WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:03.960 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:05.879 KFI AM six forty. 3 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:14.679 Munster High Ultimate, Spider Man, Naruto, Barbie, Dreamhouse Adventures, Stretch, 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:19.239 Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, Red Dead, Redemption two Game, 5 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.079 and more under his belt. You may not know his name, 6 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:25.000 but for the last twenty five years, I think even more, 7 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:28.359 Oji Banks the third has been the voice behind some 8 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:31.960 of the world's greatest characters in cartoons, animated films, and 9 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:33.880 video games. I know that was a quick list, but 10 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:35.719 what did I forget? What did I forget? 11 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:36.439 That was good? 12 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:42.799 Muppet Babies, Muppet Baby, Yeah, Mupping Babies is one. And 13 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:47.079 Avengers Avenge Lego Avengers is my new one. 14 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:47.840 That's the new one. 15 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:49.200 But I mean, you did a lot of things for 16 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.079 Disney as well along the years, along the way with 17 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:53.320 Disney XD as well. 18 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:55.880 Yes, yes, yes, yes yes. 19 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.039 How many characters do you think that if you've probably 20 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.560 done over the past twenty five to thirty years. 21 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.759 Wow, hundreds, hundreds. 22 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.159 And here's here's the reason why too, Because when I'll 23 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.959 get on a show and they'll hire me for one character, 24 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.200 but when I'm on the show, I'm usually doing like 25 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:15.519 four or five characters. 26 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:18.280 On that one show. So it adds up pretty quickly. 27 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:19.359 Give me an example. 28 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.280 Are the wide and variation in the forest of four 29 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:23.719 characters you may do on a given show. 30 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.719 Yeah, like on the show Goes for us, I play 31 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:27.840 I play the kid. 32 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.400 You know, I played a kid, you know like this. 33 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.640 You know, guys, guys, you know I'm very you know, 34 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.359 inquisitive and everything. But then I also play the dad. 35 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:37.599 I play the father as well, you know, so I 36 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.719 also play my father. So I have a lot of 37 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:41.719 scenes where I talk to myself back and forth like 38 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:42.480 a crazy person. 39 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.040 Do you channel real people in your life? If you're 40 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.280 going to do the father character, do you channel Ojibanks Usenka. 41 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:50.959 I do a little, yes, I do. I do a 42 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:54.000 little Yes. My father does come out just naturally. 43 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:59.640 For those who don't know, Ogibanks and I grew up 44 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.439 next store to each other. And I say next door, 45 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:07.200 I mean house house, literally next door to each other. Yes, 46 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:11.680 And we both moved into Harbor City in nineteen seventy five, 47 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.479 within maybe three to four months of each other, and 48 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:16.599 both our families had moved in. I think I was 49 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:18.439 five years old when you were two two and a 50 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:22.639 half years old, and we became instant friends, and he 51 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.639 would usually have these great birthday parties, Yes, where you 52 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.680 invite the kids from school or in the neighborhood and 53 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:30.080 we have dance contests. 54 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:31.560 How many times did I win? Yeah? 55 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.120 Yes, you would win and he would be No, he 56 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:37.599 would always win the prize. 57 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.800 I got moved. He would always win every year. 58 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.599 Yes, So why did you stop having birthday parties at 59 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:46.639 dance contests? 60 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.240 Because it was the same thing every year. You just 61 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:50.960 come in and take all the prizes dancing. 62 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:53.360 It's so funny because. 63 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:55.319 I don't think either of our parents or families would 64 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:57.280 have any idea that you would end up doing what 65 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.960 you are doing now and what I am doing now. 66 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:02.599 I know your parents would listen. 67 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:07.080 To KFI religiously, and I think one morning they heard 68 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:08.759 me filling in for Bill Handle or something. 69 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.719 He said, oh my mom my, mom my mom. 70 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.599 Yes, yes, And I think my parents like saw your 71 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.039 name in the credits one time on one of the 72 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:21.000 Disney XD series and they'd say, oh my gosh, oh Gi. 73 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:22.439 What is it. 74 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:24.400 And the reason I bring that up is what does 75 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.120 it mean to have that type of affirmation from parents 76 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:27.639 and family. 77 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.879 Oh, it's the best, It's the best because you know, 78 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.680 they you can tell them I'm going to do this, but. 79 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.560 They're like, what are you really going to do? When 80 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:37.719 are you gonna go out and get a job. 81 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.639 Yes, either, when am I going to see these results? 