WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.300 My name is John David Washington and this is the first time. 00:00:11.700 --> 00:00:15.900 The first time I was Starstruck is when I'm at Morgan Freeman 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:21.400 because I had watched the movie Glory mm X Plus and I had every 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:24.800 line memorize a new every character all the backstories 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.100 under the war sequences. I 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:26.600 knew everything. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:30.400 Long time I'm digging. 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:32.900 I'm asking myself when we're no longer going to be our time 00:00:32.900 --> 00:00:34.800 the way he was in that movie. 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:41.800 He just energy to him and characteristics and when I got to meet 00:00:41.800 --> 00:00:43.300 him finally I just lost it. 00:00:43.300 --> 00:00:46.100 You know, I wanted them to say is lies asking for an autograph. 00:00:46.100 --> 00:00:48.100 I didn't get the autograph though. 00:00:51.500 --> 00:00:57.100 Those crazy actually it was a pilot for Ballers aired when I was 00:00:57.100 --> 00:01:00.500 in New York with some friends and then we went out and there was 00:01:00.500 --> 00:01:03.200 a there's a gentleman that said you're despicable. 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:04.200 I love it. 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.400 So I guess you know being despicable is is a positive in the 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:14.600 community. I guess I did my job. 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:23.000 So I was the first time that depends are plenty of touchdowns 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.000 in my uncle's backyard, North Carolina. 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.800 I must have been any 5 or 6 years old when I scored a 00:01:27.800 --> 00:01:30.500 touchdown in the backyard with organized team activity. 00:01:30.500 --> 00:01:35.100 The first time I ask you to touch down if it was 13 as 00:01:35.100 --> 00:01:37.700 a fullback dive up the middle and I scored it was it was an 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:39.900 amazing feeling very proud moment for me. 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:54.800 First New York City experienced well real experience. 00:01:54.800 --> 00:01:57.000 I felt like I had because I was with my parents are with my 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.600 siblings. I was with my grandma and my other cousin with from 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:05.200 there and I just remember how how cool it was just to be able 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.700 to walk around the city like that. 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:10.200 I felt a whole day we spent the whole day outside my grandma. 00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:12.400 Let me play a pickup game when we came back to Mount Vernon 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:16.000 and I was doing well that she need to say let's go hurry up 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.000 getting a house or apartments time to go and I'll have one of 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:20.400 the great games to us having a moment, 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.600 but that's a very fine. 00:02:22.600 --> 00:02:26.100 That's why I consider that my first but I mean I was there 00:02:26.100 --> 00:02:29.600 the first time I don't remember I was a baby and then I had 00:02:29.600 --> 00:02:34.100 other times a fragmented In My Memory like my my father walking 00:02:34.100 --> 00:02:37.600 us around Central Park while he resided lines from Richard 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:40.400 the third the first time I saw him on stage next. 00:02:41.100 --> 00:02:47.600 Leah fell in love with acting when I saw him do that the first 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:51.000 time I stepped on a movie set that I can remember was the movie 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.000 Glory we were with the final battle scene and I'll sit with 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:54.600 my mom. I guess. 00:02:54.600 --> 00:02:58.500 We're really a video Village and I see my father coming up out 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:02.400 of the flames and ashes in the night and is blue union suit 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:06.100 looking very heroic and he looks at me and he says you want 00:03:06.100 --> 00:03:09.700 to come down you want to see it and I was got was Kitty. 00:03:09.700 --> 00:03:12.400 I was very excited and I turned to my mother and I and I have 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:14.600 to can I go can I go she said no, 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:15.400 she shut me down. 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:17.000 That's why I will never forget that. 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:24.800 I'm upset my dreams Dental first time. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:29.400 I read the tenant script coming off a a wild Buzz of an excitement 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.800 of knowing that I got the job remember going to their office 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:35.000 Christopher Nolan's office. 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:39.400 I saw all these lights Interstellar posters and and Batman 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:40.800 figures. 00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:43.000 Was like I was in his later. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:44.500 It felt like it was it was amazing. 00:03:44.500 --> 00:03:47.900 I was like I felt like I was behind the curtain of Oz and 00:03:47.900 --> 00:03:51.800 I pulled out my iPad play some classical music and I read for 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:53.200 about four and a half hours. 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:55.600 I kept turning the pages back and forth. 00:03:55.600 --> 00:03:58.400 I couldn't understand how he's going to pull this off and I want to 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.400 make sure I understood what I was reading. 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:05.500 I did not my life. 00:04:05.500 --> 00:04:07.500 This is just in that moment reading a Christopher Nolan. 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:11.500 Skip it was a hero of mine and knowing that I was going to 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:12.000 be part of it.