1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club pouring Everybody is the j n V 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 2: just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 2: Laura La Rosa is here as well, and we got 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,080 Speaker 2: a special guest in the building, the legendary Tasha Smith. Ladies, gentlemen, 6 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 2: She's welcome morning. 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: How you feeling. 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 3: I feel amazing. I feel like I'm at home. I 9 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 3: feel like you're with family. 10 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 4: I love you guys. 11 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 3: I appreciate you, guys, your voice, what you do. I 12 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 3: just really appreciate you. Thank you seriously. 13 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 5: You are one of the most underrated people in this business. 14 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 5: You do not get the credits you deserve. Well, like 15 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 5: the way you pour into people in the stars that 16 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 5: you've helped become stars. 17 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: I don't even know if people understand that part of it. 18 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 6: Everybody's story is Tasha Smith said. First, Tasha Smith told. 19 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 2: Me to like well, speaking of pouring into people, I 20 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 2: just I don't know if you knew this, but right 21 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: before Tasha walked in, Lauren was fixing a wig, and 22 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: you know. 23 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: She was asking Tasha for Tashi be fly all the time. 24 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 7: You just came in here and started matching. 25 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 6: Today now you're talking about being just showed up with 26 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 6: the same colored face. 27 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: But she was fixing away and kind of like wiping 28 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: her eyes like she was tearing up. 29 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: I said, what was happened? 30 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 2: She was like, you know, when I left TMZ, the 31 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 2: one person I called was Tasha Smith. 32 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you want to explain. 33 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 6: I think I text you and I was like, hey, 34 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 6: I'm thinking about leaving my job. 35 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 7: I was like, I'm thinking about leaving. I don't have 36 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 7: a lashes today. 37 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 4: Shut up. 38 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 6: I was like, I think I about leaving my job, 39 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 6: but just wanted to talk to somebody that like understands, 40 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 6: like you know, career and like you know, longevity in it. 41 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 6: We had met and we talked before, but I was 42 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 6: just like, you know, everybody has like such a great 43 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 6: story of like how your perception of them and kind 44 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 6: of what you see for them. And I was like, 45 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 6: I don't really know who I can call and I 46 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 6: trust right now. And I reached out to you. I 47 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 6: text you and you sent me a voice note back, 48 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 6: and I remember I was driving into my garage and 49 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 6: I pulled over and was just sent to the voice 50 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 6: note and you were like, whatever it is you're feeling, 51 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 6: do it. You are a star. You're going to be great. 52 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 6: Don't be scared. Do it and let me know when 53 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 6: it's done. And I here, I am. 54 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,959 Speaker 3: I am so proud of you. Can I just tell 55 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 3: you that I am so proud of you. When I 56 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: saw everything that was going on, I was literally singing 57 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 3: your praises to have the courage and boldness to make 58 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 3: a decision to live your life in the way that 59 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 3: you saw it. And I'm so proud that you took 60 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 3: that leap of faith. And it's something I got to 61 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 3: share something with y'all because when I was at I 62 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 3: was like meditating last night and I was thinking about you, 63 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: and I was thinking about Jess, not trying to like, 64 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 3: but y'all are both my girls. You know. I played 65 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 3: Jess as mom, you know, on a TV show, and 66 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: y'all are my babies. And when I think about just 67 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 3: us as black women and just how powerful and unique 68 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 3: we are, I was meditating and I was like, what 69 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 3: is it that I can say to women? 70 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 4: And do you mind if I just see share this? Okay? 71 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 3: So what I ended up writing down was you are 72 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 3: not in competition, You're in community. And us as women 73 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 3: sometimes we think we're in competition, but we're not in competition, 74 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 3: We're in community, right. And also, your light doesn't dim 75 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 3: because someone else is shining, Like, it's not going to 76 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 3: dim our light to let someone else shine. 77 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 4: If anything, when all of us are. 78 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: Walking in the room together allowing ourselves to shine, that 79 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 3: room becomes even brighter. 80 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 4: Okay. 81 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 3: The other thing I thought about, and this was you 82 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 3: and Jess, is that every woman is uniquely designed. I 83 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 3: was thinking about my girls over here. That's Monique, that 84 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 3: is my girl, Bendetsha, and I'm like, look at how 85 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 3: individual they are, look at how individual we are. 86 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 4: We're all unique, we're all. 87 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 3: Different, right, But we don't have to fear about anybody 88 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 3: taking up space because there's room for every shade of brilliance. 89 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 4: Okay. 90 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 3: The other thing I wrote down was insecurity dissolves when 91 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: we recognize individually as women are divine design, because we 92 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 3: are all designed divinely by God, right, and when we 93 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 3: embrace our uniqueness, we give others permission to do the same. 94 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 3: So let's celebrate each other, you know that, right, Yes, 95 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 3: And let's allow ourselves to not be afraid of anyone 96 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 3: else's light out like outshining our light because it can't. 97 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 4: Happen when we walk in who we are. 98 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 3: I love you, I love Jess, and I love what 99 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: both of you are doing. Your voices are so important 100 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 3: to our culture and to our women, so let's allow 101 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 3: ourselves to remember. And not that you guys feel like this, 102 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 3: but this is for all of us women that we 103 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 3: are not in competition. We are in community, period. 