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Why is this hot wing looking so red?
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I feel like the hot wing is looking back at me like this. Don't do it. Don't do it.
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Hey, what's going on everybody?
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For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today we close out season 10 with John Boyega.
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He's an actor and producer you know best from films like Attack the Block, Pacific Rim Uprising, and Star Wars.
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Speaking of, you can catch him in Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker, which is set in theaters on December 20th.
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John Boyega, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me.
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I've heard you rave about pepper soup in the past, so I take it you're no stranger around spicy have said that, man.
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Like this is a mad thing. Mad. But you know what?
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We're here, and I'm happy to be here, dude. Watch the show, big fan. Mhm. That's good.
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Yeah, this is good chicken wings, man.
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Where did you lot get this from?
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My Belly's Playlist over here on 34th Street. Oh.
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All right, shout out to you.
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This is a good free plug. Mhm.
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Everything on this table is against me, dude.
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I've got to make sure I'm on point. Focus. Focus. I'm cool.
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I understand Nigerian food it can get quite spicy.
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Where are we at on the Nigerian heat index?
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Probably not even registering.
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With this, this is not registering on my tongue. Nothing? No, this is nothing.
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And then I understand that you took Harrison Ford to a Nigerian meal in London. Yep. What was that like?
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Cuz that seemed special on multiple levels.
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Yeah, um on the day we were on the Millennium Falcon, as you do, just shooting a scene.
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And um Harrison was like, "You know what?
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I want to go and eat like real food, like different kind of food, like different taste.
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I want sick of the chicken breast and the salad.
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I was like, okay, cool, man.
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Come down to the Oke Road.
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There's a Nigerian restaurant there.
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You can go there and have some food.
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And we went down there, got a car.
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And he ate everything he ordered, literally more than me.
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And then, in the car back, he was slumped. He was gone.
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So gone that he was just like, can we swap positions because you have a little more legroom?
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So, Harrison Ford then broke in.
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Like literally climbed over me to get into my seat.
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We swapped places, and he was asleep. Like snoring, gone. Nigerian food coma. Yeah, hit him. Hit him.
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And then I know that you're a major proponent of the food scene in Peckham, including your favorite chicken shop over there on Rye Lane. Yeah.
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What can you tell people about the chicken shop culture in London?
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Because one time I went to Tottenham with this guy, the chicken connoisseur.
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Oh, you were with the chicken connoisseur? That's cool.
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know chicken connoisseur? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And we were at the spot in Tottenham, and kids were just banging on the window trying to get in to take a picture with the guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I mean, you know, he he's he's the best of the British, especially when it comes to chicken wings.
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You know, you get your standard two-piece chicken and chips.
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They get you the number four, which is really good.
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They throw in some ribs and some corn on the cob.
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So, you know, we've got some we've got some good nice dishes back over there.
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And it's a culture, like, you know, it's and it's cheap as well, you know, a little box, fries, chicken. You're good for the day. I can't feel nothing. I can't feel nothing. Step up, guys. Step up. Step it up. Remember he said this. Remember he said this. You know what?
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This is how I'm going to go out, with confidence.
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YOU'VE KEPT SOME PRETTY COOL KEEPSAKES from your time at Star Wars, from that red Spider-Man Stormtrooper helmet that JJ gifted you to the Han Solo action figure that you got signed by Harrison. Yeah.
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Which one is most special to you when you think about your time on set?
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The Harrison Ford figure is really really special to me.
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Like I was able to hold on to that figure and go through the whole franchise and get multiple different people to sign it.
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This is, you know, new characters that we haven't met yet and and obviously, you know, some some characters that are, you know, pivotal to the Star Wars story, but they're not obviously on set all the time and when I could locate them, I'd locate them and I'd have the figure on me and be like, "Could you please sign it?"
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Better video game in your opinion, The Force Unleashed or Battlefront?
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Um I would say Battlefront.
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Definitely a better game cuz of the online platform.
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And then the film is one of the most locked down secretive films that I can recall being made.
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Can you reveal some of the behind-the-scenes security measures that go into putting a cap on Star Wars? I know.
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I remember I put an overcoat cuz every time we leave the set, we can't actually leave in costume.
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So if you want to go to the toilet on on the stu- in the studio lot, we we can't just leave.
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We have to put these these cloaks on.
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And I put my cloak on and I couldn't get back into set.
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The security guy must have been in his first day and he was just like, "No, no, no. I can't let anyone in."
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And I'm like, "Yeah, but I'm in the I'm in the film.
