The Point Radio: IF I STAY Gives Chloe Mortez Another Tough Role
IF I STAY is the latest best selling fiction to hit the big screen, and it stars 17 years old Chloe Moretz who talks to us about why she chooses roles like this, CARRIE and even Hit Girl. Plus IDIOTEST is a new competition show on the Game Show Network and host Ben Gleib proves to me that it isn’t all that easy to win there.
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the point radio. Hey, it's Mike Rob, former hip girl Chloe Moretz is along to talk about her new movie, If I Stay and why she makes some of the
choices in roles that she does. Plus the Indian test is a new competition series on the game show network. I get to play along with comedian Ben
Blee, but well, we'll show you how that goes. Hang on. Let's get to the point. This is the point, the point radio, get the point radio.
Turning a long line of successful novels that make it to the big screen, If I Stay is the latest written by author Gill Foreman, who tells me
about the premise about a 17 year old cellist who leads this beautifully charmed life, but it's sort of full of these kind of decisions that a lot of 17
year olds face about leaving home and whether to go to Juilliard or stay with her true, with her boyfriend, who she's in love with. And then one day
there's a little bit of snow in Oregon, schools canceled. She goes out with a drive for drive with her family. There's an accident and then everything
changes and she's left with this one choice and that's whether to to live to stay or not. The star of the film is actress Chloe Moretz, who had a
number of challenges here, including having to look good playing a cello, an instrument she'd never picked up before. Yeah. Well, basically there was
there's about seven months of training with the cello where we kind of had this if I stay cello that kind of traveled around the world with me and found me in
every location I went to. So that was kind of this looming if I stay kind of feeling. So I train with it every day for seven months, like two hours a
day as much as I could. And honestly, you know, I'd be silly to say that in seven months I learned such an intricate instrument. So really what it
was was was learning the emotionality of it and kind of passion that comes with being a cellist and how it you kind of have to surrender your entire
soul to this instrument as you play it. And, you know, the technicality came more from the Frankenstein head cutting and putting it onto another person's
body a little bit. That way it meshed the two sides of me perfectly. It all comes easy for the veteran actress who started her career pretty early. I
started acting when I was five years old, pretty much. I found it randomly through listening to my brother study monologues and I auditorily started memorizing
them for no reason and started repeating them to kind of anyone that would listen to me. And then eventually I begged my mom to let me do whatever that
meant because I couldn't really even put into words exactly what that meant. It just made me happy. And then when I was 11 years old, I kind of looked at
my mom and I was like, I kind of realized what I was doing and I was like, wait, is there like can I make this something I could do for the rest of my life? And
she was like, yeah, sure. If you want to. And I was like, okay, great. I think I might want to do this forever. And I think that was like the moment when I
actually realized that I that I was doing more than just like gymnastics or tennis or something. So from hit girl to Kerry to this role, has it been
tough playing these sort of, well, challenging roles? It's been really hard. You know, I have been working since I was five years old and I kind of
had everyone in my life and kind of in, you know, outside my house and I was like, oh, I'm going to look at us and go, you're crazy. Take your kid out
of the business. Put them in school because like you're never going to succeed. And that was kind of, you know, my entire bring, you know, being brought
up. My mom was always like, look, if you love it, do it. If you're actually having fun. And I know my kids having fun. She's going to do whatever she wants,
whether that's the gym, whether that's gymnastics, whether that's, you know, learning the guitar, whether that's acting, whether that's just being a
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whether that's being a professional, The Valiant is celebrating the 25th issue of the Bloodshot series with a number of different things, including expanding the book to 48 pages
and bringing in people like Peter Milligan, Louis LaRosa, Howard Chacon, and more for material. There'll be variant covers, including some by Brian Hitch,
and the whole thing will also lead into the mini-series The Valiant, which debuts from A Valiant in December. The 48-page Bloodshot No. 25 will be in comic stores in November.
Gotham by midnight, that new Batman series, or at least Batman-oriented series we talked about a couple of days ago, is only the tip of the iceberg
when it comes to new things involving that particular arm of the DC universe. Also coming along is Gotham Academy, which will be a teen-oriented title that'll have the presence of Batman,
but not necessarily be a Batman book, arc a manner that'll follow pretty close to the regular Batman titles, and there's also the redesign of the Batgirl Titleist, too,
which a lot of people are excited about, done by Cameron Stewart and artist Babs Tarr as well. All these titles to premiere sometime over the fall, but the changes in the Batgirl comic,
you can check out when you head to the comic store this week from DC. The familiar character of Papa Midnight has been added to the Constantine television series, and the role has gone to Michael James Shaw,
who'll play the character in the new show that debuts in just a few weeks on the network. This just reinforces the fact that the new series will have direct ties to the Hellblazers series and be a strong representation
of the stories that have gone on there for the past couple of decades. Don't forget Constantine debuts on NBC on October the 24th. The Creative Arts Emmys were a big night for NBC,
especially for Saturday Night Live, that picked up five of the Emmys and the most for any series. PBS got eight awards, and Fox and Netflix each won seven as well.
