LaMonica Garrett | Soldiering Across Time

It's been the first time I've had my

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LaMonica Garrett: parents come to a premiere and you know

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LaMonica Garrett: it's been a lot.

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LaMonica Garrett: It's been a lot for me, for them and for a

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LaMonica Garrett: lot of people like Cowboy that were across

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LaMonica Garrett: the country.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston hey

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Announcer: welcome back to Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: If this is your first time, welcome.

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Marc Preston: Thank you very much for just checking it

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Marc Preston: out, being a part of the show here today.

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Marc Preston: You're really going to like this

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Marc Preston: conversation.

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Marc Preston: La Monica Garrett, you know I've been

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Marc Preston: keeping an eye on him for a while.

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Marc Preston: Really enjoy his work.

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Marc Preston: I think what he did in the Paramount Plus

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Marc Preston: show 1883, he played Thomas.

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Marc Preston: He just knocked it out of the park.

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Marc Preston: He is truly a talented actor the dynamic

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Marc Preston: with him alongside Sam Elliott, tv magic,

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Marc Preston: right there.

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Marc Preston: He's been in a lot of other stuff.

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Marc Preston: I mean he's been in Sons of Anarchy,

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Marc Preston: designated survivor, the last ship.

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Marc Preston: My son even reminded me he was in the DC

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Marc Preston: Universe as the monitor and anti-monitor.

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Marc Preston: Now the big screen, transformers, dark of

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Marc Preston: the Moon he's done that.

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Marc Preston: The Netflix movie XOXO, daddy's Home and

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Marc Preston: more Coming up July 1st.

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Marc Preston: He's going to be in the Amazon Prime show,

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Marc Preston: the Terminal List.

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Marc Preston: He's co-starring with Chris Pratt and this

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Marc Preston: is going to be a great show.

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Marc Preston: it.

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Marc Preston: Okay, let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: It's La Monica Garrett Day right here on

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: So how are you doing today, my friend?

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Marc Preston: I'm pretty good.

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LaMonica Garrett: The weather's kind of nice.

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LaMonica Garrett: The heat kind of subsided a little bit, got

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LaMonica Garrett: a little rain.

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Marc Preston: Now, where are you located?

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Marc Preston: Are you on the?

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Marc Preston: You're in LA, yeah, Okay.

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Marc Preston: Okay, Now I see you're a West Coast guy

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Marc Preston: from the get-go.

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Marc Preston: You're from San Francisco, right?

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LaMonica Garrett: Oh, yeah, yeah, Cali kid.

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Marc Preston: You know it's so funny.

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Marc Preston: I was, you know, my son and I always

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Marc Preston: watched Designator Survivor.

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Marc Preston: And I know Reed Diamond.

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Marc Preston: I was like, and I was just like.

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Marc Preston: I was like I'm going to make a note, let

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Marc Preston: you know.

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Marc Preston: It's like, oh, what's it like working with

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Marc Preston: Reed?

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Marc Preston: Literally that same moment I get an email

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Marc Preston: from him.

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Marc Preston: I'm like dude, the universe man.

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Marc Preston: It's ponderous.

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Marc Preston: And I will read you his email.

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Marc Preston: He says well, monica is one of my most

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Marc Preston: favorite people on the planet.

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Marc Preston: Please give him my love.

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Marc Preston: So I'm giving you his love.

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LaMonica Garrett: That's awesome.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, Reed, that was my partner.

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LaMonica Garrett: We had such a good time out in Toronto

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LaMonica Garrett: working.

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LaMonica Garrett: He's awesome.

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Marc Preston: Is that where y'all shot?

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Marc Preston: Designator Survivor in Toronto.

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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah.

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Marc Preston: We'll definitely get to 1883, without a

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Marc Preston: doubt.

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Marc Preston: That's another show.

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Marc Preston: My son and I.

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Marc Preston: He was jazzed that I was talking to you

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Marc Preston: today because we watched Designator

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Marc Preston: Survivor, both Incarnations, you know, and

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Marc Preston: it was, I think, on ABC, then Netflix and

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Marc Preston: 1883, which is just just on point.

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Marc Preston: What a great show.

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Marc Preston: But what have you been up to since then?

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Marc Preston: Since that's wrapped up?

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LaMonica Garrett: Since I got back, I worked on a short film.

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LaMonica Garrett: It'll hit the film circuit like the.

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Announcer: You know the like sun dances and all that

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Announcer: kind of stuff.

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LaMonica Garrett: So we'll see how that goes, and just doing

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LaMonica Garrett: PR for Terminalists you know, I told my

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LaMonica Garrett: reps that I just want to.

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LaMonica Garrett: I want to chill out for a little bit.

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LaMonica Garrett: I want to take some time off right from

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LaMonica Garrett: Terminalists.

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LaMonica Garrett: We shot that a few days later I'm in Texas

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LaMonica Garrett: and I was there for six months straight.

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LaMonica Garrett: Didn't really get home.

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Marc Preston: Oh, so you all shot that before 1883?.

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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, yeah, we shot that beforehand, and it

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LaMonica Garrett: was when I found out, I got 1883, it was

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LaMonica Garrett: like three days.

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LaMonica Garrett: Hey, they need you in Texas.

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Marc Preston: So I didn't have time to do anything.

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Marc Preston: When is Terminalist set to come out?

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Marc Preston: July 1st, july 1st, okay, yeah, so that's

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Marc Preston: you, chris Pratt.

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Marc Preston: It's a military based show and, if I read

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Marc Preston: the premise correct, it's basically him

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Marc Preston: reminiscing or it's the start thinking back

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Marc Preston: to some events or event that happened when

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Marc Preston: he was in the military and is that kind of

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Marc Preston: where you fall into the cast.

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Marc Preston: There you were part of his unit or whatever.

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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, I was part of the unit.

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LaMonica Garrett: At home I'm pretty much his commanding

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LaMonica Garrett: officer, you know like a mentor to him and

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LaMonica Garrett: he went out on a mission and his team got

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LaMonica Garrett: ambushed.

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LaMonica Garrett: So he's trying to put the pieces together

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LaMonica Garrett: and that's where we, that's where we pick

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LaMonica Garrett: up from in episode one.

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Marc Preston: Well, that's very cool.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, definitely a chat about that in a

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Marc Preston: moment.

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Marc Preston: 1883, man, what a really well executed show.

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Marc Preston: I mean I have so many questions.

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Marc Preston: The first one is I was literally just

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Marc Preston: having lunch with my son.

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Marc Preston: It's like you know what I'm going to tell

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Marc Preston: you.

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Marc Preston: You need to make a.

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Marc Preston: There needs to be a prequel to the prequel

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Marc Preston: of the genesis of the relationship with you

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Marc Preston: and Sam Elliott.

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Marc Preston: I need to know more about that.

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Marc Preston: It's.

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Marc Preston: It was almost like there's this whole

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Marc Preston: unspoken relationship between the two of

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Marc Preston: y'all and or, or there's a lot of stuff

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Marc Preston: that you know didn't come up.

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Marc Preston: And then Taylor Sheridan did he sit down

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Marc Preston: and say, okay, here's the backstory between

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Marc Preston: the two of y'all, though it may not come up

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Marc Preston: on screen.

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Marc Preston: Or did y'all just sit down and kind of hash

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Marc Preston: out what your relationship was going to be

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Marc Preston: about?

