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These 40 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: are my passions, and that's what I'm going to do 41 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: for you. If you listen, if you believe and understand, 42 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: I want you to stop tripping over small challenges and 43 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: prepare the rise of both the bigger ospital obstacles that 44 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: life present to you. The Money Making Conversation interviews provide 45 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: relatable information to the listener about career and financial planning, entrepreneurship, motivation, leadership, 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: overcoming the arts, and how to live a balanced life. 47 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: My next guest is a self proclaimed original bad girl 48 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: of comedy. You have seen her in A Sorry Born, 49 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: A Star Is Born, where she shared the screen with 50 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Dolan. Night is My Name, 51 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: starring comedy legend Eddie Murphy. She's also part of the 52 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: cast of Coming to America Too, appearing in the sequel. 53 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: I got the hook up to my main master, Pete 54 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: plus a new Showtime comedy special which I just really 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: saw and laughed my butt off called Funny Women of 56 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: a Certain Age, And she was in two of my 57 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: movies that I executed to produce, Thinking Like a Man 58 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: and Thinking Like a Man Too. Please walking to money 59 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: making conversation for the very first time. Lou Nell, Hey, 60 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: how you doing that? Lou Nell? Hey, listen, I gotta 61 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: clarify something. Though I'm not self proclaimed the original backgirl 62 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: of comedy, that nickname was given to me. Never be 63 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: so cocky is to say that, but that name was 64 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: given to me. Well, let's talk about that. What does 65 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: that mean when you say the original bad girl of 66 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: comedy that was given to you? What were you doing 67 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: that made you get that name? Well? Rick Sullivan, who 68 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: was a comedy promoter back California. Yeah, Rick gave me 69 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: that name many many years ago. And I guess he 70 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: gave it to me because, you know, um, well, several 71 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: reasons I was a bad girl. I was that girl. 72 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: Um Physically, you know, I used to do a lot 73 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: of little bar sites like that, I was clipped quick, 74 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: the slap that they said something wrong back in the day. 75 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: I've calmed my sugar hand now. And but also because 76 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: I was really really, um, I guess bold in my 77 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: statements and my delivery back in the day. And there 78 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot of women who were talking as 79 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: reckless as I was then that you know, there was 80 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 1: there was those people who had um very um direct 81 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: uh opinions of course, you know, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 82 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: that's what I remember about you. You know you you 83 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: hit that stage. You were short, but you are a 84 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: dynamite you d You're a powder kid out there and 85 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: you and and then and you know you command the 86 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: stage too. You always could. Plus you had that gravelly 87 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: voice which made people listen to you. And you and 88 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: you are you are a character and it really always 89 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: like say, the interesting thing about it is that, uh, 90 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I've I've watched your career. You know, I 91 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: lived in l A from nineteen ninety have finally moved 92 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: to law to New York in two thousand and five, 93 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: and I started managing Steve Harving two thousand, so I 94 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: got I get to I got to see your career, 95 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: just like I got to see Kevin Hard's career. In 96 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: a lot of talented people who are who have risen 97 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: to two levels that they are just exploding and really 98 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 1: popular and recognizable not only just in social media but 99 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: on television. And so you know, when I when I 100 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: reached out to my staff to say I want to 101 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: interview through now you know it's it. You know it 102 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: wasn't about that. I've never talked to you or I 103 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: never never sat down, and you never shook your hand. 104 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: It's just if I've always been a fan of what 105 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: you are accomplishing and who what you represent and you 106 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: represent on stage to me honesty. Well, I thank you 107 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: for that, because I do try to keep it honest. 108 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: It's just easier to be honest than it is to 109 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: be fake and a liar. It's just easier to be 110 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: that in my real life and in my stage persona. 111 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: I've never been a jokey, joke type of comic. I 112 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: don't tell jokes like Michael Collyer, I think is the 113 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: king of joke telling, but I don't. I don't tell jokes. 