00:00I can turn the gray sky blue, uh, I can make it rain whenever I want to.
00:07You were the anchor playing Otis Williams, you were the anchor of the whole thing, what
00:32was it like, um, bringing such a legendary story to life?
00:36It just felt very surreal if I'm honest with you, I felt like at one point I was outside
00:40of my body watching everything happen, um, also watching Otis in the audience, watching
00:45Barry Gordy in the audience, watching Mary Wilson in the audience, and um, you know,
00:49it was um, just such a surreal moment to actually tell this story, tell this really good piece
00:55of history in front of the people who created the history.
00:58I think that I didn't understand the magnitude up until this moment of what the temptations
01:05and who they were to the world.
01:07And so, you know, I had to make sure that I came correct.
01:12Because all the older generation that grew up with this group, they're coming with judge
01:16and jury.
01:17I portray Dennis Edwards, who to a lot of people is considered the sixth temp, you know.
01:25He was, he came in at a time when the Temptations sound was changing.
01:31They were doing a lot of funk, a lot of, you know, uh, drive-in music.
01:35So, it's a, it's such a pleasure to be able to share the stage with my family.
01:40We have an amazing choreographer, his name is Sergio Trujillo, and we also have our associate
01:45choreographer Edgar Gudenau, and they together whipped up what you see.
01:50Um, of course, you know, we went back and looked at the Temptations videos and everything,
01:55but what they brought to the table was what I like to say what the Temptations brought
01:59to the table back then.
02:00Because what they were doing, no one was doing at the time, and they took little things that
02:04everybody kind of knew, and then they whipped it into this stuff that we now know as iconic.
02:10So what our choreographers did was they took actual Temptations' move, and then they amped
02:15them up by borrowing a little bit from the 80s, borrowed a little bit from the 90s, borrowed
02:19a little bit from today.
02:21We pay tribute to the Temptations, yet we're not being a carbon copy of the Temptations.
02:26It's breathing a new life into who they are.
02:29It's hard to describe what this is.
02:31I'm still kind of processing it because, again, every time I get to do this show in front
02:37of any audience and all the audiences thus far, the kind of love we've received and the
02:42reaction to what we're doing and the reaction to, like, my voice.
02:47I'm not a singer at first.
02:48I never was.
02:49I never thought of myself as such.
02:50It's hard to formulate the words for what it truly feels like, especially trying to bring
02:54this man back to life in certain ways.
02:55And a lot of times I just have to quiet the voices in my head and just try my best to
03:01channel him and try my best to let him live through me.
03:03And however that comes out, it comes out.
03:05And I believe that's kind of the way he lived his life.
03:07You got to hear his pain.
03:08You got to hear his ugliness.
03:09You got to hear his beauty, his heart.
03:11And I just try to give what that is for me with him in my mind all the time.
03:16So it's been a beautiful ride so far.
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