The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Gerard Butler & O'Shea Jackson Jr. On 'Den Of Thieves 2', 50 Cent, Kobe Bryant, California + More

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Gerard Butler & O'Shea Jackson Jr. To Discuss 'Den Of Thieves 2', 50 Cent, Kobe Bryant, California. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast club. Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess and we got some special guests in the building. It's been some time since you've been here before. By seven years, last time you were up here promoting Dinner Thieves 1. Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson.

Welcome. How you feeling, man? Hey! We just pretend there's an audience here. Whoa! You guys are amazing. We love you, Jerry and O'Shea. Appreciate y'all. Well, first and foremost, how are you doing? I know you're out in L.A. And I see the fires are crazy in L.A.

How is that with you and the family? I'm literally talking, waiting for updates right now. There was some starting near the valley area, so I'm just checking on my daughter and things like that. So, you know, a little on edge, but I mean, it's nothing I can do from here except worry. Is there an evacuation plan? Like, if this goes, go this route or go this or? I mean, yeah, but I can do from here except worry. Is there an evacuation plan? Like, if this goes, go this route, or go this, or?

I mean, yeah, but as much as you can, I wasn't expecting some of them to be as close as they are when I got up, but yeah, so I'm just trying to be a helicopter dad right now as much as I can. Absolutely. Now, let's talk about Den of Thieves 2. Seven years, why did it take so long to show to shoot part 2?

Yeah, tell us Gerard Well, you know cuz oh Shay is a nightmare and he's such a princess trying to get No, there was it was a bit of that, you know and a little sprinkle of this and It just it took longer than we thought and by the way truly for various reasons One one of the main reasons is when we first started writing the script is I thought we We really hit gold in the first one and it was very different It was very clever, you know, it took a long time for that first script to get to that stage So not to just turn out something and go. Well, a second one you guys like the first one but to be honest it

took a long time to make that script work this one you know kind of all the twists and turns and how because there's a lot going on in this movie and you would always get to the stage we're okay this is good but this still doesn't work and to make it all kind of like a jigsaw puzzle and then sing and then other shit happened. You guys were a part of the writing or you just mean the script that was brought to you guys, you get to kind of dissect it and say yes

and no to certain stuff? Well, yeah, I'm involved in the writing. Christian wrote the script, but then I worked on the development of both scripts, but especially this one for, and this took, it was a good three, yeah, I produced a movie. Got you a it has a more of a depth to you when you're on camera with it, too Because it's your actual baby behind the scenes as well big time. I have to say that

You know talk about what you do to prepare for a role Probably my main preparation is any script. I do know I've been with it for a long time And you're sitting with it for a long time. And you're sitting with it thinking of every moment, every part of the character where you can take that. So when you get to the movie, you both know where you should be and you kinda, I hate to say this, you're kinda cheating. You also know what each moment is kinda gonna

hopefully achieve with the audience. So yeah, it's been well thought about. Now you killed 50 Cent in the first one. I didn't kill 50 Cent. Yes you did. Hold on. you killed 50 Cent in the first one. I didn't kill 50 Cent. Yes he did. Hold on. You killed 50 Cent in the first one. He technically made it.

All right, thank you. They killed 50 Cent in the first one, but he's back on it as an EP. Why was it important? Because there's no killing 50 Cent. Really. This is one thing we've learned. So why was it important to bring him back as an EP,

and how was he working as an EP? I mean, 50, 50 wants his hand in something. It's really no denying him. You know, that dude, he's been very instrumental in my thought process on a lot of things, especially moving forward. Super excited about this. He's been giving me some great words of praise,

but you know, he's the man, and whatever he touches really turns into gold, so he knew he couldn't let go of the dinner thief, stop it. Now you got whooped a lot, yeah, they whooped your ass a lot in the first one. Yeah, that's the worst part of the first one. But you growled a lot. But it was so good though,

because you would've, like, towards the end of it, it all turns around, you would've never expected it, because you played the character so well as like this person that was not in control, but you were very in control. You took a beating well. Yeah, it's always, she's a little, bro. Yeah, it's always funny when that movie was coming out

to see people's tweets from the beginning of the movie where it was just like, man, I don't know, if I was Cube, I wouldn't have let him do this. And then by the end, they talk about how dope the film was. But it really was art imitating life a little bit because Did It Thieves One, that's my third movie ever. And there was already an ideology of who I am because of my father and what I'ma bring to the table

or a sense of entitlement or that I'm not here to work. And Donny, in the first one, is just somebody who wants to keep his head down, focus on what he gotta do, get in and get out, and that was the same with me at that portion in my career. And then for the second one, for it to take as much time as it had, I got a lot more projects under my belt.

