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What's my favorite Met Gala look?
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How the f?
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Hi, I'm Robert Pattinson.
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I'm Zendaya.
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And this is the GQ Friendship Quiz.
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Okay.
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- What's my full name?
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- Oh, god damn.
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- Yeah, you're not gonna know this.
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- Oh no, you have a middle name too.
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Oh, that, I have no idea.
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- I have a middle name and two last names, technically.
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I know you're...
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What?
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You're not going to-- I'm going to take a pass on that one.
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Yes.
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It is Google -able, but it is not something that I just go out and, you know, tell people, "Hello, my name is..." You know?
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Zendaya Coleman Domingo.
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Coleman Domingo is perfect.
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Yes.
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Where did I grow up?
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- Oakland.
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- Period.
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What color are my eyes?
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- Brown.
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- Period.
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What was the name of my first Disney Channel TV show?
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- Wasn't it called like Zendaya or something?
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- It's kinda like that's a Raven I guess.
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I guess her name was Raven, you know.
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It was called Shake It Up.
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- I did know that.
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- I wasn't expecting you to know that.
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You were not young enough to have been watching my show at that time.
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What's my guilty pleasure TV show slash movie?
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Uh, traders?
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- Okay, Tom loves traitors.
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I haven't really got into it as much, even though we did play the live experience game.
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I would say, probably love is blind.
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What role would I play if I were in a heist movie?
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- The diamond.
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- I am the diamond being stolen.
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Thank you.
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Many lines for me.
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Well, what is the most boring thing about me?
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Come on.
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It's okay, you won't hurt my feelings.
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Hmm No, cuz even that's kind of nice.
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Thanks.
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I was thinking about grooming the dog being of like really needing the dog to be groomed But that's a nice thing.
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I'm sure the dog pretty likes being groomed all the time.
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Yeah, I'll give him that.
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That's a boring thing is like my dog how my dog is groomed.
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Yeah
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It's boring for me to bring it up It's boring for me to talk about
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Who is someone I would fangirl over meeting?
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Beyonce?
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- She was definitely someone I absolutely fangirled meeting.
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I tried to keep it cool, but I definitely acted a little weird.
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Santa.
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Oh my god, yes!
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That's good.
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What conspiracy theory do I believe?
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I don't know if I have one, to be honest.
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Wait, you're asking your own.. wait, what?
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That's what I'm saying, like, for you to answer, I don't even actually know if I.. have an answer for you to like answer.
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Oh right, right.
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Am I supposed to be?
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I still haven't understood the concept of the game.
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You're answering for me, but I'm preemptively saying I don't have an answer anyway.
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So we can just skip it.
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- What's my favorite thing about playing Rue on Euphoria?
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Doing drugs all day.
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Cool.
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No, I would say honestly, to me it's been like the people who have connected to her.
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Knowing that your work has meant something to someone in a real way, I think, is the coolest part.
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Anyway.
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That is the correct answer.
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Doing drugs all day is the answer.
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What's my biggest ick?
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Hypocrisy.
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Yeah, kind of.
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That's a good one.
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Nice.
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What's my weirdest phobia?
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Wind.
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I hate wind.
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Kind of, like in the wrong scenario.
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That could be traumatizing.
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It's like you're trying to take a good picture.
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Your dress is like going crazy.
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Your hair is going crazy.
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You got lip gloss on and sticking to your mouth.
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Do you have a favorite side?
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I do.
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- You do?
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- Mm -hmm.
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- Are you on it right now?
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- You best believe, baby!
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You best believe!
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- This is why this keeps happening.
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- Okay, but here's the thing.
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- 'Cause my side is also that side.
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- Is it that?
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- I didn't realize until I was doing stuff with you.
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- Well, that's why I always put this bang on this side.
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Oh, it's just my hair.
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This is so stupid.
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Sometimes for pictures this side, but then I think on film, I like this side.
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Interesting.
