MTV: Do you find acting is a little harder for you than music?
Snoop: I think music is harder for me because acting is already scripted. So you get a chance to rehearse it and go over it and know what you're going to say and how you're gonna do it before you do it. But the music is basically emotional, right on the right. Spiritually, what you're thinking, what you're feeling right now.
MTV: What was your first reaction when you heard that they wrote this for you? I mean, this is a huge movie and they wrote Jimmy Bones around you.
Snoop: Well, I knew what was going on with this project from the beginning. I was always saying that I wanted to be in a moviebased around me as the lead character, but it would have to be something strong enough to make the whole world want to see it. And they gave me the opportunity to be on the stage with Pam Grier and [director] Ernest Dickerson and these great people that I'm working with. I promised I wouldn't let them down.
MTV: How crazy is that? Did you grow up watching Pam Grier?
Snoop: I got one of her movies in there right now. I could push "play," and it's one of her movies. One of her classic movies. She's a beautiful woman and a friend, and somebody that I can cry on her shoulder if I need to. It's going to be a hit movie. Believe it.
MTV: Do your kids ever come up and visit you while you do these things?
Snoop: Not for movies, but for videos, yeah. But for the most part, they're too busy trying to go to school and learn something.
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Snoop: Just attitude adjustment. How to stay professional and stay on the acting page at all times when the camera's on. I don't get down on myself. I'm not perfect. I see other people make mistakes and how they handle it, and it just makes me want to do the same thing, watching their professionalism.
MTV: Did you ever talk to Ice Cube about acting before you started doing this?
Snoop: Not for advice, but he wrote a movie that I wanted to do. I was trying to get it picked up by a studio. I came to him for advice as far as rapping and the business, but not for acting.
MTV: He's now a multimedia mogul. Are you gonna be that soon?
Snoop: I'm already that, baby. I just got to get the roles to put me in that situation.
MTV: How much more acting do you really want to do?
Snoop: I want to do this when I'm finished with rapping. I want to go full speed on this acting thing. Because it's more behind the scenes. The rapping thing is year-round. We don't never get a vacation.
MTV: I've got to ask you -- is Jimmy Bones cooler than Shaft?
Snoop: Jimmy Bones is the baddest motherfucka the world has ever seen. You dig? Jimmy Bones is the biggest thing to hit the big screen since John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever." It's the whole phenomenon, his hair, his attitude, his car, his woman, everything. His conversation. His lingo. You know, the way that women just want to sit down and converse with him for a minute or two, ask him a few questions the way the kids want an autograph. People want to take pictures with him and just stand next to him. Sit in his car, hold his steering wheel. Try on his jacket, you know.
MTV: The suit suits you.
Snoop: It's not a costume, baby, it's me. You know, when I take it off it's a costume. When I got it on, it's me.
MTV: Do you do a lot of rehearsing yourself, getting into Jimmy Bones here in your dressing room?
Snoop: I don't really have to get into Jimmy Bones. Jimmy Bones is a part of Snoop Dogg. It's like I turn Snoop Dogg off to turn Jimmy Bones on.
MTV: I wanted to talk to you about your phat car here on the set. Do you actually get to drive it?
Snoop: No, I don't drive. I'm in the back seat. I got a driver. He drives me around town. You know, when you're at this status in the game, you don't drive. You get driven around. You never see the president driving, right?
