Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast
Speaker 1: More What You Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive.
Speaker 2: Everybody remembers him for his Academy Award winning role in
Speaker 2: Jerry Maguire, but he's done so many other things. Outbreak
Speaker 2: as good as it gets, What Dreams May Come? My
Speaker 2: favorite Men of Honor, Pearl Harbor, and many many more.
Speaker 2: Cuba Gooding Junior is joining us, And of all those roles,
Speaker 2: Cuba Gooding Junior, I will always remember when I first
Speaker 2: saw you as guy getting his haircut in coming to America.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's funny. I always do that when
Speaker 3: I meet people, and then they start talking about my
Speaker 3: career and they're like, man, I loved you boys and
Speaker 3: the Hood, and I loved you in this and I
Speaker 3: loved you and you know what my very first filmar
Speaker 3: was And they go, what I go, coming to America?
Speaker 3: They go, oh, yeah, you were great in that. I go,
Speaker 3: and who did I play? And they never know? So
Speaker 3: I always show me the photo of me sitting in
Speaker 3: that barbership, and.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you got through that scene with
Speaker 2: Eddie without breaking unless there were a lot of breaks.
Speaker 3: Well, there were a lot of breaks. Took us four
Speaker 3: days to shoot that scene because if you remember, he
Speaker 3: was four or five different characters in that scene. Every
Speaker 3: time he had to go through makeup, it was like
Speaker 3: a four to five hour turn breakdown, and then we'd
Speaker 3: have to do the entire scene from that angle, every
Speaker 3: single take. And I just literally sat in that chair
Speaker 3: for four or five days. So it was crazy.
Speaker 2: At the end of it, you really did have to
Speaker 2: get a haircut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Cuba Gooding juniors here to talk about Angels Fallen Warriors
Speaker 2: of Peace and this is the sequel to your first
Speaker 2: Angels Fallen.
Speaker 3: That's correct. I wasn't associated with the first one, and
Speaker 3: I got to tell you. So what happened was my
Speaker 3: agents called me, said, there's these brothers that are director
Speaker 3: of producers. They're big in the commercial world, especially doing
Speaker 3: commercials from LGE and all of the you know, the
Speaker 3: electronics and whatnot. And they did this sequel to this
Speaker 3: movie and they'd like you to see footage from it.
Speaker 3: And I said great, and they said, no, the movie.
Speaker 3: That's the sequel to the movie. I said, oh, they
Speaker 3: have footage of it. So they sent me this footage
Speaker 3: of this world that these demons and angels fighting, and
Speaker 3: they said, and we're going to put you right in
Speaker 3: the middle of it. And I realized then that I
Speaker 3: almost have outlived my time on film in cinema because
Speaker 3: this new generation of filmmakers, man, they just the things
Speaker 3: that they do in computer now with AI and all
Speaker 3: of the tools that they have. It will really seeing
Speaker 3: that the transition to the next generation right now and
Speaker 3: audience is they are this generations. I believe Ridley and
Speaker 3: Tony Scott and I think they're real storytellers. But time
Speaker 3: will tell. But I put my hat in their rings
Speaker 3: and then stand behind them as real.
Speaker 2: Filmmakers, you and me both, Kouba Gooding Junior. I mean,
Speaker 2: I've seen so many innovations in this business. I mean
Speaker 2: when I started, I was spinning platters and cutting up
Speaker 2: audio tape. It would be nothing for me to have
Speaker 2: a horful of tape by the end of the day
Speaker 2: because of all the editing I had to do. And
Speaker 2: I don't even have to do that anymore. It's amazing stuff.
Speaker 2: But Angels Fallen Warriors of Peace, this is, I guess
Speaker 2: best described as a sci fi fantasy horror.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you have. It's funny because I've been associated
Speaker 3: with a couple of faith based movies lately, the one
Speaker 3: that comes out August second Firing Squad, and this one
Speaker 3: preceding it with Angel's following Warriors of Piece in the
Speaker 3: Ancillario markets for video. But this film specifically deals with
Speaker 3: you meet these soldiers who are fighting in Iraq and
Speaker 3: having to deal with the horrors and the reality of war,
Speaker 3: and some of their members in their troops have fallen.
