The Real Report - Gianni Paolo on Power Book II: Ghost, 50 Cent's influence, acting with Michael Rainey, and Hollywood's dark side

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Speaker 1: He can't do that. Me and him. We went to acting class, not to cut you off.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was just saying, don't forget your name.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 5: Time power in the.

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Speaker 7: Bro.

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Speaker 1: What's happening.

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Speaker 7: Proud of you guys, my dad that's in Proud of you guys. I know we talked like I think it was maybe a year ago, and I was like, because you were doing kind of something on your own. I was like, you guys need to do it's gonna blow up four.

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Speaker 5: Weeks say that we was in Vegas. Shout to Dreas. You know, we miss Dreas. Now we go to Club Live now Fountain Blue, so we'll see we'll see you the April Bay t I'll be there with fifty. It's always a movie with fifty now with power.

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Speaker 6: Power is a show that you know, you got a lot of shows right, like we would say back in the days, you got the wire right, you had ohs, you had the sopranos, right, classic classic, you know, classic classic. But when you look at a show like Power that's lasted what you say, eight years, nine years?

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Speaker 7: And they they did Sick to Power for a ghosts. If you add on a couple of the two that have gone on of force and then Canaan, I say, around twelve thirteen years. Kind of nuts.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So you coming from Vermont? How did you you know Shelter Vermont?

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Speaker 7: I grew up in Rhode Island. Oh, they gave him the wrong thing, and they said, who the.

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Speaker 1: Fuck gave my man the wrong information? Again? Yeah, setting this nigga.

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Speaker 5: Up, some of them, So fuck go after that.

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Speaker 7: Why the fucking I don't.

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Speaker 8: Know where the fuck man from Vermont? Vermont is that that is the whitest place on there now from I'm from Rhode Island.

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Speaker 5: So let's ask edie, where do you find this information? Do you google it?

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Speaker 7: Like, I've never heard Vermont ever. He looked at my picture. He's like, this looks like a guy from Vermont.

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Speaker 5: No, that's what I'm like.

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Speaker 6: So coming from Rhode Island, Yeah, right right, coming from you were professional, but we unprofessional here, you know, hopeful. So I'm in from Rhode Island shouting Rhode Island. You know what I'm saying, shouting for Matt two. I guess you know you're not from there. Home and getting to acting in New York City being around fifth How did you make this happen?

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Speaker 5: Bro?

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Speaker 7: I moved to LA on my nineteenth birthday, and I was like, I'm fucking doing this. This is what I wanted to do my whole life. I knew I was meant to do it. Everything had pushed me towards being an actor, being an entertainer, just everything like stuff would weirdly happen in my life where it would just keep pushing me towards. So I made the move go to LA. I'm catering for a little bit, you know, I'm doing this, I'm doing that trying to make ends meet. Booked a couple of voiceover gigs, which helped me get out of the restaurant. I was grinding in acting classes, improv, doing live stage, theater, comedy, all of it. And then I booked a couple different guest stars of some shows. And then I almost did an audition for Power because I just booked that movie Ma with Octavia Spencer, so I was gonna go shoot that in Mississippi. I'm a huge universal blumbhouse movie. I get an audition that came in for Power was a local hire, which means I need to fly myself and put myself up there in New York. So I'm gonna lose three four bands on this whatever. At this point, I'm so broke as fuck, Like I'm like, I don't have this money to do this, and it was only a co star, which means it's one one or two scenes, like less than like five to eight lines. So I'm like, it's not worth it. Call my mom. Yeah, I just got an audition for the show Power, but I booked that movie Ma, so I'm gonna go shoot that. She's like, can you please, like please audition? Like my me and your father loved that show, like, just please.

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Speaker 1: Audition for it.

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Speaker 9: I know.

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Speaker 7: So I was like, ah, at this point, I'm not tapped into anything because I'm so broken a l A. I'm hustling.

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Speaker 1: I don't't even know about power Bro.

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Speaker 7: I wasn't watching anything on TV because I just at this point, I'm like, I need to make it happen for myself. I'm not watching any other motherfucker. I would watch like good movies that came out to like, you know, look at my Craft and all that stuff. But I was so locked in seven days a week that I was like, I don't even care about anything. So audition for it. Sent in the audition. It was the fastest response I've ever gotten. I think I booked it in like twelve hours. Usually week, two weeks, sometimes a month. In twelve hours, They're like, you booked it. You're going to New York next week.

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Speaker 5: I was like fuck.

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Speaker 7: I'm like yeah, now I'm gonna lose this money. But I was like whatever. So it was one scene, go there, shoot the scene. Do it with Michael. Now me and Rainey don't say a word to each other.

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Speaker 1: This is your first time meeting him.

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Speaker 7: Correct yeah, that's my first time meeting him, and there's like a skeleton crew. So this was season five of Power where there was no there was like really nobody there, like it was Christmas. Everyone had already like kind of broken and went away, so it was just Tarik and Braiden all day long. And at this point, Brayden wasn't supposed to be what he was. He was just like supposed to be a dickhead roommate of Tarik's that they were supposed to butt heads in that scene. But the director was super cool, so she was like, you can improv, have fun, do whatever. After I had done a couple of takes, so all my comedy and improv training, all that stuff came in and I just did whatever I wanted and then the whole crew is laughing. I was like, oh, it seems like everyone liked it. Dipped out, went filmed that movie in Mississippi, and then there was kind of like a little bit of a low period where I was like still audition whatever, and then all of a sudden, the episode of Power comes out and everything that I'd improv made it into the show and everything that was written got cut. So I was like, oh, they really liked what I did, but I was like, cool, great, it was great, it was dope. Whatever, how did you feel? Oh seeing this said for the first time, like, oh shit.

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Speaker 5: Tell you got hol on erk.

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Speaker 6: He has to tell the people what improv is because a lot of people don't know what.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so improv is like you have your lines, you have your scripted lines, and then improv is like you improvise, so which I think always makes the best fucking scenes because it's real shit. Like me and Mike improvise all the time now because we know each other so well, we know the characters so well, so it's more real of a moment if you're not stuck to you know, the guidelines of what the words that you have to say, because sometimes you just want to say fuck, like what the fuck? Like why what the fuck are you thinking? But the line might be Tariq, we shouldn't do that. So there's a lot of stuff as an actor, like subtext like maybe you should feel that way, but still have to say the lines. I always say, like the lines are the road is the roadmap of the scene, you know. But some shows and some directors are more forgiving than others, and let you improv, so that's kind of what you do. So I I just I had a lot of comedy improv, like on stage at groundings and usually be kind of like where Will Ferrell came up and all those guys really learned how to become comedic actors. I did a lot of work there and training there, so when it came time, I was like, fuck, this is easy compared to like being on stage in front of you know, one hundred people crushed it did that movie, and then power came out and then my team calls me and they're like, oh, they wrote you a whole storyline for season six. So I was like, oh shit, they liked what I did. I'm excited again. Still in credit card debt, still kind of like juggling shit, Like you don't make shit on those episodes, like I lost money in that first one, and then the second one you make probably like they uped it a little bit, maybe like fifteen hundred bucks an episode.

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Speaker 1: So he wasn't feeling good when you saw the first episode.

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Speaker 7: Oh I was feeling amazing. But I I just don't really remember those times because like I was so wrapped up in like the movie, and I was like this universe is so crazy because power is the thing that broke me out. But at this time, like this was supposed to be a giant movie. It was tracking like get Out. It was Octavius Spencer, and I'm like, I'm gonna be a fucking movie star. And I was like, I wasn't even thinking about power. Power came out and I was like cool, But I think I was just so focused on the movie that power slipped up. So when they brought me back for season six, did a couple more episodes and then Fifty was directing episode three. Now that was fucking so dope because he comes up to me at breakfast and like, at this point, I'd only done one or two scenes, so I'm like, I don't really know like kind of the crew or anything. I go to get fitted and Frank the he does all the close. He was like, yeah, we thought you were gonna be terrible, but you were so funny, And I was like, why did you think I was gonna be terrible? First off?

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Speaker 1: And second off?

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Speaker 7: And I was like, thank you, Like I appreciate that, Like I only had two scenes, but thank you. I go to breakfast and Fifty comes up me and he just was like, you can kind of do whatever you want, like I see your shit, like you're funny, like just have fun and like that was wild. So then I start improving more of those first couple episodes, and even the camera guys were like, they don't let anybody improva on this show. There you really, I was like, So that was just like it was just kind of because I knew the work that I'd put in and the shit that I was doing, and I was like, I it was just all like approval to be like the work that I did fucking paid off. You know. So fifty comes up to me and Michael that episode he's directing, and he whispers in our ears. He's like, you guys take over, and he walks away. Now me broke after At that time, I'm like, I'm doing all episodes this season. I'm doing all ten. Great, that's best case scenario for me. I do every episode. Now I do episode four and then I never get called to come back. And then there's announcement on Deadline Powers ending with season six they're doing fifteen episodes because they did that extra five to close out the show. I was like, damn fucking fifty cent live to me, he said, I took over. I don't take over.

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Speaker 1: I'm about to be back to figure this shit out.

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Speaker 7: Oh I know. But then, so the movie was about to come out in May. So at this time I'm in like fifteen twenty grand worth a credit card debt, and I'm like, the way that Blumhouse which they do, they did, I think they did get out. They do a lot of like five million dollar budget movies. They pay the cast scale and then you get back end. So like if the movie does, you know, twenty mil in the box office, which it was more theaters back at that time, you're getting you're getting you know, fifty k every every twenty mil agat so you.

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Speaker 5: Could walk out.

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Speaker 7: They were quarter million dollars. You know. My team had fucked up my contract, so I didn't make any money unless the movie hit fifty million dollars US. Not global US. The movie hit forty seven point eight get the million dollars US.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: So it's like a week before the movie's about to come out. Now I'm sweating. I'm like, we're going up against Godzilla, a Rocketman, the Elvis movie. I'm like, We're or not Elvis, Elton John. I'm like we're going to get fuck crush. We did well, we have finished third that weekend. But like a couple of days before that movie came out, I got a call from Courtney and she's like, yeah, you're You're gonna be the lead of the spin off with Michael all from a one episode co star that I just improvably had fun with. And it turned into what this all? This was being on stage of five meeting you guys, meeting all my favorite rappers, Like I would be heartbroken, Like I even have a story where like I would audition for shows like you know, thirteen Reasons Why Riverdale or Big Big Big, like iconic teen romance you love like shows, and I'd be heartbroken when I didn't get it. And then I see these kids get twenty thirty million flowers, I'm like fuck. But when I booked Power and then everything unfolded, I literally was like oh, Like I said, oh to God, I was like, it all makes sense, God, this no one else could is Like I don't know, it just all made sense to me. It just everything fit. Like I showed physical picture on my Instagram and I showed fifty it's me with the g Unit T shirt on it like ten years old. I'm like, it's just like everything was meant to happen the way that it happened, and and look where we are, you know what I mean, My boy.