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Do you think about it when you're playing a character, you're like, "Hold on a second, I think she'd be looking this way." But not in like a vain way, I just, I don't know.
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I think it like, I don't know, the side sometimes gives more emotion or something.
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I don't know.
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Do you think when you take a selfie it flips your face around?
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- What do you mean?
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Like, when you...
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See, you don't have a side.
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Like, when you...
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Anyone who's really got a side, you flip around and you're like horrified.
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That's why I don't have Instagram.
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If I took a selfie, then like I literally, I feel like I don't exist.
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Like, I'm literally like, you know, you have a-- can't just move on.
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I love that this was from "What's My Weirdest Phobia?" and now we're like, "Rob's face issues." Who was my last FaceTime call?
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Tom?
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Yep.
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He's getting on a plane.
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Doesn't it come to the premiere?
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I know.
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I know.
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He'll be at the other ones, though.
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But this first one, he has to work.
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Spider -Man.
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What cheers me up if I'm having a bad day?
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- The dog?
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- My dogs for sure.
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That's a good one.
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What's my favorite Met Gala look?
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- Mmm, the yellow one.
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- My favorite Met Gala look was probably the Joan of Arc look and I thought that was pretty cool.
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- Oh that was cool.
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I did see that.
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- Yeah.
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What's my favorite accessory?
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It's not really an accessory.
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But there is one thing I saw you wearing on a plane, which meant I tried to buy afterwards.
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What?
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The acne sweatshirt.
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Oh yeah.
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Good sweatshirt.
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It was a good sweatshirt.
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And I didn't even know it was you until afterwards.
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That was a cool sweatshirt.
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And then you got off the plane and it was you.
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Oh, hey.
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Favorite accessory is a positive attitude.
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And a good smile.
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Which is a more challenging set, Dune or The Odyssey?
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Probably Dune.
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Not Jones.
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Yeah.
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Pretty intense.
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Yeah.
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And they're like, "Can you stop sweating?" And I'm like, "We're in the desert !" I sweat in England!
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There's plastic glued to my face and head.
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You cannot have one drop of sweat or it ruins the take.
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The makeup.
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The heavy, heavy makeup.
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You have to redo it.
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It takes three hours to reset.
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I did feel bad for you because you were a trooper.
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I've never seen you so still in my life.
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What was my favorite character I've played?
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Still to come.
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Love that.
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How good am I at tennis?
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When I found out that I was a fake ball, I was like, "What?" I got very good at pretending to play tennis.
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I have great form.
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That'd be quite fun, like how like, "Padel," or whatever became a thing, you just do like, fake tennis like paddle tennis.
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- Yeah, but you just do it with no ball.
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- I actually have done that with Roger Vedder.
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- I remember asking him about it, and then he said, that's how I found out you were faking it.
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- Yeah.
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And now it's your turn.
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- What is my name?
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- We know each other so well.
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Is that what it's us?
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- Yeah.
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- Robert Pattinson, what is your middle name?
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- Douglas and Tom.
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Douglas and Tom Douglas Thomas or Tom That's.. are you lying?
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Are you being serious?
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No, I'm serious.
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That's kind of weird.
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- Why?
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- I don't know, because it's like Tom is usually like, like a shortened version of Thomas.
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- Yeah, that's true.
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Yeah, it is kind of strange.
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What's my favorite movie of yours?
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- Of mine?
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- Yeah.
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- I would say Dune, because you ended up wanting to be in one.
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- That is probably true.
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What's in my rider?
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- What's in your rider?
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- Yeah.
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- Zinn and Caterade?
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- Not anymore.
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- Not anymore?
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Alright!
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- Both?
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I've been eliminated.
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- I've been kicked.
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- Yeah.
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- Alright.
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- What's my favorite Twilight movie?
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- I don't know.
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I could imagine maybe the first one?
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Maybe the first one, I actually really like the second one.
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What's the most uncomfortable thing about the Batsuit?
