1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Angela yee. And how exciting is this for me? Terry? 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Where this is this? 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: Here the Start of Him, which is coming out on 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: the nineteenth, September nineteenth. I did get a chance to 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: see it, so I'm not going to give anything away 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 2: that's not in the trailer, but congratulations, like this is 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: an amazing starring role for you. 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, this is on my mind, Like I'm 9 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 3: way up. I feel blessed. 10 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 4: Sorry I had to say that it is a song 11 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 4: I named the show. Yeah, oh really, yeah, I feel blessed. Well, 12 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 4: I'm blessed to be here. 13 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: Well, we're blessed to have you. Thank you for that. 14 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 2: That's definitely who I got the idea for the name 15 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 2: of the show because people kept thinking it was like, 16 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 2: I'm all the way up, oh New York, but I 17 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 2: did you know it was a combination. 18 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 4: But yes, you're from Brooklyn. 19 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: Yes, I'm from Brooklyn. 20 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 3: You're from Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, nine oh four, you know, 21 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 3: in and out of Chicago. So yeah, I'm the only 22 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 3: one from my family from Jacksonville. So I'm Florida boy, 23 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 3: not Florida man. 24 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: No, yeah, there's a big difference difference. 25 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm glad you said that, because I know you've 26 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 2: been in other things. But one episode of you that 27 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 2: I love, of course, is the Atlanta episode. Yeah, listen 28 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: the Wiga episode. 29 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, that was an iconic episode. I actually 30 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 3: went to If you know what the episode's about, it's 31 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 3: about a mixed white passing mixed kid trying to get 32 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 3: into college off of a first generation African American scholarship. 33 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 3: And I actually went to Florida State off of a 34 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: first generation African American scholarship. Yeah, except doctor t Daryl Stark. 35 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 3: Shout out to doctor Stark. He actually gave me the scholarships. 36 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: That's amazing. 37 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 4: He didn't put me through no weird interview process. 38 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,119 Speaker 2: I want to say, looking back at that now and 39 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: how things are being like rolled back and there's no quote, 40 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: there's no affirmative action DEI. They're trying to get rid 41 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 2: of all types of programs for people to be able 42 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: to go to college. And you know that that episode 43 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 2: is even more interesting now, I think just because of 44 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 2: the timing of what's going on in this country. 45 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 3: And I think that's a testament to Donald Glover. He's 46 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 3: he has a finger on the pulse of the culture, 47 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 3: and he's telling stories that you know, my sister, she 48 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 3: was studying at Stanford and they had to break the 49 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 3: episode down and analyze it in a mixed race politics class. 50 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 3: And it just caught me off guard because she just 51 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 3: sent me a picture of the auditorium and then she 52 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 3: asked if I could do a little zoom interview. 53 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: Let her go on ahead and get her props. 54 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: But right, as a matter of fact, my brother's in 55 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: that absolutely. 56 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: You know. It's also just an interesting conversation because I'm also. 57 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: Mixed, right, I'm half Chinese and half black, and some 58 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: people will tell me I can't identify as black because 59 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 2: of that, and or they act like because you're mixed, 60 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: you're not. You know, It's just such a weird thing 61 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 2: to me because I feel like my whole life I've 62 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: grown up and known I was black, and then there'll 63 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 2: be people that tell you how you should identify exactly. 64 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 3: It's that my whole life has been the identity like search, 65 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 3: and I just kind of like talk about it in 66 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 3: terms of like a cafeteria, we never know what's table 67 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 3: to sit at. So I'm white and black, so you're 68 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 3: never white enough ever black enough, and you really I 69 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 3: didn't have any table to sit at, and I think 70 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 3: what Donald Glover did with the episode, he created my 71 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 3: own table to just sit down and own my blackness. 72 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 3: And yes, I definitely acknowledge my privilege and that the 73 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 3: white privilege of it all. And I think that's the 74 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 3: essence of that that film and even going into him. 75 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he called you, what did you call you? 76 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: A big light skin, yellow bone, yellow bone? 77 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 3: That was George Wallace. That was George Wallace. And he's 78 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 3: just improvs. And it's like, I keep working with comedians. 