1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host with 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I recognized that we all have different definition 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: of success. For you and may be the size of 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: your paycheck. Mine is inspiring people to accomplish their goals 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: and live their very best life. It's time to stop 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: reading other people's success stories and start writing your own. 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: People always talk about their purpose or gift. If you 8 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: have a gift, leave with your gifts and know that 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: your friends, family, or coworkers stop you from planning a 10 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: living your dreams. My next guest is a person who 11 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: leads with her gifts and shares her gifts. Her name 12 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: is Felicia D. Henderson. She's taughted a Hollywood career right 13 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: on popular sitcoms. Then a major shift occurred because she's 14 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: the creative Showtimes Emmy nominated series Soul Food Television first 15 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: multi season African American drama. Currently, she has the show on, 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: executive producer and head writer of the action field romantic 17 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: drama First Kill, premiering on Netflix June tenth, to show 18 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: pits of family of vampires who are white against the 19 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: family of master hunters who are black. She's also develop 20 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: in the world War two drama Avenger Field for Peacock 21 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: The Serious stars rene Zeger as Jackie Cochran, who co 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 1: founded the school, who con founded the US only first 23 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: woman's only woman's pilot training program, and at the time 24 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: of her death in eighty was the most accompassed American 25 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: pilot male or female in American history. Please working to 26 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 1: money making conversations to massa class, the one and only 27 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: Felicia D Henderson. How you doing, Felicia, Hi god Worthy, 28 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: how are you doing well? You know? For you right, 29 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:32,919 Speaker 1: it's after them on the East coast. I knew US coast, 30 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: you know, but you was out here on the West coast, 31 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: East Coast doing the Atlanta Savannah doing this amazing series 32 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: called First Kill. That was that was interesting because of 33 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: the fact that you know this this this is a 34 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: cool play on race. It's a cool play on kind 35 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: of like a Romeo and Juliet play on romance. But 36 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: how did the concept come to you? Thank you? And um, 37 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: I love it said it's a cool play on these things. Um, 38 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: because well, first I'm gonna start with answering your question. Um. 39 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: The point that this same to me as Victoria Schwab 40 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: also known as v E. Schwab. In her writing, UM 41 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 1: wrote a short story called First Kill and it's part 42 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: of an anthology UM called Vampires Never Died and U 43 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: and Netflix liked it and hired her then to adapt 44 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: it into a TV show. So she wrote the pilot 45 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: script and then um Netflix called my manager and asked 46 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: me to read it. And I was like, nope, my 47 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: cup runneth over right. I don't have time for something new. 48 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: And he said, you just have to read it. And 49 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: I think two or three times I was like nope, 50 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: and I'm finally He's like, for me. You know you 51 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: have long time manager, longtime relationships. I get you with 52 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: for me. So I read it and I was like, 53 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm in, let's set the meeting up and and I 54 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: so I loved it. And that's how I've ben took 55 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: the meeting with Netflix, met with Victoria, met with the 56 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: folks at bellatris uh Um, the other producers, and decided 57 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: to come aboard. Never less, Where were you at with 58 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: the development of the project, With the project already in motion, 59 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: are you with the early creative stages casting world? I 60 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: want to audise to really get a full take of 61 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: what First Kill? When you would introduce because you said, 62 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,839 Speaker 1: you know, four times, so I knew they were moving 63 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: along while you were saying, no, sitting there, I'll think it. Well, no, actually, 64 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: because to Netflix is credit. They really realized they needed 65 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: a voice like mine room and I really appreciate that 66 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: they knew that this cast is one it is um black, 67 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: you know, um and so, and it is also at 68 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: the center has two young women. So they really really 69 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: like this was something that was missing, you know, from 70 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: where they were so far creating. So what they had 71 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: was Victoria's script, but they really had not moved forward 72 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: because they were looking for basically and um. So from 73 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: the very beginning, um, you know, I got to take 74 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: a look at the script and at what I know 75 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: about cultural specificity to those characters. Um and and then 76 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: from there I got to hire my writing staff, and 77 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: you know, then from there as a group oh and 78 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: higher than the director, and then as a group we 79 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: started the casting process. Um and um. So all of that, 80 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: you know, some like Jason