WEBVTT - KeKe Palmer Interview 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:08.200 Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast morning. Everybody is 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.160 DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We all the 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.600 breakfast club. We have a young lady who came here 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:21.000 this morning. No security, no press. She's not young, no, 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:22.720 no man has been, no nothing. She was out there. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.200 I didn't know who she was, what her mama, hem 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.000 wasn't even she beat her mom in here. No, my 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.280 mama was here and she's standing right behind you. I 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.080 know that's the best security. Yeah, she's not young, no more. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.400 By the way, she's twenty one. Miss Kiki Parma. Would 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:42.040 you like some remy remy? Oh you're not in front 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.720 of mom. Okay, she's got work to do today. It's 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.400 early in the morning. My bad. What's going on, Kiki? 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.519 Nothing much, just working out here promoting brotherly love. I 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.720 saw it, by the way. I love that movie. Yes, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.680 I thought it was great. So I'm so glad. I'm 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.160 so glad you did that fantastic job in that movie. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.160 Thank you. I feel like I know you've been doing 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:03.880 a lot though you've been super busy. You got your 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.000 on talk show just kicking money out, and you got 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:12.240 a TV show coming yet Fox giving black people shows 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.160 like It's the Night. No, I retweeted you when you 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.640 said that because they had me cracking. Did they do 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.880 that after Empire or you had that already? No, it 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.920 was after Empire, but it's Ryan Murphy. But the show 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.000 is not like Empire at all. It's very different. It's 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.920 Ryan Murphy, so they do a lot of business with him. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.679 So it just was, you know, ironic. It's like a 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.720 horror movie horror TV shows. Yes, it's like American horror 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.920 stories I would say, mixed with mean girls. So you 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.040 get like a little bit of the girl Caddy is 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.240 comedy from that type of film, and then also you 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.560 get the gore from like American horns. So you're killing people. No, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:43.920 I mean, I don't know if I'm the killer. I 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:45.959 don't know what's going I don't know what what's gonna happen. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.200 Don't tell They don't tell us. They don't tell us either. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.960 It's crazy and I'm always trying to figure it out. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:51.960 But Ryan, don't tell me. It is using you for promo. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.960 They're gonna kill you first episode. You're black, you dieing 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.480 hard movies and TV show that's not that's not what 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.240 happens now. With black individuals and movies and Black Boy. Yeah, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:07.560 with the successive Empire, successive Empire, you last, right, Yeah, 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.560 talk about brotherly love. We didn't see it, but we're 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.480 hearing this pretty good. Yes, we did well. One of 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.040 us did. One of us did. Yeah. Yeah. No, I 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.880 was very, very simple. I was like, I didn't be surprised. Huh. No, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.280 I didn't know what the movie was gonna be about. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.000 Number one. I was surprised because it's the first time 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.800 Team Quincy act in the movie. So I didn't know 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.880 how that Ny killer. He did a great job because 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.600 I didn't know we could act either. When he called 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.440 me and told me, I said, all this movie about it. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.480 I'm not gonna lie because you're like, Okay. I never 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.440 knew him to act in my entire I've known him 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.360 for very I know the sweet was kids. So I'm like, 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.359 he camed to him something, I want to introduce myself 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.359 as Chris. I'm like, what the hell. Then I'm like, oh, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.960 he about to be in the movie. And I was like, Oh, 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.960 we're gonna see what's gonna be up with this? And 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.480 then when we got there, I was for real blown away, 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.359 like wow, he was telling me how he had started 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.280 acting and really started focusing on I'm like, dude, you 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.840 really gonna it was He's really good in the film. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.760 And then Eric Hill was really good. I never yeah 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.840 he was. He's kind of new to Eric is one 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.000 of the main characters also, And that's why I feel 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.040 like everything with the movie was just faded to happen 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:09.040 that way because everything that wasn't supposed to happen happen. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.519 We were able to get out there to start work 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.600 and we know we're gonna have the funds. Then we 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.800 found all the right characters. The casting was done properly. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.280 Shout outs to Kim Hard. I mean, everything went so 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.880 so fluently, and it was in Failing. You guys filmed 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.440 in Philly. And how long did it take to do 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.359 the whole movie? Oh, we filmed it very quickly, maybe 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.920 like twenty six days. That's crazy. Yeah, it was. It 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.520 was a quick shoe. It was a quick shoe. But 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.400 we all had such a good time. It felt like 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:34.800 we were out there having like a little party. And 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.760 I never knew Philly was so cool to like being 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.160 and chilling. I like Philly. I used to do radio there. