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The amazing actress Eliza Dushku joins live! Dushku shares behind-the-scenes fun. What has she been up to? What is her favorite movie she has been in?
Where are all the big-time movie stars?! Eliza Dushku joins!
What has changed in the movie/entertainment industry recently? Eliza: I think the business has changed a lot!
Where are all the big-time movie stars?! Eliza Dushku joins!
What has changed in the movie/entertainment industry recently? Eliza: I think the business has changed a lot!
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00:00The daughter in True Lies, I believe, is where she began her career.
00:06Wiggy brought up Jay and Silent Bob yesterday.
00:09Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
00:12Now a philanthropist.
00:15And she joins us this morning, the great Eliza Dushku.
00:20Hello, Eliza.
00:22Wow, thank you.
00:23Good morning, Greg.
00:24Welcome back to the show.
00:28It's good to be back.
00:29How have you been?
00:30Great.
00:31Meggo was a little bit nervous because she thought you were coming in.
00:35And it was yesterday.
00:37She didn't do her hair the way she wanted to do her hair.
00:41I wish I could be there with you guys in person.
00:44Hey, what's going on?
00:45She's a huge fan.
00:47Yes.
00:47So, Eliza, I was a preteen when Bring It On came out.
00:52And that was, like, billed as Kirsten Dunst's movie as the lead.
00:58I'm a fellow brunette.
00:59And when you came in, you and Gabrielle Union just, like, stole that whole movie.
01:04And it made me so happy.
01:07It was so – I'm such a big fan.
01:09I think it was a – I appreciate it.
01:12And, you know, it was, like, a little bit of everyone represented.
01:15That's what I think, you know, made the movie such a hit.
01:18You got – anyone could kind of find themselves in one of those characters.
01:21But I love hearing that.
01:23Now, listen, I know you're a Swifty.
01:25Are you invited to the wedding of the century this weekend?
01:29I am not.
01:30I mean, it's Madison Square Garden, right?
01:35Yeah.
01:35So I think there will be a few folks there.
01:38It seems like more of a concert.
01:40But, yeah, I got two little boys and not a lot of free time these days.
01:46But I wish them well.
01:48Well, Wiggy doesn't go to any destination wedding.
01:51Except for Bronx.
01:52Except for Bronx.
01:54Yes, you would go.
01:56Because I feel like he's going to fly me out there.
02:00Nice.
02:00I have a question.
02:02You are – it's one of my favorite movies, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
02:06There were so many, like, actors on that show, like, before they blew up.
02:12What was that experience like for you to be around all those different –
02:17like, you know, I believe Will Ferrell was in the movie and just, like,
02:22Tracy Morgan was in it.
02:24Like, all these different actors kind of –
02:25Kirk Rock.
02:26Yeah, every day there was someone new coming in.
02:28It was hysterical.
02:30I mean, there were a couple movies in my career that were just more of, like,
02:34a fun, good time and feeling like work.
02:38And that was definitely one of them.
02:40Kevin Smith is just kind of a nut.
02:42And he also, like, sets a tone on the set where, I mean,
02:47when you have, like, the sound guy holding the boom just, like, cracking up
02:50and, like, almost peeing his pants laughing at every take because they're
02:55following the script but also people are improvising.
02:57It was just hilarious.
02:59It was as much of a good time as it probably looked like.
03:04Where are you on this thing that people talk about a lot lately that the last
03:11great movie star is Tom Cruise, that there will never be another great movie star
03:19of that stature?
03:21Jeez, I don't know that I've been – heard that conversation.
03:25I mean, I don't know.
03:28I think – I'll be honest.
03:29I have a four-year-old and a six-year-old right now, so I'm a little out of the
03:33loop
03:33when it comes to the entertainment space and movies.
03:36But, yeah, I think the business has changed a lot.
03:39There's obviously so much more content out there, so that's not usually – you know,
03:44with streamers, no one's really sort of focused on one show or clamoring in the
03:49movie theater to see one movie.
03:51So, yeah, I think just that stardom and what it means to be, you know,
03:56the kind of it star of the moment has changed a lot.
