Speaker 1: You're listening to playback a Variety I Heart Radio podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Variety Awards editor Chris Tapley. This week,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to an actor named Brian Tyree. Henry Brian
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite actors working right now. You
Speaker 1: probably know him from TV's Atlanta, plays paper Boy on
Speaker 1: the show Emmy nominee, but he's all over the place
Speaker 1: this year. In addition to that, on the big screen.
Speaker 1: He's in White Boy, Rick, He's in Widows, He's in
Speaker 1: Barry Jenkins. If Beal Street could talk, where he delivers
Speaker 1: one of the finest performances of the year, and it's
Speaker 1: he's literally in it for ten minutes. And he's a
Speaker 1: voice in Spiderman into the spider Verse, which is out
Speaker 1: now as well. Uh, you know, this podcast is landing
Speaker 1: in that lull between OSCAR voting concluding and the nominations
Speaker 1: which will be announced next week. And look, if I
Speaker 1: had like a plea for the universe, it would be
Speaker 1: that this guy would somehow slide in for his work.
Speaker 1: Nfbl Street could talk the longest of long shots, but
Speaker 1: strange things have happened. We got Michael Shannon that popped
Speaker 1: in for Revolutionary Road a few years back. I don't
Speaker 1: think many people saw like Maggie Jillenhall coming for Crazy Heart,
Speaker 1: for instance, so you never know, uh, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that he blew my mind. It's one of the
Speaker 1: most electric things I've seen on a big screen this year,
Speaker 1: and I was so stoked to finally catch up to him.
Speaker 1: So here's my conversation with Brian. You can see all
Speaker 1: the traffic here exactly and see what rights the end
Speaker 1: of the day, and and it's not it's like I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm trying to figure out l A traffic
Speaker 1: and I'm like, so it's all the time basically from
Speaker 1: two o'clock. Ye Hawaii man, it's kind of like all
Speaker 1: my inspired stuff right now. Chicken us Yeah, there No.
Speaker 1: I was filming um Godzilla Versus calling in for a
Speaker 1: week and a half and so like I was able
Speaker 1: to like rowing around and like you'd like to see
Speaker 1: the locals and like chills the chickens because there were
Speaker 1: five chickens that just run around and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is great, this is really dope. It was like
Speaker 1: it's a chicken next in my car. There was one
Speaker 1: point I was trying to get in my car and
Speaker 1: there was like literally like five chickens behind my car
Speaker 1: and like they were like crowing, and I was terrified
Speaker 1: to get in my car because it was like, that's
Speaker 1: a game and I'm not gonna mess with the chicken
Speaker 1: at all. Like the roosters and stuff to wake you
Speaker 1: up like five in the morning, they're ready to party. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kawaii has them all over the place. I know, I did.
Speaker 1: I did not know that was gonna happen. But there
Speaker 1: was one point on the island and the chickens. There
Speaker 1: were chickens and straight hats and like they got along. Like.
Speaker 1: I was like, so the cats aren't gonna like it's
Speaker 1: like free game West Side Story. Yeah, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: they actually like respect each other. That's funny. We're rolling
Speaker 1: all right, Okay everyone, I'm here today with Brian Tyree Henry.
Speaker 1: He's a star of about thirty five movies this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna talk about all he's all over
Speaker 1: the place. You know him from Atlanta for sure. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's in movies. White Boy. Rick Widows of Beal Street
Speaker 1: can talk Spider Man into the spider Verse, which is
Speaker 1: blowing up the pot. The almost called it the podcast podcast.
Speaker 1: I got the podcast on my box office right now.
Speaker 1: People are loving that movie. That movie is awesome. But anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the show, and of course
Speaker 1: I really appreciate. It's good to be here. Man. Um.
Speaker 1: Before I get to some of that stuff, I just
Speaker 1: want to talk about where you came from. I mean, Fayetteville.
Speaker 1: It's my neck of the woods, really believe it or not. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I met. My whole family is from the east side
Speaker 1: of North Carolina, north of Charlotte. Yeah, so you know
Speaker 1: all about cook and all that good stuff. I'll say.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I missed those. Um. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's home born and raised. For the most part, I
Speaker 1: spent time in Faytteville. I was born in Cape Valley
Speaker 1: Hospital in uh Fayeville, North Carolina, and then I spent
Speaker 1: a bit poor part of my life in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: As well. So like all my sisters and my niece
Speaker 1: and nephews are all there in d C and UH,
Speaker 1: but Fayetville, North Carolina is definitely home. That's that's the hometown.
Speaker 1: And then morehouse. So we were probably passing each other
Speaker 1: on five dude, but were like living next to each
Speaker 1: other what we find out we were like neighbors and
Speaker 1: like in the same ap class. Um, yeah, man in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Man still home to me too, And I love Atlanta
Speaker 1: so much. So that's what it's so great to be
Speaker 1: able to do Atlanta. It's like, oh, like the even
Speaker 1: the title of the show, I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is definitely gonna be one of the best times
Speaker 1: in my life because Atlanta was the best time in
Speaker 1: my life. Like it's where I basically discovered that this
Speaker 1: is what I wanted to do. Tell me about that.
Speaker 1: What was that like discovery? Like for you was it early?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like people always ask about
Speaker 1: I always want to be an actor, and if that
Speaker 1: was something I want to do, it wasn't you know,
Speaker 1: Like for me, it seemed like something very unobtainable, you know,
Speaker 1: like because you know, I grew up in front of
Speaker 1: the television, Like the television pretty much raised me, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I was in a house full of adults, so
Speaker 1: pretty much was left to my own devices. And that
Speaker 1: device happened to be the television and the remote control
Speaker 1: and so um, I didn't see me up there, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't really see any any anybody that like was
Speaker 1: from like a little podunt town, like not that Famil's product.
Speaker 1: I don't need you An'll screaming at me and here
Speaker 1: this um but you know, like a little town, um
Speaker 1: well in a little city that that represented me, that
Speaker 1: that you know, had the upbring that I had, or
Speaker 1: like told the stories that I saw happening in front
Speaker 1: of me. So acting wasn't anything I thought I was
Speaker 1: gonna do, but it was like a mote of survival,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because like here I have
Speaker 1: all these adults having these adult conversations and having these
Speaker 1: adult things going on and then them and I just
Speaker 1: always wanted to be a part of what that was.
