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Speaker 1: Demmick two. Alright, tonight is the night people. All year long,
Speaker 1: we've been waiting to find out if Republicans will take
Speaker 1: control of Congress and stop President Biden's agenda or if
Speaker 1: Democrats will keep control of Congress and somehow stop Biden's agenda.
Speaker 1: And it's all led up to today. Election Day. A
Speaker 1: great day for democracy and for people who love waiting
Speaker 1: in lines, you know, another chance to smell a stranger's hair.
Speaker 1: You've probably heard it everywhere, you know, but many people
Speaker 1: believe this maybe the most important election of our lifetimes.
Speaker 1: And yes, I know, I know they said that about right.
Speaker 1: I also know that they said it about the mid terms,
Speaker 1: and they definitely said it about twenty well know, which
Speaker 1: I know makes some people say, well, clearly none of
Speaker 1: these elections are as important as people say. They always
Speaker 1: say it's the most important election. But but maybe maybe
Speaker 1: we're thinking of it wrong. You know, maybe everything is
Speaker 1: getting worse and worse, which makes every election more and
Speaker 1: more important. And I know I said that and like that,
Speaker 1: like it sounded good, but it's not. I get that
Speaker 1: my my inflection didn't match the feeling. Well, think of
Speaker 1: it this way. Think of it this way. Like when
Speaker 1: you're in a car, the breaks of the most important
Speaker 1: safety feature. Right when you're in your driveway, it helps
Speaker 1: to have brakes, yeah, but then when you get on
Speaker 1: the road, the brakes become more important. Then you're on
Speaker 1: the freeway going a hundred miles per hour, the breaks
Speaker 1: are even more important. Then a school bus gets stuck
Speaker 1: in front of you, and then you realize that the
Speaker 1: school bus is full of puppies and the puppies are
Speaker 1: holding the only copy of Rihanna's new album Another Breaks
Speaker 1: are the most important prices of like a high? Did
Speaker 1: I take my brakes? Start grunted? Not? Luckily, many people
Speaker 1: did feel like this was an important election, so all
Speaker 1: around the country people turned up to vote, everywhere, from
Speaker 1: Arizona to Pennsylvania to Wisconsin to a bunch of states
Speaker 1: that the media doesn't even care about. People cast their
Speaker 1: votes in this election, And now that the voting is finished,
Speaker 1: there is some good news. You all voted perfectly and
Speaker 1: every problem in America has been solved. Congratulations on last voting.
Speaker 1: Up trapping sarcastic. Obviously, it's still counting the votes, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to wait until tomorrow or two months
Speaker 1: from now, depending on how many lawsuits they are. But
Speaker 1: right now we've got full team coverage of election night
Speaker 1: all around the country. So let's kick things off with
Speaker 1: our very own Roy would Jr. Everybody who is live
Speaker 1: party headquarters, Roy Tumashous. Time for the Democrats. What's the
Speaker 1: mood like over there right now? It's nervous? Trailer. Democrats
Speaker 1: are not expecting a good outcome tonight. Chuck Schumer already
Speaker 1: sweating like Elon Musk looking at Twitter's balance sheet. Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi Nanty Pelosi, pacing so hard she already got in
Speaker 1: her steps for the week. And Joe Biden, well, he's
Speaker 1: taking a nap, but it's a nervous nap. When't nervous naps,
Speaker 1: you know, like when you sleep at the wheel and
Speaker 1: you there is a well roy. You know, if Democrats
Speaker 1: lose big tonight, many stratagists will suggest that their campaign
Speaker 1: messages didn't resonate enough with the voters, you know, because
Speaker 1: they ran on abortion rights and saving democracy, but it
Speaker 1: seems like for most voters that wasn't a priority. The
Speaker 1: Democrats agree with you, Trevor. That's why tonight they're coming
Speaker 1: up with brand new campaign messages to get voters on
Speaker 1: their side. But tonight they think it's a little too
Speaker 1: late for that. Everyone's votes it already. There's still people
Speaker 1: in line in Georgia. And just wait until they get
Speaker 1: on Twitter and see democrats new campaign slogan, vote for
