What's up everybody, it's me Greg with the cast of grand theft auto 5 Ned. You played Franklin. What was that like
Well, you know, I was I just play myself man. She's a homie, you know
Do what I did man shit, you know, I will really were in New York comic-con
We just did the grand theft auto five panel. These guys were true rockstars. I want to talk a bit about that
Did you expect Steven a few hundred people to come out and go crazy and try to get autographs in storm the stage?
Ah.. No, I was actually surprised I knew there was a little going in. I was like, I didn't know if this was
Out there a lot of people knew cuz even just outside coming here
This afternoon a couple people said Trevor and took pictures and I said, where are you going you coming or going in?
They're like, oh we're leaving. We've been here all day. I said, you know the three of us are talking. They're like no. Oh
Well, I'll just go grab a bite to eat and be back
so I got me a little worried of like
Sort of the off-off-broadway days having to individually shake the four people in the audience in their hands and say thanks for coming
Thanks for coming
So it was a big surprise. It was awesome to see that like the
tangible
Fans and signing and and the people and Russian origin trying to get out the door and... -Solo what's all this like for you?
I'm saying it's like
Right now but um, I'm taking it all in man I'm having a good time in and I'm gonna act like Michael right now. Yeah
For me to do like that, but um, it's a good thing man
Like it's a blessing for me to be a part of this with these fellows right here, man
He's his good dudes raise my brothers, man
And I'm gonna take it back to the hood and I'm a rebel if you ever come to the projects
I got you. I got you. I got you. Hey, I'm looking to go to the projects
Ned, you said some interesting stuff on the panel
I think my favorite being that when you got you your agent can't be with a video game
You're like no, I don't wanna do a video game what's changed? I
saw the material
It's a brilliant script these guys are these guys are unbelievable who who write this stuff. I mean, they're so prolific
They're so funny and they're so pointed, you know, and you just read the material
It's and you go. I'm in you know, really serious. That's all the change
You know, I I you know, that was just, you know actor the actor in you, you know, it's not a real thing
Guess what? This is a real deal man. This is real acting. It's real fun
and I I can't I I just had such a great time with these guys, you know, I mean
I'm so glad that I said yes because
First of all, I'd have been really stupid to say no because I wasn't working you'd be home right now kicking yourself pretty hard
I wouldn't be at home
I'd be I'd be out on the street somewhere cuz my wife would have kicked me to the curb if I'd have said no
But ya know it was great man. I would have never met these guys never had so much fun. This is my boy right here
GG I love it. It's so much fun
that was my I
talk about this on the panel a bit the fact that the game works I think because you guys are so close and you can
See the chemistry between you on the screen, but then on the stage, that's still there. You guys worked for three years together
It was there any moment where you wanted to kill everyone solo?
We just wanted to be done with plenty of time for that man. I wanted to strangle this dude because he just
Hippie launches and he
Had healthy options we had healthy options at lunch we meet a mic assistant
Nah, I'm doing great! I'm still hosting
We had options and one of them was a health option and the healthy option generally contained
You know some lentils, and I didn't know healthy food mak e you stink that bad
Health smells it's like love hurts, health smell - (definetely wasn't) your case, man. There's no question. He's a methane actor
We're talking about my farting right now really that goes over well in IGN
Get back control, it's your show. I'm totally in control. We're right where I want to be
Let's talk about let's talk about acting let's talk about acting then
And Ned, how did you get into the character of Michael and every else prepare a similar answer?
You know, I just I just got into my imagination
You know, I'm not a guy who goes around stealing cars or you know
running over pedestrians or shooting people that's you know solos deal, but I just you know,
You're an actor. It's all about imagination. And that was the thing that was really cool about this. Is it gave me an opportunity to
Reawaken my imagination, you know as an actor and and getting into it you do the normal things I did
I did a picture exercise like what is this?
