Thanks for having me.

I appreciate it, man.

Congratulations on what has been a beautiful, steady and yet meteoric rise.

At the same time it's been gets been, it's been all right.

It really has been amazing for me.

It was It was interesting because, I mean, I told you this backstage, but I saved a comb and I was like, I'm gonna watch this movie.

I want to find the right day when I'm there with my TV got everything set up and I saved.

And then, like, I watched Aquaman and then immediately watch watchman like, I just watched us as well, Like a little here and there, everywhere.

But at the same time, it doesn't feel like you ever were.

Always changes.

Yeah, it's one of my gifts.

You know, having a having a beard that connects been ableto mustache, being able to grow an Afro.

Right?

You know, I wonder if you have fans who don't even know that they like you feel like that.

You have a fan, have a fan base.

Who's Justin like d C?

I do.

I do absolutely have have fans from from a so called to get down.

That was on.

They don't Sometimes they don't know that I'm the same person that was in, Let's say, the greatest showman, right?

Right.

People from the greatest showman definitely don't know that I was in Bay Watts.

It already is.

It really is amazing career that you that you're forming.

What's cool is you.

You have this presence on screen, but at the same time you can blend in and be anybody.

Um, watchman, though, is just like it feels like it's become bigger than just a showed feel.

A cultural phenomenon.

Yeah.

No, it's a powerful story.

What I found interesting was you didn't know what you would be doing in the show.

No, no, no.

I thought I signed up to play where Gina King's husband on an HBO.

You know what I mean?

I see the breakdown, it says cow, and he says, Well, he's, you know, kind of mysterious and something like get married to Regina King.

My HBO signed me up, all right, and it was cool.

And then it turned into something that was just really, really a gift.

I had already shot the first, the first episode, and maybe even the second.

And then I had a conversation with Damon and he let me in.

Let me in on the big on the big secret about it.

It's been a cultural phenomenon for so many reasons.

One, because it's a brilliant explanation, exploration of like, comic book characters and like that world.

But then at the same time, because it's based on something that happened in America.

You know, House Oklahoma is one of those stories where you watch the beginning of watchman and a lot of people go like, Wow, this is a wild story.

Yeah, but then people actually started searching and known that it was a true story.

Yeah.

Do you think that's part of the reason that it impacts?

So many people were watching this show.

It's It's a It's an absurd and fantastical look at a real world.

Yeah, well, watchman parallels in a lot of ways.

Our world, our United States, and so a lot of the a lot of these stories, you know, these action figures, stories they don't always use events from real history.

Watchman is a show that says Okay, well, you know what?

We're gonna say something about America.

We're gonna use real American history and it seems shocking.

We're going to shoot it on a scale that is unbelievable, right?

It's actually the truth.

You know, this, this history, these massacres that took place in Oklahoma, there actually true.

And our show, we say, yes, this happened.

And then we see the repercussions as that trauma is passed down from generation to generation to generation.

Three generations later, we see it.

We see Angela Angela, a bar still dealing with the trauma off off 100 years ago, right, right, right.

Which is which is, which is something that actually still happens today.

That's that's what really has made so powerful is almost explains the legacy of systemic racism.

It explains the legacy of so many things that people go like, Oh, that happened so long ago and you realize how it can have a knock on effect.

One other part of the show that I think makes it really successful is you being topless or naked in a I see a couple out there who are just not there, not impressed.

They haven't seen because they haven't seen it.

That's what that is.

But I feel like if people write you into a movie or a show?

They have to.

They have to find a way to get you to take a No, because you have an amazing body.

You do, babe.

You appreciate you too.

Although you have an amazing But I was expecting to come on a good couple.

But you know, I wonder, do they ever do they ever, like, Do they ever like, right in, like, a weird way was just like And then there's a fire in the living room and he takes a shot to put out the fire, right?

Like, are you ever like self conscious and anywhere about that, or you just like, No, I have a six pack.

So this is what I'm gonna do.

You know, this is the thing.

I don't always have a six pack.

I just tend to find myself perpetually getting getting ready for roles that require me to work out.

But the day, the last day, like a watchman, for example, the last day that I shot that I stopped going to the gym months, right?

I just got back into the gym about a one month ago, but I took a five month hiatus because I don't enjoy working out.

So So Wait.

So are you doing this to prepare for Matrix Fall?

Currently, I'm working out to prepare for the Matrix.

Yes.

I mean, Major Export Theo thistles.

You.

This'd is like that.

That movie, like was one of my maybe my top three favorite movies of all time The Matrix.

And I mean, like, everyone was so shocked when they announced they were caressing, making making matrix for you know, you've got Chiana reason this, but you're gonna be in it as well.

I mean, that's insane.

To be part of such a huge franchise.

Yes.

Wow.

I mean, I think we're gonna tell a really, really exciting story or a story that's relevant to the time.

So, personally, I'm excited about the about the technology because you see what they did in 1999 with that with that technology, it still holds up.

And so I'm really excited, you know, to get in there in the play, but also, you know, to be a fan of it and see what we're gonna do 20 years later And how, given how much technology has advanced right and go in hopefully hopefully take my shirt off in the majors because some of these people are happy.

And you know what?

I'm not gonna be mad either.

Well, thank you so much.

Congratulations.

And now yeah, yeah.

Doing my team the second everybody.