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I promise you I'm in it." But good enough.
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Like one of the senior security dudes came down and, you know, gave me the pass.
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He was like, "That's Finn. That Yeah, that's Finn. He's in." Cool. Mhm. Yeah, good. I like that.
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So to someone on the outside of the movie business, it would seem like more British actors than Americans work their way through the ranks of theater or at least classically trained at places like RADA and Central.
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How would you explain the drama tradition in Britain to an outsider?
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Kind of like New York though, right?
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You guys the theater scene here is is is pretty consistent, very professional, some really top-notch training.
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It's the same thing in the UK, but the special thing about the UK is that the theaters are also tied to after-school activities.
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So, you can get involved in the theater from a young.
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And that's how I got involved.
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It was just a youth group and then we ended up, you know, connecting with different theaters, different performances.
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And that's how you really ever get the bug or you kind of leave it be, but it's always a good experience.
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Do you see any difference in say an actor who has a theater background on a big budget movie set versus someone who's just been doing TV and film since the beginning? You know what?
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I feel that it depends on the the individual.
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I think that some people are talented to the point where regardless of the format, they adjust and adapt.
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And some people just have it.
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I guess it depends if you've been doing TV for a long while, maybe there's some bad habits that you pick up, you know, you're not used to, you know, transitioning onto stage.
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It's a different process.
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Also, preparing for for stage work.
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So, it just depends on the individual to me.
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But, you know, there is a significant jump from film to TV then to to stage.
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It's, you know, three different formats for sure.
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And then I know one of the places that you studied was at the Identity School for Acting. Yeah.
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What is special about that place?
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Because there seems to be a lot of the alumni popping up in big huge blockbusters all over the place right now. It's incredible.
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Like that was just basically a drama school set up by my agent Femi Oguns and he was in London and found that not a lot of black people are getting into mainstream drama schools, you know, we're finding that, you know, one per class and and and that and that for him wasn't enough.
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He had been an actor before and he was in like, you know, EastEnders, you know, those, you know, British TV shows.
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And he on the leaflet he was basically saying, you know, get trained by actors who've been in, you know, EastEnders, Casualty.
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And he was talking about himself.
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But through through that he set up a drama school and me, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, some of the British names that you know now obviously on the on the on the big screen, we went there and it was a hub of creativity where, you know, it was just a lot of young people who had the same dream, who didn't laugh at each other's dream, and it was cool.
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Like I it's like some of the best days of my life. Really enjoyed it.
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Ah, you've not got some tender wings.
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So, First We Feast recently did a deep dive into the connection between anime and hip-hop on this new show that we have called Gochi Gang, and I know that you're a huge fan. Yep.
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What do you think it is about anime?
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Why do you think it's inspired such a huge global following?
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Anime, I think because of its long-form format.
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So, it it lasts for ages.
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You take something like Naruto, for example.
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You literally watch a character grow up day by day.
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And then there are filler episodes that give you kind of like clarity on the world surrounding the the leads of the several different leads in the in the anime.
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And it's just the way it's the way they tell stories.
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A lot of the time when characters are like standing in one scene, you're going into their subconscious minds, you know?
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Like for example, I'm here like, I'm doing well.
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The chicken wings are good, but [ __ ] I don't know if this next one's about to blow my freaking freaking brains to the sky. Right. It's like that.
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And they do like a subconscious thing where you go back and forth, and that's cool.
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I really really like that.
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It's a great way of storytelling. It's fun.
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And I guess it just taps into the they tap into the imagination of of individuals, and and people just really really love it.
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There was actually um on YouTube an anime version of Star Wars.
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They had the X-wings flying in.
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They animated exactly like what it would be like in an anime TV show, and it actually it actually really really worked. Like really really did.
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And I think the X-wings, the spaceships, the lightsaber fights, all that kind of stuff is is anime-esque.
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What would you recommend?
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Like if somebody were just dipping their toes into the anime pond, and they were just wanting to get started.
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What What do you think are some titles to get them started?
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I would say Attack on Titan.
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I'd definitely say Naruto um and One Punch Man.
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One Punch One Punch Man is hilarious.
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People say I look like One Punch Man.
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I get that tweeted at me a lot. You know what? yeah.
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You look like Satya my little bit.
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That one looked moisturizing that sauce.
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I was like, "Okay, what's going on?"
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I'm not the biggest fan of this sauce. Taste is a bit fiery. That horseradish. Yeah, yeah.
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I'm not a big fan of that. But, I'm still here. Still sitting. Still sitting.