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.560 But you you was just in the right place you 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.840 go torough the hood. You that got shot, he was 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.480 not getting shot in the hood. Okay, it's been much 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.440 more innocent people than keeping but you know it's great. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.320 They did really have some nice to feel like it's 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.640 bulls you always. They mentioned that black thought was in 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.640 the movie. Yeah, we were trying to use like little 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.880 working like John Yea, all this stuff like that. We 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.200 tried to make sure we gave it the authentic, authentic 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.000 Philly vibe because the director and the writer is from 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.920 Philly and we were in Philly. So we wanted to 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.520 make sure, even though we weren't from Philly, that we 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.160 made it. You know, did I put our best foot forward? 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.120 You know? That's it weird like making out with Quincy 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.800 and steps since y'all with friends since you were little. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.920 It was very weird. It was very weird to us. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.240 It was very weird to us because you want to 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.240 especially when you're cool with somebody, you don't want to 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.159 be looking like you're doing too much on screen. You 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.560 don't want to be like, you know, doing too much. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.840 So we tried to find a balance between making sure 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.440 we had that passion but still was laid back and 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:41.159 cool in it. Yes it. No, I'm kidding, I'm excited 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.040 about that. I can't say that was excited, but I 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.240 definitely like shout out, queens, you got me, you know 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.920 you got you got me a nice looking dude, because 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.680 Quincy is not bad on the eye scenes though, it's 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.960 like like do guys get like hard? Sorry, Mom, No, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:59.960 She's like, you get mois um. You know, Mom's like, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.760 let me because this is the thing about it, when 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.039 you were think in your mind naturally, Like, you know, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.640 even when I did TLC with Evan, I used to 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.279 have the biggest crush on every I mean I was, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.440 hold on, hold on, he's married. Now you know you 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:19.160 got trouble that before? Man, don't tell me, let me. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.440 You know, I had a big, the biggest crush on Evan, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.800 right and when I it was so funny because clearly 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.600 I had gotten over the crush as I grew up 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.120 and you know, had my own life and my own relationships. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:32.839 And when I did tell see me, I'm like, wow. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.680 I even called my sister like, girl, you've been all 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.799 them years. I loved Evan and now I'm actually about 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.000 to do all the you know, makeout scenes with him 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.080 because it's too awkward. It's not. You got people looking 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.680 at you, you know, you in each other's face, poles 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.000 trying to make sure you getting the right thing. It's 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.680 just it's weird. You're still line the mama telling you 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.400 a virgin maybe so you you know, she said, my mama, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.160 noma s my mom talking about everything. And you had 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:06.200 a living boyfriend before anyway, So really a girl living 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.000 a life and doing her thing, living boyfriend. She talks 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.760 about it. When she was here, I talked about it 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.760 in my essence all this. I drink heavy. I don't 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.880 remembering this stuff. But now you're a single, right, yeah, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.400 I'm single? Now? Okay she's single? Oh man, I got 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.279 a good m F Mary Kill for you too. What's this? Okay? Okay, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.200 who's okay? Then this is how I'm gonna really tell, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:27.920 because you know everybody's I was like, oh, she's didating 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.880 this person. No she's not. She's diding this person, No 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.600 she's not. So now I'm gona really be able to 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.560 tell where your head is at. Okay, Okay, let's do it. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:39.280 Let's all right, F Mary Kill, little little Dirk yg 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:45.120 and august I sena okay, little Dirk Mary. Oh so 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.760 because that's just seeing him. The other day, Mary killed that. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.320 I ain't got that Mary, little Dirk. Okay, um, who's 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.479 the next person? He said, August, I's seen it, And YG, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:03.839 who are you killing? Oh? You know, we need another option. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.000 We don't have to kill them. You have to kill 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.840 one of them, not killing the literal sense, just you know, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.080 you're dead to me. Okay, okay, okay, okay, you're dead 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.280 to me. Yeah, but this person is not dead to me. