Speaker 1: Hey, fam I'm Jada Pinkett Smith and this is the
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Speaker 1: It has been sometimes with welcome all my kids. Y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all are my kids? Yes, we're here at the table.
Speaker 1: This is a Red Table takeover. So essentially I'm the boss,
Speaker 1: all right. I just want to clarify it because y'all
Speaker 1: might be looking at Willow because usually yeah, but in
Speaker 1: today's episode, she's like my guest. That's yeah's my guest. Alright.
Speaker 1: So with this movie, Emancipation was one of the most
Speaker 1: grueling and transform pnmitive and ultimately rewarding films of my
Speaker 1: entire career. You guys saw the movie I really wanted
Speaker 1: to as an actor. When I make things, when I
Speaker 1: put things in the world, you guys are my first
Speaker 1: round of thought. I'm making things to leave ideas for
Speaker 1: my children, and then it extends to other people's children
Speaker 1: and then to the world. So I'm excited to be
Speaker 1: able to talk about it. So it all started with
Speaker 1: this devastating photograph that many say is the first viral image.
Speaker 1: The photo quickly spread across the country, shocking millions with
Speaker 1: the horrors of slavery and exposing the line that enslaved
Speaker 1: people were treated humanely. Peter's portrait inspired many free black
Speaker 1: men to enlist in the Union Army. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: the first time I saw that picture. It was so
Speaker 1: moving in such a just heartbreaking away. And for that
Speaker 1: to be like the first like viral image is crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So emancipation is the story behind the famous picture. It's
Speaker 1: based on the life of a slave named Peter. Give
Speaker 1: thanks to God. Do no ities with us. I will
Speaker 1: come back to you many meany you walk the earth man,
Speaker 1: because the election I'm your God now slaves off we man.
Speaker 1: We must get too better Bush through this one Ncoln
Speaker 1: Samy East then that many least to die in a swamp.
Speaker 1: Jim's persistent running Hiden surviving. I fight him. They beat me,
Speaker 1: they whipped me, they break the bulls in my body
Speaker 1: more times than I can come to but they never
Speaker 1: never bring me. Wow, I have not seen the trailer. Crazy.
Speaker 1: There was some deeply moving moments. Yeah, it was rugged.
Speaker 1: We had some calls while you were shooting. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was very concerned. Yeah, he was just it was he
Speaker 1: can say, you guys been around for most of my career.
Speaker 1: It's like, as the years have gone on, I've gotten
Speaker 1: more and more locked into these characters for longer periods
Speaker 1: of time, and it's just the weight of this story,
Speaker 1: the weight of these experiences, the quality of the actors.
Speaker 1: It was emotionally, it was physically, it was spiritually taxing.
Speaker 1: One of the first days on set, there was a
Speaker 1: scene with one of the actors. He leans down in
Speaker 1: my face and he says, you're a cold one, ain't you,
Speaker 1: And then he ad lived. I was like, right, no,
Speaker 1: but it was like I was like whoa. Every actor
Speaker 1: on this set was taking it really, really seriously. When
Speaker 1: the first teaser came out, as people were like, why
Speaker 1: another slave movie, and it's like, this is not a
Speaker 1: slave movie, this is a freedom movie. There were some
Speaker 1: parts of me when you said you were making a
Speaker 1: slave movie that I was like, m M, well, you know,
Speaker 1: originally I was considering doing Django. Did you guys know that.
Speaker 1: You guys we had a family had about and we
Speaker 1: all talked about dang. Yes, yes, yes, I wasn't all
Speaker 1: the way in, but one of the main reasons why
Speaker 1: I wasn't was the looks on your faces, because you
Speaker 1: knew what that would mean, and those characters seep back
Speaker 1: into the house. So I invited college students to watch
Speaker 1: the movie and to share any questions that it brought
Speaker 1: up for them. So first up is Devin, I just
Speaker 1: finished watching the film, and honestly, it feels like I
Speaker 1: just woke up from a terrible nightmare. My whole body
Speaker 1: physically hurt as I was walking out of the movie theater.
