Angie Martinez IRL - Yahya Abdul-Mateen: Being Grateful For The Good In Life

25:28And then when you do that, it's a little bit easier. What was the last thing you've shared about yourself? Well, publicly, I don't feel like, do you share publicly? Not much, right? Not much, not much. Is that protective or? Well, there's business and then there's my business. You know what I'm saying? And I'm not in the business of making business out of my business. Yeah. You know, so. I just wonder what's a challenge for you that people might not expect. When we look at you, we go, yeah, I got it together. You got 10 years. You got awards. You got. So you want me to tell you the truth? Yeah.

26:06Yeah. You can't handle the truth. This is in real life. Tell me the truth. What's happening in your real life? You okay? You troubled? What's going on? You need us? What do you need? No, I'm all right. I'm all right. No, I know you're all right. No, you know, I'm blessed and I'm learning. You know, I'm blessed and I'm learning. I'm all right. I got the same thing that ails everybody. It's some of the same things that ails me. You know, and I'm learning to stay blessed throughout it all. You know? Yeah. That's a good reminder. Mm-hmm. You see how I kept it right there? You did. You kept it all the way out.

26:40And it was so far in the pocket that I realized it's not even worth me trying to dig in the pocket. I mean, I ain't thinking about nothing. You know, when you asked me that question, I'm not thinking about nothing. So I'm not interested in going digging. You know, to be honest, what I used to say all the time is like everything bad in my life. It's literally my job to go digging, by the way. But go ahead. But everything, everything is on its way. You know what I'm saying? Like all the trouble that I'm going to have in my life, it's on its way. It's on its way. It's on its way. Also, the answer is probably on its way.

27:20So I ain't in a rush to bring it here. You know what I'm saying? I see you when I see you. It's on its way. I know it's on its way. You know trouble's on its way? Yeah, it's on its way. That's life. Damn. A lot of good is on the way, too. Yes. You know, a lot of good is on the way, too. I don't ever want to think about no trouble on the way. Yeah, but, you know, that's how I go. That's why you got to stay vigilant. So that when it comes, it only stays for a short while. Got it. You know, when it comes, I don't want it to stay forever. Yeah. You know. Then my problem look like a cloud. Nobody know the trouble.

27:56How do you manage trouble? Especially as an actor, when you have to show up and be like, if you are in one of those, if you're in the middle of a storm. Yeah. A big old storm. Now we're talking. And you got to go play. Now we're talking. Yeah, what do you do? That's why I love this job. Yeah. Because I have to, I must put all my stuff down at the door to come and do my job. That's the beautiful thing about acting. You get to disappear, right? You get to disappear. You get to hide in this world. You know? Is that a real thing? Can you really do that? Absolutely. Like, if I'm devastated from something that happened to me this past week.

28:33Yeah. And I have to show up and be in a scene with you right now. Yeah. it's just goes it's supposed to be gone for me it may and it's have a pain or stress or i'm not gonna say that it look that's that i'm speaking for myself no no i'm putting i'm putting myself in your yeah but like but but it can because i got a job to do you know and sometimes you you you have to drop your shoulders be where you are feel what you feel and then go from there and then And now life feeds me, but life feeds my work. But there's other times when like I don't even have the brain to deal with that. So I'm just going to deal with this and live the life as this character.

29:15Sometimes, you know, you go on a job for six, seven months. You spend more time as a character than you do as your real self and life be happening on the outside and life in some even more messed up stuff be happening to the character. you know but the thing about that is at the end of the day you know as the character i ain't gonna get no phone calls in the middle of the night saying that you know so-and-so gonna die and i ain't gonna get no you don't get no unexpected phone calls you don't get the trouble well you don't rock with me for a second like you don't yes you don't get the unexpected phone calls as an actor like as a character because when i get the script i know everything that's bad that's coming i know what it is you know what i'm saying my life has been such that i have gotten unexpected phone calls so one of the things that i've learned about myself in the past two years is that like and i don't think i'm there anymore but where i was at that point

30:19i reinvested i was reinvestigating why do i do this in the first place at first it was because I really, I liked the, I loved the attention, loved it. And then I grew out of loving the attention. And it was like, I'm not, that's not the reason no more because if you, if it, because I've fallen back. So I'm not doing it for the, I'm not doing attention seeking things anymore. I'm, I'm chilling. So I was like, well, why do I still do this? What's really going on? And it was like, Oh, at that point in my life, it was like, because life is scary. So you're doing this because in this, because when you are operating in this character, you already know the script and there's no anxiety in that.