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Speaker 5: That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Boy.

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Speaker 6: You gotta understand lynd Jit Lenny Eden. Look up training day? What's the acting training day.

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Speaker 7: Again, Ethan Hawk?

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Speaker 6: That whole movie from what I see, how many people tried out for training day because there was supposed to be a whole bunch of actors for training day, but Denzel wanted him to all in prov so Ethan Hawk was like the fifth guy to do it, like he was the only guy to in prov because that's like me and you being in the movie and what you've been you did.

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Speaker 1: Of course, well you you was a co star.

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Speaker 5: You had like five lines and stupid.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something right there, let me tell you how this whole podcast day kind of almost even started. We got to set out to my man right here, right we got to set out to my guy because he caught me and this guy right here arguing about who was in the fucking better movie, which it was me. I was in a better movie. I was in the movie with Bruce Willing. You understand what I'm saying. That was on Netflix.

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Speaker 5: I was you only have five lines, coach, don't matter.

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Speaker 1: I have more than that I have, But nobody cared about he was in. He was in swat to.

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Speaker 5: I haven't even swat I don't even see that we did movie you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: You can go check me boom.

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Speaker 5: I can't find that movie.

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Speaker 1: You did him dirty.

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Speaker 7: That was so viral. I feel like I feel like I always catch those moments, like I don't know what it is like, I always catch those moments. I think that has like twenty thirty million views.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was crazy that. That was a good movie.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but at that point they were like, you guys got to do a show again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely from it was no.

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Speaker 6: I think it was a moment with it was like, yo, every time you see g Unit. You said something in London, we was I went viral too, Shelter London. That was an epic drunk night in London.

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Speaker 5: I was right.

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Speaker 7: I was like, I was like, you say, g unit, fucking just Yale appears and I looked at my camera and I was like, just get this, like We're not even need to play anything, just record this and I was like, all of a sudden, Yale drunkenly comes out of tape.

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Speaker 5: So how do you keep the balance?

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Speaker 6: Because you know a lot of people, you know a lot, they say, a lot of people that you see, you know, homeless in the street, old actors that came to LA and trying to follow the dream. You know, everybody wants to come to Hollywood. But how do you keep your balance? You've got drugs out there, beautiful women.

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Speaker 7: And I'm around it every night. But I don't know, I just like, I just don't need that. I don't know, I just don't need that. I you want to know what I've come to. My conclusion is why there's a lot of Disney stars or actors that become drug addicts, is that there's a lot of downtime as an actor, Like there just is like maybe with you, like you guys, you go to show to show, you're on the move, you're traveling. You go the next show. You gotta you know, you're in the hotel, we don't have that. We get to set and then you sit in your trailer for a couple hours. You go to your scene. You're kind of sitting around all day long, and then you might rap early and you're shooting in fucking Vancouver for eight months, Like a lot of shows are shooting there. Who do you know out there? So now you're gonna do like four or five hours before you go to bed. Kind of if you don't have a girlfriend, you're just kind of sitting there alone or with your castmates, even if you're cool with them, and half of them got their own shit going on, so you're just sitting around. Now when you go to like an event or you go somewhere, you have all these people yelling at you. There's all the serotonin even being on set, like people catering to you, and then all of a sudden, you know, you go back home and you're dead quiet and you're like bored. You're like, man, do a little drugs, do all this. That's how I feel like all these kids kind of get involved with all this stuff because there's just so much downtime. Then you go film something for six months, then you're off for three months. You're like, Okay, got to book the next job. Now you could have potentially six to eight months of just not working and just being in la Like, So if you don't have a strong fucking mindset. A lot of these kids out there don't. They'll just falld they're doing I see every actor, these kids every night doing blow, doing this, doing that, and they just can't control.

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Speaker 5: Them to play the part. Like if you tell me I got to play Batman them all, you know what I mean, I might want to. Somebody might say I gotta do a drug or some ship to be getting a character. I don't know. I think I just really think about it, like to get.

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Speaker 1: Like sayman, that's why I know he.

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Speaker 5: Played the joke.

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Speaker 6: And that was one of the best, and that was one of the best. He was one of the best jokers.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's actually my favorite, profess my favorite performance ever of any actor. It's number one for me, Like.

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Speaker 5: That was the best joker.

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Speaker 7: It's the best performance I think of all time. Like you just can't beat that. But yeah, like I don't know. I guess maybe if in your mind, if you're if you're that crazy, like you have to do drugs to get in the character, Like there's so much downtime, How the fuck are you gonna do drugs all day long?

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Speaker 5: Can you tell me I got to play Batman? Nigga? I don't know. How to like pop a pill. I think I'm bad man, y'all. I'm just thinking that that's what an actors do that? Yeah, do that?

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Speaker 7: Look ork man.

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Speaker 6: I'm just saying, listen, I'm not a perpet, but how many listen? How many actors have you heard say they played a part and it took him a while to to weed off for being that.

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Speaker 2: Not a lot even heard shout out to my that's how I got Mike Ebbs. I even heard him say he was coked up when he was doing I think one of the movies that he was doing. He said he was coked up with one of them, a whole bunch of it.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: That always blows my mind because what people don't understand was it hangover.

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Speaker 2: I think it was one of them where I think, well, wonder what he said he I think it was it Friday, one of the Fridays.

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Speaker 1: Oh I did see that is I think it was one of them. He said he was actually coked up.

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Speaker 7: Only think about it. You gotta do thirty forty fifty takes, you're then you break for lunch, then you gotta do hair and makeup. You're gonna do blow all day long. You're like, like for twelve hours, you'd be dead, you'd overdose. So it's like you get what I mean. So it's like it's all day long. As an actor, there's like the whole your whole day is like this. You get the set, oh, hair, makeup, hair and makeup, and then all of a sudden they sit you in your trailer for two hours. You're like a ship, right. Then you sit there for two hours, then they go, okay, we need you on set a SAP. So I don't know. I just think it would be hard to realistically do drugs ambient act some professional right, right, but maybe if you have Like because I had that crazy scene where I slammed the drug dealer's face into the into the cocaine because he sold my girl the the fentanyl, and that day I like, I took a little bit of an adderall. So I was like that, oh took an adderall and then I was drinking celsius all day long. But like that's as far as I'll go. Like I think doing real coke, like you just would have to do it all day long.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Batman, you guys would have one dream role?

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Speaker 7: What would it be?

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Speaker 5: Dream Rod for me? Old movie, new movie anything.

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Speaker 7: If you you could pick your role tomorrow you start filming it, would it be Ship.

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Speaker 5: I would want to be like in.

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Speaker 6: I would say they supposed to be making the scarface too, But I don't want to be in scarf.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that could work, though, Man, I don't think so.

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Speaker 7: He's the king of that the movies that make no sense.

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Speaker 5: Scarf.

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Speaker 6: But he was a coach star. He didn't did you even say? You didn't even say what up to Bruce?

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Speaker 1: Bruce Willis is my man, nigga.

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Speaker 2: But like that looking we can't Benny boy, you got him looking crazy. Go looking for that movie even found it. I can't find it.

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Speaker 5: On to be nothing.

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Speaker 1: Nothing that's a good thing a movie? Oh man? The ideal role, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: So so you're saying I like to be.

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Speaker 1: Some godfather Harlem, like yeah, something like that type word.

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Speaker 6: But it's like when you look at like power and like you be on set like you know, because I know you know when meat was on set smell like weed and.

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Speaker 5: All like crazy. Ship.

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Speaker 6: If used to say like yo fit yo yo yo murder, if you ever go on set, be on time, be professional? Yeah, how much does that really that really counts like on set because you said it's twelve hour day.

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Speaker 7: Dude, it's so weird. I mean, like power is an anomaly. Like you go on a power set, obviously it's like, you know, fifty cent produced and there's a little leeway. I've heard. I heard that Wu Tang was a little bit like that too. People smoke in and drink. You go to a like a real proper like Amazon or Apple TV set that does not fly. Now, maybe you've got a crazy actor every now and then, but like I don't know, like I just feel like that that shit only really happens because it's power and there's a little bit more, you know, like obviously there's a lot of rappers that come on set, so like Meach was kind of doing his thing on BMF, but like, I know, there's just so many like.

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Speaker 6: No listen, that shit was getting that had to get to y'all. Hey, y'all, niggas was like y'all was the only actors that actually fifty book y'all at like rap artists. Y'all had walk throughs. Meach made. Meach made a lot of money, Mike Rain and a model of money. Gianni made a lot of money. The Ghosts made a lot of money, Tommy, Like, the way fit you had is set up is like y'all had rappers, like y'all's rappers. That's the first time you ever seen actors do walk throughs like rappers.

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Speaker 7: And the only other equivalent of that is like I guess an actor going to like comic Con, but it's like, who the fuck wants to sit at a booth all day long and sign papers? I'd rather be at the Club of Bottles like we fifty really like and he did, he did that, He made that happen. He posts us on his Instagram. He made us stars for that reason to have us make money like that, Like that wasn't for him, like Cherry's promoting the show, but like he does a lot of shit for us to help us out, and you know, have us do shit like that where I don't see any other actor ever doing what we do. There's like seven or eight of us that can really like go to a club in Tallahassee or Houston and sell out a club like kind of nuts.

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Speaker 1: Definitely.

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Speaker 7: I talk about that all the time. I'm like, if you, if you When I go to set, and I like I shot a movie last year with Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones. That's the biggest show ever probably, right, And I was explaining to her. I was like telling her like what a club hosting is, and she's like, so people just pay to come and party with you in the club and I was like yes, She's like, this is the coolest thing I've ever heard. I'm like, you're on fucking Game of Thrones. Yeah, Like, but they just don't know because it's just such a different world.

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Speaker 5: It's a different world's crazy, man, and you you had the like crowd hype because like your scenes, like you being in court and everybody that she was going to snitch, yeah, and you didn't snitch.