So the confidence was there for me to be able to lead, get it down, give me a crew to be in charge of, and not get my ass kicked for two hours. How do you, oh go ahead. I was gonna ask, are you tired of that? I feel like it's over now. I feel like you proved yourself enough where people are not saying,

the only reason you're in this industry is because of your dad. Or do you still get that a lot? Do you still feel like you gotta fight through where people are not saying the only reason you're in this industry is because of your dad Or do you still get that a lot? You still feel like you got to fight through that if we ever be there, you know And I don't have a problem with that I it's just people that don't know and I can't I can't concern myself with people We just ignorant to it or try to fight it. I mean, I got a kid I got to focus on me man getting it done

And I think in a couple of years people are gonna be looking ice cube going Hey, look, there's O'Shea's dad I don't have a very powerful voice, so I have to get close to that. I'm like, this is how they do it in movies. I was gonna ask, I'm forgetting. Oh, so in the second one, because now we know kinda like your role a bit more, and how did you prepare differently?

Because the first time you're preparing as an actor, it's like you gotta kinda hide who you really are the whole time. This time it's like, it's big you, not the little one. I mean, that was really my excitement was that I'm able to play the same character but a different character at the same time. And a lot of the prep was just remembering

where Donny is, who Donny really is. And honestly, I watched a lot of John Jones. John Jones and the beginning of his fights is just so cold and just still and you can tell just his focus and his prep and it's a lot of the same things with Donny and what he does. So you learned to fight in this one

because in the first one you get your ass kicked. We're talking about that. I'm kicking ass in this We're talking about that. We're talking about that. I'm kicking ass in this here. But just the idea of a fighter where it's how Donny thinks in its simplest form of one simple mistake and I'm done. One simple mistake and Donny is in prison forever. So the same thing with a fighter.

If one slip up and you sleep, you know? So it was a lot of studying fighters for me. Did y'all ask about 50? Cause I just walked in. Yeah, we asked about 50 EP. Okay, okay. How did that happen? Why aren't all of y'all producers on the film?

How does he die in the first movie? And then come back and be a producer in the second one. You gotta check the credits on my EP. Oh, there you go. Toked that talk. Okay, okay, okay. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was gonna ask, you know, with this movie,

it seemed like this movie leveled up a lot, right? As far as scenes, action, it looks totally different. Do you guys do your own stunts and how was the process of it leveling up so much? The first one, I'm not gonna say, I mean, you could just tell from the airplane scene and the airport, like, they spent a lot of money on that. Does that mean more pressure now? Definitely, you know, with a sequel,

there's so many things that go into it that could make it go the wrong way. A lot of times, sequels will rely so much on the first one, giving you so many nods to the first one that it kind of cheapens why you fell in love with it in the first place. But I don't know, budget, that's like really Gerard's, you know, point, but like like definitely you have to step it up

but we were able to change the entire dynamic of the film. And the first one is more cops versus robbers. And this one is much more of a buddy action. And I think we use that to our advantage. Plus I'm a different character than I was in the first one. So you're getting a film that can not only stand alone, but at the same time give you what you already love from doing the things. Even the coloring is different.

Like I noticed that too. Like in the first one, I felt like it was a lot warmer. This one is a lot more like cooler tones. I don't know if that was on purpose too, but it just changes the energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I think the idea was to give a very kind of different tone. Like Christian's a big fan of kind of new wave

