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I haven't thought about The Goonies and sloth in so long.
It was, Oh, The Goonies. Good times.
Good times, guys.
Congratulations on the show.
Thank you. Thank you.
So many reasons to get involved, I'm sure.
one of them being Samuel L Jackson.
Any opportunity to work with him, you can't really turn down.
I wonder what, what maybe advice he gave to you
or any kind of nuggets of maybe wisdom that he gave you on the set?
Maybe, Marsha, I'll offer that to you first.
Oh, you know, he didn't specifically give it to me,
but I was sitting right next to him when he was giving it to another actor.
And it was about not not working towards something
your entire career that because you'll miss the moments
that are important, like all the things that you know that
no matter where you are, you think you should be somewhere else.
So if you're working towards,
Oh, I'm going to, I can't wait until I make $2 million a year.
They were specifically talking about money
and saying I was basically like, Listen, man, you got to enjoy every moment
because when you start making $2 million a year, you're going to start thinking,
I need to be making $4 million a year, you know, and you're always going
to be striving for some elusive end point, which doesn't exist.
So enjoy each moment and joy when you're making 400 bucks
a week and hoping to make more.
But enjoy that every single
step of the journey.
As such, a that's such a I just picture him
saying it, it's such a small thing to say.
I mean, he said it with a lot more curse words and I just did.
But yes,
like what the fuck?
What the hell are you talking about?
You want to be like, like that?
I got it now.
I could hear it.
Omar, what about you?
Because you work quite closely with him in the show?
I mean, that must have been
an amazing time for you as a as an actor to work with someone like him.
Yeah, but he held out on me.
I didn't get any money advice, so I don't know.
Yeah, it's a great experience.
I mean, you know, going toe to toe.
one thing that he was, he was super generous with his experiences
and with his time because offset, we would speak,
you know, while they were setting up cameras and whatnot.
We would speak about his experiences in New York theater
and the crop of actors he grew up with and all of that.
And I mean that stuff that, you know, I take with me and use that
that was just a blessing and wisdom because he shared with me
just a whole bunch of stories from films that he didn't get into,
like a soldier's story, but he was in the original play
to how it came about doing unbreakable and Mr.
Glass and all of these, you know, all of this stuff.
So that stuff is priceless.
Yeah, it usually talks about his purple lightsaber a lot from what I from
what I've seen when he's on Graham Norton
or something, he's always talking about his purple lightsaber.
I don't know if we had that kind of relationship, but
I heard that in my head afterwards.
That was a bit that was it.
This is this is the final question.
And I mean, it must be great as actors to play all these amazing roles, but
to play them for more time than you would if you were in a film setting.
You know, you guys get to do this for a lot longer and delve
a little bit deeper into your characters.
How exciting is that for you as performers that you get to do something like this
and for a longer time than you would have done, say, in in the movies?
Maybe Marsha, throw it to you first.
I love, yes, I love a limited series for that very reason.
To me, it feels a lot more.
It's interesting that this was based on a novel
because the limited series for me feels like a big, thick book.
You get to spend time with the people,
you get a little bit more than you would get in the film.
You get in depth characters, you get a journey.
And as an actor, that's all you want.
You want to be able to flesh this thing out a little bit more, get more time with,
you know, all these characters that you meet in the novel.
Just the fact that I got to work
with Durant who plays my son Hilliard,
just more time with building that relationship for the mother
and son relationship
and seeing all the ups and downs and the weirdness and complexity and
and awkwardness that comes from that relationship.
So, yeah, as an actor, it's I love the format of the limited series.
Yeah, same for you, Omar. Yeah.
You know, I really just love to work.
And it was it was a circumstance where
this being a limited series, I want to say this is my first limited series.
I didn't.
I try to focus on the day to day.
And one thing I do like is having an innate,
you know, because you get so deep into these characters,
it can become a part of you.
And so for me, in this one, it was intense
because of the trajectory of the character and where he fits into the story.
So it was a little bit different than what it is when you do a movie
and you move to a new city for three or four months and so on and so forth.
Or when you do a television show that's ongoing
and you just kind of their open ended.
So for me, it was just about the day to day.
I had a great time working and doing these scenes
because my scenes were, you know, head to head with Sam.
And I got the also have the awesome experience
of meeting all the wonderful members of the ensemble because we had read
throughs and makeup tests and wardrobe tests and where you got
to speak with each other about the story as a whole and about your character.
So it's all a real blessing to be a part of.
Amazing. Guys, thank you so much for your time.
Absolute pleasure talking to you, and I hope the show goes very well for you.
Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.