Speaker 1: us and we'll get rid of Monday's It's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's that's weird. And also, then doesn't Tuesday just become
Speaker 1: the new Monday. How No, that's not high verse, because
Speaker 1: then Tuesday they got those ideas. Anyway, man, they got
Speaker 1: other ideas. Here's here's another one. The Democrats of Promise,
Speaker 1: and they're promising to make another season of the Office
Speaker 1: and for black voters Martin. And they've got a new
Speaker 1: tax plan. Pay what you want, and they'll make it
Speaker 1: so that everyone's team makes it to the super Bowl. Okay,
Speaker 1: pay what you will and everybody's team make it to
Speaker 1: the Super bowler's two policy straight. But I don't understand
Speaker 1: if everyone's team makes us to the super Bowl. But
Speaker 1: don't I'm not done with the list here you come
Speaker 1: with all that damn logic. How about this way? Unlimited
Speaker 1: bread sticks at every restaurant, even the Chinese ones, even
Speaker 1: the Chinese restaurant unlimited. They don't even give you bread
Speaker 1: sticks to Chinese restaurants. And and and look at this
Speaker 1: list right here, man, Look look at all this stuff. Man, Pompkins,
Speaker 1: spice Latte's year round. That's what basic bitches like you trap.
Speaker 1: If none of that works, check this out. The Democrats.
Speaker 1: Here's something else they're promising every oscars will have a
Speaker 1: surprise slap. I'm turning up, gonna be excitement, a surprisess.
Speaker 1: Meryl Street just hauling off and slapping. Timothy Child May
Speaker 1: just stopping you. Don't you want to see that ship?
Speaker 1: You know you want to suppress. I mean these sound
Speaker 1: very exciting where I mean it seems very desperate from
Speaker 1: the Democrats. Well, yeah, that's what I told them, but
Speaker 1: they refused to give up. And now they're talking about
Speaker 1: forgiving everything, student loan debt, forgiving gambling debts, forgiving. You
Speaker 1: gave an embarrassing best man's speech at your boys, Whending
Speaker 1: forgiving you hit that Browning. You can't be mad at
Speaker 1: me no more for saying your wife looked like Shrek.
Speaker 1: It is what it is, bro. Why would you say
Speaker 1: that during the best man speech? She started it. I
Speaker 1: came to that winding in peace to support them. She
Speaker 1: the one who said I got a silvil rights hair line.
Speaker 1: You don't do that to a man. You know what
Speaker 1: there's hair is the line you don't cross. Alicia. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to you later about that. Now, he
Speaker 1: tromis you are aware promises are really away, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, before we crossed over to our next correspondent,
Speaker 1: we do have a new live projection coming in and
Speaker 1: it's a big one in the States of Georgia. The
Speaker 1: Georgia Senate race. The Daily Show projects that herschel Walker
Speaker 1: has won twenty three and me. I didn't even realize
Speaker 1: twenty three and me was a thing you could win,
Speaker 1: but they just announced it. So good for him. I
Speaker 1: guess good for him he did it. But anyway, let's
Speaker 1: go live now to Michael Coster, who I believe has
Speaker 1: come to us from Election Denia's headquarters. That's right, Trevor.
Speaker 1: There are so many election deniers running this year that
Speaker 1: they have their own headquarters where they can watch the
Speaker 1: results come in. And fun fact, the WiFi password here
Speaker 1: is Hillary Killed JFK and also is JFK all calves. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm really intreat. What's the mood like over there? Oh,
Speaker 1: they are having a blast here. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: one thing they're not denying more jello shots. These people
Speaker 1: know how to party, Trevor. Wow. I mean, I'm assuming
Speaker 1: election denials must be doing well tonight. They are, And
Speaker 1: hundreds of election deniers ran for office this year. And
Speaker 1: a lot of them have already won their races. I see, Wait,
Speaker 1: these are election denias. So I guess they don't think
Speaker 1: there's any fraud in their elections. Well, no, of course not.
Speaker 1: They won, Okay, but then what about the election denias
Speaker 1: who didn't win tonight's. Well, obviously their elections were stolen,
Speaker 1: you know, just like Trump's was in twenty and will
Speaker 1: be again unless he wins, in which case it was legitimate.
