Shadowing Practice: Tom Holland Confirms Spider-Man 4, Talks Hiding Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield Cameos and BERO - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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It's nice to see you.
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It's nice to see you.
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Nice to see you too.
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It's my first time in here.
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Yeah, that's true.
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We did it on Zoom last time.
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We were Zooming, yeah.
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But I appreciate you doing that, because it's hard to...
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That was a confusing time for the world,
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and hard to get guests and everything.
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And you actually were great to us.
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And, well, I'm saying that,
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but to be really honest, you were a little.. you were a little...
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You were a little tricky to me.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's interesting.
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We're talking about Spider-Man No Way Home.
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And I asked you if the rumors were true that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield would be in that movie.
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Oh, yes.
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Yeah.
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I asked you.
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We were having a conversation,
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and I asked you, and I obviously trust you,
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and you trust me, and we're...
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We have that kind of relationship.
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Yes, we really do have that kind of...
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Well, let's just take a look at what you said.
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Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield might be making a cameo in this movie.
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It would be amazing if they were,
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because they haven't told me that yet.
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And I am Spider-Man and I've read the script from beginning to the end.
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So it would be a miracle if they could have kept that from me.
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But at the moment, there is no cameo from the two boys.
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I'd just like to add,
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though, I did say at the moment.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So I didn't technically lie.
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Albeit I had just come from set with Toby and X.
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Yeah.
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You totally, without a doubt,
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professionally lied to us all.
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But I will say, it was worth it.
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Yes, thank you.
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I'm actually thankful that you did,
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because I think we need surprises in this world.
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We need something to look forward to and go, is that a thing?
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And when that did happen on screen, I freaked out.
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Everyone flipped out, and we loved it and we loved it.
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I freaked out.
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Yeah.
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It was the highlight of my career.
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It was amazing.
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Did you freak out?
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Did you try?
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What did you do when they were both on set?
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And were you in a bubble or under a...
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How did you keep this from everybody?
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We were in a bubble.
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We were shooting on set.
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Everything was on a studio.
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Toby and Andrew would come to set in like a cloak.
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It was like something out of Star Wars.
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Like people fit in, we're all walking down the street wearing a cloak.
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Yeah, it's just...
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That's not Tobey Maguire.
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THAT'S A MAN DRESSING THE GRIM REAPER.
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WALKING DOWN THE STREET.
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BUT IT WAS HILARIOUS.
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AND IT WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE.
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IT WAS REALLY ODD BEING THERE WITH THEM AS A FAN OF THE FILMS FROM BEFORE.
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AND IT WAS ALSO REALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE THROUGHOUT THE FILMS,
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I WAS at my third film by this point,
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and I had been requesting a few things with my suit,
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like I wanted to be able to take my gloves off.
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I wanted to be able to,
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like, go to the bathroom without taking the whole suit off.
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Yeah, these are things that you learn as you...
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As you go.
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Yes.
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And they said, not possible.
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We can't do it.
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Yeah.
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Toby and Andrew both had those things on their suits.
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And they didn't know...
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With disrespect.
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THEY ALREADY HAD, THEY LIVED,
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THEY GO, OH, WE ALREADY HAD THIS ARGUMENT WITH, YEAH, EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
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YEAH, I LEARNED THAT YOU SHOULD JUST PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN SOMETIMES.
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WE'RE ALMOST TO HALLOWEEN.
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WHAT'S IT LIKE WHEN YOU SEE KIDS DRESSED AS SPIDER-MAN?
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DO THEY FREAK OUT WHEN THEY SEE YOU?
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IT'S, YEAH.
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IT'S A JOY, MAN.
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I LOVE, I REMEMBER, GOD,
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I'VE BEEN PLAYING SPIDER-MAN FOR NEARLY A DECADE NOW, RIGHT?
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SO I'M PROBABLY 19, CIVIL WAR IS EITHER COMING OUT OR HAS COME OUT.
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So what I'm trying to say is,
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is like, I knew I was Spider-Man.
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My family knew I was Spider-Man.
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But no one else really knew that I was Spider-Man.
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OK.
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So we have kids coming to the door, trick-or-treating, like, really exciting.
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The parents are, like, stood at the driveway,
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like, making sure the kids are safe.
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Yeah.
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Because everything you learn about being a kid goes against trick-or-treating.
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It's like, don't talk to strangers.
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Don't go to a stranger's house.
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Don't take strangers' food.
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Never giving food to see ya.
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And then all of a sudden,
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it's like, tonight it's fine.
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No rules.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So the parents are there,
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and we're waiting for a kid to show up as Spider-Man.
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Eventually, someone does.
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My dad calls me down.
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And I think where I went wrong with this seven-year-old...
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was that I was way more excited than he was.
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So he's there in his little Spider-Man suit with his bucket.
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And I'm like, Spider-Man, hey, how's it going?
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And he's like, whoa.
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It's like, trick-or-treat, man.
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Yeah, just give me the candy,
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bro, and I'll be on my way.
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Yeah, we don't need to have a conversation.
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Which I then said to him,
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like, let's-let's me and you have, like, a picture.
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And then the parents took a big step forward.
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Like, later, they...
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What did you just say to our little kid?
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You want to take a picture with my kid?
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And I'm giving it, like,
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no, don't worry about it.
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I'm actually Spider-Man.
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To which, to that point,
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they, like, dragged their kid away from my house.
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This person's insane.
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You know what?
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We don't need the...
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We don't need the candy bar.
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We're gonna walk away.
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That's so funny.