Moore, who placed Jack Burns, 81 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: was an actor that I worked with on The Punisher 82 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: to My Love, so he started familiar I know this 83 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: guy from Punishing with one of my favorites that's right. Yeah, 84 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: that's from the punisher. You know, I need him and 85 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: so you know, um, so it just started like that. 86 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: You know, Juliette, the Juliette of Fairmont, who was played 87 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: by Sarah Catherine Hook, was the first hired. We really 88 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: thought we were going to have a hard time finding 89 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: the right through yet, so that's where we started, you know, 90 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: and outstanding by the way, Juliette outstanding and he had 91 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: cal was also had shared the romantic lead who's African American, 92 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: and so the whole process when I look at this series, 93 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: you know, you know, you have to be sensitive because, 94 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: like I said, I could I can sit down and say, 95 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: I'm a very talented writer, but you have a you 96 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: have a world that is gay and lesbian. Okay from 97 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: a writer's perspective, did you was your was your writer's 98 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: room balanced like that to be able to handle that conversation? 99 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 1: Now that's a good question. Rashan. Um. You know, I'm 100 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: a big believer that the writer's room should have the 101 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: experience that you're depicting on the screen. You know, somebody 102 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: in that room. And again you can't always have that obviously, 103 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: if you're doing a show about aliens. You don't have 104 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: aliens on the right, you know, but you have someone 105 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: in there who knows aliens more than everybody else, is 106 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: an alien expert, you know what I mean. So I 107 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: thought it was very important that And I also having 108 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: had the experience of being the only black writer in 109 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: a room that might have a show that might have 110 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 1: one or two black characters. And so I've had that 111 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: experience where then they come to you and every time 112 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: there's something for the black character to do, you know, 113 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: they just felt, so what did you do that? And 114 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: so I also wanted to make sure there wasn't just 115 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,119 Speaker 1: one queer person in the room who everybody was looking 116 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: at going and now we turned to you as the 117 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: queer expert, because you know, it's like like all experiences, 118 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a monolithic experience of whatever 119 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: it is that you are. And so it was important 120 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: to me to have you know, men and women were 121 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: writers in the room. It was important to me to 122 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: have black writers. This important that white writers. It was important, 123 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: you know, for all the experiences that I thought we 124 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: were going to be depicted right, honestly, there are no vampires. 125 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more money making Conversations Masterclass 126 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations 127 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. I'm speaking Felicia d. Handison, one 128 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: of the top sitcom and dramatic writers and film writers 129 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: in Hollywood, and her new series First First Kill, like 130 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: I said, as as our action field romantic drama. And 131 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: there's eight episodes long and the premiers June Team and 132 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: I'm an advocate, I you know, I get special access 133 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: because you know who I am. So I got to 134 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: be able to binge watch, you know. So four episodes on, 135 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: four episodes on Saturday. And that's how four episodes on 136 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: that Sunday. I called her in the middle because we 137 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: are of a great relationship with long term free us 138 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: and just told her I loved it. And that's just 139 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: why I would tell you why I loved it, because 140 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: first of all, it was engaging. It was it was entertaining, 141 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: it was it misled me in a good way, you know, 142 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: because I'm gonna know it all I think. And that's 143 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: that's good writing, you know, that's good storytelling that you're engaged. 144 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: And so when you look at it when you're developing 145 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: these characters, because because you have these these monster hunters 146 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: and then you have these vampires. They don't know each other, 147 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: and then you're trying to create a relationship. And what 148 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: what came out of it was a parenting story. Correct. Yeah, 149 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: it really was very much about the family and getting 150 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: the opportunity to compare you know, two very different households. 151 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: You know, you have warring families there the capulets and 152 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: the monogues for all engines and purposes, and so you 153 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: get to go inside both of these young women's songs 154 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: and see how the fact that they now want to 155 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: do what they want to do as opposed to what 156 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: they were raised to do, and see how each set 157 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: of parents deal with the fact that their their child 158 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: is not doing what they're told. And so in that way, 159 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: we tried very much um to have those experienced that 160 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: part of the experience being incredibly normal because everyone who's 161 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: a parent knows what it's like when you say go 162 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: left and your child goes right. That was incredibly universal. 