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The Weeknd Was Convinced He'd Have A Career Doing This Instead Of Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. One of the trademarks
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Speaker 1: of any great song by the Weekend is it's cinematic quality.
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Speaker 1: His lyrics often paint a grim but crystal clear story
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Speaker 1: right and sonically, he's deeply inspired by the scent heavy
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Speaker 1: film scores of the eighties, so it should come as
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Speaker 1: no surprise that before he devoted his life to music,
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Speaker 1: he was convinced he'd forged a career in film. He
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Speaker 1: tells Variety, it was tough growing up where I was from.
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Speaker 1: I got into a lot of trouble, got kicked out
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Speaker 1: of school, and finally just dropped out. I really thought
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Speaker 1: film was going to be my way out, but I
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Speaker 1: couldn't really just make a movie to feel better. It
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Speaker 1: was out of reach. Music was very direct therapy. It
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Speaker 1: was immediate, and people liked it. It definitely saved my life.
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Speaker 1: His latest best selling album, twenty twenty After Hours out
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Speaker 1: Now that's Direct from Hollywood.