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Episode 2023rd November 2023 • Film Center News • Derek Johnson II and Nicholas Killian
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This is Film Center, your number one show for real entertainment industry news.

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No fluff, all facts.

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Now, here are your anchors, Derrick Johnson II and Nicholas Killian.

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Film Center, my name is Derrick Johnson II.

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I'm Nicholas Killian.

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And today, Nicholas, I do know what we're talking about.

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What are we talking about today?

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So today, um.

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We have realized in that further request of our fans that uh, uh,

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people want to know a little bit more about us And so this is gonna be the

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first there's only two of us, right?

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So this will be the first one first out of two Um, and today we're gonna

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be talking about you nicholas Okay.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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How you been?

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I'm all right.

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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So, Nicholas, um, how would you define, how do you want to define yourself

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to the audience outside of being an executive producer, ventilator, and

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producer, and all this other stuff?

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Um, I don't know.

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I'm just, I'm just myself.

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That's.

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That's all I am.

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You're, okay, well, what would you say that you, you do, why would you, in your

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industry, how would you define yourself?

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Oh, um, so I do what's called ventilation.

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Um, I...

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Do you define yourself as an executive producer and a ventilator?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I would, I would, I would classify myself that.

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So, uh, granted that, well, let's back up a little bit.

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Um, so how long have you been in Los Angeles?

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And tell everyone where you're from, where you're from and all that good stuff.

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I'm from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Oh, you're not.

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And, yeah, I am.

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No, aren't you from the outskirts of Baton Rouge?

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Go ahead, shout it out.

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I'm from Prairieville, Louisiana.

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Yeah, there it is.

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So, nobody knows where that is.

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No one knows where that is.

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But, um, and I moved out here when, let's see, I was like 21.

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So, it was February of...

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2013.

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So you originally moved out here.

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Um, uh, what did you come out here to do?

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I originally came out here to do what everybody else

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does, which is to be an actor.

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To be an actor, acting.

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Yeah, a lot of people come to Los Angeles for acting.

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What was the, um, you also did theater prior to that, right?

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Yeah, so what I did was, is I was doing theater prior to it.

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Um, I went to a casting event, met a producer, not a producer,

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I met an acting coach out there.

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And then what ended up happening is he said he had a boot camp in Los Angeles.

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So I came to Los Angeles to do the boot camp and from the boot

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camp, they partnered us up to, you know, live together somewhere.

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And then we went to theater school.

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And the theater school was different than the boot camp.

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Yes, yes, and you do that afterward after you came to Los Angeles because

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there's um, because a lot of people that listening So once again, this is

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the one or two about us We very we will not do be doing these type of episodes

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again, right those who want to hear our regularly scheduled programs Don't worry.

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You'll be back very soon, but Once again, it's you guys who asked it to

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know a little bit more about us, right?

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Exactly, and I do and who are we to deprive the fans?

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We should be interviewing especially since the interviews have been

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really popular and so people seem to be liking a lot more, right?

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And for those of you like the numbers we will be getting back to those number heavy

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episodes Um, so, but a lot of people want to move out to Los Angeles and become an

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actor or actress and things like that.

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What was your, based off of your experience, uh, because you're, you're

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not from some sort of rich background where, and you're not from some

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sort of like California background.

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You're from the South, just guy with a dream, moving out to Los Angeles.

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What's one of the, if someone else is listening and that's like what they want

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to do, just drop everything and move.

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Is there anything that might.

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Do you have some suggestions?

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Should they drive if they're close enough?

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Should they fly?

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Is it, you know, did you find someone to live prior to coming out here?

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One of, one of the suggestions that I would give is Once a, we, the bootcamp

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was over with, we went back to, we went back to our respective hometowns

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and places and stuff like that, and kept in contact, um, and figured

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out where we were going to live.

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So what I would recommend people doing is figure out where you're

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going to live before you come here.

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Before you come to California.

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And do not live in Hollywood.

