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Thank you so much, everybody, for joining us on this Park Hopper episode.

And man, oh man, are we cracking the diary open again today?

The diary that probably never should have been written and certainly shouldn't have been emailed to everybody in the school and then turned into a book.

But we are going to open the cover of that book a little bit today to find out what it was like to shoot this movie. Of course, we're talking about Read It and Weep. And we have a great guest here today. Somebody who played Lindsay on Read It and Weep. So hopefully he's going to have all the tea of everything going on on the set and everything. Can you please help us welcome Marquise C. Brown. Hello.

How are you?

Doing well. How are you all?

We're well. Thank you so much for joining us. We're so happy that you're here.

Yeah, this is great. Thanks.

This is totally cool. So we watched, read it and weep.

Yes, I heard.

And we, we of course, want to get into your whole career.

But since we're here to celebrate the decomm, we have to start with read it and weep.

Sure.

And we always usually start with the same kind of question.

How did you first hear about this project?

Was this a regular audition that kind of just came through an agent?

Or tell us about it? Yes. Came through my agent. I actually, funny enough, I auditioned for high school musical, maybe like, I don't know, a couple weeks before, maybe a month before. Like,

at that time, I can't remember. It's like years ago at this point. But still, it blends.

Yes, it really does. But I auditioned for that. I can't remember. It's like years ago at this point. But still, it blends. Yes, it really does.

But I auditioned for that. I was so prepared, you know, in your mind, you're like, you spend all the time preparing for the audition. I go in and I just bomb it. Like completely bummed. Oh, no. I can't remember my lines. I'm getting nervous. And it's like, it's those random times where I always found it was random times where I'm actually getting nervous.

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