Tyrese Gibson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Tyrese Gibson is a renaissance man. He's a Grammy-nominated singer, blockbuster actor, an accomplished author, and model. His latest project is a crime drama–1992. It's set in Los Angeles, the day four police officers charged with beating Rodney King were acquitted. We talk about the film and the commercial that jump started his career. Plus, Tyrese presses pause mid-interview to take an important call from a rap legend.

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0:18.8	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun dot org and is distributed by NPR. It's bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne. In showbiz big breaks can come anywhere at any time. Maybe it happens in an audition. The
0:48.5	casting director falls in love with your performance. A nightclub opening for a big act who takes you under their
0:54.0	wing or a little role in a big movie that the audience never forgets. For my guest
0:59.1	Tyres Gibson, it happened on a bus. Well a commercial said on a bus. It's 1994. We open inside the aforementioned bus.
1:08.7	Tyrese climbed aboard, walk man on his ears, big smile on his face, and he's singing.
1:15.0	Belting, really.
1:17.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's almost the entire length of the commercial before he sings an actual word, a full 25 seconds, and if you're a stickler for realism, you might be thinking about what might motivate someone to sing the jingle for a soda pop on public transportation.
1:46.7	That is a valid question, but it is not the point. The point is that that commercial was a phenomenon. It led to more commercials than a record deal. We can talk about you be nice.
2:04.0	Would you be my sweet love for
2:09.0	Oh, I'll be there.
2:10.0	Oh, I'll be there. Then to movies,
2:15.0	movies, including a huge part in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
2:22.0	He plays Roman Pierce. in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
2:22.8	He plays Roman Pierce.
2:25.0	I've been in here for four hours,
2:26.6	and my ribs are short.
2:28.2	I don't know about your, but I'm out.
2:31.9	I wouldn't recommend that.
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