Speaker 1: So the storytelling aspect was always in me. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't until I got to Morehouse that um uh. Good
Speaker 1: friends of mine that I'm still friends with this day,
Speaker 1: we're like, um, why are you sitting in this class?
Speaker 1: I think I was like studying for business at the time,
Speaker 1: and I hated it so bad, like it and it
Speaker 1: was over like overbooked, you know how like classes are
Speaker 1: like packed to the masses, So like there was like
Speaker 1: thirty of us in desks and then thirty of us
Speaker 1: standing in this classroom and I'm like by this window
Speaker 1: reading the bluest Ide. I think at the time it
Speaker 1: was it was an assignment that I had, and I
Speaker 1: was just so into this book and like he's up
Speaker 1: there talking about business law and I'm like not even
Speaker 1: paying attention. And then my friends like knock on the
Speaker 1: window and they're like, there's like an audition going on,
Speaker 1: like you should probably come with us wiping on this
Speaker 1: for this play. It's cool, let's go to spelling audition.
Speaker 1: And I literally stood up in class and I was like,
Speaker 1: I won't be back. I see you later. I won't
Speaker 1: be back. I'm done. Uh And and I stayed there, man,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I think that's the best part
Speaker 1: about acting for me was the community I got to
Speaker 1: be around my fellow freaks, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like I think my first class was a technical technical
Speaker 1: direction and production class. You know. Um this great man
Speaker 1: named Mr Thomas and he was teaching this class and
Speaker 1: it was like at nine am. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't do mornings, just like I just like I
Speaker 1: don't do more, but this class I could get up for. Man,
Speaker 1: like every day. I was like, yeah, this is great,
Speaker 1: Like you know, you're learning about playwright and learn about directing,
Speaker 1: and learning about all these plays that I didn't even
Speaker 1: know about, all these black playwrights, all these Latino playwrights,
Speaker 1: all these playwrights of color period. And it was really dope,
Speaker 1: Like it was really dope, and so I just stuck
Speaker 1: with it. And but I tell himself me to graduate.
Speaker 1: My mentor of mind suggested that I auditioned for Yale
Speaker 1: UM and I laughed, like I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't think you see my g P A bro,
Speaker 1: because like if you did, I would not you would
Speaker 1: not suggest Yale. But you know, I did it, and
Speaker 1: and I still can't believe I got in because I
Speaker 1: at that point it was like twenty two and just
Speaker 1: a knucklehead and not really knowing what I wanted to pursue. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was all good going back home finding
Speaker 1: out something to do there and being okay with that,
Speaker 1: you know, but I didn't. I never had the aspiration
Speaker 1: of becoming an actor until all these people around me
Speaker 1: were like, this is what you should do. What was
Speaker 1: like the learning curve like that? Did you take to
Speaker 1: it immediately? What did it feel natural? Was it weird
Speaker 1: for you? It was, you know. First of all, that
Speaker 1: was I did not know where you was. I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was that far north. I was like, oh, Connecticut,
Speaker 1: Oh bad, that's cool, like um, and I remember they
Speaker 1: invited me, you know, our acting chair Run Van lou He,
Speaker 1: he invited me to come to the school and like
Speaker 1: do a tour, you know. But the tour lasted for
Speaker 1: like four days and um, which meant I got to
Speaker 1: see like plays that were at the Yale Rep because
Speaker 1: we have a repertory theater there and I got to
Speaker 1: see plays at Yale Rep. But I was just such
Speaker 1: a It was such a knucklehead, like I didn't know
Speaker 1: any of that meant. So, like I remember there was
Speaker 1: one play. I was starving and I went to like
Speaker 1: this take out across the street and I got fried
Speaker 1: chicken wings and like French fries, and I took it
Speaker 1: into the theater and this is where they're doing like
Speaker 1: a classical, like I think, I don't even remember. It
Speaker 1: was like oh my god, and I sat in the
Speaker 1: back row and I was just eating in the theater
Speaker 1: like I didn't know any etiquette. I didn't know anything.
Speaker 1: I stunk up the whole theater with this one oh
Speaker 1: my god, it was so stupid. Yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: this is what it is, and that that was the
Speaker 1: thing that I loved about Yelle is that it allowed
Speaker 1: me to really be me, you know, like I I
Speaker 1: was able to keep a sense of self when I
Speaker 1: got there, and that was like one of the one
Speaker 1: things I told myself. I was like, Okay, you're at
Speaker 1: this IVY League, You're at this prestigious school, which you know,
Speaker 1: I'm very naive, Like I like my naive take kind
Speaker 1: of saved my life sometimes. So like I didn't research,
Speaker 1: you know, fellow alumni. I didn't research anything before I
Speaker 1: went there. I was just like, let me just go
Speaker 1: check this out. If they really think I belong here,
Speaker 1: then let me see. Uh. So when I was going there,
Speaker 1: for the first few months, I didn't know anything about
Speaker 1: their alum Like, you know, I didn't know that Courtney b.
Speaker 1: Vans and Angel Bassett went there. You know, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that Paul Giamati and Meryl Streep party like just
Speaker 1: the legacy of great actors had come out of that school.
Speaker 1: So then I kind of like got really nervous. I
Speaker 1: was like I was really an impostor syndrome mode, Like
Speaker 1: are y'all sure that you want me here, like, because
Speaker 1: I don't really see a person like me here, Like
Speaker 1: you know, I was like still walking around with the
Speaker 1: wallet chain, you know what I mean, like run over
Speaker 1: Chucks and you know, just being like just this guy.
Speaker 1: And and you know, manche was very very adamant that
Speaker 1: this is where I belonged, and uh, it was one
Speaker 1: of the best times. It was the hardest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever done. It was like, it definitely was the hardest
Speaker 1: program I've never been a part of. But it was
Speaker 1: worth every minute of it because I'm still in contact
Speaker 1: with that community, like I was always in the theater
Speaker 1: management office or like stealing snacks from like the designers
Speaker 1: in their office, and and like, you know, it was
Speaker 1: just it just it cultivated the community that I'm so
Speaker 1: grateful and part of because I wouldn't be sitting here
Speaker 1: without it. Like, honestly, when did you get the confidence?
