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vivica a. fox? >> no, no. ally aware of much of his work before so, i just really thought, you know, he's got a big presense and he's a big guy. >> jimmy: you haven't seen the ma diaw movies? what's going on up in oregon? >> i don't know. not watching a lot of film. >> jimmy: oh, wow. you play a very crazy person named picasso. >> very bad guy. he's a serial killer and sometimes he collects a check for it. so, he likes to do it. he finds great enjoyment in it. >> jimmy: you torture people, you kill people, you do some scuba diving, as well. >> yes. that was the one sequence in the film that really made me nervous. i like to do all the stunts that they'll let me do. and there's this sequence where he enters a building through the water system and that was going to require scuba diving in, like, a two-foot pipe. and i'm a terrible swimmer, i mean -- i didn't learn to swim until very late in life. >> jimmy: how old were you? >> i was, like, 20, 21. >> jimmy: that is late in life. why? why so late? >> i grew up in

a few minutes left to go as always. we wrap it up with best advice. >> today we hear from actress host of prank my mom on lifetime vivica fox. >> the best advice thati say that, it's that i had to learn to accept who i am, be comfortable in my own skin and love me some me. >> love me some me. i love that. i had an opportunity to sit down with her and do an interview her on that prank my mom so i just wanted to give her mother a heads aup. i said would you ever prank your mom? the whole premise is these kids just pull these amazing stunts on their mom and it's horrific. she said absolutely and i'm going to do it in church. so mom, look out. because she's headed to get her. >> she has a ton of energy. that is all for "early start." i'm john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. "starting point" starts right noup >>> good morning, welcome everybody, our "starting point" this morning, race to the finish line. 13 days until election day. president obama and governor romney make their case to swing states. >> you can choose a foreign policy that's reckless and wrong or you can choose one that's steady and strong. >> he calls his campaign slogan forward. i