#30 Concrete Cowboys, Cats and Liz Priestley

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You know what else I appreciate? You know what else I appreciate you sticking around for the interview. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so excited for you to hear my interview with the amazing Liz Priestley priestly. Oh, right. We've got a special guest with us to day star of Concrete Cowboys with Idris Elba Oh my god, and then I get this actor and like a violinist and opera singer. Liz is gonna sing opera for 20 of the minutes of our podcast today. So get ready, get your head

Liz Priestley 7:27

I didn't warm up for that

Jeff Dwoskin 7:33

I like to surprise my guests with impromptu opera.

Liz Priestley 7:38

Interesting, you very eclectic set of guests that I like that. Yes.

Jeff Dwoskin 7:46

Welcome to the show.

Liz Priestley 7:48

Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here.

Jeff Dwoskin 7:50

Tell us about your movie, Concrete Cowboy.

Liz Priestley 7:53

This movie. I'm so excited. I can't wait for people to come and see this. Whenever that's gonna be but so basically, Well, I'll tell you the plot. It's a father son, movie about you know, it's a 15 year old boy who's been acting up, he's been thrown out of, you know, another school in a sequence of schools having a really hard time in his home in Detroit, and his mother played by me. You know, it's just at the end of her rope. But she's just like, I've done all with you that I can, as a single parent, you are clearly floundering, I need to change things up here. And basically in a desperate move, she drives him through the night to Philadelphia to the home of his father and basically dumped him on his father's doorstep. However, they have never seen each other, they never knew each other. And what he does not know is that his father is the leader in this group of black cowboys in Philadelphia. So he thinks he's going to another city to live with this guy, but he's actually a cowboy. The cool thing about that part of the story is that that's the historical kind of framework that this father son story is set against because you know, the black cowboys in Philadelphia, that's a real thing. And where we shot this movie was one of the stables in Philadelphia and some of the Cowboys from that, you know, group are actually cowboys in our movie, which is really cool. And adds, you know, a cool layer of authenticity there. But it's, you know, it's a true community that has been there since the Civil War, and it's a wonderful chance to tell their story because they've been kind of whitewashed out of history, and people really don't know, including yours truly. I did not know that this was a real community. And I'm Philly, born and raised like, I have been here my whole life. And I did not know this was a real community until I got cast in this film. So that's the story. That's the movie, but it's Idris Elba is playing you know, the father, Harper. And Caleb McLaughlin of Stranger Things fame is playing the Son, Cole, and like I said, I'm playing the mom. And this is the cool thing. Part of the cool part of that really is that I'm making my film debut with this. So kind of a big deal. You know, kind of

Jeff Dwoskin 10:14

that is, that is a really big deal. Tell me more about this community, the cowboy community. Let's unwhitewash it.

Liz Priestley 10:22

It's stunning. When I finally did start kind of doing a deep dive into it and really trying to research more about it. It was stunning, but I'll take it all the way back. So the term cowboy, it's a slave term, which is something people don't know. So for example, you know, if you worked in the house, you were a house boy, if you worked in the stable, you were stable boy. And if you worked with the cows, you were a cowboy. And at one point in history, almost all cowboys were black that was for, you know, about 5070 ish years, hollywood then kind of took that narrative and changed it totally. You know, you think of Cowboys, you think of john wayne, you think of like, I don't know, Clint Eastwood, like you think of those kind of big names. But like I said to somebody the other day, I said, Can you think of a black cowboy in a movie? And he said, the guy from Blazing Saddles, and maybe Django? And I was like, Yeah, exactly. That's it. You know what I mean, which is stunning. When you think about at one point we were at, but in major cities across the US, not just Philadelphia, these groups have existed. And basically, they're there to keep kids off the streets, they're there to give them a place to go to learn, you know, these really great skills of learning to care for animals. And you really do have to go through the whole process you get there, the first thing you do is, you know, you have to shovel poop, you got to you got to start from the bottom before you ever get on the horse. You know, it's just a really great community, but they're losing, you know, funding. They've got stables closing down, left and right. And, again, people just don't know that they exist. And it's, it's sad. Our director, Ricky stop was he's not a native Philadelphia. But he was here for almost a decade. His story was like, he was in a cab one day, and saw a guy riding by on a horse was like, stop the cab, what is that like and follow them to the stable, started talking to the guys and started getting their story. So he always had a passion for bringing this story to the screen. He has the same agent as ages. And ages at the same time had said to his agent, you know, I want you to bring me some stories that are uplifting to the black community. What do you have? And he was like, it's funny, I got this writer director who's got a script. Let's see, I'll give it to you to take a look. And that's how this movie got made. It's all true. It's crazy. I you don't read about it. In any of the history books. I have a 13 year old who's in school. And she's like, yeah, this isn't in any of the history classes that I've had so far. And I'm like, yeah, it probably won't be, you know,

