Brown what's your sign nobody doctor
just did
oh you Scorpio I've always known what
was your first impression of me when we
first met I thought I came back I said
here's a really nice guy cuz you know
you see people who are so celebrated who
so poppy and you think they got to be a
certain kind of thing and I've met some
other people who had that thing you know
what I'm talking about and I thought I
told everybody I say names okay so he's
a really nice guy and I could tell he
had a good heart and you know you were
sincere and you introduced me at that
event and you took it really seriously
I came back I thought I really liked him
I said it's not only is he gonna be
great but I'm gonna light working with
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you biggest star on the planet to decide
to do movies so I was excited about the
call because you know in our business
sometimes the celebrity can soar over
cloud the art and the other side of the
world
you called me it gave me an opportunity
to give my artistic integrity in place
to have someone like yourself asked me
to come on board with a narrative that
is so important which speaks back to the
back to the artistic sense that you
started in Fruitvale station and then on
to Black Panther in an area that you
that you give us what our culture is
maybe then people are now getting a
chance to see what what you guys wanted
them to see and I sneak in the back of
the theater and people are so amazing so
I felt I feel humble not only at the
same time we've had a fun dinner all
right what did you learn from your
characters well I mean you know being a
black man in America the lessons that
you continue to learn it's what is
interesting and saddening at the same
time we thought we had this figured out
so I learned that there's still huge
amounts of work to do from listening to
my father who was incarcerated for a
small amount of $25 worth any legal
substance for seven years
watching him us to all the listeners
that I continued to learn it is is as we
can't fatigue like this man there's a
fatigue and like you you don't fatigue
in even in your artistic interpretation
you don't fatigue and saying you still
you talk about these things and listen I
get tired what do you want people to
take away from this matter I want them
to understand that we are dealing with
crisis in America because we tolerate
too much inequality too much injustice
the wrongful convictions that Jaime
portrays so brilliantly in his
performance as Walter McMillian
is too familiar and I want people to
know we've got to do better when it
comes to treating people fairly to
having a system that's reliable and we
got to care more about overcoming this
history of racial injustice emission
inequality we're not where we need to be
yet and we've got more work
to both of you what role do you most
admire from one another I'm gonna say
collateral you that was when I saw him
most not like himself
mm-hmm like that like naturally yeah we
always bring a piece of art to the
character but to see him reserved a
little not very naive very very caught
off-guard but then still trying to
formulate a plan and to build that
courage that he had you know and to see
that the work that him and Jada did was
incredible with him in time anyways I
think that as a whole it was um it was a
really powerful performance I thought it
was like super laser yeah it's tough
because I you know speak all the time
about I would have almost no food bill
panting because I because I love those
performs in Fruitvale however I I felt
like this person exists and I did like
Michael B Jordan was was portraying
anything yeah I felt like this guy
exists what you did on that was approch
endo yeah because we already know this
story but the way thing kudos for ever
and III tell you there's a huge reward
coming for you with everything else at
you that you take on
yeah Brian what aspects from Justin
mercy still resonating today side I
think everything I mean we still have a
presumption of dangerousness and guilty
gets assigned to black and brown people
we still have innocent people in our
jails in prisons we still have people in
power who abuse that power we still
don't have accountability with some of
these folks who need more accountability
and we still have a criminal justice
system that treats you better if you're
rich and guilty and if you're poor and
innocent so all of the conditions that
gave rise to the story and just mercy
are still with us today the one change
is that I think there's a bigger
community of people who are trying to
respond to it and that's what that's
what gives me hope
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