INTERVIEW: Cory Hardrict Speaks On Chemistry With Meagan Good, Tyler Perry's Praise, Fatherhood + More

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Everybody is the j n V. Jess Hilarischalla meane the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
in the building.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
He walked in looking like he's the leader of a.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Group, Stellar R and B group, colorialregric Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Welcome, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Man.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
How are you feeling.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm blesseding Holly favored. Man, I'm on the Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Club, blessed black and Holly favored. Les's black and Holly favored. Yes, sir,
I love that you got the new movie, Divorcing Black.
Tyler Perry's new movie came out today today. How does
it feel, man? It feels surreal. It feel like I'm
a new artist right now. You know, I got this
new great energy in my life. You know, I feel
like God got his hands on me and I'm ready
to take you to the next level.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
You've been doing.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
This is great over thirty years and it still feels new.
You don't feel like an og in it now?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Nah, I don't, because I live like a simple I'm
real simple off like when you don't see me like
acting like It's just like I'm simple. I stay disconnected
to everything. I just feel like I go like, what's
the next job? I just keep my head down and
keep going. Then when I go out to like Essence
and then people love and they's saying all his work,
then it makes it makes you feel good to say,
you know, your people appreciate you and they love what

(01:09):
you do, and that makes me want.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
To keep going.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Do you know when you got one, like like you know,
you do a role like this and you be like,
oh man, I got one, I got one.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I love Tyler period. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
He gave me an opportunity. He called me up and
Megan Good told him that I was a great actor
and he said, if you had a chance to pick
one actor who you working with?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
She said, Corey Harder. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Tyler called me one morning and he was like, look
Coritous Tyler, period, that same deep voice.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Did you believe it when he first called it? You
know it was him? Or he was like, man, because you.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Know them scam people be calling you a lot, so
you don't know, but it was really him And I
had to get my voice right.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
And he said, I'm a fan of your.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Work, and I was just like wait, who's paying him, Well,
not paying he's already billionaires. Aint nobody gonna pay him
to say that. But I was like, wow, you know
he wants to work with me. And I read the
script and it was all on the page and I
felt like it was a character I've being played, and
I said, I can do some justice to this role.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was ready to do it.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I saw you say working with a good coach star
like Megan Good is like having a good dance partner.
I said that dance partner. I thought you said dance
parton good tennis man if. I said that, yeah, but
she is great because.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I know megand I say that.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Essentially, you're just saying that you having chemistry with Yes,
we had.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Great chemistry because I've known Megan.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
We did an independent film and we we we've seen
each other in passing, always root each other on. So
when we worked, we had good chemistry and it was
already you know, that energy was already there and it
just carried over to the film.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Even though we played two opposites.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's like, it's crazy chemistry that we need for the
protagonists antagonists And who my Dallasy is. He's a he's
a bad. He's a wild boy. He's crazy, but that's
necessary in film. You need that crazy dude.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
So I'm gonna say, you know, for people that that
don't know it just came out today, tell people what
the film is about.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Two divorced couples going through you know, different gist of families.
My family sports me, but even though I'm wrong, they
never tell me I'm wrong. You know, which is not right?
You got you know, your family. I was by your side,
but no, you gotta tell him he's wrong. And Dallas
just didn't know how to treat people. And I think
it stems from his childhood trauma dealing with you know,

(03:14):
his different abuse that he's went through, and he's never
knew how to heal and never knew how to treat people.
So when you don't deal with that, like mental health issues,
it carries over into your adult life.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
And that's what happened with him.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
So he loved her, but he didn't know how to
and he you know, he kind of sabotaged the marriage
even before it got.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Going and she had to leave. It was enough, you know, And.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I like, outside Corey looking at that situation, I'm like,
she gotta be happy got to do what's best for you,
and that's his character.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
She did that. Aba.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
So do you feel like y'all got typecasted because you
know both of y'all did go through high profile divorces.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, I don't think so. I'm an actor.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
You know, I've been doing this Charlot Magne for like
thirty years, and I know when I see good work
on the page, and it just so.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Happened that that happened in my life.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
But what happened was I pulled from my experience, the triumphs,
the strategies, everything, and you know, and what I do,
what I'm great at. And I said, I'm gonna put
I'm gonna embody all those channel, all those feelings and
emotions and I'm gonna just put it into the camera.
I'm gonna let the work speak for me. I don't
really speak much about personal life. It matters, but you
don't know about the fruit that he's You know, when

