Anderson .Paak

And I'm like, so she's like, all right, this is K-pop one-on-one.

This is movie structure one-on-one.

She graduated from, you know, film school and everything.

And I think it worked out because it was those two worlds and she taught me structure and she taught me the idea that I had gained all these layers because it wasn't as deep as him being on a show and all these different things.

And I learned more about

the structure of K-pop and how they have this, you know, this incubation system and this whole thing about this person is this person and that and all this thing.

And again, it was making me think of groups that I came up with.

And so I was like, this is going to be a cool opportunity to show like how things relate and how much in common things have and how, yes, people take and pull from different things and have their own interpretation.

But that's been going on for years.

Yeah.

I mean, I've done different things, but this is the first.

Yeah, I mean, it took forever.

He was like eight years old.

He was obsessed with K-pop.

And then by the time we got to shoot, I got all the money and stuff.

He was like 11 years old.

And he's like, man, I don't like K-pop no more.

I like Slipknot.

I'm like, contractually, son, here's the thing.

I need this to work.