Cast of Obsession In-Studio with Mason & Starr
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00:00Man, we have been talking about Detroit and the specialty flavor.
00:07I like the way you say that, the specialty flavor.
00:10I don't know if it's in ice cream, in the meat we buy, the vegetables we eat, or the water we drink.
00:16But what a place to be from.
00:18The DNA.
00:19It is incredible.
00:21What's going to happen tomorrow at the train station is going to be incredible.
00:26But it starts like with Howie Bell and the team that we have in here now.
00:33And I'm going to let them introduce themselves.
00:35Yes.
00:35And we will start with our young superstars over here.
00:40The young force going over here.
00:42We're going to start with you.
00:43Tell us your name and school.
00:46Hi, my name is Peyton Pinkston.
00:48I'm 12 years old and I go to school at Middle School South.
00:52There you go, Peyton.
00:54Next we have.
00:56Hi, I'm Aubrey Madison and I go to school at Eaton Academy on East Point.
01:00And how old?
01:01I'm 11 years old.
01:03All right.
01:04Hi, my name is Darius Brantley Jr.
01:06I'm 11 years old.
01:07I go to UPSM Elementary.
01:09I thought you was going to say I'm part of the morning team here.
01:13I'm just not here all the time, but I'm here.
01:16Good to see you again, D, as well.
01:19Hey, good morning.
01:20My name is Belda Hunter and I work at Hope Academy.
01:25And I'm a beautiful, precious age of 15.
01:28There we go.
01:30And we also have?
01:33Dennis Reed.
01:34I work at DRT Productions.
01:38He's a whole nother story and we need a book, television cameras and movie cameras and all that just to say who he is.
01:46Thanks, Dennis, for coming, too.
01:48Thank you for having me.
01:50Darius, you tell us why they're here with us today.
01:55They're going to tell you all about the movie.
01:58What?
01:58There's a movie?
02:00Yeah.
02:01It is called?
02:03Obsession.
02:04Obsession.
02:05What do you two, Peyton?
02:08Ari, what do you have to do with this movie, Obsession?
02:11We're both the executive producers.
02:13Yes.
02:14Including me.
02:15No kidding.
02:16Let me sit back.
02:17No kidding.
02:21Now, when I told Angie that before you came in, she was like, they're just in the movie.
02:27I said, no, Angie, I don't think they're just in the movie this time.
02:31And she said, okay, we'll see.
02:35You, Peyton, I'm going to start with you.
02:38When you say you're the executive producer for people who are listening, I want you to tell them what that means.
02:44That means that I was there from start to finish.
02:50Like, I got to say action.
02:52I got to say cut.
02:54I corrected people.
02:55Like, it felt like I was the boss.
02:57Wow.
02:58Ari, you two.
02:59Wait, listen.
03:00It mean that they put up the money, bro.
03:03They put the money up.
03:05Money up?
03:05Like, I get it.
03:07But they put the money up.
03:09That's where it starts at, okay?
03:11It is.
03:14Ari, tell me.
03:15What do you do?
03:17Yes.
03:18Honestly, I do, like, almost everything.
03:20I be eating the snacks.
03:22I be, like, I be saying cut.
03:26Yeah, I, because I remember I corrected somebody.
03:30So, I was the boss.
03:31You was the boss, too?
03:33Yes.
03:34Oh, wow.
03:35Darius, where do you know them from?
03:39Acting class.
03:40He's acting class.
03:41Yeah?
03:42And you're the executive producers of the movie Obsession.
03:46Correct.
03:46Yes, yes.
03:47Whoa, okay.
03:48Let me start at the beginning for people who are listening.
03:50Tell them what the movie is about.
03:52So, the movie is about a crazy lady who kidnaps me and my father and my god sister.
04:00Wait a minute.
04:01You're in the movie, too?
04:03Yes.
04:03Yes.
04:04You get kidnapped?
04:05Mm-hmm.
04:06In the movie?
04:07Mm-hmm.
04:08Oh.
04:09It's you?
04:10Who gets kidnapped?
04:11You?
04:11My god sister and my dad.
04:14Wow.
04:14All right, Peyton.