03:59I feel like we still have – you know, like Keanu will come out with the John Wick.
04:05I mean, we can still count on a number of folks and actresses as well to kind of
04:10deliver something every couple of years.
04:13Yeah, Game Dog in the Twitch chat says, Greg, who said that?
04:16Nobody ever said that.
04:17I've seen it.
04:17No, I've heard that before because I think that a lot of it has become – the
04:21superhero movies, people go, I'm not going to see Chris Evans.
04:26I'm going to see Captain America.
04:27Well, there's also like – there's – like Eliza brought up all the content.
04:32There's a billion places to watch things.
04:35There's not a lot of movies where you have to get to the movie theater on Thursday
04:40night to see it.
04:41I think it's more if there's not as many quotable movies like The Hangover or
04:45Anchorman or Dumb and Dumber.
04:47I feel like the aversion to, like, really good comedy for a while has created a
04:52drought there.
04:53But again, when those things came out, sort of everybody flocked to them and
04:57watched them.
04:58It was like there's just so much.
05:01It's almost too much out there now where, like, I can't even talk to a friend
05:05about, like, are you watching this or that because they're watching something or
05:09other.
05:09You know, like, it's just a million things out there, which is great because,
05:14again, I guess somebody – there's something for everyone.
05:16But I think our focus is just more diversified.
05:20Was there –
05:21All right.
05:22That's my old school opinion.
05:24No.
05:25Same.
05:27When you were growing up, was there an actor or an actress or a film that made you
05:33get into that business?
05:36There wasn't.
05:37I mean, I grew up with three older brothers.
05:38And when we would go to our father's house on the weekends, I was definitely not
05:43watching kid-appropriate stuff.
05:46I was watching, like, Rambo and Nightmare on Elm Street.
05:50And, you know, like, we were – I was watching all, you know, like, some old
05:55classics for sure, but probably not great at five.
05:59But, yeah, I mean, we loved movies, and that's the kind of – that's the kind of
06:04– it was Conan, like Conan the Barbarian, not Conan the Barbarian.
06:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:11Yeah, like all the – a lot of great classic action movies in the 80s.
06:16That's right.
06:16That's what we were all in.
06:17And you worked with Arnold on True Lies.
06:21Yeah, yeah.
06:21And I was his daughter, but before that I was actually De Niro's daughter in
06:27Leonardo DiCaprio's first movie, which was kind of wild.
06:29I was just thinking about that the other day.
06:32Did Leo hit on you?
06:35I was 11, and I think he was, like, 16.
06:38So we were – we played brother and sister.
06:42But, no, I wasn't the kid that watched movies and thought I want to do that
06:45when I grow up.
06:46It was honestly – you know, I've told this story before, but I tripped and fell at
06:50one of my brother's auditions when I was nine in Harvard Square.
06:53And just, you know, the casting director saw me being all dramatic and kind of
06:58picked me out.
07:01Really random.
07:02I mean, I would argue that Leonardo DiCaprio is the greatest actor of our time.
07:07Oh, Denzel.
07:08Denzel.
07:08Denzel.
07:09Yeah, and that would be me.
07:10But Leo is great.
07:11I'll take nothing away from Leo.
07:12I love Leo.
07:13I love Tom Hardy.
07:14I'm a big movie person.
07:17Have you ever been in a movie?
07:18No, I wish you.
07:20Well, De Niro's got to be in there.
07:21De Niro's unbelievable.
07:23Yeah, De Niro, Pacino.
07:24I've never been – I've never been in a movie, but I had a couple opportunities
07:27to be in movies, but scheduling was the issue.
07:31I always – I asked Patrick Dempsey this question when we talked to him last week,
07:35and I always love to ask actors and actresses.
07:38Is there one role that maybe you turn down that you look back and go,
07:43damn, I should have never did that?
07:48Um, I guess, yeah, truth be told, there was – I was up for that movie Heat, speaking
07:54of Pacino, and I had another movie kind of like in the bag, and I ended up turning down
08:02that movie, and that one ended up being pretty good.
08:05So that was a little –
08:06Pretty good.
08:07That's an awesome movie.
08:08And they're making a sequel.