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.640 But this is the only choice that I have, Oh, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.000 Doc going, Okay, I dead to me. I guess it 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.680 would have to be YG. I don't mean this, but 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.040 this is the game, the game, so maybe that will 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.160 be Maybe that will be killed. But he's about any 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:34.800 day now. We don't want nobody coming for you. Yeah, 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.480 we're really cool. No, we're really cool friends now, but 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.720 it's not like that. You know, man, Hollywood. You know 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.640 how Hollywood always try to make whoever you hanging with, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.760 that's got to be the person you're dating. You're with them, 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.400 y'all ride to die. Y'all got a fool dang gonna 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.880 love story that you never even knew before the end 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.800 of the week. So for me, it's just like you know, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.320 every now and then, I do a little dating here 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:54.880 and there. But I'm I don't do a lot of 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.280 dating in the industry because it's not as it's not 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.160 as a relaxed as people thinking is. People don't immediately think, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.400 let me date my you know, successful counterpart or because 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.760 you can't go anywhere without being harassing and pictures and 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.559 people commenting. It just seems like business with all guests 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.680 and like, oh he makes some great chicken. People went 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.640 crazy over that. But I would admit that was a 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.280 little bit funny though. Man just frying, no girl, no chicken. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:27.240 You know, Okay, no, but he's from New Orleans, y'all. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.240 He from New Orleans. You know how guys in New Orleans, 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.480 but they'd be cooking, they'd be ready to show off. Okay, 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:36.640 you scream married a little Dirk immediately that nobody tell you. No, 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.760 I would tell you that means he's telling you love 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.640 because he's a real dude. I mean, not that the 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.160 other guy's on the real dude. But you know, Dirk 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.440 is not petty, he's not gossipy, he's not I mean, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.520 anytime I have a conversation with him, he's just about 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.960 doing right for his kids, staying focused right and all 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.559 the time, like god bless. Like he's just really very chill. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.920 He's very chilly and nice person. We're both from Chicago, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.840 so I think maybe we both see, you know, maybe 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.400 we have the same mentality. I don't know what it be, okay, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.440 but he's a real good guy, so some potential there. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.840 Maybe I'm not, you know, I always say never say never. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.720 Got Brandy answer man, she wants your faith, you know. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.960 I don't really don't know what happened with that, to 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:19.800 be honest with you. I think a lot of times 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.240 with social media again, people will see one little sound 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.640 by the one little thing and they immediately, you know, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.800 add something to it. Who knows what somebody could have 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.679 sent her and showed her. She probably didn't see the 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.520 interview personally, and then she went back and looked at 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.240 it and was like, Okay, it wasn't like what people 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.120 made it seem like, yeah, exactly. And for me, it's 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.520 just like, I don't be I'm not the type of 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.640 I mean, look, you can't prove yourself to people. So 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.040 when stuff like that happens, what can you say. I'm 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:44.480 not trying to steal nobody's husband, right, that looks crazy 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.520 ready to go, And that's another thing. And plus, let's 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.440 be real, I grew up watching sister's sister, so to 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.400 you know me, even if I was just crazy, type 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.880 of hussy or whatever you want to call it, I 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.520 wouldn't be trying to steal one of my inspirations husband. 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.240 I mean, somebody I don't even grow up watching. I 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.200 just put out a statement. She cleared it up. She said, 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.040 y'all didn't have no be Oh good. I didn't even 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.559 see that, but I mean we definitely talked. We definitely probably, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.000 like you know, always have talked and always been cool. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.440 So when that happened, I'm like, yo, you know, at 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.800 the end of the day, I love God, love for 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.880 you and everything like that. So we you know, when 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.760 I see Corey Herd, I wanted to ask him about it, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.120 but he scared me so much in the movie, I 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.400 ain't want to ask Y. Corey definitely can put on 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.720 this demeaner thing. You'd be like, oh, let me back, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.960 let me back back. I want to do no problem, girl, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.520 girl girl. In that movie, he really did. He really 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.160 did the thing in that movie. I feel really cool 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.079 because people get to see a side of him that 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:36.920 they never seen before. Right, that's what he was saying. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.600 I usually get to see him in the you know, 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.520 action flicks whatever like that. You never get to see him. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.719 They don't get you do black movies. Really, what he 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.120 said and brotherly love. To me, I will be honest, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.600 it's all black class, But to me, it's not like 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.560 just a black movie. It has such a strong message 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:52.840 to it, you know what I mean? That could relate 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.520 to anybody of any race, of any environment setting, whatever 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.120 you want to call it. If you're a fan of sports, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.079 that's something that you could watch fall and love you're 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.680 trying to make make sure your family's taken care of you. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.040 Everybody could relate to those type of issues, right, middle class, 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.800 you know the class absolutely absolutely was you surprised at 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.880 the ending? I definitely was. And we can't say nothing 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.480 about it because they told me to not even say 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.560 it was a twist, but I guess there is. But yeah, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.920 I mean it's you know, it's a little shakespeareance, you know, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.120 hood love. Now, you haven't slowed down and taking a 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.920 break at all, and you've been doing so much since 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.920 you've been how old years old do you ever say, okay, 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.240 who I makes us that I just need to you know. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.600 You know sometimes I do say that. Sometimes I do 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.400 say that, but then in my heart it's like, look, baby, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.720 we gotta keep on moving. We gotta keep on moving. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.800 You got ideas in my mind, I'm always thinking, thinking, thinking, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.720 thinking about different things. And so for me, it's like 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.400 I just want to put all that out into the 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.640 world and just use my gifts. You know what I'm saying, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.880 Um give them away as much as I can. And 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.880 so you know, it's important to take a break every 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.160 now one theay because you gotta recharge and stuff. But 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.680 you know, I do find it to be hard for 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.880 me because I do have a high you know, drive 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.160 right music at the end and having a daily tuck 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.960 show that had to be really exhausting. Yeah. Just I'm 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.080 getting ready to start that May fifteenth, we start shooting 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.240 in La all right. Now, you know what Elside was 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.080 thinking about. Huh, you gotta say something. I'm just looking 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:17.560 at your feet. No, they don't hurt. I just hate shoes. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.319 Shoes up. I ain't got none, neither with your boyfriends 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:28.000 and fight them. You know, It's really true. I've always 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:34.320 been very happy I've always been very heavy. That's so 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.840 brit Save. But you know what people tell me, that's 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.440 a Chicago chick thing. I'm like, is it? I have 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.320 no idea, but I'm very like it, like if I 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:47.640 like somebody like, So what you're doing? She don't just 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.000 got him off. She got her feet, ripping, the dripping, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:59.280 the bottom of the girl chilling boom. That wasn't right there. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.880 You know, you know your blood what is that thinking 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.360 back then? Oh? Yeah, you're a blood your girlhood mama. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.800 You know your daughter was a block. That's why she said. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:14.320 I know from Robin's mother, you'll stand up. No numb. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:20.480 Are you from in Chicago? So it's what street? No, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.360 I get out of here. I'm from the South suburb, 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.000 so I'm not from the city from angl No, I'm 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.679 from Robbin's. They're like Harvey, it's real country town. Okay, Well, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.840 now let's talk about that talk show because I feel 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.319 like when you started doing that, that's when people really 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.319 started just responding so much more to you as an adult. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.080 But I'm sure for you, your opinion got held so 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.280 much more weight than it used to, and then you 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.240 had to really defend yourself a lot did you feel 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.080 like when you started doing that show. I feel like 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.439 in general, you know, first of all, whenever you're you're 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.360 an entertainer of celebrity, whatever it is, whatever you get 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.600 popular for or whatever people start noticing you for, they 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.400 want you to stay. It's just how human mind works. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.440 We want whatever we know something to be We wanted 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.960 to always stay that way. But especially for me, because 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.760 I started as a kid, I can't stay that way. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.880 It's impossible for me to keep playing children roles if 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.400 I'm a grown woman. And so it came upoint in 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.000 my life where it's like, look, I want to make 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.320 sure it's a slow and easy transition. I'm not trying 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.880 to be like, okay, doing the most you know, different 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.559 thing from what they know. But I wanted to be 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.080 a slow, gradual climb. That's like with films like Brotherly 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:22.880 Love or with Joyful Noise or whatever it was. I 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.480 always wanted to try to show myself coming of age 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.720 in the film, so it would be a gradual thing 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.360 when I did, finally, you know, you know, people would 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.000 finally be able to see that, Okay, I'm not a 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.040 kid anymore, you know me, I am a grown woman. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.960 But it's been it's been a different transition for me, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.360 you know what I mean. Like you put a picture 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.240 up and you had a piercing and people that she's 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.080 a thought And that was so interesting to me too, 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:49.000 because for me, it's like I'm not doing anything that 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.240 any other normal eighteen nineteen year old would do. I 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.600 like piercing. So yeah, I'll give my eyebrow Piers. I 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.560 get my nose Piers, I get my tongue Piers. Whatever 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.120 I wanted to do, I'm gonna do that. It's the 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.840 way I expressed myself. People also don't understand I am 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.320 an actress, so I don't ever get to be myself. