Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: ej Envy.
Speaker 2: Just hilarious, Charlamage, the God we are to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: We got a special We had a special guest.
Speaker 1: In the building.
Speaker 2: Just one is just running a little late. The first
Speaker 2: special guest we have is Anthony Anderson.
Speaker 1: What's going on, baby? How you feel?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 1: I'm good, All right.
Speaker 3: Marseille Martin was supposed to be here. Butuld you say
Speaker 3: you blame yourself for her?
Speaker 4: You know, it's my fault that she has become the
Speaker 4: star that she is. And I don't blame her, but
Speaker 4: she she Hollywood today. You know, we had to start
Speaker 4: this at nine fifteen and it is now what time
Speaker 4: is it? Nine thirty one?
Speaker 1: She's sixteen minutes late.
Speaker 3: When y'all are filming together, because y'all end the new
Speaker 3: movie together G twenty twenty. When y'all filming together, how
Speaker 3: do you get out of the rhythm in mind state
Speaker 3: of Black Kids? Because y'all did that for so long? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what, that was something that we never really.
Speaker 1: Discussed while we were on set.
Speaker 4: You know, Viola, you know, requested me to be her husband,
Speaker 4: and then they were looking for someone to play our
Speaker 4: child or children, and I told them to hire Marseille,
Speaker 4: and never once did Marseille and I discuss the rhythm
Speaker 4: that we have had because we have a great shorthand
Speaker 4: with one another for eight years and one hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy five episodes of Blackish.
Speaker 1: But you know, I made it.
Speaker 4: I wanted to make sure that no one confused that
Speaker 4: or saw us falling to that pattern just as actors
Speaker 4: and knowing someone the way that we do. And I
Speaker 4: hope we didn't, did you guys? You guys see the
Speaker 4: movie yet I see something? Okay, I don't think. I
Speaker 4: don't think we did, you know, And that's something that
Speaker 4: we never discussed with one another. But it's something that
Speaker 4: we talked about, you know, since we've been out doing
Speaker 4: press and people ask us that question.
Speaker 3: Let me ask a questions an actor, Right, do you
Speaker 3: like when interviewers watched the movie beforehand? Because I feel
Speaker 3: like sometimes I try to watch bits and pieces, but
Speaker 3: I don't try to watch the whole things.
Speaker 1: I feel like I get a whole movie.
Speaker 5: With you before it comes out.
Speaker 4: Because you're ruining. You probably couldn't keep them a fucking secret.
Speaker 4: You've been a nigga that stitching on everybody in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4: I know that THATGA watched the movie first.
Speaker 1: Because you want to talk to the person about what
Speaker 1: you saw. Yeah. Yeah, no, Actually, that way you have
Speaker 1: context and you know, we can talk about this.
Speaker 4: It's like, yo, and when it's so yeah, I like
Speaker 4: it when when when they do that way we can
Speaker 4: have an informed conversation about the work that we did
Speaker 4: and all that, and then you can talk about it's like, Yo,
Speaker 4: you was whacking this and you know, I was like, okay, cool, No,
Speaker 4: you don't want to be honest? Why I used to
Speaker 4: I used to do that. Yeah, that's the Charlamagne to
Speaker 4: God that I know.
Speaker 3: But I don't like doing that because I know I
Speaker 3: don't want to mess up with nobody money, because I
Speaker 3: know how hard it is to get these movies made right,
Speaker 3: and so at least I like the movie to live
Speaker 3: a few weeks.
Speaker 4: Yefore, I didn't say shipped on the movie. I just said,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe sen or two before I just just
Speaker 4: say ship on the movie.
Speaker 1: Shot Man.
Speaker 4: When you did this, man, I didn't believe that. That
Speaker 4: wouldn't believe it. But when you got, when you got
Speaker 4: your ass kicked, got you got you.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I was gonna say I wanted to go
Speaker 2: back to Blackish, right, I know, we talked about it
Speaker 2: a bunch of times. But why don't you think they
Speaker 2: make more? I would guess sitcom was like that, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, growing up, I had, you know, Different World
Speaker 2: Cosby Show, but my kids had Blackish. Yeah, why don't
Speaker 2: you think they make more sitcoms like that? Because they
Speaker 2: do well, they do.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man.