114 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: I tell stories like Osby and like George Cornelin and 115 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: stuff like that. And so that's why it's always been 116 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: hard for me to do something like Our Senio or 117 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: or or something where I have to be on network television, 118 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: my house six minutes, my setups might take sit right right. Yeah, 119 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: that's been difficult for me, but I was able to 120 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 1: do it because you know, when you're presented with a challenge, 121 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: you you need to step up and do it. I 122 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: have been able to do it, but it's it's difficult 123 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: for me. Well, the thing about it is that how 124 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: do you help? Isn't as an actors? Why would you describe? 125 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: You said, are you a character actress or your comedic 126 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: actress or what type of actress are you? I'm basically 127 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: a comedic actress. But I did a lot of theater 128 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: before I ever did film and television. So I have 129 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: done musicals and I have done dramatic acting, and I 130 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: there's only one movie I think I've done where I 131 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: really was straight dramatic and not comedic at all, and 132 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: that was Never Die Alone. Robbie Reid cast me and 133 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: Never Die Alone with DMX. You know, d MS is 134 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: no joke, and so that was all about drugs and 135 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: murder and stuff like that. So I never did any 136 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: comedy in that. But I caught myself a comedic actress 137 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: because it's just my mind is wired so that I 138 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: see the humor and a lot of things and that's 139 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: my comfort zone. But I'm sure that at some point 140 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: in time my career, I will be approached to do 141 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: dramatic acting again. And I always have the problem. I 142 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: think that if I go too deep that I may 143 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: not come back out. You know, if I had to 144 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: uh playing you know, if I had to do something 145 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: and like Selma, or if I had to do something 146 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: and uh like you know, Roots or something like that, 147 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: I think it would be difficult for me to go 148 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: home and turn that off at night, you know, right 149 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: right right, They can get too deep into the character 150 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: speaking to lout Nell. Uh, the original Bad Girl comedy. Um, 151 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: she started in such movies that you are familiar with 152 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: the stars born Ladies guy Guy Bradley Cooper in an 153 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: incredible movie Dolma Is My Name, Eddie Murphy. I love 154 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: that Movie're gonna talk about that in a minute. And 155 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: coming into the much anticipated Coming to America too. Uh, 156 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: you never left the stage as a stand up. You 157 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: have a comedy special that you can catch right now 158 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: with the call the Funny Funny Women of a Certain Age. 159 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: That's and you have a couple of movies that are 160 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: come up as well. Let's talk. Let's go back and 161 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: talk about see to me, you just naturally funny to me. 162 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: So if somebody gives you a serious line, the way 163 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: you just twitch words where you look, it can come 164 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: out funny. And so so you're telling me that when 165 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: you were cast on in The Stars Born. You were 166 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: casting for comedy Relief. Now, if you remember, I only 167 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: really had about seven seconds of screen trying and the 168 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: Stars Born. And that was strictly because I have a 169 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: relationship with Bradley Cooper and he said, you know, I 170 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: want to throw you mail in him Bradley want Bradley 171 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: loved comedians. I mean there was Andrew d Clay was 172 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: in that, and myself and Eddie Griffin, right, So it 173 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: was just a little quick cameo. You know. I wasn't 174 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: I definitely wasn't put in there for comic relief because 175 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: I wasn't in there long enough. But most of the 176 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: pictures that I do get cast, and that's that's what 177 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: I'm there. I'm gonna just tell you this. I wasn't 178 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: in the movie. There's a whole lot of people went 179 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: in there for one second and the star is boring Dough. Now, Okay, 180 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: you were in the movie. Okay, and and and got 181 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:14,719 Speaker 1: a credit in the movie. And I guess what, I 182 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: saw you in the movie. Because I saw the movie 183 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: three times. I wanted these people. I see the beginning 184 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: of it, that I see the middle, that I catched 185 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: the end and then I come back and see the 186 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: whole movie and go, wow, I missed that part. So 187 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: I saw you in the movie. And so I always 188 