“So it came with a lot of anticipation and people were kind of waiting to see what we would do with it and the moment I read the script I was like, ‘Yep, it’s in safe hands,’ I was cracking up from the first scene and thought, ‘The boys are back.’ It was incredible and then to be involved in something so historic, it still doesn’t seem real to me.”In going into his role as one of the two villains of the film, the 27-year-old star sought out to ensure that his portrayal was “not a cookie-cutter, everyday villain” but rather one with a little more complexity and that he looked to two of the most notorious villains of the past decade in cinema for inspiration.“I landed on Heath Ledger’s Joker and Josh Brolin’s Thanos,” Scipio noted. For me, that’s where you begin your day, that’s where you set up, so the tone in the makeup room is definitely thinking about what you carry on to set and they just made it feel like a family cookout before going to work.”Scipio laughs as he also recalls how far star Smith went in making the set as comfortable and expansive for his co-stars and crew as possible, including setting up a gym that would rival places that charge membership fees, even if people rarely used it.“When I say gym, I don’t just mean a couple of dumbbells, I’m talking state-of-the-art bicycles, treadmills,” Scipio described. Jacob Scipio, Actor: Bad Boys for Life. Then somebody shouts, ‘I got a hundred on this guy’ and ‘I got a hundred on that guy,’ and all of a sudden it turned into some like youth club. So, that was the real gold for me. So, I’m telling them all of this all of this, and he goes, “Well, my dad was an electrician,” and everyone in the rooms laughing. [laughs]”After cleaning up at the box office for nearly two months, Sony Pictures released the film on digital platforms and VOD early as theaters shut down due to the global pandemic and with the digital release came a bevy of special features for fans, including an alternate ending in which Armando is not shot by Isabel nor does she fall to her death, but rather sees her mysteriously escape after being shot in the shoulder. We should get him in the room with Will.” And the more they’re saying, I’m like, first of all, there’s only one Will. Jacob Scipio Talks About Exciting ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Post Credit Scene, His Audition Process With Will Smith & More Dorian Parks May 8, 2020 Leave a Comment After 17 years, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence brought the Bad Boys franchise back to the big screen with Bad Boys for Life . Though the post-credits sequence initially would’ve set up Armando and Mike teaming up to track down Isabel, it’s now unclear what the future holds for either character, but Scipio believes Bilall and Adil ultimately “made the best decision” with the ending that came to cinemas.“To be honest, we shot so many different iterations of them and they all became kind of a blur, I was just in that moment, with all of my attention on my performance and trying to toe that line and get it right,” Scipio noted. Contact: Dorian@geeksofcolor.co Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020: Spotlight on The Brilliant Martin Hsu35 of the Best Shirley Bennett Episodes of ‘Community’ to Watch on Mother’s Day EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from wrapping the nemesis opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, Jacob Scipio is boarding Waldo opposite Charlie Hunnam and Mel Gibson. After a string of assassinations and an attempt on Mike’s life, he convinces a hesitant Marcus to hold off retirement and partner one last time. That’s what was so amazing because it was an environment that stimulated creativity. The Tim … Not just generous materialistically, because there was that. Together, they team up with AMMO, the new hotshot division of the Miami PD, to take down the merciless head of the Aretas Cartel. Jacob Muntaz Scipio (born January 10, 1993) is an English actor and writer from London. “But I think 100 percent the directors and creators made the best decision in terms of tone of the whole film, they executed it so well. I go into the room, and there’s the man standing there—you know the man himself—and he gives me a big hug.