163 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: So in that part, it's like it is time for 164 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: you to do what you're told. You're sixty now you're 165 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: But the thing that's different is like it's time for 166 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: you to go your vampire. So it's time to go 167 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: for your first kill. But how you're dealing with the idea, 168 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: do what you're told, grow up and be like your family. 169 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: That's what both girls are being told to be like 170 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: your family. Girls decide on their own road because because 171 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: you're dealing with the reason I say it's a really 172 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: good parenting story because like our parents, we know how 173 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: to make decisions and we feel our life is hid 174 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: in the right direction. Juliet's father is a d A. 175 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: The setting is Savannah, Georgia, which has that like you know, 176 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: Savannah has that little is next to New Orleans. It 177 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: has that little voodoo type vampire something's happening in the 178 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: swamps type area. App at look background, look to it. 179 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: And then you have these master hunters who are at 180 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: the top of the gil. You know they're they're the best. 181 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: They were brought into Savannah because they are here to 182 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: do their job. So these are the parents d A 183 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: successful lead master hunters. Then they have two daughters who 184 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: are teens at that right age where they feel they 185 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: are kind of grown, but they're not grown. That's what 186 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: stood out to be the most in your writing room 187 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: that you created with First Kill. What were some of 188 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: the fun journeys that y'all had putting each episode together? 189 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: Oh my god, we have so much fun. And you know, 190 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: one of the things said earlier about I always say, 191 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: when I'm putting the writing writer's room together, as Sean, 192 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: I don't really need anyone who thinks like me. I 193 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: already think like me, so I'm not one of those 194 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: who tries to get a whole bunch of people who 195 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: you know are gonna say, yes, you're brilliant. I also 196 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: say my goal is to always be, you know, the 197 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: dumbest person in the room, and I am really freaking smart, 198 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: so that I am trying to, you know, elevate myself. 199 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: I'm trying to elevate the material when I bring this 200 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: group together. And Victorian and I still have the ongoing 201 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: battle all fun that. She's like, well, you know, there 202 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,959 Speaker 1: are no such thing as straight vampires. What are you 203 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: talking about? So we have this ongoing battle about all 204 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: vampires being queer. No, Victoria, if I were a vampire, 205 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: I'd be a straight vampire. She's like, no, you wouldn't 206 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: because of your vampire you were. So we have these 207 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: kind of fun conversations and then just people talking about 208 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: as you know, the other writers in the room who 209 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: are parents, like what they would do if their daughter 210 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: did this thing? And so you know, I had my 211 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: second my Coe is a mother of four children, and 212 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, what would you do? Joyce like drown him? 213 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: I was like, what, like, my child do something other 214 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: than what I told him to do. So you have 215 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: that kind of fun stuff, and then you have the 216 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: fun conversations about building the mythology, because the room really 217 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: built that mythology, you know, from Whole Cloth, where the 218 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: short story that Victoria wrote leaves off. The short story 219 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: is kind of the pilot. We do the short story 220 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,319 Speaker 1: in the pilot, and then we have to create an 221 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: entire series. And so being in that room and deciding 222 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: to what the guild would look like, what would be 223 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: the rules of the guild. How do you get into 224 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: the guild? Where do these you know, legacy vampires come from? 225 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: What is their mythology? Who's the biggest, baddest one. And 226 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 1: to also be doing that where you unapologetically within our 227 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:06,719 Speaker 1: mythology the legacy vampires. You know, it's a matriarchy. So 228 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: to talk about strong women getting to do you know, 229 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: what we do and have being unapologetic about that because 230 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: that's in the mythology. It's just all very cool. Well, 231 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: the interesting thing about the series First Killers is preparation okay, 232 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: because a lot of people there was a lot of action, 233 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: lots of scenes. So how did that work out? Okay's 234 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: at a period for training, action training before we started production, 235 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: and how did that production when to work when you're 236 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: doing a series like that that is romantic but it's 237 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: very heavy action field and because the start you after 238 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: you're doing can't lead to injuries, so you can't just 239 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: go out that add live it. So talk about that 240 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: was because you know, you did the Punisher, so you 241 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: used to violence, you know, violence on the street, so 242 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: they get no more violence than Punitor. But then this 243 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: is your personal project that the purpose purpose all yeah, yeah, 244 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: I would tell you that before you asked the question. 