European cinema. So it's like Oshay says, yeah, you keep the same that the same story basically you're following these characters, but you cinematically it looks very different. And it's still kind of it has a grittiness to it. But it also, it looks very beautiful and captivating and shows a different kind of aesthetic and a different tone. So I'm glad you noticed that because it is, cinematically this movie is beautiful. If that's all it was, it would still look amazing. But fortunately, there was a hell of a lot more going on

than just the scope. But the scope is huge too. I mean, we got a lot more money for this one. And we did, basically that's it. We got more money and we got more time. I mean, people make a joke of how long it took. It's true, it shouldn't have taken that long. But the thing that did give us was to get everything

in order and to get those little more magic moments. I always find that when you're developing a script if you know often this the more time you get to let it kind of sit there and think about it then you find all these extra moments and more layers and more nuance and maybe even bigger surprises because that this movie is it's so full of twists and turns and surprise you just never know where it's going to go where he's going to go where i'm going to go where the panthers are going to go who the hell you know we have a ton of people after us too and the heist itself is just there's a lot going on so it's kind of throwing you all around it's so crazy how you turn off your how i don't hear the accent in the

movie like in the movie american all day long but but now i can hear it go place. It's so crazy how you turn off your, I don't hear the accent in the movie. Like in the movie, American all day long, but now I can hear it go in and out. It's crazy how you're able to do that as an actor. Is that difficult? It takes work. I've done it a lot now, but yeah, I mean, every morning when I go to set, I have to do like 40 minutes of voice lessons, you know,

the sounds, learning to kind of speak, like make more of the vowels, because in Scotland, we had the consonants right we had the C's and the K's and the T's and in America you guys Come off the constants. You're more like so I start I do exercises Actually, I do I do exercise like And you start talking like this

You're on a bunch of meth head. You're in America. Because that big niggas is all over that. That's all the time. And it depends where you're at. Because I'm from South Carolina, so I say straight, street, strong. Yeah, that's true. I mean, if it's more urban, then like, it just plays. Black, no, that's his country.

No, but I just played a New York character and that was very much like, you know, yeah, dude, he did, he didn't, you know, like that kind of thing. So yeah. That's the urban. That's the urban. That's more like mafia mob. That was New York, that was New York mafia.

Give me some urban. No, no, wait. How he said, his American murder versus your Scotland murder. Oh yeah, murder. That's in Scotland you go, murdered. And in America it's kind of like murder. And I couldn't say that, it took me years, and there was a movie once I was shooting

where I had to say, no, not if he's murdered, and I couldn't say it, I'm like, no, not if he's murdered, because we have such a thick R and D, you know, but I'm. You mean American nigga and a Scotland nigga. What? I'm not a fucking American. So it's not about the money. Don't fuck with drugs. Just don't fuck with drugs. It's not about the money.

It's about the challenge. How many careers has he ruined? It's not about the money. It's about the challenge. Let's talk about that phrase. That's a phrase that's mentioned a lot in the movie. Do y'all live by that? No. You know, like I was talking to him for more press for this because that quote keeps coming up.

It's a little bit about the money. I'm robbing the Federal Reserve in the World Diamond Center. It's a little bit about the money. I thought you were talking about in real life. That's what I'm talking about in real life. I mean, you know, my De Dion Sanders and my pops have a quote, if everybody doing it for the love, I'll do it for the love. But if everybody, we all getting paid,

we all getting paid, it's just the world that we live in. But you have to take those challenges to uplift yourself, to get yourself to a new tier. I'm very, I'm easily content. It's easy to get stagnant when you don't need much. So if you don't take those challenges, if you don't take those risks, you're just gonna be in the same spot every single.

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there was a portion in my career where I felt stagnant where where I felt like we're not going up, but we're not going down either. And one night, I might have been fated, I DM'd Kobe Bryant. And Kobe, God bless the dead. Yeah, I asked him, I was like,

dude, you've done everything. How do you keep yourself wanting more? How do you keep away from being comfortable? Give me some movies, give me some books, give me a quote, a mantra, anything, he gave me his number. And so I'm drunk so I'm not about to call Kobe, right then and there, so I hit him

and he was like, all right, I'm gonna call you in a few days, so for like two weeks, I was waiting by my phone, just waiting for Kobe to hit me. And then I was in an Uber coming back from a table read and he called me and I remember I told the Uber driver, I was like, hey, can you turn the radio down? Kobe Bryant's calling me. He was like, Kobe.

Oh yeah, so now the driver is looking in the mirror while I'm on the phone and I talked to Kobe for 25 minutes and he said, that feeling that you have not done enough or that where you are isn't good enough and you want more and you don't know why you want more, hold on to it. Because that's the only thing that's gonna make you wanna take shots, take risks, and uplift yourself.