(04:22):
you talk about the unhill trauma you had to deal with,
you know, playing this role, did that trigger anything in you?
Because you know, and I heard you talking about it,
I'm like, I'm gonna call my therapist today. Hit a
little spot.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
No, I was talking about the character for you personally.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh well, no, I'm like I said, I'm I'm an
I'm an actor. I know how to just go from
zero to one hundred when that camera's going. So I've
been doing this, you know. So No, I didn't. I
didn't channel anything. I just said, this is a great project.
I mean, I watched What's Love Got to Do with It,
studied Ike, you know, channel little Ike Turner, and then
I watched clips of some of my favorite actors and

(05:00):
in movies, and I just went for it entirely. Gave
me the freedom, took the handcuffs off me. And that's
rare for filmmaker, especially of that caliber, to say go.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
For it, just do you.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
And when he did that, I really went for it.
And a lot of people are receiving it really well.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
You hesitated, Allen when they called you said, the name
of the movie is Divorce and Black and everything that you.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Gonna know this name. Didn't know the name at all.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
I didn't really know the name until I got down there,
you know, and started seeing, you know, because it was
initial D I T B.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Then but I put it together, like, wait, what does
this mean? I said, damn? They're gonna start saying, start
saying something.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
But I said, you know what, I'm an actor, like
I gotta go do what I love. You know, I
gotta take care of my babies, you know, and I
love to act. That's it. But it's it's tough, right
because you're out here and put for you and making
y'all out here promoting this movie, and it makes people
want to ask about your personal situation.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
I mean, as they should because they want to know.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
But my whole thing is my real life, is my
real life, and you know, I just don't. I've never
been that way, even being in a situation married, I
still never. I always protected my kids, and you know,
I protected her as well, because I feel like that's
a man's duty, you know, whether you're together or not,
it's always protect her even though no matter.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
What's going on, I just don't.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
I don't fall into the pressure, Like you can't pressure
me into putting no one down and saying this is
what happened or they did me like never that you know,
it's always going to be unconditional love with me because
I definitely want her to win and she wants me
to win. And we know the truth and that's just
why I leave it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Did you have to call it and say, look, I'm
just let you know we're doing this movie it's called this,
but it has nothing to do with that, because no,
she just texts me.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
And says, she's very proud of me. You know, she's
so proud of me.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
You know.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
The world don't know that, and they don't see that.
They don't need to. So it's all. It's all like love,
you know, it's all.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
As an actor, you know, before you take on a role,
do you have to empty out everything you might be
going through personally to fill yourself up with this this role,
this character?

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Like empty?

Speaker 1 (07:12):
What do you mean like this whatever you're dealing with,
because like let's just say, oh, I get, I got
what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
You know what I do?

Speaker 1 (07:17):
I do I empty it all out on the camera
so when you see it, it's coming from a real place.
That's the therapeutic side that I use. I use it
as therapy to get it all out. What if you
got to get into a dark space, Like what if
you're a happy, joyful person but you got to get
into a very dark Most of my characters been dark.
But I'm just shooting people, you know, biting people, knows

(07:37):
off shit.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
That's what I stepped like, that's what I do. That
was like, that's what I do.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Like, I know how to play that guy really well,
street guy, you know what I'm saying. And I feel
at home playing that character. So it's kind of like
an easy transition for me when I get these characters.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
So on the other side, is it easy to get
out those characters?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yes and no.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
When I did a lot of I did like five
or six action films, and that was tough with all
the shooting and sometimes you know, I feel like you
got the PTSD from here and all and ducking you know.
I remember I used to walk around the house, look
around the corners, you know, like you know somebody over there.
That's just me.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
It's just me dad.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, Well, you got to answer the door with a
deep voice like who is it? You know, you got
to put that tongue like it's just but you know,
I mean, but no, I know how to I know
how to channel it and move it to the side
when I have to. But yeah, what was the most
challenging scene for you? I would say the most challenging
scene was roughing up Megan because I've never put hands

