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joining me now is cuba gooding jr., director lee daniels and lenny kravitz. you must be the happiest man in the world because this movie is a smash hit and your name is in it. congratulations. >> i am not happy because i am sitting next to the three stooges here. the two stooges here tonight. we are over the moon, actually. >> stop it. >> we're over the moon happy. it's been -- it's been -- we didn't think that it was going to be -- we didn't think that it was going to be what it was going to be so when we reached that number, we call each other very humbled by it. it was wonderful. >> you cried. >> i did cry. >> you cried like a little girl. >> lenny, your acting is getting so good. we're almost for getting that you sing as well. i mean, you must be loving this, aren't you? >> it's been wonderful. and, you know, i have to give so much credit to lee because he's the one that brought me into this by casting me in "precious" and working with me in such a magnificent way and the beautiful thing is that a lot of people don't even realize that it's me. it's the bi

cuba gooding jr. does. everybody does. look at how pleasant it is going to be in the northeast. od morning, i'm mike nicco. total sunshine except the coolest, that's the coolest. the >> this weather report brought to you by chevy certified service. i got a pickle from them. can you help me out? i'm getting a sneak peek. >> save one for me, ginger. thank you. >>> i'm having a great time out here. what a day on "gma," right? cuba gooding jr., sitting with me right now. serving up his own brand of humor in a terrific movie. >> woo. >> lee daniels -- getting very excited. lee daniels' "the butler." show me the money, is now showing forest whitaker the ropes as the leader of the white house serving staff. here's a clip from "the butler." >> what's your name, my brother? >> cecil gaines. >> i'm carter wilson. head butler. don't worry about that behind you. his brother, merrill, will be here. james hathaway, he's my second in command. >> shake the man's hand first, before you start asking difficult questions like that. >> love it. and you provide some comic relief in a movieing film. i

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. >> rose: cuba gooding, amazing in this film. >> who added such a lightness to the film. every scene that he's in he lifted a little higher and bricks in a little more light. and elijah, last night, who plays my other son. you know, that kid, every single line i say was ad-libbed by him practically. >> he's hilarious. >> he'd get a laugh on every scene. >> he'd run them by me and i'd go wait a minute, we have p.g.-13 and we have to make sure they that they work. >> we had to take out the words. >> he's an incredible talent if everything he says is without the script because everything he's said is smart and funny and right on. >> all the time. all the time, yeah. kudos to him for that. >> rose: how did you decide on the end? you just finally said what? >> that we knew that we had to have hope and i think the thing was that it was all in forest's eyes. how are you feeling? what is he feeling? is he -- because the way we originally -- the way he walked down -- first he was walking up and very thankful. i said no, man. you're cranky. you got this. "i know the way." >> rose:

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forest whitaker, jane fonda, cuba gooding jr. . you were in the role. it took a minute to realize it was you. >> that's a good compliment. i appreciate that. >> how has the experience, not only being involved in this movie, so many use one word, important. but also playing that character, who is so elegant? >> it was great. i love working for lee daniels. he's a great director to work with. and he's responsible for getting me in film. >> right. >> my role in "precious." and encouraging me to be in film. as far as the film, yes. it is an important film. it's an important film for all of us to see. especially, i believe the youth, to be educated on all of these things. you think that because people go to school, they're being taught, think they. there's a lot of people that don't know about the freedom riders or civil rights in general. >> it takes you from the civil rights to the inauguration of obama. >> and people have lost their lives, people of all colors. >> the character that you play, a lot of people didn't know existed. we

. >> did you see cuba gooding, jr., has been here before, says there's a disconnect with the civil rights movement and history of it, and i think the movie opens that dialogue so you can make your decision as an african-american or an american. what is the difference? am i italian, irish, the decision as a white american? >> people are still trying to figure out what you are. >> i am a hybrid, okay? >> can we update a story here, stop and frisk update in new york city, showed the largest gun bust in new york city history. we have a table with the guns laid out. do we have that picture? >> picture a table full of guns on it. >> exactly. >> brian, there was a 911 call or e-mail. >> there are the guns, bolling. >> there you are. thank goodness. >> 45 guns that were confiscated from someone who said they were concerned about walking around with the guns because they're worried about stop and frisk. >> they get an intercept. it was released yesterday. here is the quote from one of the guys in charge. i can't take them to my house. i'm in brownsville, new york. we got like watch ma call it, sto

