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- 0:01Speaker 1: Morning, everybody. It's d j en V Charlamagne the God.
- 0:04Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got our guest host
- 0:06Speaker 1: with us. Yes, indeed, Erica Dutchess she's here, she's joining us.
- 0:09Speaker 1: And we got some special guests in the building.
- 0:17Speaker 2: How you pronounce it hot?
- 0:18Speaker 3: Is it it? I used to struggle with it too.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
- 0:22Speaker 1: But we got the homie Woody mclady he's been here before.
- 0:25Speaker 1: And Lavell Adams great welcome.
- 0:27Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, Kayan Drew from Power Book season two. Man, y'all,
- 0:33Speaker 4: it's funny, right because y'all got to be some of
- 0:35Speaker 4: the most famous people in black coaches at the moment,
- 0:38Speaker 4: you know. Think.
- 0:39Speaker 3: So it's been love, man, Yeah, it's been love. People
- 0:42Speaker 3: come up to you, smack you in the airport. It's crazy.
- 0:44Speaker 2: It's crazy, I know anywhere.
- 0:47Speaker 3: It was in the airport. Lady had a baby, white lady.
- 0:50Speaker 3: She was like, I love what you're doing, appreciate it.
- 0:53Speaker 3: But it just caught me, you know what I mean,
- 0:55Speaker 3: off guard. But yeah, it's been love. That's a lot
- 0:57Speaker 3: of love.
- 0:58Speaker 5: Yeah, I got that in. I think it's smacked. But
- 1:00Speaker 5: this dude stopped me. It was like, bro, I know
- 1:02Speaker 5: you right, like you you've been in Houston. I'm like, listen,
- 1:05Speaker 5: I've never been using my life, so I know I've
- 1:07Speaker 5: never met before, you know, and like it was it
- 1:10Speaker 5: was definitely from the show, but.
- 1:11Speaker 2: You know it was it was funny, like he started
- 1:13Speaker 2: the character you played. Where did he smack you?
- 1:15Speaker 5: It was it was on my arm?
- 1:16Speaker 2: Okay, making sure, I.
- 1:20Speaker 6: Mean because I know what you're trying to bring because
- 1:21Speaker 6: somebody slapped.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Me before you Ah.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Wow, wasn't on the basketball court.
- 1:28Speaker 5: Was on the basketball court.
- 1:30Speaker 1: I was DJing and I just finished my set and
- 1:31Speaker 1: I killed it. Wow, And he spented your mask like fow,
- 1:33Speaker 1: good job guy?
- 1:36Speaker 5: Did it Did it feel like a part of the
- 1:39Speaker 5: moment or was it like, hey, what.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Are you doing?
- 1:40Speaker 6: Like you Paul, it's so uncomfortable?
- 1:42Speaker 2: He said, thank you?
- 1:43Speaker 1: He said comfortable was the club I was walking out?
- 1:46Speaker 1: You know, I didn't know what to say back.
- 1:47Speaker 2: That was you know, this has nothing to do with
- 1:49Speaker 2: this interview though. Season three.
- 1:54Speaker 4: Actually yes, yes, it's been a next season, so the
- 1:58Speaker 4: last two episodes are gonna be crazy.
- 1:59Speaker 2: And I have not watching it even though they leaked.
- 2:01Speaker 5: Appreciate that.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Okay, How how can y'all top with y'all done.
- 2:07Speaker 5: I think you know the writers have you know, only
- 2:09Speaker 5: gotten better. Bratt really cares about the show, the showrunner
- 2:14Speaker 5: and really takes care of us, and it's invested on
- 2:16Speaker 5: making it new and exciting and truthful. I think that
- 2:19Speaker 5: you know, you keep it truthful and you know it
- 2:22Speaker 5: tops itself, I think, and.
- 2:23Speaker 3: A whole lot of drama. You know, Twitter loves drama,
- 2:27Speaker 3: so I think they've been doing a great job with it.
- 2:30Speaker 2: And you've been in love the whole damn season.
- 2:31Speaker 3: I know, Man, how.
- 2:33Speaker 2: That go from being a gangster. You're still a gangster,
- 2:34Speaker 2: but you're in love now.
- 2:37Speaker 3: On the show, being in love is kind of boring
- 2:39Speaker 3: to me. I'm like, man, I'm ready to catch your
- 2:42Speaker 3: body's horrible right. It's a horrible way to think. But
- 2:46Speaker 3: that show has definitely altered my mind to think like that.
- 2:49Speaker 3: It's weird. It's like, man, another scene, like, man, when
- 2:53Speaker 3: do I pop somebody?
- 2:54Speaker 1: I was going to ask, how does that change your character?
- 2:56Speaker 1: Because now now you're you're into this, right, you want
- 2:59Speaker 1: to pop somebody? Now when you go out and somebody
- 3:01Speaker 1: says something, you think like, are you still in character?
- 3:03Speaker 1: Like what you say?
- 3:04Speaker 6: Are you still like that? Or do you get out
- 3:06Speaker 6: of character?
- 3:07Speaker 3: Nah, I get out of character. I get out of character.
- 3:10Speaker 3: But it depends if I'm with my family, I'm still
- 3:13Speaker 3: in it a little bit because you know, people don't
- 3:14Speaker 3: really respect boundaries. Nah. They and because we're on TV,
- 3:18Speaker 3: we're no longer human, you know what I mean. I
- 3:20Speaker 3: just feel like everybody treat just like an item. So
- 3:21Speaker 3: it's like I'm always like just thinking about those things
- 3:25Speaker 3: and making sure my family is straight while I'm outside.
- 3:27Speaker 3: But it's always been loved though, and.
- 3:28Speaker 1: It has to be different, right because because of the
- 3:31Speaker 1: characters that you play, you have like very different demographics.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Like you have the young people that might follow this,
- 3:37Speaker 1: but then you have the older people that love you
- 3:39Speaker 1: and this. So how does that work?
