1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: You an Obama effect with cat I see this interview. 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,239 Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave it at that. I'm leaving it at that. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 2: That's what I am gonna say. I'm sorry, but my 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: man is sexy to me. Oh, we just need to 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 2: be all the way clear on that. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,080 Speaker 3: All my life, running all my life, sacrifice Hustle, berd Price, 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 3: Want Slice, Got the Brothers swap all my life. I 8 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 3: be grinding all my life, all my life and running 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 3: all my life sacrifice Hustle Bert Bryce Want Slice, Got 10 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 3: the brother dis swash all my life. I be grinding 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 3: all my life. 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 4: Hello, welcome to another episode of Club Shashe. I am 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 4: your host, Shandon Sharp. I'm also the propriud of Club Shache, 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 4: the lady that's stopping by for conversation on the drink today. 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 4: She has thirty years in the film industry. One of 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 4: Hollywood's most sought after actresses, she delivered iconic performances and 17 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 4: over one hundred films, TV shows and commercials. She's headlined 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 4: it was biggest blockbusters and helped generate over one billion 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 4: at the box office. She was in a film that 20 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 4: was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in 21 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 4: the United States. National Film Registry. An award winning actor, writer, producer, director, 22 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 4: a gifted performer, talented model, New York Times best selling author. 23 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 4: She's a star wart in the entertainment industry, the multi 24 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 4: talented making. 25 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: Did I do you right? 26 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 5: You did? 27 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 2: I didn't even know about the one? What was the multicultural? Uh? 28 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: There were you the Library of Congress? 29 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, okay, okay doing it? Yeah? 30 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: So you know what, since we propped something on you, you 31 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: didn't know. 32 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 4: I have my own Kanyac. This is shay By Laportier. 33 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 4: It's named after my grandmother. Porter in frenchis Laportier. So 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 4: I named it after my grandmother. And I want to 35 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 4: toast let love the toast your success. Thirty years in 36 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 4: the business. Yeah, hopefully thirty more. 37 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 2: Amen, Thank you, thank you, it was nice. That's very nice. 38 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: Yes, well, thank you very much. Making thank you for 39 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: topic by. 40 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 4: I understand that you are extremely busy with your you know, 41 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 4: your time, your energy, your movie career is doing great, 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 4: and for you to give me a few moments, take 43 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 4: the time to day, I greatly appreciate that. 44 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: I greatly appreciate you. 45 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: You know what, So let's get right into it. 46 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 4: You've been at this thing you started, like when you 47 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 4: were four years old? Did you know you always wanted 48 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 4: to do? How did the commercial aspect of this think start? 49 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 5: You know, what's interesting is as I grew up in 50 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,239 Speaker 5: Santa Clarita, California, back when it was called Canyon Country 51 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 5: in the eighties, so. 52 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 2: We were like one of one black family for a 53 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: long time. 54 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 5: So I was almost like thirteen ishk and in that 55 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 5: in that time, you know, for me, it was more 56 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 5: like there was a little bit of bullying and different 57 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,399 Speaker 5: things going on, and my mom was like, you know, okay, well, 58 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 5: hobby wise, what is it that you want to do 59 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 5: that can be your thing your safe space. And I 60 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 5: was like, I want to act, and she was like okay, 61 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 5: So then she put me into acting. 62 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 2: Me and my older sister, La Maya. 63 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 5: I was four, she was six, and it just started 64 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 5: off as commercials everything from Cheerios or Pringles to Barbie 65 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 5: to whatever you. 66 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: Could think of. 67 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 5: And then from that, you know, when you say started 68 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 5: from the bottom, it went from like being next to 69 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 5: the person who was like the lead person on set, 70 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 5: My mom. 71 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 2: Like, just get next to her and have a lot 72 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 2: of energy, So you. 73 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 5: Do that, you know, and the next thing, yeah, oh yeah, 74 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 5: I was next for a long time. Well yeah, yeah, 75 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 5: and then and then that led to being on camera, 76 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 5: and that led to one line. 77 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 2: One line led to two you know, three lines led 78 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: to a scene. A scene led to four scenes. 79 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 5: Four scenes led to you know, being a regular or 80 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 5: a guest star or something like that, and then. 81 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: From so on and so on. 82 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 5: So yeah, I started from the bottom, built my way 83 00:03:58,920 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 5: all the way. 84 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 4: He started from the bottom. Did you ever become discouraged 85 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 4: because you didn't get the speaking parts regularly and that 86 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 4: you like just had to stand there and smile and 87 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 4: put on your bed's face, your bad book forward? Did 88 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 4: you ever get discouraged? 