Snoop Dogg debuts as lead actor in ‘The Underdoggs’

landmark Snoop Dogghip hop legend of the American West Coast, debuts as a leading actor in a sports comedy ‘The Underdogs’which landed on the platform this weekend Main video with the plot as well-intentioned as the swear words in the script.

“Following movie It is rated ‘R’ (17+ in the US) as its strong language may not be suitable for children. But screw it all. “You know as well as I do that kids who shouldn’t be watching this shit talk worse than us,” the film humorously warns before the start.

From there, this production of Amazon MGM Studios offers an hour and forty minutes of entertainment based colloquialisms, rudeness and hooliganism Oh yeah children’s American football team in the city of Long Beach struggling to leave marginality through sport and its ability to improve.

“Single mothers, sports, missing parents, kids trying to understand it, coaches trying to fix it… It’s happening in the neighborhood and it’s nice to be able to show it without violencebeige murdersno chaos, no negativity,” explained Snoop Dogg in an interview with EFE.

Snoop Dogg’s big step in cinema

This is Dogg’s first starring role in a production. high budget -30 million dollars- and in it he stars as Jaycen ‘2 Js’ Jennings, a American football star who was sentenced to 300 hours of community service in the park due to a bad head Long beach (south of Los Angeles) where I used to play as a child.

Garbage ball in hand, surrounded by endless dog poop and a group of kids trying to humiliate him, Jaycen hates these young people at first, but eventually develops a bond that leads him to form a team and improve his abilities. qualities.

“It’s not a football movie, but football It’s in the movie. When you see that, you start to realize that even if you don’t know about football, you understand life, or you do experiences and you can identify with her or with characters“, added the 52-year-old businessman.

A personal journey where a former professional player returns to his neighborhood, re-establishes his feet on the ground and tries to rebuild his relationship with Cherise, his former high school girlfriend played by Tika Sumpter.

“I think everyone has felt alone in their lives. It may sound corny, but it’s true, you can’t play football alone. So if you are not part of something and you want to do it, this film is for you,” said Sumpter, also present in the interview with EFE.

The essence that is imprinted in his character

The result of this strip is a family comedyas long as they are willing to tolerate the dose curse words and bad jokeswith a sentimental background ranging from stereotypes, marginality and racism to the value of sports.

Furthermore, Dogg gracefully approves of his first major project as an actor in which he knows how to put aside the marked label rap exponentand the personality that is assumed, in a film with a successful work casting and character characterization.

“None of that crap is me. Is Jason Jennings becoming Snoop Dogg at the end of the movie. “I tried to keep it completely separate from me because we’re similar, but we have different views on how to interact with kids, for example,” explained Snoop Dogg.

The idea for the film, directed by Charles Stone III and written by Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis, came from the rapper’s own competition, which the rapper founded in 2005 in Long Beach for low-income children and in which he was also a coach.

“Sports change lives in many ways. Unite families, communityteaches them to be a pineapple and have responsibilities“, claimed the protagonist of ‘The Underdoggs’.

Until today, Snoop Youth soccer leagueas the initiative is called, it accepted 85,000 children, sent 20,000 to university and 25 to professional football.