WEBVTT - Vulnerability, Humor, and Hustle with Terry Crews 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.280 Well, welcome back to those amos. Is this part two 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.560 of our beautiful conversation with that brother Terry Crews. I'm 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.440 Wilmer Aboud, Rama'm Freddie Rodriguez and be brought back into this. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:15.560 What did that lead to? 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:15.920 Terry? 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:16.280 What? 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:17.239 What was the next thing? 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.800 Wow? What? This was so crazy. There was a Schwartzenegger movie, yeah, 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.320 and how I had did security on end of days. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:30.680 We were all downtown LA. There was a Swartzenegger movie. Yeah, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.040 and we and they were shooting downtown and I was 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.040 like the guy who watched I watched an alley for 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.559 like two months and all of a sudden and wait, 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.839 and I'm gonna tell you this. This is another great story. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:45.879 I was in charge of watching where the extras went 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.280 and the whole thing. And this guy comes up to 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.360 me and he says, hey, man, are you an actorate? 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.480 I said, no, sir, No, I'm security. He said, dude, dude, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.160 you know I'm I'm Arnold Schwarzeninger's makeup artist. He said, 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.760 you should be acting, so you have a great look. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.240 And I went, thank you, sir. His name was Jeff Dahn. Dude, 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.560 all of a sudden, it's Sony right. So Sony needed 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.600 a bad guy heavy for one of their movies they 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.520 were doing with Arnold Sportzenegger. So they milled around and 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.560 they saw that I was on this show for Battle 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.880 Doome for two years and I became the heavy. And 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.440 I went in and an auditioned for this thing, and 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.080 the lady was like, you're pretty good. I was like oh, 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.399 she said, now, look you're a sweetheart. You gotta go 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.240 in there with the director and you gotta be pissed off, 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.039 don't even don't don't be nice at all. So I 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.839 remember going to His name was Roger Spottswood, the British director, 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.360 and I walked in there like, yeah, man, so you've 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.120 been have you been acting? I was like, Noah, I 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.160 do this, you know, yeah, you know. I was just 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:51.840 saying yeah. I was like, is it work it? Yeah? 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.720 I got the job. Yeah, my first audition for a movie, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:57.640 I got you. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:01:59.600 But but you had to read for it. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.840 Read. But it was one read and it wasn't like 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.400 the other show where months go by. They're like you're 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.560 going to be spending Now you're gonna go six months 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.600 in Vancouver with Arnold Sports and we're paying seventy five 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:21.120 thousand dollars, all the tough stuff went out. Oh my god, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:26.800 I said, I got this movie. I got it. I said, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.720 what she's like, I told you this is you. Yeah, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.639 take it go. I'm in Vancouver, now this is man. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.000 I'm still scared of getting cut. I didn't now I 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:39.200 had imposter syndrome. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.600 I'm like, this is a big movie. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.200 Sixth day. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.520 Oh yeah, I remember when he was getting cloned, the 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.440 whole thing, and oh it was it was it was 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.800 wild man. I'm in and it's Arnold, like Arnold, Arnold, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.000 what was that? 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.200 Like you going said? And all it was sudden. Arnold's 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:01.760 walking up. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.119 I'm gonna tell you this the first scene I ever had. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.440 I'll never forget the first time I actually met him. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:10.919 I was supposed to walk up to him and I 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.240 was say, I remember saying, I said his name. It 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.920 was like Roger So and so you come with us 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:25.720 and I because I walked up the steps and I 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.720 was like, oh no, Adam Gibson. That's what was his name. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.000 I said, Adam Gibson. I remember the line they come back, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:36.400 Adam Gibson, Uh, come with us? I went, and Arnold's 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.160 looking at me. Because what happened is you know, you 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.400 open the door and he opens the door and Arnold, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:43.560 oh no. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.240 Just like okay, he's coming in. We're saying action and 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:46.320 Donald don't want to do that. 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.080 He's like, he just stayed there. You know what I 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:56.200 meant time, Sloop said waiting. You know, so I'm just going, okay, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:01.760 don't be a problem, right dude. I froze, but something this. Sorry, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.960 we gotta we got a light issue. Save my lass 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:11.320 because I froze and I went back and I wouldn't. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.280 Pulling myself to the side. I said, dude, do you 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.400 want to go back and doing security? Do you want 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.640 to go back to I said, man, your wife, your family, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.960 everyone is counting on you. And said, hey man, listen, 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.880 it's a dude, just you. If you don't do this, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:34.680 you don't deserve it now going there and saying lines 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.880 like and I was telling myself, don't you get into me, brother. