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Devaughn Nixon Talks Kane on ‘Snowfall’ and His New Role on The HBO Series ‘Winning’ + Freestyle
Apr 19, 2022
Devaughn Nixon has had a lot of amazing roles lately. He is playing Kane in the popular FX series Snowfall and now has joined the new series on HBO about the showtime Lakers called Winning. Nixon stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about everything he has going on and dropped an exclusive freestyle.
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that's why from now on we won't wait for
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anyone to give us breaks we'll make our
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own sounds like street ball chaos it is
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wow man you know i started picking up on
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this hbo series called winning times
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it's based on the book on show time was
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which was about magic johnson kareem pat
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riley in the los angeles lakers dynasty
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of the 1980s
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um i remember that dynasty being in
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northern california
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even though i was a warriors fan even
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back then
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shout out the world free everybody was a
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lakers fan lakers took it to a whole
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another level when it came to basketball
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basketball became a less of a sport and
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more of an event uh what the lakers was
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able to bring to the institution of
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basketball and today we got a special
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guest with us today i'm happy to have
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him here have the bee i got a chance to
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dance with his stepmom
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um oh watch out now
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and here or something like when she came
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here when she came here y'all sure did
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she was a big fan of cool mo d so i'm
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gonna go to work or do something go to
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work yes and uh i dare say in the most
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respectful way
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damn they backed it up on me but uh
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it didn't happen but you know you know
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damn near
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she be doing stuff like that
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twerking all kinds of [ __ ] get a little
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tequila in them
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you know and this man is no stranger to
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the screen db you want to do the honors
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who we got in here today
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just making sure this thing is on we
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ready to go yes indeed all right well i
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mean if you're going to do a biopic or
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any sort of uh series or project that's
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based on actual characters you either
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want to get somebody who looks as close
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as you can in my opinion to those actual
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characters or do the second best thing
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you can is get somebody related to the
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characters that are being depicted and
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that's what we have with us today he's
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playing his father storm and norm nixon
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on winning time the hbo series and he's
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also playing kane hamilton on the fx
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series snowfall season five finale airs
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next wednesday april 20th on hulu please
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welcome devon nixon
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sweden
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[Applause]
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i'm so happy to be here
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hey man it's good to see you bro thank
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you good to see you man by the way y'all
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didn't know his his stepmom i was
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speaking about is the legendary iconic
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debbie allen yes
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tabby allen man devon i gotta tell you
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and we'll talk about you a little later
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but we're gonna talk about oh [ __ ]
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i i wonder because your pops norm nixon
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man storming norman is
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bro we he's one of those people when we
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were little you know how you go to go to
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the rim and you say jordan right or you
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say magic right or you say nixon yeah
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he's one of those people man and i'm
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just out of curiosity growing up with
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famous parents did you know when did you