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Like, like, I know that's what everybody.

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So.

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Don't live in Hollywood.

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Just what what for what?

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Uh, because it's gonna be way too expensive.

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You're not gonna like it.

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The Shine's going to erode very quickly.

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The Hall of Fame everyone knows who lives here.

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It's not awesome.

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It's covered in Yeah, it's like it's the Bourbon Street of Los Angeles.

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Yeah, exactly.

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I would totally agree with that and Yeah, I mean what I would recommend is that they

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you know Go live in like, I don't know, like Chatsworth or live in the valley.

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The valley is close, but not exactly Hollywood.

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Yeah.

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So, um, and I mean, I think a lot of it just comes down to, you

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know, right place, right time.

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I know that sounds so, which is you, you moved in with roommates.

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I moved in with one roommate.

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Did you know them prior to living there?

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Um, we went to the bootcamp together.

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Oh, okay, so it was kind of like a little introduction.

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Right.

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Um, you...

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And then they paired us up at like the end of the bootcamp.

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With a different person?

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Uh, with the person that, you know, we kind of chose together.

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They like, oh, you guy and you guy.

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You guys.

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Yeah.

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What was the name of this bootcamp?

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Um, it was just the, the guy's name, um.

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Would you recommend, so I would, would you recommend, would you

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recommend the, what was the name of the theater school that you went to?

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Um, LACC Theater Academy.

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LACC Theater Academy.

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Yeah.

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Where, uh, is that directly in Hollywood?

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I don't think so.

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Uh, it's like Santa Monica and something.

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Um.

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Oh, so it's Santa Monica.

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It shares, is it Santa Monica?

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I don't remember, but anyway, it is, um, on the campus of the LACC,

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the local community college, Los Angeles City College, shares a

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campus with the theater conservatory.

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So, uh, I mean, how was your experience, uh, doing that theater?

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Would you say the theater school was better than the personal bootcamp?

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Uh, well, the personal bootcamp was just kind of like a money making thing.

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Like there was some value to it, but I mean, it's.

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Would you say that?

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I mean, I haven't answered this too, but would you, would you, Nicholas,

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as someone who actually went through that, say that, you know, bootcamps

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are not as worth it as, no, not at all.

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Yeah, because I see a lot of people come to Los Angeles like, Oh,

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I'm part of an acting bootcamp.

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And to be fair, that's like a very common story.

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They get sucked into this acting bootcamp with some actor guy from like

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the seventies who did one commercial.

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And then because of that one commercial, they have some giant.

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Yeah.

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They claim they have a new agent or a new manager, new man, new agent,

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new manager, you know, like they, they have, no, don't get me wrong.

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Some of it was valuable, but most of it was, uh, most of it was kind of BS

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and, uh, we would like do monologues and, um, one of the things that I

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didn't understand was like, um, there was a lot of like kissing scenes.

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For that or there was a kissing scene for each person like huh, for

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example, like wait, what do you wait?

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I'm sorry.

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What?

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Yes, so the guy we would have different types of we would like It could be a

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guy that's like 16 and then there's a guy that's like, you know, 21 22

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or something like that and yeah As we progressed into the boot camp, um,

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you'd have, like, a kissing scene.

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Oh, everyone has, like, one.

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It's not, like, a regular occurrence.

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Right.

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Everybody Oh, I thought you meant, like, it was a like, he was regularly

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making you guys, like, kiss each other.

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I was about to be like, Nicholas, what are you saying on this podcast?

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No, it sounds like a cult, man.

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Yeah, it sounds but no, okay, one kissing scene to, like, practice the okay.

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Yeah, right.

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And, um, I thought it was really funny because some of the guys would be like

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yeah, that you spent all day kissing chicks, and you were like, what?

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There's also, would you, would you also say this is the type

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of person that usually signs up for the acting boot camps?

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Comparative to, cause you went to an actual theater school.

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Yeah.

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Well, the, the, the bootcamp was the feeder into the theater school.

