Superfly's Trevor Jackson & Jason Mitchell's First Impressions

What up Young Hollywood? I am here with Trevor Jackson and Jason Mitchell.

What is?

What's Gucci?

We are living life right now, I'd say.

Yeah yeah yeah, everything's good.

I can tell. Well, welcome back.

Thank you.

And welcome.

First time.

It's so good to see you guys.

Yes.

For real.

We're very excited. So, can we please talk about Superfly? Please.

Let's do it.

Superfly is about the hair, the fashion, the women, the cars. It's all a part of the look. That's Superfly.

Only guac-amole.

Yes.

Kind of That's how I feel.

Exactly. Like guac-amole.

No, like billboards everywhere.

Yeah, wild. Wild man. In New York, in like everywhere, yeah.

So, when you guys saw the, the billboards, first thought. What did you guys do? Did you snap?

Those are like the things that inspire you to, you know, want to do it. Uh not the sole reason, but it's a, it's a part of it. So to be able to see, yeah. Right? So to be able to see uh just everything kind of come to fruition and just see all the hard work kind of be put out to in front of the world is kind of wild. They don't tell you that part. You know what I mean? They have like a lot

They don't tell you what?

Like when it's going up or when they're gonna start advertising or anything like that. You just drive down the road. Yeah, you know, you're like Oh, you're about to wreck your car. You know what I mean? Like, cuz you see yourself. It's crazy. Like, you know what I mean?

So, have you guys worked together before?

No.

No.

It feel like Yeah, it feels like we know each other forever. It's weird.

So how was the chemistry when you guys first got on set?

First day it was rocky. Second day, best friends forever.

Wait, stop. What do you what do you mean rocky?

No, it's just cuz you know, we were both trying to feel each other. Like, this who's this guy? Who's this guy? And you got the interesting

And you got the tail. What's what is he using the tail?

Right. So, but uh and then the second day, you know, we just kind of got more to know each other and really communicate. We just have so many similar values and and morals and why we do it and uh you know, how we love to entertain and just focus on our craft and Yeah. He's a good guy, man. And that's I think that's more important than anything that you work with anybody that you work with is they got to be good people.

Absolutely.

Gotta have good hearts and he definitely.

When's your birthday?

August 30th. So, you are a Virgo.

When's yours?

I'm a Capricorn. I'm January 5th.

Mm. Very compatible.

Yeah. I'm like I'm that guy.

Oh, that's what I was gonna say. As soon as you asked me, I was like, oh, he's that guy. In my head. Get away from me. Get away from me. In my head, I was like, he's that guy. You just asked me about. I hate you so much.

What are you?

I'm an Aries.

Aries. Yeah. Okay. My sister's an Aries.

Oh, I like I'm compatible with all of you.

Yeah. No. Aries are like, yeah. Okay. No, Aries. No, I know a lot of Aries. Aries are very cool.

Excuse me while I google this. Goodbye. What an Aries in their fashion? So, so hair. To me, that was the very first thing that I saw aside from the amazing trailer, your hair. Legendary. That press and curl was

Yeah. Me, Joel, and X went back and forth uh when, you know, when we had all the test, we were doing curly and I was like, but it has to be straight because the original straight. And then we finally came to uh the agreement on making it. And the lady, I gotta give a shout out to Andrea. She's our the head of our hair department and she they killed it. I love it.

So, please tell us about your character. Eddie.

Uh my character Eddie is I mean, pretty much everything I am and Trevor now. I had to sort of start in in this this whole career as like sort of the people's champ, you know what I mean? And and I'm now in this sort of this groove, you know what I mean? And Trevor, he jumps in sort of brand new, you know what I mean? And and he has to count on me and he has to trust me with everything. And that's what my character is built on. Just strictly trust and love and loyalty. You know what I mean? But it's a wild ride though, you know. Definitely. Sometimes you think Eddie's gonna jump ship. Uh oh. He never really going to. I knew that. Sorry, it's a thing we do.

Clearly, you guys you can tell that you have been around.

Yeah.

That's for sure.

each other. So, you guys shot in ATL, right?

ATL.

How was that?

That was amazing. Food, always on point. And there's some

What'd you eat? Like your go-to.

My go-to is Ubar wings. Lemon pepper wings. Um

Oh yeah. Fire.

Bae bae bae. Yes. What about four sides of ranch?

So, how many hours were you guys on set a day?

17.

17.

Really?

Yeah, easily. That's one thing that I love about him because I'm He's only the person I've met that's like me where we can literally sleep and wake up and be ready to do anything. Like we have five minute break. We're like, we got five minutes, cool. Ready? Uh, just let's go. And go, you know what I mean? Right. But you got to get it in. How you gonna get it? Cuz you're not gonna get it.

Yeah. We're like bums. Like, just fall asleep anywhere. They got a scene. They got a scene where he's like legit waking me up. But I was legit sleep.

Really?

Sleep? For the take. I was like, he's like, how are you falling asleep that fast? Easy. You you get it when you can get it, right?

Oh my God. I love it. Get it in. Lastly, one word to describe Superfly. Besides Superfly.

Okay, yeah, that very Don't do it. Yeah. The credit credit. What did they come up with? Okay. Um, one word to describe Superfly is epic.

Mm. Ooh, I like that.

I'll take that. I'd say timeless.

Mm. I love that. All right. I I right from the vernacular. I'm about it. I'm about it. I love that. Sweet. You guys, congratulations on everything.

Thank you man.

For sure man.

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