31:03But that's not real life though. But that's not real life. But you got to deal with real life. You see what I'm saying? And so once I learned that, I was like, oh, okay. Well, there's beauty in this. There's therapy in this. Now let's go deal with real life and let's go get uncomfortable and deal with like fear and, you know, finding something to help you to cope with the fact that all the problems that you have are on the way. Now, I'm talking a little bit gray right now, right? But I have so much beauty and, you know, love and positive things in my life, too. So I'd be remiss if I didn't say that.

31:40Well, everybody got gray shit. Everybody got a little gray on it. Everybody got a little problem in their pocket. And that's cool. That's something good to remember. if you're ever in like nervous about being in the presence of some, but sometimes people get nervous to walk into an interview or nervous to be, or think somebody's better than them for whatever reason, reminding yourself that everybody got a little problem. Now everybody gonna watch this. Okay. So all I got to do is project. Okay. All I got to do is project all my problems on Angie. And then I feel good about myself. Well, don't put them on me.

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34:35We should have a 10-year Bodak Yellow Party next year. We should plan it. That'll be a good time. It's also fun when you can see a song. When a song is so big that it launches a career. Oh, that's the best. Because then it's like, it almost, it allows you to take the ride with the artist. Like, because you were there and you saw the rocket ship go. And a lot of times artists, they'll get a rocket ship. And then they become a one hit wonder. And it's very hard to keep a career going for some. But when a song that big launches a career and we get to watch it, I don't know. It's really cool. Yeah, but it was a monster.

35:16That song was a monster. And for sure launched a phenomenal career. Check out the Sprite Living track list and break down the stories behind your favorite bars. The link is in our show notes so you can check that out. This is the Sprite Living track list. Obey your thirst. so acting is like your therapy in a way right no no no no no no it never was that it never was that i was just looking and saying why do i do this but it was never it was never therapy it's it's fun okay it's fun well it's fun it's not it's not it's not there it's a escape yeah at one point it was yeah at one point it was like i said it was it was the attention seeking and then the at the other point i did if it was an escape i didn't know that it was an escape you know but the cool thing about it is that once i can embrace that and say acting is an escape so then when i go i escape into acting and now it's fun again you see what i'm saying so and then when you go back to your real life what is your real life like we don't know that much about your like you see how i uh organized that oh you did that on purpose yeah oh you like that i'm like that what is that you're afraid to let people in your business you're are you just private by nature or what is that?

36:27I like my life and it's unnatural. I don't know y 'all people. I'm being real. No, no, you dead ass right. I'm being real. People don't know me and I don't know them. I don't know y 'all. You see what I'm saying? So let people in my life for what? Like I got a real life. I got a real life. A good one? A great one. A great one. You must have a very great family life. The fact that you talk to your family every day is really, it's not, I don't think that's, everybody can say that, that people have that kind of close-knit. Yeah, I'm blessed that, I'm blessed in that way. Yeah, and we got a big family.

37:11We were the only family that moved from New Orleans to Oakland. So we were sort of like made into a pact. I think also when my father died, my father passed in 2007. And so we turned into, turned toward each other even more, you know, so. Were your parents together the whole time? No. Oh, okay. No, no, no. Not at the time that he passed. But we all still turned, you know, in toward one another even more. But we just rock with each other. You know, we all silly. We pray. You have a lot of sisters. We got four sisters and then a brother at the end. So it's my brother, four girls, and then me. Yeah.

