Star Trek Section 31 Star Omari Hardwick On Franchises & Grammy Noms

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In this episode, I speak with Amri Hardwick all about

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his brand new film Star Trek Section thirty one.

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Let's go.

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from my

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Nick Nick added Nick, Hello, and welcome the pop Culture

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Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I. Of course, am Kyle McMahon.

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I thank you so much for hanging out with me

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for another episode of pop Culture Weekly. There. This is

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a short episode. It's just an interview only episode. We

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have another episode coming you know, next week, which will

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be back to the traditional length. We'll have Amanda come

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back on and we'll be talking about you know, well,

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I can't tell you yet, so you don't know, but

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we'll be talking about something cool and have.

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Some interviews for you as well.

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This week it is all about Mari Hardwick and his

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brand new Paramount Plus film, Star Trek Section thirty one.

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So Star Trek Section thirty one is the first Star

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Trek film since what twenty sixteen's Star Trek Beyond, which

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that was those three films are considered the reboot, but

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they're kind of subtitled the Kelvin Timeline, which is a

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whole thing in the Star Trek universe. But this is

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the first This is not only the first Star Trek

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film in nine years since Star Trek Beyond in twenty sixteen,

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it is the first Star Trek film that was not

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made exclusively for theaters. So Star Trek Section thirty one

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is made exclusively for Paramount Plus, which is the home

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of all things Star Trek. Paramount Plus had announced back

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in April twenty twenty three that Section thirty one had

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been in a development as a series as a spin

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off from Star Trek Discovery, which is one of their

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Paramount Plus exclusive Star Trek series. Instead, they were going

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to move forward with a streaming event film with Michelle

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Yoh attached to reprise her role as Philippa from Discovery

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in Star Trek Section thirty one. Of course, Michelle Yeoh

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is amazing, so you know, I've got to ask Amari

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about her. But she plays the leader of the Taran

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Empire in the Mirror universe who has traveled to the

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Prime Universe and joined Starfleet, and O'mari stars as a

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Locke who is a Section thirty one agent who is

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a strategic mastermind with some mental problems, and he wants

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her to pay for her pass by joining his team

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for a covert mission. So basically Section thirty one, which

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is the fourteenth film, by the way, in the Star

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Trek franchise. So Section thirty one is basically a secret

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division of Starfleet and they are tasked with protecting the

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United Federation of Planets, almost in kind of a whatever means,

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you know, no questions asked, will look the other way

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kind of way. So it's a great film. If you're

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a Star Trek fan, you'll love it. Even if you're

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not a Star Trek fan and you just like, you know,

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action and sci fi. It really is a great movie

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to check out. So Amari kind of blew up as

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James Saint Patrick aka Ghost in Power from Stars Who,

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of course I interviewed much of the cast of that franchise,

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including fifty cent, and he was an Army of the

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Dead from Zack Snyder, who has been on the show

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and I love that movie, and he's been in a

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number of other things including Kick Ass, Love That One,

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Spike Lee's Miracle at Saint Anna and Tyler Perry's for

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Colored Girls. He was also just nominated for a twenty

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five Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for

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the album Concrete and Whiskey, Act to Part one a

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Bourbon thirty series. So that's really cool. So let's just

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jump right into it, my interview with Amari Hardway. So,

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first of all, congratulations on the film.

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What's it like for you? You know, in kind of

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this pre release right now, it's in the can, it's

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almost our How are you feeling.

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I'm feeling good. I'm feeling more refreshed and more light

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than I perhaps was when first being granted the opportunity

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for us as a cast to watch it, when we

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were giving the link. You know that explodes of course

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after a couple of days. Yeah, I'm feeling lighter about

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it and more at that place where the seat that

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I want to sit in and I feel like I'm

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soon able to sit in as that of a fan

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and being able to sit back and enjoy my castmates

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work tonight and the premiere being tonight and in the

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midst of press week. Yeah, there becomes a moment where

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you're perhaps forgetting enough that you were such a part

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of it, and now you get to outside looking in

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really enjoy all the parts of it and all the

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work that the crew did, all the different departments from

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costume to hear and makeup and lighting, director of photography,

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and what his team is brought to the table. Obviously

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what the directors and the writer and the producers have

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equally brought.

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I love that. And what got you?

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I mean you, you know obviously been around a while

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in a number of great projects, but you know, essentially

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you started out as an athlete. Yes, how did you

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get from an athlete to you know, starring in at

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Star Trek film.

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Man, that's a great one, Kal. I was a dude

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who in the midst of IF sport one was soccer, Kyle,

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you know, baseball came pretty quickly after, and then basketball

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was right after that. The family rule was thirteen years

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old before football because I was more stocky and build

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than the elder brother. He did me a solid and

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said I'm okay with me at thirteen, allowing Omari at

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eleven to play football, and so that was really cool.