Speaker 1: When did it? Finally? I don't know. There's there's something
Speaker 1: about man I can't explain it. Like when I do
Speaker 1: a play or when I'm doing theater, my favorite part
Speaker 1: is the rehearsal, you know, like so you get like
Speaker 1: a few weeks it's such a short amount of time,
Speaker 1: and you're going in this room that has tape on
Speaker 1: the floor, so that tape is supposed to be stairs,
Speaker 1: and that tape that tape over here is supposed to
Speaker 1: be you know, a door, and that's you know what.
Speaker 1: You know, You're working with like raggedy tables that have
Speaker 1: been in props for like years, and you're just discovering
Speaker 1: stuff and you're just playing like you're literally playing. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's why they're called plays, okay, And uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, It's like there's a fearlessness that
Speaker 1: comes out of it because you're up there together, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You're sharing this space with somebody
Speaker 1: else and telling the stories of somebody else, and you
Speaker 1: get to be somebody else with somebody else at the
Speaker 1: same time, and it's it's like it's like the one
Speaker 1: when those lights come up. It's unlike anything in the
Speaker 1: world because it's like I've never had stage right, like
Speaker 1: because like when I'm playing somebody else, it's not me.
Speaker 1: So therefore it's like, well, what do I have to
Speaker 1: be nervous about because this is not me. I'm playing
Speaker 1: somebody else. But it just I don't know it's just
Speaker 1: fun and it literally it's something that I find to
Speaker 1: be incredibly fascinating and fun. And even if you're doing
Speaker 1: a drama, it's still fun to me because it's like, wow,
Speaker 1: these words have to be said, like this character exists
Speaker 1: at a point in time and you have to tell
Speaker 1: their story like you it's so urgent. Like that's the
Speaker 1: thing for me with acting, there's an urgency like you
Speaker 1: have to tell this story immediately or else the lives
Speaker 1: of someone in this story will be affected if you don't.
Speaker 1: And it's just I don't know. I just never really
Speaker 1: had nerves about it. It just seemed like something fun,
Speaker 1: especially when you didn't think you would become anything, you know,
Speaker 1: like if I got into acting to get my name
Speaker 1: in lights, I was that's the dumbest thing ever. Like
Speaker 1: there was a passion for it. And I know that
Speaker 1: sounds kind of corny, but it really was. Like it
Speaker 1: takes me at least a month and I have to
Speaker 1: read a novel if not longer, but like if you
Speaker 1: put a player script in front of me and I
Speaker 1: see the dialogue and everything, it's my favorite thing. Man.
Speaker 1: I could read it over and over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over. Again. So yeah, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: guess it. I guess it just came from a place
Speaker 1: of the need to tell the story. Were speaking of Yale,
Speaker 1: you know, Weston Duke and Lupete and Yana were you
Speaker 1: were you guys there at the same time. They were
Speaker 1: after me, after Yether, after me. Good good buddies of mine.
Speaker 1: They're they're so great. There's a there's a whole gamut
Speaker 1: of great actors coming out of Yale. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's so weird because I look at them as my peers.
Speaker 1: But I was like, damn, I feel old, like, you know,
Speaker 1: because like we were under the same chair round Van
Speaker 1: lou and I was his first class. I was in
Speaker 1: the first class, so they were in the classes underneath me,
Speaker 1: and I kind of feel like the old stage even
Speaker 1: though these are my peers. But yeah, Yelle, it's got
Speaker 1: some really really really great um and prolific people, you know,
Speaker 1: to Releving McCraney was there for playwriting, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: there's some great directors come. I mean, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: that place is dope. It's a dope place to go.
Speaker 1: And also it's the best place to study because you're
Speaker 1: in New Haven, Connecticut. There's nothing to do. They're like,
Speaker 1: you know, like there's nowhere to go. So it's like
Speaker 1: you're in New Haven and you better master your craft
Speaker 1: because like you're up here in the snow and like
Speaker 1: it's like but it's it's a great place. And it's
Speaker 1: so nice to see us all emerging that way and
Speaker 1: doing so well. Like it's really it's really good. I
Speaker 1: think it's a testament to the institution, honestly, and I'm
Speaker 1: just so glad to be great to be a part
Speaker 1: of the number. So glad to be a part of
Speaker 1: the Number. Man. Very cool. Well let's talk about let's
Speaker 1: start with Spider Man. This one's out in theaters now
Speaker 1: as well. It's just really took off at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. I saw it, you know, December or something,
Speaker 1: and you know, I was looking forward to it, but
Speaker 1: I had no idea I was gonna love it as
Speaker 1: much as Yeah. I mean, this this movie is awesome
Speaker 1: and it's doing really well. It's winning all these critics awards,
Speaker 1: just won the Golden Globe last Yeah, I did, man,
Speaker 1: So I mean, being a part of this movie, I
Speaker 1: don't think you've done have you done voice acting before?
Speaker 1: Am I. Yeah, like I did, uh a brief episode
Speaker 1: of BoJack horse Man. Yeah, and I think I've done,
Speaker 1: have I done? But this was like the first emotion picture.
Speaker 1: This is interesting too because you're playing like it's not
Speaker 1: like you're playing like a kid, you know, like you're
Speaker 1: playing like a real guy. It's like a very emotional part. Anyways,
Speaker 1: So just tell me about being a part of this project.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, I think it's it's the dream come true.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to be a part of the Marvel
Speaker 1: universe in any way whatsoever, because you know, like the
Speaker 1: Marvel Universe kind of saved my life, you know, as
Speaker 1: a kid, and it said this day, and you know,
Speaker 1: especially the story of Spider Man, it was like it's
Speaker 1: really cool, like how you have this kid who's like,
Speaker 1: you know, just ordinary kid. It's been by in Spider
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden could do everything spiders do,
Speaker 1: and you know, he gets a really cool outfit and
Speaker 1: he saves the day. And what I like about this
Speaker 1: story is that the whole theme is that anybody can
Speaker 1: wear the mask, and that includes who look like me,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, um, Miles Morales, first
Speaker 1: of all, being you know, a biracial child from Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm his father, and then uh Luna Vale's
Speaker 1: plays his mom, who is Latina, And it's really cool,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, it's it's something that I it's so
Speaker 1: weird how you look at something like that. Like in
Speaker 1: my lifetime, I always just envisioned Spider Man being a
Speaker 1: white guy. It's Peter Parker, you know, from Queen's Like
Speaker 1: that's how it's always been. But to know that Stanley
Speaker 1: has created this universe where anyone you can look and
Speaker 1: be anything and be you be from anywhere and still
Speaker 1: be a superhero is the most amazing thing in the world.
