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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: David Jonsson Explains Why Fear Made Him Sign on to Star in The Long Walk · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: After David Johnson's new movie, The Long Walk is intended
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  Speaker 2: to upset its audience. It's based on a Stephen King book,
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  Speaker 2: after all, and it certainly succeeds at time.
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  Speaker 3: But the reason David signed on wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Because the experience frightened movie goers as much as himself.
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  Speaker 2: He tells interview, the moment I know I want to
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  Speaker 2: make something is when it kind of scares me. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't quite know what to make of this role. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: is this a horror?
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  Speaker 3: A character study? Where are we going with this?
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  Speaker 2: That's quite similar again to my other movie Alien Romulus.
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  Speaker 2: I went on record saying alien is alien. You can
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  Speaker 2: only make an alien movie. Then we were like, to
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  Speaker 2: heck with that. We want to make a family drama.
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  Speaker 2: David Johnson there, whose new movie, The Long Walk is
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  Speaker 2: now playing.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.