04:16I know you're the executive producer, but are you also in the movie?
04:20Yes, I'm the one who saves them from this deranged woman.
04:24Good.
04:25With A.M.A.
04:25Oh.
04:26Whoa.
04:27That's some kind of way over here.
04:28Darius, what are you doing this movie?
04:32I helped Peyton and me find my sisters.
04:38Wow.
04:38I mean, our sisters.
04:40Yeah.
04:41So, Miss Hunter, this isn't the old, typical, tubie kind of movie where the dope dealer finds
04:53a new girlfriend and then kills his old girlfriend and gets the dope and then goes to jail.
04:58Correct.
04:58This is not what's happening here.
04:59Not at all.
05:00Not at all.
05:00This is like a full cinema run production.
05:05Absolutely.
05:06Which families can see.
05:08Yes.
05:09Yes.
05:09Absolutely.
05:10Talk about the movie.
05:11So, the movie, like they said, is produced by three amazing youth here in the city who
05:17are very active and they do other acting opportunities.
05:20And they came together and put this movie together called Obsession.
05:23And I get to play Ingrid, who, in my eyes, is Ingrid.
05:28She's not crazy.
05:29She's not deranged or anything like that.
05:31She just went to go take her daughter and her friend to her house where her daughter lives.
05:36And then this thing starts.
05:37And she didn't kidnap her dad.
05:38Her dad was at home waiting.
05:40Ooh.
05:41I mean, like what?
05:42Dennis, I got to ask you, this is different from anything I've heard that you've done.
05:49And you've done everything, and the biggest thing you've done, by the way, is that you
05:55crashed the wall.
05:57You poked through the ceiling and moved it.
06:00People around the country believe that Tubi is Detroit.
06:06Yeah.
06:07I have heard I owned it, but I don't follow it.
06:11Everybody say I own it, but I don't.
06:13Foss owned Tubi.
06:15I just play a part.
06:16But you did something extremely incredible.
06:20This was at a time when we were just hoping if we could get a part in a movie, maybe.
06:27If we could just be a walkthrough.
06:30You went, no, no, no, no, no, no.
06:32You went beyond that.
06:34And just like Detroit, you took that network.
06:37I helped create a lot of good stuff on there.
06:42And then with my team.
06:43So when you have a great team, when you have a vision of not you, but us, it's a different
06:48thing.
06:49So what I did was I made it a rule.
06:52Like if you work at DR2, if you're in one of the DR2 films, your ultimate goal got to
06:57be to produce movies.
06:59Wow.
06:59Anybody could be in a movie.
07:00But how do you get paid?
07:01How do you get money?
07:02You have to produce.
07:05You know, Velda is like one of my oldest, closest, dearest, best friends.
07:09So like Hurley, Master, Spratlin, Chyna, they all in the movie.
07:13And he already produced one of his movies.
07:16Chyna produced her movie, Velda Up Next.
07:19And then the three kids.
07:21I mean, DJ, my guy's son.
07:23So it's like I look at them.
07:25I'm like, how do we pay for college without their parents paying for college?
07:28Or how do they, if they even have to go to college?
07:31Because college is a network, right?
07:34So everybody don't have to go.
07:35If you're already building your brand because everybody out here is a business, you know,
07:40and that's what you're going to college to do, get your business right.
07:43And we're trying to create their business now.
07:46You do more than make money from this.
07:51And you've just stated it.
07:53How did you get into this?
07:56And your passion runs deep.
07:59I can't even get deep out enough to talk about the passion that you have.
08:04It just comes from like having a mother and a father that I got.
08:07And having siblings that we all understand that in order for us to be successful,
08:12we all have to be successful.
08:14Like I can't be the only one making money.
08:16So in Detroit, that is the narrative.
08:19Everybody's like me, me, me, me, me.
08:20But it's not true.
08:22So we kind of changed that.
08:24You know, if you just look at the last 10 years, what Dan Gilbert have done,
08:28what, you know, so many other people are doing, we just have to do it the same way.
08:34Can't be like a white-black thing.
08:35You got to be like, what are you doing in your community to make your community better?
08:39And that's what we do.
08:40Wow.
08:41Wow.
