Will Packer and Shaye Ogbonna join The Big Tigger Morning Show to discuss Peacock's all new limited series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. Will Packer also discusses his part-ownership of the Atlanta Falcons, how he almost casted Big Tigger on a show, why Terrence Howard was wearing a wig, and FAMU's recent win. 

Will Packer and Shaye Ogbonna join The Big Tigger Morning Show to discuss Peacock's all new limited series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. Will Packer also discusses his part-ownership of the Atlanta Falcons, how he almost casted Big Tigger on a show, why Terrence Howard was wearing a wig, and FAMU's recent win.

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Tyrese Gibson and Christopher Ammanuel recently joined Audacy Atlanta V-103’s The Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee to discuss their new film 1992, working with Ray Liotta, and more.

“So listen, y'all, we got a movie called 1992,” Tyrese expressed, going on to introduce newcomer Ammanuel, “Chris plays my son, and there's a lot of tension between me and his brother throughout the movie because he don't understand what he don't understand.”

Adding, “And that's what y'all need to understand about what you don't understand, you understand?”

Getting serious after that, to discuss the movie, Tyrese explained, “the movie is about the 1992 riots. Y'all remember that really, really traumatic experience.” Adding, “I won't just say it was traumatic for us as Black and Brown culture, it was traumatic for everybody to watch that footage of them beating Rodney King, beating that man, black and blue, literally killed him, brought him back to life. They got so tired while they was beaten, they were taking turns.”

Going on to say, “So instead of Ray Liotta, rest in peace, and his crew caring about what was actually going on on April 29th, 1992, they decided to break into a warehouse and steal 50 million in platinum bars out of a safe.”

“So it's a heist movie… You’re gonna see about three minutes of riot and looting in the movie because that's what happened when we got mad… But while they was riot and looting, they looked at that as a distraction and said, well, if you call 911, it's probably gonna take them about 4-5 hours to show up.”

In addition to a heist movie, the film also has the father/son relationship. Explaining the dynamic between their two characters in the film, Tyrese said, “So Chris is my son, he’s in my life,” noting “not gonna give that part away but he's in my life suddenly after I wasn't in his life, and he don't wanna listen, just like the rest of these youngsters out here.”

Tyrese also mentioned he was actually present for the 1992 riots, revealing “I was really scared. I mean, it was about five weeks of not seeing the sun. There was so much smoke and soot in the air, ashes was all over the cars. Anything in your whole neighborhood, your house, your grass, your streets all covered in ashes because it was so many things burning, you know, so many whole neighborhoods looting, rioting, it was crazy.”

Though having had experienced the riots first hand, Tyrese expressed, “I would have never did this movie if it was a movie about riot and looting.”

“I did this movie because of the father/son dynamic," Tyrese said, shifting his index finger back and forth between him and Chris. “Because of the father/son dynamic with Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood.”

“They're all goons… they rob banks… they do heists,” he said of Liotta and Eastwood’s characters. “They was like, ‘while y'all Black and Brown people mad at what happened with the verdict, we about to go get this money.’” Calling the movie “the most diverse film that's ever happened out of South Central LA.”

Go down the list — Colors, Menace II Society, Boys n the Hood, Poetic Justice, Baby Boy, Training Day, Straight Out of Compton. "You've never seen as many white people in one South Central LA film.”

“And you know, only I can say this,” Tyrese nonchalantly added, “this is The Fast and the Furious of South Central movies, with that much diversity, and I'm proud of that. Because normally when you have Black culture and Black topics, if white people is in there in the hood it’s normally them just being police officers doing bad things to us. So this is a movie I'm very proud about.”

“But all jokes aside," Tyrese explained that actor Christopher Ammanuel, is "definitely the future, people are gonna be blown away when they see this young brother and what he's bringing.”

Talking about the project from his perspective, Chris said, “We knew what was ahead of us when we got there. I think just reading the script, we kind of already had this preset position on how we are to show up on set and translate this relationship. This very unfortunate relationship, but familiar relationship to the audience… and we jump straight into it, improving scenes, rewriting things, trying to make it work, trying to make it feel as dysfunctional as possible because that's what it is.”

Chris continued sharing his intentions to “pull out Tyrese’s best performance out of him ever,” as well as talking about what it was like to work with the late Ray Liotta. “Ray is the most intense person I've ever worked with and I've worked with some intense people including him.” Noting, “Ray didn't talk to me for two weeks, because he method acts, so he, rest in peace, he locks in and if he doesn't like you in the story, he don't like you in real life until he likes you.”

The pair continued conversing about the film, sharing a couple behind-the-scenes stories. Tyrese opened up about being in tune with his emotions, shared his views on relationships, and more. To catch it all, check out the entire interview above.

