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This is Later with Lee Matthews The
Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear weekday

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afternoons on the Drive. Sean McNamara
is an American director, writer, and

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producer. In fact, you may
have seen him and his crew wrapping up

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production in the film Reagan starring Dennis
Quaid in Guthrie recently. But his newest

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release is called Vindicta. It's an
edge of your seat thriller, and he's

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here to tell us about it today
on the Drive. Hello Sean McNamara,

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Good to have you here. Hey, Lee, thank you for having me.

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So what is the gist of Vindicta. We've got three people that are

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brought together in very unusual circumstances.
Yeah, Well, Vindicta is a suspense

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thriller horror movie and it's star Delenna
Comporis and Jeremy Piven and Shawn Aston and

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I am just so blessed to get
to work with those talented actors. Alena

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Comporus is just insanely great and I
met her last year and she is going

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to be a major movie star.
But she's a paramedic. It's the first

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day of work in the Seattle area
during the riots and she's going around doing

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triage, helping people, but there's
also a serial killer on the run and

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he wears the mike, the mask
of David, and so it's just what

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happens when a paramedic is forced to
go up against serial killer. I don't

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know that a lot of people realize
the danger paramedics are sometimes in when they

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go on a call. Absolutely.
I mean, I can't imagine what they

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go through, the things that they
see. But this is an even worse

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situation where it's bad enough where they're
trying to help people who are in need,

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but now you've got a serial killer
hurting more people and you don't know

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why. Vin Dikta's the name of
the film. It stars Elena Camporus.

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You remember her from My Big Fat
Greek Redding to Sean Aston, from numerous

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things. Jeremy Piven too. I
can't name their entire resume, but yeah,

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Elena Camporus, she is I mean, she already is kind of a

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major star, and she's very versatile. She's incredible. She is just such

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a great actress, first of all, and she can sing and she can

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dance, and she can do martial
arts and she is incredible. But my

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goodness. You mentioned Seawan asked in
Rudy Lord of the Rings and we just

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have such fun on the set as
he regaled me with all the stories of

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shooting Lord of the Rings and how
he worked with Peter Jackson and then having

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Jeremy Piven on the set which had
taps. It was like, there's our

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gold right here in front of me. But he's such a versatile actor that

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he became a just a nice,
loving, warm father to Elena Camporus's lou

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and it was absolutely amazing. Did
you hug it out with him? I

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hugged it out with the man.
And reference to his series, by the

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way, if you don't know,
look it up. Vin Dicto's what we're

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talking about. It's a thriller from
Sean McNamara who is the director. And

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you did put together the Guthrie production
of Reagan. I wanted to ask about

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that. Where are we with that? Is that still in production? Absolutely,

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let's finish with production. And we
shot it in Guthrie, right outside

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of Oklahoma City. A shout out
to my friend Amy Slocum who is out

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there at Oklahoma City. But we
had a great production of Reagan. Dennis

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Quaid is a genius. People are
gonna love his Reagan. Penelope and m

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Miller played Nancy, and we shot
it during the before there was a vaccine.

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We shot it during COVID. In
fact, one night we all got

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COVID, like twenty five of us
in one night. Oh goodness. But

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we all recovered and we went back
to production and it's an amazing movie that

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follows the life of Reagan from when
he's like ten years old until he passes

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at ninety. And I can't wait
for you to see that that's coming out

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next year. We got a chance
to talk to Dennis Quid about that role,

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and I got him to do his
Reagan for me. He got it

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down pretty good. Oh my goodness. Dinnis is such a great actor.

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And you know, we wrote the
script to have little snippets of speeches of

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Reagan. They just went ahead and
learned the whole speech, so like I

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had, I'd only need like twenty
five seconds of a speech, and he

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would give us a three minute speech. It was incredible. So it made

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it very hard in post production trying
to pick which part do we want to

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use. But Dennis is just a
consummate actor, and yeah, I've done

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a lot with Dennis, and he's
he's an amazing talent. I asked him

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if he got down when he was
working on the character, if he got

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Ronald Reagan's trademark will and he did
it for me a couple of times,

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and then he said, that's usually
what he would say when he was about

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to open up on you, right, exactly, that's it, and he

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Dinnis nailed that. But he just
he just got the look down and he

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got to you know, I don't
know how he just became Ronald Reagan.

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I mean, obviously from we got
the hair right and we got the suits

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right and all of that stuff.
But as an actor, Dennis goes deep

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and he just studied the real Ronald
Reagan and just just nailed him. But

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the new film out by Sean McNamara, the director of Vindicta in theaters now

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and on demand, stars Elena Ca
Andmporus, Sean Aston, and Jeremy Piven,

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Vindicta. When is this more of
a suspense thriller or is it more

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of a scary movie? I call
it suspense thriller horror movie, and it

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is scary and hopefully it will scare
the audiences and hopefully you we'll see some

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visuals that you wish you hadn't just
in time for this time of year two

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and it's available everywhere on demand and
in theaters. Sean McNamara, thank you

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for joining us and we'll be looking
forward to watching Vindicta awesome. Thanks for

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having me, Thanks for listening to
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