Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, Please welcome Starling K. Brown
Speaker 1: Ms Sterling K. Bride. What's going on? Brother on? What's
Speaker 1: going on? Wow? Man, it's nice to see you. Look
Speaker 1: you look like you're living in your best life. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Feel good. I'm trying to grow my hair
Speaker 1: out like you see it. It's looking looking like the
Speaker 1: black Hue Bon docks. Man. Let's let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about about the movie. Let's do it. Um. A
Speaker 1: lot of people know you from This is Us first
Speaker 1: of all before we got into the movie. Congratulations, congratulations
Speaker 1: on wrapping it up in stuff because a lot of
Speaker 1: people were sad that the show ended, but they appreciate
Speaker 1: it that it ended well because there's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: You know, people watch Game of Thrones and like, what
Speaker 1: the hell happened? People know it can happen, can happen,
Speaker 1: but you don't worry. Did you know it end well?
Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna end well because he had
Speaker 1: a plan to end it in six seasons all along
Speaker 1: from the beginning, like the story was complete. He knew
Speaker 1: where Rebecca was going to be at the hand, like
Speaker 1: you knew, like there's this whole timeline that he had
Speaker 1: from the beginning of season one of how things were
Speaker 1: going to play out. So there was a beginning, middle,
Speaker 1: and the end that made me feel secure as an actor. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I like that. And then and then you decided I've
Speaker 1: done this. I've cried a lot. I've cried a lot.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of vizine up in the your boy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's viazine. I feel like you
Speaker 1: can do it. I can do it. No, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying to get my eyes back clear, get them back.
Speaker 1: I was like, I just wanted doing people to think
Speaker 1: that you like faking it. Yeah, it's real. Um. And
Speaker 1: then and then this movie, I was like, Wow, starting
Speaker 1: doing doing comedy now, Okay, no, it's amazing. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why it's amazing. I'll tell you what amazing.
Speaker 1: Tell you I've been lucky enough to meet you in
Speaker 1: real life, and you're one of the funniest, most charismatic
Speaker 1: people I know. But everyone on TV knows you. You
Speaker 1: you know, you stoic and you know, and then here
Speaker 1: you are playing a pasta in I mean, the movie
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. It's extremely funny. Tell me tell me how
Speaker 1: the project came about when someone who came up to
Speaker 1: you and said, you know what's starting. I want you
Speaker 1: to play a pasta of a megachurch that's involved in
Speaker 1: a scandal and it's trying to bring it all back. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So my manager read it first and then she said
Speaker 1: you should check it out. I think it's something you'd
Speaker 1: like because I also select variety and doing something completely
Speaker 1: different than randall right. They did a short you can
Speaker 1: find a short Home for Jesus short on YouTube. So
Speaker 1: I watched the short and I was like, this ship
Speaker 1: is hysterical. I would like to do something hysterical. So
Speaker 1: then I read the script and it's funny, and it's
Speaker 1: also deeper than just being funny too, because it's like
Speaker 1: a critique of the church for people who actually love
Speaker 1: and grew up in these mega churches, which I did,
Speaker 1: but also said there's something that can be improved quite possibly.
Speaker 1: Oh no, definitely, And you know, something's something I always
Speaker 1: talk about. Anyone who's grown up in the church knows
Speaker 1: this because there are there are many aspects of religion
Speaker 1: that have been abused by certain people for their own games,
Speaker 1: you know. So my mom would complain about. Mom was
Speaker 1: one of the most religious people I've ever known in
Speaker 1: my life. I would go to church six or seven
Speaker 1: times in a weekend and my mom would say, we're
Speaker 1: not going back to that church. And I'll say why,
Speaker 1: and she'd be like, why? Why does that pass to
Speaker 1: have a ferrari? Now, what's going on? Where's the ferrari
Speaker 1: coming from? He doesn't have another job, so where's the
Speaker 1: ferrari coming from? I don't see anything in the Bible
Speaker 1: about ferrari's, do you know what I'm saying? And and
Speaker 1: and so what's what's interesting in this is you're not
Speaker 1: poking funded religion. You're talking about people who use people's
Speaker 1: love of religion to make a buck. That's right. I
Speaker 1: feel like all human institutions are valuable, whether they're secular
Speaker 1: or non secular. You know what I'm saying. There's messages
Speaker 1: that can be gleaned from them that are important. You
Speaker 1: take the good, you leave the rest. Like you can't
Speaker 1: find a perfect church, you can't find a perfect government,
Speaker 1: you know. So that's the way I do. And so
Speaker 1: I my bed is more spiritual than religious at this
Speaker 1: particular time, because I just picked into if my mom
Speaker 1: praised for my immortal soul because she thinks I'm going
Speaker 1: but we cool because she loves me. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a power it's a power house team. You know,
Speaker 1: you're playing the Pasta. You've got Regina Hole who's playing
Speaker 1: you know, the first Lady of the church. She is
Speaker 1: one of the funniest human beings have exist, he really is.
