When O’Shea Jackson Jr. was preparing to play his father in “Straight Outta Compton,” the N.W.A founding member gave him one big tip on set: Don’t frown in every scene.
“He told me that we all have our good days and our bad days,” Jackson recalled on the black carpet of the film’s premiere Monday, held at Microsoft Theater in Downtown L.A. “This movie is about humanizing these N.W.A music icons and showing everybody they laugh, cry and bleed like everyone else.”
The Universal Pictures film, which rolls out in theaters Friday, follows the iconic rap group N.