245 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: The fun part about this series is that you have 246 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: the vampires who are somewhat invincible, okay, and then you 247 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: have a young African American girl her name is cal 248 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: on the show, and she is can be harmed, she 249 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: can be hurt, she's vulnerable, she's a human, and that 250 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: carres an emotion for you throughout the series of fear 251 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: that something can go wrong, and that is really key 252 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: in this series for me as a watcher, going don't 253 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: go there, don't do go come on now, don't be 254 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: stupid then and so that was the that was the 255 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: whole training process. I was just telling I enjoyed it 256 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: as a viewer, but also as a friend. Congratulations, Thank 257 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: you so much for Sean. I really really appreciate that 258 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: because I know that you are a very critical watcher. 259 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: You're a very critical viewer. I know that very well. 260 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: So and then a lot to me to get that 261 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon fall from you going um in because I 262 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: also know you to be a very honest guy, so 263 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: you would tell me I'm not in really really hard. Um. 264 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: You know everyone did, and I will tell you the 265 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: two brothers you know, um, from the time that the 266 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: actors arrived, they went into training with the stunt Apolo 267 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: and THEO. Yes yes, Apolo Burns and Dominic Goodman place 268 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: uh Apollo and Philip Mullins Junior plays THEO and they're 269 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: both in incredible shape and so it became competition between 270 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: them and they ended up being thickest things. Like they 271 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: really did have that brotherly relationship and um. But they 272 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: were like they were just always competitive with each other. 273 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: And of course particularly Dominic was always asking can he 274 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: do that stunt? You know, we also have stunt performers, 275 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: but he would often want to do that stunt and 276 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: I do that, like, no, you can enough. But they 277 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: did their own stumps because they came, you know, ready 278 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: to work that hard and um. And of course Amani Louis, 279 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: she's a natural athlete as well, who places the life 280 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: he burned, So they all there's natural athletes who already 281 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: came with bodies ready, and then they worked really hard 282 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,119 Speaker 1: and wanted to everybody wanted it to just look really authentic, 283 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: and so they worked really hard to make sure that 284 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: it did. And I was just I was so so 285 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: proud of them. It's the best cast. They just all 286 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: came and gave every single day they have to, you know, 287 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: battling COVID. Okay, you know that it's not a normal time. 288 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: When this production was happening, people massed up and you know, 289 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: be tested. How did that play a role in frustration 290 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: and this production at the time it was going on 291 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: it But on the screen you don't see that. All 292 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: you see is a final result. No, you don't see 293 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: those extra twenty hours a day that you know I 294 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: was working because of COVID and that we started before 295 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: there were vaccines, so you know, it was but Netlix 296 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 1: have very strict policies to keep us safe, and I 297 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: was very strict about them, and you know, I gave 298 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: speeches I'm the set to let it every all the 299 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: cast and the you know, we will be following this 300 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: protocol because I promised my family I'm coming home as 301 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: healthy as I left, and so we were very strict 302 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: about it. But it did mean you know that it 303 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: took longer because we could only work shorter days to 304 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: give people mass breaks as those things get get overwhelming 305 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: when you're wearing the twelve hours a day and all 306 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: of that kind of thing. You know. So it was 307 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: the only ever frustrations that I ever had had to 308 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: do with the challenge of you know, producing this show 309 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 1: during very challenging times. The actual creative side of it 310 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: was wonderful, amazing and fun you know every day, and 311 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:59,199 Speaker 1: because everyone was working so hard, um, it made the 312 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: stuff that made it difficult, like working during COVID, you 313 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 1: could get through it because we were all a team 314 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 1: trying to make it. We'll be right back with more 315 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return 316 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. There's an 317 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: interesting question Felicia about the series. You know, because you 318 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: know you you've got you got eight episodes