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John Boyega Talks New Movie 'They Cloned Tyrone', Update on Jamie Foxx & Working with Viola Davis
Jul 3, 2023
When British-Nigerian actor John Boyega graced the microphone on Sway In The Morning, he brought with him a wealth of insights about his latest projects, co-stars, and the ever-changing landscape of Hollywood. Known for his roles in blockbusters like "Star Wars," Boyega's career has been on a meteoric rise.
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John Boyega Talks New Movie 'They Cloned Tyrone', Update on Jamie Foxx & Working with Viola Davis
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we're here to celebrate they clone
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Tyrone premiering on Netflix July 21st
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welcome my brother back to the show
0:12
first time here
0:24
energy is right it's right it's right
0:27
[ __ ] your country
0:30
he ride on these fools
0:36
you can just throw out South Side bro
0:40
South London SC you know I mean packing
0:42
while going he said [ __ ] damn he just
0:45
turned it to a South cider
0:48
I remember we talked about that yeah so
0:50
we celebrate my when's your birthday
0:52
March 17th okay
0:54
happy belated thank you thank you
0:56
celebrate
0:58
um what did I do oh I was in Atlanta I
0:59
just I was outside
1:05
I was in the city
1:07
flooring the various uh Gifts of Atlanta
1:11
you might you might you might
1:15
[Music]
1:22
[Music]
1:26
the Fried Chicken in Atlanta boys
1:31
but there's peaches yeah man I like the
1:34
big kind
1:37
of Juicy peaches
1:39
well you know the full combination the
1:42
full combination why why limit God's
1:45
creation there you go baby we can make
1:47
it as big as he wants to come on
1:49
biscuits and peaches biscuits and
1:51
peaches all day sorry it does matter
1:53
yeah
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trust me we know
1:58
yo I was thinking about
2:01
um Attack the Block each
2:04
um remember when you came here I
2:06
remember telling us when I first
2:07
discovered you and then I'm thinking of
2:09
Star Wars and this all correlates with
2:11
what I'm gonna do for my birthday and
2:13
I'm glad you're here because I think you
2:16
could relate to this so in the Grand
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Canyon
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no no there's been articles written and
2:27
research has been done that there are
2:28
restricted areas in the Grand Canyon
2:30
that the common public cannot visit all
2:33
right because of what was discovered
2:35
there why are you laughing
2:37
which is conspiracy yes well it could be
2:40
you know well uh there are restricted
2:42
areas in the Grand Canyon that's a fact
2:45
that's a fact and it's been said that
2:48
there's ancient artifacts that have been
2:50
found there that would link to parts of
2:53
History way before y'all guy Christopher
2:56
Columbus came over here
2:58
yeah I think he had an accent in that
3:00
but okay okay I'm sure I'm sure he's
3:02
your guy
3:03
who's going to claim him
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they claim you know there was some some
3:09
ancient um African artifacts that were
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found there which would mean that people
3:15
were there way before yeah and so I'm
3:19
gonna go for my birthday and doing my
3:21
own investigation I love that what do
3:24
you think yeah I think you definitely
3:25
need a whole bag of people for that make
3:27
sure you go you got your boys and yeah
3:29
make sure you got everyone around you to
3:31
go and do that yeah stay protected you
3:33
know I mean yeah we don't want to see no
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swear
3:37
I don't need your face on a t-shirt man
3:39
you don't need that I ain't giving no
3:41
tributes okay so yeah you know just stay
3:43
safe bro I'm staying safe man you know
3:45
okay [ __ ] he made
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some [ __ ] alone
3:52
yeah what do you mean
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you mean what I mean I saw the news lady
3:56
was part of the news the five that went
3:59
down okay Titan
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talking about the exonerated five no
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the five people that paid that paid 250
4:07
each to go exploring
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oh oh what oh yes hold on she put
4:13
something in my cup no I yeah I'm just