- 3:41Speaker 3: Nos? For me? I know, like I've been to like
- 3:44Speaker 3: the hoodies of the hoods and people like yo, that's
- 3:46Speaker 3: you me up there, Like I appreciate that, and I'm like, ah,
- 3:49Speaker 3: thank you.
- 3:50Speaker 2: So I always say, call the police, tell you that
- 3:54Speaker 2: I relate the character King that's me.
- 3:58Speaker 3: No, No, But like so knowing that I represent certain
- 4:02Speaker 3: people out there, I always try to, like you know
- 4:04Speaker 3: what I mean, when it's certain things that don't make
- 4:06Speaker 3: sense I'm like, yo, we can't do this because it's
- 4:08Speaker 3: gonna make me look bad. You know, I don't want
- 4:10Speaker 3: nobody to come down on me. But you don't even
- 4:12Speaker 3: know what he was talking about. My bad.
- 4:17Speaker 5: Look at me like you were.
- 4:21Speaker 6: The demographics love you, and the younger demographics love you.
- 4:23Speaker 2: I mean the older love them. Because the new edition, you.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Got aunties and grandma's that know, the new addition, that's
- 4:30Speaker 1: you a different type of lovel But.
- 4:31Speaker 6: Then you got homies from the corner that look at
- 4:33Speaker 6: them differently.
- 4:34Speaker 2: So that's interesting, I thought.
- 4:35Speaker 4: I thought, because I thought that there was a young
- 4:37Speaker 4: demo that watched the Bobby Brown Story New Edition too.
- 4:39Speaker 2: I feel like that introduced them to a new audience.
- 4:41Speaker 3: No, absolutely, for sure, I agree. I agree, Yeah, because
- 4:44Speaker 3: my kids love the kids call me Bobby Brown, nigga,
- 4:48Speaker 3: you Bobby Bro, and you get tired of that. Yeah,
- 4:52Speaker 3: a little bit.
- 4:53Speaker 2: I feel like I can't trump Bobby though, No, yes,
- 4:57Speaker 2: right now.
- 4:58Speaker 6: And the culture.
- 4:59Speaker 1: I don't know b but I've seen him in the hall.
- 5:01Speaker 1: The first thing I thought it was Bobby. I was like,
- 5:03Speaker 1: that's what I thought, man, But.
- 5:06Speaker 3: I mean no, I mean I was just watching the
- 5:08Speaker 3: fight and it was just white guy. He was like
- 5:11Speaker 3: Yo Cain and the Ouzi songs. But he was like,
- 5:16Speaker 3: but I'm like, that's crazy.
- 5:17Speaker 6: Sound like a little flirt right there.
- 5:18Speaker 3: I was, I don't know New York, so nobody really
- 5:21Speaker 3: tripped on it. It was crazy different power.
- 5:29Speaker 4: One of them shows that the culture really gets involved
- 5:32Speaker 4: in absolute When it's on, everybody tweeting about it. It's
- 5:35Speaker 4: like it's like a family gathering, and then people talking
- 5:38Speaker 4: about what happened, you know, that night on social media afterwards,
- 5:41Speaker 4: people care about y'all personal lives, Like that's rare.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Everybody don't get that, you.
- 5:46Speaker 5: Know, I think it's it's an important thing, you know,
- 5:49Speaker 5: to separate the character from the from the from the actor.
- 5:52Speaker 5: You know, like we watched like Lewis. We don't think
- 5:55Speaker 5: like he's you know, built a butcher and you know
- 6:00Speaker 5: his name, Daniel Daniel playing View. You know, we just
- 6:03Speaker 5: look at him like that's a that's a really dope artist,
- 6:05Speaker 5: right And I think, like you're playing Bobby Brown, you
- 6:08Speaker 5: playing Kane, like that's a testament.
- 6:10Speaker 3: To your artistry. I appreciate that, bro, But you know.
- 6:13Speaker 2: You do a fantastic.
- 6:17Speaker 4: You do a fantastic job playing Drew and the crazy
- 6:19Speaker 4: part is everybody like, oh, is he really you know,
- 6:22Speaker 4: really gay?
- 6:23Speaker 2: And I'm like does it matter? You know what I'm saying,
- 6:25Speaker 2: Like what the matter? If Lavelle was like.
- 6:27Speaker 6: What is it?
- 6:27Speaker 2: What does it matter?
- 6:28Speaker 5: I don't think it does matter, you know. I think that,
- 6:30Speaker 5: you know, like it's important to separate those things, you know,
- 6:32Speaker 5: important to separate the personal from from the work, because
- 6:37Speaker 5: I have to be able to play everything as an artist,
- 6:39Speaker 5: you know, that's that's our Our job is to tell
- 6:42Speaker 5: the story and tell it as truthfully as possible. You know,
- 6:44Speaker 5: like I can't be I can't if I was playing
- 6:48Speaker 5: you know, your life story right and you watched it
- 6:52Speaker 5: and go like, you're not You're not telling the truth.
- 6:54Speaker 5: I'm doing you a a service.
- 6:55Speaker 2: You're not playing Some people saying no, no.
- 7:07Speaker 1: When you see the script, was there any doubts like wow,
- 7:09Speaker 1: maybe I don't want to play that, or it was
- 7:11Speaker 1: like no, I'm an actor.
- 7:11Speaker 6: This is what I'm gonna do regardless of what people.
- 7:13Speaker 5: That's what it was.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Man.
- 7:14Speaker 5: I'm an actor, you know, and I have to tell
- 7:16Speaker 5: the truth. And if I'm not telling the truth as
- 7:17Speaker 5: an artist, then get me out the show. You know
- 7:19Speaker 5: what I mean like that, you know, like it's if
- 7:25Speaker 5: I'm not going, if I'm not committing one hundred percent,
- 7:29Speaker 5: then I don't deserve the part. And that's just how
- 7:32Speaker 5: I see it. Like, you know what, regardless of whatever
- 7:34Speaker 5: part it is, whatever role it is, it's like if
- 7:37Speaker 5: you're putting in the work, then you know and investigating
- 7:42Speaker 5: in yourself and trying to tell the truth, and you
- 7:44Speaker 5: know you deserve to be on that platform and tell
- 7:46Speaker 5: that story.
