The myCast Show 11: Interview with actor Jerry Habibi (The Persian Version)

The myCast Show is back! In this new format we're going to interview actors and other entertainment industry talent. We'll talk about the roles they've been suggested for by fans on myCast, how they would fan cast themselves, and more. Follow us on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all social platforms to learn about new episodes. Checkout episode 11 with Jerry Habibi below:

 

 

In this interview Jerry Habibi reviews the roles that fans have cast him for on myCast. He also shares the roles he'd like to be cast in, and talks about his real life experience landing a role in The Persian Version, a recent Netflix film. 

 

• Actors use myCast!
• Jerry Habibi's favorite movies, tv shows, video games, books, and more
• Jerry aspires to play action and superhero roles in the future
• Actors should be proactive and reach out directly to directors and casting directors to advocate for themselves
• He emphasizes the importance of persistence and self-belief in the entertainment industry

Sound Bites

• "You have to tell yourself yes, and you have to find out like, what is that yes?" - Jerry Habibi
• "... Actors are cruising through my cast, checking things out, seeing what you guys are suggesting." - Jerry Habibi
• "Sometimes the top voted person for a role on my cast ends up being the person who actually gets that" - Paris Vega

Moments

00:23 Actors use MyCast.io!

01:28 Fans Fan Casting Jerry Habibi

03:00 New Feature Idea: Verified Talent Accounts

03:48 Jerry Fan Casting Himself

04:43 Jerry's Favorites

05:31 Favorite TV Show

06:02 Favorite Video Game

07:26 Favorite Book

09:16 Who is your favorite actor?

09:54 Favorite Comedy Movie

10:25 Favorite Drama

10:44 Favorite Action

10:54 Upcoming movie you're excited about?

12:27 Filming The Persian Version

15:13 The Casting Process

 

Paris Vega (00:00.933)
Hey everybody, welcome to the Mycast show. Today we have a special guest with us, Jerry Habibi. Jerry, welcome to the show.

Jerry Habibi (00:10.047)
Hello, hello, hello. How are y'all doing?

Paris Vega (00:13.157)
So Jerry, as many of you may know, he's an Iranian American actor of Arabic descent. He's a native speaker of Persian and Farsi and English. And he was recently in the Netflix movie, the Persian version. So congrats on that success and looking forward to talking to you today.

Jerry Habibi (00:32.526)
Thank you, thank you. Super excited to be here.

Paris Vega (00:36.689)
Why don't you tell us a little bit about how you landed that role in the Persian version?

Jerry Habibi (00:41.686)
Yeah, for sure. I actually, um, I saw a breakdown for it go around and I had a people, a few people message me about it, but, um, I actually went ahead and taped for it back in December 2019. So it was a very unhinged, like fun taping. I was on my Mac book. Um, I did like probably six, seven takes and it was in English, farseaf English. It was, it was a lot of improv, but.

Paris Vega (01:10.673)
He said Finglish, Farsi English

Jerry Habibi (01:11.898)
English, yeah, it's like a hybrid. Yeah, hybrid of Farsi and English. But the director really liked it and I kept in touch with her from there. But yeah, I just kind of you have COVID and all this stuff going around. So it was it was a test to see who could stay in the race.

Paris Vega (01:34.373)
So it's that far back. How long did it take to go from kind of seeing the script, getting cast to actually like the movie launching?

Jerry Habibi (01:43.738)
Yeah, I think it was just because of with all these restrictions and cost related issues from the pandemic and COVID and I think in general it's obviously it's not as easy to make a film like this as it is to make another film. There were a lot of delays, a lot of like we're shooting this time but we wouldn't end up you know something would come up that's just how it is. But yeah.

Paris Vega (02:10.853)
And it seemed like the film had a lot of different locations. I mean, it was a kind of a sweeping kind of epic story, super emotional across all these different characters.

Jerry Habibi (02:14.601)
End, end.

Jerry Habibi (02:19.726)
Yeah, it was all for the general amount of filming, I think except with the exception of like 1% of it was in Turkey. So anything I shot was in around like Istanbul. They did a great job of that, you know, even shooting in the villages and stuff. It just looked very accurate, but even.

