Ryan Coogler

No.

But yeah, as a person, man, he hilarious.

You know what I mean?

His whole family is like that though.

You know, like our family's from the same, from the same part of Oakland and his mom hilarious.

You know what I mean?

Like his brothers, you know, yeah.

Nah, like, so... You leave and go to USC after you... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, I went to high school in Berkeley.

And at this point, I was living in Richmond, another city that's even more blue-collar than Oakland, right?

Yeah.

And I got a scholarship...

to a school called St.

Mary's College, which is in the Bay.

I had a teacher there, Rosemary Graham, who read something that I wrote in a creative writing class and was like, yo, you should write screenplays.

But at that time, I was a chemistry major.

So I figured I was going to try to be a doctor or something, right?

And then, but the chemistry labs was not working out with my football practices.

I was having a real tough time.

So I was like, yo, I got to get out this chemistry shit so I can keep my scholarship.