08:10Yeah, they are.
08:10Right.
08:11They're making a sequel.
08:12And they were talking about –
08:12They're making sequels.
08:14They're remaking movies now.
08:15Sometimes not.
08:16They – sometimes it's a bit they shouldn't, but okay.
08:19Let's see.
08:20True Lies.
08:20A sequel star is Cedric the Entertainer.
08:23Is that correct?
08:23No, it's Leonardo DiCaprio's in the sequel.
08:27Yes, yes.
08:27Oh, okay.
08:28All right.
08:29Leo usually picks good stuff.
08:30Yeah, and then I think there was whispers about potentially maybe you know this True
08:34Lies 2.
08:36I've been hearing that for like 20 plus years.
08:39I'll believe it when I see it.
08:43Eliza, there is something that you are doing coming up that you want to talk about, and
08:47it's really cool.
08:51Yeah, where to start?
08:52I mean, I switched – I kind of switched lanes and moved back to Boston and went back
08:57to school and became a mental health counselor and a psychedelic therapist, and I work at
09:02Home Base today, which is Mass General's veteran mission, and we have the run to Home
09:10Base coming up on July 25th, and we also have America's 250th birthday coming up, and
09:17it's been PTSD Awareness Month, and just having had the privilege of working one-on-one with
09:22veterans and military families.
09:24I just feel like this is a really important time to sort of give back our time and our actual
09:34support and energy.
09:35I mean, everyone says, like, oh, we support our veterans, but now we can show up and actually
09:39be a part of something that provides free care at no cost to these men and women.
09:44You know, we're really facing a horrific reality here where over 150,000 veterans have died by
09:53suicide since 9-11.
09:55I mean, I think we lost somewhere between 7,000 and 8,000 in combat, so, like, just think
10:00about that for a second.
10:01Yeah.
10:02Over 150,000.
10:04This is, like, the time is now more than ever to step up and make sure that nobody gets left
10:12behind.
10:12You know, Homebase is made possible by what our General Hammond, our ED, likes to say,
10:19by a grateful nation through supporters and philanthropy.
10:23So people can show up at the Run to Homebase and, you know, actually support and show our
10:30gratitude for the 250 years of freedom that we get to enjoy in this country.
10:37It's an awesome event, and it's, the organization is great, and the Run to Homebase, Fenway stuff
10:44is really, really cool.
10:45The Red Sox do a great job in supporting that.
10:48They absolutely do, and it's awesome that you have switched gears, and this is what you're
10:55doing now.
10:56Do you run into people that you're counseling who, like, figure it out halfway through that
11:00you're Eliza Dushku?
11:03The Eliza Dushku?
11:05I go by my married name, and so it's not, I mean, I get a few, like, wait a minute,
11:11you look familiar now and then, but usually it's not too big of a deal, and, you know,
11:18a lot of people, everyone that's coming through our doors is just looking for, looking for
11:23help, and they're, you know, desperate in their own way, and I guess the other little
11:28kind of piece I would add, June has been PTSD Awareness Month, and I think it's sort of
11:33a fitting time to have the conversation around, you know, we're making progress in terms of,
11:38like, the mental health and misconceptions about what PTSD is, but I think there's often
11:44this, like, belief that if you're not strong enough, you know, or that PTSD is a weakness
11:50or some kind of sign that you weren't strong enough, that you should just push through it,
11:55but that's not how trauma works, and, you know, trauma is a biology.
11:59It's not a weakness, and we understand it so much better today than we did, and people
12:04can and do recover from it and don't have to carry these invisible wounds of, you know,
12:10the insane, horrific things that they experienced in combat and in their service, and, you know,
12:16Homebase offers, like, the gold standard care with every clinician kind of coming from the
12:21Mass General, you know, psychiatry department. It's, like, it's such an amazing place. I come on here
12:28with true passion because I get to see every day. People come in on a, you know, Monday and leave
12:35after two weeks from our intensive clinical program. They're different people. They have tools to kind
12:41of cope with these things that they didn't even, they didn't understand were even happening them,
12:46these biological and mental responses, and it's just, I've done a lot of cool things in my life,
12:52but working at Homebase is absolutely been one of the coolest, so I'm fired up about it,
12:57and I appreciate you guys, you know, allowing me to come on and kind of job on about it.