and cuba gooding, jr.were a lot of great people -- did you notice my son, i have two sons -- >> jimmy: who is the one who plays your son? >> it was elijah kelly, when you go to see the movie, not all of his lines, not every one of them. all the funny stuff was ad libbed, he was cracking us up all the time, after the big fight scene -- >> jimmy: there were a lot of funny moments, and funny moments where you would not expect there to be funny moments. >> and the movie has everything. >> jimmy: we'll take a break, when we come back we'll look at a clip from the movie. and oprah winfrey is here, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> the jimmy kimmel live concert series is brought to you by sony. all year long. le wait for this promotion and now there are endless ways to love it... from crispy to spicy to savory. [ man ] you cannot make a bad choice. [ male announcer ] red lobster's endless shrimp! as much as you like, any way you like! you can have your shrimp. and you can eat it, too. [ male announcer ] tr

. >> jimmy: cuba gooding jr. > very funny. >> jimmy: lenny kravitz too. >> i know. you know wholesale was really good? did you notice my son? >> jimmy: he was my favorite in the movie. >> there are two sons. >> jimmy: they were both very good. what is the kid's name who played your young son? >> elijah kelly. and you know most of that is ad-libbed. when you go to see the movie, not all of his lines, not every one of them. all the funny stuff was ad libbed, and he was cracking us up all the time. >> jimmy: he's very funny. >> after that big fight scene what he says afterwards, isn't that a hoo-ha? >> jimmy: there were a lot of funny moments, and funny moments where you would not expect there to be funny moments. >> so the movie has a little bit of everything. it's not just a big old -- >> jimmy: we'll take a break, when we come back we'll look at a clip from the movie. and oprah winfrey is here, everyone. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> the jimmy kimmel live concert series is brought to you by son

eastern where we'll interview lee danielson and actor cuba gooding jr.k at what's next on "news nation." >> hi, chris and kathleen. great job today. we'll see you later. coming up in our next hour, of course we'll continue to follow the latest out of egypt, including the effect the chaos could have on gas prices here at home. a lot o cover there. >>> plus, developing news. the clock is certainly ticking for san diego mayor bob filner to get back to work. will he show up amid the petition drive to get him kicked out of office? and if he does show up, will he even be able to get in? >>> and after fighting for his country, a u.s. marine is now fighting for a chance to play college football. how joining a recreational league while he was on base is now keeping him from his dream. this one is a "news nation" gut check you've got to see. from stouffer's starts with freshly-made pasta, and 100% real cheddar cheese. but what makes stouffer's mac n' cheese best of all. that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer's. made with care for you or your family. that's a g

cuba gooding jr. plays another butler at the white house.neighbor. i recently sat down with lee daniels to talk about the movie and the movement. he is the first african-american producer of an oscar winning film, and a true hollywood groundbreaker. lee, we're so happy to have you on the show tonight. let me ask you, why did you want to make this movie? >> father and son story. father and son story. you know, when i got the script, my son was 13, and he said black, i say white, he say black. i say day, he say night. i say go to bed, he say hell no. and when does it stop. >> right. >> and it transcends, race, you know, the father and son story. and it wasn't until i started shooting the movie and we started seeing the atrocities that happened to these kids that i realized it was bigger than a father and son story. it was a movie about civil rights. it's a movie about heroes. >> and it was still a movie about father and son. i mean, how important was it to tell eugene allen's story to you? >> so important, because he was an unspoken hero. and

we put together lots of people, cuba gooding. >> amazing. >> rose: amazing in this film. >> who added such a lightness to the film. every scene that he's in he lifted a little higher and brings it n a little more light. and elijah, last night, who plays my other son, every -- you know, that kid, every single line, may i say, was ad-libbed by him. >> he's hilarious. >> well, not all of them. we'd go wait a minute -- because sometimes -- we had p.j. 13 so we had to make sure that they weren't -- >> rose: he's an incredible talent if everything he said without script was -- because it was smart and funny and right on >> all the time. all the time. kudos to him for that. >> rose: so how did you decide on the end? you finally said what? >> we knew we had to have hope and i think the thing was that it was all in forest's eyes. how are you feeling? the way we originally -- the way he walked down. first he was walking up and very thankful but no, man, you got this. i know the way. >> rose: yeah, that was it. "i know the way." >> >> what's so interesting the first time we heard forest talk abo

