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MGK Explains Why His New Movie 'Taurus' Is His Acting Pinnacle · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Machine Gun. Kelly has
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Speaker 1: managed to balance his acting and music careers fluidly, seeing
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Speaker 1: both grow and evolve over the years, and with his
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Speaker 1: latest movie, Tourists, he takes it to another level. Not
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Speaker 1: only does he star in it and executive produce it,
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Speaker 1: he also had a hand in writing its script and score.
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Speaker 1: It's even loosely inspired by his own experiences, which is
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Speaker 1: why he acknowledges to The Hollywood Reporter this project maybe
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Speaker 1: has creative peak cinematically to date, saying I've waited my
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Speaker 1: whole life to be able to really act, to actually
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Speaker 1: be given a chance to act. This film is special
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Speaker 1: beyond it just being that it was my film. If
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Speaker 1: somebody else made it and I watched it, I would
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Speaker 1: be very happy that we had one of these stories
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Speaker 1: for our generation. It's the last week that the musicians alive.
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Speaker 1: I live feeling like I've never been stable. I've watched
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Speaker 1: a lot of my friends not make it through the
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Speaker 1: other side. This movie is just a real look of
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Speaker 1: what life does to you. Taurus November eighteen's Direct from
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Speaker 1: Hollywood