0:06

Oh yeah,

0:13

oh yeah, you are now rocking

0:16

with the best. This is the

0:19

I Am Rappaport Stereo

0:21

podcast. And everything is lined

0:24

up beautifully. Everything

0:27

is lined up beautifully. It is the

0:29

Golden State Warriors verse

0:32

that Cleveland Cavaliers.

0:35

They are back in business for

0:38

all eyes to see.

0:41

There's no more Game sevens. There's no more

0:43

Eastern Conference Finals, Western Conference

0:45

Finals. It comes down to two

0:47

teams with six future

0:50

Hall of Famers. Rooms

0:53

up, motherfucker, get your motherfucking

0:56

brooms ready. The NBA

0:58

Finals are set. It

1:02

was Memorial Day weekend and

1:04

a woman decided to shave her legs,

1:07

Yes, shave her legs

1:10

publicly, right there

1:12

on the side of a public pool.

1:15

Rudy Giuliani showed up to Yankee Stadium

1:17

for a seventy fourth birthday. I'll tell you what

1:19

happened. Plus we have special guests,

1:21

one of my favorite actresses. I've never

1:24

worked with her. I never even really met her, the

1:26

Great Reginal Hall. You've seen her

1:28

in Girls Trip, You've seen her and you've

1:30

seen her in the Best Man. You've seen her in

1:32

Love and Basketball. You probably first

1:34

saw her in the original Scary Movie. She did

1:36

the entire franchise she's one of the she's one

1:38

of my favorite actress. She could do comedy, she

1:41

could do drama. She talks ship, she

1:43

keeps her real. She's funny as fuck. Reginal

1:45

Hall is the special guest on this

1:48

here I Am Rappaport

1:50

Stereo podcast. Miles

1:53

Jordan's let me get something funky.

1:55

Let's start this off right now, the right

1:57

way.

2:07

Oh yeah, oh

2:09

yeah, you fuck you ah.

2:13

This is gonna be gorgeous now. G Moody's

2:17

stuck in Brooklyn with some

2:19

transmission problems. He may or

2:22

may not be joining me on

2:24

this I Am Rappafore Stereo podcast,

2:27

but who gives you shit? This

2:29

is my time to shine. For

2:32

those of you who did not hear the very combustible

2:35

emergency podcast last

2:37

night only on

2:39

the Premium Map, I suggest you

2:42

hear it. Me and G Moody went

2:45

at it about Cleveland, about

2:48

k D versus Lebron, We

2:50

went at it about Drake versus

2:53

Push a T. I

2:56

predicted that Golden

2:58

State would win, and I predicted

3:00

that Kevin Durant would score

3:03

thirty five points or

3:05

more. In Game seven Low

3:08

and behold you fuck

3:10

you. He

3:12

scored thirty four

3:16

points. I was one free throw

3:18

shy of being right on the money,

3:21

and as you know, I don't do it for the

3:23

money. I do it for the honey. What a

3:25

glorious feeling. Here we are

3:28

with another banger. I

3:30

am Rappaport Stereo Podcast.

3:34

The NBA Finals are set. It's

3:37

what Cleveland wanted, It's

3:40

what Golden State wanted, It's

3:42

what NBA fans wanted

3:44

and knew was inevitable. The

3:48

two thousand and eighteen NBA Finals

3:50

will come down to Cleveland and

3:53

Lebron fucking James versus

3:56

the Golden State Warriors. And I

3:58

predict it's going to be

4:00

ugly, and it's going to be ugly

4:03

fast. Yes, Houston

4:06

pushed them to the brink. Yes k D

4:09

had two bad games. Yes they were a little

4:11

bit out of sink. I give credit to Houston.

4:13

They made adjustments on defense.

4:16

But the Golden State Warriors did the

4:18

damn thing. They persevered like the champions

4:21

they are. Who would have thought that both

4:23

the Eastern and Western Conference Finals

4:25

would go to seven games, but they did.

4:28

Good for the NBA, Good

4:30

for Adam Silver. Keep

4:32

your ball head clean and shining.

4:35

You deserve it. I

4:37

am a pig and ship.

4:41

The final start on Thursday.

4:44

On Sunday, we will

4:46

be performing coincidentally

4:49

in San Francisco at

4:51

the Cluster Festival. You

4:54

can get tickets in San Francisco

4:56

to see us at Clusterfest dot

4:58

com me G Moody live

5:01

from San Francisco. I

5:04

have to change all my fucking plans

5:06

now because I'm trying to get tickets to game

5:09

mother fucking two. I'm

5:14

hyped, I'm

5:16

excited, I feel good. Yes,

5:18

Cleveland is fuck Cleveland.

5:21

Yes Lebron is great. Yes

5:23

he's been unbelievable, But it don't

5:26

mean a thing if

5:29

you ain't got that ring

5:32

a shoe bob chewbob shoe bob, shoe

5:34

bob. Wow. What's the

5:36

sense of pushing it to the brink.

5:39

What's the sense of all that brilliance when

5:42

inevitably it's gonna come down to getting

5:44

your asses kicked against

5:46

the Golden State Warriors,

5:49

And that is what is

5:51

going to happen. They are lucky. Last

5:53

year, they didn't get swept in four fucking

5:55

games. I predict

5:57

the same thing. I predict

5:59

Golden State beats

6:02

Cleveland again in five games,

6:05

beating them easily. I predict Kevin

6:07

Durant dominating

6:10

Lebron James just like

6:13

he did last year. Lebron James

6:15

cannot guard Kevin Durant. Kevin

6:17

Durant cannot guard Lebron James,

6:20

but you know what, he

6:22

doesn't need to because

6:25

the Golden State Warriors are a better team. Draymond

6:28

Green, Steph Curry, and fucking

6:30

Robot Clay Thompson. It's gonna

6:33

be fantastic. It's gonna be fast,

6:35

it's gonna be furious, and it's gonna be

6:37

ugly. Okay,

6:40

it's going to be ugly,

6:43

and I can't wait. This is

6:45

what Listen. If you're a basketball fan,

6:48

if you're a fan of greatness,

6:51

this is this is what it's all about, whether

6:53

you're a real NBA fan or not. This is what it's

6:55

all about. The two best teams with

6:59

five of the best players to ever

7:01

do it in no particular

7:04

order. You have five all stars playing

7:06

Lebron James, Kevin Love. Also six

7:09

all stars Lebron

7:11

James, Kevin Love, Kevin Love will be a Hall

7:14

of Famer, Draymond

7:16

Green, Clay

7:18

k d and Steph Curry. Six Hall

7:20

of famers will be dueling, duking

7:23

it out in the NBA Finals.

7:25

That is the way it's supposed to be.

7:28

Houston. You did your thing, you

7:31

pushed them to seven games, but it doesn't mean

7:33

shit. Boston, you did your thing,

7:36

you pushed them to seven games. But at the end

7:38

of the day, as gallant

7:40

of an effort, as the young guns

7:43

from Boston put up, it don't

7:45

mean shit. See

7:48

I am Rappaport Stereo Podcast. As

7:50

I told you earlier, we

7:53

got a great interview coming up for

7:56

Gina Hall. You've seen her in

7:59

so many movies, starting with Scary

8:01

Movie. She

8:04

was in all the Scary movies. It was like Scary

8:06

Movie Parts one through seven. She

8:09

was just in a huge monster

8:11

hit last summer, Girls Trip. It

8:13

was her, it was Queen Latifa, it was Jada

8:16

Pinkett, and it was Tiffany Hattish

8:18

loving basketball, the Best Man

8:21

and so on and so on and so on.

8:24

The thing that I love about reginal Hall she's such

8:26

a versatile actress. She's funny as

8:28

shit. As you

8:30

first saw in the Scary Movie franchise.

8:33

She played a more straight sort

8:35

of comedic version uh comedic

8:38

role in Girls Trip. She's

8:40

just dope. She's been doing it for twenty years. O.

8:42

G Regina Hall is coming on the

8:44

Iron Rap or stereo podcast, and it's like

8:47

actors studio status. We're talking

8:49

about black Hollywood. We're talking

8:51

about the greatness of Denzel Washington. We're

8:53

talking about the greatness of Wood Harris, different

8:56

films, how she approaches the script,

8:58

how she approaches this scene. Trust

9:01

me, if you like movies and television,

9:03

you do not want to miss my conversation

9:06

with the great o g Regina

9:09

Hall coming up later in the Iron Rapp

9:11

reports stereo podcast. Now,

9:14

I hope everybody had

9:16

a safe Memorial Day weekend. Um.

9:19

I hope everybody enjoyed themselves. I

9:23

hope everybody was old ticket a little

9:25

break and decompress. Now, I'm gonna be

9:27

honest. The

9:29

NBA playoffs took away from some of my decompression

9:32

time, okay,

9:36

but I enjoyed myself. I was in

9:38

the desert. I was schwitz

9:40

ing in the the hot, warm air

9:42

of the desert. Stayed out of the sun. Uh,

9:45

went to the steam room, was in the jaccuzzi,

9:48

was in the pool, was drinking Latte's

9:51

the whole deal. I needed it and

9:53

had a couple of days off since the beginning of

9:55

the year's right fucking

9:58

gringo man Dingo working twenty War

10:00

seven three sixty five. Yet

10:02

we don't stop. Yet,

10:05

we don't stop. I told you yesterday was

10:07

a combustible right

10:09

after Game seven Boston versus

10:12

Cleveland. It was a combustible emergency

10:14

podcast. Some of you might feel like you

10:16

were left out. Do

10:20

not live in fomo. Download the I

10:22

Am Rappaport app. It's free.

10:25

Sign up for premium podcasting

10:27

to nine nine a month.

10:30

Do not live in

10:32

fear of missing out a k

10:34

A fomo to. And

10:37

I got a little message. A guy on

10:39

Instagram threatened me. I

10:42

don't remember your name. I

10:44

didn't save it. I was polite

10:47

in your response when you threaten me. And then I thought

10:49

about it and I said, nah, I

10:51

don't feel comfortable with what you said. I had some

10:53

prick. And this guy

10:55

says he's a Day one listener, said

10:57

Mike Rap, I'm a Day one listener. But if you

10:59

mention the app and premium podcasting

11:02

again, um,

11:04

I'm out. Well listen to me.

11:06

Fucko. You

11:08

listen to me. Fucko. I

11:11

don't negotiate with terrorists.

11:13

You understand me. Fucko. I

11:15

don't negotiate with fucking terrorists.

11:18

That's a threat. If I mentioned

11:20

the I Am Wrappaport stereo podcast

11:23

app on the I Am Wrapp

11:25

Reports stereo podcast. You're out.

11:27

We'll get the funk outta here. Get

11:31

the funk out of here. Don't listen again.

11:33

Take a fucking walk. Beat it. I

11:36

mentioned it, I'm mentioned it again. Premium

11:39

podcasting to a month.

11:41

You get emergency episode? Do you get emergency

11:44

short films? You get all access to all

11:46

the previous episodes only for

11:48

two ninety nine a

11:50

month. You can't even buy a slice of fucking pizza

11:53

for anymore, but you get all

11:55

the podcasting, all the emergency

11:57

episodes, all the special ship that

11:59

we have on there, for two ninety

12:02

nine a month. Now you've got a problem with

12:04

me mentioning the Iron Rappers

12:06

stereo podcast app. Fuck

12:09

oh huh.

12:12

If you left, let me know because I'm

12:14

gonna blow you up and put you on the shame game

12:16

with me and Dean Collins, a K.

12:19

The Young Shooter, threatening me, telling

12:21

me what I should talk about and what I shouldn't talk

12:23

about on the fucking Iron Rapports stereo

12:25

podcast. I are you,

12:28

fuck you and the Greno man Dingo I

12:30

and the Jake LaMotta of podcasting.

12:33

I give you fifteen rounds

12:35

of hard body karate, blood,

12:37

sweat and tears every

12:40

single time I pick up the

12:42

fucking microphone. Same

12:44

with g Moody, same

12:46

with the Dust Brothers. Fucking

12:49

animal and the reason why I

12:51

even started talking about safety during

12:54

Memorial Day weekend because some

12:56

guy and guess what

13:00

gets Guess which one of the fifty states

13:02

Florida. Now, I'm not gonna make light

13:04

of this, okay,

13:07

because someone did die, but

13:10

somebody walked into a Little Caesar's

13:12

Pizza Polor wearing

13:15

a scary ghoul mask and

13:19

somebody got killed. Listen,

13:22

you don't want to walk into a Little Caesar's Pizza

13:24

Polor after hours with a fucking

13:27

mask on. Okay, things

13:29

might not end well for you, and they didn't end

13:31

well for this asshole creeping into the

13:33

Little Caesar's Pizza place late

13:36

night, scaring the ship out of people.

13:38

Know it's Florida. There's

13:40

been shootings all over the country.

13:43

Let's not forget that just a few months ago, somebody

13:45

came into a waffle house and

13:48

killed people. You'll

13:50

walk into Pizza Polor's three four,

13:53

two am in the morning with a mask

13:55

on. The person who killed him shot

13:58

him, had a permit for the weapon,

14:02

no charges, no nothing, scared

14:04

the ship out of the guy seemed like he was gonna rob

14:07

the place, had a pointy mask with

14:09

pointy years and sinisterized.

14:11

Sorry, asshole, I don't know what the funk you

14:13

think this is, but

14:15

this ain't the day and age should be doing that type of ship,

14:18

especially on the late night creep.

14:22

I'm gonna rattle off a couple of other things that happened

14:24

over the weekend that we're that we're just outrageous

14:29

and already did a video for this. It's on my

14:31

Instagram.

14:33

But some woman was

14:36

at a pool with her kids

14:38

and she videotaped another woman

14:42

in a public pool, not a private

14:45

pool, not the privacy of her own home,

14:47

a public pool, go to the ledge

14:49

of the pool with several kids

14:51

in the pool. This is a heavy

14:54

set woman. I don't care that she's heavy set. I'm

14:57

gonna refer to her as an animal because of

14:59

what she did, not because she's heavy set.

15:01

Okay, there's no crowds around me when I walk

15:03

around shirtless. I don't insult

15:06

people's looks unless they insult mine.

