00:00What's up, I'm Lance Gross, and a value that's important to me would have to be mastery.
00:05For me, it's just perfecting whatever it is you do in life.
00:10It could be your career, it could be you want to be the best father, you could be anything.
00:24Logan Browning.
00:25Hey dude.
00:26What's up?
00:27What's up, Lance?
00:28You're making me smile real hard.
00:30Good.
00:31But I appreciate you joining me here before I turn my camera on.
00:35So what I do here, I invite my celebrity friends over to have a photo shoot with me and also
00:39just chop it up on the couch.
00:41It's very chill and easy.
00:43I love it.
00:44Good, good.
00:45So attached to that, I assign everybody a value.
00:50Okay.
00:51For you, I gave you mastery.
00:53Mastery.
00:54Yeah.
00:55Okay.
00:56Mastery.
00:57Mastery.
00:58So when you hear that, what is mastery for you?
01:01When I think about mastery, I think about failing and continuing on anyway.
01:07Despite it all, trying something, doing everything you can in terms of gaining the skill and the
01:14knowledge and the preparation and the wisdom and the advice in order to get to that thing
01:19that you desire.
01:20Yeah.
01:21So have there been any characters where you had to master something about that character,
01:26like a trait or a profession?
01:28All of them.
01:29Yeah.
01:30I think specifically Hit the Floor.
01:34When I booked Hit the Floor, I wasn't a dancer.
01:37I've always wanted to maybe be in a musical and I'm not the best singer or the best dancer,
01:42but I am one of the hardest workers.
01:44So I was excited to take on that challenge and to just invest the time and the money in
01:50myself and in that practice.
01:52I respect everyone who has an artistry, so I respect dancers.
01:57And I didn't feel like it would be fair to just walk up in there and just do my little
02:03two-step and be like, hey, yeah, I did two weeks of class.
02:06No, I'm going to do a year of studying and trying to keep up with you guys so that I can
02:13do my best and show the best that Logan has to give in that kind of a dance world, I guess.
02:22What's something that you plan to master in the future?
02:27What's something that you want to do that you haven't done yet?
02:30A lot.
02:31A lot.
02:32My door has just opened.
02:36Directing, I really want to direct.
02:41Really anything that comes into my space, I want to do a biopic.
02:46I love to have the pleasure, the privilege, the responsibility of portraying somebody else,
02:53you know, showing the parts of their story we don't know.
02:56Is there anybody specific?
02:58There are a couple.
02:59I don't want to jinx anything.
03:01Well, sometimes you got to put that energy into the air and let it come back to you.
03:06But I get it.
03:07I get it if you don't want to.
03:08I just don't want to jinx anything because I also want to be open to maybe playing somebody
03:15who I don't know.
03:24What brings you the most joy?
03:27My family.
03:28Your family.
03:29You know, I lost my dad.
03:31Yeah.
03:32So...
03:33I did too.
03:34I didn't know that.
03:35Yeah.
03:36I did not know that.
03:37When?
03:38Recently too.
03:39I'm sorry.
03:40I'm so sorry.
03:41Nah.
03:42Okay.
03:43I'm sorry about yours also.
03:44Wow.
03:45Yeah.
03:46I'm such a daddy's girl.
03:49Like my dad was my whole world.
03:51Yeah.
03:52And I know he was older, but I didn't think that I was going to lose him so soon.
03:58And I'm like sometimes struggling with, are there lessons that he had left to teach me
04:05that I didn't gain?
04:06And the reason I think my family is my source of joy is because parts of him reside in all
04:12of my family members, my brothers, my mom, my cousins, my everybody.
04:16I was going to ask you who your hero is, but I got a feeling it would be your dad.
04:29You know, it's funny.
04:30It was, but now I would say my hero is my mom because I watched, I watched her take care
04:36of him when, when he was sick.
04:38And now growing up, my mom was, she's like strict business woman.
04:41I sometimes, you know, I wouldn't see her three days out the week cause she was traveling
04:45for work.
04:46When dad got sick, she was still working full time, but was at my dad's bedside.
04:52And she, she was killing herself to take care of him.
04:55And I saw a different side of her.
04:57Like I saw that she wasn't just about her business, that she did love my dad and she,
05:03she was going to do everything she could.
05:05And I think that just rounded her out as like this, the epitome of a woman in my mind, just
05:11because she literally could do it all.
05:13She's probably my hero now.
05:14That's dumb.
05:15That's dumb.
05:16Was your dad your hero?
05:17My, both my, my mom and my father.
05:19Yeah.
05:20My father had dementia and it was a long battle, but you know, he just stayed so strong.
05:29And I think he held on for, for us.
05:33I have twin sisters, older twin sisters.
05:35And it's crazy because I was shooting a scene.
05:39I was in the middle of a scene.
05:40My mom calls me and my mom was just like, I need to put you on the phone with him because
05:47I think he's going to go soon.
05:49So she put me on the phone with him and I just said everything I needed to say.
05:57You know, he couldn't speak back, but they had the phone to his ear and I told him, you
06:02know, he did an awesome job, best dad in the world.
06:06We love you.
06:09We're going to miss you, but you can let go.
06:12So I spoke to him and then my mom got back on the phone and I said, I want to, I want to
06:18tell him a little bit more.
06:20So I told him that, you know, I know sometimes we, you felt like you can connect with me.
06:30You know what I mean?
06:31But I just want you to know that I love you.
06:34So down the phone with my mom, finished up, told her I need to get back, back to work.
06:41You went back to work.
06:42Yeah.
06:43I went back to work and we started the scene again.
06:47Two minutes later, my phone starts ringing.
06:50It's my mom again.
06:51So I answered in the middle of the scene and she's like, Lance, he just, he just let go.
06:55He died.
06:56So I was the last person to actually talk to my father.
07:00And it was, it was crazy.
07:05It was crazy.
07:06But just knowing that I was able to tell him what I needed to tell him because I feel like
07:11he heard me, you know what I mean?
07:12And I feel like he was holding on to talk to me because the rest of my family was there,
07:17you know?
07:18And, uh, yeah, it's crazy.
07:20But he will forever be my hero.
07:23And my mother too, because she dealt with it also.
07:25Right.
07:26Yeah.
07:27Oh my God.
07:28I can't believe it.
07:29I mean, but you, even you saying that you went back to work is like, that's how crazy
07:34this job, like it's that, that job that the show literally must go on.
07:39Yeah.
07:40Yeah.
07:41And that, that was like my biggest fear to be away from the family when it happened.
07:46But, uh, you know, I had comfort knowing that, that I got a chance to talk to him.
07:51Yeah.
07:52I'm glad you did.
07:53Yeah.
08:02It's been great talking to you.
08:03Thanks, Lance.
08:04I'm so glad I got a chance to shoot you and interview you.
08:07I appreciate you.
08:08Me too.
08:09And I admire you.
08:10You know, we have that, we have our, our, that, I mean, like losing a parent is something
08:16that, that people like you, once you, once it's happened to you, you understand life
08:21and you understand that on a different level.
08:23So, um, it's, it's a weird bond thing.
08:27Yeah.
08:28That's right.
08:29Yeah.
08:30We connected.
08:31We connected.
08:32Thank you, buddy.
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