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telling you to leave some [ __ ] alone bro
4:17
you heard about it it's cool let it live
4:19
why you gotta go looking look it's cool
4:22
when they do it
4:23
but I do it right
4:28
yeah man leave it alone homie
4:31
homie let it live what's up John would
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be encouraging this
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uh you speak your mind openly you talk
4:40
about things yeah you know the most
4:42
unhigh they call you the most
4:44
unhollywood actor in Hollywood that's
4:46
great that's great that's why I came
4:47
today in the salmon you know
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confuse them a little bit
4:53
but yeah I mean definitely I just think
4:55
there's some troops that um require much
4:57
more planning strategy I think you
4:59
should try and enjoy yourself on your
5:00
birthday
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Thomas is an option too you think that's
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the route he should take uh maybe maybe
5:07
that'll be a bit better than the
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restricted areas of the Grand Canyon
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Jamie Foxx was saying Declan Tyrone man
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it's it's Uncle Sam you know what I mean
5:29
yeah yeah you know he says this
5:31
conspiracies man you gotta go stay away
5:33
come on
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come on [ __ ] leave it alone I heard you
5:37
talk about Jamie you said he's doing
5:39
well yeah yeah right okay salute to our
5:41
brother that's my brother I love him I
5:45
spoke to my brother man he said he's
5:46
cool he said he's well man can only
5:48
respect his privacy amen take his word
5:50
for it yeah amen so I'm grateful that
5:52
you even reached out to me so I I I
5:54
think of my brothers especially in
5:56
Hollywood and people who are outspoken
5:58
like yourself and I know we're kind of
5:59
joking around with the conspiracy
6:01
theories and I'm not joking around about
6:03
the Grand Canyon I know you know okay
6:06
um but I I appreciate
6:08
um how outspoken you've always been and
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at the risk of you know you you know you
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see what they do you know
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um are you ever concerned about it
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though are you ever concerned are you
6:18
have you gotten to the point where okay
6:19
let me
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be careful of what I say I had Isaiah
6:23
Thomas here and um when was it two days
6:26
ago the basketball player and he made
6:29
some comments about Larry Bird years ago
6:31
that you know he had a lot of backlash
6:33
from it and so when I asked him about it
6:36
um he said now I'm careful
6:38
a little more careful about what I say
6:40
and when I say it yeah I think I was
6:43
careful to begin with you know I'm very
6:45
I'm very well controlled I I would uh
6:48
like to think of myself as having an
6:50
element of emotional intelligence so you
6:52
you know that there's certain things you
6:53
actually can handle behind the scenes go
6:55
to people directly you don't have to
6:56
make a big fuss about it but it's just
6:58
certain things to me yeah that needs to
7:00
be said openly because I think for me at
7:03
that time I felt like other people in
7:04
the industry were going through it yeah
7:06
and if you notice right after me it was
7:09
Moses Ingram going through the same
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thing
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um and and in which the studio had to
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have a response to so those are the
7:15
changes I like to see because if nobody
7:17
says anything then it continues to be an
7:20
elephant in the room but I do think um
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in the first place you always need to
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pick and choose when to say it how to
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say all those things do matter so um but
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for me I was just like you know bust it
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you know I mean you just gotta say it
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sometimes so I'm sorry