(08:36):
on a on a woman in my life, so that
was hard. So I had to ask her you okay,
like touching her like a hand, and you know, I
had to throw over the kitchen and I felt bad
because I was like, how I'm gonna do She's fragile,
but she said, Corey, go for it. I got been
doing this. Be an actor played Dallas Service the character.
I did that and so that was cool. And then
Miss Debbie Morgan, that was hard as hell man walking

(08:59):
into the y'all didn't see them.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
I can talk about it.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I mean, if you want to give it away, it's
a scene. I have a Miss Debbie Morgan, know, Miss
Debbie Morgan, and I'm and I had to grab her.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
I had to call out a name and she's like, baby,
grab me, like she grabbed my hand. And when she
did that, then I did not grab her.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
That's interesting because you said you studied, uh, you know,
Laurence Fishburn and what's love got to do with it
as opposed to studying real thinks that you probably could
watch like you mean, I don't want I'm not saying
I don't know. I'm just saying that I'm sure that. Sadly,
there's videos out there actually domestic you know, so I like,
but I was a character, you know, so that's not

(09:38):
Laurence Fishburn, and I'm playing a character.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
So people should know the difference. So when I watched them.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh no, I know they know the difference. But like
when you're when you're tapping into something as an actor,
is it better to tap into something you see somebody
do on screen already or real life? No, I haven't
seen that, like in real life, you know, real life
domestic violence. So no, I have not, but I can
go to film and watch it, you know. That's why
I pulled from most of the time the movies.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Now you've been doing this for for over thirty years. Yes, sir,
Now you just said something that made me think, is this.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
What you always did?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Right?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
You said? I asked making hey, do you mind? Back then?

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Was it did you ask? Or was it just like, no,
I'm doing my part and this is what it is.
But now it seems like I hear more and more
actors saying, let me ask, first, do you mind if
I do this to you? Even though it's in the script,
let me speak, Did you always did that?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Or it was always I've always been like considerate of
a woman or anybody on set. You know, I pride
myself and being a professional. You know, I've never had
an HR case in my life. You know, name is clean.
I've never got fired from a job in my life.
So I pride myself and being a professional and respecting
the whole workspace and environment and doing my job. So

(10:45):
you know, I would have done this years ago, but
now it's a little it's tight because everything is different.
You know, even we had a little intimate scene, it
wasn't really like that. I had to say, like, you're okay.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
You know, even though it's in the script.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
I had to. I had to. You never I had to.
You know what I'm saying, I did that.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I don't want to make sure my scene partner is
comfortable working with me, and I make them feel comfortable
and that that brings out their best work because they
know I'm there to handle business.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
I'm definitely no.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I remember Megan told me one time, she said that
taking on you gotta watch what roles you even take
nowadays because people think you're that character man.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Listen, Charloe Man. The movie came out at three am.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I had about probably sixty masters like I hate that nigga.
No really, but they said, I love you Corey, but
I hate like they really, So I said, I did
my job, that's right. Yeah. So he's gonna have a
he's gonna have a good shelf life. And if it
can do it, you know, Lauren, we were talking earlier.
Lawrence got the matrix after What's Love? We got to

(11:46):
do with it. If they could do that, then I'm
all for it. But I need people to know Corey's
that's Dallas. Let's please don't run up on me on
the street. Yeah, because you got idiots out here who,
for whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Don't follow me.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Man.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
In the LA airport, they said, why you kill Tupac?

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Man? He was serious.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Hold, I'm gon take my glasses though, He said why
you kill? And I looked at him like, no, I
know he's playing with me, right. He followed me to
the damn gate man, and he was like, Man, why
you set him up? Man? Why you do that?

Speaker 3 (12:15):
I said, Man, are you serious?

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Like you had to get the extra littles? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
I said, Man, come on now, I don't even the brother.
That's a movie. Don't you know this? Like I have nothing.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
I just play the character, and I don't think they do.
When when when Meighan said that to me, I thought
she was tripping too, But then I'm like, no, I
can see that in this in this era, or like
a movie I did, Brotherly Love that's done really well.
For like the younger generation, they always be like.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Why the quincy Q? I don't you know what I'm saying.
I'm like, that's a movie.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
But you know that means we're doing our jobs and
you know already imm it taste life. And if I
got to keep doing that, then I'm I'm not gonna
short change the craft because the person feels a certain way,
I gotta go.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
It's like all or nothing. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
I know you got to go soon, But I'm always
interested how you got into acting, Like what was that
thing that said this is.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
The and I want to do it.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
You're from Chicago and you could have did anything in
this world, but you got into acting.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
What was the reason and why?

Speaker 1 (13:06):
The reason was my mother I got in trouble. Me
and my brother got in trouble. And Oprah Winfrey was
having an open casting call for a movie called There
Are no children here. It was a long time ago
on the West side of Chicago. I had a thousand
kids in line. My mom took us down. I'm like,
we ain't rather wait in this line.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
You know nothing about acting at the time.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I was a shy kid. I didn't really want to.
I was I was basketball.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
I was a hooper, you know. So she made us
wait because we got in trouble on this line. They
picked me and my brother to be in a movie.
For like two months, I had one line like a.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Hey, that was all I That's all I had.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
And after I did that, and then being able to
see Oprah, you know, and just looking at her like
she didn't even look real. It was like, man, Oprah
was the biggest thing in Chicago around it still is.
But I got, I caught something to say, Wow, I
could possibly do this, you know.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
I got.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
So that was my mom and she's in heaven or
with her heart right here, you know what I'm saying.
I lost her when I was pretty young, but she's
the like driving force behind all my passion and living
out these dreams.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Have you seen no pra after that and told her
the story, No, no, not at all. I saw Gail
and she was at the script she was of the
premiere with next to Tyler, and she was telling the
dude who was whooping my ass?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
And she was like, get on, Benji. She was staying
in my ear trying to get my like she was like,
you a bad man. I was like, Yo, there's a movie.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
No, but I love it.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
I love all that. Do you hear from your mother now,
like through dreams she's with me.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, I hear talking to me. I really do. I do.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
And that gives me strength to keep going. You know,
my mom and my children, you know, and I know
I got them. It's like, I really really know they
gonna be fine. How was it a justin the like,
you know, still having your career but now being in
a co parenting situation speaking to the kids, cause i'saw,
you had just think you had one of your kids
with you to be Yeah, my son Kreedy, Yeah, he

(14:58):
was a thirteen ward thirteen he got to meet an
Eli Chop he saw a gun like he was excited.
But like I said, we have a great copaying relationship
and it's about the kids.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
End of the day, it's about the kids, and we're
doing we're doing.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Great in that in that area, and like I said,
I just I want everybody happy, man, and I.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Support that just happiness.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
What's it like sharing those moments with your with your
child at the BT Awards because you know he's he's
happy to be there with you. But then when he
sees the nli chop or a gun and you're like, hey, no.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
He was trying to act super cool around me.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
I was like, kree gone. I'm like, Son, don't get
the picture. He was like, dad chill. He called me
man like dad chill man.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I was like, what you just called me man?

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Man?

