WEBVTT - KRIS D. LOFTON - Chill Dogg 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.800 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:07.680 I'm your host, Coleen, and today we have very special guests, 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.559 actor Chris D. Lofton in the building. 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.000 What's thank you for having. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:39.680 So excited to have you and from the what five 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.639 or ten minutes I got to know you. You are 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:43.440 a real man in the kitchen. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:44.640 I try to be. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:45.959 I just try to do what I can do when 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:47.519 I can do it. That's just really what I do. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.000 He's a real man in the kitchen. He was showing 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.400 me videos and pictures and I was trying to steal 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.400 some recipes and like most cooks, he was holding it 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.960 close to the vest, like, don't worry about it if 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.120 I put it in the air fry or now. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.040 I'm like, how you see you gotta relax, you gotta 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.720 relax just a little bit. You gotta crawl before you walk. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.039 We're gonna get that thing. Oh, relationship is quite there. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.920 Just trust me. When I try food. I literally if 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.200 I go to restaurants something's really good, I'm the type 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.280 I'll go home and I'll say I think I know 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.240 what they did or what seasoning. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.240 And I'm going to make that Oh yes, no, that 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:18.000 just happened to me. 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.080 I was in Dallas, like now when I'll be making 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.280 some wings, like bro I went in the back. I 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.280 made them go get the damn chef out the kitchen. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.440 I said, excuse me, ma'am, ma'am, I'm gonna need to 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.000 talk to you. I need five seconds of your time. Ma'am. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.120 What the hell did you put on them wings? 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.080 I said, the glade? How did you do it? 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:33.640 What did you do? 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.360 Oh, you'll ask the questions like I'm gonna start asking. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.039 I was like, okay, So I said, okay, you put maple, brown, 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.240 sugar and honey and butter. That's the base because otherwise 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.000 where you get the glazes from? And then what did 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.520 you do? I was? She was like, you you be cooking. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:50.120 I was like, I'm asking for a reason, lady, what 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:50.920 did you do? 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.760 What I find interesting about you saying this is that 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.080 when I was trying to peep, Oh, what what did 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:56.919 you do with them wings? 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.480 You was like, yeah, that's just because you ain't had 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:01.960 a chance to experience them for yourself. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.200 Like take a bike. Then if you take a BikeE. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.480 I may or may not award you that information. You 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.440 know what I'm saying. But I feel like until you've 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.399 had them yourself, I don't want you going home trying 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.720 to emulate some shit you ain't never had. That's kind 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.960 of where I'm coming from with that. So it's like, nah, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.680 you just relax, you come eat them, and then once 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.480 you eat them, then I'll kind of give you some tips. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:21.799 I think. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.519 Okay, okay, well, what will you be having me eat today? 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.520 Uh? Today, we're gonna take it back a little bit. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.959 This was like this meal right here. I remember this boy, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.880 and especially with just bread. We're gonna eat some chili dogs, 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.200 a little a little hood chili dog. I like to 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.200 call a little hood nigga chili dog a hood. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.480 So, by the way, I talked to your publicists and 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.240 she was saying, there's a such thing as chili with 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.160 no beans? Is that really real? Is that a such 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:48.160 thing there is? 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:49.560 But I don't like chili with no beans? 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.000 Okay when she mentioned it, I said, please don't even 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.440 hint to him, there's a chili with. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:56.960 Okay. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.400 By way, red I switched it out with turkey. 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.000 Oh you find you one of those? Well, no, I 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.720 you assume that the actors are or you are no 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:07.919 asson that the guest star. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.360 It's that I'm allergic to red meat. Oh and I 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.240 used to like ignore it all the time, and then 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.120 I was like, oh, you're too old to pretend like 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.560 you're not allergic to something. So now I switch it out. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.440 And then so and I know turkey isn't gonna be 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.359 as good as beef and pork, but that's what I've 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.280 been doing. Fine, we're gonna try it. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.720 It's gonna be good. We ain't worried about that. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.240 So what's in the ingredients? 