Speaker 1: So to get the opportunity to play his father, you know,
Speaker 1: because you also have this kid who's both of his
Speaker 1: parents are in his life. You know, both of his
Speaker 1: parents are like service people. You know. His mom's a doctor.
Speaker 1: I'm a cop, you know what I mean. And it's
Speaker 1: like it's a whole different thing. He's he's bilingual, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. He goes to a great school
Speaker 1: and he's he's a great kid. He's a great kid,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's responsibility comes, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, all of a sudden he becomes the
Speaker 1: superhero and it's just I don't know, man, And they
Speaker 1: did something very special, uh with this project, and I'm
Speaker 1: really incredibly, incredibly grateful to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize like how because I'm a huge animated dude. Okay,
Speaker 1: Like I love I love animation, Like I will watch
Speaker 1: it all the time, like I still watch The Simpsons
Speaker 1: to this day, Like I mean, I would never stop
Speaker 1: watching the Simpsons. You know, South Park, Pops Burgers, all
Speaker 1: that stuff has been my life's blood. Like I love
Speaker 1: it because like you don't see the person who's doing
Speaker 1: the voice, but you gotta really make people believe that
Speaker 1: these characters are going through it to go through. And um,
Speaker 1: I will say that this movie is doing something I
Speaker 1: think kind of revolutionary because it's the first animated Marvel
Speaker 1: movie and like everyone is doing like everyone's acting the
Speaker 1: faces off in this movie. Like it's really and it's
Speaker 1: like a drama and a comedy an action movie at
Speaker 1: the same time. And it's and you know, it sprints
Speaker 1: far and wide, like you can be three years old,
Speaker 1: you can be like thirty five or fifty six years
Speaker 1: old and still enjoy this movie and I like what
Speaker 1: it's doing about bringing people together and just like really
Speaker 1: driving home the fact that anyone can wear the mask,
Speaker 1: like even you like the fact that I'm excited for
Speaker 1: Halloween because I can't wait to see how many little kids,
Speaker 1: how many little black and brown kids are gonna run
Speaker 1: around being Miles Miless. You know, there's Halloween and it's
Speaker 1: really really dope. And it was really important for me
Speaker 1: to play his father um in a way that you
Speaker 1: understood that this kid has loved you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like there's a scene in the movie. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: give it away, but you know, he goes through something
Speaker 1: really kind of like shocking, and the first person he
Speaker 1: calls his dad, and I was like, wow, Like, not
Speaker 1: his friends, not somebody you know, not somebody else. You
Speaker 1: know that from the block. You know, he's calling his dad,
Speaker 1: And I just really wanted to drive home the fact
Speaker 1: that that that they love each other, Like that's the
Speaker 1: big thing that I that I really really love about
Speaker 1: this movie is that this family loves each other and
Speaker 1: they will do anything to take care of each other.
Speaker 1: And and it's just great, man. I mean, like everyone
Speaker 1: in the movie is fantastic. Shamik is great, Jake is great,
Speaker 1: like every I mean, like Reherschela is my brother, you know,
Speaker 1: And it's just so great because you're not in the
Speaker 1: studio with these people. Um, I had the luxury of
Speaker 1: doing my scenes with Shamik though, Like we were in
Speaker 1: the studio together. So like like there's a car scene
Speaker 1: that's in the movie, and like they literally set up
Speaker 1: the room to be like a car, so like there's
Speaker 1: two chairs, yeah, like a rear view mirror, and it
Speaker 1: was really cool. And I love that it's the play
Speaker 1: of that that I like, you know, that like that
Speaker 1: kind of connection. Man, Like seriously, it was great. So
Speaker 1: I'm really glad to see that it's doing so well.
Speaker 1: And I'm really really so honored that we want to
Speaker 1: go and globe And it had to be a trip
Speaker 1: to when you finally saw it. I mean you're in
Speaker 1: rooms doing these vocals performances and then you finally see
Speaker 1: like this is a trippy, psychedelic, amazingly animated film and
Speaker 1: they like they really broke some ground. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's kind of like I really feel like it's ear
Speaker 1: in his place in history a little bit. I've never
Speaker 1: I've literally never seen anything like it. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Beal Street now I was. I've seen this
Speaker 1: movie a couple of times now, I adore it. I
Speaker 1: was at the Apollo screening. Great screening obviously. Uh. We
Speaker 1: talked to Barry when I was in New York for
Speaker 1: that on the show. This movie is is stunning. It's exquisite.
Speaker 1: The craft is amazing, and you come into it, You've
Speaker 1: got ten minutes and you I'm in all of what
Speaker 1: you do in this movie. Man, I just gotta tell
Speaker 1: you straight up, I think it. I think it's one
Speaker 1: of the greatest performances of the year, you know, whatever category, whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever I mean, It's just like it's a stunning It's
Speaker 1: it's like it's a moment in the movie that just
Speaker 1: grabs you and does not let go of you for
Speaker 1: those ten minutes. And it was all on your shoulders.
Speaker 1: And I mean Stefan is doing a lot too, but
Speaker 1: like it was, it was a huge moment for you.