79 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 3: I love it because making fun of me. 80 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, I loved him making fun of me. 81 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 3: I was keem saying it was George Wallace, and they 82 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 3: in that Atlanta episode and they just got to like 83 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 3: really lean in and Donald Glover was throwing things out. 84 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 4: He was telling me, can you do the electric slid? 85 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,119 Speaker 4: Can you do this? Can you do that? But yeah, 86 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 4: even on this film, working. 87 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 3: With three comedians with Marlon Marlan, Tim Hideker and Jim Jefferies, 88 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 3: and he's Australian and the Australians are a whole different 89 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 3: level of funny. 90 00:03:58,120 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: That's hilarious. 91 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 2: Well, but I had to talk about that because you 92 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 2: actually got casted as the lead in Him, and that 93 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: was based off of being on that episode of Atlanta. 94 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, that episode got me in the room. 95 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 3: So Carmen Cuba, who's really good friends with Donald Glover, 96 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 3: reached out to my team while I was shooting a 97 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 3: film in Serbia to meet me, and she was very 98 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 3: like coy about it and really tell me what it 99 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 3: was about. She's let's just have a conversation. And it 100 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 3: was like a two hour conversation about grief, identity loss. 101 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 3: And by the end of that conversation, I'm like crying. 102 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 4: She's crying, and. 103 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 3: I'm working in Serbia at the time, so I'm like 104 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 3: two am. Yeah, it was like it's insane, but I 105 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 3: love Serbia. We shot in like Belgrade, but I had 106 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 3: to finish a whole workday to meet Carmen Cuba. And 107 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 3: then I had a cool meeting with Monkey Paul and 108 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 3: to talk about the script and why I resonated with 109 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 3: the script. 110 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: And that's Jordan Peel's company. 111 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, Jordan Peel's company, Monkey Paul, And it was a 112 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 3: whole process. While I was shooting a film, everything was 113 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: on zoom and they asked me if I could throw 114 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 3: football and I did what any any anytime as an 115 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 3: actor they ask you if you can do something, You're like, yeah, 116 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 3: I figured out because I play a wide receiver and 117 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 3: you don't really play football. 118 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't really have the mechanics of it. So uh. 119 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 4: And then it took like a week to find a football. 120 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 4: And then I. 121 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: Got the wait, you had to find a football in Serbia. 122 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 4: In Serbia, you know how hard it is to find 123 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 4: American football. That's funny in Serbia. 124 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 3: So yeah, I asked the director on his off day 125 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 3: to film like a highlight tape of me throwing the football. 126 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: You got that director to film you throw. 127 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 3: Yeah. 128 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 4: We're good homies. 129 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: Now, but like, I know you have an off day, 130 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: but I just need you to do Yeah. 131 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 4: He shot it. 132 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 3: He was like, we're gonna punch it in here, We're 133 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 3: gonna pull out wide, we're gonna transition, we're gonna swipe here. 134 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 135 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 2: I love that because he wanted to see you win too, 136 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 2: even if it was on a project. 137 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, he was familiar with the script. 138 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 3: And you know, I had one of the PA's play 139 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 3: my wide receiver. Shout out Max Kim. 140 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 4: It takes a village, Yeah, it takes a village. 141 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 2: So well, and I know that you did play, Like 142 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: you said, you did play football. 143 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: You also played football at Florida State, right. 144 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, but you said and I saw an interview that 145 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,799 Speaker 2: you did, I think it was with Tierra Wack. Yeah, 146 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: where you said that you did not feel like you 147 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 2: just loved it enough to want to pursue it in 148 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: the way to become professional at it. 149 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: So it's kind of interesting that you end up in 150 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: this movie. 151 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 2: Where the whole goal is you love it so much 152 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 2: that you want to become the goat and you're willing 153 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 2: to risk even your own life. You know, in the 154 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 2: very beginning, you have a head injury, and I know 155 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 2: that's in the summary of what happens in the movie. 156 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 2: A crazed fan hit you over the head and literally, 157 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 2: like not taking time to heal could have cost. 158 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 1: You your life. 159 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 4: Yeah. 160 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I think when I gave up football, it 161 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 3: was a real awakening for me because I like going 162 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 3: back into the identity crisis. 