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Speaker 1: my next guest. Starting his acting career in eighteen seventy
Speaker 1: four in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of king Lear.
Speaker 1: Right there. I cannot do king Lear. You hear my accent.
Speaker 1: I can't even come close to doing a character in
Speaker 1: king Lear. He did it with another eloquently speaking gentleman
Speaker 1: called James Earl Jones in the title role. Then he
Speaker 1: got busy. He appeared alongside Adam Murphy and Coming to America.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to do a remake. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they're gonna mess that up. There's an all time great
Speaker 1: movie coming to America, and earned a role in nine
Speaker 1: Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing. That movie should
Speaker 1: have wont On Oscar. He is noted for being the
Speaker 1: most frequent actor to appear in adaptations of Thomas Harris
Speaker 1: Hannibal books. Along with Man Hunter. That was a good movie,
Speaker 1: right there. He also appeared in Lectures, Jailer Barney and
Speaker 1: the Silence of a lamb Oh. That was a scary movie,
Speaker 1: right there. Jodie Foster, the sequel Hannibal, and the prequel
Speaker 1: Red Dragon. He is well known to many. Baltimore City
Speaker 1: Police Commissioner Irvan Burrell on HBO's critically applauded claimed drama
Speaker 1: The Wire. That show was too real for me, as
Speaker 1: many other critics include Blue bloods Lie to Me, Lauren
Speaker 1: artur SVU, The Good Wife, Elementary Band, c We're Gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that. That is my all time favorite show,
Speaker 1: and Luke Cage. He is now starring on a new
Speaker 1: show called The Village. Please Welcome to Money Megan Conversations
Speaker 1: Frankie Face on, Well, alright, alright, if he gonna get
Speaker 1: tired of talking about me? Is he gonna get tired
Speaker 1: of talking about me? No, sir, No, no, sir. Ree brother,
Speaker 1: you all you are a consummate professional. You are you articulate?
Speaker 1: I had to tell people, man, when they come on
Speaker 1: my show, you know you you're a grinder. You're you're grinding.
Speaker 1: You know you've got good friends of my like Vonda,
Speaker 1: Curtis Hall, my boy, Clifton Pile. These are some some people.
Speaker 1: They play all these different roles and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you did like them, but y'all, you forget your body
Speaker 1: of work sometimes and how important I said, coming to America.
Speaker 1: If that ain't big in the black community, come on, now,
Speaker 1: do the right thing. If that ain't big and the
Speaker 1: black men did he jump over there? Do man? Hudder
Speaker 1: and sounds of the lamp. You don't do that. He
Speaker 1: just can't do that. But man, okay, before we get
Speaker 1: to the village, Um, all right, okay, Now the wire
Speaker 1: that that changed television? Would you say that would just
Speaker 1: because I would said, I've heard that on many occasion.
Speaker 1: They said, yes, it has the revolutionized television and the
Speaker 1: way people watch television and the things that they see
Speaker 1: on television. It was a huge, huge, huge success and
Speaker 1: a very important part of I think of history in general,
Speaker 1: not just Black history, but just history in general in
Speaker 1: the way in which you report and watch and see things.
