. >> stephen: as the leader jabari tribe, the mountain tribe-- >> yes.s the problem? >> it was just that, you know-- i'm six-foot, five-inches and, and-a-half and the, and "a-half" is a lot of difference. it always felt that it so much for people that they would think it's intimidating. so i stopped even saying the number, and i would just say, i'm the "rock's" height, i'm you know-- i'm someone else's height. that's how i would put it down. so i would try to make it seem like it was normalized before it was. >> stephen: thinking they wouldn't notice how tall you were when you came in or did you always just-- were you always there before them and stay seated? >> maybe i've always been there. >> stephen: yeah, may be. yeah. >> stephen: did it actually help? >> no, it did. i would say i'm six-foot, four-inches. >> stephen: so born and raised in trinidad and tobago? >> yes, tobago. >> stephen: but i understand that, the new film, which is called "nine days," the nine or nine days is significant in the culture that you grew up in-- in what way? >> yeah, so i