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.280 Honestly for me? And remember we talked early a little 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.760 bit off offset. We talked about the curve balls that 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.880 may or may not take place, And honestly, I'm thinking 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.080 these are This is all I need, honestly, right here 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.560 the seasons you got me together. This is really all 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:44.960 I need is the or Male Chili. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.800 Though I like this one, all right, So list it 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:47.360 out for all. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.680 Like this or Male Chili. That the hot dog can 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.000 be the hot dog in your choice. It don't have 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:52.600 to be Oscar Mayor to see this. This is the 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.840 kind of expensive brand you went all out that was 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.960 like the five forty nine, six forty nine pack at 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:58.840 the Rouse. You ain't need to do that, see for 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:00.520 the people at home when you really broke, if you 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.520 eating while broke, they do got some hot dogs for 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.280 two dollars. Trust me, I know where they at, I 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.760 know which all to go. You just got to reach 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.360 behind these Oscar Myers. Noh yeah, you don't need you 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.520 don't need hot dogs. They got a commercial for this. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.160 You know what I'm saying. You can just get a 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.120 hot dog. Yeah, you don't need that. You don't need 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.200 that for this. But I appreciate the gesture, but you 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.279 don't necessarily need it. You know what I'm saying. You 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.920 could have said about three thirty nine, right, But that's cool. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.919 And the cheese is very very optional because that's my 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.720 curve ball. I ain't on rock with cheese. Oh really yeah, 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:30.279 not in situations like this. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.400 My thing is so it's just the ormel Chilian and. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.400 A hot dog. Ya. I don't like cheese. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.799 Were specific? You didn't want buns, you wanted the slice bread. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.080 Yeah, because if we eating while broke, who the hell 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.200 just got hot dog buns and hamburger buns laying around. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.039 That's very intentional. That's very intentional. It's like, nigga, are 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.360 we barbecuing soon? Did we just barbecue. Like, you don't 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.680 just have hot dog buns and hamburger buns. I don't think, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:55.839 but you might have some bread. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.120 I love that you're really making me experience what you 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.400 experienced when you were broke. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.719 Yeah, that might not even be broke. That could have 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.640 been yesterday. Ship, we don't strike for all. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:08.120 That is true. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.760 It is true, ship that the white bread who just 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.560 really for real, if you really think about it, you 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.000 ain't gonna open your cabinet right now probably and see 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:16.800 hot dog buns. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.760 No, no, And and if I do order hot dog buns, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.920 it'll be the day that I'm that you're about. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.320 To make some Italian sausage or some hot dogs, or 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.600 some broad words or some hot links. It's a very 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.560 like by case basins with with the buns. You know 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.799 what I'm saying. You gotta be intentional with your buns, 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:32.440 is all what I'm saying. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.960 Well, while we be an intentional, why don't you start 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.839 cooking for them? All right, let's do it real quick 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.600 since I'm gonna be taking all the way real quick. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.480 Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do a little bit like this. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.040 I'm gonna see I like that. You gotta see even 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.719 though it's a hot dog, and they need to do 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:46.120 the most. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.560 You're adding a whole lot of salt to that water. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.320 You put salt water fishing. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.440 Actually, it really need to be more than that, if 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.520 we're being honest, a lot of turning back on. Yeah, 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.040 I'm gonna do it, Lodo, because we can't. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:59.679 Okay, so you boil them the hot dogs. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.160 Yeah, and we're gonna how many of you want? Though? 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:03.160 I just want one. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.320 You just want one. I'm gonna do my best even 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.640 though I'm gonna do this first, let's hit this. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.160 Sanitiz saying it real quick. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:13.760 You know what I'm saying. We ain't got the we 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.200 ain't got the city. I wish I had a tie 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:16.839 to throw over, but we cook. I wish I had 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.200 a little tile to throw. I'm gonna try to I'm 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.039 gonna try to do you like this, but it's real simple. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.719 It ain't gonna it ain't gonna wint gonna hurt no body. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.800 That's what we're not gonna do. You just want one. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.680 I just I'm gonna go one with you. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:27.560 Then that's how we need. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:29.000 I'm gonna go one with you. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.200 Actually make an extra one for pictures later. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:36.320 Okay, for sure, one more one for the pictures, the 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.040 picture for the pictures, and we're gonna just boil that thing. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.039 It ain't gonna take too long. Okay, it ain't gonna 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:41.679 take too long. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.080 And do you watch to see if it like busts open? 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.200 Is that when you know it's boiled to completion? 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.520 I do I do like it. I do like it 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:49.280 to break a little bit. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:50.320 Yeah, that's how I do. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:51.640 I do like it to break a little bit. I'm 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:52.320 not gonna lie to you. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.159 I do like the talking to a guy that's in 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.839 the kitchen. You'd be like a cook. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.920 For real. I actually do like it to break for real, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.480 for real. That's how I am. Like even if I 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.719 was making these on the if I was making these 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.880 hot dogs on the grill or something, I want the 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.320 blackest burnings one on there, or don't give it chili. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.480 Yeah, if we barbecuing, okay, I want to burn hot 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.920 I don't want to burn burn. I want it to be. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.160 I want if it's on the grill, I want I 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:17.920 want the black one. I want the one with the 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.760 damn bubbles on the side, because it's been on there 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.520 so long. That's the one I want. Okay, with the 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.920 sweet baby rais, and we're gonna go crazy. Okay if 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.040 you're picking up when I'm putting down, yes, ma'am. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.400 All right, So then you're gonna heat the chili. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.200 Yep, I'm gonna heat the chili. I was gonna let 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:32.320 it get a Look, I could just do this. It 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.400 ain't that deep with this. We can just do that. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.160 So take me back to what was going on when 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.720 you were eating can chili and some hot dogs. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:45.560 Shit, man, life is what was going on because uh, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.800 I was one of them kids. Let's start here. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.520 I got a mancipated when I was seventeen. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.440 Okay, so like legally manurpated. Yeah, that's really hard to do, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:55.040 by the way. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.680 Yeah, they just signed it. It wasn't wasn't no fight back, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.640 wasn't no nothing like that. And it wasn't though, because 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.560 it wasn't on no like mcaulay coke and shit, fuck 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.040 you mom and dadd It wasn't nothing like that. It 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.520 wasn't like I hate you. It wasn't are you. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.160 Trying to get into college for cheaper or something like. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.920 Nah. It was because one day, one day, my mom 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.920 just decides to walk in the house and say, hey, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.000 I'm moving to Georgia and not Atlanta. I'm moving to 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.760 Georgia and I'm from Chicago. It's my senior year of 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.600 high school. I'm I'm still playing sports. I was a 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.360 big football baseball player. I'm thinking I'm still going to 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.200 the NFL or the MLB. So I'm like, you're not 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.480 taking me out of school my senior year to move 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.800 to bumbafuck Georgia. It's not gonna happen. It's just not 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.080 gonna happen. And then she was like, yep, So I 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.559 quit my job. I cashed in my four oh one 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.760 K and I'm putting the house on the market and 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.839 we moving to Georgia. I said, nigga, where was at 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:46.200 the time. 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:47.880 He was there, and he was with it. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.120 He said, I'll do it if that's what she want 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.680 to do. And he really did it. And I said, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.280 oh well, and I got a sister. I ain't got 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.680 no other siblings. I got an older sister. I said, well, y'all, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.520 niggas are moving to Georgia nowhere. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.080 And then I was an actor already too. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.400 I was already like doing TV shows and movies and 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.719 trying to really get it cracking. I'm like, man, I 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.239 got an agent here. This is my senior year sports. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.840 I'm no, I'm not going nowhere. I'm getting recruited and 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.080 scouts coming and I'm like, you crazy hell you think 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.720 I'm gonna move to Georgia. And I said, well, y'all 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:18.840 can go. I'm staying. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.000 And that's how did you end up moving in with 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.560 your sister or something? No, I live by myself at seventeen. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.720 How are you paying for it? No? I like that? 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:39.200 Yeah, yeah, no. So my uncle, I was lucky enough 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.880 that my uncle had one of my uncles who will 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.040 rename nameless for the sake of his stories. Okay, my uncle, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.560 for the sake of this story. He had a uh 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.000 he had a little fun house, if you will. But 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.280 he was in the streets, so it was like his 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.480 little dope house. But he would but he would have 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.280 fun there too. It was it was a house that 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.640 his family didn't even know existed, but it was literally 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.920 eight minutes away from their family hall. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.640 That's hilarious. And didn't know. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.600 Nobody, kid's wife, nobody knew. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:08.679 So like some guys have a man cave, he had 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.679 a whole He had a whole apartment. When I hear 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.840 fun house, the way you're saying it is it like 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.760 he had a whole apartment with like pinball machines. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.360 And no, it wasn't that, because once again he was 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:18.800 in the streets. So it was like it was like 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.640 it was like the stash house, dope house. Like he 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.720 would come over there cooking and stood up. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.280 Oh paying similar to this actually okay, okay, it. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.240 Was actually a pot similar to this for being real. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.360 So I never used to cook in there for real, 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.600 didn't want to use those dishes. But yeah, so when 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.200 my uncle, uh, when that happened, I called my uncle 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.480 and I'm like, yo, unc they getting ready to move 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.240 to Georgia, and I don't want to go? Do you 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.080 can I come stay with you and I'll just drive. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.720 I'm like, I won't tell the school that I moved, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.160 so I can stay in the district. They don't make 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.120 me try to like transfer. I'm like, I don't want 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.440 to leave school. But he lived like forty five minutes 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.800 away from the school I was going to, so I'm like, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.520 I gotta make that drive. So I had a little 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.839 ninety baby blue Toyota Canry that was my little I 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.880 used to call it powder blue. It was a baby 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.760 blue ninety Toyota Camry damned seat belts automatically as soon 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.720 as you started up coming on you closed door. One 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.760 of them type of situations. It was one of them. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.440 So I had that and I just used to drive 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.880 forty five minutes from one city to the other. But 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.280 I lived there and he had that apartment. So he 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.560 still made me pay rent, but not all of it. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.360 He just made me pay like four five hundred dollars. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.000 But and you were were you working for him to 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:27.320 pay it? 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.400 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, but not like crazy. He used to 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.599 have me like driving and doing a little shit I 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:32.600 probably shouldn't have been doing. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.040 And your parents were cool. They knew that your game 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.199 plan was moving with the uncle. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.760 Yeah, they knew they and they were. But my pops 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.280 and that was my uncle. So my pops was like, hey, 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.720 be cool. And he and my pops and that was me. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.199 So he's like, hey, I know you down there with 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.760 with your uncle, be cool, but mind you, Like I said, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.320 I'm two thousand miles away. They in Georgia, I'm in Chicago. 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.600 And the only reason I got emancipaid it was because 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.839 I was supposed to do this movie called grid Iron. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.760 You remember that movie. With the Rock where he was 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.080 coaching the football team for them kids, like the Home 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.880 in Jail. I was supposed to have a main role 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.120 in that movie. They flew me out to La from 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.440 Chicago and everything, and I was supposed to be cast 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.520 as one of Lee rolls in that movie. But my 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.480 mom wouldn't sign a contract because they wanted me to 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.040 drop out of high school take the GED test so 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.640 they can work me like an adult so I wouldn't 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.720 have to be tutored on set. Yeah, all that time 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.120 and waste their time. And my mama was like, oh yeah, 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.040 hell no, my son, he's getting a diploma. He's not 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.839 gonna get no GED and you gonna want to go 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.400 to prom? You want to do this? Da da da. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.000 So she turned it down and they flew my black 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.520 ass right back to Chicago like all right, brought in 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.880 somebody who was of age. So when they chose to 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.520 move to Georgia, that's when I said, well, hey, in 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.880 case something like that happens again, and I'm about to 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.560 be eighteen within a couple months, within a year, anyway, 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.400 let me make that decision. Don't take no money out 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:53.920 of my pocketing out my life, and you're not even 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:54.800 here helping me. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.000 Now, I'm just curious. Take me back, because for a 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.360 seventeen year old kid who seemed to be a dream 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.400 levels of driven, like how did you start getting into acting? 