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Julius Onah Redefines Captain America: Brave New World 🛡️ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Feb 20, 2025
Join Sway In The Morning for an exclusive and heartfelt conversation with Julius Onah and Anthony Mackie as they discuss the groundbreaking "Captain America: Brave New World." As the first Black Captain America, Anthony Mackie opens up about stepping into the iconic role and the pressures of working alongside legends like Harrison Ford. Director Julius Onah shares his inspiring journey from MTV News to helming this monumental Marvel film, exploring themes of empathy, societal challenges, and the duality of humanity. This deep dive into the making of "Brave New World" celebrates its cultural significance during Black History Month while shedding light on the creative process, behind-the-scenes challenges, and Onah’s vision for an authentic yet universal Captain America story. Don’t miss this inspiring discussion about legacy, representation, and the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Subscribe for more exclusive interviews, insights, and updates from Sway’s Universe, and be sure to catch "Captain America: Brave New World" in theaters now! #AnthonyMackie #CaptainAmerica #BraveNewWorld #SwayInTheMorning #JuliusOnah #Marvel #BlackHistoryMonth #RepresentationMatters #captainamericabravenewworld #captainamericabravenewworldreview #marvel #captainamericabravenewworldtrailer #comicbook CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Director Julius Onah Joins Us 00:32 - Mike Muse's Town Hall with the Cast of "Captain America: Brave New World" 02:28 - Julius Onah's Journey from MTV to Directing Films 07:14 - Advice for Young Filmmakers and Storytellers 11:41 - Importance of a Black Captain America 12:55 - Anthony Mackie’s First Day on Set 14:58 - Directing a Marvel Movie Insights 18:16 - The Red Hulk Character Exploration 20:46 - Challenges of Releasing a Movie During Black History Month 23:25 - Setting Up the Next Phase of the MCU 24:40 - Julius Onah’s Aspirations in Nollywood
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for Captain America Brave New World in
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theaters today and we have a very
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normally we have our citizen the S the
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Morning Anthony Mackey here today right
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that's our guy that's our big time and I
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know answer to Big Star Harrison for you
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know we we text from time to time do you
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but no
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uh only only text you text but the
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director means the having the director
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here means so much to me for so many
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different reasons when we will tap into
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that momentarily but wanted to make sure
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he got the proper introduction and Mike
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m did a awesome town hall with the cast
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of Captain America on Brave New World
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yesterday for the company and Mike can
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you do the honors man and introduce who
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this man is sitting next to us oh my God
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it will be an honor and a pleasure sway
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to introduce This brilliant mind that we
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have with us in the room I I had the
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chance to watch Captain America A Brave
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New World and I have seen a lot of
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superhero movies I've seen a lot of
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comic book based movies who had lot
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different meanings but when I walked
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away from Captain America A Brave New
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World I was floored at the execution of
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this film this film is more than just a
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comic book it explores The Duality of
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The Human Condition it explores the
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dynamic that we have with our ego um it
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explores the current situation that
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we're experiencing as a society both
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domestically locally politically it has
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such a incredible geopolitical bent um
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and it has so much conversations around
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sovereignty like who we are as Nations
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and nation building and the beauty of
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that audience and to which sway alluded
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to why this film is what it is is
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because the person who directed that
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there is and I talk about this openly I
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I don't like movies and documentaries
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that are so on onbeat with current times
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because when we watch content and
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creativity we still want escapism I
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don't mind you challenging me I don't
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mind you asking questions but I don't
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want to feel like I just watched the
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news for two hours after watching a film
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and what This brilliant director has
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done is he allowed the film to feel so
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untime while still allowing me to escape
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and that is a true gift unto itself and
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so I do believe that we will hear this
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name being mentioned as one of the
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greatest filmmakers of our time when
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it's all said and done with his legacy
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and particularly if he keeps going with
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the type of cannon that I know he's
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going to build ladies and gentlemen the
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incredible Julius Ona
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Julius H my God what
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a thank you so much are you Captain
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America is
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Captain this is a full circle moment for
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Julius and I how so he and I wow
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man I want you to talk about this too he
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and I came to work together I how many
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years ago yeah 2005 2006 2005
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2006 um as I was one of the the the um
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anchors at MTV News at that time and and
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we had a what we called a hit squad of
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individuals who was going to change the
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world with our storytelling and use MTV
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to tell the truth right Sha Lee shahim