37:48Yeah. So that's why you said all the black women are one of my first. Yeah. They were all older than you. Could you do anything wrong? Do they spoil you? Are you like the baby of the family? We say Spurl. They would say I'm Spurl. They would, right? Yeah, they would say that. I never experienced that. But yeah, they would say that. But no, they used to tease me and all that stuff too. But what about when you're young and you got four big sisters and you try to have a little girlfriend or something? How did that go? See, there used to be stuff going on that I didn't know about. I would have somebody call a house and they would get the phone call before me and my brother and all that stuff.

38:26And I would never know. I would think, you know, come on, baby, you ain't never called. I did call. You know, I called a lot of times. You know, I just talked to a lot of people, everybody except for you. I ran into that a little bit. And then you got a cell phone. Then I got a little cell phone and I got to bring my, you know, bring my girlfriend around and, you know, and they was cool. I think it's been the case. I think, you know, my first girlfriend, and they've been friends with her longer than, you know. Yeah, you know. But it's all good. It's all good. They stayed friends after a breakup?

38:54Yeah, yeah. We was young. You know what I'm saying? That's tough. Is that tough? Yes. I'm all right. You're on to the next thing. Yo, your list, your catalog is so good. You got a lot of projects. This is your part. You want to see it? Yeah, that's the past, though. You know what I mean? You know, it's the past? That's the past. Really? Yeah. You don't miss a character after it's gone? Michelle, my publicist, the other day we were talking about something and she said, you know, if you win, did this, people would say, oh, look, that's Wonder Man doing that. You know, I forgot I was Wonder Man. Didn't catch the latest Roland Martin unfiltered podcast.

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43:43I don't be thinking about myself and what I do. in the morning you don't get up in the morning and look in the mirror you know no i i'm i'm so when you are wonder man though in the moment does your real life personality change at all like at home are you acting like you think at home yeah like does it seep into your like who you are and real when you're in the middle of no but let me no but let me tell you something about simon williams right the cool thing simon williams get to get to gets to do all the stuff that i I don't really do. He gets to brag and he gets to be like, you know, everybody look at me.

44:20He gets to be a superstar because he wants to be a superstar. Yeah. You know, you should interview him sometime. Yeah. Did I do that with you? Oh, that boy, that boy's a piece of work. I would love that. Number one. Number two, your role in this movie now that's coming out. What is his name? Wayne Strider. Wayne. Wayne Strider. Strider? Strider. Strider. Yeah, Strider. Like, you know, look. Strider. Strider. strider yeah got it so in the new movie wayne schrider uh-huh by any means if i were interviewing him what does he have going on hey wayne wayne somewhere living on stressing me street right now you know he um he's a black uh fbi agent and he's trying to trying to crack a case of a murder of a civil rights leader in southern mississippi but he's partnering with uh your whole demeanor just changed did it really yes that's what's up in a good way or like subtle like you just went to a place you went you you i like i like where i'm at right now yeah yeah i like a lot i like this place well you tapped into him did i i think so yeah is that what happened i don't know possibly i mean you know you saw it okay you saw it yeah but no way wayne um well wayne got a lot on his plate You know, he's a what I like to say is he's a he's trying to be a good man in a wicked world, you know, and he's trying to do good.

45:47He's trying to do good by doing good. But in a wicked world, it's hard to do good by doing good. So, you know, he's navigating that line of trying to figure out when to go bad. And, you know, that's his 1960s in Mississippi. He works for the FBI. Is he living a dangerous world? Is this based on something true? Based on a true story. It is? Yeah. Real person? Or just a story? Not Wayne Strider. Wayne Strider is sort of an amalgamation of a lot of different characters. And Greg Scarper is the true-to-life character that Mark Wahlberg plays. So when did you wrap the movie? Recently? No, we wrapped last year.

