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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Gianni Paolo is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his work in television and film.His breakout came when he was cast as Brayden Weston in the Starz series Power and its spinoff Power Book II: Ghost, where he plays a central role alongside Michael Rainey Jr. Paolo has since become a fan favorite within the franchise for his comedic timing, charisma, and chemistry with the cast. He also starred in MA alongside Octavia Spencer.
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Episode 373
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| 0:37.9 | That was actually one of the coolest scenes I've ever done in my life. Is there an armorer? Are they |
| 0:41.4 | teaching you using real weapons? They're obviously like fake weapon with like rubber bullet blanks. |
| 0:50.8 | The podcast is posting clips and stuff. Is there anything happening with that? Yes, we're in the midst of bringing it back, which I'm excited. The most insane thing ever was when 50 came up to me at breakfast. It was still a universal Blumhouse, Octavius, Julius, Luke Evans. Was it promising in your head that it might be a success? I thought it was going to be way more of a success. Couch there, Snack wall. Bam. Maybe like a projector situation going on over here, hang weird lights, speakers, over there, rugs all in here, and then just like a real table for clip cup, beer pond. I'll get right on that as soon as I win the lottery. I mean, unless you hate being cool. Pretty cool. |
| 1:28.7 | What's up? |
| 1:29.2 | My name's Joe. Welcome to the LightWids podcast. I just want to give a quick shout out to our sponsors, Aonic and Fandul. You produce and do all this yourself. Everything. It's unbelievable. So I'm going to just make sure everything's good. Wait, how did you get a Nutella with your name on it? They love me. Really? I got three. Do you promote them a lot or something? |
| 1:43.0 | No, it just came in the middle one day. |
| 1:44.6 | That is one of the cool things about being in the industry for me is like the weird little cool shit like that. I don't know why I like that's cool. Nutella. Like you grew up eating Nutella and they're like they just know who I am. Joe. Mr. Nutella knows who I am. It's insane. It just shows up one day. So power has such a massive following. |
| 2:03.4 | What was it like stepping into that world? Because you came in. |
| 2:04.6 | Was this, It's insane. It just shows up one day. So Power has such a massive following. |
| 2:01.9 | What was it like stepping into that world? |
| 2:03.5 | Because you came in, was it season five, season six? |
| 2:05.8 | Season five. |
| 2:06.4 | So crazy. |
| 2:07.3 | Yeah. |
| 2:07.5 | I booked it as one episode. |
| 2:09.0 | And then they liked what I did. |
| 2:10.6 | This is the longer, it's a long story, but like I short, they liked what I did. |
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