Actor Ernie Hudson from "Ghostbusters" and NBC's "Quantum Leap" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Actor Ernie Hudson from “Ghostbusters” and NBC’s “Quantum Leap” joins us on Story & Craft.
Ernie has worked in film and TV for more than fifty years, from “Ghostbusters” and “Miss Congeniality” to “Oz” and NBC’s “Quantum Leap.” We talk about his move from Detroit to Los Angeles, discovering theater, marrying young and raising four sons while building a career. He also shares how Harold Ramis’s energy on the “Ghostbusters” set shaped his own work ethic.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Ghostbusters Fandom Over Time
Discovering Passion for Theater and Acting
Harold Ramis’ Influence on Crew Dynamics
Reboot of a Classic Show
Audience Identification in Pop Culture
Nostalgia for Ghostbusters and Bill Murray
Admiration for Jeff Bridges’ Career
Defining a Perfect Day
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Full Transcript
Part 1
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The years started to go by.
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Ernie Hudson: Five years, people were still yelling who
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Ernie Hudson: you're going to call.
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Ernie Hudson: And ten years and fifteen years and twenty
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Ernie Hudson: years, and I'm seeing people dressed up in
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Ernie Hudson: their jumpsuits and turning their cars into
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Ernie Hudson: ectomobiles.
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Ernie Hudson: That was really surprising.
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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.
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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.
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Marc Preston: All right, here we go.
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Marc Preston: Another episode of Story and Craft.
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Marc Preston: Welcome back.
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Marc Preston: Glad to have you.
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Marc Preston: If this is your first time, of course,
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Marc Preston: welcome, appreciate you stopping by.
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Marc Preston: Today we are chatting with veteran actor
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Marc Preston: Ernie Hudson.
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Marc Preston: Over the last 50 plus years he has been in
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Marc Preston: just a ton of stuff, most notably, probably
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Marc Preston: to kids of the 80s like me Ghostbusters.
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Marc Preston: Of course, he is in the NBC reboot of the
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Marc Preston: show Quantum Leap.
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Marc Preston: It just came out, so make sure to check
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Marc Preston: that out.
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Marc Preston: Great conversation with Ernie.
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Marc Preston: I think you'll enjoy it.
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Marc Preston: Quite a bit.
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Marc Preston: So stop by, check it out And right now
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Marc Preston: let's get after it.
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Marc Preston: Today is Ernie Hudson Day, right here on
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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.
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Marc Preston: So where are you joining me from today?
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Ernie Hudson: I'm in Lake Arrowhead, California.
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Ernie Hudson: Where is that exactly?
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Ernie Hudson: It's just above San Bernardino, about 100
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Ernie Hudson: miles east of Los Angeles, up in the
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Ernie Hudson: mountains.
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Marc Preston: Oh, okay, okay, A little bit more scenic of
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Marc Preston: an area than the greater Los Angeles, i
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Marc Preston: suppose.
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, I'm in LA when I'm working, but when
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Ernie Hudson: I'm not, I'm up here.
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Marc Preston: Has that been where you've been located for
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Marc Preston: quite some time, or is this just kind of a
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Marc Preston: new move for you?
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Ernie Hudson: Well, it's sort of a new move.
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Ernie Hudson: We were here during the 80s up until about
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Ernie Hudson: 2002, and then we moved off the mountain,
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Ernie Hudson: moved to Minnesota for a while, but just
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Ernie Hudson: came back up here about a year ago.
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Marc Preston: Going from Southern California weather to
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Marc Preston: Minnesota has got to be a culture shock, at
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Marc Preston: least a little bit.
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Ernie Hudson: Well, that's you know.
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Ernie Hudson: You marry someone and you know.
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Ernie Hudson: My wife said wherever you go, i'll go.
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Ernie Hudson: It's been the other way around.
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Ernie Hudson: Wherever she goes, that's where I am.
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Ernie Hudson: Her parents were in their 90s and needed
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Ernie Hudson: her, and so that's what we were for about
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Ernie Hudson: six years.
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Marc Preston: They've transitioned on since but you say
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Marc Preston: and I live in New Orleans.
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Marc Preston: I'm from Texas originally but I live in New
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Marc Preston: Orleans now, no longer married.
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Marc Preston: But the rule is, if you marry somebody from
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Marc Preston: Orleans, at least for a period of time, and
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Marc Preston: that's kind of the joke.
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Marc Preston: It's rare.
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Marc Preston: It's almost like this little tribe of
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Marc Preston: You're like wait, you're from somewhere
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Marc Preston: else, also You must have married somebody.
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Marc Preston: They're like yeah, yeah.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, you got your MFA at Yale, correct?
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, i went to Yale.
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Ernie Hudson: I was there for a year.
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Ernie Hudson: I didn't get the MFA, but I was a year in
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Ernie Hudson: drama school, got married very early.
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Ernie Hudson: I'm from Michigan and was having marital
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Ernie Hudson: difficulties.
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Ernie Hudson: Left school, got possession of the kids,
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Ernie Hudson: came out to California.
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Ernie Hudson: I've been mostly based in Los Angeles
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Ernie Hudson: because I've worked all over the years, so
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Ernie Hudson: what?
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Marc Preston: was that like?
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Marc Preston: I'm very curious.
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Marc Preston: I was in a very similar situation.
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Marc Preston: What is it like working Because the actor's
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Marc Preston: life back in the day you can't self-tape.
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Marc Preston: You've got to go to auditions and you're
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Marc Preston: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, you had a couple of boys, i think, at
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Marc Preston: that age right, yeah, four sons but two
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Marc Preston: older boys.
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Ernie Hudson: It was just the three of us And you know
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Ernie Hudson: kids bring out the best in you.
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Ernie Hudson: I think I went to California, i suppose in
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Ernie Hudson: New York, because I have a brother who was
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Ernie Hudson: in LA and I knew he would always have my
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Ernie Hudson: back in case I needed someone to check on
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Ernie Hudson: the kids.
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Ernie Hudson: But the boys were really.
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Ernie Hudson: They probably helped raise me as much as I
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Ernie Hudson: raised them.
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Ernie Hudson: So it was the three of us And we, as they
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Ernie Hudson: say, we got by.
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Marc Preston: Isn't that funny, the way that works.
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Marc Preston: I saw a quote once that said with kids
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Marc Preston: don't realize.
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Marc Preston: You don't realize, as your parents are
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Marc Preston: growing up with you at the same time.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah.
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Ernie Hudson: My oldest son was born when I was 19.
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Ernie Hudson: I never had a dad or a mom, so it was kind
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Ernie Hudson: of discovering that whole parental thing,
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Ernie Hudson: sort of winging it, and I always say it was
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Ernie Hudson: the best thing ever happened to me, but it
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Ernie Hudson: also was very difficult at the time.
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Marc Preston: I had a somewhat similar.
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Marc Preston: Let's say I didn't have quite the modeling
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Marc Preston: You know, june award Cleaver, my parents
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Marc Preston: were not.
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Marc Preston: So it's kind of when you kind of have to
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Marc Preston: I got to kind of figure some things out on
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Marc Preston: my own And I think there's kind of a
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Marc Preston: liberty to that because you get to craft
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Marc Preston: your own thing on your own terms and make
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Marc Preston: your own mistakes and hopefully learn from
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Marc Preston: But just kind of going to origin story
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Marc Preston: going, you said you're from Michigan, are
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Marc Preston: you from?
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Ernie Hudson: around Detroit, no, the opposite side of
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Ernie Hudson: the state.
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Ernie Hudson: I'm from Benton Harbor, which is right on
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Ernie Hudson: the coast of Lake Michigan, directly across
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Ernie Hudson: from Chicago, went to college in Detroit
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Ernie Hudson: and kind of discovered theater in Detroit.
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Ernie Hudson: So Detroit was really, really important.
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Ernie Hudson: But that was after high school, getting
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Ernie Hudson: married, and we decided to head to Detroit.
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Marc Preston: What was the theater thing part of your
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Marc Preston: high school Was that.
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Marc Preston: Were you in athletics or was theater kind
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Marc Preston: of this thing?
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Marc Preston: like I'll try this out, why not?
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Ernie Hudson: You know, i grew up in this very.
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Ernie Hudson: my grandmother who raised me was really
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Ernie Hudson: religious, very much involved with the
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Ernie Hudson: church, and I grew up in the church.
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Ernie Hudson: People say you know, you're from the hood,
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Ernie Hudson: i go.
