Actor O’Shea Jackson would not thoughts being thought-about a ‘nepo child;’ his father’s title and success have opened doorways for him.
The entertainer was on a latest episode of And Get Got Pod with Marshawn Lynch & Mike Robinsonand denied having to “fight” the time period. Jackson, 34, is the oldest little one of Ice Cube and his spouse, Kimberly Woodruff.
“I recommend it for everybody. You not about to make me feel
bad about that, bro,” Jackson mentioned, as seen within the clip beneath. “My dad works hard, you know? My dad loved me. I’m sorry that it didn’t work out the same way for you.”
The actor added that being known as a “nepo baby” appears to be a “dig,” nevertheless it’s unimaginable to make him “feel bad” about it.
“I will say being a second generation, as far as in a life of wealth, a lot of your fire and a lot of your drive got to be internal,” Jackson continued.
“The things that my father had to deal with, that’s an external flame and that will help a lot of us get out of situations,” he added.
Jackson additionally recounted leaving the University of Southern California in his second yr to painting his father in 2015 N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton. The function took two years for him to land.
“So that mean I’m at home watching all my friends graduate without me on Instagram,” he mentioned. “That’s fear. They hitting me like, ‘Yo, so what’s going on
with the movie?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know.’ That’s fear.
“My siblings relied on me to get it executed. My cousins relied on me to get it executed to place our household’s title in leisure perpetually via this movie. … This is gasoline to my hearth. And then as soon as I did it, I nonetheless received individuals questioning me? So now that is much more. So, yeah, I feed off that hate.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Jackson said that for the initial two weeks of filming, he felt “nervous” and “awkward,” and sought positive feedback from director F. Gary Gray.
Earlier this year, Jackson recalled on Sway’s Universe that Gray thought him being considered for the role of Cube was a “joke.”
“He did not inform me throughout that ‘trigger [my father] knew that will have simply pissed me off,” Jackson said. “But it is simply little issues that I had to make use of to construct my hearth.”