08:42And for those that are listening, just tell them the title of what you do.
08:49The name of your company.
08:50The name of my company is DR2 Productions.
08:52DR2.
08:53So when you see that.
08:54I see it all over.
08:56But what you see on TV a lot is Homestead Entertainment.
08:59So that is the distribution company that I own with three other guys.
09:04How'd you learn all of this, Dennis?
09:06Yeah.
09:07Um, trial and error, bro.
09:09I've been doing it for, since 05, 06.
09:13And it's just trial and error.
09:15You know, and then when you make a couple of hot movies and you put a couple of hot people in it,
09:21things happen.
09:22And it's God.
09:24That's just all it is.
09:25No more, no less.
09:26And you find very unique people to work with.
09:31Obviously, we work with Darius a little bit more because we see him a lot.
09:37But they know how to speak, as Peyton and I, we did along with it.
09:42They always know how to speak when they get here.
09:45They know why they're here.
09:48They're focused when they get here.
09:51I remember a very famous group.
09:57They were called ABC.
09:59And their manager brought them into the studio.
10:02And they all went to sleep.
10:04And he was just horrified.
10:07But every time, as you could tell, the alertness of Ari and Peyton here, but every time we have Darius, he stays focused on what we're doing.
10:19When it's his turn, he knows how to speak up.
10:22That's attributed to what you're telling them, what you're teaching them about the business.
10:29It's your parents, too, though.
10:31I look at this like how Barry Gordy did with Motown.
10:35You're doing that.
10:36And that's basically just a blueprint of what we're doing.
10:40We're building stars.
10:41And we're building them to not just be stars of Detroit.
10:45We have movies on Peacock.
10:46We have movies everywhere.
10:49You know, to be just one of our biggest partners.
10:52But the goal is to take over.
10:55You know, New York, Atlanta, L.A., they have such a big gap between them.
11:03But like Tyler Perry did, he just took his little group of people, and he made a billion dollars off that little group of people.
11:10And we have that same mindset to do that.
11:14Yes, you do.
11:15What are some of your inspirations?
11:17I heard Barry Gordy, Motown.
11:18What inspires you?
11:20I look at people like Tyler Perry.
11:22I look at people like Barry Gordy.
11:25I look at people like you.
11:26Mason, you are a freaking genius.
11:29You know, I remember when you was on 98.
11:31I remember when I was going to college and just paying attention to you and Coco and everything that y'all was doing.
11:38You know, like I don't think people really understand the value that we have in Detroit.
11:42I don't think people really understand the greatness that we have here.
11:46You know, we have icons here like really like Diana Roth was born here.
11:50Yeah.
11:50You know, Smokey Robinson here.
11:51You know, when you have that kind of stuff going on, then you got DJ and Peyton and, you know, my Godson and Aubrey.
12:00You got these kids that's like looking at all of us like, oh, we got this.
12:04We up next.
12:05Yep.
12:05You got them there.
12:06You got them at that point.
12:07Like Velda Hunter been with me for literally 12 years.
12:10Her, Chyna, and Lee.
12:13And just to watch Chyna movies go crazy.
12:16Watch her go crazy in her movies.
12:19It's like, this is a blessing.
12:22You know, I love seeing Vez and all the other rappers doing what they do because everybody is making Detroit better.
12:29They're building Detroit the right way and they're not doing it with no negative stuff.
12:34They're doing it with all positivity and love and that's what's great.
12:37And you're number one on that list.
12:39The people from BET that did the video shows came here and openly stated, y'all home, Tubi.
12:52I'm in Detroit.
12:54We on our way to BET.
12:56There you go.
12:58I can feel it.
12:59But here's the other thing.
13:00And then I'm going to get back to our young executive producers and actresses and actor.
13:06You're doing the movies and you're doing the business of movie making.
13:14You've already taken tremendous strides.
13:18And thank you because you've put Detroit on the map for making independent movies.
13:24This has now become the mecca of where you come to get your information and collaboration to make your independent movie.
13:34My best friend comes here all the time.
13:39I never see him or hear from him.
13:42But yes, that's why he comes here.
13:44That's why he comes here to see you.
