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Speaker 2: your best mind, body, and soul. Welcome to another episode
Speaker 2: of The Keep It Positive Sweeties Show, the place where
Speaker 2: we bring real conversation and a whole lot of heart
Speaker 2: and positivity. I'm your host, Chrystorhinee Hazlet, and today we
Speaker 2: have my girl, both on and off the camera, joining
Speaker 2: the show. She's a dynamic actress, entrepreneur, and trailblazer in
Speaker 2: the plus sized fashion world. Best known for her roles
Speaker 2: as Angela and Tyler Perry's Atima and Sisters. She has
Speaker 2: also starred in BT's Curves and Pretty for a Big Girl.
Speaker 2: After giving what it needed to give her career defining
Speaker 2: scene in All the Queen's Men further cemented her rising
Speaker 2: star status. Please welcome my friend, my sister and Zinga
Speaker 2: Emani Zingz. We got you on the sofa girl. The
Speaker 2: people have been asking for you.
Speaker 3: Oh well, thank y'all.
Speaker 1: Zinga, I heard you guys, so we got her on.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you. This is fun. I'm
Speaker 2: excited me too because they get to see us on TV.
Speaker 2: But the show hasn't really like really delved into our
Speaker 2: story yet, and like how how we became friends and
Speaker 2: our backstor and everything. But I just I love you,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to bring you on so we can
Speaker 2: share more of your story, so I can get to
Speaker 2: know you a little better and the audience can get
Speaker 2: to know you better.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. It's been so beautiful to watch this
Speaker 3: what season seven, You've been big one.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm very much am inspired by all that
Speaker 4: you did, so.
Speaker 2: It's sad to be here saying you are so talented,
Speaker 2: beautiful as ever. I remember when we were casting for
Speaker 2: Zatima and you were already on All the Queen's Band.
Speaker 1: We were trying to figure out who Fateama's best friend.
Speaker 2: Was gonna be, and Tyler was like, I have the
Speaker 2: per person. I was like who, and he goes in Zingamani.
Speaker 2: And at that point I didn't know who you were personally,
Speaker 2: and I was like who, Because I was like, let
Speaker 2: me see her Instagram. I was like, oh, I do
Speaker 2: know her from Instagram. I was very familiar with you
Speaker 2: from Instagram, but it had never met you personally. And
Speaker 2: I was so happy when we got to work together
Speaker 2: and you were just a delight because you just never know,
Speaker 2: like you just never know what you're gonna get With actors,
Speaker 2: you know, you got all different types of personalities and
Speaker 2: different methods that people use to get into character, and
Speaker 2: as a cast made those are things you had to
Speaker 2: adapt to. So I was really happy when you were
Speaker 2: super cool and easy going.
Speaker 1: Y'all. Our rooms are probably like two or three rooms apart.
Speaker 2: On Actors Row, and I'll yelled down the hall, zizang.
Speaker 1: You want to run it?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And I'm always gonna want to run it, run.
Speaker 2: It, listen, will do nothing else.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get these lines absolutely, and.
Speaker 2: It's so much and it's just been a beautiful journey.
Speaker 2: So thank you so much for thank you.
Speaker 1: I gotta say.
Speaker 4: But y'all may not notice, but the hurt and devout
Speaker 4: lead us as a cast.
Speaker 3: It's like no other.
Speaker 4: They take the reins and really make sure that we're
Speaker 4: already prepared, and it has been like a crash course
Speaker 4: and just like how to be how to prepare.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. I appreciate y'all a lot.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, speaking of crash course and this
Speaker 2: whole new TPS world for you, But you've been You've
Speaker 2: been acting and doing your thing. How was that adjustment
Speaker 2: like coming into our world and be like, oh, over here.
Speaker 4: I mean I heard like stories and things of like
Speaker 4: how quickly we work and things like that, but it's
Speaker 4: nothing like being on it. But because I had that
Speaker 4: brief experience on All the Queens Men, I had an idea,
Speaker 4: but we were in the bubble during the.
Speaker 3: Time we found that, so it was like summer camp.
Speaker 4: There was nothing like being on TPS set. I loved it,
Speaker 4: Like I couldn't wait to go back. So to get
Speaker 4: that call and then to have been working for ten
Speaker 4: plus years in this industry and having the hardest time
Speaker 4: breaking into TV because I'm a theater music all of that,
Speaker 4: but having the hardest time breaking into the industry, and
Speaker 4: then from one scene on All the Queen's Men being
Speaker 4: you know, being able to audition for a series regular
Speaker 4: on Zatima was like, oh, wow, you know it.
Speaker 1: Goes from Zatima two Sisters. Yes, how is that? Like
Speaker 1: it's just like boom boom boom.
Speaker 4: That when it rains, it pours, and it's like I
Speaker 4: was so grateful for the preparation that I had leading
Speaker 4: up to that because it happens just like that. You know,
Speaker 4: you're waiting, waiting, waiting, and you're you're waiting for an opportunity,
Speaker 4: and then when it happens, all these other doors open.
Speaker 3: So I'm so grateful.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about that, that waiting, waiting, waiting season,
Speaker 2: because so many times when we do, like when it happens,
Speaker 2: that's all the people see. They're just like, where does
Speaker 2: she come from? This happened overnight, and no it did not.
Speaker 2: So I want let's dive into that because a lot
Speaker 2: of people. I think people are inspired by the waiting
Speaker 2: season to know that they're not alone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, for sure. I mean I did everything. I
Speaker 3: did everything. I just wanted to be in the room.
Speaker 4: And then I've always been an artist, whether that's painting,
Speaker 4: whether that's singing, whether that's acting. I've always just been
Speaker 4: in the arts. So I guess it all kind of started.
Speaker 4: I was in school for theater, that was my major,
Speaker 4: and part of our extracurriculars were stage makeup.
Speaker 3: I've always been a painter, so I was.
Speaker 4: Naturally really good at stage makeup, but my professors were like, girl,
Speaker 4: you need to do that. My younger sister is a
Speaker 4: professional model and she was like them, makeup artist get paid,
Speaker 4: and as a struggling artist, I needed to find a
Speaker 4: way to have a flexible schedule and you know, do
Speaker 4: what I love and be on the sets and everything.
Speaker 4: So it started there while I was doing makeup.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Actually I did Danielle's headshot for our teama, So they're
Speaker 3: in full circle. Like, I run into so many people
Speaker 3: working now where.
Speaker 4: It's like, you did my makeup for ranchise and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, So it's beautiful to see the relationships and
Speaker 4: how they grow, how people keep me in mind for
Speaker 4: different opportunities. But from that to I mean, I was
Speaker 4: a preschool teacher. I was doing anything from a pre school. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I love the kids. I love the kid Missy, that's
Speaker 4: the teacher you want. The parents were fighting to get
Speaker 4: their kids in my class, like honestly, because I you know,
Speaker 4: especially three year olds.