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.279 That next scene, I walked up in there with Adam 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.960 Gibson and come with us, and I was like, oh, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:52.160 I like this guy. And I was like I can 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.760 see it on thro but it was like my first hit, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.520 you know what I mean. It's like in football, you 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.840 have to get that first hit because you're scared. Every 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.200 NFL player, I don't care what they're talking about. They 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.520 scared until you get that first hit. Bout yeah you 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.279 go all right, I'm alive. Okay, boom, I can do this, dude, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.920 I said, man, And it was like go go oh, 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.560 my god. And the rest of the way. He was 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.760 so cool. He was cool to me. And I remember 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.680 he was with Marie at the time and his kids 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.080 were little. We were running around there. Man, this is 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.920 ninety nine. Yeah, the brother in nineteen ninety nine and 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.960 the way, and now it wasn't a hit, and it wasn't, 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.240 but I'm going up, dude. I'm in a movie, dude, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.320 and I'm just looking at I remember we were time 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.880 and they flew me and my wife. We flew us 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.520 from Rome, Italy for just the premiere there. And I 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.919 was going premiered in Rome. I don't know. It was 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.800 like the foreign people, but it was a premiere. But 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.159 it wasn't really a premiere. It's like a screening. But 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.000 I didn't care. I was like, we're roll. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.360 I was like, hey, what it's crazy. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.360 Me and but my wife. I mean, let me tell you, man. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.400 It was coming from that. It was like if that 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.000 would have been it, that would have been enough, you 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.960 know what I'm saying, Like that's a tree. And then 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:12.279 it kept going like yeah, I mean everything. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:17.040 Did that movie once it came out? Did that performance 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:18.040 lead to something else? 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.400 Or you No, No, it led to nothing. You know what? 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:26.680 It led to something? Training Day? Oh, I was an 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.080 extra in Training Day. Remember after that, listen, I had 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.119 done the movie. It had to come out. Remember the movie. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.560 I had done the movie, and then you're at home. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.279 You wait from the editor, you wait on So nobody 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.000 knew that I was in a movie. But I was like, 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:44.039 that movie's coming. But Training Day they were filming Training Day. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.960 I was a location the location manager because remember I 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.600 did security and so the location man he said that, man, 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.480 Denzel's down here shooting in the jungle. Man, you want 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.680 to come by? I said yes, yes, because he heard 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.000 I was doing movies and stuff and I still had 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.960 done the Battle Dome shows, so it was kind of 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.400 like it's so there I am. I'm across the street 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.480 from Battle Doome because l A Coliseum was right down 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.080 the street. So I'm so the gangs were like, hey man, 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:12.520 you got t money from uh? Because he would go 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.560 they were shot iaid what's up y'all? 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:14.800 Was? 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.640 They kind of knew me, so I kind of got 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.480 a pass with because they only had gang members from 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.160 from the jungle. But they were like, oh, man, alright 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.880 on he on that show, remember that show over there? 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.680 They were like okay. And I got and Bone, who 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:36.600 was one of the main main like actors slash gang 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.120 people who could he would do it off for all 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.080 the movies. And Bone gave me the path. Bone was 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.920 like you good, you good? You know Bone? Bone was good, dude, man, 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.760 and and Bone just blessed me. Man. So he so 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.840 then I'm watching I just want to wash this opp 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.480 dude and walks over to me and says, hey man, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.680 you want to be in this movie. I said, take 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.080 your shirt off, We're going to the roof. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.240 It was me so so you were just there, just 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.680 just checking it out. He was into just to watch. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.720 Yeah, that's it, that's it. And you know that scene 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.280 with the and a Lonzo's coming down and cult the 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.520 sac that's me. He said, hey man, that was great. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.360 Come back every night and we'll see where else I 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.880 can put You came back for two weeks. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.960 You had like close up yea hero showing. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.240 When Denzel did his whole King Kong speech, he said, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.040 you I want you standing right there looking at the 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.920 Zel and mad Dog in them. That was the thing. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.400 Because that was the moment where the hood was like 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.680 the magic is broken. Yeah, you're in the Magician anymore. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:46.680 See yeah. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.920 And so when you when you when you give that energy, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.000 it was represented of the whole block everything. It's like, yeah, yeah, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:55.720 we're not under the spell anymore. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:09:00.440 It validated the whole film because they was like this, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.240 dude stands for us. And then training day went. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.120 How many takes did he do? 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.840 Oh? He was going all night, but it was he 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.880 was in proved. He was going, dude, I'll never forget this. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.120 I actually got a peek because the script was on 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.640 his car on that on that uh, on the on 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.440 the car Eliza, and he had written on it the 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:26.800 Wages of Sin is death because he knew he's like, 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.520 because they wanted to make sequels and all this stuff. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.079 And I found out later he thought, you got to 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.120 kill me because he didn't die in the original script. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.920 They wanted him to keep going like. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.160 And you know, I didn't know that he wasn't supposed 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:39.439 to die. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.560 Well, you know, that state there and they were like, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.480 but you know, you know studios, they want to make 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:51.240 it cash cow and training day two day, he was like, nope, 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.840 got to kill me, Gotta kill me, because this allowed 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.640 him to be as bad as he could, like he 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.800 could just do anything, like but he knew the Senate deaf. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.160 It was just soaking it all there like watching it. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.360 And then the Academy Awards hit and my mother saw. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.080 She's like they showed that scene was. Mother was like, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.760 you want the Academy Awards. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:22.880 Clip? Yeah, and he got the mother said you have 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:23.240 to know. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.319 She said, you got you you got an oscar. I said, no, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.640 I didn't, but I'm in the show. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:31.680 Because they used that clip. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.040 Can't call and got. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.280 Right, And then it cuts to you and you're there. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.840 I'm right. I'm just the whole time, the whole time, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.520 and it's Jake, Jake. He's from Jake's walking off and 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.920 I'm just still standing there looking at her. He's going 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.880 down the Coultor Stack product. I'll never forget that. David 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.080 wrote The Ship out of that Man. And David showed 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:56.880 up on set. It my first time meeting him. Yeah, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.800 I wasna. He was on set and I was in 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.040 there and he was like, hey, what's uping? You know, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.360 cool guy, I'm just but I'm talking in film works 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.720 and film because you know, I'm just over there trying 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.040 to be like, oh what how does that work? And 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.280 what was wild is that the crew did never wanted 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.800 to shoot in the jungle, so there was a lot 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:19.120 of problems because you know, these Warner Brothers guys, they 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.120 wanted to shoot it all in Santa Carita and NFL 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.800 say that. You know, one of the production guys got stoked, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.920 like in the middle of the movie, like and they 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.440 but then I'll never forget man Craft Service Lady was 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.840 all like, they're they're over here eating all our boot 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.240 and the whole everybody like, because I did security too, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.000 so I was like, eight, don't you ever say anything. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.160 I said, all these people need to come in here 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.600 and eat whatever they want. You're in their neighborhood. It was. 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.520 It was that kind of you know, white Hollywood, and 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.000 I said, you gotta respect these people. You're in their house, 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.400 you're in there. It's not a film set. But Antoine 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.880 and Denzel said, we have to shoot here. There's no 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.719 way we're gonna rebuild this set. No we're going down 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:01.400 with the people. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.160 That were right, Come on, right you felt that offense? 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.880 Oh yeah, Oh it was all obvious. You know you 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:12.800 have people, you know, people all talking stuff because they're 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.720 thinking you just so and so you ain't a star, 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.319 so they start talking. Yeah you're like, oh. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:30.560 Man, now you guys worked together in the movie. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.000 Yeah, there har time? 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.240 Did did training day lead to you being in harsh time? 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:38.880 How did that work? 