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Welcome to the program.
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Oh, thank you so much for letting me be on.
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Oh, we're happy to have you.
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Oh.
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You look beautiful.
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You're a lovely, lovely little girl.
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Oh, thank you so much.
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Oh, good.
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I love your show.
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Now, I noticed that you've lost some teeth here, haven't you?
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Yes, I had them pulled about a month ago.
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Really?
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Why were they pulled?
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Well, I had them pulled because I had to make room for my adult teeth.
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And they haven't been coming in.
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And it's been like five weeks.
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So my mom always gets worried about it.
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And every night, she pulls my head back like that and is looking at my mouth.
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But what if they don't ever come in?
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Now, are you worried about them not coming in?
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I'm not.
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I'm not that worried about them.
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I hope they do. But, um...
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I think they probably will.
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I think they will, too.
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It itches really bad.
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Your gums itch?
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My gums itch.
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It feels like I just want to, like, poke my finger
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and well i think that means maybe that the teeth
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that they're coming in yeah yeah well i'm sure you'll have lovely lovely teeth
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and a beautiful smile you have a beautiful even without them
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you have a beautiful yeah i'm kind of getting used to without them but
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if they don't come in i think it would be a curse yes they have to go through life like
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that no that's not good at all i'd have to like
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get some permanent may i ask about your name dakota um i don't know
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that i've heard
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that as a first name for a young girl right well
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um actually it's becoming popular now there's it's it's a boy's
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name it's a boy's name it's a boy's name yeah
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and uh my sister sister actually met somebody named dakota
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that was a boy um
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but yeah my dad picked it out right now uh i know somebody named south dakota everybody always asks me
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if i'm north or south and i always say south
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because i'm from Georgia oh sure well
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that works out perfectly now is is uh is the the cat
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and the hat movie your your first film your first big
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movie um no i did uptown girls with britney murphy
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and then i did i am sam with um with um
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that was with sean penn and uh uh this one was with mike myers
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and the cat on the hat he's a he's a funny fellow isn't he the cat in
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that he's always looking for trouble though yes he um he's kind of mischievous
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but he he kind of means well
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and it kind of goes from the beginning it's good
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and it's like we sign this contract that nothing bad will happen
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and then it kind of goes downhill from there right and
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but it's it's all a lot of fun isn't it it
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is it is a bunch of fun a great adventure right
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and did you get along all right with mike myers he's a funny oh i did he is
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so nice and just to work with him i felt such an honor
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and all the people there was alec baldwin and kelly preston
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and spencer breslin is it hard work making a movie like this
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um well i i think it was just so fun and
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so fun to go to the set every day
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and see the director bill welch and all the cast members
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and um to go there and see mike was just such a treat
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and to see everybody and to go to the set
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and then do you have like a little normal life a
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little girl normal life a nine -year -old normal life um
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i i do i i love to play the piano i did i've started doing
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that um for about a year and um
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and i love to read right i'm i do i'm reading
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the lemony snicket books right now i'm sorry reading the what lemony snicket yes i just finished
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brothers and sisters um i have a little sister what's her what's her name l e l l e yeah
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and you get along pretty well well the nice thing about
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a five -year -old sister you get to push her around
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don't you um well we don't we don't really like to
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push each other around really no um we we like to play together well that's nice
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and uh you you you go to school i i guess um well i'm homeschooled
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and i'm in fifth grade i was homeschooled oh really oh great
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and and and are you worried that you're getting as much education
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while you're working on the movies as you would be if you were going to school every day?
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Yes.
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I mean, my teacher, her name is Jan, and she's so great and makes it so fun.
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And I do.
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I love school.
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What's your best subject?
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My favorite subjects are history, math, and reading.
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Oh, history, math, and reading.
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Well, those are pretty good.
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Yes.
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What's your favorite historical moment?
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What do you like best about history that you've studied so far?
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Well, right now I'm doing world history, and that's really interesting right now i'm doing like the middle east like asia kind of in the middle
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and next i think i'm doing africa wow this is pretty
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intense stuff then yes it's it's great i'm really i love
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i've loved history yeah are you uh are you excited about the holidays oh very excited my
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um yes my what i want is i want um clip -on earrings Uh, because I don't have my ears pierced, and I can't get my ears pierced until I'm 13.
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Oh, when you're 13, your folks will allow you to get a pierced?
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Yes.
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I'm 13 is a big year, because I can get my ears pierced, and I can have a cell phone.
