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Allen Hughes on the experience of directing 'The Defiant Ones'
Filmmaker Allen Hughes has been friends with music moguls Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine for years. But when he set out to make the new HBO documentary series The Defiant Ones -- about their careers -- Hughes found that getting them to open up on camera wasn't easy.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenDirector Allen Hughes tells us how he got Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre to participate in his massive HBO documentary project The Defiant Ones -- along with everyone else in the music industry -- from Bruce Springsteen to Ice Cube to the interview-averse Patti Smith. Hughes also talks about how this series led to an emotional revelation of his own -- finally processing the deaths of hip hop icons Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E.
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The new four-part documentary series The Defiant Ones on HBO traces the rise of music titans Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, from their childhoods, respectively in Brooklyn and Compton, to their partnership in founding the headphone company Beats Electronics -- which Apple bought in 2014 for $3 billion.
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