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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Gaten Matarazzo Handled the Pressure of Choosing His Next Project After Stranger Things · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When you're a young actor coming off an absolute juggernaut
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  Speaker 2: like Stranger Things, choosing your next role, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be pretty daunting.
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  Speaker 3: I can only imagine. I mean, there's this pressure to
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  Speaker 3: live up to Stranger Things, which is impossible because of
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  Speaker 3: just how big it was. But it sounds like Gayton Monazzo,
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  Speaker 3: who played Dustin, had the right approach.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. He told the Hollywood Reporter that he knew that
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  Speaker 4: there would be this expectation to make a statement about
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  Speaker 4: his career, and that he's the kind of person who
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  Speaker 4: can let that kind of noise influence him.
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  Speaker 2: So what he did was he made a conscious effort
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  Speaker 2: to not let that happen. He decided his biggest concern
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  Speaker 2: and priority after leaving Stranger Things was to enjoy himself.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted to make engaging, challenging new projects, which led
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  Speaker 3: him to his movie Pizza Party. He read that script
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  Speaker 3: and was instantly obsessed with the audacity of it, so
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  Speaker 3: he signed on.
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  Speaker 2: He said he had a blast making it and mostly
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  Speaker 2: went along for the ride, but he did have one note.
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  Speaker 2: The art department was hiding too many Stranger Things Easter
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  Speaker 2: eggs in the background, he was like, guys, maybe easy
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  Speaker 2: off those of it. Pizza movie, that's what it's called
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  Speaker 2: on Hulu.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.