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Darius: You know, any bad bitch with over 3k followers, it could be tough. She got a unrealistic view of how the world works.

Earn: She only got like 300 followers.

Darius: That’s even weirder.

Same shit I was thinking lmao, I thought they were about to get catfished though.
 
The actor that plays Tracey is from Detroit.....There is more to the interview in the link below because the interview exceeded 1000 maximum characters

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2018/03/atlanta-robbin-season-tracy-khris-davis-interview

'Atlanta' Star Khris Davis Reveals Tracy's Waves Were a Weave


  • Atlanta as a straightforward ensemble show, but of the show’s many surrealist digressions and disassociation from typical narrative conventions, the cast has been the one constant. Black Biebers, Clay Davis Dads, and Mystery Bus Men come and go. Earn, Alfred, Darius, and sometimes Van are the constants. (The title belt for appearing in every episode thus far goes to Paper Boi solely.)

    And yet, Donald’s gonna Donald. So the show is coming off a year-plus hiatus to insane expectations? Cool, let’s do the one thing every other writer’s room in our position would consider a death kiss. At the end of last week's premiere “Alligator Man,” expectant couch surfer Earn is startled to learn his spot is already occupied by Tracy, Al’s ex-con friend. Dude literally materializes from nowhere mid-joke like when Michelle Trachtenberg popped up in Buffy season five acting like she’d been there for the entire series.

    This being Atlanta, it was reasonable to assume Tracy’s only purpose was to displace Earn to drive the episode’s themes home, and that was the last we’d see of him. But lo and behold, he doesn’t just figure prominently in episode two, as it practically plays like an introduction spotlight. Thankfully, Tracy, as played by Khris Davis, is fucking hilarious. He goes from dubious presence to a certified scene-stealing charmer and in just one episode, I’m at the point where I’ll be mad as fuck if he isn’t around for the majority of the action to come. (Very minimal spoiler: he pops up next week, the last episode made available to critics in advance. So, crisis averted for now.)

    Complex hopped on the phone with Davis to talk Tracy, Robbin Season, No Chase Policies, and, of course, the art of the perfect 360 waves.

    What did the role call for when you auditioned? What was it described as?
    I don't remember what the description was on the audition call but essentially [it had] everything that we know about him: that he's just out of prison, he's friends with Paper Boi, real basic description of the guy but enough to form your own idea of who this character is. I guess that varies from person to person [of the guys] who auditioned for it.

    Which of his qualities, if any, did you put in yourself?
    I guess his charm and likability. Oftentimes when you think of an ex-con, you think of somebody who looks a little dangerous, right? [Actors] forget to play their humanity. We think, "Oh, he's been to prison, he's gotta be really hard edge, he's gotta be mean all the fucking time." That's not the fucking truth. And one thing I do know for sure is that going to prison can and will change you, but that doesn't mean that you're not still human, that you don't have these amazing qualities that make you smart, make you charismatic and loving. Prison doesn't just take away your magnetic energy, you're born with that and you will [retain] that. Those qualities are really important, I didn't want to misrepresent people like Tracy, I wanted people to see somebody like Tracy as easily lovable, somebody they'd hang out with. If you're lucky enough to know somebody like that, you know how trustworthy they are and how loyal they are when they like you.

    It's interesting you say that because I feel like Tracy's charisma does make him immediately lovable, and someone who audiences can warm up to quicker than they would most new characters in an ensemble. Did you have any trepidation being the new guy mixing it up with the core cast?
    I just wanted whatever I was doing to complement the work that they were doing. Because they're so good. I didn't want whatever that energy was to be disrupted by anything I was doing. I only wanted what I was bringing to match it, to complement it, to uplift it. Working with the guys, it took a couple days, a couple moments of us shooting together, for everyone to be like, Oh, this is the thing, Tracy's not just like a random ass player for an episode. You know, they have like, a relationship. Working with everybody was pretty cool, I loved it. This was my first TV show, [so] getting to examine them was really nice.