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Mm -hmm.
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So, and then...
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And the other things I want is there's this stuffed Pomeranian, and a stuffed Yorkshire Terrier, and, um, I want, like, all the outfits and, like, carrying cases.
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Wait a minute.
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Outfits for the stuffed animals?
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For the stuffed animals.
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See I can't have one until I'm 12 you can't have a dog see 12
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and 13 are the big ears But you get real dogs or do you get real dogs?
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I get real dogs.
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Oh, so in the meantime you want the stuffed dogs practice on right exactly exactly
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and And there's a store in California where I live called Fifi and Romeo actually
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and um it has all this dog stuff in there
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and i want all the sweaters and all the carrying cases and all
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that stuff yeah well we have we have a little something
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for you oh it's not it's not a stuffed dog oh
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but it's pretty good okay and you can i i'm sure you can get outfits for it oh okay
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Put it right there, and get ready to be excited.
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All right.
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Ah!
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What?
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Huh?
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Hey?
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That a beauty?
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Is it a squirrel?
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Yeah!
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Yeah, it's a squirrel.
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I used to have a pet chipmunk, actually, in my grandmother's backyard named Chip yeah well it's it's all yours
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and yeah you can have a lot of fun
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and i can go to fifi and romeo
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and get an outfit get outfits exactly i'll get a little squirrel carrying case
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ah that'll be great nice meeting you i'm pretty good myself
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thank you sir for asking let's talk a little bit about
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uh how a kid you're just a kid right you're 13
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and you've been making movies for how long oh wow about six years now six years
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so you started when you were eight years old yeah
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where are you from originally originally born in iowa now how
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did you get to be a movie star you're in iowa what are you doing
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when you're six seven years old you're just a kid then
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just a kid you know doing what normal kids do
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but what is
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that kind of thing what were you doing as a normal
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kid in iowa well you know sleepovers um were you in
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school yeah regular school you know did you have hobbies well
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as a kid younger i don't really remember my hobbies back then i just kind of rode my bike
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and hung out
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and did normal stuff okay see now that's my point you're
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a kid you're riding your bike you're doing normal stuff now
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all of a sudden you're in a movie with kevin costner
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so what is it
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that we don't make the connection no i can't i don't understand how did
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that happen so you want me to explain it for you
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if you can okay okay but remember you're not under oath god i don't know
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if i can do this but okay i'll try um now how about mom
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and dad did they help out with this yes well they the whole thing is is
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that they know you're making movies mom and dad yes they know They know.
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We moved the whole family out to L .A after living in Cedar Rapids.
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And the way we moved out there...
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Now, is Cedar Rapids C -R?
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Oh, you just cut me off, aren't you?
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I know.
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But if Los Angeles is L .A., is Cedar Rapids C -R?
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That's what I want to know.
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I'm not really sure.
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I'll get back to that one.
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So, I was in modeling class, and my mom didn't know how to put me in...
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Now, wait a minute.
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Right there.
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Let's go back there.
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How does a kid get in modeling class?
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She enrolled me mom did yes
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but was this okay with you did you want to be in modeling class it wasn't a thing
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that i had always dreamed of but it was i think especially for for men
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or you know boys at my age right we're thinking modeling
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wasn't you know always on the top ten some guys want
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to be barry bonds some guys want to model that's just the way it goes yeah
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and uh there's a convention out in la and i went to
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that convention right and it was the first time out of cedar rapids
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and uh there's a talent manager there and he asked me if I want to become an actor.
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Wow.
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It's worked out pretty well, hasn't it?
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It sure has.
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Now, I know we've had other, we've had Macaulay Culkin, who you worked with in The Bad Son, The Good Son?
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The Good Son.
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The Good Son, yeah.
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And we talked to him about you have a special school that you go to.
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You're not in a regular school, are you?
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No. What kind of school are you in?
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It's just like a tutoring thing.
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But it's run by gypsies, right?
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Well, you are something else.
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I know, I don't know.
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Hey, I'm drunk.
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Leave me alone.
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What do I know?
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I don't know.
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Okay.
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Well, it's funny.
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The school is just a tutor, and usually they run it out of a school, an actual public school.
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In conjunction with a regular school.
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Exactly.
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Right.
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And you just get the work and you do the schoolwork at your home.
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Now, is this okay with you?
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Do you feel like you're getting as good an education?
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I actually think I'm getting better.
