Kevin Hart & Samuel L. Jackson Joke About Why They Never Worked Together (Exclusive)

Jackson Don cheel and Terrence Howard are dishing on their new series fight night which is based on the infamous 1970 armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali's comeback extras Mona coer Abdi spoke with Kevin Taraji Samuel Dawn and Terrence about bringing together an incredible group of actors and the genuine collaboration that existed due to all the star power on set everyone had to figure out a way to coexist Terrence explained all of us are scene Steelers by Nature we always walk away with the frame so it was a hell of a head cutting in this dance because everybody just kept coming up with sharper blades until I think everybody ended up headless at the end of this Hart commented there's a rumor in this town that I owe Sam money because of something we was supposed to do that didn't happen Sam chimed in saying no we had an opportunity to do a movie and he told me he had an opportunity to work with an international superar and I was kind of like who the AF I just hung up the phone I ain't talked to him anymore Jackson quipped then he became an international Superstar and I was like damn where's karma when I need it I've worked with Don a few times which is always you know a wonderful experience because he's Donna fter risking cheel it works like that but everybody else I hadn't worked with but was glad to be in the space with them and it's always a collaborative space it's not a space where the actors don't talk and they try to surprise you with some half of the stuff I did as Cadillac Richie came from Sam being like why don't you do this you talk about literally helping each other out building each other up it's beautiful in the series Kevin stars as Chicken Man a hustler who hosts a party after Allie's historic fight a night that ended with the most Brazen criminal underworld heist in Atlanta History this dramatic role was a departure from the comedy that Kevin is known for watching them really break down their characters watching them find the reasons of the story of why it was refreshing for me especially taking on a new side of performance at this point in my career the group also dished on the period costumes including viral terence's wig one thing Terren will compete with you on is the hair he finally won with me six seasons of Empire it was very different to work with Terrence on this project we didn't have a lot of scenes together I barely saw him we kind of stick to the characters when you get into the work you know that becomes your friendship and your relationship so every time I see her I would pass by and want to hug her but then there was a whole different nature of who this character was I think we sat down on the set one time and talked like the first day we caught up and then that was it we were never really on set together Fight Night is streaming on peacock