♪ All my sisters and brothers ♪
♪ Right there together ♪
- Welcome, my name is Lexcie Thomas,
I'm a senior here in the mass communications department,
here at Xavier University of Louisiana.
And I'm here to tell you a little bit about my school.
Xavier University of Louisiana was founded in 1925
in New Orleans Louisiana.
One fun fact about Xavier, is that yes we produce
the best doctors, but we also produce the best
directors, producers, editors, and writers.
(upbeat music)
And now for some fun facts about everybody's
favorite HBCU dan you, co creator and executive producer
Felicia Henderson is here to take you behind the scenes
of the Quad's office hours myth.
- You just watched episode 205,
entitled, "Native Son" and I'm here with two of the stars,
Sean Blakemore, and Jake Allyn, Jake was saying,
that you know he got, what was his polite way
that he said it?
- Jumped.
- He got jumped, and your response to that was?
- The real talk?
- Yes.
- He got that ass handed to him.
- One for heat, oh you want some more?
- Sean, you were just talking about the story telling
and it's sort of one of our themes of even this show.
The show after the show.
Is about what all goes into storytelling, how we are all
storytellers no matter what your job is on the show.
And obviously make up was a real big part of this episode.
- Oh yeah.
- And I know that before the scene,
where you first saw him, when you came into his dorm room.
You hadn't seen him, can you talk to us about that?
- When I was thinking about the scene and when I saw
the makeup, it just put me in a whole other space.
I saw the severity of it, and it's like, oh wows.
- BoJohn.
- Coach.
- Oh man, this is much worse than I thought.
- I'm alright, I'm okay.
- No you're not okay.
I'm taking you to the ER.
- No, no I'm good.
- I tell people all the time, the words are just
a loose skeleton of how you feel, or how you think.
How I thought about my approach to him,
it was even more empathetic, (laughs) you know.
- I was in LA having to approve looks,
and I'm getting photos and I'm like,
I don't like that, it looks really real.
Which means, yes, let's do that.
- Yeah in doing the make up test first,
the director sees that when she's setting up the shots
for the actually fight.
We knew on set doing the fight we had to
throw everything at it.
- You're working hard this season.
- Yeah.
- Not that you didn't work hard last season.
- The make up artists did a phenomenal job on this.
- [Jake] They did.
- Particularly the imprint, or the footprint in your back.
That is the one conversation I had with Carol,
and I told her my story of being in the ninth grade,
and being jumped by a group of girls.
And I had to go to the hospital, to emergency room,
and I remember that leftover bruise,
was a bruise of the girls, footprint in my back.
- That's one of my favorite things about this show,
is it's about details, it's about story telling.
And through story telling,
this beautiful character developments.
You know bad writing or bad story telling,
is over explained, it's hitting you over the head.
And they don't allow, to trust the audience
with their own intellect.
- I love the aspect.
- Good job kid.
- Of going on the journey with the character, just the best.
- Yes, going on the journey, thank you.
There is a skill set that you guys are using
as story tellers, to develop what has become
very much a father/son relationship.
Can you guys talk about that?
- You know my first scenes in the pilot
are with coach, bringing this kid in, you know.
So it's really gotten to start from the very very beginning
at least from my story.
- Listen up BoJohn, folks you ever raise a hand at me,
you never raise to anybody else.
- Yessir.
One favor though?
You mind calling me Bo?
- Hit the field, BoJohn.
(whistle blowing)
- You know, Jake's character and my character,
it was a development.
You see how, why they got there.
He's one coach that's very skeptical.
And you see this slow bubble,
of respect and appreciation.
Definitely in season two, you know and even in protect mode.
- I saw the video of the boys jumping you.
Now we're working on getting their names right now.
- Coach I just wanna let it go.
- I have to find a way to let these kids know,
they can't just be jumping our students.
Come on, let me, let's get you going.
Easy, easy.
(BoJohn groans)
- You know he's more than my player.
It's like he wants to see him win.
Just in life in general, not just on the field.
- Ultimately this kid is counting on this coach,
to give him this second chance at football.
And as much as they're growing with their relationship
and there's trust and comfortability, and things like that.
There's a lot more pressure, and that can lead to problems.
(all counting together)
- So here we are in the middle of the season now.
What are you looking forward to as we go forward
to the second half of the season?
- I'm curious to see if Bo, you know doubles down
on this school and coach, and the team.
Or if he goes with what he knows.
And what's comfortable to him.
- [Felicia] And listen to his crazy daddy.
- And his family.
- My boy just got his ass handed to him,
I got a pretty good mind to go find them
son of bitches myself and show em how we do it in Texas.
- Mr Folsom, I'm sorry about what happened to BoJohn.
I wish I could look after him 24/7 but I can't.
- Well you see, that's not what you said
when you sat in my living room.
- So whack daddy.
(all laughing)
- I can't say that.
- [Felicia] That's right, that's your father, you love him.
- [Sean] Well I can say it.
- It was very important to us as writers,
is that it's clear that it's a complicated
relationship with his father.
And that he loves his father.
- I can take my own son to the doctor.
- Mr Folsom, I have to do it, it's school policy.
- Hell with your policy, hell with you.
- Dad.
Please.
- Let's go boy.
- It's okay.
- Chris for coach Hardwick, and for BoJohn
the second half of the season is really about
personal growth, and seeing some sides of both of them,
that we have not seen.
I feel really excited about it, and I already know
what's gonna happen, and I'm like, oh my god,
it's gonna be so good.
- What's gonna happen?
- [Felicia] (laughs) It's gonna be perfect.
♪ All my sisters and brothers, ♪
♪ Right there together. ♪