163 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 4: I got to go to. 164 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 3: College and really decide who I wanted to be as 165 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 3: a person. And I never feel I never felt fulfilled 166 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: playing sports, like because you kind of burn out. I 167 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 3: played sports at such a love for so long and 168 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 3: you know who was I playing sports for? 169 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 4: You know? 170 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 3: And I was trying to prove something to my mom, 171 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 3: you know, or you know, to other coaches. And it 172 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 3: was a pivotal time in my life because I was like, 173 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 3: who is Tyreque? And the first ever Black Student Union 174 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 3: play at Florida State announced to my auditions, and I 175 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 3: decided to turn that fresh Prince of bel Air scene 176 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 3: where he's like, how come you don't love me? 177 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 4: Man about his dad? I turned that into a monologue. 178 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: Wow. 179 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 3: And I auditioned and that was the journey of like 180 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: self discovery because that I got involved on campus Diversity 181 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 3: Inclusion Institute. 182 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 4: I became assistant director. 183 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: For or executive board for the Black Student Union, or 184 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 3: mentor for high school students in the surrounding county to 185 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 3: help guide them into Florida State. So that was a 186 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 3: more holistic experience for me, and I was I was 187 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 3: on a path of learning empathy and sympathy. And I 188 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 3: think that was that did so much for me as 189 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 3: a creative because it taught me the human experience rather 190 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 3: than being in theater school and going to like vocal 191 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 3: lessons and whatnot. 192 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 2: How was it when you decided to walk away from 193 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 2: football because, like you said, you had been playing at 194 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 2: such a high level, and I'm sure you're like, am 195 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 2: I playing for my mom? But how did everybody around 196 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 2: you feel about that decision? Because sometimes people feel like, 197 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 2: what have you changed your mind? Now You've yeah, walked 198 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 2: away from something where it's at the prime of when 199 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 2: you should be really focused on it. 200 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I just kind of muted all the 201 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 3: outside noise because you know, at the end of the day, 202 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 3: I have to lay my head on that pillow and I. 203 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 4: Have to wake up. And those workouts are crazy. 204 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 3: You work out at like five am, and then I 205 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 3: have class at seven and I'm a walk on. 206 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,599 Speaker 4: So I don't get a golf cart to class. I 207 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 4: have to sweat and ride walk on. 208 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 3: Yes, you literally have to walk on, walk to class, 209 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 3: do a full day of classes, two fifteen pm meeting, 210 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 3: team meeting, you have position meeting, and then you have 211 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 3: another meeting, and then you have practice, you have recovery, 212 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 3: and I don't have a tutor. I'm gonna walk on, 213 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 3: so I have to get good grades. But yeah, it 214 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 3: was a process and what it was like to give 215 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 3: it up. It's grief, you know, it's a form of 216 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 3: grief because this this thing that I put value in 217 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 3: for so long, I have to give it up. And 218 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 3: I'm still going through those motions of letting go. And 219 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 3: I think the beauty of me finding this script was 220 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 3: me saying kind of goodbye. 221 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: I have to let it go all the way, all. 222 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 4: The way, you know. 223 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 2: But like skills that you had already, I mean, it 224 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 2: helps you so much in this role of a you know, 225 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 2: number one seed in football player. 226 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I really had to train, and I think that's 227 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 3: the fun part. I got to like really dive into 228 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 3: the quarterback training. 229 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: Training did not look so fun in this movie. 230 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, no, no, but I was. I was. 231 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 4: I was. 232 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 3: I was bleeding football while making this movie, and I 233 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:57,599 Speaker 3: like would wake up. You know those nightmares when you 234 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 3: do something so much, you're like why can't I like 235 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,319 Speaker 3: the dream where you try to fight you can't throw 236 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 3: a punch? 237 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I had that, but throwing the football. 