Mekhi Phifer talks "LIGHTS OUT" (Quiver Distribution)

blackfilm.com correspondent Koku Tona ( ‪@KokuTV‬ ) sat down with Mekhi Phifer to talk LIGHTS OUT. Phifer talked about playing a variety of roles, growing up in Harlem, how to stay focused and grounded in Hollywood and more. Check out the interview and let us know what you think!
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LIGHTS OUT was written by Chad Law (The Getback, The Flood) and Garry Charles (The Getback, Welcome to Acapulco) and was directed by Christian Sesma (Paydirt, The Night Crew).
It stars Frank Grillo (The Purge Franchise, Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Mekhi Phifer ("ER," Divergent Franchise), Jaime King (White Chicks, "Hart of Dixie"), with Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friends Wedding, Mission Impossible Franchise), and Scott Adkins (Section 8, Accident Man), along with Amaury Nolasco (“Prison Break,” Transformers), Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone (Terror on the Prairie, Spenser Confidential), Erica Peeples (True to the Game Franchise, Trophy Wife), Juju Chan Szeto ("Wu Assassins," Jiu Jitsu), Paul Sloan (I Am Wrath, Every Last One of Them), Justin Furstenfeld (Section 8), Kevin Gage (Heat, G.I. Jane).
In LIGHTS OUT, a homeless veteran, Michael “Duffy” Duffield (Grillo), meets a talkative Ex-Con, Max Bomer (Phifer) who notices Duffy’s skills after he gets into a bar fight and offers him a well-paying “job” competing in underground fight clubs. The pair form an unlikely partnership after their first fight and decide to travel to LA so Duffy can atone for his past and Max can pay back a crime boss, Sage Parker (Mulroney). Duffy enters Sage’s fight club and eventually wins, but it also gets him tied up in the crime world and offered jobs he can’t refuse, including one with Sage’s partner and Police officer, Ellen Ridgway (King). The deeper Duffy goes in this world, the more deadly it gets.

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