The transformation from rapper to actor isn't a difficult one. However, acting well is always a challenge as most use their fame to determine film success as oppose to producing a quality product. Hardly prevalent here, Xzibit talks about his role as Darrell Hughes, father to the two youngest girls of single mother Dee Roberts.  

Your level of acting has reached a greater plateau playing Darrell Hughes. What type of roles are you hoping to land after this film?

Xzibit: I can't say what I will or won't do cause its depends on that character. It’s too broad of a stroke to say what I will do. I will probably do a film that everybody falls in love with that no one knows what I'm trying to do.

In the beginning you feel Darrell is trying to be a stand-up father. Then you get the feeling he’s caught between two women. Then Darrell just changes the tables altogether...

Xzibit: Darrell Hughes is an ex-boyfriend. He and Dee have several children together. The pressure of what he was going through in the system was a role that I was supposed to play. It plays a part on how we treat each other in trying times. The most difficult part was having to raise my voice around the kids. They were troopers. I would never treat a woman like that in the first place but acting… it’s a stunt. I don’t have that kind of interaction in my day to day life. Yelling and arguments is a natural thing but at that level it’s compounded by the situation. We practiced together and when it was time to shoot we had to turn it up a little bit.

What is your opinion of the character you played?

Xzibit: It's important to get certain physical characteristics down that you can't falsify and kind of compound that with what she was going through with the system. There was one part where he wasn't going to win the father of the year award. My feeling of the character was that if he wanted to be in her life, going about it in a teenage fashion with these kids, wasn't the way to go.

Were you intimidated by the veteran actors you performed with?

Xzibit: You don’t come to the set star struck. You kind of get that out of the way in the hotel room. You just want to perform at an awesome level. I'm more of a student than anything else on the set. I want to add to the creation. I didn't want to under-perform.

Your coming from rap to acting. How did you come about this transition?

Xzibit: The transition was made by a decision. I take the craft of acting and film making seriously. You can weigh it only so much. I don't come from a theatrical background. In film making you have so many other tools to give to the audience. Its hard work. I would love to say it was an easy transition... but it wasn't.

How do you determine what roles you'd like to play?

Xzibit: I actually say no to more things than I say yes to. I feel like I'm in a unique position. The roles that I do play, it has to show some growth... the deterioration in the character. It has to have movement so I can find some range in the character as I go. If I plan to make more important movies as I go along the choices I make now are important.

What are some of the films you'd love to do?

Xzibit: If the material is right I will do it. It's not about the money or that I need to be in this next big budget film. Its more if it works for me and if I am prepared to do it. I don't feel I can carry a film by myself but I'd like to work on it. It will save me a lot of heartache and a lot of bad movies.