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all right John do you ever sit home
7:37
sometimes it's like for fun possibly um
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because when your name comes up and
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these people see you in projects like
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myself yo he's in it I know it's
7:45
reputable I'm going to check it out just
7:46
because your name is attached but do you
7:48
sit home sometimes and like you know
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what I would do a reality show if it's
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one reality show I could do I could do
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this yeah
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[Laughter]
8:04
yeah yeah I need to be you know when
8:06
they go to them you know fake little
8:08
dinners and stuff
8:10
they don't like each other but they had
8:12
the dinners I'll be right there with one
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of their friends you know come in you
8:16
know Phaedra has a new stylist I'm like
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hey
8:20
what's up y'all that's that's something
8:23
I would I would do yeah yeah I got it
8:26
and we were actually talking in the car
8:27
over here with my best friend I would be
8:29
an extra on Walking Dead like one of the
8:31
zombies yeah yeah I'll pull up I'll do
8:33
that for free yeah I do it for free
8:35
there's the same things I just want to
8:37
do you know yeah you know what I always
8:39
think about when it comes to actors
8:41
especially ones who do not have a
8:43
problem being loud about their beliefs
8:46
even if it may ostracize some of their
8:49
fan base is all of these different
8:51
characters that you play because you
8:54
have to fully embody them even if they
8:56
have different beliefs than your
8:57
personal ones yes does it help you as
9:00
John boyega to Now understand have
9:03
compassion with someone who has a
9:06
completely different and maybe even
9:07
visceral opinion as you yes yes I you
9:10
know I think the world has gotten very
9:13
very sensitive and I think um we
9:16
struggle with coexisting with people
9:17
that are different than us I mean that's
9:19
the major major hard we are scared of
9:22
differences and I think that's weak I'd
9:24
be real I think it's it's flimsy you go
9:27
on Twitter everyone's just like
9:28
someone's different than us we have to
9:30
attack him we have to agree either or
9:32
and I'm not about that I I specifically
9:34
feel like you know a different
9:36
perspective is always needed even if you
9:38
don't agree with it but as I said the
9:40
way you say things how you play across
9:42
those are also you know important as
9:44
well but to be to stay offended feel
9:47
sensitive lactating all over the place
9:49
like chill man like I think people
9:50
should just have much more chill and
9:52
just be open to other people's opinions
9:54
you know I mean yeah I'd like that John
9:56
oh yeah I'm like that too man yeah man
9:58
I'll be right I am like that
10:01
it's your birthday
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[Applause]
10:03
[Laughter]
10:11
but John that comes from like a sense of
10:13
freedom I always think about you like
10:15
Freedom like Freedom the choices of
10:16
projects you have you know following on
10:18
Instagram is always a Vibe the way you
10:19
do your photo shoots the way you're so
10:21
get into your art and your whole craft
10:22
where did that sense of Freedom come
10:24
from because you know what
10:27
um I just came to a realization after
10:29
kind of like officially playing the game
10:31
and doing things by the rules that I I
10:33
just want to exist in this industry as
10:35
me and I'm a combination of things I do
10:38
see myself as a sophisticated classy man
10:40
but also I'm kind of Ratchet and you
10:43
know I'm kind of you know reactive in
10:44
certain things I Come From a Certain
10:46
environment I've always wanted to exist
10:47
with my dream my career my art while
10:50
still being able to hold on to who I am
10:52
so I guess I find a sense of reading it
10:55
freedom in that and then I find a sense
10:57
of freedom in the people around me who
10:58
always just bring that out of me like if
11:00
you can see it's my best friend over
11:01
there from Inglewood who I've been
11:03
working no that's right at the beginning
11:07
yeah interesting you know interesting
11:09
story when I first came to La you know I
11:11
had lost my accommodation and I was at
11:13
