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Is it a surreal moment? What is it all like
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Yeah, it is, because it's a weird culmination of everything you've always wanted
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As an actor, not that the prize means everything, but the fact that you're being honored by everybody else
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who also does what you do and respects what you do. And I mentioned it earlier, you know, I would always watch these shows
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and it was food for me as far as inspiration to a guy who's grinding
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and doing free theater and theaters that don't exist anymore. doing King Lear in a
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now it's a sleepies you know what I mean so it's like the guys
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who are out there grinding all my friends who are I know some of the most talented guys I've
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ever seen in my life are still fighting to make things happen
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we all are you know so this is a little bit of a hope and inspiration for them because that's
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what all those speeches were to me when I would watch the show so I wanted
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to say something for the actors who are hungry and trying to fight
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aggressively to make it happen and kind of stay above water Is there somebody you forgot to thank that you'd like to thank here at Broadway World
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Yeah, well, I mean, I could thank people forever, but definitely, you know, the cast and the crew, you know, they're the unsung heroes
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They talk about the unsung heroes of the Oslo Accords, which we're focusing on. But you know from our ASMs who are remarkable and then wig and wardrobe and our dressers props follow spots set sound electric all those guys they get the job done they stay out of the limelight they don need it
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they just want to kind of serve us and that selfless attitude is remarkable
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And then also, of course, the cast, this play lifts off because these guys are all heavyweights and remarkable
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And of course, my girlfriend who's a rock star, I couldn't sleep last night because of anxiety
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so she was rubbing my feet and trying to keep me sane. and I'm very lucky to have a lady like that in my life
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Was there a mentor early on that got you, that set you on your path to being an actor
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You know, the big influences for me are, I would watch films with, you know, the Brando films
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and the De Niro films and the Pacino films and Dustin Hoffman
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all these guys, Daniel Day-Lewis, who, even when I was too young to understand the profundity
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of what the skill set is, what the craftsmanship is, I just believed the people that I was witnessing
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on screen and they broke my heart and they made me think and they affected me
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and I always wished that I could do something like that when I had an opportunity to work
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on that level. So yeah, those guys, they've been pillars for me. My final question is I'm going to have you hold it up and spin it, but I want to know what's going through your mind
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when you spin it, alright? Whenever you're ready. Most surreal thing that's ever happened to me in my life
