WarRoom Battleground EP 1037： Live From The Red Carpet For The Premiere Of 'Young Washington'
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Live from Nashville, Tennessee, we're live on the Red Carpet for the world premiere of Young Washington from Angel Studios. This tremendous movie tells the story of George Washington before he was a general or our president. He faced crushing failures, near-death experiences, and pivotal moments that forged his courage and leadership.
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From Nashville, Tennessee, we're live on the red carpet for the world premiere of Young Washington from Angel Studios.
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This tremendous movie tells the story of George Washington before he was a general or our president.
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He faced crushing failures, near-death experiences, and pivotal moments that forged his courage and leadership.
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You are not British, yet they send you to speak for them.
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So that when you fail, they'll have someone to blame.
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Who does own this land, if not the one who has the will to tame it?
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This is the young Washington red carpet premiere
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live on Real America's Voice, and it starts right now.
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Welcome to our live coverage of the Young Washington premiere live in Nashville, Tennessee.
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I'm Beau Davidson. It's great to be with you. Thanks for watching. Over the next hour,
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we're going to learn all about this wonderful, wonderful, impactful movie called Young Washington
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from our good friends at Angel Studios. And of course, you know the Angel guys. They've made
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some phenomenal movies all the way back to Sound of Freedom with Jim Caviezel, a movie that really
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rock the world. Of course, we know that Angel Studios is also a studio that has been changing
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the landscape of Hollywood. No longer do the Hollywood insiders get to control what you see.
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In fact, they've created something called a guild, in which if you join that guild,
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you can decide what Angel Studios releases. It's all done on a scoring system. The better the score
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that a film or TV series gets, the more likely Angel it is to put it out. Young Washington has
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been many years in the making. It's directed by John Irwin. Many of you will know that name from
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and there's some really familiar faces in there
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But let me kind of give you the lay of the land
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The film is scheduled for nationwide theatrical release
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on July 3rd, appropriate for our 250th birthday.
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And this is some of the folks I was mentioning earlier, including William Franklin Miller, Ben Kingsley, Kelsey Grammer, Mary Louise Parker, and Andy Serkis.
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And Angel Studios is positioning this as one of the marquee theatrical releases heading into America's 250th anniversary celebrations.
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There's a big rally tomorrow in the National Mall.
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You've got the Great American State Fair coming up.
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Some really, really wonderful things that are happening.
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I just think it's a great time to be alive in our country.
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Let me tell you about the Angel Guild and kind of the special promotion that Angel is offering to you, our viewer.
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If you join the Angel Guild today, all you got to do is go to angel.com slash rav,
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and you can take advantage of our special offer and become a premium member for the lowest price of the season.
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You'll get two free tickets to see Young Washington in the theaters this Independence Day.
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And you can be a part of making this film the number one movie in America for our nation's 250th birthday.
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And you want to make sure that you join the Angel Guild because you will help support Angel Studios, tell the stories America was built on, was founded on.
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No apologies, no rewriting, no reconstructionist history, just the truth of who we are as Americans.
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And Angel's curated library of films and shows honor this country instead of tearing it down.
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We all know that Hollywood has had a tendency in these revisionist stories to try to tear the country down, to sow division, to sow discord.
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But we're doing a very special America's 250th limited time offer where you can get a monthly premium Angel membership for just $15 a month.
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That's cheap, folks. $15 a month. You can't even go to a movie for $15 a month.
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And all you've got to do to join is go to angel.com slash rav to join right now.
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And many of you, of course, that are watching Real America's Voice, you know that I'm no stranger to this.
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I've kind of been a conduit and a liaison to Angel, kind of ushering their products and their content into our audience
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because it's important that we uplift who they are and what they represent.
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I've been to events in the past for Angel Studios,
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and their whole moniker is we want to tell stories that amplify light,
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We've got Benny Ray Harmony on the ground, on the scene,
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I know that you've got to be psyched and stoked for this premiere,
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and I think you've got some screenwriters of the movie with you.
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But first of all, just give us a lay of the land
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of what it's like in Nashville, Tennessee right now.
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We are here on site at Belmont University, here inside the Fishers Performing Arts Center.
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And you can't see it, but on the other side of the camera, there are ballroom dancers,
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there are performances happening, and it's a very lively atmosphere.
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Now, Nashville is known for its arts and for its creative energy,
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And, yeah, we have Dietrich and Tom Provost right here behind me or with me.