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Really?
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In what sense?
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Because school is one -on -one and I think when you're in normal school you get
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you get distracted by a lot of the kids
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and this you know helps a lot how many hours a
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day are you actually in school studying usually it's three
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but now that i got this new tutor she's going to be tough
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and give me six six now see six is about what normal school kids have to go through yes
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but that counts a lunch break and a recess
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and you know art and all that stuff all right
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and what kind of grades do you get do they give
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you grades are you getting pretty good grades uh straight a
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student from the very time i was born now can you prove that
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see now if you give me a math problem I'm not gonna be able to prove
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that because I'm not good at math but
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but I just want to make sure now
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because this as you you may not know this now
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but education is the future of this country nay the planet
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I think you're right education is very important that's right
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and uh well tell us a little bit about uh uh
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Kevin Costner Kevin what was he to work with what was
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that was that was fun it was a lot of fun um were you frightened of him
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because he's like mr big time movie star director and
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that kind of thing no i got over
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that after i met him you know i got a little nervous
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when i first met him but everything was cool
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and i didn't really get to spend much time with him
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because he did his thing i did my thing
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but uh it was fun are you happy to be where
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you are in life yes i'm very proud of myself
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and i think you know as a child actor i've gone pretty far you have brothers
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and sisters yeah i've got a brother who's zach uh
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and he's older or younger 20 he's 20 and i see what about zach doesn't and say, well, what about me?
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I wanted to be a model actor.
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Do you ever get any of that?
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Does, is there a problem with that?
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My brother is so proud of me.
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What does he, what does Zach do?
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Zach, well, he, um...
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Oh, you think that's funny, huh?
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Troubled loner.
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No, he's great.
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My brother, he's working on computers right now.
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Well, there you go.
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Taking classes.
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Computers also are the future.
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Oh, yeah.
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I was looking through some of these magazines here, Elijah, and you're just, you're on the cover of every...
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This is the last thing you want to see me.
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Every one of these.
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now do you like that is
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that fun to have your picture on these things like here you are right there is
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that you yeah that's you isn't it right here yeah
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all right
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and then on the inside we have oh here we go
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look at this you look much younger in this picture I
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do yeah to me I think you're a little younger in
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that than you seem there it is right there I think
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it's the haircut yeah it's always the haircut I think I'm in this one too Same kind of deal.
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The movie opens on Friday.
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The 4th, yeah.
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The 4th, and are you currently working on another project?
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Not right now, I'm just gonna, you know, take a little break.
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Well, that's good.
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Study.
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Promise me you'll study.
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I will, I promise you.
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And come back and I want to see your grades.
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When you have the end of your semester?
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It's always gonna be A's, I can promise you that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I wonder how a thing like that would happen.
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Hey, I promise you.
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All right, all right.
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Good luck to you and thank you very much and please come back and see us again.
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Oh, my pleasure to meet you elijah thank you very much
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good how are you nice to see you i understand i
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understand you got out of school a little bit early to come
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and be on the program yeah that's great isn't it i
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miss tech tech what is tech technology technology what kind of
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technology we have to make cars out of a piece of wood
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and i was about to drill a hole in my wood
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and i was really scared and i'm holding it
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and they're like will natalie portman please come to the front office for early dismissal yes so now
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when you say you're making cars you're making like for the
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family you're building them a car out of wood no they're like this big do you like
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that no well is there any way you could do all
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kids 13 have to take this wood car building class yeah
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really no kidding what's your favorite class um math are you good at math yeah i guess
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so do you know anything about like algebra that's what we're
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taking that's what you're taking yeah see i never knew anything
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about algebra i just had it just didn't make any difference i couldn't figure it out and look You know,
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do you ever get a chance to watch this show?
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Do you ever stay up and see this show?
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I usually watch on Friday nights because, you know, I...
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That's a good night to watch.
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Yeah.
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We have a lot of fun on Friday.
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Because I can't, you know, wake up late for school or anything.
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Uh -huh.
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Sure.
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Do your folks mind you staying up to watch?
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Yeah.
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They don't like that?
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No. Are your parents in show business?
