Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “ATL”

Diana Ross on set

You already know that Evan Ross is in this movie, his first movie actually. So it doesn’t really come as too much of a surprise that his mother, Diana Ross, showed up a couple of times on set. And apparently, she was there to stunt or be a diva. She was there on Mommy mode, checking to see how her son was being treated on set. According to Evan, she took issue with one of the scenes.

“It actually was the day we were fighting. You know what? She was being such a mom. She met everybody and was really just there to be there. She had missed me because I’m usually always with her. I had been away for a while. She sat in on the set. It was actually during the scene where me and T.I. fight. You know that scene where he’s pushing me, hitting me in the head? My mom was like, ‘Come here.’ After I’d come over there she’d be like, ‘He’s hitting you in the ear? Don’t let him hit you in the ear.’ I’m like, ‘Mom, it’s fine.’ She had this guy Tony who was with me on set. She’d be like, ‘Go [ask] him if he’s OK.’ I’m like, ‘Mom, I gotta keep my rep.’”