WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:14.480 Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, 2 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:17.280 across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer. 3 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:19.920 And this is two hours of the business, end of 4 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:25.839 show business. I'm here with engineer Sam and Sam Nikki 5 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.199 is off this week and so it's just you and me. 6 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:31.559 Yeah, I try to get through it. 7 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:39.280 Today we have a special show because we are interviewing 8 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:44.359 the stars of the movie Kneecap, which is in theaters now. 9 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:47.479 So trust me, this is one of the best movies 10 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:51.079 you're going to see the whole year. It's a biopic 11 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:56.759 about a three person rap group. You know, you got 12 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:02.200 your you got your two rappers in your DJ and 13 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:07.400 they wrap in the Irish language. Not because they're you know, 14 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:13.799 academics and they're linguist experts or language experts there. They 15 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:17.480 kind of do it because they're out of protests against 16 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:23.719 the British government basically the occupation or the the in 17 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.000 Northern Ireland. You know how in Northern Ireland there are 18 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:28.760 some people don't know this, but I mean to me, 19 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:31.159 growing up as just common knowledge, everybody thought about it 20 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:32.920 all the time because there was a lot of bombings 21 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.200 by the Irish Republicans that were trying to break away 22 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:42.599 from the UK and they were fighting the Protestants. So 23 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.359 the Catholics are the protesters, they're the resistance, and the 24 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:52.519 Protestants are they call them sometimes unionists. The Unionists want 25 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:53.519 to stay with the UK. 26 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:54.400 They like it. 27 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.359 They're like, this is you know, you like the Queen 28 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:00.599 and this is protection for us. If the Queen and 29 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:06.040 the UK doesn't govern this area, then we'll be swallowed 30 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.560 up by the Catholics and our lives will be worse. 31 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:13.800 So we want to keep it this way. And the 32 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:18.000 Catholics the Republicans are saying, look, this is get the 33 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.520 British out, get them out of here. 34 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:21.319 And they did it. 35 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.080 They did it with bombs, they did it through you know, 36 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.400 political maneuvering. These guys are kind of the generation after 37 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:36.680 the ira violent troubles period and there, you know a 38 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:41.199 lot of their parents went to jail and they fought 39 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:44.280 and now it's kind of you know, settled down a 40 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:44.719 little bit. 41 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:48.360 But this is their way of protesting. They're rapping, right, 42 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:49.479 that's kind of normal, right, Sam. 43 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:52.919 Yeah, Well, and it's not just that they're wrapping in Gaelic, 44 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:55.560 so it's trying to reclaim that. 45 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:56.879 Sense of identity. 46 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:01.159 So yeah, it's uhascinating movie. 47 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:02.800 It's a great movie. 48 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:06.919 I thought I knew a decent amount of you know, 49 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.280 the history and the politics behind it all, but I 50 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:13.840 really did not know nearly as much as I did, 51 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.520 so it really it made me want to learn more. 52 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:21.560 All right, let's go to the interview and Kneecap we 53 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.599 sat up a WhatsApp group in twenty nineteen when we 54 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.199 first started we first met and started. 55 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:29.719 Working on the film, and that that WhatsApp group was called. 56 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:34.759 It's a real coincidence. 57 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.240 It was called Kneecap go to Hollywood, right, And so 58 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.439 it's kind of crazy that here we are sitting in Hollywood. 59 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.039 Are you really sitting in Hollywood? You're really around me? 60 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:48.159 We're actually in Hollywood. 61 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:52.199 Hand you you I'll see this and then your friends. 62 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:55.439 I wasn't freaking boiling in it. 63 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:59.000 We thought it was, well you can so I'm I'm, 64 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:02.159 you know, like mostple around here where I live, half 65 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:11.759 Irish over half a lower half. It's inside the. 66 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.319 Half Mexican, half Irish. 67 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.240 That's a good mixture. 68 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:21.800 Catholic people still a r c Roman Catholic, still an 69 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:29.120 altar boyell. 70 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.839 You got the hair department in your hair? Hello, my son. 71 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:30.759 Have I been trying to get rid of you from 72 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:34.000 the old boy for like twenty years now, they're like, mate, 73 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:34.839 it's time to give it up. 74 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:36.920 Give someone else an joe, give somebody else a chance 75 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:37.399 with the bell. 76 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:44.480 So unattractive evidentitely you're beautiful. But anyway, I love the movie. 