Speaker 1: It sounds like these people are just sore loses. Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: We do not say that word here, Trevor. Okay, especially
Speaker 1: not with the hard are Okay, but no, cost of
Speaker 1: the reasoning doesn't make any sense. Actually, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: Let me break it down for you. Okay. So you see,
Speaker 1: if they lost, that's because it was rigged. And you
Speaker 1: can tell it was rigged because they lost. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: but Michael, that's circular logic. Well it's it's actually more
Speaker 1: of an oval, if you ask me. So, okay, how
Speaker 1: do they know the election they won wasn't rigged? Well
Speaker 1: that's easy because they won, so it's fair. It's all
Speaker 1: over here on this other oval, okay. And and now
Speaker 1: that they've won, they can change the voting laws, you know,
Speaker 1: purge the voter rolls, throw out ballots they don't like,
Speaker 1: give themselves the power to overturn resolves so they never
Speaker 1: lose again. But that's rigging the election, so they win.
Speaker 1: What are you not understanding? Okay, if they win, that
Speaker 1: means it wasn't rigged. Do they not have ovals in Africa?
Speaker 1: And we kept ovals Costa? This is about logic. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a democracy to me. Look, I'd love
Speaker 1: to keep explaining it to you, but I gotta go.
Speaker 1: Everyone's heading over to the capitol to celebrate well or
Speaker 1: to storm it. We'll see when we get there. Are
Speaker 1: you been keptul off? There? Cost to Michael, cost to everybody?
Speaker 1: This is uh, We're any stressful election art Before before
Speaker 1: we get to our next correspondent, we have some more
Speaker 1: results coming in. Our analysts have crunched all the numbers
Speaker 1: and we can confirm that that five bucks you donated
Speaker 1: didn't do ships. So more results. Let's grow it over
Speaker 1: to Dulce Sloan in the twenty two election center right now.
Speaker 1: Don't say it's rarely crazy. What can you tell us
Speaker 1: about this election twenty twenty two? No, I'm a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four elections that the baby. Come on, see where
Speaker 1: I'm Heck, you know what I'm doing? Yeah, the presidential election.
Speaker 1: We gotta move on twenty two with old news. Okay,
Speaker 1: actually it's over, It's literally not over all, right. I
Speaker 1: want to know who want to night's races? You want
Speaker 1: to know who want tonight's races? They go with it.
Speaker 1: But what are you here for? Listen? I'm here to
Speaker 1: wildly speculate about who might win next time it's called
Speaker 1: the news. Fine, I'll play along. What data can you
Speaker 1: give us about the four presidential race? What? Who's data?
Speaker 1: What are we It's way too early for that. This
Speaker 1: is my favorite part of the race where you could
Speaker 1: just get on TV and gossip. Yeah. Now I don't gossip.
Speaker 1: I'm a good Christian woman. But like, did you hear
Speaker 1: Trump called RhoD De Santras a bitch? And Joe Biden
Speaker 1: says he's running again? But I heard he died three
Speaker 1: months ago? Why are you growning? This is if the
Speaker 1: Man met Jesus. The Man met Jesus. What do you
Speaker 1: want fact about? Now? Listen? Listen, listen. You can't forget
Speaker 1: about the wide card in this race Oprah. Wait wait, wait,
Speaker 1: are you saying Oprah is running? She didn't say she's
Speaker 1: not so am as far as I'm concerned. Shit, don't
Speaker 1: say come on, this is what people hate about the
Speaker 1: political media. I'm not forcing anybody's to watch. If you
Speaker 1: don't like it, you can turn off the m TV.
