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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from

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<v Speaker 1>KFI AM six forty KFI.

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<v Speaker 2>It's Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio,

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<v Speaker 2>app Arriving in theaters nationwide this Friday comes to new

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<v Speaker 2>supernatural thriller Sinners, trying to leave their troubled lives behind.

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<v Speaker 2>Twin brothers and World War One veterans, both played by

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<v Speaker 2>Michael B. Jordan, nonetheless returned to their hometown to start again,

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<v Speaker 2>only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting

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<v Speaker 2>to welcome them back. But joining me right now on

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<v Speaker 2>the show is one of the co stars of Sinners,

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<v Speaker 2>actress one Mi Masaku, who you know from siries such

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<v Speaker 2>as Lovecraft, Country Loki and of course her TVA ties

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<v Speaker 2>from Loki carried over to the movie Deadpool and Wolverine.

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<v Speaker 2>One Mi Masaku, A pleasure to meet you. How are

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<v Speaker 2>you this evening?

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<v Speaker 3>I'm good, Thank you? How are you?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm actually tickled because right now I've known you from

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<v Speaker 2>your best works such as Lovecraft, Country Loki and of

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<v Speaker 2>course the movie Deadpool and Wolverine, But I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>i've heard your natural voice until now. You grew up

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<v Speaker 2>in Manchester, England, and I'm always so curious about how

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<v Speaker 2>English actors may hear the so called American accent. What

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<v Speaker 2>do we sound like to you? And how do you

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<v Speaker 2>go about mastering it?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh? Well, I love hearing American accents. I love hearing

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<v Speaker 3>how different they are from from east to west, north

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<v Speaker 3>to south. It's it's a challenge, but we hear so much.

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<v Speaker 3>We get so many of your TV programs when we're

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<v Speaker 3>growing up, so we hear it a lot. And then

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<v Speaker 3>you know, then getting to the specificity of different accents,

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<v Speaker 3>like my character and Sinners, I play someone from Louisiana,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, I had a dialect coach in Beth

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<v Speaker 3>Maguire who is amazing, and it's it's it's yeah. I

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<v Speaker 3>love doing accent work. And it's interesting because it doesn't

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<v Speaker 3>actually come naturally to me. But with a good teacher,

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<v Speaker 3>I can get it. I can't just listen and repeat,

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<v Speaker 3>but I can someone can break it down the hows

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<v Speaker 3>and the whys and what people are doing with their

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<v Speaker 3>tongue and their mouth and the back of the and

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<v Speaker 3>their soft palette. I find it like an really fun challenge.

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<v Speaker 2>Sinners is, of course a supernatural horror film. Is directed

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<v Speaker 2>by Ryan Coogler. And as I said, my introduction starring

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<v Speaker 2>Michael B. Jordan, tell me more about this story in

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<v Speaker 2>how you as Annie come in?

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<v Speaker 3>So I play Annie? Who is who? Do priestess, a

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<v Speaker 3>conjure woman, a healer? She is powerful and full of

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<v Speaker 3>love and understanding and and and and and she has

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<v Speaker 3>such a groundedness and connectedness with and her ancestry and

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<v Speaker 3>the spirit world. She is smokes other other half. So

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<v Speaker 3>Smoke is played by Michael B. Jordan. He plays Smoke

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<v Speaker 3>and Stack, identical twins. And she is smokes Person soul Tide,

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<v Speaker 3>his safe place and sanctuary. And yeah, she's someone who

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<v Speaker 3>has the intuition and the foresight and knows what's going

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<v Speaker 3>on before most people know what's going on.

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<v Speaker 2>What y'all doing?

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<v Speaker 4>Just step aside and let me hang in now?

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<v Speaker 3>Why you need him to do that? You begining strong

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<v Speaker 3>enough to push basses? What?

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<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't be too polite, now, would it, Miss Hanny.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know why I'm talking to you anyway, So.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't talk to him.

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<v Speaker 3>You're talking to me right now. Why you can't just

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<v Speaker 3>walk your big ass up in here without an environ?

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<v Speaker 4>Admit to it admit to what that you Dad, you're

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<v Speaker 4>listening to this now? Now we out here playing games,

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<v Speaker 4>telling ghost stories in place of doing what we ought

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<v Speaker 4>to do, and what is it we're supposed to be

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<v Speaker 4>doing being kind to one another, being polite. Now we

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<v Speaker 4>is one people and we shouldn't go in barging into

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<v Speaker 4>other folks places uninvited.

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<v Speaker 2>So we've been in and out of Hill all day.

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<v Speaker 3>They never need an invite. Dean. Yeah, So I ain't

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<v Speaker 3>had no.

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<v Speaker 2>In working with someone like Michael B. Jordan and how

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<v Speaker 2>you are intimately tied. There's a level of intimacy with

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<v Speaker 2>your characters. Tell me about that production process. How much

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<v Speaker 2>rehearsal time might you have with him prior to doing scenes?

