Andre Benjamin: To be honest, it sounds crazy, but I’m not a big basketball fan. I’m more of a football fan. So I don’t know anything about who is good right now. I’m from Atlanta but the Hawks are playing pretty good right now. They are pretty good. They need new uniforms, but they are all right.

CraveOnline: What did you think of the 70s fashion in this movie?

Andre Benjamin: I thought they were pretty outrageous. You don't get a chance to walk around in those clothes everyday. Film is your chance to go back to that time. The '70s style is what it is. A lot of the stuff wouldn't work right now.

CraveOnline: How about the short shorts in the uniforms?

Andre Benjamin: They kept pulling them down. Actually we had to do two weeks of basketball training, so I went ahead and got it over with and I wore my shorts during the two weeks of practicing so I wouldn’t feel self conscious the day we were shooting, so I wouldn’t feel funny because Clarence didn’t care about the shorts, so why should I?

CraveOnline: Did you keep the coat?

Andre Benjamin: No, I didn't keep the coat. The material was hideous. It was in good shape though.

CraveOnline: Was that your own hair in that do?

Andre Benjamin: Mine was a wig but I used to have hair that big. I was supposed to get a wig but they tricked me. I told them I wanted to keep it but they took it.

CraveOnline: Was it ever intimidating to be with all those comedians improvising off the script?

Andre Benjamin: I wasn’t too intimidated. No, no, because when I had to audition for the film, I had to walk into a room and audition with Will [Ferrell]. So I guess once I got over that it wasn’t too bad. And then with music you freestyle a lot and you kind of just throw ideas out and when you read the script and want to make your character as real as possible, sometimes you just go off on a tandem and you keep going. And you’ve got film, why not? So keep recording it.

CraveOnline: How do you balance all your different careers like clothing designer, actor, and musician, and what motivates so much artistic divergence?

Andre Benjamin: It’s really what ever is really going on at the time and check which way the wind is blowing. I guess what drives it is just creativity. I just like to make stuff and if, at the end of the day, I can have something in my head and actually see it be produced, come to an end point, that’s the joy of it. It’s all creative-based. As long as I can be creating something or do something that can be cool, I’m good.

Andre Benjamin: Favorite party song, this may sound really corny, but Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want to Have fun. It’s a great pop song. I mean, I don’t dance around singing it, but the production is like the best.

CraveOnline: Do you have any physical skills that could be an Olympic sport?

Andre Benjamin: I'm a big football fan so yeah, why not? Arena football ain't getting it. I get depressed when football season is over so maybe we need something.

CraveOnline: What do you play in The Battle in Seattle?

Andre Benjamin: A protester by the name of Django, who keeps protesting fun. He keeps it lighthearted. Battle in Seattle with Charlize Theron and Woody [Harrelson] and Michelle Rodriguez, it's about the riots and protests that took place in 1999 in Seattle. That's coming out in April. [Harrelson] is a bald-headed cop.

CraveOnline: Jackie Moon's motto is everybody love everybody. What's your motto?

Andre Benjamin: Mine is no matter how bad it looks it's probably going to be better to tomorrow.

CraveOnline: What's coming up with your new album?

Andre Benjamin: I've only written two songs in my head. I haven't even started recording them. I've just been tinkering around. Maybe the release will be this fall. Who knows?

CraveOnline: Do all these other projects take time away from your studio?

Andre Benjamin: They all relate in some way so it's just ideas. I wouldn't say one helps out. They are all just ideas.