13:05Anytime you want. You are welcome on this show at any time. Appreciate the fact that you're doing this,
13:09and we love having you on, so you are welcome at any time, and I hope you enjoy the fourth
13:14and
13:16all of, all the things with summer, and we hope to see you soon. Eliza Dushku.
13:21Thank you so much. Is that it? I mean, we're done. I want to, I'm here to, like,
13:25hang and talk if you guys want to talk more about movies or how we just swept the Yankees. That
13:32was
13:32pretty epic. I could talk about movies all day long. We guys have a swagger this week.
13:36The Red Sox, are you back in? I mean, did they pull you back in?
13:42Oh, yeah. Are you kidding me? I got two boys now. We go to games. It's been, it was a
13:46tough start,
13:47but we're kind of crushing it this week. It's been, we're on a roll.
13:51Do you ever get the itch, though, like, to get back into the movies, and especially now with the,
13:56a lot of actors and actresses are doing, like, the television shows. I know Meg over here told me
14:02about Cape Fear. Do you ever get that itch of, like, getting back into it?
14:06I'll be honest, I don't. I mean, I, I, like I said, I tripped and fell at my brother's audition
14:11when I was nine years old, and I did it for, like, 20 plus years, and it was, there was
14:17some
14:17great stuff. There was some not great stuff, but all in all, I just, I moved on to something else
14:23that I, I genuinely have just a different kind of passion for. Like, I have a skip in my step
14:28when
14:28I get up to, to go into work each day that, um, yeah, I like, I like watching movies and
14:35shows now
14:35at home with my husband, you know, on the sofa, but I don't ever go, oh, man, I wish I,
14:40I was doing
14:41that again. Meg, oh, a texter suggests that you and Eliza have something in common. What's that?
14:47When it comes, when it comes to, uh, where you went to college. Oh, is that true? Eliza, where did
14:54you, where did you go? I did, I went to Suffolk for a little while. I went to Leslie. Um,
15:02where'd you
15:02go? I went to GW, so I don't know. Do you have a GW connection? Oh, I almost went to
15:06GW. No, I almost
15:09went there. I, I was out of high school. I, I was between GW and Suffolk, but I'll be honest,
15:14my mother
15:15was a professor at Suffolk for like 40 years and I was, I was going to get free tuition and
15:21it was,
15:21and I loved the school. I mean, I had like loyalty, but yeah, GW was, was one of my top
15:27picks.
15:28Uh, what did you study? Uh, journalism. Oh, sweet. Yeah. And unfortunately now she's ruined that by
15:35working on this show. Um, um, what about, uh, texter wants to know worst film that you have ever seen.
15:44That I've ever seen. Oh my gosh. Um, I don't know. I'm watching some pretty rough stuff with my
15:51kids these days, but I don't know. Look, I've made a bunch of bad movies, so I try to like
15:59give grace
16:01someone when they're down, they know how bad the movie was. So I don't need to go out and
16:05all right. What's worst film, worst film you ever made then that I ever made. Oh God. I don't know
16:12how much time we have on this show. Is there any, is there any role from like a book or
16:21even like
16:22true crime or things you see in the news where you're like, Hmm, that would be a great role for
16:28me when you think about yourself? Hmm. I mean, back when I was in it, sure. There was like,
16:37there were a couple of projects that I tried to push uphill, but like they were, they weren't,
16:42you know, the big ones are sort of snatched up pretty quickly by, by the A-listers. So the reality
16:48isn't, isn't always meet the desire. I mean, like when the Avengers was happening, there were people
16:55going like, Oh, you can play black widow. And, and, uh, I was like, well, yeah, but then it went
17:00to like Scarlett Johansson ended up doing it. And that's not, that's not up to me. So it was,
17:06you know, it is what it is. Well, that would have been good. And I want to ask, cause you
17:10talk about
17:10maybe you watch a lot more. I don't know how old your kids are. What do you think of all
17:15of the
17:16comic book movies now? I know there is like, you know, some actors and actresses feel like it's not
17:22real acting and others feel like, you know what, it's a great opportunity. Where do you lie when
17:26you see the whole comic book world being turned into movies? You know, again, it's like, uh,
17:36I, I grew up reading comics, but it's definitely taken on a life of its own where there's, there's a
17:43lot, there's a lot of comic book movies out there and some are, some are hits, some are misses. Um,
17:51yeah, I, I guess I, I don't want to kick anyone when they're down. So some are great. Some are
17:58not,
17:59some should be made. Some should be, some could have been avoided. But again, we're in a, we're in
18:05a time where like the people are just consuming content and consuming the stuff. So they keep
18:11shoving it out. Well, they have to have something on, like, there's nothing worse than a movie that
18:16looks good on Netflix. And then you get to it and it's like, uh, in Norwegian with subtitles.