82 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:43.800 So when the project actually comes out and we're able 83 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.520 to watch it together and they're actually able to see 84 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.800 me and hear me and look at my name on 85 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.879 the credits come in, it's very fulfilling. It's like, see, 86 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.879 I told you, I told you I was doing this. 87 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:58.680 I remember when I came out of college and I 88 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.680 started working in the music business. My parents were not 89 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.080 really happy with that. It's like, hey, we spent all 90 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:07.360 this money, we sent you to Georgetown University. Now you 91 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:09.080 want to work in the music industry. You didn't need 92 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.000 to go to school for that, and now you're out 93 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:15.159 here just trying to you know, play record executives and 94 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.399 and and spend some money. It's like, that's not what 95 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:21.079 we expected of you. Because our generation. I remember we 96 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:23.279 would play in his room and I think you had 97 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:27.800 like the Lord's Prayer on your you know, father navy man. 98 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:29.399 Crat oh No. 99 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.279 I remember because because he was very he was very 100 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.759 upright and circumspect as far as what he expected of you, 101 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:36.079 and if I were going to be playing with you, 102 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:38.560 I was not going to be a bad influence on you. 103 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.120 And so I needed to learn the Lord's prayer as well. 104 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:43.600 You know, it's not a problem, but. 105 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:48.519 It's it's it's interesting how we can have these birds, 106 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:51.879 I wouldn't say birds, but expectations placed upon us, and 107 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:55.120 they propel us, and they also compel us to meet 108 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:55.720 their standards. 109 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:57.199 Because even to this day. 110 00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:59.519 When I open up the mic, I always want to 111 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:03.240 be careful and conscious of that. I don't say anything 112 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:07.360 that my mother, who's probably listening, would disapprove of. Yes, 113 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.600 And I'm always conscious of that. It's like, would my 114 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:11.399 mother be okay with that? 115 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:12.680 Now? If you met my mother, you would know that 116 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:14.120 she is as profane as anyone. 117 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:15.959 So I have a lot of room to work with. 118 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:20.199 But their approval has always meant something to me. How 119 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:21.120 did you navigate that? 120 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:22.439 Oh? 121 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:25.680 It was hard. My dad, like you said, he was 122 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:28.480 the strict one. My mom was the one that was more. 123 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.959 Like, go baby, you can do it, you can. 124 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:33.959 Do it, and she drove me to my auditions and everything, and. 125 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:35.120 It was a real struggle. 126 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.319 But my dad is the one that taught me, you know, well, 127 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:39.319 if you're gonna do this, you. 128 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:40.839 Gotta do it. You got to take it seriously. 129 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.480 This isn't something that you can just will and nelly 130 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:45.720 and just you know, do whatever you have to like 131 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.399 really be strong and take it serious. And so and 132 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:53.600 that balance of the tough with the soft really helped 133 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:55.639 because whenever I was down, my mom was there to 134 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:56.959 bring me up, and if I was too up, my 135 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:58.839 dad was there to be like, you know, don't get 136 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:01.920 too a you know, there's more to come, There's there's tomorrow. 137 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:06.079 So with that balance it really helped me. And that 138 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.879 propelled me to, like, you know, when I did actually 139 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:12.199 book something and had a project and was able to 140 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.759 share it with them, that's why, you know, it brought 141 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.279 me so much joy because of all that hard work 142 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.199 of not only going to the auditions and going to 143 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.079 the rehearsals and all that, but the family aspect of 144 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:26.040 you know, some believing in you, some not. There's times 145 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:27.759 when they both do and that you know, it's just 146 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:28.879 that whole dynamic. 147 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:31.839 How many times did you hear no before you finally 148 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:36.800 had a yes? Oh hundreds and thousands before you had 149 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.639 a yes? Oh yeah, thousands of times. Yeah before yes, yeah, 150 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.600 how does that not break you in your spirit? Oh? 151 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:46.680 It does, it does? Yeah, yeah, I've Yeah. 152 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.279 At the beginning, I stopped several times, you know, I 153 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.959 was like, this isn't gonna work. Oh, But then you 154 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:53.120 try to find your way. 155 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:53.519 You know. 156 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.399 It's like, okay, if you know, if I'm not doing 157 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.839 well in this, let me try to tweak this here, 158 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.199 or take more classes here to learn something, or maybe 159 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:06.319 try something else, but still within the field. So I'm 160 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.839 still learning. But the nose, you know, and you know 161 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:12.519 you're taught that that's part