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Delroy Lindo Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: film and TV star. He currently appears in CBS The
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Speaker 1: which has been renewed for a fifth season on CBS
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Speaker 1: All Access, which is CBS streaming service. He an educated
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Speaker 1: man with an honorary doctorate and Arts and Humanities from
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Speaker 1: Virginia University WOW Honorary Doctorate and Arts and Humanities for
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Speaker 1: Virginia Union University, b f a degree from POLTI from
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Speaker 1: San Francisco State University and a Masters of five Arts
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Speaker 1: from New York University. You have seen him play prominent
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Speaker 1: roles in three Spike Louis Spike Lee films, Malcolm X,
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Speaker 1: Crooklyn Clockers, plus other movies like Get CHARTI, The Site
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Speaker 1: of House Rules, Going in sixty Seconds and one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite, Ransom. He'll be next seen in Spike Lee's
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Speaker 1: new Netflix film The Five Bloods, the premiers Friday June twelve.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversation. There are Lindo. How
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Speaker 1: are you doing, sir? Well, yeah, right now, I'm in
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Speaker 1: northern California. Awesome, awesome. UM, I want to get started
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Speaker 1: with this. First of all, I saw the movie, and UM,
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Speaker 1: I just want to compliment you on this, uh, this role.
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Speaker 1: When you get a script like this, sir, what are
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Speaker 1: are there any expectations? Because you have outstanding monologues in
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Speaker 1: it is a tortured soul character. Uh, doesn't have a
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Speaker 1: relationship with your son and the care in the movie.
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Speaker 1: Tell us about the script, when, when you received it
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Speaker 1: and as it developed along the way. We're talking about
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Speaker 1: the script The Five Bloods, which will premier Friday, June
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Speaker 1: twelfth on Netflix. UM when I received the script, it
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Speaker 1: was clear to me that it was a very rich sir.
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Speaker 1: Uh Um I was, I was, I feel really good
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Speaker 1: about the fact. It's like it called men and just
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Speaker 1: asked me, offered me, uh the part in the film.
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Speaker 1: Um was one stumbling block that I have when I
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Speaker 1: first read the script, which was UM that the character
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Speaker 1: is such an ardent Uh Trump supporter. Uh, I am
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Speaker 1: not Trump supporter. It was a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: stumbling block, but we got over that. I read the
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Speaker 1: script an additional two or three times, and I rationalized
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Speaker 1: in my head, how and why, um, the character of
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Speaker 1: Paul that I'm playing in the film could arrive at
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Speaker 1: a place where he feels compelled to to vote for
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Speaker 1: this person. UM. Larger than that for me, UM Equally,
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Speaker 1: if not more important than that for me is the
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Speaker 1: fact that the more when I read the script the
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Speaker 1: first two or three times, it became really clear to
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Speaker 1: me that Paul is a very large tragic character. You
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Speaker 1: mentioned him being a tortured soul, and my interpretation was
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Speaker 1: that he is a a tragic character in the same
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Speaker 1: way that a lot of Shakespeare's tragic characters, the Hamlets
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Speaker 1: and the Beths and the othellos and any of those
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Speaker 1: kinds of characters or the larger characters. August Wilson, Harold Rumors,
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Speaker 1: Um and I related to Paul as being a tragic,
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Speaker 1: a large tragic character, and that was really interesting to
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Speaker 1: me um as an actor to kind of investigate that.
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Speaker 1: And so I called spide Back and I said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'd love to do this, and I'm in. And to
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Speaker 1: your question of how how it was working um on
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Speaker 1: on on the film, it was. It was extraordinary. Um.
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Speaker 1: We had the five of us and I'm including I'm
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Speaker 1: including Chadwick in this. We had a real hitch rich bond.
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Speaker 1: Um I say the five of us. I'm speaking about Clark, Peters,
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Speaker 1: Love Jr. Norm Lewis, Jonathan and and Uh and Chadwick.
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Speaker 1: We had a really we formed a really really good bond.
