Brandon HendrickBad Boys Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the fourth film in the popular series.
The two sat down with “Extra’s” Melvin Robert, who expressed his gratitude for the experience he had at the junket.
Will replied by referring to his gratitude for the experience he had making his latest film, chalking it up to his co-star. “Martin, like, literally the first day of this movie, he, like, stopped me,” Will said. “He was like, ‘No, no, no — we’re not rushing through this one. Like, we got to part four, we are going to enjoy every second of this, right?’”
Martin chimed in, “We did.”
Mel observed, “And I know one of the things you said, too, was that this is not a victory lap.”
“Yes, not at all,” Will agreed, adding, “We agreed after ‘Bad Boys 2,’ you know, that we would never, like, come back to this franchise without a story that deserved to be attached to this franchise. We wanted to make sure that the movie lived on its own and not just, you know, ‘People like it, so we’re going to take a victory lap.’”
“And put something out there for a money grab,” Martin said. “We didn’t want to do that.
“Y’all have been doing this now for 30 years,” Mel said. “What do you know now about one another that you didn’t know 30 years ago?”
Martin replied, “Well, I know now how good he is, you know? Because I’ve seen his growth. You know, from ‘Fresh Prince’ and to movies and all the way to what he’s accomplished, it’s just, I’m just really impressed, really impressed.”
Will shared, “Just with Martin, how absolutely honest and, like, open his heart is, you know? It’s like there ain’t no faking in that dude, you know? And it’s like I just love that he can be calm and firm and [have] no problem saying what’s absolutely true in his heart.”
Speaking of being firm, Mel asked Lawrence, “Who is your ride or die, Martin?”
“My best friend Larry White,” he said, adding, “My brother who just passed away, Sean Lampkin — all of those were my ride or dies. And those are my best friends that I’ve been baptized with and everything. We grew up together and all that.”
He went on to say Will is his movie ride or die.
