Tyriq Withers Talks HIM: Training, Tough Scenes & Marlon Wayans’ Hair Yank!

Tyriq Withers Talks HIM: Training, Tough Scenes & Marlon Wayans’ Hair Yank!

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Angela yee. And how exciting is this for me? Terry?
Where this is this?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here the Start of Him, which is coming out on
the nineteenth, September nineteenth. I did get a chance to
see it, so I'm not going to give anything away
that's not in the trailer, but congratulations, like this is
an amazing starring role for you.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, I'm sorry, this is on my mind, Like I'm
way up. I feel blessed.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Sorry I had to say that it is a song
I named the show. Yeah, oh really, yeah, I feel blessed. Well,
I'm blessed to be here.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, we're blessed to have you. Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
That's definitely who I got the idea for the name
of the show because people kept thinking it was like,
I'm all the way up, oh New York, but I
did you know it was a combination.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
But yes, you're from Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yes, I'm from Brooklyn.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
You're from Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, nine oh four, you know,
in and out of Chicago. So yeah, I'm the only
one from my family from Jacksonville. So I'm Florida boy,
not Florida man.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
No, yeah, there's a big difference difference.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh, I'm glad you said that, because I know you've
been in other things. But one episode of you that
I love, of course, is the Atlanta episode. Yeah, listen
the Wiga episode.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, yes, yes, that was an iconic episode. I actually
went to If you know what the episode's about, it's
about a mixed white passing mixed kid trying to get
into college off of a first generation African American scholarship.
And I actually went to Florida State off of a
first generation African American scholarship. Yeah, except doctor t Daryl Stark.

(01:28):
Shout out to doctor Stark. He actually gave me the scholarships.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
He didn't put me through no weird interview process.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I want to say, looking back at that now and
how things are being like rolled back and there's no quote,
there's no affirmative action DEI. They're trying to get rid
of all types of programs for people to be able
to go to college. And you know that that episode
is even more interesting now, I think just because of
the timing of what's going on in this country.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
And I think that's a testament to Donald Glover. He's
he has a finger on the pulse of the culture,
and he's telling stories that you know, my sister, she
was studying at Stanford and they had to break the
episode down and analyze it in a mixed race politics class.
And it just caught me off guard because she just

(02:16):
sent me a picture of the auditorium and then she
asked if I could do a little zoom interview.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Let her go on ahead and get her props.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
But right, as a matter of fact, my brother's in
that absolutely.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
You know. It's also just an interesting conversation because I'm also.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Mixed, right, I'm half Chinese and half black, and some
people will tell me I can't identify as black because
of that, and or they act like because you're mixed,
you're not. You know, It's just such a weird thing
to me because I feel like my whole life I've
grown up and known I was black, and then there'll
be people that tell you how you should identify exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's that my whole life has been the identity like search,
and I just kind of like talk about it in
terms of like a cafeteria, we never know what's table
to sit at. So I'm white and black, so you're
never white enough ever black enough, and you really I
didn't have any table to sit at, and I think
what Donald Glover did with the episode, he created my
own table to just sit down and own my blackness.

(03:10):
And yes, I definitely acknowledge my privilege and that the
white privilege of it all. And I think that's the
essence of that that film and even going into him.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh yeah, he called you, what did you call you?
A big light skin, yellow bone, yellow bone?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
That was George Wallace. That was George Wallace. And he's
just improvs. And it's like, I keep working with comedians.
I love it because making fun of me.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, I loved him making fun of me.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I was keem saying it was George Wallace, and they
in that Atlanta episode and they just got to like
really lean in and Donald Glover was throwing things out.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
He was telling me, can you do the electric slid?
Can you do this? Can you do that? But yeah,
even on this film, working.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
With three comedians with Marlon Marlan, Tim Hideker and Jim Jefferies,
and he's Australian and the Australians are a whole different
level of funny.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, but I had to talk about that because you
actually got casted as the lead in Him, and that
was based off of being on that episode of Atlanta.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, that episode got me in the room.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
So Carmen Cuba, who's really good friends with Donald Glover,
reached out to my team while I was shooting a
film in Serbia to meet me, and she was very
like coy about it and really tell me what it
was about. She's let's just have a conversation. And it
was like a two hour conversation about grief, identity loss.
And by the end of that conversation, I'm like crying.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
She's crying, and.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I'm working in Serbia at the time, so I'm like
two am. Yeah, it was like it's insane, but I
love Serbia. We shot in like Belgrade, but I had
to finish a whole workday to meet Carmen Cuba. And
then I had a cool meeting with Monkey Paul and
to talk about the script and why I resonated with

