1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Oh, this is exciting. It's way up with Angela Yee 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: and I got a cast if I feel like friends 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: up here and we're talking about unexpected Christmas heavy on 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: the X. All right, Dominie Perry is here, Hello, Hello 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: Reggae and Gomez is here, Hey girl, Hello, Ra Howry 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: is here, and miss Anna Maria Horsford is here. 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: Hello. 8 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: Listen. First of all, how much fun are you guys 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: having just traveling together, because before we turn these mics on, 10 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: it feels like family having alas. Yeah, this is nice. 11 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 3: I haven't done a junket like this and years. 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: Really you haven't. What you think that? Well, I guess 13 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: after the pandemic everybody was doing like zoom stuff. But 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: it is rare that we see people going out like 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: this and doing interviews and you have outside. 16 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: And promoting a movie that's in theater. 17 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, right, it's usually yeah TV shows that 18 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 4: they do, but it's it's different. 19 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: This is good. This feels like it was like so 20 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 3: we had a good time shooting too. 21 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: You know, I love good holiday movies and this one, boy, 22 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: I didn't know where it was going when it first started. 23 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,919 Speaker 1: But family can be dramatic and it can be like hard, 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: you know, around the holidays, and even thinking about bringing 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: home yo boo for the first time at the holidays, 26 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: that's a difficult thing, very you know to think about. 27 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: I was thinking about Reagan. You've been married for so long. 28 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: Do you remember bringing the way home for the first 29 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: time and like what that was? 30 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 2: Like, Oh, yeah, yeah, I do. 31 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 5: We were deep in teenage love and I don't remember 32 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 5: what everyone else thought because I was just so deep 33 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 5: in it myself. But because of how much I loved him, 34 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 5: they loved him as well. 35 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: And that was like twenty six years ago. Period, Little 36 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: Rod I saw recently you popped out like my wife, 37 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: our first day is okay, so tell me about this wedding. 38 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: It wasn't a wedding. 39 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 6: So we got to Elope, right, okay, And so we 40 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 6: went to I mean, I guess ain't nobody gonna catch 41 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 6: it that now, but we went to Van Eyes. 42 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 1: That's right. 43 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 6: It was funny cause we dressed really nice, and you know, 44 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 6: the whole moment you were just walking in there like 45 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 6: everybody else is like you can see people frustrated what 46 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 6: they paperwork for like their driver's licenses, different things, and 47 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 6: we can't connect to get married. 48 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: That's so funny, but that must be really that's still 49 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: no matter what, Like when you love somebody, that type 50 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: of memory is always like yeah, that's. 51 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 6: And that was fun for me. But honestly, I can't 52 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 6: wait to give her the ceremony she wants. We're gonna 53 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 6: do it next year. We're gonna do whatever she wants 54 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 6: and do it big and just let her get that 55 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 6: that little girl dream of a princess wedding. 56 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: So it made you guys decide to Elope then instead 57 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: of what. 58 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 6: It was, it was more of our conversation with God, 59 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 6: like we did that for God to get it done 60 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 6: and over with, and we didn't want that to make 61 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 6: make the ceremony about what was happening. 62 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I'm saying, Like, I love. 63 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 6: Is way stronger than just a ceremony. But I know 64 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 6: that's what she I'm good, Like if we just did 65 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 6: the van I thing. 66 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: You know, I'm satisfied. I am because I love that. 67 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 6: I'm so happy that she let me be a part 68 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 6: of her life, you know what I'm saying. And a girl, 69 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 6: so it's like I'm good. 70 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: I like to see that. Yeah, yeah, I know it's 71 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: going to be incorporated into your stand up too, because it. 72 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 6: Has been it's really funny. Like I was on stage 73 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 6: this past weekend, I talked about a lot of it. 74 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 6: So it's just I mean, and also it's funny also 75 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 6: doing this material that I've been doing lately from this 76 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 6: happy place, and so it's been a lot of fun. 77 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 6: But it's so funny and it's so random. It's still 78 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 6: my little real version of doing stuff. But it's really 79 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 6: funny because I'm very They don't know how observing I 80 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 6: am because I'm like such a like dad, I'd be 81 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 6: like chilling. I take it in. People don't know that 82 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 6: it's a list of things going on in my head 83 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 6: most of the time. I'm sitting there watching so many 84 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 6: random things. When you see me on stage, like like, 85 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 6: where did that come from? 86 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: You know, I'm an observer. 87 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, this is our second movie and the first one. 88 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 4: I think he said two or three words the whole time. 89 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 4: I said that is the start movie, not Fall. 90 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: Oh he would not I was chilling. 