some you know West Hollywood party and I
11:15
met my best friend there and asked her
11:17
to stay on her sofa and she gave me you
11:20
know a chance to just live in her house
11:21
she lived in Inglewood and she would and
11:23
she worked in West Hollywood at the time
11:25
so she would drop me over to my
11:27
auditions my meetings and since then
11:29
friends
11:35
that's my real day one so when you're
11:39
around people like that it's like it's
11:40
it's they they embody the freedom in you
11:43
they bring that they bring that out and
11:45
you only want to exist in that space you
11:46
know yeah it is it's empowering too
11:49
because
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um
11:52
that couch that she gave you talk about
11:56
the significance of that couch it was
11:58
free accommodation okay
12:00
um it gave me the ability to have
12:01
somewhere to you know lay my head while
12:03
going to you know doing pilot season in
12:05
L.A with public transport which was mad
12:09
and also at the same time I was hungry
12:11
man and broke yeah so and Asia was
12:14
working at the time that she was working
12:15
you know a really good job so she would
12:17
help me out with food you know help me
12:19
out a little change here and there just
12:20
just to support me while I was out in
12:22
L.A by myself like just trying to get to
12:24
know the environment and stuff the couch
12:25
yeah the couch works this way if I could
12:28
be go out of the ordinary here yeah I'm
12:30
always interested in this story because
12:32
I always been having conversations
12:33
lately about invest in your best friends
12:35
yeah because the reason why I am here
12:37
today is because I had best friends who
12:39
invested in me I literally started out I
12:41
had a individual he's not working
12:42
anymore so I can say it but he used to
12:44
run the I.T department for Morgan
12:46
Stanley okay yeah when I first moved to
12:48
New York I didn't have on my laptop and
12:50
so I basically got the laptops from
12:52
Morgan Stanley and every time it was
12:54
broke I would go to Morgan sales if I
12:56
worked there he would fix it repair it
12:58
and so those little things made me where
13:01
I am today so I'm just curious Asia Asia
13:03
if I can ask you what is you see in John
13:05
that made you wait wait wait hold up I'm
13:07
sorry before you actually get her on
13:08
camera
13:14
[Music]
13:15
[Applause]
13:21
I'm curious what was it about him that
13:24
made you want to invest in him to see
13:27
what we have right now well when I first
13:29
I first seen him on his first movie uh
13:32
attacked the block yeah and I just seen
13:35
something special on him I knew he was
13:36
going to be somebody so I was I just and
13:38
that was before I met him in person yeah
13:39
then when I met him in person it was
13:41
like
13:42
this guy is like my cousins like the
13:44
people that I grew up around like
13:46
and it was just it was just like his
13:48
soul his soul the person that he was I
13:50
just
13:51
we connected it was like my brother from
13:53
day one and now we're here we're
13:56
sweating everybody in this room
14:01
yeah but that's amazing and the reason
14:03
why I brought the couch is significant
14:06
there was a point I was I was homeless
14:08
for a second and I was too prideful to
14:10
go to my my family yeah me too okay too
14:13
yeah so I'm sleeping on in back seats of
14:16
cars my friends Cars I'm showing up the
14:19
houses acting like this oh it's too late
14:21
can I stay tonight yeah my grandfather
14:23
said boy what are you doing um
14:27
you know what I mean what do you mean
14:29
what I'm doing you came here on a Friday
14:30
you fell asleep you woke up on a Sunday
14:32
hmm what are you doing
14:34
man I I kind of don't know he said well
14:37
whatever it is you go always sleep on
14:40
this couch just so you have somewhere to
14:42
go yes and I told my grandfather that's
14:45
all I need that's all I need yeah that's
14:47
what we did yeah exactly exactly come on
14:49
and I love that John didn't forget that
14:52
because a lot of times what happens you
14:54
know I heard Mike Tyson say one time I
14:57
really don't even know how I got here I
15:00
don't know how I got to the place of
15:01
success I was working I was working out
15:04
I was doing my thing I was having these
15:05
fights but I really don't know how I got
15:07
here and a lot of times it could happen
15:09
all so fast you forget about the couch
15:12
people you forget about the Oodles of
15:14
Noodles people you forget about the
15:16
transportation people but you didn't
15:18
forget and I think it's beautiful that
15:20
