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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Spike Lee Cast A$AP Rocky in His New Movie Because of an Instagram Meme · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, a stroke oft casting
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  Speaker 1: genius and a TV or A film where the perfect
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  Speaker 1: actor's cast in a role that fits him like a
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  Speaker 1: glove typically comes down to a savvy casting director or
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  Speaker 1: a visionary filmmaker.
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  Speaker 2: But Spike Lee's decision to cast acep Rocky opposite Denzel
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  Speaker 2: Washington in his new movies all thanks to a meme.
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  Speaker 2: The film, called Highest and Lowis is about a kidnapping,
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  Speaker 2: and a pivotal part of the story involves mistaking an identity,
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  Speaker 2: which is why the two characters played by Denzel and
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  Speaker 2: Asap and had to look similar. Spike tell's the seven
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  Speaker 2: PM in Brooklyn podcast, I was on Instagram four or
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  Speaker 2: five years ago and I saw meme was suggesting acep
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  Speaker 2: Rocky looks like Denzel's son. So I remembered that for
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  Speaker 2: the film, and Spike ended up having zero regrets casting
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  Speaker 2: a musician opposite an Academy Award winner, adding there are
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  Speaker 2: so many scenes with Denzel and Asap head to head,
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  Speaker 2: and Asap does not back down, like he's letting everybody
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  Speaker 2: know he can hold his own Highest and Lowest baby
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  Speaker 2: at the can Film Festival May nineteenth, that's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood,