O'Shea Jackson Jr.

And I wanted to do that for people.

I wanted to create those feelings and those emotions that I'm having that

that never let go i wanted to do that for other people and so it was i was at usc learning how the greats did that through that media and doing whatever i can to translate a story of the magnitude of a movie and then form it into a video game

Yeah, I didn't know I wanted to be a screenwriter until probably

nine months before i applied like it wasn't like on my radar i was supposed to play for the lakers until i was 17 years old that's when i called it quits but um i had a teacher shout out to hernan and shout out to rochelle because these two um mean so much to me and i i have to hunt them down and find them but they were my home school teachers

I was in public school from kindergarten through seventh grade.

Seventh through 11th, I was homeschooled, and then I didn't feel like graduating in the kitchen, so they let me go to Taft.

But...

I was a daydreamer.

I understood my schoolwork, and a lot of schoolwork is repetition, and repetition is where I get bored.

So I was a daydreamer, just zoning out, and I got a notebook dropped in front of me, and he said, whatever you're thinking about, just write it down, because you're not here right now.

If I let you write it down, will you come back?

I was like, all right.

So he would give me...

30 minutes every day to just write, write, write, write, write, write.

And then next thing I know, I had like 120 pages of a handwritten story.

And he would read it, you know, while I was doing my schoolwork.

Then he goes, you ever thought about screenwriting?

No.

You never thought about it?