Actor and musician Alex Wolff from "Hereditary" and MUBI's "Magic Farm" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Actor and musician Alex Wolff from “Hereditary” and MUBI’s “Magic Farm” joins us on Story & Craft.
Alex’s work includes “A Quiet Place: Day One,” “Oppenheimer,” “A Good Person,” “Hereditary” and the “Jumanji” films. We talk about working with M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan, his music with his brother, Nat Wolff, and performing with his jazz pianist father at Madison Square Garden while on tour with Billie Eilish.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Alex Wolff joins Story & Craft
Alex Wolf’s Acting Journey
New Film: Magic Farm
Musical Influences and Family
Creative Process and Inspirations
The Seven Questions
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Full Transcript
Part 1
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Alex Wolff joins Story & Craft
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Alex Wolff: We brought up my
dad on stage and he was sick for
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a long time and now he's well.
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So to bring him up on the stage and
have him play with us 'cause he's a jazz
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pianist, was an indescribable experience.
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Announcer: Welcome to Story Craft.
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Now here's your host, Marc Preston.
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Marc Preston: All right, here we go back
again, another episode of Story and Craft.
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So glad to have you back.
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Uh, if this is your very first
episode, my name is Marc.
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Preston, glad to have you.
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Uh, today we are sitting down with
a very talented actor, Alex Wolff.
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New film out right now with Chloe
Sevigny, it is called Magic Farm.
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Now.
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Alex has been in just
a ton of great stuff.
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Uh, a quiet place, day
one, uh, Oppenheimer.
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Uh, Zach Bras film, a good
person, also hereditary, uh, very
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talented guy, also a musician.
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In fact, he's in a band with his
brother, Nat Wolff, who is also an actor.
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Uh, very talented guy all around, uh,
really enjoyed sitting down with him
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and I think you'll enjoy it as well.
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about past guests, it's all right there.
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the show a little bit easier, which I
always appreciate and I appreciate you.
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Always good to have you here.
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Alright, let's jump right into it today.
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It's Alex Wolff Day right
here on Story and Craft.
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Alex Wolf's Acting Journey
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So where are you joining me from today?
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And I
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Alex Wolff: am at my parents' house
with a good wifi New York City
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in the, uh, in the West Village.
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Alright, well, so you did,
you grew up as a New York kid.
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That's right.
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I grew up as a New York kid.
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It was, it was all New York all the time.
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Marc Preston: Now my son, I told
him last night, my son's uh, 20
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and I said, oh yeah, I'm gonna
be, uh, speaking with Alex Wolff.
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And he said, have you
ever seen a hereditary?
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I said, no, I actually haven't.
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He's like, you need to go watch it.
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It's a good movie.
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And he didn't tell me anything about it.
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He knows that the horror genre isn't
really something I typically gravitate to.
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Uh, sometimes I do.
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I still got PTSD from Poltergeist
from when I was a kid.
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It's a whole thing, Uhhuh.
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So I went and I, uh, I, I watched it.
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That was a ride.
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I, he didn't tell me anything about it.
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I, he intentionally walked me in.
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It's like, oh yeah,
it's just a great movie.
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There's some stuff.
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It's kind of a little scary trick.
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Alex Wolff: You up?
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Oh yeah.
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Basically.
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Yeah.
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Marc Preston: But no, he was,
he was like, yeah, it could
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be a little scary, you know?
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But, uh, he was telling
me he was a great movie.
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He watched it with his
girlfriend and they love it.
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So, uh, but yeah, it was great.
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You know, and I tell you, one of the
things I loved about it, you know, you
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didn't have a ton of dialogue, you know,
you comparatively speaking to the other
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characters, but a lot of it was just.
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The camera on you and reactions and stuff.
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That's kind of what kind of
brought up that intensity because
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you're like, what is he thinking?
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What's going on?
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You know?
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It's, you know, I always admire folks
that can act very well, even emotionally
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without a lot of dialogue, you know?
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And I thought that was just
a, it was a great ride.
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It was unexpected.
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I like an occasional
horror every now and then.
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Wow.