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- Your inability to move.
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- Crotch is too small.
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- Oh, didn't know that.
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- I'm joking.
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You know what the thing is, it's like not being able to hear.
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- Okay.
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- Like it's kind of like, you can sort of hear, but you're just, when you're constantly saying, "What, what?" Like people stop talking to you after a while.
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It's so annoying.
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- And then you feel like you're by yourself.
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Yeah, and then you just realize you're just alone.
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You're sitting in a corner with a little Batman suit.
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You're alone sitting in a massage chair, because it's the only check that can accommodate.
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You have to sit with your face through the hole.
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It's the only check you can sit on.
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What reality TV show would I be on? would you be on?
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Traitors.
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You would be good on Traders.
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I've never seen that.
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I know you'd be good because...
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Lying.
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You know, I really like the porn store thing.
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What is it called again?
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When you like sell stuff.
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- Pawn stars?
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- Pawn stars, yeah.
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Judging the items, I like that.
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-It's like the antiques roadshow.
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It's not really a reality show.
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-Yeah.
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What extremely niche obsession do I secretly have?
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I don't know.
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Do you have an extremely niche obsession?
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Uh -huh.
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What movie do I regret doing?
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What?
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Oh no. I don't know.
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I wouldn't say you would regret anything, 'cause I feel like it's made - You had none.
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- You, you know, Who you are at your pack?
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The ones which I...
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- Could potentially regret no one's door anyway.
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- And we won't be bringing them up.
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- What does a good impression of me sound like?
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- Wait.
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What is a good impression?
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So you have to do an impression of me.
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I have to do an impression of you.
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Oh, right, right, right.
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You go...
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Like you'll say something and you'll be like, "No, no, never mind, never mind." No, no, no. And I'll be like, "What is it, Rob?
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What is it, Rob?" He's like, "No, it's stupid.
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I shouldn't play it." And then you eventually say it.
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So a lot of it is unintelligible things that I can't understand.
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And then eventually, after many times of saying, "It's okay, Rob, tell me, it's okay." Then he'll tell me.
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You're quite good at understanding kind of Your internal...
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Point.
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One point.
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Thank you.
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One point.
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- Uh, if I were an animal, what animal would I be?
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- Some random weird thing.
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'Cause everybody, you know, I would say like, "Ooh, you know, people wanna be like a lion," or whatever, and then you'll figure out some obscure reptile, and then it's like, "Okay,
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Rob, got it." That's like the biggest insult.
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But it's true.
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That's like some...
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Because you know you want.
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Some niche.
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Some niche, weird animal nobody's ever heard of.
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Am I wrong?
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Not a tiger.
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What's my favorite thing about being a dad?
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Just all of it, no?
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Just being a dad.
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She's the best.
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- He's the best, there's no favorite things.
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- He's wonderful.
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- Who was my childhood hero?
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- Childhood hero, I have no idea.
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- Uh...
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- We've not gone that deep.
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No, I'm kidding, I don't know.
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Ian Wright, who's a football player.
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Okay.
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Who I did my first ever job with.
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Really?
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Yeah, like a commercial.
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That's cool.
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What's my most embarrassing online moment?
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Owie.
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Alright guys, alright.
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Embarrassing online moment?
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I guess I'll bring up, because you said the thing about the meme, the picture, that's like a very famous meme now, and you're like, how did that happen?
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It was just like a fitting picture, and now it's like ingrained into everybody's brain.
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I mean, so many.
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But it's kind of the good thing about embarrassment, you just, if you just like, Just pump some more embarrassing things out.
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- Then it just kind of blends in.
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- Yeah.
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What's the weirdest thing I do on set?
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I definitely have a few videos of you zoning out.
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- Zone?
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- Like you go into like, you just like stare.
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- I do?
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- Yeah.
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I have a video of you where I'm like zooming in on your face and you're just like
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And you're just in the mind palace.
