WATCH | Kevin Hart And Taraji P. Henson Discuss The High-Stakes Drama of ‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ - video Dailymotion

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00:00I'm so glad he called me to go on this journey with him.

00:04I feel honored.

00:06I felt like there was real thought behind that.

00:08You told me that if I didn't call you.

00:10I was going to kill you.

00:11Yes.

00:11You act like you left a choice for what I could do.

00:14I'm glad you listened because you're still here.

00:17Goodness.

00:17It was a good choice, Daphne.

00:18It was a good choice.

00:20I'm thinking Black Vegas.

00:22Gamblin' with the women.

00:24You still need to reach out to the council of all the top Black bosses across the nation.

00:30Who the fuck is this?

00:31Chicken man.

00:32Chicken man.

00:32Chicken man?

00:33What's up?

00:34You don't speak chicken?

00:41So I wanted to ask you two.

00:42You've collaborated on a bunch of projects before in the past.

00:45How did this experience differ from other projects that you've collaborated with?

00:50It was a drama.

00:51It was a drama and I got to see my friend do what I always knew he could do.

00:55Be incredible as a dramatic actor.

00:58Drama, period piece.

01:00Drama, period piece.

01:01Yeah.

01:01I just knew he would kill it and I'm so glad he called me to go on this journey with him.

01:07I feel honored.

01:09I felt like there was real thought behind that.

01:11You told me that if I didn't call you-

01:13I was going to kill you.

01:14Yes.

01:15You act like you left a choice for what I could do.

01:18I'm glad you listened because you're still here.

01:20Goodness.

01:20It was a good choice, Daphne.

01:21It was a good choice.

01:24He's also a very smart businessman.

01:27Absolutely.

01:28Absolutely.

01:29So, Kevin, the character of Chicken Man, he takes a lot of risk in this film.

01:34How did you approach bringing that balance between Hustler and Family Man with this character?

01:39I mean, there's a lot of similarities.

01:45You better hope he don't whip that phone out on you while you're asking questions.

01:48So, there's a lot of similarities that I find in myself and Chicken Man.

01:53Those similarities are just like having the mindset to take the jump for the reward

02:00without understanding the true context of the journey, of the jump.

02:06Sometimes it's just like, no, I'm going to do it.

02:08I want to do it.

02:09And I'm willing to throw all my eggs in the basket.

02:11And the consequences shouldn't be consequences because I don't see myself not doing it.

02:16And your road to doing it, things don't go the way you thought they would.

02:19And sometimes you have to pivot and you have to adjust.

02:21And I found that Chicken Man, his ability to do that in real time, a lot of it came out of fear.

02:29A lot of it came out of fear from going, oh, my God, I didn't see it.

02:33I didn't see it not happening at this level.

02:36But now that it is here, I have no choice but to do this, this, and that.

02:41I have no choice but to truly embrace the moment and try my best to salvage the things that I have.

02:47So, you really see a man hit rock bottom in real time.

02:51You see his family basically get to the stage where departure is real.

02:58You see his partnership and alignment with another love of his life fall through the cracks.

03:04You see a misassociation of wrongdoing attached to real killers

03:10that have no problem with putting you on the ground.

03:13You see friendships that took the jump on my behalf to put me in a situation,

03:18get lost and overturn.

03:20Everything that once was in a blink of an eye turns into something that it no longer is.

03:25And I think that's something that so many people can relate to, right?

03:29Nobody's a stranger to turmoil.

03:31People are strangers to handling it correctly.

03:33And you just get to see somebody handle it, I would say correctly,

03:38by accepting that it is what it is.

03:40And it won't be something else unless you do something about it.

03:43And I can relate to that mindset with Chicken Man.

03:46Now, Taraji, I know you said that you made Kevin call you,

03:50but I wanted to ask after that,

03:53what was it about the character of Vivian that intrigued you the most?

03:56I just loved how, I'm a very emotional creature.

04:00Like if you haven't known, I got big mouth.

04:03I wear my heart on my sleeve.

04:05I'm gonna tell it like it is.

04:06You know what I mean?

04:07And Vivian, because she works around and she's in the world of men,

04:11she has to hold her words and her emotions close to her chest.

04:14She has to walk a very fine line.

04:16And that's heroic for me because I can't do it.

04:19That's why I'm a politician, because I'd be in jail talking about what happened was.

04:22So she understands her place.

04:28She's a woman who is very clear on where it is that she's going.

04:33Chicken Man is very important at some point in this journey for her getting there.

04:38And then when that falls apart, she has to rely solely on her,

04:41which she knew she could always do.

04:43But you never know what you can do until you're pushed in the corner.

04:48And Vivian comes out swinging, you know?

04:50That's how we all do.

04:51It's, you know, do or die.

04:53I ain't gonna die.

04:54It's something to do.

04:56That's pretty good.

04:58I appreciate you guys's time.

04:59Thank you so much.

05:02All right.

05:03Don't be stealing my shit.

05:05I said that was pretty good.

05:06If I was going to steal something.

05:07All right.

WATCH | Kevin Hart And Taraji P. Henson Discuss The High-Stakes Drama of ‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’

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