Paris Vega (02:33.754)
Really?

Jerry Habibi (02:43.686)
Even something like the cheer leading scene I did, they did an amazing job of that, of making it look like an American gym.

Paris Vega (02:52.945)
Wow, so most of it was overseas. It wasn't in America, even though a lot of the story takes place in America. Okay. And so you were kind of interviewing for the role or auditioning for the role over Zoom, you said? You had to do that virtually?

Jerry Habibi (02:57.419)
Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (03:10.974)
Yeah, we had, I mean, I would be FaceTiming with the director, just talking about it, then we'd get on Zoom. I was chemistry reading with, generally for the most part, Laila, who plays Laila. But there were other actors or other actresses that I was chemistry reading with as well. But yeah, it was just a long, long process.

Paris Vega (03:36.741)
Wow. All right, so the movie's launched and I gave it a watch. It was super moving, very emotional, powerful, powerful movie. So I don't know if they release any kind of stats or whatever, but hopefully, you know, it's received well. Do you get any feedback on the actor side of how well things are doing within Netflix?

Jerry Habibi (03:46.925)
Thank you.

Jerry Habibi (04:00.818)
You know, I, I it's, it's so much of it is like, it's hard to kind of get in that sort of communication loop. I, I'll, I'll be in touch with like Sony or production or I talk to the director frequently, but it's hard to get those sort of analytics. But I, it's definitely, you know, you're reminding me it's something I do need to tap in with. Cause I mean, I, you want to know for sure.

Paris Vega (04:25.418)
Yeah, yeah.

Because eventually stories get released or you see things in the news that something kind of did well. But so somebody's releasing some kind of information. And I don't know if it's just Netflix. Yeah, yeah. They probably should. Right. All right. So, um, you are one of the folks on my cast who gets good amount of attention. And I don't know if you're aware, but, uh,

Jerry Habibi (04:36.754)
Exactly. It's all internal. Yeah. But you gotta be nosy and find out. I gotta be nosy.

Paris Vega (04:56.281)
There are a few places where you show up often on my cast. And so I was gonna share that with you as we go through this here and move into our next section of learning how you would cast yourself. But as far as the fans on my cast, they have you ranked as one of the most attractive celebrities in the world. Look at him.

Jerry Habibi (05:00.431)
Mm. Nice.

Jerry Habibi (05:17.426)
Okay, I'll take it. Hahaha. Okay, nice, nice. Hahaha.

Paris Vega (05:22.529)
to turn that down. And so you're on that list. And one of the most popular roles that you are voted for on my cast is Aaron Jagger in Attack on Titan. Okay.

Jerry Habibi (05:38.534)
Oh wow, Aaron Yeager, yeah, from Attack on Titan. Okay, I see that. I see that, eyes, eyebrows. I mean, that's something I'd love to do. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, when I go through those, it's very fun to go through and see everything. I guess people kind of throw around and put together. But yeah, that type of stuff, it's very exciting. So.

Paris Vega (05:43.433)
Okay.

Paris Vega (05:48.778)
Okay. Nice.

Paris Vega (06:06.925)
And so that's a really interesting point that I wanted the fancasters on my cast to hear is Jerry, you reached out because you'd actually viewed your page. You'd noticed, you know, you're seeing what people are casting you for. And I think sometimes a lot of the users of my cast can think, oh, this is just the community. This is just us sharing what we want, just kind of like on social media. But sometimes the actual people you're suggesting for roles sees what you're suggesting.

Jerry Habibi (06:20.334)
Thanks for watching!

Jerry Habibi (06:28.091)
Oh yeah, no.

Jerry Habibi (06:36.038)
100% actors are nosy. They they look this stuff up the actors are actors are on their phone too much Don't don't believe them. They look this up

Paris Vega (06:45.805)
Yeah, and my casting to show up for just about any search for anybody who says their name plus the word fan casting or fan cast and their name. So that's cool to hear that, that others are checking out what they're being suggested for.