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<v Speaker 3>We had two weeks rehearsal. Everyone got spent this time

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<v Speaker 3>kind of getting to know their characters, getting figuring out

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<v Speaker 3>their costume and spending time with Ryan and Michael and

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<v Speaker 3>understanding their history. We had. We had their history kind

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<v Speaker 3>of written out like beat by beat when they met,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, when she moved from Louisiana, when they when

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<v Speaker 3>he went to war, and we spent this time just

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<v Speaker 3>like trying to flesh out their past so that when

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<v Speaker 3>they're reunited after seven years of being apart all that

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<v Speaker 3>history into the room with them, and whether or not

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<v Speaker 3>you see it as an audience, you feel it and yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>so the rehearsal period is really about getting to know

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<v Speaker 3>each other, building that history between us and and building

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<v Speaker 3>trust so that we could we can move freely with

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<v Speaker 3>each other and safely and know like where our where

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<v Speaker 3>our strengths and weaknesses are, and where we need the

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<v Speaker 3>support and the space.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, Sinners is a powerful, powerful horror movie. And

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<v Speaker 2>the horror genre I would say has evolved over the

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<v Speaker 2>years where it was less psychological, less thriller, and more

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<v Speaker 2>bumps and jumps and screens, and this seems a return

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<v Speaker 2>to that. When you were reading the script, I'm quite

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<v Speaker 2>sure it impressed you one way, but after seeing the

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<v Speaker 2>final movie had probably impacted another way. Talk to me

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<v Speaker 2>about the powerful nature of the movie.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like horror has such a I want to

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<v Speaker 3>say modern horror, but I don't. I don't watch a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of horror, but since like for me get Out,

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<v Speaker 3>horror has been such a powerful tool for for empathy,

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<v Speaker 3>for building empathy with audiences, whether it's you know, someone

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<v Speaker 3>who looks so different from you, what experiences the world

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<v Speaker 3>in a different way from you. The horror, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 3>it triggers all those like instinctive like adrenaline and and

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<v Speaker 3>and anxiety and your sweat glands, and now you feel

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<v Speaker 3>an iota of what it might feel like to be

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<v Speaker 3>that person in that situation. And whether it's an asylum

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<v Speaker 3>seeker in his house or or Daniel callua in in

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<v Speaker 3>Get Out. I feel like horror has a powerful way

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<v Speaker 3>of connecting people who otherwise may not understand the horrors

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<v Speaker 3>of humanity, that that part of humanity. So yeah, I

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<v Speaker 3>think it's a really powerful tool.

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<v Speaker 2>You said something right there. I want to go back

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<v Speaker 2>and get you said you didn't necessarily watch a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of horror. But if I look at your career, you've

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<v Speaker 2>been able to do extensive work in either fantasy, this

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<v Speaker 2>being horror or science fiction. Is that by chance or

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<v Speaker 2>choice that you've been in a world of make believe?

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<v Speaker 2>Let me put it that way.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, for me, the story, the story the messages

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<v Speaker 3>that are told in these in these projects, whether it's Sinners,

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<v Speaker 3>Lovecraft Country, even in Loki, the story of like a

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<v Speaker 3>Crisis of Faith, the story of of of of of vampires,

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<v Speaker 3>of a vampire, spiritual or actual or uh or or energetically,

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<v Speaker 3>that taking trying to take what you have, your gift,

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<v Speaker 3>your you know, it's the story that matters. It's the

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<v Speaker 3>character journey for me that matters. I feel very lucky

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<v Speaker 3>that I've been in part of projects that really the

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<v Speaker 3>story has moved me. The stories have changed me the

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<v Speaker 3>way I look at the world, the way I interact

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<v Speaker 3>with the world. So yeah, horror is to me. It's

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<v Speaker 3>for me. It always boils down to the story and

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<v Speaker 3>the lessons that I learn and with the way I'm

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<v Speaker 3>challenged in my way of thinking. And it just happens

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<v Speaker 3>to be that some of the most creative ways of

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<v Speaker 3>storytelling have been through horror in the last few years.

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<v Speaker 2>For me, are you someone who is there the first

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<v Speaker 2>night to watch audience reaction to a movie like Sinners,

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<v Speaker 2>to see you on the big screen? Are you someone

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<v Speaker 2>who doesn't ever want to see yourself on the screen

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<v Speaker 2>and doesn't want to critique your own work.

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<v Speaker 3>That's really interesting. I've never done that. I've never gone

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<v Speaker 3>to the cinema on opening night to see the the

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<v Speaker 3>audience response. But my husband was thinking saying the other day,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe we should do that on Friday, and maybe I will.

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<v Speaker 3>I think maybe I will, but it's not. I don't.

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<v Speaker 3>Usually I've never done that before, but with this one,

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<v Speaker 3>it feels like it might be cool to do that.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a feeling you might be right. Centers in

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<v Speaker 2>theaters nationwide. C one be Masaku as Annie. Thank you

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<v Speaker 2>so much for coming on this evening and much success

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<v Speaker 2>for you and the movie.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much.

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