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00:00 ♪♪
00:01 Here we go.
00:03 Not me.
00:05 And action.
00:07 ♪♪
00:10 "Tulsa King" is a story about a fellow
00:12 who comes out of the depths of Brooklyn.
00:14 He's in the mafia, a man who is very loyal to a code.
00:17 They're a close family, and they engage in organized crime.
00:21 They're the embodiment of the New York mafia.
00:23 It's all about respect and honor and trust.
00:26 Dwight is in conflict
00:28 with the choices he made as a young man
00:30 that he has to stick with now.
00:33 He kept his mouth shut for 25 years.
00:35 No one could believe it.
00:37 Coming out, he expected to be rewarded,
00:39 but now he's sent to Tulsa.
00:41 I want you to go there.
00:42 Serious?
00:44 I actually wanted to work with Sylvester Stallone for a while.
00:47 This was an idea that I had --
00:49 the gangster being sent from New York to Middle America
00:52 to establish the mob's influence in that area.
00:54 What an absurd comedy of errors that would be.
00:57 Who runs this neighborhood? Like, what crew runs it?
01:00 Ain't no crew up in here, man.
01:02 You in the middle of nowhere.
01:03 It's different.
01:04 It's like a Western gangster thing going on.
01:07 It's exciting. It's new, and it's fresh.
01:09 When you see the sort of magic of what Taylor and Terry
01:12 wanted to do with the characters,
01:13 I think that's what will resonate.
01:15 -Sounds nice. -Sounds nice.
01:17 Terrence is someone whose work I've admired,
01:18 and I felt that he had a real keen understanding
01:21 of this world and would appreciate
01:22 a real fresh look at it.
01:23 Everybody responds to the mob genre,
01:25 and taking that idea and those characters
01:28 and placing them in a place where you'd never encounter them,
01:30 it might as well be another planet.
01:31 -Where do you worship? -I really don't go to church.
01:34 ♪♪
01:36 All right. Oh, my God.
01:38 Welcome to rural America.
01:40 Filming Oklahoma, everything is different.
01:42 There couldn't be any more opposite of New York.
01:45 It's the epitome of country.
01:47 And it's hot as [bleep] Have I mentioned that, too?
01:50 The cast is not from here, so we all relate to Dwight.
01:52 We've all been thrown into Oklahoma,
01:54 and we're all fish out of water.
01:56 The guy has to start a new life
01:58 when most people think life is over.
02:01 He goes out West,
02:02 and now he's building a whole new family.
02:05 They're not gangsters. They're just everyday people,
02:08 and that's a whole different paradigm.
02:10 So, uh, where to, boss?
02:12 Tyson is the one who shows him around.
02:14 He calls me the ambassador of Oklahoma.
02:16 But I don't think Tyson knows
02:18 what he's getting himself into in the beginning.
02:20 You must be Bodie.
02:22 Is this a robbery?
02:23 He just kind of storms his way into my life
02:26 and into my weed shop.
02:27 He also shows a bit of heart, even though it's complex.
02:30 We're partners.
02:31 Now he's in business,
02:33 but he needs the comfort of something besides money.
02:36 Nobody wants me.
02:37 Not that bad.
02:38 Dwight and Stacy have a connection.
02:41 They're at a place in their lives where they're going,
02:42 "Whoa, how did I get here, and why don't I have more?"
02:45 And he starts to bring together these groups of misfits.
02:49 Dwight begins his journey to kind of build his empire.
02:52 So him and Mitch, they sort of become fast pals.
02:55 Do you think regular people see me as an ex-con?
02:59 Could be the fact that you're dressed
03:00 like a gorilla in a suit.
03:02 The one missing piece, though, is his daughter,
03:04 but there's also a lot of guys that are trying to put me away.
03:07 So, it covers so many subjects.
03:09 It has heart. It has humor.
03:11 Every actor is fantastic.
03:13 It hits the entire spectrum of entertainment.
03:16 There'll be moments of joyousness.
03:17 There'll be moments of tears.
03:19 There'll be moments of, "Will he go gangster on you?"
03:21 Yes, definitely.
03:23 ♪♪
03:25 And that's where the fun begins.
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