Speaker 1: That's how powerful the film was. It's one thing to
Speaker 1: read about slavery and all these terrible things that happened
Speaker 1: in history books, but it's another thing to watch it
Speaker 1: right there on the big screen. Well, how did playing
Speaker 1: a slave for months on end with people saying horrible
Speaker 1: and dehumanizing things to you affect your mindset? And what
Speaker 1: did you learn about yourself? Question? One question? I was
Speaker 1: getting called the N word, you know, a hundred times
Speaker 1: a day by by very good actors, very very good actors.
Speaker 1: You know, it's rough. It twists your mind up. You
Speaker 1: have to be really careful because you definitely, you definitely
Speaker 1: twist your mind up. There's like a magic moment. As
Speaker 1: an actor, you look for the best way I can
Speaker 1: describe it, it's like you feel the character wash over you.
Speaker 1: It'll be wardrobe, it'll be a scene, it'll be the
Speaker 1: dialect something. What happened is we were trying on the
Speaker 1: neck chains, so where it's you know, six weeks before
Speaker 1: we're shooting and they're trying to get the right size
Speaker 1: and the right weight. This feels horrendous. It won't be
Speaker 1: too much work to find this character putting the chains on.
Speaker 1: As an actor, you're always trying to find a thing
Speaker 1: that makes you understand the character who won't pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 1: Chris Gardner took me to the bathroom and him and
Speaker 1: his son had to sleep in and I walked in
Speaker 1: the bathroom with him and I was like, got it.
Speaker 1: And as soon as those chains went on, I was
Speaker 1: like got it. It turns off your agency. You don't
Speaker 1: want to step, you don't want to move, you don't
Speaker 1: want to look anybody in the face. It's deeply dehumanizing.
Speaker 1: M hmmm, yeah, yeah, that just put me back in there.
Speaker 1: That put me back in there. Um, yeah, well take
Speaker 1: a moment. Sorry, Yeah, that's it. Yeah. So they put
Speaker 1: it on and doing so I'm standing there and then
Speaker 1: he goes to take it off and it doesn't work,
Speaker 1: so it's a locked on and my heart jumps and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, oh no, oh no. So I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there. Now he's running around looking for the keys,
Speaker 1: and for fifteen minutes, I'm stuck there in the chain
Speaker 1: and my heart is pounding and I'm like, will do
Speaker 1: not freak right, And I'm sitting there and then it's like,
Speaker 1: I got it. It's like I'm will Smith with people
Speaker 1: running around looking for keys, and my heart is still
Speaker 1: pounding and I'm still scared. Imagine what it was like
Speaker 1: for Peter to have that stuff on barefoot and nobody cares.
Speaker 1: And it was like, whoo, yeah, I got it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a powerful moment for you and Claus. Yes,
Speaker 1: absolutely really dehumanizing. And I haven't been able to articulate why,
Speaker 1: but I felt embarrassed. I was embarrassed while I was
Speaker 1: standing there and I was waiting, and it was emasculating, dehumanizing,
Speaker 1: all of that, and it was like like got it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: got it. Once you experience those things, they go into
Speaker 1: the same banks as your actual memories. You don't have
Speaker 1: a separate place for acting. Your brain and your body
Speaker 1: recognizes it the same way it recognizes actual memories. You
Speaker 1: have nightmares about it the same way, and so it's
Speaker 1: all of that kind of stuff. But six degrees of
Speaker 1: separation was the only other time in my career where
Speaker 1: I got lost, where I went too far with with
Speaker 1: a character. Um, I wouldn't say I went too far
Speaker 1: with Peter. I just lost track of how far I went. Okay,
Speaker 1: got it? I got twisted up in there, Um a
Speaker 1: little bit. What does that look like for you? Like
Speaker 1: losing track of that? You go into a state and
Speaker 1: when you go that one click too far, Will Smith disappears.
Speaker 1: And then what happens is psychologically you go farther and
Speaker 1: farther into Peter and you don't realize that you are
Speaker 1: slipping away, and then it's over and you go back
Speaker 1: and you look for you and you're gone. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a hard thing to explain, right, So what happens
Speaker 1: You play these characters, and when you play them long enough,
Speaker 1: it's like moving to another country and speaking in another language.
