0:00 [Music] welcome back to another amazing episode of the hot seat featuring tesh over here what's up guys if you haven't been on hot seat before game of thrones kingly man first time baby what we'd like to just get a little bit close we like to put the heat on our guests over here get to know them a little better but we're going to start off a little bit cold a little cool to warm you up into the experiment get real sterile with bart's questions because this question is the most sterile you'll ever hear in your life so go and hit it off bart yo hit me with it bro what pattern of carpet pisses you off uh pisses you off it has to piss you off it's amazing it's like a real thing for him okay so look i can't answer can you give him an example i can't answer pattern okay but i hate shag carpets does that count like the thick ones the thick ones that the strands are really long to me they're
0:50 just like just dirt magnets bacteria but if you do ecstasy and you lay on it it feels so good you come off all dusty though hello right dude you know i can't speak from experience it's just like but what did your friends tell you i probably would be amazing you're not wrong if i was you know high on ecstasy i think a shag carpet i would be into it but most things are pretty cool on ecstasy right was it get him to the great wall in my silver state i think i avoid the shack carpet it feels 70s speaking of shag do you like it shaggy or uh you know bald on him or on on his uh i don't know why i'm staring at ryan so intelligently sorry help him out ryan he's gonna hear him he's gonna step in on your ladies come on for me whatever they're comfortable with man i'm very much it's yo that's not my body i don't give a ████ what about on you
1:41 for the people man you know i'll clean it up baby hey yo i don't like getting pulled stuck in my teeth though but it's a good floss but you get kind of stuck in your teeth that's not fun so sometimes it happens as an asian i'm a very hairy asian so i got a lot to work on yeah like stereotypically i heard indian people got a lot to work on is that true yeah any people for the most part have more body hair i think i don't know i personally don't that's pretty cool so that works double fist pounds very little same minute dude that's all there is really so you have it just in the places that are important like my legs are you know what are you like no that's not bad that's horrible yeah yeah yeah andre got your beat normal is that good yeah that's not my hot seat guys i think average i would say let's focus your guys but like dude i don't give a ████ about that ████ you got it it's dna it's genetics collect your parents you're an actor right yeah weirdest ████ position
2:31 you've been put in as an actor the weirdest position yeah like a doggy style yeah yes we're pretty close so the first time i had to do a scene where i i had to get intimate uh with my scene partner guy girl uh girl uh it was on stitchers if people don't realize like you've got a whole camera crew like right here it's not like there's a whole audience it's weird people are like is it fun hooking up with people i'm like no kind of no not really yeah there's no there's no there's no excitement or sensuality yeah like there's chemistry in the sense of that you're acting together but there's a dude literally the prop guy is sitting right next to me as i'm pretending to have sex with my scene partner and he's got like a light like this close to my face and i'm like looking over and the director is yelling like harder harder and i'm like looking at my scene partner i'm like i'm sorry like this is
3:22 okay yeah yeah and so let me see that buddha shank that was probably the most awkward because i was also nervous i'm always curious about this were you hard like yes and no because then a part of me would be like well i don't it's like if it's damned if you are because i don't want her to feel exactly i don't want her to feel self-conscious but i also i also don't know if it's it's appropriate no of course of course not and how does that work yeah i think you just have to be honest it's one of those things where like as an actor you're supposed to you were pretending for a living right and people take their job seriously but you're a method actor so you go hard yeah so i need someone to flop [Laughter] are you guys hiring but it's just like one of those things i think it's important to have an honest conversation with your scene partner
4:12 whatever happens happens i think we know it comes with the territory what's the rehearsal for that like when it's just youtube they put like nude underwear on you which for me means just like white underwear [Laughter] it doesn't mean anything for me i'm like guess what you can't see my crotch anymore because they're not the same color of my skin is there rehearsal like do you and your scene partner work on the scene and do the physical part too over and over and over and over and over yeah like what do you say i did it like i don't know i guess it depends on on the actors in the scene yeah like it just depends like obviously if it's something big and it needs to be choreographed like it's just it all depends on what the circumstances so specifically in this circumstance that you are no i didn't reverse it was this like a sex scene like intercourse concept uh yeah that's basically like we're under a blanket because it was on free but if you don't have a scene part or did you rehearse with a pillow or what