Speaker 4: You know, when Kenya and I looked at the landscape
Speaker 4: of television, you know, at the time before we created Blackish,
Speaker 4: we looked at what was missing from television for us,
Speaker 4: and we miss shows like The Cosby Show. We missed
Speaker 4: a different world. We miss shows just even going further back,
Speaker 4: you know, good times the Jefferson's all in the family
Speaker 4: that have points of view and characters that were irreverent,
Speaker 4: uh uh, and and that you know, you knew where
Speaker 4: you stood with them in honesty and authenticity. You just
Speaker 4: can't make that up, you know what I'm saying. What
Speaker 4: we did with Blackish was our life. It was me
Speaker 4: and Kenya, we sat down and she's here, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Morning. Oh my god. It was worth the way good morning.
Speaker 1: It was worth her way, be honest with you.
Speaker 4: He was just talking about He definitely was, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, and I told him I created this monster.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what happened before you walked in back.
Speaker 4: In for a seconds back and four seconds back and
Speaker 4: four seconds I was here talking and just realized and
Speaker 4: just like she ain't here.
Speaker 1: She just threw your hold on.
Speaker 4: Wait when when we sure you can use that excuse? Yes,
Speaker 4: when you watched it, you're gonna see her just slam
Speaker 4: your mic down. As I was saying that you're not here,
Speaker 4: she smelled that ship down.
Speaker 1: Baby, don't believe.
Speaker 6: Not gonna put it back? Hold on, hold on, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's good.
Speaker 1: You good, Okay, you want him to the right. Anthony
Speaker 1: was answering the question. He didn't want to answer anyway.
Speaker 4: He came.
Speaker 1: Down. Okay, where you are the black daddy? Not that
Speaker 1: just landscape of television. You know those things you.
Speaker 4: Know just can't be created out of thin air. And
Speaker 4: it's just about us telling our authentic stories and and
Speaker 4: and that's what it was.
Speaker 1: That that's how it was born. We would all love
Speaker 1: to see shows in that vein.
Speaker 4: We would all love to see shows like Blackish, and
Speaker 4: and and my wife and kids, and Bernie Mac and
Speaker 4: all those shows that I talked about. But you know,
Speaker 4: they they come once in a lifetime. I shouldn't say
Speaker 4: once in a lifetime, you know, once in the in
Speaker 4: the generation or whatnot when it's something as great as that.
Speaker 4: Because when we our show was like a breakthrough, and
Speaker 4: it allowed other shows to happen, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: fresh off the boat, you.
Speaker 1: Know, uh yeah, yeah, right, you know you know, uh
Speaker 1: Carmichael Show.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, not not not that it
Speaker 4: was us that created that, but it was us that
Speaker 4: created that avenue for other networks. It was like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is working over there for them. We need our
Speaker 4: own version of that. Uh and and that and and
Speaker 4: and that's how that's how it happens.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: But you have to have authentic stories and you know
Speaker 4: with people that uh people want to watch and see
Speaker 4: on television.
Speaker 3: Both of you and by all to play ex military
Speaker 3: in this film. When she called you, you say, Okay,
Speaker 3: I gotta get in some type of shape because I
Speaker 3: know Viola gonna be in shap.
Speaker 1: He wasn't in shape. Figure all you read the script.
Speaker 1: I got my ass kicked that but no, no, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought I was.
Speaker 4: I thought I was in decent shape to to portray
Speaker 4: whatever it is that they needed me to do in
Speaker 4: in this film.
Speaker 5: And it was.
Speaker 1: It was cool, It was great.
Speaker 4: But yeah, when you get a call from not just Viola, Davis,
Speaker 4: Viola is an egot, man. I mean, you know when
Speaker 4: when somebody likes that, like that requests you, you know,
Speaker 4: you have to show up and show out.
Speaker 1: And I believe that's what we all did.
Speaker 5: Marseille included, Yeah, how was it shooting in South Africa
Speaker 5: because y'all were in Cape Town?
Speaker 1: How was it?
Speaker 6: You know, it was beautiful. I loved it. Was my
Speaker 6: first time in Africa as.
Speaker 1: A whole, so you're welcome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was all right, it was it was new.
Speaker 7: It was very new to me, and I enjoyed every
Speaker 7: every minute of it. And we got to experience it
Speaker 7: from any different points of view. Literally, h We got
Speaker 7: in and it was winter there in summer.
Speaker 1: Here right yeah, yeah, the other side of the hemisphere.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so that was a lot.
Speaker 7: We got to experience, like the South African wind storms
Speaker 7: that they haven't which I had no idea was a thing.
Speaker 6: And then we went on strike. Then we came back
Speaker 6: and it was summer there in winter here.
Speaker 5: So now did that affect the continuity of what y'all
Speaker 5: were doing the film?
Speaker 6: I don't think it was that bad. You didn't even notice.