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Well, uh, so it was like the prerequisite?

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No, it was just a guy who would sit, set up, I don't know how he set it up

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for himself, but like he would, I'm sure he'd get like kickbacks from the, from

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the theater school for, for a suggestion that that's first because, um, the way

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that real life affiliate marketing.

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Right.

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So the way that it works is in any state, it's not just Los Angeles.

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Um, when you go to this conservatory, this theater school, um, the first year

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is like you're out of state, right?

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Yeah.

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And out state's, like five grand.

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Okay.

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That's the, yeah, that's a lot.

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And, um, so, and then it.

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It takes like, I don't know, like a year until you're no longer a resident.

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Yeah.

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And the, the school itself I thought was pretty good.

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Then you said they kicked you out because of the Yeah, I got kicked out.

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Well, technically, it's not like, well you didn't do anything negative in the story.

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No, I didn't do anything negative.

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So why don't you enlighten, because you know, there's a lot of people who want to

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come out here and be actors and actresses.

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Alright, so why don't you enlighten them on some of, not, I don't want to

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say, to say darker is not true, right?

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The politics?

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The politics.

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Politics and some of the, cause we, uh, we always suggest off of the podcasts and

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there's certain things we can't talk about because of NDAs and there's certain things

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that we, you know, talk about Hollywood politics, talk about how to play the game,

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you know, saying, cause in, in Hollywood, I'm sure everyone out there has heard

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different things where it's, it's who, you know, or it's how much money you have.

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It's actually.

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But you can know tons of people and not be able to get something made and have

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all the money in the world and then Steal fit, uh still fail right because there's

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an element of luck to it as well, right?

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It's a really big element of luck.

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So we you know in the effort of transparency What's

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kind of happened to us?

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I want to kind of make sure that you know, we provide to you guys

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Our own personal experiences.

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So they don't happen to you.

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So you want to talk a little bit about why they, they kicked you out?

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So, um, one of the reasons, one of the things that I'll, I think.

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At least, in my particular case, when I went to this theater

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school, is you would have to...

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You do, like, first of all, you'd have to audition to get in.

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Right, of course.

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Because that's very typical and standard.

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But then, you would have to...

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You would have to have these conversations personally, one on ones, to see if

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you got asked back the next semester.

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Okay.

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Um, and...

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So you would audition to get in...

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Audition to stay.

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Audition to stay.

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Um, and...

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But also, ultimately what it was is it was, I thought it was like a money

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deal, because you'd have out of country people were paying in 2013, I think

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they were paying like 10, 11 grand a year, because you were out of country.

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And out of state were 5k.

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Out of state was like 5k.

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How many people in state did you really see being there?

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Um, well you saw, you saw a good number of in state, it

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was mostly out of state though.

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That's what I'm saying, it's mostly, it was like that when I was, I'm sorry.

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It was mostly out of state though, right?

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Yeah, it was mostly out of state because, you know, after a year...

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The tuition then drops down to like nine hundred dollars or something like that.

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So then Because in state is not as valuable.

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They need to make room for the out of staters, right?

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So what ended up happening was like yourself because you

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were you were out of state.

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Yeah, I was out of state Well, sorry, you had just become in state Yes, so You know

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a year in which is two semesters a year in You have your first, um, conference

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and they, they are like, oh, this is what we think, blah, blah, blah, right?

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Then the second one, they told me that, um, that they didn't see a future.

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And you know, all that typical stuff that, um...

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Oh, yeah, it's not fitting.

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Right.

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I think you would do better at UCLA or USC.

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Which are better schools, so.

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But I didn't want any of the extra classes.

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I didn't care about biology, I didn't care about English, you know.

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Um, so that's why I came here, and I was, I was kind of really upset about that,

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because whenever, because you have to get signed up, and then you come back,

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uh, and I had told my friends, because, uh, at this theater conservatory, you

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were spending pretty much 24 7 there.

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Right.

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You, you would get there at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning,

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and you wouldn't leave until...