Speaker 3: I was a preschool teacher.
Speaker 4: So I mean I had them kids singing songs like
Speaker 4: we were singing Annie in the in the playgrounds and stuff.
Speaker 3: We had the greatest time. But unfortunately teaching does not
Speaker 3: pay the bills like it should.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was living with my mom at the
Speaker 4: time that I was a full time teacher and struggling still,
Speaker 4: so I knew I had to do something else, not
Speaker 4: to mention the the parents and even like the grandparents
Speaker 4: would be like her, what you doing here?
Speaker 3: You be doing something else?
Speaker 4: Were like this, but there's something and I was grateful
Speaker 4: for that because sometimes we get complacent, especially when we're
Speaker 4: you know, when we're enjoying something. But I did a
Speaker 4: little extra work on Black Panther during the time that
Speaker 4: I was teaching. After I got back, I knew, I
Speaker 4: like putting my resignation out, like I have to pursue
Speaker 4: this fully. Don't get me Lye two thousand around twenty
Speaker 4: fifteen somewhere in that that's crazy.
Speaker 2: That was the year my life shifted beautiful and from
Speaker 2: costuming to being Tyler's stylist and costume design. That was
Speaker 2: a shifting year for me, and I think that was
Speaker 2: I think I turned thirty three that year, so that's
Speaker 2: my Jesus year. There's a lot of things happening in
Speaker 2: that year, doesn't say so. Twenty fifteen was the year
Speaker 2: that you were like, this is what I'm going after.
Speaker 2: I love that. And then from that moment to twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean so much. I was doing a lot
Speaker 4: of indie films. I was trying to get my foot
Speaker 4: in the door. However, I could you know the parodies.
Speaker 3: If you guys don't know, I did a lot of
Speaker 3: musical parodies with Queen of the Ratchet. I mean, I
Speaker 3: was super thankful.
Speaker 4: For that because it was just create, don't wait, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean? And if I yes, create, don't wait,
Speaker 4: because if I was waiting for someone else to give
Speaker 4: me the opportunity and not putting that content out there,
Speaker 4: then when you when Tyler told you in Zin Gay Mini,
Speaker 4: you would have been like, who is that?
Speaker 3: And what do I see?
Speaker 4: I had, you know, I was able to build up
Speaker 4: a a audience and engagement from just putting out my
Speaker 4: own content to the point where I was recognizable and
Speaker 4: you know, people if people were like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if she can do TV, but it's like, well.
Speaker 2: If she can do this, and she can do it,
Speaker 2: yeah chance the power of social media, Yeah you can
Speaker 2: literally like even YouTube, like the world is your oyster.
Speaker 2: You can do anything if you have a camera and
Speaker 2: a tripod or a few friends that.
Speaker 3: Work with a phone.
Speaker 4: Honestly, if you have a phone, some time and the
Speaker 4: confidence to put it up black people see it, You
Speaker 4: never know what kind of door is at the open.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: Was there any point, because you talked about you got
Speaker 2: all the no's, was there any point in your journey
Speaker 2: where you may have had like doubt or like did
Speaker 2: I really choose the right thing, or where you had
Speaker 2: any like self image issues where you were like dam
Speaker 2: because I know for me, this industry is so vain
Speaker 2: and there's times where I like, I just don't there's
Speaker 2: times I didn't feel my best self. Did you ever
Speaker 2: have moments like that?
Speaker 3: In ways?
Speaker 4: Especially being plus, I feel like you're oftentimes pigeon held
Speaker 4: Like you know, there's so many situations where people are
Speaker 4: just like, I don't know if she'll fit for the lead,
Speaker 4: or I don't know if if she would be a
Speaker 4: like a love interest that people will would believe. But
Speaker 4: it's like why not?
Speaker 2: Why would you know?
Speaker 4: Like people love me in real life, so why couldn't
Speaker 4: they love me online or in the movie. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I definitely felt held back, felt like there were a
Speaker 4: lot of perceived notions about what kind of parts I
Speaker 4: could play and things like that. But doing the Queen
Speaker 4: of the Ratchet and developing my plus size modeling career
Speaker 4: and all of those things that I did outside, definitely,
Speaker 4: I think opened up people's minds absolutely, not to mention
Speaker 4: that seen in All the Queens Man, which opened up.
Speaker 2: Talks Man, which opened up a lot of very ideas too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, what did you say about this?
Speaker 3: You know, I avoided my mom for like a week.
Speaker 4: I just I didn't answer, I didn't pick up calls,
Speaker 4: and I tried to warn her because she got she
Speaker 4: got real happy, started telling people I was gonna be
Speaker 4: on TV, and I said.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, yeah, my grandma saw that.
Speaker 4: I didn't nobody tell you to tell grandma, But what
Speaker 4: happened happened, and honestly, surprisingly her reaction was a lot
Speaker 4: more supportive than I thought it would be.
Speaker 2: Isn't that amazing? The same way when it comes to
Speaker 2: my roles and the things that the team of season one,
Speaker 2: it was at the shower, No, that was like across
Speaker 2: the bed head hanging out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that, yes, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2: I couldn't even look at that. Yeah. Like cut it
Speaker 2: went from like it was such a quick cut, it
Speaker 2: was like fame. I was like, yeah, I was like,
Speaker 2: I said, Dad, I said, just don't watch the first
Speaker 2: like five minutes of the.
Speaker 3: Show, but they got to watch.
Speaker 1: No, I don't want to ask you, well.
Speaker 3: My sister still won't watch, so I get it. I
Speaker 3: get it. She's like, I can't even see you like that.
Speaker 3: I turn it off.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean she was kind of just like, well,
Speaker 4: it was shocked very well. Yes, she didn't want to
Speaker 4: get me too many about it. I mean, especially because
Speaker 4: it wasn't a romantic scene, but it felt romantic. So
Speaker 4: I was super grateful to that because, I mean, the
Speaker 4: the situation is not romantic, that they're not a couple,
Speaker 4: you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Even just to shoot the situation like in real life,
Speaker 2: like as you're filming it in a room around strangers.
Speaker 1: It's not romantic.
Speaker 4: It's had all the extras by the pool right.
Speaker 3: Right, And it was freezing. What y'all don't know.
Speaker 4: That was shot in December and we were outside of
Speaker 4: Tandy's house in the little gondola or whatever it was.
Speaker 3: It was freezing.
Speaker 2: Even when we film season one of his team, it
Speaker 2: was like December.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I think I got sick right after that, although.
Speaker 4: I prefer that was when you hit cam in their
Speaker 4: foot like.
Speaker 1: He was in the human jeds were in the jacuzzie freezing.
Speaker 2: I had to keep running out from upstairs down the
Speaker 2: deck barefoot in that wet, rainy, cold brass. Two days later,
Speaker 2: I was like.
