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Jacob Latimore Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is a true young rising star in
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood and I'm a big fan of his talents. He's
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  Speaker 1: an accomplished singer, dancer, and actor. He first came on
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  Speaker 1: my gradar when he started the movie Slight, but that
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  Speaker 1: was one of many movies he has been seen in,
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  Speaker 1: such as Collateral, Beauty Detroit, Crystal Candy Jaw, Box Office
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  Speaker 1: Hits and Clue, Ride Alone and The Major Runner. Now
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  Speaker 1: you can see every Sunday Night starting in season three,
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  Speaker 1: of Showtime's original series, the shot where he plays the
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  Speaker 1: character Emmit Washington. Please welcome to money making conversation, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: A lotta more, Jacob, What I was saying your name? Man?
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  Speaker 1: I had to started laughing, Man because that character Man, Man,
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  Speaker 1: can I Jacob? Can I trust him? Man? Can I
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  Speaker 1: trust Can I trust him? It? No, Man, can't trust him?
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  Speaker 1: But as a as the beauty of that character, the
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  Speaker 1: frustration of your mom. But let's talk about your career, man,
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  Speaker 1: because you've been in the game. You're young guy, and
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  Speaker 1: successes came your way and a lot of people my
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  Speaker 1: my career as a producer, writer, manager, over the years,
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  Speaker 1: I've a lot of success and still having success and
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  Speaker 1: sending young talent like you come into the game. Can
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  Speaker 1: you talk about how you got started? Jacob? Yeah? Well, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, music random you know, runs in my family.
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  Speaker 1: My dad of my uncle's uh you know, seeing gospel
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  Speaker 1: music and Kimny Lottimore was my cousin, my grandfather and
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  Speaker 1: my uncle Joe rest in Peace, who you know, had
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  Speaker 1: their own group when they were younger. Um, so I
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  Speaker 1: just grew up in a house full of musicians and
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  Speaker 1: singers and I was always you know, just hearing acapella
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  Speaker 1: and and just I was absorbing so much as a child.
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  Speaker 1: And then I would see you know, performances and music
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  Speaker 1: videos and limos being parked outside to you know, pick
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  Speaker 1: up my dad and uncles for them to go to
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  Speaker 1: l A when they were signed an m C A
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  Speaker 1: and the other two thousand's, And I was just I've
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  Speaker 1: just seen this lifestyle. I was just like, what's this?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I want to do it? You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, But you gotta have a talent to
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  Speaker 1: do it, Jacob gotta have the talent to do it exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So I was just I was absorbing. I was I
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  Speaker 1: started practicing, you know, as early as six years old,
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  Speaker 1: got into the studio at nine years old. So when
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  Speaker 1: you when you when did you realize you had the talent?
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  Speaker 1: Because everything's cute you when you're a young kid. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people he can dance, dance for the song, Mamy, dance
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  Speaker 1: for the song. Jake would come on, come on, and
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  Speaker 1: then on you realize he has something, he has a gift.
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  Speaker 1: When did that realization come on? Come come to you?
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  Speaker 1: And the people surrounding you, Um, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: it was more so like I think they seen how
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  Speaker 1: serious I was taking it beyond just um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just wanting to sing. I feel like my uncle brought
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  Speaker 1: up something really funny, um and it sounds like something
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  Speaker 1: I would say. He said I was about seven or
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  Speaker 1: eight years old or something like that. And then my
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  Speaker 1: uncle was like, Jake, look, look, Jake, you want some McDonald's.
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  Speaker 1: And he said that. I said, uh uh nah nah,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be on stage, and you know, I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to do this artist thing, so I gotta watch my figure.