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LaMonica Garrett: Taylor came up to us individually and he

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LaMonica Garrett: told me pretty much what Thomas was and you

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LaMonica Garrett: know where it came from and what his story

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LaMonica Garrett: was.

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Announcer: He told me a lot of that during the casting

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Announcer: process during my last audition to get the

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Announcer: job.

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LaMonica Garrett: And when I got to Texas he filled me in a

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LaMonica Garrett: little bit more, and me and Sam as soon as

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LaMonica Garrett: we met, we just we hit it off.

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Announcer: But me and Sam never really had to sit down

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Announcer: about Thomas and Sher and where they came

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Announcer: from.

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LaMonica Garrett: We just.

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LaMonica Garrett: Taylor's writing is real, in depth and real

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LaMonica Garrett: it's you know it's all on the page.

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Marc Preston: So if we stick the landing on our side, you

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Marc Preston: know it would sing and yeah, One of the

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Marc Preston: things I loved about the show is that it

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Marc Preston: wasn't trying to say, oh, the old West was

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Marc Preston: so hard, and trying to, or didn't overly

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Marc Preston: romanticize it.

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Marc Preston: It was right down the middle is just kind

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Marc Preston: of as close to it's.

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Marc Preston: This is what it was, you know, and I

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Marc Preston: thought it was just again really well

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Marc Preston: executed.

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Marc Preston: And I heard an interview with Sam Elliott

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Marc Preston: talking about how, in terms of wardrobe,

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Marc Preston: how important the hat is, and he said that

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Marc Preston: he was going to wear a hat that he was

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Marc Preston: going to.

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Marc Preston: It's got to fit, it's got to, it's an

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Marc Preston: extension of you or something, but

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Marc Preston: apparently the hat he they got him didn't

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Marc Preston: fit quite right, so he had, but he was

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Marc Preston: locked in having to wear it every thing.

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Marc Preston: How did your hat fit?

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Marc Preston: Were you happy with it?

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LaMonica Garrett: I mean, my hat was more of a, it was part

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LaMonica Garrett: of his soldier hat, it was part of his

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LaMonica Garrett: Buffalo soldier the jacket.

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LaMonica Garrett: So it was.

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LaMonica Garrett: I was good with it, but Cowboys in general.

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Marc Preston: I learned that when I was down in Texas.

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LaMonica Garrett: The hat is very important and it starts

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LaMonica Garrett: with the hat, and then you start dressing

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LaMonica Garrett: down from that.

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Marc Preston: And I had no idea of hat etiquette, but I

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Marc Preston: know now.

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Marc Preston: Well, a couple of questions.

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Marc Preston: They're both based on your appearance.

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Marc Preston: It was at your choice.

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Marc Preston: Did you say, okay, this is how I feel I

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Marc Preston: would have looked back then, or was this

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Marc Preston: again, you know, more, of a production

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Marc Preston: decision?

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LaMonica Garrett: It was more of a we're on the trail Like

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LaMonica Garrett: we're.

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LaMonica Garrett: You know you're on this Oregon trail that

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LaMonica Garrett: started off with kind of thing cut.

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LaMonica Garrett: You know, mustache was a little lower, it

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LaMonica Garrett: was more groomed in the beginning and as

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LaMonica Garrett: you go, you know.

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LaMonica Garrett: I have barbers with you that you travel

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LaMonica Garrett: with.

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LaMonica Garrett: You know like it's not like we're going to

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LaMonica Garrett: go to a salon somewhere and take care of so

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LaMonica Garrett: it's just gradually over that time period

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LaMonica Garrett: in the Oregon trail your hair just grows

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LaMonica Garrett: and I think that was part of the

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LaMonica Garrett: authenticity.

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Marc Preston: He was from Mississippi.

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Marc Preston: I haven't seen him act for years.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, Did he kind of encourage you to where

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LaMonica Garrett: I was in you know on this cast and down in

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Marc Preston: I mean, you know like I'm like, but I know

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Marc Preston: So they have a little like mobile gym setup

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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, Taylor had something set up.

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LaMonica Garrett: He had a gym at the ranch.

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LaMonica Garrett: We were staying at it first and they put

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LaMonica Garrett: know, 270 is screen TV, a sauna, cold

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LaMonica Garrett: So every morning, beforehand me and Tim

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Marc Preston: It's funny I was.

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Marc Preston: I talked to Billy Bob Thornton just a few

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Marc Preston: When Billy Bob Thornton shows up on set,

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LaMonica Garrett: It was, it was real, it was he's real

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LaMonica Garrett: He was taking pictures.

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LaMonica Garrett: You know, all of us were saying before we

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LaMonica Garrett: Billy, you know, and he was just he was

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LaMonica Garrett: We're working all night, a couple nights,

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LaMonica Garrett: no one's complaining.

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LaMonica Garrett: Everyone's just happy to be there, knowing

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LaMonica Garrett: you're just looking around at the people

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LaMonica Garrett: We were just we all knew it was going to be

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Marc Preston: I didn't know what to think of it, I just

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Marc Preston: Honestly, I found Sam Melliot.

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Marc Preston: I'll be back to Big Lebowski.

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Marc Preston: Before you know, he just always brings

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Marc Preston: That was the fact that she was kind of

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Marc Preston: yours was just like.

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Marc Preston: You know, you're always leveling, even I

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Marc Preston: I just it's very rare I watch a show and go

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Marc Preston: damn, that was damn good.

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Marc Preston: I wish there's some more of that, but it's

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Marc Preston: It's kind of self contained.

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Marc Preston: You really can't have to have a sequel to

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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, leave on a high note, I guess.

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Marc Preston: I'm curious about a origin story on you

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Marc Preston: But was acting always on the radar for you,

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Marc Preston: or was this something that just kind of you

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LaMonica Garrett: I played football.

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LaMonica Garrett: That was my first passion and I always knew

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LaMonica Garrett: I couldn't say I wrapped a little bit but

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LaMonica Garrett: I was a dancer break, dancing back in, you

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LaMonica Garrett: And cardboard everywhere.

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LaMonica Garrett: We were looking for the local wrecks.

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LaMonica Garrett: We were looking for battles.

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LaMonica Garrett: You know we had a crew.

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LaMonica Garrett: Cardboard was your like.

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LaMonica Garrett: That was your staple when you're

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I don't think my kids would

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Marc Preston: A tape, deck, boom box and cardboard was a

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LaMonica Garrett: Those were the glory days, yeah.

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Marc Preston: So you, were you growing up as an only

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LaMonica Garrett: I had a little child.

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LaMonica Garrett: I had an older brother, younger sister, so

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LaMonica Garrett: You know I was a latchkey kid.

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Marc Preston: Stuff we got away with.

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Marc Preston: I can't imagine I got a 19 to 17 and a 16

482

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Marc Preston: year old and I cannot imagine I didn't get

483

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Marc Preston: myself into trouble.

484

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Marc Preston: But man, I'd be like okay, lights come on.

485

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Marc Preston: All right, it's time to go home.

486

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LaMonica Garrett: It's time to go home.

487

00:15:28,577 --> 00:15:30,265

LaMonica Garrett: You could be gone all day, but you know,

488

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LaMonica Garrett: and those lights come on.

489

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LaMonica Garrett: You know, lights come on, it's time to get

490

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LaMonica Garrett: back to the house, and that's just.

491

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LaMonica Garrett: That was the unwritten rule, or it was the

492

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LaMonica Garrett: rule, but we all knew that.