Speaker 1: If you speak the other language long enough, you'll start
Speaker 1: to lose your native tongue, and you can forget how
Speaker 1: you walk your previous personality right, and you know, you
Speaker 1: can see when actors get out on that edge, right,
Speaker 1: when you you touch that edge of no self. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's terrifying. It's terrifying out there, Peter is as
Speaker 1: far as I've ever been with a character. And you
Speaker 1: have to actually train yourself to be able to go
Speaker 1: farther and farther and farther. It's it's it's blissful out there,
Speaker 1: right to be in a scene and you have that
Speaker 1: moment on camera when you forget and you're lost, It's
Speaker 1: like it's blissful, except when they say cut and you
Speaker 1: reach back for you yeah, right, and you it's a
Speaker 1: weird thing. But I got I got out there to
Speaker 1: that terrifying, blissful edge. So I wanted to show you guys,
Speaker 1: in real life some of the brutal, dehumanizing devices that
Speaker 1: were used during slavery. When you're say, in real life,
Speaker 1: do you mean right now here? Right? Yes? Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no, why I just want you have to
Speaker 1: know so you have to know, Wow, this is insane.
Speaker 1: So that would go around your neck, yes, wow, keeps
Speaker 1: you from running. This is like the ones that were
Speaker 1: in the movies that had like the bells on them
Speaker 1: and stuff. Somebody would run. But like, who even dreams this?
Speaker 1: Like that's what I'm figuring right now. To make it
Speaker 1: feel the way to that m hmm yeahs oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And just feel the weight of that what it would
Speaker 1: do in your neck. Imagine somebody puts that on your neck,
Speaker 1: they can take and if you're a way like rape
Speaker 1: anybody they want whenever they want. For me, as an actor,
Speaker 1: my image was you guys, and imagine and being pulled
Speaker 1: away right Just imagine somebody comes in here right now
Speaker 1: and beats me and snatches me away, and you guys
Speaker 1: don't know if you'll ever see me again. That is
Speaker 1: the legacy of slavery in America. It creates generational trauma,
Speaker 1: even on a cellular level, you know, scientifically, exactly as
Speaker 1: brutal as it is, there's also the other side of
Speaker 1: how resilient and powerful that blacks in America. It's incomprehensible. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's incomprehensible. Let's talk a little bit about your physicality
Speaker 1: and what you had to go through to get your
Speaker 1: body into the place making this movie because Willow kept
Speaker 1: noticing in the movie, like he's getting skinnier, He's getting skinny.
Speaker 1: You guys may remember I posted out of Shape the
Speaker 1: dad Body picture. The Dad Boty picture was my beginning
Speaker 1: of preparation to lose weight for Peter. I was probably
Speaker 1: to five ish when I started, and at the lowest
Speaker 1: on the movie, I got to one. For me, the
Speaker 1: physicality is a big part of what makes people go WHOA. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to transition and manipulate your
Speaker 1: body as an actor is a big part of the
Speaker 1: suspension of disbelief for people. And actually being out in
Speaker 1: the swamps. Yeah, I'm sure you were just losing weight
Speaker 1: just being yeah, just it's it's hot, it's nasty, you're
Speaker 1: in the swamp. Your hands are dirty, so you don't
Speaker 1: really want to grab food and eat really in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I went in there deep, it's insane. What's the
Speaker 1: most impactful part of the movie for you? So? So
Speaker 1: there was um And I can't even talk about Peter
Speaker 1: without being Altieri. So but y'all see me cry all
Speaker 1: the time. You'll see me cry all the time. So um,
Speaker 1: Peter said in his writings or that probably dictations to somebody,
Speaker 1: but the things that exist. Historically, Peter was beaten into
Speaker 1: a coma, and in the coma he said, he met God.
Speaker 1: And it's right in the middle of the movie. And
Speaker 1: he's been running for a few days and there's no
Speaker 1: food and no water and out in the swamp and
Speaker 1: he's there and he's feeling lost, and he's feeling turned around,
Speaker 1: and his hearing is going a little bit, and he
Speaker 1: stops and he gets himself together and he goes, oh shock,
Speaker 1: and he finds the gratitude to praise God in the
Speaker 1: middle of that. It was one of the things that
Speaker 1: I wanted to be able to share with you, all
Speaker 1: the ideas that I learned from Peter. So the concept
Speaker 1: is that nobody gets out of this life without having
Speaker 1: to bear their cross. Facts from facts. So you may
Speaker 1: not have to bear it to the level that Peter
Speaker 1: had to bear it, or to the level that Jesus
Speaker 1: had to bear it. But the only way to be
Speaker 1: here joyfully is to be grateful for the cross you've
Speaker 1: been given to bear. You have to know that suffering
Speaker 1: leads to salvation, and the only thing that would make
Speaker 1: you not reach the Promised Land is giving up and
Speaker 1: Peter knew and trusted God fully that all he had
Speaker 1: to do was bear his cross with gratitude. He was
Speaker 1: saying thank you God in the middle of that. Peter's
Speaker 1: faith throughout the whole movie was something that really stuck
Speaker 1: out to me. Peter has absolutely changed my life, you know. So? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I heard a great quote, the only way to
Speaker 1: be here is you have to learn how to have
Speaker 1: an open heart in hell. Yeah, here's a question from
Speaker 1: a theater go or from Los Angeles. What we got.
