Tye Sheridan | Small Town to Asphalt City

You know what's cool about the medic

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Tye: community, the MS community, it was like

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Tye: you know they're so excited.

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Tye: You know that you're making a film.

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Tye: They don't treat you like an actor or

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Tye: something like that.

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Tye: Like they just throw you the oxygen tank

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Tye: and they're like carry this up.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story Craft.

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

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Marc: to have you back, another episode of Story

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Marc: Craft and if this is your first episode, my

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Marc: name is Marc Preston, so glad to have you

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Marc: along.

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Marc: And today we're going to be sitting down

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Marc: having a great conversation with Ty

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Marc: Sheridan, who has been acting since back

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Marc: with Brad Pitt in the Tree of Life.

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Marc: He was also in Mud with Matthew McConaughey.

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Marc: He was in Ready Player One, that Steven

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Marc: a couple weeks ago, in fact.

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Marc: And most recently he was in Ready Player

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Marc: And most recently he was in the Tender Bar,

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Marc: which was a film George Clooney directed,

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Marc: and he's been in a lot of great projects.

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Marc: He's got one coming out on March 29th

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Marc: called Asphalt City.

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Marc: He produced that movie also and he's

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Marc: Today is Ty Sheridan Day, right here on

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Marc: Story and Craft.

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Marc: How are you doing today?

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Marc: I'm good.

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Marc: How are you?

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Marc: Very good?

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Marc: I think it sounds like you got a busy day

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Marc: going on.

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Tye: I do have a busy day going on, but it's

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Tye: happy to be here.

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Marc: Very good Now.

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Marc: Where are you about to be joining me from

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Tye: I'm in LA, manhattan Beach, california.

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Tye: How about you?

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Tye: Where are you?

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Tye: I?

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Marc: am a native Texan from Dallas.

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Marc: All right, Me too.

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Marc: I lived the last 25 years on and off in New

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Marc: Orleans and Southern California but, I just

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Marc: All right, I figure.

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Marc: If I can live and work anywhere, I'm going

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Marc: to be on the beach.

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Marc: I've got a daughter who's on her gap year

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Marc: and so she came down here with me and just

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Marc: That was an odyssey.

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Marc: That was, I'm sure.

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Marc: So yeah, you're from Texas also right.

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Tye: That's right Whereabouts.

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Tye: I grew up in a really small town in East

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Tye: Texas, in between Dallas and Houston,

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Tye: called Elkhart Elkhart, texas, okay.

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Marc: I got family in in Longview so my sister

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Marc: lives in longview so you probably made a

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Marc: stop once, twice to bodacious barbecue, or

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Marc: I've been to bodacious.

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Marc: They have old dr pepper glass dr pepper

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Marc: They have a big water bath of warm water

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Marc: So the barbecue sauce is always in one of

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Marc: I know it's I'm not a big barbecue guy

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Marc: So everybody goes there.

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Marc: Yeah, so very good.

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Marc: But but no, you know it was so funny.

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Marc: I rarely go go over folks.

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Marc: I am DB.

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Marc: I don't really try to scour too much

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Marc: But I didn't realize the depth of how much

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Marc: I love all the work you've done that I've

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Marc: Appreciate that.

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Marc: I was trying to find some of the projects

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Marc: just stumbled across.

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Marc: My daughter is the biggest Zach Bryan fan

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Marc: on planet Earth.

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Marc: I mean, that's her god when it comes to

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Marc: country music and the video for Nineball.

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Marc: Just to kind of start off as curious and

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Marc: in that project with Matthew McConaughey?

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Tye: Good question.

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Tye: Yeah, it was really like last minute and

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Tye: just seemed like a lot of fun.

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Tye: You know, I think Zach is a really special

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Tye: artist and yeah it was.

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Tye: You know, go go shoot pool, hang out, work

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Tye: with, work with mcconaughey and on a zach

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Tye: bryan music video for a day sure why not?

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Marc: so y'all work together about once every

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Marc: You and mcconaughey got to connect.

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Marc: You know another, another good texas guy no,

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Marc: it was good, it was good.

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Tye: He's, he's, uh, yeah, he's so much fun to

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Tye: character to.

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Tye: Maybe that would be an understatement.

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Marc: Well, you know I haven't watched too many

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Marc: I remember when MTV actually played the

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Marc: It was just such a cool bit of storytelling.

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Marc: It was just kind of neat.

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Marc: When we were doing our drive down here in

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Marc: the U-Haul, my daughter, at least for a

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Marc: only person that she's actually the voice

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Marc: of my show here and the thing is she

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Marc: doesn't ever really listen to it.

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Marc: I think if I can get Zach Bryan to come on,

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Marc: Listen, it was very impressive.

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Marc: Uh, and I don't say that often, it's like I

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Marc: folks you've worked with who are just, you

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Marc: know, as a young actor, it seems like you

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Marc: A lot of your contemporaries, just the

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Marc: the projects you're working on, but um, you

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Marc: know, I appreciate that I'm a lucky guy.

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Marc: You've had a long career, but the thing is

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Tye: I don't know.

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Tye: You know, I think kids really, as you know,

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Tye: you have a teenager younger, early 20s

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Tye: daughter sounds like they change fast.

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Tye: You know.

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Tye: It's like you don't see them for six months

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Tye: and they're six inches taller.

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Marc: Yeah, you know it seems you don't see them

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Marc: Yeah, you know, it seems I got one just

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Marc: yeah, oh, yeah, yeah.

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Marc: Legally drink alcohol now.

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Marc: But I mean, but the transition for you, you

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Marc: know, it seemed very seamless, it's like it

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Marc: just, you know, you went from ready player

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Marc: one I was watching that and then I watched

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Marc: you know, god, what was I saying the other

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Marc: day I've seen three of your films in the

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Tye: You know I was like let me go check out

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Tye: some of those stuff I really enjoyed it.

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Marc: And to kind of go back, I mentioned ready

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Marc: player one.

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Marc: I've been, I was, I've been curious since

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Marc: watching that I do a lot of voiceover.

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Marc: It's kind of one of my main things I do.

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Marc: But I was curious.

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Marc: A lot of that movie seems like was it

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Marc: motion capture?

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Marc: Was it a voiceover?

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Tye: It was both.

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Tye: It was motion capture, which we shot in

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Tye: motion capture for about eight weeks on the

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Tye: film.

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Tye: You know it was a bigger, bigger project

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Tye: obviously.

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Tye: So you know we had a lot of shooting days

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Tye: but, yeah, eight weeks of the of the shoot

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Tye: we were in motion capture.