- 7:47Speaker 4: And yeah, it's an interesting social experiment though too. I
- 7:51Speaker 4: mean it's not really a social experiment, but it is
- 7:53Speaker 4: because whenever there's a love making scene between a man
- 7:57Speaker 4: and a woman, nobody cares. But you see it pop
- 7:59Speaker 4: up on Power or or one of those other shows,
- 8:01Speaker 4: everybody's up in arms like, ah, man, I can't watch this. Man,
- 8:04Speaker 4: I'm not I'm gonna tell stars if they don't stop
- 8:06Speaker 4: doing this, I'm not gonna watch.
- 8:07Speaker 2: But I'm like, are people be like why why do
- 8:09Speaker 2: nobody ever asked that? What's men and women?
- 8:12Speaker 3: You know?
- 8:12Speaker 5: You know, I think you know, if we're talking about
- 8:15Speaker 5: the first first uh Power Power? Amari Hardwick and Laila
- 8:22Speaker 5: Leila look really good together though, you know, like like
- 8:25Speaker 5: the back muscles and everything like that. So I understand, like,
- 8:28Speaker 5: you know, the the aesthetic is what we're used to,
- 8:31Speaker 5: and we're not used to seeing queer love making on,
- 8:33Speaker 5: especially on a mainstream show like this, and but real life,
- 8:37Speaker 5: and it happens, real life, and it happens. And I
- 8:39Speaker 5: think my biggest thing was like I haven't gotten the
- 8:42Speaker 5: back yet, like my hardway's back. I haven't gotten that
- 8:45Speaker 5: like physical physical like strength, because you know what I mean,
- 8:48Speaker 5: Like I just turned thirty one, so I'm like, I
- 8:49Speaker 5: still got to like get my man meat on. But I'm.
- 8:55Speaker 3: Not like that like that.
- 8:57Speaker 7: Right, I'm talking about your man.
- 9:10Speaker 5: And like and so like that's that's whenever I have
- 9:13Speaker 5: those scenes, I'm like, I want to make sure I
- 9:14Speaker 5: look as good as possible. I want to make you
- 9:16Speaker 5: know what I mean, I want to look good. And
- 9:17Speaker 5: that's you know the same thing with Kine, Like you
- 9:19Speaker 5: want to make sure he looks.
- 9:20Speaker 3: Good, Amar said the bar. So I remember reading the tweets.
- 9:25Speaker 3: Somebody was like, Kane looks like a college dropout kid
- 9:27Speaker 3: that just play Call of Duty. I was like, damn,
- 9:30Speaker 3: I need to get in the gym. Oh for sure,
- 9:33Speaker 3: that's all I think. I hear that in my ears
- 9:35Speaker 3: while I'm like, you know what I mean, when I'm
- 9:36Speaker 3: like running out of energy, I just hear him saying,
- 9:38Speaker 3: like college drop out, body, that's crazy.
- 9:41Speaker 4: That's a good question. Does social media bother y'all? Like
- 9:43Speaker 4: when y'all read comments? Does the impact how y'all approach
- 9:46Speaker 4: the roles and everything?
- 9:48Speaker 3: For me personally? Not because I come I come from
- 9:50Speaker 3: social media, and I just used to say ship that
- 9:52Speaker 3: didn't even really matter. I just said it to get
- 9:54Speaker 3: like a reaction or some ship.
- 9:55Speaker 2: You know, you have people looking for your damn old tweets.
- 9:57Speaker 3: You're right, But that's where I was at though, Like
- 9:59Speaker 3: that's the space I was in. I just wanted to
- 10:01Speaker 3: get a reaction. That's what Twitter was for, is like
- 10:03Speaker 3: to see how many retweets and how many get you
- 10:05Speaker 3: know what I mean. So now I look at it,
- 10:06Speaker 3: it's like that's just somebody just trying to get attention.
- 10:10Speaker 3: But it don't bother me though.
- 10:11Speaker 5: Now you gotta be careful, uh, Coming from the I
- 10:16Speaker 5: come from theater a little bit, and and we learned
- 10:20Speaker 5: really quickly not to like you can't read everything every night,
- 10:23Speaker 5: you know, because it affects your work. So I come
- 10:26Speaker 5: from that, like where it comes, like, you know, I'm
- 10:29Speaker 5: not reading everything all the time, like I kind of
- 10:31Speaker 5: just post or whatever, and it's go by my business.
- 10:35Speaker 1: And we had a Mario up here last year, maybe
- 10:37Speaker 1: two years ago, and I asked him Charlamagne and I
- 10:39Speaker 1: asked him about the character.
- 10:41Speaker 6: Was he ever fearful that he was going to be
- 10:43Speaker 6: stuck in that character?
- 10:44Speaker 3: Right?
- 10:44Speaker 6: And you know he was a little upset about it
- 10:47Speaker 6: because he said, he's an actor.
- 10:48Speaker 1: But sometimes people see o Mari as ghosts, you know,
- 10:51Speaker 1: sometimes they see you as Bobby.
- 10:52Speaker 6: Do you ever feel full of roles you take to
- 10:54Speaker 6: be stuck in that character?
- 10:57Speaker 5: No God will provide there it is, I agree, you
- 11:01Speaker 5: know what I mean? Yeah, Like it's it's it's a
- 11:04Speaker 5: scarcity mindset to think that way, I think.
- 11:06Speaker 1: But it happens to people like look at Steve Le,
- 11:08Speaker 1: He's always Steve Verkle. You look at the guy that
- 11:10Speaker 1: plays I can't remember the brother's name he played Chris
- 11:13Speaker 1: Rock that everybody hates Chris. He's always looked at that.