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Speaker 7: The writers love me, man. I always tell people like, do fucking good work, because then the writers want to write good shit for you. But if you show up to set and you're a fucking asshole and you don't take your shit seriously, you don't have your lines memorized, the writers don't want to make you succeed. So every time I would come to set, I'd be improv and I'd be going to talk to the writer who because every writer for that episode is on set so I'm like, what should we do? Could we add a joke here? Should we switch this out? Even like that? Why I sell rico joke that I made that went viral and I said that in one of the uh scenes that were at the the money thing whatever, I don't even remember what.

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Speaker 1: The fuck it was.

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Speaker 7: I changed that out. It was like Gambino Crime Family. I'm like, if you help the writer and you talk to them and the producers see that, because I really was trying to make every.

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Speaker 1: Episode I'm gonna bring you into right now, right was going on.

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Speaker 7: Like I cared about the show so much. I was like, some people just show up and they get their fucking paycheck and they go home. I'm like, I want to make every episode as good as possible. I would go up to the producer's offices and I'd be like, what's the episode, what's the next episode? Look like like I want to go through the wall. When I went through the wall, that wasn't scripted like shit like that to elevate the show because I cared so much. So then the writers cared about me and they gave me cool shit and they made me look lit. And that's kind of like a push and pull is an actor writer, Like you want to make them look good, they make you look good, you know.

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Speaker 5: Right, did you go to acting classes before?

00:23:55
Speaker 7: Yeah? When I first moved to LA, I was doing a little bit in Rhode Island before I moved, and then I was doing I did live improv classes at Groundings and Upright Citizens Brigade. It's called UCB, and that's kind of like Donald Glover started there and Will Ferrell, Melissa McCarthy, like all the great start at Groundlings in UCB. That's like where the comedic acting comes from and where like you know, a writer's brain of jokes and stuff. But then I took like more serious acting classes for the first like a couple of years I was in LA and I popped in and out with an acting coach. But like, I don't know. Sometimes I'm like I know everything I need to know about acting at this point, Like I'm gonna learn more just by working now, Like a teacher's not gonna teach me anything that I haven't already done.

00:24:36
Speaker 5: Guts, what gives you your drive? Because I've done seen you in London?

00:24:40
Speaker 6: Yeah, then we could be in Miami then you yeah, yeah, yeah, Italy and Paris or something.

00:24:46
Speaker 5: Michael Rainey's in Jamaica. You and Jamaica. What gives you your drive?

00:24:50
Speaker 6: What made say this guy from Rhode Island to all the people that want to be actors out there from Rhode Allen gives him this drive to go to La nineteen years old? No money catering you was you know, you went from serving food to you know, ask the Martin drugs and.

00:25:05
Speaker 7: Do I really just fun? I love it like I legitimately love it like I love pulling up on you guys. You have to You're gonna tell me when I'm ten years old. Look, you're gonna be friends with all your favorite rappers. You're gonna be on fifty cents TV show. He's gonna bring you out on stage in front of seventy thousand people at Tottenham Stadium in London.

00:25:24
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:25:25
Speaker 7: I gone, I'm going everything. I'm I'm living in the moment. I'm having fun like that. I think that's just like I enjoy it so much. This is where I think other people do it for, not themselves. They're doing it to prove something to someone or this. I generally just do it because I have so much fun. And that's why I'm an actor because of the fun that I have doing it. The second is stops becoming fun, I'm not gonna do it anymore. But I just have fun. Like that's why I do the podcast with Mike, Like I leave the studio after doing two episodes, like, god, that was so fucking fun. Like we really just had like Michael Ealy in here, like I grew up watching him, like Fat Joe in here. Like we just have crazy people that I grew up idolizing that I just sat down and chopped it up with for an hour and had them on my podcast. I just love what I do. Like that's really it.

00:26:08
Speaker 5: That's crazy. Yeahs Olivia Dream just to think, you know, the city was from Vermont and.

00:26:14
Speaker 7: The kid from Vermont road out?

00:26:17
Speaker 1: So what'sn't next for you? Though? Man, what's next? What what's you're working on next?

00:26:21
Speaker 7: So that movie just came out that I did, Trust. I did that last year. We got crushed in the box office, but it's killing it on streaming now.

00:26:28
Speaker 1: She Trust.

00:26:30
Speaker 7: We can see that Paramount Network Paramount Trust now. But dude, it's so hard, like to do those types of movies. There's like genre horror movies or they're superhero Marvel movies. Like, there's kind of no in between. It's kind of hard to be in theaters and make a movie do like it used to do five years ago. But we're we're crushing on streaming now and yeah, dude, I'm just I'm getting ready for the next thing. I'm just auditioning and figuring out what the right play is because you could go and do something and stuck on a show for eight ten years and not be happy, you know what I mean, Like the money doesn't mean anything to me. I'm like, I'll tell my team all the time like not that, not that, not that, and then when the right thing comes in that you know. It's hard too, because once you do a show like Power, you don't want to go backwards. So if you do Power and then all of a sudden you're doing like a and no shade to any of like the procedural shows, but you do like a like a fire show or you play a fire fart or this or that like Da Vinci right now, damn. But but it's like you go from such a lit show when you were fifteen, and then all of a sudden, you're just like, I don't know I don't want to take a step back. So I'm being very like strategic.

00:27:38
Speaker 6: Because we was talking earlier, you said you could even take a role where you're making twenty million dollars, or you could take a role that makes you a big star.

00:27:47
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:27:47
Speaker 7: So this is a story from you know, Chris told me that there are these two guys and I won't mention the names because I don't know if they want the story out there. But one was a show that Dick Wolf show. So it's gonna go seasons. You know if Dick Wolf's getting involved. It's Law and Order, it's Chicago Fire, it's all those shows. You know, you're you're gonna go for ten seasons.

00:28:09
Speaker 5: Now.

00:28:09
Speaker 7: The other show was Ballers. Now I don't obviously Denzel washington Son want I booked it, but another actor booked Ballers and then another role at the same time, and they were essentially like, do you want to be rich or do you want to be you know, famous? And he was like, I kind of want to be rich. So he took the role that now it's on you know, fourteen to fifteen season whatever, and he's rich. He took he wanted what he wanted, his family will be good forever. And now you know Denzel Washington's son, he doing Tenant, doing Christopher Nolan movies. I don't know what his paychecks look like, but like I essentially would say that they're both pretty rich at this point. But like he made a decision to go. Maybe if I did Ballers, I wouldn't have gotten to that next step. It would have just ended on three four, right, So it's kind of a that's the game with act is like everything is like a strategic fucking move. And it's like if they think you're hot, if they think you're doing well, then this casting director or this producer will bring you in for this movie. So it's a very strategic game that people don't really you know, kind of know about. But they're both rich, and you know, I love for my friends.

00:29:16
Speaker 6: Do you hear about the stories? Because wasn't Will Smith? Will Smith he was supposed to be in the Matrix and he did that stupid Cowboy movie. I think back in the days my wrong right here, he did that fluff, that dumb movie. Remember that movie Will Smith did? Wow wild Way, So Will Smith was he turned down the Matrix.

00:29:34
Speaker 7: Yeah, But here's the thing when when you get a script, you don't know if it's going to be good or not. You don't You could read a script and go, this is fucking incredible, and then the director could ruin it, or even afterwards, the director could have directed it great and the producers are like, we don't think it's going to do good, and they chopped the movie up. So Will, like Will Smith, that could have been better than the Matrix. In his mind, probably that's what he saw. But that's what I'm saying. That's how these guys he probably wrong that right.

00:30:00
Speaker 5: This Will the decisions.

00:30:02
Speaker 7: Right, It's all about like when you get to that level and you have ten scripts. You've seen Authourage, right, you have ten scripts and you got to pick the best script to that's going to blow you up the most in your lane that you want to do. It's a very strategic game. It's not just like, oh I booked this, let me go do it. They'll lock you down for seven years. You can't do nothing.

00:30:19
Speaker 5: So how do guys like DiCaprio and guys like that pick the best scripts? They just get lucky?

00:30:24
Speaker 7: Well not at this point. So DiCaprio was a child actor, so he got Gilbert Grape really young, and he's obviously a great actor. But once like he's kind of grandfathered into where he has done so many hit movies. Now it's now it's a thing where the biggest directors, the best writers are coming to Leonardo DiCaprio as opposed to like there's thirty or forty A list actors, but they're all fighting to do a Christopher Nolan movie. They're all fighting to do a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, as opposed to like these the best scripts are going to Leonardo DiCaprio no matter what. That's why he has twenty years of hits, because he's getting the best scripts that he's seeing all these scripts first before any actor in town. So he's kind of great.

00:31:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:31:05
Speaker 7: Oh, he turns everything, he turns everything down, and he picks what director he wants to work with and who he trusts. It's why he works with Scorsese a lot. He knows it's going to be a banger. Scorceses not doing bullshit, you know. So once now, my if you look at me, like, my path is to go okay, cool, do a great movie with the great director, boom book that, do a big series, you know, get a lot of notoriety. Then I might get a better script, and then then you get to the top and then you can pick whatever you want. But it's it's getting there to be able to pick shit is kind of like the life of an actor, to get.

00:31:36
Speaker 6: There, right, He's what I did was so big man, Like me watching TV. I remember it was three shows on that we always watched Mark Snowfall, Das Golf other haul them in Power, Yeah, I did like that. To me, that was like a classic year of TV bro, like for real, Like I was just bouncing back.

00:31:59
Speaker 5: With all them.

00:32:00
Speaker 7: I mean, what was fifty say? If you didn't watch Power, though, would be.

00:32:02
Speaker 5: Like what the fuck?

00:32:03
Speaker 1: Man?

00:32:03
Speaker 6: No, I mean you got I mean it's good TV. Yeah, you know people think YO were gonna yes man fifty to death. When it's good, it's good dope.

00:32:14
Speaker 7: I mean the original Power is a It's a fucking masterpiece. Like those six seasons are a masterpiece. You know, it's hard when you start doing spinoffs and you have different writers rooms and different actors in different places and kind of tied it all together, Like sometimes it gets a little difficult, but like those six seasons of Power are fucking masterpiece. And I didn't watch an episode of Power until after I had already shot those four episodes of season six because I didn't want to. I didn't want to know more than what Braydon should have known. Like there's actually a scene where me and Tommy meet in season six of Power, but that wound up getting cut I think, probably just for time. But he he came into, uh, the dorm room where he found out that Tarik stole his drugs and was selling it. And he came in the dorm room and he sees me and he goes get the fuck out of here, Biber and I run out. So we had already met, but it cut to the point where where it uh, he was already in the room, and I think it just goes right into him being like, you fucking you steal my drugs. So uh, I forget what the oh?