77 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:46.759 I've seen it a couple of times ahead of what 78 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.920 there's no subtitles other than the Irish stuff, so it's 79 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:54.360 when we hear Irish people speak English, it's hard to 80 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:57.519 get everything, but it's part of the fun. 81 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:04.160 Yeah, yeah, that's interesting because yeah, it's some people are 82 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.360 struggles to struggle with the accent of bit. And we 83 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:08.519 did have lots of debates, you know, how much do 84 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:12.639 you kind of subtitle things? Can you over subtitle things? 85 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:14.439 And I kind of, you know, we kind of came 86 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.439 to the conclusion that for the authenticity of things, we 87 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:20.240 just think that it's better just to have left it 88 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:23.160 and allow people to to kind of enjoy it on 89 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:26.240 whatever level they can. But it's crack and open the 90 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:27.639 door to a world, do you know what I mean, 91 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.720 and allowing you to look in. And I think that's 92 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:31.399 part of the fun. 93 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.240 You did the right thing because of course the movie. 94 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:36.920 I've been talking about this movie on my show for 95 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.519 a weeks, so I can tell much about it. But 96 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.680 you know, you're you're, you're, you're singing lyrics were when 97 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.480 I'm going to band and nobody can understand my lyrics, 98 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:48.600 you know, in English, you know, because it's. 99 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:50.959 Punk rock and it just kind of comes at you fast. 100 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:52.120 You know. 101 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:53.639 So I think he did the right thing. And it 102 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:55.879 could have been worse because it could have been in Scottish. 103 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:58.199 A lot of people don't know whither that Irish is 104 00:05:58.199 --> 00:05:59.240 a language in itself, you know. 105 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.240 Also people are watching the film. 106 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:04.000 There's the Irish languages, which is our indigenous language of 107 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.360 the land for like two thousand years, and then there's 108 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.759 people speaking Irish English, which sounds like people would say 109 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.040 that the Irish are talking exposing. 110 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:15.879 Their or we have a iris, we have Spanglish that 111 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:16.560 people spy. 112 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:17.839 Yeah, sounds. 113 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:25.079 Let me get into that. You guys are you're part 114 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.360 of this language movement now? 115 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.519 But you work, I mean in the movie it deals 116 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:32.519 with that, like, how did our biggest advocate in the movie. 117 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.600 It looks like you're the biggest advocates for the preservation 118 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:35.680 of the Irish language. 119 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.399 But you are what you guys call hoods, and. 120 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:43.240 Then they have to come to the realization that these 121 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:47.040 guys are our best advocates to preserve our language. Is 122 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.079 that what's your relationship like with the language movement? 123 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:50.399 Now? 124 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:52.399 Are they are they proud of you or are they 125 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.959 like a little bit that kind of stuff. 126 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.240 I think there's an understanding that, Like, I'm sure there 127 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.839 are some people who probably don't enjoy the way we 128 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:05.720 intertwine youth culture with the language. 129 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:07.240 They would prefer culture. 130 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:08.480 You mean a whole bunch of drugs. 131 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:14.199 Yeah, hey, don't give away all the secrets here. 132 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:18.600 Yeah, So a lot of. 133 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.519 Them maybe would prefer if we just maintained a. 134 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:26.959 Certain purity language and talked about faxed cottages and. 135 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:28.759 Traditional music, et cetera, et cetera. 136 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.720 But I think especially there's a growing on a big 137 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.959 Irish language community because we came the realization that for 138 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.839 a language to live, it has to have every element 139 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:45.040 available to be at school, radio, social clubs. 140 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:45.439 And all this stuff. 141 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.360 And part of that there is having music that young 142 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:50.439 people will be interested to listen to. 143 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:52.120 And they're going to listen. 144 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:53.680 To Eminem or they're going to listen to some other 145 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:54.959 hip hop music and English. 146 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.839 Then there's no reason why it shouldn't be available in Irish. 147 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:00.360 It should be representative to the people who should up 148 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.639 through and it gives a young people something to go 149 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:06.439 that that's me, that's me kind of being made into music. 150 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:10.000 Yeah, and I need something that will be banned from 151 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.279 school and only anyway the language will survive if it 152 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:18.439 if it exists in these places, you know that it's 153 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:20.480 something that can be banned because then that kind of 154 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.519 makes it coldon relevant for teenagers growing up and then 155 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:25.600 they want to be a part of it. 156 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:27.560 And that's just part of a living language. 157 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:29.639 And what what I've talking about living language. 