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I need you to let me you got to step it up, man. All right, Jamel.
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We have a recurring segment on our show called Explain That Gram where we do a deep dive on our guest's Instagram, pull interesting pictures that need more context. Yeah.
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So, we'll just put them up on the monitor.
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You tell us the bigger story. Does that sound good? Yeah, sounds great. Sounds fantastic.
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I uh people at home, if I got chicken wings at the corner of my mouth, it is what it is. [ __ ] it. So, this first one.
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Okay, someone said to me that it looked like I was taking horse riding lessons from Putin. The fit is amazing.
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Yeah, the fit is amazing.
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Shout out to Daily Paper. Really good fit.
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Um I was training for Star Wars episode nine.
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There's a big cavalry scene that we we have, specifically me and Naomi.
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Um and this was one of the days that I it was just hot as hell.
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I've been in the gym and I thought, "You know what? Show them arms, man."
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All right, up next we have Yeah! Tokyo.
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My best friend Asia and my other boy Stefan, we were there for for a little bit and we were just exploring, being big kids.
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We're all into anime, you know, Gundam stuff.
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Like they have a big like life-size Gundam in the middle of Tokyo that would change, like that would morph like in the evenings.
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I'm like, "This is actually crazy."
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Um I'm about to go again.
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I'm going to do a whole bunch of stuff.
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But, this was just us exploring the gaming district.
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They had like a lot of the arcades, figures, all that stuff.
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We were just looking around.
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Why is Notting Hill Carnival such a big deal? Such a big deal. You know what?
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I got in trouble for this [ __ ] What?
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I went to I went to in Carnival and I caught wines.
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Like you know go to Notting Hill Carnival, you're going to catch wines.
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Like, you wine on a girl, you know?
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You do a dance, and then it's it's a lot of fun. at Carnival.
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Uh this is one of my many subjects, and we had a fantastic time.
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I was like, "Yeah, let's take a picture." And and I don't know.
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I guess there were some Disney fans who were like uptight and be like, "Ooh, someone that's part of Disney wouldn't do a thing like that." I'm like, "Shut up, man.
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I'm catching wines at Carnival." Yep.
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Baby, I'm going on through. Yep. Okay. Cool.
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My subconscious is one of these.
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Why you putting that in your mouth, mate? Mm, nice spicy. I can't lie.
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So, I I read that before you accepted the role of Finn, JJ Abrams, he gave you a long speech cautioning you about the responsibilities that go with being a part of a franchise that's as iconic as Star Wars. Mhm.
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The morality that he was speaking about, the responsibility for me, like I I found that nice, because, you know, this is someone who was just kind of like, "Keep it humble, be yourself, enjoy this experience, but make sure you understand that, you know, obviously, a lot of people are going to be watching you.
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Make sure every choice that you make is something that you are okay with."
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It's such an interesting position to be in where it's like, "Oh, here's a role that's just going to catapult you into a spot that nothing in life really builds you for." I know.
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Like, no nothing prepares you for it.
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And and a lot of people had opinions as into how it was going to go, and I was all ears, you know?
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But, there's nothing like you going through that yourself, and then finding out what works for you and what and what doesn't.
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And then you get a lot all right there, man?
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Because you didn't You said If before every sentence, my man's like Listen. What's going on, man?
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That's for the guest, mate. 10 seasons in.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.
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My mouth is shut, my mouth is shut, my mouth is shut.
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Yeah, you're right, you're right.
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It's like a running back.
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You know, I put a lot of miles on You're right.
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I I I'm just I'm just coming, you know, fresh from college. You know what I mean? Yeah, I get it. I get it.
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And then, you get a lot of credit for being an ambassador to Star Wars and for Star Wars, and you're not afraid to mix it up with fans or respond to feedback on Twitter. Yeah.
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When has trying to out-nerd the nerds backfired on you? Never. Never. Never has.
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I I choose my battles wisely, and a lot of the times online, um I'm like so intrigued to hear what the fans think, um to hear how they feel, and they just discuss things as as nerds.
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Um I think the the biggest one that I did was when I said that Anakin Skywalker is a stronger and much better Jedi than Rey. He is.
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And I think actually the fans kind of galvanized behind you.
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Yeah, I mean, well, you know, but there was some fans that were just like, "Oh, no, that's not true, but no, you're lying. Anakin's the G.
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Rey will get pushed to the side.
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We will all get slammed to the wall and held there while he fights."
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So, like, yes, it's just the truth.
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My kneecaps are shaking a bit, I can't lie. I'm doing well.
