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From School Desks to Film Sets Brady Ryan’s Unique Journey
Brady Ryan shares his journey as a young actor navigating the spotlight while balancing high school and personal interests. He discusses the challenges of fame among peers, the audition process, and his aspirations for the future, all while maintaining a curious perspective on life ahead.
• Discusses early acting experiences and roles
• Shares challenges of being a high school student and a public figure
• Talks about the importance of balancing academics with acting
• Expresses aspirations for college and future roles
• Highlights the auditioning process and the evolution of the industry
• Touches on the importance of maintaining personal interests outside acting
• Reflects on the nature of fame and public perception
Hey, welcome to Entertain this. It's a podcast about movies, tv shows, video games and background static. Yeah, on technical difficulties, I'm Tom Hayden, I'm Mitch, and on today we have a special guest interview with Mr Brady Ryan, an up-and-coming young actor with a few good credits to his name, and we're going to be having a conversation with him. Hey, hello, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4:Oh, thank you for joining with us. So, Mr Brady, Mr Ryan, I also suffer from two first names as both of my names, so how many times have people gotten that confused for you?
Speaker 2:So many, yeah, all the time, like whenever there's a substitute teacher or the beginning of a school year, it's always. Even though everyone gets their last names right with everyone else, they always switch it. Yeah, and I couldn't just let it go, but eventually they realize do you go by?
Speaker 4:uh, brady m ryan, with the m for like your crediting and stuff. Yeah, okay, does the m help? No, not really. I too have a middle initial. I just think it adds more chaos to the confusion.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it'll still get confused.
Speaker 3:They'll just say it all backwards, so I mean yeah sometimes we call him hayden, sometimes we call him brandon, just whatever kind of rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm 37, I can tell you it doesn't get any better.
Speaker 3:So you just gotta get super famous man.
Speaker 1:So and you're already well on your way, yeah, but what's it like being named after two NFL quarterbacks?
Speaker 2:I mean it's always brought up. Yeah, it's always. It's always that combo. It's like, oh, yeah, they mentioned both of them and I'm like, no, that wasn't the goal. But I mean it's the topic of conversation, I guess. Do people ask, like, were you born like during a falcons patriots game? I don't even know. They always ask if it's like after tom brady. I'm like no, it's not. But I mean sure, like I don't remember what I said about it. This is like, yeah, no, it's cool, but no, I wasn't.
Speaker 1:It had nothing to do with that you should start telling people that make it a funny anecdote.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I should.
Speaker 1:You're you know Tom Brady and Matt Ryan's love child. He's born during like a playoff game or the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4:You're a senior in high school? Yes, okay, what state? Do you go to school in Georgia? Oh, oh, well, we school in Georgia. Oh, wow, well, we're all in Georgia, why?
Speaker 1:didn't you just come on over for this? I know If I would have known I would have. What county are you in?
Speaker 3:Well, we don't want to give away?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we don't want to. Yeah, someone's going to try to find him.
Speaker 3:You can ask that off air maybe.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we'll tell you when we we're not recording. Get that southern education. Huh, you know a whole history class during the civil war period that the park gets a little muddied underwater.
Speaker 1:But which is? You and I both went to school in the north, yeah, and then I grew up in new york and moved here and up there it's like oh yeah, like the south, like they did this like seceding nonsense. So we kind of go down there and straighten stuff out and, you know, handle some business. And then I come down here and it's like the South will rise again.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've lived in Gwinnett County for pretty much my entire life until, I guess, maybe the last 12 years, so it's not really that.
Speaker 1:You do a lot of work out of.
Speaker 2:Atlanta yeah, okay, okay, you do a lot of work out of Atlanta.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, usually Okay. I do want to jump into a lot of your acting credits and stuff like that, but we've never talked to a high school kid who's way more successful than all three of us combined before. So, what's it like being a student, you know, I don't know battling defense against the dark arts for one of your classes and then having to run off to a movie set or something like that.
Speaker 2:It's a little difficult but it's not that bad. The one part about it which like is the fact that when something comes out, or if there's a commercial or something, anything someone will have seen it. Yeah, there was one time where one of my teachers saw it and then showed all my other teachers and that's always a topic conversation and that's not the best thing to have happen. But besides, for that I mean the time management's a little difficult but it's handable why do you say it's not the best?
Speaker 4:you just don't like the attention I.
