“My first reaction was to let someone else get the role.
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“My pops brought the idea of the movie to me before there was a script,” says Jackson. Ice Cube always wanted his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., to play him in the movie, but Jackson nevertheless had to fight hard for the part. “I think Gary strategically had a timeline set up in his mind, in order to help us become a band of brothers,” says Jason Mitchell, who plays Eazy-E. The actors re-recorded N.W.A’s entire Straight Outta Compton album (with producer Harvey Mason Jr.) to help them get into character. In their interviews for Rolling Stone’s new N.W.A cover story, Gray, the surviving members of the group and the movie’s cast dove deep into the risky process of making Straight Outta Compton. But the execution had to be right in so many ways.” It was, no question, the most important movie I’ve ever done. At every turn, there were multiple challenges that were daunting, from the start until the end. “And that if I didn’t nail it, it could be a career-ender. “I knew this was gonna be the most challenging film ever,” says Gray, 46. But even Gray had real concerns about getting the story right.
It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited for the Compton job - except maybe Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton, who was also a contender.
Dre and Ice Cube‘s “Natural Born Killaz” and Cube’s “It Was a Good Day.” He grew up in South Central L.A., and has been friendly with Dr. Gary Gray, the filmmaker behind new N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, also directed 1995’s Friday, as well as the videos for Dr.
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