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There weren't really a lot
of scary, scary things in it.
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It was really a cranial
kind of a thing, you know?
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Right.
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But anyway, but yeah, I
watched that last night.
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New Film: Magic Farm
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The, uh, new film you have coming out.
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Okay.
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What's the, what's the premise of that?
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Alex Wolff: Well, it's a, it's a
satire, uh, about a, a group of
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Americans who go to Argentina to
make a documentary and they work.
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They, they're, they work for a
company kind of ala vice news.
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Um, and when they get there.
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They realized that I have brought
them to the wrong country.
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And, uh, funny chaos ensues.
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Marc Preston: Did y'all
shoot this in Argentina?
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Alex Wolff: Yep.
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Yeah, we did.
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Marc Preston: Awesome.
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I, that's one I've always wanted
to go to Argentina and Chile.
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You know, I like, um, from what
I understand down in Argentina,
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they like beef quite a bit, you
know, so everything's, yeah.
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It's
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Alex Wolff: funny 'cause I'm a,
I'm a veg or I, I, I. We will eat
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fish once in a while, but I'm, I'm
basically a, a, uh, a vegetarian.
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And so it was funny when I was there,
I was like, holy hell, I can barely
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eat anything that, and wine, you know?
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So I've always wanted to do a little,
um, well, that I have no problem with.
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Well, very good wine and beer
was, was, uh, perfection.
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You just learned cervesa
there and you survive.
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All right.
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Marc Preston: Um, so where do
you, where do you call home?
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Uh, when are, are you, do you live
in New York also or do you, uh,
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are you in LA most of the time?
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Mostly in, in New York.
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Most of the time I spend a lot of time
in la Is there a tribe of like, you
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know, sibling actors out there, they
all get together for annual meetings
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and talk about what it's like to work
together or not wanna work together?
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No, no.
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It's really interesting 'cause you
know, you doing the music thing, you
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know, it seems like most siblings,
at least my kids, uh, my three, I,
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I can't imagine going, Hey, let's
go spend time on tour together.
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Have you always been, uh.
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Close.
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Have you always been, you know,
familially as well as like creatively?
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Have you always been kinda like, you
know, grooving on music and acting,
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or is this just something that kind
of came later in life for y'all?
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Alex Wolff: Uh, yeah, we've been doing it
since we were, uh, we were kids, so we,
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um, you know, have been in a band together
since we were little boys and have been
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best friends since we were little boys.
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And, you know, he is probably the,
uh, first friend I ever made and.
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So, you know, he knows me
better than anybody else.
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But yeah, he's, uh, we're
actually best friends.
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You know, it's not just an
obligatory relationship.
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I think we, we really choose
to be in a band together.
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We choose to
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Marc Preston: hang out.
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We choose to do things.
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Is it just the two of y'all or do
y'all have like any other brothers
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and sisters floating around?
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Just the two of us that we
know of, both of y'all are in
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projects that I really enjoy.
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Like just the other day I saw, was it,
uh, paper towns, I think is what it was.
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It's interesting the choices y'all make.
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I've seen him more kind of young
adult stuff, kind of, and then, you
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know, the roles you choose are really,
uh, interesting like, uh, uh, old,
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which was just, I'm, I'm curious.
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I've never spoken to somebody who's
been in an M Knight Shaalan movie,
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but when you get an a, a script
from him, you see the whole film.
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It's like, okay, this is
what this thing's about.
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Or is he kind of protective of it
and just kinda like, here's your
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part of the sides and is there,
is it even a secret to the cast?
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You know?
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'cause there's always in an M
Knight Shaalan movie, there's always
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like a Oh, didn't see that coming.
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How did that film come together?
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I was just kind of curious
because I saw it not too long ago.
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Alex Wolff: I just auditioned for it.
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Um, and, and was really lucky
enough to get the part and I. Adored
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him as a director and as a guy.
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You know, he's, um, unbelievably precise
and, uh, you know, exhaustive in his,
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uh, the way he pursues perfection, you
know, with his, with his, uh, shots and,
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and, and the, the stories he creates.