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.520 Especially when I was doing Broadway at that time, I 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.080 spent the whole entire four months being Cinderella. I'm talking 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.560 about eight shows a week, two two shows on some days, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.320 you know what I'm saying. Like it was a crazy schedule. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.480 So when I when I wasn't sleeping, I was on 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.160 stage being somebody that wasn't me, and that can be stressful. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.040 So when you're done with that, yeah, you're gonna break clues. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.360 You're gonna have something. I wanted to get my nose, people, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:27.800 I want to get this done. I want to get 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.360 my hair, you know. So it's like you have to 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.440 live your life for you and I had to. Really 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.320 that was a really big time for me of understanding 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.040 what that meant because it did hurt my fellows when 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:40.240 people say, it's like, y'all see me too. I'm always professional, 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.160 show up on time, punctual, take care of my career 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.000 and everything, like I spell really well, you know. And 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.200 it's like people still want to want to find a 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.320 way to change it or whatever it is they want 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.960 to do, but that but it has nothing to do 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.120 with you, you know, it has something to do with them. 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:55.880 It seems like you get a lot of flak oh 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.960 when you speak out about social issues, like issues affecting 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.000 the black community, especially during the Mike Brown situation. Why 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:03.720 do you think that is? I think it's just like 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.000 your family members, right, so you have I think a 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.880 lot of times people see me is that because they've 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.480 seen me grow up since I was you know, they 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.640 see me grow up. So for them, it's a situation 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.480 like if you know little T T, little T T T, 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:19.120 what you know about makes you an authority, And I 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.560 think that's all that it is. It's like people just 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.680 have to get used to me not being a kid anymore. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.600 And that's not nothing I can force anybody to do. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.880 It's just over the course of time, you see the 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.280 work that I do, you'll be able to see, you know, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.000 whatever did you choose to see? So for me, like, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.760 that's why it's so important for me to just focus 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.240 on what I'm doing and I worry about that stuff 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.120 because that is what it's like. It's like people see 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.440 their little niece or their little cus or they little 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.960 sizzin like she don't know. And not only that, you know, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.400 I think you know, people say, well, damn, she's been 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.160 a star for a while. That too, she ain't grow 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:49.880 up in the struggles. She don't know what it feels 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.440 like to be in the hoods or you know, how 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.760 is she speaking for us? And that's really important to 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.000 me too. That's why I'm writing my first book right now. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.080 And I and it's like everybody has struggle. Everybody struggle 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.520 comes in different forms. Okay, I mean I grew up 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.879 in a home where I was the financial breadwinner. It's like, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.240 imagine what that dynamic was like. That's not something that 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:13.080 anybody you know, I mean, that's not something anybody. I mean, 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.840 that's just the facts of you know what I mean. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.520 You know, I made so much money that there was 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.080 no reason for my parents to work. Well, that shifts 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.320 the family dynamics, or the fact that I was all. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.160 I gave up my entire childhood to be an actor. Now, yeah, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.800 I got something wonderful in return, But imagine what that 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:30.800 might have felt like when I'm filming a movie and 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.080 I can't see any of my friends. You know, all 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.520 most of the films I did were with adults. But 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.320 that's so true because that is how it's people, is 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.480 how it sounds. But my my real point is to 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.919 say everybody has struggles in a different form. No, you 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.919 don't have to cry about mine, but we can relate 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.080 about ours. True, we don't have to be sad about it. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.919 But understand, I know where you're coming from. A lot 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.719 of these child actors end up going crazy too, you know, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.560 and it's and it's in a lot of people go 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.000 crazy in general. But you don't really see anybody else 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.800 go crazy or quote unquote I should say crazy, other 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.520 than a child actor. And what is exactly crazy? Because 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.240 somebody is different from what you knew them to be 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:09.720 you know what I'm saying, Like if all of a 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.040 sudden stopped dressing like how I do now, and all 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.199 of a sudden start dressing like lista bonnet, but then 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.199 you know you do he as crazy. It's different from 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.440 what people see you do. Hear a lot of tragic 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.919 stories though, Like about child stars. I mean they do 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.160