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The chicken wings are good.
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But [ __ ] I don't know if this next one's about to blow my freaking freaking. Is it getting hot? Or is that just me?
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I feel like you are going to have a Nigerian woman walk out with pepper soup right now. "Here you go, John."
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It is the season 10 finale, you know. It is, yeah, yeah.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'm I'm looking at the corner of the room like, "What's going on?"
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So, in addition to your PS4 and Jo Jo London scents, I know that one thing you always travel with.
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One thing you always travel with is books.
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Is there a self-help book that you can say actually changed your life for the better?
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I would say DeVon Franklin's Produced by Faith was was quite were quite a good book. Um I really enjoyed it.
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From someone in industry that then speaks about, you know, faith, growth, industry matters in a in a very, very cool way.
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That was something that definitely was motivating to me.
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I feel this year's been with I've I've I've learned so many lessons, man.
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Like I've learned so many lessons about myself.
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I've made some changes um just in a way, you know, I interact with with people, my friends, you know, within my family, mom and dad.
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Got to take care of them more.
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So, for 2020, I actually want to see those lessons exercised. All right.
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The bomb beyond insanity. Okay.
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Why is this hot wing looking so red?
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I feel like the hot wing is looking back at me like this. Do it. Do it. Do it. Mhm. Mhm. Oh, yes.
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On that Nigerian heat scale. We starting now. We in the game now. Come on, Sam. Hey, we in the game now. We in the game.
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So, I know that in the lead-up to Star Wars, you would do months of lightsaber fight training Woof. to prepare for the film. Mhm.
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Do you remember the first time you picked up a lightsaber?
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Heavier than you thought it would be?
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Lighter than you thought it would be? Heavy. It was um heavy as hell.
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But, we had a lot of training.
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They came in, taught us how to swing the lightsaber, taught us the basic moves, and then we started going at it, getting faster, stronger.
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Um I really, really had a good time.
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Well, I don't know if you're aware of this, but on YouTube there is a whole genre of amateur Jedis.
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Though it seems that very few of them actually have professional training.
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to me when I'm going through this profit?
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So, what I want to do he ignores everything you're going through.
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is show you some of the aspiring Jedis that we found on YouTube, and I'm just wondering if you have any snap takes to this. Okay.
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First up, what do you think of this spinning back fist? Oh!
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Now, if if if if those were one of the sabers on set, you would have been finished.
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You would have been finished.
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If those sabers caught you on set, you would have been knocked out.
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So, that that's dangerous, but that was good. I like that. All right, up next Woo!
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how strong is the force with this juggling Jedi?
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Does he have the wing in his mouth? Sick.
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I'm impressed, but during the video all I saw was swirling flames.
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Is that like a filter you guys have in the studio?
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Cuz I can't see [ __ ] Definitely not a personal problem.
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Definitely not a personal problem.
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Oh my gosh, the the spice was on the cloth and I wiped it onto my nose.
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That's like some double [ __ ] Actually win some. Watch the eyes. Watch the eyes. watch the eyes. Woo! All right.
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Does anything like this ever happen to you on set?
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Here we have a father-son. Yeah. [ __ ] Yeah.
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Did he just call his son an [ __ ] It's a Dash or I think it's a Oh!
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Um Yeah, um Adam Driver actually caught me a few times on my fingers and I genuinely I I got mad about it.
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I was like, this guy needs to aim up, man, or don't aim at all.
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So, when we when we're going back and forth, I actually disarmed him.
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And his saber like flew and landed in the snow.
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The whole crew was like I was like, that's how it should have ended.
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That's how it should have ended.
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All right, one more for you. Yep.
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And it has nothing to do with lightsabers per se. Yeah.
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But here's a guy to do with the heat and Lucifer dwelling in my mouth.
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Here's a guy farting the tune of the Imperial March.
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Just curious if you have any thoughts. your mouth? I'm confused.
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When I drop the load like, you know, we freestyling.
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So, I don't know what's going on down there.
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I mean, after that, move on to what? Eating fire?
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I don't I don't know why I think, you know, playing with it in my hand's going to change what's going to Like you're going to find some spot on it or what I mean? Yeah.
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That bomb right there, I can't lie, I pretended.
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It went to my spirit, bro. I felt it in my head.
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In fact, when you were talking, I didn't understand a word you were saying. But you know what?
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You executed the the segment flawlessly. Yeah, thank you so much. That's a real pro. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Shout out to Issa Rae.
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She's a She's the reason for the season.
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She handled it like a pro.