46:29Okay, last year. So movie wraps. Yeah, it comes out September 4th. Are you still holding on to that? Like, are you still walking around? No. No, no, no. Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne. Yeah. You got bars? Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh. No, you let it go, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fascinating. I do. Well, I can't wait to see it. How's Mark? Mark is cool. Yeah, right? Mark is real chill. He's a... He's a golfer. Yeah, he's a golfer. I'm a golfer, too. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I love it. Is that right? Oh, God, I'm obsessed. I want to get obsessed with golf. I got my golf clubs. I'm looking for my nice little piece of land. Have you golfed?

47:04Have you tried it? Yeah, I've tried it. to me it's like what you explain about um i don't know it just takes you out of whatever else it bring you into right now right now is the best it's the best place to be it's the only place to be yeah you know i mean yeah it's the only place to be did you always know that heck no oh no how did you think at one point i knew it and then i forgot it and then when i forgot it it was hell and then it's ever since then it's been trying to figure out how to get it back but if you're trying to get it back you've already lost you just gotta accept it you know what i'm saying so you just gotta accept where you are now you see what i'm saying is that still a thing that you know heck yeah really yeah i've been working on it this whole time sitting there with you being in the moment yeah why what are you tempted to think about like something else you got to do later which i'm doing a pretty good job no you're in the moment it's great yeah yeah i know you're right we need to all do that I need to do it too.

48:01But that's what golf does for me. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. So I know Mark has that bug too. That's what painting is for me. Oh, you do painting? Yeah. That's one of the reasons why I really want to, you know, make sure that I go and get my, I'm looking for a home right now. So that's one of the reasons why I really want to get the right place so I can do all my, do all my painting. Acting really funds my, funds my painting. That's what, that's what, that's what's going on. What kind of paintings are we making? Um, I'll show you. There's a, there's a, is it, is it, is it abstract? I guess some would say it's abstract.

48:31But when I have ideas, I try to work my ideas out on pen and paper. And by the end of it, a lot of times I diagram it in a way where I don't realize that I'm making art until it's done, until the thought is articulated. You start with a thought. Interesting. Because I never set out to paint something. I'm always figuring out a thought. But I use my pen to write down a thought, and then I end up diagramming it. And then by the end, once it makes sense, I look and I was like, oh, this is art. Give me one. Tell me one thought, your favorite thought that you came up with in that process. Why? Is it bad?

49:18No, I'm not quite ready to share it. Okay. Yeah, but I'll show it to you offline. I'm excited. Yeah. Yeah, it's about how it's about everything. It's about how everything comes together. Yeah, it's deep. Okay. Yeah. All right. Going into the speaking of deep, go deep into the IRL Bowl. Uh-oh. The legendary. IRL Bowl. I don't know if it's that legendary. Let's see. Let's see what you get. What's one thing you hope never changes about you? My smile. Okay. Yeah. I like my smile. I love my smile. I've been blessed with a good one.

49:59And, yeah. When you say blessed with a good one, is that like jeans? No, yeah, yeah. I mean, literally, I do really like my smile. But I think it's my sense of humor is in my, it's somewhere wrapped up in there. Yeah. And so you need that. You need that sense of humor. I kind of want you to do two more, then we're going to do your voice. All right. All right. My one? all right what's uh one value you think we're losing as a society uh-oh no no this is everybody know it's like the the appreciation for uh solitude and privacy no i think we know too many people i think we know too many people's business and i think it's unnatural to know that many people's business you know so do you never fall victim to that like of course yeah i know people business i know your business you know you know my business i don't know none of your business Oh, okay.

50:52So, you know, we good. I don't know nothing else. But no, I know, I put it this way. I know more people business than I care to. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So then I tell myself, man, mind your business and get a life. I caught myself the other day. Yeah. Watching Instagram. Looking at somebody. Watching the triangle of Blueface and Creshawn and the other baby mother. And I must have been there for like six minutes before I was like. Don't put me in the people business. Before I was like, I don't even know these people. Why? it's good tv though you know why have i been here why do i know so much it's entertainment imagine that your life your life being entertainment boy that's cold then you got to keep it up especially if your life as entertainment pay the bills then you got to keep an entertaining life shoot put up a live stream in my house that'll sell actually i did put it now i want to know what we're gonna see You can see it all.