Speaker 1: And just what did it feel like knowing or did
Speaker 1: you know that? Did you know did it feel like
Speaker 1: it was going to be this huge anchor in the
Speaker 1: middle of that. I had no idea. I had no
Speaker 1: idea and I and I'm kind of glad because that's
Speaker 1: a testament to Barry, you know what I mean, Like, um,
Speaker 1: the way that he works and the way that he
Speaker 1: crafts these environments is so it's unlike anything I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And you know, I live in Harlem. I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: that's my home, and so we're filming like eight blocks
Speaker 1: from my house. So there was something that the one
Speaker 1: responsibility that I did feel like I had to have
Speaker 1: is to make sure that I represented my my neighborhood. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, because Daniel, you know, is of that ilk.
Speaker 1: You know that's where that's home. You know, it's where
Speaker 1: it's from. And um, yeah, and uh. And so when
Speaker 1: I read this scene, I was like, Okay, that's heavy.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like this is heavy, Like it's heavy,
Speaker 1: but it's still a moment two between two friends, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And and here's another thing, like,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever I get the opportunity to play these
Speaker 1: black men that I play, I don't ever wanna pretend
Speaker 1: like I know everything that they've been through. So like,
Speaker 1: for example, I've never been to jail. I don't ever
Speaker 1: want to know what that's like. I don't ever want
Speaker 1: to lie on what that experiences either for people who
Speaker 1: have been through it, you know, like there's no way
Speaker 1: I'll ever go to somebody who's been locked up, especially
Speaker 1: a black man, and asked him, you know, how, how
Speaker 1: was it in there? Not that's not my place, but
Speaker 1: for real, like the fact that you're even out and
Speaker 1: that you're in this world and you made it through that,
Speaker 1: that's enough for me. Like that, that's enough for me.
Speaker 1: You served your time. Like there's just something I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't want to feel like I'm invading
Speaker 1: that experience or taking away from what that experience is,
Speaker 1: because that's heavy. You know, the statistics say that one
Speaker 1: in three black men are gonna be incarcerated. That's just
Speaker 1: how it is, Like that's just the way of the world.
Speaker 1: And and it's here are two men, two black men,
Speaker 1: sitting in the room when one of them has already
Speaker 1: been uh put in jail. So with Daniel just wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure for all the Daniels out there that
Speaker 1: they felt like they were being heard man, because it's
Speaker 1: very rare that there's someone that you feel like you
Speaker 1: can open up to with that experience. And it's also
Speaker 1: we we live in a society especially as black men,
Speaker 1: that we're told that we can't have feelings, that we
Speaker 1: can't really you know, cry, or that we can't be angry,
Speaker 1: or that we can't you know, be passionate about a
Speaker 1: lot of things. And and I feel like this scene
Speaker 1: in particular was important for me to showcase the fact
Speaker 1: that Daniel has all these things inside of him. But
Speaker 1: the first thing you see of him is joy, you know,
Speaker 1: like he sees his friend coming down the street. And
Speaker 1: this era that we're living in that's already telling us
Speaker 1: we can't have anything, and he's coming from having a
Speaker 1: job and I'm being released. But he don't have to
Speaker 1: know that, you know, all he needs to do is
Speaker 1: see that. I want to throw my arms around him
Speaker 1: and hug him because here we are out in the world,
Speaker 1: free technically, and so to reconnect with him and hear
Speaker 1: what he's going through, you know, with tissue, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's like, at the end of the day, I'm
Speaker 1: still happy that you have that, Like even though I
Speaker 1: see this department that you're in that is, you know,
Speaker 1: a little dilapidated, it you have a roof, even though
Speaker 1: you know it doesn't seem like you have a lot
Speaker 1: of money, and no one is giving you a chance
Speaker 1: to have an apartment. You get to your art, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And so I think that that
Speaker 1: moment sitting at the table with stuff, uh, was just
Speaker 1: a moment in time. It's like Barry dropped us in
Speaker 1: this room. And it's very rare that you don't have
Speaker 1: like the crew on set, like you know, usually when
Speaker 1: you're doing a scene, there's something you can see the boom,
Speaker 1: like you can see you know, the directors sitting there,
Speaker 1: you can see this. This That's not how Barry did this.
Speaker 1: He basically this The set was set up for it
Speaker 1: to be this apartment and they were on the outside
Speaker 1: and uh, Barry took away a camera and just let
Speaker 1: it be one camera. So it's going back and forth
Speaker 1: between his and we just talked and we just had
Speaker 1: the scene, and the weight of that moment was so
Speaker 1: terrifying to me. But I knew that this how can
Speaker 1: I stop him from going through the same thing, Like honestly, like,
Speaker 1: how can I stop him from going through the same thing?
Speaker 1: Because this is my brother, man, Like, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: up until that him and we talked about everything, but
Speaker 1: I was out of your life for two years. I
Speaker 1: was locked up for two years, and in those two years,
Speaker 1: the things I've seen, you you, I wouldn't wish that
Speaker 1: on anybody. And I just wanted to really make sure
Speaker 1: that every every brother out there who has been through
Speaker 1: that hurt it, you know what I mean. Like, I
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that they that they knew that
Speaker 1: one you are welcome here and you are free, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And even when you don't feel free,
Speaker 1: there is a freedom and brotherhood honestly, and it just
Speaker 1: felt like a space to be free with um Fani
Speaker 1: in that in that moment and uh, Barry, just let
Speaker 1: us have it, you know, just let us have it.
Speaker 1: And then right after that, Tish cooks the meal and
Speaker 1: were rejoice again. And that's what it feels like, I mean,
Speaker 1: like that's what it feels like for for us sometimes
Speaker 1: because it's like you have to you're made to feel
Speaker 1: like you have to hide, you know, what you're going through.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you feel like nobody cares what you're going through
Speaker 1: being a black person in this country, and being a
Speaker 1: black man in this country, and being a black woman
Speaker 1: in this country. To sleep, it just feels like no
Speaker 1: one hears you, you know, sometimes and we have to
Speaker 1: create safe spaces sometimes, and I feel like in that
Speaker 1: in that scene, you get to see a safe space
Speaker 1: being created, no matter how much time is happening between
Speaker 1: us being a part. It's like we pick up right
Speaker 1: where we left off. And I kind of call it
Speaker 1: kind of like a ballot like like ballid scene because
Speaker 1: it's kind of musical to me. Um, it's kind of
Speaker 1: there's like I think you can feel the weight once
Speaker 1: this Daniel decides to really share with funding what's going on,
Speaker 1: and yeah, man, I just really wanted to show my
Speaker 1: respect to the Daniels out there. And as you say,
Speaker 1: I mean you cover a spectrum in this scene. I
Speaker 1: mean it's not like one gear. I mean you're shifting
Speaker 1: all over the place. So ultimately just ramping into what
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk about. I feel like the whole movie
Speaker 1: is in this scene in some sense. To just thematically speak,
Speaker 1: you can just things like the by the balls comment.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all it's all in the scene. The
Speaker 1: movie is in the scene, and uh yeah, dude, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's it's a stunning display. I kind of
Speaker 1: just want to fawn over here, man. I appreciate it
Speaker 1: saying I've been talking about all your line I love.
