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April 25, 2025 11 mins

David Arquette and Danny A stop by to talk new movies 'Mob Cops', 'The Perfect Gamble' and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have one with Mario Lopez Teverye.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Mario Lopez joining right now in studio, a couple of
friends of mine, mister Danny, Yeah, you and David or Kett.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
How are you telling me what's going on? You buddy,
You're doing well?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Thank you, and I know you were on my show
Access Daily and Access Hollywood. We're repurposing, We're blowing up
Mob Cops. Sally here and I love that you guys
have teamed up now for a couple of films. This
one that is going to be hitting both theaters and
on demand.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Mob Cops.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm very excited about because it's based on a shoe
story and it essentially evolves some dirty cops.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Right Yeah, Yeah, probably the most corrupt case in the
history of the NYPD eighties and nineties. Yeah, it's a
really a crazy story.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
How challenging is it to do period piece in that era?
It's very challenging.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I mean that's why I shot the movie in LA
I didn't take it to New York and New York.
I have to close down streets, permits, all the cars
and wardrobe, and then you have to really like figure
out how you you know, there's so many moving things
when you shoot in the city itself, with the noise
and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
We decided to shoot.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
It all in La exterior stuff was shot and Warner
Brothers on the New York lots over there, and it.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Just made it much easier.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's very difficult to the cars, the wardrobe, all of
that stuff, the unions.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
The.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Mob coming after us.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
From what I see though, David, look, it's great man.
I mean, you've had your fair share of playing cops before.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Are you a shady cop in this is like.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
My first crooked cop. I've played so many cops, like,
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
We played literally like.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Half of the films I've done I've been a cop.
But uh yeah, so this is the first real cooking cop.
That was an interesting thing. And Jeremy Luke's amazing in it.
He plays the other mob cop, the other cookie cop,
and it's funny because it's not a comedy in any way.
But for us, I'm kind of like his straight man.
I'm the quieter one. Other two he's sort of the loud,

(02:00):
boisterous one. So it's fun to sort of take that
approach to my My guy was we have bo Diedle
in the movie he was a legendary and really officer.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Quite a good actor. Amaly Mo.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, but we could turn to him because he had
worked with him, he knew him. That's why we could
turn right to him and say what was this guy?
Like what do you think he'd do? And blah blah.
There's one part where my character I get like they
they they're getting paid by the mom they're starting to
make money. But my choice was just to like get glasses. Like,
my guy's not flashy at all. He doesn't get a

(02:35):
new car, he doesn't get anything, but he got these glasses.
So I put these glasses on. And I hadn't see
with Boddle, and I could tell bos was like a
little kind of annoyed by what he's like off camera.
He's like, well, why are you wearing those classes? I
was like, because New York cops don't really wear glasses

(02:56):
like some other kind of cops. Otherwears.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
We can't YPD don't wear class. Wait a minute, but
you can't see, you can't work.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
It's like a fed thing. It's like, yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
More like you're out there struggling like the worst.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I mean you exactly. You did have a good stash
though I saw that, yes, not a bad stash. That
was not a bad stas not a bad stash.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
And it's interesting you mentioned Boddle and he was a
real life cop and coincidentally during the same era that
the film takes place, and made the transition, of course,
to be an actor, which reminds me of you, Danny,
who was like sort of the king of nightlife and
made this transition to get an entertainment industry.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Why are you signing, I'm saying that's fascinating.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
No one, that's sound like an easy you know, Hey,
I'm club one minute, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
What, I think I'm gonna get an acting That usually
doesn't happen. Well, I always wanted to be an actor.
He's just the club stuff. Was like, I gotta pay
some bills until I become this a you know what
I mean? But no, I started with the So was
that deal? Okay? I didn't know. You just woke up
one d you know what, that's good to try the
second thing.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
So always, you know, So as a kid, I went
on all these auditions. I did a couple of music videos,
school play. I wanted to be an actor.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Realized, you know, it's not that easy.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I've never really been to Hollywood.
And then I got into the club business and I succeeded,
so I kept staying in it. But the focus is
always like figuring out how I can actually start doing
what I really love doing. And then eventually, slowly I
did a short film and and and a couple of friends,

(04:31):
you know, casting me in the small little roles here
and there, and just got you know, used to being
on set, and decided to make my first film.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
And that's what happened.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
And now I'm here, good for you, sitting with you.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I love that story.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
I went from actor to a club owners.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
He went out, he went, he went from being in
the biggest movie of the year into like running fellow.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hey and wrestling. I love it. What's next? Oh well?
Both was as of the clown that's right, right, Yeah,
you knew that. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, bosos coming back, Happy clowns coming back.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Now scary clown Now, what do you make of the
connotation that most people are scared?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
A lot of people scared of clowns? Yeah, I know,
I know, not scary though scary clowns aren't typically like
actually real clowns. Clowns bring you joy and happiness, make
you laugh. But we do this thing called Bob Baker
Day and there's Poncho who's an amazing uh clown and
tattoo artists at Spotlight Tattoo. And he said to me

(05:41):
at the end of the day, he was like, David,
you were a good clown today.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
It's like, yeah, you made a lot of kids happy
and you scared a few. That's what a good clown does.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Balance. Yeah, my God, tell me about this other film
called The Perfect.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh, so David's actually in it as well. The Perfect
Gamble is a movie that we shot last summer and
in Georgia, mostly in Georgia, and uh it comes out
in late August, beginning of September. It's guy David Arquette
and Daniella Peake Tarantino, Quentin's wife. That's her first acting job.