of the game. That's part 162 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:15.199 of it. It's a numbers game. But the numbers were 163 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.240 so high on the nose. I was like, what kind 164 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:20.480 of game is this? You know, this is not a 165 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:23.240 game I like, you know. But once I got that 166 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.560 first yes, the magic and the confidence and the Hollywood 167 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.879 magic like kind of just came through me and it 168 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.439 started coming together a little bit more. 169 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.199 It's almost this is a crude analogy, but this is 170 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.240 the only way I can explain it. No one thinks 171 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.519 you're sexy until someone finds you sexy, and when someone 172 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:44.639 tells you yes, and all of a sudden, people start 173 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:46.000 looking at you was like, Ooh, what have I been 174 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.120 missing out on? Or what is it that person has 175 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.079 that I have not realized yet. It's very true as 176 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:52.839 far as radio, it's like once you get on the year, 177 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:56.680 then people want to hear more of you. Usually beginning 178 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:59.519 on the air is a very difficult process. 179 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:04.000 That first. Yes, do you remember what it was? Yes? Yes, yes, yes, 180 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:06.240 great question. Yes. 181 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:12.319 It was for a frozen pizza and it's. 182 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:12.639 Not out today. 183 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.120 It was a kid's frozen pizza and I played the 184 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:15.680 puppy dog. 185 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:18.000 Oh you weren't even a person. 186 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.800 No, I was not even a person. I didn't I had. 187 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.519 I said something like come and get that, get your pizza, 188 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:27.680 and I said the name of the pizza. But that 189 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.519 was about it. And uh yeah, and I was the 190 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:31.360 puppy dog. 191 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:36.279 For the commercial. Was commercial? I believe? 192 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:36.399 So? 193 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:40.120 Yes, okay, so Payday? Yes it was, Yes, it was. 194 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.279 It was. What was your first TV show that you booked? 195 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:48.039 The first TV show? Wow? Good question. Oh it was 196 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:55.080 pretty good at what I do? Whole Street High, Whole 197 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:55.879 Street High? 198 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.480 That remember that one that was back when Parker Can't 199 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.519 Lose That TV show? I remember that that was our rival. 200 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:04.200 It was Parker can't lose. In Whole Street High, we 201 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.440 were up against Parker can't lose, and you remember Parker 202 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:08.639 can't lose because they won. 203 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:13.559 But also I remember my mom was so proud of 204 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.000 you when you booked Newsies. 205 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.159 Yes, yeah, yeah, that changed my life. 206 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:21.000 What did you do with Newsies Newsy's I played Boots. 207 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:21.480 I was. 208 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.480 An actor dancer. I was an actor who danced. Well, 209 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.840 that movie took to that took two years to make 210 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.279 because we did a whole year of rehearsal and then 211 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.399 a whole year of you know, actually you know, filming. 212 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:41.360 But there was that was on the Universal lot. I remember, 213 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:44.840 and I remember that the tram would come through, we 214 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:48.759 would make we made special dances for the tram. We 215 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:51.720 would make them special Newsies dances. We would We knew 216 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:53.320 when the trams were coming and we were like, we 217 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:54.360 were so enthrowed, like. 218 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:57.320 We have to do something for them. 219 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:01.159 So we all came up with, like Kenny Ortega, the 220 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.279 directors like, why don't we come up with like a 221 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.120 cool little dance room. So when they came through sometimes, 222 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.360 you know, if we were on break, they'd be like, five, 223 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:10.120 why didn't we do this dance? 224 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:13.679 And everybody. It was so much fun. It was so 225 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:14.279 much fun. 226 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:17.200 And to be at the Universal back lot just to 227 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:21.759 work work there and to be there every day, Uh, 228 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:22.960 that was magical. 229 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:24.000 That was just magical. 230 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.399 And because you're working on a film there, but there's 231 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:28.919 another film going on right next door over here, there's 232 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:32.200 a TV show going on right over here. I snuck 233 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.000 over to the set over here and met Bruce Willis. 234 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:37.440 You know, I wasn't supposed to, but I just ran 235 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:38.799 br Yes, I did. 236 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:45.600 It's weird because as much as we enjoy working in this, 237 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:50.279 we're fans, well, we enjoy being part of it, not 238 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:51.960 necessarily the center of it. 239 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.399 So OCHI, what was your before we go to break? 240 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.879 What was Have you had that one role where you 241 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.960 said yes, thank you I finally met because let me 242 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.600 for example, for me just being in news and radio 243 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:09.120 and talk. The first time I appeared on CNN for 244 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.000 the National Feet and my friend saw me from coast 245 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.039 to coast. 