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No. My dad's in infertility school specialist and when I was
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when I was little they asked you know why do why do people giggle about
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that he's doing he's doing a lot of wonderful work for
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folks isn't he yeah yeah he's helping a lot of people
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but it's pretty funny because
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when I was in nursery school the teachers asked me you
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know what is your dad do for a living yeah
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so I said he helps women get pregnant they call my mom
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and they're like well what exactly does your husband do and
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and that's why now they've got
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you building wooden cars now was I was I right
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when I said that you got this movie as a result of kind of a nationwide
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if not worldwide talent search yeah i think
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so this is your first movie yeah you had never done any acting before this i did like local theater
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and stuff yeah and how did you get into acting
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and what age did
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that begin um is this like a two -part question we can have you back in tech just like that
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please no all right how how old were you
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when you started um well
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when i was 10 years old i after dance class I went to a pizza parlor
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and a guy from Revlon was there
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and he wanted me to model for Revlon
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so he introduced me to modeling agents
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and I told him I don't want to model I want to act
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so they introduced me to acting agents oh that's amazing isn't
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it it's like a dream come true that's like the American
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dream no no I mean you're you're very lucky you should
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never forget how lucky you've been this turned out very nicely for okay
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so then how do you get the part in this film
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so then i went you know my first audition
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and they said what did they have you do at the
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audition um well i just walked in i went to the bathroom
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and i came out that's the strangest audition i've ever heard
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of in my entire life no i had to go to
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the bathroom i had to go to the bathroom oh i see oh
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so i went to the bathroom and um when
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when i came out they're like you're too young go home
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so i just went home without reading or anything were you depressed about that were you
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saddened not really no no big deal you got to use the bathroom what do you care
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so then they called me back again and i read
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and then they called me back and i read on tape
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and then they called me back to me look you actually read part of the script yes yeah how was
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that did that make you nervous how did
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that go what do you remember the lines you had to read yeah yeah what was it was um
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it was a scene she just comes back from grocery shopping
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and she's her parents dead on the floor She's your parents dead on the floor.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I wouldn't let you do this movie.
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I wouldn't let you do this See I think this is bad.
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Don't you didn't let me give you the willies that kind of thing give you the creeps now cuz
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After you know you see them lying on the floor with this fake blood all around.
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Yeah, they get up and they're like hi
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So you're okay with that
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And then and then you you got the part
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and you do the movie
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and now you travel all over the world for the premieres You were in a premiere in Los Angeles, premiere in Paris.
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How did that go?
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Was that fun?
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In Paris, I fell asleep in the movie.
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Hey, cool.
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It's my fifth time seeing it.
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So I'm sitting there sleeping, and the director's next to me, and he's looking.
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He's like, Natalie, wake up!
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And he woke me up, and it was just before the movie was over.
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And so they turned on the lights, and he stood us all up, and everyone was applauding.
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And I was going like this, because, you know, I just woke up.
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And everyone came up to me, and they were like, Are you okay?
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And I was like, Why?
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And they go, Are you crying?
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And I was like, No, I just woke up.
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Did that get you in trouble because people thought you were sleeping through the movie?
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Yeah.
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Did the director get upset about that?
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Um, uh, kind of, yeah.
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What did he say?
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Uh, Natalie, stop sleeping during the movie.
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Does he have an accent?
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Yeah.
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Quick!
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What are you going to do, are you going to stick around in town to go out to dinner or anything like that, or do you got to go right home?
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No, I got to go home at a social studies test.
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Social studies.
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How are your grades?
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You doing pretty well?
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Yeah.
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Now, don't let this acting interfere with your grades, all right?
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I won't, Dave.
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All right.
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How you doing?
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I'm all right.
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How are you?
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Have you filed your income tax returns yet?
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No, I don't do my taxes.
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Uh -oh.
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My mom does them for me.
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Is mom reliable?
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My mom's very reliable, yeah.
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That's right.
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Good.
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Now, would you like a steak dinner?
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Can we get you a nice, big, thick steak?
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No, thanks, Dave.
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Tell me a little bit about your name, if you don't mind.
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Leonardo DiCaprio.
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It is a very, uh, rhythmic, very poetic sort of sounding name.
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Very nice, lovely name.
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Thank you.
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Thank you very much.
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Is there a story about that?
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Your parents have something...
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Actually, I do have a story about mine.
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Let me hear it.
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Well, the first time I got an agent, uh, they thought my name...
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How old were you?
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I was about, uh, six years old, seven years old.
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You got an agent at six years old?