493

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Marc Preston: As long as I was cool making my own dinner,

494

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Marc Preston: I could stay out even later.

495

00:15:40,815 --> 00:15:43,579

Marc Preston: I'm like, yeah, that's easy, you know I can

496

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Marc Preston: whip together a sandwich.

497

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Marc Preston: So you started off here in San Francisco

498

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Marc Preston: your break dancing, your.

499

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Marc Preston: But you're an athlete through high school

500

00:15:50,477 --> 00:15:51,080

Marc Preston: also, correct?

501

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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, and you know it was like I'm.

502

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LaMonica Garrett: My dream was to get in the NFL.

503

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LaMonica Garrett: I got pretty close but I didn't make it and

504

00:15:58,295 --> 00:15:59,680

LaMonica Garrett: it was one of those things where it was

505

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LaMonica Garrett: like that fork in the road.

506

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LaMonica Garrett: What do you do now?

507

00:16:02,576 --> 00:16:04,402

LaMonica Garrett: Cause I gave football my everything.

508

00:16:04,422 --> 00:16:05,084

LaMonica Garrett: Where were you playing?

509

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LaMonica Garrett: You know in the back of my head and central

510

00:16:07,601 --> 00:16:08,283

LaMonica Garrett: state in Ohio.

511

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LaMonica Garrett: Small school in Wilbur Forrest, ohio, right

512

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LaMonica Garrett: outside Columbus and yeah, right when that

513

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LaMonica Garrett: was over, when I realized it wasn't going

514

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LaMonica Garrett: to happen.

515

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LaMonica Garrett: For me, it was like all right well, move to.

516

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Announcer: LA and try to figure that out, like then

517

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Announcer: with acting.

518

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LaMonica Garrett: There's no structure, there's no you know.

519

00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,210

LaMonica Garrett: Go to go to school this many years and then

520

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LaMonica Garrett: you, you got to do an internship here and

521

00:16:28,344 --> 00:16:30,296

LaMonica Garrett: there's no rhyme or reason and you just go

522

00:16:30,357 --> 00:16:32,622

LaMonica Garrett: out there and try to make it happen, and

523

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LaMonica Garrett: that's what I didn't.

524

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

525

00:16:34,615 --> 00:16:36,622

Marc Preston: So you went from one job or one one

526

00:16:36,642 --> 00:16:38,911

Marc Preston: potential vocation or aspiration that has.

527

00:16:39,533 --> 00:16:40,758

Marc Preston: The odds are just stacked against.

528

00:16:40,778 --> 00:16:42,057

Marc Preston: Anybody wants to do it, just the numbers

529

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Marc Preston: one.

530

00:16:42,358 --> 00:16:43,523

Marc Preston: Then you got into another gig.

531

00:16:43,543 --> 00:16:45,531

Marc Preston: That the odds are stacked against you, but

532

00:16:45,551 --> 00:16:46,495

Marc Preston: you clearly you thrived.

533

00:16:46,776 --> 00:16:47,800

Marc Preston: I'm glad it's a punishment.

534

00:16:48,295 --> 00:16:50,702

Marc Preston: So what kind of what kind of gig were your

535

00:16:50,762 --> 00:16:51,444

Marc Preston: folks involved in?

536

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LaMonica Garrett: They were both in the medical field.

537

00:16:54,295 --> 00:16:56,396

LaMonica Garrett: They're both in my mom as a nurse she was a

538

00:16:56,517 --> 00:16:58,242

LaMonica Garrett: at home nurse, and she worked in the

539

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LaMonica Garrett: hospital a little bit.

540

00:16:59,115 --> 00:17:01,380

LaMonica Garrett: My dad did he was a medic in.

541

00:17:01,420 --> 00:17:04,527

LaMonica Garrett: Vietnam and he came back and he picked up

542

00:17:04,587 --> 00:17:06,842

LaMonica Garrett: that where he left off when he got back.

543

00:17:06,995 --> 00:17:08,862

Announcer: So my mom had two jobs.

544

00:17:09,095 --> 00:17:11,863

LaMonica Garrett: My dad had a job but it took a lot of time.

545

00:17:13,015 --> 00:17:15,202

LaMonica Garrett: So you know you see him when you see him.

546

00:17:15,402 --> 00:17:15,543

LaMonica Garrett: Yeah.

547

00:17:16,415 --> 00:17:18,110

Marc Preston: So you're really carving out your own space

548

00:17:18,130 --> 00:17:18,634

Marc Preston: back in the day.

549

00:17:18,654 --> 00:17:19,397

Marc Preston: Yeah, I guess kind of we all were those

550

00:17:19,417 --> 00:17:20,502

Marc Preston: latchkey kids, that whole thing.

551

00:17:21,135 --> 00:17:23,100

Marc Preston: So there was no like there were no

552

00:17:23,180 --> 00:17:25,045

Marc Preston: Thespians in your family going acting, it's

553

00:17:25,085 --> 00:17:25,747

Marc Preston: a thing you know.

554

00:17:26,820 --> 00:17:27,988

Marc Preston: So how did they feel when you said, you

555

00:17:28,028 --> 00:17:29,717

Marc Preston: know this acting thing, I've been doing the

556

00:17:29,737 --> 00:17:31,504

Marc Preston: football thing now on a do this thing.

557

00:17:31,775 --> 00:17:32,477

Marc Preston: What was the?

558

00:17:32,939 --> 00:17:34,244

Marc Preston: What was the reaction that you got?

559

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LaMonica Garrett: I had the most support from my family.

560

00:17:37,935 --> 00:17:41,363

LaMonica Garrett: They they left Mississippi the way they

561

00:17:41,403 --> 00:17:42,946

LaMonica Garrett: grew up in the sixties out in.

562

00:17:42,986 --> 00:17:45,040

LaMonica Garrett: You know that civil rights kind of that era.

563

00:17:45,775 --> 00:17:47,782

LaMonica Garrett: They wanted us to have a different shot at

564

00:17:47,802 --> 00:17:48,002

LaMonica Garrett: life.

565

00:17:48,855 --> 00:17:50,660

LaMonica Garrett: So they sacrificed, they left everything

566

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LaMonica Garrett: they knew and moved to San Francisco.

567

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LaMonica Garrett: We didn't have any really friends or family

568

00:17:54,923 --> 00:17:58,636

LaMonica Garrett: when you know we made some, but summers we

569

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LaMonica Garrett: would drive back to Mississippi so I would

570

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LaMonica Garrett: spend time with my family.

571

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Marc Preston: We're about to.

572

00:18:01,816 --> 00:18:03,361

Marc Preston: We're about to Mississippi, to the is your

573

00:18:03,462 --> 00:18:04,144

Marc Preston: are, your folks from.

574

00:18:04,495 --> 00:18:07,021

Marc Preston: In Canton, canton, jackson, and uh, let's

575

00:18:07,322 --> 00:18:09,266

Marc Preston: um big difference between camp Mississippi

576

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Marc Preston: and San Francisco.

577

00:18:11,318 --> 00:18:13,785

Marc Preston: It is a uh cultural, sociological,

578

00:18:13,825 --> 00:18:15,278

Marc Preston: everywhere, every other way of looking at.

579

00:18:15,458 --> 00:18:16,775

Marc Preston: You can still get good food, though, so

580

00:18:16,795 --> 00:18:18,022

Marc Preston: that's kind of nice thing about Mississippi,

581

00:18:18,082 --> 00:18:20,655

Marc Preston: but but you still have your roots uh, some

582

00:18:20,715 --> 00:18:21,979

Marc Preston: extended family down there, right?