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  Speaker 1: I can't eat McDonald And he said he died live,
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  Speaker 1: and he was like what he was like, figure, I
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  Speaker 1: was just like and for me to know that I
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  Speaker 1: love to work out so much and I like to
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  Speaker 1: I like to generally staying solid shape. So I was
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  Speaker 1: just like, I was like, I don't remember that, but
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  Speaker 1: it definitely sounds like something I would say. And I
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  Speaker 1: just think that I just took it so serious. I
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  Speaker 1: was working up rehearsing on my own, and I was
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  Speaker 1: studying so many different performers and and and listening to
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  Speaker 1: how many songs. The Temptations movie was one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite movies, and uh B two K was one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite groups. I was just in front of the television,
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  Speaker 1: just absorbing so much of the entertainment of it. I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, I think I think they would just like,
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  Speaker 1: let's put him in the studio, just just do it.
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  Speaker 1: And so your education was just your just your life, right,
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  Speaker 1: just watching your family, watching people around you being successful,
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  Speaker 1: realizing that you know, that's an option that was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like you mentored by the opportunity because you know,
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  Speaker 1: if your father is an engineer, you might watch how
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  Speaker 1: he goes to work every day. You become an engineer
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  Speaker 1: off somebody who cheek higher education exactly exactly as as
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  Speaker 1: a child, you absorbed you know what your parents are
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  Speaker 1: doing and their lifestyleed living, and you sort of you know,
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  Speaker 1: either you fall in love with it or you don't.
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  Speaker 1: But I just happen to really to really fall in
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  Speaker 1: love with it and uh and want to do it
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  Speaker 1: and also just take it to the next level with
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  Speaker 1: my acting career and and and and dive into so
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  Speaker 1: many different other things. So it was it's been a
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  Speaker 1: huge blessing. I think, you know, our family is real
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  Speaker 1: proud just to you know, see me like squreaming around
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  Speaker 1: in the living room, dancing and singing all day. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, my my grandfather said, man, you didn't really
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  Speaker 1: dance and shake yourself into a career. Like, why that
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a grandfather's statement, right, yeah, something about yourself. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't. Yeah. He always say that too,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he like they always repeat, he said all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff. Yeah, so you know that that's really at
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  Speaker 1: you a good looking guy. So how did the dancing
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  Speaker 1: come about? I got the singing and then that, and
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  Speaker 1: if you good singer, sometimes you can transition to the acting.
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  Speaker 1: How did the dancing became a major part of your portfolio? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my dad got real good rhythms, and my
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  Speaker 1: mom actually used to dance too when she was young.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, and then I just, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: just fell in love with like dancing. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think I started absorbing myself around dancers too. When
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  Speaker 1: I once I got to Atlanta, I started going to
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  Speaker 1: these like dance competitions. It was a thing that we're
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  Speaker 1: doing at this club. It was called dance Invasion. Young
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  Speaker 1: kids would be battling, and you know, you just absorbed
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  Speaker 1: around all these great dances here in Atlanta, and I
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  Speaker 1: just started making friends with them, having ciphers, having dance
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  Speaker 1: battles and just being around dancers, you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: they were like yo, like and I was taking as
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  Speaker 1: classes every now and then, but mostly it was just
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  Speaker 1: like really just just being around and man, yeah, like everything,
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  Speaker 1: every everything I wanted to do, I just put my
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  Speaker 1: mind to it, and I just I didn't you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was it's it's been dope. You know. The great
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  Speaker 1: thing about I was speaking of Jacob Lattimore, one of
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  Speaker 1: the stars of the Incredible or Showtime original series To
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  Speaker 1: Shine Us as a family show, it's a community show.
