Zachary Levi

Zachary Levi

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on Zoom. Actor Zachary Lima, what's

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going on Zach? Oh man, just

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loving life. Just very happy, very

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blessed. You're looking good as always.

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Congrats on the new movie called

3:12

The Unbreakable Boy. It's a true

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story, right? I love true stories.

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What's it about? Yes, it's a

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true story. And I love true stories

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too. That's part of the reason I

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wanted to do it. It's, I mean, honestly,

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it's real slice of life. It's very grounded.

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It's about a family, a couple that, you

3:28

know, they start dating and on their third

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day, they get pregnant and they're like, oh,

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what do we do? And they're like, well,

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you know, we should see this through. And

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so they choose to have the kid. while

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they're still navigating their own relationship. And

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their child is born and immediately there's

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like some interesting complications. They're not really

3:45

sure what's going on and they find

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out that their child has osteogenesis imperfecta,

3:49

which is brittle bones disease. And so

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already they're like, wow, okay, this is

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something that we gotta navigate. And then

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they have a second child and they're

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okay, they're normal and healthy. And then

3:59

a few. goes on and they realize

4:01

that their oldest son also then

4:03

gets diagnosed with autism. And so

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the movie is really about this

4:07

family navigating the waters of what

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it means to you know raise

4:11

you know two boys but the

4:14

oldest being on the autistic spectrum

4:16

and you know the the couple

4:18

themselves kind of fighting their own

4:20

inner demons and trying to figure out

4:22

how to love themselves, Walt's trying to

4:24

love each other, Walt's trying to love

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their children. And again, navigating what are

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waters that a lot of people are

4:30

now navigating, which is, you know, the

4:32

autistic spectrum. And I think that's something

4:35

that kind of touches everybody's life at

4:37

this point. It's become very ubiquitous. And

4:39

so that's really what the story is

4:41

about. I love the premise and I

4:43

totally see that being a real-life

4:45

scenario, which obviously it was and

4:48

relationships are challenging enough to have

4:50

those sort of additional obstacles. My

4:52

gosh. Is there a faith-based element

4:55

I got imagined? Did they turn to that

4:57

at all? They do, yeah, absolutely. You

4:59

know, I would say it's

5:01

like a fate infused film,

5:03

you know, it's something that

5:05

the couple, Scott and Teresa,

5:07

you know, they're not, they're

5:09

not specifically religious or faith-based

5:11

people to begin with, but

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as they are, you know,

5:15

navigating their journey, they, you

5:17

know, start going to church

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and then ultimately, you know,

5:21

Scott, the father that I

5:23

play, you know, a lot

5:25

of the film is... him

5:27

coming to terms with accepting

5:30

the life that you weren't

5:32

expecting, right? Like so much

5:34

of. Our journey as human beings is we

5:36

have these ideas and these expectations of how

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life is supposed to go. Right. And God

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is constantly being like, yeah, no, you don't

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get to determine where your life is going.

5:45

We obviously, you know, can make decisions and

5:47

we can make choices and those can lead

5:49

to certain places. But at the end of

5:51

the day, there's so much that's outside of

5:53

our control. And Scott fights that and fights

5:55

that because he wasn't expecting to have a child

5:57

that was struggling with the things that...

6:00

Austin, his son with autism is

6:02

struggling with, but through that, his

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son, Austin, is, you know, just

6:07

boundlessly optimistic and so full of love

6:09

and so full of acceptance. And Scott

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really learns, you know, as... Parents do,

6:13

right? Like parents are teachers, but the

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children are really teaching us all the

6:17

time so much more than we can

6:19

ever imagine. And so Scott is learning

6:21

so much from his son how to

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be more present, how to be more

6:25

loving, how to be more accepting. It's

6:27

a really beautiful man. It's a really,

6:29

really beautiful story. It sounds like a

6:31

beautiful film. Congrats on that. And coincidentally,

6:34

you also have your first child on

6:36

the way, right? I do, I do. How

6:38

far along is your lady? She's seven

6:40

months. Yeah, she's giving birth in just

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a couple of months, beginning of April.

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I'm so pumped. I've wanted to be

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a dad since I was a kid.