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Reed you know uh ratesh you know Jason
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Gallagher all of these different guys we
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all worked on a series called my block
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ah Joseph Patel Joseph Patel we all
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worked on a series called my block where
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we went into different environments and
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pilled you know the nature of what how
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did the music scene get formed but we
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applied it to was going on socially
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economically what was happening on the
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environment all of these different
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things Julius what was your title I was
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an associate producer was an
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AP and so we would do all of these
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projects and we would hand it over to
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him
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and he would supervise the edit and he
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would put the stories together to make
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it all come alive wow this was then and
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look at him now shees and man bro I'm so
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proud of you man that that just changed
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the whole interview man really proud of
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you man because the kind of work you're
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doing I actually want you to speak to
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that because you're at the top of your
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game now but we're talking about a time
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where you was a AP MH and that could be
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frustrating at time
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right there was a great group of people
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there you know I have to give a shout
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out to sha Lee who uh opened the door
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for me there and uh Joanna no who was a
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great partner as well she was the PA who
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worked underneath me uh we also did a
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show called growing up black in America
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that I'm so so proud of we talk about
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that all the time during Black History
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Month that was 200 oh I think it's 2006
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then that one premiered yeah uh Chris
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Brown was in that episod Chris Brown was
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it Mary JY J Mary J BL was it keys I
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think so I think so definitely Mary J M
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and Chris Brown and they all came to my
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the house in tarzanna that y'all been to
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and we filmed it in my house wow it was
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beautiful it was beautiful so you know
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that that was so important for me
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because it was one some of my first
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opportunity to create something that
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people would consume and I still
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remember how proud I was we would finish
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these shows and then run home to watch
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it on MTV on TV you know um and and sway
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was so great and I used to make these
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little spoof videos on S and at first
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when I made the first one I'm like I
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hope I don't get
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fired but but he was so kind and sweet
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and generous and not everybody who was
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an anchor was kind and sweet and
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generous but he was always so supportive
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and so motivating so I don't feel like I
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would be here now without the support of
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people like sway wow Jes this interview
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is
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done yeah well I'm going talk to this
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guy after this how did you make the
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trans position though when did you know
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it was time to stop being the the AP and
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and and go to the next level well I
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always wanted to make movies and before
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before I had uh uh worked at MTV I had
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interned when I was in undergrad for
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[Â __Â ] Ley and I spent a summer at his
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firehouse and actually just yesterday I
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was in spikes class at NYU a class that
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I had taken wow um and uh shared the
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film and it was another full circle
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moment that that this experience has
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been so gratifying because of those full
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circle moments um but you know so I knew
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I wanted to make movies but then the
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opportunity to also just learn I'll be
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honest MTV also spoiled me a little bit
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and working with y'all spoiled me
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because I knew then the production
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workflow of how to finish something at a
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high level to present to an audience so
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by the time I went to film school it was
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like I don't need to do the post-
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production I don't need the time in the
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Avid I don't need all that time I I know
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what I'm doing here um but you know I
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had that fire burning in me I was in New
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York I was doing something I loved but I
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knew I needed to make movies so I was
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writing scripts on the side and uh uh
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and then I applied to film school after
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about a year at MTV and uh and then I
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luckily got into NYU and um and then I
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just hustled and just worked and worked