Jerry Habibi (06:55.373)
Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (07:00.186)
For sure. And I think honestly, it's, it's that type of stuff that I think it should be used in pitch packages and stuff, because it's, it's valid. Very valid. Exactly.

Paris Vega (07:06.657)
Yeah, yeah, you're saying, hey, this is what the fans want.

Paris Vega (07:13.025)
So the next two, and then we'll move on to some other questions. They want to see Jerry Habibi as Joshua Halal in Spy School.

Jerry Habibi (07:21.794)
That sounded cool, I've never heard of Spy School, but I'm very tempted to look into it. I do like the halal in there. Halal.

Paris Vega (07:32.854)
And then the last one we'll go over here is They want to see you as Green Lantern Simon Boz in

Jerry Habibi (07:43.858)
That was very interesting because I was like, oh, I didn't know there was a... Because it sounds almost like a Middle Eastern green. I have not heard of that, but I was like, yeah, I was like, OK, I can get with that. I can be Green Lantern, come on. Yeah, no, I'm send it over Marvel.

Paris Vega (07:50.337)
Right. There's lots of different green lanterns.

Paris Vega (07:58.71)
Nice.

We might need to go ahead. Right. Uh, so that'd be a cool feature actually, if we could have like verified actor accounts or different types of roles account so that you can, they could see what they've been suggested for. And then the users could see whether or not the actor themselves would like to play that.

Jerry Habibi (08:15.071)
I think so, and it like...

Jerry Habibi (08:24.078)
For sure and honestly, like taking a note from stuff like Letterboxx, like it does...

Jerry Habibi (08:32.566)
So many of the things I feel like there's like blurred lines and stuff, but clearly like the actors they're more than fine with being present there No one no one wants that weird like facade You know

Paris Vega (08:42.881)
Okay. One more genuine connection with the fans instead of...

Jerry Habibi (08:46.714)
Exactly, and you know why not if it's there. It's valid, but we don't need to go through a whole weird song and dance, but... That's just me. Yeah. Period.

Paris Vega (08:56.133)
Nice. A man of the people. Jerry Habibi. All right. Now let's move on to our segment. Actors, fan casting actors, or maybe we'll call it actors fan casting themselves. So if you could cast yourself in any role of any film or TV show, what would be your top pick?

Jerry Habibi (09:20.29)
Hmm I see Batman Beyond on my thing a lot. I grew up watching Batman Beyond. I would

Paris Vega (09:25.126)
Okay.

Jerry Habibi (09:30.766)
No, no question Batman Beyond But um trying to think what else.

Yeah, my mind just goes to Batman Beyond.

Paris Vega (09:41.449)
Okay, that answers the first three questions because the next two were if you play any superhero role, who would it be? And then would you rather play Superman or Batman?

Jerry Habibi (09:50.346)
Well, I'll kind of answer that one just not as Batman Beyond, you know, why not? I definitely...

Paris Vega (09:55.632)
Okay.

Jerry Habibi (10:03.69)
My brain just blanks. One thing I saw in my fancast that I liked a lot that actually made me research the character of it was Hawkman. That's... I would want to do that.

Paris Vega (10:15.523)
Okay.

Okay, Hawkman. All right, and what's your favorite movie of all time?

Jerry Habibi (10:25.57)
Favorite movie of all time, gosh. That's hard. I really love The Place Beyond the Pines. I love the grittiness of it. Amazing color grading. Now if I have a favorite superhero movie, it's gonna be obviously The Dark Knight.

Paris Vega (10:37.317)
Okay.

Jerry Habibi (10:51.686)
I'm a huge Batman guy. I like my dark edgy, I like my emo superheroes.

Paris Vega (10:59.673)
Oh, well, I'm surprised you didn't say the latest Batman, the Batman.

Jerry Habibi (11:02.774)
That one was great, but I mean, I think they're both amazing.

