Sterling K. Brown - “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.”

of all before we got into the movie. Congratulations, congratulations on wrapping it up in stuff because a lot of people were sad that the show ended, but they appreciate it that it ended well because there's a lot of pressure. You know, people watch Game of Thrones and like, what the hell happened? People know it can happen, can happen, but you don't worry. Did you know it end well? I knew it was gonna end well because he had a plan to end it in six seasons all along

from the beginning, like the story was complete. He knew where Rebecca was going to be at the hand, like you knew, like there's this whole timeline that he had from the beginning of season one of how things were going to play out. So there was a beginning, middle, and the end that made me feel secure as an actor. Okay, okay, I like that. And then and then you decided I've done this. I've cried a lot. I've cried a lot. You have a lot of vizine up in the your boy. Yeah,

I don't know if it's viazine. I feel like you can do it. I can do it. No, but I'm saying to get my eyes back clear, get them back. I was like, I just wanted doing people to think that you like faking it. Yeah, it's real. Um. And then and then this movie, I was like, Wow, starting doing doing comedy now, Okay, no, it's amazing. It's amazing. I'll tell you why it's amazing. I'll tell you what amazing.

Tell you I've been lucky enough to meet you in real life, and you're one of the funniest, most charismatic people I know. But everyone on TV knows you. You you know, you stoic and you know, and then here you are playing a pasta in I mean, the movie is ridiculous. It's extremely funny. Tell me tell me how the project came about when someone who came up to you and said, you know what's starting. I want you to play a pasta of a megachurch that's involved in

a scandal and it's trying to bring it all back. Yeah. Yeah, So my manager read it first and then she said you should check it out. I think it's something you'd like because I also select variety and doing something completely different than randall right. They did a short you can find a short Home for Jesus short on YouTube. So I watched the short and I was like, this ship

is hysterical. I would like to do something hysterical. So then I read the script and it's funny, and it's also deeper than just being funny too, because it's like a critique of the church for people who actually love and grew up in these mega churches, which I did, but also said there's something that can be improved quite possibly. Oh no, definitely, And you know, something's something I always

talk about. Anyone who's grown up in the church knows this because there are there are many aspects of religion that have been abused by certain people for their own games, you know. So my mom would complain about. Mom was one of the most religious people I've ever known in my life. I would go to church six or seven times in a weekend and my mom would say, we're not going back to that church. And I'll say why, and she'd be like, why? Why does that pass to

have a ferrari? Now, what's going on? Where's the ferrari coming from? He doesn't have another job, so where's the ferrari coming from? I don't see anything in the Bible about ferrari's, do you know what I'm saying? And and and so what's what's interesting in this is you're not poking funded religion. You're talking about people who use people's love of religion to make a buck. That's right. I feel like all human institutions are valuable, whether they're secular

or non secular. You know what I'm saying. There's messages that can be gleaned from them that are important. You take the good, you leave the rest. Like you can't find a perfect church, you can't find a perfect government, you know. So that's the way I do. And so I my bed is more spiritual than religious at this particular time, because I just picked into if my mom praised for my immortal soul because she thinks I'm going but we cool because she loves me. It's a it's

a it's a power it's a power house team. You know, you're playing the Pasta. You've got Regina Hole who's playing you know, the first Lady of the church. She is one of the funniest human beings have exist, he really is. And then it's produced. I didn't know this, and so it's produced by Daniel Coloya and Jordan's him power house. We got a good thing. We got a good things.

It feels good. So so talk me through this because in the click that we're watching that you know you're seeing it looks a little bit like a documentary, but the film is is mockumentary style. It's mocumentary style. What happens is the scandal happens before the movie starts, and we're trying to figure out what the scandal is. The Pastor and the First Lady decided to decide to hire a or a documentary film crew to sort of chart

their sentence back to prominence, or so they hope. Because the documentary film because it was like, all right, I want to see what's going on. With these people and what makes them tick, whether they get back to their church or not. Maybe secondary So what he hopes that they'll use the documentary for it. How many takes did you did you have to redo because you were laughing at what Regina was saying. I'm pretty good at not breaking. Really, yeah,

I'm pretty good at not breaking. I don't know what it is because, like I feel like when an actor is being funny, I don't want to ruin their take. You understand what I'm saying. So if I break, it's like Nigro, I gotta do this over again, right, But if you stay in it, then just keep the vibe going and feed the more. You never know what kind of like oxygen their fire needs to like burn even hotter. So that's that's all you're trying to do, is just

feed the fire. Okay, okay, So so do you feel like now do you feel like you have a little bit of like this pasta and you do like did you pick up some of that that that mega church swag? I would say so a little bit. He likes his clothes. I'm starting to like clothes more. Yeah, yeah, I did. You're funny story my son growing up in the nineties, I used to sag a lot, like size thirty six, you know, shorts, even though my waist is like a thirty two. My son now when he sees me sagging,

he's like, Dad, people can see your under. My son eleven, people can see you under and literally comes up to me, pulls my pants out and holds them up at their waist. That's crazy. It's a generational it's a generational ship. So now you know, people try to put your boy in like tight fit, like this stuff is type right. Um, but I'm starting to get used to close it fit. I came home one day after o J and I had like some new clothes and my mama said, well,

you're finally wearing clothes that fits your body. I'm selling that. You also have one of the strongest topless games. You take your shirt off in this movie. No, no no, no, this is like one of those things where you just have to give the credit. You take your top off in this movie, and you are one of the most ripped, not just Pasta's but human beings. I was like, wow, Sterling, you've been you've been, You've been holding out on us. You don't get good. I appreciate it. Man. I try

to take care of myself. That's that's it, you know what I'm saying. I got an eleven year old in a seven year old, and my get My whole plan in life is to be able to play with them as long as I can. I waited a little longer to have these kids. I'm enjoying them so much. They have energy, so you have to have energy to keep up. That's that's the whole game. Play man, this Calder here. Thank you so much for joining on the show again.

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