91 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 6: Yeah, but miss Anna, you know she also you know 92 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 6: miss Anna, Missanna. 93 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: Got to say, so are you you're talkative on set? 94 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 4: Like okay, well you know I'm from Harlem. 95 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, so. 96 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 3: We always had to tell people at the stage. 97 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 4: But it was so interesting because I said, he's so quiet, 98 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 4: and you just say, oh, but you know he's listening 99 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 4: to everything, okay, and very alert, don't. 100 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 3: You know, want interfit in the subject. And he was 101 00:04:58,400 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: taking in all the stories. 102 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: Taking It's so amazing to have miss Aison in here. 103 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,799 Speaker 1: Do y'all think, like just some of the most iconic 104 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: shows and movies like and plays and everything that you've 105 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: been in there? Surely do you feel like a legend? 106 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 2: No? 107 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 4: Okay, now I feel I have the luckiest girl in 108 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 4: the world. And every time I go to one hundred 109 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 4: and twenty second Street and third on Lenox Avenue because I. 110 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 3: Had to become a landlord. You know, you got to 111 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 3: be a five hats honey if you're from New York. 112 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 4: Yeah. But the idea is it was a dream or 113 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 4: a fantasy. And I told my mother, so I gotta 114 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 4: go to Hollywood. I gotta go to Hollywood. And she said, good. 115 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 4: You know, she never said no. I mean, that's the 116 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 4: one advice you tell a parent. Whatever the child says 117 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 4: they're dreaming about, just listen, right, just listen, because you 118 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 4: have no idea what God send me here to do. 119 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: And that's how these creative arts are really in praying 120 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: when it comes to education. 121 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 4: Yes, and you don't have to do it for a 122 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 4: life or a whole thing. I didn't know I was 123 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 4: gonna have a career this long. 124 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 3: I just tell you. 125 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 4: And when it happened, you said, ooh, so somebody else 126 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 4: besides my mother. My mother used to make all the 127 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 4: number men, you know when they played numbers, and then they. 128 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 3: Had to buy me flowers for all my plays. You 129 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 3: want me to go to the number hole to thank them, 130 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 3: I said, mommy, I need get no number hole. Now 131 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 3: they give me a rest and say thank you. 132 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 4: And so you bring your culture with you, and then you. 133 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 3: Realize you have a whole team rooting for you. 134 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 4: Not to say you're gonna make it because people say 135 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 4: there's something about making it. You make it when you 136 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 4: make the first you say it and then you do it, 137 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 4: that's making it. It's not you know, there's no end. 138 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 4: There's no end to this, you know what I mean. 139 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: And you love it. I can tell you do. Oh 140 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: love it like this is because it's still a job, 141 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: a career job, but this is still work. I know. 142 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: People think it looks fun but it's literally like endless days. 143 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 2: You know, I'm a the time. 144 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 6: I am quiet too, because especially more now like taking 145 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 6: it in because it's like, when you think about it, 146 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 6: you know, a lot of us, a lot of us 147 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 6: are like the first person in our families to do this. Yeah, 148 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 6: and so for the most part, only example I had 149 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 6: was just sitting at home watching this on TV. I'll 150 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 6: never forget when we was in Quarantine, I had a moment. 151 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 6: I think I had like two or three things on 152 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 6: TV at the tight you did ones and I was 153 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 6: sitting there like, Wow, you made it in the TV. 154 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 6: That's craz Like I remember the thought as a kid though, 155 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 6: how it was just a whole other world. I didn't 156 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 6: know if that place even existed. 157 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And I'm like, wow, I'm a part of 158 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 3: this now. 159 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: This is crazy. 160 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 5: You know what part of the fun of being in 161 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 5: this business too is that when you get to work 162 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 5: with amazing people like Dominique, who plays my sister in 163 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 5: the movie. I have been a fan of hers from 164 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 5: Insecure and rap Shit, and when I knew that we 165 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 5: were going to play sisters, It's like wow, And even 166 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 5: I never worked with before, and Anna Marie I've never 167 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 5: worked with her before, known her since I was four, 168 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 5: So even being able to work with these amazing people, 169 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 5: it's just a blessing. 170 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: Ooh and Dominique, I gotta ask you this because Jay 171 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: Ellis said that people would come up and slap him. 172 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: Oh they should. Yeah. Have you had people be like 173 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: mad about your character? 174 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 6: Oh? 175 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 2: All the time? 176 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 7: Since twenty sixteen, I've been one that they love to hate. 177 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 7: It's either like half the world loves me or half 178 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 7: the world hate me. 179 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: What do you think about your character? Is just taking 180 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: it out of it? Being you from insecure? 