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come into no
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see the thing is i feel like my dad is
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one of those unsung heroes because you
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know that's why that's why i turned it
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up on this show because
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if i wasn't his son
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i might not have heard of him because
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when you think of show time you think of
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kareem magic worthy worthy yeah you hear
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all of those names but my dad was a
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monster was a beast bro yeah man he led
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the league in assist um when he got
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traded he led uh
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the lakers and assists two years when
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magic and him play together i think they
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played together for a total like maybe
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four or five years so people just don't
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know i had to do them justice man so
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that's why i turned it up on this [ __ ]
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yeah nice but then two growing up as the
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son of a professional basketball player
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uh it wasn't just like automatic you
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were supposed to play basketball
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yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah he was uh he was
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definitely trying to uh trying to get me
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to do that but he always knew that i was
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an artist so he never really really
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really pushed me he supports us in
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everything that we do
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so um but he definitely
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definitely wanted me to want to be who
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yeah yeah he wanted me to hoop my
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stepmom wanted my uh my brother to dance
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my dad was like absolutely not
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um but i mean you know we can all we can
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all get off pop clock do our do our
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thing i mean it's inherent in us so you
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know i got to speed the quickness of my
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dad but i mean my heart just wasn't in
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it he was in the arts yeah it was in the
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arts that's dope wow so was you nice
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though
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i mean you see the show man
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no no no no no there's no there's
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actually no stunt doubles for me i i
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wanted to
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really
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try to mimic his style of play because i
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mean back then you know it was different
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get to the hoop you run your plays you
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don't it wasn't the crossover iverson
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kind of thing so i had to change my shot
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my shot was kind of ugly and i worked
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with this coach his name is idon ravine
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and he got my [ __ ] right and
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yeah but i could hoop i was always fast
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i always got to the bucket my thing was
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i was just fastening everybody so
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i could just score layups upon layups i
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was always in the paint that's that was
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my style of play so your passion you
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just did you not have the passion for
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hooping or was just more directed for
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the arts
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funny story so i got a scholar i got a
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basketball scholarship to lmu and i got
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a scholarship to berkeley and i got an
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academic scholarship and i remember i
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wanted to
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damn stay
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in the city because subconsciously i was
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like i i want to act it was just always
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there was always a bug in my ear telling
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me you should stay here
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so i get there
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and i asked my friend who's on the team
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because i was going to go and practice
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with them i was like so how how often do
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you guys practice he was like before
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class
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in between break after class i was like