104 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 4: I just love you. 105 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 5: I say that, okay, as you were saying that, I'm 106 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 5: reading your arm and it says trust God. 107 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 4: And dream big. 108 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 3: So these are too, like these were my first two 109 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 3: tattoos that I ever got right because and I always 110 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 3: say this, you may have heard me say this before, 111 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 3: that we have to dream big right and how whatever 112 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 3: our dreams are, it's not a figment of our imagination, 113 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 3: but God's showing us a glimpse, a glimpse of our future. 114 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 3: And even you deciding to leave where you were, that 115 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 3: was something that God placed in you, saying it's time 116 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 3: to move. And a lot of times we get comfortable 117 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 3: and complacent with where we are, but God's not always 118 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 3: feeding us in the place that we've already been. And 119 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 3: in order for us to get that new food that 120 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 3: God has for us, we got to make moves and 121 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 3: go into areas that we're unsure of, but that's where 122 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: our faith lies, and that's where we end up experiencing 123 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 3: God in a whole other way. 124 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 4: Could you imagine if. 125 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 3: You did not leave, you wouldn't be experiencing God the 126 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 3: way that you are now in your life. 127 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 4: So I'm excited. Let's go. Okay, seriously, Oh. 128 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: My god, I think right now, who did that for you? 129 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: Oh what you just did for Lauren and Jess? Who 130 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: did that for you when you were going to con you. 131 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 7: Do it without like like it's just you. 132 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 6: Like the first time I met you, I think I 133 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 6: don't remember if it was at Earn. I don't think 134 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 6: it was Ernes's party, but the first time I met you, 135 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 6: our first interaction, I was just like, she's really like, 136 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 6: this is just her? Like if if you just pour 137 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 6: in like effortlessly, like who taught you to? 138 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 3: And you know what, I and a lot of people, 139 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 3: and I'll tell us two things I want to share. 140 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 3: One is I remember a while ago, and I think 141 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 3: I've told you about, you know, the time I had 142 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 3: gotten born again, and you know, I went to ministry 143 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 3: school and I thought, oh, one day I'm gonna be 144 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 3: a preacher or something like that. But I realized that 145 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 3: my ministry is what I'm doing, Like is me teaching acting, 146 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 3: me empowering other people to pursue their purpose, my acting, 147 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 3: my directing, you know, being a good leader. Like those 148 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 3: are the things that I learned that I feel like 149 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 3: I could utilize those gifts in the world that I'm in, 150 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 3: within this industry as far as other people that have 151 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 3: done that for me, I'm gonna be honest. Angela Bassett 152 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 3: and Marianne Jean Baptiste. I don't know if you're familiar 153 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 3: with mary Anne Jean Baptiste, but she's an amazing actress 154 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 3: from England. You know she's she's in a film right 155 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 3: now called Hard Truths, Heart Truths, and she was in 156 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 3: a she was nominated for Oscar years ago called Secrets 157 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,239 Speaker 3: and Lies. But she's a brilliant actress from the UK. 158 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 3: And I remember I was on as series and I 159 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 3: never even shared this out loud. I've never shared this publicly, 160 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 3: but I'm just I feel it. I'm gonna share it. 161 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 3: I was on a show called for Better or Worse, 162 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 3: and I was tired of doing the show, Like I 163 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 3: just felt like God had more for me me. Although 164 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 3: it was a blessing at the time and I had 165 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 3: a good time and it was a wonderful thing, but 166 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: in my spirit, I kept feeling like my voice isn't 167 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 3: being heard as far as my artistic voice in a 168 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 3: way that I feel like it could be. And you know, 169 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 3: I was making money, it was cool, whatever, but I said, 170 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 3: but I feel like I have to go. And she 171 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 3: was someone that I made that call to the way 172 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 3: you talk to me. She was the one that talked 173 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 3: to me like that and said, go and pursue your dreams. 174 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 3: Go and do what you desire to do. You would 175 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 3: act for free. You would be in acting class class 176 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 3: acting for free. Go and pursue what's in your heart. 177 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 3: And when I quit, for better or worse, because I did, 178 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 3: I ended up going and that's when I started really 179 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 3: pursuing my directing and I made space for my directing. 180 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 3: So me walking out of that space, not only did 181 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 3: I end up getting Empire, which gave me a whole 182 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 3: nother rhythm of acting that I could experience, but that's 183 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 3: also the birth of my directing career. It was me 184 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 3: taking that leap of faith and now I have this 185 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 3: whole new, you know, like career opportunity and all of 186 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 3: that stuff. But it was for me making that one 187 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 3: move that seemed crazy to everybody else. 188 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 4: I didn't even tell nobody. 189 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 6: They didn't even know when I came here, I had 190 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 6: already had the guest hosting schedule. I didn't tell my mom, 191 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 6: I didn't tell my grandmother. And because I didn't want 192 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 6: to hear nobody tell me not to do it, I 193 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 6: just quit and drove home. 194 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 7: And then I came here. 195 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 4: And isn't that deep house? 196 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 3: Sometimes you can't tell everybody your move or your dream 197 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 3: because think about it. Sometimes when you want to do 198 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 3: something that might seem crazy to others, people will give 199 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 3: you advice based on their own fear and their own insecurity, 200 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 3: Like just because you ain't got the faith to go mean, 201 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 3: don't project that on me. So sometimes no, you gotta 202 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 3: keep your move silent sometimes because other people will discourage 203 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 3: you out of what's in your heart to do. 204 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 4: So I'm happy for you, sis. 205 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 2: What's your thoughts on you know, a lot of people 206 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,839 Speaker 2: say that it's difficult for women to work with each other, 207 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: and this is where this situation came from, and they 208 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 2: say that women are always in competition and it's not 209 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 2: enough community. What's your thoughts? 