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figures because you can’t create that anymore.
The shift is to, we’re best friends, with the
comments and with those pictures and I like that.
Do you like it?
I love trying to make that shift and make that
transition into the new demands of the fans in
this business.
Do you realise that your fans are comparing
your Bright character with the look you used
to have in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air?
It’s that damn mustache. I hated that mustache.
It was so bad.
How much reality is behind the fantasy of the
movie Bright?
This is a drama that happens to be set in a world
where there is a huge difference, but it is our world;
it should feel like our world. They went to great
pains to make it look like our world and we shot in
Los Angeles, always at night, which was very
difficult but for some of us.
What did you like the most about the idea of
the movie?
The idea was spectacular for me as an African
American playing a police officer that was racist
against the first orc on the force. It’s like the flip of
those social concepts. As a black dude, you just don’t
get a lot of movies where you’re the racist. And it was
really great. “Yo man, I don’t want no orc in my car.”
You know you never get to say that (laughs).
Will we see those kind of violent dynamics
played between law enforcement and also
the Orcs and the supernatural creatures on
the show?
Yeah for sure. You know, our director David
Ayer doesn’t find a necessity to be delicate with
those issues. This is a film that is about enjoyment
and entertainment. And those under currents and
undertones of the film are specifically for people
to be able to think about it.
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