181 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 2: What can I think about my character? 182 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: Yeah? Like what would you think of Yeah? Like what 183 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: would you think about her as a as a real person? 184 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 3: Oh? 185 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 2: I think she's a great person. I think she really was. 186 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, now I will say I will admit 187 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 7: finally in twenty twenty five when she went up there's 188 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 7: a scene where Tasha did go up to the best Buy. 189 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 7: I don't with kind of the cleavage happening, And I 190 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 7: was like, no, I don't know she has done it. 191 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 2: But other than that, I think that she was she 192 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 2: was honest. You know, she will vulnerable. 193 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,839 Speaker 7: You know, she was hard working girl, single, yeah, he 194 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 7: was and he was single, he was, so why. 195 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: Not you know, we all got something happening, and that 196 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: happens in unexpected Christmas? Yes it does. Little uh something 197 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: happening listen, Yes, we all have like a little past. 198 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: And I think when people hook up there's always somebody 199 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: that's like lingering in the back in the fact, because 200 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: nobody is coming with something with a completely clean slate, 201 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: except for Reagan when she was younger, and she and 202 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: there's things you got to clear up. But sometimes people 203 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: are not always honest about those things. 204 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 6: So do you can I ask you something? Okay, So. 205 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if Richard was being this. 206 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 4: Very yes, yes, thank you, thank you can take them 207 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 4: around the world and not expect them to want to fly. 208 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: Well, here's the dishonesty. There's another one. I guess there's 209 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: the dishes part to me though. When he showed up, 210 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: that's when you be like, look, I got to tell 211 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: you something. 212 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 3: No, no, no, you can't say the first moment you 213 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:15,839 Speaker 3: have to. 214 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: That's the best time to break the news because the 215 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 1: longer you wave. 216 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 6: If you're surprised and you don't expect like because you 217 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 6: have to think about how unexpected that was from Richard. 218 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: And this is early in the movie, so we're not 219 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: really giving away too much, but it's one of the 220 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: premise of the movie. 221 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 6: So he doesn't know this is he's about to run 222 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,599 Speaker 6: into Like because I say this all the time, like 223 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 6: if a dude, most guys when you're single, especially if 224 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 6: you're talking to women in different coast borrows, especially bist. 225 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: But he didn't know. But once you find out, don't 226 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: you think that's the time. 227 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 6: He don't even know what type of like he don't 228 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 6: know anything because it was nothing ever said to him 229 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 6: about it. 230 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: So I actually have the way around. And she slept 231 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: with your brother and then showed up. I didn't know 232 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,599 Speaker 1: that was your brother. You want to know right away. 233 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 6: Like right away, Well, if we're not close. See that's 234 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 6: the thing too, if me and my brother's not close, 235 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 6: I don't. 236 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 7: Know if, but we don't know what close me weren't 237 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 7: you dating? But weren't you dating Carrie when you were 238 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 7: dating me? 239 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: Because you just keep back. 240 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 2: It just happen. 241 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: It feels like an overlap. 242 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 2: When you okay, giving away to. 243 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: It's in a very very beginning, but just to say 244 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: he's got a situation. This is how it starts. I'm 245 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: just saying, that's not how you related. 246 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 2: That's not Marissa. 247 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: So that's all that's I don't know, Richie, get it back, 248 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: don't you think it's like, let you get what. 249 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 5: You gotta understand it though, you have to understand. 250 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: I heard of him as dick like they did in 251 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: the movie. 252 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 4: Isn't that. 253 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: Until run Tail? Yes, Richard Richard. 254 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 6: The only thing I believe Richard was wrong and this 255 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 6: is something something I had to work out when I was, like, 256 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 6: you know, playing the character was It's interesting watching this 257 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 6: young brother from a privileged family. I thought it was 258 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 6: kind of cool that he was acting like a spoiled 259 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 6: Bratton Away when he made everything about him. That's really 260 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 6: what his problem was. He couldn't commit. He ran from everything. 261 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 6: He was a runner. That's that was richard problem. He 262 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 6: wouldn't he could not face He wouldn't face anything, whether 263 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 6: it's his parents, whether it was he just wouldn't face anything. 