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