(04:52):
the script.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
And that's Jordan Peel's company.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, Jordan Peel's company, Monkey Paul, And it was a
whole process. While I was shooting a film, everything was
on zoom and they asked me if I could throw
football and I did what any any anytime as an
actor they ask you if you can do something, You're like, yeah,
I figured out because I play a wide receiver and
you don't really play football.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, you don't really have the mechanics of it. So uh.
And then it took like a week to find a football.
And then I.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Got the wait, you had to find a football in Serbia.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
In Serbia, you know how hard it is to find
American football. That's funny in Serbia.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
So yeah, I asked the director on his off day
to film like a highlight tape of me throwing the football.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
You got that director to film you throw.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
We're good homies.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Now, but like, I know you have an off day,
but I just need you to do Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
He shot it.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
He was like, we're gonna punch it in here, We're
gonna pull out wide, we're gonna transition, we're gonna swipe here.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I love that because he wanted to see you win too,
even if it was on a project.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, he was familiar with the script.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
And you know, I had one of the PA's play
my wide receiver. Shout out Max Kim.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
It takes a village, Yeah, it takes a village.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
So well, and I know that you did play, Like
you said, you did play football.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
You also played football at Florida State, right.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, but you said and I saw an interview that
you did, I think it was with Tierra Wack. Yeah,
where you said that you did not feel like you
just loved it enough to want to pursue it in
the way to become professional at it.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
So it's kind of interesting that you end up in
this movie.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Where the whole goal is you love it so much
that you want to become the goat and you're willing
to risk even your own life. You know, in the
very beginning, you have a head injury, and I know
that's in the summary of what happens in the movie.
A crazed fan hit you over the head and literally,
like not taking time to heal could have cost.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
You your life.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Absolutely, And I think when I gave up football, it
was a real awakening for me because I like going
back into the identity crisis.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
I got to go to.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
College and really decide who I wanted to be as
a person. And I never feel I never felt fulfilled
playing sports, like because you kind of burn out. I
played sports at such a love for so long and
you know who was I playing sports for?

Speaker 4 (07:05):
You know?

Speaker 3 (07:05):
And I was trying to prove something to my mom,
you know, or you know, to other coaches. And it
was a pivotal time in my life because I was like,
who is Tyreque? And the first ever Black Student Union
play at Florida State announced to my auditions, and I
decided to turn that fresh Prince of bel Air scene
where he's like, how come you don't love me?

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Man about his dad? I turned that into a monologue.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
And I auditioned and that was the journey of like
self discovery because that I got involved on campus Diversity
Inclusion Institute.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
I became assistant director.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
For or executive board for the Black Student Union, or
mentor for high school students in the surrounding county to
help guide them into Florida State. So that was a
more holistic experience for me, and I was I was
on a path of learning empathy and sympathy. And I
think that was that did so much for me as

(08:02):
a creative because it taught me the human experience rather
than being in theater school and going to like vocal
lessons and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
How was it when you decided to walk away from
football because, like you said, you had been playing at
such a high level, and I'm sure you're like, am
I playing for my mom? But how did everybody around
you feel about that decision? Because sometimes people feel like,
what have you changed your mind? Now You've yeah, walked
away from something where it's at the prime of when
you should be really focused on it.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, I think I just kind of muted all the
outside noise because you know, at the end of the day,
I have to lay my head on that pillow and I.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Have to wake up. And those workouts are crazy.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
You work out at like five am, and then I
have class at seven and I'm a walk on.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
So I don't get a golf cart to class. I
have to sweat and ride walk on.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yes, you literally have to walk on, walk to class,
do a full day of classes, two fifteen pm meeting,
team meeting, you have position meeting, and then you have
another meeting, and then you have practice, you have recovery,
and I don't have a tutor. I'm gonna walk on,
so I have to get good grades. But yeah, it
was a process and what it was like to give