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But, um, he's also very collaborative
and warm and, uh, kind of.
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You know, it did feel like I was working
with a, uh, a classic director sim,
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similar to working with Amalia who
directed magic for, you know, you feel.
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You just get lucky.
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You work with certain people who, it
feels like their vision of the film
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is far beyond your comprehension.
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Marc Preston: When you are coming up where
you're like, Hey, okay, you said like you
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had the band when you were a little guy.
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Were you like, music's gonna be my thing?
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Or were you like, okay, but I
also wanna do acting, or I really
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want acting to do my thing.
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Where was the trajectory
when you were younger?
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Or was there one, or are you
just putting yourself all in?
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Just whatever happens,
happens kind of a thing.
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Alex Wolff: Putting myself all
in, whatever happens, happens.
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That's the, that's the thing.
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I mean, it's not just about what works.
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I mean, I. You know, my brother and I were
lucky enough to, uh, to tour with Billy,
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uh, Eilish last year and, and I've been
doing music since we, uh, having kids.
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I mean, it was all, it, it, there's
been many dreams like working with
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Christopher Nolan or somebody,
and that's, I got to do that.
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And, uh, you know, playing at Madison
Square Garden was always a dream.
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I got to do three nights there past year.
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You know, it's, it's been, um, you, you.
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If you pursue the work of something,
it doesn't really matter the results.
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You know, it's really important that
you, uh, you know, if you want to do
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something, you do it a hundred percent.
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You don't just say, well, I'll probably
be, play it safe and hedge my bets.
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You know, like it's, it's my life.
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Mm-hmm.
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So as in, not that that the
art my is my life, but, but you
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know, why would I try and limit.
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Myself to what I think I
could be more successful at.
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Because you can be successful at something
for two seconds and then something else
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comes along and, um, you know, it's
just been a, a rollercoaster and you're
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famous one second, and then you're not.
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And then you're in a movie and
then you're not, and then you're
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on tour and then you're not.
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And you know, it doesn't matter.
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But really, I just wanted to be a,
uh, I wanted to, uh, be an acrobat.
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That was my main goal.
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Uh, but then this, this stuff sidetracked
me, but I'm gonna get back to acrobatics.
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Or playing in the NFL pretty soon.
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Marc Preston: When you were young, were
you, what was grabbing your attention
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musically or, uh, films you would watch?
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You know, what was it that was
like, that spark that like, I wanna
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do that thing that turns me on?
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Alex Wolff: It was The Beatles.
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I mean, that's, that's the
really, the initial thing.
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Um, it was watching help and hard
day's night and being an absolute,
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you know, uh, Beatles, uh, disciple.
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I mean, I was completely.
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I still am, you know, just I, I just
worship everything about the Beatles.
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And so that was the first thing.
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And then as far as in movies,
their movies, but also then.
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Uh, films like Stand By Me, uh, and
films like, uh, I saw a taxi driver at a
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young age that had a strong impact on me.
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I mean, were your, were your folks
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Marc Preston: at all influential as
far as, uh, exposing you to stuff or
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were you kind of on your own journey?
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Alex Wolff: Yeah, yeah,
they definitely were.
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I mean, you can't help it,
you can't help that, that.
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But, um, I also like to think that
we kind of found our own taste,
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but my dad's a jazz musician.
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My mom's a, an an actor
and a director as well.
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So I think that I, I, I
couldn't help but, but being be
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informed by what they liked, I.
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But it was also fun to figure
out what, uh, what I liked
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Marc Preston: when you
were younger, even now.
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I mean, or were they giving you cautionary
tales or like, Hey, I don't know, you
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know, they know if your mother, you
know, being an actor, uh, she knows
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the pitfalls and stuff like that.
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Were they, were they encouraging it
or were they just like, ah, well,
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you know, if you get into it, great.
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If not, that's wonderful too.
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What was their take on?
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I think they
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Alex Wolff: were discouraging
of it, honestly, initially.
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Um, and then they sort of embraced
it, but I think they were scared.
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They were, they were sort of scared,
but we were, we were pretty hardheaded
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about it and, and pretty stubborn.