13:46And he's the kind of person.
13:49I mean, I've been with him my whole life.
13:51We've talked to many people to this is not an impression to him.
13:57You're an example to him.
13:59So just know that Darius, this movie is out?
14:05Yeah, it's out on Tubi.
14:06Already there, huh?
14:08Yep.
14:08What do you, what do you, because every time I see it, I got to ask you.
14:11So what do your friends say about this movie?
14:14They say, I watched your movie.
14:17Your movie was so fire.
14:19Yeah.
14:19And they talk about some scenes in the movie.
14:22Okay.
14:23Okay.
14:24So, Aubrey, is this your first movie?
14:27Oh, not at all.
14:28Not at all.
14:29No, right?
14:30How many movies have you been in, Aubrey?
14:32Probably like 12 or 15, but most of them aren't out yet.
14:37You've been in more movies than you are old.
14:40You're 11, right?
14:43Who, me?
14:43Yes.
14:44Oh, yes.
14:4411 years old.
14:45And you've been in already somewhere between 11 and 15 movies.
14:51Yes.
14:52Why do you like being in the movies?
14:55Because I like the experience, and then once I get done filming that movie, I could know
15:01how to act in the next movie.
15:03When you go to school, and you try and tell your friends that you're in a movie, what do
15:09they say?
15:10Honestly, they watch most of my movies.
15:14Like, they watch The Obsession like five times.
15:17Really?
15:17Um, they watch, yeah, they watch most of my movies.
15:20Wow.
15:20And they tell you how you did, huh?
15:22Yes.
15:23They was like, oh my gosh, that movie was so good.
15:25Like, I'm gonna watch it again.
15:27Do they ask you if they can do it?
15:30Some, like, not my friends at school, but some people just, like, ask me, like, oh, Aubrey,
15:35how do you do it?
15:36Like, how are you being in all these movies?
15:39And I just say, like, you have to have confidence and stuff.
15:41Yeah.
15:42Wow.
15:44Peyton, you're 12 years old.
15:45How many movies for you?
15:4815.
15:50As you're 15 years, you're 12 years old and you've got 15 movies already on your resume.
15:56Yes.
15:57How did you get into making movies and being an actress and an executive producer today?
16:06Well, it started with my mom because I've been acting since I was six and my mom could
16:12see that it was a passion for me and she just decided to, like, start putting me in movies
16:19and then a couple years later, look where I'm at now.
16:23Yeah.
16:24Your friends say what?
16:28Some of my friends, they'd be like, oh, my God, Peyton, you've got to put me in your next movie.
16:33But there's those other kids and, like, they're all like, yeah, that movie was trash.
16:38Well, you could say it's trash because you're not the one in it.
16:41I'm the one in it.
16:43Wow.
16:43That is beautiful.
16:45Wow.
16:46All right, Darius.
16:47Yeah.
16:48Yeah, you know, again, we talk to Darius all the time.
16:52So, Darius, do your friends ask to be in a movie?
16:56Do they ask you how long it takes to make a movie?
17:00Well, they don't ask how long it takes, but they do ask how to be in a movie.
17:05They're fascinated by what you do.
17:08How long does it, someone listening now says, how long does it take to be in a movie?
17:13How long does it, how long did it take to do Obsession?
17:16A month, I think.
17:18And that's, that's pretty fast, huh?
17:21Yeah.
17:21Yeah.
17:22You, you like what most about what you do?
17:25I like to meet new people, stay in contact with people and stuff.
17:30So, I can have, like, a lot of friends.
17:33How many movies for you, Darius?
17:36Probably, like, around eight or seven.
17:39Wow.
17:40And we didn't do your age, for those who are listening.
17:43Oh, I'm 11 years old.
17:45Okay.
17:45Somehow, I thought you were 18.
17:47But okay.
17:48It's because I see you and talk to you all the time.
17:51You feel 18 to me.
17:55Your parents encourage you to do this.
17:59What else do you like to do outside of the movies?
18:03I like to just, you know, lay down, go on my phone.
18:07You like making movies?
18:09Yeah.
18:10Yeah.
18:10There you go.
18:11Do you have scripts that you have to memorize?
