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diversions
Getting them
gizzards and blunts
By Alex Roman
On-line Forty-Niner
Ten minutes before
Redman and Method
Man stride into
Studio 2 of Westwood's trendy W Hotel, a guy stumbles in who
has spent the entire day with them as they do press for their
new movie "How High," which opens Dec. 21.
"Man, I feel like
I'm stoned," he says upon walking in the door. "I've been
with them all day long and all they've done is smoke dope,
play tic tac toe and eat chicken gizzards from Roscoe's."
Immediately as
Redman walks through the door, you realize how true that statement
was.
"If ya'll ain't
got no weed, I'm turning this motherf****r around," says Redman,
his eyes red and slanted. Then he notices the radio mic. "Damn,
that's a big ass microphone. You want to interview me or you
want me to rock a rhyme?"
Trailing behind
him is Method Man, member of the Wu Tang Clan and star of
films like "Belly." Meth is as cool as you'd expect him to
be, sporting a Jerry Rice jersey and black pants. Like Redman,
his eyes are also glassy, but his focus is somewhere else
completely.
"I just want my
chicken gizzards," says Meth. "The first ones we had were
no good."
The story of the
gizzards then unfolds.
Apparently it was
the first time they ordered gizzards from the Roscoe's on
Pico. They were no good. So Method Man and Redman insisted
that the next batch come from the Roscoe's on Sunset and Gower,
because their gizzards are better.
Finally, after
the drama subsides, they both take their seats and it's apparent
that they are bored with the entire interview process.
Redman takes out
a blunt from his pocket and surveys it, making sure it's in
good condition. He then looks around the table and over his
shoulder, he rises from his seat, jams something into the
door so that it can't be opened and then takes his seat again.
He is apparently on the verge of lighting it up, but for some
reason he instead sticks the blunt in the back of his white
headband.
"It felt great,
" says Redman about his first role in a major film. " I'm
willing to do more films with my homie. We got to do some
more movies."
At this point the
chemistry between the two "blunt brothers" is apparent. While
Redman is answering the question Method Man is clowning around
with him, "Awesome. So cool, so cool dawg. Awesome."
Redman and Method
Man are almost like two long lost brothers. After hooking
up together for the first time to record the song "How High,"
the duo has been inseparable. They have toured extensively,
recorded an album (1999's "Blackout) and are now sharing their
first full-length feature film.
"We put in a lot
of work into making this thing work for us man," says Meth
about the making of "How High." "Because when your name is
going on the product, you want that product to be as much
of you as possible."
The "product" in
this case is simply described as "Cheech and Chong" meets
"Animal House." Meth and Redman star as Silas and Jamal, two
inner-city kids who find a magic herb that gets them into
college. Of course, antics and hilarity ensue.
"They were a lot
of Redman's ideas that came across in this," says Meth. Redman
is now quiet and nodding his head, probably suffering from
burnout of his all-day blunt fest.
Redman, though,
awakens to discuss his families' reaction to the movie.
"They liked it,
after an hour they were walking around doing other s**t,"
he jokes. "They made me take the tape out and I'll be damned
if I show them another movie again."
By this time, Redman
has taken another blunt out of his pocket. He again checks
it out and surveys the room one more time. Again instead of
smoking it, he adds it to the one already sticking out of
his headband.
Finally their publicist
comes in to wrap up the interview.
"They better have
my damn chicken gizzards," says Meth to nobody in particular.
"And some hot sauce."
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