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Mission Impossible Star Shares Lessons from Tom Cruise 🎬 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jun 18, 2025
Subscribe for more exclusive interviews with rising stars! 🌟 Tarzan Davis shares his inspiring journey from first-grade teacher to Hollywood sensation, revealing how Tom Cruise’s mentorship shaped his career. From working on blockbusters like "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning" to his disciplined work ethic, Tarzan opens up about his path to success, his love for acting, and his passion for inspiring the next generation. Plus, he delivers an impromptu freestyle and talks about his New Orleans roots, Lil Wayne’s influence, and the importance of giving back. Don’t miss this candid and entertaining conversation on Sway In The Morning! #SwaysUniverse #TarzanDavis #TomCruise #MissionImpossible #TopGunMaverick #HollywoodJourney #Inspiration #NewOrleans #ActingCareer #ExclusiveInterview #SwayInTheMorning #tarzandavis #gregtarzandavis #dannyramirez #missionimpossiblefinalreckoning #tarzandavisinterview CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - Tarzan Davis Freestyles 05:00 - Origin of Tarzan Davis' Name 06:36 - Transition from Teacher to Actor 09:58 - Finding Tarzan Davis Online 11:35 - Working with Michael Bay 14:28 - Experiences with Tom Cruise 19:04 - Cutting His Locks: The Story 20:54 - Continuing Acting Classes 23:14 - Ryan Coogler's Unique Approach to Actors 24:50 - Insights on Sex Scenes 26:38 - Performing Stunts in Film 29:09 - Influential Movements in New Orleans 31:48 - D1 College Sports 33:30 - Outro
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wow man that's a trailer for the movie Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning Heather B it's in theaters now and um
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part of what makes it special is The Final Reckoning yep you know of this series and starring Tom Cruz who is the
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biggest movie star on the planet yes sir and has been has sustained um that that
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that that status for over the decades when Tom Cruz makes a movie the industry
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shifts so anyone who has the opportunity to work with Tom Cruz um is in a
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fortunate space yeah right uh not only is he an outstanding actor uh but he's also an outstanding businessman
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visionary mentor director producer he does it all he's a savior he saved you
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what do you mean come on is that necessary we're going to bring that up right now i think you have to put it in full perspective you're telling you're
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giving this intro but you got to give some proof okay okay well I'm going to give the proof but I I I because we got
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a a young man that's sitting right next to me who's actually had a chance to experience some of the similar energy of
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I experienced from Tom Cruz you know and a lot of people may have seen him in woke you know back in the day almost 10
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years ago controversy Tales from the Hood he's done a lot of different projects been on a lot of platforms
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grey's Anatomy give this man a round of applause as I say these things
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okay top Gun Maverick give him a round of applause as I say these things
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mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One and Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning give it up for the one and
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only formerly known Can I say that go ahead you can say it formerly known as Greg Tarzan Davis give it up for Tarzan
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[Applause] yeah man you make you make me sound as good as Tom Cruz thank you D appreciate
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that yo yo I got you bro come on man cuz when I when I watch you um on these huge
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platforms being a part of these colossal projects I couldn't help but wonder
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where is this young man from what is his story and what what it must be like to
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work with one of the biggest movie stars that the industry has ever seen so I want to say congratulations to you cuz
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you rise to the occasion every single time man welcome to the show bro welcome to the show come on man how you feeling
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look look I'm feeling great this is this is this is one of the shows and there's so many more like my life has has
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changed since I entered this industry uh industry that people say is hard to crack into but I've managed to do it uh you know with the grace of God and the
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hard work that I put in but I've been able to do things like this going sway in a freaking morning you know what I mean and and and and experience these
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experiences that I've I've I've watched and I've I've listened to as a child so this is like a surreal experience i'm
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I'm really sitting here pinching myself to be real with you man so you grew up watching the show hell yeah wow another
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one yes me and my friends we used to put the freestyles on obviously and we used to
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hold Hold on we got to spit something you know what I mean i used to do Yes wait that's Y'all would watch the
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freestyles and then felt like you had to spit yes i think we got a hyena up in here john
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drop a beat on them John drop a beat on them let's see oh right now yeah man oh
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we I I was I was warm up don't warm it up homie the hyenas
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my name is Greg Davis but they call me Tarzan yes I am the man i ain't playing here's the plan i decided to be an actor
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i went from being a teacher and now I'm making money and yet it's getting greener i'm going to the top i ain't
