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REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Lillo Brancato: Fame, Failure & Finding Purpose

REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Jon Bernthal sits down with Lillo Brancato, star of 'A Bronx Tale,' for a raw and unfiltered conversation about fame, addiction, and redemption. Brancato opens up about his meteoric rise to stardom, his descent into drug addiction, and the tragic incident that changed his life forever. From the heights of Hollywood to the depths of prison, Brancato shares his journey of self-discovery and his ongoing commitment to recovery and helping others. For exclusive content and early access to episodes, join our Patreon community. Go to the Real Ones website to find the latest Real Ones merch.

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0:00.0

The mind is the source of all of our woes and I can't you know like if I think about this stuff and let it get to me it's going to be my demise. It's going to it's going to kill me. The stress is going to kill me.

0:11.6

So the way I deal with it is like just keep putting good out in the world.

0:17.0

That's it. Be kind.

0:18.0

Good for you. How can somebody say anything about that?

0:20.0

They're saying, well, leave that guy alone man he's been home he's been

0:23.8

nothing but good he helps people come on but we know he didn't shoot the guy you

0:28.0

know but but the fact still remains that this somebody's you know somebody's

0:32.0

dead and this service is something I'm going to do forever. I remember party authors and I've shot one other thing like up in that area but I don't necessarily remember the city that well.

0:52.6

Oh, it's a lot of hills.

0:53.6

I don't know if you remember.

0:54.6

A lot of hills.

0:55.6

Yoxes don't like it.

0:56.6

I do a lot of running and it's good, you know, for that.

0:58.2

Yeah, that's really good.

0:59.6

And you're born and raised?

1:00.6

No, I was born in South America.

1:02.3

You're born South America. Yeah, I was born in South America. You're born in Bogota, Colombia.

1:04.6

Wow. I was adopted when I was four months old. My brother Vinny that I was just telling them about,

1:09.7

he's nine months younger than I am. My parents, my adopted adopted parents they didn't think they could

1:14.7

have any more kids they had a miscarriage many years before they tried and tried

1:18.3

didn't think they could have any more kids and my mom always tells me story

1:22.1

she said that we looked at all these different pictures of babies and my mom when I saw you mommy. She goes I knew I wanted you and then they guess they went through it all the paperwork and whatever and then she found out she was pregnant with my

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