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Marc Preston: You know, I've not seen
a good person, uh, that's on my list.
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'cause I don't know.
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I, I dig Zach Bra.
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You know, one, one of the things with him,
I know he, uh, like with, oh God, the name
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of the movie's escaping me, but I know
his soundtrack for him is like, important.
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God, what?
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Natalie Portman, I'm drawing a
blank on the film He did, but,
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um, foreign state, I. Yeah.
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Garden State, which i, I love.
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Uh, did y'all kind of
groove on music at all?
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Are there, is there any, like the
people you work with, do you ever just
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kind of sit down, just talk music,
you kind of find that tribe of people
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and or jam with 'em or, you know?
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Alex Wolff: Sure.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I, I, um, I certainly.
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Loved garden State growing up and
loved the music in that, uh, you know,
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Chloe was, was someone I bonded over
Chloe Sevigny, you know, she was someone
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that I bonded about music over and,
and, uh, and Billy Eilish who we, we
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toured with, we bonded over music.
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I think that it's a great,
it's a great way to bond the
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people that you're working with.
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It's, it's a, it's an important
way of sort of determining where.
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People's tastes are at
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Marc Preston: When you're creating
something, is it a, is it like a riff?
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Is it like a beat?
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Is it something that grabs you or
is it start with a lyric, you know,
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when you're, when you're creating a
song, does it sometimes, is it all of
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Alex Wolff: the above?
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In my experience, you
know, it's sort of, uh, uh.
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I, uh, I, I, I played Leonard Cohen in
this, um, miniseries that I just did.
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And, and, you know, I've
been a fan my whole life.
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And one of his quotes is, if I
knew where the great songs came
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from, I'd go there more often.
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Uh, or he may have said good songs.
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Knowing him and his, uh, humility
probably said good songs.
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But I would say for his songs, if
you knew her, the great songs, you
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know, you'd go there more often.
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That's how I feel.
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I don't know, sometimes
you try with a lyric and.
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It doesn't work.
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And then you try another lyric
and that starts your whole song.
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Or you start with some kind of
riff and it's not a science,
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you know, it's very abstract.
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And if I. Understood it more.
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It would probably make it easier,
but it's, it's, uh, I don't, I
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don't understand it at all really.
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Marc Preston: When you're on
tour, uh, of course you said
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you were out with Billy Eilish.
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Where was your favorite place to play?
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I like one or two of your favorite venues.
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Madison Square Garden,
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Alex Wolff: Madison Tour Garden
or the Forum where, you know,
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and Madison Square Garden.
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That's, I've been waiting to play their,
you know, that's what everybody dreams of.
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You close your eyes and picture venue.
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It's, it's always mad at square
guard and there's nothing that.
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We'll ever be able to top that.
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Yeah.
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When you walked out on stage, was it just,
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Marc Preston: I'm assuming you
were just kind of taking it
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Alex Wolff: out.
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That was pure joy.
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That one was pure joy.
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Yeah.
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That one was just full elation.
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I just have never felt
anything like that before.
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Um, and then the next night was a lot
of, uh, the next night was a lot of fear.
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Um, I think because the first night
was like a. Blur of excitement.
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And then the second night was
like more of the reality hit.
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And then the third night we brought up
my dad on stage and you know, he, he
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was sick for a long time and, and now
he's well, so to, to bring him up on
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the stage and have him play with us.
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'cause he's a jazz
pianist, was kind of a, uh,
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an indescribable.
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Marc Preston: Experience.
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I can't even imagine what that would
be like to, you know, it emotional, but
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he's doing, he's doing okay now, right?
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Alex Wolff: Yeah, he's, he's, yeah.
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He, he was, he was actually part of
an experimental trial, um, where he
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had this disease called histiocytic
sarcoma, and he, they tried an
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experiment of this doctor, Dr.
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Gonder, he is incredible.
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He tried an experimental drug on him and.
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Uh, and it's, and he cured him.
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And I think now they use that drug
that they were experimenting with my
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dad as he was kind of the Guinea pig.