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: tell me one thing I always knew about you, even 189 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: though you never spoke to me. You never saw me. 190 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: I saw a humble person. Did I Did I misread you? No, 191 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: you didn't misread me. Um. And I think that one 192 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: of the only reasons that we really never spoke be 193 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: sinnd it because whenever I saw you, most of the time, 194 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: you were so immersed in the steve or you know, 195 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: comedy and I would be backstage and it ain't like listen, 196 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: it ain't you didn't talk to me either. It wasn't like, 197 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: you know, you ignored me. But there was just so 198 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: much around them at the moment that there wasn't time 199 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: for us to click. I I know that, Um, you know, 200 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: it's easiest for me to be in the comedy zone. 201 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: I know that I can do dramatic acting because like 202 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: I said, I did see them before I ever did 203 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 1: um anything else. Yes, but my my, uh, you know, 204 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: A Star is Born, I was in two Academy Award 205 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: nominated films. A Star Is Born was nominated for the 206 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: Academy Award. I was able to go to the Golden Glows. 207 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: I was able to go to the Stack one, and 208 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: so was Borat. You know, people forget about to us 209 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: about that because that's really your big moment, right Well yeah, 210 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: but black black people didn't latch on the boat and 211 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: still have not the subside, but most didn't. That was 212 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: like a big thing, you know. That got me a 213 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: lot of attention in Europe and stuff like that because 214 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:10,599 Speaker 1: Sasha being from you know, uh, London, I believe, um, 215 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, was really big with the whole Ali g 216 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: thing and everything like that. Close on the same time 217 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: that Bora I came out, I was on tour with 218 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:25,119 Speaker 1: Cat Williams. So it's like I had a black audience 219 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: that I had this white one, and then I'm just 220 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: saying that was about doing bor At. Was that six 221 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: months after the film came out, I was under guig order. 222 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: I couldn't tell nobody that I wasn't the Protestant too, 223 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: because I would reach my contract and here in l A, 224 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 1: you could be talking to anybody in the bar and 225 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: you say like that, what you don't know is they 226 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: worked for the movie company or they sleeping When somebody 227 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: worked for mo coming in the tail and then you 228 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: know you're in trouble. So for six months when I 229 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: went out, there was people who see me in the 230 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: bar to be like and you can't deny it, right, 231 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: That's amazing that I also didn't get to do any 232 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: of the promotional stuff. Siser and Ken Davindian, who played 233 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: they got to go on you know, Jay Leno, they 234 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: got to go on and there, They got to go 235 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: on that and talk about the movie. And I didn't 236 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: get to do any of that stuff. So I could 237 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: have been that had my quote unquote Tiffany had this moment. 238 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: But I get I got shut down a couple of times. 239 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: You know we're gonna be right back when we come back. 240 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: I saw you when you did your appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, Okay, 241 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: when you walk out there, and I want to talk 242 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: about that because it's amazing. My My life is such 243 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: a cool life. I get to see people and to 244 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: see them grow, and I can see the seed I could. 245 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: I can remember just watching Kevin Hodge just go from 246 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: stage and stage and stage and stage and stage, and 247 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: and watching you and and this many other comedians. I 248 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: did Deaf Company jam with Dave Chappelle. It's it's just 249 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: looking at life in the and you are living the life, 250 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: young lady, despite these pandemic times. When we come back, 251 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna speak more about a career, more about this 252 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: platinum long hair, these manicured long nails. 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I have Lunelle, fabulous stand up comedian I've 290 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: followed and looked at over the years and watched the 291 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: career blossom. And last year, uh, the great movie came 292 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: out called Dolan Is My Name, starring my man Eddie Murphy. 