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So this is, you know, a real

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dream come true. And my girlfriend Maggie

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is so wonderful and she's going to

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be such a great mom. And so

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we're really, really pumped about that. And

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we're going to have our kid out

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here in Southern California where I grew

7:03

up in Ventura, surrounded by my family.

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So yeah, it's a whole new chapter

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of life and one that I am really excited

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about, you know, going on. It's the best,

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it's the best role you're ever going to

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have. I'm going to tell you right now.

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Yeah, amen to that. Yeah, you're going to

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love it. Do you already know what

7:20

you're having? We don't. No, we're going

7:22

to wait till the end. I did

7:24

too. It's the best. I did that

7:26

with all my kids. Good for you.

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We're in the minority, but it's, you're

7:30

on a high regardless. Yeah. You're on

7:32

high regardless. Yeah, I don't I don't

7:35

I don't regret anybody who like, you

7:37

know, for me it was kind of

7:39

like I could I was good either

7:41

way. But Maggie, you know, it was

7:43

really interesting. It was a really beautiful

7:45

observation. She was like, listen, I, you

7:47

know, if I got to carry this

7:49

baby all the way to term and then

7:51

I got to push this thing out of

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me, I want every last little bonus at

7:55

the end, you know, you know, and so

7:58

if we don't know what the sex Let's

8:00

wait until the end. It's a big

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thing and it's so worth it. That's

8:04

cool that she had the attitude I

8:07

had to actually do some convincing To

8:09

my wife, but then She the other

8:11

kid she didn't fight me on it.

8:13

So no, it's great. Good to hear

8:15

man. That's awesome You also have some

8:17

other flicks on the way a movie

8:19

called not without hope this one's a

8:21

survival film about a boating accident. Oh

8:23

the one with the the the the

8:26

NFL players? Yes, they had a bran

8:28

the real sports version I think of.

8:30

That was fascinating. Oh this is great.

8:32

When is this coming out? I don't

8:34

know. We're still in post-production on it.

8:36

They're still trying to figure out ultimately

8:38

selling it to the right buyer and

8:40

distributor and all that stuff. So I

8:42

think I hope that we'll figure that

8:44

out. Like it will come out at

8:46

some point this year. I think that's

8:48

the plan. Not without help is the

8:50

name of it, right? Yep, not without hope.

8:52

Also a true story. Yes, no I love

8:55

that. I'm always talking again when they say

8:57

not without story. I'm assuming you're playing

8:59

The Survivor? I'm playing The Survivor, yeah.

9:01

It's a really, really heavy movie as

9:03

you can imagine. Oh my gosh, just

9:06

the story itself. You're watching, you can't

9:08

even believe it. Where'd you shoot it?

9:10

We shot an Malta of all places.

9:12

Wow. Yeah, yeah, Malta. Malta has been

9:14

having kind of a moment because they

9:16

have a good film incentive program. And

9:18

also they have, because the whole movie

9:20

takes place basically in the ocean, and

9:22

so we needed to find a, you

9:24

know, they have these big water tanks

9:26

essentially that you can go filming and

9:28

Malta's got one of the, there's probably

9:30

like half a dozen around the world

9:32

and Malta's got one of those tanks

9:34

and so that's what we shot. That's

9:36

cool. I'm looking forward to checking

9:38

forward to checking that. Liam Nieson,

9:40

the legend called Hotel Tehran. Have

9:42

you started filming that one yet

9:45

or? That's all, yep, we already

9:47

filmed that, we filmed that last fall,

9:49

we shot for a month in Mississippi

9:51

and then we shot a few months

9:53

in the Republic of Georgia out in

9:55

Eurasia. Yeah, it was a trip. You've

9:57

been doing some, rocking up some miles.