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Ernie Hudson: no, no, it was school and church.
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Ernie Hudson: I lived mostly at church but and I didn't
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Ernie Hudson: play sports because the church didn't
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Ernie Hudson: believe in sports.
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Ernie Hudson: It was sort of against their rules.
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Ernie Hudson: I took some acting or some theater classes
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Ernie Hudson: a couple times in high school but I really
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Ernie Hudson: didn't discover theater until I got to
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Ernie Hudson: Detroit and by accident stumbled into a
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Ernie Hudson: theater and was just just mesmerized by
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Ernie Hudson: this production and just thought that it
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Ernie Hudson: had to be the greatest thing in the world
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Ernie Hudson: to be to be in theater.
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Marc Preston: You know what was your trajectory like?
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Marc Preston: Were you looking at people on film and TV
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Marc Preston: and going that's where I want to go, that's
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Marc Preston: the end game?
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Marc Preston: Or was it just readjust a theater guy?
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Marc Preston: It just happened into the on camera?
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah Well, you know, growing up you watch
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Ernie Hudson: CB.
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Ernie Hudson: You think it would be something really very
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Ernie Hudson: cool, but I didn't know any actors So it
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Ernie Hudson: was never a part of my psyche.
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Ernie Hudson: Once I discovered a theater, it was after
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Ernie Hudson: having a family trying every job possible,
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Ernie Hudson: being very bad at everything, that by the
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Ernie Hudson: time I walked on stage I just felt at home
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Ernie Hudson: and I felt like this is something I got, i
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Ernie Hudson: can do, and that was in, whatever it took
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Ernie Hudson: to be good at it and to be able to make a
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Ernie Hudson: living.
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Ernie Hudson: That's where I was.
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Ernie Hudson: I just wanted to be a working actor.
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Ernie Hudson: Didn't think too much about the whole star
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Ernie Hudson: thing or, but I just wanted to to be able
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Ernie Hudson: to work.
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Marc Preston: My kids and I.
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Marc Preston: By the way and this is a little tiny bit of
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Marc Preston: a spoiler for anybody that hasn't seen the
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Marc Preston: most recent Ghostbusters after life You do
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Marc Preston: show up in it.
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Marc Preston: I was like what a great thing it was to see
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Marc Preston: you show up in that.
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Marc Preston: I was like that was just cool.
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Marc Preston: But going back to the original Ghostbusters
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Marc Preston: leading up to that, you were kind of like
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Marc Preston: what I consider to be one of my favorite
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Marc Preston: people, which is just a working actor, and
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Marc Preston: either I had to actually write this down
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Marc Preston: Fantasy Island, black Sheep Squadron,
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Marc Preston: incredible Hulk, one day, at a time too
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Marc Preston: close to come for different strokes, a
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Marc Preston: Little House in the Prairie Buzzing Buddies.
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Marc Preston: You know, episode, episode That's like
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Marc Preston: Murderer's Row of, like what was going on
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Marc Preston: back in the day.
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Marc Preston: Were you that guy who was just getting one
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Marc Preston: episodes on all these different shows
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Marc Preston: hustling?
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Marc Preston: Yeah, if the timeline registers correctly.
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Marc Preston: But when you got to Ghostbusters, that was
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Marc Preston: a real big turning point for you.
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Marc Preston: Is that correct?
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Ernie Hudson: Well it should have been.
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Ernie Hudson: I mean, i've always worked And, being a
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Ernie Hudson: single dad, i'd go in.
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Ernie Hudson: I had to get the job.
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Ernie Hudson: I worked.
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Ernie Hudson: I went from show to show.
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Ernie Hudson: Ghostbusters came out.
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Ernie Hudson: It was a huge hit.
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Ernie Hudson: It did not change Suddenly.
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Ernie Hudson: I felt like I was blocked out for about
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Ernie Hudson: three years.
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Ernie Hudson: I couldn't get another film, but I did.
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Ernie Hudson: I kept working TV.
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Marc Preston: Why do you think that was?
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Marc Preston: Do you think it was because people were too
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Marc Preston: closely identifying you with and the
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Marc Preston: character?
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Marc Preston: people said the name two different ways
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Marc Preston: Zedmore and Zedamore Yeah.
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Ernie Hudson: I would write I say Zedamore, but I'm sure
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Ernie Hudson: actors never know why they're working and
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Ernie Hudson: never really know why they're not working.
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Ernie Hudson: It might have been that they thought I was.
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Ernie Hudson: I have no idea.
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Ernie Hudson: I've heard that we thought you were a
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Ernie Hudson: comedian or something.
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Ernie Hudson: All I know is worked right up And I've been
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Ernie Hudson: working in film for about eight years, you
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Ernie Hudson: know but that just shut everything down And
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Ernie Hudson: it took three years.
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Ernie Hudson: I did a Nick Nolte was doing a movie called
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Ernie Hudson: Weeds and I went in determined to get the
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Ernie Hudson: job and finally, and then I started working.
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Ernie Hudson: I got eight movies back to back and
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Ernie Hudson: Ghostbusters II came out and the same thing
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Ernie Hudson: happened for a couple of years.
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Ernie Hudson: Just shut out again.
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Marc Preston: What do you think it was that was working
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Marc Preston: for you mindset wise, you know, because you
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Marc Preston: were doing what I think is just I love
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Marc Preston: That transition when you started getting a
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Ernie Hudson: You know, i've never really seen the change.
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Ernie Hudson: For me it's always been pretty much the
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Ernie Hudson: I had an instructor once who told me that I
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Ernie Hudson: And I think I've never felt like I've made
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Marc Preston: You know that's such a great work ethic.
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Marc Preston: Now I know that with Ghostbusters that Dan
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Ernie Hudson: And Jim Murphy.
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Ernie Hudson: I think, and I think Jim Murphy was.
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Marc Preston: I have to know and I'll probably bounce in
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Marc Preston: and out of this occasionally but Harold
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Marc Preston: But Harold Ramis kind of had he was just a
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Marc Preston: I just always kind of watched him and I
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Ernie Hudson: Well, harold was always the go-to guy.
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Ernie Hudson: Harold was the one that, no matter what
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Ernie Hudson: he'd sort of explain things, especially for
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Ernie Hudson: me, because those guys have been together
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Ernie Hudson: for a number of years with Saturday Night
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Ernie Hudson: they had worked together on Second City And
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Ernie Hudson: I was kind of and they came from Memproff,
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Ernie Hudson: i'm an actor but Harold was always the guy
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Ernie Hudson: worry about it, there was a lot of this,
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Marc Preston: You're on a set with guys who not only have
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Marc Preston: So this is like real deeply entrenched
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, well, i felt that they were like
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Ernie Hudson: all that emotional stuff And I'm just sort
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Ernie Hudson: of fitting, you know, finding it was almost
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Ernie Hudson: Harold was always very inclusive, so and it
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Ernie Hudson: wasn't just to me, i think sometimes, when
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Ernie Hudson: Billy would get you know, things would be a
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Ernie Hudson: Harold was a guy who kept the ship afloat,
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Ernie Hudson: you know, and Ivan was a director.
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Ernie Hudson: Ivan was amazing, but Harold was always the
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Ernie Hudson: peacemaker.
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Ernie Hudson: He always kind of knew how to bring people
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Ernie Hudson: together and I always appreciated.
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, i used to watch Harold.
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Ernie Hudson: I always say I owe a lot of my career to
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Ernie Hudson: him, not because of Ghostbusters, but I
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Ernie Hudson: professionalism, that's about the show as
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Ernie Hudson: It was pretty amazing, just and a good
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Marc Preston: Well, it's great you had him there, because
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Marc Preston: I can imagine, with the cast that's there,
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Marc Preston: Ivan Reitman must have been, like you know,
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Marc Preston: conducting a cat rodeo.
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Marc Preston: I mean, well, like he's got Bill Murray
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Marc Preston: being, you know, and Dan Ackroyd and this
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Marc Preston: originally was Dan Ackroyd's thing,
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Marc Preston: Ghostbusters was his baby, but it got kind
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Marc Preston: of rewritten to be turned into what it
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Marc Preston: There was a film and I always I was
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Marc Preston: back who had directed Ray Liotta, and I
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Marc Preston: was like the only time I interviewed him I
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Marc Preston: worked at ABC Radio as young puppy, you
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Marc Preston: know post, and it was no escape And I
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Marc Preston: cannot remember not until I looked up your
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Marc Preston: info I was like I couldn't remember the
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Marc Preston: name of that movie I interviewed him for.