89 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 5: Like, I don't know, mom, No, I actually felt it 90 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 5: a challenge. I was like, y'all go see me, y'all, 91 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 5: go give me a chance. And it's interesting because I 92 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 5: don't really know where I get that from. But you know, 93 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 5: I had a lot of teachers that were like, oh, 94 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 5: you're not gonna that's not a realistic career, or you know, honey, 95 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 5: nowt And I'd be like, just wait one day, you'll see. 96 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 5: And I've just always kind of had that mentality. So 97 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 5: for me to continue to just grow and grow and grow. 98 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 5: It's been a blessing and and I think a slow, 99 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 5: steady climb I think is healthy for any actor, but 100 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 5: any person in general, because it teaches you along the 101 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 5: way to have humility, to remember where you came from, 102 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 5: to understand, especially within this industry, this thing goes up 103 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 5: and down. You could show up one day, you know, 104 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 5: to a club and you stand it outside forty five 105 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 5: miss so you could show up next month and have 106 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 5: movie out, walk in with five guys and get a 107 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 5: free table at a bottle, And then you can come 108 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 5: back six months later and not have a movie out 109 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 5: and wait for fifteen minutes, you know. And so all 110 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 5: of that along the journey has allowed me to have 111 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 5: perspective and remind me this is not who I am. 112 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: It's just what I do and I get to do it. 113 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: So where did you divelop this confidence from? 114 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 4: Because these scenes you are a very competent young woman, 115 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 4: think that you understand that, like, you know what, it 116 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 4: might not happen today, but tomorrow is a different day. 117 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 4: How did you remain confident even though you weren't getting 118 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 4: those faking scenes in the beginning? 119 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 5: I think my mom is you know, and God really 120 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 5: like just knowing that God's timing is perfect timing. And 121 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 5: as they always say with the kids, you know, people's 122 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 5: rejection is God's protection. And my mom just always saying like, 123 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 5: just wait, just keep doing your best, keep putting your 124 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 5: best foot forward, just show up. And then you know, 125 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 5: there's always the reality of like you have to carry 126 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 5: the crown before you wear it, and then I think 127 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 5: once you've warn it, you got to remember some times 128 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 5: to carry it again for someone else. 129 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 2: And so my mom is. 130 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 5: Always instilled that my sister and I and for me, 131 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 5: it's just never been It's never been a question. I 132 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 5: remember being like nineteen and being like, Lord, I didn't 133 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 5: even ask you if this is what you have for me, 134 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 5: So let me ask you first. And then once I 135 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 5: got that confirmation, but that it was bigger than just 136 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 5: being in the industry. It is about using your platform 137 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 5: for something greater than you. But when I got that confirmation, 138 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 5: then I was like, there's nothing nobody gets tell me. 139 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 2: I was like, it's just a matter of time. 140 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: So do you remember your first commercial in that audition. 141 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 2: I remember the first commercial on set. I was four. 142 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: It was a Marshall Fields commercial. 143 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 5: And I was like a little girl with a bunch 144 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 5: of little kids, like out on a picnic, and they 145 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 5: had a little dog that was trained and the guy 146 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 5: was holding the food just above the camera to get 147 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 5: the dog to kind of spin around in a little circle. 148 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 2: And that's just what I remember about it. 149 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: I mean, you've been at over sixty televised commercials. 150 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 4: What do you remember. What was your favorite commercial? What 151 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 4: do you remember most about doing that? 152 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 5: My favorite commercial was probably a Pringles commercial, and it 153 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 5: was like, uh Pringle pop got that yuh yeah with 154 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 5: a kick a kick a Calsie. 155 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 2: I'm talking young to the maximum plus a whole kick 156 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: a kick and kicka Cassie. 157 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. 158 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 5: Anyway, So it was about the Pringles having more calcium, right, 159 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 5: and we did a lot of dancing. And I remember 160 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 5: that vividly because one I was the only black kid, 161 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 5: which was often the case, but two it was the 162 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 5: first time anyone got me into fitted jeans and I 163 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 5: was fourteen, and before that I was like straight up 164 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 5: like tailc cross color, like you know, Jebo Boss, like 165 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,559 Speaker 5: just my cousin's short. I was like, you know, string 166 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 5: around my waist with like a belt to make them 167 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 5: jings for me. And I used to get sent home 168 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 5: all the time because my clothes were too big, and 169 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 5: it was the first time I put on some tight 170 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 5: pants and I just liked them so much. 171 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 2: I warmed to school the next day and the boys 172 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 2: was like, you got a little like I do you know? 173 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 2: After that? Yeah, the rest of the sister. 174 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: Did you ever freeze? Did you ever get stage right? 175 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 4: Or were you always a natural that the cameras you like, 176 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 4: I don't even really see the cameras. I'm like, I'm 177 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 4: in my own I'm at home, I'm in my room, 178 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 4: I'm in front of my mirror brush, and I'm just 179 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 4: doing this. 180 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: Did you ever have state front? 181 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 5: I think I always the first time on a job 182 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 5: with the first day. I always have a first day 183 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 5: of school like jitters, you know, like nerves and you 184 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 5: just want to get it right, and you just want 185 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 5: to figure out the character and you just want to 186 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 5: be in tune with everything needs to happen. 187 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever froze before. 188 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 5: I think the only time I've frozen is when I 189 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 5: was working on this job that it was a very 190 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 5: very big director, very very expensive job, and I just 191 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 5: felt a lot of pressure. I was the lead and 192 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 5: it was kind of an iconic remake of something, reboot 193 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 5: of something, and there was just so many hands in 194 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 5: the pot and so. 195 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: Many different people giving me directions. 196 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 5: And as a child actor, you just learned to kind 197 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 5: of do what you're told. And so when you have 198 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 5: four different important people telling you to do something completely different, 199 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 5: even at thirty four, I kind of just didn't know 200 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 5: how to navigate that and like who to please first, 201 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 5: And I just started to get so stressed out that 202 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 5: I started to actually just forget my lines. I completely 203 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 5: forget them. And that was probably will be the most 204 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 5: challenging job I've ever worked on, because it was just 205 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 5: it took me. It took me until this young black 206 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 5: director came in and was like, I know who you are, 207 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 5: I know what you can do. 208 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 2: Trust yourself. I'm not gonna bother you for me to 209 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 2: go okay, And then from there on it was, you know, 210 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 2: great experience. 