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looking down Paramount i'm climbing a mountain and I'm making lots of sounds i'm mostly in the morning i'm really not
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a rapper i can act like if you give me the roll I'm getting clapper hold on wait hold on hold on hold on hold on
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wait wait hold on freyle wait hold on wait we about to I got to keep going oh [Â __Â ] no
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no no no wait no man hold on hold on give me Wait look look one of my one of my favorite a rappers is is Kevin Gates
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i Give me a Kevin Gates give me a Wait wait wait no no no we We in Cali we in
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Cali we in Cali right we're right uh you can't just pick my homie homie homie homie slow down bro no wait hold on hold
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on you said you've been watching you ain't gonna come up here and pick the beat i can't Oh I can't my bad my bad my
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bad my bad my bad i can't he was flashing back to when he was 13 i was like I was like "Look put some turn the
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TV on or something like that." We in Cali Kendrick Lamar something see if you
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can find that turn the TV on we'll talk DJ you supposed to have that on on deck you talking about the
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DJ swinging yo he living his 13 years right here in this he getting it right
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i'm not mad at you T i ain't mad at you well let's ask it while the DJ that you
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ordered to get you a beat uh gets that beat the side of fries and a
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milkshake this dude just come in here all right let's start with your name uhhuh okay i said formerly known as Greg
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Tarzan Davis um which probably is the name on your birth certificate greg Davis I'm I'm assuming okay tarzan
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now we know Tarzan from you know the movie series and cartoons so on and so forth where did you adapt that name uh
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so look I I used to have laundry like you had locks yeah i had long like all the way down about this dude man i knew
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it was something yeah and um man I was I was a I was a out of pocket child i see i gave my mom my family little you know
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problems stuff like that yeah i was I was a wild child so what's an example of wild it was uh we not gonna reload the
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past i mean I just I just I just so happened to get into stuff but the PG version is I used to just you know climb
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on stuff and while I you know and uh they were like yada yada yada cuz I resembled him and stuff and then it just
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stuck so I was like man look I'm about to get into this acting industry and I need to stand out you know Greg Davis i was like who the Greg Davis and I like
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all right look I'm make it Greg Tarzan Davis and you know uh that's a professional but I go by Tarzan tarzan
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okay man that sound like a porn name that's what I was saying what are you swaging i know you're an
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actor you know
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damn let me know your your publicist is turning cherry red right now she come in
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here right now cut the interview nope and she can't do that here
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look she be there why sway why that's the reason i like the wise
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how why you have also an interesting background kind of just um backpedaling
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into your origin stories your foundation coming from education coming from being an athlete that is not an easy
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transition to go into this space not only when it comes to you know networking having the right
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relationships building your craft but also just activating the audacity to
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believe that you can even pursue it where did that part come and I always had this this belief in myself that I
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can do anything i think my mom instilled that in me you know she she I this this one conversation I had with my mom because I was doing good at school and I
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was like "Ma I'm a genius." And she said that and she was like "No you're not like what you talking about?" She was
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like "You're not a genius." I said "Mom I got all you know I got good grades i do this easy." She was like "No you're
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not a genius you work hard." And I was like "Oh." At first I was hurt i ain't understand until later down the line but
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like I was never nothing in my life I'm I'm I'm ever good at anything i'm going to be real with you when it came down to
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sports I had to work to get there so like my freshman year when I was playing football man I wasn't seeing the field but I had the determination say "Man
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what I got to do to do it?" And I did it waking up early training making sure I did it so sophomore year I started see I made special teams uh junior uh uh
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junior year now I'm you know on the field as a running back and then by senior year I was one of the starters so
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it's always you know I think the the the the athletic the competitive side of me has allowed me to uh uh elevate in this
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business much faster than a lot of people uh think that it's normal but I'm like nah this what I'm supposed to do
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like I put in the work i wake up every morning 4:30 i put in the grind i know what I need to do because I know I was
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competing with people who was went to school with it uh I used to be a teacher and I said I want to do this something
