Becoming Dr Dre, Ice Cube, and Eazy-E in 'Straight Outta Compton'

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON actors O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell share lessons learned from the real life characters they play in the film.


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Becoming Dr Dre, Ice Cube, and Eazy-E in "Straight Outta Compton"

[hondascott]

in the movie theres a scene where ice cube says hes got a kid on the way, the guy saying the line IS the kid that was on the way

[caritWAY]

The guy that played eazy e did a great job. He was really convincing

[srajguru]

All 3 of them had great performances in the movie.. killed it

[blacklifestylelives]

anybody else cried when he played easy e when he was sick

[olivertoronyi]

That moment, when Ice Cube´s son looks like more Ice Cube, than Ice Cube himself....

[LifeIsNotorious]

They should have shown more of Ren and Yella because they were a big part of the group too. Ren wrote a lot of lyrics for N.W.A. The actor who played him was sexy as hell too.

[CVNmahdlO]

The actor who played Easy-E did an amazing job. He had me in tears like I was watching Easy himself in the hospital. I really struggled with that scene, just because it was so real. Amazing talent

[lafinoutloud]

I feel bad that this movie probably won't get nominated for an oscar when it obviously deserves it and the people obviously love it.

[conorm]

ice cubes son looks more like ice cube than ice cube

[baconbtch]

Ice Cube's Son KILLED it. Whenever he cut his hair he looked just like cube did at that time.

[lahdification]

This movie was good . You can learn a lot from it.

Rest in peace Eazy 🙏

[ClutchDre__]

Producer: “do you guys free style at all?”

Ice cube jr. : 😂 “Not for free”

[qjonesization]

Great Movie!!! May have been the best movie of the year!

[justfly]

Great movie, glad they didn't feed into the Hollywood bullshit and actually did it right

[JJunkAFunk]

Jason was the best actor in that movie even though he wasn’t able to do most of the stuff everyone else did to prepare. That shows his acting abilities. RIP E

[gxbbs_]

These ppl are legends, they did their roles so good it was like the real Dre, Cube and E

[FallonFontaine]

If you're great at something why do it for free?

[KIWIKIMI]

I cry every time i watch this movie. I get chills every time I hear ice cube say “god bless the memory of eazy e”

[jatinrai]

Every actor nailed the role they were playing in the movie!!!!

[Phantom-ZER]

Jason Mitchell did an amazing job playing E, Jr and Hawkins did great too playing Cube and Dre, but like Mitchell's performance was top tier.