238 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 3: And I was training with Jordan Palmer, who's an NFL 239 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 3: level coach, training like Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and I 240 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 3: got to train with Joe Milton, who just got into 241 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 3: the league like two years ago. So yeah, I really 242 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 3: it was humbling. You show up and you're like, I know, 243 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 3: y'all do this for real. I'm an actor and I 244 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 3: was just like acting. I approached it in a humble. 245 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: Way, you know, and you feel like, man, maybe I 246 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: need to. 247 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 3: Get back, and yeah, when I got a crispy throw, 248 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 3: I was like, you know, I could, you could. 249 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:38,839 Speaker 4: Walk on to. 250 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: The story is also about being a black quarterback, because 251 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 2: that's a whole thing here. 252 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: You know. 253 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 2: Obviously football is like the number one sport here in 254 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 2: the United States, and the black quarterback. That's always like 255 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 2: a conversation that like, we want to support the black 256 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 2: quarterback because it feels like that's a position that is 257 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 2: still kind of yeah, you know, it's a very polarizing things. 258 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think times are changing and he start 259 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 3: to see the talent going to the quarterback position, and 260 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 3: that's why I'm a big Lamar Jackson fan, you know, 261 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 3: Florida boy. But yeah, I think it's iconic to see 262 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 3: that that shift, and you know, knowing Marlon Wayne's the 263 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 3: way he presented himself in this in this character. I 264 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 3: think it's cool because you know, the majority of NFL 265 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 3: players are black men, so it was it was an 266 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 3: honor to hold light to that in this sense. 267 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: How is Marlon Wayne's training? 268 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: I got to ask that because he don't come from 269 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 2: playing football when he was younger, But he did. 270 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: An amazing job. 271 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 2: I mean, he was in shape. When I saw him, 272 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 2: you know, showing his guns up. I was like, all right, 273 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 2: you know we're used to scrownny Marlon Wayne's now yeah, 274 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 2: look at him. 275 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 3: No his training, so he's I'm half his age. But 276 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 3: it didn't feel like that out there. I just I 277 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 3: don't tell him this, but like it's just it felt 278 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 3: like I was training with somebody my age and he 279 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 3: locked in on the physical aspect. But I've never seen 280 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 3: somebody work out like that tough but still be yapping, 281 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 3: Like he just yaps through a workout, you know what 282 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 3: I'm saying. 283 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 4: So everything's a joke to him, no matter how hard 284 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 4: the workout is. 285 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 3: But yeah, it was a friendly, healthy competition, you know, 286 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 3: trying to you know, who can lift the most weight, 287 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 3: who can run the fastest? 288 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: So who was winning those competitions? 289 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 4: You know, I don't think that we need to answer 290 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 4: those questions. You know, it's me. 291 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 2: How much ad living happened on there too? Because those scenes? 292 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 2: Will I tell you those scenes when people watch this 293 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 2: movie for anybody who is even if you're not like 294 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 2: a huge football fan, because I'm not the type of 295 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 2: person that sits at home and watches football. 296 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: So I was watching this movie and I was like, 297 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: we already know that. 298 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 2: Like the training to become the Goat and to become 299 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 2: quote unquote him is intense. It's a lot of sacrifices 300 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,439 Speaker 2: that you have to make and in a way, it 301 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 2: kind of feels like you have to turn off your emotions. 302 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I feel like was like a lot 303 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 3: of ad libbing, and I think with a story like this, 304 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 3: you have to like live in that world. 305 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 4: And shout out to our director Justin Tippin. He just 306 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 4: allowed that freedom. 307 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 3: And you know, Marlon Wayans is untethered in this film 308 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 3: and the things he would say. 309 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 4: I wish they would do a real of all the 310 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 4: stuff they will. 311 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 3: Hopefully I would pay prime dollar to see that, because like, 312 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 3: you just didn't know what he was gonna say. 313 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 4: I broke multiple times. He broke the crew. Uh. 314 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 3: And I think that's the beauty of working with Marlon, 315 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 3: where he's not afraid of anything. He's gonna he's gonna 316 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: if he's gonna fail. He's gonna fail one hundred percent. 