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I've always wanted to do so um I think sports has really helped me that competitive nature yeah that's a great
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answer man [Â __Â ] cars man you dope bro you t How old were the students you taught uh what what is first five five
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years old yeah first grade first grade uh students yeah yeah were you in agreeance with the curriculum that the
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school offered no I ain't going to look let me we going to talk about schools
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right now let's do it man let's talk about education so So I um everybody needs education go to school i I I feel
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that's a thing but I feel like we are and I think we moving a little bit away from it uh what we used to do but it's
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just like the kids are learning things that they don't necessarily use or need and stuff like that i'm talking like later in life but I think we need to
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learn teach them how to learn critical thinking you know uh uh uh solve
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problems instead of the uh the the okay 2 plus two is this or whatever you know that's that's with college i think with
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college and I don't even know if I should be saying all of this stop being scared man no it ain't nothing crazy but
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I know people be "Oh speak from experience." Because I worked
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with I I love kids i'm always working with kids it don't matter what age if you know the youth i want to try to
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impact them as much as possible but when we look at people that are in college I'm like you wasting a lot of money going there because you don't use your
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degree i graduated with education background and I'm not using it i just recently paid off my my my student debt
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and you have a lot of students who are doing that and they're not actually going out there doing we're not helping them find what they can really be good
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at and I find a lot of my friends are doing things that they're not happy with i was blessed to be able to find something that I love i'm good at so
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often we we don't have that that situation with uh students yeah man i like that man give it up for Tarzan man
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um what what what happens when people want to follow you on social media where
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do they go oh so you can go to Greg Tarzan Davis uh that is on across all
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platforms Instagram Twitter wait no what is it x all that yeah all that
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okay so you you kept that there was a time though when when you uh that I read that when you started getting more
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notoriety in social media that you stopped is that true yeah man so I started out on social media as like one
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of those influence because it was fun my brother and my homies used to do it and stuff like that so I was like let me just do it so I used to make like little
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comedy skits and whatnot but uh there was a time where I was like um uh I want
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I want to be a serious actor and I felt that me doing these social media things I I didn't want to be taken as like oh
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he's a social media person who became an actor i'm like no pigeon hold yeah i'm like no I'm I'm a real life actor and I
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want to show people that so I was like let me just stop with all of this stuff i took everything down to try to do this little revamp of of who who people saw
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me as and um you know now now I'm in a spot as an actor yeah man i like this
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man this is Tar i'm trying to get used to saying your name bro uh you said you
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was gonna go with T i was gonna go with T i just said I was I got T tarzan all
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that yeah you do all that okay cuz Yeah Tarzan is um I could work on it man i
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you know man Tarzan is a little uncomfortable for you i get it no man man Tarzan I can't even
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be mad at you man [Â __Â ] that Tarzan what the hell i can't even get mad at
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you what the hell yo man uh but so let me tell you about my experience with Tom
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Cruz right uh working for him i worked for MTV for like 20 years right and that's when I had the locks and
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everything and um one of the things I I did is uh I covered one of the movies he
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had done right and um wasn't world world the world's um I can't remember the
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exact movie but they had us go to before interviewing him he insist he chose me
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to interview him and then the next day we did the shoot and you know it was us
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riding racing on his on the racetrack I'm racing Tom Cruz on the racetrack with a camera on a on a gas tank and I'm
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following him around I got the locks so the locks are flying you know what I'm in I'm looking like a model you looking
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like I'm looking like Char right you know and and eventually I you know Tom
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was like "Yeah come on Swain let's go." You know gassing you i thought I was in a movie bro and so I hit a corner I
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crashed i crashed his bike flipped over seven times seven seven times this is
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you know MTV did a whole diary about me and Tom Cruz over there right um and
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then he took me in a two-seater airplane that he was flying a a World War II
