Big Sean struck up an unlikely friendship with superhero filmmaker James Gunn.
The 36-year-old rapper has recalled discovering that the 58-year-old ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director – who is now co-chairman of Marvel’s rival DC Studios – was his neighbour and hitting it off big time.
Talking about Dwanye ‘The Rock’ Johnson, 52, appearing on his latest album ‘Better Me Than You’, he told Complex: “I’ve been blessed enough to have these friends. Another friend of mine that’s a random one probably is [director] James Gunn. He ended up being my neighbour for a while, and I don’t want to say what event occurred, but an event occurred where the whole neighbourhood was outside, and he’s like, ‘Big Sean?’ I’m like, ‘James Gunn, what the f***?’ We started connecting, and I’m an ultra-comic nerd. And I was talking to him like, ‘Man, I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy, but I love how you changed it up from the comic book.’ He was like, ‘Damn, come over and smoke a cigar with me and talk.’ We ended up just kickin’ it, and he’s like, ‘Man, come on set with me while I’m doing Superman.’ Of course, I’ve been busy and haven’t made it, but we’ve been in contact. That’s my boy, though—not even playing like James Gunn is my dog.”
The Rock’s actual voicemail appears on the track ‘Break The Cycle’ featuring Charlie Wilson.
Sean added: “The Rock is another person who I just would connect with, and I actually saw him at Hotel Bel-Air. That’s how we met. It was one day I was doing something there and saw him there, and we just ended up connecting. And when the energy is right, it just turns into a friendship. So that voicemail wasn’t for my album. That was an actual voicemail, and then when I put it on a song, I was like, ‘Yo, it kind of fits it,’ and he was like, ‘It is perfect, bro.’ I wasn’t trying to be thirsty, but he had just left me that as I was doing the song, so it almost felt like it was meant to be.”