Jeff Dwoskin 12:58

I can't believe that they stole that term. Now, Mike, I'm heartbroken. This is this is just messing with me.

Liz Priestley 13:04

I didn't know that. That was that was where that term came from. Until Like I said, I did the research. And I was just like, I had no idea. That's where that came from. I mean, yet stunning. It's stunning. And then like I said, you think about it, and I'm a movie buff, you know what I mean? And I, I even am like, I can't think of many black cowboys that I've seen on screen. You know, other than the ones I already mentioned, I really can't think of it. The only other one I can think of is like a TV movie from like, the early 90s. With like Jennifer Garner, before she was famous, like it's not, you know, it's it's not a thing it is it is sad. It is very sad. It's, you know, kind of one of many other examples where we've just been kind of pushed to the side in our own history. But you know, the cool thing is that you do have people in a position, like a dress, or like Ricky for that matter, who are able to say, hey, I want to tell this story. And then they have the ability to get that story made, which is like the coolest, you know, and if it hadn't been for them, I wouldn't have you know, made my film debut. Like it's all it's all a wonderful thing that that came about. And I really hope that when people see it, I hope that people go, Wait a minute, is there one of those in my city? Wait a second. They have that affiliate? Do they have that where I'm at? And because I know Dallas, Chicago, Philadelphia, I know some places in California. There are a lot of places.

Jeff Dwoskin 14:31

I think more and more these stories that no one talked about are starting to come out like Hidden Figures I think was

Liz Priestley 14:37

Yeah, ah, Hidden Figures is a wonderful movie. Yeah, we've we've always sort of been behind the scenes, in a way not really behind the scenes at all. But it's like it's funny. Like you said the stories are starting to come out. Yeah, I hope they keep doing that. I really do.

Jeff Dwoskin 14:53

So do I the great stories, too. Yeah, the truth is always better than the version of history that someone made up for their own benefit,

Liz Priestley 15:01

I agree. And and this one, this particular story is I mean, I'm biased because I was in it, but I do think it's told so well, and again, setting it with that Father Son story lens, you know, an emotional core to it as well, but one of the actual Cowboys, so we shot at Fletcher street stables in North Philadelphia, one of their cowboys plays a lead role in this movie, I mean, and has a very moving story that I don't want to give away. But it's about how he came to be part of that stables as a teenager, and what ended up happening to him and how he's able to go on and also give back to that community, but it's played by one of their actual cowboys. And it's just like, I just I really hope that people come away from this film being like, wow, what other stories are there? What else? You know, I mean, because there's probably a ton more that we haven't heard yet. I can't wait. Okay.

Jeff Dwoskin 16:06

So let me ask you that you said I don't live in Detroit, but I am just outside of Detroit. So were you in Detroit filming?

Liz Priestley 16:12

No, we had a we had a place in Philly that we doubled for Detroit. And it's funny because I've been to Detroit. I you know, when I years back, I did a national tour of a musical and we did a stop in Detroit. We did a stop in Detroit and Flint. It was interesting. I think our double is pretty good. You won't see the sky. You don't see the skyline. That's the one thing I was like, well, it's missing that Detroit skyline. But I wasn't that i think i think it's a pretty good double.

Jeff Dwoskin 16:44

I can get behind fake Detroit, Liz. Yeah, it's you know, bringing a real story to life and you're using fake Detroit.