- 11:15Speaker 2: You know.
- 11:16Speaker 3: I don't know if you just want to go.
- 11:23Speaker 8: See him as that le boy, if it's not a
- 11:25Speaker 8: blessing the play role that icon.
- 11:28Speaker 5: I think it is you know, it stands the test
- 11:30Speaker 5: of time, and you know we leave that legacy for sure.
- 11:32Speaker 5: I think it does, you know, but actors want to
- 11:36Speaker 5: be transcendent right and be able to disappear in the roles.
- 11:39Speaker 5: And I think a part of that is the onus
- 11:41Speaker 5: on the actor to like switch it up a little
- 11:42Speaker 5: bit and try something different and never let themselves get
- 11:47Speaker 5: in one thing. But I think being scared of that
- 11:49Speaker 5: brings it on to you know what I mean.
- 11:51Speaker 6: Do you ever feel a.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Way, you know, because you are a theater actor actor,
- 11:54Speaker 1: so you've been through the course, you've been through the classes,
- 11:56Speaker 1: and then you see somebody that might be you know,
- 11:59Speaker 1: a social media person that gets a roll because they
- 12:01Speaker 1: are social media. Does that ever make you feel a
- 12:03Speaker 1: way like they didn't get their chops where they didn't
- 12:05Speaker 1: do the proper training that you've been through.
- 12:07Speaker 6: Does that ever make you feel away?
- 12:10Speaker 5: If I'm be honest, whenever I get whenever that comes
- 12:14Speaker 5: up for me and I get tight like that, I'm like, well,
- 12:16Speaker 5: that's just my ego, Like that's me, you know, that's
- 12:18Speaker 5: me because I didn't get that part or I didn't
- 12:20Speaker 5: do you know what I mean? But like what's for
- 12:22Speaker 5: you is meant to be for you, you know, so
- 12:24Speaker 5: that I remind myself of that and and then you know,
- 12:28Speaker 5: it goes away. But like and it's it's like acting
- 12:30Speaker 5: is always going to change mediums and always going to evolve,
- 12:33Speaker 5: and that's the point. If you don't evolve with it,
- 12:34Speaker 5: then you're gonna get left behind about you.
- 12:38Speaker 3: I come from social media, so I slew anybody that
- 12:42Speaker 3: comes from social media.
- 12:43Speaker 2: You know, I like it just taking question? Was that
- 12:46Speaker 2: the question I was.
- 12:47Speaker 6: Saying in social media?
- 12:56Speaker 1: Does it ever make you feel a way where it
- 12:58Speaker 1: feels like people you know, they always say people skipped
- 13:00Speaker 1: the line right so that they didn't, you know, take
- 13:03Speaker 1: the acting classes and acting lessons.
- 13:04Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. I come from the people that
- 13:06Speaker 3: didn't take acting classes that straight from social media, Like,
- 13:09Speaker 3: so I don't I don't take it no way. Now,
- 13:11Speaker 3: I just took it.
- 13:12Speaker 8: You kind to skip the line.
- 13:13Speaker 3: I did skip the line, but then I took it
- 13:15Speaker 3: very very serious.
- 13:16Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what I like because a lot of people, yeah,
- 13:20Speaker 8: they're just right, like the comedians, like they can't do
- 13:24Speaker 8: the stage. They can do the the social media stuff
- 13:27Speaker 8: all day post, but when it comes to that stage,
- 13:30Speaker 8: it's totally different, and they don't want to get in
- 13:32Speaker 8: their room, you know, go to the open.
- 13:35Speaker 6: Mics and stuff that.
- 13:36Speaker 8: They don't want to do that.
- 13:37Speaker 6: They're too good for that.
- 13:38Speaker 2: But you horrible.
- 13:41Speaker 8: When it comes to the stage.
- 13:43Speaker 5: Got somebody personally there a couple people.
- 13:48Speaker 8: Now, I'm a stand up comedian, so I just see
- 13:51Speaker 8: the new wave and it is the new way.
- 13:55Speaker 5: But well, somebody like me and who've been doing it.
- 13:57Speaker 8: For so long, you start seeing stuff. At first, I
- 13:59Speaker 8: was acting like Semi H. Jackson at first, you know
- 14:02Speaker 8: what I'm saying, how he was with the people taking
- 14:04Speaker 8: the acting to give. I was like, hold on, now
- 14:05Speaker 8: they ain't even But I had to sit back and
- 14:08Speaker 8: get in yo mo and be like, holdo, what God
- 14:10Speaker 8: God for me is for me? They passed my path,
- 14:12Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying.
- 14:13Speaker 9: So this is my journey.
- 14:15Speaker 8: So I got to stay on my own germs blessed
- 14:18Speaker 8: and and understand why I'm in my position and be patient.
- 14:22Speaker 6: And that's why I'm here today.
- 14:25Speaker 4: It's Kenan killing each other over f you man, that's
- 14:29Speaker 4: gonna have to be. That's gonna mess up the business
- 14:31Speaker 4: in some way, shape or form.
- 14:34Speaker 3: Damn, I don't even know if I can talk about that,
- 14:36Speaker 3: I don't know, though I can see it happening. Okay,
- 14:39Speaker 3: I can see it happening.
- 14:40Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, good suggestion.
- 14:42Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. I can't talk on I can't.
- 14:48Speaker 6: I won't get in trouble.
- 14:49Speaker 2: Right well, I mean, as you, why is youre not
- 14:52Speaker 2: allowed to have love? Seems like you lose every guy
- 14:54Speaker 2: that you started off healing.
- 14:56Speaker 5: I think it's because it's the reality of the you know,
- 14:59Speaker 5: the game. We're right, and I feel like, you know,
- 15:02Speaker 5: with Gordo, you found somebody that you felt like you
- 15:04Speaker 5: could you know, who could he could see all of
- 15:07Speaker 5: him and recognize all of him at the same time.