18:23Like I can't stand subtitles. No, I don't do those. I don't that voiceovers. Some people say we need
18:28them on the show. I would say not to, not to be a crazy plugger, but have you guys seen
18:35the Netflix
18:36documentary in waves and war? No. Anyone? You guys should check that out. It was actually a documentary
18:44that my husband and I executive produced. It's it, we just won an Emmy last month. Um,
18:50congratulations. And it's been, thank you. Uh, the movie won an Emmy, but it's about three former Navy
18:56seals who came back, you know, from multiple combat tours. And you know, these guys are like real life
19:03GI Joes. Like they're frigging heroes. And each one of them is having their own just debilitating
19:10experience with PTSD. They're on 25 different medications. And one of the guys ends up, his
19:15wife goes online and looks up a psychedelic therapy that's being offered in, they have to travel out of
19:22the country to receive and it changes their lives. And the movie is just, I highly recommend you can
19:31call me up after if you didn't find the movie incredible and compelling, um, in waves and more
19:36on Netflix about psychedelic therapy and veterans. And that's a huge focus of my work right now,
19:42because it's like, it's just, it's kind of hard to believe in how effective these treatments can be
19:49for some people who, who have had resistance to other kinds of treatment. But, um, yeah,
19:56check that movie out. If you're looking for some good content, I will absolutely watch it and you are
20:00the best for coming on and we would love to have you on anytime. So let us know. Hey, I
20:04appreciate it.
20:05It's great to talk to you and we'll talk to you again soon.
20:08Nice talking to you guys. I hope you, you know, it's not too late. If you want to register or
20:12support or, you know, come down a Fenway, you get to cross home plate at the end and none of
20:18us are
20:18making the Red Sox roster anytime soon. So that might be your only chance. Um, it's going to be an
20:22awesome day. Families come, I'm bringing my kids, uh, go to run to home base.org and just check it
20:30out
20:30and support and, or come down. I'll, I'll run with, I'll walk, run with you.
20:34Yeah. I'll be, I'll be there to walk. Uh, all right. Uh, Eliza, thank you. We'll talk to you soon.
20:40Thank you guys. Take care. Bye. Excellent. Yeah. I'm always like fascinated. I could talk to the
20:46actors and the actresses. I could talk to them all day long. I mean, Sarah, we have a lot of
20:50opinions
20:51about acting. Who? You? Oh yeah. Cause I love, I mean, I could talk to them all day long. I'm
20:57always like, but Curtis is saying you've never acted. Although there was a brag of the week in
21:00there where he said he would have been in several films, but it was scheduling. Well, I want featured
21:06films just like, you know, little like roles that, you know, Hey, I wasn't a commercial. You were,
21:13you were on flipping Boston and you were on with, uh, the Phantom Gourmet and the fishermen,
21:18wild fishermen. Yeah. Charlie mom. But I'm talking about like, like movies where I could
21:22play a role. I always fantasize about being an actor, but you know, I can talk to them
21:27all day long. I was in Jerry Maguire. Why weren't, why weren't, why didn't you get the
21:31call for that? I mean, I should have been in like 80 for Brady. I, you know, cameo in the
21:36background. I mean, my old colleagues were in like every Farrelly brothers movie. Yeah.
21:41See, I would love to be in one.
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