00:33:18
Speaker 5: Uh? Uh?

00:33:19
Speaker 7: So we had already met. What was the point of why the fuck was saying that? Damn it? It's great TV. It's it's it's sick. It's six six seasons of a masterpiece.

00:33:30
Speaker 5: Think for the next movie and ship you see, that's what actors do.

00:33:33
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, but it's six seasons of a masterpiece and then uh, they just need to like kind of go off and figure out what what's the best way and kind of like, you know, Joseph did his show that, but but it's hard to really like make it work all together after like there's different.

00:33:49
Speaker 6: So when did the bond with you and Michael Rainey start? Because it was like, you know, it was so funny because y'all used to go on Instagram.

00:33:56
Speaker 5: And you know, y'all to who have the best outfit?

00:33:58
Speaker 6: Y'all used to go against me meet you you know, yeah, I used to hate you know, yeah, I used to hate on him whatever, y'all.

00:34:04
Speaker 5: I used to go back and forth.

00:34:05
Speaker 6: But it's like you've never seen two actors like Mesh like that and actually be brothers outside the studio in the club.

00:34:13
Speaker 7: It started, So it started actually just the first episode that it came back for season six of Power, where I was just like I said, I was living in LA So they flew meto New York and I'm just in New York City. I know a couple people, but you rap and you're just like fuck, like I'm not doing shit. So we were on set and like most actors you meet are very proper they're very like you know, reserve. They could be a little crazy, but like Michael's not like an actor actor. Michael's a kid that grew up in Staten Island that just so happens to be on a TV show. Like he doesn't let that fame or anything kind of get to him. He's very like a normal kid because he grew up in his family home with all of his friends around him, and his day job was just go to Power. Now obviously like he got bigger and bigger as like Ghost happ and all that. But when I had first met him, he just he brought.

00:35:03
Speaker 5: Up a girl.

00:35:05
Speaker 7: He brought up a car, and on my head, I was like talking about that girl looks fine as shit, and I like look over at him and then we just started talking. And that was day one, back of season six of Power Pick Me Up. That night, me and him went out to the club. It was over from there. We were going out every night. I was flying back and forth to do the episodes and then I would me and Mike would go out and then he'd hit me, be like you coming back for next hour, and I was like, I don't know, I'm not reading the episodes, like am I coming back.

00:35:32
Speaker 5: I would.

00:35:33
Speaker 7: I was like, maybe I'll just go to New York and kick with Mike even if I'm not in the episodes. And then that's when we got the call for Ghosts and we were just fucking outside every now. I mean, Garrett'll tell you, like he's sitting over there. He ain't never seen a set like me and Michael.

00:35:48
Speaker 1: We would.

00:35:49
Speaker 7: But here's the thing. We would like, we'd be sitting court side of the Knicks game and we'd be like, okay, we got the club set up tonight, got a bunch of girls pulling up, got to be at work at six am. We gotta be off book because we got to be professional. So we'll be sitting at the Knicks games like running lines with each other, being like, all right, well you got the ship or whatever. All right, we came this and that, and we're running lines, sitting in the next game and we're not going to the club until we got the scene. Without looking at the paper, we got the scene down, like all right, now we can we take care of our ship and then whatever, and then you you know, you pull up the set next morning, you're one hundred percent and you're ready to go. We fucking party like crazy, but like we had our ship all the way down, and I think that's what like, I think that's just what the producers and everyone loved about us, like we had we were on our ship, you know.

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00:37:38
Speaker 1: Like, Oh, this motherfucker really is a little crazy, Like it's.

00:37:40
Speaker 7: A little off, Like I mean, I don't know, Like I guess I'm pretty like myself on social media, so people see me like, got you this? Even people in high school, like I know, a lot of people will be like, oh, he only dresses like this, or where's changed? Or does this because he thinks he's cool with fifty cent or he's he's a unit and I'll I'll post people sayings like that. And people from high school knew me when I was twelve or thirteen years old, be like, this is the same motherfucker I met when he was like that, he's you know I was. I've been collecting Jordan since I was eleven years old. I was wearing the g Unit tea with the gen speakers at school and being crazy like that was always me. So that's why, like, like I said, even like a lot of Braden's writing paralleled my life a little bit of like you know, you know, growing up around like tough areas, but also at the same time, like your parents, you know, you gotta be presentable, and like a lot of shit mirrored my life. That's why, like when Braiden happened, I was like, this is literally like fate. This is fate, Like you can't write a better show for me to do, you know, meet all my heroes, mean you and it's just like it's just wild. So yeah, I'm grateful for it.

00:38:47
Speaker 5: Well, you did a great job. It was fucking great TV, and we want to see fucking more from you because it was like, remember your brother, your brother, because you was the black sheep of the family. Yep, this is sister kid.

00:38:58
Speaker 7: The drugs. But here's the thing I always say, like it doesn't it stems from Tarik a little bit. You know. It's all fucking you know, And I'm not say it's up Michael's fault. It's Tarik's fault. Okay, they right, But I always make this joke because I'm like everyone's always mad and angry at power and this and that, and it's like, imagine there would be no show if Braiden and Treek. Oh wow, we just sold a million dollars worth of dope. Nothing bad happened. Let's go to Miami, there'd be no TV show. Of course, when you're driving there, you gotta get a flat tire and then a CoP's gonna pull you over and then someone hits you. But really the cop is dirty. That's what makes the show so like people get so mad at it. I'm like, if you wanted it to go the way you wanted it to go, there would be no TV show. There'd be no beef with Monet, Ghosts would still be selling drugs, like, there'd be no issues.

00:39:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it was a point where we wanted to know who was more dangerous Braiden Trek, Yeah, yeah, yeah, because we didn't know what to expect from this guy. Yeah.

00:39:57
Speaker 7: I think more towards the season four when I was and on the drugs, which I liked. I liked when Braiden was on the drugs because it was and the show should have continued. But like it was a vehicle to get Braiden to be crazy, because if you saw Braiden season six, he was a lacrosse player. He was he was this like nice little kid who maybe took a couple of pills. You're gonna say in a year and a half, he's murdering people and it doesn't make sense. So the writers were like.

00:40:23
Speaker 1: Start turning you out, Like, let's turn him out, give back.

00:40:26
Speaker 7: That's kind of it was kind of like a vehicle which the writers did to like make Braiden go crazy and really turn him into what he turned into. Now season five, he would have been fucking nuts, which I would have loved to see if they had different plans.

00:40:38
Speaker 6: You know, definitely it was must see TV. Any show that makes me want to run home to go see it. It makes me feel like the yod the Sopranos or shows that we talk about. That's why we always want to know what you're doing next. You know what's going on next, what's what's the plans.

00:40:55
Speaker 7: I definitely like the next thing. I want to do another show. I want to do another show. I like movies, but like you go do a movie for two months and then you don't really create like a family, you know, you just shoot a movie for two months. I do haven't seen not one crew member from that movie Trust that I did the year ago. So I'm like like I'm family with like the Power crew, So I want to go do another TV show. Do it for a couple of years, and then then I start picking my movies. That's really the See, people.

00:41:22
Speaker 1: Don't know that we all feel like the whole pot.

00:41:24
Speaker 2: I'm it was one time people thought you and Joseph didn't like each other. Yea, why people thought that? Or did y'all not like each other? I was really didn't like each other. That that was real. That beef was real.

00:41:38
Speaker 7: I had like show beef now that the ship that happened that was on stage which everyone saw and we squashed it and you know it is what it is now, But like, yeah, that was that was real and it was just like a miscommunication that snowballed into something and then obviously like it got squashed. But yeah, that was real. That that wasn't for the everything everyone had. People thought it was real. Half people thought it was fake. But like that wasn't for like the cameras or anything. But I stood on business. He stood on business, and that was it and we and we squashed it.

00:42:05
Speaker 1: They's still on business. They still on from now. We all.

00:42:10
Speaker 7: But family. Even have you known this fucking guy right here I'm curious about about the dynamic of the podcast, like who's who's coming in late, who's doing what running the show?

00:42:29
Speaker 1: You see who runs the show? Look at that, you can see who running.

00:42:34
Speaker 7: I just dropped the bomb and I'm gonna take the mic.

00:42:37
Speaker 1: Trust me.

00:42:38
Speaker 5: I went to YouTube. You've seen how hard I was working bladyr Show, Breakfast Club and Shark Kill Tony.

00:42:46
Speaker 7: I will say, your numbers are fucking nuts, Like nobody gets so YouTube numbers.

00:42:52
Speaker 6: It was laughing at laughing at me on the jet when I was talking about YouTube. Black man, get out of here. He's doing the whole world. Everybody followed the Yale blueprint, flat Breakfast Club, TMZ, it's the Yale blueprint.

00:43:09
Speaker 5: It's cool, But I stay humble, you know what I'm saying.

00:43:13
Speaker 1: He wanted to say, it's the YAlO Blueprint.

00:43:15
Speaker 7: I stay, but I gotta give you a flowersh You were doing all of it before anyone was doing it. You were going viral. You were doing it like it really is.

00:43:24
Speaker 6: And I appreciate all the people out there that support me, support this guy, support Uncle Murdon.

00:43:29
Speaker 5: When he was laughing at me, I love you guys. I love that y'all like subscribe.

00:43:34
Speaker 6: Matter of fact, we're gonna start doing We're gonna start doing giveaways on the show. That's something me and Murder thought about. Next week we pick out the subscribers. We got some nice gifts for y'all coming, and no other show is doing that. This is what we do because we got fifty cent, We got you, we got the whole power staff. You know, we're gonna get all the actors.

00:43:57
Speaker 7: What's that for you guys? You guys gotta tour. You guys dropping your music with what's are you guys?

00:44:02
Speaker 5: Right now? We just we're parling tours. I mean, he got something.

00:44:05
Speaker 2: I'm about to drop some new music at the Empire. I just did a new deal with them, so I'm definitely about to drop some of new music. I got a project on the way so that I'm about to suck.

00:44:13
Speaker 1: The streets up right quick.

00:44:14
Speaker 5: You never you never know what's gonna happen.

00:44:16
Speaker 6: Like we're fifty, you know, we had lived Fountain Blue in Vegas.

00:44:21
Speaker 7: Now, well he's beefing with people on Instagram. Are you waking up like like fucking picking your eyes being like, oh find out I gotta beef this guy, Like what's going through.

00:44:30
Speaker 5: This is what I tell fifty. I say, fifty, you got so much money.