158 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:31.920 I mean, what I found really fascinating from an early 159 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.240 stage was that these boys were inventing words that were 160 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.679 becoming falling into the lexicon of the language. And it's 161 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.039 like to be, you know, one thing about a language 162 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.639 being you know, so they're being relatively few speakers, you 163 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:47.840 really can have a huge impact upon that language, right. 164 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:49.919 It's like it's very hard to have about impact in 165 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:52.559 the English language, right, you know, occasionally a word someone 166 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.440 comes up with a word that kind of falls into usage. 167 00:08:56.840 --> 00:08:57.399 But these guys. 168 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:00.159 Yeah, you know, but these guys are you know, are 169 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.720 coming up with words on a monthly basis. They're releasing 170 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.039 a song and these words were then being used. And 171 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.000 you know, when I first met them and I joined 172 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.360 an Irish language class, half the people in that Irish 173 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.000 language class were there because of kneecap and that was 174 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.799 in twenty nineteen. So that was the cultural impact that 175 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.519 we're having then, and it's exciting to think that, you 176 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:20.919 know now and then the film coming out and then 177 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.200 growing and growing and growing. There are literally thousands of 178 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.639 people on the island of Ireland who are right now 179 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:29.120 learning language because of what these boys are doing. 180 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.440 Yeah, I think that's incredible. 181 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:34.960 And that's why it's such a perfect movie because it 182 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.200 has so many layers of it. You can like it 183 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.559 on these different layers. And then the one layer that's 184 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:42.960 a part of a real movement to preserve a language, 185 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.480 which is super serious business but it's also entertaining. Is 186 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.519 amazing music. And then you guys are playing yourselves in 187 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.120 the movie, which is you know, since I'm from Hollywood, 188 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:57.480 but my mind is is blowing because obviously that's wrong. 189 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:00.679 You can't do that. 190 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:05.360 Let's take a break right there, and we'll check the 191 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.600 traffic and come back with the second part of the 192 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:12.879 Kneecap interview on Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood. Joe Scolante 193 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:16.360 Live from Hollywood. Let's go right back to the interview 194 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:22.000 with the director and Rich Pepia and DJ Prove and 195 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:27.600 Mobili from the film A Kneecap that you must see 196 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:29.000 and you must see soon. 197 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:32.039 So you guys have proved everybody else wrong. 198 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.519 You mean, you're you're starting a language revolution and you're 199 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.879 playing yourself in a movie. When I first heard that, 200 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.399 I go, well, this is gonna, you know, be interesting, 201 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.600 but it's going to have bad acting. I was in 202 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.200 a movie called when I was younger, called Suburbia, which 203 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.759 is a movie about punk rock and they cast all 204 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:51.559 real punk rockers from the Hollywood scene to play all 205 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.240 the parts. 206 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:56.600 Every actor was bad. 207 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.559 It was awful, and the movie is like, it's a 208 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.000 great movie, it's but the acting is terrible. 209 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:04.759 That you guys are great. 210 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:08.840 You could be in any movie as actors, And I 211 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:13.120 think that's really what people are going to be. Just 212 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.000 one of the levels people are going to be surprised on. 213 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.080 Who came up with that idea was that rich the 214 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:17.799 directory was. 215 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.039 It was never really it was never really something that 216 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:23.200 was discussed. It was, you know, it's such a to 217 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.879 make a film about a band that's never really never 218 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:28.440 released an album, they didn't have a record label, that 219 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.879 were wrapping the language that so few people spoke. It 220 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:35.080 doesn't make sense to make a movie about that on paper, right, 221 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:36.440 And it's so like, so. 222 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.840 It's like that so we can put my money in it. 223 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.039 No exactly exactly and no one's going to watch that, 224 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:46.200 right and so, but weirdly it was so niche that 225 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.120 suddenly it was like, that's the very reason we need 226 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.559 to make it, because it sounds so mad. It's like 227 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:53.399 either going to be terrible or brilliant, right, But obviously 228 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:56.080 it's if no one even knows who the band are, 229 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.480 then it's weird to get people to play them because 230 00:11:58.519 --> 00:11:59.519 you know what I mean, It's like we didn't know 231 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.320 they were in the place, so who were they? 232 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:02.440 It just got confusing. 233 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.879 So it was never really discussed the idea of anyone 234 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.320 else playing it other than was it Denzel Washington was 235 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:10.639 going to play you wanted to play him, but you know, 236 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:13.159 they were scrambling that in a bit. But we said no, 237 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.639 it's going to stick to stick to playing themselves. 