Speaker 1: My name is Stacy Ramsey. I'm twenty three years old
Speaker 1: and I went through so many emotions throughout this whole movie,
Speaker 1: to be honest, Um, some were sad, so we're happy.
Speaker 1: Some felt really familiar because no matter what it is
Speaker 1: that you go through, there's so many things, whether it's people, work, family,
Speaker 1: that try to break parts of you, and it's so
Speaker 1: important just to push through and not let them break you.
Speaker 1: I have a question for Will. I just would really
Speaker 1: like to know what form of personal suffering did you
Speaker 1: tap into to execute this role. Wow, that's a crazy question.
Speaker 1: I don't have, thank God, anything in my life comparable
Speaker 1: to what Peter experienced. There's a universal suffering that I
Speaker 1: think we can all connect on, but I don't know
Speaker 1: what I would actually do in the face of that
Speaker 1: kind of demid on a malevel to be really faced
Speaker 1: with the darkness. I've had moments within myself where I've
Speaker 1: had to face things, but like to look into the
Speaker 1: eyes of that kind of malevolence, it's either you're enlightened
Speaker 1: or you go crazy. Yes, there's Yeah, there's a term
Speaker 1: Plato used that puts those together, divine madness. That there's
Speaker 1: a certain divine madness that I was trying to depict
Speaker 1: from Peter, because when you stop and you pray in
Speaker 1: that moment, that is a taste of divine madness. That's
Speaker 1: what I learned from Peter. Like the idea of the
Speaker 1: darkness being the road to the light. Yeah. Facts. So
Speaker 1: one of the most critical moment ments in the movie
Speaker 1: for me was the speech that Ben Foster's character gives
Speaker 1: story telling the story of his nigger house girl. And
Speaker 1: what was so beautiful about Ben's portrayal is he loved her.
Speaker 1: And what I love is that you can see his
Speaker 1: heart was taught to hate. Yeah, my father, he's a
Speaker 1: core Nuskar. My mother passed when I was young, So
Speaker 1: the job of raising me, filling her how screw She
Speaker 1: took care of me. She feed me, she washed me,
Speaker 1: she taught me things. She's my friend. What evening, I
Speaker 1: asked my father if she could join us for supper,
Speaker 1: and he looked at me in a funny way and said,
Speaker 1: then what I said, so we could eat together? To
Speaker 1: what she asked? Then what? I didn't know. I was
Speaker 1: just a boy, but he did. He said, first they
Speaker 1: eat their food, and they'll take her jobs, and then
Speaker 1: they'll steal our land. Well, you give them so much
Speaker 1: as a crumb, they're going to take over the whole
Speaker 1: damn country. Wow, that's crazy. And then he goes on
Speaker 1: to tell the story and how he watched her die
Speaker 1: for three days. His father taught him hate and through trauma.
Speaker 1: It's like, I just couldn't imagine seeing someone you love
Speaker 1: so much in the field dying for three days and
Speaker 1: you can't do anything like that on a child's mind. Blunt, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ben Foster is phenomenal in Emancipation. I hear he sent
Speaker 1: the Red Table a message, and I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1: Ben is the total opposite of his character. The first
Speaker 1: day of set was staggering two hundred plus background actors
Speaker 1: portraying the enslaved. I was walking past men in chains
Speaker 1: and in situations of such tremendous violence, and then I
Speaker 1: felt him. I didn't see him, I felt him. It
Speaker 1: was Will on set, but it doesn't Will Smith as
Speaker 1: we know him. It was a man, and that man
Speaker 1: was vibrating. It's animal stuff. It's hard to explain, but
Speaker 1: I could feel the presence of this man who is
Speaker 1: digging deep. And I passed him and I felt, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give him his space. We didn't speak
Speaker 1: for six months of shooting. What I saw with Will
Speaker 1: is an actor whom I've respected for for so very long.