Words by Maia Kedem Interview by The Big Tigger Morning Show

Tyrese Gibson and Christopher Ammanuel recently joined Audacy Atlanta V-103’s The Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee to discuss their new film 1992, working with Ray Liotta, and more.
“So listen, y'all, we got a movie called 1992,” Tyrese expressed, going on to introduce newcomer Ammanuel, “Chris plays my son, and there's a lot of tension between me and his brother throughout the movie because he don't understand what he don't understand.”
Adding, “And that's what y'all need to understand about what you don't understand, you understand?”
Getting serious after that, to discuss the movie, Tyrese explained, “the movie is about the 1992 riots. Y'all remember that really, really traumatic experience.” Adding, “I won't just say it was traumatic for us as Black and Brown culture, it was traumatic for everybody to watch that footage of them beating Rodney King, beating that man, black and blue, literally killed him, brought him back to life. They got so tired while they was beaten, they were taking turns.”
Going on to say, “So instead of Ray Liotta, rest in peace, and his crew caring about what was actually going on on April 29th, 1992, they decided to break into a warehouse and steal 50 million in platinum bars out of a safe.”
“So it's a heist movie… You’re gonna see about three minutes of riot and looting in the movie because that's what happened when we got mad… But while they was riot and looting, they looked at that as a distraction and said, well, if you call 911, it's probably gonna take them about 4-5 hours to show up.”
In addition to a heist movie, the film also has the father/son relationship. Explaining the dynamic between their two characters in the film, Tyrese said, “So Chris is my son, he’s in my life,” noting “not gonna give that part away but he's in my life suddenly after I wasn't in his life, and he don't wanna listen, just like the rest of these youngsters out here.”
Tyrese also mentioned he was actually present for the 1992 riots, revealing “I was really scared. I mean, it was about five weeks of not seeing the sun. There was so much smoke and soot in the air, ashes was all over the cars. Anything in your whole neighborhood, your house, your grass, your streets all covered in ashes because it was so many things burning, you know, so many whole neighborhoods looting, rioting, it was crazy.”
Though having had experienced the riots first hand, Tyrese expressed, “I would have never did this movie if it was a movie about riot and looting.”
“I did this movie because of the father/son dynamic," Tyrese said, shifting his index finger back and forth between him and Chris. “Because of the father/son dynamic with Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood.”
“They're all goons… they rob banks… they do heists,” he said of Liotta and Eastwood’s characters. “They was like, ‘while y'all Black and Brown people mad at what happened with the verdict, we about to go get this money.’” Calling the movie “the most diverse film that's ever happened out of South Central LA.”
Go down the list — Colors, Menace II Society, Boys n the Hood, Poetic Justice, Baby Boy, Training Day, Straight Out of Compton. "You've never seen as many white people in one South Central LA film.”
“And you know, only I can say this,” Tyrese nonchalantly added, “this is The Fast and the Furious of South Central movies, with that much diversity, and I'm proud of that. Because normally when you have Black culture and Black topics, if white people is in there in the hood it’s normally them just being police officers doing bad things to us. So this is a movie I'm very proud about.”
“But all jokes aside," Tyrese explained that actor Christopher Ammanuel, is "definitely the future, people are gonna be blown away when they see this young brother and what he's bringing.”
Talking about the project from his perspective, Chris said, “We knew what was ahead of us when we got there. I think just reading the script, we kind of already had this preset position on how we are to show up on set and translate this relationship. This very unfortunate relationship, but familiar relationship to the audience… and we jump straight into it, improving scenes, rewriting things, trying to make it work, trying to make it feel as dysfunctional as possible because that's what it is.”
Chris continued sharing his intentions to “pull out Tyrese’s best performance out of him ever,” as well as talking about what it was like to work with the late Ray Liotta. “Ray is the most intense person I've ever worked with and I've worked with some intense people including him.” Noting, “Ray didn't talk to me for two weeks, because he method acts, so he, rest in peace, he locks in and if he doesn't like you in the story, he don't like you in real life until he likes you.”
The pair continued conversing about the film, sharing a couple behind-the-scenes stories. Tyrese opened up about being in tune with his emotions, shared his views on relationships, and more. To catch it all, check out the entire interview above.
Words by Maia Kedem Interview by The Big Tigger Morning Show

V-103's Big Tigger Morning Show: Tyrese & Christopher Ammanuel of '1992'

Audacy’s  Danie B. at V-103 in Atlanta sat down for a chat with Honest Renovations hosts Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis to get into some details about the project as season two of their show is now streaming on Roku.

Best friends Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis are back for another round of surprise renovations, helping families take their homes from “cluttered and chaotic to functional and fabulous.”