15:08

You insult my looks, I insult your

15:10

looks. You know my personal policy

15:14

But the reason why I'm calling this woman a beast

15:16

a savage is

15:18

because she went to the edge of the pool and

15:20

started shaving her legs.

15:24

Public shaving of her legs in

15:26

a public pool. Disgusting,

15:31

disgusting, you filthy will the

15:34

beast pig? You

15:36

you savage. She was shaving

15:38

her legs. And you know, when you're shaving, whether you're shaving

15:40

your beard or your legs, when the razor gets full

15:42

of hair and you need to clean it and dab it, usually

15:44

dab it in the sink or dab it in the shower like

15:48

of the other people in the world. This pig, this

15:53

animal, dabbed

15:56

her her her razor in the pool.

15:58

That's how she was cleaning. And continue to shave

16:01

and bathe in a public

16:03

pool. Unacceptable. And the kids,

16:05

they're they're not paying attention. They don't know what this world

16:07

of beast is doing. The adults are sitting

16:10

there dumbfounded. No

16:12

one said anything. I saw the video, of course

16:14

I had to ylawer. I

16:16

don't know how you react to this ship in

16:18

this day and age. If you do that, am

16:21

I being mean? Is it? Is it?

16:23

Are you harassing? Are you judging?

16:26

I am gonna be honest, I

16:29

am judging you're

16:31

a slob. You're shaving your legs

16:33

in a public pool. Uh, that's

16:36

judgment, I know it, and I have no problem

16:39

with that is what is actually in my heart.

16:41

Imagine your kids are in that pool. There

16:43

is swimming around with the hair and the shaving cream

16:46

and all the germs from

16:50

this. This this hyena

16:53

who's deciding to shave her legs and

16:55

her body in public. Rue

17:00

Giuliani and his weird teeth.

17:02

I don't know if he's got veneers or he's got like a

17:04

whole fake set of teeth. He

17:07

went to a Yankee game, you know, he's a big

17:09

time Yankee fan, for

17:11

his seventy four birthday, just

17:14

the same day as Memorial Day,

17:18

and he got booed in the

17:21

Bronx in New York by

17:23

New Yorker's New York stand

17:26

up. Okay, Donald

17:29

Trump has not been to a Yankee game. Donald

17:31

Trump hasn't been to a Nick game. Donald Trump

17:33

hasn't been to a public appearance in New York

17:36

since he got elected, because he knows what

17:38

time it is he'll

17:40

get booed in his own city. Unprecedented

17:43

behavior. Rudy,

17:46

you're whacked out of your fucking tree. He

17:49

showed up to a Yankees game on your birthday. You

17:51

shot you thought ship was sweet and you got

17:53

booed publicly, and that ain't fake

17:55

nudes. Look at the multiple tapes. No

17:59

one she it. No one likes

18:01

Rudy g crooked Rudy.

18:04

As you know, I

18:06

am a star on Instagram. Okay, I

18:08

spend way too much time

18:10

on my phone, way too much

18:12

time on social media, but

18:16

I am a star. I'm a start

18:18

in real life, starring, podcasting, the star

18:21

social media. I'm gonna warn

18:23

you this phone behavior.

18:25

Too much phone. They got a thing called

18:28

technic It's a real thing.

18:31

Chiropractors business is

18:33

booming. People are coming in there in

18:35

droves. My neck hurts, my neck

18:37

hurts, my neck hurts, and

18:40

they are literally calling it tech

18:43

neck. I know I

18:45

have it. Look down at your phone, spending

18:48

too much time on your phone and you're always

18:50

perched down the evolution

18:52

of man. We're gonna turn back into gorillas if

18:55

you don't straighten up. One

18:57

of the things I'm getting sick and tired of doing,

19:01

sick and tired of seeing on Instagram

19:04

is the fucking the fake motivational

19:07

speakers, the fake positivity,

19:11

the fake gurus of hope and light.

19:14

Listen, if I'm if, if if I'm down and

19:16

I'm looking for a way out, I'm not gonna

19:18

go to some uh you know,

19:21

stripper, Oh,

19:23

who's got a broken heart, who's

19:25

kicking things with Like about

19:27

love, like be with someone who

19:30

feels like home. Also be with

19:32

someone that feels like home to those who

19:34

love you. Listen, if you were so smart in the

19:36

first place, sweetheart, sugar

19:39

tits, Okay, if

19:41

you had an all figured out with love and life,

19:43

you'd be tweeting pictures of your beautiful

19:45

husband or your beautiful wife

19:48

and your beautiful kids. Okay, obviously

19:50

you're suffering from a broken heart. But I'm not gonna

19:53

turn to you from some fucking for

19:55

some advice. You're the last fucking

19:57

person. You're alone on

19:59

your phone. No disrespect to being alone on

20:01

your phone. I'm alone on my phone all the time. But I'm

20:03

not trying to tell people, Uh,

20:05

this is what you need to do. You know, it's

20:08

Monday. Get out there and do the damn

20:10

thing. Stay positive, people, stay

20:12

stay focused people, focus your energy

20:15

people, And on Thursday, if you haven't

20:17

done shit with Tuesday, and Wednesday.

20:19

Still stay focused because it's the weekend, and

20:22

you know what the weekend is for the weekend is for going

20:24

fucking nuts, taking some k too, and

20:26

you can make it up next month. All this fake

20:28

positivity from fake gurus and

20:31

and love doctors, I don't want to

20:33

hear it. If I want some

20:35

love advice, I'll call Dr Phil or

20:37

Dr Drew or one of these other scam

20:40

artists. No disrespect to Dr Joe, no

20:43

disrespect to Dr Drew. But you know what I'm saying now

20:46

on this year, I am Rapport Stereo podcast. We are

20:48

not doing an official Sick funk

20:51

Are the week segment, but

20:53

this is another thing that happened over Memorial

20:55

Day weekend in Portland,

20:57

Oregon. Two

21:00

police are foresaw a guy named Timothy John

21:02

Wilson. And if anybody looks like

21:04

a sick funck, Timothy John Wilson of

21:07

Portland, Oregon looks like

21:10

a sick fuck seven three

21:13

sixty five. He looks whacked out

21:15

of his treat. Two police officers or

21:18

in a public bathroom,

21:21

they heard some sounds under the toilet stall

21:24

low and behold this sick fuck. Timothy

21:27

John Wilson was

21:31

in the stall choking his chicken. Police

21:34

officers, what the funk are you doing? They

21:38

gained a view of the guy so

21:41

he had his loaf in hand,

21:44

arrested him. YadA, YadA, YadA. This

21:47

sick funck is saying that the police officers

21:50

violated his privacy and his

21:52

civil rights. Sorry, asshole, Sorry,

21:56

The toilet stalls are for taking a leak

21:58

or dropping a deuce, not for choking your chicken.

22:03

You're lucky. I don't have a six funking a week segment

22:05

going right now, You're

22:08

lucky. Unacceptable,

22:10

Unacceptable on a holiday weekend,

22:13

unacceptable on a regular weekend, unacceptable

22:16

any day of the week. Just the

22:18

type of ship that's gonna be going on more often

22:21

in Starbucks public bathrooms.

22:23

I was in a Starbucks the

22:25

other day. Guy had no drink

22:27

on his table, sleeping

22:31

at the table. Knocked out, white dude

22:35

sleeping at the table, kind

22:37

of clean cut looking dude, laid

22:39

up on his table like he was in the back of a

22:42

seventh grade science class. Remember

22:44

that, when you be in the back of a seventh

22:46

grade science class, you catch a little a little schluff.

22:50

You know what a schluff is. Schluff

22:52

is Yiddish for a little a little nap. This

22:56

guy was in Starbucks. He

22:58

just went there to take a fucking app I

23:01

was in Palm Springs about a hundred and one degrees.

23:03

He he, he went there. He's like, fucking I'm

23:05

not getting a drink. I'm not doing anything.

23:08

This is a place to chill and to hang out

23:10

and to nap. Nobody said a word to this fucking

23:12

guy. Ridiculous. You're gonna

23:14

have guys in there napping. You're gonna have guys in the bathroom

23:17

choking their chickens

23:19

going forward in Starbucks. And I'm a fan

23:21

of Starbucks, ice vanilla, soy

23:24

latte or ice vanilla. I'm in

23:26

milk latte every day.

23:28

I don't know what to do. I'm torn, I'm

23:31

scared, I'm nervous. There's gonna

23:33

be Shenanigans. There's gonna be altercations. There's gonna

23:35

be all kinds of ship happening

23:37

in Starbucks. Mark my words.

23:43

Like I said, Starbucks, you you you

23:45

you want to make public bathrooms, make

23:47

homeless shelters, Make

23:50

homeless shelters all across the country as

23:52

frequently as you make Starbucks. End

23:54

of the end of the problem. In

23:56

the homeless shelter you'll solve. You should

23:59

give him free start buy bucks. You

24:01

should have public bathrooms and give them

24:03

free coffee. And and and I'm

24:05

not making light of homelessness. It

24:07

breaks my heart, but

24:10

one does not have to do with the other. And

24:13

A and A and a coffee shop is not a homeless

24:15

shelter. And that's what they're turning into. And

24:17

that's not me being disrespectful at

24:19

all about the homeless, because it's a serious

24:22

problem. It's a it's a real problem. And

24:24

it's not just adults that we see, it's little

24:26

kids. YadA YadA, YadA, blah blah blah.

24:28

I'm very aware of that. But

24:31

making Starbucks public bathrooms for

24:33

anybody and everybody,

24:35

whether you pay or not, isn't

24:38

the way to resolve the problem that happened

24:40

in Philadelphia, I

24:43

believe. Earlier in the show I

24:46

mentioned K too. Well, there's

24:48

a bad batch of

24:50

K two going uh around throughout

24:53

the five boroughs of New York City.

24:56

There's been forty nine plus

24:59

over oases in Manhattan

25:02

because of that synthetic that

25:04

Ui, that that MAUI

25:07

wowie, those gray skies

25:09

of that K. To listen in

25:12

this day and age. You want to get fucked up,

25:14

get yourself some weed. You want to get sucked

25:16

up, drink a couple of beers. The K too

25:19

is not the way. That's synthetic

25:22

is never the way. And if you're in the Five

25:24

Burrows, this happened right

25:26

there in Brooklyn on bus Shook Avenue,

25:29

not too far away from g. Moody

25:32

last name rhymes with duty, where he grew up

25:34

in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn.

25:38

People are dropping like fucking flies. The heat

25:40

is coming and people are still

25:42

working with that k too, that mauie wowie.

25:44

Get off that k too. There's a bad batch

25:47

going around the Five Burrows. I

25:50

know some iron rapports stereo podcast

25:52

fans like to dip their toes in those

25:55

gray skies. I'm not judging you.

25:57

I'm here to support you. I don't reckommen

26:00

ended. Get yourself some of

26:02

that brown, get

26:04

yourself some weed. Don't

26:07

funk with that synthetic. It

26:09

doesn't work out. Public

26:12

drinking. Public smoking usually

26:14

doesn't work out on an American

26:16

Airlines flight. We've been talking about

26:18

this all of two thousand eighteen. Last

26:21

year with sexual

26:23

assaults on farm animals.

26:25

This year, the unfriendly

26:27

skies have taken over the other day,

26:31

a guy who was clearly drunk on

26:33

a short flight I'm not fact checking.

26:37

I don't know where it was from, but it wasn't across country

26:39

flight. It was like from Nevada to

26:43

Ohio, I think, started talking

26:46

ship to the steward the flight

26:48

attendant. The guy was like, I'm not giving you any

26:50

more beers. You're fucked up. Guys

26:53

started talking greasy to the flight attendant. The flight

26:55

attendant was being nice. Next

26:57

thing you know, in the next part of the video, the

26:59

guy who was drunk with

27:02

his sunglasses on who they refused to give

27:04

beer to the flight attendant. He said to the

27:06

flight attendant at one point, what are you my bartender?

27:08

He said on the flight Yes, I am your bartender.

27:11

No more beer. Few cut him off

27:13

eighty six this fuck. Fifteen

27:16

seconds later, another video tape, this guy's

27:18

in a brawl in the air and the friendlies

27:20

guys with his friend to think. I mean his

27:22

friend got into it. Now, this asshole

27:26

twenty years in jail. He faces

27:28

twenty years in jail. Now. I don't think he should do

27:30

twenty years in jail, but people

27:32

think that when you're on a plane. It's

27:34

like being in a park. It's not. There's

27:37

different rules and regulations. You're up there, fighting

27:39

dudes, scaring passengers. Anything

27:42

could happen, anything could happen. Sit

27:45

your fucking ass down. This is why I have no problem

27:48

with the flight attendant and the marshalls

27:51

duct taping your ass while the flight is in

27:53

air. If you're acting crazy and

27:55

you don't comply, duct tape these fox.

27:58

Obviously there there has to be order. You can't

28:00

just go around duct taping anybody. But if

28:02

someone's being belligerent and they're getting into a fight,

28:05

we're not. We're not landing the flight. I have

28:07

a meeting. I need to make it to my meeting. We're duck

28:09

taping you to the chair. You're the

28:11

last one off the plane. I'm gonna get to my meeting

28:13

on time. And then we're sending your ask to prison

28:16

and let the judge figure it out. That's how I see

28:18

things. This asshole is

28:20

now facing twenty years in jail for everything

28:23

that went down on that flight.

28:26

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before Game one. I

30:24

love the Pusher T record. I

30:27

love the production. Of course, Kanye

30:29

West produced the record. I

30:32

like Push It T. It's very

30:35

very It's just grimy, grimy

30:37

production. Seven songs, uh

30:40

twenty one minutes, which I

30:42

was complaining about it first. Um

30:44

and apparently seven songs twenty

30:46

one minutes is enough to be

30:49

considered an album and to be nominated

30:51

for a Grammy, although I think uh, in

30:53

my days we call that a fucking maxi

30:55

single or a mixtape. Nonetheless,

30:58

the record is dope, the

31:00

production is dope by Kanye. Me

31:04

and G Moody disagreed on the

31:06

outcome of the Drake Push

31:09

a T quote unquote

31:11

beef on

31:13

yesterday's Very

31:17

Hot and Heavy argumentative

31:19

Iron Rapp reports Stereo podcast. But

31:22

you should check out the record, uh

31:24

if you're a fan of hip hop and

31:27

UH, it's gonna be interesting because so

31:29

many people are response to the

31:31

record. UH was in regards

31:34

to Kanye's production and has nothing to do

31:36

with whether they like it or not. It has to do with him.