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  Speaker 1: Is a sometimes the uh, the realism of the series
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  Speaker 1: can uh make you angry, make you wish the characters
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  Speaker 1: will do something differently and your roof for people then
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  Speaker 1: they then they fail you. But but I want to
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  Speaker 1: move back a little bit when I first saw you
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  Speaker 1: and the movie Slip, when you played the Magician Street Magician,
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  Speaker 1: and that was a starring role for you, Jacob. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot to to to realize. Talk about that opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: how it was presented to you, and then the whole
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  Speaker 1: process of taking that that that that knowledge is this
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  Speaker 1: movie is you're starting in and you have to carry
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  Speaker 1: the weight of this movie. Yeah, it was actually know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think I thought about it that
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  Speaker 1: hard because I think my second film, Black Nativity, was
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  Speaker 1: so the schedule was so heavy and the amount of
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  Speaker 1: scenes I was doing, you know, next to Likene Forest
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  Speaker 1: Whitaker and like Angela Bashet and memorizing all these things
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  Speaker 1: that startpower, that startpower put pressure on you right there,
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  Speaker 1: you just said to start. Yeah, that experience alone was
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  Speaker 1: so heavy for me. And uh so by the time
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  Speaker 1: I got to a film like Slight, which I filmed
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  Speaker 1: Black Nativity for about a month and a half, I
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  Speaker 1: feel Slight in two weeks, which was Yeah. Yeah, Slight
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  Speaker 1: was an independent film for two hundred and fifty grand,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it was fantastic. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ta man, I'm weighing on Slight two. It
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  Speaker 1: was that good to me. And the characterizations and the
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  Speaker 1: emotional it was. It was what I'm saying, is that
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  Speaker 1: two weeks, man, that's a lot of emotional range that
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  Speaker 1: you showed in that big screen opperdate the debate right there.
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  Speaker 1: That was amazing what you were doing, man, And it
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  Speaker 1: was just two weeks. And that's how independent productions usually happened.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have the budget, the catering, the crew that
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  Speaker 1: ain't around, and usually say, man, look I'm a squeeze
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  Speaker 1: is in my schedules, but this ain't my real moneys
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  Speaker 1: and that's how But but it allowed me to see
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  Speaker 1: you as a as a really brilliant young actor. M yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. It was it was incredible, you know. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I was out in l A and was so was
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  Speaker 1: so funny about Slight. Slight was the only film that
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  Speaker 1: I had booked that year, and I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: stressing out man, and be honest, like, I was auditioning
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  Speaker 1: like crazy, and I was getting a lot of nose.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It was just like you're a star, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't feel like you're right for this role. And
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  Speaker 1: I kept getting that that in so like yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: a star, and Jacobs a star, but it's just I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, he's maybe too cool for this one, or
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  Speaker 1: like maybe he's too much of a star for this role.
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  Speaker 1: And I was auditioning for like, you know, the like
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  Speaker 1: the second role from next to the leading role, and
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  Speaker 1: they were like, well, he's probably outshining the star. He's
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  Speaker 1: just just to start, you know. I was just and
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  Speaker 1: was like, man, come on, man, book me in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to work, you know, you know, so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that's where my mind was. And then, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I remember we took Slight to Sundance the topic of
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  Speaker 1: the next year, and then I got a phone call
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  Speaker 1: saying that I booked Collaiteral Beauty with Will Smith, Food
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  Speaker 1: to New York. Two weeks later worked with will after
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  Speaker 1: the Will Smith movie. Uh, they said, uh, You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: work with William H. Macy Um on this independent film
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  Speaker 1: called Crystal. And then after that I booked Detroit. So
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  Speaker 1: I did those three films and one year after a
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  Speaker 1: year prior of just barely working, you know, because Slight
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  Speaker 1: was only two weeks of that year. And uh so
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I was really just stressing out, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest, But how did you maintain How did you
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  Speaker 1: was the family player role in that? Did your faith
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  Speaker 1: player role in that? Being able to overcome that frustration
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  Speaker 1: of people saying what they what they know you're talented,
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  Speaker 1: but hey, we're gonna pass on this one. Rich dude
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  Speaker 1: check to dude, checks on coming in. Food needs to
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  Speaker 1: be in your billy, what's going on right there? And yeah, honestly, man, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I was standing with one of my best friends. Actually
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  Speaker 1: just saw him a few days ago. His name is
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  Speaker 1: Decor Darden. I stayed out with in l A. With
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  Speaker 1: him at his apartment. He had like a guest from
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and I would just sort of renting out. I
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  Speaker 1: was paying him monthly, and I was just like, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm coming out to l A. I want
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  Speaker 1: to audition. I just want to get out here and grind.
