Got it on DVD.

You know, Michael Jai White I met at a martial arts convention.

I'd never met him before.

And he says to me, you know, I got something for you.

Thanks, Jason.

We did this thing, and he showed me this sizzle of he and Tommy Davidson running around in these pimp suits in, like, downtown L.A., Okay, cool, great.

Yeah, I got a role for you, man.

It wasn't like, oh, dad's different.

It's just how strong these characters are.

Again, a testament to the casting and to them wanting to play, I think, with the best people that they could find.

And I'm honored that they thought that I was one of the best people.

I auditioned for this like a few other people did.

It wasn't given to me, even though I was on the radar because I had done an episode prior that had to do with yogurt and the New York mayoral race.

And ultimately, I was I was not in that episode because something else happened.

But they knew me from that.

How did you guys get through a scene when you're doing a scene?

Really extraordinary.

It's funny because I'm doing a project now, or I'm writing and developing a project about kind of those days, right, in Hollywood, where Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball owned Desilu, hence Desilu.

It was a time in Hollywood where a couple could own a studio.

That's impossible now.

But at that point, you know, it was a bit of a mom and pop shop.

And the shows that they had on the lot were the I Love Lucy show, Mission Impossible, this spy drama, which my father was in, Greg Morris.

Oh, he was fabulous.

I just want you to know that for your statement.

Tell us about it.

Well, it's a full experience.

You know, it's a very full experience because the fans of Star Trek are as loyal as any fans of anything in any place in the universe.

And I'm not kidding.

I mean, I'm not, that's not hyperbolic.

That's real.

And so they are n- as knowled- they're more knowledgeable than you'll ever be, about even the episodes that you've done.

Wow.

the

name.

They really reached for that.

They, in their wisdom, greenlit a pilot called Star Trek and another pilot called Mission Impossible and several other shows that were incredible shows but very costly.

And they told Lucille Ball that ultimately they greenlit the series for Star Trek that they would go bankrupt, which kind of happened.

which is why they had to sell the studio to Paramount Pictures.

But Lucille Ball, in her wisdom, infinite wisdom in her vision, saw that this was a show that really could not be denied.

What do you think would delight him or disappoint him? about where we're at today in the world in 2026? What do you think he'd be happy about?

That's why I say some of the greatest talent I've worked with are voiceover actors because they have less of that

that... to, to draw on in the moment where they're standing behind the mic.

So it's all from here, and it's all from here, and it's all from my fellow actor, and my director, and, and the writer, and whoever's there to, to help me make this as concrete as possible.

I did, um, Young Justice the, their last season, and I played Lor-Zod and, and General Zod, both the father and the son.

I never thought about that.

'Cause the worst thing, the worst thing of all for an actor standing in the booth is, you know, you do this great performance thing, and then there's just, like, there's people behind the glass.

You can't hear them, and there's going, "Yep.

Yep.

It has a lot of weight to it.

Well, you know, T- Tom and I talk about the, the acting thing all the time.

Um, as young actors, we think we need to do a lot, right? We need to show, show things and, "This is what I'm doing.

This is, I'm j- I'm mad, I'm, I'm upset, I'm whatever." I mean, w- uh, at least I did.

I felt like I had to reveal and present, um, what I was feeling inside, uh, or else it would be missed, yeah? Um, and then I started to really work, whether it was on stage or in class, and I, then I did a soap for a while, and that really shows you a lot about, about where you can and where you can't go.

Um, and so I've developed this over the years.

It didn't come to me immediately.

Yes.