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well damn this sounds like a full-time
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job i'm not doing that
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[Laughter]
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i love it devon nixon is hanging out
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with us uh mike muse you want to jump in
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yeah devon you've had so many different
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characters that you've played i'm
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curious i mean it's rare that an
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individual gets to play their their
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mother or their father in a role what
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was your approach different
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for this role versus other roles
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to prepare for the wrong well
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getting my dad to really co-sign me
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doing this pretty much because my dad is
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like a lax person and this character's
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so flamboyant he's wearing fur coats the
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first thing my dad says when he comes to
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set walks up to adam mckay and all our
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producers he's like
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you know i never wore a fur coat right
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you you know i ain't never gotten a
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pedicure i'm from making man so that's
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why like in the very first uh in the
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pilot when you see my name come on the
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screen says swears he never got a
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pedicure because they took that from him
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so you know he liked to pop off talk
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[ __ ] to me but i mean you know he's he's
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he's just happy and my my preparation i
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just had secret recordings i would just
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put my phone down just not let him know
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because i would ask him questions and he
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would be like
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well you playing me so you should do the
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research i'm like i got you right here
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what are we talking about you are the
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researcher right but the physical part
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of it was the hardest i had to shed
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about 30 pounds i was a little bit
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bigger bulkier so now i'm lean skinny
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and you know i had to watch my diet
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intermittent fast and all that
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i love it man you want to jump on yeah
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yeah because uh unbeknownst to a lot of
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people you start in one of my all-time
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favorite movies terminator 2 judgement
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day you played the son of miles dyson
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and one of the things i learned because
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i know that movie from beginning to end
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but a lot of people also don't know is
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how much they cut out of that movie
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right
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there were so many scenes with you and
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the family that were taken out in the
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final cut
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and i think
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as an actor when you're young you don't
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really understand like wait a second i
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filmed all this stuff
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why is it not in the final edit i'm
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going to tell you something real quick
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so i was supposed to have a sister in
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that movie and she got the flu
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so they cut her out completely the
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actress got done that the actress got
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the flu they cut her out completely and
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we were supposed to go to raging waters
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terminator was supposed to come there
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and then they ended up rewriting it and
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you know i was just the only the only
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kid in the family you know like the the
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daughter was gone and she went with them
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no longer in the portrait just a void
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that's a cool piece of work that is a
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cool piece of work
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um tracy you want to jump in absolutely
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devon although you know we're spending a
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lot of time celebrating winning time but
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i have to talk about my favorite show
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snowfall especially of what looks like
