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Asking Dante Basco about the Live Action 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' ?

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0:00 [Music] earlier someone had mentioned a little bit about um Avatar last air bender live action and then Dante was saying a little bit something and then stopped there's Rumblings that he's back now we're going to dedicate an whole episode of just interrogating him and just getting cuz you got super nervous out I don't know nothing I still like you started blushing well first of all first of all still wet or dry is it wet but no I all I'm doing for Avatar right now is the podcast okay is that the one that you reunion when you brought everyone no we we just Nick Lo producing it Avatar stud produces it it's just me and Janet Varney the voice of coral we go and watch the whole thing all over again but all lot but everyone come and joins us other cast members the animators the creators it's really cool actually I never really got to I never like go back

0:51 and watch stuff you do like you're just like you never do you don't watch heck no I only I only watch all my stuff cuz you do it when you I mean it's so fun when you do it you go back I don't know never so it's really cool to like kind of do it and have your job like a job to like oh my job is to go back and watch this show that's cool um and I get to like kind of relive all these stuff with like friends and people haven't seen forever so it's cool but so but the new stuff I don't know I really don't know did you guys record together yeah a lot of it we get cool together but there's memories of it and ████ I do have memories but it's weird you know it's like we did it like almost 20 years ago so like your memories are like super foggy 15 years ago like I don't remember what we did so watching it at new time I'm just kind of like a fan watching what everybody else but it's cool because it's kind of like the office where like even though it's it's from so far back people watching it right now no it's great people have never stopped

1:41 watching that thing it's wild um but so yeah there's new stuff coming up but they don't really tell anything cuz they not got a big mouth so I don't wouldn't be a you know be they already know you're going to say they already know you're going to say anything but it's weird cuz I was talking to people like cuz people announced like I'm coming to do the show again I'm like I don't know if I am or not I don't know I really don't know you are I think I'm not just goose in this cuz you're Bud you're the most iconic voice I think of that show like that everyone talks about Prince Zuko like all the time uh yeah it's it's one of the weird things where you're like when you were doing when I was doing like people are going to remember you for this character I have no clue nothing anything like that it's like it was a cartoon it was fun you know so it's a pleas treat like any other gig like you just do yeah you do all these gigs or go to work and then some just hit really hard yeah just pick up I know it's really uh you know I think more people know you for that than Rufio now depends it's generational it's a

2:32 generational thing and there's still like fans that know me from like Jake Long American drag it's it's a generation but uh I can get a sense of it when I go to Comic-Con hey at every ComiCon I go to they ask about you guys yeah at least one two five people like what one of these they should come to the con like I tell them they should come to the con reach out we went to a con what did we go to convicts adult con convict con yeah that's a good one what adult con what do you think about the what's what's your thoughts just general feelings about the liveaction Avatar um it's cool I mean I went to the premiere you know are you being nice to be nice no I think it's cool I think it's good I think it's different than the cuz you know a lot of the people in only right now you can just talk no I got to go to I think it's cool like hey to be casting and have hard diverse casting and giving all these new opportunities these young actors really

3:22 beautiful and the way they shot it was really great it's weird when Mike and Brian who are the creators of the show that we're going to do it with Netflix and then walked away that's a little bit like jarring and kind of puts me in a weird place cuz I still work with Michael Bryan and both of them of course yeah but uh but you know I I'm still friends and associated with people that do the live action we've been talking about you know they want me to do it I want to do something but we got you know I'm kind of like so into the worlds like it have to be had to be the right thing otherwise it's just stupid if I just come I I saw a little clip of you maybe interviewing the new Zuko Dallas yeah but he kind of had a look on his face like listen listen I'm the Zuko now oh he's cool yeah look at me look at me look at me he's so nice Chinese kid he's actually from like he's from La like a

4:12 you know monre Parker some around here what chines very cool and uh and his parents are so nice he reached out to me actually before we were shooting and he like wanted just talk to me about the character and he was he was super cool so I got a lot of love for Dallas and I told him like you know whatever check me out check the stuff I did and I and I I did respect I did the Asian respect it was very cool but Deb played it too and Deb did De Patel did his thing in the movie whether you liked it or not oh yeah that's right didn't like is a great actor but I'm like hey yo it's your turn like ████ us like I mean you know and I dig the respect but at the same token ████ us it's your turn it's your turn to do I didn't like it Dev yeah thank you I I haven't met Dev yet but I would love to talk to him about it one I like Dev I actually like Dev yeah did you watch monkey man yet I did was it dope it was

5:03 I want to check it out I like I actually like dead pel dead Patel is tight dead Patel is dope I don't see the movie Dev the other I never Saw's monkey man new movie just I think produced by Jordan Peele yeah it's a it's a Indian action flick uh but it's just very like raw just the the vibe of it the way it shot like a little John Wick elix is promoted kids watch it n it's pretty R oh can Bart can Bart's kid watch it cuz now Bart won't watch it for 10 years well it's because 20 man is our nickname the taica there's a name called this this nickname we have to watch together I mean it's it's not like it's not like titties everywhere or anything like that but it's definitely like blood and fighting oh he watches your watches like in the dragon and ████ oh yeah okay there's some drugs and beheadings I'll talk yeah ni GE what was that one what was