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Tye: And so, yeah, I guess, for anybody who's

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Tye: listening doesn't know what motion capture

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Tye: is, it's, you've probably seen the behind

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Tye: the scenes on, like Avatar or something

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Tye: like that, of the actors wearing the funny

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Tye: suits and with the ball, the tracking

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Tye: Marcers all over them.

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Tye: You know the cameras um on on their on

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Tye: their face, um, so we, you know we were in

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Tye: a volume with 180 infrared sensors and, you

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Tye: know, recording the animation data, um,

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Tye: because like 40 percent of the movie takes

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Tye: place and in a virtual world, and so I'd

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Tye: never done that before and it was very

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Tye: technical and you know, I guess it's the

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Tye: closest experience I've ever had to, like

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Tye: working on a stage, for instance oh so you

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Tye: see, you didn't have that background of

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Tye: working on, uh, working on stage, you kind

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Tye: of went right to on camera, more or less

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Tye: right.

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Tye: Pretty much.

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Tye: Yeah, no, I I kind of randomly fell into

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Tye: the whole this whole thing, and especially

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Tye: the film world.

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Tye: I was, I was uh, let's see, I was 10 years

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Tye: old and I was going to.

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Tye: What kind of work did your dad do back then?

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Tye: of told.

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Tye: No, the movie is yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Tye: So you know the story is.

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Tye: There are three sons in the family.

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Tye: Okay, okay.

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Tye: No, it's very good.

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Tye: Not really other than I just disappeared

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Tye: It came out, and you know, so very highly

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Tye: And when they saw it it was obviously like

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Tye: And so, yeah, it was.

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Tye: I don't want to say they were making fun of

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Tye: I worked on, yeah, and that was, you know,

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Tye: So it was.

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Tye: Um, and so it was like when I, when I found

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Tye: And then I just kind of, yeah, after that,

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Marc: and I forever knew that was what I wanted

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Tye: Well, I never really made.

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Tye: I was working on films and bouncing around,

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Tye: But yeah, there was a decision.

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Tye: worked on.

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Tye: I was 11 years old and I told my parents 11

495

00:16:26,710 --> 00:16:27,591

Tye: or 12, I told them I think this is

496

00:16:27,611 --> 00:16:28,913

Tye: something I want to do and it was really

497

00:16:28,973 --> 00:16:38,002

Tye: fascinating and I think they had, you know,

498

00:16:38,022 --> 00:16:38,583

Tye: a reluctance around.

499

00:16:38,683 --> 00:16:39,666

Tye: You know, obviously I hear crazy stories

500

00:16:39,686 --> 00:16:40,588

Tye: about child actors and is it really the

501

00:16:40,608 --> 00:16:41,551

Tye: best world for your kid to be getting

502

00:16:41,591 --> 00:16:44,324

Tye: caught up in, and so you know, I think

503

00:16:44,364 --> 00:16:46,167

Tye: there was obviously, you know, some

504

00:16:46,207 --> 00:16:48,451

Tye: hesitation there on my parents' part.

505

00:16:48,791 --> 00:16:52,202

Tye: But you know, of course, if they were there

506

00:16:52,403 --> 00:16:55,771

Tye: and you know kind of looking after me and I

507

00:16:55,791 --> 00:16:57,505

Tye: think they were and it was something I

508

00:16:57,565 --> 00:16:57,988

Tye: wanted to do.

509

00:16:58,048 --> 00:16:58,834

Tye: My parents have never.

510

00:16:58,854 --> 00:17:00,421

Tye: If I ever told my parents I wanted to do

511

00:17:00,481 --> 00:17:02,827

Tye: something, they were always supportive.

512

00:17:02,867 --> 00:17:03,488

Tye: They've never.

513

00:17:04,029 --> 00:17:05,513

Tye: I've been super lucky, they've never.

514

00:17:05,553 --> 00:17:08,065

Tye: Really, you know they're right there,

515

00:17:08,085 --> 00:17:08,466

Tye: they're always.

516

00:17:08,526 --> 00:17:09,970

Tye: Yes, what can I do to help you?

517

00:17:10,270 --> 00:17:11,782

Tye: And I think it was no different in this

518

00:17:12,262 --> 00:17:14,687

Tye: context, obviously like a bit more nuanced,

519

00:17:16,150 --> 00:17:18,654

Tye: but yeah, I, you know it was.

520

00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:20,966

Tye: It was also like I wasn't living like the

521

00:17:21,006 --> 00:17:23,192

Tye: child actor life, you know, I wasn't on a

522

00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,209

Tye: some regularly occurring Disney show.

523

00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:28,806

Tye: I was, you know, living in East Texas,

524

00:17:28,866 --> 00:17:31,271

Tye: going to the public school that all my

525

00:17:31,331 --> 00:17:32,682

Tye: friends went to, and then I would just

526

00:17:32,722 --> 00:17:34,206

Tye: disappear for a few weeks at a time and go

527

00:17:34,247 --> 00:17:35,470

Tye: work on these small indie movies.

528

00:17:37,021 --> 00:17:39,346

Tye: And then it kind of, you know, when I was

529

00:17:39,386 --> 00:17:42,713

Tye: about 16, I had to kind of make a decision,

530

00:17:42,753 --> 00:17:44,783

Tye: you know, to whether or not I wanted to

531

00:17:44,843 --> 00:17:47,428

Tye: really just focus on school or I wanted to

532

00:17:47,488 --> 00:17:49,632

Tye: pursue the, the acting thing, a bit more.

533

00:17:49,673 --> 00:17:51,943

Tye: I think that was a bit of a harder

534

00:17:51,983 --> 00:17:53,466

Tye: conversation with my parents I was.

535

00:17:54,368 --> 00:17:56,533

Tye: I basically told them hey, you know I've

536

00:17:56,573 --> 00:17:59,506

Tye: got, I'm working consistently now on these

537

00:17:59,566 --> 00:17:59,927

Tye: films.

538

00:17:59,988 --> 00:18:01,552

Tye: I was 16, 17 at the time.

539

00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,443

Marc: Well, did they have an appreciation for the

540

00:18:03,544 --> 00:18:04,145

Marc: the?

541

00:18:04,926 --> 00:18:06,189

Marc: It's not that you're working on films, but

542

00:18:06,229 --> 00:18:07,150

Marc: you really were.

543

00:18:07,190 --> 00:18:08,613

Marc: You were, like I said, the caliber of what

544

00:18:08,633 --> 00:18:10,985

Marc: you were doing was so it was.