(09:10):
it up. It's grief, you know, it's a form of
grief because this this thing that I put value in
for so long, I have to give it up. And
I'm still going through those motions of letting go. And
I think the beauty of me finding this script was
me saying kind of goodbye.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
I have to let it go all the way, all.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
The way, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
But like skills that you had already, I mean, it
helps you so much in this role of a you know,
number one seed in football player.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, I really had to train, and I think that's
the fun part. I got to like really dive into
the quarterback training.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Training did not look so fun in this movie.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, but I was. I was.
I was.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I was bleeding football while making this movie, and I
like would wake up. You know those nightmares when you
do something so much, you're like why can't I like
the dream where you try to fight you can't throw
a punch?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, I had that, but throwing the football.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
And I was training with Jordan Palmer, who's an NFL
level coach, training like Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and I
got to train with Joe Milton, who just got into
the league like two years ago. So yeah, I really
it was humbling. You show up and you're like, I know,
y'all do this for real. I'm an actor and I

(10:26):
was just like acting. I approached it in a humble.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Way, you know, and you feel like, man, maybe I
need to.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Get back, and yeah, when I got a crispy throw,
I was like, you know, I could, you could.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Walk on to.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
The story is also about being a black quarterback, because
that's a whole thing here.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Obviously football is like the number one sport here in
the United States, and the black quarterback. That's always like
a conversation that like, we want to support the black
quarterback because it feels like that's a position that is
still kind of yeah, you know, it's a very polarizing things.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, and I think times are changing and he start
to see the talent going to the quarterback position, and
that's why I'm a big Lamar Jackson fan, you know,
Florida boy. But yeah, I think it's iconic to see
that that shift, and you know, knowing Marlon Wayne's the
way he presented himself in this in this character. I

(11:21):
think it's cool because you know, the majority of NFL
players are black men, so it was it was an
honor to hold light to that in this sense.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
How is Marlon Wayne's training?

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I got to ask that because he don't come from
playing football when he was younger, But he did.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
An amazing job.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I mean, he was in shape. When I saw him,
you know, showing his guns up. I was like, all right,
you know we're used to scrownny Marlon Wayne's now yeah,
look at him.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
No his training, so he's I'm half his age. But
it didn't feel like that out there. I just I
don't tell him this, but like it's just it felt
like I was training with somebody my age and he
locked in on the physical aspect. But I've never seen
somebody work out like that tough but still be yapping,

(12:07):
Like he just yaps through a workout, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
So everything's a joke to him, no matter how hard
the workout is.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
But yeah, it was a friendly, healthy competition, you know,
trying to you know, who can lift the most weight,
who can run the fastest?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
So who was winning those competitions?

