The artist co-stars as washed-up musician BJ who takes a job on a pop talent show in South Korea.
That was the most time I got to spend with my family.
Before that, I was always touring.
Greg Silverman, Anderson .Paak and Soul Rasheed Sonia Recchia/Getty Images)Sonia Recchia/Getty Images)
I have two kids and at the time, I was married.
Everyone was just at the house.
It was a BTS house.
They were all singing it, and I was kind of like the odd man out, he says.
Hes been in dance classes since he was six years old.
Hes capable of so much stuff naturally, says the proud father.
I didnt know it would take three years to make happen.
Growing up we didnt know much about our Korean history because she was adopted.
She never knew her parents, or grandparents, her biological ones.
I didnt know much about my Korean heritage until I had my son.
I wanted something like that for BJ and his character.
We had to shoot a lot of scenes, exterior and interior, and move around the city.
And they were very efficient, so quick., says .Paak.
Something needed to happen in the script that would result in BJ having to leave Korea.
When he showed it to us, We were like whoa, thats it.
I just never seen anything like that, its beautiful, glass venue out the middle of the desert.
I put it in the script.
They got back to us and said that we could shoot here.
I had no idea how beautiful it would be.
Pictures dont do it justice.
We went from Korea to AlUla.
It was blazing hot, desert heat.
Youd go out, and it was like you were on Mars.
There are red rocks everywhere.
The stars were like super bright.
Ive traveled a lot and sometimes you feel history.
You could just feel it when you touch the ground.
It was really spiritual with beautiful people.
It was a whole new crew but again, it was super quick, everybody was on board.
We were able to jump right in and fall into the line, that was great, he recalls.
This is my first movie.
I was directing, acting, writing, doing a bunch of stuff, doing the music.