545

00:18:11,105 --> 00:18:12,569

Marc: It was up there, you know you were getting

546

00:18:12,589 --> 00:18:13,131

Marc: a lot of traction.

547

00:18:13,151 --> 00:18:15,205

Marc: I mean, did they recognize, or did you have

548

00:18:15,225 --> 00:18:17,030

Marc: an agent or a manager or somebody say,

549

00:18:17,091 --> 00:18:19,164

Marc: listen, this kid's got it going on right

550

00:18:19,204 --> 00:18:19,405

Marc: now?

551

00:18:19,726 --> 00:18:20,348

Tye: Definitely had my.

552

00:18:20,408 --> 00:18:26,901

Tye: So, yes, my manager, paul Nelson.

553

00:18:26,921 --> 00:18:28,463

Tye: I met on the set of the tree of life and I

554

00:18:28,483 --> 00:18:29,544

Tye: met him through Jessica Chastain, so he was

555

00:18:29,584 --> 00:18:32,187

Tye: representing, he represents Jessica and and

556

00:18:33,228 --> 00:18:37,353

Tye: you know, she and my mom had spoken and got

557

00:18:37,393 --> 00:18:39,675

Tye: kind of close while they were, while he

558

00:18:39,715 --> 00:18:40,817

Tye: came to visit on that set.

559

00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:49,942

Tye: And then you know, he's been kind of right

560

00:18:49,963 --> 00:18:50,764

Tye: there in our corner, uh, all along and, um,

561

00:18:50,785 --> 00:18:51,206

Tye: yeah, he he was.

562

00:18:51,226 --> 00:18:53,250

Tye: He was the one I think that you know gave

563

00:18:53,331 --> 00:18:56,782

Tye: my parents the, the comfort and, you know,

564

00:18:56,882 --> 00:19:01,436

Tye: the security that you know he was looking

565

00:19:01,456 --> 00:19:02,840

Tye: out for me, making sure I was working on

566

00:19:02,860 --> 00:19:04,325

Tye: quality projects and stuff like that.

567

00:19:04,385 --> 00:19:06,190

Tye: But I think my parents knew like, oh, it

568

00:19:06,210 --> 00:19:08,085

Tye: was good, it's like these are good projects.

569

00:19:08,145 --> 00:19:11,142

Tye: But they didn't really know, they didn't

570

00:19:11,162 --> 00:19:14,011

Tye: realize exactly.

571

00:19:14,740 --> 00:19:17,088

Tye: I mean, they didn't know if one director

572

00:19:17,128 --> 00:19:18,503

Tye: was better than the other, for instance.

573

00:19:18,523 --> 00:19:21,060

Tye: They just don't have the experience.

574

00:19:21,180 --> 00:19:25,535

Tye: But yeah, it was yeah, but at the same time,

575

00:19:25,576 --> 00:19:27,343

Tye: you know it was, it was not a big shift, it

576

00:19:27,383 --> 00:19:30,411

Tye: was really just, you know, going like I

577

00:19:30,431 --> 00:19:31,581

Tye: said, I would just leave and I would go

578

00:19:31,601 --> 00:19:33,225

Tye: work on these, these projects for a few

579

00:19:33,245 --> 00:19:35,051

Tye: weeks at a time, miss a little school and

580

00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:37,644

Tye: then come back, and so my life didn't

581

00:19:37,664 --> 00:19:40,710

Tye: really change that much until I was 16 or

582

00:19:40,770 --> 00:19:41,331

Tye: 17.

583

00:19:41,732 --> 00:19:42,714

Tye: And then I started working more

584

00:19:42,734 --> 00:19:45,900

Tye: consistently and I knew that I had a little

585

00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:46,623

Tye: momentum.

586

00:19:46,724 --> 00:19:48,190

Tye: My parents, I think, knew that I had a

587

00:19:48,431 --> 00:19:50,098

Tye: little momentum and I had to kind of

588

00:19:50,299 --> 00:19:51,763

Tye: confront them and tell them hey, I want to

589

00:19:51,803 --> 00:19:55,270

Tye: pursue this, you know, more full time, and

590

00:19:55,571 --> 00:19:57,622

Tye: really like turn it, turn this into a

591

00:19:57,722 --> 00:19:59,006

Tye: career and not just a hobby.

592

00:20:00,029 --> 00:20:03,359

Tye: And I think for them, you know, that meant

593

00:20:03,539 --> 00:20:06,264

Tye: leaving school and, you know, trying to

594

00:20:06,324 --> 00:20:07,807

Tye: finish school early because I couldn't

595

00:20:07,847 --> 00:20:08,468

Tye: focus on.

596

00:20:09,470 --> 00:20:12,054

Tye: You know, it's really hard to make films

597

00:20:12,134 --> 00:20:15,685

Tye: period when you have to do that on top of,

598

00:20:16,306 --> 00:20:18,830

Tye: you know, three hours of school every day

599

00:20:18,890 --> 00:20:20,372

Tye: and all of your homework, and when you're

600

00:20:20,392 --> 00:20:22,395

Tye: 17 years old, it got really challenging.

601

00:20:25,700 --> 00:20:27,225

Tye: 17 years old, it got really challenging.

602

00:20:27,245 --> 00:20:28,128

Tye: Um, and so I told my parents, I said, hey,

603

00:20:28,148 --> 00:20:29,031

Tye: I, you know, I'd like to either just focus

604

00:20:29,051 --> 00:20:30,918

Tye: on school or continue pursuing the film

605

00:20:30,958 --> 00:20:31,981

Tye: thing, which I really want to do.

606

00:20:33,163 --> 00:20:36,189

Tye: Uh, and, and they, you know they were

607

00:20:36,209 --> 00:20:40,282

Tye: supportive, but I think it was, you know, a

608

00:20:40,343 --> 00:20:43,168

Tye: bummer, because my, my mom didn't want me

609

00:20:43,188 --> 00:20:44,270

Tye: to get my GED.

610

00:20:44,290 --> 00:20:45,853

Tye: You know, she wanted me to graduate high

611

00:20:45,894 --> 00:20:47,483

Tye: school and you know.

612

00:20:47,544 --> 00:20:50,845

Tye: So I ended up getting my GED and then kind

613

00:20:50,885 --> 00:20:53,662

Tye: of focusing on the film thing and then

614

00:20:53,743 --> 00:20:55,509

Tye: later tried to get into.