Liz Priestley 16:51

Come on. I don't know if we had it in the budget. I don't know what the budget was. Low, but I don't know. But I did laugh. Because Yeah, when I got the script, and I read that those. Those are my first two questions was, Do I need to get on a horse? And are we shooting in Detroit? Those are my first two questions. And they said yes. And no. It was like, I was hoping was gonna be the other way around. But okay, you know, so yeah.

Jeff Dwoskin 17:17

So Liz, when you were in Detroit, where did you play Fisher? Masonic? Where'd you play? DMR?

Liz Priestley 17:21

I have no idea. It was like, I mean, we're talking fifth team maybe 16 years ago that I was

Jeff Dwoskin 17:29

long time.

Liz Priestley 17:30

Yeah, I honestly I don't remember I just remember is very cold is very cold when we were there. Because like, the middle of winter, there was like a cold warning. And they were basically like, don't leave the hotel unless you're like, bundled up to here because it was like, your eyeballs will freeze or something like that. And I was like, Oh, I'm just gonna stay in hotel them. Yeah, I was like, something like that. And I was like, What? It gets that cold here. Why? You know, I don't remember where we performed. I just remember it was a nice theater. There were ton of kids. And they were scared of me because I played it. I did play kind of a nasty character. She was called the sour kangaroo. So she wasn't very nice. But they were like, you know, there's like an army of kids that wanted to come up and kind of tell me off and then they got like, within range of me and just were like, you know, petrified and I'm like, oh, mmm, hmm. Nice. It was fun. That tour was fun. I was there for two ish, two and a half ish months. I was supposed to be there for six months, but I was there for about two.

Jeff Dwoskin 18:26

Okay, okay, good. Good. So, let me ask you this. Caleb, did you spill any secrets of the upcoming season a stranger things? What? What do you did he go like Hooper

Liz Priestley 18:40

was like, you have to tell me and he just he kept laughing at me. I was like, come on, man. Because at that point, there was no teaser released. And at that point, also, so COVID wasn't a thing. So the, the assumption was, you know, in about a month, I'm gonna report back to set that was the assumption. So I kept begging him. I was like, you have to tell me, you have to tell me and he'd be like, Huh. And then he just started laughing because he thought it was funny. So he know, he was very good at being zipped about that. And then of course, so we shot August 2019. And then of course, you know, September, October, you know, the November December was when we kind of were going what's going on with this pandemic thing and Chuck like, it was like, What? And then you know, by December, January, it was just like, Oh, no, no, there's not gonna be a stranger things for a little while. I know he just recently went back but and I tried to keep in touch with him. I have his number but he doesn't respond. Number I try to text him. Like I saw him on Lip Sync Battle. He was dancing. He like ripped his shirt off and I was like this Your mother put your shirt back on right this instant?

Jeff Dwoskin 19:55

Hey, maybe maybe he thinks you're you're too motherly. And that's why No, I

Liz Priestley 19:59

think Like, okay, lady, we're done the movies. So, like, Oh, no, I thought it was funny. Okay.

Jeff Dwoskin 20:07

I'm kind of on Stranger Things, obviously.

Liz Priestly 20:12

No, that's, you know, my daughter and I were talking recently like, She's like, well, mom like what? What shows you what to do? Like if they open up productions and stuff? And I was like, honestly, you would if they open up everything Stranger Things is the show I want to be on. Like, I am obsessed with that show. And I didn't watch an episode until I got cast in this movie. I was like, I should probably watch it. You know, I could see what he's doing. You know, but I'm obsessed with it. And I'm like, I'll be that would be a dream come true. Right there.

Jeff Dwoskin 20:42

You would be amazing in the upside down.