211 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: That was the reassurance that you needed. 212 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 2: Yeah you could do this, Yeah. 213 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: You were doing great at this, but you were hearing 214 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: too many voices. 215 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 5: Yeah. 216 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: And also and also to just stand up for myself 217 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 2: and just. 218 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 5: Be like, look, y'all, one of you come and tell 219 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 5: me you guys aside what the four of you guys 220 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 5: want to do? And then some one person, probably the director, 221 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 5: because that's the one person who should be talking to 222 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 5: me why I'm filming, Just come tell me what what 223 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 5: you know you need me to do? And I mean 224 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 5: it was it was very pivotal for me because I 225 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 5: walked away from it initially going yeah. 226 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to act anymore. Really yeah, 227 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 2: because it. 228 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: Was it was you got that discoverance. 229 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. 230 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 5: It was almost traumatizing because there was one director who 231 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 5: came on that was yelling at me like there was 232 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 5: a stunt that we were doing, and he told me, 233 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 5: no matter what, not. 234 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 2: To stop and I was. 235 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 5: Like, well, if it looks like someone's gonna get hurt, 236 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 5: then I'm gonna stop. And then also I went from 237 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 5: a stunt guy doing it to the actor doing the stunt, 238 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 5: and in one case I felt that me running up 239 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 5: and grabbing this guy from behind, we were both going 240 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 5: to fall. 241 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 2: Down the hill. 242 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 5: So I stopped and he just came out of the 243 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 5: tent and was like I just screamed at me. 244 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 2: And it was the first time in my professional for 245 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 2: career where I was like, what do you want me 246 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 2: to do. 247 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 5: Like I flipped out because I was like, yo, yoa, 248 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 5: I'm so nice, I'm so cad, I'm so easy going. 249 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 5: Like this dude was like wild and I was like 250 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 5: you know what at some point, at some point, and 251 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 5: then after that, everyone was like because they know they 252 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 5: knew me, and they knew that I'm like trying to, 253 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 5: you know, be an. 254 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 4: Easy go away and for you to snap like that, yeah, 255 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 4: you've probably handed up here not here, listen. 256 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 2: I was. 257 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 5: I was done so because because it's just you know, 258 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 5: it was it was completely inappropriate and anybody else wouldn't 259 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 5: have thought twice about saying, yo, don't talk to me 260 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 5: like that. But because I came from the background, I came, 261 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 5: and possibly because I was a black woman, I just 262 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 5: was a little bit, you know. 263 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 2: And then once I said, look, that's enough. But it was. 264 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 5: Interesting because he left to film something out else and 265 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 5: had to come back, like on one of the last 266 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 5: days to film a scene with me, And after I 267 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 5: fill the scene with him, I realized that I was 268 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 5: like sweating profusely and my hands were shaking, because that's 269 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 5: how like understand. Yeah, he almost like gave me like 270 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 5: an anxiety to just yeah. 271 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 2: So anyway I made it though, Was that the first time? 272 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: Was that the moment that you decided that you needed 273 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: to stand up for yourself? 274 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 5: Yeah? I think so that was the probably the first moment, 275 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 5: because because the first thing he did before that was 276 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 5: embarrassed me in front of the crew because I had 277 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 5: like this big dialogue and I was going over and 278 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 5: then he was like, just say it and I was like, yeah, 279 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 5: I'm about to, and he was like, no, everyone holds 280 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 5: your work. 281 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 2: Mind you. 282 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 5: There's like two hundred people and said to it, everybody stop, everyone, 283 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 5: stop what you're doing. Say the line. And I was 284 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 5: like uh, And I was just so caught off guard 285 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 5: that I started saying it, but I was like fumbling 286 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 5: through it. 287 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 2: And then he was just like, you've done it a 288 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 2: hundred times. 289 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 5: You've done it a hundred like he just like reprimanded 290 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 5: me that I was a child in front of the 291 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 5: whole crew. So there was that moment and I cried 292 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 5: about that. So the next time he came for me, 293 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 5: he got. 294 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 2: What he asked for. I am a leo after all, 295 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 2: I'm as kind as they come, baby. 296 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 5: I try to make the best atmosphere for everybody, and 297 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 5: just the best quality of life and just love. But 298 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 5: I was like, okay, I've reached my yeah, because I'm 299 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 5: close to the edge. 300 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 2: I'm trying, yeah, not to lose my pat. 301 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 1: Okay, that's what's up. And then you were the extra. 302 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 4: You're in movie Dookie House with Neil Patrick, Harris Sherman Hemsley, 303 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 4: who was the most no would be named for good Jefferson, 304 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 4: I'm sure called amen and being an extra, do you 305 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:50,839 Speaker 4: like maybe try to steal a scene? 306 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: Do you like? Oh? 307 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, look, you try to not necessarily steal a scene. 