Speaker 4 (12:22):
You know, I don't think that we need to answer
those questions. You know, it's me.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
How much ad living happened on there too? Because those scenes?
Will I tell you those scenes when people watch this
movie for anybody who is even if you're not like
a huge football fan, because I'm not the type of
person that sits at home and watches football.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
So I was watching this movie and I was like,
we already know that.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Like the training to become the Goat and to become
quote unquote him is intense. It's a lot of sacrifices
that you have to make and in a way, it
kind of feels like you have to turn off your emotions.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, you know, I feel like was like a lot
of ad libbing, and I think with a story like this,
you have to like live in that world.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
And shout out to our director Justin Tippin. He just
allowed that freedom.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
And you know, Marlon Wayans is untethered in this film
and the things he would say.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
I wish they would do a real of all the
stuff they will.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Hopefully I would pay prime dollar to see that, because like,
you just didn't know what he was gonna say.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I broke multiple times. He broke the crew. Uh.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
And I think that's the beauty of working with Marlon,
where he's not afraid of anything. He's gonna he's gonna
if he's gonna fail. He's gonna fail one hundred percent.
But nothing he did failed. Uh, but yeah, it was
you didn't know what type of Marlin you'd get they
do him, and Justin had the little secrets going before
they start a scene, like Justin giving him ideas.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Uh, there are things you didn't even know it was
gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
There there's so many things that, like we've talked about
where there's one time where he was yelling at me,
but I wasn't like allowing him to affect me. And uh,
you know, I had this like vest On and I
believe in a happy trail, like, so I.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Kept my happy trail. He was like always like he was.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
He was like ill shave that, like take it off,
and I'm like, no, you just it adds layers to
the character.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
It's a choice, you know, as an accurate choice.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, well in real life too, I'm just saying, but yeah,
he was angry at me and then he just tries
to like in the middle of a scene, he tried
he grabs my happy trail hair and yanks it, grabs
it like this, and I stayed in there.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
He pulled your hair out.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yes about it no, no, no, it was like but
it was like the freedom like I think when you
have a healthy relationship with your co star, you can
just you know, let's go there, you know what I'm saying,
and like nothing. It was very few things off limits,
you know.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
So in the movie you really look up to him,
like your character he's like but he's also the person
that you're about to replace, just so people know, so
you go to train with him.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
You guys filmed this at a NASA station.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
I read somewhere some aircraft warehouse in Albuquerque, and it
was like really cold in the mornings, uh, and then
really hot during the day when the sun got up.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
So yeah, it was some empty warehouse they had to
clear out.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I can't imagine going somewhere and they tell you, okay,
you're not going to have your phone. Yeah, because as
soon as you check in, they take your phone from
you and you can't.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
What do they call it? Radical detachment?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, radical detachment. Have you ever tried that?

Speaker 3 (15:25):
During this film, I went radical detachment on like carbs, cars, cars, because.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
You have in social media, social media.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
I was just honed in on the performance in getting
things right. So I think the radical detachment I've never
done it to that level where you like took my phone.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
I would never let anybody take my phone.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, we're in that day and age.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Now we leave the house of the phone, we feel naked.
I don't know what I gotta go home exactly. You know,
as I'm thinking about all of this and like what
you said about radical detachment from carbs, because the focus
is very much on your body also in this in
this movie, and that is so true about any type
of athlete, Like your body is really a commodity, and

(16:09):
that's part of the theme of this as well, like
just being able to push yourself to the limit, do
things that you never thought that you could do before.
And part of it is also like and you know,
this does show you how brutal football is, because I
think that's a real conversation that people have been having
for so long. You know, what do you think football

(16:29):
fans are going to think about this when they see
it because it's such a like it's a great it's
and obviously it's just a movie, but it also is
like who it was very intense.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, I think that's the loneliness of being an athlete too,
Like bigger than football, where it's like you are you
are only as good as your body will allow you,
and you can push it and push it. One of
my favorite receivers, so we've seen Odell Beckham junior, like
really who's one of the most iconic receivers, but his
body playing on turf just couldn't keep up his a

(17:00):
cl So yeah, I think that's the loneliness of it,
because you're you can want to be the greatest of
all time.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
And I know many players who had knee.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Injuries just because like they trained so much and they
can't help it. And so yeah, I think I pray
that any athlete who watches this feel scene. I think
they're they're going to enjoy the level of intensity that
we brought to the sport of football and the respect

(17:32):
we brought. And I tried to be honest and truthful
in that, and you know, I think it's a testament
to somebody just just trying to reach that level of greatness.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Right, what is what was the hardest scene for you
to film? Because, like we said this, you know a
lot of training, a lot of Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, so I think the hardest scene for me, I'm
going through the movie, like watching.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
The movie in my head like this was a tough day.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah, tough day.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I said, do you remember the last upper scene, the
last separate scene or I was.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Talking about my father who passed away?

