You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome Sho Murray joy not Sean May Joyna. Welcome to the show. Thank you, thank you, so good to have you here. You you are experiencing a trajectory that few people have ever experienced. Obviously, people love you on Cobra Kai. You know, every outlet from a news all the way through to like every publication online is just like you all. I think I read somewhere they said you are the Internet's boyfriend. The
Internet's boyfriend. Okay, that's I haven't heard that one before. I should have heard it either. Maybe wrote that maybe she was she was. I think maybe she was putting in a good word for me. But you really are having a great run. Congratulations. I mean Cobra was the season five now season five? Yeah, yeah, I hope we get to do an it seems like five season to see that you will. It's a very popular show. I've always wondered this, you know, because the show is so popular.
I grew up watching The Karate Kid, right, and then I see this show and then you're on it, and I'm like, you weren't even alive when The Karate Kid came out. I was barely alive. When the Jaden Smith one came out, I know I had seen it though, I mean, it's it's pivotal, Okay, yeah, like everyone has seen it, right I I yeah, it's it definitely. Is is something that only until the show had released did I realize was so close to so many people's hearts. It's like it's it's it's part of the law, it's
part of you know, it went around the world. It's like they got their own Marvel Cinematic universe. They're bringing people from the past there. Yeah, there, it doesn't feel like that. Let's talk a little bit about the show itself. You know, you you you're learning martial arts and everything. You're learning your characters. Do you do you actually learn because I like how people get to learn the stuff on the shows they're doing. Can you fight? I can fight? Yeah?
I don't know if I can fight. Well, I think if I were to be in the fight in real life, I'd be like, can you throw it with the other hand? I'd only know how to block it on this Yeah, if there's a camera, I'll beat you up right now, exactly exactly exactly. But uh, you know, I was very fortunate that the character didn't know karate either at the beginning,
so I was able to play it along. Like I remember being in the chemistry read and and faking that I couldn't do a push up, and they were like, this guy is hilarious, this guy's these guys are a guy And I was like, this timing, But now you've gotten better, but now I can do a push up. Yes, um, you know the show was beloved. You are also somebody who people are getting to know. You've You've You've had a really interesting journey. I mean, you started acting at
the age of ten. I believe, like, how are you normal? I as honestly, I feel like a lot of child stars aren't well adjusted, and as they grow up they become they become like and I understand what happens to them. I'm blaming them. But you seem normal. You know. I met your mom. She's great, and she's like you all, yeah, she's normal as well, you know, I think. I mean, I went to a public school most of my life. I like, I I even in high school. I was I kept along with the curriculum. I was in a
regular high school. I I and my my core group of friends are the friends that I've had for the longest time, I think. And I was also really blessed that Cobra Kai blew up over the pandemic. So I wasn't I wasn't out and about. There wasn't like walking around with you know, the stranger things kids like, oh god, take pictures. It was it was I was at home, like, oh man, going to Trader Jones with my mask, like
you guys, do you know? Yeah, it's it's it's it's been so cool to see you your rise, because I mean, obviously Cobra Kai's gate, but now I mean to be a superhero. This is this is almost everyone's dream. You know. DC tapped you as the Blue Beetle, which is historic. And what's so impressive is that you they can't ask you too audition for the role. No, I think, you know. I was very fortunate. I had met the director on him, Manto, Who's who's you know. I I give him credit for
all of this because he really believed in me. And uh. I had met him at at Sundance a few years prior to the movie, and and I guess I left somewhat of an impression. And he had watched the show, and he was like, I think this is perfect. And obviously we had had conversations. It wasn't like I got a call like you got it, you're the guy, and I was like, yes, that would that would be okay. A package got sensed with the scaup no no, no um.
But we had conversations about it, and I think we were really on the same page with what the movie. What the movie meant, you know, not only to myself and him, but to the greater community, the greater uh you know, Brown community community, and and we're on the same page. So we're like, let's do it. It means
so much the community. It also means so much just see somebody as young as you in an industry that for so long was defined in a certain way, redefining what that industry is, you know, I wanted to even beyond how people perceive you, how do you process the world that you in, you know, with social media, with all these things, because the previous generation of actors and and celebrities didn't have to deal with that. Do you have a find that there's a lot of pressure to
be in two worlds. You can't just focus on what you do. You have to focus on how people see you online or is that just part of your life. Yes, I think it definitely is something to think about. But also I'd like to have fun. I like I, I definitely have a big proponent of like, you can't you can't take yourself too seriously like I, I would love to do Vogue and stuff like that. But also I pull out my but cheeks all the time, like I. I.
I'm definitely a normal twenty one year old. And I and my family was super like they are also always like just you're also a kid, like you can be a kid and that's okay. And and obviously there's a sense of professionalism that comes with being in this industry, but that all kind of came naturally working around adults
all the time. And the first show that I ever worked on for a couple of years, uh, was the show called Parentet, and I was around only adults, so it was it was kind of odd being around like Ray Romano or these guys, and I was just like, yeah, we're we're having regular conversations. Yeah, these are my co workers. And then I would go back to school, like nobody would believe me because nobody as a middle school or watched Parenthood. They were like, so they were like, my
mom's cry to you, but I don't. I don't know this. So I I was, you know, with the social media, I've been able to uh kind of just do me. I like that. I like, I think that's a great modo for life. It's like, you know, do what you do, work really hard, but always remember to pull your butt cheeks out, always remember to pull your buchias out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she said. The show shot money is going to everybody.
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