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  Speaker 1: And then um, yeah, like he was really really supported.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you know, a really good friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: We actually met on the Major Running set actually pays
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  Speaker 1: he plays fried Pen and uh and Mays running all
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  Speaker 1: three major runners actually and uh yeah, he's he's like
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  Speaker 1: a really supportive friend. Because I was away from my
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  Speaker 1: mom and my dad, I really wasn't. That was like
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  Speaker 1: my first time really being out on my own, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Almost like going to college. It's
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  Speaker 1: like going to college. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was out
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  Speaker 1: there on my own, you know. So, Um, I just
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  Speaker 1: had a great support system even with my friends, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, I was choosing my friends wisely.
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  Speaker 1: I was choosing you know, I was choosing to you know,
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  Speaker 1: called my family and just but the movie, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they were giving me a lot of um just encouragement,
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  Speaker 1: and I just always knew I was gonna book something
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like even though they were saying no,
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  Speaker 1: they were saying I was a star, which which felt good.
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  Speaker 1: But I was just like, man, I need some work.
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  Speaker 1: But I knew something was gonna come, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: the right role was gonna man uh. And I just
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  Speaker 1: knew a lot of people saw something in me. And
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  Speaker 1: my agents were like, look, this happens all the time
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  Speaker 1: sometimes because a year of nose and then like the
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  Speaker 1: next year could be just full of work. So and
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  Speaker 1: be ready. That Hollywood is is to be ready to
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  Speaker 1: be at. That's that's to start lying being at. And
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  Speaker 1: when they said go be ready, that's what Hollywood all about.
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  Speaker 1: It could be frustrating, but it also could be it
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  Speaker 1: also could be like, Wow, this is why I want
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  Speaker 1: to do this. And one of the movies you played
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  Speaker 1: in with Trot Detroit, when I look at the civil
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  Speaker 1: unrest now that we all are experiencing now and doing
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  Speaker 1: the time of pandemic, you know you did that what
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  Speaker 1: you did that movie prior to the George Floyd and
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  Speaker 1: all the situations that are but bri on the Taylor
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  Speaker 1: and all these things that have been going on on
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  Speaker 1: a regular bation that we talked to us about, when
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  Speaker 1: you do you look back on that movie now and
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  Speaker 1: think about what's going on right now in the in
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  Speaker 1: the world today, not only just in US, the world
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  Speaker 1: in general. Oh yeah, absolutely, Like, um, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: we thought we thought that film would really Obviously I
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  Speaker 1: think the longevity of it still speaks values, but we
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  Speaker 1: really thought it would go. It would it would blow
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  Speaker 1: up much bigger than it did, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because we were touching on something so so relevant. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that the reality of it was no one
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to go to a movie theater and see
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  Speaker 1: something that they're seeing on CNN every day, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and it was just like it was hard
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  Speaker 1: for people to watch it. Man, it was like it
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  Speaker 1: really was hard. I would you can tell you that
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  Speaker 1: I watched that at the house. It was difficult because
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  Speaker 1: it was the truth. It was the truth. Yeah, people
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  Speaker 1: are man, I need a cigarette and I need a drink,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people are leaving the theater and that was
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  Speaker 1: just like I was like, wow, like it's and and
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  Speaker 1: people come out of crying, they would come out of hugging,
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  Speaker 1: and it was it was really emotional. So the impact
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  Speaker 1: was was so dope. And uh, just to to know
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  Speaker 1: that film still speaks volumes and the speaking values over
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  Speaker 1: these years and it will speak volumes after we're going
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  Speaker 1: and after our careers are done, you know. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy I was able to get a film like that
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  Speaker 1: under my built and I usually try to do a
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  Speaker 1: variety of different films. Well you do, you know, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: the the ability to be able to go from you know,
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  Speaker 1: because Maze Runner was a sci fi you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then you had you know, ride Along with a comedy
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  Speaker 1: and Detrot was just dramatic. And then of course Slight
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  Speaker 1: a true star and Roll to me, that was to me,
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  Speaker 1: that was the movie that said it for me. As
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  Speaker 1: a fan of Jacob Lattimore, I became a fan Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: I won't know Slight too? Can you do it? Go
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  Speaker 1: find me and something brother, something something, man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's so funny. I reached out to the director Um
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  Speaker 1: and I was h J. D. Dillon. I was like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: what you want you think about a flight too? He
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  Speaker 1: was like, I just don't know if I'm interested, and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, I just want to do I want to
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  Speaker 1: do something different with you. Man, I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do like something different, you know. He said, I'm working
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  Speaker 1: is a it's a lot of things could have come
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  Speaker 1: out of that series, a Netflix series, uh you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: uh the three series a lot because it was just
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  Speaker 1: that good. It was just that personal and you and
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  Speaker 1: you play a young character which I felt was relatable
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  Speaker 1: to what's going on in the Marvel universe right now.