18:13And if you do, what's your tips on memorizing scripts?
18:17Yeah, I do.
18:18I just usually print them out or, you know, look at them a lot of times.
18:26And, and you can memorize it?
18:27Yep.
18:28Wow.
18:29What about you, Aubrey?
18:30Yeah.
18:31So what I usually do is I just print them out, like DJ said, or my mom will send me the scripts and I just like read it in my head.
18:40And then I will say it out loud in the voice I want it.
18:43And so you can feel it and then you're ready to go, huh?
18:46Yep.
18:46What about you, Peyton?
18:47And how do you, how do you keep your memory on the scripts?
18:50Um, so the first thing that I do is my mom either sends it to me or I print it out.
18:56And then I run over it a few times and then I take it away and try to see if I could do it without the script.
19:06And if I can't, then I go back to the script and then I learn other people's lines before my lines and then do it again.
19:12And then I sleep on it.
19:14And then the next day it's just there.
19:16I love it.
19:18Yes.
19:19Um, this is incredible, Dennis, what you're doing, Ms. Hunter.
19:23Again, what, in your role, what's your character's name in the movie Obsession?
19:28Me, right here?
19:29Yes.
19:29I'm Ingrid.
19:30I'm the beautiful Ingrid who is very much in her right mind.
19:35You're the troublemaker.
19:36No.
19:37In the movie.
19:38I just correct some wrong.
19:39Yeah, you're the troublemaker.
19:40Because he married the wrong person.
19:42Yeah, I can see it now.
19:44Obsession.
19:45I love it.
19:47I'm obsessed with making things right.
19:48There you go.
19:50You, you've been acting how long?
19:52Um, I've actually been acting since I was seven years old.
19:55Um, you know, school, organization, church, acting and everything.
20:00But it got real serious and thick for me in 2008 when, um, Dennis allowed me to be in his first play.
20:06Because he always wrote books, right?
20:07And he did his first play called He Says, She Said.
20:09And I went to audition.
20:10Oh, yeah, I remember that.
20:11Yep.
20:11And, um, I got the part right then and there.
20:14I was really excited.
20:15And from then on, we've been rocking and rolling.
20:18So he did the stage plays.
20:20I was rocking with him for the stage plays.
20:22And then he got into the movies and everything.
20:24And here we be.
20:25Wow.
20:26Yeah.
20:26You switched that character very quickly.
20:29You went from being in that movie, because you kind of scared me.
20:32Right.
20:33For a half a second.
20:34That's why I changed the subject.
20:35You were deep into that.
20:36That is, how long does it take you to embellish it?
20:39No, better yet, how long does it take you to get rid of a character?
20:44When I do stories about artists, I have to inhale that artist, and sometimes it's not
20:52easy for me to let them go to move on to the next artist.
20:56Yeah.
20:56How does that work for you?
20:57I've heard people say that before.
21:01Honestly, starting out, I was more of a comedic actress.
21:04And then people started, it was like, okay, you can stretch.
21:07Dennis was like, okay, we're going to take you and do something different.
21:09This was totally different.
21:11And he stayed on my head.
21:13He was like, no, we don't want them to see the other actors, the other characters that
21:17you play.
21:18We want something different.
21:19So he even changed the cadence of my voice when I was doing this movie, because I'm always
21:24going, going, going fast.
21:25But he changed the cadence of my voice to pull what was needed.
21:29And then, you know, you do different little exercises and things like that as far as character
21:33development, background, and all that other stuff.
21:36And once you connect with that, staying true to who you really are helps you bounce back.
21:41I haven't been into, a lot of people who go deep and they have to really get that person
21:46out of them.
21:47Those are, I mostly hear dark roles, right?
21:49Yeah.
21:50That people play, like Denzel Washington played a dark role in Training Day.
21:54Right.
21:55The Devil's Advocate, when he had to go and play the devil, he had to have some time to
22:00decompress from that role, right?
22:01Yeah.
22:02Well, I haven't gone that deep.
22:04So when I go into this type of role, I can pretty much bounce back real quick.
22:08And because I love life and having fun, I bounce back from that.