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But in the same year cow at about eleven years

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of age, man I found poetry that was about the

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year that I wrote my first poem, and it was

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interesting because I didn't know that it was a poem.

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You know, you think you're just writing an idea, and

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by first girlfriend preps that's a moment where I was like, oh,

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this is poetry. And I just really enjoyed those moments

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of watching everything from James Amos, James Evans and Florida

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Evans played bi Asterole and all that, and James Amos

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recently passed away right rest in peace and all that

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had to offer a story, but all the way over

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to Marlon Brando on the Waterfront and my pops one

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of my pop's favorite was cool Hand Luke and what

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Paul Newman met to my pops, a black man from Savannah,

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Georgia who went to college in Boston. Pops and grandfathers

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were able to present a lot of diversity within their

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bag that got had gifted them with Kyle to the

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world in a country that wasn't necessarily checking for a

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lot of what black men had to offer out of

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their grab bag of goodies. And so I found myself

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having permission really early in life to go, so why

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not be an athlete and also be a poet and

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I like acting, and should I go that route? Get

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the University of Georgia and major in journalism, finish in

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the classroom at four, but have a redshirt year to

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play one more year of football at University of Georgia

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SEC football, as you know, no less, and I minor

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in theater. And you know who would have thunk it

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that instead of tomatoes being thrown by teammates that are

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in the NFL, one of whom was Chap Bailey, not

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just in the NFL, one of whom was Terrell Davis,

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not just in the NFL equally, but both of them,

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as you know, in the Hall of Fame, and all

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of them say, Yo, if the football didn't work out, Bro,

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there's something with this theater thing. And that's how I

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kind of found my way to it. And in the

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midst of that cow I found music. And I was

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already musical. I already understood what Frankie Beverly met when

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he said Joe hooy and paying I kind of was like,

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oh right, they go together, and Bro, the best way

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to get down the field on kickoff coverage was to

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get down the field on a set called kickoff coverage

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as a character and whatever character is being asked to play,

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and the greatest of which is an industry that says

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we want your joy and your pain. Thank you, film industry.

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I will bring both. And now I'm able to uh,

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which is hard for me, especially as a Capricorn, to

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boast about anything, but I'm able to boast the reality

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that I've now been you know, Grammy nominated in the

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world of music, which I haven't used to put food

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on the table. So God made me a bag of nuts, bro.

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And I just will always say God because it can't

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you know what I mean. I'm crazy discipline and I'll

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meet him halfway where I can, whilst being super flawed

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and not the greatest of human being. But I'm doing

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okay at using all the shit that he put in

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my bag. I'm pretty I love that.

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I love that. And it's speaking of music, you have

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a your latest single DMX right.

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Yes that that was It actually isn't my most recent single.

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We got other singles, but yes, it was one of

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the big singles, and it was myself in Guapolai, who

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is from the Bay Area, the legendary dear heart of mine,

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who actually has has found her way to stage and

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she was in sparkled with me in a late great

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legend of them all and that being Whitney Houston. And

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in many ways it pays homage to DMX and what

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his hook was and y'all gonna make me lose my

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mind and we just flipped it and made it more

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about the reality of love and that, you know, the

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love story is the greatest of story that makes you

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lose your mind, falling a level kill you or kill

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you softly one of the two.

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Yeah, absolutely, And I love how you you know, you

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are multi faceted. And as you said, you know, all

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the way from the beginning where you're doing poet Street

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and theater and multiple sports, here you are, we're talking

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about your single, We're talking about, you know, a new

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film and not just any film in the Star Trek universe.

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Which to me is you know, it's like this huge thing.

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You know what I mean that I appreciate that my parents,

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my grandparents, this is you know, a multi generational thing

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and here you are right.

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At the front line of it.

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Amazing it.

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I love that you are able to, you know, put

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yourself in these various things. Why did you decide, you know,

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I want to do section thirty one.

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I could piggyback off of what you do. Then you're

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a journalist, Kyle, and you know that. And there's a

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lot of pundits, there's a lot of armchair quarterbacks, there's

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a lot of podcasters who don't necessarily know the art

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of journalism. As a black kid who loved Tom Brokaw,

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and I think what I love most about Tom Brokaw

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is that he was reporting on everything, and you're supposed

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to be unbiased, and he's supposed to make us believe

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that you are not leaning with your eyes to a

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direction in terms of the story you're telling. And I

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think one of the great things about section thirty one

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in Star Trek is that perhaps is the first role

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within my career that I got to be more so

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a journalist, I am sort of the narrator of what

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the universe was three hundred and fifty years prior, because

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a lot comes from three hundred and fifty years prior.

