Rza (Robert Diggs) founded the group in the early ’90s after deciding he wanted a life in music and not on the streets. Quick recap of how the Wu-Tang Clan came to be: The group, which hails from Staten Island, includes original members RZA, GZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, and Masta Killa. 29:27 - What it was like working on Iron Fist.On screen and off, the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA is opening up about how his career has unfolded and how he’s evolved as a man.28:20 - Why The RZA wanted Shameik Moore for the lead role in Cut Throat City.26:17 - Which actor challenged The RZA most on set?.21:43 - Making the move to Love Beats Rhymes next how he was inspired by the movie Flash of Genius.19:58 - Learning about the importance of fleshing out characters from Eli Roth.18:38 - Why The RZA felt encouraged jumping into such an ambitious first feature.15:52 - The RZA looks back on making The Man with the Iron Fists and knowing when to trust his vision or advice from others.15:14 - What happened to his video store?.12:41 - The RZA also highlights John Woo as a key mentor how he continues to learn about film today.09:30 - How exactly does someone score the chance to observe Quentin Tarantino on set? (The RZA actually owned a video store!).06:33 - The RZA reveals he actually lost his second gig scoring a film and discusses what learns from the experience.04:05 - Creatively he was ready to score Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai the technical requirements were a different story.01:07 - The RZA looks back on the early moments that signaled to him that he had a deep appreciation for film how Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino nudged him down the path of becoming a filmmaker himself.And I think, ironically, that the economics that I would have put into college, I ended up putting into these trips with Quentin, you know what I mean? And that became my school.” So I didn’t get a chance to go to college and study. I dropped out of high school and pursued the street life and had to get a GED and all these things. But, I look at it like this I look at it like some of us get the economics to go to college, and that’s where you go and you learn. I did have a small privilege of having economic freedom to fly to China and set myself up and bring a few buddies, so that’s a blessing. ![]() And we watched movies together, we built a friendship and when he was doing Kill Bill, he said I’m welcome to come out. And the goal was to exchange this knowledge with each other. And I was a director who didn’t know the craft. He’s actually a music producer who doesn't know how to use the equipment. ![]() We all know that you can tell in his films. And I humbly asked him, would he mentor me? And he’s also a music lover. “I just saw in him an artist expressing something that I wanted to express and felt I could express but didn’t know how. The RZA learned from a number of very well-known names including Jim Jarmusch, Ridley Scott, and also essentially getting a film school-like experience observing Quentin Tarantino on the set of Kill Bill: Volume 1. Not only did The RZA share loads about his experience making all three films, but he also went back to the very beginning, detailing how he knew he had a next-level appreciation for cinema and also revisiting the opportunities that contributed to shaping his approach to making his own films. Desperate for an opportunity to make some money, they agree to work for a local gangster and attempt to pull off a casino heist. The movie stars Shameik Moore, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Keean Johnson and Denzel Whitaker as a group of friends living in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, struggling to put their lives back together after the area is decimated by Hurricane Katrina. After that, he switched gears a bit and took on the music drama, Love Beats Rhymes, and now we’re getting his third directorial effort, Cut Throat City, a gritty heist movie that shows undeniable growth and more confidence behind the lens than ever. The RZA went big with his feature directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists, an ambitious martial arts film featuring a stellar ensemble and a slew of complicated set pieces.
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