Speaker 2:it's just like when I'm sitting in a class of people like oh yeah, did you see this? And I don't really know how to discuss that with my teacher. So it's really awkward, especially when I don't know, like sometimes there's one time where my teacher like called me over. I was like oh yeah, this kid is called me over and was like oh yeah, this kid is doing this and it was with other people I didn't know and I was like oh yeah, and I would say I'm a little bit awkward when it comes to the first interaction with new people and especially, I guess, adults. So it's not the most fun thing, it's how do I get out of it, but it's actually kind of fun.
Speaker 4:Well, I mean, you want to be an actor for like the rest of your life, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:You better get used to that kind of attention, man.
Speaker 2:I've definitely gotten more used to it, okay.
Speaker 1:At the beginning you're like you've got to sneak out. It's like, oh, mrs Smith, I need to go to the nurse's office, my stomach hurts. And it's like, okay, and you get the hall, pass on sunglasses and a scarf goes out of a window. There's a limo and someone hands him a script and he's just reading through the lines and it's like, all right, I'm ready. They just pull right into a studio. That would be great.
Speaker 3:Your publicist told us that you're really into sports and that you have like a 4.0 GPA. How do you manage all that while acting?
Speaker 1:I don't think the three of us combined have a 4.0.
Speaker 2:I know, I know the school part itself, I don't, it isn't that bad. I mean, I do end up missing a lot of homework that I don't do, but I don't, I can't really blame it on acting, it's probably just me not doing enough. But I think we have time in school and I focus during the classes and, like I know what's happening so I don't have to put too much work into making sure outside of school, so that part's not bad. And um, with the sports stuff, like I was, I was gonna play lacrosse. I'm not sure if I'm playing right now because we don't have a lot of people on the team, okay. So I don't know if, like, we have enough even for a team at the moment, but I like practice and play stuff with my friends with, like on my free time okay, a lot of time to do it, but I like playing pickleball and whenever I can, that is like my go-to thing okay, I have discovered pickleball this last year and boy, howdy does it?
Speaker 4:you move a lot more than you look like you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah you definitely do yeah my knees are still hurting. Watching it the first time I really understand it. I was like why are we playing this? It's like mini tennis. It doesn't look that fun. And then started playing. I was like, okay, it's a lot, and it is fun it is.
Speaker 4:It is so like when you're actually filming and you're in school cause you, you started filming what was black phone was like your earliest big credit. It was like 2021. Yeah, a couple of years ago I was COVID era, so everybody was kind of living the gypsy homework life. But I mean, you know what you're doing today. Do you do a lot of homework and studying kind of on the road, not as much as I think I need to.
Speaker 2:What you're doing today, do you do a lot of homework and studying kind of on the road. Um, not as much as I think I need to. I mean it helps the fact that all my stuff is online. I think with school most of our assignments are online technology. If I'm in the car, like I can get my work done or something, and I can do it like wherever I'm at, so it doesn't, it's not too bad. Just like it was his makeup stuff. That's the hardest part about it, but I can get all my work for every single class from my like online classes, so it's really not.
Speaker 4:You got teachers.
Speaker 2:Like you know, I'll uh, I'll overlook you being late with this assignment if uh you get me on this movie well I, I have people like jokingly say stuff like that. But normally if I'm gone it'll be oh, I'm sick, or we'll have some sort of reason that I'm out of town, because it's hard to explain to your school and get an excuse that you're going to do acting stuff. So it's like you're telling me I'm sick and then you have the time to make up the work when you get back. So I mean, that's just normally what I do.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I tell you not to reveal all your secrets, but nobody listens to our podcast, so no you talk about it.
Speaker 1:We have millions of listeners worldwide. We're very popular in Germany.
Speaker 4:He's been gone for a year. We've got a lot more popular.
Speaker 1:Didn't we get banned in.
Speaker 4:China I don't know, no, I think it was Iraq.
Speaker 3:They wouldn't let us, or no, cause you could listen to an Iraq.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, I was on.
Speaker 3:America, it was.
Speaker 1:Iran, you were banned or something, something like that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Your secret's safe in Iran. Okay, cool. So let's talk about, like, how you got into acting you know, many, many years ago, back in what was your earliest acting credit. Was it commercial work, or did you just jump straight into film? I'm pretty sure it was the Black Bone. Okay, how'd you get that role?
Speaker 2:So I was like when I moved to Georgia from New Jersey I started going to school and we had to take an elective and I tried band and chorus and I didn't like either one of them. So then, like seventh grade year, I tried drama and I liked the acting part, but I'm not a singer and I don't really well, I try but like that's not really my thing. So I found an acting studio like in my town and I went there and then we started self-submitting myself for auditions and then I got that Wow and so and it was like, oh okay, this is important. We rushed over there. It's like 9 o'clock at night and I had no clue what was happening and then I auditioned and then a few weeks later I heard back about it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, what grade were you in at that time?
