Starring Ice Cube, Omar Epps, Regina King, Michael Rapaport and a post-'Buffy,' pre-Trump Kristy Swanson, 'Higher Learning' was John Singleton's third film after his 'Boyz in the Hood' debut. Just 27, the young director made a film that on its 25th anniversary seems relevant today.
“Boyz n the Hood” wasn’t the first John Singleton film I saw in theaters — that distinction goes to his 1993 romance “Poetic Justice” — but it’s the one that’s stayed with me the longest.
Even before the script for “Higher Learning” was done, Swanson, who was repped by the same agency as Singleton, reached out to meet with the director. Like the character she went on to play, Swanson is from Orange County. “I had actually just done a role in a film called ‘Skins’ where I played a skinhead, so I already looked the part,” says Hauser, who is currently one of the stars of Kevin Costner’s Paramount Network series “Yellowstone,” and conducted the interview for this story while riding his horse, Duke. “When I walked in and met John, he kinda looked at me and I think he really thought I was a skinhead.”
Though Hauser said he got along with cast members like Ice Cube and Busta Rhymes on the “Higher Learning” set, his physical appearance caused some uncomfortable moments. As the filming went on, the difficult subjects the story examined couldn’t help but affect the tenor of the production. “It always starts off very optimistic and fun, and then the acting starts to take over and gets you a little more serious” says Cube. “The more we did it, the more difficult it felt to shoot things.
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