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Off The Record: Lawrence Kao's TV Show & English Girlfriend

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0:00 you had that much power on set they'll be like do what he says you know everyone is pretty like the writer's room is pretty open to like what you like the suggestions that you have that's dope it was cool that they were like oh yeah that might be cool is that why the show got canceled yeah probably because they listen to you [Music] I'm using episode of lost careful boyos today we have I am Lawrence Cal in the building hi [Applause] I like this Duo the legend himself we are sponsored by oatmeal Lawrence is a duel no you too you this two Duo man you like that it's pretty good yeah this is the thumbnail every time we brought them along on a on a JK skit we always talk

0:50 about this like this so so yeah we shouldn't even talk about it anymore because we always had them do gay stuff whoa whoa whoa oh I thought that you just let them I thought you just let them uh improv it oh true yeah yeah they insist you just made a strong Choice it was never about gay stuff it was about having some pizza have some pizza that's the only way we thought we were funny if we were gay that was like that was in our toolbox it's like ████ what are they gonna laugh at let's just we were like we were like jokes out and then nobody wait no one's laughing yeah we touch each other and then me and Bart was like these guys are so comfortable like whenever we need like guys to just be gay let's just keep getting them to do the gay stuff a nice little JK Typecast but you guys did it to yourselves yeah it worked out really well yeah yeah and look we're still here yeah still made it

1:40 but you don't have to be you don't have to be gay no more you can be yourself yeah you can stop now yeah you can stop when we get nervous and then we're just like what do we do we run out of jokes it's it's often though just just make out already they're not laughing anymore so uh touch me here we need the views you know it would be crazy views if you guys made out of it it's important or cooler stuff though okay okay um hey you just came back from London you just came back from you sound like you're from London what were you doing for a lot of dance Sarah Marshall baby oh yeah yeah yeah yeah who said that one Russell Brad no it's the other guy so Paul Rudd when he's talking to uh yeah from London yeah what did you what did you do there slightly jet-like a little bit or not really I'm like energetic now but I might just die like in a couple hours

2:31 wind crash when did you when did you come back last night at 10 oh last night I made the mistake of sleeping the whole ride back oh oh what time did you sleep last night I tried to sleep at 11. oh ████ well but I'm here hell of a sunrise though thanks for being here dude got some coffee yeah you'll be fine sorry sorry sorry ████ how do you drink it during this thing man yo you gotta go like this and then you go yeah there you go Ken Ken's gonna put a June B logo on everything yeah you could put it in a jumby cup if you would like oh do you have a jumpy cup yeah it's gonna taste weird after you do that but I'm not gonna get it we're gonna get it the next episode you just came back from London I came back from London what were you doing in London uh my girlfriend lives in London so we're doing like a little long distance did you meet her there yeah that's like

3:22 my story you you Thief yeah I'm trying to be like you Joe yeah you both have girls from London well she's not from London you met her there uh I met her working actually oh cool yeah and um no it was in in Walker Oh I was gonna say was it Glenn's girlfriend because she's London in me right is she lemonade I don't know if she's lending me like Australia yeah the girl on Walking Dead that was the girlfriend of uh Glenn no it's not walking dead it's Walker tall different different show he does a lot of walking stuff yeah yeah Walking Dead Walking Around walk around so you're you're all Walker Texas Ranger no uh yeah it's like a it's like a prequel to that it's outside so what is it like Chuck Norris it's like uh it the old one

4:14 was Chuck Norris this one isn't Chuck Norris and this one this one the prequel one from that is really not Chuck Norris it's just like I think it was an excuse for them to make like a a like a like a western they're like oh how can we make a western and then Walker Independence Independence yeah what what network was on it was on CW c-dubs so just keep relaying so you're uh just want to make sure he's the middleman he's my translator I'm caught up okay this is a fascinating life because it mirrors mine yeah yeah how did you guys meet I'll tell you later it's about you right now hey you know why you would like his character why because for for some of the series he has like an Asian accent but it's fake

5:09 and then it's like ████ what am I gonna do now how am I gonna do it so it's like because you're doing it so fake yeah I'm trying where I'm trying to do it so that people aren't laughing at it China that's not gonna work you know that's that's the Jeremy Lin doing math yeah that's Jeremy Lin doing math is not good for the show every time you do that voice I'm like dude that's Jeremy Lim that's fisherman bro yeah if someone watched Walker and was like wait a minute is this guy from Superior he's so sick of the director was like hold on what that reminds you of something hold on don't tell me don't tell me oh we gotta recast we gotta recast yeah or he just hear someone said he's like no I need it more like this video as a reference this is the perfect tone we're looking for so so you you had the difficult task of sexualizing the Chinese accents yeah I guess so I guess