264 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: He just run. 265 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 6: Even in the movie he basically ran. 266 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, typical, I'm kidding, typical typical Richard. Everybody ain't Richard Richard. Okay, 267 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 1: let me ask you this though. For everybody, don't you 268 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: feel like if I go somewhere with you and there's 269 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: somebody in that room and you had a past with 270 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: them or slept with them, don't you think you should 271 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 1: let the person that you're with, No, Because I don't 272 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: think you have to tell everybody your home. 273 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 2: Yeh, no. No. 274 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: If I'm gonna be shaking hands and at the table 275 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: with somebody, I'd rather hear that from him. 276 00:12:55,320 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 5: I don't know the person you're never gonna see again. 277 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 6: You're that No, no, no, you're never gonna deal with 278 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 6: in that way again. 279 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 4: I look, but when you get home, don't forget person 280 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 4: on situations. 281 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 6: Where I haven't. I can't do that because I was 282 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 6: in these trees. 283 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: It is no way that. 284 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 6: You know every ward show you see. 285 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: Over there, you got some that we didn't get a 286 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: chance to see. 287 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 8: I know. 288 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 4: But the deal is, you feel sometimes a woman and 289 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 4: well men to pick it up. 290 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 3: If you see somebody on the bus, so you say hey, 291 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 3: how you doing? 292 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 4: And then you get off the bus man so you 293 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 4: used to go with him. You you can feel an 294 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 4: energy going on between two or three people. 295 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 2: But I don't think you have to tell your No. 296 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: I just think that if you're with somebody and we're 297 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: in the same house with somebody I used to deal with. 298 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: I have to respect the person I'm with and be like, 299 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: just so you know, this was before. 300 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 3: That's what I don't know. 301 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 4: That's just men take serious different than women take serious. 302 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 3: Like a man will tell you. 303 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 4: Well, we come on, now, we weren't that serious. We 304 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 4: weren't committed. And I said, any time you inject something 305 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 4: in another person's body, you're serious. Men might not take 306 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 4: it serious. Women take it. 307 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 2: Okay. 308 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 3: But anyway, the movie is so funny. I have no violence. 309 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 4: We have no violence because some of this quick lead 310 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 4: lives and yeah, and the writers very clever. 311 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 3: We don't do that like most black people. 312 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: Yeah him and yeah, Now, Dominic, you don't tweet much. 313 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 2: I don't. 314 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: I used to, but you did put up this. I 315 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: said you couldn't wait to get married. Oh I just 316 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: put that up. Yeah, so okay, So tell me, like, 317 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: what was going on? What made you at that moment, 318 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: because this is something that you know clearly, and you 319 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: did a couple of posts about that. Yeah, and you 320 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: said you want your daughter to see you in a 321 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: wedding dress. I do. 322 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 7: I have this thing that I wake up a lot 323 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 7: of mornings like around three am and just my mind 324 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 7: just be going and I just be thinking about so 325 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 7: much and a lot. And this morning I was actually 326 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 7: just thinking of I was just scrolling on Instagram up 327 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 7: at five am, scrolling and then I just saw this 328 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 7: beautiful lady in this wedding gown and I said, oh, 329 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 7: my gosh, looks like a princess. Then I automatically go 330 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 7: to my daughter. I'm like, I just really want her 331 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 7: to see what healthy love looks like. And I want 332 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 7: her to see that from me because my family has 333 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 7: a line of no disrespect. I love the women in 334 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 7: my family, but we have a line of not being married. 335 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 7: So I want to break that. I mean, I have 336 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 7: a cousin who was married, but I just kind of 337 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 7: want to break that. And that's why I was like, 338 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 7: I just want to be married one day, but means 339 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 7: thing coming soon, I hope. 340 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, ready, yeah, But in these movies coming 341 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 4: coming coming, do you date though, Like, have you gone 342 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 4: to any of these like you know, people like matchmakers 343 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 4: and stuff like whenever. 344 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 2: I've never done that. I'm very kind of secluded. 345 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 7: I don't really have a lot of friends that are 346 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 7: telling me like, come out here, this match making things, 347 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 7: So I don't really know like where to go even 348 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 7: need somebody, I go to the I go to. 349 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 6: Okay, interesting dat, Like I'm has been saying. 350 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: This for you. Why is she an interesting dat? 351 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 6: Yeah? No, no, no, I mean I'm not going into 352 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 6: details because we've been friends a long time. It's just 353 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 6: you know, yeah, because she's a sweetheart and she's all 354 00:16:58,280 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 6: these different things. 355 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 2: But like I choose wrong. 356 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 6: Ladies, y'all make y'all make, especially like successful black women 357 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 6: make interest and decisions about who y'all give opportunities to 358 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 6: h And it's it's really at this point I feel like, 359 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 6: based off almost all my friends at this point, like 360 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 6: what how did y'all pick this stuff? 