- My next guest starred as the first African American,
Marvel TV show super hero
in the Netflix series, Luke Cage.
(audience applauds)
Well, now he's starring in the new,
faith-based film called Breakthrough.
Hey, let's talk about this film, man.
'Cause this film, man, this is quite a departure
from what you normally do, man, your other roles.
Did you come from a faith-based background?
Was your family into faith? - I did.
I grew up in the South.
My mom, you know, big believer in faith.
My sister teaches Sunday School.
I grew up in the church, and you know,
this is a movie that my mom can go see.
I really am happy about that,
something she can bring her church to see,
something she can do on a Sunday.
- Yeah. - There's not a lot of things
she'd leave the house for, you know?
(audience applauds)
- Ain't that the truth, man?
You wanna do something. - Yeah!
- That your mama can see. - Exactly.
As an artist, I wanna challenge myself,
but at the same time, I wanna make mom proud,
and I wanna have something that she would
normally go see anyway, other than the fact
that her son is in it.
- Faith, man, is a really incredible thing to have,
especially when you're a parent.
Now, you're a father. - Yeah.
- You've got two daughters.
(audience applauds)
What do you love most about being a father?
- You know, honestly, they say a man who has daughters
will always eat steak.
And they say that because if you take care
of your daughters, they will take care of you.
And, I believe that, you know?
(audience applauds)
- That's a true statement, man.
- Yeah.
- What scares you most about raising daughters, man?
- I think growing up in the culture of masculinity,
I think sometimes, we forget what it's like to be
on the other side, and until you have daughters,
you don't really see it, you know?
And so, if you send a guy out, I mean,
you feel like he's gonna learn
and he might have some bumps and bruises,
he might find out the hard way.
But with a woman, a daughter, a girl,
you feel differently.
You don't feel like it's the same even playing field.
So, I wanna think to myself that, you know, yes,
I'm gonna instill her with some beliefs,
but at the same time, I gotta reconstruct the way
guys think, because guys are gonna be the problem.
It's not gonna be her.
I need to make sure she's protected from the guys.
So I'm gonna keep her as close as I can, you know?
(audience applauds)
- Yeah. - Close as I can.
- Well, I gotta tell you Mike,
when they come ring the doorbell and you answer it.
- Oh, I'm answering the door, buddy.
- Oh, it's gonna be nice.
- Oh, it's gonna be, yeah, it's gonna be nice.
I'm gonna nod when I open the door,
and be like, yes sir, what's up?
(laughs)
What's good, what's good?
(audience applauds)
- Alright man, you and your wife been together 17 years,
and you both work in this business.
- Yeah. - How do you guys
make it work?
- It comes down to the basics.
You gotta make a phone call, you gotta get on the phone.
You gotta connect at some point during the day.
It's easy for the day to get away from you.
I mean, you get up, you're busy from the morning
to the next day.
And you're literally from one hour to the next,
you realize time is flying.
You're on phone calls, emails.
You gotta call, you gotta check in, you know?
You gotta check in.
That's just really what you gotta do.
- Boy. - You gotta check in.
- I think you already know this.
For the people out here who think marriage is 50/50.
- Oh no, no, no.
- It's not. - No.
- It's 85/15.
(laughs)
Which part of the 85/15 do you have, Mike?
- Well, I definitely got the short end on that one.
I definitely got the short end.
I think 85, might be, 15 might be generous, Steve.
- 15 is generous? - 15 might be generous.
- Yeah, 'cause we operate most days on 12 to 9%, yeah.
- Yeah, basically it's what do you want,
and I'll take what's left.
If you offer, and defer, and listen.
These are three things, sounds easy,
but they're not that easy. - No.
You know why it's not easy though, Mike?
We having this, I'm gonna act like they ain't here.
- Okay, okay. - You know why, you know--
(audience laughs)
- Just wait, one sec.
- Mike, Mike, you know what is so hard?
Because, they're crazy.
(audience applauds)
And look, they're all smiling and clapping.
- I know, and nobody's saying no.
- No! - Not one person said no.
- Mike, they all know it!
They're going, yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - All of them, yeah.
- Yeah, but you like it though.
- [Mike] But you like it. (laughs)
- Come on and get some of this crazy.
- Come on, I told you I was crazy.
- Hey man, thanks for stopping by, man.
- Thank you, man, I appreciate you, man.
- Great guest, man, appreciate you, black.
- I appreciate it, brother.
- Hey folks, go see his new film.
It's called Breakthrough, which is out now in theaters.
We'll be right back.
Mike Colter, everybody.
(audience applauds)
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