00:44:33
Speaker 6: All our way here is blah blah blah, one hundred mil blah blah blah. You know, he wakes up blah blah blah, one hundred mil with the plan in Hollywood thing blah blah blah. He gives a half a mil away in street port to you know, domestic violences.

00:44:48
Speaker 5: So we're on the phone. He's laughing. I'm like, I told him.

00:44:51
Speaker 1: He don't take it. So to him.

00:44:53
Speaker 2: If he ain't taken the serious, we can't. We're gonna take it serious. Like, yeah, he's just having fun with this ship.

00:44:58
Speaker 6: But I told listen, this is what I know him better than anybody, right, Yeah, And I feel like this, And I hope you don't get mad that I say serious. No, I'm gonna say it. Fifth is already crazy. But I feel like when his grandfather passed away, I feel like he got even more crazy. Like when he was at the funeral, I know, like all he had was his grandmother and his grandfather, So I know when he put his grandfather in the ground, I say, I see you, everybody better watch out, even me and murder. Yeah, better watch out.

00:45:29
Speaker 5: You know he foore you on Christmas.

00:45:31
Speaker 1: You know this god, this god crazy to make.

00:45:35
Speaker 5: Sure you know you on set. But if you do do and you know, and.

00:45:40
Speaker 6: Talk about your experience with Fifty, because if you're coming to set and you're doing what you gotta do, he's gonna respect you because that's what we see him.

00:45:47
Speaker 5: Do you know what I'm saying.

00:45:48
Speaker 7: I guess me and Fifty just like I guess when I just started like kicking it with him and coming to shows, and like he called me one time when he called me last year, like because sometimes you don't know. Oh, You're like, I think he likes me. I think he loves me, Like he's always bringing out you don't even I don't really.

00:46:05
Speaker 5: Know, trying to figure it out.

00:46:06
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, you're thirty years in. You're like, I still.

00:46:10
Speaker 5: Don't I'm trying to figure it out.

00:46:13
Speaker 7: He called me when we were talking about the fight Land stuff and and he it was like one of the best phone calls I've I've ever had because he called me He's like, I really fuck with you, Like you know what you're doing, you know how to move, you know how to post on social media? You know how to be you, but also make people attracted to the show and draw people in, and you and Mike are going to hosting together and going outside. He's like a lot of the other actors on Power, they don't do that. So you cast someone because you're just casting someone you don't know if they're gonna be comfortable going in New Orleans or I'm flying a Poland and pulling up on you guys. Like fact, there's probably an amount of actors on one hand you can have that would fly to Poland dola to pull up on five. Now, I had a Poland five ship out there that I was going to visit. But I like to pull up on five, Like what other twenty five year old white actor from Vermont is pulling up and doing that?

00:47:09
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

00:47:12
Speaker 7: So I think that's why me and Yeah, I think that's why me and five like have such a good relationship, is because he knows that I get it and I know, like, that's the ship you gotta do, you know what I mean. I'll pull up to Vegas. I'll be outside with Chris Lofton like I'll go to the ship that you need to go to to create hype for the show and do what needs to be done. So he called me and he and he expressed all that to me, and that's when the first time I was like, okay, yeah, like because sometimes you don't know, like you know, you it's just you hit him.

00:47:44
Speaker 1: Like yeah, you know. The energy is different when he's.

00:47:50
Speaker 6: How do you How do y'all deal with that? Because I done been in clubs and people be like, Braden want to shoot you? Like people when people take the character a little too far, like when to the club, brocause people really be stuck on the character.

00:48:03
Speaker 7: Five years before that, I was sleeping on a pop fucking air mattress with no bread, no motion, hustling every day, wearing the same clothes, going to acting class. My socks were so dirty. I come home and I take my shoes off and my shit would be all dirty on the floor of my apartment in La, my shitty apartment. Call me Braiden. As much as you want, I'll take it. I'll take every fucking picture you want me to take. I'll be at the fucking club like I'm not too cool for anyone because I know where I came from. Like, so if someone's gonna pay money to watch Power. They're paying their fucking ten ninety nine on stars to watch the show. They're following me on Instagram, they're commenting on my shit, like that's someone that's a fan of you and supporting you, like I never understood, and no shade to like fucking meeting them, but like I never understood, like the man don't touch me in the club. It's like without this person, who the fuck would you even be? So I feel that because I'm like I was hungry and wanted to be an actor and I've I've done everything that I've ever wanted to do because of these people that love the show. So it's like I'm not going to be too cool for them. I don't think I'm better than anyone else because I'm an actor of people know who I am. I just get to laugh every day and like my Monday night is doing the fucking Real Report with Murder and Tony Yo, Like what's who else is? You know what I mean? I just like love doing it. I'm like it's going to continue because that's the attitude that I have, and a lot of people don't continue because their dickheads on set or then directors and producers. They know that and they don't want to work with people like that.

00:49:27
Speaker 5: It's all relationships, Yeah, definitely, And I know, but you know when everything happened so fast for y'all. Yeah, like when I've seen it, like we Michael Rainey was kind of different because he kind of was a kid on the show. Was he seven years old? Eight? Yeah?

00:49:40
Speaker 3: He was.

00:49:40
Speaker 7: I think he was around ten ten?

00:49:43
Speaker 5: So what so eight years? What was it? What was Yeah? He did.

00:49:46
Speaker 7: He's twenty four now, so he did probably, Yeah, the four thirteen years on the show. Twelve years in the show, ten years, I remembered. So I was when it aired because we took a break for the pandemic. When it aired, I was staying at this direct of mos Spot. I was staying at his spot in East Village, and I would walk to Equinox the gym to work out on my days off. I would when I before the show aired, like I had done a couple episodes in the original Power, but like you do two three episodes, people don't really notice you. When Ghost aired, after that second episode, when I was like in it more bro, I couldn't walk down the street. It happened in two weeks. It happened in two weeks the week before I was on the I would call, I call my mom, or I call like family or my friends, Like walk into the gym and I have my headphones in. I just walked to the gym down whatever street. It was two weeks later, braid, braid, brad every five seconds. I couldn't walk to the gym anymore. Even my mom would be like, are people like people? Can I stop asking you for picks? And it like it happened so fast, like and I just did that Giant movie without Tavi Spencer, And I don't know, I've never gotten recognized from that, like the second power happened, like it all changed out.

00:50:57
Speaker 5: How do you stay humble?

00:50:57
Speaker 2: Now?

00:50:58
Speaker 5: People see you in the street. You got beautiful women. You know, I've seen you in London. You know you're like beautiful black women, like occasion, you like the Spanish, like all kinds of women. So how do you keep yourself leveled? In the jury in the cars?

00:51:09
Speaker 7: And but but like but what does that even mean? Like what do you mean like stay.

00:51:14
Speaker 5: Like how do you keep yourself humble? Like?

00:51:16
Speaker 7: But but I don't know that. I don't think there's like a non humble to life. Like I feel like I'm just I. I just don't see the change, Like I don't see or faking it or it just doesn't It doesn't compute to me. Of like why you all of a sudden are getting recognized that you just turn into a decade different person. Yeah, like it never it doesn't make sense to me. So that's why I'm like, Oh, I don't know. I'm just like being myself, Like most of these actors are not being themselves.

00:51:40
Speaker 6: All right, let me give you an example. That's like y'all went to the club, right, you're drinking. Shout to the Branson boys. You're drinking the Branton Know how that have you?

00:51:48
Speaker 7: I like you.

00:51:53
Speaker 6: And the Branson You know the wild nights, Branson Knights, Wow nights. Now you gotta be on set six and morning. Yeah, I don't know if me and Murdery think you could do that. I mean, the Branton on a wild night six in the morning. How do you do that? If the Branton and drinking and then you gotta be on set six in the morning.

00:52:12
Speaker 5: You got fucked up last night, you had a chick in your bed, you had a wild night.

00:52:16
Speaker 7: You want you want to know what what gets me to do is that ten point eight million people are gonna see what I'm about to do. The next day, ten point eight million people are gonna watch what I'm about to do. So it's really on me. Do I want to look like I've been look like shit and be drinking all night and have a bloated face and do this and do that, or do I want ten point eight million people to be like, damn, he was fucking funny and he was sharp and he knew what he was doing. So it's I don't know, it's kind of like up to you. There are a lot of actors that show up to set and fuck off and they don't work again because they're just like, well it showed in the scene, like people watch the show, but other people that are doing other shows watch power. So if they're gonna be like, I don't think he's a good actor, you just fucked yourself that ten point eight million people saw it because you wanted to hook up with a girl one night that you could hook up with on Saturday.

00:53:04
Speaker 1: You know.

00:53:05
Speaker 5: Wow.

00:53:06
Speaker 6: Discipline, Yeah, this discipline because you got to think about tell him how you remember your lines?

00:53:10
Speaker 5: That's one question. Yeah, And how many fucking takes you how to do doing doing.

00:53:16
Speaker 7: A lot of people memorize lines different, like Michael Rainey will just legitimately look at the page. He's got a very photographic memory, so he'll look at it and he'll go, yeah, I got it, and then I'll have like a whole paragraph. I'm like, what the fuck. Yeah, that's crazy. I wish I had that.

00:53:30
Speaker 2: He can't do that and him. We went to acting class not to cut you off, shut shut up, set up every job. We were shout shout out the shout out. These guys I did that. I looked at I was nice.

00:53:50
Speaker 1: I was not.

00:53:54
Speaker 2: Nice. Shout after Bruce Willis set out the weather. I looked at that it.

00:54:00
Speaker 1: This guy could not do it. He he could not come alone.

00:54:03
Speaker 7: People have different like me. I would FaceTime my little brother at night, like even if it's like two am, I'm like, wake up, like, motherfucker, we got to do this and I have to hear it.

00:54:13
Speaker 5: I have to.

00:54:14
Speaker 7: I have to hear it every time, like in my bread before I go to bed, because I can't do it the day off. You got to sleep with that in your brain. So I have to hear it now Michael very photographic memory. I just run it back and forth. I just run it back and forth, and okay what I won't move on to the next line until I have the fully the whole one memorized.

00:54:31
Speaker 6: When you let me tell you, when you do a movie right like Murder, and you get out, you get out there, you get.

00:54:39
Speaker 5: The big man, you get the it's not count get the fu.

00:54:50
Speaker 1: You in his movie.

00:54:53
Speaker 5: Look in this movie he god shot. He was looking like a cop.

00:55:00
Speaker 1: You know I was. I was senting to me. I was protecting your money.

00:55:04
Speaker 5: I played against it and swat to that.

