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

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

In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon, Grammy nominated actor Omari Hardwick takes center stage where we dive into his exhilarating role in the Paramount + film, Star Trek: Section 31.

From athlete to actor, Omari's journey is...

In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon, Grammy nominated actor Omari Hardwick takes center stage where we dive into his exhilarating role in the Paramount + film, Star Trek: Section 31.

From athlete to actor, Omari's journey is nothing short of inspiring, and he opens up about transitioning from starring in the film as a cast member to experiencing it as a fan. We unpack his dynamic portrayal of Alok, a Section 31 agent, and explore the creative process behind the film. Omari also shares the deep personal connection he has with poetry, a passion he's nurtured since the tender age of 11, which has earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. Our conversation with Omari goes beyond his role in Star Trek, shedding light on his multifaceted career that spans poetry, theater, music, and film. We uncover the inspiration behind his new single and the impact of working alongside the legendary Michelle Yeoh. We reflect on his past collaborations with industry giants like Kevin Costner and Zack Snyder, and there's an excited anticipation for future stories within the Star Trek universe. Tune in for an engaging mix of career reflections, collaborative triumphs, and the thrill of what's next.

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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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Heart Radio your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity

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interviews on all the movies, TV, music and pop culture

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u CRABE Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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

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have on your bucket list. There's those moments you work

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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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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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