615

00:20:55,781 --> 00:20:57,161

Tye: I always wanted to go to university, so I

616

00:20:57,181 --> 00:20:59,846

Tye: tried to get into UT and they pretty much

617

00:20:59,926 --> 00:21:01,350

Tye: laughed me out of the admissions office

618

00:21:04,445 --> 00:21:05,588

Tye: Because my.

619

00:21:05,628 --> 00:21:08,778

Tye: GPA was terrible because I couldn't make up

620

00:21:08,818 --> 00:21:09,500

Tye: elective classes.

621

00:21:09,620 --> 00:21:11,085

Tye: When I would go and I would work on a film.

622

00:21:11,145 --> 00:21:12,550

Tye: So I would come back to school and, of

623

00:21:12,590 --> 00:21:15,010

Tye: course, like all my core classes, grades

624

00:21:15,030 --> 00:21:17,018

Tye: would be transferred, but the elective

625

00:21:17,059 --> 00:21:20,144

Tye: classes you can't make up, pe, um.

626

00:21:20,685 --> 00:21:24,251

Tye: So so I had zeros factored into my GPA for

627

00:21:24,311 --> 00:21:27,155

Tye: two semesters for my three elective classes

628

00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,169

Tye: and my GPA was just absolutely horrendous

629

00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:34,649

Tye: and and so, and so you know, ut basically,

630

00:21:34,789 --> 00:21:36,092

Tye: yeah, laughed me out of the admissions

631

00:21:36,193 --> 00:21:38,627

Tye: office and I thought about getting into

632

00:21:38,667 --> 00:21:41,438

Tye: other schools, but then, you know, I just

633

00:21:41,458 --> 00:21:43,285

Tye: decided I'll just focus on the film thing

634

00:21:43,305 --> 00:21:43,546

Tye: for now.

635

00:21:43,566 --> 00:21:44,268

Tye: Maybe come back to this.

636

00:21:44,460 --> 00:21:45,908

Marc: Yeah, maybe the serendipitous, maybe that

637

00:21:45,928 --> 00:21:47,697

Marc: was kind of like little nudge to say stick

638

00:21:47,717 --> 00:21:49,563

Marc: with it, you're doing great, you know yeah

639

00:21:50,164 --> 00:21:50,725

Marc: no, it was.

640

00:21:50,966 --> 00:21:53,191

Tye: I mean I've, and now it's funny, you know,

641

00:21:53,351 --> 00:21:56,684

Tye: I've, I've spoken to, you know a few of the

642

00:21:56,704 --> 00:21:58,508

Tye: professors there and a few of the classes

643

00:21:59,189 --> 00:22:02,561

Tye: you know at ut, which is, which is is cool,

644

00:22:02,581 --> 00:22:03,744

Tye: we've gone full circle.

645

00:22:03,844 --> 00:22:04,967

Marc: Well, you know, mcconaughey, you know you

646

00:22:05,007 --> 00:22:05,648

Marc: ever want to go back.

647

00:22:05,828 --> 00:22:07,512

Marc: You know I think he has got some pull there.

648

00:22:07,552 --> 00:22:10,038

Marc: You know that's what's kind of a neat full

649

00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:10,581

Marc: circle thing.

650

00:22:10,621 --> 00:22:12,065

Marc: I was telling my daughter last night doing

651

00:22:12,085 --> 00:22:14,050

Marc: the zach bryan video with him.

652

00:22:14,632 --> 00:22:16,286

Marc: You know, when you did mud that's one of

653

00:22:16,306 --> 00:22:17,572

Marc: your first, and now you're kind of back

654

00:22:17,592 --> 00:22:19,039

Marc: with him and uh he's.

655

00:22:19,139 --> 00:22:20,462

Marc: You know, my favorite thing is whenever I

656

00:22:20,502 --> 00:22:22,406

Marc: see a video pop up on youtube of him going

657

00:22:22,426 --> 00:22:23,969

Marc: through Whataburger or something like that.

658

00:22:24,069 --> 00:22:26,454

Marc: So it's uniquely Texan kind of.

659

00:22:26,540 --> 00:22:28,205

Marc: I have to ask you you're a Texan and my

660

00:22:28,245 --> 00:22:30,210

Marc: daughter is loving being here now because

661

00:22:30,230 --> 00:22:32,002

Marc: she went to Whataburger what's your

662

00:22:32,042 --> 00:22:33,308

Marc: favorite item on the menu there?

663

00:22:33,380 --> 00:22:35,365

Marc: I got to ask every Texan I talk to.

664

00:22:36,568 --> 00:22:37,230

Tye: At Whataburger.

665

00:22:37,691 --> 00:22:39,923

Tye: Oh yeah, I think it used to be the honey

666

00:22:39,943 --> 00:22:43,110

Tye: butter chicken biscuit, but I feel like

667

00:22:43,150 --> 00:22:44,693

Tye: it's gone downhill.

668

00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:49,602

Marc: The quality has gone downhill.

669

00:22:49,622 --> 00:22:50,444

Marc: Yeah, well, you know they did sell, I think,

670

00:22:50,464 --> 00:22:51,307

Marc: the majority interest or controlling

671

00:22:51,327 --> 00:22:52,941

Marc: interest in company chicago or something.

672

00:22:53,001 --> 00:22:54,925

Marc: But there's, there depends which one you go

673

00:22:54,965 --> 00:22:55,647

Marc: to these days.

674

00:22:55,807 --> 00:22:58,901

Marc: You know, yeah, every actor I've spoken

675

00:22:58,921 --> 00:23:00,828

Marc: with it's really weird high, high

676

00:23:00,848 --> 00:23:02,052

Marc: percentage under 30.

677

00:23:03,096 --> 00:23:04,420

Marc: A lot of them are from texas and you're the

678

00:23:04,460 --> 00:23:05,583

Marc: second one that said the honey butter

679

00:23:05,603 --> 00:23:07,107

Marc: chicken biscuit which we had.

680

00:23:07,147 --> 00:23:08,571

Announcer: That for the first time just the other day,

681

00:23:08,611 --> 00:23:09,783

Announcer: and I'm like I don't know.

682

00:23:09,803 --> 00:23:11,153

Marc: My daughter's current jam is the grilled

683

00:23:11,173 --> 00:23:12,421

Marc: chicken sandwich, you know, because she was

684

00:23:12,461 --> 00:23:15,073

Marc: bartending at uh oh yeah, for uh spring

685

00:23:15,113 --> 00:23:15,394

Marc: break.