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They are the screenwriters of this amazing film.
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And so, guys, I want to get your input on this.
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Tell us what it was like putting this film together and just give us the overview.
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Well, it's really exciting to look at George Washington's life when he's young.
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There's so many things that happened in his life nobody knows about.
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And so one of the things we love about writing the movie is when you go see the movie,
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you're going to learn so much about this great man and why he became great.
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And I think there's a lot of misconceptions about George Washington's journey.
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You know, when he started, he was 21, but by the time he was president, he was 57 years old.
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What was it like putting together these scenes, putting together, making sure you didn't leave anything out?
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Yeah, you know, it was really great to envision him as a young kid going through a lot of tragedy and misery,
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having a pretty rough life, a lot of challenges in life, overcoming them.
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Our director, John Irwin, would often say, think about, you know, Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenants.
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think about Tarzan. Like he was a man out in the wild, a young kid trying to find himself. And
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that's a part of George Washington that I think people haven't seen before. Yeah. And how do you
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think the actors really brought these characters to life? Is it what you expected? A hundred percent.
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And I just have to say this movie lives or dies on George and we have great actors. Sir Ben Kingsley,
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Indy Circus, but William who plays George is going to be a big star. He is awesome. Absolutely. It's
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brilliant. You know, it's one thing to write a story, to forge a character on the page, to then
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have characters like this bring it to life. It's just exceptional. And tell us a little bit about
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Angel Studios. How have they supported this and really helped bring this to life? Well,
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they're wonderful. They put up money. They've been helping with the marketing and they have
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this wonderful program, obviously Pay It Forward, where any of us can donate money so that
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underprivileged children can go out and see the movie. What are you most looking forward to about
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tonight? Tell us what's in store. You know, to share this movie finally a few years later with
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This audience, these people, all of you, it's kind of magical because, again, you write it in isolation, the two of us with John Irwin.
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We hope that all of America gets to enjoy this on July 3rd and 4th.
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Gentlemen, thank you so much and wishing you all the success of this movie.
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But, Beau, this young Washington, I mean, tells this story that is so monumental.
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and the leadership, I really want to touch on that
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because it goes through his trials and tribulations
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so it really ties back and relates to everybody's life
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and how over the years you continue to get better
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and you become the leader that you were meant to be.
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So we're really, really looking forward to this, though.
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Yeah, and what I love, Benny, about the trailer
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because they released a couple of the very last words
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And I love that because you think about stories of adversity
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and the unbelievable odds that they had to overcome
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We know them as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson,
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of overcoming ridiculous odds to become who they were.
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is this tells the story of young George Washington.
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This is the George Washington that's 21 years old
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America is this landscape, this unsettled landscape,
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and George Washington has to come in and forge his own path, has to forge his own fate.
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And I think that's what audiences are really going to take away from this.
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And of course, here I'm saying it like I'm like I've written it or directed,
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but I just feel like it's such a compelling story to know how a young boy became our first president.
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And I love the prove them wrong, Bo, because, you know, like I said, you know, in your life,
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you go through so many things and you're faced with things that should break you,
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that a lot of people are scared that those moments will break you.
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And in that moment, you know, when he's in battle and he's facing these,
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he decides not to give up and he continues to come back
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And so I think we can all take something from that.
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And speaking to those screenwriters and, you know,
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them feeling those emotions while they're writing them.
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And as men who were once young men, they know that better than anyone.
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I mean, when you watch that trailer, which we've played, you get chills.
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Your whole body, your hair stands up because it's so powerful and emotional and the founding of America in general.
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But also getting to tie that into just being a young man and being young, it's truly incredible.
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And I think so many people not only can learn life lessons, which I'm really excited to talk to some of these young actors like the actor that plays George Washington in this, William Franklin Miller, because he's only 22 years old.
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And so I'm excited to pick his brain on, you know, what's the biggest lesson he learned while filming this.
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Yeah, let's go over some of the cast of this because there are some pretty star-studded names.
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And I had not heard of William Franklin Miller, but, of course, he's someone that's new on this.
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And you heard the screenwriter say he's going to be a big star, which I think is probably true.
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Of course, we know him from I Can Only Imagine, House of David, which has been a humongous success on Amazon Prime.
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His brother, Andrew Irwin, I interviewed a couple months ago because he had I Can Only Imagine 2 come out, which is a great film.