Speaker 1: Enough for the speculation. Don't say slow and everybody, this
Speaker 1: is too much speculation and mode. None of that. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: as you know, As you know, many news organizations did
Speaker 1: their own exit polling today, So we sent Dazzy led
Speaker 1: out to some polling locations in New York City for
Speaker 1: some exit polls of our own, and let's see how
Speaker 1: that turned out. Hi, I'm Daddy lighted here outside the
Speaker 1: polls on election day. I would be inside voting, but
Speaker 1: I've got one too many felony convictions, so instead I'm
Speaker 1: doing some exit polling. I'm just doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of exit holling. Can I ask you a few questions? Great, um,
Speaker 1: did you base your decision to exit based on a
Speaker 1: sign about the door that said exit or just like
Speaker 1: a gut decision? Did you just exit the polls? We did, Yes,
Speaker 1: we did. Thank you for your time. What was your
Speaker 1: exit experience, Like the last few questions on the ballot
Speaker 1: were all about, you know, things we would vote yes
Speaker 1: or no for to include for New York, And one
Speaker 1: of them was about having values for the city. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to know what's on the valid or
Speaker 1: you voted. I'm more interested in exiting, Like, what was
Speaker 1: your exiting experience? Like? Was there an exit sign over
Speaker 1: the door? I didn't even notice. I didn't notice. Were
Speaker 1: you paying attention to anything important? Yeah? I was paying
Speaker 1: attention to the voting. What direction do you think we're
Speaker 1: headed in the way things are looking, it's very frightening. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I don't mean as a country. I just
Speaker 1: mean in terms of where the door is. The door
Speaker 1: looks like it's leading in the wrong direction away from democracy. No,
Speaker 1: I mean like literally, I'm asking literally about the door.
Speaker 1: Do you open it with your hand? You have to
Speaker 1: get push? The exit door is open? Thank you? I mean,
Speaker 1: is it that hard to talk about doors? To talk
Speaker 1: about doors? Well, yes, because you think there's some symbolism
Speaker 1: attached to it. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know symbolism.
Speaker 1: I'm done with symbolism. What color was the paint in there?
Speaker 1: We're talking eggshell or more of an off white. It was.
Speaker 1: It was eggshell, but a lot of regim. But do
Speaker 1: you know this isn't really how exit polls work. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a thirteen year old here, and I'm teaching
Speaker 1: him the whole civic process. Oh no, I know that,
Speaker 1: I know what exit polls are. I just cannot talk
Speaker 1: about these candidates for one more second. Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 1: Is not really about or doors. Now. I know what
Speaker 1: exit pulling is. It's just that the mid term stressed
Speaker 1: me out so much that I want to talk about
Speaker 1: literally anything else. Like this morning, I woke up in
Speaker 1: a cold sweat screaming, we selled it. I think the
Speaker 1: economy is also very important. The guy I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear about that. Just um, what did the door
Speaker 1: handle look like? Your coordinator? Just the man I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: I'm doing some exit pulling. Can you talk to me
Speaker 1: about the design of the exits? All right? Basically, the
Speaker 1: ass uh, we have a front as it so people
Speaker 1: could come in the building. Also, the people that are
Speaker 1: handicapped or whatever can still come out the same way
Speaker 1: you win in. Oh, got it? Okay, So the front
Speaker 1: entrance is also This is just the information I was
Speaker 1: looking for. Finally, someone who can give me the answers
Speaker 1: that I want. Thank you, just what I wanted to talk.
Speaker 1: I knew you gotta go. It's okay, go go quickly
Speaker 1: because I don't like good bias, hate seeingy leave, but
Speaker 1: I love watching you go. Not like a hervy way,
Speaker 1: just like an exiting pull away. You're like the company
Speaker 1: waste of time. All right, we need to take a
Speaker 1: break right now, but when we come back, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be taking a look at America's entire history of black governors.
Speaker 1: That's right, all four of them. So stick around. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the day show. Tonight, the people of Maryland
Speaker 1: elected Westmore as America's newest black governor, and he joins
Speaker 1: as the latest member of a very small group. For more,
Speaker 1: we turned to Roy Wood Jr. In another episode of
Speaker 1: CP Time. M H, Well, hello, welcome to CEP Time,
Speaker 1: the only show that's for the culture. Today we'll be
Speaker 1: discussing the history of black governors. And I know when
Speaker 1: you think of governors, you think of old white men
Speaker 1: and big man rants with the top hatent that weird monocle,
Speaker 1: just with some glasses. Governor, you can afford the frames,
Speaker 1: But in fact, America has a history of unknown but
Speaker 1: meaningful black governors like Pps pitch Back, America's first black
Speaker 1: governor and the only politician in US history brought to
Speaker 1: you by viewers like you. Pinchback was born in Georgia
Speaker 1: to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner
Speaker 1: who emancipated his baby mama, which would have made for
Speaker 1: one hell of a Maoria episode. During his life, Pitchback,
Speaker 1: who could pass as a white man of Latin descent,
Speaker 1: leaned into his blackness, something that is known today as draking.