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Marc Preston: Did you have that much time acting with Ray
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Marc Preston: Liotta?
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Marc Preston: I know we just lost him, but I was just.
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Marc Preston: He seemed like just a real cool guy.
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Marc Preston: What was it like back in roughly 94 to act
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Marc Preston: with him?
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, no, we no escape me.
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Ernie Hudson: Ray Lance Hendrickson.
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Ernie Hudson: It was great Ray was.
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Ernie Hudson: I first worked with Ray back in, i think it
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Ernie Hudson: was 78, maybe.
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Ernie Hudson: No really, yeah, crazy times.
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Ernie Hudson: And it was Ray Liotta, david Caruso and
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Ernie Hudson: Michael Perret were three kids from
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Ernie Hudson: Rockaway Island and I played a jazz singer
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Ernie Hudson: who they would sort of come to and talk.
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Ernie Hudson: I was there, the guy when they had problems.
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Ernie Hudson: I'd sort of advise him.
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Ernie Hudson: It was a great little movie and that's
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Ernie Hudson: where we first met.
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Ernie Hudson: So we were friends for a long time working
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Ernie Hudson: together on No Escape.
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Ernie Hudson: Ray was, he was about to work and he, um,
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Ernie Hudson: you know you work with some actors who are
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Ernie Hudson: very, what do I say?
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Ernie Hudson: involved with.
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Ernie Hudson: Ray was focused, he was really focused on
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Ernie Hudson: the work.
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Ernie Hudson: He was a pro, you know, completely, and I
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Ernie Hudson: always like it when actors you know they
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Ernie Hudson: You know you can just focus on your job
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Ernie Hudson: because they are doing theirs and they
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Ernie Hudson: bring their best and it demands that you
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Ernie Hudson: So, but just, you know, we've always got
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Marc Preston: I was speaking with the director, ariel
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Marc Preston: Vroman, and he had directed him in The
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Marc Preston: Iceman and he had cast me actually there's
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Marc Preston: another film coming out about 1992 after
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Marc Preston: the Rodney King verdict and he said, you
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Marc Preston: know, he kind of tests you a little bit but
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Marc Preston: he just is the nicest guy and I just he's
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Marc Preston: one of the guys I wanted to talk to again
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Marc Preston: And going forward, i mean, what is it that
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Marc Preston: you know, your focus, film or TV?
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Marc Preston: has there ever been a focus in your mind?
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Marc Preston: or just wherever the work is?
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Ernie Hudson: Well, i've always prided myself on it.
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Ernie Hudson: It didn't matter where the work was, it'd
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Ernie Hudson: be a theater, i just felt you, you have to
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Ernie Hudson: be prepared for, you know, animation,
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Ernie Hudson: voiceover, whatever you know, i'm ready to
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Ernie Hudson: go to work.
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Ernie Hudson: But as I've gotten older I've been doing
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Ernie Hudson: this now for 55 years and you know it's.
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Ernie Hudson: I'm more interested in working with people
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Ernie Hudson: me.
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Ernie Hudson: I don't audition anymore.
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Ernie Hudson: I don't.
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Ernie Hudson: You know, i'm not out looking for a job to
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Ernie Hudson: pay the bills The bills are paid, thank God
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Ernie Hudson: And just looking for those fun.
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Ernie Hudson: I love characters that are a little bit
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Ernie Hudson: But I really appreciate people.
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Ernie Hudson: I'm doing a show now called Quantum Leap
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Ernie Hudson: for NBC and I really I love that show and I
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Ernie Hudson: But what I really appreciate it is they
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Ernie Hudson: came to me and said hey, we really love
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Ernie Hudson: your work and we'd like you to be a part of
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Ernie Hudson: it.
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Ernie Hudson: That goes a long way with me.
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Ernie Hudson: If I got to beg you for a job, i really I
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Ernie Hudson: just don't want to do that anymore, and
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Ernie Hudson: that's one of the things I saw you're going
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Ernie Hudson: to be in Quantum Leap.
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Marc Preston: I was like what a cool show to bring back.
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Marc Preston: Is it structurally going to be the same as
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Marc Preston: version of it?
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Ernie Hudson: Well, it's more of an updated well, it
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Ernie Hudson: That was done in the 90s, so we're in the
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Ernie Hudson: 20s, so it's modern day and it's based on
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Ernie Hudson: the original, so paying homage and respect
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Ernie Hudson: to that one, but it's in the same world, in
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Ernie Hudson: the same universe.
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Ernie Hudson: it's just here.
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Ernie Hudson: we are now X number of years later And the
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Ernie Hudson: I think the fans who love that show will
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Marc Preston: It's one of those ones that think why
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Marc Preston: haven't they rebooted the show yet?
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Marc Preston: It has such a cool premise to it because it
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Marc Preston: seems like now, if you're for somebody like
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Marc Preston: me, as a kid of the 80s, i don't remember
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Marc Preston: being a kid of the 80s and seeing them
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Marc Preston: reboot stuff from the 50s, 60s, 70s, but
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Marc Preston: man, all the stuff from the 80s and 90s are
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Marc Preston: showing up and it's kind of cool because
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Marc Preston: they have the special effects that they can
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Marc Preston: do now that they couldn't do back then, but
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Marc Preston: real quick, i was going to ask you.
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Marc Preston: You mentioned your sons.
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Marc Preston: Any of your sons go into writing acting.
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Marc Preston: Did they follow dad's lead at all?
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Ernie Hudson: Well, my oldest son.
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Ernie Hudson: He was acting for a while, in fact.
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Ernie Hudson: He did a season of Oz.
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Ernie Hudson: I did the HBO series Oz.
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Ernie Hudson: We did a number of movies together.
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Ernie Hudson: I think he was in Candy Man, so he was
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Ernie Hudson: working a bit.
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Ernie Hudson: He got into corporate work, so now that's
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Ernie Hudson: kind of what he does.
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Ernie Hudson: He has produced some films, but not doing
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Ernie Hudson: the acting anymore.
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Ernie Hudson: My second son is a musician, still doing
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Ernie Hudson: his thing.
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Ernie Hudson: My third son is a writer, still waiting to
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Ernie Hudson: land something significant.
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Ernie Hudson: And my youngest son is a watchmaker.
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Ernie Hudson: Really, yeah, we have this love of watches,
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Ernie Hudson: so they're all pretty amazing.
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Ernie Hudson: Nobody wanted to be just an actor, except
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Ernie Hudson: my oldest son.
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Ernie Hudson: Like I said, he was acting for a while.
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Marc Preston: Now you mentioned Oz.
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Marc Preston: I have to admit there's so much great stuff
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Marc Preston: out there I haven't watched yet.
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Marc Preston: I saw a couple of episodes of it, but it's
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Marc Preston: one of those things there's so much
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Marc Preston: compared to a couple decades ago that's
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Marc Preston: available.
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Marc Preston: I'm like, yeah, well, that's going to be a
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Marc Preston: weekend of binging for me at some point in
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Marc Preston: time, you know.
553
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Marc Preston: but what was I know?
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Marc Preston: Oz is really just.
555
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Marc Preston: everybody on that show really is just yet a
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Marc Preston: lot of great acting.
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Marc Preston: The episodes I watched really well seem
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Marc Preston: like to be a very intense show.
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Marc Preston: What was shooting that?
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, it was.
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Ernie Hudson: I mean I was the warden.
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Ernie Hudson: I remember you know I'd come to the set,
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Ernie Hudson: greet everybody.
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Ernie Hudson: Everybody's friendly, they're all open and
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Ernie Hudson: fun.
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Ernie Hudson: Then I'd go in and dress on my suit and
567
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Ernie Hudson: always shine my shoes.
568
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Ernie Hudson: By the time I come out in character nobody
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Ernie Hudson: would speak to me.
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Ernie Hudson: But it was a great group of actors I think
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Ernie Hudson: the best cast I've probably ever worked
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Ernie Hudson: with These guys and everybody was there to
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Ernie Hudson: bring their best.
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Ernie Hudson: It was just a wonderful time.
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Ernie Hudson: Tom Fontana, who his company, barry
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Ernie Hudson: Levinson they do City on the Hill I just
577
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Ernie Hudson: did a recurring thing for that show
578
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Ernie Hudson: recently.
579
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Ernie Hudson: It was great to be back and work with them,
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Ernie Hudson: but it was just a great show.