238 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.240 Yeah, Brad, Brad's ways, he let himself go for a 239 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:20.600 few months. What he was doing is one of the 240 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:26.000 final characters. So wait in yeah, my Tay Physik. It 241 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:27.480 just wasn't a squidge. 242 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.799 So I'm are you guys heart of the band Sublime? 243 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:33.879 Yes, of course I love Sublime. 244 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.960 I'm the manager of Sublime. Jobs. 245 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:38.399 No way. 246 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:40.360 We're going through the. 247 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:44.159 Same thing right now with Sony Pictures trying to cast 248 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:48.000 and get put together a movie about the band Sublime, 249 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.200 and the the the story of the guy developing this 250 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.320 for music and then dying when he's twenty eight and 251 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.519 then and then it's spawning this big thing is. 252 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.000 It's a pretty good story. 253 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:00.200 But we've got. 254 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:02.840 A scremefully. 255 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:10.799 Nailed down it's agent. Have your agent send it over 256 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:12.000 to charn And Entertainment. 257 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.120 I love I mean that was you know when I 258 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:16.919 was about When I was eighteen years old, I fell 259 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.240 in love with a Californian girl and I moved to 260 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:24.639 Isla Vista, right and I lived in she was went 261 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.360 to UCSB and I lived there and that's when I 262 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:30.000 was first exposed to Sublime. And I was just I 263 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:31.759 just fell in love with Sublime and it was just 264 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.360 it's a soundtrack of my life, you know, late teen 265 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:35.679 thirty twenties, and. 266 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.960 Yeah, okay, then give me some advice. 267 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.559 Would you cast Bradley Nole's twenty eight year old son 268 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:45.039 as Bradley Nole, the singer who died at age twenty eight, 269 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:48.639 and now he's the singer of Sublime in there playing 270 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.720 all over all the festivals right now. 271 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:53.519 He's took he's took it over. He took over for 272 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:54.720 his dad as the singer of the bit. 273 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:55.240 Yeah. 274 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.600 And I know that him as well, does he does 275 00:13:58.600 --> 00:13:59.480 he look like him as well? 276 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.279 Yes, he looks like them, sounds like them. 277 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:02.480 Well. 278 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:07.360 I think the big question, right is you know, in 279 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:08.919 all of the time of trying to get the film 280 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.200 funded and everything like that, you'd have these meetings with 281 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:13.480 people and they'd be like, we love the script, we 282 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.039 think there's potential here, but you know, you're getting the 283 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:17.120 guys to play themselves. 284 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:18.120 Can they act? 285 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.600 And obviously when you're trying to fund the movie you'll 286 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:22.080 say fricking anything. 287 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.879 It's like you just go, yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. 288 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.200 I never was like and then they'd be like, can 289 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.600 you never get something on tape and I was like, no, no, no, 290 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:32.799 you know, you know, I'll get something too you later, 291 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:34.879 and it never quite happened. And you know, but there 292 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:36.720 was work to do, Like we did six months of 293 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.440 acting classes, you know, to sort of get yeah. 294 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:39.720 Yeah. 295 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.039 It was not anywhere near a case of just walk 296 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:43.919 on set and knock it out. There was six months 297 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:47.840 of hard work of really learning the craft and understanding 298 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.840 you know that these guys that can perform, they could perform, 299 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.480 but there's a big difference to performing on stage and 300 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.279 performing with a camera six inches in your face, right, 301 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.200 it's a very different kind of But once you've I 302 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:02.279 think everyone can act, right, it's just what do you 303 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:06.240 have the toolbox to quite understand the process of that. 304 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:08.440 And so it was for all of us, you know, 305 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:10.759 I did the acting course with them. We had a 306 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:13.879 great acting coach called Kieran Lagan, and over the course 307 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.759 of six months, it was understand that actings reacting right, 308 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.360 it's about being present in the moment. It's about listening 309 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.799 as much as it is talking. And you know and 310 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:25.679 understand that great actors they give a lot, they give 311 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.759 you a lot to react off of and surrounding your 312 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:33.759 cast inexperience with experienced people is you know, actually something 313 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.039 that can really help raise everyone's game. So I think 314 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:37.919 the only question you need to answer is is he 315 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:40.440 prepared to you know, is he prepared to learn the craft? 316 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:41.559 Do you know what I mean? Do the work? 317 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:43.240 Do the work, because this is the thing, is that 318 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.120 these boys did the work. None of that, you know, 319 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:49.360 and behind the anarchic you know, spirit and everything about 320 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:52.080 Kneecap they you know, these boys are you know when 321 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:53.679 it comes to knuckling down and doing the work, they 322 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:56.919 do the work right because nothing happened, you know, nothing happens. 