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Well, I tried to get an agent, but I didn't succeed
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because they wanted to change my name to uh lenny williams they thought my name was a little too ethnic
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so they sort of dissected it and said hey leonardo lenny my middle name's wilhelm
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so they changed
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that to williams let's get back to your given name again
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leonardo vilhelm dicaprio yeah wow that's a good one that's great thanks uh
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and why is it that your folks selected an italian sounding name
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and then a german sounding name and you're my mother's german my dad's italian There you go.
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There's an answer for every story in this life.
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All part of God's great plan, isn't it?
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So, when you were six years old, how did you get into show business?
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What were you...
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You were just, like, going to school, and then one day you said, I want to be in show business.
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Well, the first time was actually on TV.
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I was on TV at about three years old.
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Have you ever seen Romp A Room, that television show?
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Are you kidding?
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Try and keep me away from Romp A Room.
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Well, it was my favorite show at the time, and I just absolutely loved the show, and I used to sing the songs at home and everything.
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Let's hear one.
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And, oh, God.
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Come on.
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It's too far away.
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I can't remember.
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Come on, Wilhelm.
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Let's go, buddy.
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So I went on Romper Room, right, and I was completely excited.
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They had a little circle, and they were all singing and dancing and stuff like that, but I was too excited to be on camera, so I was running up and slapping the cameras and stuff like that and screaming and looking inside the camera.
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I tried to pull my mom on stage, and finally, I was too much to handle, so they completely kicked me off the show.
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You were 86.
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You were tossed.
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You were adiosed.
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I was adiosed.
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And were you crestfallen?
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You must have been crushed when you got bounced off Romper Room.
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No, no, no, no. I was, I saw myself on television.
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I was just like completely, yeah, neurotic.
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It was beautiful.
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That happens to me almost every night right here.
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Are you really that excited?
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Yeah, I see what I see.
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Oh my God!
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I saw the film you did with Robert De Niro and Ellen Bark in This Boy's Life.
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That, you know, that was a great, and I guess, and forgive me if this is the wrong term, but it was a small sort of film.
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It wasn't a huge budget with chase scenes and space...
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Well, no. It made about $8 million, I think.
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But it was a very nice piece of work, is what I was trying to say, based on a book.
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Oh, well, thank you.
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And I thought that the interaction between you and De Niro was especially entertaining.
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Thank you.
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I mean, that was very interesting to watch.
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Did you have a good relationship with him with the film?
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I did.
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Bobby De Niro was great.
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Ah, you called him Bobby.
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There you go.
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Bobby and I, you know...
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You're in show business now, pal.
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Robert De Niro was great.
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I remember a scene we were doing, actually, where he had his...
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Did you see the Zippo scene, or he's trying to, like, impress my mom, played by Ellen Barkin.
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And Ellen found this so hilarious every time.
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He's got something he does with the lighter, so a little...
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Yeah, he pops it open and, you know, does his whole, you know, thing.
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And Ellen, as soon as she saw Robert De Niro do this, she'd start cracking up immediately.
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And the whole set was in hysterics.
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And towards, like, the 25th take, I got a little agitated because I was usually one that was, like, getting the laughs around set.
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So I stand up and I go, you know, guys, can we be a little more professional here?
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You know, you're laughing all the time.
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You know, I got things to do.
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I was a bit of a smartass.
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So I was 16 years old, I learned my lesson.
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And Bob takes me aside and he goes, you know, there's a certain line, you know, with jokes.
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He goes, you know, you shouldn't cross that line because sometimes you can't get back.
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That's right.
503
That's right.
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So I sit there and I come back in my chair
505
and my heart is like down to my butt and I'm just sitting there.
506
Yeah. Did I mess up?
507
And to take - That's the reason you'll never be back on Romper Room.
508
It goes on your permanent record.
509
So, two takes later, he.. they nailed the scene, and I, uh, I never actually figured out
510
if he was really angry with me or if he wanted to just change the tempo.
511
I have a feeling it was a little of both.
512
But he forgave me for it, actually, at the end.
513
Good.
514
He took me out, and, uh, we had a bunch of pies and stuff.
515
What do you do?
516
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, Matt Berlin.
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You know anything about bowling?
518
You ever done any bowling in your life?
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No, I have bowling shoes, but I...