Speaker 4: But I gotta say, I prefer that over when we
Speaker 4: have to shoot in the heat, because we done melt
Speaker 4: it on camera before.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, y'all have me some extra drawers, some
Speaker 2: extra spanks everything that.
Speaker 3: What the hair is gone? It's really like, what are
Speaker 3: we doing?
Speaker 2: It's just like hot, and then you got to turn
Speaker 2: the air condition off because of the sound and like
Speaker 2: turning thing out, so we're just in there baking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I prefer to cold. What we deal with,
Speaker 3: we deal with so much.
Speaker 1: We make it look good, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 4: We stay in it even when we're melting and the
Speaker 4: makeup is dripping down our mouth.
Speaker 3: Because that was in the parking lot that y'all see
Speaker 3: that seat in the parking lot.
Speaker 4: Yes, my hair went from I said, okays, be shooting
Speaker 4: for winter in the middle of summer.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Then you got on all the clothes plus side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those garage scenes during the summertime, it's just smoldering hot.
Speaker 2: I just and I get hot fast, so I'll.
Speaker 3: Be like under all that hair.
Speaker 2: Too much. Looking back, we're on season three, Season three,
Speaker 2: just wrapped as a team. Looking back, what was one
Speaker 2: of your favorite moments filming?
Speaker 4: Ooh hmm, I wish that I had, like, oh, oh, well,
Speaker 4: that's not season three.
Speaker 3: Let me let me.
Speaker 2: Care myself.
Speaker 3: Is that right? No, that hasn't aired yet.
Speaker 4: I will probably still say the season one when we're
Speaker 4: when the whole thing happens, we're Zach and Danielle's character me,
Speaker 4: and we were all kind of there together and.
Speaker 1: We aller yes, yes, oh my god.
Speaker 3: That was intent and it was fun.
Speaker 4: And I feel like that was the first time we
Speaker 4: were all because everything happened so fast.
Speaker 3: It was the first time we really were all.
Speaker 4: In the scene together acting And so that just stays
Speaker 4: in my in the front of my mind.
Speaker 3: What about you?
Speaker 2: Somebody just asking this? And for me, it is every
Speaker 2: day that we go to work, like, I love our cast.
Speaker 2: Everybody is just so amazing to work with. Everybody's so
Speaker 2: grateful to be there. We all come, we work our
Speaker 2: butts off, and we work so hard and we create
Speaker 2: beautiful magic together. And I think everybody doesn't get that
Speaker 2: opportunity to say that, like I love everybody I work with,
Speaker 2: you know, because not all environments are as peaceful as ours.
Speaker 2: Like we come in there and we're like, all right,
Speaker 2: it's been we two days in, we probably got hit
Speaker 2: by a bus. We respect each other's face and time,
Speaker 2: and we're like, what do you need?
Speaker 3: You good?
Speaker 1: Do you feel like running lines?
Speaker 2: Are you? You know? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We just we just get it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: And after set going and running lines together after sixteen
Speaker 4: hour days, Shoot, people don't on don't see it.
Speaker 2: They don't see that even ripped the wig and we're
Speaker 2: not just big meals and were like, let's run these
Speaker 2: lines before we go home during lunch. We got a
Speaker 2: little time off, okay, like let's run it real quick.
Speaker 2: It's so much that goes into everything that we do.
Speaker 2: If you could give anybody.
Speaker 1: Advice on So there's a young girl.
Speaker 2: Wanting to do what we do, and she's not quite
Speaker 2: sure of herself, or she's struggling. Maybe she's from a
Speaker 2: small town like I was, or she's from a place
Speaker 2: where her parents don't really accept it. Like you don't
Speaker 2: need to go to get an education, go get you
Speaker 2: a good job. But she's a dreamer. What would you
Speaker 2: tell her?
Speaker 4: Girl do it anyway. You're not living for them, You're
Speaker 4: living for you. And if you want anyone else to
Speaker 4: believe it, you have to believe it first.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, ooh, I can't tell you.
Speaker 4: Even though my mom supported me doing plays and doing
Speaker 4: all these things, I think in the back of her mind,
Speaker 4: especially because I was super good in school, like I
Speaker 4: was in.
Speaker 3: All the higher education classes everything like that.
Speaker 4: You know, really she expected me to be working for
Speaker 4: NASA or something like that. So for me to take
Speaker 4: this other, this other path, wasn't shocking some all cause
Speaker 4: you know, she's Caribbean background. You know, we believe in
Speaker 4: that stability, that whole art thing. She was like, that's
Speaker 4: good to keep you well rounded, but you need something serious.
Speaker 4: So my mom actually found out that I changed my
Speaker 4: major at a play. I remember she came up to me.
Speaker 4: I did the big finale number. Everybody's coming up to
Speaker 4: me congratulating me. She's walking up to me with the brochure, like.
Speaker 3: What is this.
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: What do you mean, ma'am? She' like a major in
Speaker 3: fine arson theater. Girl be for real.
Speaker 4: So so I didn't have support and when it came
Speaker 4: to pursuing it fully.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, she was the one who
Speaker 3: had me.
Speaker 4: In those plays, who had me in the choir, who
Speaker 4: made sure that I touched into my art side.
Speaker 3: So I really feel like, you know, she was giving me,
Speaker 3: but she.
Speaker 4: Was still scared. And I'm glad that I didn't have
Speaker 4: that fear. And that's why I feel like that's the
Speaker 4: most important thing. You have to believe at first. You
Speaker 4: have to give it your all because it won't happen
Speaker 4: if you're halfway doing it. You have to believe in
Speaker 4: and you have to pursue it. You have to take
Speaker 4: the sacrifice. Because there was time when I dropped that
Speaker 4: school and was pursuing acting and doing theater and makeup
Speaker 4: and everything where.
Speaker 3: I was struggling real bad.
Speaker 2: Let's star struggle real bad.
Speaker 4: But I mean ubering, sleeping in my car, just uber
Speaker 4: like a drug bird. Yes, until I was about to
Speaker 4: fall asleep, I was terrified. And don't recommend, because there
Speaker 4: were a few times that something could have definitely happened.
Speaker 4: There were a few times that I had to speed
Speaker 4: off in situations Oh my goodness, I do not recommend. However,
Speaker 4: at the time it was necessary, and like literally i'd
Speaker 4: been driving home too sleepy to make it. I'll pull
Speaker 4: up into a Walmart or a McDonald's, something that's open
Speaker 4: twenty four hours and try to nap. But that was
Speaker 4: the grind I mean, And you know, in retrospect, I
Speaker 4: thank the Lord every day because things could have ended
Speaker 4: much differently. But it was necessary for me to maintain
Speaker 4: while I pursued what I was pursuing. So still grateful.
