Anderson .Paak on Directing His Son in ‘K-Pops!’ and His Future With Bruno Mars: ‘Silk Sonic Always Has a Place to Put Out More Music’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld Anderson .Paak strode into the Variety studio at Toronto Film Festival wearing a radiant smile, and before the cameras started rolling he began spinning a pillow on his finger like a basketball. “This is a couch potato trick,” he laughed, as his 13-year-old son Soul Rasheed watched in awe.
It’s fitting that .Paak can’t keep his hands still. With a thriving music career (both as a solo artist and as one-half of the four-time Grammy winning duo Silk Sonic), a lucrative alter ego in DJ Pee Wee and a side hustle (if you can call that) as a restaurateur, .Paak is constantly adding items to his resume.
The latest of which is “K-Pops!,” .Paak’s first feature film, which he directed and acts in alongside Rasheed. “It was kind of tough sometimes for me to turn off the dad and put on the director,” the 38-year-old multi-hyphenate told Variety. “I just felt like sometimes it was tough for me to separate, because I wanted to also be there for him as a dad, make sure he was comfortable, but also get the best take I could — so that he enjoys it, so we can watch something that we can be proud of in the end.” Rasheed concurred. “It was my dad, so he kind of knew my preferences and my weaknesses and strengths,” he said of .Paak, who plays his dad in the film. “The bond is real.
It’s more authentic that way.” In “K-Pops!,” .Paak plays BJ, a washed-up musician who travels to South Korea to work on a pop idol show, where he meets Tae Young (Rasheed), competing to become the country’s next superstar.
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