here, you know, 319 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: you you go, you you put it on the wall, 320 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: you try to develop his ar kind of characters connect 321 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: and all this stuff. When did you feel at that 322 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: point go, I got it, and then you felt that 323 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 1: magical moment this is special. I got it. That's one response, 324 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:45,439 Speaker 1: and then this is special. Um. I think that I 325 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: have to give a lot of love and big props 326 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: to Jet Wilkinson, our director. Um Jet just oh my god, 327 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: you know. And I met her on The Punishers when 328 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: we first worked together. She directed an episode I wrote, 329 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: and we just really click. And she was the first 330 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: one person that I thought of, you know, because she 331 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: had to be a woman. I thought it had to 332 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 1: be a woman with the kind of experience that she 333 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: has um in terms of doing you know, action, and 334 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: she happens to also be so she's kick ass, and 335 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: then she happens to be a queer woman so jet 336 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: and a woman of color, So she brought all of 337 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: that to bear on this and um, watching her work, 338 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: you know that you have you just go, oh my god, 339 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: I can't believe what we're accomplishing in these conditions. But 340 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 1: when I really felt for Shawn like we've got it, 341 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: I was in editing. You know. It took me seeing 342 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: it all being put together and then the visual effects 343 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: at it, and then Kurt Parkard to write that killer score. 344 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 1: You know. Netflix love the music so much that there 345 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 1: is a soundtrack coming out with the score. We have 346 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: two official playlists of the music from the show, all 347 00:19:56,119 --> 00:20:00,959 Speaker 1: being dropped on Friday, June tenth, um when the show drops. 348 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: So it was seeing it all together, going I am 349 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: so proud of this, Like I knew when I saw 350 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: it all the like that feeling of like I know 351 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: this is good. I know this is good. I know 352 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: we're speaking to a lot of people. I know people 353 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: are gonna enjoy it and they're gonna learn something and 354 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: they're going to appreciate. We're talking to Felicia D. Henderson. 355 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: She's the executive producer, the showrunner, the head writer of 356 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: the exciting action field romantic drama owned Netflix premier June tenth, 357 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: is called First Kill. One of the things I've always 358 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: admired about Felicia D. Henderson is her ability to pivot 359 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: if she's if she's not a person that you if 360 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: you're holding hands walking down the road, though she might 361 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: veer off so holy tight holy type, because she actually 362 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: in her direction if she sees an opportunity that she's 363 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: comfortable with. And that's that's what a lot of people 364 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: don't do. They get fear stops him from shifty. How 365 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: does it allow before I go into the rene their 366 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: winger project? How does that walking through silences? Some people say, 367 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 1: walking up, willing to come through, go through doctors to 368 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: come out and potentially into the light. How do you 369 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: how do you pull that off? Felicia? Um? You know what, 370 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 1: I think that I have an interesting relationship with fear 371 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: um and that a lot of times. Even my younger 372 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: sister we once had an argument and she goes, well, 373 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: I'm not like you. You know, you're not afraid of anything. 374 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: And I asked that her, Actually, I'm afraid all the time. 375 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: I just moved despite my few and um, I'm not 376 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: gonna ever let it control me. And I also am 377 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,719 Speaker 1: a person who I'm all, I'm just naturally inquisitive. So 378 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: if I hadn't done something before, um, if something looks interesting, 379 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 1: too interesting to me, I always believe I can do it. 380 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: So I'm like, I want to try that thing. I 381 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: love trying new things. I'm at a pointment in Mica 382 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: Rare that I only want to choose things that are 383 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 1: significant in some way to me and my uplifting my 384 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: race and my up the women and my uplifting groups 385 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: that are not um you know, represented well or not enough. 386 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: And you know, first, my job always is to entertain. 