Hercy Miller has a lot on his plate right now. He’s working with acting coaches, trying to get his Southern slang back, and preparing for what could be the most personal role of his career, playing his father, Master P, in the upcoming biopic Only God Can Judge Me: Master P.
Hercy opened up about the biopic, his faith, and the loss of his sister Tytyana in a conversation on the Allison Interviews podcast with host and entertainment journalist Allison Kugel.
On the biopic, Hercy is all in. “My dad has a biopic [being made], it’s called Only God Can Judge Me: Master P, so I’m trying to prep for maybe playing young Master P,” he told Kugel. “I always joke around and tell him that he’s 1996 Master P and I’m 2026 Master P.”
The comparison isn’t lost on him, or on the industry. He pointed to the success of similar family casting decisions as proof the concept works. “In the Michael Jackson movie, his nephew played Michael Jackson. The N.W.A. movie had Ice Cube’s son [O’Shea Jackson Jr.] playing Ice Cube. That’s always been a goal of mine, like a dream, to play my dad.”
Hercy also shares which chapter of his father’s life he’s most excited to bring to the screen. “The chapter of my dad’s life that would be most fun to play would probably be right after he made ‘Make ‘Em Say Uhh,’ because he’s at the top of the top,” Hercy said. “Watching his music videos and seeing all his interviews, that would be a great feeling to play.”
But he also knows the emotional weight the role will carry too. “The most challenging part to play, I would say, is when he got hurt playing basketball. I know how it felt when I got hurt playing basketball and I had to go home, I tore my leg from my hip and my season was over, and he tore his ACL and his season was over. I think that one’s going to feel like it’s real.”
Master P himself has been building anticipation for the upcoming biopic. In a recent Instagram post, he teased what’s coming: “You think you know the Master P story, you have no idea… The movie coming soon. We created an empire out the trunk of a car. Hard work and trust and faith in God.”
But the conversation on the podcast went deeper than movie prep. Hercy also spoke openly about losing his sister Tytyana Miller to a fentanyl overdose, a loss that reshaped the entire family and galvanized them around a mission bigger than entertainment.
“Losing her, my sister was a great, pure soul,” he said. “We were working together, always, to help my sister get better, and she was doing good. But you don’t really know. Everyone has an expiration date, and you never really know when that is.” Rather than allowing grief to fracture the family, Hercy said it brought them closer. “Most deaths pull people farther apart. I think it brought us closer.”
He’s now channeling that pain into purpose. At his Fearless Dreamer youth basketball camp, Hercy speaks directly to young people about the dangers of drug use, a conversation the fentanyl crisis has made more urgent than ever.
“Y’all don’t want to play around with any drugs because you never know what’s in it,” he said. “One decision can change your whole life.” His mother, Sonya Miller, has also launched TYTY’s Parachute Foundation in Tytyana’s name to shed light on mental health and addiction in communities where the conversation is often avoided.
Check out the full Allison Interviews podcast episode below.
Photo Credit: Instagram – MasterP