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Ernie Hudson: Great group of actors, a lot of guys.
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Ernie Hudson: Jk Simmons Just a lot of guys came out of
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Ernie Hudson: that and are doing Chris Maloney.
584
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Ernie Hudson: It was just some good group of people.
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Marc Preston: That is such an amazing cast.
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Marc Preston: You mentioned something a moment ago
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Marc Preston: reminds me something that I believe it was.
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Marc Preston: Tom Hanks said that before he fully feels
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Marc Preston: in the character, it's when he puts the
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Marc Preston: shoes on.
591
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Marc Preston: That's just for him.
592
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Marc Preston: That's what it is.
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Marc Preston: What is it like for you before you really
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Marc Preston: feel I'm a big fan of?
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Marc Preston: I do a lot of voice over, but I always kind
596
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Marc Preston: of really even in my head, imagination wise
597
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Marc Preston: think wardrobe, because you carry yourself
598
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Marc Preston: differently.
599
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Marc Preston: What is it for you before you're fully
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Marc Preston: dialed into a character?
601
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Marc Preston: Is it wardrobe, is it the set?
602
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Marc Preston: What is it for you?
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, it's well, it changes.
604
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Ernie Hudson: Sometimes it's wardrobe, Sometimes it's
605
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Ernie Hudson: something that informs you, Sometimes it's
606
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Ernie Hudson: the set, It's the surrounding, Sometimes
607
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Ernie Hudson: it's acting is believing.
608
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Ernie Hudson: So, however, I can get to that place where
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Ernie Hudson: I really believe this story, this person,
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Ernie Hudson: this situation.
611
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Ernie Hudson: This is truly where I am.
612
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Ernie Hudson: Sometimes you can read a script and you
613
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Ernie Hudson: just know.
614
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Ernie Hudson: Sometimes it seems like it just takes
615
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Ernie Hudson: forever to try to sink into something.
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Ernie Hudson: So it it um.
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, it changes, but wardrobe is certainly
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Ernie Hudson: a real important part of it.
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Marc Preston: Well, as far as what you've done, all the
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Marc Preston: projects you've worked on, what's the one
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Marc Preston: you probably identified the closest with
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Marc Preston: that?
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Marc Preston: maybe you know, even when you were done
624
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Marc Preston: filming it'd be a show or a movie What kind
625
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Marc Preston: of stuck with you, what role was really
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Marc Preston: resonant.
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Ernie Hudson: Well, you know I can say I just love
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Ernie Hudson: working, so they all have special meaning.
629
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Ernie Hudson: There are certain ones.
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Ernie Hudson: I was talking to someone recently about the
631
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Ernie Hudson: hand that rocks the cradle.
632
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Ernie Hudson: I love that character because he was I
633
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Ernie Hudson: always said he was sort of the best part of
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Ernie Hudson: who I am.
635
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Ernie Hudson: But you know, obviously the Ghostbusters
636
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Ernie Hudson: character I love the fact that families
637
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Ernie Hudson: sort of you know respond to it.
638
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Ernie Hudson: Congo was a lot of fun because it reminded
639
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Ernie Hudson: me so much of the movies I watched as a kid
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Ernie Hudson: and that character being the safari leader,
641
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Ernie Hudson: grace and Frankie I felt was probably
642
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Ernie Hudson: closer to me as a person.
643
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Ernie Hudson: So they're all a little bit different.
644
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Ernie Hudson: You hope they are, you know.
645
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Ernie Hudson: Now maybe I'm not sure how sometimes it's
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Ernie Hudson: very subtle how much people see, but for me
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Ernie Hudson: they're all a little bit different.
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Audience Identification in Pop Culture
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Marc Preston: What do people mostly is it really
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Marc Preston: generational?
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Marc Preston: whenever they meet you, it's like oh,
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Marc Preston: ghostbusters or us, or what are people
652
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Marc Preston: usually mostly identifying you with?
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Ernie Hudson: Well, you know it's.
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Ernie Hudson: I've been fortunate that my work sort of
655
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Ernie Hudson: appealed to different audiences, so
656
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Ernie Hudson: different people will come, older people,
657
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Ernie Hudson: women, will come up and say, remember the
658
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Ernie Hudson: hand that rocks the cradle?
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Ernie Hudson: because it had to do, i think, with
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Ernie Hudson: children or whatever Obviously the
661
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Ernie Hudson: Ghostbusters not just with people who kids,
662
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Ernie Hudson: who saw it first time in the movie theater,
663
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Ernie Hudson: but now they're kids and they're grandkids,
664
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Ernie Hudson: of being introduced to the movie and those
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Ernie Hudson: kids love it.
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Ernie Hudson: So it's something that families sort of you
667
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Ernie Hudson: know, enjoy together.
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Ernie Hudson: You know Grace and Frankie, again
669
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Ernie Hudson: middle-aged women, responded very much to
670
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Ernie Hudson: that character.
671
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Ernie Hudson: I do a show called Family Business on BET.
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Ernie Hudson: There's an inner city audience that loves
673
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Ernie Hudson: that show and that character and sort of so
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Ernie Hudson: the crow.
675
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Ernie Hudson: a lot of kids who are going through their
676
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Ernie Hudson: teenage angst respond to that character.
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Ernie Hudson: So yeah, it kind of depends on, but they
678
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Ernie Hudson: come for a variety of reasons.
679
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Ernie Hudson: but over and above probably Ghostbusters,
680
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Ernie Hudson: more than but all the other ones, someone
681
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Ernie Hudson: will come up and bring up something that
682
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Ernie Hudson: I've almost forgotten I did, you know, yeah.
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Marc Preston: It must be a great career.
684
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Marc Preston: We're like oh yeah, i did do that didn't I.
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, no, I had almost an argument with the
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Ernie Hudson: guy and he said, yeah, i saw you in this
687
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Ernie Hudson: movie and said, no, it wasn't me.
688
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Ernie Hudson: And then he started describing the
689
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Ernie Hudson: character and I'm like, oh my God, i did do
690
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Ernie Hudson: that.
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Ernie Hudson: So, yeah, it's been.
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Ernie Hudson: Like I said, it's been over 50 years.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, well, you know it's funny without
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Marc Preston: mentioning numbers.
695
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Marc Preston: I notice you're actually a little older
696
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Marc Preston: than Bill Murray, but you look
697
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Marc Preston: exponentially younger than Bill Murray and
698
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Marc Preston: I've got to know, as fitness and I mean
699
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Marc Preston: just taking care of yourself just been part
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Marc Preston: of the program over the years or because
701
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Marc Preston: it's like I'm sitting there going to, this
702
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Marc Preston: guy looks like I mean I got to get to the
703
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Marc Preston: gym because you're, like you know, making
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Marc Preston: me feel bad about, like how lazy I bet.
705
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Ernie Hudson: Well, you know I never really got much into
706
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Ernie Hudson: a lot of working out, you know, i just
707
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Ernie Hudson: think you got to be aware.
708
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Ernie Hudson: So I never let the weight get too far out
709
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Ernie Hudson: of control because once it does it's so
710
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Ernie Hudson: hard to get back, watching the vital signs,
711
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Ernie Hudson: making sure your blood pressure and all
712
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Ernie Hudson: those things stay.
713
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Ernie Hudson: You know I'm going through two bouts of
714
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Ernie Hudson: cancer and thankfully cancer free, yeah.
715
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Ernie Hudson: But yeah, you know, and try not to stress
716
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Ernie Hudson: over stuff.
717
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Ernie Hudson: You know, and I've been in a relationship.
718
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Ernie Hudson: My wife and I have been together for 46
719
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Ernie Hudson: years And I really believe.
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Ernie Hudson: I think I'm not a religious person my
721
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Ernie Hudson: grandmother was but I do believe in
722
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Ernie Hudson: universal divine guidance.
723
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Ernie Hudson: I believe in God, whatever that.
724
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Ernie Hudson: You know I'm not.
725
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Ernie Hudson: I don't believe anybody telling me what
726
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Ernie Hudson: that is, but so I've been very, very
727
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Ernie Hudson: blessed.
728
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Ernie Hudson: And not just trust.
729
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Ernie Hudson: I've never trusted my grandmother would say,
730
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Ernie Hudson: putting out your trust in man, but that the
731
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Ernie Hudson: universe hears and will respond to you.
732
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Ernie Hudson: So I've always trusted that things will
733
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Ernie Hudson: come, and not necessarily from where and
734
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Ernie Hudson: the people.
