Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody,
Speaker 1: it's d J Envy.
Speaker 2: Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 2: we have Jabril Films in the building.
Speaker 1: Theod morning morning. What's going on.
Speaker 3: That's a feeling. Hey, I feel amazing, man, it's a
Speaker 3: blessing to be here. I've been a fan of the
Speaker 3: show for a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what's up man.
Speaker 5: So he was always Charlotte, always make fun of like
Speaker 5: my roles and movies.
Speaker 1: I love her.
Speaker 4: He thinks I belonged to b and that's all I need.
Speaker 4: That's what I need to stay. That's my home and everything.
Speaker 5: And he was shocked to know that I was in
Speaker 5: a movie that was on that's on Peacock and not
Speaker 5: executive produced it.
Speaker 6: By the way, I love to have no problem.
Speaker 3: With Yeah, okay, nah, but I mean, yeah, we're on
Speaker 3: the Peacock Now. I hate I love you just dropped.
Speaker 3: It's my directorial debut. Just hilarious. One of the co stars.
Speaker 3: We got Kiaria Schroeder, Rhetoric Williams. We got Ernesty Morrison,
Speaker 3: Javier McIntosh, Sean Freeman, scrappy, little scrappy, little scrappy body good.
Speaker 6: He didn't really well, I love that sounds like cast,
Speaker 6: but it's not.
Speaker 3: You're gonna see some of these people in major roles.
Speaker 4: How did you get into film?
Speaker 3: I got my start actually through my brothers, Javier and Shaq.
Speaker 3: Since we've been kids, we've been filming like at home videos,
Speaker 3: and uh that transition into when I was about eighteen,
Speaker 3: I just was running around Atlanta with a camera, going
Speaker 3: all to clubs, you know, just trying to film any
Speaker 3: artists that I could. And from there I got picked
Speaker 3: up and started to go on tour. So I was, uh,
Speaker 3: big baby drama. So I was his day to day
Speaker 3: and so we did his first tour with Orie Lennox
Speaker 3: and then that led to touring with Kendrick Lamar. So
Speaker 3: I did the Damn Tour with Travis Scott and them,
Speaker 3: and from there, like my name really started the buzz,
Speaker 3: and so I took, you know, my expertise in that
Speaker 3: and transitioned into films and commercials. So I started doing
Speaker 3: commercials for like the under Armours and.
Speaker 1: Some of my favorites.
Speaker 3: I used to direct campaign videos for Stacey Abrams sorry,
Speaker 3: Leader Abrams. And then you know, from there, I just
Speaker 3: started shooting movies as a cinematographer, doing like Keisha Cole's biopic.
Speaker 1: And never would have made it.
Speaker 3: But now transitioning into my directorial debut, which is I
Speaker 3: Hate I Love You.
Speaker 6: So for I Hate I Love You?
Speaker 7: Did you film it yourself, produce yourself and didn't sell
Speaker 7: it to Peacock or did you so?
Speaker 3: Maverick and Freely Films they kind of put together that play,
Speaker 3: but I was one of the producers and directors and
Speaker 3: my team with BP forty, we pretty much just use
Speaker 3: all of our resources to film it, like it's all
Speaker 3: of our own equipment. We brought everything to the table
Speaker 3: and I directed, edited, and built the score.
Speaker 7: The reason I asked cause you know, all of these
Speaker 7: screaming platforms they need content and you know people they
Speaker 7: joke about too. That's essentially what Tubi was. But all
Speaker 7: of these screaming platforms are gonna be taking that model.
Speaker 3: Facts facts, Yeah, And I think it's like it's just
Speaker 3: important like what we did, which is we just used
Speaker 3: our whole community to kind of bring it together, like
Speaker 3: all of our friends, family, We brought everybody to make
Speaker 3: the everybody together to make the film happen, especially because
Speaker 3: we filmed it last December, which of course is like
Speaker 3: right after the film strike, so everybody was hungry, like
Speaker 3: pretty much nobody had worked for a year, so we
Speaker 3: all came together for this one project.
