Michael Jai White on Aries Spears Saying Rapper Actors Ice Cube & 50 Cent Have No Range (Part 13)

I had AR Spears on my Show recently MH and uh Aries who's primarily a comedian has also done some acting roles he was in Jerry Maguire oh yeah and also he was like one of the leads on Mad TV for a long time and he feels that a lot of rapper actors have no range he named 50 Cent Ice Cube common and DMX you talk about rappers that could really act and people say DMX Ice Cube yeah Ice Cube was the other one yeah I go how hard you think it is for Street [ __ ] to play Street [ __ ] if Ice Cube did a movie where he played a doctor and then did a movie where he played a lawyer what would be different now I'm my man comedian Tommy Chung had a great joke where he goes Ice Cube is a guy that colleges all right Miss Johnson I looked at your short now get up on that thigh and it was so funny because I'm going that's what it would be you know somebody else said uh in the one movie and I forget the name of the movie but it was a movie with Sylvester Stallone where he and Arnold schwarzeneger wearing glass presents and um 50 Cent played a computer hack and somebody goes man what about 50 Cent he played a computer hacker that's different I said you put glasses on a [ __ ] and now he's a computer cuz he's Nerdy with glasses get the [ __ ] out of here and and listen if you got the range and you got the ability hats off to you would you agree or disagree um acting range yeah I I gota I gota I gotta agree with him even though you know could could ruffle some feathers there but I mean a lot of times they're hired to play play basically their person yeah and you've acted with DMX m have you done work with a 50 Ice Cube or common no okay but DMX you have and I mean you can't really AR I'm sorry but but Ice Cube Ice Cube I I don't know if I'd put in that that same category well because you could do comedy oh yeah but I feel like these days well okay he does comedy and he does Action yeah I mean yeah he's a he's a straight man he's a great straight man he's he's done some really I mean he's a I didn't think about that yeah he's actually well actually he's more known for his comedy roles yeah yeah yeah boys in the hood was cool but for Friday yeah but he he turned in dramat he turned in hella dramatic performances has he yeah boys yeah yeah you're right yeah Bo learning learning yeah no you're right yeah so yeah I would I would damn sure take him off that list okay I agree yeah 50 does some acting but he's really more behind the scenes I really haven't seen him in many things yeah get Richard ey trying he's in uh Power yeah I've never seen I yeah I you know I think computer hacker but you know every things like you put glasses on anyone that look nerdy you know what I'm saying yeah I just yeah I I I'm limited I haven't really seen him have I seen I think I saw saw get rich die trying in I think that's the only I think what AR is really saying though and I think this does kind of pertain to Ice Cube as well is that when he says range it's an actor that you forget is the real person you forget that he's like a Daniel de Lewis will transform into a totally different human being you forget that Lincoln is actually Daniel de Lewis there are certain actors that you know like um leard DiCaprio yeah Eating Gilbert Grape you happen to be mentioning the alltime greats no no you happen to be mentioning actors who are very um eclectic and uh and and uh very you know have unusual range but I'm telling you the majority of actors play themselves is that you in your case no definitely not me in my case you know you don't feel you play Michael ji white in most movies I I very very rarely play Michael Dr White I feel like myself what's what's the the person that I am right now you don't usually see in movie okay well I don't know yeah well well more not more now but I'm not outlaw Johnny Black my friend Michael pretty much yeah I seem just like that character more or less okay that that's AG agree to I don't feel it's a huge stretch you're playing a tough guy in a western movie do I seem like a tough guy right now you don't see like a soft guy right now yeah well am I playing that so the thing is you know I'm I'm a I'm a very e eclectic person like okay if I now I flate I don't want to be talking about you know my my my range whatever what's the what's the most outof character role you have ever played in a movie you should look at my my my acting real I'm asking you what's the most I've seen most of your movies what's the most out of character far from who you are role that you've ever played well this I played man there's a lot of lot of really eclectic name it well I forgot the character I play most out of character Michael J white roll okay yeah um uh two days in the valley uh I don't know if you ever saw that I didn't see that uh who who who do you play in two days in the valley I play a very flamboyantly gay character in that in that movie okay well there you go okay you Pro actually dispelled my point right yeah but but there's You Know Why Did I Get Married is not the same dude dude as spawn is not the same dude as Tyson I'm not even me in that like you know I do different roles you know all right fair enough you do play you do play Tyson you are playing a boxer and you were a martial artist before you played him so that's not a hug that's exactly the same what talk about huge stretch not a huge stretch not a huge