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Speaker 1: And the bond that we had off screen um found
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Speaker 1: its way into the work that we were doing in
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Speaker 1: front of the camera. So overall it was just a
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Speaker 1: very very rich, enriching and deeply gratifying experience. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: I I when I watched the movie, first of all,
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Speaker 1: it felt like a history lesson to me, which was
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Speaker 1: really which was really great. You know, to understand that
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Speaker 1: because the Vietnam Vietnam War was it was about history
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Speaker 1: and how at how Africans would tread African Americans would treated,
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Speaker 1: and how that era was being dealt with both stateside,
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Speaker 1: and when you were over there fighting for a war
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Speaker 1: that you had no no, no, no what I said,
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Speaker 1: no beefan And so how how want your take on that?
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Speaker 1: When you started even when Chadwick Boseman, how how he
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Speaker 1: worked a dialogue I'm talking about Spike Lee into his
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Speaker 1: character which was Storm and Norman when you guys were talking,
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Speaker 1: and it really was brilliantly the way it was. It
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Speaker 1: was it was articulated in the script. Give me your
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Speaker 1: feedback on that, sir. Um. You know this was h um,
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Speaker 1: really well articulated, as you say, um, the story. I
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Speaker 1: felt it cleanly, uh and sharply articulated, just in terms
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Speaker 1: of the script that we had to work with. And
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Speaker 1: then on top of that, the work that we put
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Speaker 1: in I'd like to believe further sharpened um the message. Um.
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Speaker 1: What I had done in preparation for for doing this work,
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Speaker 1: I had spoken with a number of Vietnam vets, um
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Speaker 1: or two that I spoke with with my cousins. I
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Speaker 1: have two cousins who were UH in, both of whom
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Speaker 1: UH suffered stuffer with pd a PTSD, one of my
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Speaker 1: cousins more acutely than the other. But they shared a
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Speaker 1: lot of their experiences with me. And then I UM
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Speaker 1: additionally spoke with I think five four additional Vietnam vets.
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Speaker 1: And then I spoke with a lady, a major who
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Speaker 1: had been in Iraq and she spoke with me at
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Speaker 1: length about her experiences with PTSD. So going into the film,
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Speaker 1: I felt that I had a really good foundation to
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Speaker 1: start working. And as we worked, when when you mentioned
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Speaker 1: some of the monologues that Chadwick has and the fact
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Speaker 1: that he's he's articulating really clearly from a from a
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Speaker 1: socio political and cultural point of view, that we had
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Speaker 1: no business being there, and and Chadwick's characters going the
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Speaker 1: norm is a man who is attempting to uh exactly
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Speaker 1: a measure of um, what's the word. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to give the product way that if we're going to
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Speaker 1: be there fighting this war, we're going to get something
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Speaker 1: out of it for ourselves and more importantly for our people.
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Speaker 1: And that is a central tenant, a central component of
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Speaker 1: what this story is, and so do your question about
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Speaker 1: how it felt working on it, Um, it felt, it
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Speaker 1: felt right. It felt you know, There's there's something that
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Speaker 1: is really extraordinary for an actor, and that is when
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Speaker 1: you're working on the two that you believe in. And
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Speaker 1: I believed in this material. I believed in what we
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Speaker 1: were doing as a unit, um, and I think all
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Speaker 1: of us did, and certainly I believed in Spike's ambition
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Speaker 1: to tell this story in the way that he did.
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Speaker 1: So to a question about how I felt about, you know, um,
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Speaker 1: Chadwick's monologues, they just felt right, they felt and our
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Speaker 1: job then was to present those words in as um
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Speaker 1: dramatically compelling away as we could. I'm talking to my
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Speaker 1: man darry Or Lindo, one of the stars of The
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Speaker 1: Five Bloods and premiers Friday, June twelfth on Netflix. The
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Speaker 1: Five Bloods about movie about five guys who served together
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Speaker 1: in Vietnam, but it's also a movie about black history,
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Speaker 1: which we just talked about. It plays out like a
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Speaker 1: reunion movie, but there are it's really also a treasure
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Speaker 1: hunting movie too, correct, That's right, uh, And I think
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Speaker 1: one of the one and again without giving the plot
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Speaker 1: say because of the film as a love story between
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Speaker 1: these five men, the five brothers have a connection, a deep, deep, deep, deep,
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Speaker 1: deep connection, and out of that connection, they are compelled,
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Speaker 1: you're saying, and it's important to the fact that I've
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Speaker 1: been fortunate to see you in a lot of great roles.