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The writers, of course, you just mentioned, John Irwin, Diedrich Hustraton, and Tom Provost.
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William Franklin Minner in the lead character of Washington.
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Ben Kingsley, of course, amazing actor, as Robert Denwitty.
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We've got Mary Louise Parker as Mary Washington.
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And Kelsey Grammer, whom everybody loves from Frasier, of course, as Lord Fairfax.
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What a wonderful cast, I think, Benny, of people that they've put together.
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And this is what I'm seeing, Benny. What I'm seeing about Angel Studios is that they continue to develop and bring in high, high-level A-star names.
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These are not, I hate to say it, but third and fourth-rate actors that happen to get thrown into a film.
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We're talking about some very, very large names that have had a long Hollywood career saying, you know what?
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I want to be a part of something. I want to be a part of something bigger than me that actually tells the story, the true story of America.
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They've collected a wonderful assemblage of actors, Benny.
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No, and I mean, you look at Kelsey Grammer, who that's who, you know, a lot of people are talking about.
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He has six Emmy Awards, you know, Mary Louise Parker.
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But then you also have those up-and-coming rising actors.
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And I think Angel does such a great job of bringing all those types together.
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You know, like you said, it's not just the up-and-coming actors,
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but you have the seasoned ones that, in a way, these younger actors can look up to.
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And to see the different types of shows that, you know, these people have acted in and the different characters that they have played.
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I mean, Mia Rogers, one of hers was one of her most recent shows was about the sex lives of young women, basically.
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And so just getting to see how they bring the different cultures and the different generations together.
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And I was talking to my dad and I said, I was like, who's this Kelsey Graham?
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And when we were on Eric Bowling today, I said the same thing.
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i said i don't want to age you but i didn't really know who a lot of these actors were uh and so just
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getting to kind of learn about them myself and and how how their energy and their spirit never dies
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and how they've created such amazing films and also to our viewers out there you know you'll see
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some of these actors in this movie and you'll be like wait a minute i recognize them from you know
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there's this one uh show and it's called money plane i think and i think kelsey grammar's in
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that. So there's some of those actors where you're just, you don't really realize it,
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but then you look at them and you're like, wait a minute, I recognize you. And yeah,
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in today's society and in this culture, it's really amazing that some of these major actors
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from Hollywood are getting involved with Angel Studios and getting involved in films that
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actually make a difference and celebrating the 250th anniversary. Yeah. And it's so interesting.
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You mentioned Kelsey Grammer, Benny, because at the Kennedy Center Honors, which were held
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end of last year, Kelsey Grammer was there. He presented and Kelsey's an amazing guy. He
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actually went to school right down the road from me here at a Pinecrest school, which is an amazing,
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wonderful school. But Kelsey experienced a lot of personal tragedy. And I asked him about
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how he overcame that tragedy because it was devastating to him. And I mentioned the loss
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of my father. And it's interesting when there's a loss in your life, how you can kind of empathize
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with someone else. But at the same time, as humans, we have to understand that personal tragedy
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forges us. It forges us in fire. And if you look at the character of George Washington,
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at the person, the actor, that is Kelsey Grammer, overcoming all odds as well, to become Kelsey
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Grammer and have such an amazing run with the series Frasier, among many, many other films
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and TV series that he's done. It's so awesome, I think, to see how an actor is able to bring
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their own experiences into a role. So I'm sure Kelsey brought his own personal tragedy into
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this story, as he probably does many, many roles that he's played. But I just thought it was an
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interesting tidbit about Kelsey, that if you don't know this about him, that he really did
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as many people have, and they rose to the occasion.
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and they were able to ascend into their own fate,
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the very way that our own first president did so.
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but I just wanna set the scene for everyone right now.
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We are at the live world premiere of Young Washington
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This is the Young Washington red carpet premiere,
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This is the Young Washington Red Carpet Premiere.
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You are not British, yet they send you to speak for them.
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So that when you fail, they'll have someone to blame.
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blame young washington you lost in the new world who does own this land if not the one who has the
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will to tame it you do not want to start a war what do we do we fight
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help us make this the number one movie on america's 250th pre-order tickets at angel.com
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slash 250 exclusively in theaters july 3rd and welcome back to the red carpet world premiere of
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young washington on the ground in nashville tennessee we've got benny ray harmony i'm bo
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davidson thank you for watching us being with us this hour is so unique because we have the ability
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to step inside and see what a red carpet premiere
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Benny Harmony was interviewing the screenwriters
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And of course, this film premieres on July 3rd.