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Oh my god, yes, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
That one was a tough one because of the subject matter,
my characters talking about his father who passed away. And
you know, I think I carried grief with me, justin
Tipping Cary's grief, Marlon Carrey's grief. And you know, I
went into that that scene thinking it was just like
me talking to reporters about my dad. And I was like, Yeah,

(18:26):
it's gonna be it's gonna be great, heart out yeah.
And then Justin was like, hey, I want you to
go there, like unload the clip on this this scene.
You know what I'm saying, like just put it all
out there. And I was like, you want me to
do what? And I think, as a man, you're not
taught vulnerability. And I think this is what this scene
is about, is athletes go through so much and we

(18:47):
forget their humans. They are mosaics of their past experience
and the trauma, the good, the bad, and you know,
just because they they play professional sports or sports at
a high level doesn't take from that, and uh, you know,
having that healthy conversation with Justin, you know, I shoot
the scene and it's not there. It's not authentic and

(19:07):
I never forced emotion and it has to come from
a real place. And Justin just had a real conversation
like where he what this scene meant to him? And
he came he lost his dad, and I realized that,
oh that was this scene.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
This movie is a love letter to his father.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
As this movie, I feel like it's a love letter
to my brother, my older brother who passed and for
Marlin his parents.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
And I think that level of empathy was was pushed
on to me and uh yeah, it pushed me to
a place where it pushed me into a real place.
And what you see on that screen, I mean it
isn't acting because I just was able to really really
feel where Cameron was coming from with that grief.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
And part of that was.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
It was improv and me talking to my brother, you know,
and it was just emostly taxing, but in a healthy way.
And when Justin was telling me about his dad, when
I finished, he was like, thank you. So many athletes
are going to be able to look at this and
feel seen. And you know something, something I've been watching

(20:19):
recently is tennis, and I see Cocoa golf and she
she has emotion on the court and it's so beautiful
to watch because she's such a dominant player.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
She is a human being.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
She's a human and we see like when Naomi Osaka
was like I have to step away for a while
and sometimes and then people would act like she's like
a spoiled bread.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, you have to protect the mental because if your
mental is not like there, like your body can't follow
and you can't perform, and then people people have their
opinions about how you perform, what is this?

Speaker 4 (20:51):
What is that? And it's just it's exhausting.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
So yeah, that scene was one that I hope people
really resonate with.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, it was a very emotional and that acting was
like top tier. So now that when I see it
in the theaters, yeah it'll.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Be I think I'll connect and resonate with that scene.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
It was a.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Journey because we were like next to an air craft place.
I don't know it was an airport, but mid tiers
and it's not all your hear is like a plane flyover,
and so I had to like stop and like stay
in it and then wait because for the sound and
then pick back up where I left off.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
And so it was. It was some obstacles during that film.
I meant that that scene.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
So yeah, oh listen, people are gonna love this so much.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
It looks like and I'm looking at early predictions, but
they are expecting it's gonna be the number one movie and.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
God's Ears and that's what it's saying.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Even from the low end to that high end, it's
looking like a number one film. How does it feel
to be in you know, it's not there yet, but
it's gonna happen. So how does that feel for you
knowing that you're about to be in the number one
box office?

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Wow? That lord? Yeah, it's a blessing. You know. At
the end of the day, it's about did I go
out there and give it all?

Speaker 3 (22:17):
And did I come from a real place? And I
think that's what I'm chasing is art that heals me
so I can heal others.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
You know.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
James Balwin talks about that, and I think I'm just yeah,
I'm blessed. And no matter what this film does, I
hope people can watch it and really really feel where
we're coming from.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
You have even though your career in TV and film
has not been that, you've had some like I think
iconic moments already, so and this one in particular. When
people see this, it's a whole another level. And so
congratulations to you. I think they did a great job
on casting you for it.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
You did an amazing job.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Marlon Wayans was absolutely like I've never seen a Marlin.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
You actually had to do it like a fight scene
for my audition. I had to fight, Marlon. Can you imagine?

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Imagine fight for it?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
We need to see that footage in that case. Do
you watch horror movies?