you got this queen your family your
15:22
sister Asia with you today here brother
15:24
God bless you as well they share a
15:26
beauticians look at their hairstyles
15:29
[Music]
15:37
let me ask you this too I I like asking
15:40
this question it's about Fame because
15:42
Fame is something we when you come into
15:44
entertainment it's something we it's
15:45
it's on the pilot you know what you hope
15:48
to achieve because it symbolizes some
15:50
form of success and then you achieve it
15:52
yeah you know and uh your your your your
15:57
relationship with Fame you know what has
16:00
that been like for you I mean at one
16:03
point it could get you in the restaurant
16:04
and get you the fancy seats but there's
16:07
other things that come with it yeah for
16:09
sure um but I get I get cringed up by
16:11
being outwardly
16:13
um to be seen to outwardly be
16:15
collaborating with Fame and to be like
16:17
overly in enjoying it um but I do I do
16:21
have a great relationship with it like
16:23
now I'm sat and sway having you know
16:25
having this interview in two weeks I'm
16:27
about to be in Atlanta I'm taking out
16:28
the trash like you know just doing
16:31
normal stuff and I don't necessarily get
16:33
recognized by everybody like I was at
16:35
Walmart the other day I was looking for
16:37
those nice at Walmart oh yeah yeah we
16:40
gotta go Walmart to go pick up then was
16:42
it at Walmart yeah yeah
16:43
and people normally just go
16:46
Um it can't be him right yeah yeah
16:48
you're like it can't be hiding I guess
16:51
let's do a journey for me I haven't
16:52
gotten to the point where your DiCaprio
16:54
and everyone has that familiarity with
16:55
you especially the roles that play
16:56
always changing up my looks and all that
16:58
kind of stuff so I'm able to kind of
17:00
like have a healthy Detachment from Fame
17:02
as long as I'm not on a press tour going
17:04
to a Premiere so when I'm not when I'm
17:06
not here I'm just it's just regular it
17:08
feels as regular as it can possibly be
17:09
possibly be with the kind of like few
17:11
people that'll come up to you recognize
17:12
you and go how are you in that movie
17:14
baby
17:15
that's the only that's the only time it
17:17
kind of really happens and most of the
17:18
time it's very nice like it's it's quite
17:21
nice because people actually approach
17:22
with respect they're very welcoming
17:24
especially the Black Folk they'll be
17:25
very welcoming they're you know very um
17:28
loving and we're happy for you yeah I
17:31
don't read I can really tell especially
17:33
when I'm in I'm in the states as well
17:34
but I feel like you know I have a good
17:36
healthy Detachment from the fame thing
17:39
like I'm not Rihanna or nothing you know
17:41
where it's just like intense so that's
17:43
me for now ask me in the next Sunday
17:46
yeah yeah if I jump into a superhero
17:48
suit or saying yeah yeah I can see that
17:49
man yeah I can see it for you and me by
17:51
the way oh my God you slit yourself in
17:54
there no yeah man
17:56
why not
17:58
um there's a role you played I was
18:00
watching recently just randomly I didn't
18:02
even watch it because you were in it I
18:03
was watching it because I've watched
18:05
everything else on dsps and it's one I
18:08
didn't watch Breaking oh yeah
18:11
that was so powerful you played um Brian
18:14
and
18:16
um Brian is your average everyday guy
18:19
um black man in the states went through
18:21
the service and you know couldn't get a
18:24
benefit check and it just he cracked
18:26
yeah you know I was really impressed on
18:30
how you encapsulated that person I come
18:33
from a military family uncles
18:35
grandfather the whole nine and I work in
18:38
it around veterans who are who don't get
18:40
proper attention right what did you how
18:44
did you research that what did you dig
18:45
his character and what did you hope to
18:47
accomplish I mean for me it was um
18:49
definitely about showing versatility
18:51
because I like to think that I'm a blank
18:53
canvas to the characters I play I like
18:55
to switch it up but also it was it was
18:57
an important story to me because um you
18:59
know for you to go overseas and fight
19:01
for your country and then to come back
19:03
with with not the right amount of
19:04
support for me he's a crazy he's a crazy
19:07
concept as you know it's happening all
19:08
over the world
19:10
um I just thought that sacrifice of
19:11
one's physical body and mind for your
19:13
country is the biggest sacrifice you can
19:15
ever give and they're not to be to not
19:18
have support after doing that really
19:20