308 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 5: You just try to make sure that whatever you're doing 309 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 5: counts okay, because if you do that, then they might 310 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 5: be like, you know what, this kid, it is good, 311 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 5: Let's move them up to a principal row. 312 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 2: Let's make sure they're on camera. And that's literally how 313 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 2: I made my way up. 314 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 4: Really yeah, so you you you elevated when you bumped 315 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 4: some kid down. 316 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 2: Oh no, I would never. 317 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 5: I would never push anyone over, kick anyone over, step 318 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 5: over anybody to get to where I'm going. 319 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 2: I'm just making my own lane, right, So. 320 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 4: What do you what do you remember most about those 321 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 4: about those days in your first actor I'm talking not 322 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 4: I understand that TV ads are one thing. But then 323 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 4: now you're on a TV or you're on a sitcom, 324 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 4: you're on a TV television series. 325 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 1: What do you remember most about that? 326 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 5: Well, you know what's interesting is is I did TV 327 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 5: probably up until I was like nineteen. So the last 328 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 5: two things I did was Cousin Skeeter Nickelodeon, which I 329 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 5: did for almost four years. I grew up on that 330 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 5: show with Robert Rashad, and then I switched over because 331 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 5: there was a strike at the time, and I just 332 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:52,719 Speaker 5: said I wanted to do more TV. I just wanted 333 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 5: to focus on movies because Terrence Howard had said to me, 334 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 5: you know, when you finished this show, I want you 335 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 5: to be a young woman who travels the world and 336 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 5: plays different characters and jumps all around as all these 337 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 5: different things. So my advice to you is, don't do 338 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 5: a TV show again until you're married and you have 339 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 5: kids and you want something that's a lot more stable. 340 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 5: You want to know the character's gonna play, where you're 341 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 5: gonna go every day, all those things until then travel 342 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 5: the world and play different characters. So I came out 343 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 5: of that show saying I don't want to do TV. 344 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 5: And then there was a strike. So I did a 345 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 5: show with Bree Lawson and Cat Dettings and. 346 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 2: Bob Saggett, who I loved so much. 347 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 5: And then I actually left that show to go do 348 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 5: delivers for me, and that was the beginning of my 349 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 5: you know, check to my phone career. 350 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: You were homeschooled. Yeah, basically your entire. 351 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 2: High school? 352 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: High school? Yeah, just high school? 353 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, just high school. 354 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: I read where you got bullied? 355 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 4: Did you get homeschool because you got bullied and it 356 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 4: was the safe space for you to be at home? 357 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: Or what caused that? 358 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 5: I got homeschool because I was on a Nickelodeon show 359 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 5: and because it was too hard. 360 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: To go to school job. 361 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but you know, I mean I never wanted 362 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 5: back down from a fight, so if someone's bullying me, 363 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna let them bully me out of submission. 364 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 2: But but yeah, it. 365 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 5: Was mainly just because I was working so much as 366 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 5: an actor, it just made more sense. 367 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I really that you got jumped. Do you think 368 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: it had something to do with you being on that 369 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: Nickelodeon show. 370 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it very much did. 371 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: We but it took five though. 372 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 2: It did take five that. 373 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 5: Because when I realized it was all coming from my face. 374 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 5: I was like, oh, no, we're not gonna do that. 375 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 5: So I actually laid down on the ground. 376 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 2: And back then that's. 377 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 5: When the big clunker shoes popular. I started kicking people 378 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 5: in the gut. Anybody who came near mad spin around 379 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 5: kicking them in the gut. And it's so funny because 380 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 5: I ran into this girl some years later and she 381 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 5: had told a mutual friend of ours that she had 382 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 5: just beat me up. 383 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 2: And I was like, no, you and four other hookers 384 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 2: beat me up. What are you saying right now? 385 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 5: And it's crazy because after that fight happened, I went 386 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 5: looking for that girl all around town because I was like, 387 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 5: I just want to fight, just you, and the Lord 388 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 5: told me not to do it, and I did it, 389 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 5: and I found some of her friends, and then some 390 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 5: guys came, and then I had some of my guys come, 391 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 5: and the next thing you know, people have shanks and 392 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 5: all kinds of things going out, and we have a 393 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 5: huge brawl inside of Jerry's Deli and I broke the 394 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 5: back of my nail, back breaking a chair on someone's back, 395 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 5: was choking my friend. And by the time we got 396 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 5: out to the parking lot, somebody pulled up on a 397 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 5: motorcycle with a gun and threatened to shoot us all 398 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 5: and we all went running like cockbroaches. And then I 399 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 5: was in the bushes praying and I was like, lord, 400 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 5: I didn't listen and this wasn't right, and now everybody 401 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 5: else's life is in danger. And after that, that particular 402 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 5: guy actually ended up getting into a situation where someone 403 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 5: shot him but didn't kill him, but hurt him. And 404 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 5: I found out where he was at because after that, 405 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 5: I was scared for my life for like two weeks. 406 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 5: I went to his hospital room and said, look, let's 407 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 5: just squash the beef. 408 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 2: Buck say blah. 409 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 5: And about a year later, I'm on a TV show 410 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 5: doing a reoccurring role and he's one of the writers 411 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 5: on the show and we've been friends ever since. 412 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,479 Speaker 1: Wow, man, you about that life growing up. 413 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 5: I'm okay, your country girl, but I've been around a 414 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 5: lot of crazy. 