686

00:23:15,555 --> 00:23:16,419

Marc: If you've ever been on the south by,

687

00:23:16,439 --> 00:23:19,044

Marc: there's a real big, amazingly large deck,

688

00:23:19,164 --> 00:23:21,528

Marc: you know, and she's been bartending so for

689

00:23:21,548 --> 00:23:23,992

Marc: an 18 year old this is kind of wild.

690

00:23:24,012 --> 00:23:25,114

Marc: But when she gets out of work the only

691

00:23:25,134 --> 00:23:26,055

Marc: thing open is Whataburger.

692

00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:28,628

Marc: So for her it's not a big deal.

693

00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,888

Marc: Every night I'm like baby, I've got to cook

694

00:23:30,948 --> 00:23:33,204

Marc: something Because at my age I can't do

695

00:23:33,224 --> 00:23:33,886

Marc: Whataburger every day.

696

00:23:34,167 --> 00:23:35,690

Marc: It's tasty, don't get me wrong.

697

00:23:36,692 --> 00:23:48,554

Marc: For sure, one of the things I'm curious

698

00:23:48,574 --> 00:23:51,502

Marc: screen an important person is spielberg and

699

00:23:51,763 --> 00:23:52,444

Marc: working with him.

700

00:23:53,026 --> 00:23:54,489

Marc: You're the I think you're the first person

701

00:23:54,509 --> 00:23:56,421

Marc: I've had a chance to speak with who worked

702

00:23:56,461 --> 00:23:57,786

Marc: in on one of his projects.

703

00:23:59,110 --> 00:24:00,635

Marc: What were some of the takeaways of having

704

00:24:01,076 --> 00:24:03,524

Marc: uh worked on a steven spielberg film a

705

00:24:03,584 --> 00:24:06,292

Marc: young guy, comparatively the other kind of

706

00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,624

Marc: things you've done, or just I've just

707

00:24:07,764 --> 00:24:08,607

Marc: general experience.

708

00:24:08,767 --> 00:24:10,401

Marc: I was curious what it was about or what it

709

00:24:10,441 --> 00:24:11,142

Marc: was like for you.

710

00:24:12,504 --> 00:24:17,652

Tye: Well, I mean he's touched pretty much any

711

00:24:18,434 --> 00:24:19,075

Tye: kid in the world.

712

00:24:19,235 --> 00:24:20,903

Tye: You know, most kids in the world have seen

713

00:24:20,923 --> 00:24:21,364

Tye: his films.

714

00:24:21,745 --> 00:24:24,570

Tye: You know, I think I for sure wouldn't be

715

00:24:24,590 --> 00:24:29,324

Tye: the same kid without his films and I think

716

00:24:29,525 --> 00:24:31,570

Tye: for anybody working in this industry you

717

00:24:31,610 --> 00:24:35,487

Tye: know it's I mean he's.

718

00:24:35,928 --> 00:24:38,214

Tye: He's an amazing, amazing guy to work with

719

00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:40,640

Tye: and, you know, a living, a true living

720

00:24:40,740 --> 00:24:41,101

Tye: legend.

721

00:24:41,341 --> 00:24:44,348

Tye: So yeah, it was a dream project obviously,

722

00:24:44,368 --> 00:24:44,849

Tye: obviously.

723

00:24:45,089 --> 00:24:47,054

Marc: So you had been aware of him, you know.

724

00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:48,625

Marc: Obviously you were young when you got in,

725

00:24:48,765 --> 00:24:49,307

Marc: you know well.

726

00:24:49,347 --> 00:24:50,551

Marc: No, you've been around for a little while.

727

00:24:50,591 --> 00:24:51,863

Marc: Of course, by the time you played ready

728

00:24:51,883 --> 00:24:52,545

Marc: player one.

729

00:24:52,885 --> 00:24:54,850

Marc: I just remember seeing et and I started.

730

00:24:54,870 --> 00:24:57,564

Marc: I saw a few films as a kid going wait a

731

00:24:57,604 --> 00:25:00,091

Marc: minute, this guy's a this is a name, you,

732

00:25:00,151 --> 00:25:00,271

Marc: you.

733

00:25:00,311 --> 00:25:01,522

Marc: Whenever you hear his name, the movies are

734

00:25:01,542 --> 00:25:02,746

Marc: going to be good as a kid, you know, I

735

00:25:02,766 --> 00:25:04,210

Marc: don't really know what a director you know

736

00:25:04,271 --> 00:25:05,695

Marc: for the most part, does you know?

737

00:25:05,715 --> 00:25:06,257

Marc: of course you've.

738

00:25:06,337 --> 00:25:07,641

Marc: You started off with terrence malick.

739

00:25:07,681 --> 00:25:10,029

Marc: You know that you you've had been blessed

740

00:25:10,049 --> 00:25:12,678

Marc: with some great directors and the uh and I

741

00:25:12,939 --> 00:25:15,867

Marc: I still have yet to see um the tinder bar,

742

00:25:15,907 --> 00:25:17,471

Marc: that's still on the list I wanted to see

743

00:25:17,491 --> 00:25:17,992

Marc: this weekend.

744

00:25:18,012 --> 00:25:19,001

Marc: I just ran out of time.

745

00:25:19,021 --> 00:25:20,824

Marc: But uh, george clooney was.

746

00:25:21,325 --> 00:25:22,547

Marc: I always wondered does he have a chill

747

00:25:22,587 --> 00:25:23,389

Marc: directing style?

748

00:25:23,469 --> 00:25:25,653

Marc: Is he an easygoing guy or is he got a

749

00:25:25,693 --> 00:25:26,795

Marc: certain intensity on his set?

750

00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,207

Marc: Cause we all know him like Danny Ocean,

751

00:25:29,247 --> 00:25:30,711

Marc: chill, kind of George Clooney.

752

00:25:30,780 --> 00:25:32,226

Marc: But as a director, what's he like to work

753

00:25:32,266 --> 00:25:32,467

Marc: with?

754

00:25:33,020 --> 00:25:33,802

Tye: He's, he's.

755

00:25:34,002 --> 00:25:34,905

Tye: He's a pretty chill guy.

756

00:25:36,188 --> 00:25:38,453

Tye: Yeah, he's, he knows what he wants.

757

00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:42,109

Tye: He, you know, shoots efficiently.

758

00:25:43,161 --> 00:25:46,170

Tye: He's kind of like amazing actors director

759

00:25:46,210 --> 00:25:49,286

Tye: because he's almost, it's almost like he's

760

00:25:49,467 --> 00:25:50,790

Tye: acting the scene out with you.