Speaker 1: It wasn't It lasted a few months, but it wasn't bad.
Speaker 1: It wasn't bad. Yeah, we didn't have to reshoot anything.
Speaker 4: You know, we were able to stop that at a
Speaker 4: great place in the film and come back and pick
Speaker 4: up what we left off. And it was up to us,
Speaker 4: you know, as actors and what not to be professional.
Speaker 4: Was like, all right, well, I can't go back to
Speaker 4: eating the doughnuts, you know. I gotta I gotta be straight.
Speaker 4: I gotta keep this right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, how is it dealing with Anthony? Because
Speaker 2: he's been in your life for so long? Right, and
Speaker 2: this is when you're a lot younger, you're twenty years old, now,
Speaker 2: how is it dealing with.
Speaker 6: I've been through this before before.
Speaker 3: I was from the heart.
Speaker 6: It's always, will forever be like my bonus dad. I
Speaker 6: love him so much. He's he's seen me from ever
Speaker 6: since basically I came out the.
Speaker 1: Wound to now, not that far back. I mean, your
Speaker 1: real daddy has something to do with that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well I was eight.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, true, it's been a minute, and I mean
Speaker 7: it was it was so much fun and honestly it
Speaker 7: was filming once again.
Speaker 6: It just was like picking up where we left off.
Speaker 4: But I want to say this about Marseille. Marseille came
Speaker 4: in an auditioned for Blackish at eight years old. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I witnessed her greatness. Everything that the world is seen
Speaker 4: right now, I witnessed this at eight. And I pulled
Speaker 4: her aside and I told her this and this is
Speaker 4: where she is. And I also told her that one
Speaker 4: day I'm going to be coming to her and begging
Speaker 4: for a job. So I just need you to remember
Speaker 4: this moment right here. So when I come to you,
Speaker 4: you got my back. And she was like, I got you.
Speaker 1: You had a childhood, Marseille.
Speaker 7: Yes, oh for sure. I mean it looks different from
Speaker 7: many people. I mean, I feel like everyone has a childhood.
Speaker 7: It just looks it just looks different.
Speaker 1: For me.
Speaker 7: It was just I've always even before the show, I
Speaker 7: grew up around so many adults in my life.
Speaker 6: I grew up with my grandma, my great grandma, and
Speaker 6: like everybody.
Speaker 7: House so and I was an only child for most
Speaker 7: of my life, so jumping into a show that was
Speaker 7: basically the same thing.
Speaker 6: I mean it was. It was nothing new.
Speaker 4: She had an old soul. My nickname, my nickname for
Speaker 4: Marseille is a little Coretta. I gave years old little. Yeah,
Speaker 4: she embodies all of that. Yeah, that's a little coredda
Speaker 4: right there.
Speaker 2: Sure you promised a call when she turned sixteen?
Speaker 1: Was that true? I mean, everybody want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: I did you followed through? I did you followed through?
Speaker 1: I didn't follow No, I promised you.
Speaker 6: I wondered for you.
Speaker 1: But first off, she ain't got the driver's license.
Speaker 6: Okay, I was.
Speaker 1: I'm a responsible parent, responsible parents.
Speaker 6: He didn't know that for a minute though, he just didn't.
Speaker 1: You don't think. I keep in contact with your mama
Speaker 1: and your daddy talked to him.
Speaker 6: But still they like, oh, Marll, you got a license, But.
Speaker 1: Do you have a license?
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 1: She didn't just have a car. She has a vehicle.
Speaker 6: I have a car, but I haven't got to stop.
Speaker 4: Them.
Speaker 1: What you got?
Speaker 4: I have something the world don't need. She has a
Speaker 4: luxury vehicle, but no, not even a license. She didn't
Speaker 4: even got a drivers permit.
Speaker 6: Okay, let's have a drive.
Speaker 1: You know we call that, we call that niggash. Have you.
Speaker 6: You need me, Carolyn Johnson, listen, it's there.
Speaker 7: Whenever, whenever I decided to take that, I definitely said
Speaker 7: I wanted to get it before I turned twenty one.
Speaker 6: I can't be I can't be legal in these spaces.
Speaker 1: And you've been in these streets. And and she no
Speaker 1: longer wants the car that she asked me for, so
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm off the hook. She she wanted a
Speaker 1: purple electric car. I'm not going to mention the name,
Speaker 1: but you wanted a purple electric car, purple, and I
Speaker 1: was going to get it for shopping.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: I literally I went to the I went to the
Speaker 4: electric car place and and and built it for her
Speaker 4: and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did. What do you have now? I have ury,
Speaker 1: fossil fuel, love it to get from point appointment. Many
Speaker 1: like sports stop stop stop. I know it's but they
Speaker 1: don't need sports luxury. He really isn't dead.
