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i really wanted to be you know a good
security guard i didn't want to be like
here's my demo taping it i want to be an
actor
because i wasn't even into that at the
time before terry crews was a bonafide
tv star with recurring roles on shows
like everybody hates chris arrested
development the newsroom are we there
yet and brooklyn nine-nine
chicken potatoes pasta
meatballs pam
my yogurt oh it's a lot of yogurt before
appearing in movies like scary movie
five bridesmaids and white chicks
before becoming the face of old spice
who said that
is that my left bicep no it was my
abdominals before terry crews would be
nip sinking ebony and ivory with jimmy
fallon
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i've actually wanted to tell terry's
incredible before their famous story for
some time
it was like one of my first to-do's and
then people just started sending in so
many requests i never got to it
anyway he grew up in a household riddled
with domestic abuse and made it all the
way to the nfl
where he experienced a different kind of
abuse the nfl
has an abusive relationship with his
players
it's no it's like a pimp and a
prostitute
and before making it as an actor he
worked as a courtroom sketch artist he
did temp
jobs he swept factory floors he was an
extra in training day and he worked as
part of the security detail for ice cube
i was on next friday because i was like
the biggest guy
so they would assign me right outside
his trailer and he parked in the whole
thing and i'm like hey mr cube what's
going on guys my name is michael
mccreton documenting the remarkable life
and career of terry crews part of fame
here for you on before they're famous
in the past i've covered other actors
and comedians including ryan gosling
tommy wiseau and hugh jackman
i've also covered other athletes like
tristan thompson ezekiel elliott and
kyrie irving
be sure to check those out and let me
know as always in the comments down
below who you want me to document next
this would be a good part to start i
can't i can't do it ain't nothing
special about me
nothing not one thing special about me
except the fact that i had the courage
to do it the courage to just go out
there
terry allen cruz was born on july 30th
1986 in flint michigan
he grew up alongside his brother marcel
in a strict christian household he was
raised mainly by his mother patricia who
was a housewife
before taking up a receptionist job at
mclaren flint
his father terry crew senior also known
as big terry
worked the general motors for 30 years
big terry was a dedicated hard worker
but he was also an alcoholic
who frequently abused young terry's
mother as terry put it
i used to watch this happen over and
over again it was a post-traumatic
stress experience for me
i used to watch my father hit my mother
in the face and watch her go down
and there were some things that just
affected me more than i don't think
anyone could realize
for years terry had a serious issue with
his father over the abuse
but in an interview with the huffington
post terry crews has gone on to explain
how he eventually came to forgive his
father
i started giving big terry credit for
what he did do he was a good earner he
was a good provider
i never excused what had been wrong but
also being able to see the positive
finally change my perspective terry also
explained that for better or for worse
his childhood made him who he is today
and if he could choose for himself any
parents in the world he would still pick
patricia and big terry
i felt so helpless when i was a kid that
i said i will never be that helpless
ever
so i said i got to get strong terry
began working out at a young age and
fitness has been a lifelong pursuit
terry is 49 years old at the time of
this recording but he still exercises
for two hours each and every day
let's take a quick look at his workout
routine
from a young age terry was a kid with
many talents he was athletic he was
strong and also very artistic
he played both basketball and football
throughout school but before that he got
attention for his drawing and his
painting talents as a child
in fact terry's first job in
entertainment was drawing courtroom
sketches for the worst murder case in
flint michigan history
still his lifelong dream was to become
an actor but despite his many talents
terry wasn't perfect
from the age of 12 terry began watching
pornography
pretty typical stuff but for terry it
was the beginning of what would become a
secret addiction that would last for
years and years
you know for years years years
my dirty little secret was that i was
addicted to pornography
for years terry would continue to
struggle with his porn addiction until
around 2009 to 2010.
he talked about the struggle for the
first time in his 2014 autobiography
manhood
how to be a better man or just live with
one and in a series of youtube and
facebook videos released in 2016
but obviously we're not there yet some
people deny they say hey man you know
you can't really be addicted to
pornography there's no way but i'm gonna
tell you something if day
turns into night and you are still
watching
you probably got a problem for high
school terry attended flint southwestern
academy
after graduating he got a chrysler
sponsored art scholarship to attend the
interlaken center for the arts in
interlaken michigan
following this he got an art excellent
sponsorship to go to western michigan
university
in kalamazoo michigan but they probably
took one look at terry and realized he
would be a strong asset on the football
field
he was a walk-on player for the wmu
broncos and earned a full-ride athletic
scholarship
all-conference honors and the 1988
mid-american conference championship
but football was both a blessing and a
curse for terry as he suffered multiple
concussions during school i remember
going to class with my head hurt
you know what i'm saying getting knocked
out and they're like well you know what
you got a free education you need to
just be happy i was like
hey man terry also said that he had
trouble attending his art classes
because football practice was eight
hours a day
but he did find time to marry the love
of his life the former beauty queen and
gospel singer rebecca king
together the couple have three daughters
asriel born in 1990 terror born in 1999
and winfrey born in 2004
and one son isaiah born in 2007. i have
a song
he also has a stepdaughter naomi born to
rebecca back in 1989.