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  Speaker 1: But but right now, right now, you're starting in the shot,
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  Speaker 1: how did that come about? And this character. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you something, man, I don't know if I um,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: if I was your big brother, I'll hit you in
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the chest, dad center in your chest and can tell
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  Speaker 1: you get your life together. Boy. It ain't in your parents,
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  Speaker 1: Your life ain't in your parts. It's in your hat
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  Speaker 1: above yourself. So tell us how that character came about. Honestly, man,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was I think auditioned maybe three or
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  Speaker 1: three times. Uh. Once was on tape, then I flew
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  Speaker 1: out to l a um had. It was like maybe
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: four other people auditioning for Emmett, and they were kind
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  Speaker 1: of throwing this in and out the room with different
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: um actresses that we're gonna play the mother row and
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• 19:54
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  Speaker 1: lot of personality, and you know, luckily it came out
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  Speaker 1: And I was just like, man, we gotta we gotta
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  Speaker 1: work where my family could kind of you know, drive
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• 20:43
  Speaker 1: only an hour by hour and Chicago five very familiar
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  Speaker 1: with Chicago. We're gonna talk about that a little bit.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: But you know the beauty of this when you said
• 20:51
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  Speaker 1: Chicago an amazing city. You know, it's a very summer
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  Speaker 1: people up there, but on the major holidays, they're sitting
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  Speaker 1: there want to shoot each other. And that's sad and
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  Speaker 1: and and and and it's captured in this in this
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: series because there's a lot of hope, but there's a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: lot of tragedy. Talk about the season one, season two,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: season three, has your has your how your character has
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: developed each season in it? I call you in it,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: but I know you're Jacob. Yeah, I think, um, I
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: think we're definitely seeing him grow in areas um and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: then definitely see where his weaknesses continue to be. You know,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: what is this week? What is this week? If Jacob?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: What is this week? Women? Women? The FORGA teller told
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  Speaker 1: you what your weakness was. The voice when I when
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I first when we had the table read out, said
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't believe the ladies said that
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: right in front the tiff place. Your girlfriend and was
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the mother of your child? What are your children? I knew.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I knew once we shot that it was gonna go crazy.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my goodness, it seems about to go. Wow. Um,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: what's so dumb about the shots that I'm able to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: dive into keep diving into a character every year, like
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you know, with Slider, like other films I've done, I
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: only had one opportunity, you know, but with Shot, with
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the shots, just keep every year I find new ways
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: to be Immit, you know, and bring out you know
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: his personality is swag and and dig deeper into you
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: know who Emmitt was, you know who he is now.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So it's just, um, it's really fun. It's really fun.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of funks. It's a lot of fun, Jacob,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: because you know, like, you have this is acting, man,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: this is a gift that you have she you have this.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It's like it's like a kid getting coach sticking a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: hand in the cookie jaw. Look that you have, you know, like,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: what's wrong, what's wrong, what's the problem, what's the problem,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that's what your problem looked at. You have mastered it
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: is what makes your character work for me, because you
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: keep getting into trouble after trouble after trouble, and it's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: all like it's always like with your hands out, what's wrong,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: what's the problem, what's wrong? Right? Right? Exactly. Yeah, It's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: just it's so fun to play, to play him. I
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: feel like it wasn't until I played the show where
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I feel like I unpacked it. Uh people on a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: different level. I think, I think I've I've played some
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: really incredible roads. But the show has really made a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: stamp on the culture. Like when I walked down the street,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: people don't even call me Jacob. They called me Immage,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: called me. Yeah, I was there. I was in Cleveland
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: not too long ago, I said, getting some education on
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: some stuff. And then like I would stop at the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: gas station or stop at the restaurant, and they'd be
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: like yo, yo, you know, like it's just when you
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: when you know, when you know Jacob. Let's be real
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: now you know that in the character is a highly
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: sex charge character. So I'm sure people look at you