Speaker 4: Okay, go tell us about twenty Tell me about that
Speaker 4: g wagon you got since we talked about.
Speaker 1: Because I got give me that's.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: I love Mary.
Speaker 4: Tell him it's bulletproof, like like the president's beasts, like
Speaker 4: your mama's can tell him's bullet.
Speaker 1: Tires.
Speaker 6: Let's promote, Let's promote.
Speaker 4: Okay, I thought from promoting your your g wagon. No,
Speaker 4: let's talk about this movie G twenty that starts stream.
Speaker 4: I mean globally, yeah tomorrow, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, globally.
Speaker 4: We just don't make regional movies. We make global movies.
Speaker 3: Going to ask you about that, Anthony, because I feel
Speaker 3: like your international presidence has grown tremendously.
Speaker 1: Have you been intentional about that?
Speaker 4: Always been intentional about that, man, And you know what
Speaker 4: it started when I started making movies with Jet Lee
Speaker 4: twenty some years ago. You know, first one was Romeo
Speaker 4: Must Die, and that really was just on a global scale.
Speaker 4: And then to be able to work with some of
Speaker 4: the people that I've worked with in almost thirty years, man,
Speaker 4: you know, with Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Jim Carrey, the
Speaker 4: Fairly Brothers, Martin Scorsese, you know, just people like that.
Speaker 4: It just continues to grow and get bigger. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: it really been intentional. It was also intentional to move
Speaker 4: away from the comedy at one point to do more
Speaker 4: dramatic roles.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't just be type cast. It's just a fat,
Speaker 1: funny dude. It was like, no, this is what I do.
Speaker 4: I've been training at this since I was nine years old.
Speaker 4: So let me really show you my range and what
Speaker 4: I can do. And so I was able to do
Speaker 4: that by doing shows like Law and Order and The
Speaker 4: Shield and movies like Hustle and Flow and The Departed.
Speaker 1: And things like that. All of those were strategic moves.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and speaking of range, how was it seeing Viola
Speaker 5: Davis in her action hack?
Speaker 1: It's not real.
Speaker 6: It's definitely not an act.
Speaker 1: Let me know, I said she's a hack. No, I
Speaker 1: didn't say it. They were like, she's an act.
Speaker 6: I didn't know what you said.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 6: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: You've seen Viola cry on screen and all that. We
Speaker 1: didn't even made a joke about her and her snop
Speaker 1: bubbles and tears on Blackish. It was it was great.
Speaker 3: You know, you don't talk about the old snop bubble enough.
Speaker 3: That was like Denzel's glory too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but working with Viola was a dream come true.
Speaker 4: And uh, I mean, look, she's an e good Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's they're only about eighteen e gods in the world,
Speaker 4: and you know we got to work with one, uh
Speaker 4: in a very special way.
Speaker 1: How did they make you step you acting game up? Marcia?
Speaker 7: I mean, I mean obviously, when you you jump into
Speaker 7: something unprepared, you just you just kind of want to Honestly,
Speaker 7: in that said, it was the most comfortable set to
Speaker 7: be in, especially with something that was so challenging and
Speaker 7: so different. But what I loved about Viola is she
Speaker 7: is she She feels like a family member already.
Speaker 1: Tell the world how you made Viola work in the
Speaker 1: scenes that you was in with her, You tell them
Speaker 1: how you made her work? Tell her, Tell them how
Speaker 1: you made Violin David step her game up. I was late.
Speaker 1: This is why my late Marseillan, you would be sitting
Speaker 1: here if you didn't, because he got work and anyways
Speaker 1: seen the movie yet little corredit and was right. Get
Speaker 1: made Viola working and seeing.
Speaker 7: When you see when you see the film and you
Speaker 7: see the character arc that my character goes through within
Speaker 7: her relationship with her mother, it's it's a story that
Speaker 7: I wanted to tell for a very long time.
Speaker 6: And to be able to.
Speaker 1: Have that nail color again. This is the fourth nail color.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go and finish your story. Go on. I
Speaker 1: just I love them. Y.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So it was it was very special to be
Speaker 7: able to tell that story with Miss Viola.
Speaker 6: I mean it was, it was really special.
Speaker 1: Respect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, I'm saying that Miss Viola was here doing
Speaker 4: this interview, you wouldn't showed up seventeen minutes late.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. In New York, what I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't go to see you last night.