415 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 4: I'm looking at your petite self and you know, like, Okay, 416 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 4: you're on TV. 417 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:20,719 Speaker 1: You're like, I ain't gonna mess on my face. I'm 418 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: gonna mess on my nails, and you like, boy it, 419 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: boy it, Cause. 420 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 5: I just felt like I just couldn't believe that somebody 421 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 5: had like taken it upon themselves to come into my space. 422 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 5: And the reason that the girls did it is because 423 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 5: they were like, oh, aren't you that one girl from 424 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 5: that TV show? 425 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 2: And I was like yeah, and they were like, are 426 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 2: you think you all that? And I was like yeah, no. 427 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 2: I was like you you don't want to said that 428 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 2: you think I'm all that? And then they was like 429 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 2: come outside. I was like no, I'm not going. 430 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 5: Outside, and then that became them jumping me. So I 431 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 5: just couldn't let it be. But now I know better 432 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 5: because it ain't worth it if someone had actually gotten hurt, 433 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 5: you know, I don't think I could lift that down. 434 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 4: So I read that a teacher she did something she 435 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 4: did ye tell your whole work up, she misplaced your homework? 436 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:03,679 Speaker 2: Uh which teacher? 437 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,360 Speaker 5: Because where I grew up in Santa Clarita, like I said, 438 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 5: there was a lot of racism. 439 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 2: So I had trouble with at least my fifth grade 440 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 2: teacher and my sixth grade teacher. 441 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 5: My fifth grade teacher actually slapped me on the bag, 442 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 5: my mom got her suspended, and then my sixth grade 443 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 5: teacher just really. 444 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 2: Picked on me. 445 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 5: It's like if I were a lip gloss, she take 446 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 5: my lip gloss, but she let the other little girls 447 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 5: who didn't have the same complexion as me were a 448 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 5: lip gloss. She take my things and put them in 449 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 5: the June box. And then in this particular instance, my 450 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 5: dad had given me the coins, and because my dad 451 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 5: was lapd and my mom and my dad weren't together, 452 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 5: we didn't always see our dad that often at that time, 453 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,199 Speaker 5: so anytime he gave me a collection of coins, it 454 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 5: was like a really big deal to me. 455 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 2: And the teacher took them and put them in the 456 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 2: June box. 457 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 5: I was supposed to get them back in June, and 458 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 5: another little girl was like, oh, those are mine. 459 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,360 Speaker 2: I was like, no, those aren't. She was like, yes 460 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 2: they are. And the teacher was like, stop. 461 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 5: Lying, Megan, and I was like, why do I have 462 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 5: to be lying? And it was just kind of always 463 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 5: that situation. But the girl gave him back like three 464 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 5: years later and apologized. 465 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 2: I didn't punch her, you. 466 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: Guys, Magarine, not hopefully you do. 467 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 2: I did not punch her, but you thought about it 468 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,959 Speaker 2: at that time. I don't know. I'm not aggressive in 469 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 2: that way. 470 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 5: I'm one of those people who if you continue to 471 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 5: mess with me and you get me to a certain point. 472 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 5: Then I'm upset that you got me to that point 473 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 5: because it takes so much for me. 474 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 2: I'm so like, it ain't that serious. 475 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 1: So let me get this straight. 476 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 4: The June box is something if the teacher takes something 477 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 4: from you in September, October, November. Yes, they place it 478 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 4: in this June box, and at the end of the year, 479 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 4: when school is over, you get. 480 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: To get it back. 481 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 4: Yes. 482 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: Yes, so she took your coins that your father had 483 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: given you. 484 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 4: Obviously, your mom and dad's not together, so it holds 485 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 4: a little bit more sentimental value to you because he's 486 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 4: not around every single day. Yeah, she places it in 487 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 4: that yep, and then and. 488 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 5: She ain't keep no records, or maybe she did, but 489 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 5: she gave him to it dold it back. If I 490 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 5: knew where that girl lived, maybe maybe. 491 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 4: You said in Santa Clarita, where you grew up. At 492 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 4: a lot of times you were the only black child. Yeah, 493 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 4: and there were so Obviously, if you're the only little 494 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 4: black child in that area, probably you're going to be 495 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 4: one of a handful of in the high school. So 496 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 4: you did you deal with a lot of racism in 497 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,239 Speaker 4: high school or with just isolated incidents. 498 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 5: Well, definitely in elementary school quite a bit, and then 499 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 5: in junior high. 500 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 2: A little bit. 501 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 5: That's around when when the kids started busting in, like 502 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 5: black kids started busting in. 503 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 2: But then it was kind of like in the beginning, 504 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 2: it was like the black kids was like, why are you. 505 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: Talk like that? 506 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 2: And I'm like, talk like what. They're like, like you're white. 507 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 2: I'm like, let's talk like I'm white. 508 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 5: They're like I should do them Like how so anyways, 509 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 5: as I sound so crazy right now with my boy's 510 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 5: gonna hide it anyway. So I think for me, I 511 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 5: almost felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere kind 512 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 5: of growing up, which I think actually worked to my 513 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 5: benefit because then I just kind of learned how to 514 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 5: be authentically myself and unapologetically in that, but also how 515 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 5: to be a chameleon and get along with anyone and 516 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 5: go in any space and be comfortable. 517 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: How were you in the role in Friday thirteen thirteen? 