This may not be much news, but I found this interesting and maybe you will too. If not, too bad. Just enjoy the fact that I am posting about Terry Crews and his awesomeness. Anyway, I was reading Terry Crews’s AMA on Reddit when I saw someone mentioned how he got the part. Interesting enough, we learn that Terry Crews is a Major Lazer fan, Diplo fan, and also loves drum & bass! Here’s how he recounts the story:
AW THIS IS A GREAT STORY, great story.
I had been listening to Major Lazer for YEARS. I’m a big fan of Diplo, and all his music. And it’s great workout music. I have to run angry, okay? hahaha! When I’m on the treadmill, I love drum & bass, a lot of alternative, and Major Lazer – I listen to that album from beginning to end!
So I get a call from my manager, and he says… you know, there’s this group, I don’t know if you ever heard of ’em, Major Lazer, they’re doing a video, and they were asking if you would be interested? I was going to just pass, but you told me to tell you everything – because i have this rule for my agent / manager, which is “I don’t care if someone wants me to do the State Fair Pie-eating Contest – LET ME KNOW. Because i want the right to say YES or NO.”
And he said “I was gonna pass, but I remembered you told me to bring you everything” and I went “MY GOD! MAJOR LAZER IS MY FAVORITE GROUP OF ALL TIME!” and he went “I am so glad i brought it to you!” and I said “I will do it for free! I will show up!”
We shot it downtown LA, it was over 3 days, and it was a BLAST. Lauren London was on there, and we had vampires, and all this, and it was just one of the BEST EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE. See – you have to understand – I never do anything for money. Ever. I do it for the creativity, for the excitement – I need to feel like something amazing is happening. And anybody who sees the video will know that it was incredible.
And listen – if they ever do a Major Lazer movie: that’s me.