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Hi, I'm John Carlo Esposito, and this is the Wired autocomplete interview.
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I was in an anime.
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What was it?
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Go to Google, baby.
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Google.
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What games is John Carlo Esposito in?
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I am in Far Cry, which is a great game.
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I play Anon Castillo, the head of a small Latin American country, a dictator, a very interesting man.
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I'm also in, I play the dentist in, oh my gosh, my brain is going, uh, Payday 2.
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Yes, I got it.
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What is John Carlo Esposito most famous for?
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What is John Carlo Esposito most famous for?
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He's most famous for playing Gustavo Fring, kingpin of the meth world in Breaking Bad.
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You are done.
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I got into an airplane.
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I wanted to go to the bathroom and a woman was standing there.
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She turned around and she just froze, and she was totally in shock, and she hit the wall, and she's up against the wall, and she, "You, you, you can go, Gus."
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And I was stunned.
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I said, "No, no, please.
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You know, ladies first.
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You go."
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"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you go."
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And so I went inside the bathroom, did what I had to do, came back out, and she's up against the wall, still peeled, pinned to it, and I said, "Thank you very much."
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And I walked away.
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Okay.
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What languages does John Carlo Esposito speak?
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English, baby.
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My first language was a bit of German, as my mother and father were working in Hamburg.
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My mother was singing at the Hamburg Stera, and then Italian.
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My father is from Naples, Italy.
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And so my father and mother spoke Italian in the home.
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Then when we got to Germany, some German.
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And then my third language is gibberish, because my head was so full of languages that, um, I really couldn't process them all.
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And English was throwing me.
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And so the third language was gibberish.
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And then the fourth language, um, through the roles I play, I said I'm part Italian and part African-American, but I couldn't get those African-American roles.
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So, I learned how to speak a little Spanish.
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Okay.
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Uh, wait.
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Am I in the right place?
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Well, yes, I am.
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What is John Carlo Esposito?
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What is John Carlo Esposito's accent?
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Well, when I say my name, John Carlo Jeppe Alessandro Esposito, my accent is Italian.
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For many years, I pronounced my name Espazito.
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And I grew up with, um, you know, the Espazito brothers, who were hockey players.
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So, I understood that to be the pronunciation.
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I went back to Italy and I could literally be riding a bicycle in the mountains in Milan, um, outside of Milan Lake Como, and someone would roll down the window, "Jakatlo!"
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And I'm like, okay.
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And I had a buddy in Italy who said, "Why do you pronounce your name Espazito?
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It's so American, like it's just not you."
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And everyone says that sounds Spanish because there is an esposo.
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I said, "No, I'm very, look at me, very Italian, John Carlo Esposito."
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Next.
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Wow, you're so good at this.
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Where is Jan Carlo Esposito from?
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My mother was performing with Josephine Baker at in Copenhagen, uh, in a supper club, and so I was born there.
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However, I grew up in Rome, Italy, because my father was from Naples.
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He was working in the opera house, and my mother and father traveled around with each other as he became sort of her manager, and she sang in different supper clubs and opera houses, eventually winding up at Alascala in Milano.
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They met in San Carlo Opera in Napoli.
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So I'm very proud of where I'm from, and I'm very proud to be, you know, raised in America, but I'm completely proud of my Italian heritage and my African-American heritage.
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When did Jan Carlo Esposito start acting?
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I started acting at 8 years old.
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We were living in a basement apartment in Yakers, New York.
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And we were really poor because my mother and father were getting divorced after 11 years of marriage.
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I was watching a TV show called Gigantour with my brother, and there was a commercial that came on, and it was the first time I ever saw a brown-skinned person on a commercial, and it was a kid, like 15, 16 years old.
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My brother came home.
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I said, "I can do this.
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We can do this.
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We're eating Frank and Beans, we're eating grits with ketchup.
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We can do this."
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And she took us to an agent, Ernest McClendon, and I auditioned, uh, within two weeks, for my first Broadway show called Maggie Flynn with Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones.