Speaker 1: I think does some of the most important work, not
Speaker 1: just of his career, but of current day cinema. This
Speaker 1: is a performance that speaks to the human spirit, against
Speaker 1: all odds, to fight for love, the fight of faith,
Speaker 1: the fight to endure and endure for love. I'm blown
Speaker 1: away by what Will Smith did in this film. What
Speaker 1: I hope people take away from this film is the
Speaker 1: worst thing that we could do is not raise our hand,
Speaker 1: is not to have an open dialogue. We must reflect
Speaker 1: on our past and ordered to meet our current day,
Speaker 1: and our current day is rife with frightening similarities of
Speaker 1: what happened during this true story. When it took place,
Speaker 1: I happened to believe babies are not born with hate
Speaker 1: in their heart, that hate has learned, that hate can
Speaker 1: be unlearned, and compassion can fill that void. Heal that virus,
Speaker 1: and we can remind each other of our similarities or
Speaker 1: commonalities with empathy. We don't have to get each other holy,
Speaker 1: but we must recognize that we're all flesh and blood.
Speaker 1: We're not here for long. Let's leave with kindness. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. That was beautiful. That's great that he felt you,
Speaker 1: he felt your presence. So my side of that, that's
Speaker 1: my first time here in his side. Right. So we
Speaker 1: were having delays. I think we didn't even get a
Speaker 1: shot the first day. There was lightning and there was heat,
Speaker 1: and we had literally lost an entire day. So I'm
Speaker 1: doing my you know, thinking and the extras. Hey, thank
Speaker 1: you all very much, everybody, blah blah blah. In my mind,
Speaker 1: I was giving my best will Smith and Ben just
Speaker 1: walked past me and didn't say nothing. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he must he must not have seen me. And then
Speaker 1: for six months. He didn't speak to me, he didn't
Speaker 1: make eye contact with me, he didn't say a word,
Speaker 1: he didn't acknowledge me for six months. But what he
Speaker 1: did that first day, I was like, yep, got it.
Speaker 1: We're not playing this is real, this is serious. We're
Speaker 1: not fooling around with these ideas. And I really credit
Speaker 1: then for clicking me into the next gear of depth
Speaker 1: and focus. So the final day, me and Antoine or
Speaker 1: at the monitor looking at the shot, and then comes over.
Speaker 1: He never came to the monitor ever, he's there. He
Speaker 1: comes to the monitor, he watches the shot and Antoine said,
Speaker 1: I'm happy we got it, and then I look over it.
Speaker 1: Then this is last day. He says nice to me,
Speaker 1: like yeah, because it was like because you know we've
Speaker 1: been we have been through that whole movie together. That
Speaker 1: is crazy. Did you guys talk at all after that?
Speaker 1: When you he left, he flew out, he went home.
Speaker 1: It was his last shot day because he went from
Speaker 1: he wanted to like, yeah, he wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: I can officially stop and on his character, Ben set
Speaker 1: the tone for everybody right, and he wasn't going to
Speaker 1: his trailer. He was staying in his tent on the
Speaker 1: set like although like his actor, like his character tent.
Speaker 1: He had all of his stuff in his character Tent. Well,
Speaker 1: you taught me this. Great great actors make everybody else's
Speaker 1: job easier. If you're great at anything, you make it easier.
Speaker 1: So that was it. You guys didn't talk anymore. No,
Speaker 1: not till a few months after that. Yeah, that we
Speaker 1: we came back together for suppress or something like that.
Speaker 1: I was like, who are you? Who are you? You
Speaker 1: kind soldier? Oh man, that's crazy. So the brilliant director
Speaker 1: of Emancipation, Antoine Fuqua, wanted to say this, Hey, Will
Speaker 1: and Red Table Talk, here's a few thoughts about Emancipation.
Speaker 1: I thought I would share with you. When people go
Speaker 1: to see this film, I'm hoping they'll be inspired and
Speaker 1: experienced the love story and see a film about freedom
Speaker 1: and faith and family as well as a story about
Speaker 1: strength and perseverance. The story of Peter is incredible, a
Speaker 1: man that was a slave but was free in his
Speaker 1: mind and his heart and his spirit. Antoine is no joke.