Speaker 1: So I'm so proud of that. I couldn't even begin
Speaker 1: to tell you when when you when you read the script,
Speaker 1: because we all get scripts, you know you you writers
Speaker 1: come to you and and they say I want you
Speaker 1: you audition for these roles. Did you feel anything when
Speaker 1: you were reading your character as the series was developing,
Speaker 1: you felt like this is something different, this is really gritty,
Speaker 1: it's too too real. It's absolutely When I read it,
Speaker 1: I just felt that it was just phenomenal writing, and
Speaker 1: I felt like was something I really wanted to be
Speaker 1: a part of. Initially I had read I read audition
Speaker 1: for the role of for the role of the young
Speaker 1: lieutenant Camp and when I can't believe my mind, my
Speaker 1: mind is doing a mental block on me. But they
Speaker 1: saw something in me that said that no, he should
Speaker 1: be the Commissioner Barrel. And so when I got that role,
Speaker 1: that came back. And I hadn't remembered reading that role,
Speaker 1: because you're just getting a certain part of the script
Speaker 1: when you read an audition for things. But it's turned
Speaker 1: out to be a wonderful choice for me, and it's
Speaker 1: been a wonderful choice for the production as well. I
Speaker 1: think we both served each other very well. And you
Speaker 1: don't know something's gonna be amazing and fantastic. You just
Speaker 1: do the best you can while you're in it. And
Speaker 1: then and then things they happened, and they happened for
Speaker 1: the good and for this show it was it was
Speaker 1: well deserved. Okay, now my wife gonna get excited when
Speaker 1: I broke up this show, because man, from day one
Speaker 1: we couldn't believe we didn't uh band sheet now that
Speaker 1: is that was a no brain of man and that
Speaker 1: and then that was the show that just from reading
Speaker 1: the origin, just talking to the producer because I had
Speaker 1: to have a phone call, interview conversation with him, and
Speaker 1: he told me about the character and I said, God,
Speaker 1: I know that man. That man is so he is,
Speaker 1: so he's so in my body of work to come out,
Speaker 1: and it was easy, and then the show came out
Speaker 1: there the writing advance, he is phenomenal. People don't understand.
Speaker 1: They think it's just one of those you know, action
Speaker 1: shows with lots of sex and violence and all that.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the curve and then the
Speaker 1: journey of the writing, the writing path in this show,
Speaker 1: you will say it is phenomenal. So you get you
Speaker 1: get sex, you get violence, you get killing, and you
Speaker 1: get amazing writing and amazing actors. Fancy really is stands out.
Speaker 1: Is is one of my all time favorite shows to
Speaker 1: be a part of. And I'm glad that people get
Speaker 1: excited about it and people for me, you know a
Speaker 1: little old ladies I never thought would be interested in
Speaker 1: that dome where they say, oh, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see the next episode of Fancy and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: you Tube, go ahead, it's great. So the most diversity
Speaker 1: show to have a hit television as far as I'm concerned, not,
Speaker 1: I've never seen the show so diverse. You know the
Speaker 1: air and it treats women with such respect. I mean,
Speaker 1: here's a powerhouse women and every ethnicity that you can
Speaker 1: name is well represented in Fantasie. So Fantasy stands out.
Speaker 1: It stands out because of the fact that what because
Speaker 1: the reason, the reason, that reason I bring it up
Speaker 1: first one of my favorite shows, but also the fact
Speaker 1: that your character could have been white. What I'm saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's a it'sn't a rural community outside in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: not and you and you a bar owner. Now how
Speaker 1: many black people you know on the bar in that
Speaker 1: type of community? But you understand what I'm saying. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying that when we talk talking about talent
Speaker 1: and and and believability, and you gave us that even
Speaker 1: though the elements will say is that true? Yes, it
Speaker 1: is because your character allowed us to believe it, and
Speaker 1: then you gave us a reason the root for you
Speaker 1: and support your your your point of that's that's a
Speaker 1: that's a gift ye have. It's so universal and to me,
Speaker 1: you know, as an actor and as a person and
Speaker 1: a human being, that's very important to be universality. I mean,
Speaker 1: I want something that that the whole universe can relate
Speaker 1: and respond to. And I don't want to be backed
Speaker 1: into some corner of ethnicity, a stereotype, or any of
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I don't want, you know, that
Speaker 1: is not interesting to me something And I appreciate your
Speaker 1: words about about that too, because if it's not, if
Speaker 1: it doesn't have that element of universality and it I'm
Speaker 1: just like, uh, I'm not that interested in doing it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will do certain things like that, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, I wanted to be broad strokes.
Speaker 1: I wanted to say it's undefinable. You know, anyone, you know,
Speaker 1: I can I can relate, I can respond to it.
Speaker 1: So that really moves my heart. I appreciate those words much.
Speaker 1: They're honest words, sir. The honest words I say, sir,
Speaker 1: just out of respect because of your body of work.
