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♪ Come on everybody, take a real deep breath ♪

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♪ And repeat after me ♪

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(crowd cheering)

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♪ Lovin' my baby ♪

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♪ [Crowd] Lovin' my baby ♪

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♪ Lovin' my baby ♪

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<v ->You had All Shook Up, which was your first big lead role.</v>

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<v ->Yeah.</v>

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<v ->Being in a lead had to have felt like</v>

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then you were really like, "Okay, I'm here,

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I'm here, I'm glad I moved to New York,

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like this is it, I'm doing what I'm supposed to."

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Was that that big moment for you?

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<v ->For sure, and again, another...</v>

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example of something happening--

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like my dad was a giant Elvis fan

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and I knew the entire Elvis catalog.

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And my whole life, as a teenager and in my twenties,

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people said, "You look like Elvis."

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And so, when this thing came up,

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I thought, "Hmm. No one can do this but me.

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(laughing)

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So, I'm gonna go ahead and do it."

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And I had like, maybe seven callbacks,

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'cause you know, they didn't know who I was.

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This was a twelve million dollar musical

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and it was gonna be a big gamble.

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But I had to convince them that I could do it.

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Yeah, because of my-- I knew exactly how

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to sing it, and I knew how to do the comedy, and I just

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grabbed it by the blue suede shoes, I guess.