Speaker 1: I love the little things you do, like just like
Speaker 1: the interplay with Kiki when she comes in, just like
Speaker 1: they like sharing that kind of that's the life. That's
Speaker 1: the life. That's that's kind of Like the one thing
Speaker 1: that I love about what I get to do is that,
Speaker 1: you know, these men are men that I know, you know,
Speaker 1: Like they're all men that I know and that I've
Speaker 1: I've lived with and and could one day become you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like that's that's the thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: Like that's like Alfred is one of my favorite people
Speaker 1: on the planet. Like getting to play Alfred is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things because like he is literally my
Speaker 1: best friend. Like I know this guy, Like I went
Speaker 1: to school with this guy. Uh, I see my father
Speaker 1: and this guy, And I just don't ever want to
Speaker 1: um to lose the opportunity to share those moments with
Speaker 1: people because there's a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who will never encounter Alfred truly, who will try
Speaker 1: not to encounter Alfred truly. There are people who already
Speaker 1: gonna put their things on Daniel, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like there are people who and it's so, and I
Speaker 1: want to always show what you're missing out on, like
Speaker 1: they're actually pretty dope people, like even Jamal and widows,
Speaker 1: like honestly, I mean, he may be a psychopath, but
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like he's something to somebody, and um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's just a there's a These guys are all so
Speaker 1: unique and so dope, and I hate that in this
Speaker 1: lifetime some people just won't ever get a chance to
Speaker 1: to to know them. So I just want to make
Speaker 1: it where when you see these people and you hear them,
Speaker 1: and you hear these characters and hear these men that
Speaker 1: you're like, I want to get to know them. I
Speaker 1: want to know what's going on with them, like after
Speaker 1: it's done, I want to get to to really experience
Speaker 1: what they experience. And that's kind of what I love
Speaker 1: about the scene in Bill Street, for being twelve minutes
Speaker 1: or whatever how short it is, is that I want
Speaker 1: you to think about him, because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: them that don't get thought of. Once you know you,
Speaker 1: you you see them, and they're never seen again. And
Speaker 1: I want them to sit with you. I want you
Speaker 1: to take them home with you. You know, so, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I always want to I really always want to embody
Speaker 1: what their experience is because it happens so quickly. Sometimes
Speaker 1: like Alpha technically should shouldn't be around, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Andy, And please believe he's heard that. Please
Speaker 1: believe that offers heard that. People are like, man, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't even be here right now, like when you people
Speaker 1: have probably told him he couldn't be anything, you know,
Speaker 1: And so I just always want to show the I
Speaker 1: guess humanity of them. You know, it sounds very artsy fartsy,
Speaker 1: but like that's true because they are human beings and
Speaker 1: you know you're missing out if you don't get to
Speaker 1: know them. Also, I told Barry this the beginning of
Speaker 1: that scene, it's like the greatest screen hug in history.
Speaker 1: Like I want to be a part of that hug.
Speaker 1: It's like the first shot of you, it's just shot shut.
Speaker 1: So well, yeah, man, I mean, like he's a visionary man,
Speaker 1: I mean, and to mean, let's not let's not sleep
Speaker 1: on the score of this movie either, what's going on
Speaker 1: with the score and the I mean the Miles Davis
Speaker 1: is in the first half of what he does with
Speaker 1: the score at the second half and cranks it down.
Speaker 1: This is amazing man. That score. It's like it's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I find myself playing the soundtrack in my
Speaker 1: house all the time, and it's just so it's just
Speaker 1: it it's so visceral, like you can't help but feel
Speaker 1: what's going on on that screen. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: so glad that I got to act with you know,
Speaker 1: Regina King, who you know, it's just like she's been
Speaker 1: like an icon to me for most of my life
Speaker 1: and and in a masterclass as well, and Coleman Domingo
Speaker 1: and Kiki and stuff, and I mean, like it's it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm I haven't had a chance to actually think about
Speaker 1: how great this year has been because I've been doing
Speaker 1: the work and now I actually get to sit down
Speaker 1: and go, holy sh it, like wait, like you just
Speaker 1: were in the number with these people, created this this
Speaker 1: this beautiful, beautiful art with them, and it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I wouldn't trade it for the world. So
Speaker 1: to hear you say what you're saying to mean and
Speaker 1: what you're taking from it means that I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I must be doing the right thing. So I really
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Man, let's talk a little bit about Widows.
Speaker 1: Actually mentioned it there. I mean, you get to go
Speaker 1: dark and villain us with this one jerking dogs around.