583

00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:23,804

LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, everybody's still down there.

584

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LaMonica Garrett: They're Chicago and my family whatever I

585

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LaMonica Garrett: decided to do, they, just they, just they

586

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LaMonica Garrett: wanted me to be better than what they were,

587

00:18:31,775 --> 00:18:33,159

LaMonica Garrett: and that's every parent's goal is for the

588

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LaMonica Garrett: next generation to have more opportunities

589

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LaMonica Garrett: and just live, have a better life and they

590

00:18:37,962 --> 00:18:40,564

LaMonica Garrett: did that, so it was like I owe it to them.

591

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LaMonica Garrett: That's why whenever I talk about my parents

592

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LaMonica Garrett: my mom when I'm doing these interviews, I

593

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LaMonica Garrett: get choked up a little bit because I know

594

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LaMonica Garrett: how much they sacrificed for me to just

595

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LaMonica Garrett: live a dream.

596

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Marc Preston: And that's all I'm doing right now.

597

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LaMonica Garrett: I'm living a dream, you know, taking

598

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LaMonica Garrett: chances.

599

00:18:54,817 --> 00:18:57,488

Marc Preston: Well, playing, being in 1883 and playing

600

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Marc Preston: who you were playing, I mean that that had

601

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Marc Preston: to be.

602

00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:04,488

Marc Preston: That had to really resonate at some level.

603

00:19:04,635 --> 00:19:06,286

Marc Preston: I mean that that had to be a special thing

604

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Marc Preston: for you to get cast in.

605

00:19:07,172 --> 00:19:07,976

Marc Preston: You know, when you're going through the

606

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Marc Preston: audition process, I mean that had to been

607

00:19:11,165 --> 00:19:11,987

Marc Preston: bouncing around your brain.

608

00:19:12,055 --> 00:19:13,182

Marc Preston: You know what this would mean if you got

609

00:19:13,242 --> 00:19:15,235

Marc Preston: this and who you'd be playing and what that

610

00:19:15,315 --> 00:19:17,141

Marc Preston: would inject into the overall story of the

611

00:19:17,201 --> 00:19:18,626

Marc Preston: West and the Oregon Trail and stuff.

612

00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:20,260

Marc Preston: I mean what, what were your folks saying to

613

00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:21,744

Marc Preston: you about that when you, when you landed

614

00:19:22,275 --> 00:19:24,763

Marc Preston: the role, you know, a Buffalo soldier?

615

00:19:24,783 --> 00:19:26,268

Marc Preston: What was kind of their feedback?

616

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LaMonica Garrett: They knew the significance of it and I put

617

00:19:28,977 --> 00:19:30,601

LaMonica Garrett: a lot of weight on myself because I know

618

00:19:30,621 --> 00:19:32,105

LaMonica Garrett: the genre and I know the lack of

619

00:19:32,145 --> 00:19:32,847

LaMonica Garrett: representation.

620

00:19:32,955 --> 00:19:35,098

LaMonica Garrett: That's been there over the years and my

621

00:19:35,138 --> 00:19:36,323

LaMonica Garrett: mom's a huge Western fan.

622

00:19:36,595 --> 00:19:38,381

LaMonica Garrett: She's an aficionado of all things Western,

623

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LaMonica Garrett: if you ask so.

624

00:19:40,377 --> 00:19:42,564

LaMonica Garrett: She knows that there weren't a lot of black

625

00:19:42,584 --> 00:19:44,610

LaMonica Garrett: cowboys growing up, especially on the

626

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LaMonica Garrett: television side.

627

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Announcer: So when I told her I got this role.

628

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LaMonica Garrett: She was just so excited and you know.

629

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Announcer: I really don't tell them much.

630

00:19:51,826 --> 00:19:54,035

LaMonica Garrett: Until it's about the air, you know whether

631

00:19:54,396 --> 00:19:55,741

LaMonica Garrett: it's a film or whether it's on.

632

00:19:55,761 --> 00:19:58,600

LaMonica Garrett: Tv, but my mom, I walked her through the

633

00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:00,365

LaMonica Garrett: whole process of everything that was going

634

00:20:00,446 --> 00:20:02,162

LaMonica Garrett: on Like and she just I had.

635

00:20:02,182 --> 00:20:03,909

LaMonica Garrett: This is the first time I've had my parents

636

00:20:04,432 --> 00:20:05,780

LaMonica Garrett: come to a premiere that I was doing.

637

00:20:06,987 --> 00:20:07,650

Announcer: And you know it.

638

00:20:07,670 --> 00:20:08,573

Announcer: Just it's been a lot.

639

00:20:08,865 --> 00:20:11,312

LaMonica Garrett: It's been a lot for me for them and for a

640

00:20:11,332 --> 00:20:14,009

LaMonica Garrett: lot of people, you know black cowboy across

641

00:20:14,029 --> 00:20:14,450

LaMonica Garrett: the country.

642

00:20:14,972 --> 00:20:15,955

LaMonica Garrett: Present day, black cowboy.

643

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Marc Preston: That's the reason why I want to saw you

644

00:20:17,977 --> 00:20:19,927

Marc Preston: wear the uniform the entire time but I

645

00:20:19,967 --> 00:20:21,611

Marc Preston: gleaned that it was a sense of pride that

646

00:20:21,652 --> 00:20:24,167

Marc Preston: kept the uniform on the entire time, and

647

00:20:24,207 --> 00:20:25,868

Marc Preston: pride in what you know, because you'd seen

648

00:20:25,908 --> 00:20:26,068

Marc Preston: some.

649

00:20:26,088 --> 00:20:28,134

Marc Preston: You know a character had seen some things

650

00:20:28,255 --> 00:20:28,556

Marc Preston: you know.

651

00:20:28,725 --> 00:20:29,868

LaMonica Garrett: That's the first thing he had.

652

00:20:29,928 --> 00:20:32,014

LaMonica Garrett: That was his and that he earned and that he

653

00:20:32,034 --> 00:20:32,756

LaMonica Garrett: could be proud of.

654

00:20:33,445 --> 00:20:35,971

LaMonica Garrett: Everything else in his life you know who

655

00:20:36,031 --> 00:20:38,677

LaMonica Garrett: knows what he did from the age 12 on,

656

00:20:39,225 --> 00:20:41,291

LaMonica Garrett: before he got there, and even being a slave

657

00:20:41,332 --> 00:20:43,789

LaMonica Garrett: living on a plantation, nothing is yours.

658

00:20:44,231 --> 00:20:47,392

LaMonica Garrett: You know you don't have the sense of pride

659

00:20:47,412 --> 00:20:49,917

LaMonica Garrett: you have when you someone gives you a gun,

660

00:20:50,486 --> 00:20:52,157

LaMonica Garrett: someone gives you a horse even though it's

661

00:20:52,178 --> 00:20:53,927

LaMonica Garrett: an old, beat down horse and it's probably a

662

00:20:53,987 --> 00:20:55,593

LaMonica Garrett: second hand gun and someone gives you a

663

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LaMonica Garrett: uniform and you have a territory to protect.

664

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LaMonica Garrett: They're entrusting you to do a job and he's

665

00:21:01,137 --> 00:21:03,589

LaMonica Garrett: never had that before, and that's just

666

00:21:03,629 --> 00:21:04,071

LaMonica Garrett: significant.

