00:00When I moved to L.A., I just, like, longed to be back in New Jersey, and it's, I think it's a place
00:08that I think has produced some of the greatest artists of our time.
00:14What is one word or phrase that you would use to describe your experience on the film?
00:20In production.
00:21Mm-hmm.
00:24Intersectional.
00:25All me in the wordplay there. I like it.
00:30Who wants to file?
00:34Transformative.
00:40Honey, that was good.
00:44I don't want to take it away, guys.
00:50My next.
00:53I like transformative, honestly.
00:57Just a blast. I had a fucking blast.
00:59Blast.
00:59Yeah.
01:00I guess I turned that into multiple words and said, fuck.
01:04Sorry.
01:05Yeah, no.
01:06At the end of the day.
01:09Do you, Dylan, do you want to describe your character and the inspiration for your appearance
01:16and your vibe and look?
01:18Yeah, this was, uh, uh, talk about the collaborative process, um, there were some conversations early
01:26on, uh, I think we, we all had our own ideas, three of us, and those all kind of intersected,
01:36uh, came together, uh, like, I remember you and I, uh, having, like, a hair thing.
01:48Oh, yeah.
01:49Do you remember?
01:49I had a lot of hair ideas.
01:50Because you had a lot of, you had a very, like, Pauly D, like, inspo hair thing, and I really
01:55wanted to cut it short, and, uh, and just, like, all the pieces started coming together,
02:01right?
02:01We had this barber do this, like, really, like, cool cut on me that just sort of combined
02:08all, remember that day in the trailer when we were doing it?
02:10Like, uh, uh, we were, like, doing the, like, goatee, and, like, you were, like, leave the
02:15chin strap.
02:16I was like, you sure?
02:17Yeah.
02:18You know?
02:19And then, like, you fought for the chin strap and kept it.
02:20I mean, thankfully, uh, because I love it.
02:24And yeah, just, and just, like, adding the slits and the eyebrows and the, um, being the
02:28tattoos, uh, uh, Esteban literally, uh, texted me about a tattoo idea that instant, like, early
02:35on when I, I first, uh, came on board, and I was like, I love it, uh, and I'll leave
02:39it as a surprise.
02:41Um, and yeah, it just kind of came together and really informed me.
02:44I mean, those things just help so much, especially with, uh, something that I, you know, was, was
02:51a departure for me, for sure.
02:52You know, it's not who I am, by any means.
02:54I definitely felt like I knew exactly, like, I knew this guy, like, I knew kids like this.
02:59I knew exactly what's, what I wanted to do, but all those things just really evolve as
03:04you start, like, the process comes together and, like, the tattoos come in and the hair
03:09and, like, the, the, the clothes, my fit, you know, like, it just, um, I could never
03:14have, like, stepped into the role in the way that I felt like I ended up doing without
03:17all those pieces, you know, the process.
03:20What should people who maybe don't know a lot about the intricacies of the different
03:26areas of Jersey and all of that, and what it's like, what should we know about it?
03:30For me, I always thought New Jersey is this allegorical, like, liminal space that it's,
03:37it's between two big cities, mostly my experience being so, my proximity to New York where, like,
03:45all your dreams can come true and this mythology of America where, like, or around the world
03:51where, like, it's the center of such culture that New Jersey becomes this, like, ugly cousin
03:56to it.
03:57And I, I, I think I resisted acknowledging that for a lot of my life.
04:05And as I got older and more specifically when I moved to LA, I just, like, longed to be back
04:11in New Jersey.
04:12And it's, I think it's, it's a place that I think has produced some of the greatest artists
04:18of our totem.
04:19I mean, Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston.
04:23Anthony Bidding.
04:24Wow.
04:25Yeah.
04:26I think it's something to be said about the culture that it's people, hardworking people,
04:32often blue collar people who, who, who look out for each other and, and who know, like,
04:38the value of, of community and know the value of being the last kid picked in gym class.
04:46And it's, it's, I think it's, it's like a feeling that, that unites kind of the state.
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