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But they didn't keep all of you who had...

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Really good talent, you know saying once you were at once you

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were in state they were like, okay Well, do we really like you right?

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Do we really like you because we liked you better when you gave us 5k A semester,

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but now that you're only giving us 900.

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It seems like it's not a good fit So maybe you might need to leave

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and then next thing, you know another outer staters Exactly.

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That's, that's what I felt it was.

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And not with that school specifically, but schools in that area and like,

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and just around Southern California in general that are theater or acting based.

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I hear that's a, that's a, that's a really big problem.

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Yeah, so, um, when I went to go tell my friends that, hey, you know, I wasn't

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asked back, they were like, oh, that's a good joke, like, blah, blah, blah.

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Mind you, I'd already been cast in a lot of all the one acts that were coming up.

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So, like, you would've had to be there.

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Right, so I was like, oh, well.

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And, uh, no, I told them, I was like, no, for real, I, I got kicked out.

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Like, they, they didn't ask me back, they didn't want me.

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Whatever you want to call it.

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Whatever you want to say, yeah.

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Um, ended up doing really well for me cause I went and, uh, I went and

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acted in, you know, student films and, You also did a web series.

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Web series, yeah.

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How was, how was, how did that come about?

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Um, the web series came about because, um, there was this, um, there was this

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place that you could go audition at.

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Um, I can't remember the place right now, but it was the only place

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where you could see, it was the place you went for like the student

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films and the ultra low budgets.

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And, you signed up with a website there, and...

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Was it Actors Access or something?

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Uh, it wasn't Actors Access, it was...

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Was it Casting?

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C A Z T.

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C A Z T.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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If you remember that, um, you could create a website, uh, a profile on

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there, and their big thing was is they would store your auditions for

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you, but they would also let the...

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Casting director and director leave notes on that particular.

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Which I'm sure is very helpful for actors getting notes from directors.

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Yeah, so, um, I was submitting on there and got the, um, it

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was called about us web series.

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So I got the breakdown and the character.

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What made you really want to do this one compared to the other ones?

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It was the only offer.

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It was the only, it was the only fish that bit.

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It's like that sometimes.

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Um, and so I got there and I'd seen the cast break down.

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And I was sitting there, had the audition.

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The guy in front of me, I thought, was doing all this loud, obnoxious,

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you know, bunch of stuff.

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Too much?

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And I was like, man, they must have changed the breakdown

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because it says deadpan character.

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This is not at all deadpan.

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Not if you're yelling and being emotional.

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So I went to go sit down and I said, hey, excuse me, did you, did

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the character breakdown change?

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Because I heard the last guy and he was really loud and boisterous.

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And the way you guys have the breakdown is deadpan monotone.

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They're like, Oh no, you know, you got it.

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He was just an idiot.

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Like we don't know what he was doing.

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So, um, I did the audition and they really liked it and, you know, got cast.

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How long did, how many seasons did you do?

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Oh, we did two seasons.

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Um, how many episodes were in each one?

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Cause it was on IMDb actually.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think it was, uh, 10 episodes, maybe.

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Maybe seven to ten.

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So, is there anything about being in a series that people

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might want to know about?

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Um, well I was more, yeah, a series.

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It's um, I mean it's Cause there's a lot, like, there's a lot of

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scripts to memorize, right?

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Yeah, uh, my thing was is that I, is they didn't know how

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much they wanted me in there.

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Really?

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So, like, cause I was technically guest starring.

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But you were, but you ended up being like a fan favorite, right?

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Yeah, I ended up, I ended up being a fan favorite, um, to the jealousy of

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some of the other regular cast mates But yeah, so he had he kind of had

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trouble fine, you know securing financing for the first season Yeah, we got it.

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He got it done.

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We we shot the first season and the second season.

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I remember I'd made a I made a joke to the creator and was like, Oh,

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you know, everybody else is getting romances, you know, uh, Well, I get one.