317 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 3: But nothing he did failed. Uh, but yeah, it was 318 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 3: you didn't know what type of Marlin you'd get they 319 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 3: do him, and Justin had the little secrets going before 320 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 3: they start a scene, like Justin giving him ideas. 321 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: Uh, there are things you didn't even know it was 322 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: gonna happen. 323 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 324 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 3: There there's so many things that, like we've talked about 325 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 3: where there's one time where he was yelling at me, 326 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 3: but I wasn't like allowing him to affect me. And uh, 327 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,679 Speaker 3: you know, I had this like vest On and I 328 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 3: believe in a happy trail, like, so I. 329 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 4: Kept my happy trail. He was like always like he was. 330 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 3: He was like ill shave that, like take it off, 331 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 3: and I'm like, no, you just it adds layers to 332 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 3: the character. 333 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 4: It's a choice, you know, as an accurate choice. 334 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, well in real life too, I'm just saying, but yeah, 335 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 3: he was angry at me and then he just tries 336 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 3: to like in the middle of a scene, he tried 337 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 3: he grabs my happy trail hair and yanks it, grabs 338 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 3: it like this, and I stayed in there. 339 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: He pulled your hair out. 340 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 3: Yes about it no, no, no, it was like but 341 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 3: it was like the freedom like I think when you 342 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 3: have a healthy relationship with your co star, you can 343 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 3: just you know, let's go there, you know what I'm saying, 344 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 3: and like nothing. It was very few things off limits, 345 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 3: you know. 346 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 2: So in the movie you really look up to him, 347 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 2: like your character he's like but he's also the person 348 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 2: that you're about to replace, just so people know, so 349 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 2: you go to train with him. 350 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: You guys filmed this at a NASA station. 351 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 3: I read somewhere some aircraft warehouse in Albuquerque, and it 352 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 3: was like really cold in the mornings, uh, and then 353 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 3: really hot during the day when the sun got up. 354 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 4: So yeah, it was some empty warehouse they had to 355 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 4: clear out. 356 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 2: I can't imagine going somewhere and they tell you, okay, 357 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 2: you're not going to have your phone. Yeah, because as 358 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 2: soon as you check in, they take your phone from 359 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 2: you and you can't. 360 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 4: What do they call it? Radical detachment? 361 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, radical detachment. Have you ever tried that? 362 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 3: During this film, I went radical detachment on like carbs, cars, cars, because. 363 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 4: You have in social media, social media. 364 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 3: I was just honed in on the performance in getting 365 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 3: things right. So I think the radical detachment I've never 366 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 3: done it to that level where you like took my phone. 367 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 4: I would never let anybody take my phone. 368 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're in that day and age. 369 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 2: Now we leave the house of the phone, we feel naked. 370 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 2: I don't know what I gotta go home exactly. You know, 371 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 2: as I'm thinking about all of this and like what 372 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 2: you said about radical detachment from carbs, because the focus 373 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 2: is very much on your body also in this in 374 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 2: this movie, and that is so true about any type 375 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 2: of athlete, Like your body is really a commodity, and 376 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 2: that's part of the theme of this as well, like 377 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 2: just being able to push yourself to the limit, do 378 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: things that you never thought that you could do before. 379 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 2: And part of it is also like and you know, 380 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 2: this does show you how brutal football is, because I 381 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 2: think that's a real conversation that people have been having 382 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 2: for so long. You know, what do you think football 383 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 2: fans are going to think about this when they see 384 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 2: it because it's such a like it's a great it's 385 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 2: and obviously it's just a movie, but it also is 386 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 2: like who it was very intense. 