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Talk like that man, would you? He's like he was
like front, no me. And I'm just like, come on, son,
you're acting all cool.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Call you broke cause that's the new thing.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
They bro called me bro but not then he called.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Me chill man.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
I was like, okay, Son, I'm a chill because right
now I can't I want to mess up your energy
because you're in a good space right now and he's
got inSpot every boy going. The next morning, he woke
up trained in two hours in the backyard. Video showed
me the FaceTime like Dad, look, you know I really
want to go to the NBA, you know, so I said,
if that can give him that spark, man, that's what

(16:13):
I wanted. He wants to go and I looking, I
tell him, you can do anything in this world you
want to do. And it's something on People. I was
doing an interview and we always say hard work, dedication,
and then we finished up with I got God on
my side and he said it on the People magazine. Wow.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, So that's that's what's uping man.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
So how are you as a dad? Like you said
your n called you bro before. Yes, yeah, your girl
dad as well. So that means you get emotional the
times always. It's always emotional with my kids. I'm going
to say, but so so talk about that a little bit,
like meaning, raising kids in this industry and having kids,
how has it changed your life? It's changed my life
because I got to walk with a certain responsibility on

(16:51):
how I move, and I pride myself in that, like
you know, because I got somebody count on me, like
some little people count on me. So Daddy can't make
the wrong move, Daddy gotta stay on swivel. Daddy can't
get caught up in no mess. Daddy gotta protect the
mama regardless you know what I'm saying. So that's just
how I live my life. You know, That's how I live.
And when when your son called you, bro, what was

(17:12):
your reaction? What did you say when he said Bro?

Speaker 3 (17:15):
I said, you called me that again? Boy?

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Beat yours if you ever call me that? So you know,
but I talked to my dad or my son like
that because it's tough. I got to give him that
that that James Evans good times, Like I believe in
old fashioned you know, your friend, you my friend second,
I'm your daddy first, so don't forget it. I'm not
your friend first, daddy second, I don't.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't play that.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
I think the biggest issue for us is uh. I
can't speak for us everybody, but you know sometimes with
black men, we I always say my dad raised me
out of fear and not love. That's just because he
didn't want me to make the same mistakes that he made.
And being aware, I believe the first generation that gets
the luxury of healing. We have to show, show, show

(17:57):
how to lead, how to parent with love and not fear. Yes,
I agree, it's all about love and fear because you
do crazy things out of fear and it won't. It's
just like that can't be healthy. So you gotta move
with love. You gotta move with the good, pure intentions.
And like I said, but you gotta tell you. You gotta
be honest with your kids too, you know. I try
to tell them what the real world looks like and

(18:18):
what it really is, because my kids are very spoiled.
You know. First class, I didn't fly playing until I
was seventeen, and that was coach all the way in
the back. I ain't get on until I was twenty
one one.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, I think I was seventeen or eighteen. But he
knows about you know, sushi, the first class and emirates
and fun.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
In sushi. But Lafuna, he knows like he in at
an early age. But I said, son, Mommy and Daddy
worked for this. You gotta work. Man, don't know. If
you don't work, you can't. You're not gonna get none
of this. You can't rely on daddy, like I will
take care of you with my kids. But I'm like,
come on, that private That fifty five thousand dollars school
tuition ain't no joe, you know.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Now My daughters just got.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
In kindergarten, same school, so I'm like, son, that's I'm
doing that for you, So you got to do something
that's the other struggle because because my daughter's the same way,
my youngest eight and five. My favorite airline is Emmors,
you know, and I like Jet Blue, and you know,
I want to go back to Zanas Bar And it's like, whoa, you.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
So but you open their eyes though, yes, but there's
also a part of you that feels like you want
to instill some type of little struggling, little struggle.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
You remember the pork and beans and hot dogs.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
They don't come from that, you know, sugar sound like
it's just like I want him to have that sometimes
taking Chicago, take them to the Project.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
I want him to see that.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Now they order State can get my steak medium, please,
I'm like medium, I used to get it well.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Done, its system.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
But do we really want that for our kids? I don't.
But it's kind of like I want to trick them
like I want it. But I know, you know, like, man,
my kid's gonna be fine, but just give them a
little balance.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
My kids order Uber eats when they're hungry. We'd have
to go and make something, taking something if there was
something to make, if it was something to make, but
they eat now. I'm just gonna a Chick fil a today, Dad, Yeah,
And we say, okay, it's different, all right, baby? But
are we setting them up for success or is it
like feil Like that's what I'm saying, like because I
didn't have that, like I know how to go get
it like.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Whatever, you can throw me out and survival mode. I'm
sure you guys as well.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
But I guess I do get afraid sometimes I.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Pray my kids are I pray constantly to raise trauma
free kids? So why would we ever eat? Why? I
always think myself, why do I want to, you know,
show them any type of trauma? Like why why do
I want that? You know, when I'm when I'm trying
so hard to get it out of me. You know,
did you ever think that you would? Were there any

