00:00 When I moved to LA, I just like longed to be back in New Jersey.
00:04 And it's, I think it's a place that I think has produced some of the greatest artists of our time.
00:11 What is one word or phrase that you would use to describe your experience on the film?
00:19 In production.
00:21 Intersectional.
00:24 Oh, man, the wordplay there. I like it.
00:28 Transformative.
00:36 Honey, that was good.
00:42 I don't want to take it away, guys.
00:47 My next.
00:50 I like transformative, honestly.
00:56 Just a blast. I had a fucking blast.
00:58 Blast.
00:59 Yeah. I guess I turned that into multiple words and said, "Fuck. Sorry."
01:04 At the end of the day.
01:06 Do you, Dylan, do you want to describe your character and the inspiration for your
01:15 appearance and your vibe and look?
01:18 Yeah, this was, talking about the collaborative process.
01:24 There were some conversations early on. I think we all had our own ideas, three of us,
01:31 and those all kind of intersected, came together.
01:37 Like, I remember you and I having like a hair thing.
01:48 Oh, yeah.
01:49 Remember?
01:49 I had a lot of hair ideas.
01:50 Because you had a very like Pauly D inspo hair thing, and I really wanted to cut it short.
01:56 Just like all the pieces started coming together, right?
02:01 We had this barber do this really cool cut on me that just sort of combined all.
02:08 Remember that day in the trailer when we were doing it?
02:10 We were doing the goatee and you were like, "Leave the chin strap."
02:16 I was like, "Sure."
02:16 You know?
02:18 And then you fought for the chin strap and kept it, thankfully, because I love it.
02:23 And yeah, just like adding the slits in the eyebrows and the tattoos.
02:29 Esteban literally texted me about a tattoo idea early on when I first came on board,
02:37 and I was like, "I love it, and I'll leave it as a surprise."
02:40 And yeah, it just kind of came together and really informed me.
02:44 I mean, those things just help so much, especially with something that was a departure for me,
02:52 for sure.
02:52 It's not who I am, by any means.
02:54 I definitely felt like I knew exactly, I knew this guy.
02:58 I knew kids like this.
02:59 I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
03:01 But all those things just really evolve as the process comes together, and the tattoos
03:08 come in, and the hair, and the clothes, my fit.
03:13 I could never have stepped into the role in a way that I felt like I ended up doing without
03:17 all those pieces, the process.
03:19 What should people who maybe don't know a lot about the intricacies of the different
03:26 areas of Jersey and all of that, what should we know about it?
03:29 For me, I always thought New Jersey is this allegorical, liminal space that it's between
03:38 two big cities.
03:41 Mostly my experience being so my proximity to New York, where all your dreams can come
03:46 true, and this mythology of America, or around the world, where it's the center of such culture
03:54 that New Jersey becomes this ugly cousin to it.
03:57 And I think I resisted acknowledging that for a lot of my life.
04:05 And as an older, and more specifically when I moved to LA, I just longed to be back in
04:11 New Jersey.
04:12 And I think it's a place that I think has produced some of the greatest artists of our
04:18 time.
04:19 I mean, Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston.
04:23 Wow.
04:25 Yeah, I think it's something to be said about the culture that it's people, hardworking
04:31 people, often blue-collar people, who look out for each other and who know the value
04:39 of community and know the value of being the last kid picked in gym class.
04:46 And I think it's a feeling that unites the state.
04:51 Thank you.
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