00:00I was here in Philadelphia. I think I had the, did I have the day off? I didn't. I had to go to work.
00:05But that morning I decided to go and like cleanse my mind. So I decided to do yoga because I'm a yoga
00:10guy now, which I never thought would happen. And I did yoga that morning to just kind of like
00:14just take my mind off of everything. I didn't really want to like be too in my feelings about
00:19anything. So I went and did yoga that morning, had my phone on do not disturb. When I was done with
00:23yoga, I got in the elevator to head up to my apartment and there was this lovely little white
00:27man in there with me. And so I asked him what floor he was going to and I hit the button and I had my
00:33phone in my hand and I flipped it over and there were like 130 text messages. So I was like, oh,
00:38could this be? So I flipped it over. So I congrats and just screamed really, really loud in this
00:44elevator, this closed space with this white man. And so he screamed back and he was like, what's
00:48wrong? And I was like, I was nominated. He's like, for what? I was like, for an Oscar. He was like,
00:52oh, cool. What movie? I was like, who cares? So, and then he hugged me like this complete stranger
00:58just threw his arms around me and hugged me and he's very happy. And that's kind of what this
01:02nomination has felt like. I mean, I've been getting a lot of love and hugs from a lot of strangers
01:07who really feel like it's their win as well, which it is because I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if
01:15it wasn't for all these people who I've never met rooting me on. And it's just felt very shared.
01:22And I'm just really grateful. Like, and to whoever you are in that elevator, I really apologize. Like,
01:27I'm really sorry. I haven't seen him since. So I hope I never run into him. But yeah, it was,
01:31it was an out-of-body experience. And to this day, it still feels out-of-body. Like I was just like
01:36washing my hands in the bathroom and I just looked up and I was like, oh, right. Like that,
01:41that's what it is. So I don't know. It's incredibly humbling. I'm incredibly humbled,
01:45incredibly grateful, but still in shock. Like I'm still in shock. Like I'll probably like leave
01:50here and like stand in the street and be like, okay. But yeah, it's, it's, it's great.
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