made me feel some type of way so when um
19:23
Abby our director sent me the script I
19:25
was just like right now I'm just getting
19:27
into different versions of the black
19:28
experience in the projects that I do
19:30
there you go yeah and for me I most
19:32
definitely before I play a king in woman
19:35
King I want to explore this and that
19:37
just kind of in the combination of stuff
19:39
that I was doing it added up and you
19:41
know it was Michael K Williams on it and
19:43
yeah
19:44
you know who's amazing actress and for
19:47
me I was just like yeah like this is a
19:49
great opportunity to join did you might
19:51
buy you and Mike okay yeah but no
19:53
Michael Michael was love you know the
19:55
first time I met him he actually we got
19:57
the wrong trailer so he ended up just
19:58
walking into my trailer and I was like
20:00
oh
20:00
it's almost coming I feel like that but
20:04
um he was just like yeah no no I really
20:06
I really mess with you bro like I feel
20:07
like what you say um and how you present
20:09
yourself like is is really inspirational
20:11
bro and I was just like nah thank you
20:13
I've been watching you from The Wire
20:14
since I was a kid Boardwalk Empire I was
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like naming the projects I knew I mean
20:18
he was just like right it was just all
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love
20:21
um and you know he's such an amazing
20:23
talented actor as well yeah I just got
20:25
the opportunity to also just watch
20:27
talent and then learn from it at the
20:28
same time wow so it was definitely a
20:30
cool old Bond Man rest in peace to my
20:32
brother yeah I wanted to ask you that
20:35
John about Viola Davis we are all in awe
20:38
of her yeah and she's been a guest here
20:40
several times we love her we laugh and
20:43
we joke with her she hangs out with us
20:44
but I mean as from one actor to another
20:47
did you find yourself on set sometimes
20:49
just looking at her like bro yeah yeah
20:52
she would she would be doing the scenes
20:54
and would say her lions and speak to me
20:56
and I'd still be Frozen like that
21:00
I will not do that today
21:13
for me I'm just it blows my mind because
21:15
you know she represents she feels like a
21:18
family member that you've always had in
21:20
your life and then you meet her and then
21:21
she doubles down and is that in reality
21:23
in real life
21:25
um I was I was inspired by her I'm
21:27
inspired by her love with with her
21:30
husband Julius what they've created
21:32
together uh you know being part of juvie
21:34
uh Productions
21:36
um it was just awe-inspiring just being
21:38
around her and hearing her stories
21:40
getting you know advice and some tea you
21:43
know yeah and just feeling like you know
21:45
you're connected to someone that has
21:47
done something that you would want to
21:48
achieve you know yeah John boyega's here
21:51
citizens eight eight seven four two
21:52
three three four five have you been in
21:55
that position now John wait you're like
21:57
the mentor and there's younger actors
21:59
who link with you and are just like oh
22:01
my gosh John yeah yeah for sure for sure
22:05
um and I like I like to take the the
22:07
honest approach with them if I don't
22:08
know something I'm going to tell you man
22:09
bro I'm still on the journey man what'd
22:11
you think like
22:12
um just to try and give the guidance
22:14
that I was giving because I was you know
22:16
people talk about you know as British
22:18
actors coming into America like do you
22:20
get the support and really we do like
22:22
the the actors out here are so
22:24
supportive that they come out and give
22:27
you the DLS they give you the code they
22:29
give you that guidance so when someone
22:31
comes to me yeah I make sure I do my
22:33
best to just try and give themselves
22:34
some point I'm sure yeah I like John
22:36
boyega man a lot bro man I love him
22:39
brother you all right with me uh DB you
22:41
wanna you wanna chime in absolutely
22:42
because uh the Clone Tyrone is one of
22:44
those movies where it's just like
22:45
there's this diabolical plan you know at
22:47
the heart of it or whatever and yeah
22:48
there's a lot of twists and turns that
22:50
you know I don't want to give too much
22:51
away is is I have a tendency to do but
22:53
uh I get excited when I see these films
22:55
where it's like you know there's little
22:56
things that are affecting a human race
22:58
and then they have to find out what's
22:59
going on right
23:01
um working with Jamie I I mean the guy
23:02
is a multi-talented just like Beast the