31:38

And if he does in fact release a NASA record,

31:41

like I said before, I said this before, I

31:43

hope it doesn't interfere uh

31:46

with NASS sales because people are

31:49

not happy with Kanye West. Uh

31:51

and all as bullshit as a recent um

31:55

people still talking about the Patriots. Listen.

31:58

I don't like Boston sports, never have,

32:00

never will. Yes, I did rent

32:03

the Boston Celtics for two weeks. Yes, I

32:06

did not sleep the

32:08

night they lost to Cleveland in Game seven

32:12

in Boston. I was hurt. Yes,

32:14

I love Jayson Tatum. Yes I love Jalen

32:17

Brown, Yes, Kyrie Irving

32:19

the whole deal, my man SCALABRINNI. But I'm not a real

32:21

Boston Celtics fan. I

32:23

wanted them to beat the ship out of Cleveland. Okay,

32:28

I don't know why. The off season, every single

32:30

off season of the NFL,

32:32

there's more bullshit about the Patriots. Now,

32:36

I am a big football fan. I'm not the biggest

32:38

football fan. But

32:41

former New England Patriots defensive end

32:43

Cassius Marsh who's good. I've

32:46

seen him play, you

32:49

know, hall of famer, you know, all pro. He

32:51

came out talking about the Patriots.

32:53

He's he got traded or dropped or

32:56

cut, cut and traded. Uh,

32:58

he's now with the forty Niners talking

33:03

about the Patriots, saying they don't have fun there.

33:05

There's nothing about it that's fun. There's nothing about

33:07

it that's happy. I didn't enjoy any

33:09

of my time there. You know what I'm saying. It

33:11

made me, for the first time think about not playing football

33:14

because I hated playing there so much.

33:16

Then you're not about that life, duke. You

33:20

have the privilege of playing professional football

33:23

for the best team in the world. I

33:25

can't stand these motherfucker's. You're complaining

33:28

and talking ship. You're lucky to be in the NFL.

33:31

Maybe maybe you don't have the grit. Yeah,

33:34

they say that Belichick is a pain in the as. Yeah they

33:36

say that Gronkowski, UH can't

33:39

stand him. And Tom Brady might be fed up,

33:41

but you know, you don't hear them. Actually say these are all

33:44

rumors. Again. I

33:46

can't stand the fucking Patriots, but I

33:48

respect them.

33:51

Cassus Marsh, maybe you were never about

33:54

that life, Danny.

33:57

Danny am and Dola's popp and ship saying, be free,

33:59

b happy. They

34:02

got the best of you, They got the

34:04

best of you. You you, You'll never do what

34:06

you did with the Patriots

34:08

on any other team, Danny am Am and Dola

34:11

and I like you, I fox with you. This

34:15

guy's talking shit like you know, they

34:18

were in some sort of a slave camp.

34:21

So what it's not funny games? You're winning,

34:23

right, Shut the funk up? Listen well

34:26

more? Can I say I

34:29

told you this was gonna be a dope ass

34:32

interview? Okay, I promise you this

34:34

is gonna be a dope asking and coming

34:36

up. If you don't know her name, you

34:38

know her face? Okay,

34:41

you're gonna wanna listen. It's all acting

34:43

everything. This is about the inner workings

34:45

of what it's like to be an actor, the process

34:48

of being an an actor. This is fun

34:50

conversation, the greatness of other actors,

34:53

the highs and lows of being even

34:55

a successful actor. Someone like reginal She's

34:58

been in Mega Mega Mega hits

35:00

scary movie. These movies made millions and millions

35:02

of dollar. Girls Trip biggest

35:04

blockbuster of last summer. She's

35:07

breaking down the highs, the lows, the reality

35:09

of everything in her career

35:11

that I could squeeze out a

35:14

one. Iron Wrap Reports Stereo podcast. Coming

35:17

up next. I'm so excited

35:19

about having her on the show. I've

35:21

been a fan. We never even met in real life. Coming

35:24

up next. Let's get something nice, Let's

35:26

get something pretty, Let's get something funny. Let

35:29

me get something some smooth for

35:31

O. G Regina Hall on the

35:33

Iron Rapport Stereo podcast.

35:38

All right, give me test test

35:41

test tests,

35:44

test test tests,

35:46

Regina Hall, O. G. Now

35:49

you're O. G. It's true.

35:52

You're a fucking O. G Regina

35:54

Hall, thank

35:56

you for coming on the Iron Wrap for Stereo podcast.

35:58

I don't think we've ever met. I

36:01

don't we have met. But when did we?

36:03

I don't In passing, In

36:05

passing, if you remember, well,

36:08

I remember because I was a fan of your work.

36:10

I wasn't I wasn't working yet, so you

36:12

know it would you know how you meet a lot of people.

36:14

There's no way to remember. But you were very

36:16

sweet and we met very much in passing, and

36:19

I was like, I love Michael rapping in New York. In

36:21

New York before you were like popping

36:23

off, yes before all right, that's

36:25

good, Lesa at Leasta was it

36:27

was good because because I know that

36:30

kind of meeting is different than oh I met you at the blah

36:32

blah blah. All right, that's good, Thank

36:34

god we didn't meet. What I did was I was.

36:36

It was. It was a fan meeting. I got

36:39

you, you know what I mean, I got you. Well, I'm

36:41

a fan. Um and now we've been a

36:43

fan, but we it's funny because we we've never met,

36:45

but you know, like you know, we have so many

36:47

people in common, worked with so many people in common.

36:50

Um. And I've been a fan of yours for a

36:52

long time. I think, you know, obviously I

36:54

saw you in the Best Man, um

36:57

and but I remember seeing you in Scary

36:59

Movie and it

37:01

was such an interesting like your

37:03

comedy in that movie was

37:06

so I feel like it was ahead of

37:08

its time for a for a girl, because you're not like

37:10

a normal comedic

37:14

actress, especially at that time,

37:16

like your comedy was just sort of dead pin.

37:19

The comedy of that movie was kind of ahead of its

37:21

time. You know what I mean, yeah, definitely,

37:23

because you know a lot of people were like I was like, you

37:25

know that what some people were like, oh, I

37:27

love Brenda and realizing what

37:30

really Brenda was was a stereo. She

37:32

was a stereo type of the

37:35

of what we see in you know, in

37:37

like horror movies. So we took everything a little

37:39

bit far. And you know,

37:41

we had Keenan, so that made it. You

37:44

know, that helped a lot. But it was a that was a fun

37:46

movie to make because I loved Anna too. I love she's

37:49

funny she. That was kind of both

37:51

of your sort of breakthrough things and you were both

37:53

unique uh

37:56

comedic performances. They were

37:58

both unique comedic performances. And

38:00

it was a big fucking movie. I know.

38:02

But when we made it, nobody thought it was gonna be big.

38:04

So like we didn't have a studio person

38:06

bothering us. Nobody was there. It was just

38:08

kind of like, oh, they're doing a movie.

38:10

I mean, they thought it would be good, but it was

38:12

never anticipated to be the summer released.

38:15

That was after testing things

38:17

changed. Was it was that a mirror Maax movie

38:20

that was Dimension Dimension, which was

38:22

the other wine Studes. But all

38:24

right, so you've done so much ship, Like I

38:26

you know, I usually don't fact check for the Iron Rapp for

38:28

Stereo podcast, but you've done so many movies Paid

38:31

in Full Love and Basketball, Scary

38:34

Movie, First Sunday,

38:36

Law Binding, Citizen, Citizen, Death at the Funeral.

38:39

I mean think like a man. Of course, you

38:41

did just a Girlship, which is a huge, huge

38:44

fucking hit. Um, let

38:46

me just let me just like rattle off questions

38:49

first, like, um,

38:51

with the Best Man, you played Candy.

38:54

Now I rewatched that scene. How

38:57

do you get upart of you play it like you play a

38:59

stripper? Like you show up at this batchelor

39:01

party? Do you have to like go in there and dancing

39:03

it? So? You know, the first audition, the

39:06

first auditions we did for the movie, we didn't

39:08

have to dance. We had to act. We had to do the scenes.

39:10

There was another scene in there that got cut out the movie.

39:12

They were like, yeah, we're gonna make them think that it's just so

39:16

we we go and we all audition

39:18

and then once they narrowed it down to like the five

39:20

girls, we had to dance, but I had

39:22

to come back and had to come back, and then the audition

39:25

was just dancing, but I'm not

39:27

a dancer, and I was like, I can't. I mean the

39:29

strip, and you know, I was a little self conscious because

39:32

I didn't feel like I had like, you know, candy

39:34

was supposed to be the main attraction, so I didn't feel like

39:36

I had enough body, right, you know what I mean.

39:38

It was like, so we

39:41

I go do it and I do the dance, and I

39:43

was um drinking. I

39:45

drank some alas a because I was like that once

39:47

to get to get loose, and I had my friend

39:50

from my acting class was like, listen

39:52

she used to strip. She said, just turned

39:54

around and just you know, smack your ass. That's

39:56

all you gotta do. I was like, that says She's like, that's it. I

39:58

promise. I get in audition

40:00

and I see girls doing routines in the

40:02

waiting room because you know back then when they don't

40:04

care if you see each other, then you hear each other. I

40:07

was like, oh my goodness, I don't have a routine. I go in through

40:09

my audition. I turned around and get a chair and I just

40:11

start. That's all I do. And

40:14

then I remember the producer cut

40:16

the tape off and he said, um, okay,

40:18

can you do anything else? And I

40:20

was like, yes, thank you, and then I just I

40:22

got my jacket and I left because you

40:24

thought, like you, you weren't gonna get it. And and you

40:26

know what, I was so fine with it because I hadn't gotten

40:29

so much. I hadn't gotten anything before. I was like, all

40:31

my agents will be you. They won't even think about it, just

40:33

like they'll be happy I got close. What kind

40:35

of our auditioner you are? You? Because

40:38

as an actor, it's like being

40:40

an actor on a film set, or being an

40:42

actor on a television set, or being an actor who's

40:44

actually cast into play, being a cast

40:47

actor, and the skills that that

40:49

take are totally different than auditioningly

40:53

and and a lot of you know, young actors, they don't

40:55

know that and they don't get it, Like I. I have some

40:57

friends who suck it auditions and a voice

40:59

and amazing actors, right yeah, and but they

41:01

just can't they can't get the parts because they

41:03

the nerves. It's such a the

41:06

nerves and the pressure, and like

41:08

I used to feel like now when I go into an audition,

41:11

like I, I treat it like it's

41:13

my time. And it took me a long time

41:15

to even have that conferdence, We're all go all, I'm gonna start

41:18

again where I sort of like, if I have to audition,

41:20

I'm gonna fucking like I'm gonna treat, like

41:22

I said, but it takes years

41:24

to get that confidence. What were you a

41:26

good audition or were you a nervous audition because

41:28

you're sort of zero, Like when I see

41:30

you like in interviews, and when I see you like you

41:33

know, regular, like you're you're neutral, is

41:35

neutral, But then when I see you like a scary

41:37

movie, I'm like, you're like fucking

41:39

out there, you know what I mean? Like, what what is your like

41:42

your auditioning like mentality? Well,

41:44

you know when I did um for example,

41:46

scary movie or all of them, when how audition, I

41:49

feel like I really feel like the character.

41:52

I'm a little Shire, like Regina's Shire

41:54

right in real life? In real life, you know what I

41:56

mean, Like, I'm a little Shire, a little more um

41:59

like um, you know, subdued.

42:01

But if I'm in character, then I'm not. You'll

42:04

treat so you get in the head of the character. Yeah,

42:07

because once I go over it, you know

42:09

at home, you know, I would be like, what's her hair

42:11

like? Yeah, I start her clothes, I could

42:13

figure out the person and then and

42:16

then you know, listen, Sometimes I've had

42:18

just some really bad auditions. I mean where

42:21

I've and I thought I was good. There's

42:23

nothing worse than all this. Fore, you like I killed it. They're like, it's

42:26

not going any further. But I think, yeah,

42:29

but I think, um,

42:31

you know, it's gotten better. I mean I auditioned

42:33

for you know a long time before I worked my

42:36

first I used to get freaked out if I saw somebody

42:38

famous too auditioning, Oh yeah,

42:40

because I'd be like, oh, they're gonna get it. Why am I even

42:42

here? Like if I saw somebody walked in the room

42:44

that I had seen on television,

42:46

it could have been under five, you know what I mean,

42:49

but you just regize. I would

42:51

get in my head and be like, I'm not gonna get it, do you like?

42:53

I mean, at times now I still

42:55

have to audition or all choose to audition, and

42:57

it feels like youl

43:00

business and success. It's

43:02

like at one point, like you

43:04

know, in the nineties, early two thousand, it

43:06

was like, oh I did this, I did that, I have my

43:08

code make an offer. Now it's like, listen,

43:10

motherfucker. We're gonna give you what we're gonna

43:12

we want to give you. We don't give a funking if you don't

43:14

take it. You know, well, the business

43:17

has changed, I mean even in terms of

43:19

like, um, the respect for a body

43:21

of work you don't give me. Yeah,

43:23

Like I see, like I see actors and and

43:26

you'd be one of them who I would be like, just

43:29

on just based on what they do. I'm

43:31

like, we'll be lucky to get them because I'm

43:34

like, nobody's gonna do it as

43:36

good. And then you know, there's

43:38

the stuff that you learn about being there's

43:40

stuff when from working that

43:43

to me, it's gonna supersede

43:46

heat any day. Some people. You know, yeah, I

43:48

can edit them, but that that doesn't mean

43:50

I can edit them and make them great. But it doesn't mean

43:53

you know that they're gonna be as And

43:55

I'm talking about in the purest way, you know what I mean,

43:57

from an art form as you know somebody

43:59

else. You know, it's changed because now it feels

44:01

like it's so much more money based. I guess

44:04

yeah, and I feel like you know, they're

44:06

there's the film businesses fucked,

44:09

you know, even television, it's just different.