(20:42):
any doubt that I might not make it out with Chicago?
A lot of times, A lot of a lot of
crazy stories. Got a gunpull a lot, it's a lot
of those. We'll be here all day like I made
it out by the grace of God. You know, I've
got the song songs forty sixteen. We still knowing I'm God.
I've been wearing the blood of Jesus on this hand
for thirteen years, got aill on it. So but I

(21:04):
still cuss. I'm still real, you know, I look a
man line let him know I'm a grown ass man.
You know, it's just me. I don't need thirty people
with me, you know. So it's just like, but I do.
I do love God and know I'm still here because
of God and I got a purpose to fulfill. You know,
what does your support system look like? Like? Just you, Corey.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
I mean, I'm working on it. My kids. Not a
big one, you know, but I'm working on it.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
I'm just now getting like team behind me is telling
me to celebrate myself.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
I don't really know how.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
I wasn't never really used to celebrating me. I was
always what's the next job, or what's the next thing,
or keep moving or that's not good enough or you know,
because I forty some movies, I still felt like not
appreciated sometimes, you know, like man, you know, but but
this is the first one where I feel like mister
Perry was just like, you know, told me he loved
me the other day, hugged me. I'm so efing proud

(22:02):
of you, you know, and to hear him say that
gave me some confidence to say I'm doing I'm doing
all right. Do you feel and appreciate it?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Because you got It's like you're the face that everybody
knows but might not know their name.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Like you're that face, like.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
They know that's held me from what's his name again?
Like you are that, but you've been in every damn
near moved every every morning.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Way to make a brother feel good. It's the truth.
Though that was fine, No, it's changed it. Look they
saying my first and last name, they chase, they were
chasing me, and I was just like, you know, they
was naming all these projects and characters.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
And then time we did Good Morning America and they were.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Corey Harder so it felt it felt good. But I
really don't do it for somebody to know my name.
I really work because I love it, and I act
because I want to impact peoples lives and change their
lives just with the entertainment side of it, and I
want to always be memorable. I don't do it for that,
but you know, I'm ready to step into what's what's
necessary for the next part to elevate this thing because

(23:00):
I do feel like I'm one of the best actors
in the world. That's how I feel, like that quiet
confidence I do.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
I do feel that way. Do you feel like.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
You don't get the credit you deserve as an actor?

Speaker 3 (23:12):
I'm not looking for it. I don't know you're not
looking for it.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
But do you feel that way?

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Nah, they'll give it to me when they're supposed to.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Like I get underrated, and how come you ain't any
more movies that I get compared to people? But I'm
like people you compare me to I love and my friends.
You know, God gives time, like the time is different
for everybody, you know, but I feel like my time
is now.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Though.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
What's your dream roll? What role do you want to
do or who do you want to play?

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Is it an action figure?

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Is it? What?

Speaker 4 (23:41):
What's your dream role?

Speaker 3 (23:44):
I really haven't thought it.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I used to want to play Barack, but then they
did a movie by Barack and I was like, oh,
I can see that.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
I can see it.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I can see it too from Chicago. But now I
just want to play like I want to play black
Jesus say the world, like know, I want to really
do that, like in a human way, like say, people
help people, you know, just let people know that you
know that we're gonna be all right, you know, and
I can. I'm the one that can make sure everything's okay.