667

00:21:04,605 --> 00:21:06,290

Marc Preston: Yeah, and, like I said, the relationship

668

00:21:06,310 --> 00:21:07,473

Marc Preston: with you and Sam Elliott.

669

00:21:07,754 --> 00:21:10,488

Marc Preston: Again, his character looking, sounding, the

670

00:21:10,548 --> 00:21:12,432

Marc Preston: presence, everything about Sam Elliott, but

671

00:21:12,492 --> 00:21:15,959

Marc Preston: yet you come and provide him some wisdom.

672

00:21:16,105 --> 00:21:17,510

Marc Preston: One of my favorite scenes and the whole

673

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Marc Preston: thing is, is walk up, there's this.

674

00:21:20,580 --> 00:21:22,145

Marc Preston: I could hang a phrase.

675

00:21:22,245 --> 00:21:23,971

Marc Preston: It'd just be pure common, unadulterated

676

00:21:24,011 --> 00:21:24,613

Marc Preston: common sense.

677

00:21:25,085 --> 00:21:25,867

Marc Preston: You walk up to him.

678

00:21:26,048 --> 00:21:27,251

Marc Preston: He's sitting there, he's got his gun, he's

679

00:21:27,271 --> 00:21:28,976

Marc Preston: like all right, I need to dig a hole

680

00:21:29,425 --> 00:21:30,810

Marc Preston: Because you're like thinking what time is

681

00:21:30,870 --> 00:21:31,692

Marc Preston: it I got to get some stuff done?

682

00:21:31,712 --> 00:21:32,475

Marc Preston: Do I need to dig a hole?

683

00:21:32,765 --> 00:21:35,795

Marc Preston: I was like is this some real deal stuff

684

00:21:35,815 --> 00:21:35,935

Marc Preston: here.

685

00:21:36,787 --> 00:21:39,373

Marc Preston: This is not again trying to say to West

686

00:21:39,393 --> 00:21:40,936

Marc Preston: it's a really hard place, it was just like

687

00:21:41,016 --> 00:21:41,818

Marc Preston: it was what it was.

688

00:21:42,045 --> 00:21:44,611

LaMonica Garrett: It was a matter of factly yeah, and it set

689

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LaMonica Garrett: the tone for who they are and who they are

690

00:21:46,615 --> 00:21:50,489

LaMonica Garrett: as people together and that opening scene

691

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LaMonica Garrett: when we read it, sam said the same thing.

692

00:21:53,213 --> 00:21:57,308

LaMonica Garrett: It was like wow, that's impactful, like you

693

00:21:57,348 --> 00:21:58,958

LaMonica Garrett: know who these guys are, right out the gate.

694

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Marc Preston: I could just spend the whole time talking

695

00:22:00,836 --> 00:22:02,105

Marc Preston: 1883 in there.

696

00:22:02,165 --> 00:22:03,490

Marc Preston: Some people may be listening who haven't

697

00:22:03,510 --> 00:22:03,891

Marc Preston: seen it yet.

698

00:22:03,931 --> 00:22:04,433

Marc Preston: They need to.

699

00:22:04,613 --> 00:22:05,035

Marc Preston: They need to.

700

00:22:05,611 --> 00:22:06,825

Marc Preston: But your body worked, man.

701

00:22:08,108 --> 00:22:09,190

Marc Preston: I was just talking to my son in the car

702

00:22:09,210 --> 00:22:10,794

Marc Preston: when we got picked up lunch and I saw you

703

00:22:10,814 --> 00:22:12,538

Marc Preston: done the superhero thing.

704

00:22:12,687 --> 00:22:13,745

Marc Preston: I didn't know about that.

705

00:22:13,825 --> 00:22:15,149

Marc Preston: My son's like yeah, he was in, he played.

706

00:22:15,730 --> 00:22:17,114

Marc Preston: I forgot the character he said you played,

707

00:22:17,134 --> 00:22:19,352

Marc Preston: but I see the monitor, the monitor and the

708

00:22:19,493 --> 00:22:20,259

Marc Preston: anti-monitor.

709

00:22:20,582 --> 00:22:20,804

LaMonica Garrett: yeah.

710

00:22:21,386 --> 00:22:21,566

Marc Preston: Yeah.

711

00:22:21,586 --> 00:22:23,471

Marc Preston: So that's got to be kind of wild, because I

712

00:22:23,491 --> 00:22:25,816

Marc Preston: mean to say from that to 1883, that's some

713

00:22:25,876 --> 00:22:26,858

Marc Preston: range right there, man.

714

00:22:27,246 --> 00:22:28,190

LaMonica Garrett: I jump around a little bit.

715

00:22:28,426 --> 00:22:30,052

Marc Preston: Now, where did they shoot the last ship?

716

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Marc Preston: That was.

717

00:22:30,929 --> 00:22:31,754

Marc Preston: I enjoyed that show.

718

00:22:32,136 --> 00:22:33,804

Marc Preston: The premise and concept of it was pretty

719

00:22:33,844 --> 00:22:33,985

Marc Preston: cool.

720

00:22:34,065 --> 00:22:34,829

Marc Preston: Where was that made?

721

00:22:35,265 --> 00:22:37,426

LaMonica Garrett: That was Culver Studios and we went down to

722

00:22:37,467 --> 00:22:38,028

LaMonica Garrett: San Diego.

723

00:22:38,068 --> 00:22:40,452

LaMonica Garrett: We actually filmed at the Naval Base on one

724

00:22:40,552 --> 00:22:43,658

LaMonica Garrett: of the carriers a couple times and that was

725

00:22:43,699 --> 00:22:43,939

LaMonica Garrett: amazing.

726

00:22:44,266 --> 00:22:46,753

LaMonica Garrett: And before Terminalist, that was the last

727

00:22:46,834 --> 00:22:49,007

LaMonica Garrett: job I had in Los Angeles, like everything

728

00:22:49,047 --> 00:22:51,152

LaMonica Garrett: since then has been in different states

729

00:22:52,214 --> 00:22:53,057

LaMonica Garrett: different countries.

730

00:22:53,526 --> 00:22:54,033

Marc Preston: You know, it's funny.

731

00:22:54,053 --> 00:22:54,905

Marc Preston: I had a friend in the Coast Guard.

732

00:22:55,025 --> 00:22:56,869

Marc Preston: I would sometimes drive them down to their

733

00:22:56,909 --> 00:22:59,214

Marc Preston: ship which departed out of the, let's say,

734

00:22:59,234 --> 00:23:01,117

Marc Preston: the home of the US Pacific Surface Fleet or

735

00:23:01,158 --> 00:23:03,051

Marc Preston: whatever, and you don't realize how big

736

00:23:03,072 --> 00:23:04,941

Marc Preston: these ships are unless you're driving right

737

00:23:04,982 --> 00:23:05,605

Marc Preston: next to them in a car.

738

00:23:05,665 --> 00:23:06,870

Marc Preston: It's like holy crap, these things are

739

00:23:06,910 --> 00:23:07,914

Marc Preston: enormous Magic.

740

00:23:08,356 --> 00:23:09,690

Marc Preston: Yeah, that was such a great show.

741

00:23:09,805 --> 00:23:10,690

Marc Preston: I mean, it was just kind of cool.

742

00:23:11,067 --> 00:23:12,261

LaMonica Garrett: I love working with those guys.