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and worked and here we are what do you
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tell um young filmmakers and
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storytellers who are in those footsteps
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you were once in I think first and
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foremost if it's your passion if it's
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what you love to do you do it so there
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were nights when I would come back you
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know when we're finishing a show when
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we're crashing you could be working till
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midnight wait wait hold on I'm me to
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interrupt this who that we got sha Lee
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on the
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line that is the only acceptable time to
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Le I didn't realize you were calling me
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on my
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phone Sean you there that brilliant Sean
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Sean I got Julius in
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the bro I got Julius on the show too
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good I got Julius on yeah he just
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calling me Julius on it's on the show oh
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that's crazy is he there right now he's
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on live
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bro Sean ask him a question we're live
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on there man this is supposed to be a
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whole different type of interview but
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it's a reunion now go wow oh man when
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are we gonna
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do black
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movie I think we're starting right now
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we going to do it now now you know he's
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directed he directed Captain America
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Brave New World is in theaters today
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Sean of course of course and Sean Lee is
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the one that brought you to MTV Sean Le
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is the one I remember my first meeting
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and he was like I think you're all right
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yeah man wow wow anything you want to
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ask him real quick because he has to
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leave soon go ahead no no no just love
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and just continue blessings and success
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and let's catch up soon I'm actually on
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a flight right now about to get off the
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flight so I can't really just get it in
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right now okay appreciate you hit me
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later man all right I just wanted to
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make this is a this is your life Julius
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moment all right yeah yeah all right
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love y'all all right love you too man
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all right man I'm sorry I didn't mean to
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interrupt you man but I think it's
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important that people understand that
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you got to start somewhere and along the
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way you know there's going to be Nuance
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scenarios that you got to learn how to
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navigate and with that said what would
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you tell what do you tell students I
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would say do the work first and foremost
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you know if this is what you're
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passionate about you have to do it and
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so what what I was getting at is there
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would be days you know we are working on
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a show till midnight but if I needed to
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get Pages done I would come home and I
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would write you know even when I was
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also doing the application for film
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school so I would do a full you know
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we'd work weekends but then secondly to
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your point about relationships it's
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about being there and being present and
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being authentic and not always worrying
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about what am I going to get out of this
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but just being there to engage and enjoy
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and to share what you have and that was
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what was so great about the experience
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working with everybody with Sean with
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you with Joanne with Joe Patel we t with
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all those people um it was an
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environment where we were nobody is
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making some of those packages thinking
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well maybe 20 years down the road I'll
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be directing this kind of movie because
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that moment was what was important that
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moment was what was authentic and to
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your point what was so gratifying about
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it too was making things like growing up
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black in America making things like my
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block going to these different
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communities and using that as a vehicle
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there's a way that could have just been
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love but we really genuinely tried to
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represent we really genuinely tried to
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communicate um and you know sometimes
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that can be tricky in these big systems
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that have different sets of priorities
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and agendas um but you just have to be
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authentic and that authenticity you know
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it's part of what I love so much about
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Mackey too yeah Anthony Mackey man get
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man around of class man come on you know
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uh and when I first went to New Orleans
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and spent time with him and we didn't