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two-seater plane and did some loop the loops and some nose dives all this
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different stuff but when I crashed the thing that stood out about here's the here's the thing i crashed I hit my the
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the helmet was crushed right um Tom came up to me and says "Ro stop the cameras
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stop the cameras." And he grabbed me by my shoulders and looked me in my eyes are you okay and I was like "Yeah man
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[Â __Â ] i'm a little woozy." No are you okay Sway are you okay yeah Tom i'm I'm a little woozy are you okay he really
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cared bro and he does for two weeks that man called me on my cell phone every day
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to make sure I was okay it got to the point where I had to tell Tom Cruz against my best wishes "Tom stop calling
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me." Who has ever had to say that i was like
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I can't believe I'm saying this Tom you don't have to call me oh that was painful oh and he ain't called
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me since and that was years ago right uh but
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you he saved me right you never know about people you watch on the big screen
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for decades you never really know who they are i never believe media headlines having worked in media for so long i've
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worked for news companies that I've seen tweak a headline yeah to create deception to for for for views and
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clicks right never believe anything I heard about him or read about him what has your experience been with Tom Cruz
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cuz he selects you to be a part of his projects you don't just get on his projects you've done three right yeah
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what's your what's your personal experience been like with him well I mean you you you summed a lot of it up
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like he he's going to get you involved in you know the the the exotic uh race
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car driving the skydiving um uh weapons what you know we've done
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so many things because that's what he loves to do and that's how he bonds and I enjoy it and and he's the type of
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person that pushes you and and makes you want to do more so like after I've been working with him for eight years now so
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I've got a chance to really you know uh uh learn from him and watch him he's been a great mentor i call him my uncle
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uncle uh I got him you call him uncle uncle Tom look I like that let me tell you i
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was like I was like he really is one of us
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uncle Tom and Tan is wild that's a cartoon look look i was like I was like
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I got I So I got his number and I was like "Well I called him Uncle Let me put in Uncle Let me come up with a nickname
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uncle." That's hilarious but uh like you said he cares you know
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what I mean like he's the type of person that he will randomly call me and he'll be like "Yo how's it i'm just checking to see like how you doing?" Or he'll
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shoot me a text say "Hey what's been going on buddy how's the how's life how's the fam how's the woo?" So he's that type of person or if I need him I
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call him and I text him and he's he's right there the busiest man you know the biggest movie star is is texting back
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immediately just calls me back as soon as I say "Yo hey I need I have a question about this." And I annoy the [Â __Â ] out of them you know what I mean
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you if you have the access and I want to learn and I think that's that's the first thing he saw when I was on Top Gun
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with him i was new but I'm like I don't want to step on toes i don't want crossing boundaries but yo this is like a wealth and not something you don't
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want you won't learn in school i learned so much that I all these people go to film school i learned so much on this set than you would in film school but um
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um I'm like I got to take advantage of this so I tried to find my way to you know like pick his brain so I would just
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go to set when I wasn't working i would just sit there and I watch him like why is he doing this why you doing it then every so often I'll be like "Yo Tom can
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I ask you something?" "Yeah Tarzan." "Yeah what would you like to know?" And I'm like "Why you did that why you you
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know?" He said "Well Tarzan let me show you something let me tell you something." And he'll break it down to him and I'm like "Ah okay." And I just
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go off to my corner and I'll just watch again i'm like I think I think 10 minutes has passed i can ask him another
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question hey Tom why you did that so I I would do that and and I think he just saw that and and and he saw my drive and
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my hunger to be the greatest like him coming up number one question I ask him is "Yo Tom how did you become a movie
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star?" Because that's what I'm trying to since I was a kid I wanted to be a movie star and I'm trying to get to that level too and I have the blueprint right here
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man that's the formula it's right there so I'm like "How did you do it?" And he broke it down to me like he you know I stopped drinking because of him you know
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he gave me that advice i was like you know how you able to do this he said "Well I don't drink." He didn't say drink don't drink but he said "You know