5:03 like he's never had you know usually i'm sorry all i'm saying is you know there's stunt fighting and then there's real fighting right right so there's stun ████ right the fightings usually use pillows because i heard in porn like the ████ that they do isn't really as good as like what really feels good you know there's like we're not really having sex i wish you were but like soft core sex was it was it comedic or just purely romantic the sex scene it's it starts off comedic and then goes romantic and then ends up at the end being competing because um in the scenario we're getting phone calls from our our uh lab partners like some ████ has gone down and we're not getting phone call because we're into each other and then obviously they showed me like where the ████ are you like what were you doing and it was like well uh you know
5:55 oh no no no no like one of those what is the honest conversation you have with your scene partner i usually defer to the partner especially if it's female and i just say look i'm i'm here for you whatever you're comfortable with i'm comfortable with anything that makes you uncomfortable just stop you tell me is there a safe word no don't just stop it's not like no dude there's this one around you is that called for can i grab her titties if the scene requires it but that's a conversation you need to have with your seat part and then the same way goes the other way you know am i allowed to grab you can i invite you guys is it appropriate to the scene you're not going to do something that's not appropriate it's not even in the script you guys ever like like because you're laying on top of her right yeah with the blanket do you go can we do it for reals under here did you ever ask her dude you'd be a
6:45 good actor here no cause you're not like in uh in creed and creed uh uh sylvester stallone wanted to knock michael b jordan not so he knows what it feels like right so he got a real knockout i'm like do you ever go like we gotta do we gotta we got this stallone style that's the industry there's a great espn have you heard of sylvester stallone he has this technique it's called sylvester i don't know if he'll be working very much after that if i employ stallone style but i thought that's what brad pitt and angelina jolie did on mr mrs smith and that's why they became together we're off camera yeah off camera well it's because they they rehearsed too much they were stallone styling for sure they rehearsed so much that they fell in love yeah what if the the girl said that to you
7:35 oh stallone style i would honestly i could get nervous i would be like i'd be like says it that way she goes i want it stallone style my team partner was like stallone style as we've we've called it as we've defined you're like you watch jk news this is just a hollywood turn yeah like this is just this is it would throw me off man it would definitely throw me off yeah i would i would i would like to think i'd be cool and calm and collective let's get rocky tesh until tester stallone did you ever get a boner in any scene where you had to apologize like a fight scene [Laughter] no it's weird it's hard because your mind is in a different place your mind is deaf in a different place because you're working you're working
8:25 you're working the mentality is different it's hard to explain to somebody what the energy in the atmosphere is because you have to give a believable performance but at the same time it's not you're not in an intimate setting yeah like they try to make it intimate yeah they're like okay all non-personnel has to get offset like so if you're not in the scene you're not gonna be hanging out but there's still 80 people hanging out like you know and there's a ████ furry thing like like non-personnel scene like now you probably you're gonna be like nowadays if you're doing it there's gonna be maybe like you know 10 15 people and they're all gonna be wearing masks and you're like where the ████ am i you're gonna look like you're in a lab experiment with the lights right you got the boom mic dude he's like standing over you you're like well okay like your ass is hitting the mic like you never know what's going on right how
9:16 tight is your frame yeah it's a very technical thing how tight is her frame because you don't know stop covering your face don't put your hand on their face like all right so then you're like where do i put my hands where do i should i put them here my titties is it's okay is this okay yeah like you know then you're like you're like i guess i'll just put my hands here while you're making love that's the ████ thing is this sexy like you know you start doing it then yourself and then you're self-conscious i think you're like do it you're not thinking about do i have a boner because your hands are pure you're like you know what i mean because he's gonna get in the way of the shot yeah exactly today's video is brought to you by amazon music since you're listening to this show i think it's safe to assume that you like podcasts and comedy talk shows right yes well you'll find a lot of top binge-worthy podcasts and talk shows like this on amazon music amazon music