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it's gonna be an explosive finale
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and
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shout out to crazy ass aunt louie but if
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you watch you know what i'm talking
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about but i'm happy to see that you
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ended up being a part of the show as
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kane and i'm wondering because snowfall
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does such a tremendous job with showing
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the complexities
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that come with that era you know of
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being from the hood with quote unquote
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criminal activity you know what i mean
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but also how it's tied to our um
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community to in ways
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help us get to better places financially
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but then also the fine print with how it
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can hurt us as well i'm wondering how it
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has
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changed or kept your view on how you see
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people who enter that life
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you know i respect everybody that gives
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money
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period you know what i mean black white
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what whatever if you get money taking
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care of your family that's that that's
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all i care about you know i mean you're
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a hit man
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well that's a different story
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what if it's dirty buddy is there a
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difference
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and clean money
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[Music]
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you know this is this this is a script
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that snowfall gave me so no
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no man but i mean i mean honestly i'm
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i'm just i'm just cool with people
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taking care of their family i mean i you
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know it can't be a hit man often people
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but
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if you're taking care of your own you're
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trying to get back to the community and
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you know it is what it is there's a lot
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of people that started as hustlers that
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are rappers that are you know giving
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back and and doing things and handing
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out turkeys on thanksgiving right you
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know paying people's christmas bills
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when they walk into a store so as long
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as you give back and it circles back
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around
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i have a problem i mean you might have
10:45
to off a couple people if you franklin
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but you know
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yeah
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honest bout it i'm about that life man
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i'm from l.a
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well but did you how adjacent were you
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to the hood with your parents being norm
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nixon and and debbie island and your
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original biological so so so my so my
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mom like um we talked about before my
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mom's from harlem okay name's delena
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pleasant's 123rd morningside avenue
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tillage i'm glad you said her name too
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yeah man absolutely
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yeah i mean i mean she's my ride-or-die
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she got me into this acting game and all
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of that she's responsible for everything
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so um
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she moved out to l.a
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um raised me i'm from hossie in the
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heights originally like where so
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basically off the 60 freeway by the la
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puente hill's mom mm-hmm all the matters
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geography
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south siders ms 13s all of them were out
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there so that's where i grew up i i came
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over into the the santa monica private
11:46
school valley side when i got the
11:48
bodyguard okay yeah so so got my mom a
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house we moved out to the valley and
11:53
that's how that all came to fruition
11:54
happens yeah man so did you face any
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crossroad moments as a kid where you
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could have took a whole different
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direction since she was around that
12:02