Speaker 5: A lot of traffic going.
Speaker 1: On because I was outside outside. I was outside you outside,
Speaker 1: I'm outside.
Speaker 6: My opinion this morning was sixty.
Speaker 4: Five, Good morning America. My driver pulled up. I was
Speaker 4: walking into the hotel.
Speaker 6: You're also a man who just puts an outfit on.
Speaker 6: I got I gotta like make you know what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the last movie.
Speaker 1: That you right now.
Speaker 7: But no, I mean, honestly, we know what the mother
Speaker 7: and daughter dynamic looks like for many many people.
Speaker 6: I mean, I go through with my mom. My mom
Speaker 6: went through with her mom.
Speaker 7: So to be able to tell that grounded story within
Speaker 7: this action packed world, and I mean the super high
Speaker 7: stakes with your mother being the president, I mean it's
Speaker 7: it's it's very it's a very special thing.
Speaker 1: Have a question for you. I'm sorry. How old is
Speaker 1: your oldest child?
Speaker 5: Twelve?
Speaker 1: Twelve? Yes, your son? Right, yep?
Speaker 4: How is that dynamic with you? You know Marsell is
Speaker 4: talking about the dynamic between you know, daughter and mother. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know you you had a dynamic with your mom
Speaker 4: and whatnot. How was that dynamic for you as a
Speaker 4: mother with your with your son?
Speaker 5: We are very close, were close. He is nothing that
Speaker 5: he won't tell me now. At first, it was a
Speaker 5: phase that he went through where he was very close,
Speaker 5: very guarded, you know, and it took a while, it
Speaker 5: took the pandemic for him to open up, like you know,
Speaker 5: that's when I actually said and got to really know
Speaker 5: who he was and who he was growing int.
Speaker 1: Be you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we were closed, were okay close?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Very sweet?
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I definitely learned within this time of like be jumping
Speaker 7: into my twenties and being able to understand my parents
Speaker 7: more and having more of those like deeper intellectual comes
Speaker 7: is about just life as a whole, friendship, relationships and
Speaker 7: all that. It's like you learned that your parents are
Speaker 7: it's their first time living too. Yeah, Yeah, they're just
Speaker 7: people and they are that's the first time of them
Speaker 7: having a twenty year old daughter and going through these things,
Speaker 7: and and they had a life before you got here
Speaker 7: and somebody before they were your parents, and they had
Speaker 7: a revelation.
Speaker 1: Like that in the movie. So the kind of when
Speaker 1: you realize that it was like a real how would
Speaker 1: you know? You didn't see the movie watch I feel
Speaker 1: like I spoil it, so it's.
Speaker 2: For you mentally, Like you don't want to like have
Speaker 2: the ask somebody questions if you've seen it, because you
Speaker 2: give it away for everybody.
Speaker 6: I always wanted to get.
Speaker 1: Away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but you did have that revelation in the film, yes.
Speaker 7: Exactly, which is why I was more excited to tell
Speaker 7: the story because I was It felt like I was
Speaker 7: going through that in real time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I wouldn't know as a.
Speaker 1: Just a regular person, how do you deal.
Speaker 2: With just life with even with dating, because it's almost
Speaker 2: like you have two parents, Like does he have to
Speaker 2: meet the guys to or it's.
Speaker 5: Almost like you got too dads. I met him, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: someone he.
Speaker 1: Drives one of them cars right there, though I didn't
Speaker 1: say who he was.
Speaker 6: Okay, why you give a clue.
Speaker 1: Do you have a god dad?
Speaker 7: I do, and he's and he's a firefighter like he's
Speaker 7: also I'm not multiple, listen, I grew up with like
Speaker 7: multiple figures in my life.
Speaker 1: To stop, just stop.
Speaker 2: You ever have to know, it's just just just you
Speaker 2: just take it.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, you can't, you can't stop. We can't stop
Speaker 6: the madness.
Speaker 1: I just turn it on when we're together doing stuff
Speaker 1: like this. We have a great relationships of your careers?
Speaker 1: Can you Anthony me? Wow? I should tell you?
Speaker 2: There you go?
Speaker 1: I said, who hates more credit?
Speaker 6: Who you give credit? I was more credit for my career.
Speaker 6: I mean myself.
Speaker 1: I got what he was saying. Yes, Yes, I get
Speaker 1: what he was saying.
Speaker 6: Myself. He's he's he saw it from a very early
Speaker 6: age and saw the impact.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you would have heard that had you got your
Speaker 1: on time. That was at the beginning.