Liz Priestley 20:46

Like, Vine creature type of thing. I think you know, I don't know, I don't know who I could be on that show. Because unfortunately, and rather fortunately, really. It's so perfectly cast already. I've just like I want to play. I don't know, Caleb's on or something who gets caught me upside. But no, it's such a great show. And you know, he does a great job. But I'm excited for people to see we bonded he and I and the director, Ricky we the three of us kind of bonded because we were all somewhat in the same boat in that, you know, Caleb's been on Stranger Things, but he's never been the lead in a movie. So he was really excited for people to be like, I can't wait for people to see what I can do. Ricky, this is his first feature, because he's only done a short film. So he was like, I'm deciding for people see what I can do. And I'm like, I'm making my film debut. I can't wait for people to see what I could do. So the three of us every day would be like you believe this, like, you know, so I'm actually I'm very excited for people to see Caleb, outside of the Stranger Things context and really seeing him hold his own opposite yourself because I got to see a couple of their scenes. up close and personal. I was just like, This kid is 17 years old. I mean, he was when we were shooting. Like he's 17 years old. And he's just like, He's amazing. He's amazing. It was awesome. I learned a lot from him. Really?

Jeff Dwoskin 22:15

Most of those kids are going and having some good follow up projects. The ones in ghost the new Ghostbusters. I remember crack. Yeah, I can't 1111

Liz Priestley 22:26

Yes, she was in I watched her movie recently on Netflix Enola Holmes. She's quite good. She's quite good. You know?

Jeff Dwoskin 22:34

Yeah. What's the kid that's in it? The main kid, the one who actually wasn't the upside down. He hasn't done anything now. Or that I'm aware of?

Liz Priestley 22:42

Well, he's it. So I saw, like a preview of a movie. I think it just came out or it's like coming out in like a week or two or something. I even though I was like, I saw it. I was watching the trailer. And then it was like, the trailer was almost over. And I was like, Wait is that it's not the kid from Stranger Things like he looked he's grown. He looks different. I'm like, Who is this kid? So I imagined it's gonna be a little difficult for him for a little bit because he looks really different than, you know, like, the first season On Stranger Things. He's just he's so he's so cute. Right? You sold like you just want to put them in your pocket and be like, I will protect you in here. Will you know? And then you see what the trailer for this movie? And you're like, No, you think a grown man like what's going on? You know? Weird. It's weird.

Jeff Dwoskin 23:28

Yeah. Right. Well, it's weird. Yeah. Because they're in that, that, that age where they?

Unknown Speaker 23:32

Yeah.

Liz Priestley 23:36

Yeah, no, they are there in that. It that must be so awkward to be a kid and then grow up on film or like on TV and let everybody kind of be a part of that. That has to be very awkward. Those years. Were honestly like, just some of the worst of my life and I can't imagine doing it publicly. You know what I mean? Like, I have a respect for those for those kids. You know, my experience working with Caleb, I was just blown away at first of all, I was blown away at the fact that he had, like, never ending energy, because we had a week of night shoots, and I kept waiting for him to get tired. And he just never did. I don't know, if he was drinking coffee. I didn't see him drinking coffee. He just was like, bouncing off the walls, often natural, like energy and like, I don't know, enthusiasm I don't know, it was crazy. And then and then whenever it would be time to go, he would just go like, he didn't have to be like, okay, hang on, let me just, you know, no, it was just like, okay, you know, and he was just on and, you know, he's very professional. And very funny. He's a funny kid. Yeah, like I said, I've learned a lot from him. We had a day of shooting where he basically had to like, trust me with his life. And I was just like, we've known each other five minutes. I'm so sorry. Like, just email. Just hang on because we were in a car. It was the scene where we're supposed to be driving home The car that they gave us was like, some vehicle from 1993 that shut down every time you made a left turn. And so they blocked off like a four block radius that was in traffic. So I had to drive in traffic. But every turn was a left turn. So I we had like a caravan behind this was like the mechanic. And so we could only shoot our scene for the duration of the block. And then I'd have to turn and we'd have to cut and then the mechanic would have to come out and do something. And then we could shoot a little more. And then we'd have to cut and so on. But driving this car was like, not just that it was going to shut down. But I only had like a window like this big in front of me to see to dry. Because of all the equipment and the sound guy in the back and everything. I mean, at one point, I made a turn, the car shut off, we're coasting, and Caleb and I just kind of looking at each other, like we're just gonna keep going. We're just we're just gonna keep going. And we're doing the same, but I'm like, in my head. I'm like, we got to hurry up, because I'm not gonna be able to bring this car to a stop. You know what I mean? But it was really scary. It was scary. I was that was probably the most nerve wracking day more than meeting Idris Elba was driving that car.