761

00:25:51,091 --> 00:25:52,862

Tye: You know, he's talking to you like no other

762

00:25:52,902 --> 00:25:54,928

Tye: director I've which he's the only actor

763

00:25:54,968 --> 00:25:57,362

Tye: director I've ever worked with but he

764

00:25:58,125 --> 00:25:59,990

Tye: talked to me like no other director talked

765

00:26:00,010 --> 00:26:00,231

Tye: to me.

766

00:26:00,411 --> 00:26:01,795

Tye: You know, and sometimes it's like very

767

00:26:01,916 --> 00:26:05,387

Tye: simple terms, like you know that line, look

768

00:26:05,447 --> 00:26:07,472

Tye: down before you see it and then look back

769

00:26:07,552 --> 00:26:07,632

Tye: up.

770

00:26:07,712 --> 00:26:09,103

Tye: Trust me, it's an old movie star trick.

771

00:26:09,203 --> 00:26:12,712

Tye: You know stuff like that and it's.

772

00:26:13,201 --> 00:26:16,410

Tye: You know that was fun, you know, yes, it

773

00:26:16,430 --> 00:26:18,383

Tye: was like I felt like we were in the.

774

00:26:19,066 --> 00:26:20,961

Tye: You know, we're kind of in the same in the

775

00:26:21,001 --> 00:26:23,226

Tye: same boat the entire time, kind of going

776

00:26:23,246 --> 00:26:26,212

Tye: through it together in a way, which, which

777

00:26:26,232 --> 00:26:29,304

Tye: was cool, um, but yeah, no, he's.

778

00:26:29,384 --> 00:26:34,012

Tye: He's also very, very mellow, easygoing, his

779

00:26:34,412 --> 00:26:37,302

Tye: he and and uh grant has love his producing

780

00:26:37,322 --> 00:26:38,625

Tye: partner, have a great thing going.

781

00:26:38,665 --> 00:26:42,053

Tye: They're really really, really fun guys to

782

00:26:42,093 --> 00:26:42,721

Tye: make movies with.

783

00:26:43,202 --> 00:26:45,066

Marc: I would do it again in a Now you've been

784

00:26:45,106 --> 00:26:47,231

Marc: involved in producing stuff also, correct,

785

00:26:47,311 --> 00:26:47,873

Marc: have you?

786

00:26:47,893 --> 00:26:49,303

Marc: So you're, you're starting to get involved

787

00:26:49,344 --> 00:26:50,608

Marc: in kind of the you know the meat and

788

00:26:50,648 --> 00:26:52,145

Marc: potatoes get some movies made, have.

789

00:26:52,266 --> 00:26:54,597

Marc: Is that kind of where you're going?

790

00:26:54,617 --> 00:26:55,801

Marc: You think you know you want to get more

791

00:26:55,841 --> 00:26:57,402

Marc: involved in producing, maybe direct

792

00:26:57,442 --> 00:26:57,762

Marc: something.

793

00:26:58,463 --> 00:27:00,264

Tye: Yeah, I mean, I think, like I said, you

794

00:27:00,284 --> 00:27:02,186

Tye: know, when I, when I first walked onto a

795

00:27:02,226 --> 00:27:04,448

Tye: film set, the acting was just as new to me

796

00:27:05,168 --> 00:27:07,130

Tye: as everything else, and so, you know,

797

00:27:07,350 --> 00:27:09,632

Tye: entire filmmaking process has always been

798

00:27:09,672 --> 00:27:10,473

Tye: fascinating to me.

799

00:27:11,314 --> 00:27:13,175

Tye: You know, from day one, I wanted to know

800

00:27:13,576 --> 00:27:15,237

Tye: what everyone's role was, what they were

801

00:27:15,277 --> 00:27:21,622

Tye: doing, why it took so many people to make

802

00:27:21,642 --> 00:27:22,163

Tye: films, why it was so slow.

803

00:27:22,183 --> 00:27:23,045

Tye: And you know, having worked on small films

804

00:27:23,065 --> 00:27:23,907

Tye: and big films, I just am a curious guy,

805

00:27:23,947 --> 00:27:26,935

Tye: naturally, and I just was really curious

806

00:27:26,975 --> 00:27:28,884

Tye: about how do these big, how do these big

807

00:27:28,925 --> 00:27:31,191

Tye: movies work and how much, how much money do

808

00:27:31,211 --> 00:27:32,121

Tye: you need to to?

809

00:27:32,402 --> 00:27:35,069

Tye: You know, to have this, you know this

810

00:27:35,089 --> 00:27:37,082

Tye: amount of visual effects in your, your

811

00:27:37,122 --> 00:27:38,405

Tye: films, and why, and why does it?

812

00:27:39,427 --> 00:27:40,550

Tye: Why do you need so many artists?

813

00:27:40,590 --> 00:27:42,240

Tye: So I think, like all of these questions

814

00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,962

Tye: have really kind of influenced, you know,

815

00:27:45,002 --> 00:27:46,503

Tye: the work that I'm doing.

816

00:27:46,884 --> 00:27:50,947

Tye: You know, beyond acting, I'm producing a

817

00:27:50,987 --> 00:27:53,509

Tye: number of films, including this film that

818

00:27:53,529 --> 00:27:55,210

Tye: comes out at the end of the month Asphalt

819

00:27:55,230 --> 00:27:57,191

Tye: City, several years back, it's called

820

00:27:57,211 --> 00:28:07,862

Tye: Wonder Dynamics and essentially what we're

821

00:28:07,882 --> 00:28:09,924

Tye: doing is we're building AI-driven

822

00:28:09,944 --> 00:28:14,669

Tye: production tools that are really meant to

823

00:28:16,050 --> 00:28:20,215

Tye: make Hollywood-level effects more

824

00:28:20,315 --> 00:28:22,560

Tye: attainable for the indie filmmaker, so

825

00:28:22,601 --> 00:28:23,583

Tye: allowing indie filmmakers.

826

00:28:23,603 --> 00:28:25,007

Marc: Well that's that's fascinating that you

827

00:28:25,027 --> 00:28:26,712

Marc: jumped on top of that, because I'm not like.

828

00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,868

Marc: I just read Tyler Perry put on hold some

829

00:28:29,888 --> 00:28:30,710

Marc: studio development in.

830

00:28:30,770 --> 00:28:32,401

Marc: Atlanta because he doesn't know how some of

831

00:28:32,421 --> 00:28:34,969

Marc: this tech's going to overtake the need to

832

00:28:35,029 --> 00:28:35,952

Marc: have large studios.