518 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know you had the scene the ice 519 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 4: cream truck with big big firm, I mean big worm. 520 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, And so what was it like. 521 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 4: Because you know Chris Tucker, ICEQ phase on, John Witherspoon, 522 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 4: Bernie Matt Yeah, were you on the set with Were 523 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 4: you on the set with any of those guys other 524 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 4: than Tucker, Chris Tucker and Ice Cube. 525 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 526 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 5: You know what's crazy is at that time, Michael Clark 527 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 5: Duncan was Tiny Lester's standing and you know, f Gary 528 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 5: Gray was twenty five years old. First movie and basically 529 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 5: for that those two scenes that I had in the movie, 530 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 5: I was probably on set for almost three weeks waiting 531 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 5: to shoot my scenes. 532 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: Wow. 533 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 2: And so I spent a lot of time with everybody. 534 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,959 Speaker 5: But one thing I'll never forget is a tiny I 535 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 5: was eating a tune of sandwich and he said, can 536 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 5: I have one? I said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So 537 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 5: I went and I made it when and I came 538 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,199 Speaker 5: back and then Michael was like, well, where's mine? And 539 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 5: I was like, well, you didn't ask for one. He 540 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 5: was like yeah, but she didn't ask me if I 541 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 5: wanted one. 542 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, okay. 543 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 5: And then he said to me, he said, just remember 544 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 5: as you go along in your career, make sure you 545 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 5: treat every single person on set the same exact way. 546 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 2: Everybody has a role and everybody has a job. Everybody 547 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 2: is important. And I was like right, And that stuck 548 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 2: with me. 549 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 5: And so I always did that, and I've always done that, 550 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 5: And then it was really cool to do deads with 551 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 5: Michael Clark Duncan when I was twenty two, all those 552 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 5: years later, and yeah, he was a wonderful person. 553 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, did you know Friday would be the cult classic. 554 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 4: It's one of the It's one of the black film 555 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 4: If you got five black films, and there are a 556 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 4: lot of them, Friday's going to be in that collection. 557 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. 558 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: Did you know what you were shooting at the time. 559 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't. 560 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 5: I just was so happy to be there and to 561 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 5: have a real line on camera in a movie. I 562 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 5: was so nervous during my scene. There was a few 563 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 5: times whe Chris had to be like, it's. 564 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 2: Show line, It's show line, it's a line. I'm like, right, oh, man, 565 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 2: I hate him. That was so nervous, and I had 566 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 2: what he the ones I'd be saying, you ain't got 567 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 2: a one line, just say line. 568 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 6: I was like, right, right, right. 569 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 5: But he became like a big brother to me after that, right, 570 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 5: But yeah, I had no idea of what it was 571 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 5: going to become. 572 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 4: And then you eaves by you. Yeah, with Samuel L. Jackson, 573 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 4: what was that experience. 574 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 5: Like, well, that was the next year when I was fourteen, 575 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 5: and I'll never forget that. There was a table read 576 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 5: about four years prior and I was ten at the time, 577 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 5: so I was actually playing Eve in the table reading, 578 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 5: and Samuel Jackson was still playing of a father role. 579 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 2: I think Maya Campbell was playing my role, and I 580 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 2: forget who else was there. But the point is. 581 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,199 Speaker 5: Is after that, I was like, great, so when are 582 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 5: we going to shoot this movie? And Miss Casey was 583 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 5: basically like, well, we got to, you know, get a 584 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 5: funding for it first. So every year I'd be like, 585 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 5: miss Casey, we get fundy, we get funny, we get funny. 586 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 2: And finally when they. 587 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 5: Got funding, I was fourteen, so I was like, okay, 588 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 5: I have to get Cicily. I have to be you know, 589 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 5: and so I went in I got Cicily, which was beautiful. 590 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 2: And then I remember Journey coming in. 591 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 5: And four years prior, I had guest starred on our 592 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 5: own and played Jesse's love interest and had my first 593 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 5: on camera kiss with him and all that, and so 594 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 5: I remembered. 595 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 2: Journey and I was like, oh my gosh. 596 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 5: And then we just totally vibed out an audition and 597 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 5: then we ended up getting it together and then we 598 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:34,919 Speaker 5: were talking about Poe in the room and I was like, oh, 599 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 5: you know, Journey's got a little brother that's the exact 600 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 5: same age as Poe. And then Casey went out there 601 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 5: and saw him, and then you know, then it's me 602 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 5: Journey day. 603 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 4: So were they any roles early on that your mom 604 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 4: that your parents wouldn't allow you to do. 605 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 5: I'm sure there would have been, but I think my 606 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 5: mom just kind of always instilled in me like, don't 607 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 5: do anything you're not comfortable with, don't compromise yourself in 608 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 5: any way. If you can look yourself in the mirror 609 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 5: and then you're okay. But if you can't, it's. 610 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 2: Not worth it. It's not that serious. God will bring you 611 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 2: something better. 612 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 5: And so growing up, every time I turned down something 613 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 5: that I wanted to do but I wasn't willing to 614 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 5: do the nudity or I wasn't willing to do this, 615 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 5: or that, God always did bring something better. 616 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 4: Has that always been your athos? Has that always been 617 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 4: the way you thought? And says like, you know what, 618 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 4: at the end of the day, I still have to 619 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 4: be able to look at myself and feel good about 620 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 4: myself one thousand. 