(24:14):
I want to play that character, whatever that character may be.
How do you stay focused nowadays being a single man
and you know, being on television and being in movies
and I'm sure women are you know, coming at you
on Breakfast Club with a blazer on, no shirt, thirst trapping.
No I'm not.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
I ain't thirst trapping.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
I said, I want to hit him with that.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Rick James, I want to hit him with that.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Rick James, you know my man out there. He told
me he's like, yeah, light skinned brothers always coming on
shirt on. But I said, I got.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Dark, dark skin energy brother. I have like a dark
skinned dude. But yeah, I'm like whatever, man, But no,
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
I'm not dating. It's just I'm focused on my kids.
That's why I'm dating.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Because when I'm not trying to work or handling business,
I'm trying to get my body right. I'm real into
the health conscious, like I eat well, you cry out, therapy, massages, physical.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
There, so'm I do that and my children, you know.
So no I'm not. I'm focused crowd.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
That's the ice ice. Yeah, so does that really work?

Speaker 3 (25:15):
I do IV drips. Yeah it does work. Yeah, it
does work.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
It gets inflammation like out of your body like I
slipped at work this year. There's a whole other thing.
And but it's all good. Somebody tell me. It gives
you a sense of clarity like like yeah you do, Yeah,
you do get some clarity, like you feel free, like
it opens up everything. Bullshit immune system like they said
those at doorphins, doorphins whatever, they boost everything. Yeah. So

(25:41):
was doing this movie therapeutic for you?

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Okay, yeah, it was just for the subject matter, you know,
even though Dallas is no way like Corey Hardrick. And
I want people to know that because you know, I
got some messages that I saw too, and they gonna
be talking. But if they don't recognize that I'm an actor,
I've really been doing this.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
You know.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
I've been to Oscar, you know twice. I've been in
a bunch of movies. It's made over billions of dollars.
But like you say, I haven't really been visible. Now
I'm like I got a publicist. Now she's here, Michelle,
if I got a manager sailor, like, I got some
strong black women behind me.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
So it's like, did you not have that before?

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Nah? I didn't didn't have it.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Oh that's why you hesitate when I asked you what
the support system look like when you say you're working on.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
It, Yeah, I'm working. This is all new.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
I've known them both for a while, but this is new,
and they're you know, they're like my community who's trying
to inspire encourage me. So sometimes it's still hard for
me to believe it who I am. And that because
you because you lost your mom, that's at your early age.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
I would say that's some of it.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I'm just dealing lost my brother like fourteen years ago
to gun violence in Chicago. That's why Chicago, when we
bring that up, is kind of like a touchy, you know,
because that brings back memories of tragedy and pain, you
know when I think about Chicago, but it is, you know,
it happened, and you know, I just I'm doing my
to honor them to this day. And I mean I

(27:03):
lost my stepdad a few years ago as well, who's
like my dad as well. So it's just been a
lot it's been a lot, and then you know everyone
knows the other thing, and so it gets tough, but
it is what it is. Do you have to adjust
to bringing people around because you probably condition yourself to
be such a I'm closing owner. Yeah, I don't trust nobody,

(27:25):
like it takes a while to get into like my
space or you know, just to let you in there.
So I'm like I said when I said I'm working
on it, I'm really like working on it now, like today.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
But I do see light at the end of the tunnel.
I feel like it's clear's day now, like.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Where I'm going, Like I've developed strength, like a certain
strength where I feel like I can't nothing stop me. Now.
I'm actually stronger than I've ever been at this moment
in my life. I'm always scared for actors, though only because,
like you know, they always say staying busy as the
response to trauma. And when you're acting, you totally escape yourself.
You don't even have to be you or deal with you.

(28:03):
So when you not active and you finally got to
just sit down and deal with you, oh my gut, right,
you're right, I mean, yeah, because I give it all
into the camera. But when you go and you're done,
you just PLoP down and it's like, man, I'm exhausted,
you know what I'm saying, Like I'm drained. Like I'm drained,
Like what do I do to pick myself back up?