293 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: Uh Uh. It's kind of interesting because I'm a former 294 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: stand up comedian, so Dolomite had an impact on me, 295 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: and so so watching that movie is almost kind of 296 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: like watching a bit of my life because I know 297 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: where I met Dolomite. I performed with Dolomite, and so 298 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: he had a place in my heart and and I 299 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: got to grow, and then I got to see you, 300 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: Lunelle performing a very very funny character, uh, opposite Eddie 301 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: Murphy and hold your own when you go. Eddie Murphy's 302 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: kind of like the Michael Jordan's and a comedy to me. Okay, 303 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: so when you're sharing the screen with somebody like Eddie Murphy, 304 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: do you what are your thoughts when you when you 305 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: get catching a role like that? Do you are you nervous? 306 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: Do you feel you have to step off? Do you 307 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: do you what? What? What are your thoughts right there? 308 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: Lou new Well, I must say that had I not 309 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: already had a relationship with Eddie, it would have been 310 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: a total mind mind you know what I'm saying, because 311 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: he is the goat. Like for me, there's Richard and 312 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: there's Eddie in that order, and then there's everybody that. Um, 313 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,640 Speaker 1: I knew Eddie socially. I had been the parties with 314 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: Eddie and stuff like that. And Eddie knew me because 315 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: I was very good friends with Charlie, Charlie Rest in Peace, 316 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: Charlie Back, Charlie and I made movie together, Charlie and 317 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 1: I did projects together. Charlie and I, you know, would 318 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: kick it together. I went to see him during the 319 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: Black and Brown comedy get Down with him and g 320 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: l and Joyde's Lopez and said, and um, you know, 321 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 1: so Eddie knew knew me like for years, and I 322 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 1: even have pictures here in the house with me and 323 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: Eddie and all of that. Also, I knew Rudy as well. 324 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: I just was had in my hand the Rudy Raymore 325 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: Dolomite bobo head that Rudy gave me. Rudy gave me 326 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: a Baba Head. He gave me a backscratcher. He gave 327 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: me some albums that were raided five X like not 328 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: triple eggs like five x. And he gave me his 329 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: whole video collection. Pete Wee Straw, The Devil, Sun Law, 330 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: and Dolomite Is My Name, I mean Dolomite and um, 331 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: you know the like three others. So one of the 332 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: things I knew for a fact is that Rudy did 333 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: not want to be forgotten, you know. And my agent 334 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: came to me and was like, I got audition for 335 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: you today and the movie is called Dolomite is My Name? 336 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: And I said, Dolomite making a movie about do mate? 337 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: Is this for reality seri? And they were like that 338 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: and um. Then they told me that it started Eddie 339 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: Murphy and I was like, get out of here. I know, 340 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get to work with Eddie. Like come on, 341 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: y'all just churking my chain. You must just have people 342 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,919 Speaker 1: you want to audition and you just need to you know, 343 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: them running through the room. They know what they got 344 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: the right right. So I went to the audition and 345 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,719 Speaker 1: actually the audition that the part I was on Disney 346 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: for was a part of Lady Read, not the part 347 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: that I yet. Our audition for that role, and I 348 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 1: had seven callbacks. We even did a screen tell us 349 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: with the wig and with the outfit and everything like that. 350 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: As it turns out, the role went to the vine 351 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: Joy Randall, which is fine. I think she did a 352 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: fine job and I like her. Yes, she's an old 353 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: theater actress. That's why nobody knows who she is, because 354 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 1: theater is great. But you can you can do a 355 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: chose a week for ten years on Broadway and do 356 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: thirty minutes on television, and more people will know you 357 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: in that thirty minutes than will will in the ten 358 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: years you are Broadway. That's just a fact. So the 359 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: Banjo Randol is a theater actress. Then Craig Brewer, who 360 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: had done Puzzle and Flow and did Dolomite is my 361 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: name and has directors coming to America the quest. Craig 362 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: like me so much that he didn't want to let 363 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: me go, and and he saw my dimensions and everything 364 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: like that. And I can take direction after auditions seven times, 365 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: so he gave me the part of his hands. So 366 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: I was very very happy to have at because I 367 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: didn't have to share the room with a bunch of cats. 368 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: It was just Eddie and myself. Eddie and myself and 369 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: I had a great time. Then fast forward to Craig 370 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: Brewer is now doing Coming to America and I didn't 371 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: have to auditions for that cuign So I'm very happy 372 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: to be in to Eddie Murphy movies back to back, 373 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: and there's Coming to America's sequel is gonna blow everybody's mind. 374 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: I was just telling my um Instagram live audience earlier 375 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: that there's some fake flyers going around about Coming to America. 