387 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the loneliness of being an athlete too, 388 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 3: Like bigger than football, where it's like you are you 389 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 3: are only as good as your body will allow you, 390 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 3: and you can push it and push it. One of 391 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 3: my favorite receivers, so we've seen Odell Beckham junior, like 392 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 3: really who's one of the most iconic receivers, but his 393 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 3: body playing on turf just couldn't keep up his a 394 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 3: cl So yeah, I think that's the loneliness of it, 395 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 3: because you're you can want to be the greatest of 396 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 3: all time. 397 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,159 Speaker 4: And I know many players who had knee. 398 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 3: Injuries just because like they trained so much and they 399 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,880 Speaker 3: can't help it. And so yeah, I think I pray 400 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 3: that any athlete who watches this feel scene. I think 401 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 3: they're they're going to enjoy the level of intensity that 402 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 3: we brought to the sport of football and the respect 403 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 3: we brought. And I tried to be honest and truthful 404 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 3: in that, and you know, I think it's a testament 405 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 3: to somebody just just trying to reach that level of greatness. 406 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 2: Right, what is what was the hardest scene for you 407 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 2: to film? Because, like we said this, you know a 408 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 2: lot of training, a lot of Yeah. 409 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think the hardest scene for me, I'm 410 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 3: going through the movie, like watching. 411 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: The movie in my head like this was a tough day. 412 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, tough day. 413 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 2: I said, do you remember the last upper scene, the 414 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 2: last separate scene or I was. 415 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 4: Talking about my father who passed away? 416 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, yeah, Okay. 417 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 3: That one was a tough one because of the subject matter, 418 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 3: my characters talking about his father who passed away. And 419 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 3: you know, I think I carried grief with me, justin 420 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 3: Tipping Cary's grief, Marlon Carrey's grief. And you know, I 421 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 3: went into that that scene thinking it was just like 422 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 3: me talking to reporters about my dad. And I was like, Yeah, 423 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 3: it's gonna be it's gonna be great, heart out yeah. 424 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 3: And then Justin was like, hey, I want you to 425 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 3: go there, like unload the clip on this this scene. 426 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, like just put it all 427 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 3: out there. And I was like, you want me to 428 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,199 Speaker 3: do what? And I think, as a man, you're not 429 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 3: taught vulnerability. And I think this is what this scene 430 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 3: is about, is athletes go through so much and we 431 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 3: forget their humans. They are mosaics of their past experience 432 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 3: and the trauma, the good, the bad, and you know, 433 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 3: just because they they play professional sports or sports at 434 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 3: a high level doesn't take from that, and uh, you know, 435 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,439 Speaker 3: having that healthy conversation with Justin, you know, I shoot 436 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 3: the scene and it's not there. It's not authentic and 437 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 3: I never forced emotion and it has to come from 438 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 3: a real place. And Justin just had a real conversation 439 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 3: like where he what this scene meant to him? And 440 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 3: he came he lost his dad, and I realized that, 441 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:22,959 Speaker 3: oh that was this scene. 442 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 4: This movie is a love letter to his father. 443 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 3: As this movie, I feel like it's a love letter 444 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 3: to my brother, my older brother who passed and for 445 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 3: Marlin his parents. 446 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 4: Uh. 447 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 3: And I think that level of empathy was was pushed 448 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 3: on to me and uh yeah, it pushed me to 449 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 3: a place where it pushed me into a real place. 450 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 3: And what you see on that screen, I mean it 451 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 3: isn't acting because I just was able to really really 452 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 3: feel where Cameron was coming from with that grief. 453 00:19:53,880 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 4: And part of that was. 454 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 3: It was improv and me talking to my brother, you know, 455 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 3: and it was just emostly taxing, but in a healthy way. 456 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 3: And when Justin was telling me about his dad, when 457 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 3: I finished, he was like, thank you. So many athletes 458 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 3: are going to be able to look at this and 459 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 3: feel seen. And you know something, something I've been watching 460 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 3: recently is tennis, and I see Cocoa golf and she 461 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 3: she has emotion on the court and it's so beautiful 462 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 3: to watch because she's such a dominant player. 463 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 4: She is a human being. 464 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 2: She's a human and we see like when Naomi Osaka 465 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 2: was like I have to step away for a while 466 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 2: and sometimes and then people would act like she's like 467 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 2: a spoiled bread. 468 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to protect the mental because if your 469 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 3: mental is not like there, like your body can't follow 470 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 3: and you can't perform, and then people people have their 471 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 3: opinions about how you perform, what is this? 472 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 4: What is that? And it's just it's exhausting. 