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you can't put certain things in in your body." And I had stopped drinking did a 75day hard challenge or something and I
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said "You know what i don't need this i'm a good time anyway." So I stopped drinking like seven seven years now congratulations man congratulations on
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that brother i was an alcoholic now sounds like it but I tell people that
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they like "Oh my god the first thing a alcoholic says too by the way." The second thing the second thing okay
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all right what's the first thing we say have a drink we are joking for the record okay yeah
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yeah yeah jk jk okay jk so so he told you you can't put stuff in your body
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what other Yeah just take care of yourself you know the audience comes first you know um th those those are the people that that support you and you
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want to make sure you make films as dedicated to audiences also like you control you control your own destiny um
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uh you I say my life is a big manifestation because when I was a kid I I said I was going to be traveling the
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world making movies shaking hands kissing babies taking pictures signing autographs like I said I was going to do
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this i remember I was in uh Jazz Land throw it back in New Orleans and Lil Romeo was signing autographs and he
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signed mine and I was like "Yo I want to sign autographs too." And and now I'm
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doing it so it's um uh going back like it's it's just what I was saying was you control your own destiny so once you
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once you take extreme ownership a book that I recommend everybody read Extreme Extreme Ownership once you take that in
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your life you know your life in your own hands man you can make the world happen for yourself i love this man that's Tarzan man check this guy out i loved it
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man plays Dagas and Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning which is in theaters now you know there's other things that
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you and I have in common i mentioned the locks right and you once had locks right yeah and you decided to let your locks
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go right what What made you decide to get them initially man it was uh uh So
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my my stepdad had it one I I've always had long hair and I was like man I I I want to do it i don't know if it was a
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Lil Wayne thing okay you know cuz he was a heavy influence you know and well everybody wanted to be Lil Wayne i
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wanted to be a rapper because of Lil Wayne um it wasn't I'm not going to sit there and say like it was a spiritual journey for me but I think it was as as
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I kept going it was like a spiritual thing and it became a part of me and a part of my identity and then one day like while I was trying to act in this
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industry now everybody told me "Hey you have to cut your locks if you want to be an actor." And I was like "Why?" They
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were like "Cuz you're gonna be stereotype this this this." I'm like man I'm about to I'm about to change the world i'm be a president in a movie with
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the locks and everything stuff like that like I'mma change this goddamn industry y'all going to accept you know I cut him
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so I ain't changed nothing but but but I was like it was
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just one day you know I I I've always been able to sleep with him and one day I couldn't I couldn't sleep with him i was like what's going on like why am I
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struggling with sleeping with him and and this was like a week and then one day I said yo I think it's time to cut it because I was already battling like
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should I cut my hair or not you know so I was like let let me I'm just gonna cut it and I did and three months later I
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booked Top Gun Maverick and I was like wow god speaks to us god is always speaking us and I think that was him
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like saying like you got to let you got to be able to let things go this was your former self you changing you're trying to change your accent you're
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trying to change like your identity the ideology that you used to have you're trying to be a better person and so so maybe you need to make the full
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transformation and u I I did that and then boom like change start started changing i love that story man man
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that's awesome love it that's awesome man this is fun Heather i know it is i'm enjoying it i'm actually wanted to ask
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you I happened to be on the phone last night with an established actress and her and I are supposed to connect for
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lunch this week and she said to me "Hey can we make it this time because I have an acting class on on Friday." And I
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thought to myself "Wow this is dope i mean she's established she doesn't need to work anymore and she's still taking
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classes i'm a big fan of that i love taking classes as well i wanted to ask you the same thing because I can imagine
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now with your resume you may be at the point where you don't have to audition anymore all roles are being offered to
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you but do you still take classes still work on your voice what are some of the other things that we don't see you do in
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public my So so I I have a strict schedule for myself and when I when I like I said when I first started it when