Speaker 1: Pitch Back got involved in politics and rose to the
Speaker 1: third highest office in the state of Louisiana, which is
Speaker 1: pro tempt of the Senate, not as some people believe
Speaker 1: the football coach of LL issue. Then, in eighteen seventy two,
Speaker 1: after the Lieutenant governed died and the governor was impeach,
Speaker 1: pitch Back became governor. Because sometimes the best way for
Speaker 1: black people to take power is to just wait for
Speaker 1: somebody else to die. Kamala pinch Back would unfortunately only
Speaker 1: hold the office for thirty five days, but during that
Speaker 1: brief step he enacted ten laws. Proven it's not about
Speaker 1: how long you last, Fellas, it's about how efficient you are.
Speaker 1: Were you in there? And don't let anybody tell you otherwise,
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Speaker 1: After PBS Pinchback's governorship, America would not see another black
Speaker 1: person serving that role for over one hundred years. That
Speaker 1: man would be Douglas Wilder. Wilder grew up in the
Speaker 1: segregated itself of the nineteen thirties. During his time at
Speaker 1: Virginia's Union University, he experienced so much racism working at
Speaker 1: a dinner he considered poison in white people's salads, which
Speaker 1: may sound harsh, but if you order a salad at
Speaker 1: a dinner, you deserve to be poisoned. After graduating, Wilder
Speaker 1: was drafted into the army and served in the Korean War.
Speaker 1: He would go on to win the Bronze Star for
Speaker 1: his heroism during the Battle of pork Chop Hill. Now
Speaker 1: pork Chop Hill, that's what you want to order at
Speaker 1: a dinner, whole big pile of pork chops, saltat and
Speaker 1: butter and garlic, and it's just the graven deepicious. Wilder
Speaker 1: returned to Virginia and got into politics after serving in
Speaker 1: the Virginia Senate. In ninety nine, he became the first
Speaker 1: black person ever elected governor of Virginia, and he owed
Speaker 1: it all to his campaign slogan, don't make me poison
Speaker 1: your salads. Moving on, our next black governor is Deval Patrick.
Speaker 1: Patrick was raised by a single mother on Chicago South
Speaker 1: Side after his father, a jazz musician, left his family.
Speaker 1: Because everybody knows that jazz is all about the kids
Speaker 1: you don't raisee. After graduating from Harvard Law School, the
Speaker 1: vol spent the early eighties working as a lawyer for
Speaker 1: the a c P. During that time, he sued then
Speaker 1: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and impressed him so much during
Speaker 1: the case, Clinton later hired him, which I get you
Speaker 1: etna get jazz beat by somebody playing pick up basketball
Speaker 1: so bad you'd be like, yo, you got to be
Speaker 1: on my team. And then he hates playing with you
Speaker 1: because you gotta bust it knee and a bad heart
Speaker 1: and you won't stop slapping people's asses because that's what
Speaker 1: we did back in the day. It was nothing sexual
Speaker 1: about that call call me back Carl Let's bowl. Anyway.