210 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's what I was sharing, you know what I mean. 211 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes us as women, they think it's 212 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 3: about being competitive. They think that just because someone else 213 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 3: is shining, it's going to dim my light, when that's. 214 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 4: Not the truth. 215 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 3: Like, if we allow ourselves to embrace our uniqueness and 216 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 3: our individuality, we will encourage other people to embrace theirs. 217 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 4: Have you had the issue? I want to ask that 218 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 4: you know, I've. 219 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 3: Never been a jealous girl, Like it's just not how 220 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 3: I've been. Like, I've never been like a girl where 221 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 3: I'm like mad at somebody else's I mean, look at me. 222 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 3: I'm an acting teacher like and most of the women 223 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 3: that I teach, from Mary J. Bloch to Andrew Day 224 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 3: to MICHAELA. Cole to FKA Twigs. I mean, I can 225 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 3: go on and on, like God has placed some readible 226 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 3: women around me whose lives I got to pour into. 227 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 3: But also they pour into my life just through the 228 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 3: process of working. They encourage me to dream as big 229 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 3: as possible. But I also want to say something about 230 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 3: self love, and that's the thing I feel with some 231 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 3: of us women that may cause us to be you know, 232 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,679 Speaker 3: insecure or jealous, because you know what jealousy does, It 233 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,199 Speaker 3: creates division and separation. 234 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 4: Right. But I feel like the lack of. 235 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 3: Self love sometimes could calls could create you know, the 236 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 3: way that we. 237 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 4: Go out in the world. 238 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 3: And if we don't have self love, then I might 239 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 3: be insecure around her or insecure around another person. But 240 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 3: if we embrace our self love, you know, we will 241 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 3: allow everybody to be. We will grant people out of love, right, 242 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 3: the permission to be who they are. Like I told 243 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 3: my girls today, I said, y'all, bitches better get cute. 244 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 3: Today I'm not even playing. I say, y'all, bitch is 245 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 3: better get cute. My sister Bernicia, she came around me 246 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 3: the other day to do the first day she got 247 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 3: here to do my makeup. When I tell you, she 248 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 3: was covered up, like she literally covered up her entire body. 249 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 4: I was like, no, she was. 250 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 3: She thought I would be insecure of her being a 251 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 3: bad bitch because sometimes you know what I'm saying, like 252 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 3: going around, like if you come and do some women, 253 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 3: if you have insecurity and you see this this ass 254 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 3: and this little waist in these titties and this fine 255 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,439 Speaker 3: girl walking in you'll be like, I'm uncomfortable, but no, 256 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 3: I actually love for my girls to be beautiful. I 257 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 3: love bad bitches only around me. Okay, I just love it. 258 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: I love it, you know what I'm saying. 259 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 4: But we just had to yes, right right. 260 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 3: But I just think lack of self love, you know, 261 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 3: and us not allowing ourselves to embrace our individuality and 262 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 3: our uniqueness. And the more that embrace that for ourselves, 263 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 3: the more we can allow others to do that. Like 264 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 3: I love like when I think about Taraji, when I 265 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 3: think about Angela Bassett, when I think about Janet Jackson, 266 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 3: when I think about Naomi Campbell, and these are all 267 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 3: my friends. I can't be insecure with bad bitches like 268 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 3: that in my life. I'm sorry because they're all incredible. 269 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: Okay. 270 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 5: I saw you at your sisterhood around Oh my god, 271 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 5: and it was amazing. 272 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 3: We got a chance to celebrate me and my sister's 273 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 3: birthday together, and then niece's birthday was the. 274 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 4: Next week and we went and celebrated her birthday. It 275 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 4: was like we were all team Black women on steroids. 276 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 4: It was just awesome. It was awesome. 277 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 6: I think one of the biggest things that I learned 278 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 6: from this past two weeks, like with everything that was happening, 279 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 6: is like how much we were paying attention because there 280 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 6: were so many people that reached out even in private 281 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 6: and did what you just said, like hey, like I 282 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:54,839 Speaker 6: want to talk to you, I want to talk to 283 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 6: y'all whatever, And I think it's like it was crazy 284 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 6: when it was happening, but now like taking a step 285 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 6: out of all of it, I'm like people are getting 286 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 6: to realize that, like sisterhood sometimes can look like we 287 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 6: might have misunderstandings and we got we we have to 288 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 6: talk about it. 289 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 7: We got to figure that out. 290 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 6: What has that been like for you in your career, 291 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 6: because we don't hear a lot of y'all stories. If 292 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 6: there were misunderstandings between you and any of the other girls, and. 293 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 3: Best believe it be a lot of misunderstanding. You know 294 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 3: what I'm saying, It'd be a lot of misunderstandings. 295 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 4: It be a lot of that, like. 296 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: Seriously and physically. 297 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 3: But see that's why I like and I'm from Camden, 298 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 3: so it's some people I listen because I always say 299 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 3: as nice as I am, as as nice as I'm 300 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 3: not right, you know what I mean? And it's some 301 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 3: energy I know, I just don't flow with I just 302 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 3: don't because if it's that kind of energy that's coming in. 303 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 3: I'm not a mean girl. I don't like mean girls. 