44:12

I haven't really got a handle on it, but it's just different,

44:14

um in terms of the way they

44:16

treat actors, um

44:19

and and the amount of jobs. And

44:21

I don't know, it's like they don't look at a body of work.

44:23

And then some people like, well I saw that, but I have, and

44:25

I'm like, you know, like with you, like there's

44:27

certain things that you've done, like certain things

44:29

that we know Regina Hall is good

44:31

at. And then like for me, like I'm

44:34

like, listen, I'll audition, but like, I'm

44:36

not auditioning for a New York cop. I'm not audition

44:38

for like like you either you either get me

44:40

or fifty other New York But I'm not coming in audition

44:43

for a New York cops. No, nor

44:46

nor should anybody have the audacity

44:49

to ask you that I wanted to make them more audition

44:51

like I because when I do what,

44:53

I have such resentment, Like I'm like, who

44:55

the funk are you? Like, do some push ups? Let me see

44:58

who you audition for me? What

45:00

the funk? I had somebody who wanted to be an audition

45:02

and I was like, well, they've never directed.

45:05

I should see I should ask them to put a shot list?

45:07

Why am I, but y'all, you know it is,

45:10

and there're and like I look and I go the

45:12

brain, the brain should automatically go,

45:14

oh yeah, Michael boy, he'll

45:16

kill this, Like you know what I mean. It's like I think

45:18

they think it's a power thing. They do it because they

45:20

can. Sometimes, yeah, they do it because they can. And

45:22

I think it's their insecurities because

45:25

you know, like a really dope director, I'm just making sure

45:28

this is on. Like I think, like the best directors,

45:30

you know, sometimes they might make your audition. Sometimes

45:33

they might not. But I think, like you

45:35

know, like if you're with somebody that that really

45:37

is in tune with what they're

45:39

doing, they're gonna know who they want to

45:41

do it, so the vision is there. You

45:44

know. It's so funny because I did went to the Austin

45:46

Film Festival for a movie I hadn't there, and I

45:48

met Paul Thomas Anderson and

45:51

I had seen Phantom Thread and

45:53

what I had loved about that movie so much. And you can

45:55

tell me what you think about this if you saw it. Was I

45:58

loved it that I loved it was the time

46:00

that they felt like it was allowing an

46:02

actor to give a performance completely

46:06

and that's a good movie. It's it's

46:09

it's like the space to you

46:11

know, I was like, wow, what it would be to be able to act

46:13

as opposed to you're doing something they edited

46:15

and you're like, wow, that was an amazing moment. You

46:18

just had, like you just to see that

46:20

and to see a director do that.

46:23

And the woman I can't think of her

46:25

name, who, you know, I loved her

46:27

so much. I loved the I mean, I love Daniel

46:29

day Lewis, but I just really felt like, wow,

46:31

it's so nice when you get to see an actor's piece,

46:33

you know what I mean, you know, and and

46:36

he's obviously yeah, well he's

46:38

on the top of his ship and like it's a

46:40

clear vision, like he writes it. You

46:42

know, the sets, the wardrobe, the

46:44

music, detail. Everything in that

46:46

movie was I mean, it's a bugged out movie.

46:49

It's kind of a bugged out movie. What

46:51

else have you seen? What was the last movie

46:54

you saw that you thought it was dope that you

46:56

got excited about? Besides phantoms because that probably

46:58

like besides like, I've been watching these documentaries

47:01

that are fucking nuts on Netflix,

47:04

Wild Wild Country, Love That Ship. I

47:06

had the two directors here on the podcast. I

47:09

loved it. It was it had

47:11

them both here. I was bugging on. It was crazy

47:14

because I was like, my friend said, you

47:16

gotta watch Wild warld Country And I was like, what is and she's

47:18

like, just turn it on. And then kind of

47:20

we had talked about her history and when I looked

47:22

at when I looked at that and it was a sixth partner

47:24

and what happens is I was like, why did I start looking at this at

47:26

nine o'clock? I got to get up in the morning. I was

47:29

mad that I couldn't bene it and all all at

47:31

once, but I did it over two days. But it

47:33

was deep, man, it

47:35

was. It was a complex. It was a

47:37

lot of things. It was deep and bugged

47:40

out. Listen the fact that

47:42

they had a plan, just

47:44

what they that's

47:47

yeah, he's sleeping. See

47:50

I'm Rappaport Stereo podcast news dog.

47:52

Let me tell you something. Zoos snored like

47:54

an engine. That's why this sound was so beautiful.

47:57

Um, it just just I

48:00

mean, she I mean the whole thing. I was

48:02

just do you think Sheila's nuts? Do you think she's a master?

48:05

Like what do you what was your takeaway from Sheila? You

48:07

know what Sheila. You know, I like the white girl

48:09

who stood by Sheila's side, who came back.

48:11

She was she was

48:13

so dope to me, like she had

48:16

a lot of I felt like her commitment

48:18

was always real. Sheila.

48:21

She was definitely controlling and manipulative

48:24

in her way. Like you know, my friend was like,

48:26

oh, she just loved him so deeply, and I was like, did

48:28

she or was there a little bit of like loving

48:31

the idea that the guy who was

48:33

that guy loved her and you know that their

48:35

stuff was sacred. She treated it like a business.

48:38

That's how. That's what the dudes that you gotta

48:40

listen to, because if you live like I had them on, I fucking

48:43

they gave me the whole thing, so they the

48:45

end game of what they told me is like she

48:47

treated that whole thing

48:49

like she was the business person, Like she was like

48:52

her his like the general manager,

48:54

and like we're doing whatever we need to do for the team.

48:56

Have you seen this this other one called Evil

48:58

Genius. It's brand new. No, I gotta watch

49:01

it. I don't want to say it's better

49:03

or it's the same type of ship. It's the same. Dude.

49:05

The do Plas Brothers fucking give

49:08

me the documentary.

49:10

Let me tell you, a documentary can

49:12

get me so good. A good documentary

49:14

where I'm so drawn in. People

49:16

sleep on documentaries way too much. Oh

49:18

yeah, oh yeah, but evil geniuses

49:21

like you're gonna want tonight started

49:23

and the first ten minutes you're gonna be like, what the fuck

49:25

that's gonna be tonight? Because me and my wife started

49:27

watching. No I started watching, so I'm gonna go

49:30

upstairs. I don't want to get involved with another one of these.

49:33

She came down like it was twelve minutes because I paused

49:35

it to twelve minutes. I was like, yo, we're gonna

49:37

start this ship again because and I love when you

49:39

don't have to there's no like wait for episode three,

49:41

like I need to shoot to be on in popping off

49:44

the top. It's like your brain gets fed immediately,

49:46

you know what. That's what I mean, And you're sucked in.

49:48

You're like, I'm ready, though. Did

49:51

you watch the assassination of Jianni VERSACEI?

49:54

I did it? Is it good? I want you

49:56

to watch the okay? I thought, And now that you

49:58

can watch it and you don't have to wait each week, I

50:00

thought it was darkest hour in terms

50:02

of movies. I thought he was a beast. I

50:05

cried. You know why I cried during

50:08

that movie? I never

50:10

thought about I don't you know, history

50:12

is history. You don't necessarily think about a moment

50:14

that you're not in. But I thought about

50:17

Winston Churchill and what it

50:19

took when he said we we can't

50:21

compromise with this man. He's a monster. And

50:23

I thought, yes, talking

50:25

about Hitler, and I thought, what if he hadn't,

50:29

you know, like like the conviction that it

50:31

took and he was an older man, and you

50:34

know, for that to be that prime moment, and

50:36

I just, I mean, it broke my heart

50:38

to think of because you don't, you know, you're not

50:40

thinking about moments from you know, years

50:43

ago, and I go, wow, Like he

50:46

was begging, he was begging countries

50:49

like we can't do this, you

50:51

know what I mean? And I was like, I

50:54

just I was like, I mean, are

50:56

we do we? I mean, I'm so grateful,

50:59

you know what I mean, the gratitude towards somebody

51:01

who's like when he was like we

51:03

cannot compromise in the war, general was

51:05

like, we we have to and he was like then

51:08

what then this island is safe? But what about

51:10

what he's doing. I just I mean it was too much. Yeah,

51:12

it's a good movie and and and Gary

51:14

Olman is a motherfucker. And I mean and the

51:17

makeup people and that ship because Homeboy disappeared,

51:20

disappeared. Have you ever done any

51:22

any any stuff where you had to like

51:25

like prosthetics or any crazy But I

51:27

want silly stuff, but like you've never done like full

51:29

on like fat suits or totally

51:32

disappear. Um,

51:35

I want to go through go through more movies. Paid

51:37

in Fall Oh yeah, which

51:39

is like a Hood classic. The

51:41

crazy shi it is is the real people,

51:44

Rich Porter and Alphole, like I

51:46

was around all that ship. How about this? So

51:48

when I finished school to

51:51

pay my way through going to acting school, I had

51:53

started teaching.

51:55

I was a professor at the college in New Rochelle.

51:59

And what years this this is?

52:01

Let me see,

52:05

So I'm at the college in New Rochelle. Always

52:08

used to wear head wraps because I wanted everybody to be

52:10

like I didn't want anybody any any of

52:12

the students because I was only I was twenty five. I didn't

52:14

want my students to think of me as on

52:17

their level. Right, So then

52:19

you know, cut two years later, I'm doing pain

52:21

full and I meet Pat Porter. Pat

52:24

Porter went to that school. I knew her,

52:26

she was a student. She's like, you used

52:28

to be so mean, and I was like, no, it

52:30

wasn't mean. I just couldn't really consort with the students

52:32

because you know, I'm but how about she remember,

52:35

She's like, you used to always be like my classes starting

52:37

get out. So I ended up having a good conversation

52:39

with her about the whole story,

52:41

that whole story. And it was crazy

52:44

that and I remembered her as I

52:46

mean, I remembered her as my as you know, one of

52:48

the students in the school. But it was crazy

52:50

that I was then playing her. That's

52:53

fucking nuts. And you had no idea, no

52:55

idea. So like that movie is such an interesting movie

52:57

because it's like it's, I say, a hood classic,

53:00

an underground classic, but cold it is a

53:02

hood classic. Like it didn't it didn't. It

53:04

didn't have a big um, It wasn't

53:06

like a big box orfice things, didn't have a big release.

53:09

It was only three And I gotta be honest,

53:11

when I first saw my expectations were

53:13

so high. Okay,

53:15

like I I you know, because I was so around

53:18

that ship like really like and

53:20

you know, and I thought all the performances were dope, and Wood

53:23

was dope, and Cameron was dopen and McKay

53:25

was doping. But I feel like that movie

53:28

is a really good movie. You know.

53:30

I feel like maybe it was like my expectations, but

53:32

like I knew Dame. I know Dame dash as some fucking

53:35

nine years old, so I know his struggles

53:37

with it, and he was frustrated. And you shot some

53:39

of it in Canada and like and I was

53:41

like, oh, that's Canada. So you felt

53:43

it because you were in that process literally,

53:45

like you know, I was in the rooftop, you know, like I was

53:47

like I was around the ship like like I would see

53:49

them drive back. Did have

53:52

some frustrations with the studio, with everything. So

53:54

yeah, you heard it. You you experienced

53:56

it and then heard it about what was

53:58

going on. So I'm sure for you it was definitely

54:01

like let's see what they did. But but when

54:03

you make a movie like that that sort of spans the test

54:05

of time and like people still love it

54:07

and it's on Instagram and it'll be like it's anniversary.

54:11

Who is keeping track that anniversary

54:14

or painting for like um, like it's

54:17

it's a weird thing because you know that people, certain

54:20

people love that fucking movie. But then like

54:22

Hollywood could give two ships about painting. Do

54:24

you know what I'm saying. But I gotta tell

54:26

you there's nothing like the feedback

54:28

of the people. I agree, you know what I mean,

54:30

Like Hollywood can love it, but like,

54:33

which is great, But when people come up to

54:35

you and it's like ten years later and

54:38

and it's funny because you know it's really about the guys.

54:40

But when I have people who love the scene

54:42

because I'm born to you know what I mean,

54:44

Like why are you with me? Then I'm like it

54:46

is You're like, wow, you feel like

54:48

it? It um you know,

54:50

it had an emotional effect on people. And

54:53

the reason that we do what we do right

54:55

more than anything is you're making statements

54:58

in the work. So I was, I

55:00

was. I was surprised because I

55:02

mean, I have people. I had somebody recently

55:04

come up to me and they're like, you eight Bookie's mom,

55:07

and I had, you know, I'm not thinking about paining

55:09

Full all the time. So I

55:11

was like, no, you must have me confused, And they're like paining

55:13

full and I'm like, oh yeah,

55:18

yeah, I don't even know what

55:21

what the actors in that film,

55:23

like Wood Harris. I think he's such an underrated,

55:26

underappreciated actor, such

55:29

a unique actor, and

55:31

and like has his own fucking vibe.

55:33

And I love Marla Ali

55:37

Herschel Ali, but I'm like, Wood

55:39

Harris should be getting some of this love because what is

55:41

so And I've said this to it and I love them both.

55:44

It's not to compare, but I'm like, what is

55:46

like he's like so dope, so

55:48

dope dope? Well what like

55:50

Like one of the things I do on the on the podcast

55:53

is like when I have basketball players, uh,

55:56

they'll talk about other basketball players, so so like somebody

55:58

like would what are you you take

56:00

away that makes him such a good actor? Like

56:02

what is it about him that you think is unique?

56:04

Because like he's somebody Like I

56:07

think like acting is so much of an energy.

56:09

Like we all have our energies when we're doing our thing,

56:12

whether it's deniroengine energy,

56:14

Denzel energy, Christopher Walking energy, would

56:16

Harris energy, um, your energy?