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That's so critical because literally is the day
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instead of paying full price at the box office.
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So just for $15 a month, think about this, folks,
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$15 a month, you can get tickets through the Angel Guild.
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That's minimum if you're taking just two people.
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And you can join today by going to angel.com slash rav.
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Benny, I know you're there on the scene of the red carpet
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and you're probably seeing some actors come in.
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First of all, I want to lay the land for people
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in terms of an experience that Angel Studios creates.
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which I believe is in its third or fourth season now,
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and costumes they had different uh they had the whole world of of the wing feather saga set there
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so that when kids came in they could identify with their favorite characters and be able to talk in
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the same language that the character spoke i thought it was so unique and at the time i didn't
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have children and now that i do it's like i get it like it totally clicks so benny as we were
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talking about earlier you said there was ballroom dancing going on it seems to me benny that as i
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look at the the the the schedule here they had a grand arrival at four eastern they had a check-in
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And they had a ballroom exhibition, dance instruction, and performance by Extreme Ballroom, which I think we have some B-roll of.
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So tell us, Benny, about what you saw when you came in, because this is not a typical red carpet premiere.
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No, Beau, I think we have some production people coming to speak to you here in just a second.
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But to lay the land, the dress code was 18th century colonial.
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So you could dress up in your favorite character.
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Everyone is very glammed here is all that I will say.
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And actually right now on the dance floor, they have pulled people from the crowd, you know, guests that bought tickets.
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So they had the Extreme Dance Company come in and all the amazing ballroom dancers were going all around the floor.
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And let me just say, I wish I could dance like that.
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but we're going to need to find someone to teach me how to do those moves
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I mean, I just love looking at you have men with George Washington wigs on.
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Maybe I could figure out a way to get you guys some content to show the guests dancing.
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we have the guests learning how to ballroom dance. Oh, look at that. Yeah, absolutely.
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But see, this is what I mean, Benny. I mean, this is why premieres for Angel Studios are not your
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typical just run-of-the-mill premiere. There's a whole experience that's associated with, like I
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said, when I've been out to Provo, Utah, where Angel Studios is, or I've been to various premieres
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like the Wingfeather Saga, they create a whole world for the environment you're stepping into.
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It's not just like, oh, welcome to the premiere. You know, here's your ticket. Here's your seat.
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sit down. It is an, it's a complete, and I'm going to use the word experience. And you think
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about experiential marketing and how people are immersive, even entertainment. That's what I see
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with what Angel Studios is doing, because they want you to invest in the characters. And I think
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that now that we're in the 250th year, the birthday year of our country, there's so much
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nostalgia. There's so much pride. You know, you had the UFC fight recently, Benny, you had flag
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day. You had the Army's 251st birthday. You had the flyover. We've got the National Mall. There's
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a big rally tomorrow. You've got the Great American State Fair. You've got Team USA,
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the men's national team, kicking tail on the World Cup stage. There's just so much to be
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proud of. And I got to say this too, Benny, I don't know if you've caught it, but looking at
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how foreigners, especially Europeans, are coming and experiencing in the United States right now,
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they've basically been lied to about our country. They thought that, you know, we're terrible people,
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we're racist, we're fascist because Donald Trump is president. All this BS they've been told and
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they get here and they're like, what? Walmart? Chick-fil-A? Ranch dressing? They love it. Well,
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Benny, I know you've got someone there to speak to, so go ahead and tell us who you have there
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as a guest. Yeah, well, first introduce yourself. Tell us about yourself. My name is David Hunt. I'm
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the chief content officer and the co-founder of 2521 Entertainment who helped co-produce this
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film. So tell us a little bit about the production behind the scenes. What went into creating this
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young Washington film? Well, it's pretty monumental. You know, we have the we know our first president
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and the head of the Continental Army. That story fairly well as Americans. But most Americans have
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no idea that he was a what happened when he was a young man full of failure, full of doubt, full
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of not knowing what his path was going to be. And that's really an incredible story. And 100 plus
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years of american film we've never told that story yet so we all thought this was you know
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quite a monumental story worth telling especially on our 250th birthday of this greatest country on
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earth and uh so we pulled together an amazing team of uh actors uh josh erwin who's an incredible
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director who's done uh you know i can only imagine and lots of films that people in our space have
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responded to quite well and so we got this great package together and then we had to uh somehow
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create the Revolutionary War, which is a lot harder than you think. Those guns don't really
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shoot as often as well as you think. They misfire a lot, at least ours did. So there's a lot of