621 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 5: Percent because I don't want fame or any type of 622 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,959 Speaker 5: success at the expense of losing my soul. 623 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 2: Or not feeling good about who I am. It is 624 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 2: not that serious. It is a you know what I'm saying. 625 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,679 Speaker 5: And so I think, as long as I keep my 626 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 5: integrity and my authenticity, what's supposed to be mine will 627 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 5: come to me. And I think it'll come to me 628 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 5: even easier because you beat out the things that you 629 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 5: don't need to be concerned with anyways. 630 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 4: Do you feel you've missed out on some roles because 631 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 4: of the way you feel that you won't no, compromise 632 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 4: your integrity. 633 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: No, what's meant to be, it's going to be. 634 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 5: What's meant to be is going to And if I 635 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 5: had done those roles, what I feel as good as 636 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 5: I feel now, what I have the piece that I 637 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 5: have in. 638 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 2: My heart now, No, and that's that you can't buy that. 639 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 2: That's not for self. 640 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 4: I've interviewed a lot of people that were kid actors 641 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 4: and they a lot of them have some bad stories 642 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 4: to tells. 643 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,360 Speaker 1: Do you have any bad stories? 644 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 4: I mean, I remember you had you had the one 645 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 4: director that you said that he yelled at it, Yeah, 646 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 4: But outside of that, were they anything that you like 647 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 4: that made you even maybe second guests was like, maybe 648 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,239 Speaker 4: this isn't for me because this yelling and all the 649 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 4: belittling and the carrying on. 650 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's for me. 651 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 5: No, because I started doing it so young that it 652 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 5: was the world I knew and the world that I 653 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 5: lived in. So when I saw things that I didn't like, 654 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 5: I just stayed away from it. Or if I saw 655 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 5: people who had bad energy or were desperate for attention 656 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 5: or whatever it was, I just kind of stayed out 657 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 5: of their way and did my own thing. And so 658 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 5: it's all I've ever known is the job that I've 659 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 5: had my entire life. So I understand some of the 660 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 5: things that come with it. I just don't concern myself 661 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 5: for those things. 662 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: You've been Megan Good famous basically your. 663 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 4: Entire life, Right, did you wish that you could do 664 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 4: some of the other things that kid could do because 665 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 4: you couldn't do because you on television, You were in 666 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 4: commercial so you just couldn't go play, and you just 667 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 4: couldn't go hang out with your friends. And by the 668 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 4: looks like you had a whole lot of friends. 669 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: You run them off, I did. 670 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 2: But my best friend I've been best friends for twenty 671 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:31,120 Speaker 2: seven years. 672 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:31,400 Speaker 1: Y'all. 673 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 2: Bet most of my friends I've had for twenty. 674 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 5: Years Twust wow, yeah yeah, and they're so you know, 675 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 5: they're true, Oh man, they're just quality human beings, like 676 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 5: some of God's greatest gifts to my life. 677 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 2: Truly. 678 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 5: I think the only thing I missed out on was 679 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 5: the college experience, which I kind of went back and 680 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 5: forth because that would have meant that I would have 681 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 5: had to take a break right and then. And then 682 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 5: I also had the mentality of, like, so many of 683 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 5: the things that I want to learn, I want to 684 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 5: learn other people who were actively doing it for a living. 685 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 5: And then I think I just I really would have 686 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 5: wanted to do the reunions like the ten year union. 687 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 688 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 2: I just love stuff like that. 689 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: And yeah yeah, so but you were you did you go? 690 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: Did you have sleepovers? Did Yeah? 691 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? Definitely. 692 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 5: I mean we weren't really allowed to sleep over anyone 693 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 5: else's house, but they could come, you know. 694 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, in that. 695 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 5: Sense, there was always time to play, to find time 696 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 5: to hang out. 697 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 2: My mom was definitely. 698 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 5: Particular about who would obviously meet their parents and all 699 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,959 Speaker 5: those things. But in that sense, that part of it 700 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 5: was pretty normal outside of people recognize you. 701 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 4: So in other words, to make a long story short, 702 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 4: that you don't feel that you missed out or anything, 703 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 4: even though you've had this long career and you know, 704 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 4: you was a TV show, your movies and like a 705 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 4: lot of normal kids, did you ever want to play sports? 706 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 5: I'm very athletic and I do love sports, but I 707 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 5: don't think so. 708 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,959 Speaker 2: I think I alwaysknew I wanted to do drama. 709 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 5: This is what you are and yeah, and then I 710 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 5: tried to dance for a while, but I just was 711 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 5: not good at it. So yeah, my older sister la 712 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 5: Mina and my younger sister likes you are both phenomenal dancers. 713 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 5: But I was just like, yeah, that's not the that's 714 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 5: not something if the Lord has given you making, and 715 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 5: that's okay. 716 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: Right you got served. 717 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, So now, I mean now the movie they're starting 718 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 4: to come with greater regularities. It's like like you're working, 719 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 4: you wrap one and you're starting another, wrap that one, 720 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 4: starting another because you have a stretch where you like 721 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 4: for like a decade, right you in two a couple 722 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 4: of movies yet right, right, right. 723 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: So now you're like, Okay, did you ever like man 724 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: girl doing it? 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Yoh yeah, 777 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 4: with Kevin Hard, Chris Brown, Grab Union, Regina Hall, Tarajie, 778 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 4: j Gary Owen, Steve Harvey. 