Speaker 1: After serving and President Clinton's Justice Department, Dvall spent some
Speaker 1: time working in the private sector before returning to politics,
Speaker 1: and in two thousand and six, Davaal became the first
Speaker 1: black governor of Massachusetts, succeeding the whitest governor of Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney. It was like going from watching Frasier to
Speaker 1: the BT Awards. It's jarring. Moving on to our final governor,
Speaker 1: David Patterson, who was not only New York's first black governor,
Speaker 1: but also the first blind governor in American history. He
Speaker 1: was like a political Stevie wonder If you're one of
Speaker 1: those people who actually believe that Stevie Wonders blind, I
Speaker 1: know you can see Stevie. I was at the concert
Speaker 1: in Sevre turning ran from me, I want my money mother.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, then Lieutenant Governor Patterson took
Speaker 1: over the governorship from Elliot Spitzer after Spitzer was disgrace
Speaker 1: from having numerous affairs with high end escorts. But once
Speaker 1: Patterson took office, he proved that black governors could also
Speaker 1: be plagued with scandals. A previous affair with a co
Speaker 1: worker came to light. He was accused of giving jay
Speaker 1: Z a sweetheart investment deal. He was fined for unlawfully
Speaker 1: accepting Yankees World Series tickets. All in all, he was
Speaker 1: having a pretty good time as governor. But that's all
Speaker 1: the black governors we have time to discuss today. There
Speaker 1: there are no more black governors. That was all the
Speaker 1: black governors. Damn black people who produced less governors than
Speaker 1: Predator movies. It tells me two things. One America must
Speaker 1: do better and two I need to watch Predator again.
Speaker 1: That was a damn good movie. This has been CP time.
Speaker 1: And remember before the culture station sex Jimmy, bring him
Speaker 1: out to Fable later. Thank you so much about roy
Speaker 1: or if they choo? Because when we come back, the
Speaker 1: star of The Woman King toots on bad and we'll
Speaker 1: be joining me right here on the show. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm going. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
Speaker 1: guest tonight is an award winning actor. He currently stars
Speaker 1: alongside Viola Davis in the critically acclaimed film The Woman King,
Speaker 1: which is in theaters right now. Please welcome my final
Speaker 1: South African touts bad, he choos it. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: have you here. This is so amazing South African and
Speaker 1: South African look at this, look at this, not just
Speaker 1: the South Africa, South African who is absolutely crushing it
Speaker 1: in everything that you do. Congratulations, congratulations on the woman King.
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone critics nineties something on Rotten Tomorrows. Everybody
Speaker 1: talks about rais about it. It's not an easy film
Speaker 1: to watch again, and it feels like you have the
Speaker 1: snack for not just acting, but portraying a person, a
Speaker 1: moment and a feeling in time that that makes people
Speaker 1: feel like what you do that on purpose, not the
Speaker 1: acting part, but you choose a role because you go like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make people cry with this one. Not cry.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I'm always like back home in South Africa,
Speaker 1: That's what I was known for, and so I am
Speaker 1: actively resisting roles that I, as a character would have
Speaker 1: to cry. And in this one, I loved the fact
Speaker 1: that violets violist aaracter tells my character that you do
Speaker 1: not cry in this space. Absolutely loved it because then
Speaker 1: it means I don't have to cry. Um, But then
Speaker 1: you know, the movie then tells us that, Um, what
Speaker 1: whole I was telling my character is not necessarily true
Speaker 1: because it's taking away her tears means stripping her of
Speaker 1: her humanity ultimately, so um, but yeah, I I choose
Speaker 1: projects that I feel will have some sort of impact.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not following the money, we're following purpose,
Speaker 1: were following changing people's lives. I did drama in high
Speaker 1: school and the university because I wanted to use acting
Speaker 1: as a tool for social change. So yeah, because people
Speaker 1: take for grants and how much it chakee helture, how
Speaker 1: influence to her in through the world, what you doing it?
Speaker 1: This is also a great opportunity for me and for
Speaker 1: you and you you seized it because you know you
Speaker 1: kick ass in this movie literally so like you you
Speaker 1: you fight, yes, and you I don't know how many
Speaker 1: martial arts did you study for that? Like you have
Speaker 1: to go? It was like it was. However, there was
Speaker 1: a range of different things. Um, I got costs, I
Speaker 1: think like April ish pre production training was starting in July,
Speaker 1: so I put myself through more tie between yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: actually doing Actually you're hitting yourself. There's a there's a video.
Speaker 1: You check it out if it's still on your social media.