520
You have the bowling shoes, but you don't do any bowling, just
521
because you like how they make you look yeah it's cool
522
yeah have the size of your feet right there probably displayed on the back of your shoes
523
but this is a great story this is this is like
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a uh a once -in -a -lifetime kind of store this
525
is a wonderful thing uh matt berlin is the man's name
526
from oswego new york he'll be out here a little bit later
527
and tanya tucker ladies
528
and gentlemen tanya tucker lovely talented country uh tell me about the you know you were talking about romper room
529
and how you were tossed off nearly arrested uh
530
and then what was like your first legitimate acting role as a kid did you want to be an actor
531
or did you folks just say here i wanted to be
532
an actor for a long time definitely my first dramatic real drama was on the new lassie
533
and i think we have a clip of that
534
but uh i remember that i i'm supposed to be the one that tells the people that we have the clips
535
how would you know anything about our clip inventory that's my responsibility i don't We have a clip.
536
I turn to the camera and I say, we got a clip, don't we?
537
Well, anyway, the funny thing about Lassie was that, uh...
538
We have a clip!
539
Lassie was actually a female dog.
540
Lassie's supposed to be a female dog.
541
Supposed to be a female, yeah, Lassie.
542
Lassie, Laddie.
543
Laddie would be the male, Lassie's the female.
544
Right.
545
So they had five different dogs that were all guys to do the tricks.
546
I guess that the male dogs...
547
We have five different paws.
548
Male dogs are smarter or something like that, right?
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What did you say?
550
I don't know, I don't know what they're doing.
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What are you doing?
552
The male dogs are smarter, is that what you said?
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I don't know, supposedly, one was for the tricks, one was for the expressions, and this and that, right?
554
So they had a big pregnancy scene where Lassie was giving puppies, and I first realized how fake the business - That's hard for the guys.
555
We first realized how fake, I first realized how fake the whole business was
556
when they had to do the pregnancy scene because they had to tape over Lassie's, you know, with some.
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You know, I know you're just a kid, but you.. possess a wisdom and a maturity indescribable here.
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They had to tape over Lassie's special fur.
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And I was - Hey, hey, hey, this ain't romper room, okay?
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I was a little shocked.
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Yeah, I was a little disappointed, so.
562
Disappointed, were you?
563
Yeah.
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Gosh, what aspect of that did you find disappointing?
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Well, I thought they'd use the real thing.
566
You know what I mean?
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Hang on, hang on, hang on roll the clip roll the damn clip give me
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a break your parents don't understand baseball cards they don't have
569
to they understand me your parents are gonna get you something
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to wear trust me I know parents have two of them
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at home there you go that's the beautiful lassie how old
572
were you there I shouldn't have been 15 16 that's right
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so the uh the film opens uh when did we say Friday is that
574
when it opens this Friday this is a real gritty this
575
is based on the uh the Jim Carroll book uh the
576
basketball diaries about his life his struggles uh him wrestling with drugs here in new york city uh
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and i saw it this afternoon
578
and man is it intense it's quite a piece of work
579
it's definitely intense you know i'm pretty proud of it good
580
for you sir i hope it does well for you nice
581
to see you leonardo thank you very much leonardo dicaprio we'll be right back
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 581 sentences and 5469 words to shadow. The speech runs for 26:18. The speaker talks fast, about 208 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| clip noun | /klɪp/ | Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. |
| mathematics noun | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. |
| folk noun | /foʊk/ | People, persons. |
| outfit noun | /ˈaʊtfɪt/ | A set of clothing (with accessories). |
| ear noun | /ˈɪə̯/ | The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. |
| rapid adjective | /ˈɹæp.ɪd/ | Very swift or quick. |
| pierce verb | /pɪɹs/ | To puncture; to break through. |
| cedar noun | /ˈsi.dɚ/ | A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae. |
| tape noun | /teɪ̯p/ | Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. |
| intense adjective | /ɪnˈtɛns/ | Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering. |
| shoe noun | /ˈʃu/ | A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of… |
| premiere noun | /pɹəˈmɪɚ/ | The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests. |
| audition noun | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent. |
| squirrel noun | /ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/ | Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae. |
| tutor noun | /ˈtjuːtəː/ | One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| get along verb | To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble. | |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| bounce off verb | To test (ideas) on someone. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | haven't been coming · you've been making |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to have · used to sing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've lost · it's been · i've heard |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was homeschooled · was born · were tossed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 168 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thick /θɪk/, theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, ethnic /ˈɛθ.nɪk/, oath /ˈoʊθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, shock /ʃɔk/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, specialist /ˈspɛʃəlɪst/
- Long words — get the stress right: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, legitimate /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like clip, mathematics, folk.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.