Paris Vega (11:12.593)
I'll let that slide. No. No, they're all good. They're all good. It was a different take. For what I've heard is it was the latest Batman was a little closer to the old school darker comic books where maybe the Dark Knight or others was a little more, a little lighter, even though they were still kind of dark. I mean, it's the Dark Knight. And, but it was a little grittier, this last Batman. It was interesting. It was interesting to see how it did it.

Jerry Habibi (11:13.678)
Okay, are you doing it? What did you think of it? Okay.

Jerry Habibi (11:35.317)
Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (11:42.732)
I love the interpolation of like club music in it. I love Batman saying people be... I love seeing Batman beat people up to really good music.

Paris Vega (11:56.186)
What about your favorite TV show?

Jerry Habibi (11:58.67)
Favorite TV show? Huh. I was a big fan of Euphoria. No idea when that third season is going to pop up, but I just loved the first season. And the, what else? Gosh.

I have not been tapping in the TV box lately. I do love you. You is something I would wanna be on, but you know, too little, too late.

Paris Vega (12:22.969)
That's fine. What about...

Paris Vega (12:34.169)
All right, what about video games? You have a favorite video game.

Jerry Habibi (12:38.934)
Yeah, I'm like a junkie for the Japanese video games, honestly. So anything and I love the voice work in like near, near Automata, near the OG, near those ones are just like super intense and rash. So that's something I'd love to do. Obviously stuff like God of War, Hades. Love Hades. Great game.

Paris Vega (12:44.589)
Okay.

Jerry Habibi (13:08.911)
And those are all, they're so very like performance based, but the gameplay is still really good. So, yeah.

Paris Vega (13:16.221)
All right. And from looking at the projects you've been involved with so far, have you done any kind of action type roles yet?

Jerry Habibi (13:28.502)
You know, weirdly enough, no. But it's like something that if it was sent to my door, I'd be ready in like 0.2 seconds, just cause I do box yoga, I do movements. I'm in the gym all the time. So it's all stuff, obviously it's a lot of coordination, but there's a couple of projects floating in my way right now that I'm in the mix for. I guess one of them,

Paris Vega (13:45.519)
Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (13:58.45)
Now that I think about it, it's technically action related. Cause it involves like the FBI, but I feel like from what I read, I was like, Hey, maybe it is action related, but we'll have to wait and see.

Paris Vega (14:07.281)
Okay.

Paris Vega (14:14.829)
Yeah, yeah. Okay. So you want to go more that direction in the future, it sounds like.

Jerry Habibi (14:18.83)
For sure, I mean I love comedy and I love funny moments, but give me the dark and moody, yeah.

Paris Vega (14:26.709)
Okay. And what about your favorite book?

Jerry Habibi (14:32.046)
Favorite book.

So, well, I was gonna tell it like this. I was gonna say like a self-help book. I don't know if you could fan cast that, but I mean, well, the self-help book I like, it's by the rapper Russ. It's all in your head. It's a great book. I recommend it to like anyone.

Paris Vega (14:42.629)
That's fine. You can start there and then go into some fiction. Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (15:01.266)
You know actors are moody, so they're like, what do I do with my life? Read this book. But no, I think I love the book Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. That's a great read. I think I'm too old to write anything in that book though.

Paris Vega (15:06.146)
Yeah.

Paris Vega (15:19.905)
All right. Okay. Let's say you've said Batman on the superhero side of things. There's a big comic book superhero. There's a lot of that kind of content on the, on my cast in the community. There's also a lot of the popular books going around. And I saw that you were suggested for a few of those popular books that are out there right now in the news. And

Jerry Habibi (15:43.922)
Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.

Paris Vega (15:48.833)
in the media, I think there were some fourth wing roles, it ends with us, you know, you've been spread across a few of those. Are you aware of any of those big books going on? I've heard a lot about them, I haven't read any of those huge ones.

Jerry Habibi (15:52.33)
Mm-hmm.

Jerry Habibi (15:58.103)
Yeah, yeah.

