00:00And it just comes from...
00:07I know it's inappropriate, but I'm turned on.
00:09You know, I gotta go.
00:10You're turned on.
00:11They got the tequila.
00:12I love it.
00:13Bring the tequila.
00:15It comes from in here, and it's a culture thing.
00:18We get to, in this movie, celebrate a microculture on the planet.
00:24The Samoan Polynesian culture.
00:26And what a beautiful culture it is.
00:28How are you?
00:29How are you doing?
00:30There you go.
00:31I'm all right.
00:32You play a wonderful Samoan.
00:34I do it every day.
00:35I know, right?
00:36Isn't that the crazy part?
00:37Working on it constantly.
00:38I'm working on this.
00:39Hang on.
00:40This is all real.
00:41The representation, and that's something that I asked Dwayne too, because he always carries
00:45his culture on his back.
00:46And now that you're breaking through and you're doing so much more and acting, do you feel
00:49like that's something that you're going to take on as well?
00:52Taking your Samoan culture with you everywhere you go?
00:54Absolutely.
00:55Everywhere I go, any platform, that's who I am.
01:00It's where I'm from.
01:01It's what I represent.
01:02Personally for me, not only as an actor, but really as a producer too, I just wanted to
01:05make sure that we were able to showcase one of my cultures, my Samoan culture.
01:09You know, half black and half Samoan.
01:12And what's really interesting about this though, what I was just realizing this morning is how
01:18underrepresented, grossly underrepresented the culture has been in Hollywood films.
01:25Never been showcased.
01:27Ever.
01:28Like Samoan culture has never been showcased.
01:30And it's not a knock, but what this does do I think is a microcosm of a bigger thing,
01:36because it can explore and expose an identity and a culture to Hollywood and Hollywood executives
01:42of saying, ah, it's okay, we can showcase this little culture that up maybe 10 years ago,
01:48nobody had any idea of what Samoa was or where it was or anything like that.
01:52So this movie, it teeters on family a lot, right?
01:55Is there a huge difference between black family and Samoan family?
01:59And what ways do you feel like those two cultures come together?
02:02I think they integrate and mix incredibly well, obviously, because I lived it and it's what I am.
02:07It's good.
02:08Good mix, baby.
02:10Into it.
02:11Are they all like this?
02:12They're all like this.
02:14It's a special kind of chocolate.
02:15It is.
02:16You know, I always say, you mix black and Samoan.
02:21Like it's game over.
02:22My game is done.
02:24I don't know.
02:26The cultures meld very well.
02:28Yeah.
02:29Just proud, passionate.
02:30Mamas that take they shoes off.
02:32Take the shoes off.
02:33They're going to get one, Samoan ass whoopee.
02:35Because I felt that.
02:36Yes, right?
02:37So that happened.
02:38That's on both sides.
02:39Yes.
02:40And loyalty and trust and fighting and infighting.
02:44And, but also, also what I firmly believe is, is there's a hunger.
02:50There's a hunger on both sides and of me growing up in black culture and Samoan culture.
02:55There's a hunger.
02:56So for example, my dad at five, I'll never forget it, would always tell me and every day
03:00he could, respect is going to come when you earn it.
03:02And you go, you, he would take your ass out there.
03:05And if you cry, go home to your mom.
03:06Like he was tough.
03:07Um, but I do believe the cultures meld very, very well.
03:12And there's so many similarities.
03:13And there's so many similarities.
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