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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Uncle Rico

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Marty talks with Jon Gries, aka Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite about how he got the role in the film and what it was like shooting it. Plus, Ryan McGee stops by. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

this is adnavork as you know my podcast is all about movies but now i want you to check out marty

0:04.4

smith's america podcast as he interviews uncle reco actor john grise from napolean dynamite

0:10.7

so interesting tidbits of it how that movie came to be and how he got the role so vote for Pedro

0:15.9

and be sure to subscribe rate and review marty smith's america podcast as well as cinephile

0:20.6

the adnavork movie podcast hey y'all welcome to marty smith's america the podcast we've

0:30.4

had some tremendous guests so far and today we have one of the funniest ones yet this quite

0:35.6

probably is the funniest edition of the marty smith's america podcast to date we have uncle reco

0:43.3

john grise the the actor excuse me who played uncle reco was kind enough to join us producer travis

0:50.5

ran him down and the interview is funny we learn about what it was like to become uncle reco

0:59.2

how the character was born how well it was written how unique it was to play such an iconic

1:05.9

character and not only that we get into the movie napolean dynamite itself a cult classic if

1:11.8

there ever was one and the there's so many amazing moments and lines in that movie and so many

1:20.1

resonant characters whether it be napolean himself kip lafonda uh rex kwondo starla grandma on and on

1:31.1

and on Pedro there are these hilarious memorable characters throughout that movie and probably the

1:40.2

most famous and most memorable is uncle reco and we'll get into that in depth with john and not

1:46.9

just the character but also the man we learn about the man who played uncle reco but who he is

1:54.7

personally and it i'm gonna tell you it's gonna surprise you guys what john says and the depth

2:01.2

and vulnerability he shows in the interview about himself as a person uh so that's wonderful and

2:07.6

we also get into the marty party my boy ryan magee espn senior writer anybody who knows about uh

2:14.6

what we're doing in our body of work the marty magee program every Saturday morning seven and

2:18.8

nine magees my co-host and he's a complete idiot just like i am and nobody has more fun in their job

2:25.4

than we do and then there is the hotline and all i really have to say about the hotline coming up

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