743

00:23:12,665 --> 00:23:15,293

LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, that was such a fun role and such a

744

00:23:15,313 --> 00:23:17,126

LaMonica Garrett: fun experience being like that it was a

745

00:23:17,146 --> 00:23:18,831

LaMonica Garrett: locker room environment and it was just.

746

00:23:19,573 --> 00:23:19,934

LaMonica Garrett: It was great.

747

00:23:20,886 --> 00:23:21,287

Marc Preston: I was about to say.

748

00:23:21,307 --> 00:23:22,812

Marc Preston: It seems like there was a lot testosterone

749

00:23:22,832 --> 00:23:23,294

Marc Preston: on that set.

750

00:23:23,606 --> 00:23:26,213

LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, I was a former football player, so I

751

00:23:26,233 --> 00:23:28,225

LaMonica Garrett: kind of I invited that a little bit, but we

752

00:23:28,266 --> 00:23:30,451

LaMonica Garrett: were shooting at the base and we were all

753

00:23:30,511 --> 00:23:33,046

LaMonica Garrett: in our, you know fatigue and everything and

754

00:23:33,066 --> 00:23:35,469

LaMonica Garrett: I was lieutenant, so when you're walking to

755

00:23:35,549 --> 00:23:35,870

LaMonica Garrett: set.

756

00:23:36,352 --> 00:23:38,328

LaMonica Garrett: It was an active base, so people were

757

00:23:38,368 --> 00:23:39,332

LaMonica Garrett: stopping what they're doing.

758

00:23:39,845 --> 00:23:41,230

LaMonica Garrett: You're like no, no, no, no, no, no, we're

759

00:23:41,250 --> 00:23:41,832

LaMonica Garrett: just acting.

760

00:23:42,445 --> 00:23:43,349

LaMonica Garrett: They couldn't tell the difference.

761

00:23:43,810 --> 00:23:44,413

LaMonica Garrett: I felt guilty.

762

00:23:44,606 --> 00:23:45,530

LaMonica Garrett: I'm like, you guys earned it.

763

00:23:45,686 --> 00:23:47,629

LaMonica Garrett: You guys are the heroes we're just playing.

764

00:23:47,649 --> 00:23:48,171

LaMonica Garrett: Make believe.

765

00:23:49,529 --> 00:23:51,334

Marc Preston: But yeah, that was a different experience

766

00:23:51,785 --> 00:23:54,317

Marc Preston: you segwayed out of that into, or are you

767

00:23:54,401 --> 00:23:56,158

Marc Preston: doing that concurrently with designated

768

00:23:56,241 --> 00:23:56,742

Marc Preston: survivor?

769

00:23:56,742 --> 00:23:59,108

Marc Preston: At the same time I got designated right

770

00:23:59,169 --> 00:24:01,536

Marc Preston: after the first season I did with last ship

771

00:24:01,865 --> 00:24:03,210

Marc Preston: and then that took me to.

772

00:24:03,832 --> 00:24:05,829

Announcer: Toronto, and then I came back to kind of

773

00:24:06,470 --> 00:24:08,034

Announcer: give my character an outro.

774

00:24:08,476 --> 00:24:08,957

LaMonica Garrett: You know what I mean.

775

00:24:09,085 --> 00:24:11,412

LaMonica Garrett: So we just something where my character had

776

00:24:11,612 --> 00:24:13,710

LaMonica Garrett: he just disappeared, so they wrote

777

00:24:13,750 --> 00:24:15,182

LaMonica Garrett: something in to say what happened to him.

778

00:24:15,705 --> 00:24:16,968

Marc Preston: Going into designated survivor.

779

00:24:16,988 --> 00:24:17,810

Marc Preston: That was again.

780

00:24:17,851 --> 00:24:19,535

Marc Preston: That's kind of another one of those what if

781

00:24:19,855 --> 00:24:22,370

Marc Preston: shows, and there it's kind of funny that

782

00:24:22,410 --> 00:24:23,654

Marc Preston: it's sort of the same thing you do with Sam

783

00:24:23,715 --> 00:24:23,935

Marc Preston: Elliott.

784

00:24:23,965 --> 00:24:25,050

Marc Preston: You're kind of there to provide a little

785

00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:25,351

Marc Preston: wisdom.

786

00:24:25,605 --> 00:24:27,332

Marc Preston: It seems like a common theme that starts

787

00:24:27,352 --> 00:24:27,673

Marc Preston: showing up.

788

00:24:27,745 --> 00:24:29,069

Marc Preston: People look to you for a little bit of

789

00:24:29,150 --> 00:24:29,511

Marc Preston: insight.

790

00:24:30,765 --> 00:24:33,809

LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, I guess Terminalist on the opposite,

791

00:24:34,512 --> 00:24:36,810

LaMonica Garrett: but not really I didn't, you know a?

792

00:24:36,930 --> 00:24:39,490

Announcer: lot of insight in that too, but I guess

793

00:24:39,510 --> 00:24:40,313

Announcer: that's what I project.

794

00:24:40,825 --> 00:24:42,670

LaMonica Garrett: I better got to call my agent up and see

795

00:24:42,691 --> 00:24:44,686

LaMonica Garrett: what else how we can expand on this Take

796

00:24:44,726 --> 00:24:46,232

LaMonica Garrett: over for that whole Morgan Freeman God

797

00:24:46,272 --> 00:24:46,513

LaMonica Garrett: thing.

798

00:24:46,906 --> 00:24:48,451

Marc Preston: You know, it's like downtown to pass a

799

00:24:48,471 --> 00:24:48,953

Marc Preston: baton.

800

00:24:49,053 --> 00:24:51,229

Marc Preston: You know, reed Diamond, just he did it,

801

00:24:51,289 --> 00:24:53,295

Marc Preston: just knocked it out of the park there as

802

00:24:53,335 --> 00:24:53,556

Marc Preston: well.

803

00:24:53,705 --> 00:24:55,632

Marc Preston: So it's cool that y'all you know, connected

804

00:24:55,672 --> 00:24:56,073

Marc Preston: y'all both.

805

00:24:56,565 --> 00:24:58,073

Marc Preston: What I love about Reed the same thing with

806

00:24:58,113 --> 00:25:00,726

Marc Preston: you is I have a great admiration for what I

807

00:25:00,766 --> 00:25:02,172

Marc Preston: call just great working actors.

808

00:25:02,305 --> 00:25:03,910

Marc Preston: They show up and whatever they're doing,

809

00:25:03,930 --> 00:25:04,873

Marc Preston: they knock it out of the park.

810

00:25:04,994 --> 00:25:06,247

Marc Preston: You know, and I really that's what I've

811

00:25:06,268 --> 00:25:07,491

Marc Preston: always admired about what you do.

812

00:25:08,534 --> 00:25:08,875

Marc Preston: Thank you.

813

00:25:09,466 --> 00:25:11,393

Marc Preston: Now, moving kind of hit rewind a little bit,

814

00:25:11,785 --> 00:25:14,853

Marc Preston: when you were, you know, football, you kind

815

00:25:14,894 --> 00:25:15,776

Marc Preston: of closed that chapter.

816

00:25:16,005 --> 00:25:18,691

Marc Preston: You're in LA, but generally, what was that

817

00:25:18,731 --> 00:25:20,400

Marc Preston: progression that got you in where you?

818

00:25:20,461 --> 00:25:22,115

Marc Preston: You know you're taking some classes, you're

819

00:25:22,150 --> 00:25:23,231

Marc Preston: kind of doing the same, you know, getting

820

00:25:23,265 --> 00:25:24,753

Marc Preston: your headshots doing the auditions.

