On The Field With The Cast of The CW's All American

Look who I found, it's Sam.

On set for her show All American.

She's going to give us a All American tour.

Right?

We're going to give you guys a cool tour.

As you can see right now, we are on a football field.

Now, today they're they're doing practice drills for the show.

What scenes are you in today?

Are you are you cheering your brother on on sidelines or?

I am in zero scenes today.

I actually was walking, I was getting a coffee and then I found myself here.

It was really weird.

I don't know why I'm here.

I don't really know what's going on right now.

Hi, I'm Sam.

What's your name?

What's your favorite part about being on this show?

Getting to scream at the kids.

Is that fun playing a coach?

It is.

I've lived enough where I can I can scream and mean it and it's fun.

Hanging around the cast is fantastic.

You know, they've taken me in, you know, being this new actor on the scene in Los Angeles.

They've taken me in almost as as family and you know, Daniel's kind of treating me like a younger brother.

Um and Tay's treated me like a son, you know, which is kind of funny cuz we play father and son on the show.

Well, it's a dream come true.

The first thing I fell in love with as a kid was playing football.

And it's just so much fun, you know, I feel like a I feel like a big kid out here.

So, I couldn't be happier.

Just love everyone, like it's a family.

I've been fortunate enough to work on, you know, some cool projects, but I'd say like this is my favorite.

So, this is basically a little bit behind the scenes.

As you can see, we have some monitors here.

I didn't know it was based off of a guy's actual life.

Kind of based on a true story.

Yes.

Yes, ma'am.

His name is Spencer Paysinger.

And uh he's actually, he's actually here on set.

The story is loosely based on a lot of events that took place in his life.

And uh and we're having a lot of fun reenacting them.

It's just great to be able to hear um Spencer's stories and to be able to like think about what he's been through and then try to portray that on screen.

So, uh here we have the man of the hour.

This is Spencer Paysinger.

How are you feeling?

How are you feeling, Spencer?

How are you enjoying the process so far?

I don't know.

Do you feel like you relate to your character at all?

We are the same in certain aspects such as like the the identity crisis.

Growing up in the Midwest.

You want to be something more than just a Midwest.

You want to be something more than just a Midwest guy and you know, you fall into this this category, especially as a mixed kid, where you don't necessarily know where you are.

Whether you're black or whether you're white.

You're not in either.

You're just kind of in the middle and that's kind of how Jordan feels in the way.

So I relate to that.

Asher is a very determined individual.

He's very, very focused.

He's willing to put the work in for what he wants.

Synonymous, it's the same sort of thing with me and my career.

It's like, you know, I'm willing to give anything and everything for this and to put it all on the line and and and Asher has that as well.

I relate to my character in a lot of ways.

She's very, very caring.

She looks out her for her family and friends.

Are you working right now?

All right, pictures up.

Are you doing a scene right now?

Are you are you doing the acting?

When you're not acting on set, what do you like to do for fun?

When I'm not working, I'm with my kids and then when I'm not with my kids, it's either the gym or or working on other projects, you know, producer early and and what not.

Red Dead Redemption just came out.

So I've been playing that a lot.

Otherwise, I play Madden.

Well, this is what I do for fun.

I do meditation, I do yoga.

Um, and one of my biggest things is just getting away and traveling.

I got to get out of LA, you know.

I mean, this is a beautiful town and all but you can definitely get overwhelmed.

What are you doing here today?

How you feel?

Uh, kind of hungry.

Yeah, me too.

You're getting your fake sweat on me.

Sorry, it's it's real sweat actually.

Oh, let's nasty.

You're not good.

When the cameras aren't rolling, who's the one on set making everybody laugh?

Who's who's playing pranks?

Tay?

Yeah, Tay's a goofball.

I'm the oldest on set and the most immature.

It's all American.

I feel like whenever we're all together, the maturity level goes down to the lowest that it could possibly go.

But then we get it together when when we have to work, we work and we get it done.

Everyone's professional.

You would think that we've been doing this show for three years.

You think you can beat me in a push-up contest?

Yeah.

One.

One more.

One more.

Big.

If you could describe this season in one word, what would it be and why?

Exhilarating.

It's surprising.

Yes.

And it's also uh very timely.

It's exciting.

I love that.

It's still I It's exciting.

Okay, it's an exciting show.

How about two words?

Okay, two words.

Tune in.

Mike drop.

If I had that mic, I would have dropped it.