00:00And everybody got that answer.
00:01It's like, is that your mama?
00:02You know what I'm saying?
00:03I got an Aunt Mary, holla.
00:06All right, so I'm here with Jonathan Majors.
00:08He is in Last Black Man in San Francisco.
00:12So you were just saying, like, you guys debuted today,
00:14and you're still on the hive of response.
00:15What time is it?
00:16Five, three, two hours ago?
00:19Yeah.
00:20So what was that like?
00:21What was the reception of the film?
00:24It couldn't have gone better.
00:25Mm, good for you.
00:26Humbly, open hearted, it couldn't have gone better.
00:28Killed ourselves to make it.
00:29And, you know, you rewrote your soul.
00:32And we got something.
00:33I think we got something special.
00:35What was the journey like making this film?
00:37Well, so, I mean, apologies already,
00:41because I can't name everybody, but the primary culprits
00:44of, like, really building it were a fellow named Joe Talbot,
00:47his best buddy, Jimmy Fells, a fellow named Rob Richard,
00:52Kalia, and Christina Oh.
00:56And those individuals really, really pushed it through.
01:01And so I came in on it old-fashioned way.
01:03I auditioned for it, got to it, but they had already been
01:06working on it for maybe six years up to that point.
01:08Oh, wow.
01:09The story is about this fellow named Jimmy Fells and his
01:12experience in, Jimmy Fells IV, and his experience in San
01:15Francisco during, you know, now is current, you know, and dealing
01:19with the gentrification and just the economic, social
01:21struggles, political struggles that are happening in the city.
01:24Yeah.
01:25And I hear there's a lot of buzz about your character in
01:26particular.
01:27Oh!
01:27Yeah.
01:28So tell me about it.
01:29Tell me about your character in the film.
01:30So I play Montgomery Allen, and we call him Mont in the film, and
01:34Mont is, he's a San Franciscan.
01:38He is a full-on artist.
01:40He's a complete artist.
01:41You know, he's not just an actor.
01:43He's a fisherman.
01:44He's a writer.
01:45He's a painter.
01:46He's a drawer.
01:47He's a speaker, you know?
01:48So he's a fellow that we don't really see in, I'd say, in cinema.
01:54But this is a role that, you know, I've never seen it before.
01:58I've never read it before, you know?
02:00So I was like, oh, we got to play this man.
02:03We got to find this man, right?
02:05We got to show this man.
02:06We got to share this man with everybody.
02:07You're in the movie with Tashina Arnold, who has created so
02:11many classic characters, especially in our culture.
02:13That's right.
02:14So what was it like working with her?
02:16So Tashina plays Jimmy's aunt.
02:19She brought so much energy, so much life.
02:21And it's a stunning performance.
02:23She feels like your auntie.
02:24She feels like your mama.
02:25She feels warm.
02:27And she's also a pillar of wisdom in the film.
02:30The film does a lot with family and what the African-American
02:35family is, you know?
02:36And everybody got that auntie that's like, is that your mama?
02:39You know what I'm saying?
02:39I got Aunt Mary, holla.
02:41Auntie's a mommy number two in the black community.
02:42Aunt Carolyn, holla, you know?
02:44Yes.
02:46Yeah, you know, they look out for you, you know?
02:47And it's just, it's just beautiful to see that.
02:50Yeah.
02:51Awesome.
02:52So, one last thing.
02:54Yeah?
02:55Just sum it up, like, why should people check this movie out?
02:58I think what film offers, what art offers in general, is the
03:02human experience.
03:04And I think it's rare that you get a film, a piece of music, a dance
03:11piece that really goes a distance and really attempts to articulate a
03:18large scope of a human experience.
03:21And this film does that in such a artistic, funny, heartbreaking, human
03:27way that it can, it transcends San Francisco.
03:31It transcends being the last black man in San Francisco.
03:34It's just what it is to be human.
03:36Anybody can, can, can, cannot, can get with it.
03:39It's just a really Honestly's Jeff story, like really
03:41throws it down.
03:41They make travel through a world where you purchase the
03:45world where you get a film of crazy crazy".
03:47Since this once you get started, I went to the next
03:48movie and went to the next show.
03:49Okay so, I've gone back.
03:51Maybe you're at the next time.
03:51Yes, soon I saw you, you know.
03:53Bye.
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