you know they say that it musicals are really about acting your way
through it but you know i would be i'd be that's a good que good question maybe
i still can't believe it you're gonna fall in love with a new little person again it's a pleasure
to meet you oh thank you i'm a fan and i love the film so much i can't wait till it's out so people
can watch it and just have good conversations and just debate the topics and themes because there's
so much to unpack so i just want to know what was one specific thing that drew you to the project
the premise honestly the premise um it was just so so clearly mapped out the drama that i think
springs from a man who has a terminal illness and is presented with an opportunity to clone himself
unbeknownst to his family i was just like wow you know um and then i think parallel
or coupled with that it's just the love story um someone who's so deeply
deeply in love but caring and and just mindful of of just being a good partner and having a son
and being a father like all those elements that that i don't see enough
in in this genre coming from black people and being a whole healthy loving family that
is working to stay whole like those things feel unfortunately feel new
to the genre and i definitely wanted to sign up to act in it and was very excited to to help produce
and and sort of protect the story in a way to to to see it through to its
end to make sure that it it stayed on track with with those themes and elements and so i
i was blown away by by all of the above i'm glad you brought that up because when i was
watching you and naomi on screen i was like this feels new but yeah i feel seen watching
it like it felt like something that i should be seeing like it was just it was a hundred percent
it was just beautiful to watch i i honestly remember watching and
i was like my i was holding my breath because i'm like what is going to happen it was just so good
and i'm saying right now if the nominations and if the awards don't come flying in i will be i'll
be mad like tell me who to write to and i'll write please can we just can the buzz just have to just
tell people to see the movie just tell people to see them that's the main thing i just i want
people to see it all right i have already trust me i've been texting people all day [ __ ] film um
and i heard you weren't saying an interview that stayed with me i will paraphrase because i can't
remember exactly but i think you said 95 of the work of an actor happens off screen like only five
percent is what you see on camera so what was some of the work that you did to bring cameron to life
a lot of a lot of thought a lot of meditating it's like there's there's this like there's
this place where i think you your mind and heart and sort of i guess spirit has to open
towards like you have to find that character out there and that doesn't happen
fully between action and cut like just the getting yourself in that zone and in that space it just
has a lot to do with like building up backstory so that you understand why someone is reacting to
something in a certain way you know um and that stuff is a little bit hard to explain
it's a little abstract a little bit but i've been doing it fortunately been doing it long enough to
just to to understand that there's a there's a there's a preparation that has to happen
long before you are are really have your lines memorized and you're trying to discover
whatever you need to discover in the scene but but it's just a lot of time it's time it's time
and thought energy heart and and sort of making it linear where you can and what i mean by that is
really understanding where did this guy where does this guy come from what was his background like
you know uh what was his relationship like with his parents like all those all those little things
that make you you and me me you owe your character the the same sort of you you owe to yourself to
know the same to some degree some major details in your character's life so that you can make them
believable the same way a clone would know everything about you the same way an actor
should know everything about the character that they're putting on screen as best you can which
is impossible but you want to work towards feeling like you know the ins and outs of that character
enough so that you can yeah uh so organic responses can be triggered when things come up
the second you tell your wife that you are dying
your opportunity to do this is gone you want to go say hi
and on the topic of cloning i mean the film obviously deals with that concept so i wanted to
ask if you did say let's just say in an alternate universe you had your own real life clone and they
had to do part of your job what part of the job of an actor would you delegate to them that you
don't want to do and you want your clone to do all of that reading my emails and returning the calls
yeah the admin side of things that no one speaks about the admin side that i've never been good at
like ever you know so that stuff you know i'll do some of the scene work but uh i let him i'll let
him do the other stuff that i don't love doing the boring stuff that no one ever gets yeah and
um i spoke to naomi earlier and she had such profound words to say about you she
literally said that you're the ultimate human being like she just was so nice about you
so what was your she that's cruel because she set me up so i can't top it that's right
whatever she says i'm i'm doubling it she's beyond i absolutely love and adore her she's just
she's an amazing human being you you couldn't have a better scene partner um and just and i'm
an energy person there's a lot of like wonderful actors out in the world but when you get to
work opposite of somebody who is just a fantastic person and just a wonderful soul it actually does
make the work better it makes the experience so much better and so i i'm so glad we got to work
together again because the first time was just too brief yeah no definitely back in moonlight
days yeah um and one thing that she revealed to me in the interview is that that wasn't her singing
and i just couldn't believe it like i thought i was singing but then she shouldn't have told
you that because it was so good right i know but then nothing like when she was singing when she
was playing piano though she really did and i wish they'd showed it more because there's more
footage of her like really really playing but but like but she was playing piano but let's see like
when she started singing i wouldn't use the chimer and i was like is cameron would do it you did it
no because i know you'd be rapping i know you'd be having a singing career like i might lose
you as a fan if i started singing well then do you think you'd ever be up for doing a musical
um you know they say that it musicals are really about acting your way through it but
you know i would be i'd be that's a great good question maybe maybe i would do it my
dad was in the musicals and he did musicals so like maybe i would do it really just for that
just awesome like paying homage but uh but uh no i'm not really trying to sign up
intentionally for musicals no listen i believe in you we all believe it thank you thank you