56:18

Everybody has an energy. You know, he's

56:21

got such a specific you know Wood

56:23

is um

56:26

what is so dope? Because what he does

56:29

is he's

56:32

never he's all everything is always truth.

56:34

But what he doesn't do is going to the

56:36

stereotype of what we think. So Woods

56:39

drug Dealer is gonna be different because

56:41

he's not gonna it's like whatever it

56:43

is on paper, Like Wood's gonna bring what

56:46

he does to it and it's not gonna be what you thought,

56:48

but it's gonna impact you, like, you

56:50

know, because he's got a subtlety. So even

56:52

what is being menacing, it's not gonna be like

56:55

it's just it's different, you

56:57

know. So the way he works into a character, and

56:59

he's got like you know, he's always present

57:01

and yet there's an aloofness like he's

57:03

like a he's like a

57:06

dichotomy where you know. And so you watch it and

57:08

you're like, when I watched him in um

57:11

just listen, I loved when he played um

57:14

Jimi Hendrix. That's the first time. Not a great

57:16

movie, but he killed that ship killed it. The

57:18

movie wasn't great, but I watched Wood

57:21

and he killed it. And so he creates

57:24

these characters that have a different

57:26

vibration than what I you know, even what he

57:28

did with with with um

57:30

in in in Paid and Full you know, as

57:33

as Apple, I you know, it

57:36

wasn't like the drug dealer, you know

57:38

what I mean. There's so many subtleties and nuances

57:40

to his work. And even when he just did the New Addition

57:42

story, Yeah, that motherfucker's

57:45

good. He just elevates materials.

57:47

He elevates material. He elevates

57:50

material, and I want to see him get the material

57:53

that is as good as him, because

57:55

he deserves it. And and and like we're

57:57

friends, but I'm like even like I'm

57:59

in so to respect of

58:01

his talent and then kind of in awe of his

58:03

talent, like as a friend, you

58:06

know, we're friends. But like even when I had a little exchange

58:08

with him in the New Edition movie, I'm like, some motherfucker's

58:10

really good. Yeah, he's really good,

58:13

and you could you could feel it. Like, and I just I'm

58:15

such a fan of you know, of acting, like when

58:17

you're around people that are really good. Yeah,

58:19

oh no, yeah, no no no. Even when we

58:21

did our little scene and the thing, you

58:23

know, we just were like we ended up improving

58:26

it, you know what I mean, A lot of it is improved.

58:28

And like you know, you

58:31

know, you got your looking at him, and you know, but you

58:33

can't be looking at him because you gotta be with him. We know, once you

58:35

start acting, but

58:38

you know you're watching him create this character

58:40

and then you're just in it and you know he's I

58:43

think he's always so present and in flow,

58:45

like everything is just it's not

58:47

from like a thought, it is from a being.

58:50

Yeah, I agree, I agree. When

58:52

what kind of actor do you see

58:54

yourself as? Like do you

58:57

see yourself as a method

58:59

actor? Like I you know, I think that

59:01

everybody has their

59:03

own method. You know, then there's

59:05

the method that everybody hears about. There's you

59:08

know, some actors that you know,

59:10

like there's this intangible thing like would

59:12

another friend of mine, dope fucking

59:14

actor Benici adult Tori's got like this kind

59:17

of unique like you know, it's

59:19

like you can't really put your finger on it, you

59:21

know. Um, you know, some people are more

59:23

personality driven, Like I consider myself more

59:25

personality driven, Like you know, I

59:27

like I'm not, like, um, a great

59:30

technician. I don't consider myself a great technician,

59:33

but like I I attract to the emotions

59:35

first, Like I'll like trying, like

59:37

if I'm reading a script or like trying to understand

59:39

the character, Like I try to understand the emotions of

59:41

the character. When when you're going about

59:44

like getting into a character, when you have something to sink

59:46

your teeth and what are you trying to latch

59:48

onto that that makes sense for you, that sort of

59:51

gets the puzzle figured out. Gosh,

59:53

that's so interesting. That's a great question. I don't never ever

59:55

even thought of it. I know, for I

59:58

just did this uh uh indie

1:00:00

film that that will be coming out in August called

1:00:02

Support the Girls, and that one in particular,

1:00:07

or all of them. I should say, I have to read

1:00:09

something, and I read it until like it's

1:00:11

um until I just like I can kind

1:00:13

of I start to physically see how

1:00:15

the character sounds,

1:00:18

talks, moves, walks here like I

1:00:20

just I can. And then there

1:00:23

have been times where I've been like, damn, I don't see it yet.

1:00:25

I get really scared. Yeah, I hear you. I'll

1:00:27

be like, oh my goodness, I hope, but you know, I'm shooting

1:00:29

in a week. I don't have it. It's not in there.

1:00:31

And then you know it'll click. But like you

1:00:35

know, I just it's like I just I can't even describe

1:00:37

it, but I just know their little

1:00:40

nuances, so I kind of, you know, like and

1:00:42

like what's going on, But I have to

1:00:44

read it, and I have to actually read the characters

1:00:47

around them just as much because

1:00:49

I have to figure out the whole world. Interesting,

1:00:53

Yeah, the whole world of it. That's interesting

1:00:55

because because I'm like, you know, I

1:00:58

did a flick with Woody Allen, and he doesn't

1:01:00

that you read the whole script and you'll

1:01:02

just get You'll just get your pages, you

1:01:05

know. So if you're in forty pages, you'll get forty

1:01:07

pages. If you're in you know, that's interesting.

1:01:09

So I didn't know what the fuss

1:01:11

was going on in the movie. I just know my and

1:01:13

and it's made me kind of be like, well, I don't really

1:01:15

need to know what the fun is going on script,

1:01:21

so I don't know what somebody else is gonna You don't

1:01:23

have a fucking clue, so like and and it

1:01:26

changed the way I look at things because I'm like, first of all, I don't

1:01:28

need to read the whole script. Now if I get

1:01:30

something, I will, but like, you know, especially if

1:01:32

I'm just auditioning, and you

1:01:34

know, well, if you're just auditioning, yeah that's

1:01:36

different. But but that's interesting that you

1:01:38

said you have for you you have to understand it because

1:01:40

sause I have to see I look at the whole world

1:01:43

where that person fits, and then

1:01:45

I just it's like I'll look and be like

1:01:49

I might read something else and be

1:01:51

like, oh, she's sensitive, like you know what I

1:01:53

mean like, and then I

1:01:56

don't know. But it's like every time I read it,

1:01:58

I'll see it differently. I got you until

1:02:00

it just until it just opens into something

1:02:02

else and it clicks. That's just what it

1:02:04

takes. The click, right, Probably

1:02:06

you do the emotional part and that makes it click for

1:02:08

you. Yeah, I have to grab onto the emotion.

1:02:11

Do you know so

1:02:14

much more about

1:02:16

your personal skill level and

1:02:18

when you're rocking, when you're not rocking, when

1:02:20

you're offbeat, when you

1:02:22

do a good take, as opposed to

1:02:25

twenty years ago when you started, like yeah,

1:02:27

talk about how much more in tune are you? Like

1:02:30

almost like now like

1:02:33

it's funked up, but like I'll do

1:02:35

it. I'll do it, take it with it. That's good. Whereas

1:02:38

you know before you're waiting for the director to be like that's

1:02:40

good. So true, you know so

1:02:42

much more. You're it's so I know so

1:02:44

much more to the point where they

1:02:48

may not know. I'll be like that wasn't that good? We

1:02:50

need to do it? That was fine? It was like, no, that wasn't

1:02:52

fine. That didn't But yeah, because you

1:02:54

feel you can feel probably

1:02:56

when you have no thought of it. You know, you notice

1:02:59

your your best when you are you didn't even know

1:03:01

what you just did, like you just ye, you're

1:03:03

so present. But yeah, twenty years ago,

1:03:06

yeah, I was very listen,

1:03:10

I didn't. It's it's it's

1:03:12

so crazy how there's a comfort level that changes

1:03:14

so much. You're almost like, I

1:03:17

hope they like it. I hope they like it. Now you're

1:03:19

like, do I like it? Yes? You

1:03:21

know what I mean, Like did that feel good to me? Or

1:03:23

I think I need another one? You know what I mean? If

1:03:25

you can get it? So you twenty

1:03:28

years yes, I mean it's not even the same

1:03:30

and that whole like I mean I literally have started

1:03:33

doing that where I'll be like, that's good, Like we're almost

1:03:35

saying it's good, like we can move on. You

1:03:37

know, I'm good with that. That's how I am too. And

1:03:39

and and do you what is a good director

1:03:42

to you? And how many times you know, because

1:03:44

people like it's a common question, like

1:03:47

there's a very few directors that have

1:03:49

actually helped me, you know, like where they

1:03:52

like if you're struggling. I

1:03:54

feel like, you know, there's been a few,

1:03:56

but like, what is a good director?

1:03:59

You know? The director I just worked with this

1:04:01

is a guy named Andrew. You know. What I loved about

1:04:03

him is

1:04:05

that he It's like he literally

1:04:08

there was a lot of trust. He

1:04:10

trusted you, trusted me a lot, like you

1:04:13

know, he had a lot of ideas that he would

1:04:15

you know, before we started shooting that he would talk about

1:04:17

and run by and be like, and I liked.

1:04:19

I like rehearsal, you do. I

1:04:21

do like rehearsal on the set beforehand

1:04:24

running lines. I don't necessarily well,

1:04:26

if it's a comedy, I don't want to run lines. I

1:04:28

just want to talk about it, right, I don't, you

1:04:30

know, I can be like okay because this scene, you know, because

1:04:33

then I feel I don't like doing jokes over and over.

1:04:35

They lose their freshness for me, So

1:04:37

I don't want to do it. And usually

1:04:40

I don't like to run lines, but I like to discuss

1:04:43

it, okay to you know what I mean, And

1:04:45

with the other actors or with the with the director

1:04:47

or whoever, whoever, whoever, Yeah,

1:04:50

yeah, I'll be I'll be with the gaffers if I

1:04:52

have to, but just whoever. You

1:04:54

know, I love the actors because sometimes you're sitting

1:04:56

and you discover stuff where you're like, oh, that's great,

1:04:59

you know, as opposed to just showing up

1:05:01

on set. But um

1:05:03

he you know what was interesting about him

1:05:06

is his suggestions were something I would have

1:05:08

never thought of. But I'd

1:05:10

be like that's good. Yeah, I'd be like

1:05:12

that's really good. Okay, let's try it. And they're against

1:05:15

what I would have normally done

1:05:18

in another thing, So like he would have me really

1:05:20

lean away from emotion because you'd

1:05:22

be like, that's way sadder. So just

1:05:25

so for him, and then he allowed

1:05:27

that. You know, he didn't tell me how to do it, but

1:05:31

it was just his take on things. And I

1:05:33

love that I got you because

1:05:36

I think, like, you know, what if people don't understand,

1:05:38

like, you know, what a director does, I mean,

1:05:41

what's a good director? Obviously, like

1:05:43

you mentioned Paul Thomas Anderson, that's like some other

1:05:45

ship, you know, when you're working like with like

1:05:47

these masters, it's like you're you're

1:05:50

you're in a class at that point. Yeah, you're in

1:05:52

some other ship, you know, like they're like, you know,

1:05:54

they're like orchestra. Like it's like an orchestrator,

1:05:56

you know who's written everything. He's fucking knows what

1:05:58

you're you know, you down, your your your your

1:06:00

nail polished, you know, like Quentin Tarantino like these.

1:06:03

Scorsese is like, you're gonna have your nails

1:06:05

and I want them shiny red,

1:06:07

but but not too red, you know, like they have the watching

1:06:10

Aviator again, because I watched Aviator every

1:06:13

time it comes on and I was like, wow,

1:06:15

Scorre said that movie,

1:06:18

I don't know. And you have to watch some movies

1:06:20

you watch over and over again and you go, I

1:06:23

didn't even see that right, and the d and

1:06:25

sometimes a performance is so good you

1:06:27

don't know how good it is because it's so

1:06:29

natural that you're like, dang, I didn't even realize how

1:06:31

good it is until you watch it over and over

1:06:34

again. And the

1:06:36

little the details that were in

1:06:38

that movie, for me, I just

1:06:40

they never get old. He

1:06:43

he's on some other ship. He's on

1:06:45

some other ship. Scorsese is on some other ship,

1:06:47

even if the movie isn't this departed mother

1:06:50

ship like he like like like he's

1:06:52

on to others and that's where I feel like as

1:06:54

an actor, boy, what it gifts you have

1:06:56

to be able to work with that level

1:06:58

of artistry. It's gotta make you better, of

1:07:01

course. I mean, and if you could

1:07:03

sink your teeth into some ships, you

1:07:05

can't. Like I'm literally Paul Thomas

1:07:07

Anderson lives not far from me, and when I met

1:07:09

him, I was like, I'm stalking you just

1:07:12

because I just was like, I just

1:07:14

I'm like, I want to talk to you about your stuff.

1:07:17

You know, he's sweet. You know. That's the other

1:07:19

thing too, He's he's like sweet and you

1:07:22

know, nicest. Fuck. That's That's the

1:07:24

crazy thing is that you know, even with that body

1:07:26

of work, he's just always

1:07:29

like he's like, yeah, we'll just we'll go by the cafe.

1:07:31

You know, Like he's that kind of dude. I don't

1:07:33

even know if he might not even know he's

1:07:36

great. You know, he knows he's great. You think,

1:07:38

So, do

1:07:40

you have like an ego? Like you

1:07:42

have to have an ego? Like I mean, he that

1:07:44

writing those fucking scripts like the ships

1:07:47

are and what's crazy about

1:07:49

him is how vast they

1:07:51

are, you know what I mean? Phantoms

1:07:54

threat what was that? And then Magnoli

1:07:57

and then they're all and then and then there

1:07:59

will be blood. They're all so different and you're

1:08:01

like, wow, that's the same, you know.

1:08:03

But he also takes his time with him, you know

1:08:05

what I mean. He takes his time. He doesn't put him out

1:08:07

like a factory. Yeah, he needs to

1:08:09

discuss. He's an artist. He's an artist. What

1:08:11

what directors we mentioned scorsesey uh?