. >> rose: cuba gooding, amazing in this film. >> who added such a lightness to the film. scene that he's in he lifted a little higher and bricks in a little more light. and elijah, last night, who plays my other son. you know, that kid, every single line i say was ad-libbed by him practically. >> he's hilarious. >> he'd get a laugh on every scene. >> he'd run them by me and i'd go wait a minute, we have p.g.-13 and we have to make sure they that they work. >> we had to take out the words. >> he's an incredible talent if everything he says is without the script because everything he's said is smart and funny and right on. >> all the time. all the time, yeah. kudos to him for that. >> rose: how did you decide on the end? you just finally said what? >> that we knew that we had to have hope and i think the thing was that it was all in forest's eyes. how are you feeling? what is he feeling? is he -- because the way we originally -- the way he walked down -- first he was walking up and very thankful. i said no, man. you're cranky. you got this. "i know the way." >> rose: that w

you had cuba gooding pop off the screen. so many academy award nominees in that movie.g us. great screen writing. hell of a movie. a great story of the african-american experience. anyway, i'm impressed. >> thanks very much. well, that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." i think i'll see you back here tomorrow again with chris. it's been a lot of fun. >> we'd like to have you back. tonight on "hardball," i got actor eric banner coming on. tamron hall has a look at what's next. >> we're following breaking news out of atlanta. shots fired at an elementary school. officials say a suspect is in custody. we'll have a live report from atlanta as school has just started in so many parts of the south and will start throughout the country. a scene like this obviously bringing terrifying reminders to all of us. we'll be right back. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why hp built a new kind of server. one that's 80% smaller. uses 89% less energy. and costs 77% less. it's called hp moonshot. and it's giving the internet the room it needs to

forest whitaker, jane fonda, cuba gooding jr. to realize it was you. >> that's a good compliment. i appreciate that. >> how has the experience, not only being involved in this movie, so many use one word, important. but also playing that character, who is so elegant? >> it was great. i love working for lee daniels. he's a great director to work with. and he's responsible for getting me in film. >> right. >> my role in "precious." and encouraging me to be in film. as far as the film, yes. it is an important film. it's an important film for all of us to see. especially, i believe the youth, to be educated on all of these things. because people go to school, they're being taught, think they. there's a lot of people that don't know about the freedom riders or civil rights in general. >> a it takes you from the civil rights to obama. >> and people have lost their lives, people of all colors. >> the character that you play, a lot of people didn't know existed. >> as members of the negro community, what are your biggest concerns? come o

cuba gooding, oh, my god. >> some are going -- young people are going to learn and it's a refresher courseeening, i wanted to reach out to you because it stayed with me. it was just -- >> that's when you know you got a good movie when you wake up the next day. >> it's still there. >> i saw it again last night with an audience. i had seen it before without. to see it with an audience is like seeing it anew. the audience laughed a lot at places i wouldn't expect. the audience laughed a lot at me. i didn't think it was that funny. what i think it is is the spirit of our country during that time comes alive in a way that we have not seen on film before. that's what i loved about it. >> and lee daniels did that. >> he did. i was very nervous, robin, about acting. it's like picking up an instrument and you haven't played it in 15 years so i called susan batten, and susan batten is, you know, a great acting coach for a number of people. she took my call. i was so excited and came to me see, and, you know, i said, i have this trouble crying. you wouldn't think i could because i can empathize. >> w

once i even tried to stab another youngster with a knife as in the movie depicted with cuba gooding jr plays my part. but after that incident, i locked myself in the bathroom and i stood contemplating my life and realized trying to kill somebody over nothing that i was seriously deranged. and i prayed and i picked up a bible and it had all these verses about fools and i said that sounds like me. but it also had a lot of anger and how there's no point getting angry if you're going to get right back into it. a man to control his temper than a man who can conquer the city and verse after verse and chapter after chapter it seemed like it was written for me. while i remained there for three hours i came to an understanding that it was not a sign of strength to punch somebody, it was a sign of weakness. it meant that you could be controlled by other people and by the environment. and i would want to be in control but i also came to understand that it was my selfishness because somebody was in my space and doing something to me. it was always about me and i and if you can step outside of the

