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Speaker 3: Hey guys, thanks for watching. This episode is brought to

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Speaker 1: Our next guest is here. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 3: She's got a big voice and an even bigger resume.

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Speaker 3: She is a Grammy winner that has also been nominated

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Speaker 3: for an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award,

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Speaker 3: and so much more. She has blown us away right

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Speaker 3: from the beginning, right out the gate with Orange is

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Speaker 3: Miss Me. She's also a mom and a wife. and

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Danielle Brooks, to IRL Radio! I wasn't expecting all

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Speaker 2: Hi!

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Speaker 1: I mean, we have to give you energy upon arrival.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Angie. Hi, my love!

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Speaker 1: Oh, stop! Oh, stop. I'm so happy you're here. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Miss Me?

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Speaker 1: Really? It shifted the mother you are?

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about this because it seemed to have

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Speaker 3: It's a challenge for some people to have all the things,

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Speaker 1: Of the Danielle that's from South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: And that Danielle that needs to hold on to faith

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Speaker 1: Are you good at choosing well? Girl, Angie, no. Really?

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Speaker 1: So through all of that, how do you said you

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Speaker 2: he's 6'2. And he can pick me up. That was

436
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Speaker 2: what really did it.

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Speaker 1: He's like, if he could lift me. I know. If

438
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Speaker 1: he could have me. He lifted me. I said, well,

439
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Speaker 1: thank you, Jesus. I found him. But no, on a

440
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Speaker 1: real tip, it was.

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Speaker 2: The way he took care of me, you know, I

442
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Speaker 2: was dealing with some busters in the beginning and I

443
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Speaker 2: was so young. Like, we just want love. We don't

444
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Speaker 2: know how you really supposed, what love really looks like,

445
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Speaker 2: you know? And so he just treated me well. And so, yeah,

446
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Speaker 2: that's my man.

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Speaker 1: So that's, that's the, I was going to say, what

448
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Speaker 1: is the key to picking a good partner?

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Speaker 2: Picking a man for me is about like how they

450
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Speaker 2: treat you in the beginning, right?

451
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But everyone says after the 90 days, you see their

453
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Speaker 2: true colors. And so for me, it's about how they communicate.

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Speaker 2: Do they listen to how you need to be communicated?

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Speaker 2: And do you listen to them? Do you listen to

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Speaker 2: how they need to receive things and vice versa? And

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Speaker 2: are you willing to say I'm sorry and mean it?

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Speaker 2: I think that's a big one for me is when

459
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Speaker 2: you're wrong, right? Standing on that and saying, hey, I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry for how I treated you.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think that's a big one for me. Oh,

462
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Speaker 1: that's good. And when you finish being wrong, changing that action.

463
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Speaker 2: And don't just be sorry. Don't be sorry and don't

464
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Speaker 2: change the action. And another thing that I think trips

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Speaker 2: people up is pettiness. Like, I don't know, like when

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Speaker 2: you're in a young love, and I think adults do

467
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Speaker 2: this too, which I think is so stupid. When people

468
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Speaker 2: get mad about, you didn't call me back. And because

469
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Speaker 2: you didn't call me, I'm not going to call you.

470
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Speaker 2: And like, that's the beginning of your relationship. So I

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Speaker 2: told my husband from the beginning, when we first started dating,

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Speaker 2: I said, let me tell you something. I'm a very

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Speaker 2: busy woman. If I do not get back to you,

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Speaker 2: please don't take it personal. Know that I just could

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Speaker 2: not pick up the phone, but I will always.

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Speaker 1: Get back to you. For 10 years, we have never

477
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Speaker 1: had a problem with that.

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Speaker 2: Wow. So the petty, like not being able to let

479
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Speaker 2: things go on little levels is That's what my therapist

480
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Speaker 2: calls it, little foxes. The little foxes. The little foxes?

481
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Speaker 2: The little foxes. Don't let them get in your garden.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, don't let the little

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Speaker 2: foxes come in because they become big foxes.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that's what me and my husband

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Speaker 1: work on. Work on keeping the little foxes out. Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: We go to therapy. What is a normal, like, little fox?

487
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Speaker 1: What is that, like a.

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Speaker 2: A normal little fox is like... In general, just.

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Speaker 1: So....

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Speaker 2: We have this rule in our house. Whoever gets out

491
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Speaker 2: of the bed first has to make up the bed.