Speaker 1: Why did you cast Jess?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 3: Actually, to be honest, I didn't cast Jess, but when
Speaker 3: they brought her name up, I was like, Oh, she's
Speaker 3: gonna be perfect for this role because for one, I
Speaker 3: knew she could actually act.
Speaker 6: She can definitely, you know.
Speaker 3: So it's like people asleep on that side of Jess,
Speaker 3: you know, like we all know she's funny, but she
Speaker 3: can actually act. And the good thing about her in
Speaker 3: the scenes, like when we're actually going through it, every take,
Speaker 3: she brings something different, you know. So some actors they
Speaker 3: just give you the you know, the same take back
Speaker 3: to back to back, but Jess always brings something new.
Speaker 1: So I mean I forever want to put her in
Speaker 1: my movies. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then a lot of people was talking about my role.
Speaker 5: Why did y'all have me play that role? Now it's
Speaker 5: so many.
Speaker 4: I played him. The issue.
Speaker 3: The issue is a little spoiler alert.
Speaker 5: Man, I just got a role when I was the
Speaker 5: first lady at BMF.
Speaker 4: I slept with my best friend's man too there.
Speaker 1: And everybody is.
Speaker 4: Just right, everybody like justice, this is what you did.
Speaker 1: We go switch to them next time, We go switch
Speaker 1: them next time. But you did body that role? Yeah
Speaker 1: you killed it?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Did you have is it? Was it like a whole
Speaker 5: team of writers, like because you said it was?
Speaker 3: Actually no, So it was Jay Carter the executive producer. Yep,
Speaker 3: he wrote the whole film.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then and the I seen, like, you know, I
Speaker 5: like to look at the comments and get feedback.
Speaker 4: About like everybody's rolling stuff they were.
Speaker 5: I seen a lot of people were saying, like, so,
Speaker 5: what exactly was the plot? Like what was the plot?
Speaker 4: I know that kier No.
Speaker 5: I want to call them by their name, their character
Speaker 5: Jacinda yeah and Bradley Yeah.
Speaker 4: So they owned the agency.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they owned the agency art Life.
Speaker 5: And I want to know how does Scrappy come into play?
Speaker 5: How did he come into play with Like how he
Speaker 5: did did he owe him money? Did GC and Bread
Speaker 5: owe him money?
Speaker 3: So essentially little Scrappy's character bones in the movie. He
Speaker 3: funded all of art Life to make it what it is,
Speaker 3: got it so it's this huge conglomerate and Bradley and
Speaker 3: Senda are married, and Jesinda thinks that it was just
Speaker 3: their success that made it, you know, blow up this
Speaker 3: big not knowing that the whole time it was Scrappy
Speaker 3: and his funny money which funded.
Speaker 1: Their whole company.
Speaker 6: Is Scrappy Zagon roll.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: So he's been in a couple other roles, but this
Speaker 3: is his first, I would say, like serious, serious role
Speaker 3: because he's you know, typically he's the bad guy. But
Speaker 3: what I wanted to do with him in this movie
Speaker 3: is I wanted him to be the villain, but very calm,
Speaker 3: because I feel like, you know, the undertone of being
Speaker 3: calm yet also assertive is a lot more you know,
Speaker 3: scary and kind of terrifying.
Speaker 7: So is it hard taking notes from networks nowadays all
Speaker 7: screaming platforms.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I can't really speak.
Speaker 3: To it because they really let us cook. So they
Speaker 3: let me cook with this. It was my first one,
Speaker 3: and I think they just trusted the cast, they trusted
Speaker 3: the crew, so when we delivered the product to them,
Speaker 3: they just accepted it as it was.
Speaker 7: And I feel like that's what they should do, like
Speaker 7: get out the way the creatives. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: even if you're putting money up, get out the way
Speaker 7: the creatives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, because this is our full vision, Like
Speaker 3: we put our heart into this. You know, we spent
Speaker 3: probably a year and a half just working on this movie.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad, you know, they just let us do
Speaker 3: our thing.
Speaker 1: How long did it take the shoot?
Speaker 2: You sait a year and a half to do the
Speaker 2: whole movie, And how long did it take the shoot?
Speaker 1: We shot it in ten days, the whole movie in
Speaker 1: ten days. Whole movie in ten.
