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O’Shea Jackson Jr. shares the parenting advice he got from his dad, Ice Cube.
The 33-year-old was a guest during a recent episode of the Jennifer Hudson Show and talked about being a dad to seven-year-old Jordan Reign Jackson.
“One of my favorite things that I was really waiting for was that I get to have my hand in the science projects and things like that,” Jackson said at the 33 second mark in the video linked above.
“My dad back in the day, he would always help me with my science projects. There was one point where I had to turn it in the next day and he stayed up until three in the morning doing my project for me," he said. "Yeah, so I appreciate you, Dad.”
When asked about any parenting advice he received from his famous father, Jackson said, “Just to make sure she always feels like she can talk to me about something. Just to make sure that I'm always the avenue that she can go to to express how she's feeling or what's going on with her, what she's thinking, and let her know that I am your first protector. I got your back no matter what.”
Jackson also had some advice for parents everywhere whose kids keep their answers short when you ask them how was their day at school.
“They just got off work, you know? They don't wanna talk about work right now,” he said. “With my daughter, I just gotta let her get her iPad and she gon’ start gossiping anyway. Let them unwind a little bit, kick their feet up. Nobody wanna talk about work when they just got out.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Jackson, who played his father in 2015’s Straight Outta Compton, said he didn’t think director F. Gary Gray was fond of him on set.
“We've known Gary for a long time.His first film was Friday. He actually directed the “[It] Was a Good Day” video,” Jackson said. “So I'm thinking, it's my first film. I'm like, ‘Alright, Gary gon’ have my back and it's gonna be a full circle moment.’”
“While we doing the film, I see my man Jason [Mitchell] and Corey [Hawkins] and Neil [Brown Jr.] … I'm seeing them getting pats on the back and like ‘good job’ and like ‘maybe try it this ways’ and I'm not getting none of that,” he recalled. “So I'm like, you know, what's the problem? I think I'm doing good. Nobody's talking to me.”
With Straight Outta Compton being his first film, Jackson said he was “scared to death” of the experience. However, a conversation with co-star Jason Mitchell, who played Eazy-E, helped put things into perspective.
“I was like, ‘Bro, do Gary not like me?’ He's like, ‘What you mean?’ [I’m] like, ‘[He] don't come up and talk to me about nothing,’” Jackson recalled. “He goes, ‘Shea, you're playing your dad. What the hell is he going to tell you?’”
“I still wanted a pat on the back,” he joked.
Jackson also said Cube likened the film to “watching his son win the Super Bowl.” The actor then mentioned trying to get his co-stars together for a sit-down next year.
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