Ice Cube and O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Says the younger Jackson (right, with his father, Cube): “He would call me before each scene to let me know what he was thinking at the time. A lot of it was getting me to not act.”
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Cast
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson From left: Corey Hawkins, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Jason Mitchell and O’Shea Jackson Jr.
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Dr. Dre and Ice Cube
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson “I always looked at our songs as 400 years late. But we were not only ahead of our time, we were right on time,” says Cube (right). He and Dre were photographed July 15 at Milk Studios in Hollywood.
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O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson When you’re Cube’s son, acting is a family affair: “I have so much of his mannerisms and things already in me,” says O’Shea Jackson Jr., 24, about playing his rap star dad.
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O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell and Corey Hawkins
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson “It had great potential of being done wrong and f—ing up our legacy," Dr. Dre said of the new film.
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O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell and Corey Hawkins
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson “I know a lot of people thought I was just throwing him in there ’cause I could,” says Cube of the casting of his 24-year-old son (left). “But that wasn’t the case. I knew he was right for this.”
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Ice Cube
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson “The great thing about being in this country is to be able to speak your mind," Cube said.
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Ice Cube
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson One of the biggest challenges of making Straight Outta Compton, it turned out, was cramming three decades’ worth of N.W.A’s struggles, triumphs, infighting and eventual breakup, as well as Eazy-E’s death, into a two-hour, 22-minute film. Initial cuts clocked in at more than three hours.
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Dr. Dre
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson “We were just trying to entertain our neighborhood, just us trying to be hood stars,” Dr. Dre said. “It just became something that was much, much bigger than we ever thought, than I ever imagined.”
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Dr. Dre
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson “It’s just a really unfortunate incident,” said Dr. Dre of the death of Cle "Bone" Sloan, who was run over by Death Row Records co-founder and former Dre confidant Suge Knight. “Maybe [Knight] was looking for trouble. I don’t know.”
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O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson Jackson was photographed July 15 at Milk Studios in Hollywood.
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Corey Hawkins
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson Hawkins was photographed July 15 at Milk Studios in Hollywood.
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Corey Hawkins
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson Hawkins was photographed July 15 at Milk Studios in Hollywood.
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Jason Mitchell
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson Mitchell was photographed July 15 at Milk Studios in Hollywood.
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Jason Mitchell
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson Mitchell was photographed July 15 at Milk Studios in Hollywood.