 Like I said, I'm still me because I'm just a different version of myself, like one of my biggest films that I'm still working on is a TV series, a B.T. series called Sacrifice. I need to know why they're dead. My boss tells no one ever. What's the first movie you've ever done? Is this the first movie? No, no, no. Oh, okay. No, I know you guys. Yeah, I did a movie called Big Dog with JT the bigger figure. JT the bigger figure? Yeah, man, that's the homie. He came to New Orleans and he was one of those ones. Like, it's my partner though, but he came now shooting a movie and he called me for a part. And I'm like, what you doing? And he just coming in our project with other people and it's like, nah, nah, we don't do this. He don't do that. Nah, we could be partners. Let's link up and do something together. So he gave me a number. I gave it to him and we got it done. Oh, that's good. Bigger figure, respect to the move. Yeah, he had to. Man, that's hard, man. I like it because you step it up. But it take hard to do what you're doing because some dudes would be, you really, like, I ain't never act. So you got to think about it. You got hard to do that. You know what I'm saying? You probably got more hard. Certain niggas in the hood, probably some niggas hiding from that camera. When that camera come, niggas, nah, I will be. No, put them cameras up. Yeah, that's the fact though. But you wrote this movie though? Yeah, I wrote it. Yeah, but this is your first movie you've written? Yeah, that's the first movie I've written. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's how I got it. First one was a running gun. It's just like we just pulled up on every block, every project in the city. Like I expanded my reach. You know, it's like it ain't too many people that could do what I could do in New Orleans that could go through every hood and tap in with every big dog. Wow, that's a major. Ace Man, I know you done been in several films, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I started in 2008. I started in 2008 on an HBO series, Tremade. Okay, I started on the second season playing as a rapper. So that was my first ever acting experience. I ain't never went to school for it, but I still never went to school. You didn't take no acting classes at all? Mm-mm. So what helped me was music. So I played as a rapper, so I was like, I'm being myself. I can remember the lines because I can remember lyrics. I could get into the mood because I could get into the mood when I hear instrumental, then it pulls you into, you know what I'm saying? So I put the two together. So when I film, I feel like I'm shooting a music video. Oh, facts. So that's what helped me with music, so I could get into it. And when I get around these big name actors and shit, and I see, okay, this person act like this on screen and off screen. So I'm about to just be myself. I'm about to just be a different version of myself. But the difference is to me, when you do a music video, music videos are so short compared to a movie. Right. In a movie, you have to stand that character for a much longer time than if you do in a... Well, not facts, but when it's film time, that's not really a long time. Like you'll wait all day before you film. You just there. You know what I'm saying? But like I said, I'm still me because I'm just a different version of myself. Like one of my biggest films that I'm still working on is a TV series, a BT series called Sacrifice. My boss tells no one. So we just finished the second season. That's going to be coming out pretty soon. But and I play as a hacker. So they wanted me to be from LA. Nirty? Yeah. Glasses. They ain't no one near me, but I just, I got a professional side. So it's like, I'm about to figure it out. Like I'll be on there. You're a swan out of type hack, all this stuff. And I had to hook up with a dialect coach. Because when they first met me, I just, I just was in my natural accent. Right. So they like, look, you, we need you to sound like you from Cali. So I'm like, I don't know how I'm going to do that. Like it don't matter how much I clear my words up. You're going to still hear it. And so people, so they made me like, I would, you from Louisiana then on the show. Oh. Because I tried, I went, said with the dialect coach. Really? And people saw it and it was like, you from Louisiana. And I was like, man, I tried hard too. I tried hard. My boss tells no one. I'm more thinking of my pronunciation, how I'm saying it. You got to keep trying. You got to keep trying because it blows my mind when I see some of these actors like Idris. You know, and that he's from England. And, you know, I didn't even know all the time I've been watching his movies. I did not know that. A lot of them. Till I heard him doing an interview and I heard his natural dialect. Right. Yeah. They're killing it. Over there. They're killing it. They never knew. The why? Yeah. They never knew he was that. It'll do, it'll do from a B.M.F. Which one? The, the crazy one. Lamar. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. It's a lot of a movie. I was trying. I didn't know that. Yeah, man. Wow. And I was like, why is it that a lot of English actors, like they take over the whole, like acting like Hollywood. Yeah. They take over a lot of movies. Right. Because you don't ever, you don't ever notice till they're doing the interviews. Right. And you're like, how many of these actors are from, or do they move over there after they get big? Yeah, they don't do. From Snowfall. Oh, all right. I know that for sure. But I guess, I would, English is the most spoken language. So it's easier to learn that than us learning French. But then actually, you speak English right now. You're from New Orleans. You should be able to still pick up the accent of California. Right, right. I don't think I'll try. But y'all dialect is so strong. Right. You know what I mean? So, but I'm sure you, let's take, do more practice. Yeah. No, I practice. I definitely practice. You know what I'm saying? When I'm on the show, like, I go with it. You know what I'm saying? So let me ask y'all a question. Soldier Slim always asks a lot of people this, because especially being from New Orleans, I know a lot of people who talk very highly of him. You knew him, of course. Yeah, I know him for sure, for sure. So tell me about him growing up and so forth. Slim used to cut my hair. Him and my cousin was best friends. My cousin, like, who he used to run under. His name was Reds. They called him Slugged Up Nigga. So under KLC and on Parkway Palmer Records, that's where my cousin used to rap for. He was supposed to sign a masterpiece before, so the Slim, he got killed. So I know Slim, like, Slim had it since young. Like, as young Magnolia Slim, he was that dude with rapping and everything. Like, for sure, for sure. Wow. And for you? With Slim, man. Slim was always my, that's my favorite rapper. You know what I'm saying? What's your favorite song? Since he your favorite rapper. You know what I'm saying? Favorite song? I don't know if I got a favorite, favorite song. One that stands out. Give me one. Well, I'll pay for it. You know what I'm saying? There was like a gangster dude on some swag shit. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, all right, bet. But he got classy and you know he was telling the truth. Like, so it's always, it always drew me to him. I like his rap style. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. But nah, Slim was a legend. No, because a lot of people, because since we've been going back and forth to New Orleans, a lot of people always talk about him and talk about him very highly. But I've met some people who say that, you know, it's just now that he's gone, everybody's talking so good about him. But when he was around, people wasn't really just, you know, dealing with him like that. Nah, that's cap. That's cap. Like, one thing for sure, Slim was love. Like, Slim pulled up in that cali, you don't be out there all day. And he a leader, ain't going to St. Bernard and go in that opera field. Like, he was one of the ones that could go in every project too. And I tell everybody, like, Slim got killed before he could, he was going through that transition and make that change. I heard that. Like, he said in one of his songs, I'm coming closer with God, asking him to forgive me. You feel me? Like, we, he died in the middle. Like, the ex pills hit New Orleans and it went crazy. It took the scariest person on there and made him real on drugs. And you ride around in that Slim and you on some ex pills, you out your mind. You might shoot up a whole crowd. And that ain't what Slim was rapping about. It was murder with a purpose. Like, it was always get the money first.