51:50All right, one more. Go ahead. Yeah, all right. What's this? If you could instantly master any skill, what would it be? The piano. Yeah, the piano. I feel like you could. I could. I couldn't do it instantly, though. Yeah. But it would be the piano because that would... Boy, if I mastered the piano, y 'all really never see me again. Boy, once I get in my house, I sit that piano somewhere outside. like somewhere under a big old willow tree or something like that, the big magnolia tree or something like that. Boy, I just set it up nice. You just going to be trapped up in there with your house painting, playing the piano?

52:29Playing the piano, singing. You know, you'll never see me again. I mean that. Well, that's terrible. No, it ain't terrible for me. Well, come outside. The people like you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I make the people miss me. I'm going to make it dramatic. I'm going to draw it out. You know, I'm going to look. Do they miss me yet? No, not yet. Then I pop out, you know, give them something to see and then disappear on them again. What is your like North Star for all this work that you're doing and all these projects for you as an actor for your for your outside professional kind of, I don't know, connection to the outside to people?

53:03When you can't be in your house, you're coming outside for a reason. Yeah. You're making art, you're creating, you're doing these films. Like, what is the what is the North Star for you? I'm going to answer that the way that I hear it. And then if I answer it incorrectly, I want you to read. I want you to redirect me back to what you're talking about. OK, because my North Star is to is to go back inside, is to be able to go back inside so that I never have to come out unless I want to. I have that right now. Right. But I want it to be able to last. All my life. That way, when I do come out, it means something.

53:42this special. I come out because I got something to say. I come out because I've been in their workshop and in my workshop. And then I come out and I say, hey, yo, I got something. I got something to show. I got something for everybody to see. I'm excited about this one. This the one. This the one. Now I'm holding up my painting in my mind, but it could be my movie. You know what I'm saying? It could be a play. It could be a message. It could be, you know, whatever it is. I am an artist, so I'm going to be creating something. So my North Star is to be able to do the type of work that will afford me the ability to have that type of privacy and to be able to disappear.

54:23But also the type of work that gains the trust of my people so that when I come out with something to say that they want to know, you know. That it means something. Yeah, that they want to know what I've been that they want to know what I've been working on. and that means that you know I've been giving them good good food you know who has that in your opinion who is that for you when Kendrick put out Kendrick Lamar put out things I go and I listen I go check him out with Andre 3000 you'll stop what you're doing that's it when Andre 3000 come out with another album flute or whatever I'm not going I'm going to go I'm telling the truth I'm going to go take a vacation I'm going to go take a I'm not going to go take a vacation to go listen to it I'm going to stop that man said hey Miss Donna you running to my mama please tell her I said say something what?

55:24I mean for real yeah yeah okay Andre 3000 no you don't got to go no further Kendrick that's it I don't mean to say take Kendrick off but when I said Kendrick I was searching for it he's your north star in terms of creators of like uh people who've done what you choose what you're striving to be in your in your space like uh i won't go that far i say all that yeah but because i'm i'm i'm striving to be me you know what i'm saying trying to be him but i'm saying he he's mastered that thing in your world where when he pops out he has that thing but when when when he got something to say people listen everybody listen everybody everybody everybody like your favorite when he got something to say they may not let everybody know but they check it out they get quiet and they listen because they won't see yeah because they won't see you know i'm trying to think what people on a big scale on a mass scale do that for most people it's hard now because everything is so yeah polarizing or fragmented i don't know yeah there's no like when Michael Jackson came out, everybody stopped to see the thing.