1:08:14

You know what do you what other directors like? Get

1:08:16

like you're like winning where like if they call

1:08:18

when and where? I don't give a funk who it is what

1:08:20

it is part not big part like

1:08:22

what other people get you hyped? And

1:08:25

I mean I like Steven Soderberg.

1:08:27

He does a lot of incredibly

1:08:29

interesting things. Um

1:08:33

um, Obviously I just said Paul

1:08:35

Thomas Anderson. I think he's phenomenal, and

1:08:38

not that I liked his last movie, but he's unique

1:08:41

to me. I do like Darren or I think he's

1:08:43

I think he's really good. I just I didn't

1:08:45

see Mother, you know what I mean? I know, but

1:08:48

you know, I like I liked. I

1:08:51

usually like his stuff because it's unique. I love the

1:08:53

indie world, you know what I mean. I feel like there's some

1:08:55

amazing because I feel like they show

1:08:58

up for that. Yes,

1:09:01

not to say that big fan fit Fair isn't

1:09:03

amazing. I mean, you know, I

1:09:06

don't funk with the Marvel, the d C, none

1:09:08

of it me personally. Yeah, in terms of

1:09:10

what if you want to cash me, I'm

1:09:13

ready to go. I'll be ready to go, but

1:09:15

it's not what you're gonna go. See Neil

1:09:17

fucking Way, I don't caps. I

1:09:20

don't do fucking masks. I don't

1:09:22

funk with any of it. I like to see the I

1:09:24

like to see pure where I just get mesmerized

1:09:26

and you know you know who else? Um

1:09:29

Oh, I just saw something and I love himself.

1:09:31

Well listen, but I love the Colde. I love you know,

1:09:33

uh frantans for a Coppla. I mean I

1:09:35

think you just about to say the Cohen Brothers.

1:09:38

Oh you just gonna yeah,

1:09:41

But I do love the Cohen Brothers. Yeah, they're sick to

1:09:43

Yeah. I mean, you know, there's

1:09:46

so many people who do so many things

1:09:48

like that are that are like

1:09:53

special. You know where I will and I love it

1:09:55

when I watch a movie and I remember it, I

1:09:57

just you know what I mean, I just you

1:10:00

know, like it resonates, Like I'm telling you I'm still

1:10:02

over. I'm not over Darkest Hour yet because

1:10:04

but it made you know what was interesting

1:10:07

about that movie and made me go read more about him?

1:10:09

Right about Churchill. About Churchill, I wanted

1:10:11

to know. I want to. I

1:10:15

mean that man, you know like

1:10:17

what I mean, like he was a gift

1:10:19

to the like that fight, I

1:10:21

mean, you know what I mean. It's just it

1:10:24

just makes me think he put me in that moment

1:10:26

in time. I agree. Do you still

1:10:29

go to the theaters or you screener person or

1:10:31

you Netflix Apple TV? Like,

1:10:33

because I might my going to the movie theater.

1:10:36

I'm not proud of it. It's dropped a

1:10:38

lot. Let me tell you something, mind's dropped a lot.

1:10:40

I'll go every blue moon, like like I

1:10:43

definitely for a quiet place, you know what I mean.

1:10:45

Like, but it's it's not often or if

1:10:47

I have a friend and I'm like sometimes I just buy

1:10:49

tickets, but I'm not. I was like, I see

1:10:51

why they market eighteen to thirty five

1:10:54

because all my friends and I

1:10:56

like, we aren't like we used to be. It used to

1:10:58

be when something opened, I was there. I

1:11:00

know, I was there every I

1:11:02

mean, yeah, I go Friday.

1:11:05

I mean like special Ship I'm like, like,

1:11:07

I know, I was there for all yours. I was there for higher

1:11:10

No. I was that was a big thing. Like we'd

1:11:13

be like, all right, we want to see it, Like you know, those

1:11:15

were movie those were moments, which

1:11:17

is so crazy to me knowing you,

1:11:20

knowing who you are, knowing like

1:11:24

where your heart is and your passion for

1:11:27

you to play that role that well,

1:11:29

it's it's like shocking. You

1:11:31

know what's crazy about that? It was? It

1:11:34

was I mean it was a challenge. You know, so it

1:11:36

was an actor and you're young. I'm gonna get in my

1:11:38

method. But

1:11:41

the fun thing is very lonely because

1:11:43

the set it wasn't like I don't want to use

1:11:45

this word for anybody to take it out of context. But

1:11:47

first of all, it's like there was like I

1:11:49

was sort of like by myself, and then there

1:11:51

was like you know, the rest of the skinheads,

1:11:53

they were sort of doing their own ship. And then it's

1:11:56

like Omar and Regina busting

1:11:58

and I used to know, I'm like, I want to go on with these

1:12:01

motherfucker's and I want to hang around bust

1:12:03

the rhymes and ship. You know, these motherfucker's

1:12:05

are smoking and ship like I always

1:12:07

remind Omar Epp, so I'm like he. I

1:12:09

remember the first time I heard nas

1:12:11

is Illmatic. He had a copy

1:12:14

of it before it came out, and I remember walking by

1:12:16

his trail and I was like, what the fund is that? And

1:12:18

they were like, you know, like we fucking talking

1:12:20

to you skin, and I was like, yo, I know, you know

1:12:22

for Brooklyn, they're like what

1:12:24

the funk are you talking? But

1:12:26

but you know, it wasn't like it wasn't like people

1:12:28

were it was just you know, yeah

1:12:31

sort of yeah, so you were living in a

1:12:33

little bit. I'm living it. But I'm like, I want to hear

1:12:35

this sodic. That's what's

1:12:37

so crazy to know, Like anybody who knows

1:12:39

you would know or knows of you that you

1:12:41

would be listening to aumatics, So for you to have to

1:12:44

do that character like me, I remember I went

1:12:46

with an ex boyfriend at the time and we were like,

1:12:48

damn, my Grandpapore killed and he uh

1:12:51

that it was X brand new being at the time. Yeah,

1:12:54

so he knew you a new and

1:12:57

he was like, oh, he's such a great person. He's such a great

1:12:59

guy. So like watching it, I was like,

1:13:01

wow, he killed it because the expression and the

1:13:04

the headball like it was this And

1:13:06

that's what I love about performance.

1:13:10

Someone goes into their life and

1:13:12

has to sacrifice listening to omatic. You

1:13:14

know what I mean, No, because they're bringing you.

1:13:16

You have to go in and you have no judgment

1:13:19

of the character. You gotta have no judgment, no judgment,

1:13:21

no judge. You can't have judgment of the can't have judgment

1:13:23

of the character. And that was the thing for me. It was like, I

1:13:25

didn't like I remember sometimes people got offended.

1:13:28

I said, you know, the fucking internet now everything

1:13:30

it's I remember saying I had fun playing

1:13:32

that character and they were like, what the funk are you talking

1:13:34

about? You had fun? I'm like, what do you?

1:13:37

I'm like, and of course you have because

1:13:40

an actor, because it's not you.

1:13:42

You get that was truly not Yeah,

1:13:45

you get to do something that isn't you and

1:13:47

really explore it in a way with

1:13:49

no judgment, Like you get to be like

1:13:51

you know, you're not saying I condone it, I do it. I want

1:13:53

to be it, but for that time can't judge

1:13:55

that cannot or you or we're gonna

1:13:57

feel it and then we're not. The performance is going to

1:14:00

suffering that we suffer. So I'm glad

1:14:02

you enjoy it, because if you didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't

1:14:04

enjoy it, right. I appreciate that because

1:14:06

you know that's what you look at to be like, Oh so when

1:14:08

you walk out this like Ed Norton when he did it, did

1:14:11

it? You have to walk out of there and be

1:14:13

like, who, I gotta feel the

1:14:15

fact that I can still remember it and

1:14:18

that it's like I'm literally I mean I still watch it

1:14:20

all the time, but that I literally can still remember

1:14:23

it and then still know you and be

1:14:25

like there. That to me

1:14:27

is when I get to be like when I

1:14:29

get like as a as a as a viewer

1:14:32

or as an artist whatever, to be like, shit,

1:14:35

you know that's what you look at like that was incredible.

1:14:37

Well I appreciate that. Um do

1:14:39

you know at this point because I'm very well

1:14:41

aware there's all I think. I'm like one

1:14:43

for however many wrong? One time I

1:14:45

was wrong. Do you know when you're making a piece of ship

1:14:49

and how quick do you know or or do you or do

1:14:51

you have blinders on? Because I could tell now

1:14:53

this is a piece of ship and you

1:14:56

know it. Sometimes

1:14:58

I know beforehand that only happened

1:15:00

once, and then sometimes you could think it's gonna

1:15:02

be one thing and you could literally get on the set and

1:15:04

you know, like in sports will talk about a culture culture

1:15:07

of winning and be like, this is a set, it's

1:15:09

a culture of fucking losing. Um,

1:15:12

how quick do you can you tell if you're because

1:15:14

you never know if something. You never quite know if

1:15:16

someone's gonna live up to the expectations.

1:15:18

So you always think this is this can be

1:15:21

good. I hope this is good. But

1:15:23

there's sometimes when you're like this is gonna be a piece

1:15:25

of ship. I've had

1:15:27

somewhere I've been like this will be fine, this

1:15:29

will be fine. I did one or I'm trying

1:15:31

to think I did. I've

1:15:34

done stuff, you know what, let me live. I've done

1:15:36

stuff where I've been like I don't know if

1:15:38

this is gonna work. Like I was

1:15:40

like, this feels and then I've looked at

1:15:42

it and I've been like that wasn't

1:15:44

it right there? It's fine, but it's

1:15:47

not gonna be. It's not gonna be.

1:15:49

And then a lot of stuff, for

1:15:52

example, I may not know

1:15:54

how the audience is gonna respond, but I'll

1:15:56

know that whoever sees it will like it.

1:15:58

It may not be huge. Is that you can never tell.

1:16:01

You can't tell that you can't

1:16:03

It could be a minute, small thing like even like

1:16:05

paid it for like it was like you

1:16:07

know, that's like that resonated with people

1:16:10

so like, but you want to walk

1:16:12

away going like even if no one sees it, I want people

1:16:14

because you might have probably have done You've done so many things. You've

1:16:16

probably done small things that not

1:16:18

a lot of people saw, but the people that saw it

1:16:20

made an impression. Yes, like yes,

1:16:22

and I love and sometimes I'm the person that

1:16:24

loves to see those small things. Like I like to sit

1:16:27

and I watched something. I like to sit

1:16:29

and find stuff where I'm like, you

1:16:31

know, see your name in it, But what is this? Because I'll just

1:16:33

go, oh, I like the people

1:16:35

involved, and then I watch it and

1:16:37

be like that was a dope movie they you know, And I'm

1:16:39

always like, why don't they do Why

1:16:41

don't we get to see more of those? Why don't they

1:16:44

you know? But I mean that's a whole different talk.

1:16:46

That's the machine, right, And

1:16:49

the machine is a different thing than the work.

1:16:51

The machine is a totally that's a whole other

1:16:54

But I think now we're in a culture, in a generation

1:16:56

they don't know the difference necessarily

1:16:58

of what of

1:17:01

of because we're in

1:17:03

such a we're in such a generation of social

1:17:05

media that the fame is so connected to

1:17:07

things like with us, you just wanted to

1:17:09

work. It wasn't about like I want

1:17:11

to be famous, like act

1:17:14

you didn't, you know what I mean, you didn't and if you got

1:17:16

to do that ship just

1:17:18

by virtue of working. There was such a thing

1:17:20

where people were like ah man, there

1:17:23

was such a respect that it wasn't about

1:17:27

um just it

1:17:29

wasn't about fame. It was really more connected

1:17:32

to and then if you want and then if if

1:17:34

you only wanted to work more so you could get

1:17:36

better parts if you want. It

1:17:38

was only for the access to work

1:17:41

with you know, great directors

1:17:45

of special poses.

1:17:47

The business has changed

1:17:49

so much. And you know when when I look at

1:17:51

you know, all the stuff that you've done to now

1:17:54

like you know, like in the in the in the you

1:17:56

know, the late nineties, you know, in the in the

1:17:58

early two thousand's and as far

1:18:00

as like black Hollywood, black cinema,

1:18:03

black television, like I feel

1:18:05

like right now we're at such

1:18:08

a it's change. The the opportunities

1:18:11

and the diversity and

1:18:13

the kind of parts obviously Black

1:18:15

Panther being like a fucking crowning, huge

1:18:19

cultural jewel, to to the things

1:18:21

like Moonlight, which was

1:18:23

this little fucking movie

1:18:26

dark, you know, with

1:18:29

homosexuality and abuse in

1:18:31

you know, like this is this would have been like sucking

1:18:33

a sundance, may may not even

1:18:35

one sun there and then it wins the fucking oscar in

1:18:38

that crazy way. To all these other

1:18:40

you know, the show on um, Insecure

1:18:43

too, Blackish too, you know,

1:18:45

Girls Trip being a fucking monster hit.

