INTERVIEW: Michael Jai White Talks New Film ‘Special Op: Rent-A-Cop’, Controlling Your Ego, Tyler Perry, Winning The Bruce Lee Award
The Breakfast Club
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4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Today on The Breakfast Club, Michael Jai White Talks New Film ‘Special Op: Rent-A-Cop’, Controlling Your Ego, Tyler Perry, Winning The Bruce Lee Award. Listen For More!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | Hold up. |
| 0:21.1 | Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all's done. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess Hilarious, Sholomey Nagar. We are the Breakfast Club. Lawn LaRose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. his new movie special op Renner Cop is out right now |
| 0:22.8 | Michael Jock |
| 0:23.6 | Michael J. White. |
| 0:24.6 | Is it J? Or J? This John, you got it, right? |
| 0:26.5 | Oh, okay, alright. |
| 0:27.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:27.8 | How are you feeling, brother? |
| 0:28.6 | I feel real good. |
| 0:30.1 | I feel real good being back here. |
| 0:32.1 | I've got problems now because I'm kind of loving being back. |
| 0:35.6 | Really? |
| 0:36.2 | Yes, man. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm from here originally. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:38.9 | And so walking these streets, man, I'm from here originally. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:38.8 | And so walking these streets, man, |
| 0:40.4 | and it's a beautiful weather, man. It's got me like really... Well, that's today. Because tomorrow's gonna be back cold. Well, yesterday, too. It was all good, man. I'm enjoying myself. What do you miss about it? Just... much, man, the energy. I'm hooking up with my peoples from here that I hadn't seen in a long time. |
| 0:56.9 | The fact that, so much, man, the energy. I'm hooking up with my peoples from here that I haven't seen in a long time. The fact that, you know, I traipsy streets trying to come up, doing theater and all that kind of stuff, and I almost feel like I sold out. You know what I mean? When I'm in LA and now I'm doing, you know, doing the other type of thing. but man, I got my friends doing Broadway and all that kind of stuff. And I started with theater out here, right? So it made me kind of miss it. So, you know, yeah, so, you know, I'm feeling that way. Well, if you don't mind, I like to go back for people that don't know. How did you get into theater, into acting? What push you towards that? |
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