323 00:15:57.240 --> 00:15:59.080 You know, they're not blessed. They're not blessed. 324 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:01.360 You know, it's like they have to do the work 325 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:10.039 to get to I mean touched, you did touch me? 326 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.639 Let me okay, So let me ask you another question 327 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:14.039 about your movie, which I guess is going to be 328 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.360 released here worldwide in August, and everyone's got to see 329 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:21.639 A kneecap Is and you're going to fall in love 330 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.200 with the town and the people in it, and another 331 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.120 level of why this movie is so much fun? 332 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:27.600 What's the town like? 333 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:27.879 Now? 334 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:31.519 Do you guys still live there? I know, DJ prob 335 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:36.720 is that you were a teacher there and you had you. 336 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.360 Yeah, and from day day city. But I was teaching 337 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:40.960 up round there. 338 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:41.240 Yeah. 339 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:43.320 And so you guys still live there, what's it? What's 340 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:43.519 it like? 341 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:45.320 I live there? 342 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:48.559 Yeah, Me and Macai still live there. I still live there. 343 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:52.559 He we've adopted. We've adopted him as an honorary Irishman. 344 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:55.919 It hasn't haven't got your ash passport yet, so. 345 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:58.720 It's in the post of both. It's a very fun setting. 346 00:16:58.720 --> 00:16:59.679 It's a thriving city. 347 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.799 It's there's lots of like really good music, good traditional music. 348 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.799 There's a good history of punk music. And Bellefast going 349 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:12.359 back to Steff's Little Fingers and the our casts. 350 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:13.440 I played with them many times. 351 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:17.920 It's a graffiti capital of Europe, the web capital, the 352 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:18.880 graffiti capital. 353 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:20.880 Graf had some good stuff. 354 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:21.920 What was your band culture? 355 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:27.400 My band is called the Vandals. We're still playing. 356 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:30.119 The least amount of people we've ever had at a 357 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:31.160 show was in Belfast. 358 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.200 We've had a gig the other day in Portugal and 359 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.279 we had about ten people of our song Storms. 360 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:39.720 He was on at the same time as doesn't just 361 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:40.960 stole our audience. 362 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:43.759 We've had one gig and there was four other people 363 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:44.759 and then the next gig there. 364 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:45.960 Was ten people. So it keeps you. 365 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:49.039 Humble, keep you humble. Anyway, they're they're telling me my 366 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:49.599 time is out. 367 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.839 So I say thank you guys for all your advice 368 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:57.759 and your dedication to making this movie come home alive 369 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.640 and rid it for you making. 370 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:07.680 It look so awesome. You see you at the Oscars. 371 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:10.359 Okay, that was it. We a lot of fun. 372 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.599 You can actually see the interview on my Facebook page 373 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:15.960 Joe A. Sclante Live from Hollywood. 374 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:16.680 You can see what those. 375 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:19.119 Guys look like, and they're just look like a beastie 376 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.240 boys really and hanging out with their teacher who's the DJ. 377 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:27.400 So go see Kneecap. It's in theaters right now and 378 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:31.680 you won't be disappointed. And you know you got to 379 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:33.119 support this kind of stuff. 380 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:34.240 So this is it. 381 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:42.519 This is your movie this week. Kneecap in theaters. Joe 382 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:47.160 Scalante Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood, you mean Burbank, Sam. 383 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:50.599 We got a lot of important legal cases that are 384 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:55.960 uh bubbling up and right now in the entertainment industry. 385 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:59.680 One of the big ones that we've been following is 386 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:05.400 the Tom Girardi case. On Thursday, Tom Girardi from the 387 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:12.359 law firm Girardi Caisse will go on trial for basically 388 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:16.799 funding the career or this is the sensational part, funding 389 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:22.400 the career of Erica Jane by spending money from legal 390 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:25.519 settlements that where there was a big legal case and 391 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:28.039 he received all the money and then instead of distributing 392 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:33.559 it to the plaintiffs, which at some the victims, which 393 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:38.720 in one case we're plane crash victims. Sam, So, you 394 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:41.119 die in a plane crash and your family wins a lawsuit, 395 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:45.519 and this guy spends the money allegedly on his wife's 396 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:52.079 dance music career and jewels and cars and houses and 397 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.079 stuff like that because he was a really old man. 398 00:19:54.480 --> 00:20:00.920 He's like eighty six now, and he had a really hot, 399 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:05.039 younger wife and he had he had to spend the 400 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:05.839 money to keep her. 401 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:10.759