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trials and travails, but ultimately when we all pulled it together, I think we showed how this
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man who, before he was a statue, was a man. And there's a lot of lessons to learn, especially for
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young people, young people trying to find their way, that failure is a good thing if you take it
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the right way and no one exemplifies that more than george washington who uh king george his
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opponent uh at one point said if he uh steps down as the first president which he said he was going
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to he'd be the greatest man who ever lived and he did and he and he was one of the greatest men that
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ever lived so we're excited to tell this story and so that's that's one of the things we've been
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talking about the whole show is the lessons learned throughout this film and as a 21 year old kid
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you know he didn't become president till he was 57 years old and there were so many years in
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between that really formed him into the man that he that became our first president um so i guess
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tell us a little bit you know young people watching this film i i really hope with this
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being the 250th anniversary and and seeing such an amazing character like william franklin miller
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playing george what do you hope that these young people take from this in today's society and
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generation we have a society now that values quick things things that seem easy uh nothing that's
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worth having, or not nothing, but almost nothing that's worth having is easy. And certainly the
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things that Washington built in himself, it took time to craft himself. You don't just step out
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and become a man of the character that he had and the ability he had. That was years of intention
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putting in how to mold himself into that. And I think young people have to, you need to look at
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people that you admire, look at even people, fictional people, it doesn't matter. As long as
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have a model you can look at and try to craft yourself into that person over time uh you can
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do amazing things with just little tiny what's amazing what i got with uh little bits of uh
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daily habit that build up into something much bigger over time and i guess the other thing i
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would say is taking a cue from george washington is to lean into your failures in fact if you're
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not failing a lot you're you're standing still uh you should wonder what did i fail at today
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You should have something on that list because if you're not failing, you're not trying.
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It teaches us how to endure and things to get better at next time.
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Don't think that because you failed at something, that's the end.
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George Washington started a war on accident, which we see in this film.
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Many, many issues, but it was learning from those issues
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and coming back and keeping on is what made him who he was.
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And, sir, I got one final question, and it's going to be a fun one, okay?
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One word to describe this film before we get to see the preview tonight.
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I'd say daring not only in this production, but daring in Washington's character.
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He was a bold, bold man, and I think daring sums him up very well, honestly.
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We're so excited to see all the work you guys have put in this film.
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Leadership, daring, that's what he said, the one word to describe this film
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and the bold man that George Washington was from such a young age.
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Yeah, David Gates, some real golden nuggets there of wisdom, I would say.
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How you fail, how a person responds to failure is so critical.
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I made a speech about him as a young kid, and I realized how much he had failed, how
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many things had come his way that were inopportune and unfortunate.
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So I think something that David was saying that I think should impress young people out
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there, Benny, that you were so astute to ask is, how do you fail and fail better?
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Because you're going to have a string of failures.
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People that we know that are successful, they had a string of failures before they got there.
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So I think it's important to take that away from the story, and I think audiences will.
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Let's learn a lot more about George Washington as the boy who became our first president.
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More when we get back from the premiere of Young Washington in Nashville, Tennessee.
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This is the Young Washington Red Carpet Premiere, live on Real America's Voice.
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This is the Young Washington Red Carpet Premiere, live on Real America's Voice.
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Welcome back to our coverage of the Young Washington premiere in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Bo Davidson here with you in the Anchor's Chair and Benny Harmony on the ground on the red carpet in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Benny, I know that you've got someone with you there, so we want to get right to you.
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We are here with John Foss, who plays George Washington's older brother.
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So tell us a little bit about this character and how monumental he is in George's young life.
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So when George's father, Augustine, passed away, George was only 11, and of course he was left without a father figure, and Lawrence comes into the picture. Lawrence is about 14 years elder of George, and he comes in and takes young George under his wing, and basically acts as that father figure, the older brother, the mentor that George needs at this time in his life.
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And so that mentorship, I think a lot of people can probably take something from that.
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And I'm really excited for everyone to see this film just because of that and that family aspect.
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You know, George was so young and dealing with so many things.
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What were some of the biggest lessons you feel your character gave George in those moments?
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Well, so George, young George, was destined to become a tenant farmer.
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But because of Lawrence, who was serving, he served in His Majesty's Navy.