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Speaker 2: And say, he gets out of the bed first, so

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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to make up the bed.

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Speaker 1: Wait, no, excuse me. Whoever's last. Yes, yes.

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Speaker 2: So whoever gets out of the bed last has to

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Speaker 2: make up the bed. And say, I get out of

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Speaker 2: the bed last, and I don't make up the bed.

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Speaker 1: Which I have done. A little fox is him holding

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Speaker 1: that over my head.

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Speaker 2: After he's acknowledged it, and I say my bad, and

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Speaker 2: I've changed that action... He keeps harpering. He will bring

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Speaker 2: it up in another conversation. That's a little fox. But

503
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Speaker 2: if you get four, five, six little foxes, that thing

504
00:24:37,950 --> 00:24:39,370
Speaker 2: going to blow up, you know?

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Speaker 1: So I think that's what we work on with our relationship.

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Speaker 1: Being able to say if something's like, hey. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And understand to not take it so personal because we

508
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Speaker 2: all do have our traumas and things that trigger us.

509
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Speaker 2: So once you know those things, like don't try to

510
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Speaker 2: dial them up. Like your job is to dial them

511
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Speaker 2: down for each other.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? So we work on that.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I like my husband. And that's important.

514
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Speaker 2: You got to like your partner, even though he knew

515
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Speaker 2: he do need to call me.

516
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Speaker 1: But he do need to call me right now. So cute.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 3: So talk to me about your relationship with therapy. Because

519
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Speaker 3: therapy is not something that everybody... Now we talk about

520
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Speaker 3: it freely. Everybody got a podcast. Everybody's like, woo, woo, wellness.

521
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Speaker 1: But therapy was not always like... A thing. It wasn't

522
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Speaker 1: the thing. I started going to therapy with Orange is

523
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Speaker 1: the New Black. You did? Yeah. Wow, was that show traumatic? No.

524
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Speaker 2: It's because I became famous in 13 hours. Was it

525
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Speaker 2: that fast?

526
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Speaker 1: It really was. Wow.

527
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Speaker 2: The show was one of the first binge shows. For Netflix,

528
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Speaker 2: and so literally people watched our show in 13 hours.

529
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Speaker 2: And I was a normal kid, 22. Next thing you know,

530
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Speaker 2: I'm on the train and people were literally chasing me

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Speaker 2: off the train. So my life changed in 13 hours.

532
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Speaker 2: And I didn't know anything.

533
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Speaker 1: I didn't know anything at all, you know. And so

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Speaker 1: it was a lot to... I didn't realize that was

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Speaker 1: the first binge show. It was so much to adjust to. Wow.

536
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Speaker 1: It was House of Cards and then Orange is the

537
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Speaker 1: New Black. I remember binging it. I just didn't, I

538
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Speaker 1: didn't remember that it was the first.

539
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Speaker 2: And we didn't have a budget to support our new lives.

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Speaker 2: You know, like we didn't get paid enough to support

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Speaker 2: our new lives at the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So you're still on the subway. I was still

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Speaker 1: on the subway. General population. General population. Clothes. Didn't have.

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Speaker 2: the hair and makeup teams that we did to even

545
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Speaker 2: look like a star.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like average. And some of us.

547
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Speaker 2: Were still working regular jobs, like being waitresses and babysitters

548
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Speaker 2: and stuff.

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Speaker 1: So that took a lot of adjustment. And then when

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Speaker 1: you add in these things like.

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Speaker 2: Awards and stuff and, you know, that was something that

552
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Speaker 2: when you talk about.

553
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Speaker 1: The doubt of oneself.

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Speaker 2: When Orange first came out, the Emmys happened and like,

555
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Speaker 2: I don't know, seven, eight of the girls got nominated

556
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Speaker 2: and I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Wow. You know, and that was one of those things.

558
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Speaker 1: That was one of those moments where you feel like,

559
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Speaker 1: why not me, Lord?

560
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Speaker 2: Like, I don't understand. Like, I think I'm talented. Am

561
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Speaker 2: I truly not talented? And I'm coming into this industry

562
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Speaker 2: and everybody's celebrating me.

563
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Speaker 1: But I didn't see that in that way.

564
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Speaker 2: So I'm just giving you a little bit more perspective

565
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Speaker 2: on like the layers of it, you know, for me.

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Speaker 2: So those were things that I was going to therapy

567
00:27:41,619 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 2: for to understand more about why I wanted it so bad.