Speaker 3: You know. It definitely keeps me humble, It keeps me yeah,
Speaker 3: because I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, you know, at any moment, if anything didn't
Speaker 4: pan out, if any opportunity didn't present, I might not
Speaker 4: be where I am today. Yeah, would then I might
Speaker 4: not feel the same way about that struggle. But m gratefully,
Speaker 4: I can feel great about the struggle because it led
Speaker 4: to where I am now.
Speaker 2: In the souse. I love it. I love that for me.
Speaker 2: I went through a similar phase of my life where
Speaker 2: I was like really struggling trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2: I just moved to Atlanta and it was like, alright,
Speaker 2: I gotta figure it out.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I was working j a job, my the job, first
Speaker 2: job I had I was literally making like I think
Speaker 2: it was like three hundred dollars a week. Mm, so
Speaker 2: it was like t twelve hundred dollars a month before taxes,
Speaker 2: Like it was not a lot of money. Yeah. So
Speaker 2: like talking about like scrounging for change in the cup holds,
Speaker 2: you went.
Speaker 1: Back to the day all the change went into the
Speaker 1: cup holder. I don't really see change much nowadays.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, really, cause people don't
Speaker 5: really carry cars, like everything on our phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like so like it I had, it was changed
Speaker 2: it way. So I was really trying to count the
Speaker 2: quarters and like, can I get.
Speaker 1: A a double cheeseburger?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, fries?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying the dollar meaning you're just
Speaker 2: trying to make a meal.
Speaker 1: Literally out of two cents.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I remember those moments, and I think that's
Speaker 2: something that always teaches me grounded now that I have
Speaker 2: made it, but I'm grateful for those moments where you
Speaker 2: have to struggle and grind because I feel like if
Speaker 2: you don't go through that, you're not gonna appreciate it.
Speaker 2: When yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Even speaking of like that that long time struggle, if
Speaker 4: I had gotten the opportunities.
Speaker 3: Any earlier, I might not have known how to manage it.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 4: I think about the relationships I was in the mind
Speaker 4: for financing and the things that I would have been
Speaker 4: splurging money on then versus you know, even just a
Speaker 4: year later, and I'm so grateful that happened when it did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, who knows what.
Speaker 4: Could have happened or who I would have not been
Speaker 4: able to see for who they are because I have
Speaker 4: this new level of success.
Speaker 3: And there, you know.
Speaker 4: So it's a lot of things that saved me having
Speaker 4: that long ten year wait.
Speaker 2: Come on, God know, like he it's all in his
Speaker 2: perfect timing. That's what I always say, because if things
Speaker 2: had happened before they're supposed to, we would have blew it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we really would have. Us You are one of the
Speaker 2: most stunning. Your whole family is just stunning. First of all,
Speaker 2: you please go to her Instagram, her whole family, like
Speaker 2: all of them.
Speaker 1: I know your mom just sit back and be like
Speaker 1: I did this.
Speaker 2: She will.
Speaker 1: But you guys are also beautiful.
Speaker 2: But you're like you're beautiful, You're confident when it comes
Speaker 2: to love life. Let's talk about it, Okay, girl, have
Speaker 2: you always been confident and known your worth because you
Speaker 2: walk in like with so much confidence and self worth
Speaker 2: or is that something that you struggled at points or
Speaker 2: have you always been like, I know I'm dead girl.
Speaker 4: It's hard to say because I feel like it's both,
Speaker 4: like I've never doubted that I'm that girl, but things
Speaker 4: things show up, you know, Like you know, my father
Speaker 4: wasn't around when we were growing up, and so you know,
Speaker 4: there's abandonment issues on that side.
Speaker 3: There's trust issues when it comes to men.
Speaker 4: You know, my mom didn't really date when we were
Speaker 4: growing up for different reasons, but mainly because she had
Speaker 4: three young girls and she wanted to keep us safe
Speaker 4: and protected. So you know, there's reactions that I have
Speaker 4: to that as well, where you know, I may not
Speaker 4: want to be alone, so I may stick it out
Speaker 4: with somebody longer than I should, even when I see
Speaker 4: the signs and things like that. So it's definitely up
Speaker 4: and down. I think, just in dating and living and growing,
Speaker 4: you learn things.
Speaker 3: I mean, when I.
Speaker 4: Got Zatima, I was in a relationship with someone who
Speaker 4: I had, you know, sacrificed so much for and really
Speaker 4: felt like they were gonna be rooted for me and
Speaker 4: that showed me that they were not and that they
Speaker 4: were a bit jealous of me and that you know,
Speaker 4: and it manifested in different ways and it let me
Speaker 4: know I had to get about it. I remember after
Speaker 4: we finished wrapping the dinner that you and Developed hosted.
Speaker 4: I came to that late and I was flustered because
Speaker 4: we had just got into it and I felt like
Speaker 4: I wasn't in my best moment, but I was pushing through.
Speaker 3: There were so many things, but so many.
Speaker 4: Great moments of my life were being kind of like
Speaker 4: watered down because this person and their energy or how
Speaker 4: they felt or their insecurities were attacking me. But I
Speaker 4: also was like, well, this person has been with me.
Speaker 3: I should stick it out. Don't girl save yourself?
Speaker 4: You know, if I could go back and talk to her,
Speaker 4: be like, girl, save yourself. Because because there was a
Speaker 4: lot of you know, just self reflection that had to
Speaker 4: happen after especially just being alone stepping out of it
Speaker 4: where it's like, man, how long did that person hate Mercky?
Speaker 2: Right, because you started to look back and you're like, wait,
Speaker 2: a man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, that thing that they said two years prior
Speaker 4: that didn't really register.
Speaker 3: But then when you look at.
Speaker 4: The whole thing, it's like, oh wow, Nah, it's been
Speaker 4: a while of just not realizing it. And in the moment,
Speaker 4: I didn't think of it as like a lacking or
Speaker 4: you know, what was going on with me why I
Speaker 4: would choose someone like this, But then when you look
Speaker 4: back at it again, it's like, well, what did you
Speaker 4: let slide? What things did you let you know happen
Speaker 4: that you didn't address or that you didn't stand Firman
Speaker 4: that allowed that to happen.
Speaker 3: So I'm still figuring it out, you know, I feel.
Speaker 4: Like it's ever growing, you know, not to mention those
Speaker 4: family wounds, you know, even I love my mother dearly,
Speaker 4: but there was a lot of trauma that happened within
Speaker 4: our relationship as well that made me very real.
Speaker 3: And I'm a middle child, so if y'all know about oh.
Speaker 4: So, if you know anything about the middle children, I
Speaker 4: feel like I was so independent that I was left
Speaker 4: alone a lot. I was just kind of like, it
Speaker 4: was like Finn for yourself And then I'm like, but
Speaker 4: you know, but that's not how you treat this child
Speaker 4: to that child, So it makes you question yourself in
Speaker 4: that regard too. So it was a lot of self
Speaker 4: discovery that it is still happening. You know, I'm still
Speaker 4: figuring out why I do things, why I say things.
