T2: 'Judgment' Day

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Last we heard from Mr. T, star of the spiritual flick JUDGMENT (2001, Cloud Ten, 105 mins., PG-13, also on DVD), he had an awful lot to say about his faith, his cancer, and his swagger. So much, in fact, that we had to break the interview in two. Here, then, is the concluding installment of the Gospel According to T.

-- Scott Brown

So, um --

When I was 9, I was living in the projects on the south side of Chicago. Drugs and crime was over me, under me, and around me, but drugs and crime was never in me. Why? Because I loved and respected my mother too much. You ain't gonna get me into disrespectin' my mother.

Absolu --

I'm nothin' but a big 48-year-old mama's boy. And I tell 'em, that's a problem in society. We don't have enough mama's boys. If we had more mama's boys, we wouldn't have to rape our women, you know.

Guess that makes sense --

Like David said in the 23rd Psalm, ''Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.'' See, nobody say, ''Hey, man, let's go shoppin' in the valley of the shadow of death! Let's go buy a condo in the valley of the shadow of death!''

True, true.

I had to have a setback in order to have a comeback. So that means God...You might hear somebody say Michael Jordan might come back. Like Mario Lemieux, he came back. But Shaquille O'Neal can't come back, see what I mean?

Possibly.

Because he's playin' already. Me, I just always keep my feet on the ground, my head towards heaven, just help the less fortunate. That's the type of guy I am. I'm a man for the people. [Short pause]

Well...thank you. And I pity the fool who tries to tell you otherwise.

You know it, brother. Here's my last little rap. I say, he's big, he's bad, he's black, and he's back: Mr. T.

You said a mouthful, Mr. T.

Okay, Brother Scott.

(For the unabridged audio of the Mr. T conversation, go to EW.com)