(06:24):
She's great in it. Subbining Film picked it up and
we're very, very excited. So the premiere and the release
should be beginning of September.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
And an amazing actor named Danny Ave.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Me and him play like buddies, like two very good
friends from New York who end up moving to Georgia
and opening an underground casino and getting caught up with
the with the Russian mob there and paying you know.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Really hard to act like his friend though, So that
took I really had.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I think my favorite part about the movie is just
our relationship.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
We just really it's it was playing such a blast
on this on the set, man, I can't imagine it was.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
It did never come by set.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
He didn't come to set. Uh, But we worked with him,
me and David and Daniella, just on on on the
on the script, you know, going over the lines and uh.
In the editing room he was he was very helpful
and gave us some good some notes.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's cool, man, that is awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
And David, you're talking about playing a cople lot and
you're gonna returning to one of your classic characters, Dewey,
which is ironic because he appeared to have died.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
But in horror films, I guess anything, anything possible.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Flashback flash burned the week of the resurrection, So oh
is it a flashback?

Speaker 4 (07:44):
I can't really do I discuss the particulars of it.
But I got to work with Kevin Williamson, the writer
of the original, and like created this whole universe. So yeah,
it was an honor to work with him.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's awesome all these years and and Dan, I just
want to make sure I get to this because I
just find it fascinating. I know you recently directed another
film called twelve Hours in October, regarding the events on
October seventh.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, in Israel, Man, I can't wait to see it.
How was it being from Israel? How was it just
visiting that content and telling that story?

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
My god?

Speaker 3 (08:18):
So yes, it was very, very difficult to make this film.
I shot it in Israel. Lionsgate picked it up, and
I didn't realize how hard it was going to be,
just because I wanted to take I wanted to look
at it just as a film and go scene by scene.
But just you know, when you have all these people

(08:40):
that went through this, because we shot it in Israel,
so all the actors and all the extras were there
and really experienced it and bringing it all back and
really showing it. It's not a documentary where it's only
the aftermath. We're showing the actual act of what happened
and Reh having to redo it and we create it.
It really was difficult. I mean, we had we had

(09:00):
actors that that got going to panic attacks, and we
had psychiatrists and psychologists on set and really like but
people were really passionate to make sure that we say,
you know, we do it at the at the highest
level and really really do it right. And the movie
came out great. I actually screened it for Lionsgate couple
days ago and they're looking to release it hopefully on

(09:22):
October seven, two years of the day.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Oh wow. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
And you know, and this movie was made from passion
and love and and even just the raising the money
for you know, I told all my investors if one
of them here, Eli Weise, my buddy. I explained to
the investors, I was like, we probably, you know, this
movie might not.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Get a distribution deal.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
It's a very difficult subject, you know. And they were like,
you know, we're doing it for the right reasons. We
got to make this film no matter what happens. And
then lions Gate stepped up and really understood what it
was and and we're really excited for the world to
see it. It's it's called twelve was in October because
it we really just concentrate on the first twelve hours
from six twenty nine am to six twenty nine pm

(10:05):
and and follow what happened at the Nova and and
and the Kibboots and Barry.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
I cannot wait to see it.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
And I think Americans, to put it in perspective, it
would be like correct me if I'm wrong, almost like
if people came to Coachella right to the music's resolutely
and something which is really just kind of his mind
blowing when you think about it.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
So I congrats, look forward to that.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
In the meanwhile, we're gonna be sure to check out
Mob Cops with Danny and David.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
We also got Kevin Connolly I know in it.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Kevin Connyoddrenzo Denucci, got Jeremy Luke, Joey Ruts. I want
to give a shout out to everybody Man Layla, so
many great people, Lynn and Grahame Sibley. Everyone deserves a
big hand.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Barry Markowitz time.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
No, we this movie.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
We're really proud of it.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
And I think I think that once people see it tonight,
I'm I'm excited that you're coming. Yeah, thank you, thank
you for coming. And and uh and we're really excited
because this is this is a good one, you know,
sometimes you know, you make a film and you're proud
of it, and not a lot of people get to
see it. Because this is you know, Grindstone and lines Gate.
I think people are really going to be able to
see it and really find it. It will be fun.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Well, it is available now, check it out. And also
the Perfect Gamble, which is going to be coming soon. Gentlemen,
thanks for stopping by.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Thank you Mario.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Can I just take one second to say, yeah, Mario Lopez,
so impressive with your workoutthic all you do.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
I don't mean to be like puffing you up, but
I really am like blowing away. No one works.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
On works hard.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Thanks buddy. Well you know you got supporter of me.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I love you

Speaker 2 (11:52):
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