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He came back to Virginia to lead a regiment of volunteers.
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and he also was kind of this, he was part of the gentry class
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and so George saw in Lawrence someone that he wanted to become like
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and so, but he couldn't, George didn't have all of those kind of
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privileges that Lawrence had, so George had to really struggle and fight for those
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and Lawrence saw it and in this film we kind of tell that story, part of
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the story is where Lawrence was able to teach him how to navigate society
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he was able to teach George how to become a gentleman
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And so all of these kinds of things, all of these attributes, George adopted because of his older brother.
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And for our viewers, if you could summarize this movie in one word, what do you want them to know?
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Entertaining. You heard it here from George's older brother.
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Well, John, thank you so much. And we are so looking forward to watching this.
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Well, you guys heard it there. You know, life is all about the mentorship. Life is all about
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those lessons that you learn, Beau. We've been talking about this all show. And I think George's
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older brother right there just told us exactly what we've been talking about.
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Yeah. And it's so interesting to learn, Benny, about the story of George Washington and how his
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older brothers who kind of came in. And as he said, he was destined pretty much, it sounds like,
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for an agrarian type of future. But when someone encourages you to rise above your station in life,
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when there's someone there that says, you know what, you're bigger than this. You can do better
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than this. You don't have to accept the status quo. We wouldn't even be talking about George
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Washington if it weren't for probably his older brother. George Washington would not be on our
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lips when we're talking about the 250th birthday that we're having right now. And, you know,
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Benny, I've seen the musical Hamilton. And of course, I think that started this kind of nostalgia
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in founding fathers. And they did it in a very, very unique way through hip hop and rap and the
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way that it was presented that Lin-Manuel Miranda, the way he did this. And of course, now I think
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this has just kind of encouraged a whole new nostalgia in our founding fathers. But Benny,
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I just think it's interesting that some of these people, these young boys, so many of them were so
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young that founded our nation, realized there was a destiny. There was a fate. There was something
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larger than them in life that they said, I want to do something better. When really the crown was
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saying, no, you don't. You need to be kept down. This is what you're supposed to do in life. You're
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not going to be there. You're a colony. This will not happen. And as we think about our nation's
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founding, I think young people out there, Benny, especially even me when I was younger, you don't
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think about that. Like I went to Colonial Williamsburg. I saw the people in the garb
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and everything. I was like, this is kind of silly. But if you really put yourself in the position of
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a young George Washington, 21 years old, it opens your mind to a whole new world.
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No, absolutely, Beau. And I, you know, I think that throughout this entire night and all the
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guests we're going to speak to, they're all going to touch on those different subjects. And
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and just how, in general, this touches so many different people.
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We actually have another guest waiting, so come on up here.
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Oh, great. I'm Diana Lucas, and I'm up for my very first Emmy Award.
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Tell us a little bit about putting together a film
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and really what goes into the production of it.
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You have to have one major producer, and he pulls everything together that we put together.
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And things were not, you know, public domain, and you had to get people making charts.
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You know, why are you here tonight and celebrating this incredible company?
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George Washington turned down being nominated for king or prime minister he said come up with it
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they came up with president he was shot 25 times and the American Indian said we're sharpshooters
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I came to see you before I died because I wanted to see the man that great spirit wanted to live
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you know what are you most what are you most excited to see in this film and also you know
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it's the 250th anniversary of america how does that tie into this oh it's the building of an
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entirely new government not just mayflower compact but one man one vote and no nonsense it's just
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it's a miracle it happened thank you so much we're looking forward to just seeing all your
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work and everything you do. Yes. Have a great night. Of course. Well, you heard that though.
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who have you got? Wait, are you talking to me, Bo? Yes, I see you've got another guest. They
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were telling us that you have someone else there to speak to us. Do we have that?
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Not yet, but we will. So just stay tuned right after this break.
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Okay. Sorry about that, Benny. We will take a short break and we will be right back.
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This is the Young Washington Red Carpet Premier, live on Real America's Voice.
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Welcome back to our live coverage of the Young Washington world premiere in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee,
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We've got Benny Ray Harmony on the ground, on the red carpet, in fact,
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and she's got someone with her right now, I believe an actor who's in the film.
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He plays David Friss in the film Young Washington.
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And now he told me David is one of George's good mates.
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So we're going to talk a little bit about that.
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And you had actually mentioned it was a little difficult to film.