304 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 3: I don't like it. I don't like seeing women treating 305 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 3: each other poorly or badly. It makes me sick. But 306 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing about me. I have never 307 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 3: ran from a fight like one. I'm not afraid of, 308 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 3: you know, confronting confrontation, having hard conversations, and most people 309 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 3: they will throw rocks and. 310 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 4: Then hide their hands. I don't like that. I don't 311 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 4: do that. 312 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 3: I'm about that life of having conversations, confronting the situation. 313 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 3: Let's sit down and let's talk, and let's deal with 314 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 3: the discomfort of whatever it is you're feeling. But most 315 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 3: of the time, y'all, most people don't want to ever 316 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 3: really sit down and talk because they don't want to 317 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 3: have to be able to acknowledge what it is that 318 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 3: they're internally going through, like whatever their internal struggle is. 319 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 3: It's easy for people to run and act like they're 320 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 3: a victim. 321 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 4: But if people really. 322 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 3: Confronted things and had honest conversations, they would realize that 323 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 3: most of the pettiness is not because of something external, 324 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 3: but it's because of your own individual internal struggle, and 325 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 3: that's what's creating the external problem. 326 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 4: It starts within you. Period. 327 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: How do you deal with the noise? 328 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 2: Because I think even with them to go out of 329 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 2: their situation, but it was the noise. 330 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 4: Oh my god? 331 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: Was it the interior outside people? 332 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 3: Can I tell you, oh my god, I'm getting noise though? 333 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 3: Oh honey, Can I just well, I try to, you know, 334 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 3: I try to. 335 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 4: I'll tell you this about noise. 336 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 3: It's something you ask about noise. Were we talking about noise? 337 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 3: I was just talking to my girls about sometimes it 338 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 3: is so important for us to sit in silence. 339 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 4: Right. Think about when you're. 340 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 3: On the phone, bro, and it's a lot of noise 341 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 3: going on, what do you do? You'd be like, hold up, 342 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 3: wait a second, let me step away so that I 343 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 3: could hear this call clearly, right, And a lot of times, 344 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 3: especially when you think about all the social media and 345 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 3: all that stuff, we allow ourselves to stay in the 346 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 3: noise and stay listening to the noise when sometimes we 347 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 3: might have to put the phone down, be silent, don't 348 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 3: listen to anything, because in your silence, that's when you 349 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 3: really hear the still small voice of God on the 350 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 3: inside of you, but you can't hear God. And how 351 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 3: God wants to guide you to deal with the situation 352 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 3: if you're allowing yourself to constantly listen to the noise. 353 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 3: So the way I deal with noise is I try 354 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 3: to allow myself to get as silent as possible. 355 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: You feel me absolutely hundred Have you ever had to 356 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: get lied with a person? And what does that sound like, Tasha? 357 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,120 Speaker 1: Because I'm just saying. 358 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 5: So from Canada, But doesn't she already loud? So what 359 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 5: just getting loud? 360 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 3: I put into you like this. I'm a passionate human. 361 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 3: I'm a passionate human. 362 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: Bruh. 363 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 4: And as loud. 364 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 3: As my goodness is, I put to you like this. 365 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 3: One time I cust somebody out really bad and I 366 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 3: went to my pastor and I was like, oh my god, 367 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 3: I feel so bad. And she said to me, sometimes 368 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 3: you gotta meet the enemy's aggression. 369 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 4: That the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence. 370 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 3: But the violence take it by force, and sometimes some 371 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 3: people need to get checked. So when it's time to 372 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 3: get loud, like I said, I don't mind. 373 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 5: It, boom boom, I don't mind it. 374 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: I don't mind it, bro. 375 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 3: I swear my loud can be loud, and honestly, when 376 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 3: I get loud, people get traumatized. I mean, I'm serious, 377 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 3: Like you know when I said folks that throw rocks 378 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 3: and then hide their hands, like I've had situations like 379 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 3: that and when I've had to check people like that, 380 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 3: then they want to go run in the corner and. 381 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 4: Cry back like that. I'm like, don't cry, big bad bitch. 382 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 4: Don't do it, big bitch, big man. Okay, Like, don't cry. 383 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 3: Don't cry now boo okay. And sometimes it's what yours. 384 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 3: It's the seed that's that you're reaping. 385 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 4: Period. You know what the Bible. 386 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 3: Say, whatsoever a man show it that he show also 387 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 3: reap and sometimes you know they reap that ass kicking. 388 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 4: I'm just saying that a Chappelle Chane. Yes, we were 389 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 4: actually talking about that earlier. 390 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 6: Y'ah. 391 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 3: This was a gift from my brother Dave. I love 392 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 3: him so much. He wanted me to he was happy 393 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 3: for me doing the show, he was happy for a 394 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 3: lot of the things that's been happening in my life. 395 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,439 Speaker 3: And and this was a gift that he gifted me. 396 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 3: And it's not many people that have a Chappelle chain, 397 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 3: and I don't know, do y'all know, Like I've known 398 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 3: Chappelle for like thirty years, like we started, y'all know, 399 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 3: I used to be a stand up comic, right, Yeah, 400 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 3: so I was a stand up comic. Dave was like 401 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 3: he was literally a mentor at like eighteen. 402 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie. 403 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 3: When Dave was eighteen nineteen years old, he was I 404 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 3: call my big little brother, you know, and he helped 405 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 3: me out so much like you know some of those people. 