Jeff Dwoskin 26:12

So what was the dress like? Or you're divorced in the film? Or you're married? Yeah,

Liz Priestley 26:17

we, yeah, we were married young. And I just basically, this is coming from the book, which is the source material here. So but yeah, basically, I just couldn't get used to the cowboy way. I just was not in it. And I you know, up and left with our son to Detroit. So I don't know if we're officially divorced, but we haven't seen each other in 15 years. So that made it very interesting to work with just because our big kind of scene where we see each other, there's nothing written to say. So I was like, I was nervous. Because, yeah, because it's Aegis elbow. I mean, you know, and it's like, everyone's like, okay, just remember, he's just a guy, okay? He's just a man. He's just another actor, like you are. He's there to do a job. And you're like, yeah, that is true. But it's also Idris Elba like, this is the man who people want to be James Bond. Like, it's not just a man, okay? Like it is. But it's also not, you know what I mean? And so, you know, you're like, hyped up, and then you get there. And they were very kind to me, actually, my first day was also a day where I didn't have anything written to say, but I did have to be on a horse. And it just so happens that myself, Caleb meds are all allergic to horses. So that was something that we all three bonded on as well, they get Caleb and rye up on a horse. And I've known Caleb for 30 seconds at this point. Because none of us met during the audition process, which is very rare. And then they just kind of pull us up to where each is is. And he's like, a foot away from me. And it's the first time we've met. And it's like, and it's, you know, my first time on a film set and my first movie, and I'm just like, super overwhelmed. And I look at him, and I go, Oh, hello, husband. And he goes, Well, hello, wife. And I just was like, I'm gonna follow up this course. Like, it was the most surreal thing I've ever had happen in my whole life. I was like, he just called me his wife. And I could die happy. And like, like, surreal. He's very sweet, though. Yeah, he, you know, he hung out with the Cowboys, like around their campfire between takes and after he wrapped and stuff like he just would sit there he Method Man is also in this movie. And so he and Method Man would be sitting there just like freestyling raps to each other in front of the other. Like, at a certain point, you just have to look around me like, what is my life? Like? How did I get here? Yeah, he's really nice. He said to me, he was like, What have you been in? Would I know you from and I was like, Oh, nothing. This is my first thing. And he's like, Oh, I I get to be in your film debut. And I was just like, ah, like,

Jeff Dwoskin 29:12

it's it says a lot about him that that would be the first thing he actually would think, to actually put himself in your shoes like that. And to react like that shows how unselfish he must actually be in real life.

Liz Priestley 29:23

You can't get any better. And then you say that you're just like, Ah, oh, no, he was he was so sweet. He was really nice. He was just recently married. So I got to meet his wife as well. She's so sweet. And they had like, really nice things to say about Philly. And it was just it was you know, it was also surreal is like the scene that we were shooting where we do reunite like just off camera. There's like 5060 something women just there's like a crowd of just women just off camera, and they're all Philadelphia residents. Just trying to get a glimpse. At Aegis, and I was watching him, like watching how he handled it. And I just was like, how do you even block that out? Because every between every take I love. He's just like, yeah, like, is crazy. And then whenever we had to reset the camera and I have to go back to my starting place, which was not near him, I had to walk a little ways when I would be walking. You just hear all these women being like, Who is that? I don't recognize her anywhere. Why she in this movie? Why she get to touch him. I don't like her. And I'm just like walking like,

oh.

So that was awkward, too, because they'll just like they don't know me. Yep, they don't know me at all. You know, you're like, I am supposed to be here. That is so funny. Maybe like leaning out of there, the windows of their houses and you just hear him like one would be calling from the top window down to whoever was sitting on the front stoop. She'd be like, girl who that is. I don't recognize her, you know, her and I've just been walking by like,

Jeff Dwoskin 31:07

so fun. You could have just made someone up.