Speaker 3: I could be very snappy, especially in romantic relationships there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know I learned and that recently and I'm
Speaker 4: grateful for it. Although it was just kind of like, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: maybe maybe the when I say something and I mean
Speaker 4: it as a joke, not everyone.
Speaker 3: Perceives it that way, so be more careful, you know.
Speaker 4: So learning myself in these different seasons has been big,
Speaker 4: but I'm grateful for it for sure.
Speaker 2: At what moment did you realize wait a minute, like,
Speaker 2: I'm I had these issues from my childhood that are
Speaker 2: pouring into my adulthood. And was there a moone where
Speaker 2: You're like, I need therapy. Are you in the therapy
Speaker 2: or has it just been more of like a I
Speaker 2: got this on my own type of thing and just
Speaker 2: constantly evolving.
Speaker 3: In full transparency.
Speaker 4: Oh, I wasn't even planning on going on here, but
Speaker 4: it reminded me of the first time that I really
Speaker 4: thought about therapy. I was auditioning for a dating show
Speaker 4: of some sort, and when we during the process, I
Speaker 4: was getting through like easy. They were loving me. Then
Speaker 4: we had to do a kind of sit down with
Speaker 4: a therapist before we moved onto the next round, and.
Speaker 3: I unloaded on her.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yes, And also the fact that they did not call
Speaker 4: me back today's show after It's like, yeah, they were like,
Speaker 4: because this could be a liability. This was years ago,
Speaker 4: but I think that was the first time that I
Speaker 4: was like, this is something that I need to look
Speaker 4: into and also just realize, like there are things that
Speaker 4: I need to reflect in to my reflect on within myself,
Speaker 4: you know, transparency.
Speaker 3: I have not done therapy, but I would like to.
Speaker 3: I think it's just kind.
Speaker 4: Of like figuring out who to trust, who to talk to,
Speaker 4: how to approach that, which is not an excuse because
Speaker 4: I feel like I've figured out so much improvement on
Speaker 4: myself in other ways where I'm just putting that to
Speaker 4: the back burner and back burner. Not to mention, my
Speaker 4: family is not super supportive with that, like speaking of my.
Speaker 3: Mom, like, you're not crazy, What do you mean you
Speaker 3: need to go to therapy? That's what she thinks.
Speaker 4: And it's like I know that that's not a legitimate,
Speaker 4: but I do think that those things are still in
Speaker 4: the back of my head.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I need to work on that and I
Speaker 3: want to look into that.
Speaker 2: I got you. No, seriously, remember my first litter show,
Speaker 2: I brought my therapist out. Absolutely love her, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't until like you said, find the right person, finding
Speaker 2: somebody you can trust. For me, it was the first
Speaker 2: one I did therapy, I wasn't honest with the person
Speaker 2: because I didn't really trust them. So I'm like, this
Speaker 2: ain't working. Yeah, Like I literally was like, this isn't working.
Speaker 1: And then I.
Speaker 2: Got Delana, and I was like, just be honest if
Speaker 2: you want this where you have to just tell her
Speaker 2: everything and trust that and pray that she's not gonna
Speaker 2: tell anybody. Yeah, your business. But finding I feel like
Speaker 2: it's like dating. You know. I'm saying, you gotta f
Speaker 2: like talk to and feel the bus if you if
Speaker 2: you're ready to open up to 'em. But it's not
Speaker 2: like you hire one person and you gotta stick with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know. So I would just like take your
Speaker 2: time and just feel people out and see who you
Speaker 2: like and who you mess with, cause it can like
Speaker 2: this is the person you really had to confide in
Speaker 2: everything with if you really wanna get the help you want.
Speaker 2: And for me, it's like that's of realization because we're
Speaker 2: thinking we're working on ourselves until you really start to unload,
Speaker 2: like you said, and you're like, oh, I got a
Speaker 2: lot of work to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. It's like, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I told her about some situations that you know, I
Speaker 4: wasn't proud of, but I also felt like I was justified.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ran into that night ten times.
Speaker 4: No, it wasn't it wasn't that extreme, but it was
Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, I was battling within myself,
Speaker 4: and relationships will bring that out of you, especially when
Speaker 4: people are not genuine on their side or they're doing their.
Speaker 3: Own thing and then they want you to be uh huh.
Speaker 5: Anyway, So, since you've gained success in acting, I know
Speaker 5: that something that can be challenging for us women is
Speaker 5: dating and find the man that is confident and what
Speaker 5: you do and knowing that you may have sex scenes
Speaker 5: or love scenes with another person and that you have
Speaker 5: to kiss them.
Speaker 2: Have you had issues since you started acting where I
Speaker 2: was like with that and.
Speaker 4: You're absolutely, yeah, and it's it's difficult, but it also like,
Speaker 4: this is what I do, and.
Speaker 3: That's a hard.
Speaker 4: Conversation to have, especially when you like if we're already
Speaker 4: in a relationship, We're already talking, We're serious. It's like,
Speaker 4: how are you all of a sudden upset with this?
Speaker 4: Like you didn't already see all the Queen's Men?
Speaker 3: You know that actually really happened. Yeah, me and my
Speaker 3: guy I have.
Speaker 4: Been together for a while, like over a year, and
Speaker 4: then his mom kind of brought him, brought the episode
Speaker 4: to him, and I think that's why it shifted, because
Speaker 4: he probably.
Speaker 1: Didn't really care, but when the mom said, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think he cared, especially because we've there have been
Speaker 4: different times when we're at comedy shows and I don't
Speaker 4: know why, but every comedian has seen that scene because
Speaker 4: they always stopped the show'd like I know you, and
Speaker 4: then they typically harp on it for quite some time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And you know, I can laugh it off because I'm
Speaker 4: in this industry and I'm used to it and I'm like, okay, listen,
Speaker 4: But with him sitting there next to me, it's kind
Speaker 4: of like you're still talking about sex.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what is he supposed to do? Because it's like,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm an actress.
Speaker 4: It supports that he's always been super supportive of that,
Speaker 4: but at the same time, It's like, how am I
Speaker 4: supposed to feel sitting here? And I'm like, well, what
Speaker 4: am I supposed to do sitting here? I don't know
Speaker 4: who either, so that can be difficult. But yeah, when
Speaker 4: his mom brought it to him, I think it just
Speaker 4: hit him that, like, anyone has access to this. My
Speaker 4: mom has seen it. That means my cousins have seen it.
Speaker 4: That can mean anyone can see it. And I can
Speaker 4: understand how that can hit him. But it's also like,
Speaker 4: this is what I do, so let me know now
Speaker 4: what it's gonna be. We don't put this much time
Speaker 4: into it. Let me know if we should put it anymore,
Speaker 4: because those opportunities are going to continue to happen.