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11:48 go to amazon.com otr pod that's crazy how boners work because they come when you don't want them to and then they they don't appear when you need them but also isn't it hard to have a boner when your focus is on complete something you know it's it's look it's a double-edged sword pardon me if i do pardon me if i don't yeah that's pretty right that's for sure don't take it as an insult don't take it as a compliment it just mine's a one-sided blade mine's more like a cleric's mace that's pretty tight so what's uh what's something that you worked on that you're like most proud of uh man one of my most was it your role of ken and and barbie and ken i i'm very proud of that finally became dude that's definitely a very cool accomplishment i think every opportunity i get to be on screen for me i'm i'm i'm i'm proud
12:40 you know including these screens these screens too to get a platform to be able to just sort of uh speak you're one of the guys that didn't big-time us after they got in film you know you came back thank you very much are people big time john oh this is a stepping stone like i've always said this is the high school fast food job for people and sometimes it's this it's the place of second chances i'm trying to retire here yeah yeah me too i love him some people this is fun for me they had a career and then a ████ complete downward spiral and then they come back they come here they come here to work i guess i'm in a downward spiral right now no you were so low that became all that great that's true i went upwards like we typically you know attract people who have nothing else going for them at ████
13:31 i don't know i'm like where do i fall on this spectrum you know i guess he ain't coming back bro i always say this like don't take it as an insult or a compliment a lot of the a lot of the roles that i've booked uh um have been i don't they're like open ethnicity they're not necessarily indian characters they become indian after i get the job and so for me it's it feels good because it means one i feel validated that i'm able to compete with the larger community and it's not like oh we're just looking for a south asian person so it's like a list of 10 of us it's like no we're having open auditions and it's like we like this guy the most what got you into acting cause you majored in it in college yeah i loved so growing up i loved martial arts like my two biggest things that i loved watching was uh like michael jackson
14:21 and and martial arts movies both had kicking yeah yeah exactly and so sweet movie yeah like so old bruce lee movies jackie chan van damme steven scott like all those crazy 90 action flicks i love those two um she's like a regular asian dude like you know schwarzenegger all that ████ and then you know just loving song and dance i got big into taekwondo growing up and so like i wanted to be a power ranger i wanted to be like an action star and that sort of slowly morphed into me you know getting into singing and then dancing was always like a big hobby of mine and so then i was doing musicals and then i was like i don't want to be a doctor both my parents are doctors they they were they pushing that on you they never really pushed it i always was interested in it like i found it interesting um
15:11 but i once i was exposed to performance that's what i fell in love with and then i was like this is what i want to do for the rest of it like what was your was it like a school play or something that you're like i'm macbeth ████ i did macbeth in 11th grade yeah i played macbeth yeah of course yeah so that was that was i hated my life because i was like oh should i make memorize my lines or like study for my sats yeah but i knew uh when i was in second grade we did a magic school bus musical and we had to sing and i remember because i always grew up being the smallest kid smallest skinniest kid always basically until i was like 18. and i was like oh i guess i can kind of sing and it was the first time that i was like oh i'm naturally good at this because like i wasn't i was quick but i
16:03 wasn't strong you know and obviously i was smart but that's not cool you know now obviously that's all changed what's up what's the role that you're like oh man i don't know if i should take this but i know it's gonna be better for my career but i personally don't really like this or have you ever even taken a role like that i haven't encountered that yet um i haven't encountered that yet most of the stuff that i do if i'm taking the job i feel like it's going to push my career forward i hope one day things go so well that i'm like ah you know it's a luxury right i can turn it down i have obviously turned down auditions before where i feel like oh i don't think this is going to push forward or i'm not going to learn anything i try not to take jobs just for financial gain oh yeah we are different baby um that