(28:25):
That's why I just do a lot of things like
eating healthy that helps me out, like drinking some fasting
and drinking juice, doing a juice.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Clean like that that gets me back.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Doing the foot treatment, like detox treatment with the foot treatment.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
So yeah, that's that's pretty much.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
It sounds like you're learning yourself all over again. Man.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yes, it's a good thing in a good way. That's
just in a good way.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Like people are like, man, I ain't never seen like
you stepping out and you're doing all this stuff. But
I feel like I got I have to now to
get to where I need to go.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
You know.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
It's just like I gotta do a little different, just
a small I'm not really changing who I am. It's
just I'm just letting people know that I'm I'm Corey Hardrick.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Bro We've been up here fifteen years and this is
the first time you've been up here, so we've seen
the change and hopefully you'll come back.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't think i've been there before y'all interview I
think y'all interviewed us for brotherly love. It was a
proof of us. It was it was like four of us.
I've never been solo like. It was like a team
of us people.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
But I'm glad we're seeing you more.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Man, Thank you. I'm proud of y'all brothers doing it.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Thank you doing it.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Man holding it down and culture.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Did you have chests here and you shaved them all
chest est talking about it?

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Come home?

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Man's interesting to me.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Charlotte hit on with that pause.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Pause.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Man, when you're.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Doing the blazing no shirt, I'm like, okay, like you said,
Rick James, I'm just trying to but it gets a
little tricky when they glistened the chest. I don't do
nothing to my chest. Whatever my chests look like, that's
what it's gonna look like. You don't want them to
put No, you ain't putting nothing. You know when they
doing the makeup and you don't let them stay away
from the chest. They coming, They like, let me spring
on this a little bit, Charlemagne. No, I got to
keep it growing. I'm a grown ass man. Don't coming

(30:04):
my yest man, Paul God crazy, he said the boss.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Now crazy man, I hit the boss. Jesus christ Man
is awpen and uncomfortable. All right, well, Corey, we appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
For joining us.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
To check out the movie.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Though the voice in the black out right now, salute
to the good brother Tyler Perry. We do not give
Tyler Perry the flowers he deserves.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
I love.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
This movie is gonna change. It's changing my career trajectory.
I'm telling you right now, when y'all see it, you're
gonna see what I was saying. We saw what Meghan
said about Tyler paying her the most she's ever been paid.
She just hurt to Roger and say that I've heard
you had to say that.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Did you tell you?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Pay me the most iver made in the film for
three weeks? Really ever?

Speaker 1 (30:44):
And I worked on films five months, seventy five million
dollar budgets three weeks.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
That's why I say he's a gift from God.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
He's amazing human being from God.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Man.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
And I don't think people realize that. Maybe I'm wrong,
I'm not in Hollywood, but doesn't that set of president
Once you get that, that's your hope, your rate moving forward,
I hope. So, like like I said, I can just
being honest, I hope. So I would love to, you know,
double that or keep it pushing there and and and beyond.
So yeah, I feel like I'm on the right track
for that. My peripheral I saw.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
It just depends.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Is that a president moving forwards?

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Like, yeah, we go get that money.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, but salute the talent because people don't do that, man.
And I love hearing those stories.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
I love hearing people.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Say that I had the Brad Pitt Eddy Murphy trailer,
like the three levels I went in there.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
He had a bed or a water bed.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
I'm saying you could live in his trailer they had
for me. That's how I knew. I said, I'm being valued.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's right, that's right. So that's why that's what brought
out my best work of being valued. Wow, thank you
so much for period more questions, ask me anything. When
you look at this man right here, you Lorus Chestnut
before he looked like in the movie work.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
He Swiss.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
He looks like you're saying, you look like, say, he
looked like he called himself Morris. Just now now you've
seen the brother in movies with the brother like Charlottagne.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
I don't you.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
I don't think you favor Morris Chestnut.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Well, we'll see it.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Hey, you might need lay stick a little bit, just
a little you know.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Why are you saying it like another man's like you're
saying you look like another dude.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Mark Morris said he gets mistaken for me. That's what
he said on Jennifer Moore.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Morris line his ass up, Morris, don't look ship like you.
Why are y'all doing that? More more? Stop that man,
that's my man.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Choreogic Ladies and Perry's Divorce in Black on Amazon Prime
right now. And it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake
that ass up in the morning.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
The Breakfast Club