10:00

right there. How was Georgia and

10:02

how was Liam Nieson? Every time

10:04

I talk to him, I really

10:06

got to pay attention. He is

10:08

such a low talker, right? My

10:10

guy is like mad whispery and

10:12

I'm like, say it again, I

10:14

really, I got to imagine acting,

10:16

that's got to be tough, you

10:18

can't hardly hear the guy. No,

10:20

no, no. Honestly, man, it was

10:22

it was dreamy. I mean, he's

10:24

such a good dude. Oh, he's

10:26

a great dude. I just can't

10:28

hear him. Yeah, yeah, he's a

10:30

great dude and and he plays

10:32

the role so well. I mean,

10:34

it's definitely in his wheelhouse. I

10:36

mean, that's, you know, ultimately why

10:38

I think, you know, we wanted

10:40

somebody like Liam to portray that

10:42

role happened in, you know, the

10:44

late 70s. there were a lot

10:46

of, well, there were a lot

10:48

of people fleeing Iran and there

10:50

was a lot of money and

10:52

gold and things that were left

10:54

behind while people were fleeing. And

10:56

so I play a CIA operative

10:58

kind of leader of a squad

11:00

of operatives that we're going into

11:02

save a political prisoner and in

11:04

the process also how it's kind

11:06

of like a. like an action

11:08

heist flick, so there's like a

11:10

high settlement involved where we got

11:12

to rob this place of the

11:14

gold that was left behind in

11:16

it. So and that I think

11:18

will also, I don't know that

11:20

will come out this year, maybe

11:22

next year, but later this year

11:24

I did a film called Sarah's

11:26

Oil that I believe is going

11:28

to be coming out this Christmas

11:30

and that's a true story. A

11:32

beautiful, wonderful, incredible true story. of

11:34

in 1911, this 10 year old

11:36

black girl in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was

11:38

ultimately given because she was a

11:40

member of the, I can't remember

11:42

which tribe, I'm gonna blow that,

11:44

but anyway, she was a member

11:46

of one of the native tribes.

11:48

And when the United States gave

11:50

land back to the tribes, she

11:52

being older than nine years old,

11:54

she got her own 160 acres.

11:56

And what the, you know, the

11:58

government thought was probably, you know,

12:00

you land because you couldn't grow

12:02

anything on it, but she was

12:04

very special, precocious, spiritual, intelligent girl

12:06

who could read and write and

12:08

she was reading the newspapers and

12:10

she saw that the oil boom

12:12

was coming across the nation and

12:14

she went to her land and

12:16

she went to her land and

12:18

she prayed over her land and

12:20

she prayed over her land and

12:22

she prayed over her land and

12:24

she believed that God told her

12:26

that there was oil in it.

12:28

in 1911. That's an awesome story.

12:30

That's an incredible story. How have

12:32

I not heard about that story

12:34

before? Because there's a lot of

12:36

these stories that unfortunately got married.

12:38

Yeah. So we made that film,

12:40

we shot that last summer in

12:42

Tulsa, and that comes out I

12:44

believe this Christmas. So that'll be

12:46

coming out soon too. I want

12:48

to watch all these movies. Great

12:50

job, man. We'll talk about all

12:52

of them when we, when they

12:54

release. We will, man. Congratulations, both

12:56

professionally and personally, buddy, good luck.

12:58

Thank you. In a couple months,

13:00

and hopefully we'll get to see

13:02

you soon in person. Listen, meanwhile,

13:05

be sure to catch Jack in

13:07

the new film, The Unbreakable Boy,

13:09

which is out right now. Thanks

13:11

for checking it, man. Thanks, Mario.

13:14

It's time to put America first when

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it comes to spectrum airwaves. Dynamic spectrum

13:18

sharing is an American innovation, developed to

13:20

meet American needs, led by American companies,

13:22

and supported by the US military, who

13:24

use the spectrum to defend the homeland.

13:26

It maximizes a scarce national resource, wireless

13:28

spectrum, to protect national security, and deliver

13:31

greater competition, and lower costs. Without forcing

13:33

the US military to waste 120 billion

13:35

dollars, relocating critical defense systems. America won't

13:37

win by letting three big cellular companies

13:39

keep US spectrum policy stuck in the

13:41

past. reporting spectrum for their exclusive use

13:43

to limit competition here at home while

13:45

giving Chinese companies like Wawai and ZTE

13:47

a big leg up overseas. For America

13:49

to lead federal policy makers must build

13:51

on the proven success of US spectrum

13:53

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13:55

manufacturing, rural connectivity,

13:57

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