Speaker 3: Days, So it was just a grind, just ten days
Speaker 3: straight and then not spent the next I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe six months editing and building up the score.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: How did the writers strike? I heard you make earlier.
Speaker 5: How did the writer strike affect this film? Was this
Speaker 5: something that was already in the works when the writer
Speaker 5: strike came into play or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was in the works.
Speaker 3: But the tough thing, I would say, the way it
Speaker 3: affected it would be just the timeline because we weren't
Speaker 3: sure when we could film it. But also it was
Speaker 3: like assembling the crew and trying to figure out which
Speaker 3: cast could be involved.
Speaker 1: That was a really hard thing with the Writer's Strike.
Speaker 3: But luckily we filmed it in December, you know, like
Speaker 3: at the end of the year, and everybody was kind
Speaker 3: of like, all right, I'll do this last joint, you know,
Speaker 3: before the end of the year to make it happen.
Speaker 6: Who is Jabrull?
Speaker 3: I would say definitely my family, my parents, my brothers.
Speaker 3: But in the film world, it's definitely Spike Lee. That's
Speaker 3: my favorite director.
Speaker 1: And why why is it your favorite? It's just the
Speaker 1: first time I saw do the right Thing? It just
Speaker 1: blew my mind.
Speaker 3: Just you know, being able, that's my favorite movie of
Speaker 3: all time, and just being able to bring people into
Speaker 3: your world and actually show them what that looks like
Speaker 3: is incredible to me. And a surprisingly enough, what really
Speaker 3: made me want to become a filmmaker is Missy Elliott kid. Yeah,
Speaker 3: when I was a kid seeing her videos, it was
Speaker 3: the same thing, Like my mind was blown. I'm like,
Speaker 3: how can people do this? How can I figure out
Speaker 3: how to make these things happen? And yeah, so Missy
Speaker 3: Elliott is one of my biggest inspirations as well.
Speaker 7: So I see, I wonder what's more important for a
Speaker 7: director's story or visual.
Speaker 3: I think it's a mixture of both, but you know,
Speaker 3: me as a director and cinematographer, I come from more
Speaker 3: of a visual background. But I mean, you know, it's both,
Speaker 3: like neither one can be failing. But if you have
Speaker 3: a great story, individuals are just okay, it can still
Speaker 3: be all right.
Speaker 1: But if you have amazing visuals, stories just all right.
Speaker 3: You know, as long as something's good, you know so,
Speaker 3: but you strive to have both be great.
Speaker 7: So what's your favorite film of all time that you
Speaker 7: feel like you have the perfect balance of both those things.
Speaker 1: I would say, do the right thing right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah to me because it's like so many iconic
Speaker 3: scenes and just just the imagery of New York and
Speaker 3: the way he painted it and the color and lighting,
Speaker 3: but also you know, the deep messages that the film
Speaker 3: does portray.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's to me the perfect balance.
Speaker 6: What about Belly?
Speaker 7: I love bellby so slept people be acting like Belly,
Speaker 7: but they say visually they didn't like how dark it looked.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most creative movies ever made.
Speaker 3: I think Belly deserved you know oscars absolutely like Belly
Speaker 3: is incredible and you can still watch it today and
Speaker 3: it stands at test of time.
Speaker 4: Absolutely crazy.
Speaker 5: I was like ten eleven watching that movie. Wow that
Speaker 5: in the beginning that club scene's crazy, that's like a
Speaker 5: music video in itself, and then just the scenes everything funds.
Speaker 4: I love it. Will there be a part two?
Speaker 3: I think there is a part two in the works.
Speaker 3: I can't speak on it too much. I think I
Speaker 3: think they're trying to cook something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because the way it ends is like, okay, what else?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's a roller coaster throughout the whole movie
Speaker 3: where you're kind of wondering like what does this getting too?
Speaker 3: What does this getting too? And then right when we
Speaker 3: give you a piece, you know, we kind of snatch
Speaker 3: it from you. But yeah, there's it's definitely a part two.
Speaker 1: Words.
Speaker 6: Okay, you did something with the Olympics.