779 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: Yes, that was an all star cast. 780 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 4: That's a lot of personalities. Yes, yes, everybody's like important, 781 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 4: They're important. Amen, Megan, how do you fit in? How 782 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 4: do you blend in? Like, Okay, I'm here, Obviously they 783 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 4: think I'm important because I'm here, But obviously Kevin Hard 784 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 4: is Kevin Hard, Steve Harvey, Steve Harvey Toajji is Toaji 785 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 4: uh huh? So how do, how do you? How do 786 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 4: you fit in? But in the same time, you stand out. 787 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 2: You be humble, and you be authentic. 788 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 5: Nobody can be you the way that you can be you, 789 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 5: and nobody can bring what you bring to the table 790 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 5: the way that you bring it. If you stay in 791 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 5: your lane and you do you, then you will stand 792 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 5: out because that is you. 793 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,959 Speaker 2: There's nobody else in the world like you. But if 794 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 2: you stay humble. 795 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 5: You learn from others, You're able to teach, You're able 796 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 5: to enjoy the space the time with everyone. 797 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 2: I don't believe in competition by. 798 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 5: Any means, and so for me, I'm really a girl's girl, 799 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 5: but I'm also you know, a guy's girl where I 800 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 5: genuinely want to see everybody when as much of a 801 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 5: leo as I am, I also am very like if somebody, 802 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 5: you know, if somebody wants to shine a certain way, 803 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 5: I'm like, by all means, you got it. 804 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 2: Because I don't care. Because for me, I. 805 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 5: Have a lot of self love and a lot of 806 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 5: like just you know, I just know who I am 807 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 5: and that's enough for me. 808 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 2: And so yeah, I'm. 809 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 5: Just very peaceful in all situations, on all sets, with 810 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 5: all people. 811 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 4: I read that the very first time that you were 812 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 4: in Vegas is that you were filming this movie? 813 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: Is that true? No, you had gone to Vegas before? 814 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 2: Tis times? 815 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: What see you got a lot of secret from U? Yeah, no, few. 816 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 5: Of course everybody has secrets. 817 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 4: So when you feel in this movie you understand all 818 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 4: the characters and like, remember you said there was a 819 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 4: movie before that, You're like, this is the one that's 820 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:18,840 Speaker 4: gonna get me out of here. 821 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: Yeah. 822 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. 823 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 4: Did you know how successful that Think like a Man? 824 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 4: Did you know it was gonna be? 825 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 5: I think I had an inkling, but I didn't go 826 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 5: into it with that. What I went into it with 827 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:36,320 Speaker 5: was this is my first opportunity to really figure out 828 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,360 Speaker 5: like the comedy part of it, because comedy terrified me. 829 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 5: You know, I was used to playing the straight man. 830 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 5: I was used to doing more drama and all of that. 831 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 5: So and Think like a Man when Tim's story kind 832 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 5: of gave me the opportunity to just like add things 833 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 5: in and to try different things and see if they 834 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,400 Speaker 5: were and see if it was funny, and you know, 835 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 5: throw a bunch of stuff up against the wall and 836 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 5: sometimes it sticks and sometimes it doesn't. But he allowed 837 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,399 Speaker 5: me the freedom and space to learn how to just 838 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,359 Speaker 5: jump and to know that that's the only way you're 839 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 5: going to find the funny and from there, you know 840 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 5: that experience and think like a man alone. Tim's story 841 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 5: really set me up for Harlem. 842 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 2: You know. 843 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 5: He really was the teacher in the space that allowed 844 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 5: me to figure out that my funny doesn't. 845 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 2: Have to be like anybody else's funny. 846 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 5: I learned that my funny is awkward funny, you know, 847 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 5: And so as I lean, as I lean into my 848 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,799 Speaker 5: own brand of what comedy is, you know, the right 849 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 5: people will respond to it. 850 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 2: They respond to it. 851 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 5: But that that's all I went into it with, was 852 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 5: just like, Okay, I just got to like get for 853 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 5: you on this and I just gotta, you know, conquer 854 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 5: this kind of comedy thing and just have fun with it. 855 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 4: So you shoot it it wraps, Yeah, premiere, Yeah, what's 856 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 4: going through your mind? 857 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 2: It came out so good. I'm so proud of it. 858 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 2: People laughed at the things I added in, like you know, 859 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,840 Speaker 2: that kind of thing, and. 860 00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 5: Just being thankful to be alongside people that are great 861 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,279 Speaker 5: and gracious and the people that I love. I've known 862 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 5: Gabrielle since I was like fourteen, you know. Taraji I've 863 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 5: known forever since, like right after she did Baby Boy. 864 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 5: I mean, Regina Hall, I mean, I just love her 865 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 5: to pieces. When I was going in for Harlem, I 866 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 5: called Regina and I was like, look, I'm about to 867 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 5: go test for this. 868 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:24,799 Speaker 2: Will you run these lines with me because I want 869 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,399 Speaker 2: to know what you think and both. She was like, girl, 870 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 2: would you funny? I was like, yeah, but you the best, right, 871 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 2: So I just want to see what you think. Blah 872 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 2: blah blah. 873 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 5: Michael Ealy, who absolutely adore Kevin who Apps, I mean 874 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,239 Speaker 5: that whole cast, Terrence my brother, Like everybody is just 875 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 5: people who are great actors, great talent, and great human beings. 876 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,439 Speaker 4: This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two 877 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,720 Speaker 4: is also posted and you can access it to whichever 878 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,239 Speaker 4: podcast platform you just listen to part one on. Just 879 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 4: simply go back to club profile and I'll see you there.