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I was a teacher first grade teacher I said hey I want to be an actor and I I went on YouTube and I said man what do I
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have to do to become an actor and I I learned that hey actors spend 12 hours a day on set so I all right I got to make
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a 12-hour day for myself so I can be able to build a stam stamina so wake up at 4:30 every morning still to this day
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and I'm working until like four five o'clock in the evening but um I I'm still in classes i I still do my speech
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i still read scripts i still do all of this stuff because it's like a gym you know the skill if you if you don't use
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it you lose it and that's another thing that Tom said you always have to be learning so like when I'm not filming
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I'm in a class i go Shout out to Annie Grimley i I go see her um I you know I have this actor uh group that that that
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you know we meet every uh uh uh Thursday uh night and we we put scenes up together and that's that's where I I I
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love this so much that I'm willing to do it all day every day i was just with my stylist and um um Say his name man say
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well well Jared he he don't want to be an actor um uh but but his his his his uh partner was trying to be an actor and
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and he has this audition uh Saturday is it I think and I was like "Yo come on we we doing a fitting and I'm helping him
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with his with with his his monologue because I love this stuff." You know what I mean so any any chance I can do
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to do it I I want to do it so she's doing the right thing that's why she's established a lot of people feel like
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"Yo I made it i don't need that i don't need the practice no more." Yeah you do absolutely practice
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practice what practice i'm going to say this hold on let me say this on air ryan Cougler yes because I'm going to say
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this because you can always tap into a deeper a deeper part of yourself you always You think you're good man I just
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saw this audition of myself when I first started acting and uh I thought I was the [Â __Â ] you know I thought I was the
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[Â __Â ] i look at it now and I'm like "Oh mying good this is rubbish." Yeah um um
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so so when I win my Oscar I'mma play it and I'mma show people i'm like "Yo you can start from this and you can hold up
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this trophy." Um uh but but uh Ryan Cougler that's what I was Ryan Cougler
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is a talented director and I need to work with him and the reason I need to work with him is because not not I mean
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his visions are amazing work is amazing as a director but what he does for to
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his actors is something so rarely saw seen uh uh that other directors can can
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be able to do i think Michael B Jordan has done his best work when he's working with Ryan Cooper and I'm like what are
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you doing what potion are you giving these actors i want some of that i want to see what he's able to unlock in me
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but that that goes back to you know the training and everything so I'm like cur yo I need you to break me down Ryan
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Cougler and then show me this this this you know I'mma shoot him put me in the game coach shoot shoot him a freaking
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text you know you from Oakland you know where I'm from yeah yeah yeah yeah business i love that and I think it's so
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necessary when people see this conversation i mean they're listening live now but when they see you say that
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it will validate so much you know you have to put the work in and I'm I'm proud of my friend and for doing it as
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well still and she doesn't have to but thank you for confirming that for real we got Tarzan in the studio you can
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follow him at Greg Tarzan Davis on social tracy G tarzan so does that mean
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that you're are you game to any and all types of scenes because you know that there are some thespians that are like
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you know what I will not do a sex scene that is shot in a particular way where
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we have Terrence Howard who recently said "I will not do any gay scenes." Do
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you have any limits restrictions um anything that's just an absolute no
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that's a boundary breaker for you yeah yeah and some actors don't have it shout
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out to them and some actors do have it and uh yeah I I do there there's just certain things that that I don't know if
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I'll be able to play that particular part the best way possible so I I can't I can't sit there and say "Oh I can I
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can act act like I could do it." Um so yeah there there are okay are you
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comfortable sharing uh you never want to limit yourself okay
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so you you know the role might come up and Ryan might bring it out of you ryan
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Ryan might bring it out of you tb easy black Panther 15 yeah you leave it alone
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no that's true and you never know how you'll change you never you never listen I I never thought I thought I was going
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to be my a New Orleans you know to the day I and then I I started changing and
