 Believable movie do the right thing by Spike Lee where he played Sal the pizzeria owner and Spike is nice enough to join us now Spike thank you so much for joining us, and I want you to know how much that movie meant meant to my uncle and I I hope that you were happy with the way it turned out as well. Oh, yes, I want to give you condolences you know for Danny As I put in my full play Instagram, you know Danny helped us to make a cinematic history the right thing Is one of greatest films in history of American cinema Danny was nominator best support actor for the role lost off the tensile and glory and This past year a June 3rd Michael Danny Kane The very anniversary block party for the film and the blog post held on the block where the film was shot he was shot on one block and That's the last of my song so I was on Instagram this morning people telling me that uh Like your uncle had passed Last night and so I've been a punk all day and You know Remember all the good times we had you know and all that you know you they use Yankee fast. Yeah, love the Yankees and Just a good guy just good people You know we knew we were doing something special. We shot that film in the summer of 1988 and His performance in many other films decides the right thing. We'll live forever How did you know he was the guy for Sal Spike? Oh, you're the funny story I'm really wanting the near all Are you want to do it? That's all right, so I Didn't know I mean yet. I met Dan. Remember that restaurant called Columbus. Yeah, he was always there always there And we had like a tree we both find and both fill each other out Thank god that it worked and and uh, it's funny there's a pizzeria in Looking today called south pizza. So I went over there and said look We we slice and very profit you got 300 It's a cow garden and the people he's called south famous so This is big blow big blow and I and I know Danny has been You know, I mean I got a some guy in the game just I didn't know what a guy was can be said you need to call Danny And I'm very uh, I'm blessed. I got to speak to Danny like Last week so we had we had a very very long and personal conversation So spike I want to um, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt spike. It's peter I wanted to ask you another do the right thing question real quick about Danny um That movie was so important for me as a kid to see in terms of starting to understand race in America a little bit In New York specifically and Danny's character of sal was amazing because It it showed the complexity of of humanity Um, exactly President Obama gave a speech in 2007 where he talked about how racism isn't this thing that we all think it is We have people in our lives who we love who don't understand race and who have racism in them, etc Danny the sal character Was not a bad guy, but he had bad traits He he seemed to do such a brilliant job sort of straddling that line. How'd you how'd you guys do that? What makes Michael k. You notice what makes What makes drama just that conflict what makes a great game has to be close. So here's the conflict conflict can be Taking to the height when both people have A good view point for example Bucking up says Look sal Everybody here up here bedside is black and brown black and Puerto rican. Have you even know black and Puerto rican people on the wall? ballot point The sal says look if you want black and brown Black and Puerto rican on the wall get your own pizzeria That's where drama is They both have valid points and that's what made this film great Who's no black and white? I mean not not trying to make a pun but This essay A posby t is complex Is that black and white? Did he lift up race race is complex and Danny if everybody Who the late building on the play great ronnie jonko. That's the Zito who played bug it out I played wonky said no jackson played Mr. You love daddy jump eternal A pinot. You mean that stuff is that's why the film is still relevant today Because this stuff is complex and you just can't get rid of it with some Infant tower solution Did he help you as an actor because I mean you're playing mookie. You're directing the film. You're a kid at the time You're like what you know 30 years old 28 years old How how helpful was he at that point? He's 15 years into his career And i'm gonna be as they say in brook don't keep 100 Please do Day and night I say this respectful. Please understand We but ahead sometimes because we would both try to figure out Where is cast as south south branch don't you stood and because of The budding heads we arrived at south The final version of still which is great So how much different was the final version to what you envision that character to be? That was it but here's the thing though But people especially people you know nothing about how much is made you can write something But once you're on the set It becomes something else Act that has to say those words you have different energies between people so becomes a whole different Animal and that's what day and I You know, we have to work it out I've been one time There's a scene we're at the at the south took the the Louisville slugger the red writing in the little box where he pulls the grass South and pull over the counter And they just spiked. I'm not doing it And I said daddy talking about just spiked. I'm not doing it. And then they got a lot of heat. Yeah, a little heated and And my first lady had to play the set There's a time to clear the people here and they met me me and daddy. We got there We calmed down And we worked it out Well spike I thank you so much for coming on and um, you know how I felt about my uncle and a movie like do the right thing Although he passed away last night. He lives forever. He lives forever in a great movie like that Please get my condolences Sandy. Please. I will do I will do that. Thank you my friend. Thank you so much. All right. Bye-bye. So that is spike league