That movie did something for me, but it didn’t do nothing for me on the level that them other movies did, because there wasn’t no big shootouts and explosions that made you enjoy the movie. Most people that connect to that movie is from the streets just like me, but it does something else for them. I look at the straight acting, Denzel Washington in the whole by himself, and how he can keep my attention when you’re performing all by yourself… nobody else in the scene with you, no fireworks and explosives - just you in the whole by yourself in prison.
How can you keep my attention? I learn from that, and I’m inspired by just that. AllHipHop.
com: Ten years from now, where would you be with your career if you could have everything you wanted? Tyrese: I want to be able to say in 10 years that I work as I please. I think at the end of the day we’re all inspired to make money and be able to provide for our families and the whole thing, but what if all the money you could imagine and everything you could ever want in life is there?
Now what are you motivated by? Passion, that’s what I think I look forward to. I don’t even care that a check is attached to it, I just want the opportunity.
AllHipHop.com: That’s what people will remember you for - the good roles and impactful things that you’ve done over the years. Tyrese: It’s etched in history, God forbid anything ever happens to me my work is still gonna be here appreciated and for the most part people will be able to say, “Man, he really spread his wings.
He came from the bottom and really got out there.” My mission right now is, I know I’m giving a lot of people hope. Even if you’ve done five or six movies, you’re looking at the kind of movies that I’m doing and you’re probably like, “Man, I’ve done way more movies than him but look at the movies that he’s in.
” I’m gonna stay hopeful that I’m able to come across something this great, because is about to change the world, I’m telling you. AllHipHop.com: What else do you want people to know about this film?
Any websites or anything you want them to take a look at? Tyrese: Most of the stuff floating around the internet is s**t that most people don’t need to be reading. [laughs] It’s a bunch of jibber-jabber floating around, it’s crazy.
People just need to know this - I was made for this s**t. I love it and as long as I can protect my family from things that are being said and done, then bring it on. I love it, I’m built for this s**t.
I come from the bottom, I come from the streets and all of these are considered high-class problems to me whatever they may be. I’m blessed that I have the tolerance level that I got for whatever may be said or done that might not be necessarily good. I love it and I just love that people still believed in me.
It’s been a lot of singers that have came and went, none of the people had any reasons other than believing in me to do any collaborations with Black Ty, but they believed in me. As far as these movies, I’m just gonna take ‘em as they come and do my best to stay in it. I love when I run into people that’s like 50-years-old and they shake my hand for a long time and say, “You’re my favorite actor”.
I’m like, “Wow” - it just happened today at the gas station. When you get older you really tell the truth, you don’t run around with the song and the dance stroking nobody’s ego. You tell it like it is.
Y’all be looking out for TGT, my R B group [with Ginuwine and Tank], we gone really pop it off with the Shirts Off tour in December. We gonna go international first, and then come to the U.S.
We got a lot of fans overseas who have never seen us get down, ever. We all kind of go through the same cities often, Atlanta, Texas, traveling throughout the states. But overseas they don’t never get us, so we gonna go over there and break ‘em in and then come back here to the U.
S. That movie did something for me, but it didn’t do nothing for me on the level that them other movies did, because there wasn’t no big shootouts and explosions that made you enjoy the movie.
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