Speaker 2:I think 7th. It was either 7th or 8th grade. God, it was around COVID, yeah grade.
Speaker 3:So he was more than successful than us before he got to high school.
Speaker 4:In seventh grade, I was still falling out of trees.
Speaker 1:I was playing Xbox and running around playing Airsoft.
Speaker 4:That's wild man. So you got this game. What were your parents thinking at that time? We struck gold with this one.
Speaker 2:How cool were your parents? She's, she was full in. She's like, oh, no, we have to go now. Like I was literally in the middle of cooking a pizza as like I went to go do the audition, I had to take it out of the oven, like it just happened. I still remember like she's like no, no, we have to go do it now. It has to go do it now. This is important. So she's all in like gotta go yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4:I mean sorry about the pizza, but I think it's a sacrifice worth making.
Speaker 2:So I think, I think the sacrifice is worth it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, now for for acting like did your parents? Is that something like they kind of inspired you to want to do, or is it something that you just kind of grew an interest in?
Speaker 2:um, I think it's more of I just grew an interest in grew an interest in I think it's more of I just grew an interest in and then my mom like loves, like acting stuff and art and everything and she likes watching TV movies, so she was supportive of it, okay, and what was like the filming?
Speaker 1:Did you have to like go to a set? Did you have to like go to Hollywood? Was it filmed in Georgia?
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure it was North Carolina that we filmed it.
Speaker 1:How many days of a shoot was it for your part?
Speaker 2:Two the first time and then two or three the second time, like it's only different times.
Speaker 4:Okay, did you get like the whole red carpet premiere and all that fun stuff I did?
Speaker 2:I got to go to the red carpet and that was a crazy experience.
Speaker 4:Was it the first rated R movie you ever seen?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I don't. He's like. I'm trying to think. I feel like the screen movies are all rated all right, I think so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've watched all. I've had watched all those like already.
Speaker 3:So I think I think that's probably the first three movies one of the questions I was going to ask you is where you film to get like the the 70s, 80s kind of vibe for the movie, for the black phone.
Speaker 4:That's what I was wondering. Yeah, so.
Speaker 3:I guess. North Carolina probably. Like I know, I had some family that lived up there around Wilmington, north Carolina and that's where some stuff was. That's where it was. Okay, there's some stuff that's been filmed there. That's they use, that it's still got that old look to to the entire town and everything.
Speaker 4:It's weird, north Carolina, I mean, was most of the production out of Atlanta. No, I'm pretty sure most of it was in North Carolina there, okay, I don't know the tax breaks for films in North Carolina.
Speaker 3:I know.
Speaker 2:Georgia's got pretty good ones.
Speaker 4:But, I don't know, maybe somebody just loves North Carolina.
Speaker 3:I mean, I know several things that's been filmed there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so did you get to meet Ethan Hawke.
Speaker 2:I didn't get to meet Ethan Hawke, but he was there when I was filming one of my scenes.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay, was he just like judging you like, off to the side.
Speaker 1:He's just standing there like eating a sandwich, looking at you.
Speaker 2:I had no clue, because all I know is that my mom and like the other parents of like the guys in the scene with like they were, like did you see ethan hawk was over there and I didn't. I. I did not see him and I was like, oh no, I'm not it's like no, I'm kind of working here, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I had no clue.
Speaker 2:And then she's like, oh, it's too late, and I was like, okay, yeah so, uh, what was?
Speaker 4:what was it like, like you know, your first day on set. You kind of got the role, you kind of have a vague understanding how acting works, and then you just like thrust it into the giant machine of film production.
Speaker 2:And you know, I can only imagine. It was crazy. I had no clue what was going on. I've never done anything like that before. And just jumping in and it's like like big set, there's so many people working like so much, going on wardrobe, everything. It's like, okay, this is a lot different than what I expected, but it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4:Did you have like a handler, like a guy that's like not really like an ad or something like that? That was kind of like corralling the kids, you know, making sure you guys weren't goofing off too much but also trying to make it kind of fun for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there were plenty of people that were there around helping and like we worked for like the fight stuff, like we practiced beforehand and like we just went in a day and did that stuff. So I mean there was plenty of people helping us in different parts. There was never really time like there was someone everywhere. Yeah, no, goofing off much, it's pretty much. You go here, you're ready.
Speaker 4:You wait, go here next place, wow, so you had to choreograph a fight.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:What was that like? Just a?