- 15:10Speaker 5: It's like it started off of lies, right, like I
- 15:12Speaker 5: killed his pops or we killed his pops.
- 15:14Speaker 3: So it's like.
- 15:15Speaker 5: If I can't tell you that truth, then we're already
- 15:18Speaker 5: our foundation is shaky anyway, you know. So I think
- 15:21Speaker 5: you know, God willn't going forward, Drew will find some
- 15:25Speaker 5: love somebody that you know can resonate with him in
- 15:27Speaker 5: that way they just have to hide himself from But
- 15:29Speaker 5: until then, to be about your bread man.
- 15:32Speaker 6: It is, how's working with Mary?
- 15:35Speaker 3: Beautiful man? Mary's so cool she's so chill and she's
- 15:43Speaker 3: damn from my brain just keeps cutting off. Bro.
- 15:45Speaker 5: It was because like we have so many moments and
- 15:48Speaker 5: memories with Mary and my I think my favorite one is,
- 15:53Speaker 5: you know, first day table reading. You know what, It's
- 15:56Speaker 5: funny they don't tell actors of this lot. It's always like,
- 15:58Speaker 5: you know, like, well, you just get in the space
- 15:59Speaker 5: and like, yeah, you know I belonged there and I
- 16:02Speaker 5: already already been there, so you know, I gotta act
- 16:04Speaker 5: like and whatever whatever, you know, the back tension, shoulder
- 16:07Speaker 5: tension comes up, you know what I mean? Like no,
- 16:10Speaker 5: Like when I got to the table read, I was like,
- 16:12Speaker 5: I've never been here before, and I've never been face
- 16:14Speaker 5: to face with Mary J. Blige before.
- 16:16Speaker 7: You know what she did.
- 16:17Speaker 5: She broke the ice with a funny ass story, you know.
- 16:20Speaker 5: She she she brought us in as her kids off
- 16:23Speaker 5: rip and that to me like taught me, like God
- 16:25Speaker 5: will and I get to that place where I can
- 16:27Speaker 5: people look at me in that way that I can
- 16:29Speaker 5: be like, oh no, I'm chill, like you know what
- 16:31Speaker 5: I mean, because that really helped me out.
- 16:33Speaker 2: How did she bring you only? What was the joke
- 16:34Speaker 2: that brought y'all in, he said, because he said she
- 16:36Speaker 2: brought you in her kids.
- 16:37Speaker 5: Well, she told us like it was a story. I
- 16:39Speaker 5: told her that, like my dad's from Jamaica, right, And
- 16:41Speaker 5: she was like, oh, I'm never going to Jaica again,
- 16:42Speaker 5: Like I'm never bringing nobody to Jamaica because like it's drama.
- 16:45Speaker 5: And it's just the way that she just related to
- 16:47Speaker 5: us was you know, it was you would think that,
- 16:52Speaker 5: like I guess the perspective of someone of that high
- 16:56Speaker 5: stature is that like you have to go to them,
- 17:00Speaker 5: like she came down and came and gave it's a
- 17:02Speaker 5: story that was like we all had us laughing and
- 17:05Speaker 5: it was like, well, thanks for sharing that, you know,
- 17:07Speaker 5: with with us and and really brought us in and
- 17:09Speaker 5: so it just made it so easy, you know, you know,
- 17:12Speaker 5: we get to do these scenes and she's so generous
- 17:14Speaker 5: as a as a scene partner, and we get to
- 17:16Speaker 5: like really go and play with it. Just so many
- 17:18Speaker 5: fun ideas and just really cares about Monette and says
- 17:22Speaker 5: like listen, man, when they is from here, So she's
- 17:24Speaker 5: not going to do it like that, She's gonna do
- 17:26Speaker 5: it like this, and like her you know what I mean. Yeah,
- 17:31Speaker 5: when we did the dinner table, not super iconic dinner
- 17:35Speaker 5: table scene. You know. It was her idea to be like, listen, like,
- 17:37Speaker 5: we gotta get it elevated, right, She said, we have
- 17:40Speaker 5: to elevate this thing because she's not going to have
- 17:43Speaker 5: her daughter talk to her no type of way and
- 17:45Speaker 5: not snatch her across the table and have it beat
- 17:47Speaker 5: this big moment, you know, And it came alive because
- 17:50Speaker 5: of that. I learned so much as an actor because
- 17:52Speaker 5: of that.
- 17:52Speaker 2: So what's gonna happen when y'all got to hate her?
- 17:54Speaker 4: Because eventually y'all gonna find out that she's the one
- 17:56Speaker 4: who said Lorenzo I mean, you know what I mean?
- 17:59Speaker 2: You know, like I'm gonna have tona hate it then
- 18:01Speaker 2: comes out this weekend.
- 18:02Speaker 3: We're gonna see it, right, yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's this
- 18:05Speaker 3: week Friday. Yeah, we're gonna find out all that stuff.
- 18:07Speaker 4: But yeah, are you're happy Lorenzo days? So you don't
- 18:10Speaker 4: got to be poppy? You don't say poppy no more?
- 18:13Speaker 3: Said poppy like that. I never I never knew how
- 18:15Speaker 3: to say it for real, Like I didn't. It didn't
- 18:17Speaker 3: roll off my tongue like that, So I kind of
- 18:19Speaker 3: eliminated the Poppies out of my vocabulary. Yeah, did it
- 18:24Speaker 3: roll off right?
- 18:24Speaker 9: Yes, said poppies?
- 18:26Speaker 5: Really I think I think, you know, and tell Bertial
- 18:30Speaker 5: Cologne who plays Lorenzo, amazing, uh I missing man sometimes,
- 18:35Speaker 5: you know, he's he's a he's a masterclass too, you know,
- 18:40Speaker 5: and I love him being there. He just holds it
- 18:43Speaker 5: down in such a grounding energy. And uh so as Lavelle,
- 18:47Speaker 5: I'm like, damn, you know he's gone. But as Drew,
- 18:50Speaker 5: I think Drews also like damn he's gone.
