medium I'm playing in. Really it
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just depends on the on the script and whether I
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take through it or not. And you know, I really
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just have an affinity with comedy, and it is a
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good in the comedy, you know, then I'm in there.
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But you know, doing something that is ongoing, a show
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like this is it's kind of for me at Ted Laster,
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I'm sorry, that's quite a dream because you know, I've
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really really fan worshiped American comedy really all my life
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since I as a kid, you know, with the Bick
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Van Dyke Show, and I love Lucy. He's you know,
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friends and Frasier and the office at the American Office.
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And I think it's what you guys do still well
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to work to work in an American scripted comedy is
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that is really a career dream for me that has
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come true? Still, how lucky am I finished myself?
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Absolutely? He is Jeremy Swift, the star of the new
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Halloween film Grow. I'll give you just a quick thirty
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seconds that I know you've got to get out of here.
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But working on a family friendly film Halloween is something
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that draws blood and gore to the screen. This is
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a step away from that.
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It really is, and and it's really refreshing, you know,
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and it's you know, ow, it doesn't have to be
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completely spooky and scary, guys. It can be an appreciation
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of each other and stuff that grows. And you know
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that that's when we reap all our stuff, isn't it
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at the end of the season.
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Jeremy Swift, I know, I know time is tight. This morning.
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I appreciate a couple of minutes. Thank you for hopping
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on board.
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Thank you sir. You take care.
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You do the same
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It's not all blood, guts and gore on the big
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screen this Halloween. There's also a family friendly film called Grow.
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Joining us now. Star of that movie, Jeremy Swift. How
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are you, sir?
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I'm very well. How are you?
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I'm doing very well as well. We're going to get
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to Grow in just a second, because there's no way,
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no way, we don't start off by talking a little
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ted lesso because we've got Higgins on the hotline. Oh
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my goodness, is there anyway? Was there any way to
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know what you were getting into when ted Lasso was
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first pitched like this was three seasons of perfection? Sir?
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Absolutely not no. And you know when I first when
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I first was told about it by my agent, when
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she kind of pitched it to me, she said, it's
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you know, I am not a football person. I'm not
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really a sporty person, and she did about football, and
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I literally went, oh no, because quite often I found
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that I didn't usually get jobs, not that you can
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make a sort of rue that I didn't have an
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affinity with. But when I saw the script and I
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saw what fun it was and how warm it was,
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I was I was completely in of course, But there
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was no way on this earth that I could know
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the phenomena that it became no way, which happened really quickly,
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by the way, in about four or five episodes, people
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were going crazy about it.
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Sneak absolutely hooked. In fact, the wife and I are
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going back through it for the third time now, So
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just did the well when the announcement came out that
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y'all be come back for a fourth season. By the way,
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how did you take that? Because everybody wants more, But
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at the same time, you know, the cardinal rule of
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Lady felling them wanting more that three seasons was perfection.
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Was there any kind of conflict that I'll say, no,
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sign me up for a fourth.
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I know what you mean? And they rounded it off beautifully,
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and it was. The episode was written by Jason for
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the last episode of season three. But at the same
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time there were some little plant that seeds being planted
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there for you know, for for future shows in a
42
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future arc. So I wasn't surprised, and I was in
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fact hopeful that you know, it would be that it
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would come back, And yeah it was. I mean, the
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announcement was made just over a year ago. I was
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really excited to be back on board, and it's been such.
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Fun well again and we're looking forward to it absolutely.
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One more quick side note. The wife and I were
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out at a at a bar and they had a
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jazz trio and the whole night we just kept calling
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the bass player Higgins. I think he got a little
52
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annoyed with us, but he knew we were coming from
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a place of love. So all right, grow was coming up.
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Let's move from from football to pumpkins. Tell us all
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about the film.
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Yeah, well, same shank, really. Yeah. The film is a
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great heartwarming comedy family film. It's coming out on October
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the seventeenth in theaters all over America, and it's about
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a little girl called Charlie and who's played by the
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excellent Pria rose Brookwell, who's only like ten, and she's
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just so talented. You can't believe she's only like five
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minutes old. How did that happen? He's just battling anyway.
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This is Charlie has been abandoned by her family and
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she goes to live with her Auntie, who's very grumpy,
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and she lives in the countrysid she runs a farm,
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and you know, the last thing she needs is a
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little kid. On the farm because you know, farms are
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toughing up, and we as the audience, discovered that Charlie
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has this kind of almost magical way of communing with plants,
70
00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:04.120
and she's she can much plants to notice if they're well,
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or they're in the wrong conditioners they should be in
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the sun, or they need more watering, or if they've
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been given too much fertilizers. And so she has this
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propensity to it's the gross stuff incredibly well. And in
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00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.439
the village each year, of course, in the country side
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there is there is this huge pumpkin festival competition and
77
00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.959
and so they enter it and it's really about saving
78
00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:34.439
the farm as much as anything. And of course there
79
00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:37.360
are some crazy characters in the village and I play
80
00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.120
one of them. I work for a fertilizer company, a
81
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little bit of a bad guy, mister Gregory, and he
82
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grows his dumpkin in lab conditions, you know, completely artificial environment,
83
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the complete opposite to what Charlie is doing, you know,
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which is like attuning herself to her pubpkins. And it's
85
00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.279
just a lot of fun. The kids, kids will love
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it and moms and dan grandparents bring you you know,
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just bring your whole family, your aunts and your uncles.
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Bring your dog, bring you cat, I will, I will
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step in right there. Do not bring your dogs? No, no, no no,
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do not bring your dogs. Bring the whole family. Yes,
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but we could draw a line right there. Dog, I
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gotta ask you, and I know from time to time
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actors will give me the answer whatever pays the bills.
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But do you have a favorite when it comes to
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whether or not you're making a series or making a movie,
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Because on a movie, you can dive all in on
97
00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.360
our project. On a series, there's that longgoing basis of
98
00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.879
growing and evolving characters. Do you have a favorite a
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passion that you like to dive in on more?
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Well, it's not in just in terms of in terms
101
00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.680
of what you know, medium I'm playing in. Really it
102
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just depends on the on the script and whether I
103
00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:56.360
take through it or not. And you know, I really
104
00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:59.600
just have an affinity with comedy, and it is a
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good in the comedy, you know, then I'm in there.
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But you know, doing something that is ongoing, a show
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like this is it's kind of for me at Ted Laster,
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I'm sorry, that's quite a dream because you know, I've
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really really fan worshiped American comedy really all my life
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since I as a kid, you know, with the Bick
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Van Dyke Show, and I love Lucy. He's you know,
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friends and Frasier and the office at the American Office.
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And I think it's what you guys do still well
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to work to work in an American scripted comedy is
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that is really a career dream for me that has
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come true? Still, how lucky am I finished myself?
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Absolutely? He is Jeremy Swift, the star of the new
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Halloween film Grow. I'll give you just a quick thirty
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seconds that I know you've got to get out of here.
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But working on a family friendly film Halloween is something
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that draws blood and gore to the screen. This is
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a step away from that.
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It really is, and and it's really refreshing, you know,
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and it's you know, ow, it doesn't have to be
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completely spooky and scary, guys. It can be an appreciation
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of each other and stuff that grows. And you know
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that that's when we reap all our stuff, isn't it
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at the end of the season.
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Jeremy Swift, I know, I know time is tight. This morning.
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I appreciate a couple of minutes. Thank you for hopping
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on board.
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Thank you sir. You take care.
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You do the same