“We do a big casting process. It's interesting, it's kind of an art because we want to find families that are relatable… diversity is really important to us,” Jessica says. “We wanted to not only have the obvious ethnic diversity but also just diversity in the types of families that we are showing,”

“So, we have a single mom with a baby, we have a family with seven kids, three are out of the house, we have another family that has four kids,” she explains. “Just showing different ages and stages of families going through different things with family, dealing with illness, another family dealing with loss, another one that has a child that has different needs. For us, it's diversity in every aspect of what that looks like.”

“But we really strive to not be typical,” says Lizzy. Thinking of typical home renovation shows as “cookie-cutter,” she says you “see the before, you see the after, you see a couple things in between. For us, at the heart of our show is the families. We thought about: How do we make a show that still gives the love of interior design and the love of a home renovation show, but flip it on its head and make it more relatable where people can really have takeaways that feel a little bit more special than just the house.”

Getting a budget together to help these incredible families is all thanks to their amazing partners and sponsors, “but we do only have one budget,” Lizzy says. “We have one master budget to work with and we have to split it up between all the houses. It all kind of depends on what house needs what, what we're able to do in every house -- but we can't do everything in every house.”

The idea for this project, Lizzy tells us, stems from her and Jessica’s longtime friendship and wish to one day work on something special together. “We didn't know what it was gonna be, but we wanted to do something together because we always have fun,” she says, “and we were like, ‘We have to do something where we could have a job and have fun because that's the ultimate goal, right?’ Then during the pandemic, we leaned in. We leaned into home design and content, and we created a little studio, which was one of her first houses. We re-did that, we redid her parents' home.”

“Actually, we're dropping my parents' renovation now, next week,” says Alba. “We're going to drop it on our socials, on YouTube… That one was intense because it was like, taking the house down to the studs, which is different than what we do with these families. With these families, we're choosing different spaces and we're doing different levels of remodeling, renovation, updating the space.”

“When we started doing that,” Lizzy adds, “we thought, how do we make this into a show? How do we include families?”

Don’t miss Danie B.’s full chat with Lizzie Mathis and Jessica Alba above, and stay tuned for more conversations with your favorite stars and artists right here on Audacy.

Words by Joe Cingrana Interview by Danie B.

Audacy’s  Danie B. at V-103 in Atlanta sat down for a chat with Honest Renovations hosts Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis to get into some details about the project as season two of their show is now streaming on Roku.
Best friends Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis are back for another round of surprise renovations, helping families take their homes from “cluttered and chaotic to functional and fabulous.”
“We do a big casting process. It's interesting, it's kind of an art because we want to find families that are relatable… diversity is really important to us,” Jessica says. “We wanted to not only have the obvious ethnic diversity but also just diversity in the types of families that we are showing,”
“So, we have a single mom with a baby, we have a family with seven kids, three are out of the house, we have another family that has four kids,” she explains. “Just showing different ages and stages of families going through different things with family, dealing with illness, another family dealing with loss, another one that has a child that has different needs. For us, it's diversity in every aspect of what that looks like.”
“But we really strive to not be typical,” says Lizzy. Thinking of typical home renovation shows as “cookie-cutter,” she says you “see the before, you see the after, you see a couple things in between. For us, at the heart of our show is the families. We thought about: How do we make a show that still gives the love of interior design and the love of a home renovation show, but flip it on its head and make it more relatable where people can really have takeaways that feel a little bit more special than just the house.”
Getting a budget together to help these incredible families is all thanks to their amazing partners and sponsors, “but we do only have one budget,” Lizzy says. “We have one master budget to work with and we have to split it up between all the houses. It all kind of depends on what house needs what, what we're able to do in every house -- but we can't do everything in every house.”
The idea for this project, Lizzy tells us, stems from her and Jessica’s longtime friendship and wish to one day work on something special together. “We didn't know what it was gonna be, but we wanted to do something together because we always have fun,” she says, “and we were like, ‘We have to do something where we could have a job and have fun because that's the ultimate goal, right?’ Then during the pandemic, we leaned in. We leaned into home design and content, and we created a little studio, which was one of her first houses. We re-did that, we redid her parents' home.”
“Actually, we're dropping my parents' renovation now, next week,” says Alba. “We're going to drop it on our socials, on YouTube… That one was intense because it was like, taking the house down to the studs, which is different than what we do with these families. With these families, we're choosing different spaces and we're doing different levels of remodeling, renovation, updating the space.”
“When we started doing that,” Lizzy adds, “we thought, how do we make this into a show? How do we include families?”
Don’t miss Danie B.’s full chat with Lizzie Mathis and Jessica Alba above, and stay tuned for more conversations with your favorite stars and artists right here on Audacy.
Words by Joe Cingrana Interview by Danie B.