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Hey, I love that Issa Rae episode.
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I just feel like she handled it very, very well.
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You're doing great, too, John. I am. I am. I feel like I am. I feel like I'm good. My best friend's here. WE WE COOL. SORRY.
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I HEARD YOUR JOKE THAT YOUR FATHER responded to you being cast in Star Wars by saying, "What is Star Wars?"
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Is there a role or accomplishment from your career so far that you think has resonated especially well with your parents? With my dad.
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Um I did a Nigerian movie called Half of a Yellow Sun with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, and I was back home in Nigeria shooting.
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And Pacific Rim for mom and dad.
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They thought Pacific Rim was better than Star Wars.
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So at the end of the screening my dad's like, "You know what?
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You know, I can't understand this Pacific Rim better than this Star Wars.
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Star Wars they'll be running, I don't understand their world.
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I don't understand what's going on.
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But this one right here, I love it."
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Do you have a special spot in your heart for the fans who approach you because they recognize you from Law & Order or 24 or some obscure Yeah. Yes.
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I It's funny you say Law & Order um cuz in Law & Order it's one of my best performances yet.
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Um in which I play I guess criminal, as you do.
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Um and then there's other people that'll be like, "Yo, I loves your stock shoot photo modeling pictures."
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And I'm like, "What you talking about?"
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And I'm like, "Oh yeah, I forgot about those cuz I I done a bunch of stock shoot uh modeling before I became Yeah.
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You're like like the college brochure thing. Yeah.
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I um I used to be signed to like Spotlight, all these free audition sites and all of that stuff, and they always used to have these opportunities there.
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And one of them was paying 50 pounds.
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Obviously those stock shoot photos will now go online.
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Then colleges all over the world will now buy it.
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I'm proud to announce that I've I've I've just uh been accepted into a college in Dallas.
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Don't know the name of the college, but I'm in the state of what?
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Well, look how far you've come. I know. And did I flinch? Did I flinch? No. I got this.
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My soul is burnt to a crisp. All right, John. This is the last dab.
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We call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing.
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shaking it like that, man?
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You don't have to if you don't want to. Don't say that. All right. I pray to you Ishtar. Whoa. Guide me. Cheers. Cheers. All right. John Boyega. Here we are. my check, man. At the end of the line. check. The end of the season. Yep. The end of the year. Yep.
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And before the acting thing took off, Mhm.
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I understand that you had a dream of being a newspaper cartoonist. Yeah.
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We would be honored if you gave us a quick doodle that we can hang forever in the Hot Ones Museum of Curiosities.
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Hell yeah, I'd love to do that. This will take a minute. We got time. We got time. There we go.
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And look at you, John Boyega.
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10 chicken wings up, 10 chicken wings down. No meat, no water. To shut it down. Season 10, it's a wrap. it, bro.
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And now all I have to do is walk out the red carpet for you, my friend. Thank you.
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This camera, this camera, this camera.
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Let the people know what you have going on in your life. Thank you.
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So, you know, currently I've just wrapped up on Steve McQueen's Small Axe um and that's going to come out 2020.
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I've just signed on to Netflix feature Day Clone Tyrone and I'm going to be doing in another action movie called Rebel Ridge.
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I forgot about the indie that I have coming out about the turn of a stormtrooper to a resistance fighter.
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It's a small little film.
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Please support Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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It's small budget, only on 20 screens.
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Would love for you to be there. Please.
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Make a kid's dream come true. LET'S GO, PEOPLE. WOO! HELL, YEAH.
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SEE, NOW NOW I don't I don't have control over the rest of my body. I'm there like this. But look at this.
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No water, no No water, no milk. in a stalemate. we trust.
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Hey, what's going on, Hot Ones fans?
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This is Sean Evans checking in to say thank you so much for watching today's video and I have a very exciting announcement for our Hot Ones hot sauce box subscribers.
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We have gone completely bizarro world in the December box.
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Take a look at what I mean.
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We have taken Pepper X from the Last Dab and we have put it in the classic the classic but with a kick.
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We have taken the chile de arbol from the classic, put it in the Last Dab, mild it out a little bit and then we've taken red jalapeno and put it in Los Calientes.
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Los Calientes, look at it. It's red.
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I don't know if we'll ever do this again, but it will be in the December box for our Hot Ones hot sauce box subscribers.
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If you're not a subscriber and you want to get your hands on the bizarro pack, heatonist. com, heatonist. com to subscribe.
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Thank you very much and happy holidays to you and yours from us here at Hot Ones. Bang, bang.