473 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 3: So yeah, that scene was one that I hope people 474 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 3: really resonate with. 475 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a very emotional and that acting was 476 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,199 Speaker 2: like top tier. So now that when I see it 477 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 2: in the theaters, yeah it'll. 478 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: Be I think I'll connect and resonate with that scene. 479 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 4: It was a. 480 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: Journey because we were like next to an air craft place. 481 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 3: I don't know it was an airport, but mid tiers 482 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 3: and it's not all your hear is like a plane flyover, 483 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 3: and so I had to like stop and like stay 484 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 3: in it and then wait because for the sound and 485 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 3: then pick back up where I left off. 486 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 4: And so it was. It was some obstacles during that film. 487 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 4: I meant that that scene. 488 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: So yeah, oh listen, people are gonna love this so much. 489 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 2: It looks like and I'm looking at early predictions, but 490 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 2: they are expecting it's gonna be the number one movie and. 491 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 4: God's Ears and that's what it's saying. 492 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 2: Even from the low end to that high end, it's 493 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 2: looking like a number one film. How does it feel 494 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 2: to be in you know, it's not there yet, but 495 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. So how does that feel for you 496 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 2: knowing that you're about to be in the number one 497 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:01,719 Speaker 2: box office? 498 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 4: Wow? That lord? Yeah, it's a blessing. You know. At 499 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 4: the end of the day, it's about did I go 500 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 4: out there and give it all? 501 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 3: And did I come from a real place? And I 502 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 3: think that's what I'm chasing is art that heals me 503 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 3: so I can heal others. 504 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 4: You know. 505 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 3: James Balwin talks about that, and I think I'm just yeah, 506 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 3: I'm blessed. And no matter what this film does, I 507 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 3: hope people can watch it and really really feel where 508 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 3: we're coming from. 509 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 2: You have even though your career in TV and film 510 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 2: has not been that, you've had some like I think 511 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 2: iconic moments already, so and this one in particular. When 512 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 2: people see this, it's a whole another level. And so 513 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 2: congratulations to you. I think they did a great job 514 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 2: on casting you for it. 515 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: You did an amazing job. 516 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 2: Marlon Wayans was absolutely like I've never seen a Marlin. 517 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 3: You actually had to do it like a fight scene 518 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 3: for my audition. I had to fight, Marlon. Can you imagine? 519 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 4: Imagine fight for it? 520 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: We need to see that footage in that case. Do 521 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: you watch horror movies? 522 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 4: Yeah? 523 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 3: I do, not a lot, but it's weird how they 524 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 3: found me. But I think horror so iconic because you 525 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 3: have to watch it with people. Don't have to watch 526 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 3: it with people, but you enjoy it best when you 527 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 3: have a group. 528 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 4: Because you know something scared together, scared together, you know. 529 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 3: Like I'm a big baby, I get scared really easy. 530 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 3: Uh So, Yeah, that's what I love about it. And 531 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 3: it's escapism and it delivers messages in organic ways that 532 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 3: has you thinking. Especially a Jordan Peel film, and this 533 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 3: one's produced by Jordan Piel and uh, you know, justin 534 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 3: Tipping took the baton and really pushed it over that 535 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 3: line to keep that creativity alive. 536 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 4: And I think this is. 537 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 3: It's scary, both like literally but also figuratively, and it 538 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 3: has you thinking after you see the film. 539 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 2: Did you what did you think that the first time 540 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 2: you watched it after you were done, when it was 541 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 2: in final cut. 542 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, I went on verbal. I was processing it all. 543 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 3: I got to watch it with Marlon and his family. 544 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 3: They were like, oh, you get a plus one into 545 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 3: the screen, Marlon, Bryce's whole family, plus twenty of them. 546 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,719 Speaker 3: It's a lot of them. So I'm excited. I'm excited 547 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 3: to see this premiere. How many tickets he got to 548 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 3: the premiere? Did he get more than me? 549 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 4: He probably got double my tickets. 550 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: He's got more than me. 551 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, he definitely got more than me. It was just okay, 552 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 3: But yeah, it was like a roller coaster. 