Jerry Habibi (16:05.282)
I, you know, I'm not, but I, you know, now that you mentioned it, I need to check them out. No, but, um, no, I mean, I liked from what I saw that it was, I think it was the fourth wing that I kept getting like fan casted. And I did like that because I could tell a lot of the names were. Kind of like either Middle Eastern or Middle Eastern influence to an extent. So I was like, okay, that's something I would definitely check out. Um,

Paris Vega (16:12.332)
Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (16:34.05)
But yeah, no, honestly for me, I feel like I end up, I read as is and I read a lot of like performance books, but I haven't been able to dabble into those yet. Soon.

Paris Vega (16:49.137)
All right. Who is your favorite actor or actress? You can do either or both. I think they're yeah. And I think the phrase is supposed to be used as actor across all genders and preferences now or whatever, but I don't know, it gets difficult to remember, but favorite person in that profession.

Jerry Habibi (16:55.426)
I'll do, let me see if I can do actor and actress. Let's see.

Jerry Habibi (17:05.418)
Oh really? Okay. No, so actress, right. So actress, well, I'll just select one because my brain's kind of blinking on dudes right now. But Viola Davis, I love Viola Davis. I loved how to get away with murder. She was great in all the.

Paris Vega (17:25.361)
Okay, nice.

Jerry Habibi (17:31.79)
Suicide Squad movies, honestly. Her voice is very powerful, great diction. That's someone who I would really wanna act alongside, for sure. In general, I love acting with people who love their profession and are there to act and not be scummy. So that's, you know, amazing person.

Paris Vega (17:46.263)
Okay.

Paris Vega (18:02.369)
Yeah. All right. Is there like an upcoming movie or anything you're excited about? Looking forward to being released. I know that, you know, obviously even the Persian version, it's on Netflix. Everybody can check it out. But other than what you're specifically in, is there something you're kind of fanning out about?

Jerry Habibi (18:14.743)
Hmm.

Jerry Habibi (18:20.938)
I remember really excited about the Challengers. It's the tennis movie with Zendaya. So it has, um, yeah. And I saw, I heard some of the soundtrack cause it was, um, it's Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and they did like, uh, Oh my God, they did like, I wasn't expecting it. They did like this insane, synthy kind of dancey clubby, um, sound, at least for the teaser.

Paris Vega (18:24.229)
challengers.

Oh, okay. Oh, I did see a preview for that, yeah.

Jerry Habibi (18:51.134)
I was like, okay, that sounds amazing. But that I'm really hyped for, I do like a good messy movie. But obviously the second Batman movie, whenever that comes out.

Paris Vega (19:03.653)
Right, and that's the, are they using the same guy? Just blanked on who played the last Batman. Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (19:10.462)
Robert Pattinson, I think, yeah, they're using him. It's just, they obviously have like delays from the strike and, but I'm patient.

Paris Vega (19:17.369)
That's right. Yeah. One of the better batmobiles, I think went kind of retro with it. I think it was awesome.

Jerry Habibi (19:25.186)
For sure.

Mm-hmm

Paris Vega (19:30.167)
Okay.

All right, I think that's about it, man. That's all the different types of things where we've got on my cast, different types of stories. We got books, video games, movies, TV shows. I think that pretty much covers it. Is there any other future work you've got coming out that you wanna share or any way that you want fans to connect with you?

Jerry Habibi (19:45.719)
Okay.

Jerry Habibi (19:57.82)
Um.

Nothing I can talk about right now. I'll hit you up as soon as I can. And probably I'll like come up with a fun little quick premise so it's not us doing the same interview. But no, I think we got all the questions done well. If you wanna send me anything, trivia or whatever I'm more than happy to again and like all the video links, whatever. I'll help, you know, I'll help anyway I can.

Paris Vega (20:02.818)
Okay.

Alright.

Paris Vega (20:25.252)
Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (20:30.462)
Let me see. Did we, I'm trying to think, did we get a question in regarding like the casting? I think you said something about like the casting of...

Paris Vega (20:40.817)
Oh, talking about the kind of casting process. Yeah, if you could share kind of what your experience has been, what that looks like, what are the steps to going from being somebody who wishes they could become an actor, had that dream to actually getting cast in something.

