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TV Exclusive: Konversations with Keeme: A Chat with Scott Bryce
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Nov 2, 2022
Thirteen year old Ajibola Tajudeen, better known as Keeme, is the host of New Paradigm Theatre's brand new web series debuting here on BroadwayWorld. "Konversations with Keeme" is show where Keeme interviews seasoned television and film professionals like Tamara Tunie of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Renee Lawless of Tyler Perry's The Have and the Have Nots, as well as Broadway veterans such as Emmy and Grammy winner, Paul Bogaev, Emmy-nominated Scott Bryce, and Broadway pros Christine Dwyer, Kelly Grant, Juwan Crawley and more.
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Hello, my name is Aji Bola Tajidine, but you can call me Kimi, and you're watching Conversations with Kimi
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A sure, we ask stuff and we do stuff. Today we have an amazing friend of a New Paradigm Theater with us today. His name is Scott Bryce, here with me, sitting to my right
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He is in Emmy nominated. Wait, what did you get? I was nominated twice for Best Actor Emmy nomination for As the World Turns
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And what shows did you perform? I've performed in, oh gosh, all sorts of stuff
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I've probably done like 55 different television shows. I'm an actor, director, producer, writer, but I'm working as an actor since 1980s
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So what's been your most recent show? My most recent show. Chicago PD
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I shot that in October. That aired, I think, in November. That was a great episode. Yeah
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Scott here was our director of our first show here at NPR. T. Oliver, why I played the title role
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And you were great, man. You were amazing. You were very blessed to have you. Thank you
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You were an amazing actor. I mean, well, director and actor, to be. So, as an actor and growing up in a family of entertainment, how was that
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How was it growing up in a family Well I four generations in the business So I think in a lot of ways I seen the business change a lot It in the midst of a revolution now but my parents got involved with like early television
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And so I grew up with like the heyday of TV starting is how my parents were making their money
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So I don't know, when you're growing up as a kid, it's just sort of, it's what's, it was normal
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It's just seemed my dad had a job. Okay. And your mom
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My mom hired my father, my mother found at the Greenwich Music Playhouse
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and then she hired my father to play Creon, and then they fell in love, and then my father went on to do Broadway shows
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and my mother was on the Today Show for a long time, and then she was also a casting director and a producer
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Speaking of childhood, what was your worst chore that you did as a child
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Worst chore. I guess I hated raking leaves. I hated mowing the lawn, like that kind of stuff
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Cleaning the pool, I think, that was like the worst thing when we had a pool. What was one of your favorite actors to work with as a director
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Favorite actor to work with as a director? I'd have to say, well, Kristen, hopefully. I met Kristen because I cast her to play Sybil Ludington's mother
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in a PBS movie about Sybil Ludington who a young heroine from the Revolutionary War So if you could be a crayon what type of crayon would you be What type of crayon would I be What type of crayon
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What color? I would have to be like a multi-colored crayon. Why is that? Because I wouldn't want to be stuck doing one thing
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That's one of the coolest things about show business of being an actor, is that how many things have, how many jobs have I done
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I've been crooks, I've been cops, I've been chefs, I've been, I've been doctors, I've been all sorts of stuff
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And if I was like a crayon and I was just like a purple crayon, crayon, then I'm just an appropriate crayon forever
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So what was your favorite role in your career? My favorite role, actually is going to sound really crazy, but it's actually really true
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My favorite part I ever played was in the ruling class where I played Jack the 14th Earl of Gurney
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and I was in high school. And I played a paranoid schizophrenic who thought he was God
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And it was the play that I actually became an actor in. In the sense that's when I knew I wanted to be an actor, was doing that part
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So that's probably my favorite part and I think in many ways I've been chasing that performance
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my whole career and I don't think I've yet matched it and I'm not kidding
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So what would you say to young leaders out there who want to be leaders in our community
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First, thank you. Our community needs leadership. Secondly I must tell you that and I don want to get political and that not what I mean but with the events that have been going on in our country some of them absolutely horrifying and sad
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When I watched those kids after the Parkland shooting in Florida, it actually brought me great hope
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The youth of our country have just come alive, and there's a power and a passion, and I see it in people like you
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and I see it in people that we work with at MPT and the shows that we do
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And I'm really filled with hope these days because of people like you and because of the passion of our youth and because of the leadership that our youth in our country are showing
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And so keep going, keep going. Rock on. You guys are going to inherit this world and you're going to save it
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So thank you. Well, thank you very much, Scott, for joining us today. And by the way, I won. You won
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Tick-Tecto. It's Tick-Tek-Tow. I won. Thank you so much for tuning in you guys
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And thank you for coming. as our first guest on this show. Oh, first guest. Yeah, first guest
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And always remember, your voice is your power. Use it. Keep me out
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