00:01Please welcome Lil Rel Howery to the show.
00:04Yes!
00:05What up, what up?
00:06This morning, Rel.
00:07I'm excited.
00:08Thanks for having me.
00:09You bet, man.
00:10Thanks for coming in.
00:11For those who may not be familiar with you, you've had so many great, awesome roles and
00:15you won the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in the Movie Get Out.
00:19That had to have been a nice little feather in the cap getting an award for that.
00:22Yeah, it was actually really dope.
00:25Also, last night my friend Tiffany Haddish received the same award.
00:29Yes.
00:30We just took it, I told her this morning, like yeah, back to back years.
00:33And she's in Uncle Drew.
00:34Yeah, she's in Uncle Drew also, which is such a fun movie, man, we did.
00:38So explain for people who are familiar, they may have seen the commercials, the commercials
00:43were featuring the character of Uncle Drew.
00:45Explain what Uncle Drew is about.
00:47So they came, it started from, so people don't know this, Kyrie came up with Uncle Drew.
00:52He created it?
00:53It's based on his dad.
00:54Wow.
00:55Because his dad still plays basketball.
00:56So he basically created this old, like he's, I mean, he's better as an older version
01:01of his dad, but his dad still plays all the time.
01:03Just this older guy who's on the court still balling dudes.
01:06So it was him who came up with the idea of this guy who sort of schools some street ballers.
01:12And he, the first time he did, I think we always forget.
01:15So they did it in Chicago first and nobody knew who it was.
01:18So it was actually a real court, real game.
01:21He showed up in the old man stuff, balled everybody out.
01:24I didn't even know it was Kyrie until maybe like the fourth commercial.
01:27Yeah, because it was hard.
01:29The makeup was done first off very well.
01:31Yeah.
01:32Obviously body wise, the guy, it would have been an exemplary shape, but the facial makeup
01:36Yeah.
01:37Was very well done.
01:38It was very well done.
01:39That's what was so amazing about the movie with all the prosthetics, with all the players.
01:42Yeah.
01:43I almost forgot how everybody looked in real life.
01:45Did you?
01:46Because they'll be in there for five hours.
01:47So when I show up on set, they already old.
01:49And when I left, they were still old.
01:50So I've literally forgot how everybody looked until Kyrie did their press conference
01:54when he went to the Celtics.
01:55And I was like, oh, that's your face.
01:58Well, in the movie, so you have a team.
02:01Yeah.
02:02And your adversary is Nick Kroll, which is borderline science fiction that he's got.
02:08But I got it.
02:09So he's your adversary because he plays a good prick.
02:12So you guys are playing off against each other.
02:14He sort of steals your...
02:15He just crushes you.
02:16He's your adversary.
02:17Yeah.
02:18He's destroyed my life in different times.
02:20So that spurs you on to...
02:22To have to find somebody to help me.
02:23And that's when I heard about Uncle Drew from different people.
02:26Like the guys at the barbershop tell me about them.
02:28But I've never seen them.
02:29It's just stuff of legend, but you figure you'll explore it.
02:32Like, come on.
02:33Yeah, whatever.
02:34So it was like when Dax's name, my character, discovers Drew was really by mistake.
02:38It was after I couldn't find any new players to play on my team.
02:41Right, right.
02:42All these different playgrounds.
02:43And I just happened to be at a playground and see Drew take on this dude one-on-one.
02:46That's when I approached him.
02:48And so his one deal is he'll do it, but he has to be able to pick his own teammates.
02:53Right, which is, that's where the story gets hilarious and fun.
02:56It's taking this road trip to pick up all these other old dudes.
02:59And you're getting these other, you're getting older versions of these great players.
03:04Shaq and Reggie Miller.
03:05Yeah.
03:06I mean, come on.
03:07Preston mentioned Get Out.
03:08We had had Jordan Peele in, I guess about, he was still working on Get Out.
03:14He was in promoting, I think it was Keanu.
03:16Yeah.
03:17And it became clear as we were talking that he was just a huge horror fan and this whole
03:21thing.
03:22And he was simultaneously sort of excited but nervous about what Get Out would be.
03:28None of you could have seen how this would take off the way it did.
03:31Nah.
03:32I mean, when we did it, it was one of those things where either this is going to do well
03:36or it's not, right?
03:37Yeah.
03:38It was a big budget so we all did do it because we loved Jordan Peele and I just loved the script.
03:43Once the trailer came out and then we went to reshoot the ending, I'm like, oh, I think
03:48this is going to do good.
03:51What was your first indication?
03:53Was it the reshoot?
03:54It was the trailer.
03:55The trailer.
03:56It was the trailer.
