00:00Il groove è il cuore che batte. Il groove muove tutto quello che hai dentro. Forte, molto forte. Questo è
00:08il groove.
00:30L'articolazione è stata da New York, da Brooklyn, New Jersey, e Cincinnati, e Philadelphia.
00:39So, I guess, it was not unusual.
00:43And a lot of black artists were managed by white empresarios,
00:51who really embraced them as equals.
00:54If you look at Muddy Waters and look at the Chess brothers, they were record company owners.
01:01They were white guys who embraced and loved black culture.
01:06Hoyt and Axton at Stax Records, they were, again, a white couple that just embraced African-American culture
01:14and saw the value and the merits in these people's talents.
01:17And also the potential to maybe make a difference and bridge the gap between the two cultures.
01:22So, it was not unusual for me.
01:25It's just, you know, what I'm doing there is, I guess, portraying real truth and real history
01:33because this is what the reality was in the 40s, 50s, and 60s between talent and management.
01:41Having known him, of course, we all know this,
01:45Do you use something from your real life for the role or to, did you tell something Tate about the
01:55real James Brown?
01:56Well, there's not much I, not much I can impart to Tate.
01:59He's got the part down.
02:01But I think what I bring with it is, I just remember that James really appreciated respectful behavior.
02:07And I was always very respectful of him, although familiar, I mean, a lot of fun.
02:11There was always that respect there for the giant talent for him as an individual, a gentleman.
02:18And really, it's the kind of respect that you show royalty.
02:21And he was a king.
02:23And that's what I bring with it.
02:25There's that deference, respect, and also just, I would say, the acceptance of his intellectual capacity.
02:35And, you know, he was very, very smart.
02:38And so that's certainly the way I treated him in real life.
02:42One, two, three, four.
02:43One, two, three, four.
02:45One, two, one, two, one, two, two, two.
02:47And it was about this, what's your first and what's your last memory of James Brown?
02:53Well, my first memory is in the late 60s at the Esquire Show Bar in Montreal, Canada.
02:58It was a bar that had a, you sat at the bar, and the performer actually was able to come
03:03right down the bar
03:04and dance right to the end of the bar and back.
03:06And I'll never forget being about this far from James Brown's bolero heels as he went down in front of
03:11me.
03:12Now, I was just a kid.
03:13He didn't know me, of course, at that time.
03:14And I couldn't even approach him and talk to him, but I saw him there.
03:18And the last time I saw him was in New York City.
03:23We went to a concert at the BB King Club.
03:28And I had my daughter with me, Stella.
03:30She was about six years old at the time.
03:32And we went backstage, and James was under the hairdryer.
03:36Now, he let very, very few people into the room when he was under the hairdryer after the show.
03:40He was getting his curlers put back in to coiff his hair.
03:44And he said, who that, who that, who that?
03:46And I said, oh, that's my daughter's son.
03:47Come on, baby.
03:49Come on, you don't mind that.
03:50Sit down.
03:50And so I had this mental picture of my six-year-old daughter sitting on James Brown's lap as he's
03:56under the hairdryer.
03:57And, you know, I wish I had a photo of it that night, but it'll always be in my head.
04:02And then after, he came to my apartment for a drink and, you know, a little party.
04:09And that was the last time I saw him, yeah.
04:12How he was behind the scenes.
04:14The movie is very truthful to this aspect of his life, too.
04:19Well, yes, he was a reverend, very religious, and, you know, had a strong, strong faith.
04:25And just behind the scenes, he was just always laughing, cutting up, you know, giving Landis a hard time, you
04:31know.
04:31And he was just wonderful to be around.
04:34So much fun.
04:36Of course, the movie is also the hard part of his life.
04:41That affected very much him, or he was beyond everything.
04:48No, I think that, you know, he came from a hard existence.
04:54And that he became a superstar and built an empire.
04:57And then things started to get beyond, out of his control a little bit.
05:01Audiences changed.
05:03And I think that he fell in with some people who exploited him wrongly.
05:10And, you know, in the end, I guess he sort of lost control a little bit, I think.
05:16And, you know, we have to forgive him for the episode in South Carolina.
05:23He was under a lot of stress.
05:25He had been, got addicted to some painkillers because of his teeth bothered him a lot.
05:30And so he had to take these painkillers and he got an addiction to them.
05:37And that's really, really where, you know, where the drug trouble came from.
05:42And that kind of led to other things.
05:44Just to close, one just last thing.
05:47What would he say about this movie?
05:50He would absolutely love it.
05:52He would see that everyone working on it loves him and his work.
05:59And I think that if he looked at this tremendous talent that's playing him, Chad,
06:04and this wonderfully talented director, he would know that his legacy is in great hands.
06:12Se non sei mai stato a terra, come puoi arrivare in cima?
06:18Signor Brown, un'ottima domanda.
06:21Qual è il suo piatto preferito?
06:23Bobby, dia alla signorina bianca cosa mangiamo.
06:26Ok.
06:26No.
06:27Ok.
06:30No.
06:30First of all,
06:34let's go.
06:34Nah.
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