6:01 so how you sexualize it try to make it more like gay Soulful I guess so what's the difference with like because you know when you're doing a Chinese accent versus you're doing it as a character who's trying to hide that it's not real that's the Nuance of it right I thought that was interesting because his character's faking it and it's not that's so funny scary's faking it to hide it's like he's like doesn't really talk like that so and it's not funny that's so hard it is it is really hard but put it on right now it's hard because we're on just kidding uh news

6:52 but you know it was actually like sort of my idea to make it so he had the backstory that he was faking it because in the beginning of the show like that wasn't in the script so I chatted you had that much power on set they'll be like do what he says no everyone is pretty like the writer's room is pretty open to like what you like the suggestions that you have that's dope it was cool that they were like oh yeah that might be cool is that why the show got canceled yeah probably because they listen to you yeah it was me because everyone watching was like oh we got you guys the director's all man I love this show but we just had to listen to Lawrence so you're so your lady you met in the Showbiz um yeah we met working on another another thing and then we kept in

7:43 contact and is she famous she is uh famous she's just starting out but she's really good is she an actor like yourself yes how's the long distance it's pretty hard time zones time zone is pretty tough but I think that if like both people are busy and they're just staying busy doing stuff like it's okay like you know there's that's true distance is actually a little nice how often do you see her we see each other like maybe every three two to three months okay so she's probably gonna come back she's gonna come here like in November am I gonna I'm gonna go there probably in January do you think this kind of like stuff like content is there a cup of tea her cup of tea oh she likes she likes chicken news oh she does okay so she watched it beforehand we'll be less censored then then once when she's visiting you you guys should come together and talk about it yeah we should pretend to be like siamese twins oh yeah and put on one shirt like put on

8:34 a character you know like hey do they they don't talk like that is she fake Chinese too she's uh does she please save Chinese rolls she's half Thai half uh English oh cool I'll tell you so she could play fake Chinese she could play fake Chinese yeah does she have a better fake Chinese accent than you what do you think um I don't know we should uh test it out what was like the when the chemistry developed was that like on screen chemistry that was developing or was it like backstage in the trailers um we just we just definitely had a connection like on screen and off screen too like and then just kept talking and then like you know spilled from there was it like written in your guys's roles uh before you guys have certain chemistry like yeah like those things

9:25 developed yeah we were loving it we were loved interests oh okay but it doesn't necessarily like that it's written in the stars or like things are sparked because like you all have love interests with people doing stuff and then it'll just be like man she's she's an attractive girl but it's like nothing you just oh yeah it's just it's just like I hate her I want to kill her God damn I can't wait for this to be done no yeah so like even if it's written in you so it's like yeah it's like you have to believe it in the moment but out outside of it you know it's not always like like damn like you're into that person yeah did you feel like Angelina Jolie on on Mr Mrs Smith that's all I was thinking about too you just like that's it yeah like he's my man I guess so do you guys have any on-screen makeout uh yeah we did and then were you practicing

10:15 a lot is this from like the you guys did like a movie yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah did you practice I know which one he is now that's I wish you guys did I wish you guys did showing up to the RV like hey we gotta rehearse for these scenes you don't even want to make sure that's convincing because you both really like each other other you just keep going and you're like oh and you're like I think we got to do that again yeah that part we messed up let's take it from the top be as creepy as possible yeah like five times it's like we called cut like 20 minutes ago guys I think we need to do that again I just didn't I feel like I could do better yeah yeah sometimes the directors are weird too where they don't even like tell they like it's not even written in the script to kiss and then they'll pull you aside and they'll be like hey you know like why don't you like why don't you kiss him in this thing yeah why don't you

11:05 grab his ass a little bit what's the matter you gay well you don't like her I don't think that's a good thing how about we just get a new girl there's been times where it's like that's happened like it's come like all of a sudden yeah that's happened to you so it's like a A in the spur of the moment non-consensual kiss directed by the director yes specifically with the director not letting the other person know so that yeah I feel like yes yes I think that's a tricky thing to do because you never know like the chemistry between the two people I mean obviously if like the chemistry is strong it'd be easier for the director to be like okay yeah go do that don't let them so don't let them right but it's a tricky like yeah something something similar happened to me on the set of Papa Roach Scars where they asked these two girls to make out and then they started laughing because they knew it wasn't even in the shot damn oh that's fine oh that's right you mentioned that that's a Papa Roach shoot though you know they they do things differently in terms of high-fiving the

11:56 director and the Gaffers yeah they're loving it the red light's not even on on the camera so messed up just phones just phones when would you say no though because that's like weird yeah it's hard to say like they have they have like so much power too I mean I did I did this like this little web series a long time ago where the director pulled me aside and it was a written I I played a gay character and I was supposed to it was on JK film and and uh the director pulled me aside and he was like dude I think a kiss would be good for the scene sounds like Barney can you just do it and like you're a man right you're a man right you're a man so you could do man oh he was like trying to pump you up like that yeah and I was like okay sure yeah let's do it let's go and the other character was Dante Bosco was it hey that's a that's a good first kiss dude yeah that's a good kiss that's