376 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: They had Tiffany Hattish on him. Tiffany's not in the movie. 377 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: They said it's coming out August seven. That doesn't come 378 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: out to December. They said it's Coming to America too. 379 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: It's called Coming to America the Quest. So there's fake 380 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: flyers going around. Don't believe that. But the sequel to 381 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 1: Coming to America is one of the most amazing films 382 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 1: that I've ever been on. Of course, he's film done 383 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: Tyler Perry's old studio and the new studio. I got 384 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: a tourls a lot. I got to see the album stages. 385 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: It was so prideful and so amazing Plus, when you're 386 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: watching Coming to America in the living room thirty years ago, 387 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: you can't even fathom that there's gonna be a sequel 388 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: thirty years later and you'll be in it. That's why 389 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: when they say God can dream, dreams bigger. God got 390 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: bigger plans to you that you could ever dream, It's true, 391 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: you know. And I was very um lucky to be 392 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: in this film along with the great John Amos and 393 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: with James Jones, and you know, Vanessa Belle Callaway, And 394 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: there's so many of the people that were in it before. 395 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: Mostly all the people that were here before are in 396 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: it this time. The only person who passed away was 397 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: a great Match Sinclair, who played Prince Akim's a mother. 398 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: And then there's cameos and other roles by other people 399 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: that I can't say is giving me a hemory because 400 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: I got the pictures in my phone that I wanted drop, 401 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: and I've had almost a year now, and I'm like, oh, 402 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: I didn't say I want to just show them, and 403 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: I can't do it. But it's gonna be amazing. It's really, really, 404 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 1: really a wonderful experience. I'm blessed. One of the great 405 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: things on Barack. You couldn't promote, but you could promote. 406 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: Dolomite is my name. I'm watching Jimmy Kimmel because they were. 407 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 1: I saw a promotion, said Lunelle, from a pre promoted 408 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,239 Speaker 1: that you was going to be on the show. And 409 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: when you came, when he introduced you and you came 410 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: out that beautiful dress, what ran through your mind? Because 411 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: you know I've been I have come out on stage, 412 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: I've been introduced like that, never at the level that 413 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 1: you was introduced. Because you introduced as a star on 414 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: a major late night television successful show talk walkers through 415 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: those steps emotionally. Um uh. And when you sat down 416 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: and did the interview, in the crowd reacting to you, Lunell, well, 417 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: you know I had also prior to the interview on Kimmel, 418 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,360 Speaker 1: I had been lucky enough to obtain a residency at 419 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 1: his comedy club in Las Vegas. But some of the 420 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,640 Speaker 1: people got a chance to see me before the shutdown. Um. 421 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: I was at Jimmy Kimmel's comedy club in Las Vegas 422 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 1: every Sunday night at ten o'clock. So we had been 423 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 1: talking to them about the fact that yo, I'm Jimmy's 424 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 1: resident like I'm here every week. You know, most people 425 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: would come in. They may do a weekend, they may 426 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: go somewhere or something like that, but they I was 427 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: there every Sunday, every Sunday at ten pm. So when 428 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: it came through to my agent said yeah, we're gonna 429 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: be able. You know you're gonna be able to do 430 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 1: the show, I was just elated because I've always pictured 431 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 1: myself kitting at the desk. You know, if it wasn't Carson, 432 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: and I thought it'd be the winnout, it wasn't Lenos, 433 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: and I thought it'd be a Letterman. If it wasn't Letterman, 434 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: I didn't know what was gonna happen. But I did 435 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: get a chance to walk out there from behind the 436 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: curtain and our fit that I was very proud to 437 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: wear by a black designer named Angela Dene. I was 438 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: able to, you know, be my witty self. I didn't 439 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: have to do stand up. I just was able to 440 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: sit there and you know, be me, and um, it 441 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: was great. You know, Jimmy's very kind, He's a very 442 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: kind person, and um, he was very into me. He 443 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: makes you feel very important. You know. I was low 444 