Liz Priestley 31:15

It was it was really funny hearing them, like, trying to figure it out. Like they really were like, Who is that? You know? I want to just be like, No, I'm nobody like, you would not know me, you know I first thing but they're going like that carry that and look like Kerry Washington who that is and I'm like no, I'm not I'm not carry, you know what I mean? Is it the you know, they were like I said

Jeff Dwoskin 31:38

that girl from faithful.

Liz Priestley 31:41

You know, faithful was really fun. But that was that was a student film a college student film that I did. Because I was like, I need a film credit. Like, I need to get something on here. But I think it was only shown at that college. So I don't know how many people saw it. But you never

Jeff Dwoskin 31:55

know.

Liz Priestley 31:56

Yeah, no, no. And I had fun in that movie. So I hope people do get to see it. It's a short film, I should say that it's like 10 minutes. It's such a small world. Like sometimes it's stunning how small the world is. And you'll just be like, like, perfect example. I show up on the set for this movie. And they're like, Oh, you know, come with us. We're gonna get your microphone on. I said, Okay, they're putting the microphone. I'm gonna see this guy go past I was like, doing here. Turns out I also teach acting classes on the side. The guy that I teach acting classes for was called in to be a just elbows dialect coach on the film. And we had no idea that each of us was involved. And he just walked by, I was like, yeah, and he was like, it was so funny. And I was so happy to see like a friendly face on this. I was like, oh, somebody I know. But, you know, I was just like, what are you doing here of everyone in Philadelphia, he asked you to be his dialect coach. And he was like, Yeah, I was like, that's pretty cool.

Yeah,

I was like, that's wild. But yeah, it was awesome.

Jeff Dwoskin 33:00

I teach me to act real quick if you don't want it.

Liz Priestley 33:02

Okay. Just remember how used to play pretend. Do that.

Jeff Dwoskin 33:08

Okay. And see, let me ask you a question. Because I don't know if the timing would have been right when you were with a dress. But when you're on set of concrete Cowboys, were you able at any point to make fun of him for being Macavity and Cats?

Liz Priestley 33:23

I didn't know about Cats until after we wrapped but then I went to see it. Yeah, if you notice, he just didn't do any publicity for that movie. says everything you need to say about that. I you know, I listen. I admire everybody in that movie for taking the chance cuz Boy, that was a champ.

Jeff Dwoskin 33:53

Yes. Well, you know, when I heard they were making the movie Cats. My first reaction was Look, just quick background in New York and I've gotten a Broadway play. So I'm a big play fan. So it's not like it's not like one of those people that oh, I don't like plays, right? I've said I've seen many many, many many plays.

Liz Priestley 34:09

Right? Right.

Jeff Dwoskin 34:10

I've always thought Cats could this is what Cats does. Cats has an amazing like, first song or two. And then it's about 45 minutes before there's another good song. Right? So it's like, I was actually on a cruise and they had Cats on the cruise like full on Cats. You know, like the production and even for free. I couldn't sit through it. It's it's the worst play in the world. I don't know why they thought it would make a good move.

Liz Priestley 34:33

I don't understand why it's even a musical. And you've seen if you've seen the filmed musical from like the 80s even that was like Now this doesn't work. Adults jumping around in first line leotards. This doesn't work. It's I don't know what the idea was, or who was on the acid trip, but it doesn't work. And then this movie takes it to another art. Did

Jeff Dwoskin 34:58

you see the movie? I saw it as much of it as I could stay 10 minutes

Liz Priestley 35:02

I saw it, and I did because many articles recommended it. I did go see it intoxicated, which I do feel is the only appropriate way to see it. But I did see it. I did sit through it. I thought that I was like imagining the cat eating the roaches and mice with human faces. I was like, okay, maybe I maybe I imagined this maybe I'm too intoxicated, because I don't feel that this is something they would put in a movie for real. And then I had to go back and read it. No, that was in there for real. It was nightmare inducing. And then I will say the only reason I did want to go see it is because I want to see Idris Elba. I want to know if he can sing. I mean, I know the song The Macavity song, you don't really have to, you know, you can talk sing it, but I really wanted to see and the whole time you know, he's in the trench coat and the hat and it's random with the green eyes. It's random, but I was like, Alright, you know, he's still still attractive, even as a cat in a trench coat. And they get to his number. I don't know if he made it that far. When they got to his number and he took the trench coat off and he just looked full on naked. I remember in the theater, my reaction was like, like, not a gasp of like, oh, like it was, like, horrified. I was like, What am I?