361 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 2: I've heard you like what you don't think? 362 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 5: You don't you don't think that that is some piss 363 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 5: in the water. Doesn't that that there's not a great 364 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 5: group of guys out there. 365 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 2: Are already dominique. 366 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 4: Dominique I think actresses, especially this new generation, because there's 367 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 4: so many more. You know, when I was coming up 368 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 4: with very few and most members say well, when are 369 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 4: you gonna get a regular job? 370 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 3: Because you can't say you're going with no actress. So 371 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 3: when you're gonna work again. Yeah, you know what I mean. 372 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,679 Speaker 3: So men are very clear about structure. If we agree 373 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 3: to buy a house, I don't want to wait till 374 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 3: your next job comes. I mean the mortgage that month. 375 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 3: You know. 376 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 4: So being an actress takes you to a whole nother dimension. 377 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 4: Then you have to say, he said, well is she 378 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 4: acting with me? I had a boyfriend when I was 379 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 4: with Amen, and he would help me with the lines, 380 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 4: except when it came to the love scenes, would not 381 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 4: want to go through. I said what you were saying 382 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 4: it in life because I looked and I looked at 383 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 4: the show after and said, I do look like I'm 384 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 4: in love with Clifton Davis. 385 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I looked. 386 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 4: That was my show, and I look like I love 387 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 4: that tired man. So you're living with somebody that looks 388 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 4: or the world thinks she's in love with this one, 389 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 4: and miss Dominique looks like she would fight you if. 390 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 3: You come up wrong. 391 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:53,360 Speaker 4: So a poor guy, a poor guy would say, well, 392 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 4: wait a minute, does she really like me? Or does 393 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 4: she like those men? 394 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 3: And occasionally not too many black people break. 395 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 4: Up their relationships. A lot of white couples do. But 396 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 4: you know, if you meet somebody on. 397 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 8: Clear. 398 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 3: People don't you're. 399 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 2: Clear on what I want? 400 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 7: I'm not, well, you know, I just you know someone 401 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 7: on the same playing field, or even somebody that can 402 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 7: be a leader. 403 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 2: And it's hard to really find that now. 404 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 3: Because you're the leader. 405 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 4: You're Yeah, training sessions, good one exactly. You know you 406 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 4: got to get one that you can train. Yeah, you 407 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,199 Speaker 4: have to train man. A certain ones they don't know 408 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 4: what they want, so you have to say you want. 409 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 3: Train. 410 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 8: Probably a good woman knows how to train the man 411 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 8: without him thinking he is being trained. 412 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 6: It's so funny. I joke about this old stage that 413 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 6: well I'm like, well, you know, I only got like 414 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 6: one year left. Keep defending myself because it's a wasted time. 415 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 6: I'm learning that like me putting up a fuss is 416 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 6: just me holding on to like I'm a man, I 417 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 6: should have said everything, but like, honestly, keep the peace. Man, 418 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 6: If you got who you got, is it really worth 419 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 6: to push back? 420 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 5: If you are lucky, you will have a woman that 421 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 5: you approach them and fall in love and she will 422 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 5: not plan the rest of your life, but kind of 423 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 5: plan the rest of it. 424 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'll trust it. 425 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 6: But that's what I'm saying with men, got to realize 426 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 6: if you're not over fighting it for real, women are 427 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 6: looking for somebody that shows leadership and things like that. 428 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 6: But if you're not fighting the most random See, the 429 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 6: problem is we be fighting random things that don't make sense. 430 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 6: It's not a big deal. 431 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 8: Is worth it? 432 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 6: If she like, like, just do it? 433 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 2: Just do it? 434 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 6: You know what I mean? And I found myself, which 435 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 6: is why I'm telling you. I'm in a beautiful part 436 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 6: of mine. I'm in my old black man era that 437 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 6: I am so comfortable and it just made me a homebody, 438 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 6: like I do. I know my assignments, I know what 439 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 6: time I got to take those garbages out, all the 440 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 6: stuff I gotta do. And it's like but I told him. 441 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 6: I was like, damn, I'm at the end of it now. 442 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: I defend myself. Yeah, there's no point. 443 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 8: Yeah. 444 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: Have you ever anybody who ever dated somebody that like 445 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: your friends and family didn't like? 446 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 2: Yeah? 447 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, Usually they don't say they don't like them. I 448 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 4: asked my mother one time, I said, you like so 449 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 4: and so. 450 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 3: She said, I don't have to sleep with him? Yeah, 451 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 3: And I said that wasn't a question. 