Speaker 1: This is what it's about. I respect that Antoine is
Speaker 1: a is a beast man. He created something I think
Speaker 1: is a real master. Yeah, it really is. The DP.
Speaker 1: Bob Richardson put his thing down with this movie. The
Speaker 1: cinematography is insane and I've never seen any movie that
Speaker 1: just visually looks the way that this one does. One
Speaker 1: of the things that Antoine said that was great about
Speaker 1: that texture, the tone. He said he wanted to drain
Speaker 1: the color out of the Confederacy, right for that not
Speaker 1: to be glorified. There's a great shot with uh Peter
Speaker 1: firing a gun at one of the last moments in
Speaker 1: the battle with the American flag gone by. And the
Speaker 1: story is that we fought for this country, right, We
Speaker 1: fought and earned our position in this country. We don't
Speaker 1: have to feel like outsiders here. This is this is
Speaker 1: our home, right you very said of that, And the
Speaker 1: thing is like, no, no, no, it's not America, no no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. We are America, like own it and not
Speaker 1: ownership in a way that is ours and not other people's,
Speaker 1: like it's all of ours. We are a part of
Speaker 1: the fiber of this place. The ownership has to be
Speaker 1: in our minds in the same way the emancipation has
Speaker 1: to be in our minds. Like Peter was enslaved, but
Speaker 1: he was never a slave, but he was free. He
Speaker 1: was free when I was growing up, you know, because
Speaker 1: Daddy O was in the Air Force. Oh damn. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Daddy O raised me like American. He raised me
Speaker 1: with the idea if somebody said go back to Africa, Nope,
Speaker 1: you go back to wherever your people came from. I'm here,
Speaker 1: you go back, right. I have this conversation with people
Speaker 1: a lot of the times where they're like, this thing
Speaker 1: that you're talking about is so dark, or this thing
Speaker 1: that you know are shining light on is so terrible.
Speaker 1: But it's like, we can never forget about the history
Speaker 1: of the reality because if you don't know that those
Speaker 1: types of things are possible and people can do that
Speaker 1: to people, then you know you're gonna you have to
Speaker 1: move throughout the world knowing history, you know, like those
Speaker 1: who don't know their history or yeah, doomed to repeat it.
Speaker 1: There's another one I really love. The one thing we
Speaker 1: learned from history is that we don't learn anything from history. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do it all over again. Yeah exactly, you do
Speaker 1: it all over again, and I'm hoping that it won't
Speaker 1: be the case. Yeah. It was really critical for me,
Speaker 1: for for you guys and really your generation to see
Speaker 1: this movie and to understand the foundations of this story
Speaker 1: and what it means in this country. You guys were
Speaker 1: born with black president. I remember when Barack Obama got elected,
Speaker 1: you and we were crying, and you guys couldn't be
Speaker 1: like we knew he was gonna win. It was like
Speaker 1: you guys grew up in at a largely different era.
Speaker 1: So to me, it's really important when you know where
Speaker 1: you've been. It helps you get a better sense of
Speaker 1: where you're going or even why certain things are the
Speaker 1: way that they are. Right before, we have a message
Speaker 1: from your biggest fan, a message from my biggest fan.
Speaker 1: Who is it? Hey, baby, this is your mama, and
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you what a wonderful movie
Speaker 1: in Emancipation is. I just couldn't believe a little wonderful
Speaker 1: job that you performed because Peter just came right through
Speaker 1: and I looked and looked, and I knew was, oh,
Speaker 1: that is my child. But Peter just exuded through you,
Speaker 1: and I just you just left yourself, just became Peter.
Speaker 1: When Peter was in the swamp, and it's there and
Speaker 1: it seems like forever in that water, and I wish
Speaker 1: I could have just gone in and just got me out. Well,
Speaker 1: I know how much hard work and dedication you put
Speaker 1: into making this movie come to life. I can't wait
Speaker 1: for the world to see it and learned from it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell everyone that I knew that they
Speaker 1: definitely need to go. I love you so much, and
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you and Trey Jaden and Willow.
Speaker 1: Mom loves you so much, proper. I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: we were able to have this conversation. I felt like
Speaker 1: I learned so much in that the entire youth that
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