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get to talk about this yesterday so when
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I interned for Spike Lee there was an
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executive there named Andre Harford who
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I also need to give a shout out to and
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he had produced the short film called
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Crossing with Joe Morton and a young
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Anthony Mackey and he was like oh you
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you got a decent voice can you Loop over
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ADR replace Anthony Mackey's voice in my
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short film so this is me 19 years old uh
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back in 2002 uh never did I think you
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know 20 something years later I'd be
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directing Anthony and I still make fun
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of him like I replace your voice I could
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replace you in this
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movie Fire be careful um this is man I'm
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blown bro I'm a little blown away this
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man another round of applause we're
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talking about Brave New World if you're
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Captain America fan uh you're going to
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enjoy this this is the first solo
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Captain America film led by a black man
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right yep uh how important was it for
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you to bring a whole new fresh
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perspective to the character it was
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incredibly important because I felt like
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this was an incredible vehicle and
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platform you know what you want is a
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story that again feels authentic that's
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leaning into who Macky and who Sam
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Wilson is but also still feels Universal
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right this is a Captain America for all
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people but I also love the idea that it
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could represent a specific history and a
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specific community and make that also
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feel Universal you know because
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sometimes when you when you think about
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Captain America as a symbol and this is
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a character that's been on the screen
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for 81 years MH it becomes the standard
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Bearer mhm much the same way as the
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office of the presidency becomes a
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standard Bearer and we are saying that
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that experience and that identity can be
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one that everybody sees themselves in so
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it was very important to me that it felt
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authentic to who macki was and who Sam
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Wilson is but still felt like something
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everyone can see themselves yes Anthony
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Mackey too man I you know I was reading
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up about the movie and I'll just be
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transparent I wasn't able to see the
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movie yet I'm going to tell you that um
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but I was able to read up and and and
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see as much as I could to prepare for
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this conversation and I saw a part where
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um Anthony Mackey talked about being so
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nervous you know that he was flubbing
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the first few scenes and then all of a
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sudden being opposite of Harrison Ford
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can you imagine bro of course I can't
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imag Harrison Ford uhhuh as he said he
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lost some lines and somebody of his
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stature and training that's not because
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he wasn't prepared it was because of the
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gravity of the scene and who he was
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working with and that Harrison forb took
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him to the side and gave him advice yeah
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I remember that day I remember that day
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you know I wasn't there with him okay
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you know that was a oneone exchange but
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Harrison was you know he one thing that
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he said to Macky that I thought was
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great was I'm here to support you uh
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this is your movie and that was true he
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said that to ma he said that to Mackey
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you know so beautiful you know um and
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and that's a real generosity and it was
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a generosity extended to me when I was
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nervous too you know after he signed on
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the movie I went over to his house and
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you know he poured me a drink and he
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just said what what he pour you whiskey
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I can't remember exactly what kind of
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whiskey but it was a whiskey um and
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um har
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for found lost treasures and he just
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started cracking jokes and I knew what
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he was doing he was saying hey I'm a
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human being I'm here to create with you
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don't worry about this whole I'm
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Harrison Ford movie star da d d d d da
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um and that kind of genuine just
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providing and giving of yourself doesn't
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always happen you know I I feel so
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fortunate to have some of these
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experiences and meet some of these
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people who you know just want to be
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there for the right reasons and to your
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point Mike that's how I think this movie