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I mean, the film itself, I mean, the story, you know, we see George from when he's a young age.
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And he's just fighting to be recognized, I think.
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and uh he takes the people he cares about the most along with him because they're the people
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he trusts um and so the nature of filming that was that we were thrown into these difficult
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situations but we had an amazing experience like the the group of us that all played friends and
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and uh like we formed a real brotherhood we were out in ireland we came out two weeks early
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we bonded over stunt training and horse riding and then before we knew it we were in the depths
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filming and i know like one of the big things a big takeaway to take from the film is this
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theme of brotherhood the way he george closes the film is by saying that the thing that's worth
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fighting for is his men and we like we created this like metaphysical symbiotic brotherhood
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relationship offset all of us we became really close offset and um it doesn't matter what we
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were going through whilst we were filming it we put all that to one side we had each other's backs
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and so like i want people who watch the film to feel that brotherhood come off the screen but also
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know that like a real relationship was born off it i love that and i think that that's a big you
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know that's a big part of the film too is that family aspect and the mentorship but so you're
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originally from london correct i am yeah yeah yeah so i want to ask you since you know america
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is coming up on its 250th anniversary did you learn anything while you were filming did it
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change your perspective on america at all or the founding of america um or just kind of how you view
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this country in general yeah i mean i i knew very little about the time period before i even uh read
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the script so i learned a lot from reading the script itself and then when i was preparing for
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the role um me and fergal we were playing these brothers who were these it was just described as
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wild men they're just wild men and so i was doing a lot of reading on the period and uh i was actually
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listening to a podcast that was talking about um frontier men like a hundred years later
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and they were described as ungovernable so after that i'll be honest i put the books down and just
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But I already had a deep love and respect for America,
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and the film has sort of made me more patriotic
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it just deepened a love that I already had for the country.
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And then I want to finish with one fun question, okay?
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really developed great relationships throughout this.
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Who in the cast could actually, would be the best in 18th century world, like in that craziness?
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Who out of the people you work with, who could actually do it in the survival?
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I would say Fergal Geraghty maybe stepped immediately out of an 18th century world and turned up in 2026.
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And we're still working out how to put him back into ice to send him back.
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Well, you heard it here, folks, Angus. Thank you so much. We are so looking forward to
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see David in this film and just watch you come alive. So thank you so much.
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Well, you heard that, Bo. This is amazing. One of George Washington's greatest friends.
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And just everything he said, I think it'll touch a lot of people.
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Yeah, and something I took away from that, and I hope that viewers at home would take
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away from it, is this notion of brotherhood. As he said it, Benny, what I thought of, well,
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of course, you know, being a performer and a singer is, and crown thy good with brotherhood
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from sea to shining sea. Those are the words that have been forged in our songs from the American
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Songbook. And something I think that stands out to me right now at this moment in our history,
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Benny, is the fact that we should come together. We do see a sort of camaraderie in terms of our
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250th birthday that I think is unique. You see it certainly when Team USA plays on the soccer field
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because we're not even supposed to be that great. And here we are competing on the world stage.
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I'll admit I've got Team USA Thief. There's no question about it. I've been watching it avidly.
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But I think that when you look at the political environment that we've been in, Benny, of division,
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of racial division, of tension, of things that are completely unnecessary from factors outside
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of our control, and some of them that are designed to divide us, that it's nice to have a story
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that shows us not only the true history of George Washington, but that notion of camaraderie and
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brotherhood, the brotherhood that defines us, that sets us apart from other nations. Because if it
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weren't for that brotherhood, if those gentlemen, those soldiers did not come together and forge
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this pact, there is no United States of America. And I think that we just, we have to think about
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that and reflect upon it because people don't think about it that often, Benny. I think it's
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just a unique part of this story. No, absolutely. And Bo, the other thing I loved that he said is
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it brought him a renowned patriotism for a country that he's not even from. And I think with
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everything happening in America. We've seen the World Cup, you know, we're seeing all these
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foreigners come into America. And when he said that, it almost kind of made me tear up a little
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bit because, you know, America is so beautiful and it has the greatest patriotic people and
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welcoming people. And so for him to feel that through this film by, you know, by being a part
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of playing a character that was so instrumental to American history, I think it gives us a lot
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of hope. And I hope that viewers at home feel that same way. Yeah. And I'll just say this too,
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before we go to break, just a little anecdote is I got the chance to visit Fort McHenry
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in Baltimore. And that's of course where Francis Scott Key wrote star Spangled Banner and having
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sung it so many times, it's like, you forget about the history of it. But when you realize
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that the lyrics of that, what they actually meant, the bombs bursting in air, and then you see the
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flag. And if the flag was still standing, that meant that the U S was still alive. Uh, it, it,
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it really just emboldened me. I mean, it touched my heart. And I think that's what a story like
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a short break and we'll be right back with more of the Young Washington premiere live on the red
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carpet from Nashville, Tennessee. Be right back. This is the Young Washington red carpet premiere
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This is the Young Washington Red Carpet Premiere, live on Real America's Voice.