    What kind of things did you learn?
    Well, when I saw them, I saw how relaxed they were, I saw how willing they were to make choices and take chances. I come from the theater world—it's completely different. When you're performing, we have to shrink the eye to capture the moments on TV and film, whereas in theater, the eye sees a wide range, like a panoramic view. The size of what I'm doing on theater versus film and the choices that I can make, I wasn't really sure about [at first]. But when I saw those guys, how they moved—I spoke to [Atlanta director] Hiro Murai and he was like, "Khris, anything you wanna try, let me know, we can just go ahead and make some moves." And I was like, "Oh, say less." And a combination of that made me feel really confident and comfortable in what I was doing.

    We gotta talk about the No Chase Policy scene, because that feels like it's about to be an instant classic. Talk to me about filming that scene—you do this barely noticeable bit of physical comedy where you start kind of a run then stop and slow it to an inconspicuous walk that's hilarious.
    [Laughs] Man, that scene was funny as hell. If you think about it, the no chase policy, and the fact that he's in the mall, not only is he stealing out the store, you got to get out the mall! It was a fun experience, working with Donald, there were a lot of laughs while we were doing it. I was laughing at the lines, at the faces people were making, I was laughing at myself for taking it serious. Even that little skip-hop jog run, I was like, man, that is some silly ass shit, man—that's in the script actually.

    Is that a thing they made up? Or something you've heard of before?
    Nah, my dad worked in loss prevention for a long time. He still does actually. He does loss prevention and he's a general manager for CVS and did it for a bunch of places, Hollywood Video, Pep Boys, he's the man. He's a private investigator as well. But all that's to be said, when I was in high school I worked at Hollywood Video. He had ingrained in me that if I see someone stealing, don't chase them, it's against the law. It's to protect the employee actually, that policy—100%. You know what I mean? You never know, you go chasing them out the store, they may have a blade on them. If they're willing to steal then...

    They could be down for whatever.
    Right! Let them take it, the cameras are on.

    We also have to talk waves. Are you as committed to the regimen in real life as Tracy is?
    Hellll no, that's so much work! Man, nah...shit! [laughs] They had me coming down and they were doing the hair test right? They had me using this wave pomade. They had me using this night pomade and one for the morning. And then I had to use this wave shampoo and conditioner, and brush my shit in the shower. So I had a brush for the shower and a brush for—I'm telling you! Then [I'd] wear the wave cap all day, brushing my hair all day, my shit was dripping, I don't care what nobody said!

    So then, I showed it to Donald, and he was like, "Nah. That's not what I'm looking for." I was like, "Whoa, you know what it took me to get these?" So he showed me this picture of this guy on Instagram. And his shit, bruh, was scary! And I was like, "Oh, my god, how the fuck does he do that to his hair?" I think he was Puerto Rican. But you know the texture of his hair is completely different from mine. So they bought this weave, put the weave on the cap on my head, put that shit down, edged that shit down, matted that motherfucker then a barber came in and did this bomb ass coloration with his clippers to make the hairpiece go naturally with my natural hair, then he sprayed it a little bit, man, tightened that shit up. So hats off to hair and makeup, it was bananas.
 
Aye...Earn still learning. Lol.

already home_17 said:
even though that nigga had no shot, i mean none whatsoever, i can understand why earn wanted to fight Tracey. i wouldn’t want a gun pulled on me (relic or not), and that was the final straw for earn since he believes tracey is the reason why the events of that night unfolded the way they did. he’s partially right, but needs to shift the blame on himself

as a manager, how the fuck you gonna have your client stay at a complete strangers house instead of paying for a hotel? especially since y’all making some money now and like paper boi said, would’ve made that shit back plus more in the same night?

earn deserved to get his ass beat. dude was confident as fuck too
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The bolded makes all the sense in the world. Didn't get 4k?? And he couldn't use that money to get a hotel?? Provided he ain't spend it all.
 
313 Wayz said:
Paperboi, Darius and Earn were on the TLC "So I Creep.......Just Keep It On The Downlow" side of the game

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They say nxt ep is based on true events from Bino's childhood.

I guess he raps about it in one of his songs.

 
Bruh, I was earn 100% but I always been funny, and always been ready to fight, roasting me went almost exactly like it does online... Niggaz got jokes, I got jokes back... We go back n forth all day....
 
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