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- In my new movie "Samaritan",
I play a quiet neighborly type
and I keep to myself
and usually get along with people.
But what does it mean to be a Samaritan?
Well, it's all a matter of perspective.
It could be as simple as standing up
for the little guy or helping around the neighborhood.
- I think we're finished here.
Go on, beat it.
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- I found him, Samaritan.
- [Man] Samaritan died 25 years ago.
- [Kid] That's what they say.
♪ Everything I wanna see ♪
- Kid.
Samaritan's dead.
I pick up garbage for a living, pal.
- Samaritan cleaned up the streets.
- It could even mean exacting violent justice
on a hard line criminal gang intent
on bringing death and destruction to your city.
Being a Samaritan is all a matter of perspective.
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I think the biggest difference from shooting a TV show
and shooting a movie is how long you're on set for,
that's a big difference because with TV shows,
you're what, six months about that, six or more.
And with a movie you can get it done
in three, four months.
It's a lot of fast paced working,
and for "Samaritan" to be my first movie was super cool.
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(brakes squealing)
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How has it been working with a legend
like Sylvester Stallone?
It was a lot of fun.
We talked a lot about boxing
and he was telling me about all these old school boxers,
which was super cool to listen to,
really he's a nice guy in general.
I learned a lot from him on set,
kind of like being able to not just go with the script,
but adding on and just doing
things that make you feel comfortable
and saying what you really feel and not just listening
to what the script is always.
Being able to go off script.
- See this old toaster?
See, breaking things goes easy.
Now fixing them, that helps me relax and focus.
And I figure some of these old things
deserve a second chance.
- Like you?
No, I'm just kidding.
- Some special training and prep I had to do
to undergo this role was not anything crazy.
Just like prepping on climbing the building.
Since that was a lot.
A lot of the stunt scenes of me fighting
and stuff like that.
We had to rehearse those a good bit, but that's about it.
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I think the advice that I'd give Sam is to trust your gut.
You're going to meet some people along the way that are
gonna better you and people
that are gonna try to tear you down.
So stick with what you know, be confident in that.
(bleep)
- Whoa, whoa, who's the (bleep)
- You. Don't touch me.
Get your hands off of me.
- I knew I liked you.
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- I think my biggest hero and inspiration is my dad.
He's always there for me to start off,
he's there every single step of the way.
And I absolutely love that.
I mean, there's nobody except my mom
who's doing what he's doing, man.
Like he's for real a superhero.
And it shows that not all superheroes have to wear capes.
He works extremely hard.
And I look up to him for that reason too
because how hard he works and his discipline
and drive for whatever he does.
"Samaritan" for me. That's easy, come on now.
- [Sam] None of you know what really happened.
All I know is that Nemesis died that night.
- Do it.
- Howard Castor says that Nemesis had a plan
to blow up the power station
and throw the city into anarchy and chaos.
- He doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
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- Would you rather work solo or on a team?
I'd rather be a solo hero.
Would you rather be Samaritan or Nemesis?
I don't know. I think Nemesis could be kind of cool.
Would you rather read hero comic books or watch hero movies?
Watch hero movies for sure.
Would you rather have a hammer or sword as your hero weapon?
Hammer.
Would you rather be a forgotten hero or unwanted hero?
Probably forgotten.
Would you rather have a mask or a cape?
I'd rather have a cape.
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All right.
So this is the scene where Sam meets Cyrus.
Yeah, it was pretty interesting.
It took a minute actually to get
all of the stunt part of it down,
like the hit and all of that,
but it was a fun scene.
It was the first scene with all of us together.
- Are you a liar?
- Cyrus.
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How old are you pal?
- 13.
- Youngest and the smallest, huh?
Used to happen to me too.
I get told (bleep) rolls down.
- Oh, and then right here, Jared,
I think it was this one where he hit his head
on something when they were messing around and somewhere
between the take and ended up messing his head
up for a second and got blood everywhere.
It was crazy.
- Cyrus says (bleep)
- Cool, and that's it.
All right.
So in this one right here, Joe saves Sam.
It took me a minute to get this one scene down though
because I remember that my bag kept hitting the fence
and that was pretty crazy.
And even their action where he flips,
that was crazy to do that part.
It was really cool though.
Yeah. I like this scene.
It's kinda like an all day thing too.
Cool to say this is the first time to see him
using his super strength in the movie too.
'Cause the way he flings them so easily.
- What's your problem man?
- Come on.
- Oh yeah, that part, that part was crazy.
That was the flip I was talking about.
- Beat it.
You need to make some new friends.
Okay? Let's get out of here.
- And then he pulled the knife out.
He starts bending it and I ended up taking it I think.
Even that flip was crazy.
- Come on bro, let's go.
- We know where you live old man.
- Samaritan.
- Y'all think about it,
they could only use that car so many times
because it would start breaking.
So that was crazy.
All right.
So it's the scene where Joe gets hit by a car.
This was a lot of fun to shoot because
it was like second or third day of shooting "Samaritan".
So it was pretty cool to be able to do this.
It was really intense though.
And it took a good bit of takes for sure.
- Oh my God.
- And I even remember
that we got it done and then even parts of it
like towards the very end we had to redo
because there was a big scene of the car hit.
But seeing all that action play out was insane.
It's crazy seeing it again.
It was the first emotional scene of "Samaritan" too.
- (bleep) no.
- Holy (bleep)
Oh my God.
I don't even know how they did that.
The snaps like of his body getting back together.
Oh, that's so cool.
- I knew it was you this whole time.
- I need water.
- This is where Sam starts to see
that he's really a superhero.
That's so crazy.
It all snaps.
He's steamy at the time.
They need a way to cool him down with ice cream.
- I can't believe I found Samaritan.
- Wrong.
- So yeah.
This is the scene where Sam ends up boxing with Joe.
So he's going to the rooftop.
And then the ladder to the rooftop was pretty crazy.
There was no stairs or anything.
We had to climb a ladder to get up there.
It was cool to see everything all the way up there.
But it was cool to be able to throw some punches
with such a legend like Sly, man,
that was really cool.
- Look at speedy boy.
Wow. Where'd you learn to rip like that?
- My father taught me when I was four.
I quit when he died.
- Oh. That's impressive.
- Thanks.
- Yeah. I like this scene a lot.
This is like, you start to see their bond
between both of them
which was really cool to see for the first time,
which I really liked.
- No no, hit my hand.
- You start to see Sam is a little scared to actually fight.
He can fight a little bit
but he's not the best at fighting back though.
- What if you don't got a choice?
Like let's say if someone was messing with your mom.
- Well then you sucker punch the fool and run like hell.
- Is that fair though?
- Hey, if life was fair, everyone would get along.
But guess what? They don't.
- I think this was one of the days we talked
about boxing the most and we talked about boxing a lot
on set, oh yeah,
that's where I where I hit him in the stomach in my hand.
- That's what you get for sucker punching me.
Come on, get some ice.
What were you thinking?
- It was crazy.
Don't miss "Samaritan"
streaming on August 26th only on Prime Video.
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