The McAuley Tucker Show

McAuley Tucker

Join McAuley Tucker as he delves into the captivating journeys of many exceptional guests who have made a name for themselves in the glittering world of Hollywood and beyond. The show serves one purpose: to educate and inform people.

  1. Russell Crowe, George Miller, and I All Went to the Same High School┃Daniel MacPherson Interview

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    Russell Crowe, George Miller, and I All Went to the Same High School┃Daniel MacPherson Interview

    Find out what Daniel MacPherson discovered watching his own closeup next to Russell Crowe's on a monitor between takes on Pokerface and why he says becoming a father at 40, 23 years into his career, gave his acting "steroids." Daniel McFersonson is the Australian actor starring in Beast alongside Russell Crowe, his 3rd film with the Oscar winner, a performer who shares an unlikely connection with both Crowe and Mad Max director George Miller through their shared alma mater, Sydney Boys High. Daniel walks us through the full arc of his collaboration with Russell Crowe, from a supporting role on Pokerface to going "toe-to-toe" in the cage on Beast, and recounts the lunch-break moment when watching their two close-ups side by side gave him his most formative lesson in cinematic stillness. He opens up about fatherhood arriving at 40, deep into a 23-year career, and how it made a role like Beast's father-son story possible in a way it simply wasn't before his son Austin was born. Daniel also gets candid about the physical reality of the film, co-starring opposite Bren Foster, a multiple world champion martial artist, revealing that Beast is the only production where his real injuries had to be concealed so the makeup team could apply fake ones. An essential watch for any actor, filmmaker, or fan trying to understand what separates a great performance from a truly lived one. Consider watching Beast in theatres April 10th.

    9 min
  2. The Puerto Rican Actor Who Keeps Getting Called Back (Working On Undercard)┃Berto Colon Interview

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    The Puerto Rican Actor Who Keeps Getting Called Back (Working On Undercard)┃Berto Colon Interview

    A Puerto Rican actor flies his teenage daughters to Puerto Rico, shoots a film with Wanda Sykes in her first-ever dramatic role in Undercard, and wraps the project, then immediately starts filming a Yellowstone spin-off in Texas. That's just the last twelve months of Berto Colon's life. Berto is a working actor you've already seen without knowing his name from shows like The Penguin, Orange Is the New Black, Power Book II: Ghost, The Night Agent. He's the guy who keeps getting called back, now on his third or fourth project with the same production company, and about to appear alongside Michelle Pfeiffer. In this conversation, Berto breaks down how he actually prepares for a role and it's nothing like what you'd expect. He talks about a specific technique of reading a script multiple times until your subconscious takes over, and why the moments that aren't planned are the ones that make a performance feel real. He opens up about what it meant to film Undercard in Puerto Rico with his daughters on set, the parallel between Wanda Sykes and Mary J. Blige both trying drama for the first time, and what his character Hector is actually after beneath all the gambling and bravado. He also drops that early in his career he was doing motion capture for GTA. His body, Luis Guzmán's face. For anyone who wants to understand what a real, working actor's career actually looks like from the inside.

    25 min
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11 Ratings

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Join McAuley Tucker as he delves into the captivating journeys of many exceptional guests who have made a name for themselves in the glittering world of Hollywood and beyond. The show serves one purpose: to educate and inform people.