Speaker 3: I was, I was.
Speaker 4: I can't just waxing poetically about talking about how I
Speaker 4: saw your greatness, said eight. When you walked in there
Speaker 4: was just a light around you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what does the Blackish reunion look like?
Speaker 4: I don't think it's ever going to happen, Say, don't
Speaker 4: show up the things. We would love to have it,
Speaker 4: we would love and I hope we have a Blackish
Speaker 4: reunion soon.
Speaker 3: Been since the show DW three years ago, going on
Speaker 3: three years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was seventeen going on eighteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, close as everybody the cast got. Everybody still
Speaker 5: keep in touch.
Speaker 7: Yes, my my twin Miles. He's truly my best friend.
Speaker 1: Playboy CARDI now, yes, yes, he's in.
Speaker 6: His Playboy CARDI era love him.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, outside white.
Speaker 4: Play okay when I'm calling my man playboy, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: but no, I don't want to put that on him.
Speaker 7: We have a friend group, like all together, and we're
Speaker 7: working on some things as a whole.
Speaker 1: And did you call him back last night? Did your
Speaker 1: face time after we were I.
Speaker 6: Went to sleep, you know, so I'll be on my phone,
Speaker 6: but we talk all the time.
Speaker 1: How much it dis role.
Speaker 3: Scratch you, Anthony, because you know, you said it's a drama,
Speaker 3: and like you are known for the comedy, and you're
Speaker 3: also playing.
Speaker 1: Like the the natural role. Yeah, like man is not
Speaker 1: an actor.
Speaker 4: The woman is like the head of the household in
Speaker 4: this one, and I'm not He's asking questions.
Speaker 1: I get it. He didn't he didn't see nothing.
Speaker 4: So you know, again it goes back to, you know,
Speaker 4: the dynamic between Marseille and I, you know, not falling
Speaker 4: into that shorthand that we have. And you know, I've
Speaker 4: been a part of some great films with action in them.
Speaker 4: I've never been a part of an action film and
Speaker 4: so I just had to be prepared for that to
Speaker 4: make sure that it was believable. And it's not all
Speaker 4: that's just and up there going through the motions and
Speaker 4: doing that. So you know, I showed up, you know,
Speaker 4: as I could. And to answer your question about you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's role reversal.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: Normally, you know, the man is the president of the
Speaker 4: United States, you know, and and and and and the
Speaker 4: first lady is being the nurture.
Speaker 1: So these roles were reversed, you know, and you rarely
Speaker 1: get to see that, you know.
Speaker 4: And and I was playing the nurturing role in this
Speaker 4: character or with this character from my children and allowing
Speaker 4: the power, not that women don't have power, use that
Speaker 4: power and have that power in films, but allowing Viola's
Speaker 4: character to have that power and wield it and not
Speaker 4: be emasculated by it. And just understand that I'm standing
Speaker 4: next to this right here. We are in this together.
Speaker 4: But she has her role and I have mine. So
Speaker 4: I just wanted to make sure I showed up for
Speaker 4: that and and not fall flat. And so people's like, Okay,
Speaker 4: that was believable.
Speaker 1: That that was real. Could you be in a relationship
Speaker 1: like that in real life? I could.
Speaker 4: I'm secure in my masculinity, in my manhood and who
Speaker 4: I am and what I bring to the table. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I could definitely be secure in a relationship.
Speaker 1: You have to have the money and.
Speaker 4: Power, it doesn't matter. Wait, we're a team, you know,
Speaker 4: we're a unit. Were working on this together.
Speaker 1: It's not you do no.
Speaker 4: Just like in any marriage, in any relationship that we
Speaker 4: have that it's a give and take. It's an ebb
Speaker 4: and flow. It's like, Okay, I'm here doing this, you're
Speaker 4: doing this, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, how did that work for you?
Speaker 3: Month say, because you're the boss, Yeah, you've got your
Speaker 3: own production company, you are bosing whatever.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, how would you want the man to
Speaker 1: show up?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 7: Honestly, I think it's uh communication and listening and understanding
Speaker 7: and a willing to understand. I feel like at times
Speaker 7: I've had a multiple conversations with a bunch of different people,
Speaker 7: and I think the main thing is them ready to
Speaker 7: respond without actually listening and understanding what the whole situation.
Speaker 1: You hear a race car driver guy, and.
Speaker 6: He's really he's really great at that, honestly, like great.
