#2126 - Donnell Rawlings

Donnell Rawlings (0:15)

Don't do that, man.

Birds flying high, you know how I feel. Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

They tried to set you up.

Donnell Rawlings (0:29)

It's a new day, it's a new dawn.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

They tried to label you.

Donnell Rawlings (0:34)

It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good, Joe.

Jamie (0:36)

You look good. You look real good.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Who made that suit for you?

Donnell Rawlings (0:41)

La Cattino out of Brooklyn and some Korean tailors that I've been working with for the last two years. And they're trying to make me go from Ashley to Chappelle, and it's a new day.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

I think it looks great.

Donnell Rawlings (0:50)

And another thing you don't know about this suit, Joe, I smell as good as this suit looks.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

What are you using for smell?

Donnell Rawlings (0:58)

What is it called? Portrait of a Lady. It's an Arabic company.

That's all I know. And I got a guy that outsources my colognes and shit, and he got this.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

A little here, a little here, and a little on the wrists?

Donnell Rawlings (1:13)

Or do you spray it and walk through it? That's a good one. I spray it, walk through it, and then I do that in an annoying amount like, okay, we get it. You got some nice cologne on right now.

But it's good to be here.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

There's something nice about a nice suit, man. It does make you look professional.

Donnell Rawlings (1:29)

It makes you work on your posture. And one thing I did, another thing that I came here today, and it was my intent, Joe, to break all the stereotypes.

So I got here 20 minutes earlier than I was supposed to be here. You came 20 minutes late. You enforced the stereotypes. And I wore a suit without a court date, without a funeral, and without a marriage proceeding. So this is the whole thing of Donnell in A New Day and changing his life. I'm going through the transition.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

What motivated this? Law and Order?

Donnell Rawlings (2:00)

No.

Law and Order didn't motivate this. Law and Order, first off, Law and Order is one of the most respected franchises in the history of television.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

It's been around a long time.

Donnell Rawlings (2:12)

Shout out to IHT.

Shout out to Dick Wolf. Shout out to everybody that's a part of that. And they say in New York, they say that you can't call yourself an actor in New York unless you've been in Law and Order.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

That makes sense.

Donnell Rawlings (2:28)

It makes so many…

Joe Rogan (2:29)

I mean, how many versions do they have?

Donnell Rawlings (2:32)

I've been in every… when I first began my career, people really thought I was a dramatic actor more than a comic. I was booking a lot of stuff. I've been on every one of the episodes – not episodes, but shows, and out of them, I think 80% of them, I was arrested.

And I was like, wait a minute, am I getting typecasts? Every time I was playing Action, I'm like, what'd I do? What'd I do this time? Every one of them, I got arrested for something.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

How many of them are there? How many law and orders are there, Jamie?

Donnell Rawlings (3:04)

Special victims?

Joe Rogan (3:05)

Special victims…

I'm going to say, I'm going to guess, I'm going to say five. Five different law and orders.

Jamie (3:14)

Homicide was technically part of it, too.

Oh, maybe, no, this is related. Never mind. Hold on. You got law and order, special victims unit, organized crime, adapted series, law and order, Toronto, criminal intent, law and order, criminal intent, trial by jury, LA, true crime, hate crimes, oh, this is in development, hate crimes for the defense.

Donnell Rawlings (3:44)

But that brand is like, and I don't think those guys, I mean, Dick Wolfe and Arthur Forme, when I first, I did it years ago. When I first did it, Arthur Forme was the director when I did it.

And that was like, and I think like in 2000

Joe Rogan (3:57)

And then recently, people love to watch those shows where they get the bad guy.

Donnell Rawlings (4:04)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (4:05)

You have to catch the bad guy.

Donnell Rawlings (4:07)

And you have to have a bad guy.

Joe Rogan (4:09)

You have a bad guy and you gotta catch him.

Donnell Rawlings (4:11)

But everybody is, everybody is more interested in the bad guy more than anything. That's in life general.