O`Shea Jackson Jr. has a promising acting career so far, despite only appearing in three released films (Straight Outta Compton, Ingrid Goes West, and now, Den of Thieves). He also has the Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron comedy Flarsky, not to mention Godzilla: King of Monsters, coming up.But during an interview to promote Den of Thieves in LA this week, Jackson revealed his real dream: to work in video games.We talked about that, plus training for the heist movie Den of Thieves, getting chased by kaiju in Godzilla: King of Monsters, his favorite WWE superstars, and more.GameSpot: What are you playing lately?O`Shea Jackson Jr.: NBA 2K, of course. You know, I like my VR Skyrim right now, and then Grand Theft Auto V just keeps f***ing updating itself so how could you not. That is like the grown-up version of The Sims.You got a Switch?No. I really just need it for Odyssey. I really want to play Odyssey. Nintendo always gives you one exclusive title that makes you have to get their s***.I wanted to ask you about the training for the movie since you didn`t have as many action scenes. Your stuff was more low key.Yeah exactly. You know, when I read a script one time I don`t like to keep going over it. If you know too much it can mess up your performance--at least for me, you know, I`m still trying to get my feet wet a little bit when it comes to acting. But I like staying in the realm of not knowing what`s going to happen next.I came to a realization during the training, of `Do I shoot my gun in this movie?` And then I realized, no, I`m just working to work. I`m all for team bonding, and chemistry is so important in a film, but you know, I didn`t get to shoot this s***! I`m waiting to do something cool, and by the time we got ready for the [climax], they looked up the scenes, and they`re like, `Yeah O`Shea, guess you can sit this part out.` And it was the longest part of training! So yeah, I bitched.You`ll probably get to shoot in the next one though?Lord willing, of co ...
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