Speaker 1: Being racecar driver, great at being what you need, vulnerable understanding. No,
Speaker 1: he is, you know, I get that from from the
Speaker 1: two or three conversations that I have with it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's great, And I mean I think what's what's
Speaker 7: important is is that because if he was not, I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna run him off embarrassing, just being real, Hey man,
Speaker 1: you're not good enough. But he is.
Speaker 6: He's the best.
Speaker 1: And look at she smiles and like what she talks about.
Speaker 4: He was face turning him in the car yesterday and
Speaker 4: I was, oh my god. I had to snatch the
Speaker 4: phone and talked to him. I was like, what's up,
Speaker 4: play boy?
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 5: So he is your your your calm, like you know,
Speaker 5: it's a lot of hype.
Speaker 6: He's my patience.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say star, yes, yes, ability and patient.
Speaker 1: It was a great thing to say about me.
Speaker 6: Thank you, sure, patience, instability.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 6: I love you.
Speaker 1: Too, and that's dope, that's my girl right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think that's the most important thing that
Speaker 7: a lot of men kind of lack, is vulnerability, being
Speaker 7: able to have that emotion too and have this kind
Speaker 7: of like stance as what a man should look like.
Speaker 6: So my therapy is important, Like I got home is
Speaker 6: so important.
Speaker 3: I got homegrowns to say they refuse the data. Guy
Speaker 3: who's not in therapy, I hasn't gone.
Speaker 7: To some type of okay, yeah, or even having the communication,
Speaker 7: but honestly too, I don't know. I've also seen guys
Speaker 7: that have therapy that take it the wrong way and
Speaker 7: it's like she told me to do this and I'm
Speaker 7: doing it like it's it's It can look like so
Speaker 7: many different things, but I think just being as open
Speaker 7: as possible to have that communication is like the top
Speaker 7: priority for me. So as long as you're listening and
Speaker 7: hearing me and know what's going on in my life
Speaker 7: and reassurance is everything.
Speaker 6: So that is important.
Speaker 5: I know you got your production company and everything you've
Speaker 5: done a lot, that's not my question. It sounds like
Speaker 5: when you first told me that you had a production company,
Speaker 5: I was like, you know what, I'm going to be
Speaker 5: auditioning for you. It was like, I'll see you there, and.
Speaker 6: I mean, shoot the thing that they.
Speaker 4: No, it wasn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't even ask nothing yet, Damn. I wanted to know,
Speaker 5: what else did you want to do? You know, you
Speaker 5: at a very young age, you've done so much. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you've still got a lot more life to live and
Speaker 5: a lot more career to go. What else do you
Speaker 5: want to do?
Speaker 7: I think seeing how far my creativity can get and
Speaker 7: how broad it can be. I feel like what I
Speaker 7: love about creating TV and film is like you're basically
Speaker 7: building these new worlds to where it can be in
Speaker 7: touch to reality as much as possible or not. And
Speaker 7: I think what that's what I love about just what
Speaker 7: we do is it feels so real, but it can
Speaker 7: truly be whatever you want, whatever comes to mind. So
Speaker 7: I would love to kind of just continue to build
Speaker 7: worlds that people can live in, understand and it be
Speaker 7: timeless and can last forever.
Speaker 6: As president.
Speaker 1: Create this world.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean I'm working on my festival right now,
Speaker 7: which is very world building for me, which is very exciting.
Speaker 7: It'll be it's called say Summer Cookout, and it's a
Speaker 7: it's a destination type of festival. So the first year
Speaker 7: was in Atlanta, second years it was in DC. This
Speaker 7: year it'll be in Houston in August thirty first.
Speaker 1: So what do we do.
Speaker 7: It's a black owned businesses vendors from it's like Texas
Speaker 7: based vendors. This year we have performers of course that
Speaker 7: is from and catered to that community. And it's HBCU centered.
Speaker 7: So I think that is something that I've always wanted
Speaker 7: to do. It's a it's an avenue that I feel
Speaker 7: like is so untouched and mostly overlooked, and I'm very
Speaker 7: excited to and also be in touch with with, I
Speaker 7: mean adults, new adults my age, you know, going through
Speaker 7: the same things. I mean, even though I'm doing this
Speaker 7: and you see a camera on my face, there is
Speaker 7: no difference between that person. So and it's no phones.
Speaker 7: It's no phones. The first year we did no plus ones.
Speaker 7: It was literally come as you are and to be
Speaker 7: able to have these celebrities and these these students want
Speaker 7: to become them one day or do something in that
Speaker 7: light and they have real conversations at the cookout.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's something that I've truly wanted to do.