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Speaker 1: You know you have a brilliant career. I will tell
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Speaker 1: you what I saw you doing this movie. The monologue
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Speaker 1: you were delivering dead on into this, into this into
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Speaker 1: the camera was incredible acting. And I I pray, did
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Speaker 1: I see you rewarded for your acting effort in this movie?
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Speaker 1: It was that good there are It was that good,
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Speaker 1: fantastic or that. And as I said, it was a
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Speaker 1: tortured soul to me because of the fact that you know,
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Speaker 1: the relationship that you couldn't understand what your son you know,
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Speaker 1: and we learned about that, you know, the problem that
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Speaker 1: you was coming back into a country that you didn't
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Speaker 1: feel comfortable a while. You know, even though there was love,
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Speaker 1: that was still a disconnect between you and your boys,
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Speaker 1: and it kept trying to wrap their arms around you.
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Speaker 1: And we later on find out why you're emotionally distraught
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Speaker 1: like the way you are. But the journey, can you
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Speaker 1: can you get get a little bit more detail about
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Speaker 1: that journey? Because I'm not an actor. All I can
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Speaker 1: do is just watch great moments on screen. And when
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Speaker 1: I saw you take all these levels, these anger, anger levels,
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Speaker 1: these happy levels, like the nightclub scene when you would dancing.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something I already told Clark he
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Speaker 1: couldn't dance. I told Iaia, anybody doing the chicken in
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Speaker 1: the movie can't dance. I'm just gonna tell you that
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Speaker 1: right there, now, there are you can't do the chicken.
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Speaker 1: You can't dance. And then uh, I said, he was
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Speaker 1: trying to be cool. But of all the brothers who
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Speaker 1: had their act together, there are, it was you. You
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Speaker 1: had the smooth. He was on the left hand side,
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Speaker 1: he was smoothing and up there on that mormn Gate song,
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Speaker 1: I said, my man, that's him right there. It was
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Speaker 1: those fun moments in a movie that showed me the
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Speaker 1: love that you were talking about, that played throughout each
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Speaker 1: moment in the movie. Even when you were emotionally distrust
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Speaker 1: they still came to your restue trying to understand what's wrong.
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Speaker 1: What's wrong? Let us in, brother, Let us in brother.
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Speaker 1: That's what I was just saying. It just it. It
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Speaker 1: takes it took a moment for you to wrap your
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Speaker 1: head around each scene, or just just took each the character.
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Speaker 1: I'm a player and just staying character the whole time.
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Speaker 1: Can you talk to us about that? Um? Yeah, Before
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Speaker 1: I speak to that, I just wanted to say something
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Speaker 1: about because you mentioned it a couple of times. The
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Speaker 1: relationship between myself and my son played by Jonathan What
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Speaker 1: was gratifying about UM investigating that relationship in the film
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Speaker 1: is the fact, clearly, as you as you accurately mentioned, clearly,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of tension between myself and my son. However,
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Speaker 1: what was what was what was rewarding for me affirming
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Speaker 1: is the fact that fundamentally there is love there between
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Speaker 1: these two men, myself and my son, and even though
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Speaker 1: it was a very very fraught relationship. UM, what was
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Speaker 1: what made it, what made it interesting to work on
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Speaker 1: in the film, UM, is the fact that it was
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Speaker 1: clear to me that there was love there, and that
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Speaker 1: unflicked between the love and the lack of love and
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Speaker 1: and the and the dislike and the frustration felt very
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Speaker 1: very human and very real to me. And that made
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Speaker 1: it rich to UH to work on in the film.
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Speaker 1: UM with what was your original question, because I kind
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Speaker 1: of veered off you know, it was great, but I
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Speaker 1: wanted to I want to go to another moment because
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Speaker 1: you answered my question. It was the moment where because
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Speaker 1: I was talking to the guys and it was just
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Speaker 1: talking about your acting, and it was it was I'm
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Speaker 1: not giving away the movie when you walked off from
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Speaker 1: the guys. You're like the moment when you walked out,
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Speaker 1: walked off. They say, I storm, they said a storm
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Speaker 1: suddenly really this ugly head in that moment. But you
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Speaker 1: have to stay in character and and and and and
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Speaker 1: and play it out. You can you explain to me
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Speaker 1: exactly what they were talking about. What uh oh you're saying?