553 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 4: You know. I talk about how it's it was. 554 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 3: It was a very hypnotic experience because you're like, you 555 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 3: shoot this thing and you know what you've done. 556 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 4: But when it comes together in the. 557 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 3: Post production, it's it's beautifully crafted and from the sound 558 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,959 Speaker 3: design to the music to the cinematography to the set design, 559 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 3: and yeah, it was like going into it for a 560 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 3: roller coaster. I'm like, please, hopefully I'm good in it, 561 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 3: you know, and you just get lost in the story. 562 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,719 Speaker 4: And finishing, you know. 563 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 3: When you get off the roller coaster, you're like, I 564 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 3: want to get back on and right again and again. 565 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 4: And I wanted to see it again. I've only seen 566 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 4: it once. 567 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 1: Well, did you critique yourself a lot? 568 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 4: Oh? Absolutely, you felt like. 569 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: You did a great job because you did well. 570 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm proud of the workout. I did certain parts. 571 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 2: I couldn't even look at it. There's some gory things 572 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 2: in there. Guys. There's that machine just so you know, 573 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 2: with the football it's like wheels. 574 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: I was like, I can't even look at this. 575 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 4: That's good, that's good. But yeah, I started to realize, 576 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 4: like I can't. 577 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,479 Speaker 3: When I'm critiquing myself, I tell myself, it's exactly what 578 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 3: it needed to be at that time. And if I 579 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 3: were to do that same movie now, it wouldn't be 580 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 3: the same movie, you know, And that movie, this movie 581 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 3: found me in such a iconic place where where I'm 582 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 3: at my career is kind of like where Cameron Kid 583 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 3: is in his career where you get this major opportunity 584 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 3: and you want to perform not only for yourself, but like, 585 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 3: you know, my nephew has to eat, you know, like 586 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 3: I'm trying to put him through private school, give him 587 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 3: an experience at me and my brother didn't get so yeah. 588 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,479 Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you so much for coming up here. 589 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 2: I know you have a really tight schedule. But what 590 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 2: the movie you were filming in Serbia was that Reminders 591 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 2: of Him? 592 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 3: No, that was a family secret that hasn't come out yet. 593 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 3: I shot Reminders of Him in Calgary, Canada, and it 594 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 3: comes out. 595 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: I just said all these hymn things, reminders. 596 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 4: Of him the universe. 597 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I only do movies with him and the 598 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 3: title that's in my contract. That's in my contract. You 599 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 3: have to switch the title up. So yeah, and you 600 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 3: have a coffee shop. 601 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: Yes I do. 602 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta stop by. 603 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: Oh please, we would love to have any time coffe 604 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: up lest people. 605 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,360 Speaker 4: Do my research. I love coffee, you do, yeh. That's 606 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 4: all I could drink when I was working. 607 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 3: Out the water, black coff I know you're going, I'm 608 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 3: obsessed with black coffee. 609 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: Okay, I got you. 610 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 2: If you make sure you guys, get some so you 611 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 2: can have some and drink the coffee. I appreciate that, 612 00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 2: but thank you so much for joining me Tyreek with 613 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 2: his guys. Make sure you check out the movie him 614 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 2: September nineteenth. Go see it in theaters, okay, because I 615 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,479 Speaker 2: had to watch it on my little laptop. 616 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:07,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was amazing there. 617 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 2: I can't even imagine now what it's going to be 618 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 2: like on the Imax there. 619 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 4: Then go see it again. 620 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. 621 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 2: And those are the theaters also where you get to 622 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 2: sit back and your comfortable seats or the food, although 623 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 2: you might not be able to eat the food because 624 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,360 Speaker 2: of some of the scenes that you're going to see here. 625 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 4: But you know, no texting during the movie. 626 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 1: No texting during the movie. 627 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 2: They're gonna take your phones radical detachment, radically see. 628 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 4: We should have them standing at the door taking from now. 629 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: I don't do that. 630 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 2: People are horrified by that. 631 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: All right, well, Tyreek, I appreciate you, Thank you so much. 632 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 4: Thank you. 633 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: It's way up