4.2 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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If you weren’t among the seven million people watching Melvin Gregg’s 7-second Vine videos online you may know him from such films and TV shows as Nine Perfect Strangers and the brand-new feature Share alongside Bradley Whitford and Alice Braga, now available on VOD. His acting ambitions brought him to Hollywood but unlike other young, struggling thespians, he devised a game plan to get him in the door with A-list filmmakers. Leonard and Jessie advise you to keep an eye on Melvin: he’s going places.
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0:29.3 | Hi everybody, I'm Leonard Malton. |
0:37.5 | And I'm Jesse Malton. |
0:38.5 | You're listening to Malton on movies and our guest today is Melvin. |
0:43.0 | And Melvin, I must say you have the most unusual resume of anybody we have interviewed. |
0:49.2 | Wow. Thank you. |
0:50.5 | Well, you can do... |
0:51.5 | And I say that as a compliment, not a subject. |
0:53.5 | Oh, I take it as a compliment. |
0:56.0 | I definitely take it as a compliment. |
0:57.8 | Well, it's incredible. |
0:58.3 | So we saw you recently, not in person, |
1:01.7 | but Tim Story brought the blackening |
1:04.7 | to my dad's class at USC. |
1:06.8 | And watch that movie needs to be seen in a theater |
1:10.5 | with people because the reactions are priceless. |
1:14.6 | And there's also a lot of jokes in it that I got to tell Tim later, we're like the grit, the Aunt Viv jokes and stuff like that. |
1:22.6 | The Fresh Prince jokes just did me in. |
1:25.6 | But, you know, seeing you want a big screen there, so that's why when you were brought up, |
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