16:55 being said because we're at the 15 minute 21 second mark where we like to take it real real close get a little bit warm what clip of you online can we look up right now that you would be most cringy and embarrassed by if we all watch aw ████ uh probably a video well this for me this is funny i was in the zumba video game so you like choose your instructors yeah and so i taught bhangra in the zuma video game and so me and my buddy are instructors you can choose so so type in type in zumba world party bhangra type in rotate wong fu i think that's probably the cringiest one oh yeah that's pretty cringy any a lot of those wong fu projects get interesting man they make me throw up did i look at them they make me throw up it was in a wong fu video that's what we met i watched myself in a wongfu video
17:45 and ████ threw up on my dick dude yeah waffle is just a little grinch isn't it that one there's there's a yeah that was a bollywood song look it was cool i i had a lot of fun but like i'd watch this and i'm like what the ████ you gotta watch a little bit of this we got at least at least it's like culturally like it's cool at least this is a successful and i will say this it's it's real it's not like your bollywood ████ bunga southeast blocking it [Music] so it does like the motion thing it does it does like oh there they are you're in the you're in ████ meta world indian yeah this is the this is meta taj mahal bro yo this looks like an indie music video quite the journey bro this is tight
18:36 so we used to teach zumba structures bunga so i used to teach at the conference and stuff like that so i used to teach full-time in los angeles wow and the better you did the more background dancers you got so they would pop up oh that's sick i want to learn this yo let's try it [Music] shut the ████ up wait that's his girlfriend is there like a redhead australian girl dude i don't remember i did this ten years ago i think that's my girlfriend that's goodness i knew this i set this whole ████ thing up i set the whole joke i waited ten years for she told me one of her most cringe things is this
19:26 too at least we're on the same page but she's not indian so that's why oh that's so cool you should teach us how to do this as it should be what a small world we should learn how to do this dance i was on a dance team in college that did hip hop and bunga we were like a fusion dance team so that's kind of where my where i was i learned bhangra taught bunga and then i moved out here and worked at pf chang's and then i got roped into zumba and i was like oh ████ ████ well we're gonna i'm gonna teach dance now so i like lost 15 pounds because i stopped eating like lettuce cups and spare rooms yeah the lettuce cupcakes wraps dude feel like all actors have the craziest like roster of jobs while they're trying to get on a roll well it's like a weird thing because you grow up right i grew up in a south asian family like
20:16 traditional in the sense of that we value education my parents were all doctors you did well in school and then i'm like oh man i gotta drive uber and like do all this ████ when like all my friends are investment bankers or in medical school or lawyers and they're coming out of college and making like 200 000 and i'm making 20 an hour if i'm lucky and so it's it really makes you question did i make the right choice because this is all right and do you laugh in their faces now oh i mean i don't look i'm ken ████ i always say i'm blessed and for me it's like i want to be able to push the culture forward you know so while i say the zumba thing is like a cringy thing because personally it's like cringy i'm very happy that i was able to put bhangra on a on a national international stage right now i've exposed bungra to thousands of people personally like i
21:06 can say that and that's something i'm really proud of yeah man just say the real thing you just want to be like i am having the time of my life that too hey you are miserable you son of a ████ you should laugh about it you got to make it that way you got to make it that way right like i could have sat there and be like ████ should i have gone to business school or medical school or this is fun take my talents to hollywood let's go that's that's tight dude that's cool that you still work jobs even though both your parents are doctors like yeah they didn't throw you any money yeah my dad made a deal with me and my parents were always gracious he was like look you gotta take care of what you need to spend on if you need money like i'll help you yeah but i don't want you to waste your time doing dumb ████ like spend your time and energy becoming a better artist yeah and they've always had that mentality so like if you're gonna spend money like push the needle forward right like
21:57 otherwise what's the point if i'm working in a restaurant ████ 100 hours a week i'm not getting better i'm not getting better i'm not going to book a job i'm not getting i'm not becoming a better actor a better singer better dancer better artist right so if the goal is to make money being an artist i have to be a better artist how do i do that absolutely probably not pf chang's pf tanks although i can tell i can i can do a bomb order for you guys you know [Music] you
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