406 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 3: And I should have thought it Dave, Becausezabe was one 407 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 3: of those people that always encouraged me, inspired me every 408 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 3: time anything was happening in my life. I can't tell 409 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 3: you how many times I've gotten calls about I'm proud 410 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 3: of you. 411 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,120 Speaker 4: Keep going, keep dreaming. 412 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 3: He's such a motivator and he's been such a blessing 413 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 3: in my life. I cannot tell you. So, Yes, this 414 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 3: is a Chappelle chano. 415 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 5: I love that because you know, we live in an 416 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 5: era where people don't like to represent folks who have 417 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 5: assisted them or provided them opportunity, or helped him. 418 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: And I don't understand that. 419 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 5: I don't understand resenting somebody that has helped you in 420 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 5: somewhere like you should rep them exactly. 421 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 4: I'm with you on that, Yeah, Rep and Dave. 422 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 2: Now you got a lot going on. I know she 423 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 2: got to go fast. 424 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 7: Yes, I love that show. 425 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 6: Yes, But in the newer season, season two, you have 426 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 6: like now we're learning more about your character and kind 427 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 6: of like you have your own storyline and things of 428 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 6: that nature. I know what was the decision to do 429 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 6: that because it wasn't like that in previous seasons. Fully, 430 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 6: like we knew a little bit about what you had 431 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 6: going on, but not as much focus. 432 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I thank god for the writing team 433 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 3: that they like focus more on her relationship. And you 434 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 3: know my character, I play a queer woman, right and 435 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 3: I you know, I've never. 436 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 4: Been a queer woman before. 437 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just saying, like I legit ain't ever been 438 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 3: with a woman before, Like okay, like for real research, Well, 439 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 3: I asked, look, coach me. The acting teacher I worked 440 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 3: with was a guy named Carl Ford, who I love deeply. 441 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 4: Okay, Susan Batson's son. 442 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys know Susan, but but anyway, 443 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 3: so Jerry Johnson, I'll tell y'all this I directed Harlem, 444 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 3: and I directed some beautiful scenes with Jerry and Gail 445 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 3: bean right, and I was just obsessed, Like I knew 446 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,360 Speaker 3: that survival was coming up, and I was just really 447 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 3: pouring into them as a director. But while I was 448 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 3: pouring into them, I promise you, I was dreaming. I 449 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 3: was like saying, God, please bless me with someone like 450 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,719 Speaker 3: these two women, Like the way that they were, and 451 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 3: as supportive as they were. As Gail and Jerry were 452 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 3: with one another, I wanted to experience that as an actor. 453 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 3: So when it was time to see who my love 454 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 3: interest was, Jerry was up for the job. So Jerry 455 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,360 Speaker 3: and I, I said, Jerry, we're gonna get together because 456 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 3: what I saw you do with Gail, I really want 457 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 3: you to do this part. 458 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 4: So she and I. 459 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 3: Got together and we rehearse Michelle didn't notice. 460 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,239 Speaker 4: Nobody knew this. 461 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 3: We were rehearsing before her screen test, okay, so that 462 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 3: by the time we did our screen test together, our 463 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 3: chemistry was incredible. And I said to her, because she's 464 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 3: a queer woman, I said, I need you to teach 465 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 3: me everything. So the first thing she taught me when 466 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 3: we were filming our love scene was how two women 467 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 3: had sex because when they said it's top of y'all 468 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 3: to have sex, bro, I opened up. 469 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: All right. 470 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 4: Trying to Lake. 471 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 6: I was like, how does this happen? 472 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 4: And she was like you really ain't never had one. 473 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 4: And then she went was like we do it like Dan, you. 474 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: Know, the little scissors. 475 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 3: And so I was like, thank god you was here 476 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 3: because I didn't want to look stupid. 477 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 6: Sais okay, But it worked out for her because she 478 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 6: got the wrong She got the role and they have 479 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 6: a sex. This is your and this was your first 480 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 6: this is your first time being on camera and a 481 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 6: female female sex. 482 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,959 Speaker 4: We had like the first season. 483 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 3: I had some makeout scenes and stuff like that, but 484 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 3: as far as like having like a full bless second, yeah, 485 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 3: that was my first time. But I gotta tell you, 486 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 3: working with Jerry, it was just like easy and it 487 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: was just it was fun and it was wonderful and 488 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 3: she was just wonderful. 489 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 4: That is my sister for life. Jerry. 490 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 3: I'm giving you a shout out. I love you sis 491 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 3: all the time. Now, you know, i'd be like, stop. 492 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: You call it a dry run. 493 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 4: We didn't. 494 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,120 Speaker 3: We were rehearsing that particular, like we didn't do that 495 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 3: in rehearsal, Like, but that was when. 496 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 4: We were actually filming the sex scene. 497 00:24:54,200 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: Would you give a woman to try it's. 498 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 3: Okay for him to ask me that. I'm gonna just 499 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 3: keep it one hundred y'all. Like I'm like a gay man. 500 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 3: I'm like a gay man. 501 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 4: What do gay men like? 502 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: Did? I mean? 503 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 4: I'm not even lying, bro, I am like the gayest 504 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 4: man in the world. 505 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,959 Speaker 8: Like I am a straight up bass man, like I 506 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 8: love like I just love it too much, Like I'm 507 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 8: not even playing and I mean literally, I mean, and 508 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 8: even if I'm out, if I'm messing with, why are. 509 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: Y'all so stupid? 