568
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Speaker 2: And like, you know, just the relationship to where other

569
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Speaker 2: people are in their career.

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Speaker 1: So therapy is super important all across the board. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan.

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Speaker 1: Why did you want it so bad? Because I am

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Speaker 1: an overachiever.

595
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Speaker 2: I grew up wanting to be the first of everything.

596
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Speaker 3: Were people telling you that you're going to be great

597
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Speaker 3: and you're going to have all the success?

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Speaker 1: Was it expected of you? No. I mean, my parents

599
00:29:23,340 --> 00:29:24,870
Speaker 1: did support me for sure.

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Speaker 2: But nobody was like... I'm not going to say people...

601
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Speaker 2: When I grew up.

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Speaker 1: We didn't really... I.

603
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Speaker 2: Did, because I was a huge fan of Whoopi Goldberg

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Speaker 2: and Viola Davis, Halle Berry.

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Speaker 1: So when they won those awards.

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Speaker 2: the impact that they had on my life, seeing someone

607
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Speaker 2: that looks similar to me, that just.

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Speaker 1: It changed my life.

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Speaker 2: Those were the things, those moments where you see Halle

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Speaker 2: Berry in that beautiful flower dress and she's bawling her

611
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Speaker 2: eyes out and can barely speak.

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Speaker 1: I remember that.

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Speaker 2: Watching clips of Lilius White win her Tony Award or

614
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Speaker 2: LaChance win for Color Purple.

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Speaker 1: I ate it up. It inspired me.

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Speaker 2: So when you get on the other side, all I

617
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Speaker 2: wanted to do was be an inspiration.

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Speaker 1: But that's what I thought it would... I thought that was.

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Speaker 2: the most important way to be inspiring. But now with perspective,

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Speaker 2: it's so much greater than that.

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Speaker 1: Angie, I just met a young.

622
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Speaker 2: Girl that we did this chocolate mixer at Juilliard. So

623
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Speaker 2: it's like the alumni students talk to the current students.

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Speaker 2: And this young girl comes up to me and she's

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Speaker 2: from South Carolina. And she was like, my first Broadway

626
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Speaker 2: show that I saw was you in the piano lesson

627
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Speaker 2: on Broadway. And I read the playbill and I saw

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Speaker 2: that you were from South Carolina. And so I said,

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Speaker 2: I want to use this monologue to get into this

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Speaker 2: governor school, the high school that I went to.

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Speaker 1: She gets in.

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Speaker 2: Next thing you know, she auditions for Juilliard and gets in.

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Speaker 2: But that's the impact that I had made without no award.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 2: So I was learning there's a bigger award by the

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Speaker 2: impact that you have on an individual.

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Speaker 1: That's so interesting because at the beginning of this, when

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Speaker 1: you were telling me how disappointed, I couldn't understand why

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Speaker 1: you would be so disappointed in the awards.

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Speaker 3: But now I understand because you connect those awards. It's

641
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Speaker 3: not like because you need it for your ego. It's

642
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Speaker 3: because you connect those awards.

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Speaker 1: As a bigger platform to inspire the little girl like

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Speaker 1: you who was sitting home who needed that or felt that.

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Speaker 1: I get that. I get that. Yeah, that's our Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: I don't watch no Super Bowl, but those awards for

648
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Speaker 2: actors are that. And I am always inspired, you know,

649
00:31:49,270 --> 00:31:53,050
Speaker 2: thinking about... Mahershala Ali, even people seeing Deva and Joy

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Speaker 2: Randolph up there, plus size, beautiful in her blue.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Even though I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Win, I'm still inspired because I know her journey. We

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Speaker 2: were on the same journey. You know, she was at Yale.

654
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Speaker 2: I was at Juilliard. We came up at the same time,

655
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: graduated nearly the same time. So to even see the

656
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 2: trajectory of where she's been able to go is inspiring,

657
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,300
Speaker 2: even if I didn't get to take it home.

658
00:32:17,550 --> 00:32:19,570
Speaker 3: I saw you reposted, I think it was on TikTok

659
00:32:19,610 --> 00:32:22,290
Speaker 3: or Instagram, that you reposted a girl. She said she

660
00:32:22,630 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 3: called herself a This is her words. She called herself

661
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,230
Speaker 3: a fat, because I never call anybody fat. She called

662
00:32:29,250 --> 00:32:33,890
Speaker 3: herself a fat, black, queer woman. And you reposted her,

663
00:32:33,930 --> 00:32:36,750
Speaker 3: I think, right? And she was just saying how, the

664
00:32:36,790 --> 00:32:38,710
Speaker 3: same thing you were talking about watching those women.

