Over the years he’s tapped into many different personas. Yes, he is the godfather of gangsta rap, but he’s funny, funny, funny. Cube knows comedy, which is the greatest thing. Ice Cube is an executive producer of "Are We There Yet?” and has a recurring role as Crews’ brother-in-law. I feel privileged and honored that they chose me to do it.” When your kids go, ‘Oh, my God! What are you doing, Dad?’ I love that. "My wife goes, ‘Oh, my God.’ And when your wife cringes like that, you know you’re doing it right. People see my character, so it’s kind of like I get to be who I am.”Īnd if you’ve seen Crews pumping his pectorals and kicking buildings in commercials for Old Spice Odor Blocker, then you know just how zany he can be. It’s a real big departure from Julius but a lot more of who I am,” Crews says. He’s not so concerned with money and that kind of thing. "I was the solid guy in ‘Everybody Hates Chris,’ but when you look at (Nick), it’s good to play a character that plays in the now and is not so serious in a lot of ways. I know that we have a good time because I know that I am.”Ĭrews also loves showing off his wackier side in "Are We There Yet?” The tone that I set is the tone that the show is going to have. You have to like kids if you’re going to be around them. "You have to be a family person to do a family show. And yet they still surprise me,” he says. Over the last 23 years, I’ve seen everything that kids can do. "There’s been very few situations that I haven’t seen. If Crews seems a natural as a TV dad, it’s because the father of five has had plenty of practice in real life. "You get to delve into who the characters are and what happens to each and every one of them after (the movie).” "It’s definitely a spinoff in that here the characters have changed, but in essence it’s everything the movie had and I think a little bit more,” Crews says. Crews plays Nick Persons (played by Ice Cube in the 2005 movie of the same name), once a playboy bachelor who’s now settled down with his new wife, Suzanne (Essence Atkins), and her two kids, Lindsey and Kevin (Teala Dunn, Coy Stewart). Wednesday and joining "Meet the Browns” and "Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” on the TBS Wednesday lineup. Now Crews is as cool as Ice Cube in the new family sitcom "Are We There Yet?” premiering at 8 p.m. This is it.’ And then to be presented with the whole reality show thing, I said, ‘You know, this is cool.’” After ‘Everybody Hates Chris,’ everybody was like, ‘He’s a TV dad. "I was like, ‘I want to be an action star I want to be this and that.’ The path that opens up in front of you is usually the one that you should take. "For years I tried to get away from the whole ‘TV dad’ thing,” Crews says.
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