Speaker 2:bully, backyard fight. I mean it's just practice kicking and how it's supposed to look and all the things, and then just really like doing it over and over again and getting it down, yeah, and obviously, like other people had to do like harder things. So if, like you were on the ground and stuff you had to practice, that I mean it was just pretty cool. Okay, you don't have to do that or anything, you're just practicing, like this match.
Speaker 3:So it's pretty cool, I know a lot of times you'll hear stories when people are practicing like the choreographing fighting and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:They accidentally hit each other.
Speaker 3:So I was about to ask the same thing because I mean it's like you and like two or three other kids like kicking this kid that's on the ground in the scene.
Speaker 2:So I was just wondering how that went Well, actually, like you would accidentally kick him or you would think it's like the stunt person, but no, like you didn't realize who was down there, because like you've been doing it back and forth and they'd switch, so you would end up accidentally. So let's say everyone's fine, nothing bad happened. It's just like you might accidentally kick him a little bit.
Speaker 1:So just minor injuries. Yeah, just minor. Yeah, you can walk it off, you'd be fine rub some dirt on it all for the craft. So well, cool uh were you posting all this stuff like on set, you know, on like social media, like to all your classmates, just like what's up, I'm in a movie I honestly, I think when I first filmed it, I didn't tell anyone.
Speaker 2:I knew why I was gone. I told everyone I was shit, and it wasn't until stuff started coming out about it that I was like oh yeah, that's where I was.
Speaker 1:And it's like, oh, I was in that. And everyone's like nah, and then they watch and go, holy crap it's Brady.
Speaker 2:That's exactly how it goes every single time Someone else, it starts with oh, I said it, and they're like no, no, you're not. Then they look it up, they're like oh, you are. And then one person will mention it in another class. It's like no, he wasn't Like. Why are you lying Like every time?
Speaker 3:I meet someone new and then they look it up, it's. But when we were in high school, we didn't have social media, so there was no way to post like, oh, you've been doing this Because, like I think, myspace had just come out and Facebook came out, like when I started college.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for me it was like Facebook, and then I think towards like when I got to college is when Instagram was going wild.
Speaker 3:Okay, and tweeting, tweeting.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, that makes us sound a little older than what you would think but yeah, we are old, did you ever? Get tired of working with old people no, you will.
Speaker 1:That's a good answer.
Speaker 2:So I don't get tired of working with older people.
Speaker 1:I think it's pretty cool to work with people like that have been there and done things for a long time yeah it is interesting talking to people who have you know, like you were, you know, fresh to the acting game, you know a few years, some good credits, and we talked to somebody who's been like a character actor, who has done stuff for like 20, 30 years.
Speaker 3:And there's always the same level of enthusiasm. Yeah, like everybody. Just like if you're an actor you just love being an actor.
Speaker 1:And then we always ask like, do you ever have like a celebrity moment where you were starstruck? So I know you were on two film sets. Did you see anybody like famous?
Speaker 2:you're like, holy crap, I'm doing it like I made it uh, at the red carpet, like the premiere is, when I saw people like um, I'm trying to think there was a lot of people where I was like whoa.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm walking the red carpet for something I'm in with these other people. Yeah, that's got to be wild. That's crazy. I've never done anything like this before. I'm going to be in a movie that they're watching and that's normally the opposite. That's so crazy. Who did?
Speaker 1:you see, you were like, oh my God, it's them, they're here.
Speaker 2:Jamie Campbell Bauer. I saw him. He's back on Stranger.
Speaker 3:Things. I saw a picture where you had pictures with him through IMDB. They had some stuff I didn't get to talk to him or anything.
Speaker 2:But I thought that was super cool because that was like prime Stranger Things, like the season that had just come out. I had watched it and it was a big deal. I was like, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know there's like a I wouldn't say there's just like a divide, but there's definitely like a giant crowd for child actors nowadays that they kind of have their own following. It used to be, you know, when I grew up like kid actors were just like cause they were protected, you know, and they didn't have social media and stuff. Back then you just kind of, you know, waited until they were 18 and go on talk shows and like have a personality and stuff like that. So you had no idea who these people were off camera. Now, all these Stranger Things, kids and people like you. You have such a personality and you have a distinguishable character and it still has to be scary. I couldn't imagine having a big-time life where everybody could watch you under a microscope and you're just trying to be a normal kid at the same time, you know. So that work-balanced life I could barely adjust as a 37-year-old with, you know, my small crowd of people, let alone being what? Are you 17, 18?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I couldn't imagine being 17, having to worry about saying something stupid on Twitter. You know.