23:05
guy can do everything that he puts his
23:06
hands to yeah
23:08
um do you ever think about coming out of
23:10
Star Wars and doing projects now you
23:12
know Star Wars is a commitment and
23:14
something that we always talk about is
23:15
such um when when the passion becomes a
23:18
job you know what I mean and so now do
23:20
you look at the work differently that
23:22
you've been in it long enough and it's
23:24
like okay before I commit to something
23:26
that's going to turn into a you know
23:27
Trilogy quad Trilogy whatever it is I
23:30
want to make sure that I'm happy with it
23:31
I'm okay with it and and I'm good with
23:33
this project oh yes uh uh a hundred
23:35
percent um and that's something that I
23:37
needed to personally learn
23:39
um and and learn from those who've done
23:41
it before that you need to do your due
23:42
diligence you know you need to make sure
23:44
you're having the conversations about
23:45
okay what does my commitment mean you
23:47
know how does this role establishes
23:48
itself over years because franchisees
23:51
are fantastic it gives you a great
23:53
opportunity you know to you know have uh
23:56
good finances you know at the same time
23:58
you've got a great role that people love
23:59
you know I would not be in this specific
24:01
a position without Star Wars but where
24:04
you have to be be careful is you know
24:07
making sure that you know that their
24:09
plans for you you know what because it's
24:11
it's eight years of your life yeah and
24:14
then also as an actor you're not as good
24:15
as you're only as good as your next best
24:17
thing so you want to make sure that
24:19
you're being versatile and mixing up and
24:21
so you can have longevity when the
24:23
franchise is done and then you can be on
24:25
sway
24:28
come on man yeah
24:30
come on
24:34
he's a writer yeah hey um
24:37
congratulations on that clone Tyrone
24:39
thank you I was at the abff the American
24:42
black film festival and that was the
24:44
talk of the festival
24:47
um as well as
24:49
um boots Riley who I grew up with Bruce
24:52
Riley he and I grew up in the same
24:54
neighborhood going to the same schools
24:55
growing up as kids the whole nine he had
24:57
I am a ver a Virgo that's out as well so
25:00
congratulations on that I was thinking
25:02
about you too because when you came up
25:04
here I want to say in 2015 we were
25:06
talking about music it's the 50th
25:08
anniversary of hip-hop and it's
25:10
interesting man I was having this
25:12
conversation
25:13
um
25:14
who was I talking to we were talking
25:16
about the things that happened
25:18
simultaneously in culture you know and
25:21
so we know that this started here in New
25:24
York City yeah how the story goes
25:25
there's people in L.A that would argue
25:27
it me
25:29
I can't do that there are people in L.A
25:32
will argue that hip-hop started in a
25:34
whole different form of fashion but I'm
25:36
wondering how did hip-hop what role did
25:38
hip-hop playing your own personal life
25:40
your personal development and
25:42
um does it correlate with what you do as
25:44
an actor today oh yeah for sure I think
25:47
growing up in London especially growing
25:49
up in inner city London
25:50
um with American Media are so accessible
25:52
to us we got the same tunes that you
25:54
guys were getting when the rappers were
25:55
taught to come over do their shows in
25:57
London like you even going back to you
26:00
know the NWA days you know if you look
26:01
look at the movie biopic they had a
26:03
scene where there was had they had a
26:04
concert in London so that influence
26:06
obviously it transcends because they're
26:09
talking about the stuff that we know
26:10
about too but obviously it's a different
26:12
version we've got different accents
26:14
slightly little cultural changes but
26:16
there's we relate to to the stories that
26:18
they tell about themselves all we know a
26:20
brother that can relate to that so I
26:21
always feel like hip-hop has been the
26:23
soundtrack you know to my life to a
26:25
certain extent you know we're gonna
26:26
throw in some scores in there because
26:27
I'm a I'm a nuanced man
26:29
yeah yeah but hip-hop has definitely had
26:32
its influence and even on a day-to-day
26:34
with the roles that I do there's certain
26:36
music um certain songs that just it gets
26:40
me there it gets me there it gets me to
26:41
to my roles makes me feel closer to the
26:43
roles I'm trying to portray so music you
26:45
know it stands as one of the major
26:47
pillars of influence in the world and
26:49
there's a reason for that because you