environment where you have attempted to
12:04
get in that environment well for sure i
12:05
mean being a child actor you know i grew
12:07
up with a lot of people and a lot of
12:08
people went this way i decided to go
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that way you know and you know i just
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had a strong
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uh i just had strong parental support
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you know my grandfather was a hustler
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but he always took care of his
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um
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you know i
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i was just
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a smart kid and i knew that
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i wanted to act
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my first i remember my first vision of
12:34
me being on stage is when i saw michael
12:36
jackson i used to tape all of his
12:38
his shows and watch how he used to
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captivate an audience and i was just
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so awe
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awed by him and i was just like i want
12:45
to do that and that's kind of what took
12:47
me out of you know doing all that stuff
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because i could easily i could have
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easily gotten into all that you know
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gang bang all that stuff but
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you know i come from a strong background
12:57
you know my family had my back you had
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vision early absolutely feel like
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everybody's grandfather was a hustler we
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all got a grandfather
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it's part of the black come-up story for
13:08
a lot of us we had no choice
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yes
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i had no choice we had to create
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opportunities and that's you know our
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own subcultures in order to provide for
13:18
ourselves because we weren't being
13:19
allowed access into the
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the bigger hole right it is right when
13:23
you bring up whitney houston and the
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bodyguard i know you as a young man but
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what do you remember about whitney
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houston everything it was
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it was such a vivid moment in my life
13:33
first time i saw snow so i was excited
13:36
i remember when she told us that bobby
13:38
brown had proposed to her showed us this
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big rock looked like a boulder all right
13:43
crazy it was crazy my mom got married up
13:46
there my mom um
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to
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my my younger sister's father uh what
13:53
else what else i remember throwing her
13:54
cigarettes away in the toilet
13:57
whitney houston's cigarettes yes i did i
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didn't want her to smoke nobody knows
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that i shouldn't be saying that but i
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mean you know rest of peace whitney i
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love you and her voice was still
14:04
incredible but yeah i got pissed off
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threw him away she wanted to kill me
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yeah did you chase did she spank you
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yeah no no no no
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man i don't know what happened
14:15
i was a cute kid so she didn't do
14:17
anything i remember having a snowball
14:19
fight
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um and i remember
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here's one thing i remember so i
14:25
remember when the boat was about to blow
14:27
up right and everybody always asked me
14:28
about how cold the water was
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so the way they shot it
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there was a like a standalone jacuzzi
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next to the lake like lake tahoe right
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and the camera was set far back so the
14:41
top of the jacuzzi looked like a part of
14:43
the lake that's how they filmed it oh so
14:46
everybody was like i mean if you really
14:48
want to know something if you really
14:49
look close at the bodyguard you can see
14:51
steam coming off of my my jacket i was
14:54
chilling everyone's like wow was that
14:55
water cold i was like it was 90 degrees
15:01
i was in there so yeah man i mean i was
15:04
that was that was a great that was a
15:05
pivotal moment in my life just just
15:07
realizing
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you know who she was because i didn't
15:11
understand the concept of celebrity and
15:14
i was just recently on kelly clarkson's
15:16
show as well and i told her
15:17
i was like i didn't even know
15:20
she could sing so she just started
15:21
singing in the trailer one day and i was
15:24
just like dang okay you got some pipes
15:28
you should be a singer
15:30
you should be you're really talented
15:32
yeah
15:37
what a shelter kid
15:53
like i was like mom how do i get my hair
15:55
like that i remember i went to like
15:57
fantastic sam's trying to put moose in
15:59
my hair to slick it back
16:00
that was one of the first times i
16:02
realized i was black i was like why
16:03
doesn't my hair do
16:05
i like what my homie corey's here done
16:08
corey's different corey was different
16:11
devon nixon is here if you're watching
16:12
winning time the hbo series
16:15
888-742-3345 if you're watching snow
16:18
snowfall you could talk to him about
16:19
that bizzle we
16:21
obviously we talked to a lot of actors
16:23
uh that come through to the show but you
16:25
mentioned about being a child actor
16:27
is rejection different like as a child
16:30
actor you dragging around your parents
16:32
and auditions and whatnot and you find
16:34
out you don't get a part is it different
16:36
it's it's completely different because