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Welcome back. Real America's Voice, Bo Davidson here with our live coverage of the Young Washington
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World Premiere in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee. We've got Benny Ray Harmony on
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the ground. Benny, she's been interviewing a lot of the folks that are coming across
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the red carpet right now. And Benny, I know that you have, I believe, an actress joining
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Yes, I do, Beau. I have the beautiful Mia Rogers, who plays Sally, in the film of Young Washington.
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And, I mean, first of all, look at how gorgeous she is. I mean, we need to know, where is the outfit from?
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So, tell us a little bit about your character, and what viewers can expect.
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I play Sally Carey, who is an old childhood friend of George Washington's.
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but they knew each other through George's older brother, Lawrence.
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She was part of one of the most affluent families at the time in Virginia in the 1700s.
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She had a lot of pressure on her shoulders, but she was amazing.
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And so, Young Washington, we've been speaking to a lot of the actors
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and about the lessons that this film has taught them.
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I want to touch on, you're the first woman I've spoken to that's in this film.
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Tell us a little bit about, you know, we live in a very, I would say, a society that is a lot different than 1700 society for women.
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Tell us what it was like embodying that character that was more traditional as compared to in today's society.
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And I think obviously women throughout time have always faced adversity, whether it was in 1700s or the 2026 that we're in now.
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But at the same time, I think there's such a story in this film where it's about Sally and George's relationship from the get go was never going to happen due to that status and need for just like conforming.
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which I think is something that women to this day still have to grapple with.
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And I think for her it was a story about survival.
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She couldn't be with the one that she wanted to be with
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because she had to think about her family and the wider scope around her.
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but she had to conquer her own inner turmoil of sacrifice with her family,
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and I'm very glad that I got to be a part to tell it.
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what is one word you would use to describe this film?
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just as we head into the theater to see this incredible film?
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and I'm so glad that everybody is here to celebrate,
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It's my first time tonight, so I'm feeling really excited.
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Well, Beau, I mean, how about her energy and just her spirit in general?
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And I think that as you've talked to each of the actors and actresses and the writers
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and some of the producers who've made this film possible,
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some of the themes that just, you know, keep standing out to me are adversity, brotherhood,
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resilience, rising above your station, defying odds, learning how to fail so many times.
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and then you finally find success at the end of it.
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that he had to defy to become the president that he became,
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But this story is the story of George Washington
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when he was in his 20s, which I think is so interesting.
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but you've got William Franklin Miller, Ben Kingsley,
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Kelsey Grammer, Mary Louise Parker, Andy Serkis,
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a really star-studded cast. And we just want to also acknowledge our good friends at Angel because
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they've done such a great job of putting this film together, of bringing stories, Benny, that
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amplify light. So I know we've only got about a minute and 30 seconds left, but just give us
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kind of a final wrap-up of what you're seeing there at the young Washington red carpet. And I
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hope you get to see the film if you get to stay around for it. But I think it's going to be a
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film that's going to really explode and do some amazing things for patriotism in this country.
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no absolutely bow and i think the biggest thing that we're seeing is just the patriotism you know
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they they had the dancers play american soldier and they were dancing to it and and being in
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nashville tennessee you've been here many times you you know there's this feeling of of god country
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and family and i think that that also is really tapped into this room tonight and you know i look
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up at the walls and there's american flags everywhere and so i think we just going forward
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I think hearing from these actors about what this film meant to them, I hope it encourages and brings hope to the younger generation,
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just to all those generations that are watching it, that you can love this country and that adverse, adverse, I can't get that word right right now, Beau.
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But obstacles, challenges, it all happens for a reason, just like George Washington had.
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Just keep going and, you know, have hope and it'll happen.
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you know, I think we all have to overcome obstacles
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