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Why don't I, you know, what's, you gonna leave, you gonna

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leave him out in the cold?

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And he was like, uh, actually, I think he's gonna, I think

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I'm gonna write him gay.

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And I was like And the character was not originally written that way.

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He was not originally written that way.

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And so he kinda just shoehorned that in there.

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Just for no reason.

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I I He shoehorned it in there and I was just like Because I was happy to be in

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the show, I really didn't say anything about it, and then whenever it came

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out, that, um, you know, he was, that's the way he was, which I don't have a

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problem with, but I wasn't talked about.

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Right.

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And also, he wasn't like a character made.

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That was already homosexual to begin with, right?

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So it's part of his character.

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It's kind of like probably doing it for marketing purposes Oh, he's he's

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this person's a homosexual now because whenever I tried to call him about it be

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like, hey, man like, you know, like I I don't have a problem with this but like

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also I have a problem with this because It wasn't like this before this was not

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how the character was written, right?

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And it seems kind of fake Right, right And, uh, he wouldn't take my call, though.

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Like, I, he wouldn't take my call.

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The next time I saw him was at the season two premiere.

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Um, and my, uh, girlfriend at the time, we went around the room,

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like, introducing ourselves.

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And my girlfriend at the time was, one of her things that she liked to

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do was, um, or she did, was, she was like, I'm Nicholas's girlfriend and

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I can't wait to meet his boyfriend.

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No, that's what you say.

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That's a really good line.

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And, um, so, uh, and the DP on the shoot was, um, upset with me.

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Uh.

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With the season 2 premiere because he thought I had a

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problem with, with gay guys.

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Or with, you know, people that were gay.

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And I was like, I mean, if I was, if I really had a problem,

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why would I be in entertainment?

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Right, exactly.

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Not only that.

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The character wasn't originally written that way.

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This is this is just a fake marketing ploy, which is really more insulting

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Right and I I talk to other people and be like, hey, am I homophobic for this?

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Like am I sometimes you gotta check yourself.

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Sometimes you gotta say.

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Oh, am I a problem?

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Right.

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And, um, I didn't think the character was original.

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And whenever I asked him, Hey, what he was like, Oh, well, it was last

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season that, that it was obvious.

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I was like, how I'm the actor.

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Like, I was like, I'm just genuinely curious.

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And he was like, well, the guy you're at the end of the season,

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the, at the end of the episode seven episode, you were sitting with a guy.

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And I was like, that doesn't constitute.

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I, I don't, you walked in with a guy and you sat down with him.

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I was like, um, I don't, I don't really think this is.

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Yeah, that's kind of, that's kind of right.

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How long were they each episode?

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Um, maybe like 10, 15 minutes.

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So...

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It was released on YouTube.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And then, uh, how did you get into ventilating?

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Um, the way I got into ventilating was the, what is ventilating

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for those who don't know?

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So ventilating.

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Our ventilation work, or tying hair, is basically making facial hair

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pieces, or wig fronts, or stuff like that, and what you do is you take

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this hook and you put it in a hole and you tie the hair around that hole.

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Strand by strand, piece by piece.

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Strand by strand.

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So each hair is actually put in individually.

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Right.

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Which can take, uh, some time.

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Yeah, it can take a good amount of time.

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Well, I had to leave.

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And about 2000, beginning of 2016, I had to leave Los Angeles

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because I was in so much debt.

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Right.

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I was like 50 grand in debt or something like that.

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My parents were like, hey, you gotta like, what are you gonna do?

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Like, right.

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Um, so I originally moved back and worked in construction for a couple of years.

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And then I moved.

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Back out here in 2019, back to his place.

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Uh, 'cause he was my, uh, makeup artist, teacher in theater school.

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You say his, uh, your, your, your current, so your current mentor in violating

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right's, what you're talking about.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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And so I don't even know if you're allowed to say his name.

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Are, are you, ah, I don't know.

