Lil Fizz, a former member of the hit group B2K, got into a fight with the co-star of his new film Run Nixon during a promotional interview.
Fizz, née Dreux Pierre Frédéric, 38, was on the podcast “Movies & Models Podcast” with main co-star Jordan Lee Brown and the director and producer.
About one hour into the podcast, Fizz and Brown start to get confrontational about who has the most important screen presence — Fizz, a known entertainment commodity, or Brown, who won the Outstanding Actor award in 2022 at the Micheaux Film Festival.
“I just saw, like, the character breakdown, like cool, I’m the lead. If we ain’t talking lead, leave me alone. It was just like, in a way, for me, I put in a lot of work,” Brown explained. “I don’t know too many actors that go through the leaps and bounds and the measures.”
Someone stated that Fizz performed well in the movie; however, Brown stood firm that Fizz assumed it would turn out differently and was “jealous” of him.
In a clear indication that tensions had already been simmering before this latest escalation, Fizz retorted, “What’s up bro? What you really feel?”
After the volume in the room ratcheted up and intensified, the podcast hosts got up and left. Fizz finally stands up and challenges Brown to handle the beef on the spot. After a while, the taller and bigger Brown stands to meet Fizz’s glare. That’s when Fizz pushes him before being pushed back.
After the shoving, an exchange of hands quickly ensued, and the two men wrestled into a corner before the podcast hosts and producer finally disentangled the combatants.
Following the fiasco, the men were escorted from the building, and the director, SkyDirects, later released a mea culpa for the debacle, according to Vibe magazine.
“I just want to apologize first and foremost. “That’s not the tone that I really promote. I don’t promote violence, I don’t promote disrespect, so I apologize for what occurred,” SkyDirect penned.
“I’m going to be honest. The tension has been building since day one. I kept these guys separated, and I purposely did that on set because I want, even with Nixon, I wanted Nixon to not meet Jordan Lee Brown. I want him to be afraid and intimidated on set, so he didn’t meet Jordan until it was time to shoot his scene.”
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I agree with Fizz. The dude with the dreadlocks was being totally disrespectful. He was throwing mass shots at fizz for no reason other than jealousy and then after fizz called him out on it then he want to start a fight and you know get ugly, but the shit was saying was totally disrespectful for the entire second half of the interview so somebody should’ve stopped him when it first started. Whoever was in charge of interview should’ve corrected him that we’re staying positive on this show and it never would had to go there, but it was, a whole bunch of shots thrown at fizz constantly and nobody spoke up to make dude stop being disrespectful. Basically nobody would care about the damn movie if Fizz’s name wasn’t on it because we know him and we know the talent that he’s brought to the music industry and to movies for year in every project that he does so that’s why we’re interested in seeing the movie! Dude with the dreadlocks nobody knows you! Next time show some respect and stop throwing shots at Fizz because that was unnecessary and totally disrespectful and you wouldn’t have a job to come up on if it wasn’t for the talent that is already has because that’s what we know and that’s what we respect and support. So the dude that was running the interview should’ve stopped you point blank, or the dude sitting next to Fizz should have stop the disrespectful dude the first time he said something out of line. It went on for too long. And being professional that’s not what should’ve happened. And you stood bye when he started fighting fizz. Good Luck on the movie & the Premier and launch of your project, but that guy really needs to stop being disrespectful and jealous!
My thoughts as well, Fizz I watched the interview you wasn’t wrong baby. You stood your ground as you should. And to that other guy we don’t know you and now we about to see yall movie soon you just put a bad taste in everyone’s mouth cause now we don’t like the disrespect you brought to Fizz a well Love & Respected R&B singing and Actor. We all watching yall new movie Run Nixon, One it’s Starring Fizz and the two great story to be told. Stop disrespecting Fizz Mr. Unknown.
We Love You Fizz.