665
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,780
Speaker 1: She was talking about how seeing you on screen, not.

666
00:32:42,660 --> 00:32:47,180
Speaker 3: That you exactly reflect her, but how much it meant

667
00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:49,070
Speaker 3: to her to see me differently.

668
00:32:49,570 --> 00:32:53,110
Speaker 1: Different size, colors, shapes, everything, you know, and how much

669
00:32:53,130 --> 00:32:54,490
Speaker 1: that meant to her. I'm sure you get that a lot.

670
00:32:54,570 --> 00:32:57,830
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it inspires me. To be honest, it refuels me.

671
00:32:58,050 --> 00:33:00,510
Speaker 2: It fills my cup because it reminds me of my purpose.

672
00:33:01,150 --> 00:33:06,220
Speaker 2: You know, especially doing in Peacemaker or acting in Peacemaker,

673
00:33:07,100 --> 00:33:09,100
Speaker 2: there ain't many of us at all.

674
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?

675
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of people that connect to the

676
00:33:11,980 --> 00:33:12,900
Speaker 2: comic book world.

677
00:33:13,350 --> 00:33:16,820
Speaker 1: And so, yeah. And so like that, that means to

678
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,390
Speaker 1: me like, yeah, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do.

679
00:33:18,490 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: I'm right where I'm supposed to be. Yeah. Are you

680
00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:24,020
Speaker 1: super clear on your purpose? I think so right now.

681
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,260
Speaker 1: What is it? To uplift and to continue to be

682
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:28,980
Speaker 1: of service.

683
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,060
Speaker 2: I've always been of service, but now it's shifting in

684
00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: a different way, more financial way than lending my voice.

685
00:33:37,620 --> 00:33:39,740
Speaker 2: You know, I have a monologue competition that I have

686
00:33:39,790 --> 00:33:43,250
Speaker 2: back at home. where I give scholarships away to kids

687
00:33:43,290 --> 00:33:46,250
Speaker 2: that are interested in doing what I do. I do

688
00:33:46,290 --> 00:33:49,250
Speaker 2: Black Women on Broadway, an organization I started where we

689
00:33:49,290 --> 00:33:52,090
Speaker 2: have our own awards show to let women know that

690
00:33:52,430 --> 00:33:54,170
Speaker 2: you might not be seen at the Tonys, but we'll

691
00:33:54,190 --> 00:33:56,930
Speaker 2: make our own table and build that together. So I

692
00:33:56,990 --> 00:33:59,130
Speaker 2: feel like for me, even being in If I Go,

693
00:33:59,150 --> 00:34:02,469
Speaker 2: Will They Miss Me and EP and that, it's about

694
00:34:03,130 --> 00:34:06,060
Speaker 2: how much more can you give of yourself? I think

695
00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:09,069
Speaker 2: anytime that you're receiving something, That's a reminder it's time

696
00:34:09,090 --> 00:34:11,870
Speaker 2: for you to let something go, like give, you know.

697
00:34:11,950 --> 00:34:15,989
Speaker 2: So that's where I'm at now. And uplifting because that's

698
00:34:16,030 --> 00:34:16,790
Speaker 2: just Danny.

699
00:34:16,850 --> 00:34:19,450
Speaker 1: Like, I'm going to give you a little sermon. You

700
00:34:19,489 --> 00:34:22,300
Speaker 1: with me? I'm giving you a little sermon. It's happening.

701
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,660
Speaker 2: My mother's a minister. My dad was a deacon. You're

702
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 2: going to get a sermon out of me, okay? I'm

703
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 2: going to talk about faith. Okay, I'm going to.

704
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: Talk about God. It is what it is. Yeah. I just, yeah, that's,

705
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: I think my purpose, I know that's my purpose. What

706
00:34:36,460 --> 00:34:39,259
Speaker 1: is that like? Were you expected young when you grew

707
00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:42,660
Speaker 1: up with two parents like that, that clear about their purpose, clearly?

708
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,810
Speaker 1: Were you ever tempted to go that way? Heck no.