452 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: She would not answer that experience that not answering is 453 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: an answer. 454 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 6: Yeah, because if they love someone, they're gonna yeah yeah. 455 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's it's how to be diplomatic too, because 456 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 3: partly if you say you don't like them, that's gonna 457 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 3: make me try to prove something. 458 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: Because you get very stubborn when people don't like somebody, 459 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: and you want to prove that, like you made a 460 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: good decision. 461 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 3: Yeah. 462 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 7: And a lot of times with me, I will I 463 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 7: just date on sometimes potential. So a lot of times 464 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 7: my friends and family see me at a certain plateau, 465 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 7: not even just career wise, but just me as a person. 466 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 7: And so when they see I show him on Instagram, 467 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 7: it's him, y'all. And then they'd be like, Dominique, what 468 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 7: are you doing? Like what is the water of money 469 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 7: on his on his you know ear? That was back 470 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 7: then under that now and that was back then. But 471 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 7: I was just saying just an example of the show, 472 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 7: like yeah, sometimes they'd be like, what are you doing? 473 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,479 Speaker 1: That was in the past. We don't do the money. 474 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 2: I don't I know what I want, But the. 475 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: Fact that you did do that at any point, it's hilarious. 476 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: It was crazy because I saw the potential. 477 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 7: Cash well, yeah, but you know I saw a go 478 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 7: get her right, so somebody you know, entrepreneur, entrepreneur. 479 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 3: He's coming, he's coming. 480 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's coming. 481 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: An influencer, he's doing these great posts. 482 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 2: You know. 483 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't want somebody posting our business now. 484 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: We don't want Also, besides being in front of the camera, 485 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: also making sure that you're in positions where you're producing, writing, 486 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: and those types of transitions in this because I feel like, 487 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 1: you know, acting alone is amazing, but doesn't it make 488 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: you always and I know you have done that already, 489 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: want to move from from in front of the camera 490 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: to behind the camera sometimes too. 491 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 5: Oh absolutely, I mean Rail is an executive producer. 492 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he's directing. 493 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 5: A Well, it just makes you want to be curious 494 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 5: about the other side, because if you're used to being 495 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 5: an actor and saying someone else's lines, the point is 496 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 5: going to come where you're like, this script is terrible, 497 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 5: this ship. 498 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 7: Is terrible, and you're like, I can do this, Yeah, 499 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 7: I can do this. 500 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 3: The opposite. 501 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 4: I started out It's office temp and got into TV 502 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 4: at W N E T. And I told my boy says, 503 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 4: I can't stay here because I'm going to be an 504 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 4: actress and say, don't you just wait until the acting 505 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 4: starts and then I start acting on that particular show 506 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 4: was a time when there were no black TV shows, 507 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 4: and I started there and I enjoyed it so much. 508 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 4: I went from associate producer to casting to a producer, 509 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 4: and then I think I'm the only one that left 510 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 4: producing to become a full time actress, because I said, I. 511 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 3: Don't want to be bothered with all of that because it's. 512 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: A lot of work and get out of here. Yeah, 513 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: you just you do. 514 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 4: But I'm so respectful to the craft because I know 515 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 4: everything involved. Because you start hating actors. One actor came 516 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 4: up to me I was casting the show, and he said, oh, 517 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 4: my agent said I shouldn't work because I didn't signed 518 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 4: the contract. 519 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: I said, leave, leave period. 520 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 3: Don't bother me. Because the writer had just walked out. 521 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 4: I had to get somebody else to rewrite the script 522 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 4: and we had the cameras and everybody else coming at 523 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 4: seven o'clock in the morning. I don't want to hear 524 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 4: about your contract. Didn't you get paid the week before? 525 00:24:58,760 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: Go home? 526 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 3: So they bother you about. 527 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 4: The little thing and you're looking at the big picture. 528 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 4: So it's a big difference, and I just didn't turn back. 529 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: But it probably helped you though. 530 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 2: It helps you because you respect. 531 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 4: You know, when people would talk about this script is 532 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 4: no good, I said, do you think those ten writers 533 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 4: went home? 534 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna write a stupid script? 