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was able to do some of the things it did
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just because people were so giving of
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themselves amen Tracy get into before I
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want to ask about the Red
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Hulk [Â __Â ] it I'm already there well we
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all know that um Marvel operates at such
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an enormous scale and there's like I
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don't even know an innumerable amount of
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moving parts for you as a director
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what's an aspect that perhaps a lot of
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people don't realize is as challenging
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as it is you know I would say one of the
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things that is just incredibly
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challenging but also incredibly
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gratifying is I think sometimes people
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imagine that it's like a machine and you
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input this and you output that and they
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forget that it's still a creative
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process it's just a creative process at
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a massive scale so you need to have room
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for Discovery you need to have room to
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iterate when you think about so many
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Classic Movies we love from Wizard of Oz
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to to to Jaws to Star Wars those were
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all movies that were discovered as they
15:52
were being shaped and made and edited
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and that is how movies get made and even
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at this high level even at a company at
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as you know illustrous and as successful
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as Marvel that is part of the process
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too so for me obviously that was some
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real heavy lifting but I had a great
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team I also have to shout out our
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producer on the film Nate Moore who was
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incredibly supportive I got to shout out
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Kiana Davidson as well and of course
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Kevin feige lud Esposito we had another
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executive there Jillian Henry it was a
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great group of people who really really
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gave me support as I was taking on this
16:25
challenge so um yeah yeah that that's
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something I think that's sometimes
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people aren't aware that we have to
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discover and find things that's I'm glad
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you highlighted that because it requires
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a lot of fluidity on your part and I can
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often times as creative sometimes we can
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be more
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perfectionist and for you what you do in
16:45
your work does it also help you to shed
16:47
perfectionism in your personal life yes
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yes it does you know look we all want to
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operate at the highest standard possible
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um but one of the things that really
16:59
became clear to me over the course of
17:01
making this is you have to iterate to
17:03
innovate iterate to innovate you know
17:06
you have to be willing to try things you
17:09
have to be willing to fail you have to
17:10
be willing to have things not work to
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make real discoveries because if you're
17:14
not surprising yourself then you're not
17:15
surprising the audience you know so that
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is a really valuable lesson that I um
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take to heart from this it's like it's
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it's one thing when you know something
17:24
in concept but it's another thing when
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you know it from experience um um and
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again to what Mike was saying you know
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I'm I'm really proud of the things that
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we were able to uh put in this movie The
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ideas we were able to to experiment with
17:37
the ideas we're able to express but that
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all came from finding him in an
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authentic way and then finding a way to
17:43
balance that with the spectacle with the
17:46
escapism because it's not just a movie
17:48
about these issues it's also a movie
17:49
about a guy with vibranium wings flying
17:51
around fighting a Hulk who's red and hot
17:55
and you know you still get the escapism
17:57
of a Marvel adventure and a larger than
18:00
life story uh and I think in this moment
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in time that's what we need we need to
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be able to hold ideas and also have an
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experience of escapism at the same time
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and enjoy that Duality and that was what
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was so important for me with this movie
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Julius onai here you speaking on the
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Hulk
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um people were so excited about uh
18:21
Harrison's character turning into the
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Red Hulk right which is we know the
18:25
traditional Hulk to be green right um
18:28
why is the Hulk red this time and then
18:31
what was it like for you to direct the
18:32
battling scenes between the Hulk and
18:35
Captain America well this uh goes back
18:36
to publishing and the Hulk is read this
18:38
time because of how he got his powers
18:40
which comes from a character named The
18:42
Leader okay um and he also has a
18:44
different set of attributes he gets hot
18:46
you know he has some flame and fire
18:49
capabilities as well um he also has some
18:52
extreme healing powers so it's a
18:54
different flavor of uh of a Hulk um
18:57
think a bit like Godzilla almost like
18:59
the different types of Godzilla like one
19:00
is like the regular kind then one's like
19:02
a fire breathing one you know what I
19:03
mean it's kind kind of like that yeah
19:05
and in terms of directing it it's
19:07
challenging that's another one of those
19:08
challenges but it's so gratifying we had
19:10
a great team a company w a digital did
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our visual effects uh and there were
19:14
some great people there Dan Cox and
19:16
Sydney and you know some days you're
19:19
working with h a stunt person who's a
19:21
double for Red Hulk who's got you know
19:24
literally a photo of the Hulk attached
19:26
to the back of him so he can be the
19:28
right height so Macky needs to have the
19:29
right eyeline he can't be looking right
19:31
he's got to be looking at somebody tall
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so sometimes you're shooting that
19:35
sometimes we' have Harrison there you
19:37
know but again they're relating to each
19:38
other but macky's got to look up you got
19:41
to look up and then there's other times