510 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 4: You started it at me? 511 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 3: Wait? Let me just tell y'all this all right, I'm 512 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 3: about to say, So that's like a little all right. 513 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 3: So I'm like, when a man goes down on you, 514 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 3: it's great. I love it, but i'd be like, I'm 515 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 3: not a lesbian, so we gotta. 516 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 4: Follow this motherfucker bag. 517 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,719 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying with some penis, Like I 518 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 3: just you know, it's just what I like. 519 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 6: Because I've heard people say that women do it better 520 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 6: on women because they know what the woman wants. But 521 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 6: I be thinking, like after that it's like, now it's 522 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 6: like you you know, want coming out. 523 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 3: It's that's like having a salad but you can't get 524 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 3: the steak. You know what I'm saying, that's just me 525 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 3: or no dressing and okay, but you know what to 526 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 3: I'll just. 527 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,959 Speaker 4: Say this is all I always think about that. 528 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: Remember how I'll be having. 529 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 5: The conversation with studs and I'm like, so, y'all be 530 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 5: sucking this, Like imagine having the scrapp on on and 531 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 5: a woman is sucking it and then the person with 532 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 5: the scrap on is moaning that. 533 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 7: But if that's what you're into, maybe if it feels you. 534 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 6: But I be thinking about like girls who are trying 535 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 6: it for the first time or like you know they're by. 536 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 6: It's like, so if you're by, you know, like you're 537 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 6: not like you know what I mean. 538 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 4: Let me tell y'all this. 539 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 3: I think it's all about preference, Like it's all about 540 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 3: what you eat. 541 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 4: Like I don't no way. 542 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 3: But you know how there's some foods like some people 543 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 3: like chocolate cake, some people like vanilla cakes, some people 544 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 3: fish right, and some people like fish. 545 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 4: Some people like. 546 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 3: Steak, right, I mean, and for me, I just like 547 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 3: what I like and just like, you can't like turn 548 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 3: a gay man that likes. 549 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 4: What he likes to have a woman, you know what 550 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 4: I mean. 551 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 3: You can't turn a straight woman to one something else. 552 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 4: I mean, I just like what I like. 553 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 3: But I love you know what I'm saying, Like, go 554 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 3: get yours? 555 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: And what about desiree in a temptation store? 556 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 4: Oh? Wow, you guys. I'm so excited about that. It's 557 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 4: funny because I was showing Monique the trailer. You girls, 558 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 4: I do do? They are girls? Okay, like seriously, but 559 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 4: I was. 560 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 3: I was showing Monique, I was showing you and Bernicia 561 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 3: last night. I was like, y'all want to see the trailer, 562 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,239 Speaker 3: you know. And when Monique saw it, she was like, 563 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 3: I've never seen you in a role like that. 564 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 4: Wow. 565 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 3: And so all these like years of being in this industry, 566 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 3: I've never gotten a chance to play that role. So 567 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 3: shout out to Derek Williams, my producer. I got a 568 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 3: chance to produce it with him, and he gave me 569 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 3: that script and I was so happy he gave it 570 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 3: to me, and I'm so excited about it. 571 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 4: It's it's a thriller. It's like fun It's like. 572 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 3: And I feel like it helped me tap into things 573 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 3: that I've never gotten a chance to really reveal on camera. 574 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 3: I feel like I'm still I feel like I'm just 575 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 3: starting acting. 576 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 4: All over again. 577 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 7: You have a refreshing energy all the time. 578 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,479 Speaker 6: But I do feel it like you're in a different 579 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 6: season or something about you right now. 580 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 7: I don't know what it is, but it's there. 581 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 3: I think it's my self love season says I love 582 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,360 Speaker 3: that for you. You hear me, I love that for you? Now? 583 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 3: You know? 584 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 2: He need to reach out to who saying you praise? 585 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: It's on Shannon shap Charlamage messages with him all the time. 586 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 4: Oh God, I love Do you know how much I 587 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 4: love you? And Donelle? 588 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: Would y'all be doing that little stuff? 589 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 4: Will he be doing those? 590 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 3: I mean sometimes I be text him saying, leave my 591 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 3: brother alone time. 592 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: He needs you. He needs your coaching. I just want 593 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: done Know to have more confidence like Donella is dope. 594 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 3: He's incredible, And y'all remember I put him on BMF 595 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 3: Like I swear, I think he is so talented. 596 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 4: I cannot wait to work with him again. I swear 597 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 4: to God like he is so interesting, he is so funny. 598 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 3: That's a good example, as far as like allowing your 599 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 3: uniqueness to shine. Like when I think about Dave and Donelle, 600 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 3: and I remember I had a conversation with Dave and 601 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 3: it was I'm rephrasing it, but I was like, you know, 602 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 3: what makes you work with him? Dave's like, I get 603 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 3: sharper when I when I have to follow someone good, 604 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 3: Like he's not always looking for comics that are not good. 605 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 3: He looks for comics that are great. That's what challenges 606 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 3: him to be great. You know what I'm saying. So 607 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 3: greatness around us, it helps stretches us, you know. And Donelle, 608 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 3: I love you so much. I love you so much. 609 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 5: He's somebody who needs to silence the noise in his head. 610 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 4: He gotta calm down. But he I talk to you. 611 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to you, tie, you gonna be all right? Right. 