I gonna look like you know
I found a picture of somebody and I made it and I just kind of got into it that way
I did, you know, I did a lot of stuff. I went back to Beverly Hills Playhouse, man
It's just it's just kind of you know
Got back in all my old seat study stuff
You know and and and dug around and crawled around and found the guy
what was fascinating for me for all of you is the fact that especially for you and
Michael you talked about the fact that you know
You'd basically walked away from acting and this was you coming back similar to Michael coming back to being a bad guy. Yeah
Yeah, it wasn't in that actually helped me, you know get into the character because I know what it's like to
step out of what you really love and you know, I mean, it's
It's hard, you know, but it's a hard life too. So if you're gonna you know,
This is not an easy job, you know an easy way to make a living so you you got responsibilities
You're you know, you're family and all that kind of stuff. You got to make money for him and
You know the same thing with Michael. Michael
Thought the best move was to get out of the game and you'd be happy you'd be able to be a family man
You know, I was probably a worse dad out of the business and I was in the business
So, you know because I I didn't like what I was doing. I wanted to be an actor. That's what I do
So there's a lot of that net. That's so weird to hear
You say things you can see Michael saying in the game about yourself know
How you get the parts? I think is it Howard for you. So, I mean you basically were Franklin you're saying on the panel
Yeah
but it was it was a little harder for me to start with the we're
Memorizing the scripts because I don't I don't go to castings a lot
I don't do that like as a regular job, you know like acting so, you know, I brought raw talent to it
So what happened was I started getting?
advice from a few of the other actors these two guys and a couple more and they started like saying well you wrote raps before
So I used to write a lot of raps for a lot of artists and myself, you know
I'm saying and I'm I just start taking the scripts that I was getting and they know it
I write the whole thing
That I have to say all my script to the side of it and they were wondering why was I doing this?
So when I was translating it from my hand
To the page. I can remember it then instead of just trying to read it
I couldn't do it at all. Stephen used to say well I put loud music
I like to listen to loud traffic and people ride up and down the streets and he can memorize through hearing other stuff. I
I could not do that. I tried everybody method and it didn't work
I used to be in the middle of the scene and they'd be doing a lines and and the director would be like waiting on
Me to just say okay. Hold on and I'll just go
And they're like -Cut!
So, but I got it and I'm
I'm here and did a good job, don't you think so?
Huge progress!
Huge from day one. Yeah, I told you I'm still on the job
Yeah from day one too after the three years amazing, I mean obviously Ned and I have experience with
lines memorizing the
Theatre. Yes, but for solo that's a huge thing and and we're also given a lot of times we are given 50
60 75 pages on a Thursday night or Friday now, we know we're working the following week
We don't know when and we don't know what of the 75 pages we're doing. Very stressful
I mean, I usually have a 24 hour period where I'm a wreck because I need to really work hard. I'm not a natural
memorizer I've had friends on soaps that would have
Overnight boom they could memorize it pick it up in the morning memorize it no
I'm going over it and over it and over especially Trevor with some of his you know
tirades two pages long of
crazy and I would like to stick to those words written right like that's my job and that's how you know to
Sort of segue into the question Greg way we call them way
We call him Greg ways Greg way the greg way. So you take your name? Yeah, Greg. Yeah, and then
Come on mark. That's my boy. So
Sort of segue in with that is Greg weighing in thank you God I can see we're talking about the voice actor
How do you think I feel kids standing up going about the voicing of Trevor?
I know that's true. That's what he was referring to. Yeah
Yes, so
Stevens family know that he was coming to work every day walking out in the middle of the set, naked
Helps me get into character
With his panties
It's all for the performance and that's sometimes what you have to do
Steel steel
This is Gregg way to a weird point
Real quick final question for each one. You want to go down the line by bambam?
This is the best project you've ever worked on I'd say this is definitely one of the best projects I've ever worked on. Yeah. Oh
The best project I've worked on besides my wife. Oh
Yeah second second to the creation of my child
Beautiful wedding day the third would be this project
Down
Yeah, yeah, there's no no question. I'm so proud of this project. I'm so proud of these guys, you know solo
I'm so proud of them. And and yeah, there's no question. It's the best project that I've ever done and it's been the most fun
Hopefully it'll be the most rewarding. I hopefully need it'll it'll lead to more stuff where we go
Hey member when we did GTA. That was a good project
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