00:55:06
Speaker 2: Nobody nobody got to fix that.

00:55:10
Speaker 1: You gotta exactly look, nobody, nobody. I was good.

00:55:15
Speaker 2: That's like shots too that nobody saw mother had a shot to. Nobody ever focused on shotters too, And that's like this scarface to you.

00:55:21
Speaker 1: Just asked him what movie he wanted to be in, right, said that's that's killed me time.

00:55:29
Speaker 5: Listen. Just want not understanding right, what I'm saying to him is my part that y'all didn't see that.

00:55:37
Speaker 1: He's not get me mad at.

00:55:42
Speaker 2: Right. We didn't see his movie either, though they saw. I haven't seen it Onweelers. It was on Netflix in the movie theater. We was number three on this.

00:55:51
Speaker 6: Look, I haven't seen it on Netflix on TV, and you know you always going to be to be. I think you might have made I haven't seen it on you. He had a bank bag and got shot like it was.

00:56:04
Speaker 7: I had a guard. No small parts, only small actid.

00:56:09
Speaker 5: Listen, that's a small part, he listen. I had I had a line.

00:56:14
Speaker 6: Look, I had lines, right, I had lines I had. I had to practice because I got shot in the head. Right, No want to off myself.

00:56:22
Speaker 5: I got shot in the head. Right. I had an actual hostage. That was Benni Boom's wife.

00:56:27
Speaker 1: You definitely.

00:56:30
Speaker 6: She was Benny Boom's wife. She was a hostage. It's gonna come out now because I'm so look I had and Benny Booms like, yo, that small wife. You gotta be careful with blanks. You know his gun was in the host He ain't do no action. Nothing happened like I'm falling. I was probably I'm like, I know, I'm a better accident ripping on my hand.

00:56:50
Speaker 7: And then did you find it harder?

00:56:52
Speaker 1: Now?

00:56:53
Speaker 5: Did you?

00:56:54
Speaker 7: Did you enjoy?

00:56:54
Speaker 1: It?

00:56:55
Speaker 5: Pours for both of those, but.

00:57:00
Speaker 7: You gotta say you on your back and that.

00:57:05
Speaker 1: Look.

00:57:06
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying is he did nothing. He took a bag and got this shot. I had squid packs on the top of my head.

00:57:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, how long?

00:57:17
Speaker 1: How long was you want to say?

00:57:18
Speaker 7: He said, I did stunt the story, but I glasting you in the face when you're on your back.

00:57:25
Speaker 1: But I did my movie with Bruce Willis. I had to get out, like I didn't do anything.

00:57:29
Speaker 5: I wanted the bank.

00:57:30
Speaker 1: He went to Cincinnati, you know that. And I was on set for like a shot.

00:57:34
Speaker 5: It was a real movie. It was. I was on set.

00:57:36
Speaker 1: It was a will I know you wasn't.

00:57:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I had to assistance that fifth had me lift out there and all that.

00:57:42
Speaker 1: Yo, bro, I was on him in the movie because you know he can't act. I'm just being honest with you. That's what I play.

00:57:49
Speaker 9: For.

00:57:50
Speaker 5: If you ever see that movie, I played good.

00:57:52
Speaker 1: You know.

00:57:53
Speaker 5: You don't even know how to deal with blanks and guns, shooting blanks. That's what I hated the movie. You didn't do anything. You got shot two seconds. You didn't even have We ain't gonna talk about this.

00:58:04
Speaker 1: Give me some paper towel.

00:58:05
Speaker 5: And before he did and before he did money in Valance, shout the money money in vack, don't let my money was the biggest comfort they could comfort me.

00:58:12
Speaker 6: It was one k I'm a kidding. They didn't have the technology back then.

00:58:17
Speaker 2: Shout money at balance was popping. Back then we had it lit. So that's my guys. We had money at Bantacee lit.

00:58:22
Speaker 1: That was popping.

00:58:23
Speaker 5: He was okay in that.

00:58:24
Speaker 1: I was popping in that it was I was. I was popping money.

00:58:28
Speaker 5: I love money and Valance. It was a great show.

00:58:29
Speaker 1: But it shot my little brother lenz we have. I wasn't that right? I sat my little brother. I see that I got fans. Ain't nobody saw you? Remember swat to.

00:58:42
Speaker 7: I didn't know they made a second. And I'm not gonna lie, but the first one was really a good swat.

00:58:45
Speaker 1: The first swat right, sweat was good. So that's not really The one that he wasn't in was good.

00:58:50
Speaker 6: Let me let me explain something to you. If fifty and fifty put me, all you see is put yoyo on the show, Yo on the show. I don't never see nobody say.

00:59:00
Speaker 7: Definitely on the show, did you talk to him a bit about being in power?

00:59:05
Speaker 5: I don't even worry about it because I got other things coming. You know, I got big things coming. Murder. Don't even know what's going on.

00:59:15
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell me that, you.

00:59:17
Speaker 5: Know, I'm just staying humble.

00:59:18
Speaker 1: Man.

00:59:19
Speaker 5: So so what's next? What what do you? What do you want to do? What's the goal? I see you in the gym, I'll see you working out, I see you staying healthy.

00:59:26
Speaker 7: You know it's movie star time, you know. No, I uh, I want to do like someone's career who I fucking love is Bradley Cooper's Like he did, he did Hangover, he did like a one of the most iconic comedy movies of all time. And then he just started doing like you know, Silver Linings Playbook. He just started picking the right movies, I mean, limitless and he just not like he's someone's career that I like, really fucking love. So like that's like my blueprint. Like he started on the show for a while too, I think it went four or five seasons and then he kind of bounced around and then he found his footing. Like that's like my goal was like Bradley Cooper, and if I that's it, Like that's that's the bar for me.

01:00:08
Speaker 5: Like I can't.

01:00:09
Speaker 7: I'm not going anything lower than that.

01:00:10
Speaker 5: How do you how do you feel about like would you would you be happy to do like franchise movies?

01:00:15
Speaker 7: Of course I don't know why. Like I mean, I guess like people kind of can get stuck in something. But like even like you look at Robert Pattinson, you know who that is. He's the kid from Twilight. He played played the vampire Twilight. Oh, I mean yeah, he like played a corny vampire and I like those movies. But like he played a corny vampire for five movies and and people were like, he's gonna get tight. The guy is he's Batman. Now he's the new Batman. The guy he's doing cool ass a twenty four Safsy Brothers movies. He's doing whatever the fuck he wants to do. So like, please bring me the franchise movie, because the franchise movie is gonna get you the movies that you actually want to do. Because once you're associated with the Marvel, you know, with the superhero movie, then your name care enough to greenlight that script that you fucking love, you know what I mean? That that five to ten million dollars script that you're like this is a story I want to fucking tell. So go do the the superhero movies, make the big money, get super famous, get the Instagram following. So then when you want to do this a twenty four project, you have enough clout in your name to just get investors to go. Yes, you know what I mean. That's why I don't ever turned down. I'm not gonna say no to a franchise.

01:01:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, what'd you feel is the biggest franchise movie to you.

01:01:28
Speaker 7: That I would do?

01:01:29
Speaker 5: Or just in general all you would do both?

01:01:33
Speaker 7: I mean a dream like everyone said, but like dream role would be Joker. Now I don't want to like go as far he is, like, like that's my favorite performance ever, so I like even me being like fuck, like I would have to compete with that is still like that's daunting for me, But it would it would probably be Joker, or like even maybe Batman, like the Batman franchise I think is the biggest. Batman and Spider Man, like those are the two biggest. Now, like you could go to like uh, Fast and Furious, but like internationally those just don't do the numbers that Batman and Spider Man will always do because of the comic books.

01:02:08
Speaker 1: You know, I think big fan. Yeah, that was, I think that was. Yeah.

01:02:13
Speaker 6: There's a lot of franchise movies like you just named Fast and Furious Harry Potter.

01:02:18
Speaker 7: But a lot of that acting kind of like sucks. Not and I don't mean the actor suck. I mean it sucks going to set and like Fast and Furious is probably a lot of fun because there's a lot of driving ship like that, but a lot of the Spider Man ship and the it's a lot of CGI now, so you're like it's a dead quiet and you're it's a lot of fake ship, so you're not really having to pour any or do any effort into that stuff. That's what what might be challenging for me. But like some of the best actors say, like I get paid to wait, I get paid to do you know, I act for free because I love it, But I get paid to do the dumb ship. That's where these big checks are making me be like, all right, I'm not gonna acknowledge the fact that I'm doing a fake spider out of my ear, you know what I mean?

01:02:59
Speaker 5: You feel like the AI movie AI is making movies better.

01:03:02
Speaker 7: No, No, yeah, I don't think do you feel AI is making movies?

01:03:07
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why not?

01:03:09
Speaker 7: I don't think they are.

01:03:11
Speaker 2: Oh you're feeling AI with it, like you feel like it's fucking up the acting game a little bit.

01:03:15
Speaker 1: I don't.

01:03:16
Speaker 7: I don't think AI will ever replace an actor because someone at home wants to wants to see an actor. People go to the movies because fucking Zendaya.

01:03:25
Speaker 1: Isn't it.

01:03:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I'm not saying the actor. I'm saying just the AI technology. Like he said, the actor is just doing this like DiCaprio when he fought the big What movie was with DiCaprio with the bid? Yeah, when he fought the bid that was AI.

01:03:38
Speaker 7: Yeah that shit looked realll Okay, I get what you're saying.

01:03:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not saying you.

01:03:42
Speaker 7: He was talking about like the AI vertical Yeah of course, Oh it's killing it. Yeah, I mean like certain AI like that technology is like you need it, and it actually helps movies because you can make them for cheaper, so people can get their projects greenlight, like without having a sixty million dollar budge. You're like, oh, we could AI this end. Maybe this budget goes down to like twenty million, and more stuff can get made now it gets rocky with like what kind of they're trying to replace actors and take away jobs from people. But I just don't think it'll ever do it, because people want to go see fifty in a movie. People want to go see Zendaya or Robert Pattins.

01:04:18
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, j J.

01:04:19
Speaker 6: Definitely we want to see them. I'm not talking about the actors. I'm talking about like, what's the new movie that just came out, hell Mary, Yeah, I saw it. It was it was hot project, hell Mary, Now I'll watch it.

01:04:29
Speaker 5: I watch that?

01:04:30
Speaker 7: Did you love it?

01:04:31
Speaker 5: I loved it?

01:04:32
Speaker 7: Was one of the best movies I've seen theaters.