stretch I'm playing a different human being that everybody [ __ ] knows in every role you're playing a different human being yeah but bio do I see Mike Tyson sitting here no but was was I was I believable as Mike Tyson yes even Mike Tyson said so yeah well that's not just because I'm a a fighter that I have I happen to have a physicality that I can't change but but you know you know what role that I almost I was it's like a hell it's a funny story but do you know I was um first approached uh and was the lead you know leading candidate for bosot wow you look nothing like basat yes I actually Well here here's what's at all no this is no [ __ ] in interview his sisters recently in 93 okay right I had an audition for a movie called Bill the fort set it on fire is the Jean Michelle basat story okay I got the the sides I'm going what the hell am I gonna do with this at the time I was like I wasn't known I was living in the gym I was like working out all the time I was like 235 ripped you know I go to this audition and I'm like I guess I I gotta basically I I'll I'll be auditioning for something else I'll audition as a character but this is ridiculous I can't play bosot he was a heroin addict maybe might have weighed 110 pounds right so so um I audition I get call back then I get call back again and know of course the call back there's like me and a bunch of lyy kraves like like I look like what am I The Bodyguard of the like this it doesn't make any sense and at the time Joanna Ray was one of the biggest casting directors in Hollywood and I kept going back kept getting called back and I'm thinking and I I would try to dress like in raggedy clo I try to hide my size in a way and I'm going why the hell do they keep calling me back and I and then one of one of my last auditions she gives me a a videotape of je Melle basad that a a friend of his um shot gave her it was a birthday party that and so she says look you're doing such an amazing job I want you to look at this and and you know study it yeah I took it home and I was like oh yeah the guys like this big what this feels like a prank you know what I mean I come back my agents man they're they love you you're you're the lead you're like what now I'm reading with other people and I'm reading as BOS and these famous people I'm reading against and I'm like this is the most [ __ ] up prank in the world do they not see what I look like yeah I did have a good I felt like a good grasp on the in the internal of what this character was but reality is I'm a [ __ ] bison I can't play a hero look then eventually it gets sheld right it gets put on hold you know propaganda fil films is we gotta we got to put this you know in the back burner then I I got cast as Tyson I get cast as Tyson and then a year later after uh after the Tyson comes out Joan calls my people up and say hey we're we're on the move again we're now we're just calling it basat and I'm like and like how do you not no I just did Tyson like now the Secret's out I'm a large person like and they're like they're calling me I'm like I just I just refuse to respond to anything and I and they you know they eventually cast the thing and then years later like I'm doing um uh uh what do you call it um Kill Bill and Joanna Ray casting and I asked Joanna I said you gotta you got to tell me years ago when you guys were having me play basat what were you thinking H did you not know the size I was and she said we just all we always figured you just lose weight and I was like oh you got and I realized they didn't have a a hold on reality they didn't real like cu the characters walking around shirtless and you know in his underwear and physically I could probably get to maybe be 195 but I'd be ripped to shreds I'd look like a a fitness model and I'm supposed to be on heroin so they just didn't understand she was saying well you know uh they talk about you know dairo dropping weight for yeah for Raging Bull Christian Bale he lost 6 pounds for the they didn't start out as 235 pounds of muscle yeah it's and if you lose muscle I you lose size the muscle ain't going no damn where you're GNA be ripped I'm I'm gonna look like I'm getting ready to step on a contest stage but they did but H they had no idea of that I did I'm like I'm not making a fool of myself just like when they try to you know they approached me about playing the Marvin Gay story after spawn I'm like I'm not gonna F I'm not gonna embarrass myself and be some Buff Ass Marvin Gay not limit not trying to limit myself but reality is reality you know yeah and I actually just looked it up I remember seeing this movie I was in Israel at the time and I had some time to kill before my flight so I actually went to the theater and watched bosot Jeffrey Wright played bosot yeah one of his very early roles I realiz he was even acting back then yeah yeah and he did a good job of course yeah of course great actor yeah but you know you can you imagine me embarrassing myself like some yeah I mean I I like I said I felt like I understood the character but you know there's reality and physicality that um you know I mean not not you know if it was it was a different thing by by then I'm not sure it was exactly the same script but um yeah uh but yeah there that goes I don't know how I got off on this tangent

Channel: djvlad

Views: 185,255

Keywords:

Id: UDQ0UpuVs9Y

Length: 13min 22sec (802 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 04 2024