612 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 5: I want to ask you something as an acting coach, 613 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 5: like when you have already great talent, right, because I 614 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 5: don't know how often the great talent seeks acting coaches 615 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 5: for every role. I don't know if that's the thing, 616 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 5: like this, did Zelle seek an acting coach for every role? 617 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 5: I Jonathan Major seeker acting coach for every row? 618 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 4: I don't know, well, I mean I put it to 619 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 4: you like this. 620 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 3: I don't know individually all the way with as far 621 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 3: as how their process is. But it's a lot of 622 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 3: us actors that enjoy the collaborative process because it's almost 623 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 3: like you want to work with someone that can maybe 624 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 3: see things that you can't see, you know what I'm saying. 625 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 3: And the process of acting and the process of like 626 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 3: researching a character and developing a character, it's a fun 627 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 3: process to do with a great coach or teacher. Just 628 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 3: because Michael Jordan was a great athlete, it didn't mean 629 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 3: that he did not need a great coach. Most of 630 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 3: our greatest artists have great coaches, most of them, that's right, 631 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 3: most of them. 632 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 5: So when you have a great actor, you just teach 633 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 5: them how to capture that role, not necessarily how to act. 634 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 3: No, it's not about teaching them how to act. It's 635 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 3: about us together looking for like all that we can 636 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 3: find within the characters. 637 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 2: Is it like redoing the fundamental. 638 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 4: It's not in every For me. 639 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 3: I'll just say this as a teacher, every process is different. 640 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 3: Like it's it's a very spiritual experience. You know, you 641 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,479 Speaker 3: have your fundamentals, like your you know, baseline, right, Like 642 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 3: I come from Ivani Chabbik school, So we have something 643 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 3: called the twelve steps that we do. 644 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 4: You know, we have like a base. 645 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 3: What is your overall objective you're seen objective, your inner monologue, 646 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 3: your inner thoughts, your substitutions, your it's certain things that 647 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 3: we are looking for within it. But outside of that baseline, 648 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 3: there are other things that come up. Character research, physicality, 649 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, like all kinds of stuff. 650 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 3: So each person is different based on each character is different, 651 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 3: each process is different, and it's like all of it 652 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 3: is like an incredible like spiritual experience. And I always say, 653 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 3: as much as you need the character, the character needs you, 654 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 3: and everything is on the inside of us, like all 655 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 3: of it is in there. We just got to look 656 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 3: for it and find it. And as a coach, I 657 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 3: just sometimes it's pushing people to trust their instincts more. 658 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 4: It could be as simple. 659 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 3: As that, you know what I mean, And but we 660 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 3: discover so many things through the process of acting. Absolutely, 661 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 3: I don't want to go to with y'all all day, 662 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 3: Like seriously, okay. 663 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 7: Why did I get married again? 664 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 4: Where are we honey again? 665 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 3: I'm gonna just leave it right there, girl, I am 666 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 3: not talking. 667 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 4: About that because it's not happening. 668 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 3: Probably not, and it ain't because I'm busy tyler to 669 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 3: take what three days to do a movie? 670 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 8: Who ain't got a week I mean, who ain't got 671 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 8: a weekend? 672 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 4: All right, do not get me started. 673 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: You want to do it? 674 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 4: Of course I. 675 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: Want to do it. 676 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 7: Why do you troll us like that? 677 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 4: Why he trolled me like that? 678 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 7: So no, cause no, nothing has happened. 679 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 3: I refuse to answer any more questions concerning that, okay, 680 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 3: because I might get loud. 681 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 5: We've been having all these conversations about community. Do you 682 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 5: think community is earned or a right? 683 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 4: I feel like it's earned, like I was. 684 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 3: I remember I had one girl say I don't have 685 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 3: any friends, and you know, I go back. I always 686 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 3: go back to scripture. I'm like a cussin breacher. No 687 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 3: let me stop. But you know it's like, if you 688 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 3: want a friend, you got to show yourself friendly. How 689 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,719 Speaker 3: do you create relationship? How do you create friendship? You 690 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 3: have to first allow yourself to give friendship in order 691 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 3: to get friendship. 692 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 4: And to me, like when. 693 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 3: I look at like like acting, or when I look 694 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 3: at you know, just people what makes you really valuable. 695 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 3: It's not just about your own greatness, but to me, 696 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 3: your value becomes the based on how you're able to 697 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 3: change other people's lives. 698 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,800 Speaker 4: To me, that's what makes you valuable. 699 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 3: Like if I can empower somebody else to pursue their purpose, 700 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,240 Speaker 3: to make money to feed their family, I just lifted 701 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 3: up myself. But not only with that, I've also created community. 702 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 3: I love my acting school Tea Saw, because you know, 703 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 3: for me, I'm always like what I say to you 704 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 3: and everybody else as far as like we're not in competition, 705 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 3: we're in community, Like we are all here together. The 706 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 3: brighter we all are individually, the brighter we are in unity, 707 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 3: Like let's go. But I love Tea Saw because the 708 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 3: people that were in class like fifteen twenty years ago 709 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,879 Speaker 3: at my school, I look at their lives now and 710 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 3: they are all best friends today. Like when I think 711 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 3: about Tabitha Brown who came out of my school, Natari Spencer, 712 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,359 Speaker 3: who's like now feast of Williams, Chastity Saunders. I mean, 713 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,759 Speaker 3: I can go on aiming Joseph Lance Gross, I mean, 714 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,720 Speaker 3: Tiffany Hadish, But every time we're all in a room together, 715 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 3: everybody's like, oh, come on, y'all, it's the family. It's 716 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,879 Speaker 3: like community. But I feel like we earn that by 717 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 3: how we love each other period. You just casually throughout Sordo. 