535 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 4: Really, people doing the best they can and you can 536 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 4: help improve it, you know what I'm saying, especially if 537 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 4: the man is married and happy. If I'm not happy, 538 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 4: they're crazy. But again, my part time job is finding 539 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 4: wise for all of my executive producers on this show. 540 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 3: Get him good, Angela. No, oh, okay, we'll talk. 541 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 1: I know that, but. 542 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 6: Real quick though, it's so important. It's so important to 543 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 6: understand the business of it. All of us are not 544 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 6: going to be stars doing everything in front of the 545 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 6: can camera. It's just so especially with everything happening now, 546 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 6: it's like we need more people like Trail and Field 547 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 6: and all those great and you know that's so important 548 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 6: to me. Is truly was learning the business of the business, 549 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,239 Speaker 6: like for real, Like I'm like englfed in it now. 550 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 6: It's like this is all I want to do along 551 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 6: with everything else. So because like especially with getting our 552 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 6: stories out here, especially what we're doing unexpected Christmas and 553 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 6: going to theaters. If you look at all the other 554 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 6: especially Black Christmas movies it's coming out this year, they're 555 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 6: all just streaming, and so this is one of the 556 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 6: only ones for real going to movie theaters. And that's 557 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 6: a business decision. And as we're doing these interviews, which 558 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 6: is why I thank you for having us, as we're 559 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 6: doing like more theaters were picking up Steam No. 560 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: Seven and listen what I love about going. It's an experience. 561 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be right there, laid back in my seat 562 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: with my field those types of theories. Now I'm saying 563 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: I have an idea for you. Now I know, Antiga, 564 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 1: let's talk about that for a second. So are you 565 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: so my mom is my mom is from my right. 566 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 3: I know? 567 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And so I feel like maybe we take 568 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: a trip. 569 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 3: We could because. 570 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, and dominic I feel like you could meet somebody 571 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: in it again, well maybe playing You. 572 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 4: Know, Dominie is gonna meet her mate. She's gonna meet 573 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,640 Speaker 4: her mate. The only thing black women have to understand too, 574 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 4: they have to invest financially because you're dealing with somebody 575 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 4: who doesn't necessarily have the same financial plan that you. 576 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 2: Situation. 577 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 3: We keep saying we want a man to work. 578 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: The word. 579 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 3: If he works, he can't bet with you, he can't 580 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 3: fly into this one time. 581 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 2: Second. 582 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 4: Well yeah, flexible or smart, very smart to do, but. 583 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 3: We we keep thinking it's a fantasy. We want somebody 584 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 3: on equal basis, equal basis, don't have time for you. 585 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: You know what. We want somebody that's gonna teach us something, right. 586 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 1: I think that's one of the most important things. Like 587 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: I do what I do, but I want somebody that's 588 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 1: gonna like put me onto different things that I don't, 589 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: but you don't. I don't even right exactly exactly, and 590 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: you know that we're always learning things. And I always 591 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: want people that are also I feel like, trying to 592 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,640 Speaker 1: better themselves and that are ambitious and. 593 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 4: Want to better you. Make you feel happy when you 594 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 4: get home, you know what I mean? Rob them feet, 595 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 4: Rob that next? 596 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 3: Did those men bother you today? 597 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 9: Baby? I don't mean nobody be good? Yeah? Okay, okay, 598 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 9: all right, we have to talk about Angela. 599 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,679 Speaker 1: I love yeah, because I know that you you were. 600 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: Your family's from Antiqua and Barbuda. 601 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 4: My mother's Dominican, okay, but dad is from Antiga, Okay, 602 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 4: and always so I'm never gonna. 603 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 3: Marry a man. 604 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 4: Of course, the first time you fall in love is 605 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 4: to the west of your man because you're used to it. 606 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 4: But you don't know that you know certain things and 607 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 4: you still compare. 608 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 3: You know, for man to not work. And I said, well, 609 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 3: don't your stomach ground. I mean, I'm never My father 610 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 3: worked all the time, you know what I mean. He 611 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 3: got robbed in the store, his first store. 612 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 4: He was the first black man that had a supermarket 613 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 4: up in Harlem in Manhattan period, and got up, went 614 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 4: threeham because the bullet stayed in him and got joined 615 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 4: this guy we had, came back and worked again. He 616 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 4: was the first black man. They issued a gun permit too. 617 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 4: That's why we had no boyfriends because Daddy in the garment, 618 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 4: he wore that whole stuff with the gun, was gonna 619 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 4: come to your house, come. 620 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: And take it out. 621 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 3: I said, come with that gun. 622 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 8: I can't get nobody, but I want to send some value. 623 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 3: You still use it. 624 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 4: I'm saying, your stomach is growling. Yeah, three kids wore kids. 625 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 4: Don't you you have to do something? So I don't 626 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 4: understand somebody who is waiting for some somebody else to 627 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 4: give them something. No, you're absolutely, So those are the 628 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 4: values to shape your brain that you can't get rid of. 629 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 3: As much as I like you, but you. 630 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: Know, and I would say for you, like litl Row 631 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: being a stand up comedian, I know, in the beginning stages, 632 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: it's always a struggle, like just when you're first getting started. 