Jerry Habibi (20:57.318)
Okay. Like, should I answer right now? Okay. Okay, great. That was a good question. Say it again. Okay, great. We'll just kind of slice that. No, I think...

Paris Vega (21:00.197)
Sure, yeah, real quick. I mean, you know, we've got time, so yeah, it's fine. We're gonna edit this whole section out.

Paris Vega (21:12.581)
Yeah

Jerry Habibi (21:18.682)
Yeah, I mean, I think... Sorry, what was it? My process or the process?

Paris Vega (21:27.021)
Give the fans a little insight into what it looks like going through the casting process. Because I know you said like you saw a script and you had some Zoom auditions, but maybe a little more behind the scenes. Like how did you even get into that position to get script, you know what I mean? Like a little bit of the behind the scenes so that the fan casters can see what it takes to go from these suggestions they're making to it actually happening in reality.

Jerry Habibi (21:37.29)
Okay, yeah, yeah.

Jerry Habibi (21:42.562)
Okay. For sure.

Jerry Habibi (21:52.034)
Mm hmm. Yeah, for sure. So it, um, in my case, what I was doing, I was using a website that posts the, you know, these casting breakdowns. And, um, I saw some of the information, like the director, the casting, and I did the initial audition like anyone else would. But I kind of, since it was a project that, you know, it was a fellow, um,

Paris Vega (22:04.93)
Okay.

Jerry Habibi (22:18.018)
Persian story, Iranian American story, and I also related a lot to it. So I was like, let me take the liberty of doing the taboo and saying hello directly to a director or introducing myself or going from there. They say it's, I feel like a lot of agents, managers, industry people will say it's taboo, but that's usually because they don't want the actor to reach out. They want their client to get the work.

And I was self-represented for this project. So it was me doing the work. And obviously the director and casting director were really vouching for me too. But yeah, I mean, I think it's about making sure you're prepared and being able to just like, like how bad do you want it? How much?

Paris Vega (22:49.6)
Okay.

Jerry Habibi (23:13.462)
Are you willing to kind of stay in the race? So it's a lot of sacrifice.

Paris Vega (23:19.905)
Yeah. So what do you mean by that? Like, because you said you reached out to the director directly. Like, how do you even do that?

Jerry Habibi (23:28.394)
Yeah, I mean, sometimes you just got to Google and find information on Google. No, I mean, some people have websites, some of the websites have their contact information, some of their information could be on, you know, another profile on another website. But it's just those kinds of, you may even have a mutual friend, which is becoming more of an occurrence for me as I kind of go through the industry. But...

Paris Vega (23:33.34)
Yeah, okay.

Jerry Habibi (23:58.122)
Yeah, you just gotta look through your options, see what you can do, and kind of take it from there. You have to be willing to push yourself, pitch yourself, especially when you're Middle Eastern. I feel like one thing that's stood out for me as a lot of these actors like Rami Malek, Rami Malek, I'll just use it to him for an example. I think if you go on like a backstage article that he did even for...

 I think it was on Gilmore Girls. He was kind of annoying the casting director and I think you have to say like, give me the part, give me the part I can do it, I swear I can. And it's like, it's an unfortunate truth, especially when you're Middle Eastern, you kind of have to hammer it in people's head because people love to be like, hmm, can you do this? Are you know, are your features too strong or something like that, but yeah.

Paris Vega (24:56.797)
Interesting. So there's a little grind and hustle. And I think all the casting directors are gonna ask the actors to skip this part so they don't get hounded all the time. But I guess they're probably getting hounded anyway.

Jerry Habibi (24:59.806)
For sure, it's a business, you know?

Jerry Habibi (25:09.258)
I think, yeah, not even just the casting directors. I think so many different parts of the industry because, and it makes sense because not everyone's gonna show up with like a nice pitch package or a real or anything. It's gonna end up just being spammy. So it makes sense, but to an extent, I feel like you can't gatekeep or put these roadblocks in and not expect actors or people in general to.

Paris Vega (25:26.052)
Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (25:39.178)
you know, reach out.