833

00:28:36,881 --> 00:28:37,984

Tye: And it's moving so quickly.

834

00:28:38,084 --> 00:28:40,129

Tye: You know, I think and you have to be very

835

00:28:40,550 --> 00:28:42,463

Tye: you know it's it's it's a very sensitive

836

00:28:42,503 --> 00:28:45,150

Tye: topic in I all industries, but especially

837

00:28:45,191 --> 00:28:45,732

Tye: in Hollywood.

838

00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,904

Tye: I think artists feel threatened by AI and I

839

00:28:51,924 --> 00:28:55,311

Tye: think, for us my co-founder and I his name

840

00:28:55,351 --> 00:28:56,934

Tye: is Nikola we're both artists ourselves.

841

00:28:57,180 --> 00:28:58,726

Tye: He was a visual effects artist and then

842

00:28:58,766 --> 00:29:00,943

Tye: turned supervisor, and I obviously come

843

00:29:00,983 --> 00:29:09,601

Tye: from a background in acting, come from a

844

00:29:09,641 --> 00:29:10,704

Tye: background in acting, and so for us it was

845

00:29:10,724 --> 00:29:12,007

Tye: really important that we use AI and machine

846

00:29:12,067 --> 00:29:13,250

Tye: learning to support artists, not to replace

847

00:29:13,290 --> 00:29:15,582

Tye: them, and in July last year, we launched a

848

00:29:15,622 --> 00:29:17,626

Tye: product called Wonder Studio, which is a

849

00:29:17,666 --> 00:29:21,934

Tye: web-based cloud platform that essentially,

850

00:29:21,974 --> 00:29:25,289

Tye: you can upload any 2D video and extract the

851

00:29:25,349 --> 00:29:27,546

Tye: animation data, but not only the animation

852

00:29:27,607 --> 00:29:27,868

Tye: data.

853

00:29:27,908 --> 00:29:29,276

Tye: You can extract the lighting and your

854

00:29:29,316 --> 00:29:32,285

Tye: camera information and essentially build

855

00:29:32,305 --> 00:29:36,656

Tye: your visual effects shot and automate the

856

00:29:36,696 --> 00:29:40,986

Tye: process up to 80% so that it's more

857

00:29:41,107 --> 00:29:43,312

Tye: attainable for the indie filmmaker, so to

858

00:29:43,332 --> 00:29:45,266

Tye: speak, and then you can take that into 3d

859

00:29:45,286 --> 00:29:48,438

Tye: softwares and and continue working in the

860

00:29:48,458 --> 00:29:48,760

Tye: process.

861

00:29:48,860 --> 00:29:51,027

Tye: So it's not really like a black box or

862

00:29:51,067 --> 00:29:52,291

Tye: replacing artists in any way.

863

00:29:52,340 --> 00:29:53,905

Tye: It's really meant to support artists, if

864

00:29:53,965 --> 00:29:54,286

Tye: anything.

865

00:29:54,346 --> 00:29:57,061

Tye: But but yeah, and then you know.

866

00:29:57,122 --> 00:29:59,722

Tye: So it's, it's, it's all you know it's very

867

00:29:59,762 --> 00:30:08,560

Tye: pivotal time in our in our industry, and I

868

00:30:08,580 --> 00:30:09,686

Tye: think that we really need to be having

869

00:30:09,706 --> 00:30:10,710

Tye: conversations around what the future looks

870

00:30:10,730 --> 00:30:10,811

Tye: like.

871

00:30:10,831 --> 00:30:11,835

Tye: You know, and looking out on the horizon

872

00:30:11,855 --> 00:30:12,639

Tye: and trying to understand.

873

00:30:12,659 --> 00:30:14,364

Tye: You know where it's all going and how.

874

00:30:15,046 --> 00:30:17,472

Tye: You know we can think about our careers in

875

00:30:17,492 --> 00:30:19,301

Tye: the most ethical sense, in terms of you

876

00:30:19,321 --> 00:30:21,105

Tye: know not to stifle innovation but really,

877

00:30:21,125 --> 00:30:24,050

Tye: you know use it to to support artists right

878

00:30:24,090 --> 00:30:26,701

Tye: and tell better stories, and so, yeah, I

879

00:30:26,741 --> 00:30:30,021

Tye: think anything to that nature is is

880

00:30:30,463 --> 00:30:32,412

Tye: interesting and fascinating.

881

00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:33,365

Marc: I think it's fascinating.

882

00:30:33,406 --> 00:30:34,794

Marc: I mean the fact that you can actually um,

883

00:30:34,814 --> 00:30:36,684

Marc: you know I do it, like I said, a lot of

884

00:30:36,704 --> 00:30:38,936

Marc: voiceover and then, within that aspect of

885

00:30:38,977 --> 00:30:40,361

Marc: the industry, there's a lot of worry

886

00:30:40,461 --> 00:30:44,444

Marc: because it can, it can replace voice, but I

887

00:30:44,484 --> 00:30:47,046

Marc: always, like I tell, I teach students to

888

00:30:47,126 --> 00:30:48,907

Marc: teach voiceover as well and I said, listen,

889

00:30:49,628 --> 00:30:51,149

Marc: ever since I got into this over 30 years

890

00:30:51,189 --> 00:30:53,011

Marc: ago, it's always been authentic, natural,

891

00:30:53,211 --> 00:30:54,031

Marc: real person.

892

00:30:54,071 --> 00:30:56,674

Marc: People crave authenticity, I believe, and

893

00:30:56,694 --> 00:30:57,974

Marc: that's the reason why I don't think AI will

894

00:30:58,015 --> 00:31:00,396

Marc: ever replace in the sense that I think

895

00:31:00,416 --> 00:31:01,337

Marc: people are worried about.

896

00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:09,183

Marc: But there are still questions out there.

897

00:31:09,203 --> 00:31:10,126

Marc: You know, and I'd like you're saying it can

898

00:31:10,146 --> 00:31:10,969

Marc: supplement really well and give maybe

899

00:31:11,009 --> 00:31:12,173

Marc: people that the only barrier between where

900

00:31:12,194 --> 00:31:13,582

Marc: they're at and where they want to go be

901

00:31:13,602 --> 00:31:14,465

Marc: being finances.

902

00:31:14,525 --> 00:31:15,901

Marc: It sounds like what you're saying is this

903

00:31:15,921 --> 00:31:18,227

Marc: can kind of help them overcome that and

904

00:31:18,248 --> 00:31:19,901

Marc: maybe take some filmmakers who you may not

905

00:31:19,942 --> 00:31:20,826

Marc: hear about and give them.

