00:00We're really, really, really trying not to give you guys any spoilers.
00:03Yeah.
00:04We're trying hard.
00:05Seriously.
00:06We're really trying hard.
00:07It's the first time that you see the twins in a movie, and it's the first time that you
00:14see them here in the trailer.
00:17You twins?
00:18Nah, we cousins.
00:19Obviously, that's two Michael B. Jordans there.
00:22Playing twins was definitely a challenge.
00:24It was part of the reason why I wanted to take the role.
00:27Ryan really built two characters that were very much so different, but kind of the same
00:34as well.
00:35Stack is going to be in red throughout the movie, and Smoke's going to be in blue.
00:40That's the easiest way to tell them apart.
00:41The film takes place over one day, so these are the outfits of the day, but there's definitely
00:46some color story going on.
00:49Smoke doesn't smile often.
00:50If you smile, then more than likely it's Stack, nine times out of ten.
00:54First day of shooting.
00:56You walked on the set as Smoke, and I already told you this, but it unnerved me quite a
01:01bit.
01:02Did it?
01:03Yeah, you showed up.
01:04It was a trip.
01:05I was like, oh shit, this is going to be a wild ride, because he didn't feel like I was
01:09talking to you.
01:10That's a beautiful performance you put down.
01:13I appreciate it.
01:14Knowing you, you're closer to Stack.
01:16Yeah.
01:17The people who know me, know me, know me for real, I think they're going to enjoy it because
01:22they'll see the side of me I don't show.
01:25It's in there.
01:26It's in there.
01:27Thankfully.
01:28Yeah, you don't want to see me as Smoke on the ride.
01:32Nah, nah, nah.
01:33Smoke is a pretty scary guy.
01:35The film takes place in 1932, and if you know your American history, that was in the waning
01:39years of the Volstead Act, which made production and sale and consumption of alcohol illegal.
01:47The shot, that's beer bottles there on the back of a truck that's heading out in the
01:52backwoods of Mississippi.
01:54It's the equivalent of having an illicit drug today, you know what I'm saying, the era of
01:59prohibition.
02:00Take it back right quick.
02:01Y'all ready to drink.
02:02Y'all ready to sweat till y'all sick.
02:03A lot of film explorers like dichotomy of American culture, and the relationship between
02:10the church and the juke joint is often times-
02:13It's a conflicted one.
02:14Yeah, but it's actually the same, it's the same type of environment, you know what I
02:18mean?
02:19You'll see the same people, Saturday night they acting crazy, Sunday morning they acting
02:22holy.
02:23Yep.
02:24But it's the same people.
02:25Same people.
02:26It was good to get those juxtaposed images.
02:27Daytime, you know what I'm saying?
02:28Daytime and nighttime.
02:29Nighttime.
02:30Yeah, shit get a little funky.
02:31This is our first look at Jack O'Connell's character, Rimmick, who is a lot of fun.
02:37What the hell going on?
02:39Oh, we heard tale of a party.
02:41He's our main antagonist for a good chunk of the film.
02:45The twins are the scariest characters that people are interacting with until they meet
02:49this guy who's bringing a whole nother element to the characters that hopefully we've fallen
02:52in love with at this point.
02:53He's playing a different type of game.
02:56He's playing a different set of rules, yeah.
03:00You don't need no saving.
03:02Yes, you do.
03:03So, he's talking to Hayley about save her, and she's thinking he's talking about like
03:06in a religious way, and Mary, she herself is past that, but he's talking about something
03:12else entirely.
03:13A little more supernatural.
03:14A little more supernatural.
03:15Yeah.
03:17We got us a problem, y'all.
03:19Dan Roy, Mr. Delta Slim.
03:21Delta Slim.
03:22So, Delta Slim is a hometown hero as well, a phenomenal piano player.
03:28He gets convinced and bribed a little bit to come join the gang for the night and go
03:35on this little adventure with us, and he ends up being a pillar of strength amongst the
03:42group when things get a little crazy, a little supernatural.
03:48He adds a lot of-
03:49Everything.
03:50Adds a lot of everything.
03:51He did a phenomenal job.
03:52Yeah.
03:53I've been watching Del Roy my whole life.
03:54One of the first movies I ever saw was Malcolm X, and he turns in an insane performance in
04:05that movie, and he's always brilliant.
04:07He's different in this.
04:08To work with him and to see what he brought every day, it's an incredible performance.
04:13Cornbread.
04:14Cornbread.
04:15The film was an incredible opportunity to work with actors that I always admired, that
04:19I hadn't worked with before, like Del Roy, Haley, Jack, but Omar was at the top of the
04:25list.
04:26I think he was the only person that really could have played this character, Cornbread,
04:29who's also a neighborhood guy.
04:31He knows the twins, has history with them, but he's also just a guy trying to get by
04:36at a time when it was very difficult to do that.
04:39He's great in the movie, but this particular scene is.
04:42It was so hard to shoot.
04:43So hard to shoot, but so rewarding.
04:44Yeah, it's so rewarding, man.
04:45Thanks for putting up with us, man.
04:46Yeah, you so good.
04:47Yeah.
04:48Because we definitely broke a lot during this sequence.
04:49Yeah.
04:50There was a lot of laughter.
04:51Yeah.
04:52Things would be like-
04:53Super dramatic.
04:54Super intense and dramatic, but also like-
04:55Very funny.
04:56Hilarious at times.
04:57Yes.
04:58It's a lot of internal conflict in the movie, and all the relationships get turned on their
04:59head at some point in the movie.
05:00Yeah.
05:01Yeah.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Yeah.
05:04Yeah.
05:05Yeah.
05:06Yeah.
05:07Yeah.
05:08Yeah.
05:09Yeah.
05:10Yeah.
05:12We got a lot of internal conflict at some point in the film.
05:13Mm-hmm.
05:14And Smoke and Stock are inseparable, and something that happens that really challenges, existential
05:18challenge to that relationship.
05:19Yes.
05:20Hey.
05:21I didn't mean to scare you.
05:22Thought y'all done forgot about me in here.
05:23Come on, open the door.
05:24Let me on out of here.
05:25Stay.
05:26It's you?
05:27Of course it's me.
05:28Open the door.
05:29That ain't your brother.
05:30It's you.
05:31It's you.
05:32It's you.
05:33It's you.
05:34It's you.
05:35It's you.
05:36It's you.
05:37It's you.
05:38It's you.
05:39It's you.
05:40It's you.
05:41You
05:51Crazy yeah, I mean, that's the movie
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