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And now they use it to cure this type
of cancer and it's extremely effective.
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So, very good to hear.
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Marc Preston: Yeah.
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Especially to get him up on stage.
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There's gotta be a, like a big
release of emotion, you know,
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being out there like he's Yeah.
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And the
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Alex Wolff: song we were playing was
actually a song we wrote about his, uh.
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His illness.
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So, you know, it was just
all a very impactful moment.
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Marc Preston: Well, coming up, who
is he exposing you to, jazz wise,
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that that had an impact on you?
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Alex Wolff: Well, you know, bill Evans
was hugely inspirational to, it still is.
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Bill Evans is huge.
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Uh, Wayne Shorter.
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Um, Milton Osano obviously
kind of blew, blew.
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Miles Davis was, was huge for us.
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Um, Herbie Hancock was, was impactful.
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Hi his band.
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He and Impure thought.
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Um, people like Mike Clark
and Victor Jones drummers
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were very influential to me.
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'cause I, I started as a drummer.
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Marc Preston: Is that what you're,
are you, uh, what instrument are you?
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Alex Wolff: Yeah, I play, I
play drums, piano, guitar.
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We, we play all the instruments
on, on all our music.
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We, we, uh, do it all, which we've
done for, you know, like 15 years now
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that we just play all the instruments.
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'cause I think we kinda
like how it sounds.
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It sounds not always perfect,
but it always sounds like us.
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Um.
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So I like that.
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But yeah, I, I grew up with those,
those legends, um, in my ear and I think
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it's definitely informed songwriting.
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You know, like sometimes I, weather report
will find its way into the music or, um,
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certain chords will, will sound like a.
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Some of these jazz guys that I
never thought would ever inform
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our sort of pop music, but
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Marc Preston: so this is just all
hanging out in your subconscious and just
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finds its way to kind of percolate up.
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Yeah, and, and
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Alex Wolff: maybe as I get older, a
little more in the conscious realm, but
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yeah, it is kind of in the subconscious.
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Even when I think we were little, the,
the chords are very strange and very.
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Um, interesting and different.
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I didn't expect to talk about
the cancer and the jazz.
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That's really funny and
really interesting and cool.
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My dad's gonna be very pleased
that I got to talk about
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Milton Nascimento and chords.
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You know, this is a little,
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Marc Preston: uh, a little
bit of love for your dad.
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I'm delighted to do that.
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But I do something called seven questions.
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It's just a little bit of fun.
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We do with everybody.
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Cool.
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Um, just real quick,
we'll do a rapid fire.
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Great.
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Love it.
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I
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Alex Wolff: love that.
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Marc Preston: Favorite.
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Comfort food,
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Alex Wolff: what would that be for you?
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Ooh.
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Oh man.
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That's a good, uh, tuna salad sandwich.
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Uh, wait, wait.
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Can I change that?
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Absolutely.
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Uh, matza ball soup.
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Marc Preston: That's my jam.
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Uh, matza ball soup is
the one thing you know.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Matza ball soup.
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Well, uh, if you ever need
a recipe, let me know.
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Uh, next question real quick.
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Yeah, send it to me.
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If you were to sit down with three
people talk story over coffee
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for a few hours, who would those
three people be living or not?
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Alex Wolff: Paul, John, and George Next.
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Marc Preston: Very good, very good.
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Uh, when you were a little guy,
who was your celebrity crush,
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your very first celebrity crush.
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Ooh, good question.
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Alex Wolff: Um, Katherine
Zeta Jones and Zoro, Heather.
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Graham and Bowfinger as well.
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Marc Preston: Bo this is the very
first Bowfinger, uh, reference ever.
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Very good.
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I like that.
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Uh, now if you're gonna be sitting
on an island full year, exotic
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island, somewhere, you wanna be no
streaming though, you gotta bring
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a DVD if you wanna watch a movie
over and over again for that year.
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CD.
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What would that CD be?
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To listen to music over and
over the, the movie also on DVD.
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What would those two things be for you
for a full year on that exotic island?
