How Anderson .Paak’s Son Inspired His Directorial Debut, ‘K-Pops!’
variety.comSelena Kuznikov During the depths of the pandemic, musician Anderson .Paak helped his son, Soul Rasheed, start a YouTube channel.
Now, the pair are starring alongside each other in .Paak’s directorial debut, “K-Pops!,” which is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film follows BJ (.Paak), a washed-up musician trying to pave his path to stardom. He finds a gig with a house band in Seoul for a K-Pop competition show, where he discovers that his long-lost son Tae Young (Rasheed) is also pursuing a music career. .Paak sat down with Variety to talk about his directorial and screenwriting debut, how Bruno Mars taking the lead on directing Silk Sonic videos inspired him to pursue directing and working with his son on the film. How did you decide that you wanted to explore directing? I have a lot of siblings, and we would just watch movies and imitate them.
Me and my oldest sister, we would make mini home movies, just imitating movies we saw. And when I got into high school, one of the electives they had was film editing.
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