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Like, the kid is probably wishing he took a photo with you.
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There is some chatter that Spider-Man 4 is happening and that you'll be back as Spider-Man.
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Now we're here...
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What do you want to know?
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Now we're here.
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Now we're here.
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We're actually...
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We're touching.
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Now we're in the same room.
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Can we confirm this tonight?
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It's happening.
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Yes!
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That's my man.
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That's my man.
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Thank you, buddy.
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Thank you.
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That's what I'm talking about.
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Wow!
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That's what I'm talking about.
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That's what you can tell.
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That, I love this.
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Yeah, next summer, next summer, we start shooting.
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Everything's good to go.
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We're nearly there.
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Super exciting.
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That's fantastic.
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Yeah, I can't wait.
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You are so good and so,
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you're perfect for that role.
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Thank you.
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Good actor, also very charming and just,
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I, I, I, I love it,
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but also I have kids and they love you so much.
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Thank you so much.
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You're just the whole, everybody in the cast.
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It's great.
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Good.
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I'm happy to hear that.
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Also, you know, who's a fan of yours is, uh, Timothee Chalamet.
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Yeah, big fan.
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Yes, he's a big fan of yours.
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Uh, we-we love Timothy.
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He's been on the show a bunch of times.
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He recently made a flattering statement about you.
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Uh, we have the clip.
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Let's take a look at this.
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Timothy Chalamet is better looking than Tom Holland.
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Oh, man.
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Y'all-y'all going for the South!
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I'm going strongly disagree on that.
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Tom is the ultimate Riz master.
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Internet knows this.
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Zendaya knows this.
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Everyone knows this.
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Ultimate Riz master.
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Now...
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Do you agree...
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Let me ask you the question.
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Do you agree is Tom Holland the ultimate Riz master?
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I'd have to say I strongly agree.
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I want to talk about this.
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This is a big kind of cool thing that you're doing now.
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It's a non-alcoholic beer.
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Yes.
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It's called Beero.
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It is quality, by the way.
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Thank you.
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Explain to me how you got here, and what is this?
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So...
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I got sober.
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Okay.
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And it was a tricky road,
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and it was something that I really needed to do.
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And, you know, as any celebrities,
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there's always opportunities to go down the commercial route and build brands and do all that sort of stuff.
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And I'd never found anything that I was particularly passionate about.
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And then when I got sober and I'd kind of got through my first year,
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which was, for me, a massive milestone and a huge achievement,
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I started thinking about...
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Thank you.
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What's up, please?
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Yeah, it was...
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It needed to happen.
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It did.
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And I, you know, had some very honest conversations with family and friends and got through it,
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did that first year.
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How did you start with a full year sober?
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I tried to start with a month off,
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and what really scared me is how difficult I found it.
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And then I did a second month, it got no easier.
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I DID A THIRD MONTH,
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AND THEN I SORT OF SAID,
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IF I CAN GET TO JUNE 1ST,
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WHICH IS MY BIRTHDAY, I WILL HAVE PROVED TO MYSELF THAT I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM.
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AND THEN BY THE TIME I GOT TO JUNE 1ST,
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I REALLY STARTED FEELING THE BENEFITS OF NOT DRINKING,
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I WAS SLEEPING BETTER, I WAS HANDLING STUFF BETTER,
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AND I KIND OF THOUGHT,
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LIKE, THE THING THAT'S MISSING FROM THE EQUATION FOR ME RIGHT NOW IS SOMETHING THAT
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that make me feel included in a restaurant, in a bar.
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There isn't quite the product that I need.
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So I just thought, like,
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why don't I try and build my own?
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And, like, two years later, here we are.
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Yeah, so this...
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I mean, that's...
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I think it's great.
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Thank you.
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So you.. how does one do this?
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How does one go about making their own non-alcoholic beer?
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Well, I asked my agents,
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I sort of said, like,
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can you guys look around and see if anyone would be interested setting something like this up with me.
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A day later, they called up and were like,
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there are people who are very interested.
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So I, like, flew out to New York.
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I was in this boardroom,
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and I was meeting with all these people,
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and-and was kind of pitching the idea of what I wanted to do.
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They seemed eager.
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And we just-we just got to-we got to work.
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We started tasting things.
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The first six rounds were absolutely disgusting.
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Yeah.
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And then we finally got something...
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So you really got in there.
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We were tasting, we were sampling,
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we were trying everything that was out on the market.
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I have to try this.
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What did you bring with you?
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What did you bring with you?
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There's two different types here?
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So you have the Pilsner.
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Kingston Pilsner is where I was born.
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Not Pilsner.
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Kingston.
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Yeah.
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It's like a lager.
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And then this for me is my favorite,
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the Edge Hill IPA is just your standard IPA.
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All right, let's see what's up.
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The biggest thing for me that I wanted to try and create...
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Well, you're stressing me out with that.
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Whoo!
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I mean, I'm not saying I poured it better, but...
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Yeah, it's perfect.
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It's absolutely perfect.
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...that.
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Come on.
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Uh, cheers, congrats, and your sobriety...
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Congrats on your new product, by the way.
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Thank you, thank you.
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That is fantastic.
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Tom Holland, everybody!
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Vero is available now at Vero Brewing.
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VeroBrewing.com.
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More with Tom Holland after the break.
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Stick around, everybody.
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Hey, hey, hey!
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Hey, hey, hey!
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Hey, hey, hey!
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- "At the moment, there is no cameo..." - This structure highlights the use of time markers, which can clarify the timing of events. It’s essential for conveying information accurately in conversations.
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