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Alex Wolff: Uh, I'd say maybe the
White album, 'cause it's the longest
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Beatles album, so I could, you know,
have the most songs to listen to.
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And then maybe I, I'm tied between.
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Bringing Fannie and Alexander the
Bergman movie or eight and a half.
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My reasoning being that they're both
long movies so I can have a lot of
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time to, uh, really digest them.
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So maybe Fannie and Alexander
and eight and a half.
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Marc Preston: Awesome.
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Um, yeah, I was, when I say DVD, it's
like, who uses those anymore, but actually
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things like people are going back to dvd.
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I do.
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I, I, I do.
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I love 'em.
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I love the features.
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Um, for a perfect day for you, what are a
couple things or a few things that need to
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happen to make that a perfect day for you?
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The component parts of
a, just a rockstar day.
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Alex Wolff: You just gotta do
an interview with Marc Preston.
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Period.
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That's my answer.
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You're a sweet talker.
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I like that.
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Marc Preston: Okay.
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Uh, if you weren't doing this
music acting, uh, next question,
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what would the vocation be for
you if you weren't doing this?
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What would be the sum it bring you joy
besides, uh, doing the creative thing?
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Alex Wolff: See, I wouldn't play, I
wouldn't, you know, give anybody else joy.
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But I would be, uh, in the NBA,
which would give me joy, but not
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give them joy because I wouldn't
be great, but I'd be in the NBA.
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Marc Preston: Very good.
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Now, last question.
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You got that DeLorean, you hop
in it, go chat with yourself.
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At 16 years old, you got a nugget
of wisdom to drop, to make that
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moment of your life a little bit
better, or maybe put you on a
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little bit different trajectory.
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What's a piece of advice you
have sick for a 16-year-old Alex?
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Alex Wolff: Um, gimme a second.
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I want to give you a succinct answer.
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I would say, Hey, find a way
to make sure that Donald Trump
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doesn't become president.
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You and I have the same dream.
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That's,
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Marc Preston: uh, that's,
that's what I would tell myself.
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Well to Alex, Matt, I, I really do
appreciate sitting down with you.
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I do love your work, both
you and your brother.
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Y'all both have projects that are
always, uh, always hit a home run, but,
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uh, best of luck to you, my friend.
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Hopefully one of these days you'll be
down in, uh, on tour in Texas and I'll
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pop over and I'll see some of your great
work and uh, with you and your brother.
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Hell
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Alex Wolff: yeah.
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That would be
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Marc Preston: awesome.
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Thanks
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Alex Wolff: Marc.
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Marc Preston: I really appreciate it.
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Alright.
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There you go.
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Alex Wolff.
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Uh, enjoy the conversation.
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Talented guy.
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Just, uh, really enjoy his work.
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Uh, the new film again, magic.
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Farm.
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It is in theaters.
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Uh, it's with Chloe Sevigny also, you can
check him out with his, uh, brother Nat.
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Uh, great music.
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In fact, I was just checking
them out on Spotify.
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In fact, if you go to story and craft
pod.com and you click on uh, Alex's
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info, I got the link right there
so you can check out his socials.
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Go to Spotify, listen to, uh,
he and his brother's music.
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Also, not only do we have story in craft
pod.com, everything you wanna know about
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the show, of course it's all right there.
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Uh, but on your podcast app, if
you would make sure to follow the
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show, that way you get notified
every time I have a new episode.
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Also, uh, if you would just go ahead
and like the show, like the, uh,
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episode, that way people can discover
my mischief a little bit easier.
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Which I always appreciate.
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Okay, so I'm gonna get on out of here.
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Another great episode coming up soon.
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Uh, and as I always say, thank you so
much for making what I got going on here,
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part of whatever you've got going on.
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Alright, so I'm gonna get on out of here.
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Uh, got the pooch sitting here looking
at me going, it's time to go outside
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and enjoy a, uh, sunny day and uh, go.
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Have a great weekend.
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Go have a great rest of your day, whatever
you got going on, and we will see you
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next time right here on Story and Craft.
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Announcer: That's it.
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For this episode of Story and Craft, join
Marc next week for more conversation.
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