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Netflix’s latest caller film is the action-packed End of the Road, starring Queen Latifah, Ludacris, and Mychala Lee. Mychala plays Kelly, Queen Latifah’s daughter, who gets caught up successful the combat for her beingness erstwhile a cross-country roadworthy travel takes a acheronian turn. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Mychala astir her latest project.
Mychala Lee with co-stars Ludacris and Queen Latifah. (Netflix)“I was truly drawn to my quality Kelly due to the fact that she is each of the things that I was lacking astatine that time. She’s bold. She’s outspoken. She is fierce. She’s brave. I was truly capable to pat into those parts of myself done her improvement successful the movie,” Mychala said.
Queen Latifah plays Mychala’s onscreen mom, and Mychala had truthful overmuch praise for the Hollywood icon. “She’s amazing. I cannot explicit however lukewarm and inviting her vigor is,” Mychala noted. “She was truthful welcoming. No ego astatine all. She’s truthful humble and truthful benignant and conscionable being capable to benignant of person her arsenic a mentor and a person and a motherly fig was really, truly special.”
The 19-year-old revealed that the “main thing” she learned from Queen Latifah was that “kindness volition instrumentality you further than thing else. Someone of that presumption and that repertoire, she could easy conscionable spell astir her job, get successful and out, and not interest astir anything. But she truly took her clip to marque everyone consciousness loved, consciousness welcome, consciousness safe, particularly arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the film. She had that other level of power to marque definite that it was a fun, welcoming environment. I deliberation that was my biggest takeaway, to conscionable beryllium benignant to everyone that you’re with.”
Ludacris besides joins the roadworthy travel arsenic Queen Latifah’s brother. Mychala admitted that the Fast & Furious prima was the root of galore laughs connected set. “There are truthful galore unwritten jokes that helium threw successful the movie that you’ll astir apt ace up. He’s truthful overmuch fun,” Mychala said. “He virtually felt similar an older member oregon similar that goofy uncle. We person truthful galore wrong jokes from set. Honestly, it was a household from the infinitesimal we met.”
Mychala Lee stars arsenic Kelly successful ‘End of the Road.’ (Photographer: Abe Bermudez)She added, “We were perpetually playing music, perpetually dancing and singing. It’s really comic due to the fact that Cris and Latifah were precise impressed by my euphony cognition of 2000s R&B.”
The Netflix movie was filmed successful and astir Sante Fee and Albuquerque. “It was intense. We were successful the New Mexico heat. Sandstorms, thunderstorms, flooding, we experienced it all,” the histrion revealed. “It was decidedly a grueling summertime physically conscionable dealing with the vigor and the elements and stuff.”
Over the people of the film, Mychala noted that her quality is “definitely fixed a world check. She is dealing with teen problems, splitting with her boyfriend, and leaving each of her friends astatine home. And past each of a sudden, she is thrown into this existent world, precocious stakes, chaotic issue. She is truly fixed a position of what’s important and what she needs to value.”
Mychala volition besides beryllium returning for the upcoming 3rd play of Truth Be Told. “It is different brainsick chaotic thrust successful play 3,” Mychala teased. “She was introduced past play arsenic Trini Killebrew, but this season, she plays a large driving unit successful the communicative of the story. It deals with immoderate truly applicable events that are applicable to this time and age. It’s an important story, but it’s besides highly shocking and exciting.”
Mychala Lee astatine the ‘End of the Road’ premiere. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)On apical of acting, Mychala is besides dedicated to her education. She graduated from Cal State University, Northridge, with a grade successful household studies. “My program is to hopefully possibly 1 time get my master’s successful kid science due to the fact that that’s decidedly a immense passionateness of excavation and a large request I consciousness similar successful my assemblage arsenic a Black pistillate and besides conscionable successful our time and property close now,” Mychala told HollywoodLife. “Children, particularly going done this pandemic, not being successful school, there’s a batch of struggles and caller issues that are coming up. It’s thing that I’m truly passionate about, and I’m truthful gladsome that I went and I finished. It besides correlates with acting a batch much than I thought it would. I studied a batch of psychology, a batch of household relations, however radical relation successful relationships, truthful erstwhile I get a character, I tin benignant of spot from it a intelligence constituent arsenic well.” End of the Road is present streaming connected Netflix.
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