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Speaker 1: This is what the other two actors references that moment. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: when you walked off. Let me just say this about that,
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Speaker 1: About that, that moment in the film that was that
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Speaker 1: was a straight up gift from God. And what I
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Speaker 1: mean by that is that as I was walking away
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Speaker 1: from um, from my compadres in the film, literally, man,
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Speaker 1: the sky opened up and there was a storm, right,
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Speaker 1: it's at it to storm. It started, I mean the
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Speaker 1: sky and it just started tru rential to rental rain.
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Speaker 1: The wind was kicking up, and we played through that right.
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Speaker 1: And trudos to trudos to the sound engineer because he
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Speaker 1: got got it right. He um able to record all
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Speaker 1: the dialogue that was going on as I was walking
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Speaker 1: away from them. The fact that there was this added
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Speaker 1: dimension of the sky opening up, and the fact that
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Speaker 1: the scene ended up playing out in a storm, Spike
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Speaker 1: and all the technical crew captured on film felt to
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Speaker 1: me that the film was anointed. Man, when we when
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Speaker 1: he said when Spike finally said cut and I walked
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Speaker 1: back to ord towards Spike, and Spike had this huge
19:49
Speaker 1: grin on his jumping up and down love and I
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Speaker 1: and it felt it just felt right. And I didn't
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Speaker 1: say this to him in the moment, but internally I
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Speaker 1: was feeling that was an anointed moment. It was because
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Speaker 1: we could not have entered that. We could not have
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Speaker 1: planned for the storm to start right at the end
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Speaker 1: of that scene. But the fact that that storm did
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Speaker 1: start right at the end of the scene, for me,
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Speaker 1: was indicative of the fact that this work was anointed.
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Speaker 1: And having seen the film, um, I fulfilled the do
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Speaker 1: work is anointed. I'm gonna tell you something when I
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Speaker 1: because you know, I got a huge background in television
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Speaker 1: and film and producing and all that. So I'm watching
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Speaker 1: this scene right and I'm with my wife, I'm going
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Speaker 1: how they getting that rain like that? That it was?
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Speaker 1: It was, well, it's what we call a happy actor. Man. There,
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out where the water truck is.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out how did they drop this
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Speaker 1: water like this I'm going and you in it, And
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Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, that was a blessed man because you
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Speaker 1: stayed in the moment though there are you stay didn't it? Now?
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Speaker 1: We all did? We all did. And one of the
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Speaker 1: things that really really astounded me was the fact that
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Speaker 1: the sound the sound guy um captured it. He got
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Speaker 1: it somehow, um, And this is a this is a
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Speaker 1: test It just got to be a testament to his
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Speaker 1: skill level. He was able to set the audio balance
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Speaker 1: in such a way that the fact that it was
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Speaker 1: storming and raining and the wind was kicking up and
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Speaker 1: he still was able to get Um, he still was
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Speaker 1: able to get the audio quality. Now, you know, that
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Speaker 1: was the scene that I did have to go into
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Speaker 1: the studio and do a d R. You know, I
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Speaker 1: had to re record that tail end of the scene.
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Speaker 1: But still when I first saw it on production, he
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Speaker 1: had captured it. And you know, um, it was just
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Speaker 1: anointed manager, an expert. I didn't catch it, didn't see
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Speaker 1: the didn't see any at all. I heard it it
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Speaker 1: was played that you know the thing about I'm very
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Speaker 1: I'm very first of all, thank you for being on
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Speaker 1: the call with me. Because when you see a project,
22:06
Speaker 1: you get to get into the mind of an actor.
22:08
Speaker 1: It's kind of like an acting class that I and
22:10
Speaker 1: then I can't act. So so anybody who's listening to
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Speaker 1: this really should gather some nuggets about how to do
22:15
Speaker 1: it right. Talking up, talking to all three of you
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Speaker 1: guys today has been a blessing of four over four
22:20
Speaker 1: decades of acting and directing and writing skills and being
22:23
Speaker 1: played out in a movie of this caliber, you know,
22:26
Speaker 1: And I just wanna everybody I'm talking about I'm talking
22:28
Speaker 1: about it. It was The Five Bloods consisted of Storm
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Speaker 1: and Norm which is played by you will always be
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Speaker 1: the Black Panther Chadwick Balls Bozeman. You have Paul played
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Speaker 1: by Darryl Roylando. That's gonna pak you too right now.