22:12So even though I had to do that to my babies, I hug them right after I have to snatch them
22:16around and do all the language with them, hug them, let them know I love them, because
22:19I love them.
22:20They are awesome kids.
22:21So I think that's how I kind of bounce back.
22:23I just jump back to comedy, doing something silly, something fun, or whatever.
22:27That is tremendous.
22:28That is tremendous.
22:29Dennis, it's out already, Obsession, and it's been out about 30 days?
22:36It's been out for three weeks.
22:37It's been on Most Popular for three weeks.
22:40It just got out Most Popular yesterday.
22:41Wow.
22:42So we need to put it back in there, y'all.
22:43So y'all need to watch Obsession on 2B.
22:45Like, right now, go home, stream it.
22:47Right now, do it on your phone.
22:48I don't care.
22:48Do it.
22:48Yeah.
22:49Once you stream it, then you get the credit, right?
22:51Yeah.
22:52Ad play, we get paid.
22:54Ad play, we get paid.
22:56Yeah, that's a nice line.
22:57Ad play, we get paid.
23:00I love it.
23:01Dennis, thank you.
23:02No, thank you.
23:02Thank you for Obsession.
23:04Thank you for teaching.
23:06Yes.
23:07And thank you for all the power that you're giving to Detroit through what you do, man.
23:12Boom.
23:14Aubrey, Peyton, Darius, thank you.
23:18You all have to come back.
23:20Darius will tell you.
23:21I will.
23:21You will definitely.
23:22Okay.
23:22So we might have, because I know a lot of young people listen.
23:25Tips, because I heard some of your friends say, I want to be in the movies.
23:28Tips for them getting in, real quick.
23:30Come to the boot camp.
23:34Come to the acting boot camp, D-Archer Productions.
23:37There is a boot camp.
23:38Yes.
23:39Yep.
23:40And Aubrey, you went through the boot camp?
23:42Yes.
23:43And Peyton as well?
23:44Yes.
23:45How do they find the boot camp?
23:46Yeah, how do you get, Dennis, how do you get into the boot camp?
23:48So if you go on my IG on Dennis Reed with two I's after that, the boot camp for the adults
23:55coming up is June 21st to the 23rd.
23:58Okay.
23:59Go right there.
24:00And it's on Eventbrite and everything.
24:01Okay.
24:02And then the kids boot camp we're doing in late July.
24:06Okay.
24:06And then we're going to do a writing boot camp and a producer boot camp.
24:09We will pass that information as we get closer to those dates, too, so that people know and
24:15we'll be up on the dates.
24:18Obsession.
24:19Wow.
24:20Thank you all for coming in today.
24:22Thank you for having us.
24:23You're welcome.
24:25Thank you, Benji Star.
24:25No, thank you.
24:28Darius, like, he's part of the show.
24:31When we do movies, we see Darius.
24:34That's good.
24:35So Peyton and Aubrey, you're more than welcome to come back again, too.
24:38Yes, anytime.
24:39But do come back.
24:40That's just not something to say, but Darius will tell you.
24:43Yeah.
24:44That's all good.
24:45Dennis, again, Miss Hunter, a pleasure.
24:47Good work, everybody.
24:48Kids.
24:49I know there's a lot of kids in here, so shout y'all Instagrams and y'all, whatever social
24:53media y'all got out so the other kids that are listening can follow y'all.
24:56Thank you, Devon.
24:57Yeah.
24:58You're welcome.
24:58He's our kid.
24:59Go ahead.
25:00My Instagram is Darius Bradley Jr.
25:04All right.
25:05My Instagram is Aubrey Madison, A-U-B-R-E-Y-M-A-D-I-S-Y-N.
25:12My Instagram is Peyton underscore Nicole, six, P-A-Y-T-O-N-N-I-C-O-L-E.
25:19There you go.
25:20The number six.
25:21And my Instagram is Belda A. Hunter, the actress.
25:25Please follow, follow, follow, because Dennis is on my head.
25:28So please follow, follow, follow.
25:29That's beautiful.
25:30That's beautiful.
25:31Again, thank you all.
25:32All of you.
25:33Wow, Dennis, this is great, man.
25:35Obsession on 2B.