633 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: I've heard so many people's stories because a lot of 634 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,959 Speaker 1: people don't come necessarily from having money and having like 635 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: that'support system and working in those comedy clubs early on, 636 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: you're not really getting paid. 637 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 3: You got a ghost every night. It's a different space. 638 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 6: And it's funny too because it's I feel like the 639 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 6: it's interesting. I was talking about this one day, but 640 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 6: it was one of the females I dated early on, 641 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 6: especially in my career. You know, I stayed at her 642 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 6: carib at one point, and she'd be at work all day. 643 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 6: You know, I do shows at night, so during the 644 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 6: day I'll be writing and doing all this stuff. And 645 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 6: I remember her coming home from work one day and 646 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 6: seeing me, like six other comedians just laughing it up 647 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 6: and writing, and it looked like we weren't doing it. 648 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 6: And so by the time, like I remember that being 649 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 6: the last moment of her being like, Okay, look, I 650 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 6: believe in you, but you gotta go you. 651 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: Know type of thing. 652 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 6: And I'm and it's funny. I laugh at that now 653 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 6: because I get you being irritated. But I was working though, right, 654 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,239 Speaker 6: I just happen to love what I do, and so 655 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 6: you it's funny because she had to break it up 656 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 6: with me and then the dude shed having a baby 657 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 6: with I'm like, well, you took a chance on that, 658 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 6: because right after that, I got like my first deal 659 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 6: and all types of stuff. So it was like, you, 660 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 6: I know, it's fine, but she made it because everybody 661 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 6: make a choice. I mean, because I don't think one 662 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 6: person is for you. It's all about your You make 663 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 6: a choice, and she made that choice because you know, 664 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 6: everybody try to come back around. Yeah about that stuff. 665 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 6: It's like, it's like and I felt bad because in 666 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 6: the beginning to come back to come back around, though. 667 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: She held you down. 668 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 6: I don't but but she made a decision though, because 669 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 6: it wasn't about holding down. It's like, fam, I'm actually 670 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 6: letting you into my potential too. 671 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: Now hold on. You was living at her house right, No, 672 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: but see but see this is where it gets. This 673 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: is where the conversation. 674 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 6: Gets get up because I didn't. I didn't argue about leaving. 675 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 6: I knew who I was becoming. 676 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 3: Right. 677 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 6: If you were just a little patient because I wasn't 678 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 6: not doing anything and then you end up having a 679 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 6: kid by somebody who's like, wait, you really had to 680 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 6: find the potential. You saw my potential. You saw me 681 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 6: get standing ovations, you saw all this, you saw it 682 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 6: was there. 683 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 3: You know. 684 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,959 Speaker 1: That's so funny. I interview the other day about her, 685 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: but and we were talking about her getting back together 686 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: with Lawrence on Insecure, and I was like, I mean, 687 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: you put all that time and you should reap some 688 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: of those benefits when he finally made some money, because yeah, 689 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: and we see how it ended. 690 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, they were together. 691 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. 692 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 7: I mean. 693 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 1: Listen, they're telling me, you guys gotta go. Okay, we 694 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: could talk. 695 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 6: To er, Yeah we could. 696 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 7: Yeah. 697 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 5: This is. 698 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of y'all. This movie was amazing when 699 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: I was watching it, and also the fact that I 700 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: personally know yeah, like some of you, that was fun 701 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: for me to be able to see that and to 702 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: see all the detention and know what was going on. 703 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: But amazing, phenomenal job. You are such a blessing. Like 704 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,479 Speaker 1: I told you, we're gonna do some things. Yes, we 705 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: have to. I gotta get down to Antiga. That's, you know, throw. 706 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 6: Something all of us can travel because I love Antiga. 707 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 4: You do, Okay, I want to come to I don't 708 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 4: want to talk to none of my cousins. 709 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: Okay, we got to do Unexpected Christmas. 710 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 4: And I don't know I don't know you that my 711 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 4: father said, you don't have no relative. 712 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well make sure y'all go see Unexpected Christmas. 713 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: There you go. It's a whole vibe. November seventh in theaters. 714 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 2: Yes, soundtrack is out right now. 715 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: And if you go ever one woman and then you 716 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: bring somebody else, you got to pretend you didn't see 717 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: it already. Yeah, but go twice if you have to 718 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 1: be Christmas. Here's way up