This part of the Emmys celebrated guest appearances, technical work, and even reality programming, and along those lines, Jane Lynch won an Emmy for Outstanding Hosts for a Reality Program for NBC's Hollywood Game Night.
An edited version of the awards will air on Sunday on FXX, and of course, the prime time Emmys will be on NBC live on Monday. The point, the point, is what's cool. I think we don't save this off in enough, but it's a great way to be a comic book fan
and to be inside a great comic book store, too. Some incredible stuff waiting for you, for example, right on the heels of the successful TV show. There's a new Strain miniseries, Strain Night Eternal from Dark Horse,
written by David Lapham, drawn by Mike Huddleston. Thanks to TC, pretty busy this week, too. Robin Rises continues in Bad Man and Robin number 34. And with the Assault on Arkham DVD out, there's a Bad Man Arkham unhinged hardcover
and a Bad Man Arkham unhinged trade paperback, both with different material in each. So check your wallet and pick the one you want to pick up. Harley Quinn number zero, Director's Cut, gets a second printing,
and Grant Morrison's Multiversity debuts this week with a first issue, too. Plus, there's a second printing of New Suicide Squad number one and the first issue of Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman with the first story arc done by Gail Simone.
Over at IDW, Little Nemo's Return to Slumberland debuts with a first issue this week. There's a super secret crisis war, grim adventures of Billy and Mandy one shot, with a much different tone at Brubaker.
Starts a new series over at Image called Fate Out and Southern Bastards number one gets a third printing. And Marvel, Ms. Marvel number one gets a sixth printing, Ms. Marvel number four and five get second printings. And there's a new issue of that title out this week as well.
And Spider-Man 2099 number one gets a second printing, too, for Marvel. Find these treasures and more at a comic store near you. Check out findacomicshop.com. The comic book locator service at 1-888-COMIC-BOOK
or with a link right now on the front of ComicMix.com. The point, the point. The questions are so obvious it's got to be easy, right? Well, don't fall under that trap. It's the new competition series idiot test on the Game Show Network
hosted by comedian Ben Gleib who gives us the basics. Idiot test, people think we're just finding idiots and making them look stupid and that is not at all true. We just try to take regular people, even very smart people, and catch them in idiotic moments.
We give them brain puzzles, little clues and visual tests to figure out like an detective what the answer we're looking for is, if they do well, they win money. If they don't do well, they look stupid on national television and I don't let them off the hook too easily.
So people go into this thinking, ah, it's so easy, I got it, right? Yeah, I see people come in there a little bit cocky feeling like, oh, they can pass an idiot test. But then they're in the light and then the timer starts kicking down and they move money every single second, but you do not answer.
I think it really makes them second guess their intelligence and everything they know about themselves in a very serious way. All right, so I had to play. I had Ben walk me through a couple of sample questions. Absolutely.
So we'll ask something like, if you're in a race and you pass the second place person, what place are you in now? I got this. It's got to be first place, right? Wrong.
You would say first place, not so everybody thinks you think first place or first instance. Then if you give it a second look, you realize, oh, yeah, if I pass the second place person, I'm the new second place person, actually. You're not in first yet.
You haven't passed the person in first. So things like that where it's an easy question, but your first instinct, the brain leaves you to think you passed second, you're now in first. So you have to just give your thought prophet a second look before you touch that screen and lock in your answer.
So as an emerging game show host, I ask Ben, if he ever compares himself well to some of the classics. Is he more Alex Trebek or a little Richard Dawson? I'm more Richard Dawson. I love women.
I enjoy the presence of a good woman, and I like to hug and kiss them. And when you're hosting your own show, it's a great opportunity to do that because it would be sort of awkward if they're projecting you like they do to me in real life. But I'd like to mix a little bit of the plaft of Alex Trebek, which might seem
implausible considering the answer I just gave you. How did Ben get started in comedy anyway? How did I start in comedy? I just always sort of been a comedian, I feel like. I had a radio show in high school and a TV show in college called The Blue Show
that I then brought to the National Food Network. And I had a failed television show on NBC years ago called The Real Wedding Crashers. All the while while I was doing stand-up comedy. And then Chelsea Laitman came along and put me on that show for seven years where you're really putting them in the true hot seat with one of the fastest brains
in comedy, Chelsea Handler, and just helped me build my jobs up. And now I get to challenge others and put them in the hot seat. So it's been a long road, but every minute of it has been a lot of fun. Ben Gleib gives you the idiot test. New episodes every Tuesday on the Game Show Network.
And you can catch up a little bit too right now at gsntv.com. That does it for the podcast. By the way, construction almost completed on the brand new Point Pop Culture Network. It kicks off real soon. In the meantime, keep up with us right here on the podcast.
On websites like ComicMix.com, michaeldavisworld.com, and the iTunes podcast directory too. You can always follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram under the Point Radio. And keep in mind, we're coming right back here in a few days. Get the Point Radio.com!
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