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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How 9 Perfect Strangers’ Murray Bartlett Discovered His Love of Acting by Getting His Teeth Knocked Out · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Most stars have fond memories of how they first discovered
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  Speaker 2: their love of acting, but Murray Bartlett's memory is actually
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  Speaker 2: a painful one, literally getting his teeth knocked out. Murray,
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  Speaker 2: best known for playing the doomed resort manager Armin on
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  Speaker 2: Season one of White Lotus and most recently, the puppeteer
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  Speaker 2: on nine Perfect Strangers, was about four years old when
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  Speaker 2: his not much older brother tried to kill a spider
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  Speaker 2: with a hammer and accidentally knocked out Murray's two front
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  Speaker 2: teeth instead. Then, only weeks later, Murray tripped and knocked
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  Speaker 2: the bottom two out all by himself, which gave him
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  Speaker 2: a gaping hole in his teeth, and in turn, he
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  Speaker 2: developed a bad lisp, and the list persisted even when
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  Speaker 2: eventually it grew his adult teeth. So his mom sent
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  Speaker 2: him to a speech therapist, and that's where the magic happened,
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  Speaker 2: he tells movie maker. She had me learning monologues and poems.
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  Speaker 1: I just absolutely loved it.
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  Speaker 2: So I kept working with her for years doing speech
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  Speaker 2: and drama things, and it felt like my thing. So
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  Speaker 2: I went to a high school with a great theater
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  Speaker 2: program and auditioned for an acting school and eventually moved
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  Speaker 2: to New York to pursue professionally. That's Murray Bartlett, who
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  Speaker 2: adds there are plenty of anxious moments wondering if he'd
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  Speaker 2: made the right decision, but eventually it all worked out.
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  Speaker 2: Nine Perfect Strangers. He's in it. It's on Hulu
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.