735
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Ernie Hudson: I think they will, but I've always known
736
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Ernie Hudson: that if I ask, it would be given.
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Marc Preston: I very closely identify with that idea.
738
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Marc Preston: I think that it's it's no matter what faith
739
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Marc Preston: somebody's brought up in.
740
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Marc Preston: There's a moment and they decide, man, i'm
741
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Marc Preston: going to buy in 100% or this.
742
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Marc Preston: They become curious and they start
743
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Marc Preston: exploring and they start you know they
744
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Marc Preston: don't.
745
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Marc Preston: They're not as much trying to put labels on
746
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Marc Preston: things.
747
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Marc Preston: How do you define this?
748
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Marc Preston: What do you call it Which?
749
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Marc Preston: living in America in 2022 is kind of an
750
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Marc Preston: interesting time because you got a little
751
,410 --> 00:27:43,893
Marc Preston: tug of war going on there, but I think it's
752
,913 --> 00:27:45,374
Marc Preston: about energy You put out in the world.
753
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Marc Preston: How you feel.
754
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Marc Preston: You know, just being my.
755
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Marc Preston: I was speaking with some of the other day.
756
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Marc Preston: They said the first thing they do when they
757
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Marc Preston: wake up in the morning is meditate.
758
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Marc Preston: I should do that, but, knowing me, I just
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Marc Preston: fall right back to sleep.
760
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Marc Preston: Fall right back to sleep, i think.
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Marc Preston: Well, actually, you know just one other
762
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Marc Preston: question about Ghostbusters.
763
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Marc Preston: When you were doing that, did you have a
764
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Marc Preston: sense that it was going to be what it
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Marc Preston: turned into?
766
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Marc Preston: Did you have a sense, okay, this is going
767
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Marc Preston: to be a big movie?
768
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Marc Preston: How did you?
769
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Marc Preston: what did you feel like when you were, when
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Marc Preston: you're making the film?
771
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Marc Preston: Did you know this was something special?
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, i mean I knew that it would be.
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Ernie Hudson: I mean back in those back in the 80s, a
774
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Ernie Hudson: movie would come out.
775
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Ernie Hudson: It would.
776
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Ernie Hudson: If it hopefully it was in the top 10, if
777
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Ernie Hudson: it's number one, it'll last for a few weeks
778
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Ernie Hudson: and then it something else will come along
779
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Ernie Hudson: and replace it and that's how things went.
780
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Ernie Hudson: But I knew it would be number one.
781
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Ernie Hudson: I didn't how long it lasts, it that's.
782
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Ernie Hudson: But when it just stayed at the top, you
783
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Ernie Hudson: know, week after week after week, that was
784
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Ernie Hudson: surprising.
785
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Ernie Hudson: And then, after the years started to go by,
786
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Ernie Hudson: five years, people were still yelling who
787
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Ernie Hudson: are you going to call in 10 years, in 15
788
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Ernie Hudson: years, in 20 years?
789
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Ernie Hudson: and I'm seeing people dressed up in their
790
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Ernie Hudson: jumpsuits and and turning their cars in
791
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Ernie Hudson: ectomobiles.
792
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Ernie Hudson: That was really surprising.
793
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Ernie Hudson: And then 30 years and their Ghostbusters
794
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Ernie Hudson: chapters all over the world.
795
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Ernie Hudson: That that part I could never imagine.
796
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Ernie Hudson: That.
797
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, the fact that it's sustained in the
798
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Ernie Hudson: way that it has.
799
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Ernie Hudson: I knew it would be a big movie, but I
800
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Ernie Hudson: didn't realize that it would become what it
801
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Ernie Hudson: has become.
802
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Marc Preston: I mean the Marceting.
803
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Marc Preston: it took a page right out of Star Wars.
804
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Marc Preston: I mean there was literally food and toys
805
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Marc Preston: and everything.
806
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Marc Preston: It was just like one of those things that
807
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Marc Preston: how did you I'd say young actor, you and
808
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Marc Preston: your thirties, i guess when you made that?
809
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, probably close to 40.
810
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Ernie Hudson: I mean, I was well into my thirties when we
811
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Ernie Hudson: did it.
812
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah.
813
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Marc Preston: But it was it it had been kind of a heady
814
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Marc Preston: thing for you to have everybody know who
815
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Marc Preston: you were suddenly.
816
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Ernie Hudson: Well, I used to tell a joke back then I
817
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Ernie Hudson: came to Hollywood to be rich and famous.
818
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Ernie Hudson: I never realized you could be poor and
819
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Ernie Hudson: popular.
820
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Ernie Hudson: So when Ghostbusters came out it was huge,
821
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Ernie Hudson: But of course I didn't get paid the kind of
822
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Ernie Hudson: money that a lot of people were paid.
823
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Ernie Hudson: So it didn't change my life in terms of
824
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Ernie Hudson: money, But people were coming to my front
825
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Ernie Hudson: door And so that was.
826
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Marc Preston: That was a little surprising and unsettling,
827
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Marc Preston: And yeah, you know you're mentioning that
828
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Marc Preston: it just kind of follows the decades.
829
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Marc Preston: You know it's just showing up with
830
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Marc Preston: different generations and stranger things
831
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Marc Preston: really kind of leaned in in the early, you
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Marc Preston: know, because that with my kids is real
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Marc Preston: popular now.
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Marc Preston: But for me growing up in the 80s I don't
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Marc Preston: know how these two guys are much younger
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Marc Preston: than me the producer, the Duffer brothers,
837
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Marc Preston: hit the nail on the head so well on the
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Marc Preston: vibe of the 80s.
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Marc Preston: But what was it like when you saw that?
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Marc Preston: I don't know if you'd, i'm assuming you'd
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Marc Preston: seen it And then they really leaned in on
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Marc Preston: the Ghostbusters thing as far as being a
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Marc Preston: big cultural note of the 80s.
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Marc Preston: Was that kind of?
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Marc Preston: is this still kind of cool for you to see
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Marc Preston: that it still is resonating?
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Nostalgia for Ghostbusters and Bill Murray
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, to see people shows.
848
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Ernie Hudson: I've done a number of shows where they
849
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Ernie Hudson: wanted me to do something, to throw a line
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Ernie Hudson: in.
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Ernie Hudson: Or you know the show I do family business.
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Ernie Hudson: There's a line where I'm the.
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Ernie Hudson: I say I'm the original Ghostbusters.
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Ernie Hudson: I mean somehow it they the young man and I
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Ernie Hudson: can't think of his name off top of my head,
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Ernie Hudson: but on Stranger Things, the black kid who
857
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Ernie Hudson: they dress up, and I think there's in this
858
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Ernie Hudson: show.
859
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Ernie Hudson: They expect him to be Winston Zedmore and
860
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Ernie Hudson: he says why do I have to be Winston Zedmore?
861
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Ernie Hudson: I want to be something else.
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Ernie Hudson: So when I met him and he came up and he
863
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Ernie Hudson: just apologized, he said I'm sorry, it
864
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Ernie Hudson: wasn't me, it was like they just wrote it
865
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Ernie Hudson: that way.
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Ernie Hudson: And I'm like, dude, it's okay, it's all
867
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Ernie Hudson: right.
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Ernie Hudson: You know it's not personal, but yeah, no, i
869
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Ernie Hudson: think it's great that people still love the
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Ernie Hudson: movie and Bill Murray.
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Ernie Hudson: I mean he's a genius and that was Bill
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Ernie Hudson: Murray at his best.
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Marc Preston: So yeah, i heard something that it was a
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Marc Preston: little they weren't sure if he was even
875
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Marc Preston: going to show up to film necessarily,
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Marc Preston: because even now if you want to cast him,
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Marc Preston: he's got his 1-800 number.
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Marc Preston: So they said he's always been very I don't
879
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Marc Preston: know.
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Marc Preston: Flighty is not the word, but he's got his
881
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Marc Preston: Bill Murray way of doing things.
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Marc Preston: But they said they have showed up at 8 am.
883
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Marc Preston: He was there on set ready to go.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, Now improvisation wise, where you
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Marc Preston: said that you came from an acting tradition,
886
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Marc Preston: they're more improv.
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Marc Preston: What was it like when you see Bill Murray
888
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Marc Preston: just riffing and you got to go.
889
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Marc Preston: I got to keep up with this, or what was
890
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Marc Preston: that like for you?
