Jason Mitchell : (4) " ‘Straight Outta Compton’ is not a story we didn’t know about or anything like that, but it’s just something that resonated really well… It had no choice but to explode. " - Jason Mitchell " Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation. " - Jason Mitchell " The skill set that I think we have as actors is so cool because they train you in ways that you never thought you’d be trained. And that’s skills that they can’t take back. So as you go further in your career, you can dump all these skills into things. " - Jason Mitchell " You have to continue to smile through life. And it’s good when you get to bring that out in a character. " - Jason Mitchell