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: from a ladies percilating from a different angle now. No,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: it's definitely been different. I think I even think a
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: lot of people just now realizing that is Jacob, which
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: is who is me? I'm just like, and I just
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: realized Jacob. I'm seeing a lot of these twos now.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just realizing Jacob Lottimore is playing in it on
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the show. I've been watching this show for two seasons.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that was Jacob, and I was just like,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I must be really in it then, because well,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: you know the things about here stuff, it's the interesting
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: about our relationship, you know, like what I've been don't
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: my make convintation a couple of years and when the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: show came on the Shy, you know, they was just
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: there was totally you know, let's get Jacob on your show.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Just get him on your shows. You can interview him.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad I waited or we just couldn't connect,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: because talking about your character now is a really great opportunity.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Because the beginning of the first of all this season,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: they brought on some great additional cast members. My boy
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Luke James, Oh my god, what he's doing in that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: character Candy Burrows. Wow, she's nailing it, nailing and then
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Little Real you know, playing the character Zeke subringing comedy.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: But you know how he does it. He can play
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: serious but actually so funny that it comes across like
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a joke every time he opens is doing and so
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And that's that's what you're saying. When you when you
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: got the chance to play against Will Smith, you know,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Angela Bassett, you bring on all these additional talent. It
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: causes you as a talent to step up your game
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: as well. Correct, Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I think you know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Sabedia having a great cash you know, we are can
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: help out each other and uh motivate each other to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: do to do better and it makes a great show.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: And you know, as long as the chemistry is amazing, um,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: we can always we can always make a scene work,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's been it's been a blessing
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: because let's at the stage way yet with the character
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: brought in Lala Anthony. She's your supposed to the business partner,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: but we found out last night you're a little bit
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: more than your business partner, sir. And then you have Tiff.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: You are living at the home with your mom on
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the sofa. You know, Tiff sALS. She kind of hasn't
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: got a license yet, but she kind of sells weed.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: That's the way she brings money into the household. And
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: so did you have these other characters that are out there? Keysha?
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: She was, she was being held captive by this crazy
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: guy in the basement of his home. You have Runnie
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: out there trying to redeem himselves. But the season opened
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: this year which you are in tears, which I thought
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: wasn't a amazing moment when I see an actor able
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to deliver an emotional like that, tell us how you
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: you know? Because you will? That was the That was
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the that was the funeral moment of the open scene
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of the season. How did you get the emotionally to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: deliver that type of moment in the opening the premier
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: season of the third season premiere episode of the third season. UM, honestly,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I'm a crier anyway, you know if I feel like
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: because I'm a crying too, I'm a cry. Yeah, yeah,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: like I cry. I'm like, yeah, it's time to cry.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I'll be back, you know. Um, I think for me,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I have just lost a cousin earlier. That year and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: so I was it wasn't too long ago that I was,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you know, at the funeral, and uh it just kind
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of hit home, you know, for for me and my
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: personal life. Um, and just I think the energy of
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a funeral or the energy of the casket, Uh, it's
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: just it's strong, you know, without just being there, which
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: alone was just Uh, I've never been a pall better
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: before carrying the casket to the to the to the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: car before. I just I've never I've never been in
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that position, so uh to feel that weight of the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the casket, to be that close was just it just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: felt awesome real, to be honest, and uh, I just
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: let it flow. I let it flow. And I think,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you know, the directors like, let's just let's film, let's
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: get it and get it there there in it so
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and everybody had tears. You know, a lot of changes
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: were made. I think that was just that was kind
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: of sad too, to be honest. I was just like, man,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: you know, um, it's just so much, so much change,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and uh it just felt so real. But it felt