Danie B. Talks with Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis

Joining Audacy Atlanta V-103’s The Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee to discuss their new Netflix movie The Deliverance, Director Lee Daniels along with Andra Day and Caleb McLaughlin, chatted all about the inspiration and message behind the film, and more.

Chopping it up with “the director of this particular situation,” Daniels as well as two of its stars, Andra and Caleb, ahead of its August 30 arrival, Tigger had some questions about the “very scary” movie.

“It's based on true events, but I switched it up a little bit,” Daniels revealed, “just because I believe that spirits both good and bad come on you… So I just changed her mom in the film to white, because I wanted to explore what a biracial girl goes through having a white mom.”

Admitting he had reservations about even making the movie, “because I didn't want the spirits on me.” Daniel’s added, “but I realized that we are in dark times right now.” And after sitting with the movie for more than 10 years (since he did Precious), it was finally the time to do it.

“I didn't do it then because I thought that… it was horror only," Daniel’s noted, “and now I realize it was time to do it because it was about me finding my higher power, me finding the light. And and so I got the courage to do it.”

Taking inspiration from an Indy Star story from 2011, about a woman named LaToya Ammons who claimed her children had become possessed by a demonic spirit, Jazzy made note that in the film, Lee related it to “something that we all kind of deal with… demons internally and externally.”

“I'm glad you picked up on that,” Andra expressed, “because I think that was a big point for him,” she said about the director. “It’s definitely based off a true story, it’s based off true events, it’s based off of her real experience and the possession with the kids, those things were real… But it's not just a horror film. In my opinion, he's almost created an entirely new genre. A faith-based thriller… a soulful thriller.”

Yes, “there are horror elements to it, but it's also a family drama,” Andra continued. Noting that she makes sure to tell people, “If you just think it’s horror, and you don’t do horror, I think you would be remiss to not see the film, because there's transformation… generational healing. Ebony, my character is trying to heal a lot of trauma in her life and be the best mother she can be to her kids, and there's a spiritual aspect to it as well. As Lee always says, his goal with this film was to scare you to your higher power.”

To hear how they got into character, the extremes of dealing with a movie about a demon, and more, listen to the entire conversation above.

The Deliverance also stars Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Octavia Spenser, Omar Epps, and more.

Words by Maia Kedem Interview by The Big Tigger Morning Show

Joining Audacy Atlanta V-103’s The Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee to discuss their new Netflix movie The Deliverance, Director Lee Daniels along with Andra Day and Caleb McLaughlin, chatted all about the inspiration and message behind the film, and more.
Chopping it up with “the director of this particular situation,” Daniels as well as two of its stars, Andra and Caleb, ahead of its August 30 arrival, Tigger had some questions about the “very scary” movie.
“It's based on true events, but I switched it up a little bit,” Daniels revealed, “just because I believe that spirits both good and bad come on you… So I just changed her mom in the film to white, because I wanted to explore what a biracial girl goes through having a white mom.”
Admitting he had reservations about even making the movie, “because I didn't want the spirits on me.” Daniel’s added, “but I realized that we are in dark times right now.” And after sitting with the movie for more than 10 years (since he did Precious), it was finally the time to do it.
“I didn't do it then because I thought that… it was horror only," Daniel’s noted, “and now I realize it was time to do it because it was about me finding my higher power, me finding the light. And and so I got the courage to do it.”
Taking inspiration from an Indy Star story from 2011, about a woman named LaToya Ammons who claimed her children had become possessed by a demonic spirit, Jazzy made note that in the film, Lee related it to “something that we all kind of deal with… demons internally and externally.”
“I'm glad you picked up on that,” Andra expressed, “because I think that was a big point for him,” she said about the director. “It’s definitely based off a true story, it’s based off true events, it’s based off of her real experience and the possession with the kids, those things were real… But it's not just a horror film. In my opinion, he's almost created an entirely new genre. A faith-based thriller… a soulful thriller.”
Yes, “there are horror elements to it, but it's also a family drama,” Andra continued. Noting that she makes sure to tell people, “If you just think it’s horror, and you don’t do horror, I think you would be remiss to not see the film, because there's transformation… generational healing. Ebony, my character is trying to heal a lot of trauma in her life and be the best mother she can be to her kids, and there's a spiritual aspect to it as well. As Lee always says, his goal with this film was to scare you to your higher power.”
To hear how they got into character, the extremes of dealing with a movie about a demon, and more, listen to the entire conversation above.
The Deliverance also stars Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Octavia Spenser, Omar Epps, and more.
Words by Maia Kedem Interview by The Big Tigger Morning Show

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