821

00:25:25,765 --> 00:25:27,910

Marc Preston: How did that progress to you know?

822

00:25:27,970 --> 00:25:29,975

Marc Preston: Was it pretty quick for you or was it kind

823

00:25:29,995 --> 00:25:30,697

Marc Preston: of a slow roll?

824

00:25:31,908 --> 00:25:32,951

Marc Preston: It was a slow burn.

825

00:25:34,227 --> 00:25:37,065

LaMonica Garrett: My roommate at the time he needed a ride.

826

00:25:37,206 --> 00:25:39,182

LaMonica Garrett: His car broke down and it was a commercial

827

00:25:39,243 --> 00:25:39,464

LaMonica Garrett: audition.

828

00:25:39,625 --> 00:25:40,690

LaMonica Garrett: It was a pretty big commercial.

829

00:25:41,586 --> 00:25:41,768

Announcer: Joe.

830

00:25:41,808 --> 00:25:44,208

LaMonica Garrett: Pichka directing was for IBM, it was like

831

00:25:44,248 --> 00:25:44,910

LaMonica Garrett: 10 spots.

832

00:25:46,085 --> 00:25:46,827

Announcer: And I didn't have an agent.

833

00:25:46,847 --> 00:25:48,311

LaMonica Garrett: I didn't have anything else working at

834

00:25:48,331 --> 00:25:52,509

LaMonica Garrett: FedEx at the time I take him to this park

835

00:25:52,550 --> 00:25:53,994

LaMonica Garrett: and I see a bunch of basketball players.

836

00:25:55,154 --> 00:25:56,935

LaMonica Garrett: And I'm like I can do that you think they

837

00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:57,585

LaMonica Garrett: would let me audition.

838

00:25:57,645 --> 00:26:00,347

LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, I did my try, you know, and I got

839

00:26:00,387 --> 00:26:00,890

LaMonica Garrett: that job.

840

00:26:01,785 --> 00:26:04,738

LaMonica Garrett: And with that job helped me to get in the

841

00:26:04,758 --> 00:26:05,360

LaMonica Garrett: class.

842

00:26:05,401 --> 00:26:06,385

LaMonica Garrett: You know, the money was good.

843

00:26:06,445 --> 00:26:07,811

LaMonica Garrett: It was the first job I ever had.

844

00:26:07,925 --> 00:26:10,452

LaMonica Garrett: It helped me get my SAG credentials and all

845

00:26:10,472 --> 00:26:12,607

LaMonica Garrett: that stuff and I thought it was going to be

846

00:26:12,728 --> 00:26:14,354

LaMonica Garrett: easy, like why isn't everyone doing this?

847

00:26:14,786 --> 00:26:15,427

LaMonica Garrett: And then years.

848

00:26:15,488 --> 00:26:17,272

LaMonica Garrett: I didn't book any other commercials, but

849

00:26:17,693 --> 00:26:19,909

LaMonica Garrett: that's what that was, but I stayed in class

850

00:26:20,825 --> 00:26:22,170

LaMonica Garrett: and then I started playing this sport

851

00:26:22,230 --> 00:26:23,052

LaMonica Garrett: called Slamball.

852

00:26:24,065 --> 00:26:24,145

Announcer: And.

853

00:26:24,165 --> 00:26:26,613

LaMonica Garrett: Slamball took me to different countries,

854

00:26:26,673 --> 00:26:29,589

LaMonica Garrett: different states and ultimately there was a

855

00:26:30,170 --> 00:26:33,377

LaMonica Garrett: one tree hill three episode arc where James

856

00:26:33,437 --> 00:26:36,814

LaMonica Garrett: Lafferty and Joe Manganiello were the leads

857

00:26:38,087 --> 00:26:40,245

LaMonica Garrett: and they were Slamball players, so they

858

00:26:40,286 --> 00:26:40,987

LaMonica Garrett: needed a real.

859

00:26:41,027 --> 00:26:43,313

LaMonica Garrett: Slamball player to go against them in this

860

00:26:43,333 --> 00:26:45,947

LaMonica Garrett: three episode arc, and I was telling the

861

00:26:45,987 --> 00:26:46,589

LaMonica Garrett: guys like hey.

862

00:26:46,649 --> 00:26:48,135

LaMonica Garrett: I've been in acting classes for years.

863

00:26:48,225 --> 00:26:51,046

LaMonica Garrett: I can do this and I got the part and that

864

00:26:51,066 --> 00:26:52,651

LaMonica Garrett: was my first real TV credit.

865

00:26:53,665 --> 00:26:55,089

Announcer: And when I got back home, from there.

866

00:26:55,169 --> 00:26:57,395

LaMonica Garrett: it was one of those things where I quit

867

00:26:57,435 --> 00:26:58,037

LaMonica Garrett: Slamball.

868

00:26:58,105 --> 00:27:00,152

LaMonica Garrett: I quit everything I was doing, just acting

869

00:27:00,192 --> 00:27:02,791

LaMonica Garrett: classes and like at that high I got from

870

00:27:02,811 --> 00:27:03,413

LaMonica Garrett: being on set.

871

00:27:03,685 --> 00:27:05,110

Marc Preston: How long had you done Slamball after that

872

00:27:05,150 --> 00:27:05,371

Marc Preston: time?

873

00:27:06,205 --> 00:27:08,052

LaMonica Garrett: Like six years, six, seven years.

874

00:27:08,365 --> 00:27:09,691

Marc Preston: I know it's with trampolines a little bit

875

00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:12,893

Marc Preston: smaller ball and it's basketball leveled

876

00:27:12,953 --> 00:27:14,608

Marc Preston: out a little bit, but you know, is it a big

877

00:27:14,648 --> 00:27:15,892

Marc Preston: televised sport back in the day.

878

00:27:16,755 --> 00:27:17,096

LaMonica Garrett: It was?

879

00:27:17,426 --> 00:27:19,833

Marc Preston: It was on CBS, it was on TNT, T&N.

880

00:27:20,605 --> 00:27:22,030

LaMonica Garrett: They did some stuff on ESPN.

881

00:27:23,707 --> 00:27:25,727

LaMonica Garrett: We were in Italy right now they're big in

882

00:27:25,747 --> 00:27:30,335

LaMonica Garrett: China we were in Atlanta for Final Four.

883

00:27:30,405 --> 00:27:33,288

LaMonica Garrett: Like we just we got around and it was like,

884

00:27:33,308 --> 00:27:34,914

LaMonica Garrett: you know, watching a live video game.

885

00:27:35,005 --> 00:27:36,789

LaMonica Garrett: So it was still fun to me and I still had

886

00:27:36,810 --> 00:27:38,995

LaMonica Garrett: that energy of, you know, wanting to play

887

00:27:39,055 --> 00:27:41,752

LaMonica Garrett: football, so that was like an outlet for me.

888

00:27:42,205 --> 00:27:44,291

Marc Preston: So really your athleticism is what got you

889

00:27:44,833 --> 00:27:45,876

Marc Preston: indirectly in acting.

890

00:27:45,936 --> 00:27:47,445

Marc Preston: Yeah, you know that's pretty much so.

891

00:27:47,465 --> 00:27:47,907

Marc Preston: There was a.

892

00:27:47,987 --> 00:27:49,974

Marc Preston: There was a direct kind of a link there.