Speaker 1: Is it screams that you're you're versatile and even in
Speaker 1: your tone. But I want to make sure that everybody
Speaker 1: know who I'm talking to. Uh, Frankie face on. Here's
Speaker 1: a new show called The Village that we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about more in the next break. But also wanted to
Speaker 1: remind people of his body work from coming to America
Speaker 1: through the Right Thing, size of the Lamb, to recent
Speaker 1: smash hits like the Wire, like Bandsheet and we come back,
Speaker 1: I gotta talk a little bit about Luke Cage. Luke Cage,
Speaker 1: there another versable platform where he sells his personality more
Speaker 1: with Frankie face on. You know this is Roshan. Hello,
Speaker 1: this was Sean McDonald. You're listening to money making conversation
Speaker 1: my next guest. You know when I say the word
Speaker 1: uh king lair, you know Shakespeare, you could hear it
Speaker 1: in his voice. You know, the more and more I
Speaker 1: can hear he can do Shakespeare because he does so
Speaker 1: many different characters. You realize that this is his natural voice.
Speaker 1: He's a gifted actor, a gifted a gifted stage presence.
Speaker 1: I want to bring him back on the show. And
Speaker 1: talking about the previous break, we're talked about Banjee. When
Speaker 1: when a phenomenal diverse show that uh, it's just you
Speaker 1: know the thing about it when you all these actors
Speaker 1: that that he knows, he's been around a lot of
Speaker 1: talent of the people, and he's always seems to be
Speaker 1: around a lot of talent of the people, but his
Speaker 1: presence stands out. He always comes across as a big
Speaker 1: man on the screen. And that I think that's really
Speaker 1: important when you say that when you're around talented people
Speaker 1: who are went on and become even bigger stars and films,
Speaker 1: and not saying he's not a big star, but you
Speaker 1: know that he holds his own and also has the
Speaker 1: presence of his own. Here's a new show called The
Speaker 1: Village that's uh on TV right now. Please, sir uh
Speaker 1: tell us, please welcome back to the show. Frankie face
Speaker 1: on a Hey, frek, tell us about the new show.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Village. Tell us about that. I
Speaker 1: know it's I know it's selling another apartment building. Is
Speaker 1: another diverse cast, a lot of different characters that you're
Speaker 1: playing off on, which is not something unusual for you,
Speaker 1: right right, No, it is. It is a very diverse
Speaker 1: cast and in an age, ethnicity, and every in every
Speaker 1: aspect that you can mention. I mean, the youngest cast
Speaker 1: member is like eight years old and it goes the
Speaker 1: oldest one is eight and uh, it's about this. It
Speaker 1: takes a village to raise the family, raise the child.
Speaker 1: And this is about this apartment building in Brooklyn, and
Speaker 1: we call it the village because all of the all
Speaker 1: of the all of the residents of this apartment building,
Speaker 1: they interact with each other and they help each other out.
Speaker 1: And when they say good day, how you're doing, or
Speaker 1: is anything I can do to help you, they mean
Speaker 1: that they are not just giving lip service. And this
Speaker 1: script is just so well developed and so well written
Speaker 1: that it just it touched my heart from the very
Speaker 1: moment that I first read it, and I identified immediately
Speaker 1: with the character that I portrayed, because it takes into
Speaker 1: it takes in the fact that two of the greatest
Speaker 1: characters that I played in my career, one being the
Speaker 1: land and Lord and coming to America and the other
Speaker 1: one being the Box in the Advance. So I'm the
Speaker 1: super of a building and I have a bar that
Speaker 1: a little jazz bar club that I run, and I'm like, hey, this,
Speaker 1: If I can't play this, nobody can. So I was
Speaker 1: just so excited to get that part. And it's just
Speaker 1: like it's been a dream and this show, you guys
Speaker 1: have really got to check it out and give it
Speaker 1: a chance, because it's um it's it's doing something that
Speaker 1: this country is not really doing now, and that's coming together.
