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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Is Obsession Director Curry Barker Regretting Casting Himself in His Next Movie Anything But Ghosts? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: It's not every day, or even every decade, that a
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  Speaker 2: movie shot for eight hundred thousand dollars becomes a three
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  Speaker 2: hundred million dollars in counting juggernaut in the box office.
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  Speaker 2: That's good math, but director Curry Barker's Obsession did just that.
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  Speaker 2: Because of it, it's drastically changed the expectations of his
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  Speaker 2: next movie, Anything But Ghosts, which he's already shot and.
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  Speaker 3: He stars in, a choice he obviously made having zero
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  Speaker 3: idea he'd be the hottest director in town when it
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  Speaker 3: hits theaters, putting a whole different pressure on him. But
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  Speaker 3: he still has zero regrets about his self casting decision.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: None.
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  Speaker 1: He tells the Hollywood Reporter that it's because he was
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  Speaker 1: always meant to play the character, a selfish con artist
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't realize how rudy sounds when he's saying stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But there's growth that he related to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Curry's like, my acting, I'm not worried about.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, being an actor was his first dream. But
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  Speaker 2: having Anything but ghost to get compared to his first
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  Speaker 2: movie Obsession aka this Summer's biggest sleeper hit, might end
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  Speaker 2: up keeping him up at night. It is now playing
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it. That's direct from Hollywood.