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This'll done, let's not, um, but, but anyway, once again, this is one of those

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NDA things that, cause he's working on a certain project right now, but right,

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so nevermind, this is a continue the, um, I was living at his house, right?

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Right?

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Cause that's where I was living towards the end of it.

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Um, and I came back to live with him again.

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And he said, Hey, would you like to learn how to do this facial hair stuff?

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And I was like, Yeah, sure.

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Why not?

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He's like, this is a trade that you could actually learn.

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So, over the past couple of years, I've been learning how to do it.

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So, like, um, we did work with, uh, I remember you did

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the, uh, the Grinch costume.

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Yeah, we did the Grinch stuff.

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So, the most recent Grinch costume that you guys will see.

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It's, it's, uh, this is 2023, uh, November.

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I think today is, yeah, it's November 20th.

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So, the newer Grinch suit that came out, like, earlier this year.

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Yeah, that's, that's we, um, I did, um, the facial hair piece at the

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top with, uh, with my, uh, mentor.

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And then we did, uh, then we did J.

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K.

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Simmons beard.

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Yeah, on his most recent project.

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Um, and then, um...

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We've got some, uh, another Disney project that I'm working on right now.

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Yeah, actually a pretty big Disney project, but once again, NDAs, so,

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but yeah, so do you have any advice for people who like, so you might

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think that's, that's, that's, there's not a lot of ventilators, just like

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what, like 10 ventilators all in, in all of Los Angeles for the most part.

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Probably, yeah.

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This is not really a, uh, something that's like, oh, that's what I want to do.

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Right.

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Yeah, no.

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Do you think people even know that that even happens?

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Because I guess they think all of them are done by machines.

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For example, for someone out there who doesn't know, why would they choose you

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to put in a strand of hair piece by piece?

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Is they just making the machine that does the wigs do it?

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Because it needs a human touch.

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You have certain directions, you have certain ways that you have to style it.

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Um, for bulk, you know, there's a machine that could do the bulk of it, but what

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we do is called figure finishing work.

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And figure finishing means like for the Grinch suit, right?

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They're going to do, there are many different jobs of people

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that make this Grinch costume.

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You have costumers, you have, uh, you have special effects.

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You have, um, just a bunch of people that work on it.

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But what you do is figure finishing, which is the facial hair on the Grinch.

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And the thing is, the reason why it's so important is there's no buffer.

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From you to the camera.

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It's just there's nobody checking your stuff There's no style and it's like

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when you like like after you the hair is plugged in you got a curl it you

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got it You get a clip it and like cut it to a certain length cut and style

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it cut and style it something that a barber is Basically doing right,

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right, which there is no machine.

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It does barber stuff yeah, and so you're there's no buffer between you

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and the And the team in the film, and they can be pretty expensive.

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Yeah, they can get they can get pretty expensive.

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Um, I had a dj here a while back um wanted to Get some mustaches.

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Yeah, one of my um One of my friends was producing something and they wanted

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um, actually several of my friends have asked you for stuff before and just

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uh, that's several but like I don't I don't think people realize how That the

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first thing I asked you for that project fell through and then I had some other

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friends of ours ask and I didn't know it cost that much cuz yeah, it's not a

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five dollar like cut mustache, right?

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Right.

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It looks like I was supposed to replace a real one.

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Yes, you're supposed to replace it with a real one and it depends on

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what you're shooting like The thing is, is whenever people are asking you

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questions, and then you respond to them with more questions, they get a little

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frustrated because It's like, oh, okay.

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Well, I want a mustache.

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I was like, okay.

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Well, what kind of mustache?

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What kind of hair do you want to use?

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What reference kind of lace do you want to use?

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What kind of?

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Talk talk about the different laces just super fast.

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Um, so you have what's called um, Film lace or maybe maybe maybe

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you should start at the beginning.

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So if you're going to make a mustache of uh, Like making J.

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K.

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Simmons mustache, what does that process look like?