26:50
know it ignites feelings and thoughts in
26:52
you but also because we had British
26:55
stars like British Grand rappers
26:57
um and and and more like hip-hop rappers
26:59
in the UK that will do covers on tunes
27:02
that were quite popular out here in the
27:03
states so they're gonna do covers yeah
27:06
yeah like gigs would do coverage you
27:08
know gigs now you know he's down with
27:10
Jay and everyone kind of knows each
27:11
other but it wasn't like that before it
27:13
was more so that we were inspired by
27:15
what you guys were doing and then we
27:16
just put our own twist on it on our own
27:18
wraps on it and then you would just feel
27:20
connected through there but American you
27:23
know the the hip-hop scene the culture
27:24
has always been you know kind of like
27:27
distributed to the UK okay and we've
27:29
always liked movies we eat it up yeah
27:31
wow
27:33
like you know I always say over here
27:35
that hip-hop is a storytelling of our
27:36
neighborhoods and our community I'm just
27:38
curious about what is it like that in
27:39
the UK because the black diaspora is so
27:42
vast in the UK and so I'm just wondering
27:45
in part is the reflection of the
27:47
diaspora and also are you guys trying to
27:49
mimic American MCS or is it your own
27:53
thing separately yeah I mean it's it's
27:54
it's our own thing separately but it's
27:57
definitely inspired by you know you you
27:59
guys did it first at the end of the day
28:01
um but it's inspired by with everyone's
28:03
own twist on there I'm sure if you guys
28:05
go go out to France Italy yeah Germany
28:08
Japan they got their own scene and their
28:11
own Vibe um and I think it's it's
28:13
fundamentally the story that you're that
28:15
you're telling like you know if you if
28:17
I'm listening to a little baby tune if
28:18
I'm if I'm listening to Little Dirk if
28:20
I'm listening to any one of those
28:21
Brothers I can go oh I know a brother
28:22
like that or I know someone who someone
28:24
was like that was in that situation
28:27
um Asia what did Little Dirk say and I
28:28
said I could relate to it he said he was
28:30
in the lambo truck in his hood and
28:32
nobody can't tell him she
28:40
I love it so despite that I'm British
28:43
yeah although I can relate to it because
28:45
I'm in a Lambo truck in my hood guys
28:53
there's that through line baby you know
28:56
and it's the inspiration you know um I
28:58
always come here and show love
28:59
especially to the people you like you
29:01
guys like thank you you are appreciate
29:03
it you are the you are the the the head
29:05
of your the cultural influence you guys
29:07
have inspired many the movies we watched
29:10
growing up they didn't make movies for
29:12
us like that growing up and you know
29:14
watching Friday watching boys in the
29:16
hood that was our way of just Clinging
29:17
On to you guys and going yeah you know
29:20
there's there's that separation in
29:22
culture um and now thank God today
29:24
there's there's that merge now now you
29:25
guys are coming over to the UK now I'm
29:28
hearing Grime in the club
29:29
it's a beautiful family
29:33
I'm seeing my my state side Brothers
29:35
knowing more words than me than in
29:37
Africa I'm just like yes fight like it's
29:40
happening
29:41
um and that's a celebration you know we
29:42
are greater together than we are alone
29:45
oh yeah no most definitely come on man
29:47
love you man jumbo yeah you get this man
29:49
a round of applause
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I'm about to go start working out I'm
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trying to get like John I was once there
30:00
uh
30:03
it's his birthday it's my birthday let's
30:05
take hey let's cheers man let's cheers
30:08
happy belated birthday yeah yeah
30:12
long life and prosperity may your days
30:15
be great man in Jesus name may you
30:17
prosper and may your days be
30:19
inspirational to those and to your
30:21
family and to your loved ones man long
30:23
life and prosperity my brother please
30:24
bro amen thank you brother wow that's
30:27
beautiful yeah you could just pray it
30:28
over him like music man come on man yeah
30:31
you know I'm a PK I'll tell you know
30:32
send the spirit that's what's up we do
30:34
that here we need it wait wait your
30:36
family your family got a background
30:39
yeah yeah yeah yeah
30:44
that's what's up man Hey listen um thank
30:47
you John for coming by to come on Tyrone
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make sure you check that out
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