718 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 6: When you move to l A, they're like, we don't 719 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 6: care if you want to act or not. If you're 720 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 6: trying to be anywhere in front of people, you need 721 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 6: to go to Tasha Smith's class. Like that's how I 722 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 6: found out. It was like, this is the thing you do. 723 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 6: Do do one church and Tisa, that's what you do 724 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 6: as a black creative in la But you have it's 725 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 6: so many people and you're just like, you. 726 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,799 Speaker 4: Know what we call TESA. We call it the Church 727 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:51,400 Speaker 4: of Acting. 728 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 3: And I remember one time at class right I had 729 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 3: left out because I had to go save Cidra and 730 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 3: in at Martin, So I was not in class this 731 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:07,879 Speaker 3: particular night, but mister Denzel Washington had decided to come 732 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 3: and visit class and I wasn't there. I was pissed, 733 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 3: but he came to class and from what the teacher 734 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,800 Speaker 3: and the students told me that he was sitting in 735 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 3: the back of the class with a hat on. 736 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:21,840 Speaker 4: Nobody knew who he was. 737 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 3: And in my school, I had just pictures of like 738 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 3: every incredible artist I could think of on the walls 739 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 3: because I wanted when people came into the class, I 740 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 3: wanted them to look at the walls and dream like. 741 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 3: I wanted them to see where their life could be, 742 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 3: what they could possibly do. And so Kevin, the teacher 743 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 3: at the time, he was like talking about that in 744 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 3: the class, and then all of a sudden they heard 745 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 3: someone say in the back, I better be up on 746 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,840 Speaker 3: that wall, and then all the students turned around and 747 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 3: it was Denzel Washington. 748 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 4: Can you believe that? 749 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,680 Speaker 3: And Denzel's the one that told Mary J. Blige that 750 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 3: she should come and study with me. But he ended 751 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 3: up staying in that class, and he ended up teaching 752 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 3: that class for like until like probably went two hours 753 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 3: over and it was like so incredible. 754 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 4: I don't even know how I got on that story. 755 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 3: It was something that was being said, but that was 756 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 3: just such a blessing, like to have him there inspiring 757 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,400 Speaker 3: all the students, and just any opportunity that, you know, 758 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 3: we get to pour into other actors in order for 759 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 3: them to go and pursue their dreams. Like I see 760 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,760 Speaker 3: so many of my students that are so wealthy and thriving. 761 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 3: Some of them have better careers than me. I've never 762 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,719 Speaker 3: been nominated for an Oscar, you know what I mean, 763 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 3: that's never happened, but I love seeing it happen for Andrew. 764 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,320 Speaker 4: Day from Mary J. Blige and hopefully Michayla Cole and 765 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 4: FKA Twigs. 766 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,840 Speaker 1: But they do kickbas coming up like what do you 767 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: mean just this money? Tasha his just call you know what? 768 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,319 Speaker 3: The only now this is sad. Okay, this is sad, 769 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,360 Speaker 3: but not Look, I don't look for kickbacks. 770 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:00,239 Speaker 4: I put it to you like this. 771 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 3: Like my production my production company is called Camden Bridge 772 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 3: because there was a time I was teaching, teaching, teaching, 773 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 3: and I got a little angry because I felt like 774 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,800 Speaker 3: people were walking over me all the time. And I 775 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 3: remember I heard inside in my spirit that it's okay 776 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:15,920 Speaker 3: to be a bridge. 777 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 4: That it's okay. A bridge has purpose. 778 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 3: Right, Sometimes it gets walked over, sometimes it gets driven over, 779 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,840 Speaker 3: but it's a connector of people. And be focused and 780 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 3: be a blessing at being a bridge. So my production 781 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 3: company's name is Camden Bridge. 782 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:36,200 Speaker 4: Okay, be a bridge. What were we saying? I mean, 783 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 4: am I getting old? Okay? 784 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,800 Speaker 3: So all right, I have to just be okay with 785 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 3: being a bridge, so I don't I don't get it 786 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 3: for kickback. But the one person, actually it's a shame. 787 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 3: I'm not trying to shame nobody. But the one person 788 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 3: that gave me a very big gift was Rebel Wilson. 789 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,200 Speaker 3: I remember one day Rebel Wilson had the white girl 790 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 3: I know, but no, but Twigs actually gave me this 791 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 3: big crystal for Christmas last year, this. 792 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,280 Speaker 4: Big beautiful like she said, she said. 793 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,960 Speaker 3: Here's a little sparkle that you give to the world. 794 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,319 Speaker 3: And it was like the biggest, most beautiful crystal. And look, 795 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,400 Speaker 3: both of them are British and Rebel one day she 796 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,520 Speaker 3: hit me up and said, uh, you have a delivery coming, 797 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:28,479 Speaker 3: make sure you're home. 798 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,879 Speaker 4: And it was just this huge, gorgeous ys l bag. 799 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,640 Speaker 3: Okay, I mean it was just big, just a huge one. 800 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 3: So I know she spends the money on that period. 801 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 4: Okay, ok you know she got to go. But we appreciate, 802 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 4: we appreciate, Thank you so much, wors Jess. 803 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 3: Just I thought she was trying to hang on, but 804 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,719 Speaker 3: you okay, well we love you, Jess, I miss you, 805 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,840 Speaker 3: all right, I love you, guys. 806 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: Wake till airs up. Early in the morning at Breakfast 807 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:03,399 Speaker 1: Club