16:40
as a child there's no inhibitions you
16:41
don't care about anything you know you
16:44
you don't really realize which what
16:46
you're doing so when you get older you
16:49
know you you find out you're like damn i
16:51
studied i've put all this sweat blood
16:53
and tears into this one audition in this
16:56
job
16:57
and then you don't get it and then you
16:58
go out for the next one and then you
17:00
don't get it and you go for the next one
17:02
and you don't get it
17:03
and then you know something weird about
17:05
this situation for me is i feel like i
17:08
earned it me playing my dad you know
17:10
what i mean that was just the biggest
17:11
layup biggest underhand pitch i got my
17:13
entire life
17:15
so
17:16
but if it weren't my dad i have to
17:18
wonder but they always tell me that i
17:20
put in the work and i feel like i earned
17:22
it because i've been working for so long
17:23
yeah you know and um it's is i feel like
17:27
it's my time you know i feel like it's
17:29
finally my time absolutely you talk
17:31
about your dad man and i didn't i didn't
17:33
realize um
17:36
i i always thought he was a part of the
17:38
showtime movement you know i never
17:39
realized people left him out like they
17:41
didn't mention him at all
17:43
how is his temperament about those times
17:46
with the lakers does he feel left out
17:48
now my dad was completely withdrawn from
17:50
media he never
17:52
my dad reminds me of a
17:54
of a kawhi leonard you know okay kawhi
17:57
will give you a silent 35 points you
18:00
know and not even talk about it not talk
18:02
trash and that's how my dad was his job
18:04
was to ball go home he never wanted
18:07
people in his business he hung out with
18:09
who he hung out with and
18:11
you know he always traveled he brought
18:13
all those people to italy because he
18:14
played in italy so magic started coming
18:16
out to italy denzel started coming out
18:18
to italy because of my dad denzel
18:20
washington yeah
18:21
yeah okay yeah they're they're they're
18:23
very good friends that makes sense they
18:26
the same kind of cool dude uh-huh yeah
18:28
swaggy i mean denzel's from what mount
18:30
vernon i think
18:32
yeah yeah so um yeah they met years ago
18:35
him and my stepmom and then all of them
18:37
became friends but yeah my dad was just
18:40
cool calm and collect man he just
18:42
slid under the radar so he was just
18:44
unbothered he was just that player yeah
18:47
and i met your dad before man yeah i met
18:49
your dad in l.a when i was working at
18:51
the beat before he don't remember me i
18:53
know of course he does your dad does not
18:55
remember me devon thank you bro
18:57
i appreciate it call him now
19:00
wow you want me to go call him now i'll
19:04
call him
19:06
that damn [ __ ]
19:08
hey no i'm gonna call him after the show
19:10
call him after the show
19:12
big on the phone on the floor
19:20
watch this watch me call you out 8 30 do
19:23
you really want to do that i'm doing it
19:25
i'm doing this [ __ ] right now that's
19:26
right you can put it on the speaker okay
19:28
here we go here we go here we go both of
19:29
y'all about to get cussed out don't know
19:31
me he'll know me after this
19:35
set himself up for success smart here we
19:37
go
19:40
no no no no no no turn your mind on
19:43
speaker here it is okay let's see this
19:45
one's 8 21 norm nixon norm nixon
19:49
two rings okay two rings that's my son
19:52
what boy dad
19:54
what's going on hey i'm on sway in the
19:56
morning man i'm i'm in new york i'm live
19:59
on the radio right now i just wanted to
20:01
say what's up he doesn't he doesn't even
20:02
think that you remember him he was on a
20:04
beat
20:05
he's that man like he's he's that dude i
20:08
mean i'm in the radio station right now
20:10
at sirius radio in new york
20:13
yeah yeah he wanted to say what up
20:16
say what up swag hey mr nixon it's suede
20:18
callaway how you doing man
20:20
how you doing brother hey you remember
20:22
meeting me
20:25
got to remind me
20:36
i love it i used to i used to work i
20:39
used to work at the beat in the 90s
20:41
years ago and uh i met you at a couple
20:43
of functions it was you wouldn't
20:45
remember man
21:00
yeah man it's good man hey listen i want
21:03
to tell you um that um your legacy is
21:06
sealed you're an amazing you you added
21:09
so much to the the basketball the game
21:11
of basketball
21:12
just your demeanor the way you've always
21:14
carried yourself and i was telling your
21:16
son i've always been a big fan
21:18
of just that everything about you so
21:21
absolutely man
21:22
and i hope i hope you don't i hope you
21:25
don't mind um
21:26
you know miss debbie allen came to the
21:28
show once and oh no and we danced
21:34
you don't care i told you
21:38
yeah but hey man it's great talking to
21:41
you don't wonder if you ever come to new
21:42
york please come by the show
21:44
you guys have fun on the show all right
21:48
man come on i'm good
21:50
okay thank you good i'm good now thank
21:53
you
21:55
thank you thank you
21:57
thank you thank you thank you said he
21:59
would remember
22:00
i knew it i knew it yeah you have to say
22:02
the beat see what it means while you're
22:03
attacking
22:04
swaying tech wake up showing the beat oh
22:07
they remember oh man hey remember man
22:10
that's great man he had dad they need to
22:12
come when we out in l.a you and your dad
22:15
y'all need to come to the show yeah no
22:16
no we'll come in l.a yeah
22:19
last week of may we'll be out there the
22:20
last full week i'll get your info okay
22:23
yeah because that's around the season
22:24
finale so let's do that okay yeah yeah
22:26
let's do that it works out look at devon
22:28
was sweating he was hoping his dad damn
22:30
i know man
22:32
so man listen with all this success
22:34
that's coming your way in this respect
22:36
that you're receiving as a thespian you
22:38
like you really truly have earned your
22:40
way into these acting roles it's not
22:42
it's not nepotism uh what do you see for
22:44
yourself next man what are your goals
22:47
uh i'm supposed to be doing some apple
22:49
project uh i can't really speak on it
22:52
but it's another period piece that i'm
22:54
gonna have to definitely
22:56
study and watch tape on and you know i
22:59
just want to challenge because when i
23:01
was younger in my younger career i was
23:02
doing things that were easy just reading
23:05
lines off the page and now
23:07
it's about getting the context of what
23:09
i'm saying and understanding what i'm
23:11
saying and
23:12
and just and just watching great movies
23:15
and studying my idols and their
23:16
movements and
23:18
there's just a lot more to all of this
23:20
than than i thought that there was and
23:22
it's a continuous challenge i have
23:25
pacha dellamente tatted on my arm an
23:28
italian peace of mind because i i wanna
23:31
i want to try to get there but
23:34
i just don't think i'll ever have a
23:35
peace of mind just because i always want
23:36
to keep going i always want to do
23:38