Speaker 1: I mean, like he I want my money. It's just
Speaker 1: as It's as simple as that. And that's the funny
Speaker 1: thing about Widows is like you know, Jamal really just
Speaker 1: wanted to run for all them and that's it. Like
Speaker 1: and he you mess with my money? Um uh. Working
Speaker 1: with Steve McQueen first of all, was unlike anything in
Speaker 1: the world because he's he's awesome, Like the see see's
Speaker 1: all coming out now, Like I'm saying it out loud,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh wait, you just work with Barry Jenkins
Speaker 1: and Steve McQueen, Like that's that's really dope. But Steve
Speaker 1: McQueen is really great. He's like he is really a true, true, true,
Speaker 1: true artist. And like, getting the chance to be in
Speaker 1: Chicago to do this movie was an incredible getting a
Speaker 1: chance to me make a kind of activist movie in
Speaker 1: my way, not not just for the female empowerment, but
Speaker 1: also for like, you know, a black kid from Chicago
Speaker 1: running for Alderman, you know what I mean, Like he's
Speaker 1: this is where he's from, and uh, I was doing
Speaker 1: it with Violet Davis, like you know, doing Violet Davis
Speaker 1: and Elizabeth de Bicky and mAChR Reeves, the Cynthia Revo,
Speaker 1: like just these amazingly, amazing, amazing talents that I just
Speaker 1: never in a million years, um thought that. And Daniel
Speaker 1: as my brother man, like, I mean Dan Listener man
Speaker 1: like that, Like that was like the sickest feeling in
Speaker 1: the world, like that, me and him are playing brothers,
Speaker 1: studying a cemetery watching this woman like we gotta go
Speaker 1: get our money like you can't. Oh man, it was
Speaker 1: like I mean, it was just the greatest, greatest, greatest moment.
Speaker 1: And I love Jamal too, like I love Jamal very much, man,
Speaker 1: like I love Jamal so much. And uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I think there's something to be said about walking
Speaker 1: into an apartment and threatening while the day was his life,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I kind of want
Speaker 1: that on my tomb saying remember me as the guy
Speaker 1: that right in her life. But yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: great experience, man. I mean, I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 1: There's so much I could say. It's just like, um,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about Steve maybe, I mean Stevens I love
Speaker 1: him because it's one of the most direct people in
Speaker 1: this business. He is not like dance around stuff, and
Speaker 1: I love him for it and I love talking to him.
Speaker 1: Uh is he is he that way as a director?
Speaker 1: Is he very just like? Well, you can tell that
Speaker 1: he loved of actors, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: you can tell that he wants to know what we're thinking,
Speaker 1: why we're thinking, what we're thinking, where we're going with
Speaker 1: what we're thinking. He's incredibly malleable. Like he he really
Speaker 1: will let you go where you want to go, but
Speaker 1: he also has no problem guiding you with not just
Speaker 1: the tone or are pushing you to do things that
Speaker 1: you probably didn't even know I wanted. I didn't know
Speaker 1: I was gonna be going to dog. I had no
Speaker 1: clue that this obstacle of having this actual dog was
Speaker 1: gonna be in there. But you know your husband stow
Speaker 1: my money and you look just like me. But you
Speaker 1: live in this penthouse. You would never come to Mineck
Speaker 1: of the Woods ever. You know, you would never come
Speaker 1: to West South Chicago, south Side Chicago. There's no way
Speaker 1: you would do it. And the fact that you just
Speaker 1: why don't we know each other? You know what I mean, like,
Speaker 1: why don't we have this opportunity, right, Like there's a
Speaker 1: kind of like I don't know. And and then Steve
Speaker 1: will let you find that. He'll let you play with that,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, because with with Jamal, I was like,
Speaker 1: it could be very easy to do the whole villain
Speaker 1: thing because in my mind he's not a villain. And
Speaker 1: he didn't he really didn't do anything wrong. I said.
Speaker 1: We just watched the Open up a movie of these
Speaker 1: four it was taken man like right, like like Jack,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's like to me,
Speaker 1: he is doing what is necessary, like I'm trying to
Speaker 1: make a better place for my community, and you don't care,
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, Like you don't care,
Speaker 1: Like I get that you lost your husband and everything,
Speaker 1: but you know what you lost as because you stole
Speaker 1: my money. So it's like I don't know. And Steve,
Speaker 1: Steve would literally he would sit with me and let
Speaker 1: me do that, you know, when I got the part,
Speaker 1: Like he flew me to Chicago and he sat me
Speaker 1: involve in a room much like this, like across the
Speaker 1: table of the table from each other. And I'd say,
Speaker 1: for the first half the day, he just let us
Speaker 1: play with it. He just let us read it over
Speaker 1: and over again and and just really try to feel it,
Speaker 1: like really try to like show at the layers of
Speaker 1: what doesn't need to be there when. And he crafted
Speaker 1: this kind of relationship because like, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, she needs to fear me and understand the thing,
Speaker 1: and I I also had to get over the fact
Speaker 1: that I am doing this with by Davis. So regardless
Speaker 1: of that, all of that has to be broken down.
Speaker 1: We gotta get to the meet potatoes of what needs
Speaker 1: to be done. And that scene happens, you know, like
Speaker 1: you know, just drops in the movie at that point,
Speaker 1: And yeah, he just really wanted to make sure that
Speaker 1: we had that kind of connection because that's also the
Speaker 1: tricky thing about movies. Sometimes it's like you don't really
Speaker 1: know the people you're working with, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't even know where your location is. You don't even
Speaker 1: know like and that was the other thing about that scene.
Speaker 1: I was like, I had no idea when I saw
Speaker 1: that when I saw this apartment. What you said that
Speaker 1: is really me being like, oh, oh this she keeps
Speaker 1: going like it wraps around that, Like that's like Michigan
Speaker 1: that you see like, oh and you stole my money back. Great,
Speaker 1: this is let's let's go. Um. And so it can
Speaker 1: be a little nerve racking sometimes to do that, you know,
Speaker 1: because you've got like, you've got these takes that you
Speaker 1: gotta get. And you know, I hadn't met Viola before
Speaker 1: I met her own set How to Get Away with Murderer.
