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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Danny McBride Scored This Celeb Cameo · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. If you're a fan
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  Speaker 1: of the Righteous Gemstones, consider this a casting spoiler warning
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  Speaker 1: for anybody who hasn't seen the premierre We good, You're ready.
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  Speaker 1: So the first episode of the new season surprise viewers
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  Speaker 1: for a number of reasons. It starts way back in
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  Speaker 1: time eighteen sixty two and with a very famous face,
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  Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper, who managed the star in the standalone episode.
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  Speaker 1: Without word getting out, there was pretty big Cooper creator
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  Speaker 1: Danny McBride to land the five time Oscar nominee, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody might have been more shocked by it than Danny himself.
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  Speaker 1: He explained to the crowd at a screening. He and
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  Speaker 1: his team were worried that it might be tough to
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  Speaker 1: engage fans of the ensemble show and a story feature
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  Speaker 1: in none of its cast, unless they had the right actor.
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  Speaker 1: Danny says, it needed to be somebody that has real
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  Speaker 1: charisma and charmed to pull off this turn with this character,
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  Speaker 1: someone that the audience won't mind going on this journey with.
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  Speaker 1: Then somebody that can hold the entire thing on their
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  Speaker 1: own shoulders. And I think I just flippantly said, somebody
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  Speaker 1: like Bradley Cooper, so we just asked Bradley Cooper. To
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  Speaker 1: their surprise, Bradley said yes and didn't catch a single
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  Speaker 1: episode of the show beforehand so as not to influence
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  Speaker 1: his performance. The new season of The Righteous Gemstones, it's
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  Speaker 1: on HBO, streaming on Max that's direct from Hollywood.