Speaker 3: This year too, Yeah, Actually, so I filmed the Olympians
Speaker 3: that were going to Paris. So we filmed like the
Speaker 3: behind the scenes that are photo shoot and them getting
Speaker 3: ready to go to Paris. And uh, surprisingly in a
Speaker 3: cool way, they're playing it on like all the Delta flights.
Speaker 3: So that was like all of mine that I can
Speaker 3: check out the list, you know, actually having something that's
Speaker 3: playing on Delta flights?
Speaker 7: Is it hard to write stories nowadays? When life is
Speaker 7: so absurd, Like it feels like life is glad tire nowadays.
Speaker 3: Like that's a great question, but uh no, I don't
Speaker 3: think so, because I think, you know, there's always something
Speaker 3: you know creatively that you can.
Speaker 1: Pull from it, especially with life. So I don't think
Speaker 1: so at all.
Speaker 5: Do you have any dream projects that you you know,
Speaker 5: should see in the future, any dream collaborations or any
Speaker 5: you know, anything you always wanted to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'd love to do something with Jamie Fox.
Speaker 3: I love Jamie Fox as an actor from the Spike
Speaker 3: Lee and just you know, like bigger movies. I would say,
Speaker 3: like bigger movies with you know, larger budgets, more access
Speaker 3: and you know, us being able to tell our stories.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's on the way. I wonder you know what
Speaker 6: directors like yourself? Is it pressure? Because every single thing
Speaker 6: you do nowadays can be.
Speaker 7: Magnified, right, Like you know, so a lot of these
Speaker 7: people have the opportunity to grow in business. But for you,
Speaker 7: it's like, oh, it's real, Hey, I love you. Oh
Speaker 7: just Alarus in it, these person in it. I'm a
Speaker 7: watch so they're watching you from the beginning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean for me, it's I don't really
Speaker 3: feel the pressure as much because I disconnect so I
Speaker 3: don't spend time on the internet all day, and I
Speaker 3: know people are gonna say what they're gonna say regardless,
Speaker 3: you know. Like I've been making films and commercials for
Speaker 3: fifteen years, so it's like either you like it or
Speaker 3: you don't, you know, so I know what I created.
Speaker 3: I know what it took to make it, you know,
Speaker 3: especially with our team, so I don't really feel the pressure,
Speaker 3: and I always know where I'm going. I'm always going
Speaker 3: to something bigger and greater. So if you don't like
Speaker 3: this one, maybe you like the next one. If you
Speaker 3: don't like that one, maybe you like the next one
Speaker 3: after that. But if not, you know, I'm not here
Speaker 3: to please everybody anyway, so that's all good.
Speaker 6: What's your favorite way to tell the story? Is it
Speaker 6: through film? Is it through you know?
Speaker 7: I guess the documentary style stuff like the Olympics, Like I.
Speaker 3: Would say my favorite would be film and commercials. Like
Speaker 3: I really like commercials because there's so much intention and
Speaker 3: there's so much time spent for something that's so small,
Speaker 3: and you can get really creative with commercials. So I
Speaker 3: would say, yeah, movies and commercials are definitely.
Speaker 6: My favorite commercials are a lost art.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, Like think about when we was young, those
Speaker 7: commercials that used to like stand out that you remember
Speaker 7: to this day.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't do it that way anymore. You know, sad,
Speaker 3: but hopefully we can bring it back, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I remember when Super Bowl commercials were the best, Like
Speaker 5: people used to love those commercials. Now it's like, nah,
Speaker 5: I'm I'm tired of like the Dawn commercials, Like none
Speaker 5: of them makes sense.
Speaker 4: Like I don't have a greasy duck, I got dishes.
Speaker 4: I need commercials we need.
Speaker 3: It's a couple that I think are cool. The homiechal Matic.
Speaker 3: He does some cool stuff with like the Lebron commercials.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I agree, like they don't go as big
Speaker 3: as they used to go.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think the Gatorade commercials will always
Speaker 1: big Gatorade. Yeah, and Night Back in the Day will always.
Speaker 4: Good music too.
Speaker 1: Fact.
Speaker 5: So you went to Georgia State, and I know you
Speaker 5: told us how you got into film, but you you
Speaker 5: majored in business.
