Kevin Hart Interview

hey kids i hope you're doing well hey uh i just wanted to share with you a few fun things that i've been doing as we're heading into this father's day weekend i'm trying to get a chance to relax it's been a busy time but i've had a few fun things that i just wanted to share with you so i actually just got back from la i was down in los angeles partnering with the habit burger grill and we did an event with the la boys and girls club very cool and you'll be able to see that video um coming up on sunday i'll put that out so um and then also uh this is pretty cool i uh i actually had to help get to have a a dad chat with kevin hart um pretty amazing what my life has become so thank you so much for for your support but yeah i just got a few minutes with him because he has a new movie coming out called fatherhood i think it's actually out today on netflix so you can catch that and it's really well done i thought he did a great job and you'll see that in my my short interview with him but anyway i just wanted to share that with you and um you'll get to see that in just a second but first i you know rather than a dad joke as we head into father's day i'm going to give you a little dad vice okay so you know what yeah struggling uh you know no matter how much you push the envelope it's still stationary ah so anyway here's my interview with kevin hi kevin nice to meet you how you doing man yeah how are you doing good good so you know uh my name is rob kenny and i'm with the youtube channel dad how do i and actually wrote a book called dad how do i i i thought you really did a great job in the movie honestly i really loved it i thought you did a great job with the uh with especially with more some of the more serious parts you really pulled it off you kind of drop drew me in and i thought yeah i was i was touched emotionally so were you uh approached for the role or uh did you seek it out uh i was approached i was approached for the opportunity uh with the opportunity marty bowen's a a good friend of mine a producer partner of mine took me had an amazing script that he's had for some time i haven't been able to get it off the ground but looking for the right attachment gave it to me to read when i read it i loved it um and i said like i think that there's an amazing opportunity here of course some work needed to be done um and marty his production team myself my team at heartbeat we wrote about sleeves we got into it um talked to matt matt agreed with all of the tweets that we wanted to make to kind of make sure that the story just happened um and and was was one of which i could fit into and uh and and and just had the substance the right amount of substance to hold on uh to for the character so that i could build through the journey of the the struggle that he was going through and it all it all checked out you know it's uh something i've been waiting for to to put on display you know to put this side of acting on display and i think after the upside it was really just kind of waiting for the right piece of material and this was that piece of material for me excellent hi rob you can keep going until your timing's over i'll give you cues thank you though oh i'm sorry okay uh were there parts in the movie that you ad lived uh yeah i mean i don't think you can you can have a kevin hart movie and not expect me to um ad-lib but you know just because you're ad-libbing doesn't necessarily mean you're doing it uh for the beats of comedy you know i think it's it's great for um a true understatement to be added to what an ad lib is and ad lib is just uh is is a cadence that's used to elevate the story to some degree it's not just funny it's it's it's within anything so a lot of my uh relationship with metal was it was all it was all about uh making sure that chemistry was was really really great on camera and off camera so i would play around with mel a lot off camera so that by the time we got to camera in scenes where as a dad i would poke and do some other things she would be able to feed off of it so a lot of our relationship a lot of those things that you saw at the amusement park a lot of the things you saw with me doing your hair the things were in our house those little conversations that's mel improv and back because i was giving her things to improv off of so um you know those are things that were welcome my director understood why i wanted to do it he agreed and we ended up getting great stuff from him yeah i have to wrap up my time kevin but i do have to ask you uh what's your favorite dad joke my favorite dad joke how do you make a napkin dance put a little boogie in love it thanks for your time so i hope you enjoyed that yeah his uh check out kevin's movie on netflix uh called fatherhood uh it's out today um and thank you for all your support and your well wishes as we head into father's day weekend i hope you all have a great weekend and god bless you