387 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: But while entertained, I want to be fed myself on 388 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: that a place where I want to be fed, So 389 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: I'm always looking for what haven't I done that then 390 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: could be interesting to me? And um, it's always scary 391 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 1: partinue if you don't know what you're doing. But I 392 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: take my full and whole self going let's go, you know, 393 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 1: So it's a little fearful I go anyway, and then 394 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: once I make that leap, my eye is only on 395 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: the goal. So no matter what happens, like with production 396 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: on First Kill, you would be amazed at all that 397 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: went wrong. If I had time to tell you, and 398 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 1: you know, people are like, oh, it's time to down 399 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: or we're never gonna make it this time. And I 400 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 1: don't talk to those people, right because I didn't come 401 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: here to shut down, you know what I mean. I 402 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: came here to do a show. I will not move 403 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: until that show is done now, So that that lends 404 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: us to shift over to another exciting project's coming up. 405 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: You know, when you look at the streaming and the 406 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 1: cable and the first I only had, like uh, I 407 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,239 Speaker 1: had a Direct TV, and then I had Comcast. If 408 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: direct TV if the rain came too hard, you the 409 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: direct TV went away. So I was that Comcast sitting 410 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 1: over there. Okay, I'm still watch TV. Okay. Unfortunately for me, 411 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: I've discovered the Comcast. It's part of Peacock. So if 412 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: you have Comcasts, you will get Peacocks. And so that 413 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 1: means another I have to buy. Already got Apple anywhere. 414 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: I already got Disney Plus anyway, already got a Hulu anyway, 415 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,360 Speaker 1: I already got HBO Plus because I got the Disney, 416 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: because I got Direct TV. So this is old Peacock. 417 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: It's called Avenger Field. It starts an incredibly talented actress 418 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: when you're able to work with talent like that, you 419 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: know you go because you're going from a very talent 420 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: on the cruel we are not no no dispersion unknown talent, 421 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: you know. So I have excellent resumes to a bona 422 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: fide well known actress every age zero winker. That's what 423 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: these projects being developed for. Talk about making that transition 424 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: and how do you look at it differently? Um, you 425 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 1: know what, you try your best once you take it 426 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: and you say, you know, you try to bring your 427 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: a game and anything you do or I certainly do. 428 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: And so once I say I'm gonna bring you know, 429 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: writing and producing are just the gifts that God decided 430 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: I should have. So the way I say thank you 431 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: for that is I bring my a game. I work 432 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: as hard as I can, and so I want to 433 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: be worthy of, you know, having been given the gift, 434 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: and I want to be worthy of you know, a 435 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: two time Oscar winning actresses ability. Right, So that's where 436 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: I start. But once I do that, realize the opportunity, 437 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: the blessing I've been given, I put it in just 438 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: the Cyrus Shawan because then I just have to focus 439 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: on doing the best work I can Because if I 440 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 1: focus on oh my gosh, this is for Renee's Elwig. 441 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 1: Then you know, your mind gets all screwed, and then 442 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: the pressure gets to you, you know, and yeah, if 443 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: I do my best, it will be good enough for her. 444 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 1: But if I focus on, you know, the stuff that 445 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: I can control, you know, will she like it? Then 446 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 1: I can't do my best work. So I've come to 447 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,199 Speaker 1: the table already knowing what an amazing honor it is 448 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: to get a chance to write for Renee's Zelwig. Like, 449 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: that's huge. I bowed down. She's amazing, and so I 450 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: thank God for bringing me to this place. And then 451 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: I put it over here to the side so that 452 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: I can do the job that would be worthy of 453 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,239 Speaker 1: her by focusing on the jobs where my friend, as 454 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: long as I've been on you, you pushed me, and 455 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: you've been focused, and from my focus, you refocused me. 456 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: But more importantly, the fact that you're working on the 457 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: series that I got to see on Netflix and somebody 458 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: I love and I admire, and I've seen growing this 459 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: industry transition from comedy and fearlessness, you know, refer the 460 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: word fearlessness was out there. You were fierce. Okay, so 461 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 1: let's go and be real. Forget Beyonces. This is the 462 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: real fierce right there. So again, First Kill a premier 463 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,919 Speaker 1: on Netflix June. Team you gotta watch it, not because 464 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: she's my friend. It's it's entertaining, it's funny, it's action 465 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: feel for sure. Is a pretty cool take on Romeo 466 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,439 Speaker 1: and Juliet and um and it's apparently movie that really 467 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: really strikes you as something relatable to anybody who wants 468 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,640 Speaker 1: their child to have a better life than they had 469 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 1: when they were growing up, and that's what they're fighting 470 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: in this family of hunters and vampires. Is called First 471 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: Kill on Netflix. Thank you, Thank you, Felicia d. Henderson, 472 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: Raean McDonald. I love you and I appreciate you having 473 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: me on. I really really do. Thank you so much 474 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: and we'll talk again on the other side. Alright, I 475 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: want to thank everybody. If you want to see me 476 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 1: or any of these episodes on my show, go to 477 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation dot com. I'm Rashean McDonald. I am 478 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: your host. Thank you.