906

00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,371

Marc: Is that kind of what you're looking at this

907

00:31:23,451 --> 00:31:25,541

Marc: as a way to kind of give people tools they

908

00:31:25,561 --> 00:31:26,303

Marc: wouldn't have otherwise?

909

00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:27,727

Tye: Yeah, exactly that's.

910

00:31:27,787 --> 00:31:29,372

Tye: That's definitely our mission at the

911

00:31:29,420 --> 00:31:29,781

Tye: company.

912

00:31:30,322 --> 00:31:32,386

Tye: Um, it was really try to democratize.

913

00:31:32,446 --> 00:31:36,074

Tye: You know, big stories for anybody, anywhere

914

00:31:36,540 --> 00:31:36,761

Tye: you know.

915

00:31:36,781 --> 00:31:38,104

Tye: So it's not so localized.

916

00:31:38,124 --> 00:31:40,389

Tye: You don't have to be, you know, in

917

00:31:40,429 --> 00:31:43,483

Tye: Hollywood to make these kinds of movies.

918

00:31:43,984 --> 00:31:46,630

Tye: Um, you can be anywhere in the world and I

919

00:31:46,670 --> 00:31:47,733

Tye: think that's.

920

00:31:48,662 --> 00:31:49,664

Tye: Yeah, it's really exciting.

921

00:31:49,684 --> 00:31:51,650

Marc: And you're in a creative industry, of

922

00:31:51,710 --> 00:31:55,113

Marc: course, but and you're very busy also but

923

00:31:55,153 --> 00:31:56,238

Marc: when you're not doing this, what are you

924

00:31:56,258 --> 00:31:56,459

Marc: doing?

925

00:31:56,479 --> 00:31:57,583

Marc: I mean, what are the things that are kind

926

00:31:57,623 --> 00:31:59,689

Marc: of keeping you captivated, you know, so

927

00:31:59,709 --> 00:32:01,963

Marc: you're not burning out on the uh, acting

928

00:32:02,023 --> 00:32:03,827

Marc: thing, um, what do you do?

929

00:32:03,887 --> 00:32:04,047

Marc: What?

930

00:32:04,268 --> 00:32:05,490

Marc: What kind of things are out there to keep

931

00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:07,114

Marc: some variety in your life?

932

00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,940

Tye: The acting thing is a very sweet gig, you

933

00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,504

Tye: know, if you just want to be an actor, it

934

00:32:13,544 --> 00:32:14,126

Tye: can be great.

935

00:32:16,223 --> 00:32:17,728

Tye: And I think for certain actors that reach a

936

00:32:17,768 --> 00:32:19,745

Tye: certain level, like you know, I have

937

00:32:19,766 --> 00:32:22,803

Tye: friends that you know they're actors and

938

00:32:22,904 --> 00:32:27,528

Tye: they're, you know, they have a very amazing

939

00:32:27,568 --> 00:32:29,302

Tye: body of work and they've reached a certain

940

00:32:29,342 --> 00:32:31,689

Tye: level in their career and that's all they

941

00:32:31,729 --> 00:32:32,752

Tye: want to do, that's all they.

942

00:32:33,260 --> 00:32:35,586

Tye: That's what they love doing and they're

943

00:32:35,606 --> 00:32:38,092

Tye: just looking for the next best script, you

944

00:32:38,112 --> 00:32:40,725

Tye: know, and they don't really care about

945

00:32:40,765 --> 00:32:42,308

Tye: anything else.

946

00:32:42,388 --> 00:32:44,091

Tye: You know that's the thing they love doing.

947

00:32:44,111 --> 00:32:46,175

Tye: About anything else, that's the thing they

948

00:32:46,195 --> 00:32:46,756

Tye: love doing.

949

00:32:46,776 --> 00:32:49,206

Tye: I think, for me, I'm kind of of the mind

950

00:32:49,267 --> 00:32:52,067

Tye: that in the school of thought that really

951

00:32:52,087 --> 00:32:54,863

Tye: the best opportunities come when you create

952

00:32:54,883 --> 00:32:55,586

Tye: them for yourselves.

953

00:32:57,225 --> 00:32:59,651

Tye: So I'm constantly asking myself how can I,

954

00:33:01,361 --> 00:33:06,310

Tye: you know, be uh procreative and uh, I think

955

00:33:06,810 --> 00:33:08,033

Tye: I'm, uh, I like to.

956

00:33:08,333 --> 00:33:09,801

Tye: I'm a kind of a workaholic, I like to be

957

00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:10,964

Tye: busy, you know.

958

00:33:11,004 --> 00:33:12,969

Tye: So the acting thing, just acting

959

00:33:13,009 --> 00:33:15,563

Tye: specifically, takes up very little of my

960

00:33:15,603 --> 00:33:15,843

Tye: time.

961

00:33:16,405 --> 00:33:18,449

Tye: Um, it's really only when I'm working on

962

00:33:18,509 --> 00:33:20,621

Tye: films or in preparation to go work on films,

963

00:33:21,283 --> 00:33:22,506

Tye: and then the rest of the time, you know, it

964

00:33:22,526 --> 00:33:24,191

Tye: was really kind of dedicated to my startup

965

00:33:24,621 --> 00:33:26,265

Tye: wonder dynamics, and then, you know,

966

00:33:26,285 --> 00:33:29,071

Tye: producing other projects as well and

967

00:33:29,372 --> 00:33:29,873

Tye: development.

968

00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,305

Tye: So I actually spend more time, you know,

969

00:33:32,385 --> 00:33:34,931

Tye: these days doing the startup thing and

970

00:33:35,412 --> 00:33:38,820

Tye: developing projects than I do acting.

971

00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,084

Marc: Well, it's funny what you said about the

972

00:33:40,104 --> 00:33:41,989

Marc: thing about acting, having to be I don't

973

00:33:42,009 --> 00:33:43,231

Marc: think it's easy, I'm not saying that, but

974

00:33:43,251 --> 00:33:44,132

Marc: you know, if you're a director director,

975

00:33:44,152 --> 00:33:45,693

Marc: you've married yourself to a project for

976

00:33:45,753 --> 00:33:46,473

Marc: well over a year.

977

00:33:46,573 --> 00:33:48,835

Marc: You know, uh, but acting, I was speaking to

978

00:33:48,875 --> 00:33:50,116

Marc: the uh, anya Savchich.

979

00:33:50,396 --> 00:33:51,957

Marc: She was on the show with Ron Livingston, uh,

980