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I was like "Oh okay." But there are some things I know that I'll never change i just want to say that right now yeah okay yeah yeah i saved you though
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you caught on quick yep okay thank Been watching you since a kid bro help
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me out here why why he remixed the houseway i love it i'm like why it's
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like I just see your publicist why why what the world bro you were doing stunts
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and fighting on a train right 60 miles an hour was it really moving that fast
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it was really moving that fast wow yeah it it's so what I like about what I didn't realize what I like about you
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know making movies and doing them with Tom is like everything's so practical and you can see it when you watch these certain films and you you know you watch
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a film like I I would say we did Top of the Maverick and we're inside the jet and Tom was like I need to show people
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that we're in these jets how can we do it so you know it's like how close we are in our face you can see the distortion in our face and then you
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watch another movie that had jets in it and they were like I'm pulling G's and it doesn't have the same thing and you
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kind of like okay that's cute but when you're watching Top Gun you like oh this
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you know you feel and I think that's why people love his movies so much because they know the authent I don't think did I have a stunt double
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no I am a stunt double I'm my own doppelganger I do this on my own now come on now so you didn't have a stunt
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double no I don't I I don't think stunt doubles are allowed on Tom Cruz's you do
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well you know I don't I none of us have ever had one not to say that he he he he wouldn't let it but I think we're all
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just like yo this man is hanging from the wing of a plane i can jump through a glass window on a cushion you know what
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I mean so you just have that type of confidence oh his word is like be competent and you trained like you said
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you trained before you got on and he's going to train the minor details and
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it's like okay let me tell you this i was reading this book um uh the Kobe
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Ryan Brook with Tim Grover i can't think of the name of it help me out somebody know it somebody god damn I knew it before you said that i thought it was
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Mama Mntal but it's not no no no no and anyways he talks about how he trained Michael Jordan Kobe Bryant and all this
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stuff and he makes this I'm working with Tom at this time on Top Gun i just started working with him and you hear all of these like inspiration you listen
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to it on YouTube and stuff like that and it's like wow that's so cool what you hear from a you see it from a distance and I'm reading this book as I'm working
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with Tom and what he's describing I'm watching Tom do and I'm like "Oh I'm getting like the playbyplay like like
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feedback this is 3D this is how you do it." And I think uh witnessing that in
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person has really been like a transformative thing for me in my life and in my career you you're an amazing
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individual man it's good to have you on this show bro i find you to be extremely interesting and resolute in who you are
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and open as far as evolution goes man and I I appreciate that being from New Orleans right you know and um I I got to
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ask you though who do you think is the most from the music perspective who was the most influential what was the most
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influential movement that came out of New Orleans we got D1 right now
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okay shout out to Okay you got uh No Limit you know Master P you know you got
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Cash Money uh what for you personally what was the most influential
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music movement that impacted you we taking over from the 99 to 2000 she
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know that [Â __Â ] still you hear that you know you hear that and you just run to the dance floor i mean everybody want
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to be a hot boy i was a hot boy i like I'm high up i you know I had the red band
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around i was always taking off my shirt that I was in my beard and I'm just walking like you know that was I think that was
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how did Wayne make people like I would imagine Wayne made you feel like yo there's a better there that's a better
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life out here you know what I mean New Orleans always had you know a lot of struggle but to see him succeed like
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that at such a young age did it it was a weird thing like be real with you like
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you know Wayne uh this this was this thing and I don't even I was still young but you know Wayne moved to Miami and
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everybody everybody was man he don't care about the city he don't care about the city and you know I
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just played it into like oh man Wayne you know but then you look back and it's like no he was putting the city on he he
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raped New Orleans like heavy but people were upset that he left out to go and you know see other things but what he
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was showing us was there's more out there now I'm preaching like I I'm doing
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uh I'm starting up a nonprofit called Perspective is Everything PI P I E i love that where I take kids and I have