- 18:52Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Puerto Ricans call it daddy poppy. No, I thought that
- 18:57Speaker 2: would feel like you boom, you know, I man, daddy
- 19:03Speaker 2: poppy too.
- 19:04Speaker 5: You're married, I'm engaged. You engaged?
- 19:07Speaker 8: Okay, So how do your fiance feel about your your
- 19:10Speaker 8: love scenes and stuff like that.
- 19:12Speaker 5: You know, she's she's the same way she comes from.
- 19:14Speaker 5: Uh you know, that that place of like if you
- 19:16Speaker 5: don't do it, do it right kind of thing. So
- 19:18Speaker 5: and she she she's a big fan of the show,
- 19:21Speaker 5: and she loves watching the show. She has a great
- 19:23Speaker 5: heart and a great empathetic capacity. So she watched watches
- 19:26Speaker 5: Drew or anybody going through it. She's just like, Wow, like,
- 19:30Speaker 5: this is a every time I'm watching it. So I'm
- 19:32Speaker 5: watching it being like, I know what we did, right,
- 19:33Speaker 5: I know what's happening. And she's like, Wow, this show
- 19:36Speaker 5: like surprises me every time. It's phenomenal.
- 19:38Speaker 6: This is this and this is it hard to watch
- 19:39Speaker 6: it with her.
- 19:42Speaker 5: It's hard to watch with her because she's sometimes around
- 19:45Speaker 5: her and the table reads and so she's like privy
- 19:48Speaker 5: to information and she's like, oh, so that's what you
- 19:50Speaker 5: guys were talking about. Oh, you know, And but in
- 19:54Speaker 5: terms of like content stuff, and you know, it's not
- 19:58Speaker 5: it's not hard watching, you know, because she's also done
- 20:01Speaker 5: love scenes, and.
- 20:02Speaker 6: How do you feel you see her doing love season
- 20:04Speaker 6: it's it's taking some getting.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Muscles.
- 20:11Speaker 9: He got that man meet on his back, Like that's
- 20:20Speaker 9: comedy Jesus.
- 20:23Speaker 6: But yeah, but how did that make you feel?
- 20:24Speaker 5: You know, she just did this film called Perfect Addiction.
- 20:27Speaker 5: It just came out and in it she plays an
- 20:29Speaker 5: m M, a fighter and trainer and she had to
- 20:32Speaker 5: be with the six two six three, you know, getting
- 20:36Speaker 5: swollen bees for the role and coming in and you know,
- 20:39Speaker 5: she was love interest to both of them. And I'm
- 20:41Speaker 5: having to sit there being like, you know, it's just fine.
- 20:44Speaker 6: It's just fine, you know, you know, but you go
- 20:49Speaker 6: back with your chance.
- 20:50Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, every time she goes somewhere to work on
- 20:53Speaker 5: the job, but she's like, there's a time apart. I'm
- 20:57Speaker 5: in the gym. I go crazy in the gym because
- 20:59Speaker 5: when you come back, you don't see me looking different
- 21:01Speaker 5: than when you left.
- 21:01Speaker 6: That's right.
- 21:02Speaker 2: They all asked fifty for tips. I mean fifty be
- 21:04Speaker 2: swore forever, right.
- 21:06Speaker 5: No, I haven't asked something.
- 21:08Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you gotta have fifth tips much.
- 21:11Speaker 3: No, No, I've seen fifth on set like twice.
- 21:13Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:13Speaker 4: Yeah, you know to ask you do you get flacked
- 21:16Speaker 4: from like, uh, actual gay actors who feel like that
- 21:20Speaker 4: role should go to game actual gay like you took
- 21:23Speaker 4: my role.
- 21:24Speaker 5: That's a good question. No. I get a lot of love,
- 21:27Speaker 5: a lot of like a lot of uh support comes
- 21:30Speaker 5: from other queer actors, you.
- 21:32Speaker 4: Know, And I get a lot of love because I
- 21:35Speaker 4: would think that's a ridiculous conversation to have, because if
- 21:37Speaker 4: a gay person plays the great persons because they got
- 21:39Speaker 4: the roll, they're a good actor.
- 21:40Speaker 2: Right. If you get at what you do, you get
- 21:42Speaker 2: what you do.
- 21:42Speaker 5: Yeah, I was all.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Gonna ask y'alla, I forgot see everybody.
- 21:51Speaker 4: That's all gonna ask what I gotta bring this closet up.
- 21:54Speaker 4: But what he got everybody hitting my damn phone.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Was kind of excited.
- 21:57Speaker 4: I got no no what he tagged me on something
- 22:01Speaker 4: people hit me just the reason I got excited because
- 22:04Speaker 4: I was like, oh, it might you know, it might
- 22:06Speaker 4: be some brand.
- 22:06Speaker 2: And what he was like explaining the post what he said.
- 22:09Speaker 4: He posted, I want to do a season for now
- 22:10Speaker 4: watch party in South Carolina, but I need to see
- 22:13Speaker 4: the God to host it with me. He said, who
- 22:14Speaker 4: in South Carolina would pull up? I got like twenty
- 22:16Speaker 4: six hundred comments, and then people started making actual post
- 22:20Speaker 4: about it, like this needs to happen, and I'm like,
- 22:25Speaker 4: I'm wining it. I mean, you gotta find a place
- 22:26Speaker 4: to do it, because you know we used to the
- 22:28Speaker 4: house party. VIS mean, what do you party together?
- 22:29Speaker 9: He was in the house.
- 22:33Speaker 2: You can't do it in the house.
- 22:34Speaker 6: You can't can't bring all those people to your house.
- 22:36Speaker 3: I can't do that.