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And I now put this motley crew, ragtag group of

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individuals together so to become a policing agent for all

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the decades and decades ahead for the galaxy, remaining the

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way that Roddenberry wanted the galaxy and Galaxy's plural of

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Star Trek to remain, And in many ways, when you

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think about it, that is me bringing finally my major

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to the forefront and being a journalist. A lock is

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simply a journalist. He's not necessarily actually driving the car

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at all points. He's bringing in different people and he's

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saying they will drive the story the way that I

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want the story driven. And if that's not necessarily the

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journalist on microphone like yourself, it absolutely is the program

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director saying, hey, make sure we cover this subject, Hey

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make sure we talk about this. And so I think

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I just knew that I was a lot more and

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on a journalist. But in many of these opportunities as

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as an actor, I haven't been able to be a

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locke who is reporting the nightly news and where we

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now stand as a society. And that's what made Star

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Trek so cool. It was a reporting from William Shatner's

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Captain Kirk, it was a reporting from Leonard Nimoy's doctor Spock.

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It was they were reporting and then having to deal

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with the fallout of what didn't go down as to

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what they reported. And I think maybe this is the

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first time, bro that I got to play that guy.

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I'm just at a desk like you, albeit me standing

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up and walking around, but I'm still reporting on what

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should be and this was a great opportunity to be

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just that.

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I love that, you know, with Michelle, I mean to

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get to work with Michelle.

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What was that like? Speak of reporting? I feel like

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there's those moments where you work with directors that you

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with actors that or whom you have on your bucket list,

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and you still are negotiating after working with them when

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your family says the same thing, which is may you

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got to work with Michelle. There's moments where you're left

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because you're so in all of the people you've worked with,

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where you're able to almost beg the question by asking

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it back, did I work with him? And so Michelle

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might have been I'm aware that I worked with Kevin

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Costner early in my career. The hug was beautiful at

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whitney funeral, you know because you can google it that

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he was the one asked to eulogize Whitney. Crazy obviously

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other people spoke, but makes sense after I came off

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the set of The Guardian and learn who Kevin was,

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the person whose father was a pastor of an all

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black church and Compton where Kendrick Lamar speaking of music

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comes from. But yet one of my first cast mates,

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the incomparable Kevin Costner, grew up in the church that

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looking left and right, did not have people who look

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like him. Once I met him on the set, I

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was like, man, the actor really is not that far

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from how great they he or she are next to

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you as person. Michelle is right there. Michelle is someone

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who when you look at the Oscar back and honestly

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as well, Kyle, when you look at the Oscar forward,

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wicked included, you go fuck it wicked because it matches

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how wicked she is as a person, and the greatest

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of connotation of the word wicked. She's just wickedly good,

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wickedly big, and wickedly surprising. I could never predict all

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the color she was going to bring, But now that

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I know her, man, I would just say that everybody

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who gets an opportunity to work with her who have

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not yet you are in for some kind of treat

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when working with her. She is krim Lilli krim.

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I love that, and the relationship of you two, and

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the chemistry of you two is so such a joy

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to watch as if you were.

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I'm glad you fell showed. I appreciate that.

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So do you you know hope for more? Can we

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expect more stories with section thirty one in the future.

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Man, I hope it, I really do you know? I

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felt this prior cow with Army of the Dead. You know,

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Zack Snyder is such a friend of mine and such

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a comrade, and it's in every other week checking on

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each other reality. Obviously with the forest fires that extended

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beyond forest and climbed up hills and went into environments

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or neighborhoods in which I equally lived, one being Passaden,

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the Altaden area, and all that Los Angeles is having

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to heal from. I most recently checked on him again

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for obvious reasons because of the La fires. But that

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lit a fire unto me during Army of the Dead,

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and it made me go where, Oh connect more more.

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Whether that happens or not, it's cool to get another

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potential franchise that allows me to go. Not not in

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Fortunity or Alex Kurtzman, not in that order. Alex kirchman

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Ola Tundi in that order to go who's there? And

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I go me a Lockomari both. When do we go again,

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I'm ready to rop like it's cool man putting me

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back in coach. I've been ready to.

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Play play absolutely.

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Amari, thank you so much as willing to talk to you.

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Man, You're just an amazing soul. And uh, I can't

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wait for everybody to see star track section thirty one.

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Thank you Cale, very humbled to talk to you, brother,

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very smooth.

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Thank He's very much man.

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Have a great day YouTube.

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Amari hardwek great guy, such a good guy. I can't

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emphasize that enough. Just such a pleasure to talk to.

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