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.160 Well? Remember, training day led to a lot. Training day 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.720 led to Friday after next because cub saw because remember 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.680 I was security, the cubes saw me in and training 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.760 day was like that's he puts out there. Watch dude, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:58.079 I got a call. I'll never forget. I'm sitting there, me, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.280 Cat Williams sitting right next to each other, all this 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.360 your room, like this is the next Friday. It's the 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.400 next one. And then what happened is Tiny didn't want 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.720 to come back, and so they rewrichrote because he was like, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.719 I don't want to do it, so they rewrote it. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.320 We wrote this character Damon, and I was like, oh, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.040 it's all. And see my thing is I was going 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.920 to go in and I went in with people. So listen, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.720 I have people that were so scared of me for 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.680 years because they thought, you know, they were like, oh man, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.840 damn it. I had the tattooed on my chest and 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.959 I went in like whoa and people were like they 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.000 were watching playback, like damn And I was like quig 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:44.679 and day day just I need to see people like 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:46.280 the theater was like. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.280 But for that to work, you had to show up 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:51.760 that hard. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:59.200 I'm born and raised Flint is Compton's sister city, Like 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.560 I can't him up with I knew day listen. I 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.120 had to pretend to be Damon and go to art 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.400 school like because you gotta you gotta code switch, you 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.560 gotta act like this just in order to get past 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.360 the gangsters. And you're go in there like okay, that 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.800 stuck Star Wars guys, you know what I mean. Because 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.280 you in the hood, they like, hey, man, what your 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:22.120 careters portfolio? Yeah? Man, whatever, man, you know, and I 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.000 would fake like I was, you know, and then I 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.120 go into class like, oh, let me alone. And then 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.560 if sports was the way I survived because they see 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.360 you got a little neck, they go like, man, let 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.840 that dude alone. Man, he got he's gonna play football something. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.120 That was the way you got by it was either 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.160 sports or you just hustle. So I knew damon and 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.120 I kicked into it. People like what. My wife hated it. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:46.320 She hated that character. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.560 What are my friends at church gonna? 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:51.840 One? 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:52.760 Are my friends at church? 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.840 How did how did CB react when all of a 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.360 sudden you're on set, You're you're playing this integral part 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.720 in the movie, and like a couple of years ago 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.960 you were doing security for I mean, what was that dynamic? 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.400 Like, first of all, you know, I was thankful, thankful, Yeah, 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.600 of course, you know. We had like a four banger, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.240 five banger. I remember honey Wagons. I couldn't laid out. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.320 It was like they can break up and they had 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.000 you know, you go get your lunch, you get come 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.040 in there. I'm like, I'm in the movies. I'm in 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.640 the movies. I'm so happy. And I would jump out 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.640 there and me and Cat, Me and me and Cat 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.520 made a pat Me and Cat said, Hey, if no 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.000 one ever, if we don't do anything after this, they 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.960 will never forget it. Yes, let's and Cat was homeless. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:43.560 Cat was living in the trailer. Yes, you understand how 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.880 crazy this was. Because people were hustling. Man, people had 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.720 to make it, and when you go moving out to Hollywood, man, 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.280 people don't understand, like what happens is influencers think we 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.800 made it. But you know that you got a little following. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:03.520 But it's man like in that day. To get noticed, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.200 you had the sacrifice, like you had to really like 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.960 grind grind. He was doing Hollywood Park at night and 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.600 they're sleeping in the trailer. Wow. And he would wait 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.200 for everybody to go home and come back in hey man. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.480 And I remember being there. Man, I was like cat Man. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.320 He was like, dude, he said, we gotta do this, man, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.120 And he said, if we don't, if we don't make 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.960 this so unforgettable, we just gonna be forgettable. And so 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.320 when we did that scene with the pliers and the 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.920 whole thing, and we were really crying. You understand, you 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.560 see that scene take the music out. It's drama all day. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.480 We were crying and he was ah. He was like, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:43.080 you are not. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:43.920 I am not. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.440 I I'm a board, dang man. People were in there 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.600 like this went to a hole in cube told me 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.640 he said, man, look, he said, dude, that first couple 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.720 acts is me and Mike. He said, but the whole 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.720 movie is you and cat he said, I gotta give 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.960 it up. He said, dog y'all took that to a 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.640 whole level that nobody. But that's why I knew. I said, 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.600 just go in. Yeah, there's nothing to lose. Yeah, you 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.960 know what I mean. That doesn't mean being big, you know, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.000 it just means on it. What do you want to see? 