- 22:36Speaker 2: You got to figure out where to do it.
- 22:37Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 22:38Speaker 2: And do we charge people? Yes, that's the hard part.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Charge people because if not, it's got to be limited space.
- 22:44Speaker 1: If not, everybody's gonna be there gonna be too pack.
- 22:46Speaker 1: You want limited space, you want people to be able
- 22:47Speaker 1: to see.
- 22:47Speaker 3: Yeah, so you charge people, but then have like an
- 22:49Speaker 3: open bar.
- 22:51Speaker 6: Have an open bar.
- 22:54Speaker 1: So they can have a good time and some food.
- 22:55Speaker 1: But that way you have section soil people can actually
- 22:57Speaker 1: watch it. You don't want a two pack where you
- 22:58Speaker 1: can't enjoy and screaming yelling.
- 23:00Speaker 2: Maybe we could do it at the museum, American Museum.
- 23:03Speaker 6: You have to break some TVs in and cable if
- 23:05Speaker 6: they got it, and it's not.
- 23:05Speaker 2: To the twenty six right it may twenty six right, six, Yeah,
- 23:11Speaker 2: we got a couple of day we can.
- 23:13Speaker 3: We got time though we might you figure it out.
- 23:15Speaker 5: Let's do a lot about how to host the party
- 23:17Speaker 5: between from.
- 23:18Speaker 2: You guys, I have been to a party. I ain't
- 23:19Speaker 2: host the party in so long I don't. I don't
- 23:21Speaker 2: forgot how to do it.
- 23:21Speaker 5: I don't like you charge them to get in an
- 23:23Speaker 5: open bar. That's a good like I have fun there.
- 23:26Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying at the museum is not
- 23:30Speaker 6: really for you.
- 23:31Speaker 1: It's more to make sure people are gonna come because
- 23:33Speaker 1: everybody a r ZP. I'm coming, and then to be
- 23:35Speaker 1: rainy like I ain't coming in the ring. I mean,
- 23:36Speaker 1: but you want people that it's gonna come enjoy and
- 23:38Speaker 1: have a great time.
- 23:39Speaker 4: But then once again, that's the testament to how big
- 23:42Speaker 4: power is in the coach. I'm telling you show all
- 23:45Speaker 4: shows don't get that cultural reverence.
- 23:47Speaker 2: The way.
- 23:49Speaker 3: They let us host host stuff like rappers. I'm like
- 23:51Speaker 3: at a host and I'm like, I ain't got no songs.
- 23:54Speaker 3: I don't know which I want to do, so I
- 23:55Speaker 3: just take pictures. They would give me the mic. I'm like,
- 23:59Speaker 3: I don't know what y'all want me to say, Like
- 24:01Speaker 3: I ain't got no no bars or nothing for nobody?
- 24:03Speaker 2: Does it shows leak? Yes, Okay, I was tight?
- 24:08Speaker 6: Is that the true lead? Because they say that it
- 24:09Speaker 6: might not be the true shows?
- 24:11Speaker 5: Well, no, I think I think it was like some
- 24:13Speaker 5: like fake poor quality stuff. I didn't see it, but
- 24:16Speaker 5: man like it's like like a rapper, like you always
- 24:19Speaker 5: tight when you're when your ship leaks and the like
- 24:21Speaker 5: who did it? Like it has to be somebody in
- 24:23Speaker 5: your camp?
- 24:23Speaker 3: Right?
- 24:24Speaker 2: And why is it only power shows.
- 24:26Speaker 3: The artist with nobody?
- 24:28Speaker 1: People just can't that much like other things leak that
- 24:30Speaker 1: we just don't think about, but people care.
- 24:32Speaker 5: About this that's I don't know, I don't know, I
- 24:35Speaker 5: don't know about it, but like I appreciate the fans
- 24:37Speaker 5: who like stuck it out and like are gonna watch
- 24:39Speaker 5: it again, you know and see it because it deserves
- 24:42Speaker 5: to be seen in the right way.
- 24:45Speaker 4: Question, with this love triangle, Tyree got going on, right,
- 24:49Speaker 4: Who would y'all rather see him end up with Fie,
- 24:52Speaker 4: Lauren or Diana?
- 24:55Speaker 5: Speaking as I'd rather see him with Diana really yeah,
- 24:58Speaker 5: speaking of the system.
- 25:00Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking as a speaking a wood as Woody dying
- 25:03Speaker 3: as well as really yeah, Drew don't want to treak
- 25:06Speaker 3: nowhere around absolutely, you know.
- 25:09Speaker 5: But as Lavelle, I'm like this, they make a good pair.
- 25:12Speaker 2: You know.
- 25:13Speaker 5: They're both very intelligent, and they both move around the
- 25:16Speaker 5: business really well, and they could actually like make a
- 25:19Speaker 5: great like if they came together like that, they can
- 25:21Speaker 5: make a good, good team.
- 25:22Speaker 2: But then the brothers might have to kill him.
- 25:23Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
- 25:28Speaker 2: Did you feel bad for Sacks when he got killed?
- 25:31Speaker 3: Hell?
- 25:31Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 25:32Speaker 3: Shane is so dope, man, He's so incredible. He's the
- 25:34Speaker 3: O G Well, I think he's been there for like
- 25:36Speaker 3: nine years, and I think it caught everybody by surprise
- 25:39Speaker 3: because I don't read the whole script until we get
- 25:41Speaker 3: to the table that just read kind of my section.
- 25:43Speaker 3: So when I heard it for the first time, it
- 25:45Speaker 3: definitely was like one of those emotional emotional things.
- 25:48Speaker 4: Damn, I don't even think about it. I'm sitting it
- 25:50Speaker 4: thinking about it from the character perspective. The people that's
- 25:52Speaker 4: not gonna have no work no more.