Jeff Dwoskin 36:24

Oh, no,

Liz Priestley 36:25

I was really embarrassed and upset and just very upset. So

Jeff Dwoskin 36:29

yeah, what

Liz Priestley 36:30

the decision behind that was, but fortunately, that was not a topic of conversation on Concrete Cowboy because I don't think that was I he must have filmed it by then. But he didn't say anything about it to me.

Jeff Dwoskin 36:44

Yeah, they came out in 2019. He must have felt filmed in the film.

Liz Priestley 36:49

He is saying anything about it.

Jeff Dwoskin 36:51

We teased the ones we love. Yeah, so much. So much good stuff. Yeah.

Liz Priestley 36:56

We love you just and you know, it's okay. You're still attractive in a trench coat. I mean, I don't know if that was the effect they were going for with that firm. That was like skin. I mean, it was perfectly skin tone. It just was like it was shocking.

Jeff Dwoskin 37:11

I don't know what but he was on the wire the grade at one of the greatest shows ever. So he won. Yeah. If he wants to do Cats, he can do Cats.

Liz Priestley 37:19

Luthor, he can do Cats. It's all exactly, you know, yeah, we'll forgive him for that. I did tease him a little bit for being a rapper. I think he thought I was teasing him. I wasn't but you know, because he had come out with a rap song. He's, he does a verse on a song that came out in the UK, but I was I was listening to it all summer. I was like this catchy and you know, I talked to him about it. He was like, I'm not really a rapper. So I was like, Yeah, you are. And then I wrapped his verse to him which sweet laughed at me. He was like, you know, like, No, you do it better than I do. He just it's okay. But like, you know, I was like, don't be you better own that your rapper? Like, that's so cool. Yeah, he's a cool guy. He was fun. He's a lot of fun. He's like, exactly as nice as you think. And would want him to be if you're just like, oh, my goodness, you're perfect. Come on, man.

Jeff Dwoskin 38:13

He is and he would make a great James Bond.

Liz Priestley 38:15

I did ask him about that. I was like, I'll never forgive myself if I don't ask you for this. But like, are you gonna be James Bond? Like, straight up? Are you gonna be James Bond? You can trust me. I'm not gonna tell anybody based on his reaction to that. I think it's one of those. He he basically was like, Ah, you know,

I don't know, I

think I think the ship might have sailed on that one. That's what he said. I think I got the feeling he was like, I would have loved to have done it. I'm disappointed that so many people have a problem with it. But now I might be too old. And I'm like, you're not you're not just do it.

Jeff Dwoskin 38:48

Now. James Bond gets up has to be a certain all ages. He doesn't have to be they rebooted.

Liz Priestley 38:53

Roger Moore made a move a James Bond movie when is like 63 you're fine.

Jeff Dwoskin 38:57

Exactly. Exactly. So ladies, what do you got? What do you got next? Anything in the hopper? Anything coming up?

Liz Priestley 39:03

At the moment? No. COVID really kind of slowed a lot of things down. I mean, I'm, I'm still auditioning, but I am at the moment because of COVID. And all this time I've had at home. I am working on my writing, as well. So I'm working on a web series and a screenplay that I'm trying to get off the ground and hopefully, we'll get them up online somewhere so that I, you know, keep keep my craft up. But that's basically it. I'm, you know, other than that, I'm just sort of chillin, okay, until the movie comes out. I made this movie come out, you know, like, Ah, come on. So

Jeff Dwoskin 39:38

yeah, that's it. Thanks. Fine. So, when you're doing the writing, if you write, write about a podcast host from real Detroit,

Liz Priestley 39:50

if you like and Jeff, the podcast host based in Detroit logs on and says, Hello, where

Jeff Dwoskin 39:57

can people catch you on the socials?

