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On the Set of 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' ft. 50 Cent & Joy Bryant (2005) | You Had To Be There - YouTube
Channel: MTV Vault
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(people chatter)
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- Hey everybody, this is SuChin Pak
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with MTV News here in Toronto, Canada,
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on the set of 50's very first movie
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'Get Rich or Die Tryin'.'
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In fact, they're shooting
a club scene just behind me
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and you know we're the first ones on set.
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And if you're wondering
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whether or not he could pull this off,
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50 has some words for you.
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- All right, so I was
trying to do research
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about the film and there's
very little out there.
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So I want to know everything
I can possibly know.
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What, first of all, what is
the actual title of the film?
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Do we have an official?
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- The title is 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'.'
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- Yeah.
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- And you know, it made sense enough to me
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to do it because so many people
always associate that title
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'Get Rich or Die Tryin''
with me as an artist.
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And we talked about it,
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we went through a ton of titles,
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like, so, many different things.
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We went from 'Locked and
Loaded' to 'Hustler's Ambition',
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and there were so many other ideas for it,
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and then 'Get Rich or Die Tryin''
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just felt like the
simple way to resolve it.
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- [SuChin] Now, how did the whole project
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even come together?
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Was it something where
you wanted to do this film
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and you brought it and you
got everybody together?
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Did they come to you?
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- Yeah, well actually I spoke...
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It was me and Jimmy Iovine,
and then Paul Rosenberg,
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you know, got involved.
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It's great, I got a great team.
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And we met with Jim Sheridan first,
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And afterwards we began
developing the script.
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- [Crew Member] Like,
walk and talk to the set
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maybe as you go, you show her
where are you going and stuff?
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- [50 Cent] Okay.
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- [50 Cent] Then, when we come–
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- [50 Cent] Y'all gonna leave after this?
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- [SuChin] No, no, no
we're staying here all day.
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- [50 Cent] So I show you outside.
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- So what is this?
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Your traveling...
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- Yeah, this is, like, –
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- Music studio?
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- My traveling music studio.
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So I get a chance to take y'all in there,
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show you how I'm gonna record
the soundtrack to this film.
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- All day you film and
you're working all day
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and then you come here to
work on the soundtrack.
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- Yeah.
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Right now it's lunch.
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So I will be going back here.
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- No time for eating or sleeping or?
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- Regular people eat and sleep.
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(SuChin laughs)
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- [SuChin] Okay.
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Wow.
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It's a whole studio in
here on wheels, huh?
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- This is where I make
music while I'm on set.
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- Yeah.
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All right, so you're working
on the soundtrack, obviously
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while you're filming. That's probably
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a really good way to work on a soundtrack.
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'Cause you're sort of there.
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- Yeah, while I'm in character.
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I'm writing the songs in characters.
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It's just different.
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- [SuChin] What does that mean?
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I mean, tell me about the character.
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- I'm writing things that Marcus would say
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opposed to the things
that 50 Cent would say.
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I'm writing it as Marcus.
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I gotta create records to
actually have substance
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that comes from the actual films,
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opposed to material I'm
gonna create as 50 Cent
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and what goes on in my life regularly.
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- [SuChin] Is that constricting?
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Or is it actually liberating?
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- [50 Cent] It's constricting
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but because you're using your imagination
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to find what will go on,
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and then it's kind of broad to
kind of go wherever you want.
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- [SuChin] So what do you think?
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You're gonna win an Oscar?
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- Well, I think anything's possible.
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I think I want a trophy.
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- [Crew Member] I think
they gonna get him out,
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just show the booth quickly
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so they know he's rapping here too.
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- [SuChin] Okay.
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- You getting this? Are you gettin' this?
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- [Crew Member] I'm getting this.
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(SuChin laughs)
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- Okay, right this right here
says "Da Club" right here.
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I put that there for
short for "In da Club."
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That's the joint that made
all of this stuff possible.
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I'm gonna show you, this the booth.
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- Can I go in?
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- Look, bam, it's the soundproof booth.
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And that's how it looks,
when you're in there.
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- All right, so let's
talk about this film.
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What, who do you play?
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And what is sort of the
plotline of the film?
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- Well, I play Charlene,
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who is a childhood friend
of Marcus, who is 50 Cent.
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And she moves away when
she's young and he sees her,
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she resurfaces like 10 years later or so,
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and then they, you know, get together.
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So that's the love story line.
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Kind of you know, it's included
in the whole gangster world
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and you know, they have a baby,
you know, that whole thing.
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So she's just the girl from
the hood that was sent away
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but actually came back
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and ended up right where her
parents didn't want her to be.
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- What was your initial reaction
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when this project was approached?
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- Well, when it was approached,
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it was approached with the
whole thing of, you know,
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50's life story which,
you know, we kind of,
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we know the whole thing about
him getting shot nine times.
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But I wasn't aware of
exactly his entire story
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and where he came from,
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how he came up and stuff,
and then the facts.
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So that was really interesting.
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Then the fact that Jim
Sheridan was attached to it,
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I mean, who wouldn't
want to work with him?
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- So when you're working on a scene,
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what scene actually are
you working on today?
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- There's a club scene.
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It's actually so rapid
and dangerous in the film.
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And I kind of write a diss record
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that kind of ruins his career.
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(SuChin laughs)
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I ain't gonna tell you
who that is, for real,
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but everybody knows who that is.
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(50 Cent laughs)
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- [SuChin] Snuck that in there.
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- [50 Cent] Yeah.
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- [SuChin] When did the
acting bug first hit you?
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- Well, when opportunities came.
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(SuChin laughs)
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- So you were one of those kids
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reciting lines from your favorite movies?
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- Yeah, I always did that.
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And in the mirror, you said a
line from the film, what you.
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I watched some films over
and over, and over time.
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I know them.
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- Like what?
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- 'Goodfellas.'
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'Heat.'
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- Give me a line from 'Goodfellas.'
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- Oh man, there's a million of 'em.
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"You think I'm a joke?
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Think I'm here to amuse you?"
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Joe Pesci.
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We got mister shiny right there.
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(group laughs)
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- [Director] Okay, high
energy and playback.
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(hip-hop music)
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♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ I'm dangerous ♪
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♪ They call it lock, all right ♪
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(raps)
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(people chattering)
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- [Crew Member] Let's just see how far
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we can make this roll and then...
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- [Director] Go ahead,
you look at me kiddo.
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That look is there.
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Now 50's looking at me.
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Look at me, 50.
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You sit down.
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You're looking at Justice now.
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That's it.
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That's that, isn't it?
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If you look at when we're
over there, this way.
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Okay, it's good.
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It's good in the middle of all that.
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All right, from -
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You come in here.
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Thank you.
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Here we go,
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and action.
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- [Tory] What's up, baby?
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How you doing?
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