246 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.519 And I wanted so long to just have that one moment. 247 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:18.519 Didn't get paid for. 248 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.559 It, but it was one of those things. It was 249 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.039 the affirmation I need. It's like I might be able 250 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:27.159 to do this. I'm long here and I'm gonna stay here. 251 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:28.480 Did you have a similar. 252 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.399 Moment, Yes, yes, I did. 253 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:36.240 My My moment with that was, you know, it was 254 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:40.000 really the my first Marvel gig, the first Marvel gig 255 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.840 I did when I was a power man. 256 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:44.440 You know how many Marvel gigs have. 257 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:48.200 You had several several that that was pretty much the 258 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:48.720 jump start. 259 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.360 Okay, so that was that moment, were like, I'm here. 260 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.279 That was, you know, because that was like my first 261 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.759 like real superhero and it was like a series. I 262 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:02.399 was on that and I'm on every like every episode. 263 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:03.799 I was on every episode. 264 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:06.720 I'm going there every week, and there were celebrities on 265 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.279 the show, and I'm just like, and I'm part of 266 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:09.720 the show. 267 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:10.200 You know. 268 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.039 They would read and my part would come and I 269 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:15.279 would forget to read because I'm like, oh. 270 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:17.120 I, oh, that's right, I'm part of the show too. 271 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:20.480 Oh I need to wrangle myself in and be a 272 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:21.159 part of the show. 273 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.279 But that was the moment, because. 274 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:26.679 Yeah, that I mean, and plus getting the athletes from 275 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.919 the people that I work with too, you know, yes, 276 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:31.879 from the family, but the people I work with too, 277 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:33.840 knowing that I'm you're doing a good job. 278 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.440 But that was that was the one that was the one. 279 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:39.799 When we come back, let's get into Lego Marvel Avengers, 280 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.759 the animated show in which you are starring as Captain 281 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:47.200 America Sam Wilson himself. And that's against the backdrop of 282 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.200 the Captain America four movie, which is coming out in February, 283 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:51.279 which is not gonna. 284 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.480 Hurt what you're doing. Yes, no, you got that right. 285 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:53.919 So O. 286 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:56.200 G Banks is joining us in studio right now as 287 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.559 part of Later with Mo Kelly's Halloween Swell Ray. And 288 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.039 also we want to say a special thanks to BJ's 289 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.759 Restaurants for setting up our party with pizza, wings and 290 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:05.360 salad for this party. 291 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:06.399 Put your hands together for. 292 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:11.440 BJSDJ More with Ogbanks, just a moment. Canf I Am 293 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.960 six forty Live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 294 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:17.879 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 295 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:19.600 KFI AM six forty. 296 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:23.480 We're not done yet, caf I Am six forty Live 297 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:24.879 everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 298 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:27.240 It's Halloween Later with Mo Kelly. 299 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.960 My guest right now is og Banks the third and 300 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:35.840 his latest project is Lego Marvel Avengers Mission Demolition, where 301 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.399 he co stars as Captain America Sam Wilson himself. Before 302 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.559 the break, we were talking about how you got started 303 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.080 working with Marvel. 304 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:49.440 What is it like working with Marvel? For Marvel? 305 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:52.720 Because I look at it as from an outsider, from 306 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.240 a fan. I enjoy their animated properties, I enjoy their 307 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:59.200 live action properties. I'm a Marvel fan through and through. 308 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.519 But we're looking for a company like that. Maybe difficult 309 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.840 in the sense of usually sworn to secrecy. Their NBA's everywhere. 310 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:10.279 You can't tell anything about anything. How is it navigating 311 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:10.759 that space? 312 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:12.600 Good question, it's a. 313 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:18.879 It's it is a little difficult, but but it's fun difficult, Okay, 314 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:22.279 if I can say, you're right, there is secrecy. 315 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:23.960 You can't say anything. 316 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:28.039 You can't say a word, and you you have all 317 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.039 this going on. You're so excited, but there's nothing you 318 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.799 can say. And working for them, it's like with Sam Wilson. 319 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:39.120 I I got every piece of footage they send me 320 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.120 all the all the footage everything Sam Wilson like and 321 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.879 and mister Mackie, did you know, like you have to 322 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:46.039 prepare you know. 323 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:49.320 So it's like, so you are working in concert with 324 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:53.080 the live action portion in large parts, so there's uniformity. 