01:04:33
Speaker 6: You didn't see it, I'm not going to give you too much on it, but it's one of the best movies I've seen in my life. And the graphics was crazy, and and the writing was crazy. Because when you watch alien movies, right, the alien is always somebody evil or something crazy or or going to kill you or something. When you watch aliens, it's usually scary. So the only alien movie that really was like when Alien was Friendly with et yep, So we see e T years ago. So when I seen this, I was like, hell Mary, this is so good. It was and he was fucking unbelieving a friendly alien.

01:05:09
Speaker 5: You used parts of that thing where you you felt it like ship.

01:05:13
Speaker 7: That was amazing. I didn't know what I was getting into when I because I didn't see the trailer.

01:05:16
Speaker 5: I was like, Project Hill Mary, I'll make sure you'll see that. And what's what's the guy who was? It got Russ Ryan?

01:05:21
Speaker 7: Unbelievable.

01:05:22
Speaker 3: It was so good.

01:05:23
Speaker 5: Who's the female actor that was in there? It was? It was great. Man.

01:05:28
Speaker 6: I just watched that one to the movies. Go see that Project Hill Mary. That's what I'm talking about. And that's what I'm saying.

01:05:33
Speaker 5: AI like just how yeah, I get what you mean.

01:05:36
Speaker 1: Yeah that So because I didn't see that, we don't want to. It had a lot of AI And of.

01:05:41
Speaker 7: Course yeah, there's a robot in the movie that he talks to pretty much the whole second and third act, so like he yeah, okay, And.

01:05:51
Speaker 6: You know, I'm into like a older SpaceX stuff, like you know, because think about it, like the way future like technology is going now, like they're trying to make SpaceX just trying to get you know, a station on Mars, you know what I mean, just thinking about that like in the next ten years, when you know people are like living on Mars that like, I just want to be around to.

01:06:11
Speaker 5: See something like that. That's crazy, man, Do you really really think about it? You know what I'm saying, I.

01:06:15
Speaker 7: Like Earth too much. I think I think I like you like the bitches on Earth too much to go to Mars.

01:06:22
Speaker 5: You imagine, I like Dre.

01:06:25
Speaker 6: All I'm saying is imagine you're taking one of your girls, taking one of your girls to Mars.

01:06:30
Speaker 5: That's the ultimate trip.

01:06:34
Speaker 7: It's so crazy. You're like, I'm taking a batty to Mars this weekend with you. That's actually fucking hilarious.

01:06:39
Speaker 5: You gotta think about it.

01:06:40
Speaker 6: Where technology is going, man, I'm like, that's why I kind of liked it because I was like, and just the whole fact, you know, people, you know alien concept, and it was just the last friendly alien movie. Like I said, we've seen was ET. Come on ET, everybody love ET.

01:06:54
Speaker 7: Where's your favorite place to go when you do travel because you travel a lot?

01:06:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I love the cool we've been ever man.

01:07:00
Speaker 7: That's why I'm like curious, like you've fucking seen every place.

01:07:03
Speaker 6: So I always tell people start off with Paris, Amsterdam, and I would say Dubai.

01:07:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, and for three different reasons. He can't smoke in Dubai, so you be tight. But it got that and then you do like ten years over that joint and it's saying, you know, so we got Dubai. But I love Dubai. Men made beaches, the buildings, the vibe, everything about here.

01:07:29
Speaker 7: Where do you like going?

01:07:30
Speaker 2: I like I like Dubai too because of like the he said, like the man made infrastructure all how they got that set up. I like Australia a lot. I like Australia is dope, man. I like Australia. I like London. I like Paris too.

01:07:42
Speaker 7: Yeah, London's always we have love.

01:07:44
Speaker 1: London is always a good time.

01:07:45
Speaker 5: So London got the making food. You could go.

01:07:50
Speaker 7: Did you did you go to that spot?

01:07:52
Speaker 5: No? I didn't go. I gotta go next time. They got good African food or anything. Just London.

01:07:58
Speaker 6: London feels like New York without the guns, just knives in different access for the stab that's the only thing. But I love I love travel, man, you know that. I think that's the best thing about it. The best is meeting the people. Like when you say you meet all these people like to me, like being an actor, Like what would you rather be, honestly an actor or a wrapper?

01:08:20
Speaker 2: Mark me, I would really have to say, I can't knock my paths. I would say rapper, but I want to get into acting. I wouldn't eventually get into acting, but I love the music.

01:08:31
Speaker 5: All that I have to be an actor.

01:08:33
Speaker 7: But I think they both have their pros and cons. Obviously, you guys live like a faster, more fun and lit kind of life. Like think about it. You're only seeing like me and Michael and people who are on power ninety nine point nine percent of actors, that does not happen. They're going to their their show whatever Amazon Prime or Netflix or show that they're on there with a bunch of married cast members that are very proper there and and honestly dickheads sometimes and they grew up doing theater and and it's and it's this big thing, and then all of a sudden, everyone goes home to their own thing and you're on set and somewhere, and you got to go back to your hotel room like you don't have it's not lit with fifty and murder. You're not going to the clubs like if you were to just be an actor. The only reason it looks cool to you is because you see power, which is sick, and no other actors live like we do. But that's the only reason why you're like, I would rather be an actor. Green light gain right now, go do a movie in fucking Australia or wherever, and you're there for six months, and I'm telling you he's gonna be like, I want to go back to being a rapper. I promise you. It's like it's not as lit out of the power universe.

01:09:45
Speaker 1: No.

01:09:45
Speaker 5: I like being old.

01:09:48
Speaker 2: I like big budgets. I like because I was when I was big budgets Like damn. Luckily I had to connect to get some bud out there. Other than that, it was boring, like some set. I'm just in my hotel room waiting for them to want me back the next day to do the same motion.

01:10:02
Speaker 5: It was like, damn, we was in Detroit. They was beefing about coming to the store.

01:10:05
Speaker 1: Now you boom, wasn't It was different. I'm talking about this.

01:10:10
Speaker 2: The professional ship that me and him talking about is different, like real, like, yeah, Bruce Willing, the professional set, I know what you got shot the baby boom hood ship. He talking about He just said they was at the Grosserman store. Of course you probably in the corner.

01:10:24
Speaker 5: It was a big corner at the grocer.

01:10:28
Speaker 1: Killing.

01:10:31
Speaker 2: But I haven't seen this movie either, for real. I'm just, what's the dame of your movie? What's the reprisal?

01:10:37
Speaker 5: Reprisal?

01:10:38
Speaker 2: Somebody let you know, Brice Willis, I haven't seen it on your murders. Yall could google it. My set was on Netflix. Mo in the movie theater swat To. You probably can't even google swat To. Yeah, I actually went to the movie. I actually went to the movie, watched that ship. I was pumped up, like I'm in the movie with Bruce Willis.

01:10:59
Speaker 1: You got mister dog.

01:11:02
Speaker 6: That supposed to be a swat one mother. He was what Bruce Willis, come on legend?

01:11:12
Speaker 7: I will say. It is like being an actor as opposed to that is like I'll get to go somewhere and I'll get to live there for like like if I go shoot a movie in Ireland or Italy, you get to live there for two months and like you're not staying at the hotel. They're getting you a house and you're and you're walking up the street and you're getting you know, getting your car or whatever, and you're living there like you're from them. From there, you guys are in and out in a day. So I think that's kind of the.

01:11:35
Speaker 6: Thing for me is I'm a movie guy, and Murder knows this. He knows I'm a head love his movie. I'm a movie guy from like back in the days. Like I'll say people, I'll be like, what movie Richard Pryor was in? I always asked Mike and they nobody know that. I'd be like Superman three to me, that was just breakout movie because Superman back.

01:11:53
Speaker 5: In the days.

01:11:53
Speaker 1: Come on.

01:11:54
Speaker 6: Because to me, TV back then, like it's more classical than kind of now, like I'm not seeing in classic movies or TV now.

01:12:02
Speaker 5: But The Godfather, though, Scarface.

01:12:06
Speaker 6: The list goes on the type of look. He laughed at me because I love Uncle Buck. That's one of my favorite.

01:12:11
Speaker 7: We had this conversation on my podcast, the Crew Has It Hit podcast, me and Mi Granny Junior. We had this conversation and you were saying that there weren't as many hits, but like you, there are. There are hits now, but like I get what you mean, they're classics to maybe you because you grew up in them. But like you think about like a Wolf of Wall Street or like, I don't know many movies that are as good as Wolf of Wall Street.

01:12:34
Speaker 2: And that's and that's a classic to some of the young boys. Now and he right, that's like my ship. You can't tell him nothing, okay, okay, but some movies can never be done.

01:12:43
Speaker 5: Like you laughed at me about Scarface too, and.

01:12:45
Speaker 1: My Uncle Buck about Uncle.

01:12:48
Speaker 3: Up?

01:12:49
Speaker 2: Hold up, because my nigga was And a few people from the hood did say that your mark, how you don't know about Uncle Buck. But there's some people told me like, now, uncle Buck wasn't like it wasn't but they said it wasn't a home alone, right, but but but there wasn't a home alone. That the home alone, It wasn't alone. You kid, could hear Uncle Bunk, You're come along. Just McCauley culkin was in it. That's it, and Uncle Buck came first.

01:13:08
Speaker 1: I'm a movie god. He loved Uncle Bucks.

01:13:10
Speaker 7: You can say anything about my family, but uncle but.

01:13:14
Speaker 1: Uncle Bucky.

01:13:15
Speaker 5: I'm watching it.

01:13:16
Speaker 6: I'm watching movies before I was born, meaning like my favorite Seawing Pinn movie, It's bad Boy.

01:13:22
Speaker 1: He said he was watching movies before he was No, I'm.

01:13:24
Speaker 5: Watching movies that was out before I was born.

01:13:26
Speaker 1: You know, That's what I know before he was born.

01:13:28
Speaker 5: You know before I was born.

01:13:29
Speaker 6: How you was watching movies before you was know what I'm telling You're not listening to what I'm saying. I watched my buck. He's not listening to listen etiquette. I said, I'm watching movies that was out before I was born.

01:13:42
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, okay, you.

01:13:47
Speaker 5: Know what I mean. We can rewind the tape. Wind to tape.

01:13:50
Speaker 7: I said, I watched movies been higher and not smoked in my life.

01:13:53
Speaker 5: But that's who you listen. You know, this guy got no show him on a salad for.

01:14:02
Speaker 1: My brother.

01:14:03
Speaker 5: Look, this is what I'm ting. I like you, I like you.