Speaker 1: So I got my marketing degree.
Speaker 4: How do you still dabble.
Speaker 1: In that marketing and business? Definitely?
Speaker 3: So I always knew that I wanted to do film,
Speaker 3: and my brother and I started our company in college,
Speaker 3: so like I already knew what I wanted to do,
Speaker 3: So I didn't want to go to film school. I
Speaker 3: just wanted to know how to build my business. So
Speaker 3: I just took all those years of college learning business
Speaker 3: and marketing, and I was writing, you know, my business
Speaker 3: plan for my actual company.
Speaker 1: While I was in school.
Speaker 3: So it was cool, like my professors like make up
Speaker 3: a you know, a mock company and our review your
Speaker 3: business planning, this is and this, but I was using
Speaker 3: my actual company for the professors to review, you know,
Speaker 3: so it definitely helped.
Speaker 4: And was that your brother you talk about your brother?
Speaker 4: Is that your brother that played in the movie as well?
Speaker 4: Because he's the actor?
Speaker 5: Okay, And and are you an actor as well?
Speaker 1: Not at all? Stay behind the camera.
Speaker 4: He's always been in front of the camera.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure. He's a huge personality, like he's
Speaker 3: a YouTube star.
Speaker 1: He does he does it all.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's what's up.
Speaker 7: I wonder the business, uh has has gotten in the
Speaker 7: way of the creative because you know, creatives to me
Speaker 7: are creatives.
Speaker 6: Business people are business people.
Speaker 7: But now a day's creatives are forced to be business
Speaker 7: people because so many creatives be getting got that's true.
Speaker 7: So you got to know your business. But I wonder
Speaker 7: if if the business gets in the way of just
Speaker 7: being created some time, having to figure balance.
Speaker 3: Both think so because it's like for me, you know,
Speaker 3: and all our peers, we want to control our destiny.
Speaker 3: So we want to own our own businesses. You know,
Speaker 3: we want to have, you know, our foot in the door.
Speaker 3: We want to be a part of the conversations. But
Speaker 3: also as a creative, like sometimes I wish I could
Speaker 3: just show up and only do art, Like I don't
Speaker 3: want to have to handle business and hop on all
Speaker 3: these calls and figure out where the money's going. It's like,
Speaker 3: I just want to show up and create. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 7: Or somebody like your brother, I say, somebody like your
Speaker 7: brother's gonna have be probably such a good actor because
Speaker 7: he got you just watching his back.
Speaker 6: You don't worry about facts business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: Tell him how they can see I Hate I Love
Speaker 2: You starring our very own just hilarious. Yes, yeah, so
Speaker 2: you can see I Hate I Love You right now
Speaker 2: out on Peacock please go stream it everywhere. We put
Speaker 2: our heart and soul into this and you know, shout
Speaker 2: out freely Films, Maverick, Eli, Tedro, my whole family, Carter, Sean, Tania, everybody.
Speaker 1: She acting like a on not.
Speaker 3: She was super cool in between the scenes, cracking jokes
Speaker 3: like you know, like she was. She was very very
Speaker 3: professional and even like taking you know, criticism or like
Speaker 3: maybe let's try it this way.
Speaker 1: She's like, all right, but got it. You know off,
Speaker 1: are you pregnant when you shoot?
Speaker 4: I was pregnant?
Speaker 1: They didn't know, Yeah, found out today.
Speaker 4: Yeah I was pregnant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 4: I think it was a month already.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well yeah, so you couldn't even smoke.
Speaker 4: He was just man, what man?
Speaker 5: I just but I was like, oh okay, all right,
Speaker 5: Yeah I didn't want nobody to know because you know,
Speaker 5: we talked somebody that they start treating you like you
Speaker 5: need crutches. I'm like, nah, yo, I'm good, Like right, So,
Speaker 5: yeah I was pregnant in the movie.
Speaker 4: Y'all y'all just can't.
Speaker 1: See all right.
Speaker 2: Well, Jabil Films, we appreciate you for joining us and
Speaker 2: show you'll be back the next movie that comes.
Speaker 1: Out at Definitely I appreciate it. Too. It's the breakfast
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