Speaker 3: And I don't intend on saying no.
Speaker 4: If it's relevant to the scene, I might not go
Speaker 4: as graphic as that was. But I once again, I
Speaker 4: was also my first time being on TV, so I
Speaker 4: was I.
Speaker 3: I was open. I was like, do.
Speaker 2: You feel like you're as open now or do you
Speaker 2: cause me, I have like very firm boundaries on what
Speaker 2: I'll show, what I'll do. Are you still like something?
Speaker 2: Acts are like no this, I'm not gonna say no
Speaker 2: to anything.
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'll say no to things, would you say,
Speaker 4: I mean if that same situation presented. I don't know
Speaker 4: if I would necessarily do it now, but I w
Speaker 4: I mean, but still close to it, especially if it's
Speaker 4: relevant to a love scene or a love interest or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 3: But that I mean, we were just one often tag
Speaker 3: team in over there, so that it was different. But
Speaker 3: once again, it was shot beautifully, so I'm not mad
Speaker 3: at it, but.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I just feel like it all it's
Speaker 4: it's situational, but I do still want to be respectful.
Speaker 4: I know at that time I hadn't done anything, so
Speaker 4: I was kind of open not to mention.
Speaker 3: It was in the midst of the pandemic, and it was.
Speaker 4: The biggest I had ever been, like, size wise, I
Speaker 4: was the biggest I've ever been.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing, but it was so liberating for it.
Speaker 4: To be like here I am in my full splendor,
Speaker 4: like because this is what it is.
Speaker 3: There's no like we have sex. We you know, plus
Speaker 3: size people are intimate and things like that.
Speaker 4: So to be able to show that and see that
Speaker 4: and feel confident with the end result was a big thing.
Speaker 3: So I'm happy, very.
Speaker 4: Happy with that scene. But moving forward, I do want
Speaker 4: to draw boundaries.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: I am mindful that I want to have children, you know,
Speaker 4: I want to be married, and I don't want anyone
Speaker 4: to be able to hop on Twitter.
Speaker 3: And find the right.
Speaker 4: So I'm still figuring it out, especially as opportunity like
Speaker 4: seems worth it or like it's relevant to the story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Feel yeah, I understand it, cause that's that's something I act.
Speaker 2: Actually had an audition for.
Speaker 1: It was a R It was R really bad.
Speaker 2: It was a rape scene, m but it was a
Speaker 2: true story. So in my mind as an artist, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: like the sh they weren't shooting the actual rape. It
Speaker 2: was more so the aftermath of it, but like everybody
Speaker 2: knew what had happened. And I was like second up
Speaker 2: for that part and didn't end up getting a role.
Speaker 2: But when I auditioned for it, I had to call
Speaker 2: my dad and I was like, listen. I was like,
Speaker 2: how do you feel about this? You know, cause I
Speaker 2: was thinking about my parents and like what they have
Speaker 2: to go through if you even say if I play
Speaker 2: certain roles or do certain things. And he was like,
Speaker 2: you're acting. He was like, that was a true story.
Speaker 1: It happens.
Speaker 2: And you're shedding light on something happened. So it changed
Speaker 2: my perspective on certain things. But then also when it
Speaker 2: came to like me setting my own personal boundary because
Speaker 2: they can if I have children one day, yeah, what
Speaker 2: are they gonna see?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: And this Internet is like it's forever, like once it's
Speaker 2: out there and it just like goes from one place
Speaker 2: to the next and like before you know it, like
Speaker 2: it's everywhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and out of context, it can be very scary, ma'am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very very scary. Yeah, yeah, you know. We this
Speaker 2: is a a safe space. And we also loved Jesus
Speaker 2: over here at the Hugh of Hot City show. Has
Speaker 2: it ever moments where your faith has been stretched or
Speaker 2: moments where you really had to lean on your faith
Speaker 2: through this whole journey of life?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Well.
Speaker 4: Growing up, I was heavy in church. I'm talking like
Speaker 4: praise team leader, all types.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 4: I was in church five out of the seven days
Speaker 4: a week, like, and I'm super happy to be there.
Speaker 3: The thing that kind of shook me was like.
Speaker 4: I was preparing to go to London for study abroad
Speaker 4: and I was working my butt off to raise the
Speaker 4: money for that, and it was about a few days
Speaker 4: past the am not past, but uh until the final
Speaker 4: the payment was due. Yeah, I was only like two
Speaker 4: hundred dollars away from my goal. And I was at
Speaker 4: church and the pastor did a whole sermon about you know,
Speaker 4: you ask not cause y y, you have not cause
Speaker 4: you ask not, and you know, leaning on one another and.
Speaker 3: All of these things.
Speaker 4: And I have been going to that church since I
Speaker 4: was I was baptized there, I was been there forever.
Speaker 4: And yeah, and you know whole family, my sister's in dance. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, everybody's really deep into the church. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: this is my sign. So after I to have a
Speaker 4: meeting with the pastor and we go into the room
Speaker 4: and I I kind of tell her what's going on,
Speaker 4: and she's like, I'm going on vacation.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what to tell.
Speaker 1: You after she just preached it.
Speaker 3: Yes, I felt like someone shot me in the heart.
Speaker 4: I remember sitting in the in the parking lot, uh,
Speaker 4: in the car, crying like I could not breathe. I
Speaker 4: was hyperventilating, not only because I had worked so hard
Speaker 4: to raise all of this money, but because I wa
Speaker 4: It was like I the veil was pulled back.
Speaker 3: From who she was. This is someone I admired my
Speaker 3: entire life, and then this.
Speaker 4: Is how you act, this is how you like. Even
Speaker 4: if you couldn't do it, that's fine. But the way
Speaker 4: that she said it was just like who are you?
Speaker 4: And it made me question everything and made me step
Speaker 4: away from that church. And it took a while to
Speaker 4: start going back to church again. And then when I
Speaker 4: did it, I was dating one of the pastes at
Speaker 4: the church and he bring yes, honey, they was they
Speaker 4: were calling me first ladies from that.
Speaker 2: First lady, first lad I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: He was a prechurch to the church, not the pastor.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't specify that. I learned after.
Speaker 4: A few years into this, not a few years, a
Speaker 4: few months in this relationship, that he was having relations
Speaker 4: with people all up and through this church. Yeah, past,
Speaker 4: present and future. Yeah, because so that was another hit
Speaker 4: that just was like you are not who you say.
Speaker 3: And not only that, but he prayed on me.
Speaker 4: Because he he he sought me after it a low time.
Speaker 4: The way he used the word and everything to manipulate
Speaker 4: me into that relationship, it was a it was very calculated,
Speaker 4: of course in retrospect, right, Yeah, So that was another
Speaker 4: time where but I had to just be like, once again,
Speaker 4: somebody who acts so holy is the opposite, and it's
Speaker 4: like the worst kind of person that you can be.