terry was selected by the los angeles
rams in the 11th round of the 1991 nfl
draft
his pro bowl career would include stints
for six different nfl teams
including the philadelphia eagles the
washington redskins and the san diego
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chargers
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during his time in the nfl terry was
always at the end of the roster and
often got cut from teams
in order to survive he relied on his
visual art skills
after getting cut from a team he would
go back into the locker room and ask the
players if they wanted their portraits
painted
he stated it would literally take me
about two months to do a painting and
they would give me like five
thousand dollars and i would survive off
that my whole family survived off that
after retiring from the nfl in 1997
terry moved out to los angeles to pursue
a career in hollywood
but things didn't come together right
away he was doing temp jobs sweeping
factory floors
and working as part of icecube's
security detail during the filming of
next friday
the relationship would eventually lead
to terry's breakout film role
in friday after next first [ __ ]
get out of here
[ __ ] craig and data
just the [ __ ] i need to see but this
was not terry's first role as an actor
in 1999
he appeared as t-money on the
short-lived tv series battle dome
he played vincent in the sixth day in
2000 and in 2001
he had an uncredited blank and you'll
miss it role as a gang member in the
denzel washington masterpiece
training day jay
you disloyal full ass [ __ ] made punk
after appearing in friday after next
harry picked up a role in 2002 serving
sarah
and went in an episode of the district
he appeared and delivered us from eva
malibu's most wanted platinum and
badasses in 2003.
the next year he appeared in starsky and
hutch csi miami and soul play
but his most memorable role would be as
latrell spencer
and white chicks you know what they say
once you go black
you're gonna need a wheelchair hey
latrell
i had a great time last night he would
go on to appear on my wife and kids
all of us and harsh times in 2005. that
year he also appeared as cheeseburger
eddie
in the longest yard till he cries like a
baby bag [ __ ]
baby back [ __ ]
adam sandler must have taken a shine to
terry because he would repeatedly bring
him back for movies like click
sandy wexler and the ridiculous sex in
2005 terry picked up the role of julius
and chris rock's hit sitcom
everybody hates chris the show ran until
2009 and while working on the series
terry continued to work on numerous
other projects he was in 2008 to get
smart as
agent 91 he worked as a voice actor on
the boondocks
voicing several roles from 2005 to 2007.
he also appeared in the mic judge cult
classic idiocracy as president camacho
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in 2009 terry worked on middlemen gamer
and terminator salvation
the next year he was in the expendables
and lottery ticket and this is around
the time he overcame his pornography
addiction by going to rehab
from 2010 to 2012 he starred in the tv
adaption of
are we there yet as nick persons during
that time he also snagged a role as the
boot camp instructor in bridesmaids
he also started uploading videos to
youtube in 2011.
since then he's dropped over 60 videos
and built up a following of over 200 000
subscribers
in 2012 he appeared as hale caesar in
the expendables 2
and got a recurring role on the newsroom
in 2013 he picked up perhaps his most
iconic role today
the role of terry jeffords in brooklyn
nine-nine
hey ball if savant was to do anything to
harm this precinct would i destroy him
answer uncertain since then he's gone on
to pick up more roles than i can name
uh uh uh are we there yet we got 100
episodes
and and brooklyn 993 and that ain't even
counting
the reality stuff i've done at the time
of this recording there's four new terry
crews projects to look out for
in 2017 he will appear and where's the
money and do you want to see a dead body
he'll also be in sorry to bother you
scheduled for a 2018 release
and he's currently filming the movie the
willow voice or willoughbys there it is
recently terry crews was also trending
in the news in the midst of the hari
weinstein revelation
terry bravely came forward about his own
experience of being broke by a powerful
hollywood executive
terry had been man handled at a party in
2016 but did not publicize the incident
at the time for fear of retaliation
through the years terry's been an artist
and athlete a writer and activist
and an actor so what's next for terry
crews i'm not even done i'm designing
furniture right now
i'm my own furniture line out right now
man this dude can do it all
as for the rest of the story well we'll
have to wait and see because this is
before they're famous
my name is michael craig thanks so much
for checking out this video i've got two
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the comments down below i really wish i
could
my brother can i work out a lot it's
just not
oh whatever okay bye