Speaker 1: This show brings people together. We I think that in
Speaker 1: our present in our present climate, we're sort of like
Speaker 1: being torn apart. We're being taught not to not to
Speaker 1: respect your neighbor, not to not to listen to your neighbor,
Speaker 1: you know, to separate everything, putting everything in boxes. You know,
Speaker 1: he over here, you over there, you over there. But
Speaker 1: in the village, it's about bringing everybody together so that
Speaker 1: we can love one another and take care of one another.
Speaker 1: And I think that everybody would respond to that in
Speaker 1: this show. I'm excited about it. This show was on NBC.
Speaker 1: Uh and and and and the great part about it,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to hear the enthusiasm. Here's a
Speaker 1: funny part about you as a talent is that each
Speaker 1: role you've had it in your resume. So when you're
Speaker 1: coming in now, it's like, Okay, I know that I
Speaker 1: know they bartender, I know that policeman, I know that husband,
Speaker 1: I know that that that that that angry guy, I
Speaker 1: know the prison ward, and I know all all these characters,
Speaker 1: So is it do do you do you reach back
Speaker 1: to some of your previous experiences to prepare for a
Speaker 1: current experience. How do you do that? Well, let's see
Speaker 1: on a little secret. It's like every character that I've
Speaker 1: ever played, there's a connection. You know heard of six
Speaker 1: degrees in separations, Well, there's a connection somewhere now. Longevity
Speaker 1: and age are things that really helped me to be
Speaker 1: able and define how I can move forward in in
Speaker 1: portraying another character as it comes to me. And it's
Speaker 1: experience is the best teacher. All of those cliches, they
Speaker 1: really are very orton. I think if you would listen
Speaker 1: to those, listen to what those things are saying to you.
Speaker 1: And I think that my life long um experiences have
Speaker 1: have informed me so that I can slide, me, I
Speaker 1: can display. I mean, all these characters are in me
Speaker 1: some place, and I've just got to go deep down
Speaker 1: inside me to find them and to release them and
Speaker 1: bring them out and then to share them with my
Speaker 1: fans and with the public. So that is my that's
Speaker 1: my my, my, my, my secret to acting and and
Speaker 1: as well as to living. So there you have it. Well,
Speaker 1: even ain't in me. I can't bring it to you. Well,
Speaker 1: it's in you that because the resume tells. But you
Speaker 1: can bring anything you know because of the fact that
Speaker 1: at the core of what you know to be able
Speaker 1: to do Shakespeare is the core of acting. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's the core of being able to deliver, you know,
Speaker 1: a language styling that very few people can even attempt
Speaker 1: to do. So, so you master that. Okay. So now
Speaker 1: you're just articulating from a from a personal life story, correct,
Speaker 1: And that's what makes you special from a standpoint of
Speaker 1: that's all I'm just saying. It's like when you was
Speaker 1: in Banshee, I felt that you were the Barton, the owner.
Speaker 1: When you was in Luke Cage, Okay, I felt that
Speaker 1: you own that barbershop. It wasn't Halem. That's pretty extreme, sir. Okay, Banshee, Tennsylvania,
Speaker 1: hanging out with white folks who crazy. Okay. Now you're
Speaker 1: in Harlem, hanging out with a superhero around crazy black
Speaker 1: folks trying to kill everybody, and you was in that
Speaker 1: bodyshop holding your own I don't thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I mean that was like I mean that Luke Cage
Speaker 1: experience came right after Banshee. Now, I mean here is
Speaker 1: a smaller alert. I mean, I get I get killed
Speaker 1: in the second episode in Luke Cage, and it was
Speaker 1: like after doing four seasons of Banshee and you know
Speaker 1: the kind of physical um uh, physical physicality that's involved
Speaker 1: with that show, and then it comes to Luke Cage.
Speaker 1: I was really tired. Came right after Luke Cag. I
Speaker 1: didn't ever chance to cap my breath. People say, you
Speaker 1: got killed, Yeah I did, but I needed to die
Speaker 1: get some peace. And it was such an endearing role.