Speaker 3:That's just wild, yeah, because you've got the people that want to cancel people. They'll find stuff from 10 years ago, uh-huh. So.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you were tweeting when you were seven, like new. Lego movie Awesome.
Speaker 3:It's like what do you mean? It was awesome. It was one of the worst films ever made.
Speaker 2:The nazis made legos. Well, you're also in herald the purple crayon. How? What was your experience with that movie? So I was only in a scene for that, but filming that scene was super fun, like I mean it. It was a comedy, it's, it was like heart. It was fun, like I enjoyed filming it. So I mean that was a good experience too.
Speaker 1:I see on IMDb you're listed as the prank call kid. Yeah, are you the one who prank calls Like you're the caller, or are you the one who gets the call Caller? Have you ever prank called anybody before this?
Speaker 2:No, I haven't.
Speaker 4:And I've always've always like, wanted to. I don't know why I have it. You should have done it.
Speaker 1:Get in character, man. Well, back when we were kids it was a lot easier because you didn't have caller id.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you couldn't just return call the phone would just ring.
Speaker 1:You had no idea who it was on the other side. You were obligated to answer.
Speaker 2:Phones had cords I think, I think I would do it, but then also I also decline like any sort of call from a number I don't know. So I don't know if I would really actually brain call someone, but it sounds like it would be fun, I'd do the same thing.
Speaker 3:If I don't know the number, I'd just let it go to voicemail.
Speaker 1:Like we would like flip open a phone book and like look for a funny name and call them and they'd answer. And so it's like hello. It's like you know who? This is no Good. Go F yourself and we'd laugh.
Speaker 4:And hang up. So you did a lot of voice work too, for commercials, and I saw on one article there was a Batman. Was it a TV cartoon or something that you did?
Speaker 2:It was also like a commercial Okay For a toy.
Speaker 4:For a toy. Okay, were you like like the kid playing with a toy?
Speaker 2:like well, my new batman nah, I mean, I think we were like looking up at like the bat single in the sky, oh yeah that's awesome.
Speaker 4:I mean so what, how? How would you describe commercial work versus film? You know how how? Because I I always have understood commercial work to just be fly by the seat of your pants. You got, like you know, one day to shoot a commercial kind of thing yeah, that's kind of how it is.
Speaker 2:It's like a full day of you're doing this, you're doing this, and then when you're, when you're sitting there doing, it's like I don't know, I don't know what's happening. It's always like commercials are always fast and something like it flips back and forth like a bunch of things. It's like I don't really necessarily know what's happening and like I'm filming a bunch of scenes for this thing and then you see the final thing. You're like oh, oh, it makes a lot of sense now. But it's definitely like when you're looking at it, it's okay, I'm doing something and I have no clue what the reason for this is, but then it it all ends in making me think.
Speaker 4:Well, it's important. I mean, from my little understanding of acting, even if it's a dumb product like the Pet Groomer 9000 or whatever, you still have to act like you care and if you can care about anything you know as a good actor A to sell the product. B to sell yourself then you know people will notice that there's a lot of famous actors that have gotten their start in commercial work. So it's good, yeah. Yeah, it's a steady job and you get to act.
Speaker 3:I think, like Ryan Gosling was in some kind of like toy commercial like Toys R Us or something like that. That's where he got his start.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Jack Black Remember he sold.
Speaker 1:Pitfall on Atari did he really?
Speaker 4:he did.
Speaker 1:Wow, he was wearing his little Indiana Jones outfit and stuff like that, and if your commercial is good enough, djibouti Dubs will overdub it and make fun of it don't, don't, don't, look that up.
Speaker 4:I don't know if you're old enough, so like what do you want to study in college? I everybody would assume acting, but I mean, you know, this guy's the world's your oyster, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2:I think I want to study business in college. Okay, that's smart. I'm not exactly sure. Maybe also psychology. I haven't really decided yet, but one of those two things.
Speaker 4:Psychology would be an interesting background for an actor, I think that a lot of people always just go straight into the thespian arts. But I think they have a different kind of cerebral mindset. You know, building your repertoire for your acting credits would be interesting too.
Speaker 3:I studied psychology and sociology.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, you're a podcaster now. Yeah, exactly, look how that's turned out.
Speaker 3:Don't follow my path.
Speaker 1:I mean a business degree would be good to have, because acting is a business Absolutely. Especially when you already got two good credits, let's say two years down the road. You're acting Like Marvel's, like hey, we want you as this character, we want to do this, we want to do that, and they're just throwing contracts at you and stuff and you have no clue and your agent or lawyer they hired for you.
