So first up, how have you found the reaction, especially from fans
who have been hugely supportive of the show for the past two seasons,
then the fans are going crazy.
The fans been asking me for this for this season, for ever.
I feel like this wait has been so long.
I don't know.
I don't know exactly how long it's been since we filmed.
Since. Since we gotten off of air.
But I feel like I haven't been.
We have like three years, like two, three years.
But the fans are going crazy.
The support is insane.
They haven't stopped asking me to drop this season until this day,
so I'm finally happy that it will be out next week.
So they could stop asking me because I have no control over.
I can't jump on the phone.
But yeah, the fans are going crazy
and I feel like they're going to go could make the craziest this season.
This season might bring out a lot of things this year.
Amazing.
And then tell us about Tariq going into season three.
Why do we find him, man? Tariq
Oh, we find
him going through a lot, of course, as as it is for
and for the beginning of the season, he's always starting the season,
going through some stuff.
But I'm obviously after the heist, you know, like the mission with with Monet
and everybody.
at his house, he got the ring and everything.
He was on surveillance cameras.
So he has to keep that in the back of his mind.
He has to cover up his tracks also while trying to figure out
who he's going to work for next.
Because obviously, you know, Micha was the plug and now he's he's gone.
So they're figuring out
what's going to be the next, you know, the next connect, who's
going to be the next venture. So he's in a pretty
he's like in the thinking space.
You know, he's trying to brainstorm.
He's trying to figure out what's what's next for him,
what's next for Brayden, what's next for Effie, what's next for the whole team?
So he's definitely in that in that mode.
He's in that range going on right now,
right.
And then how excited and surprised were you by the journey of Tariq,
not just in season three, but from why you started out with him? Man
The journey of Tariq is literally just like, I can't even put it into words.
This is still unreal to me to this day.
Like I still, I still like, I think about like what I was doing and,
you know, the original series like season one and season two.
And then looking at the stuff I was doing then and into and then looking at
what I'm doing now is like, how like, how did I end up here?
Like, I still can't believe it.
So these days, honestly, unbelievable.
So blessed, you know?
No, you know, I'm glad I, I mean, just keep working at him.
Keep doing it. This is this is definitely a blessing.
Amazing.
And then the show's been a real rollercoaster so far.
How has that been for you with all of the ups and downs and surprises
and shocks me?
It just keeps me into it.
It keeps me excited, especially like, you know, as far as like the writers
and, you know, getting new scripts after the episodes, like,
after every episode, I'm just I'm ready for the next great.
I'm super excited,
especially for the table read and everything is just like
it is do such a great job.
You know, they leave every episode, like just make you one
a lot more and, and it's just like, Damn, now we got to wait till the next episode.
But, you know, the ups and downs and the
and the ghost, is something to be a part of.
You know, it's a lot
This allows a lot of emotions, a lot of anger, it's a lot of laughs.
There's a lot of happiness.
So everything says it's a great thing to be a part of.
And then what's been your favorite thing about playing Tariq?
What's been the most challenging?
My favorite thing about playing Tariq is just stepping out of like
Michael for a second and just being a complete menace to society.
I just like being, you know, like a menacing character.
It's just fun, you know, like, like who doesn't want to play the bad guy?
I guess not really the bad guy, but still kind of the bad guy at the same time.
But yeah, I mean, I just like being a menace is fun.
It is a lot of a lot of fun.
Was just what was your second
what's the most challenging thing about being Tariq?
The most challenging, I would have to say.
I want to say this is like the most challenging part of playing.
So we just I would just say this is obviously
one of the most challenging things I've had to do while playing TV.
Obviously, Killing Ghost was super challenging.
It was just like, How do you expect me to do this?
But just being, you know, just just the kid that he is,
you know, the stuff that he goes through, kind of like putting myself in that.
And that body is kind of like, is this different?
I want to stage channeling, but it's definitely certainly something different.
You know, he's he has a lot of trauma.
He has a lot of you know, he has a lot of things that he went through.
So when I, you know, put myself in and to be on a channel, a channel
channel, all that and and just like I know, it just feels different.
It's like a weird, crazy feeling. I don't know, as weird
as me and then will you be sad?
Say goodbye to the show when it's conclusion comes along?
Oh, yeah. 100%. 100%.
That's going to be that's going to be a super, super sad moment.
I mean, I've been working on this for ten years now, almost ten, 11 years now.
So just like for something like this to come to an end, you know, like
we have a family now, like we built the whole family, you know,
the crew cast, everybody is like super close.
We, you know, we all bonded so, so closely.
So to like to finally
to finally come to the end and not come to set every day
and like to look forward to working with these people
every day is definitely going to be pretty emotional for me.
I'm going to be sad for sure.
And then other things that you like playing this part
and being part of the series that you will take forward in your career.
Oh, I
learned countless things, countless countless things
on especially like, you know, how like, you know, how you learn.
So like so many like, like real life things, you know, I'm saying like,
just like, just just from being on set, not even like,
learning from other actors and all my other coworkers, just even,
just description alone, like, you kind of just see, like how humans work
and how you should navigate in this world of crazy people.
And it's just like it's definitely, definitely built
my character as like, as a person just being a part of it.
And in obviously working alongside people like Omari Hardwick ,
working alongside people like Joseph Sikora and Naturi Naughton
and 50 Cent, I've learned countless things from them as well.
You know, one thing I learned from 50
that I tell everybody because this is like kind of what I live by,
like this is something I feel like a lot of people should live by.
You don't you don't feel too entitled to something the way you deprive yourself.
Can you feel too entitled to it?
Because when you entitled to maybe there's like a role that you're
you entitled to that you know, I want to do that.
I should be doing that. There's a whole nother role out there.
Look at you
as might be ten times better than the role that you feel like you're entitled to.
Self can deprive yourself while being tired.
You got to just explore all your options.
But there's just so many things you learn is it's like a masterclass
being on this show.
Honestly. Amazing.
Well, there's all the questions I had for you today,
but thanks so much for your time.
Of course. Of course. Thank you.