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Speaker 1: And he was played by Norm Lewis. Oh, this was
22:41
Speaker 1: Clark Peters. Melvin was Isaiah watched Isaiah Whitlock Jr. And
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Speaker 1: then you have Paul's son played by Johnny Majors. And
22:48
Speaker 1: so when I Johnathan Major, excuse me, because you know
22:52
Speaker 1: the thing about it is that when I when I
22:54
Speaker 1: look at an individual like you and we do bodies
22:58
Speaker 1: of work, and I'm just gonna be flamentary here. And
23:02
Speaker 1: because Spike Lee said in the article that you know,
23:04
Speaker 1: I didn't have a c G. I budget to make
23:06
Speaker 1: the guys look younger in the flashback scenes. And I
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Speaker 1: told the guys earlier, whenever I think about my past,
23:12
Speaker 1: I only only see the people that I see, which
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Speaker 1: are always younger. And so so that means that I'm
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Speaker 1: still at my age when I'm looking, when I'm thinking
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Speaker 1: about that moment. And so the acting that you guys
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Speaker 1: were doing was so fantastic. If you guys would have
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Speaker 1: been made younger, I'd got caught up into oh, he
23:30
Speaker 1: doesn't look like that. Oh they did that because you
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Speaker 1: guys stayed your age and stayed the moment and stayed
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Speaker 1: the emotion. It carried the scenes through for me, and
23:39
Speaker 1: the reality stayed the reality. And so I've already just
23:43
Speaker 1: let you guys, And that's a very good point. That's
23:46
Speaker 1: that's actually that's a great point because have we been
23:49
Speaker 1: you know, the aged, you would have been looking at
23:51
Speaker 1: the technical aspect of it happened, and I would have
23:56
Speaker 1: been taken out of the story. So I think I
23:59
Speaker 1: think that's a great point. And I'll tell you that
24:01
Speaker 1: in terms of playing the scene. Um. So to our
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Speaker 1: reading it in the script and then playing the scenes,
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Speaker 1: it did not make any difference that there was this
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Speaker 1: apparent age of different because playing the truth of the scene.
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Speaker 1: None of the scenes with Chadwick, those flating those flashback scenes,
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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, none of us um, none
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Speaker 1: of us, Mr Beat And it's just about playing the
24:27
Speaker 1: truth of the scene. And I want to say this too,
24:30
Speaker 1: and it goes back to when you say the love story,
24:32
Speaker 1: because the love that that Storm and Norm had, that's
24:37
Speaker 1: Chadwick's character for you guys as a leader, the best
24:41
Speaker 1: damn soldier that ever lived it in the Vietnam War,
24:44
Speaker 1: that's what he was proclaimed. And and he held you guys.
24:48
Speaker 1: He was the glue that held you guys together, the
24:51
Speaker 1: guy that told you you were gonna get back, that
24:53
Speaker 1: told you, you know, we deserve our own level of
24:56
Speaker 1: reparations here, you know. And and it it was that
25:01
Speaker 1: journey of conversation, that journey of the hand slapping. Let's talk.
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Speaker 1: Don't forget that that people think started now when they
25:07
Speaker 1: look at the NBA and lebron them during all those
25:09
Speaker 1: multi levels of hand slapping. Didn't know that started back
25:12
Speaker 1: there with us Okay, didn't didn't know that that was
25:15
Speaker 1: something that was not something new the last five years
25:17
Speaker 1: they've been saying on in the NBA on the regular basis.
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Speaker 1: That's the That's what I'm talking about. I appreciate the
25:23
Speaker 1: time you're taking from me, taking with me to do
25:25
Speaker 1: this interview because I'm talking to history. That's you, my friend.
25:29
Speaker 1: I hope history blesses you with Oscar nominations, sag Award nominations,
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Speaker 1: all the nominations that are available in the fall should
25:37
Speaker 1: come your way. The monologues you were doing dead and
25:40
Speaker 1: on on those straight to the camera, I'm telling you,
25:43
Speaker 1: Mr Lindo, were brilliant. They were brilliant. The fact that
25:47
Speaker 1: the whole character, now that I know that wasn't fake
25:50
Speaker 1: rain coming down on you, I'm even more blessed by
25:53
Speaker 1: what I see. I appreciate you and stay safe and
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