00:00 I'm Lakeith Stanfield, this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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00:06 What are the people wanting to know?
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00:11 All right, where is Lakeith Stanfield from?
00:15 I am from San Bernardino, California.
00:18 What happened to Lakeith Stanfield in Get Out?
00:23 I played Andre and I played Logan.
00:25 What happened to Andre is he got his body possessed by Logan.
00:29 Working with Jordan was amazing, I mean, he's just super smart.
00:33 He had just like this really big vision that was cool.
00:35 At the time, we hadn't heard or seen of anything like that.
00:38 So I think we were just all really excited to try and make something new,
00:42 make something special.
00:43 It was good to know that the world resonated with the content that we were
00:47 making and that people were genuinely interested in a frightened by the movie.
00:51 It's good if you were frightened by Get Out.
00:53 If you're not frightened, yeah.
00:57 How did Lakeith Stanfield get famous?
01:01 I think I started first recognizing that people understood who I was on a sort of
01:06 larger sense when I played Snoop in Straight Outta Compton.
01:09 Get Out really also was one in Atlanta where I realized people started just
01:14 recognizing me from it.
01:15 So there was this time where I was in the museum and
01:19 I was surveying some things in the museum.
01:21 And I turned my head around and
01:23 there's this person standing right in front of me surveying me.
01:26 But they kinda had like a deadpan face.
01:28 And I was like, hi, how are you?
01:33 And they were like, I was like, okay.
01:35 And they were like, I'll let you go.
01:38 And then they walked off.
01:40 I was thankful for being released.
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01:46 Lakeith Stanfield, anime.
01:49 I did a movie called Death Note where I played a detective named L,
01:53 a character in this anime.
01:55 And that was really fun.
01:57 And it was an opportunity to play an interesting character and
01:59 I had a lot of fun doing it.
02:01 Also, I really like Dragon Ball Z.
02:04 Lakeith Stanfield.
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02:06 There's two.
02:08 As Snoop, I played Snoop.
02:09 They had me in some platform shoes cuz I wasn't quite as tall as Snoop.
02:14 So they had chucks but they were like high heel kinda chucks.
02:16 Hard to walk in those things.
02:17 I got the role in the morning at like 5 AM, they called me and
02:22 I had to be on set at like 10.
02:25 So I had five hours of prep time.
02:27 I just watched all the videos I could watch of Snoop and
02:30 just tried to like really get his mannerisms.
02:32 And it was important for me to get his voice down.
02:34 And so I just kept listening to his interviews.
02:36 I met Snoop after the movie on the red carpet.
02:40 And someone had recognized me and wanted to bring me over to Snoop.
02:43 And we got through these layers of security and
02:45 there was just like this wall of weed smoke.
02:47 And then when the smoke cleared, there was Snoop.
02:50 And I was looking at his torso because he's actually tall.
02:54 And then I looked up and there he was.
02:55 Lakeith Stanfield College.
02:58 I went to Victor Valley College in Victorville.
03:01 I was kinda finally like leaving the nest a little bit.
03:04 Discovering more that I wanted to pursue acting.
03:07 And so I was in a drama program there.
03:09 Eventually I just decided I wanna try my hand at pursuing acting.
03:14 So I dropped out and just went straight to living in my car to auditioning and
03:20 stuff like that.
03:20 Lakeith Stanfield, Cats audition.
03:24 This audition was really fun.
03:25 I got to dress up.
03:26 I put on all these tights and I put on a wig.
03:29 I did my own hair, my own makeup.
03:31 I drove past this wig shop and I saw something in the display and
03:35 I was like, this would be perfect.
03:37 So I made a little mohawk out of it, like an Afrohawk.
03:40 Then I started shaking them hips.
03:41 And I actually got a call back, but as you can see, I didn't make the cut.
03:47 Does Lakeith Stanfield have a face tattoo?
03:51 I do have a face tattoo.
03:52 I have two actually.
03:53 Come here.
03:55 There's one right here, which is an anchor, represents being grounded.
04:02 And then there is another one up here that is magnolia,
04:05 which is one of my favorite flowers.
04:07 I have a lot of tattoos.
04:09 I have tattoos all over my arms, on my knuckles, on my chest, on my leg.
04:15 I guess I really just like writing on myself.
04:17 I got my first tattoo when I was 17.
04:21 My first tattoo was my mother's name, so she wouldn't be mad.
04:25 She still was mad.
04:26 Does Lakeith Stanfield make music?
04:30 Yes, I do.
04:31 Thank you for asking.
04:33 I'm gonna be releasing some soon.
04:34 My music name is My Name's Backwards, which I guess I best pronounce as [SOUND]
04:40 I love making music.
04:41 I've been making music since even before I started acting.
04:44 Just kinda like in the driveway of my mom's house, beating on pots and
04:49 pans and coming up with these melodies and ideas.
04:51 And so more to come on music.
04:54 Keep your eyes peeled.
04:56 Lakeith Stanfield, new movie.
05:00 The Book of Clarence, yes.
05:04 January 12th, coming to a theater near you.
05:06 See it in theaters.