893

00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:52,131

Marc Preston: So now you're on One Tree Hill and were you

894

00:27:52,151 --> 00:27:54,626

Marc Preston: just progressing on TV from there, or are

895

00:27:54,666 --> 00:27:55,749

Marc Preston: you, I guess?

896

00:27:55,989 --> 00:27:57,473

Marc Preston: Hey, everybody, you're auditioning for

897

00:27:57,513 --> 00:27:58,235

Marc Preston: everything, I'm sure.

898

00:27:58,476 --> 00:28:01,832

LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, one line here, two lines on Eastwick,

899

00:28:02,173 --> 00:28:04,418

LaMonica Garrett: you know three lines on Hawthorne, just you

900

00:28:04,505 --> 00:28:06,289

LaMonica Garrett: know, giving to no casting directors and

901

00:28:06,349 --> 00:28:09,976

LaMonica Garrett: really starting from the bottom, just

902

00:28:10,597 --> 00:28:12,890

LaMonica Garrett: figuring it out having bad auditions like

903

00:28:12,990 --> 00:28:13,933

LaMonica Garrett: okay that doesn't work.

904

00:28:14,625 --> 00:28:15,468

Announcer: Let me try it this way.

905

00:28:15,688 --> 00:28:17,293

LaMonica Garrett: You know, meeting with different acting

906

00:28:17,313 --> 00:28:20,510

LaMonica Garrett: coaches trying to figure out my voice who I

907

00:28:20,610 --> 00:28:22,835

LaMonica Garrett: am as an actor, you know what I bring to

908

00:28:22,855 --> 00:28:25,150

LaMonica Garrett: the table and it just takes years to figure

909

00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:26,887

LaMonica Garrett: that kind of stuff out, and once you start

910

00:28:26,907 --> 00:28:28,973

LaMonica Garrett: putting it all together, you're like I can

911

00:28:28,993 --> 00:28:31,516

LaMonica Garrett: do this and that's you know it was gradual,

912

00:28:31,617 --> 00:28:32,141

LaMonica Garrett: but it happened.

913

00:28:32,765 --> 00:28:34,603

Marc Preston: Yeah, with age comes that confidence plus

914

00:28:34,685 --> 00:28:36,465

Marc Preston: you'd know yourself better and you, it's a

915

00:28:36,564 --> 00:28:38,598

Marc Preston: thing, that classic idea of if you knew

916

00:28:38,697 --> 00:28:40,488

Marc Preston: then what you know now, kind of a thing.

917

00:28:40,586 --> 00:28:42,394

Marc Preston: It's like if I could start over again, man,

918

00:28:42,414 --> 00:28:44,504

Marc Preston: I'd be a lot more efficient, you know, with

919

00:28:44,525 --> 00:28:45,830

Marc Preston: what I did or what I would be doing

920

00:28:45,950 --> 00:28:46,492

Marc Preston: Absolutely.

921

00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:46,966

LaMonica Garrett: Yeah.

922

00:28:47,925 --> 00:28:49,509

Marc Preston: Of course, you know you manage to land,

923

00:28:49,890 --> 00:28:51,775

Marc Preston: like on multiple series or multiple

924

00:28:51,836 --> 00:28:52,337

Marc Preston: episodes.

925

00:28:52,425 --> 00:28:54,150

Marc Preston: You know you've rolled everything you've

926

00:28:54,211 --> 00:28:55,113

Marc Preston: done up and go.

927

00:28:55,133 --> 00:28:55,795

Marc Preston: Okay, I've done this.

928

00:28:56,005 --> 00:28:58,572

Marc Preston: What is something you'd like to put in a

929

00:28:58,612 --> 00:29:00,077

Marc Preston: bucket list of what you would like to do?

930

00:29:00,185 --> 00:29:01,992

Marc Preston: Either actors you would like to work with,

931

00:29:02,052 --> 00:29:05,170

Marc Preston: director, a kind of project that you would

932

00:29:05,190 --> 00:29:08,797

Marc Preston: like to kind of scoot into, be the movie or

933

00:29:08,817 --> 00:29:09,278

Marc Preston: TV show.

934

00:29:09,745 --> 00:29:13,814

LaMonica Garrett: My next goal is to to lead something, to

935

00:29:13,874 --> 00:29:15,918

LaMonica Garrett: lead like an action project, whether it's

936

00:29:15,945 --> 00:29:17,710

LaMonica Garrett: television or film like a Jason.

937

00:29:17,750 --> 00:29:18,652

LaMonica Garrett: Bourne kind of thing.

938

00:29:18,752 --> 00:29:20,826

LaMonica Garrett: Or like if we go back to comic books like a

939

00:29:21,086 --> 00:29:22,951

LaMonica Garrett: Green Lantern, john Stewart kind of thing,

940

00:29:23,593 --> 00:29:25,357

LaMonica Garrett: but to be a lead and to carry the load.

941

00:29:25,505 --> 00:29:25,967

LaMonica Garrett: I've been.

942

00:29:26,167 --> 00:29:28,977

LaMonica Garrett: You know the guy that I'm there and I'm

943

00:29:29,398 --> 00:29:31,485

LaMonica Garrett: like you said, is wisdom and you have a

944

00:29:31,505 --> 00:29:33,290

LaMonica Garrett: strong presence and you're there and you're

945

00:29:33,310 --> 00:29:35,054

LaMonica Garrett: holding your own, but I haven't let that

946

00:29:35,114 --> 00:29:35,535

LaMonica Garrett: ship yet.

947

00:29:36,305 --> 00:29:37,608

Announcer: And I think, whether it's television or

948

00:29:37,669 --> 00:29:41,325

Announcer: film, I love action and I love sci-fi, so

949

00:29:41,365 --> 00:29:43,106

Announcer: to be a lead in one of those genres.

950

00:29:43,326 --> 00:29:45,207

LaMonica Garrett: you know, we'll see where it goes.

951

00:29:52,557 --> 00:29:53,119

Marc Preston: Well, sci-fi.

952

00:29:53,139 --> 00:29:54,122

Marc Preston: What were you growing up with?

953

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Marc Preston: What was your go-to movies as kid 80s, 90s?

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Marc Preston: What were you like all about back in the

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Marc Preston: day?

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LaMonica Garrett: The Return of the Jedi was the first film I

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LaMonica Garrett: went and saw without my parents at Tampere

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LaMonica Garrett: Inn Theater in San Francisco.

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LaMonica Garrett: I grew up quantum leap, the greatest

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LaMonica Garrett: American hero, night writer.

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LaMonica Garrett: Like, I believe, 80s TV to me was the best

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LaMonica Garrett: TV ever.

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LaMonica Garrett: And that's why it's being remade.

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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, 80s television to me was just.

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LaMonica Garrett: It was all there, Alph.

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Marc Preston: Oh, and what was it like being on Fantasy

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Marc Preston: Island?

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Marc Preston: Then you know you're on an episode of the

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Marc Preston: new Fantasy Island, was that?

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Marc Preston: What kind of like?

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LaMonica Garrett: That was a flashback.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, my daughter's into that show and I

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Marc Preston: was trying to tell her that back in the day,

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Marc Preston: man, I was like Saturday night got in Love

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Marc Preston: Boat and Fantasy Island.

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Marc Preston: That was the jam.

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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, we didn't have a lot of options and

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LaMonica Garrett: that was it.

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LaMonica Garrett: Right, it was, this is what you're watching

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LaMonica Garrett: tonight.