How Would Space Jam's Cedric Joe Be 1v1 with Lebron James?

What's up, Sedrick? How's it going?

It's going good. What about yourself?

Pretty good. We're excited to talk to you today. So we saw you at the Six Flags event. Did you have fun?

Oh yeah, I had a lot of fun. Uh you know, getting to see uh a lot of celebrities there to support the movie. Um you know, and and getting the cast back together again. Uh it was it was really fun.

Totally. And who's one person that you saw at the event that you were pretty stoked about?

Um, everyone. I say everybody was there, like literally everyone. Crazy. I still get starstruck when I see LeBron, so.

That was pretty cool though. You looked really good on the carpet.

Thank you.

Okay, so you're Dom in the movie, LeBron James' son. If you were to play one-on-one basketball, how do you think you would do against LeBron?

Uh, you know, it depends on what we're playing for because you know, eight, sometimes depending on what we're playing for, you know, it brings out different sides and skills of me. So, you know, I I think it that depends. But I'm going to put money on myself.

Okay, I like it. I like the confidence. I like it. And you said, how would you rate your basketball skills before filming like the movie to now?

I I would definitely say I'm way better than I was during the movie now. Uh I I I think I can beat myself back then a hundred times. Uh and I always say like if I could redo the basketball scenes now, like I would love to redo them. Oh. But yeah, yeah, I think I'm way better now than I was then.

And you love, you were a basketball lover even before you got cast in the movie, right?

Oh yeah, yeah.

And you found out you must have been like, did you like play basketball even more or were you like, I'm pretty good, I'm chilling.

Yeah, I I did play basketball even more. Um, you know, I I I was working a lot, you know, my handles and you know, just just, you know, in my mind like I I cannot be embarrassing out there. Like I I gotta, I gotta show them I could hoop a little bit.

During the audition, did you have to play at all or no?

Yes, so during the callback, they wanted to see me dribble. Uh, so I I did dribble a little bit. Um, and and you know, I I played a little basketball with uh, the first director, Terrance Nance. Uh, that's who, you know, I played a little basketball with. So and and it went really well.

The most important dribble of your entire life in that moment.

Yeah, I was like, cannot mess this up. It it it can't go wrong.

Who's one person that you hope watches the movie? It could be like someone personal to you or

Um, oh well, everyone. Uh I I hope you know, my little cousins or, you know, everyone, you know, just just goes out and see it and I hope, you know, they they take away a message that's bigger than basketball.

Yeah, definitely. And what's one thing that you've bought like in celebration? Have you bought like new sneakers, new Jordans, like chains? Have you bought anything to celebrate you getting the part?

Uh, yeah, I've definitely bought a lot more clothes and and shoes.

You got to drip, you got to drip now.

Yeah, the the drip has definitely went up from before I got the movie. I can say that.

How many sneakers do you think you own like Jordans and stuff? Oh. Are you a sneaker head or you're more like other stuff?

This year I've just so last year was, you know, more clothes and stuff. This year I'm more getting into more shoes and stuff. So I I'll probably have over a little bit over 25 shoes.

That's a pretty good collection. You're going to have to step it up now though because like catching up to LeBron and your other castmates, you know.

Yeah, I I got I gotta a while to to get to that level, but you know, I'm I'm trying.

And do you have any special plans for when it actually appears?

I mean a lot of stuff has led up to the movie coming out. Uh just hopefully you know, I stay uh stay busy. Um and I and I keep working. I'm, you know, praying for more roles, um more big roles, movie roles and and series and, you know, I I want to continue to do, you know, drama or, you know, action films and something I really want to do. So.

For sure. Well, congrats on all the success with the movie and uh I'm sure you're going to keep killing it.

Thank you.