![]() ![]() Every producer he would work with, I would let them know, “I like music.” The next thing you know they were like, “I’ll send you some beats.” Of course starting out, it’s really not knowing too much of what you are doing. My dad being who he is, I was always in the studio. QUINCY BROWN: I think music was first just because it was so next-door. and she had read for it before and she showed up the next day.ĮMMA BROWN: Which came first for you, music or acting? I was like, “Is this still in play?” Luckily Chanel was in L.A. Tuesday went by and Wednesday went by, and originally there was supposed to be another actor for her and then it wasn’t on the call sheet. It was, like, Tuesday and the scene with my sister at the house was Thursday. QUINCY BROWN: No, that actually happened literally the day before. She did a phenomenal job.ĮMMA BROWN: Did you know she was going to play your sister? It was her first time acting and I got a chance to help her a little bit. Chanel, who plays my sister, I actually knew for a couple of years. QUINCY BROWN: I knew Kiersey I had met her through mutual friends. He hand me the script and said, “Hi, Jaleel.” I was like, “Oh shit.” I was really excited.ĮMMA BROWN: Did you know any of the other cast members before? Are you sure this is the right thing?” “Oh, this is for a different role.” Then I was supposed to go in for a callback and I pulled up expecting to read with the casting director and it was the director. Just another of those auditions that wasn’t for you.” Four or five months later they hit me back up and then they were like, “You have an audition for Dope” and I was like, “What? I went out for this. Then me being light skinned and kind of pretty boy-looking they were like, “Ehh, it would be forced.” I didn’t hear back and I was like, “Oh, it’s okay, didn’t get it. Originally I went up for Dom, which is A$AP ’s character, which he played amazingly. When they were casting the film they reached out. QUINCY BROWN: I’m just another actor out in L.A. “I want to perfect my craft a little bit before I present myself,” he says.ĮMMA BROWN: How did you get involved with Dope? When it comes to music, Quincy is reluctant to release an album prematurely. In April, he had his first central role in the teen drama Brotherly Love. In January, the film Dope, in which he plays a wealthy Los Angeles teenager with unintentionally hilarious “Straight Outta Compton” pretensions, received a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. As an actor, he’s studied with famed acting coaches Aaron Speiser (Will Smith, the Wayans brothers) and Richard Lawson (Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi), and has taken classes at Playhouse West and the Groundlings. “Once I had all that free time, I started devoting it to music and acting.”īrown takes his chosen professions seriously. “Because my family moved so much and I went to different schools, I was ineligible to play sports,” he says. In his junior year of high school, however, he had to readjust his future plans. I don’t look back at things in embarrassment it’s more like, ‘Damn, I’ve grown so much from that.’ ” Named after his godfather, the legendary producer Quincy Jones, Brown grew up playing baseball and dreaming of playing for the University of Miami Hurricanes and in the major leagues. “Everything in the past is the step, step, step to where I am today. ![]() It was the time of my life,” the 24-year-old actor and musician says. “I remember, when it was happening, I was a happy kid. Sure! and model Kim Porter, and adoptive son of Sean “Diddy” Combs, isn’t embarrassed about his episode of MTV’s My Super Sweet Sixteen. Quincy Brown, son of ’80s R&B singer Al B. PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: KAIA BALCOS AND JOHN DANIEL POWERS. SET DESIGN ASSISTANTS: MAX ZINSER AND YONATAN ZONSZEIN. MAKEUP ASSISTANTS: EMIKO AYABE AND TALY WAISBERG. STYLING ASSISTANTS: MELISSA LEVY AND ALEKSANDRA KOJ. PHOTO ASSISTANTS: SIMON ROBERTS, HUAN NGUYEN, MARU TEPPEI, AND DEAN PODMORE. PRODUCTION MANAGER: ASHLEY SCOTT FOR PRODN/ ART+COMMERCE. PRODUCER: SARA ZION FOR PRODN/ ART+COMMERCE. MANICURE: MEGUMI YAMAMOTO FOR DIOR VERNIS/SUSAN PRICE NYC. MAKEUP: PETER PHILIPS FOR CHRISTIAN DIOR. ![]() COSMETICS: DIOR, INCLUDING DIORSKIN NUDE AIR HEALTHY GLOW ULTRA-FLUID SERUM FOUNDATION. ![]()
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