03:57The way, when my family started calling me, like, we can't wait to see this.
04:00I'm like, oh, this is a thing.
04:02Yeah.
04:03Why did you reshoot the ending?
04:05I wanted to ask about that, too, because I watched both endings and we don't want to
04:09betray what happens at the end of the movie.
04:11Wait, I didn't know there was two.
04:12Yeah.
04:13It's on the disc.
04:14On the disc.
04:15You can see the original.
04:16I actually got it on YouTube, too.
04:18I mean, the original ending.
04:19Which one did you like better before you go into the story about that?
04:22I appreciate the original because it was real.
04:27Yep.
04:28But then also I knew as a fan of movies, we just needed a hero, man.
04:33Yeah.
04:34It needed to have a more satisfying ending.
04:35I know what you mean.
04:36People would have left the theater with different energy.
04:38Yeah.
04:39Because when I saw the first cut, it was with the original ending.
04:41Yep.
04:42And I couldn't sleep.
04:43Yeah.
04:44Yeah.
04:45But you know what?
04:46Because he's a real.
04:47I mean, here's the difference.
04:50And they'll say horror comedy.
04:52I like my horror horror.
04:54You can have some comedy and you provide the comedy.
04:56But you know what made it work, though?
04:58Because Jordan wrote it real.
04:59He wrote it real.
05:00Yes, you can tell.
05:01And all I was was the audience that watched the movie.
05:03And that's why it works.
05:04Yeah.
05:05When they try to over-yuck it up, that's when they screwed up.
05:07Because that would have undermined what is really a brilliant horror movie that works
05:11on multiple levels.
05:12Yeah.
05:13And what was masterfully done was that the trailer thought you were getting into one
05:18thing and the movie got you into something else.
05:21And you're like, whoa.
05:22Whoa.
05:23And that's hard to pull off.
05:24That is very hard.
05:25How much of your character of that?
05:26First off, do you ever have to go through TSA ever now?
05:28Yeah.
05:29So I'll tell you something funny about that.
05:32They show love when I show them.
05:34Oh, man.
05:35They appreciate you.
05:36But you still got to take your shoes off.
05:37So I still get no real love.
05:39I still got to do everything.
05:40They still do it.
05:41Like they take their job more seriously now, which is crazy.
05:43Well, you give them a sense of pride.
05:46Was there any onset ad-libbing because you seem so natural, your simultaneous pride and
05:53condemnation of him for going in the first place?
05:56So the funny thing about it is I thought I was saying stuff that was scripted and then
05:59we did a panel and Jordan was like, nah, this is you just saying stuff.
06:03Wow.
06:04That's great.
06:05But he let me do that.
06:06He'll have, like, we'll do the takes where I do everything scripted and I do a real take.
06:09And I'm like, all right.
06:10Yeah, if anyone's going to appreciate comedic ability.
06:13It's Jordan.
06:14That's why he's a great director.
06:15Yeah.
06:16I wanted to ask you talking about being on the set and improv-ing lines.
06:18And we have Adam McKay as a friend of the show.
06:20And he says he'll laugh when, you know, someone's riffing on set and doing the deal.
06:27And that actually encourages the actors.
06:29You as a performer, when you're doing something, do you like to hear a response or does it throw
06:34you off?
06:35Because technically you're not supposed to be hearing someone laughing, but how does it work?
06:39Well, that's the thing.
06:40It depends on what it is.
06:41So, for instance, like, I'm trying to plug this, but I got a show on Fox this year called
06:45Realist Sitcom.
06:46Yes.
06:47I like a live studio audience because I like to hear it right away.
06:50It's easy to write to that.
06:52I'll give you a perfect example of Not That Environment is doing Get Out.
06:55I kept trying to make Daniel who played, you know, I just wanted to make him laugh.
06:59Like, he had to be sad.
07:00So I'm like saying all this crazy.
07:01That's why we see those outtakes of me doing it.
07:03It's me trying to make him laugh, trying to break him.
07:05So, like, there you're a cut and we have to give him two minutes to just laugh.
07:08Yeah.
07:09Because he's so good.
07:10He was just, I'm like, I got to break this dude, but he was so, such a really good actor,
07:14man.
07:15And I'll give it up for Lil Rel Howery.
07:16Thank you guys for having me.
07:17Yeah.
07:18Yeah.
07:19Yeah.
07:20Yeah.
07:21Yeah.
07:22Yeah.
07:23Yeah.
07:24Yeah.
07:25No.
07:26It's super.
07:27Yeah.
07:28Yes.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Yeah.
07:34Yeah.
07:35Yeah.
07:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:39Yeah.
07:41That's silly.
07:43I war, yeah.
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