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Why Nick Robinson Is Playing A High Schooler Again After Proclaiming On Ellen He Never Would Again · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Quite a few actors
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Speaker 1: spent a chunk of time playing high school kids a
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Speaker 1: few years past their actual graduation, but Nick Robinson has
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Speaker 1: been doing it for over a decade now, going back
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Speaker 1: to when he was that age on the sitcom Melissa
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Speaker 1: and Joey, to his critically acclaimed role as the title
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Speaker 1: character and loves Simon Backeen. When he told Ellen de
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Speaker 1: Generes he was officially done playing high school kids, well,
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Speaker 1: never say never, because Nick's new mini series A Teacher
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Speaker 1: sees him once again in secondary school, even though he's
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Speaker 1: twenty five. Thing is the script, which is too good
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Speaker 1: to pass on. He jokes too in style. I hope
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Speaker 1: that no one would watch that Ellen interview where I
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Speaker 1: said I would never play high school again. I had
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Speaker 1: made that ultimatum, and then I read the scripts for
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Speaker 1: the series, and I met with creators and my co
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Speaker 1: star Cape Mara, and I decided, Okay, let's do one more.
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Speaker 1: A Teacher is streaming now on Hulu that's direct from Hollywood.