i always want to do more i always want
23:40
to be better so that's what i
23:42
that's what i'm getting after and i want
23:44
to do a gritty indie film man i want to
23:45
do something that really really really
23:47
really pushes the buttons it pushes the
23:49
envelope for me i love that
23:51
your preparation to play kane uh was
23:54
very unique even to establish that vocal
23:57
pitch yeah that he has
23:59
how did you do that can you demonstrate
24:01
how you arrived at that tone
24:04
yes please so
24:06
basically
24:07
i watch the show and everybody always
24:10
wants to play la gangbanger being like
24:13
oh no i could like you know what i'm
24:14
saying man like what are we talking
24:16
about right here cuz you know so
24:18
i was just
24:22
so i was like all right let me let me
24:24
let me try to put a different spin on it
24:27
so i just wanted to lose my voice and
24:29
make it a little bit scarier because you
24:30
know i'm from cali man i got skinny
24:32
jeans on and [ __ ] like i don't look hard
24:34
and i remember like the first time i
24:36
showed up to set they were like you're
24:38
the og you're kane
24:40
i was like yeah they were like okay
24:55
uh so uh yeah man and i just went in
24:58
there i was just like you know because i
25:00
know damson's a beast isaiah they
25:02
play franklin and leon respectively and
25:04
those are my dogs
25:06
and
25:07
so i just literally screamed into a
25:09
towel for like 30 minutes wow before
25:13
before i even went on set
25:15
and i made the choice i was like i want
25:17
to smoke cigarettes to add a little bit
25:18
more to the raspiness because it's just
25:20
so different because my voice is
25:22
naturally high i'm starting to get it
25:24
back but the kane character really like
25:25
kind of like did something i probably
25:27
have some lyft no
25:29
i have some damage i probably have some
25:31
nodules on my vocal cords and all kinds
25:33
of stuff but you know i just wanted to
25:34
go there and i just wanted to make it
25:36
authentic and real and try to do
25:38
something a little bit different so
25:40
screamed into the towel and then i just
25:42
went at him i i just you know i didn't
25:44
even really talk to them so me and
25:46
damson actually had the same manager
25:47
stephanie moy and uh i saw dancing
25:50
walking outside and i was just like you
25:51
know because the very first time i get
25:53
introduced is at the park
25:56
and we didn't really have too much
25:58
conversation and i remember the first
26:00
take i took a drag and i just blew it in
26:02
his face
26:05
you know and like hey you little [ __ ]
26:08
like what's poppin
26:10
you know i just wanted to make a
26:11
statement so um you know and he just
26:14
embraced it he was just like okay all
26:16
right let's go and then so we just
26:18
started playing off of each other
26:20
and um you know
26:22
damson's a very good actor so good
26:24
actors to get actors sometimes it's hard
26:26
to give compliments but he was like
26:28
[Music]
26:31
that scene was fire
26:33
you have to get that up yeah
26:36
hey yo tracy is like the biggest like
26:38
every day yeah every day i'm not even
26:40
exactly for real yeah every day calloway
26:43
did you watch this episode that she says
26:45
this to me she said it to me today yeah
26:47
absolutely i mean like to the point uh i
26:49
wish i could recall some other writer's
26:51
names but after completing an episode
26:54
and i'm going through like you know all
26:56
of the different credits i had to go on
26:58
twitter
26:59
just as directly as i possibly could to
27:02
give flowers to the writers and everyone
27:04
involved it's just it's exceptional yeah
27:06
it was a well-written scene it was a
27:08
well-written scene shout out to the late
27:10
john singleton
27:12
that's our brother and background of
27:13
applause for john man every time we say
27:15
his name
27:17
hey devon diana's on the line from san
27:19
diego 888
27:21
742-3345 you want to talk to devon nixon
27:23
go ahead deanna
27:25
hey
27:26
hey
27:27
hey how are you how are you guys doing
27:30
excellent hello
27:31
we got kane in here
27:36
wanted to know what made you get into
27:38
acting
27:40
so my mother i actually got scouted at a
27:43
mall
27:44
and
27:45
funny enough i started my career as an
27:48
oshkosh bagash model damn that was you
27:51
yeah
27:52
little jumpsuit
27:58
so that just snowballed into me doing um
28:01
a
28:02
i was a face of a video game back in the
28:05
early 90s called geo safari and then
28:08
that's when the agent started calling
28:10
and
28:11
and then i did my very first acting
28:12
class with a woman named betty bridges
28:15
who's todd bridges his mom from
28:16
different strokes damn willis
28:19
willis yeah i was four years old in the
28:22
acting class i was the youngest person
28:23
gosh and then i did my first movie when
28:26
i was five called to sleep with anger
28:28
with uh danny glover shirley ralph which
28:30
around tree
28:31
and so that's how everything started
28:34
started as a
28:35
as a model when the papers were black
28:37
and white robinson's main [ __ ] that's
28:39
not around anymore
28:41
hey you know
28:42
yeah
28:43
yeah his struggle was a stunt dean yeah
28:46
my struggle but just anointed on this
28:48
path though yeah like that everybody
28:50
can't say four years old at four years
28:52
old did it feel like you were working or
28:55
did it feel like oh i'm just trying
28:56
something and having fun i was just
28:58
having fun but i was nervous when i had
28:59
to go in front of the whole class yeah
29:01
you know she was like get it together
29:03
like she was tough she was tough and she
29:06
got me like you're doing your thing yeah
29:09
i appreciate that thank you thank you
29:10
deanna you're a citizen deanna thank you
29:12
okay we appreciate you oh amber amber
29:14
alert everybody they look they they
29:16
looking for that guy
29:19
somebody want to read this uh oh frank
29:20
james blackmail 62 years old any
29:22
information damn they looking for him
29:24
they catching him today damn it
29:26
he had to be black
29:31
don't you worry
29:34
you still do that right i'm sorry man
29:37
i'm sorry
29:50
come on james what you doing man
29:56
um did you meet ty bridges back then
29:58
real quick i did
29:59
i did i don't think people understand
30:01
how huge ty bridges was they don't
30:04
understand they don't todd bridges was
30:07
the biggest thing coming out the black
30:09
community at one pillman um uh gary
30:12
coleman harry coleman and then who else
30:14
emmanuel lewis
30:16
yeah
30:18
uh who else who else all of them jimmy
30:21
you think about good times you think
30:22
about you know um you talking about
30:24
different strokes you think about some
30:25
of these shows man incredible and we ran
30:28
home as kids to watch it because we
30:31
identified as some type of so you know
30:33
like even michael from good times like
30:35
you watch we watch these shows the one
30:37
that hit me the most remember tgi and
30:39
tgif teach thank god it's friday like