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The process looks like, first of all, like you said, um, you have to have

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reference images, you have to know what kind of hair you're gonna use,

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what kind of lace Color wise, right?

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Yeah.

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Um, there's this thing called color blending.

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You know, you have to blend it to look like the beard.

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You have to, like I said, you have to know what color it is.

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What color you're going to use?

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What kind of hair you're going to use?

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You have to say, okay, what kind of film lace are you going to use?

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Are you going to use theatrical film lace or theatrical lace, or

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are you going to use, how fine of a lace are you going to use?

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So there's some fine lace and theatrical lace.

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Theatrical I'm assuming is the one that they use on stages, but I guess

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that's more durable than I guess.

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Oh very much durable Yeah, yeah So the thinner ones are used

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for when you're on close ups and film and stuff like that, right?

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Because it's not supposed to look like you have right but if i'm if i'm 75

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feet away I'm not gonna be able to tell that you have that that lacing.

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It's like way more durable Wait way more durable and and you're tying

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the hair to all the laces Yes, yeah.

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And there's different sections that you tie.

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It's different ways.

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There's different techniques of using different knots, different knots.

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Um, there's called direction.

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Um, yeah, I've had a, I've had a lot of people be really interested in it,

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but it's, it's very intricate and it's very, and it's also finding out hard

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to find someone to teach you because once again, there's only 10 of them.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And it's not, it's not a sexy craft.

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No, it's not one though.

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Popular, like acting or like directing.

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So that's something that you, that you hear often enough, right?

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Like, Oh, I can get famous off of this.

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This is not something that will make you famous, but it will make you money.

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Yeah.

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It'll make you, it'll make you a lot of money because nobody wants to do it.

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Right.

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Right.

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So, um, when you see TV movies and mustaches, like.

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TV mustache is like you probably tell like, oh, which ones are good or not?

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Yeah, you you definitely can after a while.

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That's that's why my teacher tells me that this this Um, since he's a makeup

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artist this craft has stolen the magic away from me Watch your movies just be

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judging everybody because he said all I do is just judge the work there It's hard for

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me to kind of like get lost in the movie.

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Yeah, it's like, uh So, I also saw some videos on VanilatingOnce where

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it's like they were like tying shoestrings to like a basketball.

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Net, you know, it's way way bigger.

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Those holes are obviously than on a lace.

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Would you say it's good practice?

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Maybe for like it looks like it was someone's practicing

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and they were like 10.

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They would do this Yeah, I've seen those videos as well.

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I think what it's supposed to do is kind of the process of learning

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how to tie the knot is very frustrating because It's basic.

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It's a strand of hair and you have to turn it easy to break You have

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to turn it in certain directions for it to, to be able to tie the knot,

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and it's very hard to teach that.

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So what they do is they blow it up in size so they can kind of

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conceptually show you how it's done.

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No, I didn't learn that way.

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Would you like to learn that way?

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Uh, I think it's more comprehensive than just kind of Would you, if you started

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like that and then went to where you are now, would you think that would be easier?

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Yeah, it'd probably have been easier.

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But you learned in the trenches, huh?

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah.

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But I mean, that's the thing, though.

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Like, whenever you're doing this type of work, you kind of have

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to just struggle through it.

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Because a lot of it...

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Then becomes muscle memory Cool, cool.

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Very cool.

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Nicholas.

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Well, uh guys has been the first Episode of kind of get to know us the

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host Nicholas anything else that you want to tell people about you or not?

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Really?

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No That really all right.

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Cool working.

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They follow you outside the Southern Senpai's Instagram

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and TikTok and stuff like that.

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Where else, where do you follow Nicholas?

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Oh, they can follow me at, uh, Nicholas Killian, um, N, so two Ns, so K I L L

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Nicholas Killian with two Ns at the end.

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Right, um, on Instagram, and that's about it.

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Oh, cool.

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Well, guys, thanks for listening.

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My name's Derek Johnson II.

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I'm Nicholas Killian.

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And we'll talk to you later.

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