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: like we were all growing to at the same time.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: So um, that's how I tapped in that it played
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  Speaker 1: a major role for me as far as this whole
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  Speaker 1: series when I you know the name of the show
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: with money making conversations, and I always bring people on
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  Speaker 1: to talk about how they run their business or how
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: they plan their business. And when I look at your
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  Speaker 1: character in it, you know catering. You you did the
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  Speaker 1: opening catering and yeah, you know, you got everybody to
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  Speaker 1: bring from different stores and they wind up ordering pizza
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  Speaker 1: at the wedding, and so you make as a young
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  Speaker 1: startup business. If I had to use you as an
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  Speaker 1: example on my show, you make all the stakes. Your character,
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  Speaker 1: em it makes all the mistakes. Is he ever gonna
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  Speaker 1: get it right? Or that's revealing too much of the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming episodes. You know what I always learned just in
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  Speaker 1: mistakes you made, You're gonna be successful. So I think that,
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  Speaker 1: like im it is really human right now, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like he's like business wise, I feel like he's I
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: feel like that's the only area he's really grown in
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: to be honest, Like absolutely, That's what I'm excited about it, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: that character because I'm rooting for it. But then when
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: you had the moment with Dom that just like come on,
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  Speaker 1: I please, right, But I think like for that that
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  Speaker 1: it's like that's a separate thing, right. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: maybe he hasn't really developed into maybe you know, want
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: a man, responsible man, Yeah, responsible man in a relationship.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: But I feel like when it comes to when it
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: comes to business, I feel like he's wrapping his head
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: around how business goes, how how to market, how to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: brand something, how to put pieces together, how to be
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a leader. Um, you know, if he doesn't know how
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: to cook, okay, I'm gonna find a chef and I'm
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: gonna run a cash register, I'm gonna you know, uh,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you know, oversee things. So I think he's growing in
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: that area. But obviously women is just I think it's
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: good always going to be a child, a weakness for
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: this young brother that I was hit in the chest
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and say, come on, Emmett, step up, step your game up,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: get it right now. Earlier in that conversation, you said
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: that it was really important that this particular show about
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Chicago got it right because the shows, hey, you know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: black people complained that wasn't us. You know, it's a
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: poor portrayal. What do you feel the shot which is
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: on Showtime every Sunday night at nine p m. Eastern,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: What are you guys doing right on that show, Jacob?
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: That makes me excited, I can tell you. But again,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I'm a fan, as an as an actor, as a
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: guy who's in the streets. People are responding to your
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: care after So well, what are you guys doing right
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: about the characterization of Chicago? And this I think just
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: touching on real issues, uh, you know, missing young women, um,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: gang activity. Um. I think that you know, we're also
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: just touching on just real human beings, are real relatable
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: situations that not only just maybe go on in Chicago, um,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: but like maybe that go on the other hoods of
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the country, you know what I mean. So I think
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: that it's finding a way to relate to Chicago, but
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: it's also finally relate to relate to them the whole world,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: you know. And uh, it's just the language is right.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I think the lineage is so tapped into you know,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the media and what's really going on in the streets. So, um,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you know that, and that's good to happen. A lot
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of the writers are from Chicago. That's awesome. Well, I'm
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: telling I want to take care. I want to thank
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you for taking the time to come on Money Making Conversation.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, Jacob, I'm a fan and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: any product, when you're sawing, when you drop your song,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: or you're doing anything out there other than the shot,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: please come on the show. I will promote it. I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: got a nice social media following over a million newsletter
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: over ninety thousand fan club members. I do want to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: bring on the show. Introduce you to my fans and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: let them know how real you are. And keep winning,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: my man, keep winning. Thank you. I appreciate you here.
• 32:18
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