We’re not done seeing A$AP Rocky on the silver screen.
The rapper and actor is following up Spike Lee’s caper Highest 2 Lowest with the psychological thriller If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, where he’s trading Denzel Washington for Rose Byrne as his co-star.
During a conversation with Elle magazine, Rocky spoke on the subject matter and the pace of his latest film. “That whole f—ing film is an anxiety attack,” he said before commenting on his views on therapy. “My outlook on therapy is so pessimistic, it’s not even funny. I might get killed for this…but I put therapists in the same box as psychic readings.”
Adding, “I look at it like, yo, if you don’t share the same experiences what’s the point of me telling a stranger my business for an hour straight, for them to just say, ‘Okay, well, how did that make you feel?’”
He then suggested that Jay-Z would be a good therapist after the interviewer Clover Hope pushed back by telling him that there’s been conversations happening about needing more Black therapists in the field. “I think Jay-Z is a Black therapist,” he said. “A lot of people come to him with their problems.”
Earlier in the the profile, his newest co-star gave him a glowing review. “He has a natural curiosity about him and a great amount of respect for the work, and he’s innately creative,” Byrne said of Rocky who plays a motel super in the film. “My scenes with him are hard, because I had to be extremely mean. I think his character is the hardest to play, because he’s genuine and empathic to the others. It was like a fun dance we had back and forth. He’d come up with extraordinarily creative insults to call me. But he says it, and then he smiles. And you’re like, I guess you can get away with this. It’s like a supernatural charm.”
In other Rocky news, he and Rihanna recently welcomed their third child.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You opens in theaters on Oct. 10.