- 25:54Speaker 5: Well no, see, that's the thing, Like Shane is such
- 25:56Speaker 5: an amazing actor that he's working. He's working. He's an
- 25:59Speaker 5: artist like and and he he's an artist with him
- 26:03Speaker 5: with ambition and with with drive, you know. And and
- 26:08Speaker 5: that's the one thing like I always say about about
- 26:10Speaker 5: actors about artists specifically, like you don't we can make
- 26:14Speaker 5: whatever we want to make whenever we want to make it,
- 26:16Speaker 5: like now, depending on how much money you have, and
- 26:18Speaker 5: like if you want to get butts and seats, that's
- 26:20Speaker 5: another thing.
- 26:21Speaker 2: But like.
- 26:23Speaker 5: Art is there, you can just make it, you know.
- 26:25Speaker 5: And for shaying he doesn't have to worry about like
- 26:27Speaker 5: lack and you know, but you know he'll always be
- 26:30Speaker 5: a thriving artist because he's a beautiful actor.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Y'all have a nervous that that you're going to read
- 26:34Speaker 1: a script and it's like what E think, like please
- 26:35Speaker 1: don't give me, Please don't give don't give me.
- 26:37Speaker 6: Y'all ever feel that way when you when y'all.
- 26:39Speaker 5: Pick up a script that was me season one, two three,
- 26:44Speaker 5: His House right.
- 26:45Speaker 9: Now, you're buying like.
- 26:48Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think for the same Like
- 26:52Speaker 3: the first season it was like that, but after the
- 26:53Speaker 3: first season, whatever makes sense for the character, the character
- 26:57Speaker 3: gotta go, he gotta go. That's how I felt.
- 27:00Speaker 5: Yeah, I just when they when they you know, when
- 27:02Speaker 5: they do decide to if they do decide to do
- 27:04Speaker 5: that with Drew, that like it's a it's like iconic,
- 27:07Speaker 5: like I wanted to king to kill you. Man, I
- 27:10Speaker 5: don't know about that. That's heartbreaking, but I got you.
- 27:14Speaker 5: I always want to be like I said, I don't
- 27:15Speaker 5: want to be the black Shawn Bean and like dying
- 27:17Speaker 5: all my ship. So if it's going to happen, like
- 27:21Speaker 5: it needs to be happening, like you know some like
- 27:22Speaker 5: dope slow motion kind of like you know, something dope,
- 27:25Speaker 5: something dope. But I won't speak that out. You know,
- 27:27Speaker 5: six seven eight.
- 27:28Speaker 4: They did they run run a run run by y'all.
- 27:31Speaker 4: This whole Ghost return was that even real? Because we
- 27:33Speaker 4: saw Mari Harwood do an interview recently, we said he
- 27:36Speaker 4: got asked to come back.
- 27:37Speaker 2: Was that a thing for real?
- 27:39Speaker 5: I don't know because it wasn't the script.
- 27:43Speaker 3: You know, that's above our pay grade.
- 27:46Speaker 5: That babing in a different draft or something like that.
- 27:48Speaker 2: What And is that a real beef between the Power
- 27:51Speaker 2: Team and the b MF actors?
- 27:53Speaker 5: Like is that real?
- 27:54Speaker 2: That just some social media ship between uh?
- 27:58Speaker 3: I don't think so.
- 27:59Speaker 5: I might be that might be Twitter fingers. I hope so,
- 28:02Speaker 5: because like we you know, we're all black and we're
- 28:04Speaker 5: all getting it, and I love that.
- 28:05Speaker 3: I love to see that.
- 28:06Speaker 5: So I think that's what it is.
- 28:08Speaker 4: Participating that though it's usually a dude that play too
- 28:12Speaker 4: Rican meet, I.
- 28:15Speaker 3: Don't participate doing it. I'll be in the gym. I
- 28:20Speaker 3: got time for that business.
- 28:22Speaker 5: Back to this party, Carol, you're.
- 28:28Speaker 4: Gonna be you want to do it from Yeah, just
- 28:30Speaker 4: don't say that because now we got to plan it.
- 28:32Speaker 4: I don't want to let people down.
- 28:33Speaker 3: No, I'm serious, I'm serious. I know this is Hollywood
- 28:36Speaker 3: niggas be like, yeah, hit me up, let's do this.
- 28:38Speaker 3: But I'm like serious, I'm looking at you in the eyes.
- 28:40Speaker 3: We're gonna do this lord, Now I got to commit
- 28:43Speaker 3: to Yeah, yeah, exactly, so we're taking it there.
- 28:45Speaker 6: Make sure you're free Memorial week.
- 28:47Speaker 4: And make sure you know I'm free already because I
- 28:49Speaker 4: already said I'm not doing nothing for a month. I
- 28:50Speaker 4: gotta go to out of the country in June, so
- 28:53Speaker 4: I'm not. I wasn't doing nothing for a month nowhere.
- 28:54Speaker 6: Okay, what's you doing France? Must be nice?
- 29:01Speaker 4: Oh, this thing called cons lions is an advertising that's dope.
- 29:06Speaker 2: I went last year. I got to go this year.
- 29:07Speaker 2: All right, the problems to have.
- 29:09Speaker 1: We appreciate you brothers for joining us. May May twenty
- 29:13Speaker 1: six is the date, and thank you guys for stopping through.
- 29:16Speaker 1: You know, these guys are always invited.
- 29:17Speaker 4: Both episodes coming out the weekend on May twenty six,
- 29:19Speaker 4: I was one, and then the next this week one,
- 29:20Speaker 4: this weekend, one.
- 29:21Speaker 2: This weekend in the finale next week. Okay, got you
- 29:23Speaker 2: got all right?
- 29:24Speaker 6: So that's Willy McCain, Lavelle Adams.
- 29:26Speaker 8: Great.
- 29:26Speaker 6: Appreciate you brothers.
- 29:27Speaker 3: It's the breakfast.
- 29:28Speaker 5: Welcome morning, thanks for having us, all right, y'all