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:10):
I do, not a lot, but it's weird how they
found me. But I think horror so iconic because you
have to watch it with people. Don't have to watch
it with people, but you enjoy it best when you
have a group.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Because you know something scared together, scared together, you know.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Like I'm a big baby, I get scared really easy.
Uh So, Yeah, that's what I love about it. And
it's escapism and it delivers messages in organic ways that
has you thinking. Especially a Jordan Peel film, and this
one's produced by Jordan Piel and uh, you know, justin
Tipping took the baton and really pushed it over that

(23:48):
line to keep that creativity alive.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
And I think this is.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
It's scary, both like literally but also figuratively, and it
has you thinking after you see the film.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Did you what did you think that the first time
you watched it after you were done, when it was
in final cut.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah, I went on verbal. I was processing it all.
I got to watch it with Marlon and his family.
They were like, oh, you get a plus one into
the screen, Marlon, Bryce's whole family, plus twenty of them.
It's a lot of them. So I'm excited. I'm excited
to see this premiere. How many tickets he got to
the premiere? Did he get more than me?

Speaker 4 (24:20):
He probably got double my tickets.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
He's got more than me.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, he definitely got more than me. It was just okay,
But yeah, it was like a roller coaster.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
You know. I talk about how it's it was.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
It was a very hypnotic experience because you're like, you
shoot this thing and you know what you've done.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
But when it comes together in the.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Post production, it's it's beautifully crafted and from the sound
design to the music to the cinematography to the set design,
and yeah, it was like going into it for a
roller coaster. I'm like, please, hopefully I'm good in it,
you know, and you just get lost in the story.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
And finishing, you know.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
When you get off the roller coaster, you're like, I
want to get back on and right again and again.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
And I wanted to see it again. I've only seen
it once.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, did you critique yourself a lot?

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Oh? Absolutely, you felt like.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
You did a great job because you did well.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, I'm proud of the workout. I did certain parts.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
I couldn't even look at it. There's some gory things
in there. Guys. There's that machine just so you know,
with the football it's like wheels.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
I was like, I can't even look at this.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
That's good, that's good. But yeah, I started to realize,
like I can't.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
When I'm critiquing myself, I tell myself, it's exactly what
it needed to be at that time. And if I
were to do that same movie now, it wouldn't be
the same movie, you know, And that movie, this movie
found me in such a iconic place where where I'm
at my career is kind of like where Cameron Kid
is in his career where you get this major opportunity

(25:52):
and you want to perform not only for yourself, but like,
you know, my nephew has to eat, you know, like
I'm trying to put him through private school, give him
an experience at me and my brother didn't get so yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
All right, well, thank you so much for coming up here.
I know you have a really tight schedule. But what
the movie you were filming in Serbia was that Reminders
of Him?

Speaker 3 (26:13):
No, that was a family secret that hasn't come out yet.
I shot Reminders of Him in Calgary, Canada, and it
comes out.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I just said all these hymn things, reminders.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Of him the universe.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, so I only do movies with him and the
title that's in my contract. That's in my contract. You
have to switch the title up. So yeah, and you
have a coffee shop.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yes I do.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yeah, I gotta stop by.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Oh please, we would love to have any time coffe
up lest people.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Do my research. I love coffee, you do, yeh. That's
all I could drink when I was working.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Out the water, black coff I know you're going, I'm
obsessed with black coffee.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, I got you.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
If you make sure you guys, get some so you
can have some and drink the coffee. I appreciate that,
but thank you so much for joining me Tyreek with
his guys. Make sure you check out the movie him
September nineteenth. Go see it in theaters, okay, because I
had to watch it on my little laptop.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, it was amazing there.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
I can't even imagine now what it's going to be
like on the Imax there.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Then go see it again.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
And those are the theaters also where you get to
sit back and your comfortable seats or the food, although
you might not be able to eat the food because
of some of the scenes that you're going to see here.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
But you know, no texting during the movie.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
No texting during the movie.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
They're gonna take your phones radical detachment, radically see.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
We should have them standing at the door taking from now.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I don't do that.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
People are horrified by that.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
All right, well, Tyreek, I appreciate you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's way up