01:14:08
Speaker 1: Know yo.

01:14:10
Speaker 6: Look, so what I'm saying to him is like my favorite Sean Penn movie. You probably you ain't probably watch It's Bad Boy.

01:14:16
Speaker 7: I've not seen him.

01:14:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta watch that one. When he's in jail.

01:14:20
Speaker 1: It's old school.

01:14:21
Speaker 5: He run over this gang members little brother. He you know what I mean. These two dudes is wilding in the house doing extra stuff, and he get the cans because one scene could make it for me. You know, I'm a TV guy, Michael Knight back in the days, the eighteen Just to me, that was.

01:14:37
Speaker 6: Classic today Karate Karate on Sundays, Bruce Lee, you know, look at Wu Tang like you know, all at the Five dely Venoms, Wu Tang.

01:14:46
Speaker 5: All that comes from like our era. So it was just classic TV.

01:14:50
Speaker 6: Like my favorite movie, the mac Richard probably was in that. That's one of my favorite actors Richard probably, Yeah.

01:14:57
Speaker 7: I don't know. I just think that there's there's under of movies at both times. I don't think a time is better, like people could be biased better than you think about, Like like even the comedies stand up for your time. You would get Hangover, Hangover is the best comedy movie ever made, Hangover in Tropic Thunder. You'll never beat those, no comedy movies. What comedy movie back then is beating that? Name one movie that's funnier than Tropic Thunder or Hangover.

01:15:20
Speaker 1: I may Hangover it was I never I don't even know what the Tropical Thunder is.

01:15:24
Speaker 7: You never see Tropic Thunder. No, it's it's one of the greatest comedies.

01:15:28
Speaker 1: Miss the movie man.

01:15:30
Speaker 6: No, I'm because because you know, because What was the movie with Dave Chappelle. Take Men of Sampson?

01:15:36
Speaker 5: What was that?

01:15:36
Speaker 7: How High or Blue Streak? No, Dave, Bad, half Baked.

01:15:41
Speaker 6: Half Big is better than that ship bro. Take minute Sampson when they had the we did that. That's a classic for me, Dave, I don't think. I don't think coming to America, there's there's so many classics that are better than the eighties than now.

01:15:53
Speaker 5: You're bugging.

01:15:53
Speaker 6: There's not gonna be another scarf face. There's not going to be another Boys in the Hood, not a mini society. What he called he's still called Mayor Tate, fucking old dog, your old dog?

01:16:04
Speaker 9: What up?

01:16:06
Speaker 1: Mayor Tate? He called?

01:16:08
Speaker 9: You said, who the fucking may it Tate? No, Count Mean Tate said, man for power. Yeah, I know the range tape.

01:16:18
Speaker 1: Motherfucker, you said Calciman Tate.

01:16:21
Speaker 5: Because we're talking about the show that he's on.

01:16:25
Speaker 6: I said, man, he said, you had too much dog, brother, count Mean Tate he called him because we you know, you know, shasty, you know what I mean? I know his name is Lorange t Yeah, because he had Countman, he's at dinner calling him your old dog, your old still thirty did Society came out how many years ago.

01:16:49
Speaker 1: Called my my man old dog.

01:16:51
Speaker 6: How many years thirty four, thirty years ago, he's still calling them old dog.

01:16:56
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.

01:16:58
Speaker 6: All up to me, all movies are just more classical scarface. I watched a thousand times and like good Fellas, the list goes on and on. Now I'm not saying Wolf of the Wall Street ain't good, but there's a lot of wolf washing the classic classic, this new classics. I'm just saying this more classics.

01:17:16
Speaker 7: It seem like I think in thirty years you'll call these movies now classics and people will be like, oh, like, people will be calling you know, it's someone from Twilight. They'll be calling Robert Pattinson Edward in thirty years like it's all relative to the time.

01:17:30
Speaker 5: I think, bro, bro, let me explain something to you.

01:17:32
Speaker 1: I agree with you.

01:17:33
Speaker 5: Let me explain something to you. First Blood Rainbow. Come on, bro, I ain't making ship like that. It might not just you never watched the First First Blood.

01:17:46
Speaker 7: You just said Project Hail Mary was one of the best movies you've ever seen. It came out, it was it was dope. No, that was dope, but hell No, that was dope. One of the best movies you've seen, Interstellar, but they've never made the only.

01:18:00
Speaker 6: Reason, the only reason why I liked it because what they took something from the eight It was the first Friendly, the second second Friendly Alien movie.

01:18:10
Speaker 7: But it's way better than ET is and you're bugging I'm not gonna say it's way better graphically wise, but E T.

01:18:16
Speaker 5: E T is a classic.

01:18:17
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna say that it's good, but it's not.

01:18:20
Speaker 6: Look, I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna say project hell Mary. The graphics like when he was shooting one K and Money in Balance to.

01:18:27
Speaker 1: That, you know what I mean, all my money at bad niggas. When I see this nigga, he'd be trying to sit on that talking.

01:18:33
Speaker 5: About what you're saying.

01:18:35
Speaker 1: We made history, so something history. So what you're saying, like I said, so, I.

01:18:39
Speaker 5: Didn't say that.

01:18:41
Speaker 1: It was in one K.

01:18:42
Speaker 5: It was one K.

01:18:43
Speaker 1: It did cool.

01:18:44
Speaker 6: Then the dudes had to fall out. The business was fucked up. Old show was fucked up, you know what I mean. Shout out to them. Though I love Money and Balance, but if that's the biggest movie role for him, though, what I'm saying is to hold on, we gonna get up that graphically, Yes, Rojack hil Mary is.

01:19:01
Speaker 5: Come on, it's the graphics AI. All the shit is new.

01:19:04
Speaker 6: Of course it looks better, but ET is kind of like almost the format. It was different, but still it was a friendly alien with your man. It was a friendly alien on ET. So every other alien movie, the alien is killing everybody. Come on, bro, I know my movies, but.

01:19:23
Speaker 7: You can't tell me what I don't give you that.

01:19:25
Speaker 1: You know your movies.

01:19:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, when I watch First Blood and stallone is all jacked up and he's cut the fuck up and he's beating motherfuckers in the precinct and you know, he's got the voice, and he getting shot with rocket launches, and to me it was just classic shit. That's another franchise, Rainbow one, two and three, Rest and Piece. Chuck Norris too, That's what I said, legend. Then we go to Bruce Lee. Don't don't, let's not talk about karate. Yes, we go to Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. One of the best fight scenes ever on TV. Do you ever see that movie?

01:19:59
Speaker 5: Yeah? What's the name of that movie?

01:20:01
Speaker 1: Again?

01:20:01
Speaker 6: Because I watched old Bruce Lee ship into the Dragon was the Way of the Dragons, because I always get it mixed up. Now, what's the movie when Bruce Lee fort Kareem Al Doujabal.

01:20:12
Speaker 5: You don't even don't even know. Y'all don't even know that. They don't even know.

01:20:16
Speaker 6: Movies came to death Classic Rest in peace to Bruce Lee. But Chuck Norris passed away. And you know what I've been doing. I've been on t B all day watching because they got like five Chuck ls crazy. It's not on that, it's not on that, it's not on there, it's I haven't I haven't even seen it yet.

01:20:39
Speaker 7: Descreation is that like I only knew who Chuck Norris was growing up because of Dodgeball, because he had that one scene in Dodgeball. And it's sometimes I think sometimes I think of ship like that where I'm like, like at the time, like Steve McQueen was, like, I was thinking there was.

01:20:55
Speaker 5: A movie called Dodgeball one and two. I think, right, I don't think the first Dodgeball with.

01:20:59
Speaker 7: The fun I think I have seen Dodger, one of the greatest comedies of all time.

01:21:03
Speaker 5: But what I'm saying is Chuck Norris, like he got a fight scene with Bruce Lee and they fighting. It's crazy and you know, Chuck Norris was like karate hero, Bruce Lee was karate hero, resting beat both of them legends. But that fight scene, people don't understand how serious that was for movies, like they fight and they fighting. You know, Chuck Norris had to taco meet on the chests. He had the head and Bruce Lee is he get him? What?

01:21:26
Speaker 8: God?

01:21:26
Speaker 6: He grabbed it hair off his chest and then he bloke and like that fight scene when you gotta watch that movie. And then the other movie when he fought Kareem mal dudes jabar oh man, that was like classic.

01:21:41
Speaker 5: Movie.

01:21:43
Speaker 6: I watched all Chuck Norris movies. Man, Like I'm on to be down shout to Netflix too. But you know they took hi about Netflix prices went up, but I let me be.

01:21:53
Speaker 5: That's what they said.

01:21:55
Speaker 7: What shows are you guys watching now that you like you have anything new that to come out.

01:21:58
Speaker 1: In the past?

01:22:00
Speaker 5: What I'm watching?

01:22:01
Speaker 7: I watched you see my Bland Moline.

01:22:04
Speaker 5: I think I think Murder had me watching.

01:22:07
Speaker 1: I'm went for the second season to come out now, man, they come out.

01:22:09
Speaker 7: I would love to be on that show.

01:22:11
Speaker 1: They come out there, right, No, they come out that's its fie.

01:22:15
Speaker 5: What's the what's the movie? What's the thing with interest? So but how.

01:22:19
Speaker 7: I like the first season that I didn't watch the second.

01:22:21
Speaker 1: Second one second one is good too. I watched the second.

01:22:23
Speaker 5: Besides that, I'll just go to be I go old school because they got Rainbow one, two three up there.

01:22:28
Speaker 7: They got all he's just not watching anything new, it's just watching movies from.

01:22:33
Speaker 5: I love it, man, I love it. Chuck Norris passed away, so they got movies up there.

01:22:38
Speaker 6: So I just started watching old Chuck Norris movies and ship like that, you know, because you know it's classic TV for me, not saying in classics now, yeah, but you know classic TV for me.

01:22:48
Speaker 5: What's your schedule? Like what you're doing?

01:22:50
Speaker 7: I'm chilling, bro, We're doing our podcast this week, so we're cool and probably, uh, you know hit Nicks do all that, do the New York ship because I'm only here from it. I live in l A. But yeah, dude, I mean you pulled up on us like I always like, I remember ship like that, like we need we It was December, everyone was everyone was everywhere, and I was like, yay, we need a guest pulled up on us nothing and now you know it's time to return the favor. And you guys are killing it like this isn't This isn't a favor for me to use. This is a favor for me. I'm coming on a podcast.

01:23:21
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01:23:45
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01:23:46
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