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: key flirting like I always do very cute at it, 445 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: very cute at it, showing those nails, showing those nails, yeah, 446 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,679 Speaker 1: all that stuff. So it was it was a wonderful, 447 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: wonderful experience. And I'm glad that I have the tape. 448 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: You know that my daughter was there with me. I had, uh, 449 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: my crew that day was my agent, my manager, my stylast, 450 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: my daughter, and um glode the white, the late very 451 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: white white. She's not very dear friends. So she was 452 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,919 Speaker 1: backstage with her sister Landa up and um, yeah, and 453 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: a couple of more people that I loved, and so 454 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: I did have a crew, and it was it was great. 455 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: You know, we celebrated after we went to Yamaha old 456 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: back when you could find dying and stuff like that, 457 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: and and uh, it was you know, it was dream 458 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: come true, you know, and that's why that's why I 459 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: was excited about it. You know, when you when you 460 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,719 Speaker 1: came out there, so people standing for you, assuming there 461 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: might have been some of your crew members, said dad, 462 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: your daddy, your daddy, your dad, and then you sitting 463 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,199 Speaker 1: down like a star like you you belong there, You 464 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: belong there. And I noticed and I'm not this is 465 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 1: not the end of your journey. It's the start of 466 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: an even bigger journey. How are you dealing with this pandemic? Now? 467 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: My friend, before we get out of here, I was 468 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: made for quarantine. Trust me, I haven't. I've been had three, 469 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: you know, almost three months to get anywhere in the 470 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: thirty years that I've been doing stand up, and I 471 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: haven't even had this much time to lay around at 472 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: home with my husband because I was always working from 473 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: the time that you know, I started doing the stand 474 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: up in Long Beach and they went back to Oakland, 475 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: where I'm from and was working on the soul be 476 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: Television network, and then came back out to l A 477 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: and get want to stand Ever, went on tour where 478 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: Captain started my own tour and got the rid of 479 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: that we don't get ninety days, ninety days to lay 480 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: at home. It's not like I'm laying on the beaches 481 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: of Tahiti. You know, I'm at home. And uh, you know, 482 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 1: we've gotten real creative. I started my YouTube show. For 483 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: anybody out there who's interested in YouTube or has my Instagram, 484 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: me to click the Lincoln the bio. It's called helu 485 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 1: now h E y l u E n E l 486 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: l It comes on live every Wednesday from three to 487 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: four Pacific time. And um, so you know you get 488 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 1: creative when you're at the house and I've been cooking 489 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 1: and doing the mommy thing and doing the white thing. 490 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 1: I told my husband the other day, I said, I 491 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: will be going back to work to enjoy it. This 492 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: why you can't to them movie starle WHI. I love it. 493 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: She is the original bad girl of comedy. You've seen 494 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: that Doler, You've seen him. She is a queen to me. 495 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: I've I've seen it from a far and it's great 496 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 1: talking to you, little Nell and your resume. Now when 497 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: when when coming to America? Come back out in the fall? 498 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: Can I get you back on the show? Oh you 499 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: will want to, Yes, absolutely, And then I'll tell you 500 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: some of the bad story about some sulf So we 501 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: have some real, real, real, um memorable memorable times. I'm 502 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: gonna bring you back. Thank you for doing my show. 503 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: And I know that I consider your blessing. I consider 504 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: you a gift and I and a hard worker and 505 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: that soho. I wanted to bring you on my show 506 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: money making conversations about entrepreneurship and entertainment. And I only 507 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: let people know there's no time frames to success, but 508 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: one thing you have to do is keep working hard 509 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: and stay focused. And if you the blessings will happen 510 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: based on how much you're willing to put in to 511 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: the thing that you call your dream. Thank you, Thank 512 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: thank you, Roshan, thanks that. I hope. I hope, but 513 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: this hope I get says to the world you know back, 514 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: I will do that, my friend. If you want to 515 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: hear more episodes of money Making Conversations, go to Money 516 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: Making Conversation dot com. I'm Rashan McDonald. 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