Speaker 1: And then it's produced. I didn't know this, and so
Speaker 1: it's produced by Daniel Coloya and Jordan's him power house.
Speaker 1: We got a good thing. We got a good things.
Speaker 1: It feels good. So so talk me through this because
Speaker 1: in the click that we're watching that you know you're
Speaker 1: seeing it looks a little bit like a documentary, but
Speaker 1: the film is is mockumentary style. It's mocumentary style. What
Speaker 1: happens is the scandal happens before the movie starts, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out what the scandal is. The
Speaker 1: Pastor and the First Lady decided to decide to hire
Speaker 1: a or a documentary film crew to sort of chart
Speaker 1: their sentence back to prominence, or so they hope. Because
Speaker 1: the documentary film because it was like, all right, I
Speaker 1: want to see what's going on. With these people and
Speaker 1: what makes them tick, whether they get back to their
Speaker 1: church or not. Maybe secondary So what he hopes that
Speaker 1: they'll use the documentary for it. How many takes did
Speaker 1: you did you have to redo because you were laughing
Speaker 1: at what Regina was saying. I'm pretty good at not breaking. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at not breaking. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is because, like I feel like when an actor
Speaker 1: is being funny, I don't want to ruin their take.
Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. So if I break, it's
Speaker 1: like Nigro, I gotta do this over again, right, But
Speaker 1: if you stay in it, then just keep the vibe
Speaker 1: going and feed the more. You never know what kind
Speaker 1: of like oxygen their fire needs to like burn even hotter.
Speaker 1: So that's that's all you're trying to do, is just
Speaker 1: feed the fire. Okay, okay, So so do you feel
Speaker 1: like now do you feel like you have a little
Speaker 1: bit of like this pasta and you do like did
Speaker 1: you pick up some of that that that mega church swag?
Speaker 1: I would say so a little bit. He likes his clothes.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to like clothes more. Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: You're funny story my son growing up in the nineties,
Speaker 1: I used to sag a lot, like size thirty six,
Speaker 1: you know, shorts, even though my waist is like a
Speaker 1: thirty two. My son now when he sees me sagging,
Speaker 1: he's like, Dad, people can see your under. My son eleven,
Speaker 1: people can see you under and literally comes up to me,
Speaker 1: pulls my pants out and holds them up at their waist.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. It's a generational it's a generational ship. So
Speaker 1: now you know, people try to put your boy in
Speaker 1: like tight fit, like this stuff is type right. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm starting to get used to close it fit.
Speaker 1: I came home one day after o J and I
Speaker 1: had like some new clothes and my mama said, well,
Speaker 1: you're finally wearing clothes that fits your body. I'm selling that.
Speaker 1: You also have one of the strongest topless games. You
Speaker 1: take your shirt off in this movie. No, no no, no,
Speaker 1: this is like one of those things where you just
Speaker 1: have to give the credit. You take your top off
Speaker 1: in this movie, and you are one of the most ripped,
Speaker 1: not just Pasta's but human beings. I was like, wow, Sterling,
Speaker 1: you've been you've been, You've been holding out on us.
Speaker 1: You don't get good. I appreciate it. Man. I try
Speaker 1: to take care of myself. That's that's it, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I got an eleven year old in
Speaker 1: a seven year old, and my get My whole plan
Speaker 1: in life is to be able to play with them
Speaker 1: as long as I can. I waited a little longer
Speaker 1: to have these kids. I'm enjoying them so much. They
Speaker 1: have energy, so you have to have energy to keep up.
Speaker 1: That's that's the whole game. Play man, this Calder here.
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