- [Ty] How do you think your character has grown from the first
“Best Man” to this upcoming series?
- [Nia] Oh!
- [Merch] None of us are the same people we were 20 years ago.
- [Quentin] Fellas! I'm getting married.
- [Shelby] Get your popcorn ready.
- [Terrance] I believe that he recognizes that you are
not the final link in this chain of events.
You are just another link.
And once we get out of that and realize
that we are here for the colony and just not just for self,
I think then we start to act in the best interests of self and colony.
And I think he learns that in this relationship with his friends and Shelby,
you know, but it's a hard thing to be to put on that manship.
Well, for me at least, I know that Merch just really, you know, started off
as this guy who's just being beat up, kind of really just came into himself.
And then when he actually found the woman that he was going to love
and is going to love for the rest of his life,
he just bloomed like, you know, like his life just flourished.
And I think you just get to see that that evolution from that guy
to who he is in “The Final Chapters” is just really beautiful.
- [Candy] I'm glad that no one was around chronicling my college exploits.
- Like when you were a stripper?
That was a very small part of Mommy's undergraduate experience.
- [Regina] I think she really found herself as a professional and as a woman,
you know, as a woman. And definitely found love
like something she didn't expect. At a little stripper party, too.
At a little bachelor party.
Found the one! - Found the one!
- All it took was a quote!
- [Shelby] I know what it's like to be a tired, overworked, exhausted mom.
- [Candy] Wait. Don't you have, like, three nannies?
- [Shelby] It takes a village.
- [Melissa] For me, I feel like Shelby has to release control.
Listen, if you want to progress and if you want to get everything
that you want, you can't, like, hold on so tight of control
and trying to make everything perfect, it's not really going to come out like -
Shelby tried that in the beginning and it didn't go her way.
- [Jordan] You need to find something you're passionate about.
Redefine your purpose.
- [Quentin] I thought you found your purpose with that perfume commercial.
- [Lance] Always is in my playbook.
Always in my playbook.
Oh, wait. I’m sorry.
- [Morris] He’s had personal triumphs.
Career triumphs and challenges to-
Now he's just dealing.
Now he's back to the personal again. So I
(laughs)
He’s matured quite a bit.
- [Jordan] You know who I want to play me. - [Harper] Who?
- Beyoncé
Get your coins together, brother.
- [Nia] I think Jordan has accomplished everything that she wants to accomplish.
Except she's missing a piece
of self-love, acceptance and living.
And so I think if the series were to continue, you would probably see her
dive deeper into that exploration
of self and finding, like, that peace.
A lot of meditation.
Less work. More meditation.
- Hollywood has come a-callin’.
They want to make unfinished business into a movie.
- [Taye] He's still figuring it out, you know, becoming a little bit self-aware.
I think he's becoming more kind of affected by what
he is assuming the outside world
sees of him and how that affects how he views himself.
So he's, you know, at first it's he's just trying to work
and now he's questioning even that, you know.
And that, to me, is a sign of kind of maturity.
- [Harper] Life doesn’t always go the way we expect, but if we’re lucky
we end up where we're supposed to.
What's the biggest takeaway or lesson
you learned from participating in “The Best Man” series?
- Oh, man, that's a great question.
- Work can be fun.
Work is fun with your friends.
- That love is the key.
So meaning both on screen.
That foundation of love that these friends have.
It is a foundation that you can always come back to.
And again,
you are going to go through mess like life is going to throw stuff at you.
Your friends are going to challenge you.
But if you have that foundation of love
to come back to, it's just always going to be there for you.
- That can translate over decades.
- Decades, decades.
- Centuries, one might say.
- I did what I set out to do, which was make a movie that has been long
considered a classic movie and a franchise that people want to revisit
because they see themselves reflected in it.
- [Merch] It's going to be just like old times, only better, right?
- [Harper] Better.
- [Ty] hat would you like to say to Malcolm?
- Thank you for Shelby.
Thank you for for the ride of a career and a lifetime.
- Sorry. I know we've-
we've grown incorrigible through the decades.
But we love you.
- Thank you for believing in something new, allowing us to-
to show something outside of the formula.
- Thank you.
Because it was an amazing, incredible, wild ride.
So thank you for inviting me to join you
on this journey and on this leg of this wild ride.
And we did it.
We made it. We're here.
- We love you, Malcolm.
From your biggest pain in the ass.