Anderson .Paak Shares the Inspiration for His Film 'K-Pops!' | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024 - video Dailymotion

Director/Actor Anderson .Paak, along with his son Soul, discuss their upcoming film "K-Pops!" at the Variety Studio at TIFF.

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00:00Obviously, you have your music career, you DJ, you also have restaurants.

00:05Why even direct a movie?

00:07What was the inspiration to enter this world?

00:10Well, it was my son who inspired it.

00:14I was at the house during quarantine, no more touring, and I got a chance to spend a lot

00:21of time with him and my family and got to see what they were into.

00:26My house was being taken over by K-pop at the time, and BTS was just all I ever heard.

00:31That's when I posed the question, I know you know about BTS, but what do you know about

00:36BET?

00:37Yeah, it all started there.

00:41Then we started doing YouTube skits, and I got more into the YouTube skits than him.

00:48I started editing them and filming them, and I started seeing how naturally talented he

00:52was and fun.

00:53We started creating such a bond doing it, and I forgot about everything else I was doing.

00:57I forgot about shows and everything.

00:59I just wanted to spend more time with him, having fun doing skits.

01:03I was like, son, I want to write a movie for us.

01:07This could be funny.

01:09I was thinking I wanted to direct it because I didn't want anybody else to play my son

01:16but my son.

01:17I knew I wanted to be there with him and be able to spend time with him and direct him

01:22and also star in it with him.

01:26The idea, we worked on it, it was maybe over three years ago when it started.

01:31It took a crazy form, and now we're at TIFF, and it's amazing to be able to cross the finish

01:38line and be able to play it in a huge theater and see the reactions of people.