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them travel to different locations because so it it opens your minds when you experience it experience it and I
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was from New Orleans and I thought New Orleans was it cuz I called New Orleans his own country people like "Oh you from Louisiana?" I'm like "Hold on hold on
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baby no I'm from New Orleans don't don't get it you know don't get it twisted." Um but then I went to uh LSU and I was
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like "Oh these people different." I'm like "Oh this is this is cool." Then I'm meeting all these different people from the other states like "Oh wow." I was
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like "Man I'm I've seen the world." Yeah and then I was like I'm going to be an actor and then I moved to Cali and I was
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like oh these people different i've seen it all and then you know I start doing these movies and now
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I'm in different countries in London and Rome and Abu Dhabi and and and Smalls and all of this stuff and I'm like oh
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the world is so big and it's it's changed me so much it's it's uh so I
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that's what I want to do for kids i want to open their minds and help them travel and see what Okay i love that man give it up for Tarzan man yep all right uh
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make sure you check this guy out if you haven't seen the movie man it's in theaters now mission Impossible The Final Reckoning with these kids man if
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they watch too much TV what are you going to tell them to do i'm going tell them turn
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oh we got to hire it up in here it's not enough i made a couple movies but it's
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still not enough first movie made a billion but it's still not enough trying to make a couple ounces but the academy
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make it tough like what i had to do it kid from New Orleans Hollywood making
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movies sweet gave me the mic so you know I got to do it movie star status is the only thing and I'm pursuing like what TC
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put me on flying private jets when I'm headed home huh said your son is grown
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i'm living out my dream but I ain't living wrong had to do what I did and I hope you understand baby had to cut you
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off cuz you wasn't part of the plan baby you can buy a ticket you can watch me from the stairs baby hold on not enough
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it's not enough everybody asking how the hell did he pursue it i'm really going to do it cuz you know how I do it i'm
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really Davis and you know who I keep asking me to rational i'mma wrap
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it up i'm really actor but I'm not a Look look i can't I can't say Wait wait
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wait go back go back i like I like when he go DJ DJ go i like when he scream on a when he scream on a track when he when
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he start having when he start having that uh that that asthma attack let's see okay okay you want to produce that part too that's we producing i'm an
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actor i'm a producer me over here no man we got You got to got it got to go there go ahead
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part two right no man that ain't going to happen man you did great man give it up for Tarzan Davis man man bro
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honor to have you on this show man and I hope some kids some young kid is watching you on it that's the age you
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were when you first started watching this show and that you inspiring them bro you you don't So So when I when I
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left I told my kids I was like "Yo I'm going to be an actor i'm going to live out my dream and I'm doing this to show
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y'all that anything is possible i truly believe anything is possible if you follow your dream you can really make
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that happen." So I went I I go back to New Orleans and for for the past three movies I've been putting on screenings
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in New Orleans to show the kids because nobody did that for me when I was growing up nobody showed me like like I I didn't know I could be into this
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industry that's why I almost let that dream pass yeah and uh I said "Man I I need to be that person for for these
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kids." So uh like recently I did it like two weeks ago in New Orleans and the kids the reception that I receive from
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them it's like they they look at me and it's like "Wow he went to my school he
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walked the streets he he was on my block he did all of this stuff and now he on a big screen." And and just to see their
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faces light up I'm like "Yeah we doing the right thing." So I want to do this bigger and better tarzan Davis man look
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at this guy man awesome thank you for coming by thank you to your team you got a great team surrounding you man i can
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tell the the squad they care about you right yes all right cool look I want I want to say hold on shout shout out to
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to my girl Nikki nikki here look yeah Nikki she She Look she That's That's my That's my publisher shout out to Shout
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Yeah that's my publisher shout out Shout out Shout out to Day shout out to my sister shout out to my mama shout out to
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my grandma i got to give him a shout shout out your grandmother your What's your sister's name man no that's uh Camp okay cool man they going to see this and
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they love that you did that
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