19:42
there's nothing there and macky's got to
19:44
use that brilliant juliard training as
19:46
you were saying you know Mackey's a guy
19:48
who has done Shakespeare Mackey's a guy
19:50
who's been on Broad Mackey's done
19:52
everything and bringing all that into a
19:54
movie like this and you know working
19:58
against nothing and making it believable
20:00
and emotional so you still see the whole
20:02
story on his face um and then you trust
20:05
these incredible digital artists they're
20:08
artists as well to work with you on set
20:11
and then also over the course of post
20:13
production where yet again you are
20:14
iterating to create this lifelike
20:17
looking character that is red Hulk and
20:19
I'm so proud of the work they did but
20:21
the other thing I was really proud of is
20:23
that the Red Hulk relationship and Sam
20:25
Wilson Captain America relationship is
20:27
not just the action the action's great
20:30
but it's also emotional it's also about
20:31
the theme and for me this notion of
20:34
empathy was very important in this
20:35
especially now especially especially now
20:38
this notion of empathy uh Julius man I'm
20:41
looking at you dude and damn near
20:43
disbelief you know this is awesome man
20:46
DB you want to jump in yeah I just want
20:48
to point out that it was really cool
20:49
that this movie's coming out during
20:50
black history month and I know that
20:52
there's a ton of challenges that come
20:53
with trying to get a movie to release
20:55
either in a month or a specific week or
20:57
whatever it is so can you talk about
20:58
some of the behind the scenes things you
21:00
know the goal of trying to get this
21:02
movie to release this month were there
21:03
any challenges with that you know it's
21:06
we really planned and worked hard and
21:08
you know there were so many layers to
21:10
this but it was so important that we
21:13
could celebrate Sam Wilson and celebrate
21:15
this character and what it means and the
21:17
other thing that also is a layer here is
21:20
81 years ago was the first time we saw
21:23
Captain America on the big screen
21:24
February 5th 1944 wow black history mon
21:28
and here we are 81 years later in
21:30
February with Sam Wilson as our Captain
21:32
America so there is an element of the
21:35
Cinematic Legacy there's obviously what
21:37
it means for Black History Month and
21:39
this is why I think there's something so
21:40
magical about how this movie came
21:42
together but in terms of the work we
21:44
grinded we grinded you know I'll be
21:46
honest we I finished my work on this
21:49
movie January 24th you know oh my SS
21:52
like a couple of weeks
21:53
ago because you want everything to look
21:56
the best it can be you final touches it
21:59
is tweaking little things little things
22:02
like you
22:03
know I don't want to spoil too much of
22:05
the movie but like let's say how a
22:07
cherry blossom is falling you know and
22:09
I'm I'm I'm open about that because I
22:11
think it's important to know that for
22:13
the audience that have the best
22:14
experience possible all these artists
22:16
were always working and on every movie
22:18
you know I've been behind the scenes on
22:19
a lot of big movies we are working this
22:21
way because you can always make it
22:24
better you can always plus it is what
22:26
you know is often said at Marvel so
22:27
you're Plus until the last minute to
22:29
make sure you have the best experience
22:31
for the audience but that's why again I
22:34
feel so gratified to hear Mike saying
22:36
what he saying go go man I was going to
22:37
just jump in I know into this question
22:39
that cherry blossom moment to hear you
22:42
say you've been working on that since
22:44
January 25th was just a couple of weeks
22:46
ago that cherry blossom moment that was
22:49
one of the moments that stood out to me
22:50
in the film so that shows the hard work
22:53
was worth it about the details because
22:56
that cherry blossom moment plays such a
22:58
significant role in the storytelling so
23:01
cheers to you uh for being that diligent
23:04
and doing the work because that matters
23:06
small moment yeah we got Lonnie light by
23:10
the way you know you you're sitting with
23:12
people who are part of the Marvel
23:14
Universe I don't know if your if your
23:16
handlers know this either but you know
23:18
Heather and I did you know starring Luke
23:20
Cage just want to let y'all know I'm
23:22
family go ahead multi way yes yes yes
23:25
how you doing Julius how you doing man
23:26
good I'm actually a big Marvel and I I
23:29
went and saw the film yesterday so I
23:31
wanted to ask you a question so with
23:33
this Brave New World you know Sam Wilson
23:35
AKA Captain America he's entering into a
23:37
new era so I wanted to know like how
23:39
does this phase of the MCU like how does
23:42
it set up for the next phase of the MCU
23:45
well I'm not going to give too many
23:46
spoilers but we're at the end of phase
23:48
five here there's one more movie called
23:50
Thunderbolts and uh as you know there
23:52
haven't been Avengers you know so what's
23:55
critical in this story is it's about
23:57
also setting up am and Captain America
24:00
has typically been the leader of the
24:01
Avengers setting him up as somebody who
24:04
can lead an Avengers team now what
24:07
that's all going to look like I don't
24:08
want to say too much but let's just say
24:10
we're going to have some interesting
24:12
things going on with the Avengers going
24:13
forward but this is the reset this movie
24:16
is the one that sets the stage for that
24:18
so you know I encourage everybody to go
24:20
see it to understand also where Sam's
24:22
coming from emotionally and why he's
24:24
going to make some of the decisions he
24:25
makes going forward that I think are
24:27
going to pay off really really exciting
24:29
ways I'm there tonight man that's going
24:30
to be my Valentine Day movie is tonight
24:32
man go see the IMAX too go see it and
24:35
and IMAX you all right man give it up
24:37
for this guy man Julius listen Julie
24:41
we this is this has nothing to do with
24:43
with the movie but the movie industry
24:45
because I watch a lot of international
24:47
films you know and I go into these uh
24:49
like I watch Bollywood and I watch
24:51
Nollywood I'm saying you're Nigerian
24:54
right do you have aspirations of going
24:56
to Nigeria and building projects through
24:59
the Nollywood industry absolutely you
25:01
know I made a little short film called
25:03
Big Man there through a program called
25:05
Africa first and another person I need
25:06
to shout out K Kesha camer Dingle who
25:08
was very supportive and helped bring me
25:10
in uh to that program uh I made a little
25:12
short film there to test the waters
25:14
because I really want to go back you
25:16
look at a movie like Slum Dog
25:17
Millionaire and how that was able to
25:19
take elements of Bollywood and make it
25:21
very International and there's such a
25:23
rich reservoir of experience and so much
25:25
amazing talent in Nigeria um I
25:28
definitely there's a Nollywood film
25:30
coming there one coming there's one
25:32
coming all right okay good man that's
25:33
important that's a big industry and
25:35
they're getting better and better the
25:36
films that I'm seeing coming out of
25:38
Nollywood and man I I can't express
25:40
enough how proud I am of you and honored
25:44
I am that I've had a chance to be in the
25:46
early stages of your career and that it
25:49
made such an imprint on you thank you
25:51
you know and and the the other thing is
25:53
I feel so lucky because I know I'm going
25:56
to be in one of these damn movies there
25:57
you go
25:58
go I know he's going y he's going to
26:00
cast Julius you you going cast us man
26:03
exactly you was editing my face 20 years
26:08
ago now you got to cast my face I will
26:11
but anything you want to leave our
26:13
audience with about this movie um you
26:15
know what I was saying before it's a
26:16
movie about empathy it's a movie about
26:17
seeing what's good in each other and um
26:20
that was so important to me everybody in
26:22
this room there's been a goodness I've
26:24
been able to experience from our history
26:27
just getting to meet meet you trace
26:29
everybody you know I'm so thankful for
26:31
this and that thanks I wanted to put
26:33
into this movie it's a movie to share
26:36
with communities it's a movie to share
26:38
across the world so I encourage
26:40
everybody to go out there and have a
26:41
good time Valentine's
26:42
Day go and I commend you because you
26:45
make sure you name check everybody along
26:47
the way that that's very impressive and
26:50
I know you saying names of people who
26:52
names we never hear yeah so man
26:55
congratulations Julius onak man get his
26:57
man hi jul movie out today Captain
27:00
America Brave New World oh man love you
27:03
brother proud of you man proud of you
27:05
man
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