5:53 that one movie with uh Seagal that there was Jamaican guy was cutting off heads back in Seagal yeah remember remember that St movie the Jamaican one it's like one of his oh the vampire one I don't be cut off the head he did a vampire movie no it wasn't vampire those three variables right there cutting off heads vampire Jamaican yeah that's all there a movie I don't think it was vampire movie but it was like one of his movies it was Marked for Death Marked for Death and they cut off the people's heads damn a crazy scene I remember watching as a kid was rumbling the Bronx when they threw the guy in the wood chipper oh yeah that caught me off I was like oh ████ that's pretty wild even just for like it was Jackie ch right dark for the tone yeah it was so light up until that point Jackie Chan's hiding in the ████ truck full of balloons and ████ I mean look at look at look at the ending Freeze Frame that's the same

6:43 movie yeah that's pretty crazy some those fight I remember there's a fighting movie like a kung fu movie back in the day that was kids in Shon and they had no parents and then they had to defend the place but then they started killing some of the kids three ninjas ninjas whenever you kill like kids in movies was like I would three ninjas All or Nothing as a kiding kids is crazy damn what is that it's so rare to find a movie where it's kids and then they die it's got to be a form film huh a form film kids died in Star Wars oh yeah yeah yeah yeah Anakin slicing them up Anakin killed all those kids he went ham I read I read this this meme or something like that where he like yelled at the kid right before they they started the take so the kid would genuinely be like apparently I think one of the not not uh

7:33 it wasn't Anakin who did Hayden who did it but somebody did it scen and they scared the kid yeah cuz you see that kid Flinch and he gets all chopped up but what you do if you're if you're a director what are you going to do if you're trying to get something out of a kid you can't get it and it's been three hours oh dude I did a movie my movie internet famous where we got the whole bit was that I was a dad who like I had a a YouTube channel called that's one scared baby so we just scared the ████ out of a baby the whole time and that was like scared but we had to like we actually got a real kid for that and I was like yeah I've been scaring my baby all the ████ and so we actually had to like film all the pranks where I scared my baby and like it was some crazy ████ like I there's one part where the baby's just in a room and all of a sudden I come through a wall dressed as a sea monster and ████ and like we had to actually film it cuz you can't explain to a ████ baby it's what's going to happen

8:23 parents are like sure well that's the whole thing about that's why we did that bit cuz the parents you know parents are down I know parents I know directors have done stuff like that I I remember internet famous too yeah yeah yeah uh yeah I mean I was a kid actor I've seen directors say crazy stuff to kids to K get to get the reaction they need right yeah yeah do drop your pants like stuff like that no they're like you know like your dog is dead or something like that oh damn something weird like that oh like they fake like hey we just call like that say or they'll yeah they'll they can say that or they can just tell you to imagine oh damn like these bad things things you ever see that underrated Bill Murray movie The Man Who Knew Too Little maybe not where he's like he his brother he comes to town surpris his brother and then he's like oh sorry I can't hang out with you Bill

9:14 Murray you're going to have to like I I hear how bought your tickets to a show it's like a live theater thing it' be really fun for you and so Bill Murray accidentally gets caught up in this International Espionage thing and he he thinks he's an actor the whole time so he's like a he's like you know he's in a scene with a woman and she's like oh my God you have to documents and he's like oh I get it this like a thing we're doing thing like sh like that he's like my dog is dead my dog is dead he's like trying to inspire himself oh he's trying to get in the the space and all these people are just like he's so good he's such a good spy I can't believe he's tricking everybody such a good B Bill marur movie The Man Who Knew to yeah yeah yeah that's a good one I got got to check that out I got to check out Mark for death Mark for death was a good one I don't know if I remember that one it a good one it's like I think it was one of his last good ones there was an ERA where like Steven Sagal was like must like the under Sieger Under Siege Siege

10:05 hard to kill hard to kill Licensed to Kill for justice it was always three words something for something but he was like literally Al for Justice For Justice Rumble in Bronx like he was on some Tom Cruz level kind of like he was a mustsee a cigal movies is coming out we're opening weekend we're going to go see what do you think went wrong with him what happened I think her's just an ████ a weirdo but then how come he like couldn't have been a successful movie ████ for so long I don't know man I think it catches up with you eventually catches up to you who knows he carries the movie really well though like like the whole movie down to watch the whole thing but he was such a dick apparently that nobody wanted to work with him anymore oh so he was just losing all the good people huh have you guys seen some of his later joints I I honestly own probably like 75% of it his his newer stuff he's on like a rooftop like fighting and these

10:56 fight scenes are let me oh it's back lit bro heavily back lit and smokes and they have the smoke thing going off he's punching guys like this and the guys's like like it's bad D the funniest things is when I you see him teaching like classes and he's like has like and he I don't know does that stuff work iiko does not work you know W works for him cuz he's doing demonstrations on like 5 foot2 Japanese guys and he's a big dude and he's like 65 and they're not actually attacking him it's formative theater like this they're running what about remember when he was teaching Anderson Silva like and Anderson Silva actually does do a front kick in the UFC knock someone out and everyone's like what is that Steven Seagal like do you think that was more for a bit like he just thought Anderson Silva thought was funny or I think Anderson Silva doesn't speak uh like he doesn't speak English just coincidence so he's like yeah yeah so I think for he's like I'll try it

11:46 he's like a skater like I'll try that move all the Brazilian Anderson Sila has Heroes too yeah he's hero ████ Steven Seagal like okay like aido in a fight versus some jiujitsu what's what's AO wins every time no context they you have to wear the same outfit though you're wearing different outfits is very hard it's really hard to fight the same style you know you have to have a ponytail so nobody can grab your hair yeah versus a dress so no one can grab it [Music]

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