30:42
step by step
30:44
yeah uh with jaleel white
30:46
god matters gotta give him a lot of
30:48
credit too
30:52
white may be one of the most talented
30:54
facts actors we witnessed child actors
30:57
oh my god
30:58
he ain't in your top five you playing
31:02
ever best child actors then you're
31:04
playing yourself yeah he was going hard
31:06
at a young young age and he still gets
31:08
recognized like crazy like he's like
31:10
macaulay coco that's my time like i grew
31:12
up with the mccully culkins the elijah
31:14
woods right right and everybody still
31:16
recognizes from their child from the
31:18
from their childhood and that's and
31:19
that's crazy like i'm i'm i'm so
31:21
thankful that some people are like oh
31:23
like you know you're from the bodyguard
31:25
because i have a lisp so like you know
31:26
what i mean like and people recognize
31:28
how i talk but those dudes
31:30
like macaulay jaleel white it's like
31:33
people just know it's urkel yep that's
31:35
crazy immediately they know who he is i
31:38
mean and sometimes i you used to think
31:40
maybe that's the gift in the curse but
31:42
nah man it's a win every time it's a win
31:45
every time um denzel being that he's
31:48
friends with your father did he ever
31:49
give you any advice on acting he told me
31:51
to do plays he told me that's how you
31:53
really get your ground like you
31:55
because there's no
31:57
takes
31:58
yeah you just gotta go up there and if
32:00
you don't know it you better figure it
32:01
out
32:02
so he always told me uh to do plays i
32:05
did a play out here actually in new york
32:07
it was like a workshop
32:09
it was called
32:11
hoops and it was a disney production and
32:13
kenny leon one of the great play
32:15
directors out here
32:17
he directed it savion glover it was
32:19
about the harlem globetrotters so it was
32:21
like a stomp mixed with basketball wow
32:23
and uh we did it i don't it didn't
32:25
really go anywhere i was i was here for
32:28
maybe about a month and a half doing it
32:29
you know i think disney might have
32:31
passed i think they passed on it
32:33
and but it was a great experience
32:35
because the rehearsal process
32:38
these these theater actors like they go
32:41
so beyond just reading the lines it's
32:44
just
32:45
they they're just
32:47
immersed in
32:49
in in these roles and it's just
32:51
it's so beautiful to watch when you
32:53
watch a play you just see somebody just
32:55
acting right on the spot
32:57
because television actors movie actors
32:59
is like take one take two you have a
33:01
chance to do different things when
33:02
you're on the stage yeah
33:04
it's go time yeah well sway sleeps in
33:07
the theater most of the time
33:14
[Music]
33:15
lion king hamilton in the recent the
33:17
michael jackson the
33:22
musical okay mj the musical okay i could
33:26
hook you up oh i would love it i would
33:28
love to see that man i might get on
33:30
stage
33:31
and it's great i saw it like last month
33:34
it was the closest i felt to michael
33:36
really and i saw a lot of the posthumous
33:38
plays and different things that they put
33:40
together i went to vegas and saw the
33:42
thing there oh yeah yep and then the
33:43
hologram came out and i was like ah
33:47
i saw the thing they did at the garden
33:48
it was like a cirque du soleil type
33:50
thing absolutely and they had a hundred
33:52
michaels on stage that didn't get it
33:54
either no
33:55
but the mj the musical on broadway huh
33:58
fire brown
34:00
what happened the uh star actor is gonna
34:03
come on this show
34:04
oh for real it's the first time i felt
34:07
connected to michael we we children of
34:09
michael jackson yeah you know he can
34:10
dance too he's nice with it yeah you
34:13
know what i mean like it's not he's not
34:14
corny mike
34:16
he's mike mike okay okay he's mike mike
34:18
he's mike mike it's funny but it gives
34:21
you perspectives that you don't right
34:23
you didn't know about michael let me ask
34:25
you a question what do you guys think
34:26
mike was mike mike because it was it was
34:28
it was the bad it was the bad video for
34:31
me where he pulled the thing because
34:32
mike started the whole wind hair blowing
34:34
everything that everybody else said way
34:36
before yeah
34:38
right
34:39
it's a video out now saying basically he
34:41
created the gritty he was the first one
34:43
to do the gritty when um all about they
34:45
don't really care about us
34:49
yeah mike did the gritty first michael
34:52
he started everything
34:54
boom started well he studied james brown
34:56
james brown he said he just okay okay
34:58
okay yeah he studied james yeah and
35:01
everything comes from africa miles frost
35:03
is the name of the young man who plays
35:06
mj on broadway miles frost miles frost
35:09
miles frost and he's a singer as well
35:11
got to meet you miles did you did you
35:13
did you develop a michael scream
35:20
can you hear that did you hear that
35:23
bucket hey king can't be doing that
35:25
though hey man let me get back to my
35:26
ghetto [ __ ] you know
35:28
i
35:31
next time alfonzo ribeiro comes up here
35:34
we gotta ask all about mike
35:38
barnzo is nice with it yeah he's got a
35:40
nice mic he got a nice mic and marlon
35:42
wangan's got a nice mic
35:45
that's my boy hello marla's crazy mike
35:48
yeah mark marlon's crazy hey divine man
35:50
we gotta we gotta connect i gotta we
35:51
gotta exchange information all right
35:53
absolutely brother congratulations on
35:55
all of it thank you so much man i
35:57
appreciate you guys i hope you enjoyed
35:59
your time with us as much as we did
36:02
man i did
36:03
you know i was pressured i thought you
36:05
guys would make me flow so
36:07
what what i mean i mean i mean damn i
36:09
don't know
36:34
make room make room for this new kid on
36:36
the block the skills make mc's go into a
36:39
shot hey on top of that i'm also a g hey
36:42
[ __ ] know i'm the d-e-v-o my style
36:46
blows up like explosion my crowd starts
36:48
moving in a liquid-like motion people
36:51
say i'm the bars like tony danza i got
36:54
peeps dancing in a yeah
36:56
i put it down like that you know what
36:59
because my lyrics are fat you can catch
37:01
me on melrose open-toed sandals feet
37:04
exposed with my [ __ ] on vogue
37:11
cause i'm passionate hey of course the
37:13
zero's added to my account so i can't
37:15
pass on it but hey
37:22
[Applause]
37:33
i just got a new best friend
37:43
devon nixon man make sure y'all follow
37:45
him on social too cali kid devo cali kid
37:49
devil thank you devon for coming through
37:51
the day man thank you guys so much for
37:52
having me sending my love to your pops
37:54
in the family brother
37:56
i told you i told you you were answering
37:58
damn he did too
37:59
listen like a cool dad i'm trying to be
38:01
like that i got a daughter so i'm trying
38:03
to be like that i'm gonna be like nixon
38:05
all right we're coming right back sway
38:06
in the morning shave four five
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