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.120 But like before, I mean you obviously started before the 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.439 age of seventeen, Like were your parents holding your hand 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.079 or did you just start hustling it on your career 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:13.600 on your own? 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.079 I just got lucky, honestly, right place, right town. I 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:18.360 didn't want to be no actor. I didn't even know 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.800 nothing about it. All I cared about was sports, and 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.959 then at one point it was the streets, and then 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.480 at another point it was rapping. All I cared about. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:26.960 How did you get the approach of acting? 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.280 Yeah, so the acting thing happened. I think these low 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.040 key are good. Some of them is busting, but we 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.720 can let this shit a little bit. But with the acting. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.080 I just heard something on the radio in Chicago. I 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.880 heard something on the radio. They was like, yo, it's 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.520 some people in town looking for some young black boys 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.080 that know how to play baseball. And I was like, well, shit, 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.559 my mom, young, I'm black and I know how to 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.040 play baseball. Take the radio saying let's do it. Yeah, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.240 And I went and it was an open call audition 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.160 for a movie. And I didn't even know it was 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.320 a movie. I thought it was honestly a baseball tryout 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.240 because they was, you know, I'm like, it must be 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:57.920 a hell of a traveling team if they talking about 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.200 it on the radio. This shit gotta be lit. Got me, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.160 what's up? Hell of a traveling team? So I'm like, yo, moms, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.200 take me. She takes me, and then it ended up 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.680 being a movie audition. I'm like, oh, well, I don't 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.360 want to be in no movie. And my mama like, boy, 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.240 I drove your ass about a hour away from home. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:12.400 You better go in there and see what the white 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.520 people want. You never know, She said, you at least 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.120 go see what the white people want, son, And I 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.839 was like, you, you're actually right, mama. We should go 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:18.720 see what the white people want. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:24.280 So let's go see what these white exactly, that's literally 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:24.920 the conversation. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.480 Let's see what these white people want. And from there. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.800 From there, they handed me a script and was like, yo, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.440 read this, but when you read it, try to act 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.120 like you're not reading it. To act like you're talking 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.560 to your friends right on the baseball fields. It's just 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:38.760 you and your friends outside. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:39.640 How would you say it? 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.400 I was like, nigga, I would go like this. I 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.120 was like, okay, great, no, love it, love it, love it. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.680 We'll be in touch. And I was like the fuck 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:48.240 out of here. Whatever. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.840 I'm ten, I'm like, you're eleven, Okay, I'm a kid. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.840 Shit, I'm like okay, and I left. And then three 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.680 months ago by and they really called like, hey, hey, 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.520 this is Brian Robins with pay about were looking for 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.400 Chris Laughton for the parents of Christopher Lofton. We're looking 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:03.640 for him. Yeah, he's gonna be in a movie with 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.320 the caller Reeves. Yes, yes, yes, that's right, the guy 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.120 from the Matrix. Indeed, what we're gonna do here, we're 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.680 gonna need a school involved. Can we get this and 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.640 this and this. He's gonna be tutor. Don't you worry, man, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.200 We'll take great care of him. What I'm gonna need 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:13.680 from you now is to do you have a fax 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.160 machine or you need a fact machine? Can you get 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:16.800 to affects me? Shine? I was like, what the fuck 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.800 is going on? And then all of a sudden I 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:19.600 was in a movie. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.480 Okay, and I've been acting ever since. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.240 And that was twenty five years. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.080 And what was your mom's initial response when she heard about. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.160 All of this. My mom was like wow, because she 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.640 was like it was crazy because somebody at her job 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.520 also had told her about that open call. But I 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.440 guess she didn't even think nothing of it, or she 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.920 had forgot, because when I mentioned it to her, I 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:42.680 was like, man, I heard something that the radio said. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.120 After we finally get there, she was like, oh, this 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.120 must be what my friend at work was telling me 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.280 that I should take you too, because you played baseball. 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.520 They was auditioning. He had read it in the paper 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.520 and she was like, and I didn't even mention it 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.000 to you. And I'm like, well, look what happened. Anyway, 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.720