Speaker 1:It's like oh yeah, son right here could you going to be a star and it's like you actually have the acumen to read through it and know a little something.
Speaker 2:Go all right, well, wait a minute, yeah, and you know, kind of protect yourself so, yeah, I think having a, a business degree, helps in so many different ways and so I can know what's happening and I can pursue something with that, or on the side, or I don't know. I feel like that's just something simple that I'd be like OK, I don't exactly know what to do and I need to know what I want to do, but I went to college, so if I just do that, that's like a kind of a side plan.
Speaker 1:OK, there's a couple of people we've talked to who did a lot of acting, but now they do a lot of directing and production stuff. But they've started a lot of their own companies. Yeah, because they had business degrees and they knew how to navigate it and set stuff up so they could just do their own projects.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I have started an LLC before. It's a lot of work, so just knowing what you're doing up front, yeah, very beneficial. So what you're saying is hire somebody. So do you think you're going to kind of like jump in to college? Just kind of keep your acting life separate? If a good opportunity happens while you're a freshman in college, are you going to take the risk?
Speaker 2:I definitely think I want to go to college, but my priority would be acting. Okay, are you going to tell all the girls, you're an actor, I would I would.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Tom would jump on that grenade. He'd take it. What did?
Speaker 2:I say earlier, I handle that. So like when people start asking me questions about it, I'm like I don't really know, it's really awkward, so probably not yeah.
Speaker 2:Until they see your face on like a movie poster, and then they're like oh well, you know, yeah, after I know someone a little bit and then they're like oh well, you know, yeah, after I know someone a little bit, then it's like oh yeah, you can know that it's just, uh, the first conversation being that and I have to talk about myself, and it's like I'm like, well, um, so I did this. Uh, I'm like it was like this. And then they ask questions like, honestly, I know how to answer that.
Speaker 3:And then I feel like, oh, it's just, it's just a really weird interaction so so your bigger movies that you've been a part of is herald the purple crayon and black phone going forward. What kind of genre of movie would you like be most drawn to?
Speaker 2:I definitely think like both of the genres horror, comedy, even dramas but like my goal film that I said like always is like a slasher film like scream, like it's one of my favorite franchises and I would love to like be the killer in a slasher film like Scream Like it's one of my favorite franchises and I would love to like be the killer in a slasher.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I want to be killed in a horror movie.
Speaker 3:I mean at this point, the way Scream's going, you could be in.
Speaker 1:Scream 15.
Speaker 3:They're going to keep going, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean I would love for them to keep and I was like, and if I could be in one of those, that'd be great.
Speaker 3:And nowadays the way it goes, eventually they'll reboot it, so you can make your own franchise and original and creative.
Speaker 1:So I could try. Yeah certainly could.
Speaker 3:So being part of the younger audience and younger actors. Tom and Hayden make fun of me because I like comics a lot. Are you into like the superhero stuff? Like Marvel? Oh, I love Marvel.
Speaker 1:So if either one of them approached you, tom, and Hayden make fun of me because I like comics a lot.
Speaker 3:Are you into the superhero stuff? Oh, I love Marvel. So if either one of them approached you and said, hey, do you want to be a character? And you got to pick, which one would it be? Oh, that's a tough question. Marvel's going to be coming out with X-Men stuff soon and DC's just getting started with their whole universe they're trying to make.
Speaker 2:There's only one right answer I was thinking about probably like the X-Men is getting rebooted with, like the next, the next, like series, so maybe like Nightcrawler or can you do the accent, yeah? Probably not, I don't know. I kind of think it's weird that they aren't already currently in like the MCU timeline, because, well, I mean, they already have people playing them. Yeah well.
Speaker 3:So I mean, like the X-Men stuff is something that they're going to be starting and you know, being young you could be.
Speaker 2:You know, if you became Nightcrawler you could be, Nightcraw worry about, you know, getting agent out of it pretty much so yeah if you get that marvel I think really any any of the x-men coming up, like that'd be awesome, because I mean I haven't seen this stuff in a while so I forget all the like which characters and stuff are possibilities. But I definitely know like seeing certain characters comes into you would be awesome and if I could play one of them that would be great yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:So what, what is your? What is your goal to kind of sell yourself moving forward? I know you got people like an agent and a publicist and stuff that kind of like. Are you know, hopefully just guiding you like what's, what's the plan to move forward for your career?