Speaker 7: And then I'm on top of that. We have podcasts
Speaker 7: of course, still movies coming up. I have a movie
Speaker 7: coming out with Corney b Vance soon, which is very exciting.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're not We're not. We're not. We're not here
Speaker 1: to talk about she said, right.
Speaker 6: Any which is amazing. And that's the next day coming out.
Speaker 6: Just more world, old building things, things that challenge me.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to challenge you from Okay, okay, it's.
Speaker 6: Almost actually tell me what do you want to do
Speaker 6: in the industry?
Speaker 5: Horror movies and comedy?
Speaker 6: Horror movies, comedy.
Speaker 5: I got a little drama to me too, you know,
Speaker 5: I just cry on cue all that. Just get a
Speaker 5: live a couple of weeks ago. So yeah, thats acting.
Speaker 7: Nothing.
Speaker 1: What is that I'm listening to you?
Speaker 6: Are you talking to me?
Speaker 5: Okay, yadya?
Speaker 6: I got you now that I know.
Speaker 4: Sit here is the reason that I haven't been invited
Speaker 4: to your little festival for the less of your little festival.
Speaker 6: I love that festival definitely. It's exciting because we.
Speaker 7: Are expecting like six to eight thousand, which is exciting
Speaker 7: generation how to.
Speaker 3: Actually have conversation and the network with people and look
Speaker 3: people in the eyes and talk in a real way,
Speaker 3: building a real community, not that digital social media.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you were invited. You've known since the beginning.
Speaker 4: Okay, said no, knowing since the beginning, and then say, hey,
Speaker 4: I need you to come talk to my peer group
Speaker 4: or two different things. They have stars there and just
Speaker 4: talk to people that want to be like them. One day,
Speaker 4: I mean, what's up, I'll be coming all the thirty first,
Speaker 4: I'll be in Houston.
Speaker 6: That's another promise. Let's see.
Speaker 1: She ain't got nothing else going on.
Speaker 4: She had already shot herd cover shoot yesterday.
Speaker 1: No, got nothing.
Speaker 5: No, I definitely did not know what he's manifested.
Speaker 1: I thought you just had all that under control.
Speaker 6: I mean, sure, let's let's do it one day. I
Speaker 6: did a lot of press yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to end with this, asked Anthony this
Speaker 3: question earlier. But when you all film together, how do
Speaker 3: you get out of the rhythm of blackish? Because you
Speaker 3: all know each other so well personally and professionally.
Speaker 1: It seems like it never leaves.
Speaker 7: They definitely have to when you, you know, doing something
Speaker 7: like twenty I think I think it touched back what
Speaker 7: I was saying about creating a whole new world. I
Speaker 7: think you're building a character for me. I'm building like, Okay,
Speaker 7: where did she come from?
Speaker 6: What is she?
Speaker 7: What were the experiences that she went through to get
Speaker 7: to this point now where she feels like she needs
Speaker 7: to be rebellious or is this a new thing for her?
Speaker 6: How new is it?
Speaker 7: So I think these are all of these, all these
Speaker 7: questions that I put in my brain before jumping into
Speaker 7: a role, especially someone like Serena who's very multifaceted.
Speaker 1: And kind of just not really they don't know who,
Speaker 1: they don't know who Williams. When I watched it, I saw.
Speaker 7: That I was just wondering for me, It's like, what
Speaker 7: makes her different than any of the other characters that
Speaker 7: I played.
Speaker 6: So that's that's my take on it.
Speaker 1: And she's do she was.
Speaker 2: Said the typical she was, well, G twenty is streaming
Speaker 2: now on Amazon.
Speaker 4: That's just streaming now, streaming globally, telling me globally, we
Speaker 4: don't make regional films.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Marseille, Martin and Anthony, and I
Speaker 2: thought you forgot about me. She told me to say
Speaker 2: her name first, No she should.
Speaker 4: You just did text me by showing up the way
Speaker 4: that you did. They know who the real diva is.
Speaker 4: I pie down to you.
Speaker 1: You've earned it, Martilles. You have heard it first on
Speaker 1: the She was the reason. She was the reason we
Speaker 1: got the first three seasons of Black. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: give it.
Speaker 5: It's going to be some somehow, some way. He play
Speaker 5: your son.
Speaker 1: So she can me science and then you gotta put me.
Speaker 1: Let me make it a horror flea. It has to
Speaker 1: be a horror flake.
Speaker 6: That was all her.
Speaker 2: It's the breakfast Club, good morning wake that ass up
Speaker 2: her in the morning.
Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club