The whole cast of Straight Outta Compton(Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell) is the latest cover guys for The Hollywood Reporter. I’m too psyched that they will also be here in Atlanta tomorrow! I will get to see the film that hits theaters August 14th and I can’t wait. This was my era you guys, that is why I keep reporting on this iconic movie and time. I am such a hip hop head and have been around rapper Ice Cube many times and he is such a gem! Check out a few excerpts from their interview and a fun video clip! Enjoy and happy Thursday! xoxo
The Hollywood Reports says…
Why did Dre leave Death Row and spark the historic, still lingering feud? It was not made clear. So, in late June, with two weeks before the movie had to be locked for its August release, Gray filmed a scene in which Dre walks into a room and witnesses Knight (played by R. Marcos Taylor, a stunt man turned actor with a strong resemblance to the real Knight) calmly smoking a cigar as he uses a vicious pit bull to terrorize a cowering man in his underwear. “I was like, ‘What the f— is going on?’ ” recalls Dre of the actual event that inspired that last-minute scene. “I was ready to leave anyways. This was the extra push. The guy in the underwear — all this shit actually happened.”
O’Shea talks playing his father…
“My father would call me before each scene to let me know what he was thinking. A lot of it was getting me to not act. I have so much of his mannerisms and things already in me that I wouldn’t want to be onscreen doing an impersonation. You can do an impersonation or you could become the character. I really was trying to break down those acting walls and just let everything flow.”
Ice Cube on his son being in movie…
“I know a lot of people thought I was just throwing him in there ’cause I could,” says Cube of the casting of his 24-year-old son. “But that wasn’t the case. I knew he was right for this.”
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