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, i mean, of course, coming up in
892
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Ernie Hudson: theater and in college you do a little bit
893
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Ernie Hudson: of all of it.
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Ernie Hudson: Like I said, i believe in pride myself on
895
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Ernie Hudson: being prepared for whatever comes out.
896
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Ernie Hudson: But yeah, if you've learned your lines, you
897
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Ernie Hudson: expect the guy to say the exact line that
898
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Ernie Hudson: you've studied.
899
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Ernie Hudson: So you've got to be flexible and I think,
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Ernie Hudson: surviving, especially in this business, you
901
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Ernie Hudson: need to be able to go with the flow.
902
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Ernie Hudson: And yeah, i mean it was fun.
903
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Ernie Hudson: I did a movie called Air Heads and Chris
904
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Ernie Hudson: Farley And the director had this scene
905
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Ernie Hudson: where we were just to riff And sometimes
906
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Ernie Hudson: you're in the moment and sometimes it just
907
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Ernie Hudson: doesn't come, and being Chris was kind of
908
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Ernie Hudson: going at it And then he kind of looked at
909
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Ernie Hudson: me like Ernie, come on, sometimes you're
910
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Ernie Hudson: there and sometimes you're not, but it's
911
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Ernie Hudson: always fun to see these really creative
912
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Ernie Hudson: people at their best.
913
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Marc Preston: Be ever just kind of switch accidentally
914
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Marc Preston: into observer mode and watching them do
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Marc Preston: their thing and really like, well, that's
916
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Marc Preston: kind of funny Yeah.
917
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, yeah, i like to kind of, you know, i
918
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Ernie Hudson: like to.
919
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Ernie Hudson: I'm going to be there And if I need to take
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Ernie Hudson: the lead, i will.
921
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Ernie Hudson: I'd like to run together, but sometimes
922
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Ernie Hudson: someone will take off and you kind of go
923
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Ernie Hudson: okay, oh, this is.
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Ernie Hudson: You know, it takes a moment to you know,
925
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Ernie Hudson: this is where we're going, let's go with it,
926
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Ernie Hudson: but it's always fun.
927
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Ernie Hudson: It's always fun when people show up,
928
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Ernie Hudson: whatever that is, but they're showing up
929
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Ernie Hudson: with their best and then we can play.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's that's when I teach voiceover
931
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Marc Preston: and I'm like that's that's when I said you
932
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Marc Preston: got to play, you got to be okay, make a
933
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Marc Preston: mistake, just kind of get into it and just
934
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Marc Preston: go.
935
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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, just, you know, don't be so
936
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Marc Preston: self-conscious.
937
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Marc Preston: Well, one of the last questions got for you.
938
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Marc Preston: You know, i do notice you've done a lot of
939
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Marc Preston: voiceover actually in the animation.
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Marc Preston: Is it something that is kind of equally fun
941
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Marc Preston: for you as being on film.
942
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, you know I'd love to do more of it.
943
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Ernie Hudson: I was doing, i think, a couple of animated
944
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Ernie Hudson: series of superheroes back in the 80s.
945
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Ernie Hudson: Ghostbusters came up and, for whatever
946
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Ernie Hudson: reason, they said it was because I was
947
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Ernie Hudson: doing another movie, but I didn't do the
948
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Ernie Hudson: animated Ghostbusters series, which was
949
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Ernie Hudson: very annoying to me.
950
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Ernie Hudson: But but I was doing a lot of work and then
951
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Ernie Hudson: I moved to the mountains and and I didn't
952
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Ernie Hudson: want to travel to audition.
953
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Ernie Hudson: Now, of course, you can do a lot of stuff
954
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Ernie Hudson: at home, you can audition from your own
955
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Ernie Hudson: house, but back in those days you had to go
956
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Ernie Hudson: in And so I stopped doing it for a number
957
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Ernie Hudson: of years, i think, lost those contacts.
958
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Ernie Hudson: But I get asked to do, you know, and I and
959
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Ernie Hudson: I enjoy it.
960
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Ernie Hudson: It's just that I don't again go out looking
961
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Ernie Hudson: for sometimes I'll get auditions and
962
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Ernie Hudson: honestly don't have time to deal with it.
963
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Ernie Hudson: So you know it's not like.
964
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Ernie Hudson: But if, yeah, once again, if someone likes
965
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Ernie Hudson: my work and want to work with me, i'm I'm
966
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Ernie Hudson: not hard to find.
967
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Marc Preston: Now, when you do the video, are you doing
968
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Marc Preston: it from home, or are you since you, since
969
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Marc Preston: you are a bit out of LA, or do you go to a
970
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Marc Preston: local studio?
971
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Ernie Hudson: Normally I'll go to a local studio.
972
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Ernie Hudson: I have a little setup at the house, but
973
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Ernie Hudson: actually I'm getting one of those sound
974
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Ernie Hudson: whisper rooms.
975
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Ernie Hudson: but yeah, creating maybe something to do
976
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Ernie Hudson: more of it, and just once again I'm just
977
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Ernie Hudson: focused.
978
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Ernie Hudson: I'm doing a couple of series right now.
979
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Ernie Hudson: I just finished shooting three movies back
980
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Ernie Hudson: to back.
981
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Ernie Hudson: It's not at the top of my priority but now,
982
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Ernie Hudson: when you're not doing what you're doing.
983
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Marc Preston: like you said, you just wrapped up three
984
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Marc Preston: films.
985
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Marc Preston: Yeah, What are you doing?
986
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Marc Preston: to kind of passing the time is not a good
987
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Marc Preston: way to put it.
988
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Marc Preston: What are you?
989
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Marc Preston: how are you occupying your time?
990
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Marc Preston: doing the things you really want to do?
991
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Marc Preston: What are you up to?
992
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Ernie Hudson: Well, you know we were trying, my wife and
993
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Ernie Hudson: I, trying to settle into the perfect home
994
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Ernie Hudson: We were actually looking to buy now.
995
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Ernie Hudson: with the interest rates, the changes were
996
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Ernie Hudson: sort of waiting a few months and seeing how
997
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Ernie Hudson: this is all going to settle out.
998
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Ernie Hudson: But but it's so much work to do around the
999
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Ernie Hudson: house.
Speaker:1000
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Ernie Hudson: you know the property is always something
Speaker:1001
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Ernie Hudson: to be done And just trying to learn how to
Speaker:1002
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Ernie Hudson: relax and take it easy.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, And in shopping for a house right now
Speaker:1004
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Marc Preston: it was not a very relaxing thing.
Speaker:1005
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Marc Preston: I stopped as well, because I was looking at
Speaker:1006
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Marc Preston: a house getting built and the guys like,
Speaker:1007
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Marc Preston: okay, we're taking bids.
Speaker:1008
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Marc Preston: I said you're taking bids, what do you mean?
Speaker:1009
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Marc Preston: It's like, yeah.
Speaker:1010
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Marc Preston: It's like, well, how much are you asking?
Speaker:1011
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Marc Preston: Well, depends how much you're offering.
Speaker:1012
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Marc Preston: It's like, oh, i'm going to hold off on
Speaker:1013
,651 --> 00:37:05,471
Marc Preston: buying a home real quick, But yeah, yeah,
Speaker:1014
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Marc Preston: we'll tell you what I want to do.
Speaker:1015
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Marc Preston: I have my seven questions Kind of a fun
Speaker:1016
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Marc Preston: thing I do with everybody.
Speaker:1017
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Marc Preston: First question I always ask everybody is
Speaker:1018
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Marc Preston: what's your favorite comfort food?
Speaker:1019
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Marc Preston: That thing that you really look forward to.
Speaker:1020
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Marc Preston: It may not be the healthiest thing, it may
Speaker:1021
,482 --> 00:37:17,920
Marc Preston: be healthy, but something you really look
Speaker:1022
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Marc Preston: forward to, just sitting down and relaxing
Speaker:1023
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Marc Preston: with.
Speaker:1024
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Ernie Hudson: I love salmon.
Speaker:1025
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Ernie Hudson: I know that's probably a strange answer,
Speaker:1026
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Ernie Hudson: but salmon I could.
Speaker:1027
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Ernie Hudson: I feel, yeah, maybe I was a bear at one
Speaker:1028
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Ernie Hudson: time.
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Marc Preston: Now, do you like cured salmon, like locks,
Speaker:1030
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Marc Preston: that kind of salmon, or are you more like
Speaker:1031
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Marc Preston: grilled salmon, kind of?