Speaker 2:um, I mean, I think I'm just gonna keep on trying to do what I'm doing now, like whenever opportunity comes my way, I'll take it Okay and work on that, and then I'll hopefully bigger, bigger things, and I'll keep on moving up like that.
Speaker 4:Have you been auditioning for stuff?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been auditioning for stuff, okay.
Speaker 1:You got anything coming up you can tell us about.
Speaker 2:I do have stuff coming up, but I can't really say anything about it. Ah, secret.
Speaker 4:He's keeping secrets, man.
Speaker 3:He's good. He's saving his job, he's doing the right thing, you passed the test. Well done. This is all a big test, you got the job.
Speaker 1:You're hired kid, you're going to be a star.
Speaker 4:That's cool man. You know, what is the auditioning experience like for you? Is it mostly online or video call or whatever? Have you done an in-person audition?
Speaker 2:I've done an in-person audition, but most of it's self-tape or Zoom call Okay, almost all of it that I've done any personal auditions, but most of it's self-tape or zoom call okay, like almost all of it that I've done is that which would you prefer to do. I think I like the self-tape the best, but also I think in person you can see like personality and they can do better, so it's you have to do less. I would guess. Like is what I'm saying like because you have to make it a little bit more obvious, like when you're making it across the screen yeah not much, but just a little bit.
Speaker 2:I think there, like you can see everything happening with your like surroundings and how you're acting, so I mean I think it's pretty cool well you also get a little bit of feedback too, when you do in person as well but it's definitely easier to not have to go to LA to film an audition. Yeah, or like go in person audition when I can film it.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I want to say, with the self-tape though, you know it gives you the opportunity to like, do several of them and, you know, pick your best ones yeah. Give them your best.
Speaker 4:You know, first impression that you can, that's true, yeah, I'm sure there's a give and take, um. So what do you? Do you feel I, I this is probably a kind of a difficult question to answer your, uh, your publicists and your agents and stuff like that, the people who are trying to help you figure out your career are how invasive are they like as a as a child actor, so to speak, because you're the first kid that we've talked to? That's like it, like this that's not over 18?
Speaker 4:yeah, how, how often are they like like giving you work to do?
Speaker 2:oh, all the time. Whatever like if it fits like the description of something and they can submit it, they will like they're really good about that, like they'll send me stuff, even even if it's like it's a little bit like out of the age range or something like I'll still still get it and they'll see if I can get the audition for it.
Speaker 4:So I mean, they work really hard to get like new stuff, which is great and do you feel comfortable like if school is becoming too much work and you need to focus on that? You feel comfortable, kind of taking a step back and they, they ease up and stuff I, if it came to that, maybe.
Speaker 2:But I mean, I graduate in a few months and I think, at the point where I am now, like I would be fine, like I would focus more on whatever like they give me.
Speaker 4:I don't think okay, we get it. You're a smart student. I'm just messing with you, I tried mr 4.0 gpa. God, yeah, uh, do you have an idea of what college you want to go to?
Speaker 2:do you feel comfortable saying I actually have no idea where I want to go really none of us did either I'm being completely honest, like I keep on starting applications and I'm like, do I want to go?
Speaker 2:and then I think about it and I start more, and then I don't submit and then I'm like maybe not. So I actually have no idea where I'm going to go, but I really need to figure this out soon. A lot of the deadlines are in February or within like the next week or two, so I need to figure this out it's a tough time because I mean, a lot of us had to go through it.
Speaker 3:I had two choices a scholarship here, a scholarship there.
Speaker 1:That's the only way I could get in. I didn't get scholarships and I only applied to one school when I got in.
Speaker 3:Mine was just go to sports and that was it. Everything was just like you have to go to college.
Speaker 1:If you don't go to college and be in debt.
Speaker 4:I hate to sound like the old guy, but I have a daughter who's a little bit younger than you. Like Tom said, when I was going to college, my parents were just basically holding a gun to me saying you will get educated. I think that it is okay to take time, for you know, I'm just a stranger across the microphone, but, like, I think it's okay, if you want to take a year to figure out what the rest of your life is going to be like, you try acting and if it, if it doesn't pan out, hey, there's nothing wrong with starting college when you're 20 or something like that. So you know, no, no pressure, just don't jump into something and then be committed to a job you don't want to do see, unlike us, he actually has the grades to get into pretty much any college he wants to go to.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. You sound like you have your head screwed on more straight than we do, even at our age so you know, but this kid can go to harvard.
Speaker 1:We went to like slippery rock technical college.
Speaker 2:I don't know. It's definitely like people 4.5 and everything like it goes above 4.
