![]() is the son of N.W.A member Ice Cube but makes his acting debut in the film.) “Straight Outta Compton” director F. My best friend was killed in 2007, and that’s where I started thinking, ‘I’m just going to find something different to do.’ And it took me a little while, but then I found acting school.”Īll five members of N.W.A are cast with unknowns. “And I started seeing a lot of things happen, things that were too close to home, and I thought that’s not really what I want for myself. I was also in the drug scene,” Mitchell says. “We had to start over.”įor him that meant a series of jobs, including cook, electrician and oyster shucker. “We lost everything pretty much,” he says. Then, around the time he was graduating high school, Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. It was around middle school that the family settled in New Orleans, where his mother had been raised. Mitchell’s mother had a career in the Army, and so the early part of his life was spent tagging along with her and his siblings as they moved about the globe. I just wanted to do something I felt was expressive.” I didn’t think talking to somebody about my problems and me paying you for that is going to bring me any less stress. “I just wanted to see if I could find my own therapy. “I figured it would have a different type of people than what I was used to,” he says of his decision to turn to acting. ![]() Raised in New Orleans, he started acting only some five years ago, but Mitchell notes with pride that his very first time on a film set, for the dramatic thriller “Texas Killing Fields,” he had a speaking part. Though it’s not the first film role for 28-year-old Jason Mitchell, it is by far his biggest. In scene after scene, the rise, fall and eventual death of Eazy-E provides the film with an emotional core, as his street-hustler smarts and showman’s acumen help guide the group to dazzling heights. ‘Eazy’ does it for ‘Straight Outta Compton’s’ Jason MitchellĪs audiences were leaving “Straight Outta Compton” on its $60.2 million opening weekend, many were asking about the unknown actor playing N.W.A member Eric “Eazy-E” Wright.
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