Liz Priestley 40:00

You can find me on Facebook under Liz Priestley or you can find me on imdb.com under Liz precisely because those are the two places that if anything's going on, that's where they'll be.

Jeff Dwoskin 40:12

Okay? Now the women that you imitated earlier who didn't know who you were flash forward, the movies out. You're famous. close out the show. imitating them now knowing who you are.

Liz Priestley 40:26

up on that screen. Oh, man, don't come out my neck, Philly. Come on now. I think I think it'll be exciting for them to see their city up there. And then once they realize that they have some local people up there, they're gonna be like, Oh, okay.

I'll be like a Philly in the house.

Jeff Dwoskin 40:51

Awesome. All right, Philly, in the house, Florida. Philly, in the house in fake Detroit. All right. Well, thank you so much. It was this was fine. I had a good time hanging out with you. Oh,

Liz Priestley 41:03

thank you so much. What a pleasure.

Jeff Dwoskin 41:06

Oh, my God. How fun was that? Liz Priestley is amazing. I love talking with her. I'm excited for her movie to finally come out on Netflix. So keep an eye out for that concrete cowboy. It's gonna be amazing. I'm excited for her and all that lies ahead for Liz Priestley. Oh, I do want to remind everyone to sign up for our mailing list. Follow us on Twitter at Jeff Dwoskin show go to Jeff is funny, calm. That's where you can sign up for the mailing list. And that's where you can listen to any episode of the Jeff Dwoskin show. They're all there streaming. You can also go to Apple podcasts, amazon music, Spotify humbly app, good pods. Any any app you use is great. So listen up. Cool. All right. Well, you know what time it is. It's time for the hashtag roundup trend of the week. Oh gosh, we dug in deep for this one. we pivoted right off our conversation of the movie Cats. That's right off the movie cats very excited. The hashtag that we have for you is from divine tags. It's a weekly game on hashtag Roundup, follow hashtag roundup add Hashtag Roundup on Twitter. Also download the free Hashtag Roundup app for Android and iOS. It divine tags is noon Eastern every Saturday so play along this hashtag is #MakeAnythingBetterWithCats? All right, let's make some stuff better by swapping in a cat. As always, don't forget these tweets will be retweeted at Jeff Dwoskin show they'll also be listed in the show notes so give it a listen. Take care of these good tweets show him some love and all right here we go. #MakeAnythingBetterWithCats. Cat Chow I Met Your Mother the classic TV show. Great show great show didn't love the ending didn't love the ending? Okay. Oh the host of Wheel of Fortune cat say jack who doesn't love cat say jack? way better than Pat say jack of course. Oh, instead of cops. Cats bad cats bad cats. What you're going to do what you're gonna do when they go Oh, are you bad cats better cats. Yeah, I hope you guys appreciate my theme song singing Oh, the classic improv show Whose Line Is It? anyway? The hills are alive with the sound purring it's the Julie Andrews classic. But also I think hills full of cats would just be amazing in general. That would be great. The best way to make hills even better would just be add cats to the hills. Oh, Kurt said a curvier they appear your enthusiasm. That's a good one. Oh, here the Queen classic cat bottom girls you make the rockin world go around. I think we can all agree I should not be singing. Oh, one of my favorite actors cat Damon. Yes, he was in that movie where he went to Mars and made potatoes. apocalypse. Meow. I love the smell of cat litter in the morning. Oh, Egypt, taking us to Egypt with the great pyramids. The classic Garfield of dreams. If you build it, they will power and of course, cat track. Everything's better in space with cats. And of course, let's wrap it up with the Leonardo DiCaprio classic cat me if you can, where he played a conniving cat being hunted by Tom Hanks. All right, well, that definitely is a way to #MakeAnythingBetterWithCats on the Hashtag Roundup, grab the app play along and you can be on our future episode of the Jeff Dwoskin show. Well, that brings us to the end of Episode 30 I can't believe it's over already. 30 episodes so many great memories. I can't thank you all enough for joining me along the way. I look forward to all the future ones. Don't forget to follow me Subscribe, Like join my mailing list. So Jeff is funny, calm. Let's keep doing it. See you next week.

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