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I'm Jesse Thorn. So imagine you're an actor like David O'Yellowaw and you're making a

movie with one of the biggest action superstars ever. Tom Cruise. Like every action movie,

there's a bunch of explosions and stunts and car chases and of course Tom Cruise does

his own stunts. So when his character is in a car chase with your character, I mean

it's Tom Cruise. Things get real. And there was a moment where on a slick street he had

to come to a screeching halt next to my car. We were meant to be parallel to each other,

give each other deaths there before he zooms off. And I kid you not. Tom crashed into my

car three times. And the director called Cut after the third one and came up to me and

said, yeah, we're going to move on because I just caught a flash of your wife in widow

weeds. How'd your husband die? Oh Tom Cruise killed him. It's Bullseye. This week on Bullseye

David O'Yellowawaw, he was born in London. He spent his childhood bouncing between the UK

and Nigeria. His dad's side of the family actually comes from Nigeria in royalty. But come on,

don't make a big deal about it. It's a little bit like being the king of showmen,

oh, because it's not really as impressive as it may sound, but you know, it's still decent.

I'm not the king of anything. Then Heather Graham. You know where from Boogie Night's

swingers license to drive dozens and dozens of other movies, she's been acting for over 30 years

now. She's just written and directed her first ever feature film, which she says didn't come

naturally. And it didn't even enter my head that I wanted to write and direct, but I used to find

like director men really attractive. And I think I think I want to date a director, you know, and I

thought directors were so cool. And then one day someone said to me, like, maybe you don't

necessarily want to date them. You just want to be a director. And I think as a woman, I didn't even

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