1:18:48

Um what is your take

1:18:50

on where it is to be? Uh? I

1:18:52

hate this fucking term, but I'll just say, what

1:18:54

does it take your take to be an

1:18:57

actress a person of color in

1:18:59

show biz and today and how much it's

1:19:01

changed from and

1:19:04

the opportunities and

1:19:06

has it changed? Like keep it? Yeah,

1:19:09

you know, you know, like it's a great moment

1:19:11

and I don't

1:19:13

know, you know, I'm I'm gonna be honest, I don't

1:19:15

even know about it's it is. It's

1:19:18

like I

1:19:21

definitely know from sitting back that it that you know, you're

1:19:23

like, it looks great and I definitely know. I

1:19:26

mean, I guess back in the day you know, I guess

1:19:28

there's a lot more to look at. You know, we had

1:19:32

you know, maybe it's that it's more mainstream. I mean they've

1:19:34

always you know, we had I mean, you know,

1:19:36

back then we had Spike putting out the Killer

1:19:38

movies and John Singleton, so you know, it

1:19:40

was just uh much

1:19:43

smaller pool, you know

1:19:45

what I mean in terms of like where

1:19:47

you could see. But you know, that's when I was also going

1:19:49

in the movie. So if a John Singleton or Spike movie

1:19:53

more events. Those were events. And

1:19:55

you know, those events obviously weren't making the numbers

1:19:58

that A Black Panther were, but for

1:20:00

from my youth, man, they were impactful,

1:20:03

you know what I mean, like too to go

1:20:05

see that and like you know, to see

1:20:07

Juice, and of course then we had the Eddie Murphy's and

1:20:09

we had the Boomerangs and you know those because

1:20:11

so then you know, so those those were events,

1:20:14

and I guess these are the events now. And you

1:20:16

know, I think with a lot more television

1:20:20

options and a lot a lot of amazing

1:20:22

people go into television and streaming, you

1:20:24

know, um and and and

1:20:26

and really being able to navigate both

1:20:29

and you see great writing like that's amazing

1:20:31

to see because you're seeing um

1:20:34

the quality you know on

1:20:36

a Netflix and and and

1:20:39

you know, even that makes uh what network

1:20:41

television happen? You know and put bits

1:20:43

bar because it's like there's not like

1:20:45

one or two sources. It's not just HBO anymore.

1:20:48

Like you know, Amazon is like we're coming. So

1:20:50

you know, from that, you just see so many things

1:20:52

and you're watching

1:20:55

opportunities flourish, and you're

1:20:57

watching um, people

1:21:00

uh not have to age out of the business too.

1:21:02

So there's so many levels where it changes

1:21:05

and it broadens, and then there's

1:21:09

also the flip side of that where you

1:21:12

know, your syndication changes. There's monetary

1:21:15

this front. Then there's the value of the individual's

1:21:17

work and you know how certain

1:21:19

people because now it's you know, it's a lot of money, so

1:21:21

it's a lot of business. So then you feel like, okay,

1:21:23

well, gosh, are we losing craftsmanship

1:21:26

because we're looking at this and

1:21:28

now it's kind of like who's hot and who's the purpose

1:21:30

and so then all of that changes too. So

1:21:32

it's it's like, you know, I guess it's like any coin that

1:21:35

has two sides, right, I I agree,

1:21:37

I agree, and and you know, I think so much of

1:21:39

what the interpretation of

1:21:41

what's going on and then actually

1:21:43

being you know, a person in

1:21:45

in show business, in the acting or where

1:21:47

the funk you want to call it, you know, based on what's

1:21:50

on Twitter, you know, because they'll be like, well people

1:21:52

think this, and I'm like, fucking you look at

1:21:54

the thing. That's like seven people, but they'll make it that's

1:21:56

a fake news and it could be good or

1:21:58

bad. But they're like they're like, people are free get out

1:22:00

over reginal holes. Uh,

1:22:02

you know, sneaker collection. You're like, you're looking like

1:22:05

there's only seven people comment on it, but those seven

1:22:07

people are freaking out. And then what happens is

1:22:09

I feel like, you know, then that becomes

1:22:12

truer than the truth completely,

1:22:14

and so then it just turns into so

1:22:16

you know, it's always that's that's the

1:22:19

part that's different, whereas

1:22:21

before it just I mean, you know, like,

1:22:25

you know, best person got the part and watch

1:22:27

that you were like, oh and that was that was

1:22:29

it? But there's so many other factors. I agree. What

1:22:32

do you think because I I mean, motherfucker's

1:22:35

don't know this. What do you think about the gender

1:22:37

pay thing? Specifically this like

1:22:40

this actor who's dope who I just saw him

1:22:42

in this showtime thing which I can't remember the name

1:22:44

of it, Benedict cumber Ballity, so

1:22:47

I probably not saying his name right. A couple of other

1:22:49

people have said this also, but he said, I am

1:22:51

not going to work. I will not I will

1:22:53

take down jobs where my female co star doesn't

1:22:56

get paid as much as me. And I'm like, this

1:22:58

is some bullshit here, not that the female

1:23:01

shouldn't, but as you know, it's

1:23:03

like, let's say he's doing a movie, right, and

1:23:05

and they're like, we're gonna give you five million

1:23:07

dollars a movie, and the and the female

1:23:09

like they don't want to known female and

1:23:12

she works is just amount is money munch of days.

1:23:14

But she's not Jennifer Lawrence or she's

1:23:16

not just someone like I'm like, homeboy,

1:23:19

you're not giving up half of your five million

1:23:21

for Jane done right? You

1:23:24

know? I think people um have

1:23:26

to take into account. This is this

1:23:29

is how I feel, and I and

1:23:31

you know, I'm one person, but I will say

1:23:34

you have to take into account not just

1:23:36

um gender, right,

1:23:39

So I have to take into account who

1:23:41

is going to motivate people to come see the movie and

1:23:44

so I have to say, you know, if

1:23:47

my female is you know

1:23:49

whatever, Melissa McCarthy, and

1:23:52

and you know my male I've never heard of, well,

1:23:54

she'll get paid more if my male is

1:23:56

you know, you know aim

1:24:00

somebody now Leonardo DiCaprio,

1:24:02

well ship, you know, than

1:24:05

everybody and probably most

1:24:07

of the time any other female, just because he's

1:24:10

a due and because I

1:24:12

know, like for me, I don't like someone

1:24:14

who doesn't go to the movies a ton. But you know what, if

1:24:16

there's a Leonardo movie, I'm gonna

1:24:19

I'm gonna go, right, So I'm

1:24:21

buying into his body of work, his taste,

1:24:23

right because I'm like, who's she always in some good

1:24:25

ship, so it's gonna be good. I'm buying into

1:24:27

what he is. I'm paying for. I'm paying

1:24:30

for all of that. I'm paying for all his fans

1:24:32

over like spanning three four

1:24:34

decades. So I

1:24:37

as an investment. I get my

1:24:39

investment back with him. But if it's somebody

1:24:41

else and I don't, and that includes myself, I'm

1:24:44

not gonna go up and be like, well, Leonardo's getting

1:24:46

this, I should get this, because I'm like, I

1:24:49

mean, I mean, even if he's in my movie

1:24:51

for ten minutes. I gotta give Leonardo

1:24:53

because that you know, Brad Pitt, because I'm I'm

1:24:56

it's he's the McDonald's, he's

1:24:57

the Coca Cola, the Kentucky

1:25:00

Fight Chicken, whatever the funk you want to call it. He's

1:25:02

the Mercedes Bend. And when you

1:25:04

get to that level, you have to understand

1:25:06

it. Now, if I had two people

1:25:09

of equal caliber, well then

1:25:11

that's different, you know what I mean. But that's the thing

1:25:13

that I think is getting missing and how this is this gender

1:25:16

paid you know is And

1:25:18

I'm like Bennett Comer, Yo, I don't know what

1:25:20

you're to because I ain't giving up that money.

1:25:23

I'm not giving up that fucking money. And

1:25:25

you know, the art is to make money to get oh

1:25:27

no, And I've watched him when Oscars and he's amazing

1:25:29

and so you know, but now if I've got

1:25:32

him, you know, Bene Comer back, and then I've got Reason

1:25:34

Witherspoon, Well I'm gonna pay them,

1:25:36

you know why, because her body of work demands

1:25:39

it. So you know, everything is and listen,

1:25:41

I may love someone artistically and be like

1:25:43

they're amazing, I just gotta pay this one more

1:25:45

because of of of

1:25:48

his box office. Hell, but I

1:25:50

also have this other person who is

1:25:52

artistically dope, So I'm at least I got

1:25:55

I'm not giving him something offensive or

1:25:57

her, you know what I mean. And that's for both genders. I

1:25:59

agree, that's for both genders. I agree. I

1:26:01

agree. It's just the way it's been sort

1:26:03

of put out there, and I'm like thinking, like they're

1:26:05

I feel like there's this scandal and I'm

1:26:07

like, there's different things in play. It's

1:26:10

like you could get McDonald's.

1:26:12

Are you the other burger might be good, but the

1:26:14

McDonald's the one that everyone's going to. Um,

1:26:16

I don't want to keep you much on A couple more questions,

1:26:19

Girls Trip, did you know that

1:26:22

this what did you think you were making? Like,

1:26:24

I mean, this is a huge movie. Yeah,

1:26:26

I mean I thought we were making it was gonna be good, you

1:26:28

know, like you know, like think like a man about

1:26:30

last night. I was like, those are good, Like we're going

1:26:32

in there, We're going in there a

1:26:34

little maybe I thought a little less money

1:26:37

because it was R rated right, So

1:26:40

I was like, well we might have a little less and I

1:26:42

thought it

1:26:44

was gonna be fine, you know what I mean, Like you

1:26:46

thought it was gonna be a good funny I thought it was gonna be a

1:26:48

good funny movie. I didn't want to summer release.

1:26:51

I was against that. I was like, oh, and

1:26:53

I'm a huge speaking of directors, I'm a huge

1:26:55

Chris Nolan fan. I love Christopher

1:26:57

Nolan. I think he's so dope. And I

1:26:59

was like, Kirk, you kind

1:27:01

of I'm never like

1:27:03

someone who is. I don't believe

1:27:05

in counter programming like

1:27:07

you just you you know, it's like you

1:27:10

can't anticipate black people like good

1:27:13

movies, big movies. So like you can't be like a you're

1:27:15

gonna be out against Mr Mrs Smith. It's

1:27:17

like the black people are going to see Mr Mrs Smith too.

1:27:19

There are certain movies that you know are

1:27:22

beyond race when they're when there's a certain

1:27:25

like a Leonardo DiCaprio movie, don't hit

1:27:27

me out against Leonardo DiCaprio. So I was like, really,

1:27:29

you go done, Kirk. Oh,

1:27:32

it's a specific movie. I was like, it's Christopher

1:27:34

Nolan, like, so I

1:27:36

was not. I was like, I don't know why. You

1:27:39

know, September is good. You know we got a solid

1:27:41

uh March April, you know what I mean. It

1:27:43

was like, but they were insistent,

1:27:45

and they were, but they were also willing to put

1:27:47

their advertising dollars behind it. And

1:27:49

right were you following

1:27:52

that? Like, were you guys aware of that? Like

1:27:54

for me as an actor, like sometimes you don't know what the funk

1:27:56

You're like, you're you're actor, You're paid the

1:27:58

funk out of here? Really were because they

1:28:00

really need We'll see. This is the difference

1:28:03

now in this new age of like you know,

1:28:05

social media, you know, you have to

1:28:07

be in parts. So we were being in the in the meetings

1:28:09

on what their strategy was, and I was like, oh,

1:28:12

okay, I see what they're doing. I was still

1:28:14

nervous because summer summer, and

1:28:16

then you know, I didn't know if

1:28:19

if women were gonna feel like we were too crude

1:28:22

and and you know, I was like as essence

1:28:24

and essence is kind of elite, and you know,

1:28:26

we're black women in that age range,

1:28:29

we're gonna be like that was just too much cursing. I just

1:28:31

didn't You don't know how people

1:28:33

are going to receive a film, you know what I mean? So you're

1:28:35

like, is our demographic

1:28:37

gonna be okay with this? You know what I mean? And then

1:28:40

is a really young demographic who would be okay

1:28:42

with it, gonna see it. I just couldn't tell. And

1:28:44

unlike a hangover or something like that. As men, men

1:28:46

don't have that. Boys are just like, yeah,

1:28:49

that's what we do. So I just wasn't I

1:28:51

wasn't sure about it. But um,

1:28:56

I just wasn't sure, you know what I mean? You never can

1:28:58

be sure. When did you start to realize

1:29:00

you were in like a big monster, like,

1:29:03

yo, this is a hit movie. Forget

1:29:06

the people like it. That's fantastic, that's

1:29:08

that's great, but this is like a fucking money

1:29:10

maker. Like it's like and keep going. And

1:29:12

then the Tiffany hat is and it's like a

1:29:15

Girl's Trip two and people have seen it twice

1:29:17

and like keeps going. Yeah, yeah,

1:29:21

probably you know, second

1:29:23

third week out. You know when

1:29:25

you're just like, okay, when we

1:29:27

probably started getting pictures

1:29:30

of all the girls going, you

1:29:32

know what I mean, when I started an

1:29:34

event. Yeah, when it became an event, when

1:29:36

I saw white women who

1:29:39

went with their girlfriends too, and I was like, oh

1:29:41

and you know Spanish, like when they hit across the racial

1:29:44

um thing, and I was like, oh, so women love it. And then

1:29:46

you know, boyfriends who had seen it, her husbands,

1:29:49

their wives were like, come with me. I think

1:29:51

that's when I was like, oh, people really really

1:29:55

like this movie, right,

1:29:57

and it it had a you know of staying long

1:30:00

in the summertime because I was like, oh,

1:30:02

my goodness, now we're gonna get one weekend and be done,

1:30:05

you know, because you never know what can happen in the summer.

1:30:07

So probably then and up and

1:30:09

especially like women who were like I laughed

1:30:12

when I started seeing people's mother, you

1:30:14

know, like older women and

1:30:17

they were like, you know that was me and

1:30:19

kind of reliving portions of their

1:30:21

life. You know. That That was when

1:30:24

I was like, Okay, is there going to be a

1:30:26

part two? There is going to be a part two?

1:30:28

Is it? Like? Like and so so now that

1:30:31

you know this is a hit, you

1:30:33

know hopefully the second one will be

1:30:35

an even bigger hit. Uh, Like are you

1:30:37

guys like, well, motherfucker, I gotta get this.

