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- Hi, my name is Randall Park
from Blockbuster on Netflix

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and I'm here with the AV Club.

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(modern upbeat music)

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What kind of sitcom roles
were you looking for post

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Fresh Off the Boat,

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and how did Blockbuster fit that bill?

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I would say I wasn't looking

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for sitcom rolls after Fresh Off the Boat.

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I was kind of thinking, maybe pivoting

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to kind of other kinds
of things, but the script

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for Blockbuster came along and
my reps were telling me like

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this is something, you
really should read it.

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And I was like, I don't know.

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It's Blockbuster.

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It's, it feels like it's a, you know,

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kind of a nostalgia thing that, you know,

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probably there isn't much else to it.

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And then I read the script

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by Vanessa Ramos and it was so good.

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And just, I don't know,
just the opportunity

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to play a character like Timmy

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who is you know, the boss of
this kind of workplace family.

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And then there's also
this kind of, will they

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won't they thing going on,
which again, I love romcoms.

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And then also, you know, just the idea

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of these working class
people trying to keep

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this store alive I felt like,
was very resonant to me.