And then like, that was the first and only conversation I had with my hero, cause two months later he was gone. Damn. Wow. I would think, maybe I'm just, just me in my mind and what I think your life is like. I thought you was having these, being around these type of people all the time.

I'm around them, but it's not like, I ain't got they number to just be like, hit them up and call them. But it's just one of those things. Like if I didn't take that challenge, that risk to even message him, I would've never had that conversation. Do you ever ask your pops, like,

your pops, can you connect me to such and such? Or you just always try to make your own connection? No, I try to do it on my own. I don't, you know, it's just so, it's realer if you do it organically. So, you know, luckily I've been able to work with some amazing people where I can call, you know, 50, ask him some stuff. I can talk to Gerard,

I can rest in peace, Ray Liotta, being able to work with him and things like that. So it's just about keeping my head down and then when I see the opportunity to take a challenge, knock it out the park. Question, didn't you go to school for screenwriting? USC, yeah, University of Southern California. So it's interesting to me, like Envy said it earlier,

just he asked a question about, you know, do you get respect for yourself? And I'm like, you really put in the work. You really studied your craft. They don't give a damn. We get dragged for the nepotism conversation. I think you unfairly get that too. Yeah, but I love it.

You know what I mean? You're not about to make me feel bad of just like, oh, you had a good life. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man. I hope y'all all grow to have Neppo babies yourself. But I'm not running from that.

You're not about to make me feel bad for my blessings or my family and try to run from it. You know, get mad, get glad, get heavyweight trash bags. I don't give a damn. You always felt like that? I mean, no, it takes a lot for you to get there. You start to believe and listen to people. Any talks of that getting out of a shadow

are from the outside looking in. It's not a shadow, man. Your parents or whoever did not put in the work for you to feel ashamed for all the sacrifice that they went through. So it's just like, the way that I look at it, it's been happening for centuries. It's not a shadow.

It's taking the Jackson name and pushing it even further. And then when she's ready, my daughter's gonna have to do the exact same thing. So when you look back at the ends of time, we still there. Damn, I love that. Are you surprised by your voice sometimes? How big people look at you? I seen when, I think it was, you said something about Andrew Schultz, right?

And it went viral like crazy. Were you surprised about that, or was it one of those things you just went home and be like, this is how I feel, and you just thought it was all in there? Yeah, I mean, I didn't think my words even meant that much. And I don't have a problem with shows at all. I just thought the comment was weird. It's not that I had some soapbox moment where I put up four or five paragraphs on Twitter

or even continue to do so. It's just, I mean, the comment was weird and that's it. I don't, I sometimes don't recognize that people give a shit because I've said so much that you didn't give a shit about before. So like, you know, they pick and choose what sticks and you never know what does. And you know, sometimes I gotta just remember

that you do have a little bit of weight and you know, I don't mean nothing by it. Just was on my mind. And you said you was a fan. Yeah, exactly bro.'t mean nothing by it, it just was on my mind. And you said you was a fan. Yeah, exactly, bro. First of all, he's fucking hilarious in tires, love tires, but it's just how people are gonna run with it.

And even when you do interviews and stuff like that, you have to be conscious of what's gonna get clipped, what's gonna be spread out there. People are not going to click the link to the full interview. It's just not gonna happen. So you just gotta be mindful of this stuff, it's just a game of the internet.

How has LA changed from everything that's going on in the last year, right? You're a huge LA fan, huge Lakers fan, huge Dodgers fan. Huge Kendrick fan. And we've seen, this has been LA's year last year, so how have you seen the change of LA's year last year so how have you seen the change of LA as far as people outside the scene? I feel like every region every now and then whether it be the south you know East East Coast

West Coast every now and then there's something that jolts them where they got the sound and right now I feel like with Dot, with Tyler, we got the sound. My Pops and Snoop put out an album. The sound is there. Absolute. Absolute, Blue Lips by Q. The sound is there right now.

And even other artists like Doja and Billie Eilish, my man Vince, we got like 20 people out right now. And so it's a beautiful time on top of the Dodgers just being disgusted. I'm sorry New York, bro, I'm sorry. Why your pops did ask like that though? I was about to say, how you feel about that? The music involved have nothing to do with the baseball, man.

