'Bust Down' stars Sam Jay and Jak Knight talk Freddie Gibbs, new Peacock series and more (Exclusive)
We’re just 48 hours away from Peacock’s must-see ‘Bust Down’ series premiering to the masses. In celebration of the highly-anticipated show preparing to unload endless laughs and slaps, Attack The Culture had to chop it up with stars Sam Jay and Jak Knight about what to expect.
From pumping up Freddie Gibbs’ insane performance as a series regular to narrowing down the biggest moment and episode they can’t wait for the world to see once March 10 hits, Sam and Jak don’t hold back.
Check out some of the conversation highlights and keep scrolling to check out the full chop up session.
How funny is Freddie Gibbs and how in the world did he get attached to this project? Obviously his home base is Gary, Indiana but it just seemed like an amazing fit. Plus the comedy he delivered alongside the both of you. Please talk about Freddie Gibbs’ greatness.
Sam: I feel like Freddie came into the fold because of Jak. Jak was very much like, ‘We need to have someone in it from Gary, Indiana because we’re basing this out of Gary,’ and he was like, ‘I think I can get Freddie to do it.’ We were like, ‘Yo, if you can get Freddie, that would be phenomenal.’ From the first day he came on set, we were like, ‘Holy crap. This is amazing.’
Jak: Freddie is just hilarious. He’s just a really genuine dude and the Internet is for shits and giggles but he’s an awesome good dude but he’s a really good actor. We didn’t know that. I took him to come on there and bomb but he kicked ass the whole way through.
Let’s just talk about that raw, unapologetic humor that’s in this series. I know getting a chance to binge it all weekend long, I did not have any idea what I was getting from the first episode and then as the second, third and fourth come together, you get to the point of realizing, this is raw, crazy humor. The punchlines, the references, I can never listen to Master P’s ‘Ugh’ the same again. Let’s talk about this rawness.
Jak: It’s just our friendship. It’s just the way the four of us talk to each other. That’s the funniest thing we find in each other and that’s what we tried to bring to the screen and you don’t see that type of funny on the TV anymore or anywhere except for in rap music so we just wanted to bring back that ‘Martin’ level funny, hopefully.
Sam: To piggyback off what Jak just said, I feel like we were just exaggerating the things we hate about each other’s personalities. [laughs] I think that’s kind of how we built every character. That’s the thing that drives us crazy about this person and then it’s how do we blow it up and make it as silly as possible. I think it works because we really are friends and we really know each other inside and out. I think that’s where you get a lot of that funniness and how we poke fun at each other because we know it’s coming from a genuine place of love.
