DB: How was this project different from what you've worked on before?

King: It is a TRUE ensemble. Usually, somebody shines more than the others. Jerry Maguire was an ensemble but it was more Tom Cruise and Renee. The story for them was built more than for the other characters. The story for Cuba and I was secondary. It wasn't a TRUE ensemble where everybody's story was fleshed out evenly and you were interested in every single sibling's story. Every character in there has a full story and that's the huge difference.

DB: It's interesting because everything you just said could be used to describe The Big Chill, too, which I read this morning you're going to produce a remake of. Do you think doing this project made you more interested in The Big Chill or is that a coincidence?

King: Doing this project is what brought up the idea. Clint Culpepper and I talked almost every day while we were working on this movie. He emailed me and he said "What do you think about a remake of The Big Chill?" And I was like, "F**kin' yeah! Oh my Gosh!" And I just went off on the Blackberry. He told me when I got home that he thought his Blackberry was going to catch on fire. I said "Dude, the thing about that movie is that there's a couple of generations who have no idea what that movie is. And then you have a bunch of generations who absolutely love that movie and it's in their top twenty." It could be scary, but because of the success of this movie, meaning the success of the final product, I know that this is something that we have to do. Once again, we need to tell more stories that are starring black people, not "black stories." We need stories that are starring black people, Asian people, Latin people, people of color.

DB: Where's that project at right now?

King: We're writing the screenplay now, so we look to be shooting that Fall '08.

DB: The production company isn't the kind of thing that's going to keep you off-screen, is it?

King: No. I'm actually going to be in The Big Chill.

DB: And most of the projects you produce, are you looking to ever produce films you're not in?

King: I would like to produce films that I'm not a part of, but I don't want to be like a Danny DeVito and almost totally stop. I think that my production company is more powerful at the beginning with my face continuing to be out there. So, no, I have no intentions of stopping acting. I only want to stop if I'm not passionate about it any more. And, hopefully, that never happens.

DB: Would you say you're as passionate as when you started?

King: Definitely.