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.040 Like That's what I kept asking myself, like, how would 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.280 I play this? What would I what would I say, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.480 like how I want to see this character? And then 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.600 I would go into it, and man, that was that 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.240 was my only real you know what I mean at 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:33.639 the time. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:37.120 But it seemed like from from T bone to that, 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.640 like a lot of these characters. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.880 Were hard right, Like but how does. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.680 That lead the white chicks? Man? 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.240 I mean, how does how does somebody a director see 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.800 those movies and go, yup, he should be that guy? 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:52.879 Because it was so polar opposite. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.520 And I remember watching that and going like, yo, this 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:01.680 different level. I was so impressed. I was so impressed 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.280 on so many levels. But I was so impressed by 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.679 your willingness to go to go that far because you 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.800 had already established a certain I don't want to say persona, 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.280 but people saw you a certain way, right in the characters, 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.200 and you could have kept going in that direction. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.480 You can you could have held tight yeah. 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.080 Yeah, hell tight to that persona and being like, no, 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:26.960 I don't want to be portrayed in this way because 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.280 it may affect people like yeah, but what well made 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:32.640 you have the balls to go? 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.920 I'm gonna I'm gonna try this right here, I'm gonna. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.640 Go wanted it. I never wanted to be that guy 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:40.199 I want you. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:41.280 Never wanted to play that came. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:46.360 I never wanted to be hardcore. Oh because I'm not. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:48.720 But but that was your bread and butter though. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.520 But because of the where I look see but this was 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.399 the new This is what I figured out, And I 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.879 figured there's a long time ago. It's the turn because 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.320 when you give people that you're like, you show up 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:05.240 as something, they go, hey, hey, he's not wait a minute. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.920 And I started to do that because I could give 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.879 him all that. And where it happened was in a 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:16.480 movie called Malibu's Most Wanted. Okay, Malibu's Most Wanted. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.600 Jamie in the back of clapping. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.760 And wait, remember I We'll go all out. And it 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.520 was funny because Damian Ways, Who's dame? It was Sean 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.439 and Marlin's nephew was the main guy and I was 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.040 his backup, and I played a character named eight Ball, right. 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:37.399 And this was after Friday. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.040 And this was after Friday, but you know, you're just working, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.200 you know. I got to like auditioned and they were like, hey, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.600 you'd be great behind someone. So I was like, cool, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.120 you know, I'm taking all the jobs right man. Because 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.520 what happened is a battle on was canceled and I 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.879 lost my house. I moved too fast, got a house 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.240 and couldn't afford it, and I was like, oh no, 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:00.600 and so we had to be lost our house. And 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.120 I was like okay. So now I'm just doing commercials 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.920 and anything I can do. And Malibu's Most Wanted came 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:07.600 up and I was like, oh great, so I could 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.359 be in this movie. And so I had a do 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:14.479 rag on and on again. Back to hardcore guy. But 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.199 I started doing stuff on set and they were like, 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.840 look what he's doing. There was one thing, you see 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.520 a scene where I was just start dancing like this, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:22.800 my chain's going there, like. 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:24.040 When you're kind of popping. 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:27.840 Yeah, they were like, hey, hey, keep the camera on that. 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.199 And then I had one of the funniest lines in 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:35.800 the movie that was totally add lift right because what 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:41.520 was happening is Jamie Kennedy is talking to his dad 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.120 and he's like, oh and so we're getting all emotional 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.879 while we're watching it, like and he says, man, and 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.000 then I said, I wish I could talk to my 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.320 pops like that. That was my line, I wish I 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.960 could talk to my pops like that. Said I'm gonna 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:05.239 call that right now. And then Dave was like, man, 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:06.720 get your fan back here. 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:07.000 Man. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.119 I was like, you know, dude, They were like this 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:18.440