who admitted the movie made him tear up when he was laughing at cuba gooding jokes. >>> number two hotformance billy ray is telling "entertainment tonight" she is still my little girl. please, keep telling her that. you're still her little girl. >>> while most actresses jump at the chance to portray princess diana. two big reasons for training the people's princess she turned down the role twice admitting i do care deeply how the princess feel, i am the mom of two boys. we saw all the stills of it and we saw a trailer with her voice attached and interesting to see how people respond to this. >> she is the mom of two boys and she can feel she wants the go ahead from them. >> she connects to a lot of her roles that way. when i talk to her about "the impossible" that was tough for her to do because it was for a mother and her kids and survival and she thought about her boys at home. >> good stuff. >>> coming up after the break on "new day" a texas mega church linked to a measles outbreak. why here, why now? dr. sanjay gupta has the disturbing answer. >>> the white house is laying the grou

cuba gooding jr. >> a cast of thousands.in october but the company moved it up to august to generate all this oscar buzz and it is doing just that. >>steve: you know why i want to see the movie in addition to it being historical in nature is the fact that robin williams plays eisenhower. how crazy is that? >> he pulls it off. and lee schreiber is lyndon baines johnson. >>gretchen: opening? >> next thursday -- friday, august 16. you can catch more coverage of the red carpet on in the spotlight.com. >>steve: thank you. >>gretchen: have you ever wanted to tell the president what you think about the state of our country? one new jersey man did 300 times. he's going to be here next. that's a lot of letter writing. >>steve: her story is including this beauty queen busted for throwing bombs at car windows. she's in trouble. ♪ ♪ okay, a? b? b. a? that's a great choice. let me show you some faucets to go along with that. with the latest styles and guaranteed low prices, you can turn the bath you have into the bath you want. good choi

good. go to cuba who are notoriously racist towards blacks i also want to know whose idea was this initially did they did did anyone in the administration think that this would be a good idea. remember in south africa i mean there was a there was a cultural blackout and nobody would go to south africa because until they change their policy but if you but that is not the case there is no man to side as it should somebody tell jeezy what che feels about black people should somebody contact him and tell him what the word che has used about black people somebody should look great gutfeld clearly you're the one trying to say something about black people here so why do you just come out and say instead of projecting your veiled racism on che guevara because certainly you can be talking about che guevara who first of all isn't even cuban secondly it was the farthest thing from a racist he was actually an internationalist who not only left his native country of argentina to fight for the cuban revolution but also later left cuba to fight in the congo alongside an almost all black army against imperi

the scene is will be printed in the movie gifted hands which cuba good in junior plays my part. after that incident i locked myself in the bathroom and i started trying to contemplate my life and realized trying to kill somebody over nothing, seriously the range, i freight and picked up the bible in the bathroom and had all these firsts about fool's, does that sound like me and a lot about a anger, no point getting angry and in trouble, get right back into. proverbs 16-32, miti is the man who control his temper and conference city and verse after verse, chapter after chapter seemed written for me and while i remained in the bathroom for three hours i came to an understanding that it was not a sign of strength to punch somebody or kick down a board. was a sign of weakness. it meant you could be controlled by other people and by the environment and i didn't want to be controlled but i came to understand it was my selfishness because somebody was in my space, taking my things, doing something to me. it is always about be. if you cannot step outside the center of the circle and let

the scene is will depicted in the movie "gifted hands" which cuba gooding, jr. play mist part. after that incident i locked myself in the bathroom and i started contemplating my life and i realized, trying to kill somebody over nothing, that i was seriously deranged. and i prayed and i picked up a bible in the bathroom, and i it had all these verses about fools, and i said, how, does that sound like me? and it also had a lot of verses about anger. prove verbs, and verse are verse, chapter are chapter, seemed like they were written for me, and while i remained the the bathroom for three hours i came to an understanding it was not a sign of strength to punch somebody or kick down a door. it was a sign of weakness. it meant you could be controlled by other people and by the environment. and i didn't want to be controlled. but i also came to understand that it was my selfishness, because somebody was in my space, somebody was taking my things, somebody was doing something to me, it was always about me and my and i. and i said if you can step outside of the center of the circle and