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That was 58 years ago.
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When Wednesday Dances, Jan, oh yeah, that's it, right?
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When Wednesday dances.
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This is a special one for me because I got a call, and I love Jenna Ortega, and I got a call to do this Netflix promo, and I love Netflix.
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I've had a number of shows on Netflix.
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You can look them up.
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Many of them are on now.
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But I have to tell you, you know, to be Lucy Goosey and have fun, this was one of the my most favorite things I ever did.
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So getting there, I'm I'm like doing my research, you know, checking out Wednesday, checking out her moves, and figuring out how to just be that Castilian.
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Oh, very big and very wonderful.
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And I had a blast, a real blast doing this, and I want to do more.
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What fun that was.
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Wow, I'm getting this a little bit now.
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Okay, so does Jan Carlo Esposito like playing villains?
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You know, I am a dramatic actor, and I have always resisted this question.
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So when you ask me this question, I want to say to you, "I will kill you."
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But I was thinking about this in the last 24 hours.
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I thought to myself, "You know what?
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You love playing villains.
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This is my favorite thing in life."
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I saw a picture with James Cagney.
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Many of you will not know who James Cagney is many years ago.
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Public Enemy.
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And at the end, he is on top of a scaffold with a machine gun.
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He's he's like, "Top of the world, ma!
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Top of the world!"
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And I saw that movie and I went, this dude is having so much fun.
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I went, the villain is complicated.
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The villain is interesting.
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The villain is someone that we don't know.
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We wonder why he's so villainous.
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And if you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound.
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If you're going to do it, you got to do it right.
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The villain is the antithesis of a hero.
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And some of them have good intentions.
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Many of them not.
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But they're interesting, and they drive the story, and they're electric, and they're exciting, and you can't take your eyes off of them.
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So yes, I have just outed myself to say I love to scare the out of people.
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Next.
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Does John Carlo Esposito like anime?
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I love anime.
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I have no favorite anime, but I think anime is extremely interesting.
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I do go to Comic-Cons, and I do see people dress up.
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I was in an anime called Cyberpunk, and it was a really interesting thing.
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It was a really great project for me to do, playing Faraday, to make that guy live and breathe in our American culture but have the influence of that Japanese anime.
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How long did John Carlo Esposito live in Denmark?
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Okay, the answer is, I can't remember.
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No, just kidding.
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The answer is one year.
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Again, my mother was performing with Josephine Baker, who years ago I eventually met in Toronto when I was 9 years old doing my first out of town tour for Maggie Flynn.
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But I lived in Denmark for one year, and I loved it.
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How did John Carlo Esposito get famous?
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You know, wow, that's what a question that is.
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How does anyone get famous?
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How did I get famous?
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If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.
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So, I commit, I commit myself to the reality of what I do.
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I realize that there are up and downs in everyone's careers.
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I never try to be a celebrity or a star.
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I just try to be me and to understand what my connection is to the work I'm doing.
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And that's probably how I got famous.
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How did John Carlo Esposito start acting?
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Well, I told a part of this story.
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It was through needing to have a better life, you know, economically after my mother and my father's divorce.
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It was realizing that I love performing.
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There were other things I loved, too.
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But it was asking myself a question after many years of up and downs, if this was supposed to be what I was meant to do.
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Like, we're meant to do a lot of things.
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I asked myself, "Is this, is this what you were meant to do?"
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And I was meant to be a storyteller.
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That's what I do.
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I think my true calling was to tell a story and to move people from one place to another in their consciousness.
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Because after 15, 20 years of acting in the theater, I decided I wanted to move to film and television.
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But I also knew that that took work.
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That took a different acting style.
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That took becoming smaller, more compressed.
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Having a thought in my head when you're watching me that you can't read and you're wondering, "What is he thinking right now?"
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That is committing to doing something that you love, but also going to class, figuring yourself out.
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And I think we're all on that journey.
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I know I am.
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How do you pronounce Jan Carlo Esposito?