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- You know what, I think it's kind of weird, I'll do little things.
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I've figured out ways to deal with anxiety over the years, but then you realize one little trick and another little trick, and another little trick.
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and then you've got a bunch of superstitions and all this stuff.
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And you've got to do all of them all the time.
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Like if you're really nervous, I mean, you do all of the things at once, it does look quite strange.
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No. No. Who is my favorite superhero?
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- Spider -Man.
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- Hilarious.
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- Obviously it's Batman, but.
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I don't even know any other superheroes.
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Describe my acting method.
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- Your acting method?
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Your kind of process for the drama and Dune were very different.
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In the drama, like I've always said, I really appreciate how you just like, you're like, we're just going to ask a lot of questions.
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We're going to investigate everything.
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We're going to like turn this whole thing inside out.
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And then with Dune, while you still did that, you also kind of came in with like, I feel like almost like a fully realized thing already like maybe you did that in a separate
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space and you just came and you're like, this is what I'm doing.
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I was just kind of judging because everyone else seemed like they knew what they were doing.
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Yeah, okay.
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I was literally like, I thought it would be like embarrassing if I could.
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What's going on?
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Who am I?
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I don't understand anything.
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That scene in Dune when you, I can't really give it away.
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But there's one scene in Dune where you're like really good.
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Well, thanks.
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There's some seasoning.
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You're really good.
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Like you said that, this is kind of one of the rare times that you've used your own like accent in a film?
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- Oh, in the drama.
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- Yeah.
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And I know that that was like kind of like a weird thing for you to-- Even when I see it now, I see a clip, and I'm like, it still doesn't really sound-- I'm like,
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"It's not really an accent." It's not.
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It is.
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It is.
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What am I usually doing on a Tuesday night?
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- Probably with your daughter?
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Yeah.
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How do you know if I'm having a good time on set?
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It's really strange when you just ask questions about yourself.
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So then what did I do?
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How do I know that you're having a good time?
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There is a particular scene that I felt like was like in the drama that was really important.
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I feel like we did a good job and we all like locked in 'cause it's the four of us, the dinner thing.
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And I think we all kind of It felt like we were all having fun because we were like, you were sharing stories, making everybody laugh, and then we'd like roll right into the take.
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And I feel like you were having a good time that day.
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- It was fun.
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- It was a fun day.
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I think you got through more questions than I got.
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You got...
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This many points.
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Bye.
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You got...
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- That's a big point.
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Who Is This Video For?
This video is ideal for intermediate English learners aiming to boost conversational fluency, especially those preparing for IELTS speaking practice. The casual, friendly dialogue between Zendaya and Robert Pattinson mirrors real-life interactions, making it perfect for practicing natural speech patterns. Whether you’re learning English with YouTube or using a shadowing app, the relaxed tone helps build confidence in understanding and replicating everyday conversation.
Words & Idioms Worth Stealing
The conversation is packed with practical phrases. "Guilty pleasure" refers to something you enjoy even if it’s not "cool"—a common term in casual talks. "Take a pass" means to decline an option, useful in social settings. "Period" at the end of a sentence emphasizes certainty, like saying "no doubt." These expressions add authenticity to your speech, a key skill for shadow speech practice.
How to Get the Accent Right
Focus on the speakers’ relaxed intonation. Zendaya and Robert use rising tones for questions and flat, confident tones for statements—great for shadow speak practice. Notice how "grooming" is pronounced with a soft "g" and "gl" blend, and "heist" has a long "i" sound. To master this, try shadowing: play a short clip, pause, and repeat, mimicking rhythm and stress. This technique, often used in IELTS speaking practice, trains your mouth to form natural sounds. A shadowing app can help track progress, but even repeating lines from the video will sharpen your accent.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't understood · it's been · has meant |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was called · being stolen · be groomed |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the most boring · the coolest · my biggest |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | wasn't expecting · was thinking · was doing |
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.