Roy Wood Jr.
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The way Hustle and Flow uses Memphis as a character, the way P-Valley uses Mississippi.
I wanted to do the same thing for Alabama.
I went to Comedy Central.
I talked to them about it.
And they're like, well, Atlanta's cheaper.
We can cheat Alabama.
I go, yeah, you can, but you can't cheat Alabama.
And there was about $200,000 differential in production costs, which is a lot.
That is a lot of money to not shoot.
Atlanta was 200K cheaper.
So I go to Birmingham and I spend about six, seven months in Birmingham just talking to all the people I needed to talk to, basically pulling a Larry Langford amusement park move.
How can we get the county on board?
And let me go talk to this guy.
What is this guy?
And it's just literally all of them.
You were Larry Langford.
I turned to Larry Langford.
Yeah.
Hey, county commissioner, I need you to make sure that we get this tax incentive for this thing that's going to be good for the county.
We're going to rent equipment from this spot.