05:07 Honestly, truthfully, it's one of those ones you wanna see on the big screen.
05:11 There's action, there's dancing, there's love, there's romance,
05:13 there's fighting, and the best part is it all takes place in Jerusalem in 29 AD.
05:18 Lakeith Stanfield, Knives Out.
05:22 Yeah, Knives Out was fun.
05:23 We shot that in Boston.
05:25 It was really cold.
05:26 I played a detective.
05:27 I was being inspired by all the different actors and
05:30 people that I got to sit next to.
05:32 That was really cool.
05:32 And then we went to Chris Evans' house and rode on ATV, and it was quite fun.
05:39 Lakeith Stanfield, Personality.
05:43 Let me know when you find it.
05:45 I like to have fun.
05:46 I'm silly.
05:47 I also am deeply kind of, I take everything seriously.
05:50 So I just try to treat people well.
05:53 Lakeith Stanfield, Fashion.
05:57 It's all about the look.
05:58 My whole thing is just having fun, comfortability.
06:00 So I like to do different things.
06:02 I like to dress up.
06:03 This is a scarf, but it's like a quilt scarf.
06:06 I think that's pretty cool.
06:07 It's a quark or a squill.
06:10 Lakeith Stanfield, Teddy Perkins.
06:13 I was on Atlanta, and I was preparing to shoot the day before.
06:16 And I saw on the call sheet there was this guy named Teddy Perkins.
06:19 It was Teddy Perkins being played by Teddy Perkins.
06:21 So I was like, who is the actor?
06:24 And production's like, Teddy Perkins.
06:26 And I googled Teddy Perkins, and I was like, who is this?
06:28 And nothing came up, and I was very confused.
06:30 I was like, he's an actor.
06:31 How long has he been acting?
06:32 The next day I show up on set, there's no one in the makeup trailer except me.
06:36 So I'm like, OK.
06:37 I go to set, and there's this guy standing.
06:39 He's back to me.
06:40 He has long hair.
06:42 He turns around in this strange way.
06:45 And this is Teddy Perkins.
06:47 And I'm confused, because I still don't know who this is.
06:50 And I'm like, hi, how are you?
06:51 He's like, hi, how are you?
06:54 And then I looked at his feet, and his feet
06:56 were standing in a similar fashion that I know Donald generally stands in.
06:59 So I thought that that was weird, but I didn't really think much of it.
07:02 I mean, his eyes were blue.
07:03 He didn't look like him up close.
07:05 I was like, OK.
07:05 And then one of the crew members finally told me, that's Donald.
07:10 And I was at the same time in awe and shocked as I was disappointed,
07:15 because then the illusion was gone.
07:16 And I thought, how good would that illusion
07:18 have been to just not know who this person is?
07:21 And the whole cast and crew had conspired for me not to know.
07:24 And it was successful up until that point.
07:26 And I still have not and will not release that person's name.
07:30 But Keith Stanfield, sorry to bother you.
07:35 We shot that in Oakland.
07:36 We had very little money.
07:37 I was changing in a van, eating in that same van.
07:41 But I loved the fact that we were working so hard towards something
07:45 that we all believed in.
07:46 And it made every moment worth it.
07:48 And I wouldn't take back a second of what I experienced making that movie.
07:53 The voice aspect of the movie was really interesting,
07:55 because basically we would be saying a line,
07:57 and then it would just turn into that, just like moving your lips.
08:02 And then they went back in in ADR and added the voice later.
08:05 But I trusted Boots, and I knew we were making something fun,
08:09 hopefully, that people would enjoy.
08:11 So yeah, it was super fun.
08:12 But Keith Stanfield, "Uncut Gems."
08:16 Shot with Adam Sandler, who's amazing, just a brilliant, beautiful person.
08:20 With the Safdies, I had liberty to perform without boundaries.
08:25 They had several cameras set up and basically just gave us a scenario
08:29 and was like, play the scenario.
08:31 And somehow, they were able to edit that.
08:33 And I don't know how they were able to edit that footage,
08:35 especially with the audio.
08:36 Perhaps that lent it to the chaotic feel.
08:38 LaKeith Stanfield, voice acting.
08:42 And I've done it a few times.
08:43 I was on "BoJack Horseman."
08:45 I did a show called "Yasuke."
08:47 It's quite different from acting on screen.
08:49 And so it's a muscle that I realized I really need to develop and just
08:53 continue to work at it and get better.
08:55 Shouts out, voice acting.
08:57 Hello.
08:58 LaKeith Stanfield, SZA video.
09:02 Yeah.
09:03 Had a lot of fun doing a video with SZA.
09:05 She's an amazing artist, great collaborator.
09:07 And I love her music.
09:09 And so I knew of SZA's music.
09:11 And we had talked a little bit about spirituality
09:15 and going to spiritual retreats and meditation and things like that.
09:19 She's a real spiritual person.
09:21 One time, she just asked me to be in a video.
09:23 And I was like, yeah.
09:24 So when she calls, I'm around.
09:28 Sorry.
09:30 It's really interesting what people are interested in.
09:33 So that was fun.
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