Speaker 3: And that really hit me as well.
Speaker 4: And I think to this day, I'm still struggling when
Speaker 4: it comes to church and the people to trust in church,
Speaker 4: because I mean.
Speaker 3: I still love the Lord.
Speaker 4: But even now, I was on a I don't want
Speaker 4: to say a tour, but I was trying out different churches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that went to change and I loved it there.
Speaker 3: It was just a long drive, but said you come.
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, for sure, trick.
Speaker 4: But even that became awkward because you know, our our
Speaker 4: fan base is is church goers. So going to church
Speaker 4: and knowing that in the midst of my praise and
Speaker 4: worship that this person might be filming me or you know,
Speaker 4: I went to a funeral and someone was asking to
Speaker 4: take pictures with me.
Speaker 3: And things like that, and it's like, it's yes, I
Speaker 3: want to be able to be vulnerable. I want to
Speaker 3: be able to drop.
Speaker 4: Someone knees and cry when I feel like it, But
Speaker 4: to know that someone is constantly watching you, it's like,
Speaker 4: how can you enjoy that experience?
Speaker 2: So that happened to me too, and like I actually
Speaker 2: had to talk about it because people were coming up
Speaker 2: to me after church like wanting to hug and like
Speaker 2: talk and ask for pictures, and I just feel like
Speaker 2: it's a time and a place for everything. And then
Speaker 2: finding out that people were driving hours to come to
Speaker 2: church on Sunday and hopes to meet me. You need
Speaker 2: to be going to meet Jesus. Yeah, not Chrystal Renee Hazlet.
Speaker 2: And I had to like publicly spe publicly speak about
Speaker 2: that because it is disturbing when you're in f I
Speaker 2: literally was in full lunteers one Sunday, church had like
Speaker 2: let out, but we were still doing praise and worship
Speaker 2: and the spirit was just moving and I was just
Speaker 2: crying and praising God, and somebody literally came and tapped
Speaker 2: me on the shoulder.
Speaker 1: In the midst of it, and I was like.
Speaker 3: What, Yeah, like what.
Speaker 2: In what world? You know? And then not too long ago,
Speaker 2: praise and worship and like a guy turns around and
Speaker 2: it was like you know how they turned it, and
Speaker 2: then they were like shoot, and then before you know it,
Speaker 2: they're like holding their funnel like we're at a concert,
Speaker 2: and I'm like I literally just turned it, like turn
Speaker 2: my back, so like you can't feel me. I'm like
Speaker 2: like read the room back, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like, but people feel like you don't have those boundaries
Speaker 4: when you're known, and that's that's something that really disturbs
Speaker 4: me because I hear how people talk about.
Speaker 3: Oh, what they would rude when I met them? Well,
Speaker 3: w how did you meet them? What were they doing?
Speaker 4: Because they don't owe you their time like that, Like,
Speaker 4: you know, I appreciate the support, but there's a time
Speaker 4: and a place, and there's certain times that absolutely no.
Speaker 4: I was at a close friend's funeral and you want
Speaker 4: to take pictures? Why Yeah, why why is that even
Speaker 4: where your mind is at when you're at the same funeral.
Speaker 2: We should be thinking about this person we just lost.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so a lot of different but that but once again,
Speaker 3: that's church, that's not just one part of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I definitely feel like that was a major
Speaker 4: part for me though, especially the wave that I was raised.
Speaker 4: It's the part that I miss dearly and I hope
Speaker 4: to get back to. But but you know, I stand
Speaker 4: from my faith still. I still you know, pray as
Speaker 4: much as I can. I've talked about this before, Like,
Speaker 4: praying in water is like my favorite thing, and I
Speaker 4: think that's also because I know that it's just me,
Speaker 4: especially if I'm at a beach or some kind.
Speaker 3: Of big body of water where I can just go in.
Speaker 4: And I don't hear anything else but the waves, and
Speaker 4: I feel like God.
Speaker 3: Is speaking to me directly at the moment.
Speaker 2: The girl, That's one of my favorite places to be
Speaker 2: around water because when you look, especially huge bodies of water,
Speaker 2: it just shows you like the awe of God, like wow,
Speaker 2: he created this, you know you really you just see
Speaker 2: like the endless almost like it's symbolic to his endless
Speaker 2: love because it's like water just you can't like you
Speaker 2: don't even see the end of It's like he just
Speaker 2: keeps going.
Speaker 3: You see how small you are?
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, that is so true. Let's talk about sisterhood. Yes,
Speaker 2: because we're both on Tatima and sisters. Sisterhood is so
Speaker 2: important to me, our two characters. We I am like
Speaker 2: always like what you mean, Angel, because you always you
Speaker 2: check me, You check me when I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: You try to hold me accountable.
Speaker 3: Y'all heard that right.
Speaker 2: You try to hold me accountable. And a lot of
Speaker 2: times we don't want to hear that as friends. But
Speaker 2: I appreciate the way Tyler writes our characters because Fatima
Speaker 2: does that because she's using the one always trying to
Speaker 2: like help people, but you're the one that's always helping Fatima.
Speaker 3: And then we do a good back and forth because
Speaker 3: you tell me about myself too.
Speaker 2: Yes, whether right right, But that's what friends are for
Speaker 2: in your real life because you have sisters, amazing sisters.
Speaker 2: How is y'all's relationship And did that actually help when
Speaker 2: it came to being on the show Sisters?
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I mean my sisters are the closest thing
Speaker 4: to me in general. We were raised super close. You know,
Speaker 4: it was us against the world, except we fought. We
Speaker 4: fought a lot, but that's a.
Speaker 3: Part of the sisterhood. We we you know, we had
Speaker 3: very humble beginnings. So like we shared a.
Speaker 4: Room growing up, the three of us, what you know,
Speaker 4: from four years older to two years younger. We were
Speaker 4: all like really close quarters. So it forced us to
Speaker 4: be close and ride for each other. Like I remember
Speaker 4: one time a boy hit me and my little sister
Speaker 4: came out of nowhere would a.
Speaker 3: Metal back just swinging.
Speaker 4: Mind you, her little self she's two years younger than me,
Speaker 4: but in you know, in those years, that's a huge difference.
Speaker 3: But we've always just had each other's back, and.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's only grown as we've gotten older.
Speaker 3: My older sister has the cutest son. Now my nephew,
Speaker 3: who is like, that's my baby with my younger.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean that experience too, is just those
Speaker 4: are my people.
Speaker 3: Those are my best friends in the world.