Speaker 1: I mean, those two episodes and in the way that
Speaker 1: I in the way that they carried me on in
Speaker 1: the whole season. They talked about, you know, my care pops,
Speaker 1: you know from the barbershop. I just felt like I
Speaker 1: was alive throughout the whole season of that show, even
Speaker 1: though I only did two episodes. I'm your character was
Speaker 1: when it came back and stayed in that barbershop. It
Speaker 1: was not the same because I thought it was like
Speaker 1: it was. It was. I didn't know why, because of
Speaker 1: the fact that they were trying to hold on to
Speaker 1: a brand that you established, but your memory hadn't wasn't
Speaker 1: carried on. And so that's why I know that that
Speaker 1: what you did and established that that that that whole
Speaker 1: relationship and your death, you know, all that was important
Speaker 1: and that's important to you. The characters that you try
Speaker 1: to that that you not only try that you do
Speaker 1: develop now in the in the village. Tell us about
Speaker 1: your character, more about how they relate you. Did you
Speaker 1: broke down the entire show, But tell us more about
Speaker 1: your character. Well, my character, he's sort of the he
Speaker 1: is not sort of. He is the patriarch of this building.
Speaker 1: And he along with his wife, the beautiful talented Lorraine
Speaker 1: to a song, who is the matriarch. We are the glue.
Speaker 1: We have the fabric that holds everything together. People they bring,
Speaker 1: they filter all their problems through us. Everything is going on.
Speaker 1: He comes through either myself, my character which is Ron Davis,
Speaker 1: or my my wife, who is Patricia Davis. And he
Speaker 1: is a very He has a secret which you won't
Speaker 1: learn about until you know about the fifth or sixth episode,
Speaker 1: you know, because we all got skeletons in the classes.
Speaker 1: I saw it. But he's a very affable, bubbly kind
Speaker 1: of guy, and he listens and he takes it, takes
Speaker 1: the time to to to assure people that he is
Speaker 1: listening and to help them out. So he is like
Speaker 1: he's like he's he's like the glue. He's like one
Speaker 1: of the half half formula of the glue of the
Speaker 1: of this building. And everyone knows ron and he gives
Speaker 1: these parties on the roof. He reports, he recites poetry
Speaker 1: and which is which is really amazing, this classical poems
Speaker 1: you know that comes from different places. And and he's
Speaker 1: just like he's he's there for everybody. He's very proud
Speaker 1: of the building and he's very proud of his little village.
Speaker 1: It means a lot to him. We're talking to, but
Speaker 1: look forward to some secrets about him. They're gonna come out,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, and that's the thing that the
Speaker 1: formula makes a good writing. You gotta you gotta have
Speaker 1: some skeleton in your classes. And somewhere. Absolutely we're talking
Speaker 1: to Frank and face On. He's a star of the
Speaker 1: show on NBC called The Village. It comes on every
Speaker 1: Tuesday night at nine p m. East and West a PM. Central.
Speaker 1: Um is a very diverse New York apartment. That's the
Speaker 1: setting is New York. His resume is amazing I was
Speaker 1: looking through it, you know, soap operas all my children. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know, stop you just stop, you know you know
Speaker 1: I'm looking Son of a Key the Vampire Diaries. Shades
Speaker 1: are blue, two colors, really, sir, you know, believe me,
Speaker 1: my friend when I say this, as as as a
Speaker 1: younger person, you are a inspiration. You're the people that
Speaker 1: we need. That your your your black history. You're walking
Speaker 1: black history. Understand that everything you do makes my life
Speaker 1: better and the people around you better. And uh, well
Speaker 1: that means that means the world to me because it's
Speaker 1: certainly with my mother got dressed the soul, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, and my father. That's that's the kind of
Speaker 1: individual they always wanted to to raise. And you know,
Speaker 1: to hear those words sounding out of your mouth, I
Speaker 1: give you a great deal of appreciation and respect and
Speaker 1: I congratulate you too for the fine work that you're doing.
Speaker 1: And you're ghetting it out there and it's just with
Speaker 1: energy and love and enthusiasm. Oh it's it's overwhelming. Well,
Speaker 1: he plays Ron Davis on the Village. This is my man,
Speaker 1: Franky face on check it Out on NBC every Tuesday.
Speaker 1: You keep winning, my brother, and keep keep keep the
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