“When this film came up, the studio wanted me to look 28,” said Ealy, 40, who had to be often shirtless and occasionally nude in this contemporary look at sex, dating and relationships. For Michael Ealy, “About Last Night” was both a big break and nearly his undoing. I like being involved behind the camera, I’m learning the tricks of the trade in terms of producing, I’m learning about independent financing, I’m, I’m absorbing as much as I can, and, you know, being able to spend time on set and not have to shoot is when you really start to understand what producing is about being involved before the cameras start rolling, pre-production and understanding, you know, what that really entails, all of that is, is what I’m kind of taking in.BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. HR: You were an executive producer on the film, what was that experience like, is this something you want to do more or in the future?Įaly: Absolutely, if I could executive produce one out of three or two out of three of my projects, that would be great. We’re going to do more projects together, for sure. But now that we have worked together, we already know how we want to, you know, how we want to approach things, what we want to do moving forward. And so it was like, it was almost like, why haven’t we worked together? Before now, and we talk about it to this day, we were talking about it last night like, it makes no sense why we didn’t work together until now. And even though I didn’t grow up in New York, you know, I felt like, you know, kids all around could identify with what he was going through peer pressure, you know, an unstable friend, all these things. And, you know, that was my childhood, right? So I was a kid around the same age as him, so I could identify what he was going through. The first time I saw Omar Epps was in Juice. HR: What was it like working next to Omar Epps?Įaly: Working with Omar, for me, it was kind of surreal because you know, I was sitting across the table from Q from Juice. And so this project was kind of that segway into what it’s like to be a part of a big family, especially a tight-knit family, and what happens when someone’s actions begin to expose all of the cracks? You know, in that foundation, that is the family itself. And I always wanted to be a part of that. And but I knew people who came from, you know, families with, you know, four and five, six brothers are six, you know, four brothers and two sisters. And then we hug in class like that, and then we hug. And what happens when conflict happens between siblings on, you know, like, on a grander scale, because I grew up with just one sister, so we just clash like that. And I always wondered what it was like to grow up in a bigger family. And it’s just this human story about a family. There’s no capes, you know, there’s no dragons, nothing like that. It’s just old-school storytelling and there’s just a lot of human storytelling going on. Because I felt like this script was kind of like the films I grew up watching, right. Michael Ealy: So, it was bigger than just the role, like when I read the script. Hidden Remote: What attracted you to the role in this film? *Please note: The interview below has been edited for length and clarity The Devil You Know star Michael Ealy interview Hidden Remote had the pleasure of speaking with Michael Ealy about his role in the film, working with Omar Epps, and if he wants to executive produce any more films in the future.Ĭheck out the video version of the interview here. Ealy was also an Executive Producer on the film. But as his brother seems to find himself in trouble, he finds himself trending back down a bad path. Since then, we have seen him in movies like Seven Pounds, Takers and in TV shows like The Following and Secrets and Lies, and more recently in Bel-Air.Įaly plays a detective in the film The Devil You Know which tells the story of a man (Omar Epps) who has the chance to turn his life around. Hidden Remote got to sit down with one of the stars of the film, Michael Ealy.Įaly has been acting for over twenty years now, and caught his big break as Ricky Nash in Barbershop. The Devil You Know hit AMC theaters this past weekend. By Ricky Valero 5 months ago Follow Tweet
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