Speaker 4: They're the only people in the world that I feel
Speaker 4: like I can tell anything to without feeling judged. No,
Speaker 4: I have my my friends and everything, but my sister
Speaker 4: is nothing. It's like that nothing nobody.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love that I have two sisters, but all
Speaker 2: my siblings we have different moms. But and my me
Speaker 2: and my sisters weren't raised together. But our relationship is
Speaker 2: so beautiful and it's always fun to see how like,
Speaker 2: no matter what the dynamic is, that's a bond you
Speaker 2: can never break. So yeah, I love my sisters, and
Speaker 2: I love how Tyler wrote the show for us to
Speaker 2: just exemplify what sisterhood is.
Speaker 3: Yes, because you need your corner, We do, you really do?
Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, I want to play
Speaker 2: a game with you. Oh, I love playing games trying
Speaker 2: to hit me colt up.
Speaker 3: Then you get.
Speaker 2: It's easy.
Speaker 1: It's just called this or that.
Speaker 2: All right, I knew it is lie.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right.
Speaker 2: Let's see. And this is you know, a little this
Speaker 2: is a little cast made edition. Okay, alright. So do
Speaker 2: you like movies or TV shows?
Speaker 3: TV shows scripted or reality? Oh, scripted?
Speaker 2: The hero or the villain, the via? Do you like
Speaker 2: improv or strictly following the script?
Speaker 3: I love improv. That's when we get the best stuff.
Speaker 2: We do a lot of that.
Speaker 1: On you like night shoots or early morning call times?
Speaker 4: Ooh, it all depends on what the day has been
Speaker 4: and the night before. Yeah, I'm a morning person, so
Speaker 4: I don't mind mornings.
Speaker 2: You are a morning person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a problem with them late nights, especially
Speaker 4: if we've had a long day.
Speaker 3: It can get real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that, and I'm with you
Speaker 2: on that. On set, pranks or keeping it professional, do
Speaker 2: not do the party, don't prank me on r exactly,
Speaker 2: method acting or just turn it on and off.
Speaker 3: Oh, it all depends on the part.
Speaker 4: Say yeah, I feel like I'm very like my character
Speaker 4: Angela in a lot of ways. So it's a little
Speaker 4: bit of method, but not all the way. So it's
Speaker 4: a little turn it's a little off and on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, y'all.
Speaker 3: I guess it's both.
Speaker 2: I think for me like method and when I have
Speaker 2: like emotional scenes, it's hard for me to just turn it
Speaker 2: on and off. But when it comes to other emotional
Speaker 2: character traits, I can turn those on off with that
Speaker 2: like crying, yeah, stuff, I kind of have to wake
Speaker 2: up down, like to really be ready to all right
Speaker 2: and action, like I can't wake up halfy and then like, okay,
Speaker 2: it's a crime scene.
Speaker 1: Just start crying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that, because I'd be like, okay, give
Speaker 3: me a second, give me a second. But it's hard
Speaker 3: and so much it's going on, people talking and laughing.
Speaker 2: It's like oh yeah, and then everybody's like so I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, I need everybody to like, don't talk to you, Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't not right now, please stop talking, Like I've gotta
Speaker 2: I gotta get there.
Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of time. Time is money, all.
Speaker 2: Right, let's see are we just weas we just talking
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 1: But a crying scene or a fight scene, once.
Speaker 4: Again, it depends on the context. But I will say
Speaker 4: I would love to do some fight scenes. I want
Speaker 4: to do some action.
Speaker 2: I love to fight scenes because I don't be fighting
Speaker 2: in real life.
Speaker 3: That's where you get it out.
Speaker 2: Fight. Yes, I love it.
Speaker 3: I can ready to jump off something, land somewhere.
Speaker 1: Exactly live audience or no audience.
Speaker 2: Live.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's nothing like the theater.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I livet I love it. Costume, heavy roll or
Speaker 2: a casual wardrobe.
Speaker 3: Oh, please don't make me have to wear too many things?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to be comfortable.
Speaker 4: It's hard to lock in when you're thinking about too
Speaker 4: much other stuff.
Speaker 2: No, for sure. Ooh this is another good one. Makeup
Speaker 2: chair for hours are quick and easy bybee.
Speaker 3: If I can do my makeup in twenty minutes, I
Speaker 3: don't want to be in this chair for two hours.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you that too, because you do your
Speaker 2: own makeup.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a makeup artist and.
Speaker 2: You got it here?
Speaker 1: You was like, I do not like the way this looks.
Speaker 4: Friend, I am so quick to go to my dressing room,
Speaker 4: wipe off my makeup and start over.
Speaker 3: I'm so mad.
Speaker 2: I literally carry my whole makeup bag every day. But
Speaker 2: I don't know, like in my makeup manny, he's amazing. Yes,
Speaker 2: So like I don't really have to touch anything.
Speaker 1: But like I've had RS four.
Speaker 2: Where I'm just like, no, like I need to get
Speaker 2: this nose right. I need there's certain things I just
Speaker 2: need to pop.
Speaker 3: I won't even do that. I'm like, oh, thank you,
Speaker 3: and I will go to yeah'n.
Speaker 2: The room and fix it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because if you didn't do it right the first time,
Speaker 4: then telling you and instruct you is not gonna get
Speaker 4: us there when I could.
Speaker 3: Just finish it in twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Hello, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, be prepared, access, be prepared, bring your stuff, be ready.
Speaker 2: Be prepared.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Last question, binge watch your own show or never watch it?
Speaker 3: Ooh.
Speaker 4: I hate to say this, but it's so hard for
Speaker 4: me to watch myself back.
Speaker 1: So many people say that.
Speaker 3: So hard I.
Speaker 4: Do because I feel like you have to learn, you
Speaker 4: have to grow yet to see the way things are
Speaker 4: being done. But I can only do it once.
Speaker 3: I cannot watch it over and over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me just like watching take like an athlete, Like
Speaker 2: I watch it so I can get back to get
Speaker 2: better and to study myself. I'm like, Okay, I could
Speaker 2: have done better here, I could have taken a longer
Speaker 2: be there, or I should have like did a different
Speaker 2: octave in my voice because sometimes I can talk very monotone.
Speaker 2: So I'm working on inflections and different things like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, when I watch them, I can't. I can
Speaker 2: only watch it once.
Speaker 1: I can't go back. Yeah, I agree, and this has
Speaker 1: been fun.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you so.
Speaker 3: Much, Thank you. I appreciate jas once.
Speaker 1: No, but they're gonna love this.
Speaker 2: They've been asking for you, and I thank you so
Speaker 2: much for taking time to come sit down anytime.
Speaker 3: Girl. You let me know, and if y'all want to
Speaker 3: keep asking, I'll keep coming.
Speaker 2: I guess you heard it here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Love when I say, I absolutely enjoyed my conversation within Zinga.
Speaker 2: If I had to take one thing away, it was
Speaker 2: second chances. After being raising a church and experiencing church hurt,
Speaker 2: she did not let that keep her away from cultivating
Speaker 2: her own relationship with God. Thank you so much for
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