1:30:40

I gotta get like you know what I'm saying in terms of it's

1:30:42

not like you're saying, it's like the agents and who

1:30:44

knows girl at the same age. But first

1:30:46

of all, what is there a date to start doing part

1:30:48

two? Um? Um,

1:30:51

there is I know they're writing

1:30:54

it with. The great thing is everybody's

1:30:56

really busy, so it's

1:30:58

you know, so we haven't locked in that start date,

1:31:01

but I know would probably be um

1:31:04

next year. Next year is when we

1:31:06

would shooting. And you guys like like the

1:31:08

renegotialis like because it's superseded

1:31:10

everything was there, even like in your

1:31:13

contract for a part two. It's

1:31:15

not because it's not the kind of movie you would think, right, No,

1:31:18

you know that's the thing. You know what. I've been

1:31:20

lucky because I've been in several sequels and none of

1:31:22

them have thought there was going to be a part two. There was no part

1:31:24

two of a scary movie. No part two

1:31:26

for thinks like a man like there's never like there's

1:31:29

no part two because everyone thinks it's gonna

1:31:31

be So no one thought about a Girls Trip

1:31:33

too, you know what I mean. It was just kind

1:31:35

of like, Okay, we'll get our fan base

1:31:37

and da da da and that will be it. So never

1:31:40

never know, so not for this one. But you

1:31:43

know, for us, I think the biggest thing

1:31:45

is is we just if

1:31:47

you can't for me, if you can't do it great

1:31:50

the second time, just don't do it right or

1:31:53

what if you can't do it, great, but we can make a lot of money

1:31:55

trying. I know. It's like some ship,

1:31:58

right, you know, and all it's all always scary

1:32:00

because you know they don't want to pay anymore and never nobody

1:32:02

ever wants, nobody wants. You know, well

1:32:04

you you guys are in a good position because it's

1:32:07

four black women, like like

1:32:09

the tables, like like it's like we got the fucking

1:32:11

leverage. And this motherfucking ship was

1:32:14

a hit. Yeah, like this is

1:32:16

like the hot ship. But then we're gonna be hyped.

1:32:18

It's like you could do some fucking crazy trail

1:32:21

and like you know, people like when is this ship coming out?

1:32:23

Like you guys could be coming out of a hotel, like we did

1:32:25

it again, like same like the hangover. No,

1:32:27

yeah, no, it's great and we do

1:32:30

and and it's good because I love

1:32:32

the girls, like you know, I love you guys. Got along,

1:32:34

oh man, got along love love

1:32:37

love Jada. I mean Tiffany came out and

1:32:39

she's like exploded, you know, love

1:32:41

Tiffany. So the good thing for us

1:32:43

is that we

1:32:46

like each other, right, you know what I mean? So you

1:32:48

guys all get it. Yeah,

1:32:50

in terms of like get it

1:32:52

in terms of the business aspect, and like

1:32:55

one hand washes the other, like we're not here to like

1:32:57

everybody's gonna shine. Everybody has their moments

1:32:59

to shine. A big thing too, is I think

1:33:01

that happens a lot to Like you definitely have

1:33:03

to be like you. You gotta

1:33:06

be. You have to be amazingly

1:33:09

okay with your co stars.

1:33:11

You want them to shine. Everybody's got

1:33:14

If they don't shine, then the whole

1:33:17

thing needs to be shining. You don't need a dull spot,

1:33:20

you know what I mean. You can't rocking. The two scenes

1:33:22

are whack with these now this chicken

1:33:26

and everybody's these are all vets.

1:33:28

Even though Tiffany is uh

1:33:30

the newest face of the world, she's newest

1:33:32

success. She's been doing the business. That's

1:33:34

dope. That's dope. Yeah, So that was a

1:33:36

big part of it too. And even with Tiffany's character,

1:33:39

you know, I read the script and and

1:33:41

and um didn't we didn't know who they were

1:33:43

going to get. Like so you know, they call me

1:33:45

and they're like, you know, we're trying to get you

1:33:47

know, Jada and Line. I was like, they

1:33:50

ain't gonna do it, like, you know, because I'm scared,

1:33:52

you know, you're like, I was like, Lord, I don't want

1:33:54

to be in this movie and everybody's awful

1:33:56

and whatever. So then

1:33:59

they did it. And then I was like, but look, you know

1:34:01

this character, this Dina character,

1:34:03

which originally they had that they that

1:34:05

was you know, they had somebody very

1:34:07

specific in mine who passed on it, you

1:34:09

know which I'll tell you. And

1:34:12

then I was like, um,

1:34:14

I was like, dang. And

1:34:17

so they were upset and I was like, you get somebody

1:34:19

else. And then and then because the

1:34:21

studio really wanted that person, and then I was like,

1:34:23

but whoever you get, they that role has

1:34:25

the pop. That's like, what's his

1:34:27

name, Zach Gafnak

1:34:30

is like, that role has to

1:34:33

pop. And then you know, Tiffany came and superseded

1:34:35

that, you know what I mean. So it's like

1:34:37

it's uh, it's an it's

1:34:39

an all around win. It's an all around

1:34:41

win. Um. All right, we

1:34:44

we talked about would we talked about other actors you like,

1:34:47

tell me off the top of your head, actors

1:34:49

that you worked with, Actors or actresses that you've

1:34:51

worked with, that you've been in front of it. It doesn't

1:34:53

have to be necessarily dramatic, it could be comedic

1:34:56

like uh, Tiffany or whoever. When I

1:34:58

say to you, when you've been worked with somebody

1:35:00

where you were like, Damn, this motherfucker's good, Like when

1:35:02

you're across from them, where you're just like kind

1:35:04

of like now, I worked with Altfred Molina and

1:35:06

I was like, Damn, he's good. I

1:35:10

just I mean, I would just watch him. Sometimes

1:35:12

I'd get caught up watching him. I'd be like, oh

1:35:15

shit, is it my line

1:35:17

that I have? Yeah,

1:35:19

I love when it happens. I mean it's not good for business,

1:35:22

it's not good for the take, but like, you

1:35:24

know, you're like, this motherfucker's I

1:35:26

guess. It's like when basketball players like, yeah, I just

1:35:28

like when they're like a lot of times they talk about Kobe

1:35:31

or playing with Jordan's like yeah, I just watching them.

1:35:33

Yeah, oh yeah, you're in it, but you're you're

1:35:35

like not in it because you're like, what the fu.

1:35:37

Yeah, you're just you've you've become

1:35:40

a spectator at that point. I've

1:35:42

worked with him and I watched him do some stuff. They've been

1:35:44

Yeah, there've been people who have been like wow,

1:35:47

you know, and what is definitely one of them? Where I've been like

1:35:50

some people I've worked with and I've looked at the stuff

1:35:52

and it's been amazing, but they're more more,

1:35:55

I'm more amazed by them. In an edit, I

1:35:57

got you then live. You know, some people cut together

1:35:59

and credibly, but then in person

1:36:02

they're like okay. Where

1:36:05

then some people you're just like, oh wow,

1:36:07

they're just they're

1:36:09

just great, you know, and that

1:36:11

that is like, you

1:36:14

know, that's exciting. Yeah, Like

1:36:17

I can't imagine, like you know, we're working

1:36:19

with like a Meryl Streep or something like that.

1:36:21

I can't because I don't even

1:36:23

know what she would do that I know they'd

1:36:25

be like line, you know, because

1:36:28

I just and so many innocent, so many

1:36:30

people. You know, I'm saying Meryl Sheep because she's like so

1:36:33

so, so big, so amazing and so famous. I'm sure

1:36:35

I do it for Leonardo, who's also big. But then there

1:36:37

are people who may not be household names, who you

1:36:39

just you know, a lot of people may not know whoever

1:36:41

Malina is, but who you watch and you go, wow,

1:36:43

this person is amazing. And

1:36:47

anytime you get it because I feel like they make

1:36:49

you better. I agree, I agree.

1:36:52

Um, I always top five rappers.

1:36:55

Top five actors, your

1:36:58

top five, Like you're like any

1:37:00

place anytime I stopped the channel,

1:37:02

Like where you're like guys or girls, actors,

1:37:05

actresses, you know, the fucking gender police.

1:37:08

Your top five where you're like, these are my

1:37:11

you know they living or dead? Where you're like, these

1:37:13

are these are the ones that speak to me the most,

1:37:16

you know what I mean? Just like your people like that, You're

1:37:18

like, I'm watching him any place anytime I'm

1:37:20

going to the movie. Like for me Denzel,

1:37:23

he's probably right now, like

1:37:25

I'm going to the theater site unseen, right,

1:37:27

I'm doing that for Leonardo for sure. Yeah,

1:37:30

I'm going side unseen no

1:37:32

matter what he does. Now.

1:37:35

See the thing is, I just watched I just

1:37:37

rewatched Godfather

1:37:39

again. There's a whole bunch of motherfucker's

1:37:41

And I was about to say, and then you forget about people,

1:37:44

you don't forget but you know, I

1:37:47

mean Albuccino is

1:37:49

I mean, and they're so good in that

1:37:51

movie. It's like and

1:37:53

then you know you'll go and watch them. You

1:37:56

know you'll go and you

1:37:58

know, I'll go and watch Dog Day

1:38:01

Afternoon or some ship I haven't seen in

1:38:03

a long time and be like, wow, you know al

1:38:05

Butcino was you can forget how dope.

1:38:07

So that's the thing too. Memories are short,

1:38:09

so you know, as you know, something very short

1:38:11

now, very short now, So you know

1:38:14

when you think of people, you're like, yeah, but you haven't

1:38:16

this person isn't this person He's

1:38:19

a pillar, a pillar, He's a

1:38:21

fucking pillar of everything. Pillar. And

1:38:24

you know who else I love? And

1:38:26

you know, so we're gonna go out?

1:38:30

Yeah, um, I love I love

1:38:33

Goldiehon and I know that's

1:38:35

a rare thing, but like I'll

1:38:37

go watch Goldiehon and something like a private

1:38:39

Benjamin. I can see that influence in your

1:38:41

comtion overboard and be like, I

1:38:44

love her, like she's just effort. There's

1:38:46

I could name fifties, but I could go old

1:38:48

school and new school, like I love Sally Fields

1:38:50

beyond I just watching I could. I

1:38:52

mean, there's so many from before and then now

1:38:55

and like men

1:38:58

like Denzel is definitely

1:39:01

how good is he He's great? Have

1:39:03

you have you? I mean you've never been in a movie with him?

1:39:06

Have you ever gotten to an auditioning with him?

1:39:08

Like? Have you ever like read with him? Never read with I've

1:39:11

met him. I don't know people who and I know people who worked

1:39:13

with you. Listen, I love Viola,

1:39:16

you know what I mean, they're just I mean, but

1:39:18

then I mean, but

1:39:21

there's so many but you know what I mean, but

1:39:23

I'm on the spot. I can't think, but

1:39:25

yes, where I know that whatever they

1:39:27

do, they're gonna. You know, Denzel

1:39:30

has a way too that he does stuff. I mean, they're

1:39:32

all but you know,

1:39:34

you're talking about craftsman from a

1:39:36

generation that's different. And

1:39:40

so it's just I mean, should

1:39:42

I love Betty Davis? You

1:39:44

know what I mean? Like it just it. I mean, I

1:39:46

love Roberts and I'm naming I'm

1:39:49

going back even though they're

1:39:51

amazing people today and they are, but like I'm

1:39:53

going back where you're looking it's oh

1:39:57

yeah, like these are people that have done

1:39:59

it. That's it's it's like it's

1:40:02

you know who I love. I

1:40:04

love Anthony Hopkins. He's

1:40:06

a fucking He's stupid.

1:40:09

He's stupid, good, ridiculous.

1:40:12

No, I'm gonna just throw this my last question,

1:40:14

top five rappers or rap

1:40:16

groups? Throw give them to

1:40:19

me in no particular order. And it's interchangeable

1:40:21

because because you have some people listen to, like you

1:40:23

know, you don't want to offend anybody. So who

1:40:25

are your top five? This is the obligatory question.

1:40:27

Okay, And let me just say this.

1:40:29

I love art, so I'm just artists. I'm just gonna

1:40:32

come from who comes to mind from today

1:40:34

today, and it could be in tomorrow. You could have

1:40:36

said another eight more. Yeah, I love Jay,

1:40:38

always love Jay. Always gotta be number one. I

1:40:40

agree, Um, I

1:40:42

love big you know what I mean? Like

1:40:45

what I mean? What are you going to say? Those are two? I

1:40:48

gotta throw brand new being in just because

1:40:50

of the impact they had under

1:40:52

the radar arun Yeah,

1:40:56

and when that came out, it was just you

1:40:58

know, so you know I mean,

1:41:00

but and I could do that and then nas, I

1:41:02

mean, what do you mean? Yeah,

1:41:04

Lauren Hill, I mean she's kind

1:41:07

of incredible. I'll give you Cherry

1:41:09

on top. Okay, cherry.

1:41:12

I can't give your whole damn right, I should

1:41:14

have bit just asking for a whole pop Let me see,

1:41:16

let me see, Gosh,

1:41:19

who would I be because there's one spot last? It's

1:41:21

a Cherry on top? Are you a quick to rattle off

1:41:23

the other one? Now? You're being impressious because

1:41:26

I am, because it's my last one last one

1:41:28

man, I didn't answer, like you to let

1:41:32

me think, um take your

1:41:34

time, okay, you

1:41:36

know what, I just did a post where I had him on

1:41:38

there because it was something I saw and

1:41:41

it was a freestyle like in front of like

1:41:43

MTV when they used to do your MTV wraps. And I

1:41:45

watched this really dope documentary on

1:41:47

hip hop and it was a bunch of hip hop artists and they were

1:41:49

talking about just like the grind that

1:41:51

you had to do because you there was no like you know what

1:41:53

I mean, there was no way to get seen unless you just had

1:41:55

to be the dopest, right, So they would

1:41:57

just be in like freestyle and going to

1:42:00

radio stations like just and

1:42:02

they were and so I mean they were the competition

1:42:05

the level that you had to be at the level

1:42:07

of excellence and you know, your

1:42:09

rhymes had to say something where people were

1:42:11

like, oh, you know, and rock him.

1:42:14

I just remember he was the bar, you

1:42:16

know, like I mean he would just I

1:42:19

mean, yeah, rock him. I mean that's the thing, that's

1:42:21

what I'm It was kind of like naming of the actors

1:42:23

like you forget and it's like, how do you not forget

1:42:25

the beast that is rock Him?

1:42:27

And then you know Rock Kim, you go, krs Pig

1:42:29