Paris Vega (25:40.921)
So it's gonna, yeah, they're gonna create a bottleneck anywhere there's a gatekeeper. Yeah, that makes sense.

Jerry Habibi (25:45.858)
For sure, for sure, and you know what? If there's bottleneck, I'm the hammer that swings through people.

Paris Vega (25:56.057)
Nice. So yeah, even if there's tons of people reaching out, it's only going to be the ones who actually have some talent and skill and you know, the right vibe or look for a role that gets through.

Jerry Habibi (26:04.562)
And I... Yeah, and I mean...

Jerry Habibi (26:09.162)
Essentially, and even then, I feel like you can have all those features. Maybe you just aren't so and so is like. niece Or you just don't know who you need to know. It, there's so many different levels to it. So for me, it's important to check off as many dots as I can to make sure that, you know, there is a presence that when I work on something that it's, you know, out in the world, people can find it. Um.

Paris Vega (26:18.673)
Oh, okay. Yeah. Sure.

Paris Vega (26:28.601)
Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (26:37.694)
So I think, you know, you have to keep, there's so many reasons and so many people telling you no, that you have to tell yourself yes, and you have to find out like, what is that yes? Yeah

Paris Vega (26:47.483)
Mmm...powerful.

Paris Vega (26:52.181)
Um, there is one other movie type question, um, to get in before, before we end this and again, thank you for your time. Um, but looking at different types of movies. So you mentioned, you know, you've been in this comedy or looking for more darker moody roles. We asked you what kind of, you know, ideal superhero type role or what type role in general. Um, let's talk about a couple of different types of movies and maybe.

Jerry Habibi (26:57.228)
Yep.

Jerry Habibi (27:02.935)
For sure.

Paris Vega (27:21.513)
some of your favorites of different genres, because I know it's hard just to say, you know, one overall. But for example, what's your favorite comedy movie?

Jerry Habibi (27:25.453)
Yeah.

Jerry Habibi (27:30.37)
Gosh, I... Probably Bridesmaids, honestly. Hahaha. Bridesmaids is just funny. It's a comfort movie. Hahaha.

Paris Vega (27:33.037)
Just something you'd pop in that you could watch. Okay. All right.

Paris Vega (27:42.241)
Yeah, something you'd pop in just to eat some popcorn and laugh a little bit.

Jerry Habibi (27:48.054)
It's not a movie, but Scream Queens, the TV show. I just love that one. I was taking a sociology class at the time that was based on horror and thriller movies. And that first season is so well-written and the amount of like references throughout it are just like, it makes me appreciate it a lot.

Paris Vega (28:10.681)
All right. And what about just pure drama? Getting into the moodiness side of things.

Jerry Habibi (28:19.33)
Does Gone Girl count? It's kinda like a thriller, but you know. I do like it. Yeah. I don't know if it counts, but I'll say Gone Girl.

Paris Vega (28:21.881)
I guess. Sure.

Paris Vega (28:29.517)
All right. And then what's your just favorite overall action movie?

Jerry Habibi (28:36.846)
Probably favorite overall action movie would be the newer the newest Batman movie

Paris Vega (28:42.765)
Okay. Cool. Well, Jerry Habibi, thank you so much for sharing your time with us. This was great. You gave us some really good insights into how things work and into your career and your preferences. So, fan casters, take note, start suggesting for some of that stuff that he talked about and be aware that Jerry and other actors are cruising through my cast, checking things out, seeing what you guys are suggesting.

Jerry Habibi (29:08.846)
We're there.

Paris Vega (29:10.613)
And it could turn into reality, as we've seen in the past, sometimes the top voted person for a role on my cast ends up being the person who actually gets that role years later.

Jerry Habibi (29:20.926)
Yeah, I believe it. I believe it. But yeah, I'm so happy to talk today and I will continue stalking the site alongside the other actors and actresses who are definitely on the site.

Paris Vega (29:37.53)
All right, Jerry, thanks so much.

Jerry Habibi (29:39.21)
All right, for sure. Thank you so much. Have a great day.