O'Shea Jackson Jr.

I had to have an internal, you have to have like an internal thing of wanting more for yourself.

And that comes from the conversations with my dad and my mom about whether that's, they never said anything like, you gotta stand on your own two feet, but just want more for yourself.

And so I had to use things like that pressure of going all in and not having an option afterwards.

Because at USC, the screenwriting program is a four-year program.

You can't just leave in your second and then just jump back in.

So I kind of felt like if I don't make this work, I'm screwed.

So that's that fire.

Now I got to win the role.

He didn't tell me this at the time, but I found out when he told the higher ups that he wanted me to play him, their response was, is this a joke?

That would have been more fire for me.

Wanting to do it for my siblings.

Wanting to do it for my siblings because when I win, I feel like we win.

I do it for Daryl, Karima, and Sharif.

And then you got my cousins like, well, you gotta get it.

So it's all these things that I'm using to fuel my fire.

And then once I did get the role, then all the nepotism talk starts.

So I'm like, all right, now I'm gonna prove to you that I can do it.

And then when I do it, and it's great, then it was, well, of course he could play his dance.

So you have to have, they tell you not to read comments and do all that stuff, but I use that as fuel.

I use that bulletin board, and yeah, I gotta go at him.