Speaker:1032
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Ernie Hudson: More like grilled, but but yeah, i like
Speaker:1033
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Ernie Hudson: salmon.
Speaker:1034
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Ernie Hudson: You know it's various forms.
Speaker:1035
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, very good, yeah.
Speaker:1036
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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to sit down?
Speaker:1037
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Marc Preston: next question three people going to have a
Speaker:1038
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Marc Preston: cup of coffee, talk story for a few hours,
Speaker:1039
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Marc Preston: three people that you would love to sit
Speaker:1040
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Marc Preston: down with, Living or not, actually, who
Speaker:1041
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Marc Preston: would you like to sit down and chat with?
Speaker:1042
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Ernie Hudson: You know Tom Hanks I worked with years ago
Speaker:1043
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Ernie Hudson: on a show called Buzzing Buddies.
Speaker:1044
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Ernie Hudson: I'd love to just sit and have a
Speaker:1045
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Ernie Hudson: conversation with Tom Denzel.
Speaker:1046
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Marc Preston: Well, you were on Buzzing Buddies.
Speaker:1047
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Marc Preston: How did I, how did I miss that Yeah?
Speaker:1048
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Ernie Hudson: yeah, it was.
Speaker:1049
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Ernie Hudson: we've been friends ever since, haven't
Speaker:1050
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Ernie Hudson: worked together since, but it was a great,
Speaker:1051
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Ernie Hudson: a fun show.
Speaker:1052
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Ernie Hudson: In fact, donna Dixon, danny Aykroyd's wife
Speaker:1053
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Ernie Hudson: we met there before I actually met Danny
Speaker:1054
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Ernie Hudson: Aykroyd Denzel I've really grown to admire
Speaker:1055
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Ernie Hudson: his career.
Speaker:1056
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Ernie Hudson: I'd love to sort of.
Speaker:1057
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Ernie Hudson: you know I see him from time to time, but
Speaker:1058
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Ernie Hudson: not on a regular basis.
Speaker:1059
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Ernie Hudson: And who else would I?
Speaker:1060
Admiration for Jeff Bridges' Career
,463 --> 00:38:38,629
Ernie Hudson: You know I like Jeff Bridges.
Speaker:1061
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Ernie Hudson: Jeff is his brother, beau is one of my best
Speaker:1062
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Ernie Hudson: friends, but I really admire Jeff's career
Speaker:1063
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Ernie Hudson: and how he's managed to stay relevant all
Speaker:1064
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Ernie Hudson: these many years.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I think both of them are.
Speaker:1066
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Marc Preston: It's so funny because Beau is really the
Speaker:1067
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Marc Preston: one who started with acting first of an
Speaker:1068
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Marc Preston: unsteak.
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, yeah, yeah And.
Speaker:1070
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Marc Preston: I had an opportunity.
Speaker:1071
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Marc Preston: This is going back 18, 17, 18 years ago.
Speaker:1072
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Marc Preston: He was gonna be filming without going into
Speaker:1073
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Marc Preston: the weeds.
Speaker:1074
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Marc Preston: But he's gonna be filming something and
Speaker:1075
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Marc Preston: they're casting somebody to play his son or
Speaker:1076
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Marc Preston: he has a few sons.
Speaker:1077
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Marc Preston: It was my first experience of something
Speaker:1078
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Marc Preston: getting so close.
Speaker:1079
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Marc Preston: And then he got a TV show.
Speaker:1080
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Marc Preston: Of course he was the big name on the call
Speaker:1081
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Marc Preston: list, so whole project fellow part, i was
Speaker:1082
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Marc Preston: like, oh, i really wanted to act with Beau
Speaker:1083
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Marc Preston: Bridges, that would have been wonderful.
Speaker:1084
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Marc Preston: But so those three guys, i think that would
Speaker:1085
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Marc Preston: be fantastic.
Speaker:1086
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Marc Preston: Now I do wanna go hit rewind.
Speaker:1087
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Marc Preston: When you were a kid, who was your first
Speaker:1088
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Marc Preston: celebrity crush, first one you saw like oh
Speaker:1089
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Marc Preston: my God, movie star, whoever had Loretta
Speaker:1090
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Marc Preston: Young.
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Ernie Hudson: Loretta Young I was in fact.
Speaker:1092
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Ernie Hudson: I was so small I didn't know what a crush
Speaker:1093
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Ernie Hudson: was, i just knew that I really I was
Speaker:1094
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Ernie Hudson: mesmerized by her and that staircase she'd
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Ernie Hudson: walked down, That's like you know.
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Ernie Hudson: She was stunning.
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Ernie Hudson: I don't know what she'd look like if I saw
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Ernie Hudson: a picture of her now, but I was really
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Ernie Hudson: impressed with Loretta Young.
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Marc Preston: There's something about old Hollywood.
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Ernie Hudson: There's just something about black and
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Ernie Hudson: white and just kinda, i don't know It was
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Ernie Hudson: grand.
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Ernie Hudson: You know she was Exactly Yeah, from another
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Ernie Hudson: world.
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Marc Preston: Now next question if you're gonna be forced
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Marc Preston: to live on an exotic island not forced, but
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Marc Preston: beautiful exotic island that's not
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Marc Preston: uncomfortable living, but you don't have
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Marc Preston: internet, you have no streaming.
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Marc Preston: You can really bring one DVD of a movie and
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Marc Preston: one album with you, and you can also throw
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Marc Preston: in a book if you'd like.
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Marc Preston: Some people are more into books.
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Marc Preston: But what would you bring with you to that
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Marc Preston: island for a year?
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Ernie Hudson: Oh, geez, for a year.
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Ernie Hudson: Wow, geez, that's kind of interesting.
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Ernie Hudson: I don't know, i'd have to think about that
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Ernie Hudson: one.
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Ernie Hudson: I don't know why the Godfather comes to
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Ernie Hudson: mind, but somehow, maybe because it was fun.
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Ernie Hudson: And a book The Invisible Man's Always Been
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Ernie Hudson: Fun to kind of re-go back.
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Ernie Hudson: Or there's a.
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Ernie Hudson: well, okay, if it was a book, it would be a
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Ernie Hudson: book called A Course in Miracles, which
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Ernie Hudson: I've always found fascinating for the past
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Ernie Hudson: 30 or 40 years.
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Ernie Hudson: And what was the other book?
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Ernie Hudson: A Soundtrack.
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, or a Soundtrack or any kind of album,
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Ernie Hudson: any kind of album I don't know, something
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Ernie Hudson: from probably Marvin Gaye's let's get it on
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Ernie Hudson: album.
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Ernie Hudson: I'm not sure, i don't know.
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Ernie Hudson: You know I, yeah, i would you know, because
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Ernie Hudson: I've gotten past making decisions that
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Ernie Hudson: happen.
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Ernie Hudson: It'll be to you know, to my wife going
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Ernie Hudson: honey, what do you think I should?
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Marc Preston: You know it was liberating.
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Marc Preston: I just took my three teenagers on a cruise
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Marc Preston: a few weeks ago and it was so liberating
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Marc Preston: for me, single dad, three kids going.
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Marc Preston: What are we doing?
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Marc Preston: they did whatever y'all want to do.
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Announcer: I ain't making the decisions here.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, and I think they dug it, but it was
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Marc Preston: so like relaxing for me, you know, i didn't
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Marc Preston: have to actually be accountable for any
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Marc Preston: decisions except for what I ate that night.
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Ernie Hudson: I took my family on a cruise and it was
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Ernie Hudson: miserable, because you don't want to be the
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Ernie Hudson: only celebrity on a boat that people are
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Ernie Hudson: trapped in.
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Ernie Hudson: I could not leave the cabin.
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Ernie Hudson: I mean, people swarmed.
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Ernie Hudson: We went to dinner Oh my God, it was just,
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Ernie Hudson: it was.
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Ernie Hudson: It was awful.
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Ernie Hudson: It was awful, I mean, seven days of Well,
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Ernie Hudson: you gotta be honest.
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Marc Preston: have you ever done anything to because you
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Marc Preston: do want to float about, go to I don't know
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Marc Preston: Trader Joe's or something, i don't want to
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Marc Preston: say costume but have you ever done anything
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Marc Preston: so that you would not be so recognizable?
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Ernie Hudson: No, i've thought about it, but no, i try to,
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Ernie Hudson: because then I feel like I'm a prisoner.