56:36Everybody stopped. Stopped to do the thing. Beyonce has that. Beyonce does. But you got to, you have to, Jay-Z has that. Yeah. You got to disappear for that. That's the, you know, you have to, you have to disappear for that because it takes, you know, it's a, it's a luxury to be able to hear your own thoughts. The city is noisy. Not just the city, but like, you know, we, life is noisy these days. And so it's, you need quiet, some quiet time in order to create you know I don't think God created in a world full of chaos you know what I mean so I want my own little solitude so that I can hear my own thoughts and create I needed to hear that too I need to remind myself of that I think I need a little solitude there we go yeah go get it go get it all right we got it they're wrapping me up let's get to your how we do how you feel I think you're great I think you're amazing you think I'm great yeah Does that please you?

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58:145G speed's not available in all areas. After 30 gigabytes, customers may experience slower speeds. Customers will pay$25 a month as long as they remain active on the Boost Unlimited plan. This is our voice note segment Presented by Boost Mobile Somebody sent us a message or a question I'm not sure, I haven't heard it Yo, yeah, yeah, my name is Eddie Help a guy out What's the workout regime? I need the details down to what brand of protein shakes Foods to eat, everything Is it creatine? What is it? Please help me out Workout routine Eddie say, yo, yeah, yeah, I'm coming I know it was I'm like, bro If you don't put some bass in your voice

58:56Eddie you know he just wants to you know what I mean find his way hey man pick stuff up and put it down man that's it that is your that is your pick stuff up and put it down and then do it again and then when it get heavy you know and then when it get light pick something heavier up and put it down put it down yeah yeah yeah you be that is the extent of your wellness plan of your workout Hey, look, that ain't so easy to do. You know, pick stuff up, put it down and do it again and then do it again. Do you do that every day? Mm-hmm. You do? Mm-hmm. No. A lot of days? I do it enough. Enough. Yeah, I do it enough that Eddie are calling, wanting to know the secret.

59:46I make myself laugh. You should. Are you disciplined though at it? Am I disciplined? Yeah. Yeah, I am. I could, and I'm always looking for more. I'm always looking for ways to be more disciplined. Yeah. And better. Yeah, better and better. My favorite question in the bowl, I will ask you this today. Yeah. Well, there's so many that I could ask you because we should have got to the bowl earlier. But because of due to time, I'll go to my favorite. It's all good. What you got? If God were to text you right now, what would it say? If you picked up your phone right now and it was God, what would he say to you?

1:00:28Today. That terrifies me. Really? Yeah. Why? Because it's God. people got got got got these ideas that they want to talk to god and like you know that that god is so pleased and that god is this this sweet loving yeah man if god hits you up he hitting you up about god's agenda you're in trouble you feel like you'd be in trouble most of us would be If I'm telling the truth, if I want to play the game and be like, ooh, what do I want God to say? You know, keep going. You're doing such a great job. It's going to be all right. God don't need to hit you up to say that. You know what I'm saying? When he gets your attention, he gets your attention for his agenda.

1:01:19You see how I woke up just now? That's what I'm passionate about. That's what I'm painting about. You know what I'm saying? That's why I'm trying to get away so I can create, so I can go make my stuff to have something to say, and then come out and say, boom, this is what I got to share. You see what I'm saying? So the gifts and all the things you do, you very much connected to God. I would want to be. Yeah. He'd be pleased with you right now in this moment. In some ways, yes. And then in some ways, no. You know what I mean? I don't get a say-so. and what I want him to say, what I want him to say don't matter.

1:02:05From what I want him to say don't matter. That's God. He going to do what he want to do. You know what I'm saying? The real question is like, whatever he say, do I have the courage to obey it? You know, do I have the courage to listen to it? Or whatever he says, like, am I living my life in a way that positions myself for him to say something good.

1:02:32That's really what I got to worry about because it really don't matter what I hope he say. It really don't matter what I... I hope he don't say nothing. I hope he stay right where he at. I hope he stay right where he at. If I'm being honest, I don't want no smoke. Do you spend every day trying to make him happy? Trying to please him? As best as I can. Yeah. Yeah. I get that. As best as I can. Well, keep going, Yaya. Yeah, you too. Thank you. That's Yaya in real life.

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