Speaker 1: I did an appearance on an episode of that, and
Speaker 1: but it was so crazy because I was playing the
Speaker 1: lawyer to Frank who was in in uh in court
Speaker 1: at the time, and she was in court with him
Speaker 1: at the time as well. But my character doesn't interact
Speaker 1: with her, so I'm literally sitting at a table next
Speaker 1: while the like, but not having any exchanges with her
Speaker 1: at all. And um, you know until they said cut,
Speaker 1: you know, and you talked. But in the scene, I
Speaker 1: didn't get to play with her, you know. And so
Speaker 1: this time I was like, I really get to play,
Speaker 1: like this is what this is what I wanted, this
Speaker 1: is and the fact that stevem in the opportunity to
Speaker 1: do that is really really great. Oh, let's see, you
Speaker 1: just want to cover a couple of quick things here
Speaker 1: you got coming up me. You're in child's play's, oh man,
Speaker 1: like it's it's a dream come true. Man. Man. The horror,
Speaker 1: the horror genre is one of my favorite genres of
Speaker 1: all time, and um, because I honestly believe in the
Speaker 1: horror you have to really be able to act. Like
Speaker 1: how I like, it's really funny. I was watching Child
Speaker 1: the original Child's Playing over Christmas, and uh Domin singing
Speaker 1: is such a genius, Like he's such a genius. Like
Speaker 1: because there's such a commentary horror movies, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, they were a commentary about you know, like
Speaker 1: drugs and economics and socio economic status and what happens
Speaker 1: when you know, kids go out and discussed. But this
Speaker 1: movie simply was like about a mother wanted to get
Speaker 1: her child a doll that everybody loved. And you know
Speaker 1: my eighties baby, and you remember like the good I mean, well,
Speaker 1: we didn't have good guys about my buddy. And I
Speaker 1: just remember, you know, we weren't really we didn't have
Speaker 1: money growing up, so I knew that I was never
Speaker 1: gonna get in my buddy. And I just remember that
Speaker 1: after that movie came out, all the kids in my
Speaker 1: neighborhood who could afford my buddies all their dolls are
Speaker 1: in the trash, and I was like, ha, it's like
Speaker 1: that's so like it's so to be able as I digressed,
Speaker 1: So to be able to do this movie was the
Speaker 1: biggest joy that I've ever had. Like I was a
Speaker 1: kid in a candy shop. Mind you, I'm doing this
Speaker 1: movie with kids who weren't born when the original came out,
Speaker 1: so they have no clue like how Chucky affected our youth,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Um, it's a great script.
Speaker 1: It's it's really brilliant. It's really smart, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and and it's a testament to the greatness of dumb
Speaker 1: and Seining and how he crafted this story and and
Speaker 1: how like just what happens, you know, to our youth,
Speaker 1: and like how it can easily be penetrated by something
Speaker 1: as sinister as this doll that's possessed by this man
Speaker 1: that it just as you know, And it was fun
Speaker 1: waiting when Aubrey was great. You know, our partnership was unbelievable. Lars,
Speaker 1: our director is amazing. It was. It was a great
Speaker 1: time and like, I know people are gonna enjoy it.
Speaker 1: The best part for me is that it comes out
Speaker 1: the same day. It's Toy Story four doesn't really. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's great. It's like, let's go on
Speaker 1: the kids. That's great. And then you're you just mentioned
Speaker 1: at the top you're back from hawaii're shooting gods over Yeah,
Speaker 1: massive movie obviously, yeah gulp. Of course. I was like,
Speaker 1: of course, like it's um all this stuff, like I'm
Speaker 1: hearing you say this stuff, and I'm like, it's just
Speaker 1: crazy that I'm doing that. But like it's great, man,
Speaker 1: Like I'm working with Molly Bobby Brown, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's great. We're having like so many Like
Speaker 1: it's crazy because like you're you're acting in this movie
Speaker 1: about the destruction of the world, you know what i mean,
Speaker 1: like from this tightened you know, from this godlike thing,
Speaker 1: and you know, but we're in Hawaii. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, it's it's been pretty great.
Speaker 1: But it's it's great, man. It was it's really cool
Speaker 1: to to do that, to do this movie. We're still
Speaker 1: shooting it actually, and uh, it's it's it's like I said,
Speaker 1: it's all a dream come true. Trailers cool. I just
Speaker 1: saw the other day and then the last thing Atlanta,
Speaker 1: when's the next year. Are you working on it now?
Speaker 1: I think that we're going to get back to it
Speaker 1: later this year. Um, but we definitely got a third season,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait. I cannot wait. I just saw
Speaker 1: Hero and Keith not too long ago, and I was just, oh,
Speaker 1: my god, I miss you guys, and I can't wait.
Speaker 1: But I'm also excited to see where we're gonna go
Speaker 1: this season because, like you know, Robin's season was unlike
Speaker 1: anything I've ever experienced in my life, and um, it
Speaker 1: was life saving actually, and and the stories of our
Speaker 1: heroes have just gone in all different kinds of ways.
Speaker 1: I'm praying that Teddy Perkins does not returned, um, but
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, like that, We've got plenty, plenty, plenty
Speaker 1: of stories to tell this season, so yeah, I'll look
Speaker 1: out for it. The one time I saw you here
Speaker 1: a few months back, you were doing some press with
Speaker 1: some of our TV team. I saw you on the
Speaker 1: elevator and I was like, oh, ship paper Boy, Like
Speaker 1: I didn't even think, I know you knew your name,
Speaker 1: but it just that's what came to mind. So that
Speaker 1: tells you everything when when your character kind of is
Speaker 1: the first thing people see. But I'm happy that I
Speaker 1: can call you Brian right now. Also, man, I don't
Speaker 1: want to let you know a Woman in the Window.
Speaker 1: I'm doing Woman in the Window Joe right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Amy Adams and Garry old Man bro. I don't know
Speaker 1: what else. I don't know what more you can possibly say,
Speaker 1: but I hear that book. It's fantastic. It is. It's
Speaker 1: really dope, man, And it's it's like it's this crazy thriller,
Speaker 1: like you get to watch Amy Adams like let it
Speaker 1: all out and go insane and I get to be
Speaker 1: a detective again. But it was it's just's NNA that's
Speaker 1: coming out next year as well. What that is? You
Speaker 1: keep getting these kind of you know what? I was
Speaker 1: always like, why my cop? But it's like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: What the what did people find? But you know what,
Speaker 1: I yeah, yeah, spider Man. But I actually appreciate it
Speaker 1: because it's like I actually get to actually under try
Speaker 1: to understand what that role is and what that what
Speaker 1: it means, because you know, my relationship with the cops
Speaker 1: isn't that great and I don't, like, you know, we're
Speaker 1: not very but I'm trying to understand what that is.
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Speaker 1: thank you one of my favorite actors things, man, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. I really appreciate it. Eight