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Ernie Hudson: I mean, if I get to a point where I got to
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Ernie Hudson: hide, to go out, I mean normally speaking
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Ernie Hudson: it's not a problem, but I think because
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Ernie Hudson: we're on a boat and that's it.
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Ernie Hudson: It was a little difficult, but no, i try
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Ernie Hudson: not to.
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Ernie Hudson: I've had situations my wife and I 40th
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Ernie Hudson: anniversary.
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Ernie Hudson: A lady came up and sat down, would not
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Ernie Hudson: leave, just felt like she said you owe me
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Ernie Hudson: because I'm your fan and you have a.
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Ernie Hudson: So people can take things a little bit
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Ernie Hudson: crazy.
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Ernie Hudson: But generally speaking though, people are
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Ernie Hudson: great and it's not a problem.
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Defining a Perfect Day
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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to define what is the
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Marc Preston: definition, if I could call a perfect day
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Marc Preston: from time you wake up to time you go to bed,
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Marc Preston: what kind of component things would you
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Marc Preston: like to be part of that?
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Marc Preston: having some salmon in there somewhere, i'm
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Marc Preston: sure, but what would you?
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Marc Preston: how would you define your perfect day?
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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, perfect day would be just nothing to
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Ernie Hudson: sort of stress over, knowing work was
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Ernie Hudson: coming up soon, so I don't think about that.
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Ernie Hudson: The weather's great and the kids are fine
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Ernie Hudson: and a day just set peace.
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Ernie Hudson: you know The?
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Ernie Hudson: I mean a beautiful setting, the scenery's
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Ernie Hudson: beautiful and you can just let go.
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Ernie Hudson: perfect day is being able to let go and Oh,
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Ernie Hudson: i like that You know that makes more sense
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Ernie Hudson: to me.
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Marc Preston: I've heard a lot of people answer different
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Marc Preston: ways.
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Marc Preston: It's like that because that I get it, you
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Marc Preston: know where.
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Marc Preston: You just not have to be looking at your
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Marc Preston: calendar, what you gotta do all that day.
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Marc Preston: Just kind of like, just be.
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Marc Preston: Yes, just be Now.
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Marc Preston: Last couple of questions here.
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Marc Preston: If you weren't doing what you're doing now,
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Marc Preston: or if you hadn't been an actor and hadn't
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Marc Preston: been a creative, what would you be, what
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Marc Preston: would you wanna be doing for a living, or
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Marc Preston: what would be the second choice?
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Ernie Hudson: Well, i thought I would want to be an
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Ernie Hudson: architect.
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Ernie Hudson: I've tried designing some houses that we
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Ernie Hudson: had planned to build that never got built,
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Ernie Hudson: but maybe something in design.
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Ernie Hudson: You know, i started out thinking of myself
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Ernie Hudson: as a writer.
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Ernie Hudson: I ended up acting, became sort of the.
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Ernie Hudson: You know what I fell back on.
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Ernie Hudson: Singing was something that I fantasized as
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Ernie Hudson: a kid, but if it was something out of
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Ernie Hudson: entertainment it would probably be maybe
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Ernie Hudson: something in drawing, architecture or
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Ernie Hudson: something like that.
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Marc Preston: Now last question if you had a DeLorean,
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Marc Preston: you could jump in and you're gonna go back
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Marc Preston: to when you were 16 years old and you have
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Marc Preston: a piece of advice, guidance, something to
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Marc Preston: get you on a different rail either make
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Marc Preston: your life better at the moment or, you know,
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Marc Preston: it puts you on a better trajectory.
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Marc Preston: What would that piece of advice be to
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Marc Preston: 16-year-old you?
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Ernie Hudson: Just really, i always prided myself on that.
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Ernie Hudson: I trust I know things will work out, but I
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Ernie Hudson: always felt like I had to really work hard.
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Ernie Hudson: Maybe I'm sure that was a good thing, but I
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Ernie Hudson: think just to let myself know that it's
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Ernie Hudson: gonna be okay.
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Ernie Hudson: You know what I mean, because there were
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Ernie Hudson: times when things were right against the
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Ernie Hudson: wall and you didn't know what was gonna
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Ernie Hudson: happen.
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Ernie Hudson: I always call that going through the fire.
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Ernie Hudson: You gotta go through it to get to the other
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Ernie Hudson: side, but it's a little frightening.
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Ernie Hudson: And if there was something I could say to
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Ernie Hudson: myself that you know, just trust, you're
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Ernie Hudson: gonna be just fine, you're gonna be fine.
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Marc Preston: It's so funny, it's the same thing.
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Marc Preston: Sometimes you have to tell yourself that
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Marc Preston: nowadays, occasionally.
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Marc Preston: You know that's one of the things I was
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Marc Preston: talking with my kids.
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Marc Preston: I said it's sometimes you just don't have
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Marc Preston: enough years on earth.
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Marc Preston: You have to realize this too shall pass.
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Marc Preston: You know everything's transient and it's
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Marc Preston: hard.
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Marc Preston: But you really need to know that when
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Marc Preston: you're younger, because that's when
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Marc Preston: everything seems bigger, more vibrant, more
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Marc Preston: you know it's the end of the world.
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Marc Preston: You gotta know.
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Marc Preston: But yeah, that's wonderful and that's
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Marc Preston: something I still.
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Marc Preston: I still have to tell myself occasionally.
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Marc Preston: But I so appreciate you're so generous of
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Marc Preston: your time.
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Marc Preston: I appreciate it more than you know, but you
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Marc Preston: have yourself a great one again, thank you
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Marc Preston: and hopefully we'll catch up down the line,
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Marc Preston: my friend.
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Ernie Hudson: All right, take care, I look forward to it,
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Ernie Hudson: man.
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Marc Preston: All right, there you go, mr Ernie Hudson.
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Marc Preston: What a pleasure it was to sit down and chat
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Marc Preston: with him.
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Marc Preston: A trip down memory lane, ghostbusters and
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Marc Preston: everything else he's been working on, but I
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Marc Preston: mean, i'm a kid of the 80s, so Ghostbusters,
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Marc Preston: that was cool.
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Marc Preston: Don't forget, the NBC reboot of Quantum
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Marc Preston: Leap is now on, so check it out.
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Marc Preston: Another trip down memory lane for us 80s
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Marc Preston: kids.
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Ernie Hudson
Actor
Ernie Hudson, one of this generations most well-versed actors, is back on TV. He will be starring alongside Raymond Lee in the reboot of “Quantum Leap” CBS this fall. The series will follow a new team as they restart the project in hope of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it. Ernie is playing a no-nonsense career military man who has to answer to his bosses who won’t be happy after hearing about the breach of protocol. He previously starred in Netflix’s series “Grace and Frankie” opposite of Lily Tomlin. He also starred in “The Family Business” for BET which he also executive produced and starred in two episodes of “City on a Hill” as Franklin Ward.
Other television credits include, “Modern Family” as a guest star as Miles. He also appeared in “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” starring as Camille Winbush’s father and Ken Baumann’s therapist. The show won the 2008 Choice Summer TV Show Award from the Teen Choice Awards as well as the Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Drama in 2009. He also portrayed Frank Gibson on “Law & Order,” the new boyfriend of Lieutenant Anita Van Buren als well as Warden Leo Glynn on “Oz”, with Harold Perrineau, Kirk Acevedo, Terry Kinney, Ritan Moreno, J.K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen and Dean Winters. Hudson earned a Golden Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Series, Drama for the latter.
His additional film credits include “Miss Congeniality,” with Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine; Jay Craven’s “A Stranger in the Kingdom”; “The Crow” with Brandon Lee; Curtis Hanson’s “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle,” opposite Matt McCoy and Julianne Moore; and ”Sugarwheels” with Vincent Maeder, and and Navah Rapharl. The multi-faceted actor is probably best known for his work on the critically acclaimed blockbuster “Ghostbusters,” in which he portrayed Winston Zeddemore, one of the four Ghostbusters.” He recently reprised the role in Ghostbusters: Afterlife and is rumored to have a huge role in the upcoming sequel. Additional television credits include “Redemption Day,” “Spaceman,” “Fatal Secrets,” “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous,” “Collision Course,” “Ballers,” “Blue Bloods,” “Twin Peaks,” “Graves,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Mob City,” “Scandal”, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “White Collar”. He boasts an outstanding resume and has and a go-getter attitude. He now enjoys spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren. He also prides himself in staying fit and healthy at his age, having already bet cancer. Hudson resides in California.