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Well, my name once again is Jan Carlo Jeppe Alessandro Esposito.
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Next.
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I'm getting into this now.
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Come on.
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Bring in some more cards, mama.
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Okay.
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Is Jean Carlo Esposito Italian?
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Yes.
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Completely Italian.
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Is Jan Carlo Esposito a nice guy?
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Oh my gosh.
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I know these are not your questions, Wired.
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I know these are the fan questions.
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I am a nice guy.
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You know the one, I have a lot of integrity for who I am today, but I may not be that tomorrow.
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And that's okay.
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But underneath it all, I believe people are intrinsically good.
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That's certainly my life.
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So, yeah, I've, I've come to realize I'm not all the characters I play, but I really love life and I love people.
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I've done one comedy, Nothing to Lose.
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No one asked that, but I'm going to tell you.
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But I also want to do a romantic comedy, and it would be nice to figure out how do you do a romantic comedy with someone who is maybe a little more mature than our young romantic comedies.
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And so, we're going to figure that out.
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But yeah, I'm a nice guy most of the time.
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Is John Carlo Esposito a director?
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Wow.
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Yeah, I am a director.
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That changed my life, too.
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You know, you make these turns in your life.
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I've directed two feature films.
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I love directing because I feel like you can tell more personal stories that are relatable to an audience that sometimes doesn't get targeted with movies that they can really understand about everyday people.
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And so, yes, I'll direct more, and look out for that.
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You have to go see it.
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Like, you got to go to the theaters, people.
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Does John Carlo Esposito have children?
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I have four daughters who I absolutely adore, and they've changed my life.
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Shane, Kale, Seir, and Ruby, and they're all in their 20s, and they've changed the way I think about the habits that I've taken on from my father.
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So, my, my girls have grown me in the world of, you know, what I say, my girls have really helped me be a real man.
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Jan Carlo Esposito, Do The Right Thing.
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I love Azie Davis's line in that he tells Spike Lee, "Young man, always do the right thing."
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I love this movie.
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I love Spike Lee.
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It was really fun to do.
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Creating the character of Bugging Out, that guy who is questioning, you know, how it all works and why don't you have any, why, why you got no brothers on the wall, is a very, very special experience for me.
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The movie lives on.
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I saw it in the Netherlands about 5 years ago, and it really still holds up, and it's been great to have this friendship and and love for Spike Lee and all that he stands for.
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Jan Carlo Esposito laughing meme.
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Oh my gosh.
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I get these laughing memes five times a day from people that I know.
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We are not the same.
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It's a whole another world to get famous in.
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And I'm really happy that it came out of a really organic place that people know me.
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Jan Carlo Esposito, The Residence, a show I really love, a show that's on Netflix right now.
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It is Knives Out in the White House.
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I play AB Winter.
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I start out on the floor.
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You see my feet.
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AB Winter, chief White House usher, responsible of all the workings, comings and goings to have a smoothly working White House.
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And this role of Cordelia Cup by Usuzo Aduba is absolutely spectacular.
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It is a fantastic show.
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The White House is recreated within inches of exactly what it is.
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You get a tour of this place, but you get a chance to see the show through all the suspect's eyes to figure out who done it.
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You know, I didn't, because I'm dead on the floor, but who done it?
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You are going to love it, and I'm very proud to have been in it.
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John Carlo Esposito voice acting.
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You know, part of what I do requires a lot of it, a lot of imagination.
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And if I can encourage you guys to have anything and to cultivate anything, it would be your imagination.
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And so, when I'm in the room in the booth voice acting, I really love it.
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I'm cultivating my imagination.
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Sometimes I close my eyes and I take the journey of the character because many times, whether you know it or not, I'm not looking at a screen matching something.
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I'm creating the voice so they can match to me.
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I use my voice well from my Broadway acting days, and I love voice acting and I'll continue to do that till the day I die.
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I love it.
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See you next time.
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Those are all the searches.
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I want to thank you for having me today.
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It's been so much fun.