Why your pop sound was so clear and ours wasn't? Listen, he taking it serious, bro. Whoa, whoa. This is why the breakfast club is treacherous. You know they saying he's the reason that they won. Like how do you feel about that? Like they're like, oh, he's the reason. Like he's a part of the win.

Like he's a part of the motivation of the win. That's a guy out there twerking though. That was a little strange. Bro, I'm talking about Dave Robbers, bro. The manager, yeah, yeah, I'm working with him. Dave Robbers. Yeah, that's wild. But it was a beautiful feeling.

It was a good day. It was one a beautiful feeling. It was a good day. It was a good day. You're having a good day, I guess. It was a beautiful feeling. You know, I'm not gonna act like I'm this diehard baseball fan. I've always said baseball needs more dunks and touchdowns. And steroids.

But so, going to that game, seeing that field, having that nervous feeling of the World Series, and then watching my guy walk the entire field, doing his thing, being in his element, being so clear and him knocking it out of the park, it's just one of the proudest moments that I've had as his son. And when he was done, I looked over at my brother

and my sister and was just like, man, he did it. It's just one of those weird feelings that are out of a movie. It helped that we won too, because I would have been upset. But even for him to do it at the parade, it's just one of those things where it's just like, how could I ever run away

from being blessed by that dude? That's right. I wanna say, I got a couple more questions for you, but we talk about LA, I feel like LA really needed the year that it just had. Yeah. I don't think we talk about the loss of Nipsey, the loss of Kobe, LA took some real big,

and there was a part when, during the pop-out show, Kendrick said that, Kendrick was like, yo, the city ain't felt the same since Nipsey died, and I don't think people talk about that enough. Yeah, I think- Was it a dark period? At the time of Nipsey passing, he was so obvious, like, this is gonna be-

The one. Yeah, like, and so when you take away, you know, it's just like a ripple effect. And yeah, man, they're still not over it. You know, I was just like, I can't help but talk about Kobe. Well, we was just talking about Nip last night at the after after party. So it's it really was a feeling. This is the healing factor that that had to take has finally come to a spot

where we are a force to be reckoned with right now. I know a lot of people are gonna be tired of it, but it is what it is. What you just said is a good way to put it, I'm paraphrasing, but yeah, it feels like the city's healing. Yeah, it's healing. And then right now I'm looking at my phone

to see who's affected by the fires right now. So, like, it's just another thing, but we're in a beautiful place artistically, and I'm proud of everybody who's from the city doing their thing. They gotta go, too. They gotta go one more. When it comes to screenwriting,

what did you learn at USC that your father didn't learn? Because I'm only getting this from the Straight Outta Compton movie. He was just writing Friday in his house, like it was nothing. Just what goes into just the in and out, really the difference between popcorn movies and cinema, what they view as cinema. We've all seen a movie have crazy box office,

but don't get no Oscar recognition because there's a mindset within Hollywood of popcorn films and cinema. And just the difference in what that goes into. And I mean, personally, I feel like Gerard, you don't get enough credit for you being able to pull off that American accent. Like there's so many actors that get this praise for their dialect and all this

stuff when you've been doing it forever man so I just want to give you big ups while this topic is there that you deserve so much more recognition for doing it as much as you did because it still trips me out when you start talking like how to train your dragon. There's one word you could say right now that would make everybody be like, oh wow, I get it. Don't worry about it. I don't care what it is. Do not listen to Charlamagne. Dinner Thieves 2 is out this weekend.

Do you know what I've been looking this way though? It's positive energy this way. Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson, we appreciate you. Dinner Thieves 3. Dinner Thieves. Dinner Thieves. Dinner Thieves 3. Working on it, maybe, possibility.

I don't know, Gerard, you tell us. This took a long time, so. I'm gonna get you, Dead of Thieves 3. Dead of Thieves. Dead of Thieves, Dead of Thieves 3. Working on it, maybe, possibility. I don't know, Gerard, you tell us. This took a long time, so. Yeah, this one, by the way, that's if everybody goes to see this movie, you know? Yeah, man, come on, January 10th.

I think we made a great movie, but I, yeah, there's something, I wouldn't even say it works. There's an idea that's brewing right now. But it's just an idea. Okay. Well, we appreciate y'all for joining us. I hate that answer. Make sure you go see it this weekend. It's The Breakfast Club.

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