Speaker 1:It goes above 4 now.
Speaker 4:I don't know what about 4?
Speaker 1:what's the highest?
Speaker 2:um, I mean for, like I don't know, it depends on the college, like normally it's on a 4.0 scaling, but like with splashes, like I don't know, it depends on the college, like normally it's on a 4.0 scaling, but like with classes and honors and stuff, the balance there's like higher balances. So you'll have like valedictorian with a 4.5, like weighted, or like 4.2, unweighted.
Speaker 1:So where's your .5? You studying? Are you too busy running around on acting sets? Yeah the.5 is not there. I'm starting to get disappointed. We have no room to talk, no me and my solid 3.1?
Speaker 4:yeah, it's. It's not just grades too. Like colleges want you to like do community service, you know they want you to like feed the homeless and you know solve peace and stuff like that they.
Speaker 2:They want people to be productive members, good colleges yeah, like they want you to be SGA president, student body president. Have 10,000 hours in community service so wild and like work, so like it's like there's so much stuff they need. Now Are you doing any of that stuff? Yeah, I do stuff like that, but I like I'm in student government, I like I help around. But compared to some of the other people who have a really long list of doing every activity, everything outside of school, working in a courthouse or something or doing all sorts of things, it's competitive.
Speaker 3:What you should do is find out how many streaming hours your movies have and say you provided entertainment to these people for this many hours. Work that away into your essay or something.
Speaker 1:Honestly, it's all about articulation.
Speaker 4:Your life stresses me out. I couldn't imagine having to deal with all that at 17.
Speaker 1:I'd be sabotaging my own like campaigns for like student body government I'd be like.
Speaker 4:Vote for.
Speaker 1:Tom, bringing dignity back to corruption.
Speaker 4:I'd take a gap year, man, I'd go travel. Have you been out of the States, yeah?
Speaker 2:I've been out of the States. Okay, I've left the country once now. I left the country last year.
Speaker 3:Well, he's already tied with me. I've been to what was it? Bahamas once, and that was it.
Speaker 1:That's not leaving, that's not really leaving. It's not part of the US. It's not another continent or a hemisphere.
Speaker 3:I've only flown once, so Wow, okay. I flew to Miami.
Speaker 4:We are in North Georgia, the more sophisticated side Mitch is the one that got away, but the rest of us, you know.
Speaker 3:I've never been west of Alabama and I've never been north of Virginia. So, oh man, Wow. Eh, it is what it is, and here you are giving this kid advice. I need to travel. No, I'm not giving advice. Hayden's giving advice.
Speaker 1:You've been to all 13 colonies? No, have you yeah.
Speaker 3:He drove down them.
Speaker 4:That doesn't count.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he drove down.
Speaker 4:That doesn't count.
Speaker 3:Well.
Speaker 4:Brady, I'm excited to see what happens for you. You know that I'm sure you've, like you said, you've got stuff you're working on, but, like this is a crucial moment in your life I mean graduating high school so I hope we can kind of keep in touch and see you know what next year looks like for you, if you've got anything coming out or if you're just you know going to be the next Bezos or something like that, after your business degree or something like that. So you know yeah.
Speaker 1:In five years, when you're on, you know all these movies and doing talk shows with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon and I don't know, probably not Jimmy Kimmel. I wouldn't.
Speaker 4:And then I'll be like hey we talked to that guy first, you have to come back and talk to us too. Oh yeah, of course so. Is there anything you want to promote? Is there anything you want to say you got some sort of play or something you're doing? No, I don't think so. Okay, sort of like play, or something you're doing? No, I don't think so, okay, okay, you got some sort of Twitch account, some Call of Duty feed or something like that we can watch.
Speaker 2:I in fact do not. Oh, I'm not good enough at my games. Well, nobody is.
Speaker 3:We're not good either. We just pretend like we know what we're doing.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you don't have to be good, you have to.
Speaker 4:Well, hey, man, it was nice talking to you. I hope the best for you. We'll be watching and, you know, when you're playing Deadpool 2.0, we'll be like, ah, we were there, we saw that guy Sounds great when we were in our 40s. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Look at that kid.
Speaker 4:He took my advice.
Speaker 1:It's like yeah, 10 years from now you'll be on some talk show. It's like so, like how did you make all these decisions, do stuff? It's like, well, I, I did a podcast with these guys and of course I got hate.
Speaker 2:He was just, they were yelling at me telling me all this stuff and I was like huh those guys are right, it all worked out yeah, that's how we go, all man.
Speaker 4:Thanks for talking to us.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me. I'm out.