Speaker 3: And then at the same time, parallel, you see the
Speaker 3: angels that are protecting them, fighting that spiritual warfare that
Speaker 3: is unseen to them. But one thing leads to another,
Speaker 3: and these two worlds collide in this kaleidoscope of visuals
Speaker 3: that I think are truly impressive. And again, the level
Speaker 3: of storytelling that these two brothers, Zeus the producer and
Speaker 3: Ali the director, rise to to bring these two worlds
Speaker 3: together is truly amazing, and I think, and I think
Speaker 3: that's where I'm involved.
Speaker 2: So Cuba or Angels Fallen Warriors of Peace it is
Speaker 2: out now. Denise Richards is also co starring in it.
Speaker 2: You play the character Gabriel who is reached out to
Speaker 2: by a very mysterious character, Balthazar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, So my character has and been kind of
Speaker 3: the artie an angel. This this character played by Josh Burdette,
Speaker 3: and he is now tasked to recruit him into the
Speaker 3: spiritual realm to continue to fight against evil and demon specifically,
Speaker 3: and it takes him some time to convince him that
Speaker 3: this is real. And when he does, you get to
Speaker 3: the audience has pulled into this world and it's one
Speaker 3: of those visual roads that we go down in cinema
Speaker 3: that that to do it the way that these brothers
Speaker 3: have done it, I think it's just it's going to
Speaker 3: be something that people really enjoy.
Speaker 2: So and it's angels fallen, warriors of peace, and you've
Speaker 2: got some pretty biblical sounding names in here. But do
Speaker 2: they parallel the actual biblical case characters of Archangel Michael
Speaker 2: and Gabriel and Balthazar.
Speaker 3: They do to some degree. Yeah, they absolutely do to
Speaker 3: some degree. I mean, my character, the Bowbazar character is
Speaker 3: probably closest to the Marchie Angel Michael. I know that
Speaker 3: some of the framework put behind his backdrop and how
Speaker 3: he's been fighting demons from since the beginning of time
Speaker 3: are pulled straight from the Bible. So yeah, I'd say
Speaker 3: that they were amoutgamations of some of these characters, these
Speaker 3: biblical characters.
Speaker 2: Absolutely kuber Gerning Junior and the movie is Angels Fallen
Speaker 2: Warriors of Peace, which is out now, and I think
Speaker 2: this will also this will strike a chord with many
Speaker 2: veterans of some of the modern conflicts we've had lately.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, when you meet Josh's character, he is invented with
Speaker 3: this troop of soldiers in Iraq who are fighting to
Speaker 3: help alleviate some of the conflict over there, and you
Speaker 3: actually the footage that they showed me, which is what
Speaker 3: made me side on in the movie, was so visually studying.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe that they did what they did with
Speaker 3: the budget that they had for this movie. I mean,
Speaker 3: you really feel like you're in warfare over there. And
Speaker 3: what's great about real filmmakers is that you can be
Speaker 3: in such conflict and visuals that are so stimulating at
Speaker 3: the same time you you care about these characters. You
Speaker 3: you fall into hoping that you know, it's easy to
Speaker 3: watch a boxing match with two boxes that you don't know,
Speaker 3: but when you hear the back story of someone who's
Speaker 3: fighting for the you know, a loved one that was
Speaker 3: recently passed. It gives you an added you know, some
Speaker 3: more skin in the game, and I think that's what
Speaker 3: happens with these characters. There. You learn about their their
Speaker 3: their past and their history and where they're going, and
Speaker 3: I think our story makes you really care for them.
Speaker 3: So it's one of those stories that really resonates with
Speaker 3: the audience.
Speaker 2: Cuba Gooding Junior, Angels Fallen Warriors of Peace. I would
Speaker 2: love to talk to you about men of Honor because
Speaker 2: I too am a diver. It's one of my favorite
Speaker 2: roles of yours. But we'll have to do that on
Speaker 2: the next interview because I'm out of time. But I
Speaker 2: thank you for joining us and we look forward to
Speaker 2: seeing Angels Fallen. Thank you, Cub Gooding Junior.
Speaker 3: Thank you, love you.
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