12:46 just paying it back right don't take a good lips you were like questioning it like this we're filming Noah's Ark like why are we [Laughter] you're like I don't think this is in the story and they're like oh I know but we're trying to make it modern you know like we want to make it modern and who was Noah ████ on the yard come on you know and then like he had options yeah but we don't want to go to animals so yeah it's a little too hardcore it's like how do you oh it's because I played an animal [Laughter] where can we go see Lawrence kiss oh

13:38 you're not gonna find it uh come on it's like this porno I did a long time ago it's a web series back then those lived on specific sites right the director didn't want you to kiss the other gay guy in the porno until at the very scene pulls them all to the side hey I think can you can you imagine being in a gay porn and then you have to be talked into kissing the guy and you're like dang where all the gay porns I watch dude they don't do any kissing they're just flipping through pages it's not in the description the continuity is gonna be off nudie yeah that's what that's a film term Colleen you should know this yeah important all right guys make sure they got everything set up

14:28 what if like a porn actor had like a double for his dick a dick double yeah and it's a straight guy yeah like some just like money making straight porno dude but then like he never did the ████ was that was that a rumor was that a real thing with Willem Dafoe and Antichrist oh yeah that's that's a double because apparently I thought it was his dick was too big oh yeah yeah yeah they had to use another one why didn't they just use a ████ big ass dick what was he doing it what was it it's a double for um in that guy's other movie when Shia LaBeouf for um you seen that for nymphomaniac same director Lars von Trier uh-huh they you it looks like Shia LaBeouf straight up yeah but it's a double no but isn't aren't there full body scenes of him but that's still uh they they uh graphed the scene together so it's like who's the direction has a different guy oh really

15:18 yeah it's like advanced technology at that time yeah at the time I just I just thought shot of the Buffalo just down like that I mean I feel like he is but maybe his agent was like don't do it don't show your dick come on protect him I'm going down like that yeah you did holes you're already doing so much out there this is gonna ruin your Transformers career I'm not gonna be able to sell you next season is Agent who is this person does your agent talk like that do you like your agent um you should be my agent yeah I would love to be right here if you get up somebody he'll do it anything say no more he's down say less say less he's gonna do it have you had the same manager or agent for the last like forever yeah I've never switched wow

16:08 that's cool man it's a little bit um well they're killing it they're doing a good job I mean a lot of people a lot of people do tell me to switch out I just feel like it's so hard like they've been with me for so long loyalty yeah yeah the King's Way they've watched like yeah they've been with me since the beginning so it's like it's hard to just be like laters yeah I mean they're they seem like they're doing good but they're from an actual agency they're not right now and end it yeah and it all counts me it's not like there's someone's aunt or something right they're an actual agent from a agent agency so it's like why switch everybody's wearing my best friend she's like family she might be an aunt you know but like is it like Jerry Maguire level is it like or is it like a big agency no it's just it's a it's like a smaller Boutique agency and my manager

16:58 that's been with me forever and then but are there like like I could definitely leave and go for a bigger Agency for sure but it's like I I don't know I don't want to nice everybody's telling me we should though yeah is everyone telling you should though yeah is your agent telling you you should yeah even my agent's like you gotta leave here don't do it already just do it spread your wings you gotta fly that's Ryan dude you guys have Jewish lady ages all of you guys are Jewish lady agents it's all about ants I think that's the theme of the day I think the

17:48 best kind of agent I think I think yeah I think both of my Asians both your agents are Jewish ladies yeah really oh they really are Pam and Gabby holy ████ we're at duo we work together we we do all the deals together I'm Pam you're Gabby dude all right go talk about my deal so we're gonna do this movie it's called Walker it's gonna be on the CW have you heard of the CW before and then what about you Pam what do you got to say I thought you were bad Gabby what are you gonna say Gabby I hope they never ████ client said is he's not gonna do it unless he can speak Chinese [Laughter] for at least six episodes or we're out

18:40 that's very good and that's it what about you you got one you got one dude damn it Gabby there's no third Persona you can be my manager yeah manager gay black dude okay perfect well why does he talk like this laughs he's just bad that's the ████ agency and your manager his Showbiz baby just how we talk it's Showbiz vernacular you gotta talk like this to get the deals yeah that's good I think that's just Joy Behar dude hey it is Joy Behar from The View you watch The View no I don't okay can't really trust Colleen's opinions anymore every good opinion comes from

19:30 honestly I feel like Jewish lady that speaks like that though every single have you stumbled across it yeah dude I'm pretty sure they have to yeah right it's by law can you send this video to your agents yeah well maybe they'll just ask me yeah they'll fire you yeah they'll fire me just so you can spread your wings honey why you gotta try new things baby birds gotta leave the nest someday I'm so good

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