… I called Quincy Jones one day, and I was like, ‘Man, what do I do?’ He wasn’t trying to be funny or nothing, but he said, ‘You ain’t gonna make it in that industry unless you got somebody who’s Jewish on your side.’Wendy, Dallas and I went to Elizabeth Gabler, who was the head of Fox 2000. And those super close shots usually are Snoop.We filmed that part a couple of times because I couldn’t feel my frickin’ fingers … my fingers were frozen. It was great to see how committed he was to this part.Nick was dedicated to getting better. So it was like boxers before a fight, all that trash-talking.I was kind of stoking that fire a little bit, supporting both sides to bring it, you know? You see all these movies where they cut to the double. All of those things wrapped up in one.It’s the fifth quarter.
Get him over here.’ He left from our side and went over to Morris Brown.The percussion instructor brought me over to see what Morris Brown had cooking up. The Hawkeye Marching Band has a rich and storied past at The University of Iowa.From its beginnings as a fledgling group in the Military Department to the 250-member marching musical ensemble it is today, the HMB is considered to be one of the finest collegiate marching bands in America. Dallas pitched her.He told us these stories about how ‘halftime was game time’ in the South, and it was not about the football game as much as it was about the marching band. When you see that last and final cadence, that’s probably the one I worked on the hardest, and you get to actually see. Participants must attend both days. It was late at night. He primarily writes on sneakers/apparel and hosts the platform’s “Sneaker Box” video series.
I had been doing Nickelodeon work, and he was like, ‘I want you to be Nick had raw talent … a boyishness that didn’t feel manufactured, or like he was performing. … It was a real battle. He was also so passionate to get the job.I got the call and … I’m gonna be honest, I was just happy to have booked a job. Everything is pounding internally. Morris Brown really checked dude … like, ‘Hey, what are you doing? By that time … I’d picked up all of the cadences.As the story goes, the competition ended in a tie between Morris Brown and Atlanta A&T, whose Jackson 5-inspired, old school-meets-new-school routine was nothing short of amazing. Nick stayed up pretty much all night long in the hotel, working.We really did stay up all night, just drilling, drilling, drilling. They were not Hollywood. It just wasn’t as cool to be in the marching band until These interviews have been edited for clarity and length.Aaron Dodson is a sports and culture writer at The Undefeated. Nick went to work. I’ll never forget that feeling.
… The choreographer with the dancers, Glenda Morton, she did the same thing with Zoe.
The stuff that we were doing in comparison to what we were doing in I come from New York, and my sister stepped in high school as a cheerleader, but I didn’t really know that much about the whole Southern HBCU band and dance culture. I thought he was fine in his audition, but I liked I met with Charles over at Fox.
… When I talk to these college band directors, and they see their band program in It was part music movie, part sports movie, part superhero origin story. When they came back, it was war. To decide which band would emerge as victor, each team’s drumlines went toe-to-toe. They were offering us $15 million.First, it was a $13 million movie, which is a lot for an urban film, so to speak, at that time.
… I definitely trained a lot … by the end, I felt like I could drop it like it’s hot.We worked the crap out of those guys and they took it. I had actually had a conversation with Charles the night before.
We were a drumline that was built in a couple of weeks. In addition to these "split" parts, bass drummers will also have In indoor drumline competitions, however, various groups may not necessarily place the front ensemble at the "front" as the name suggests. Cinematographer Hurlbut envisioned the scene taking shape in a huge tunnel, like the one the USC football team emerges from at the 93,000-seat I was like, ‘All right. If he could do it with kids, then of course he could put a fictional band together that would be just as good.I feel like I owe them all apologies. Not just the drumline, but everyone.’They’re in this tunnel and you can hear the thumping and the noise outside, the cheering and stuff, but it’s muffled. … All the lights would drop out except for the overheads on the field.Nick was hell-bent … ‘I’m doing all my scenes. … Charles and Shane did a great job.Everything about it felt like I was in a dream, but it felt like I had walked this dream before in real life.“When Devon is going onto the field for the first time — go back and watch The sound hits you like a wave. We’d show up to set, eyes red.
Snoop was the best.All Nick carried around with him throughout that time were drumsticks. By that time, we were a well-oiled machine.What you saw was real. She never let up.I thought it was a little odd for her at first because there’s such a sassy, black Southern girl thing that goes along with it. If you watch the last drum battle, it’s nothing but wide shots. We kept going over the cadences. We did that.Nick and myself arrived two weeks prior to everyone else’s first day. … They took it up a whole notch and elevated the routine. Due the fact that there is often more than one drum, various visuals can be used when performing drum changes such as "cross-overs" or "sweeps". Then, learning more about what these kids go through, it was just like a sport, you know?