Speaker 1: It's amazing because you show us the progression. So obviously
Speaker 1: in the movie it's just you like kicks Papa, and
Speaker 1: then you play the video where you start off, and
Speaker 1: it's like beating yourself in the beginning. Why would you
Speaker 1: put yourself through that? You know you can use your
Speaker 1: stunt double right, Okay, wait, Gina, our director does not
Speaker 1: believe in stunt doubles. Yes, number one, and so part
Speaker 1: of our addition for the movie was going through a
Speaker 1: physical and fitness test to determine whether I be able
Speaker 1: to do my own stuns or not. Yeah, so let
Speaker 1: me like, you know how to fight? Now, I like
Speaker 1: to believe. I don't like to be you can fight.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. We were accident and
Speaker 1: cutting the movie, and I think I also I also
Speaker 1: learned from the you know, from talking to some of
Speaker 1: the people who are involved in the movie that you
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite stories from the film.
Speaker 1: Everyone had to do. I think it was two hours
Speaker 1: of training. Two hours of training. You then said no,
Speaker 1: I would like to do three hours. An extra hour Yeah, okay, naturally,
Speaker 1: but then because of that, the director was like, that's
Speaker 1: actually a great idea. Everyone should do three hours. It
Speaker 1: was not bad. Already read already No man, guys, no understand,
Speaker 1: you know it was We're all new too, stunts and action.
Speaker 1: And you know, I have great confidence in the amount
Speaker 1: of time that I put into my acting, into the
Speaker 1: research and the conversations and the rehearb and the rehearsals,
Speaker 1: and so let's say my acting, I was up here.
Speaker 1: I needed my stunts to be at least, you know,
Speaker 1: in the vicinity. But then you became that kid in class.
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember in school, and you know the
Speaker 1: kids I'm talking about. You become in that kid in
Speaker 1: class where sometimes a less would end and then the
Speaker 1: teacher will be like, okay, everybody goes, and then that
Speaker 1: kid who goes like, sir, you didn't give us homework extra.
Speaker 1: I mean, it came out great in the movie, but
Speaker 1: there must have been a moment where people like Tu
Speaker 1: Sauna come on before that. You want to talk about
Speaker 1: the projects that you're embarking on now, because it's one
Speaker 1: thing to perform in front of the camera, you know,
Speaker 1: it's another to to cement yourself in an industry. But
Speaker 1: you've really jumped, you know, from from strength to strength.
Speaker 1: You've got an entire production deal with Paramount Plus now
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be working on your own productions, which
Speaker 1: I know you're really passionate about. I'd love to know
Speaker 1: what you would dream of creating you could you know,
Speaker 1: not the specific stories, but what are you trying to
Speaker 1: create in the world where you are the teller of
Speaker 1: the story versus just the person who's in it. I
Speaker 1: think more than anything, you know, I wanna create the
Speaker 1: stories that are innately on us because growing up and
Speaker 1: being in this industry, one you believe that you can
Speaker 1: be anything until you get to the industryand they tell
Speaker 1: you know you can't. And so what are those stories?
Speaker 1: And like with the Paramount Plus deal, we're specifically focusing
Speaker 1: on health, climate, and equity as part of their social
Speaker 1: impact initiatives and taking that to South Africa and Africa,
Speaker 1: and so those are stories that will transform people's thinking
Speaker 1: because from my understanding and from what I've experienced back home,
Speaker 1: is they're very keen on commissioning projects that will encourage
Speaker 1: destructive behavior but aren't necessarily teaching people how to transform
Speaker 1: and empower their lives. And so if we can come
Speaker 1: with those stories that are both entertaining and teaching people
Speaker 1: to do better and be better. Then I'm all the
Speaker 1: happier for it, because then otherwise why are we doing this?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, I really love the teplation. Thank you,
Speaker 1: which it's been beautifully to work your join have seen
Speaker 1: you act and and do the best and just kick ass.
Speaker 1: I've seen you kick ass in all martial arts, including
Speaker 1: yourself and the other people. Um, I truly believe and
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll be wrong in this. You're gonna
Speaker 1: a guest and everything your production company, the work you're
Speaker 1: doing in South Africa, everything you do going forward. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining me with let me can
Speaker 1: see your job absolutely cos she's saying better everybody. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take the quick rights right back after this. Thank
Speaker 1: you a working well, let's stop shop to my Thank
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