325 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.039 Yes, yes, they totally want that they totally want, they 326 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:58.240 totally want that. It's still that essence of the character, 327 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:00.720 because you know, the essence of the character, the coolness 328 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:03.679 of the character, all that. So I had to study 329 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:06.639 basically all his stuff, like the Falcon stuff, all the 330 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.559 way till he did like you know, the Captain America thing, 331 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:14.240 you know, so just and so that and and working 332 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:17.399 for Marvel. You know, it's like, Okay, that's the that's 333 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.840 the one. So you know, you prepare you you know, 334 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:22.399 you're you're doing your homework. 335 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:23.480 You're doing your homework. 336 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:27.000 You're watching for hours and hours, practicing my voice, practicing 337 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.919 my cool, doing my thing, and you're doing it to 338 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.000 the point where you know there's nobody there to help you. 339 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:34.360 The director's not there when you're practicing, you know. So 340 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:36.600 you're doing that all all on your own. And it's 341 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:38.919 not like I have the script yet, So I'm still 342 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:41.480 just getting the essence of the character, just getting in 343 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.879 the mood, just really feeling them out, so that by 344 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:47.039 the time that it comes to where the script is 345 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:49.600 presented to me and I am in front of everybody, 346 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:54.240 I am prepared in the mood the you know how 347 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.600 he's going to be. So whatever they bring to me 348 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.000 or whatever they have for me. I'm able to just 349 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:01.120 slip right in and be that character. 350 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:05.879 Marvel is an iconic brand, Lego is an iconic brand, 351 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:10.879 and since the original Lego movie, high expectations are placed 352 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.840 on their properties as well. Are you ever concerned about 353 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.360 trying to meet those expectations? 354 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:18.279 Yes, I am, Yes, I am. And that's why. 355 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:21.159 It's that's why when I when I'm working, I'm in 356 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.360 the booth, I will sweat so much because I am 357 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:25.279 so worried and I'm like, did. 358 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:29.840 I say the correctly? Did I say it correctly? Did 359 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:31.360 that type of minutiation? 360 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.240 Yeah, Because I'm an actor, so I get crazy in 361 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.639 my head, you know, especially when you're in the booth, 362 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:40.480 because you can say a line, you can say, hey, 363 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:43.399 are we gonna go there? And then you don't hear 364 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:46.480 anything because they're in another room, you know, with the engineer. 365 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:48.600 Do you you don't have a scene partner or anything? 366 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.679 Sometimes you do, sometimes you do, but sometimes you don't. 367 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:54.360 And when you don't, you're there on your own and 368 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:56.519 you and even if you do have a partner, both 369 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:58.519 of you are there on your own, and you're too neurotic. 370 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:01.120 Actors and you're like, did we do a good job 371 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:01.799 or not because we. 372 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.559 Didn't hear anything back. And then finally they'll say great 373 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.599 job after five vents. But within that five ins we're. 374 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:09.920 Like, ah, how many takes might you do on a 375 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:14.599 given seed that's not not going perfectly? 376 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.160 Oh, that's not going Oh I can say a line 377 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:20.599 twenty times sometimes just one line. I can say one 378 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:24.079 line twenty times sometimes if if that's how they are, 379 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:26.400 if you are not getting it, if you're not in 380 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:28.960 the right part of the scene, if you the tone 381 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.640 of your voice or anything, if they're not feeling it, 382 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:34.119 they're not getting it. And I'm like, wow, this is 383 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:36.359 one line, and I'm saying it again and again and again, 384 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.880 and even I have to like, who were you taking? 385 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:41.680 Take the notes? Take the notes? You know they might 386 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:43.839 change a little bit here and there. But yeah, I 387 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:45.599 can sometimes it'll be twenty times. 388 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:45.960 Okay. 389 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:49.000 We started with the secrecy my word of Marvel. The 390 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.039 reason I asked that is you may not have a 391 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:53.640 scene partner. Are you getting your sides in other words, 392 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:56.559 your lines for the complete episode. 393 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:59.119 Or only what you're slither of what you need? Oh 394 00:17:59.119 --> 00:17:59.920 sliver what you need? 395 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.839 Yeah, good question, and I'm lucky that I get the 396 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:07.119 whole episode, they get the context. Yes, yes, yes, I 397 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.599 understand everything that's going on. And and also the director 398 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:14.640 they're there, so like, even if I didn't quite understand anything, 399 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.960 they fill me in with all the juices and berries 400 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:19.799 and all the good stuff. 401 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.160