709
00:34:46,010 --> 00:34:47,770
Speaker 1: Was it expected?

710
00:34:47,810 --> 00:34:51,150
Speaker 2: I ain't never going to be no wreck.

711
00:34:51,170 --> 00:34:54,890
Speaker 1: No, no. My ministry has always been in the acting. Yeah.

712
00:34:55,190 --> 00:34:59,150
Speaker 1: And it is a ministry. Like, I truly believe what

713
00:34:59,190 --> 00:35:03,430
Speaker 1: we do is super powerful. Yeah. It's changed my life, Angie. Yeah.

714
00:35:03,890 --> 00:35:06,910
Speaker 1: And others. Yeah. Like, I mean, even my career. Like,

715
00:35:06,930 --> 00:35:11,380
Speaker 1: it's changed my life. So, yeah, that's my ministry. I

716
00:35:11,469 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: don't need to be, Jesus, and it's holy.

717
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 2: No, I'm good.

718
00:35:20,739 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: But you grew up in that house. Yes, I did.

719
00:35:23,060 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: Did you always feel connected to it? I always wondered.

720
00:35:27,610 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: And if you're in, because anything, you know, usually you

721
00:35:30,300 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: try to rebel from your parents, most kids. So if

722
00:35:33,620 --> 00:35:36,299
Speaker 1: your parents, whatever your parents do, a lot of times

723
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,100
Speaker 1: kids try to shy away from you. Yeah, I did,

724
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: for sure. Did you when you were young?

725
00:35:40,340 --> 00:35:43,620
Speaker 2: I was so glad to move to New York at 17.

726
00:35:43,620 --> 00:35:46,259
Speaker 2: And I really left home at 15 because I went

727
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,430
Speaker 2: to this high school, yeah, where we lived on campus.

728
00:35:48,469 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: So I was like, get me out of here. And I, yeah,

729
00:35:59,260 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 1: I rebelled. You know, my mom wanted me to do things.

730
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,940
Speaker 2: My mother was, I say this out of love, she

731
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 2: really is a perfectionist. Like she wants things to be

732
00:36:08,980 --> 00:36:11,890
Speaker 2: a certain way and she wants her kids to represent

733
00:36:11,930 --> 00:36:12,710
Speaker 2: her a certain way.

734
00:36:13,190 --> 00:36:14,750
Speaker 1: And that was a heavy burden for me.

735
00:36:15,469 --> 00:36:19,529
Speaker 2: I wanted freedom just to be able to mess up

736
00:36:19,810 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: and not get it right. And so that's why I

737
00:36:23,390 --> 00:36:27,660
Speaker 2: named my daughter Freya. Because I want her to have that.

738
00:36:28,050 --> 00:36:29,660
Speaker 2: And it's also a reminder.

739
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,830
Speaker 1: To me that you can be free.

740
00:36:31,850 --> 00:36:35,270
Speaker 2: You know, I think when you're a parent, you get

741
00:36:35,310 --> 00:36:38,649
Speaker 2: this beautiful opportunity to nurture a child, but you also

742
00:36:38,690 --> 00:36:42,230
Speaker 2: kind of nurture your own inner child. And so that's

743
00:36:42,250 --> 00:36:45,049
Speaker 2: what I've been doing with her. My mother did a

744
00:36:45,310 --> 00:36:50,510
Speaker 2: wonderful job raising me and my brother. But there's also

745
00:36:50,570 --> 00:36:52,610
Speaker 2: things that I think she could have done differently.

746
00:36:52,630 --> 00:36:53,090
Speaker 1: Right.

747
00:36:53,450 --> 00:36:56,049
Speaker 2: And I get that chance to do it differently. Were

748
00:36:56,090 --> 00:36:57,580
Speaker 2: you ever honest about that with her?

749
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: Heck yeah, I was. Therapy. Therapy.

750
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,299
Speaker 2: But that's what I love about my mom is that

751
00:37:05,380 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 2: she's able to say, I'm sorry. And that's what I

752
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,779
Speaker 2: ended up putting into this film. If I go, will

753
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,739
Speaker 2: they miss me? There's a moment where my character has

754
00:37:15,780 --> 00:37:21,630
Speaker 2: to apologize to her son. And I had to improv

755
00:37:21,989 --> 00:37:26,790
Speaker 2: that scene. And I think some of it became from

756
00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:30,140
Speaker 2: my mother. You know, I just remember her saying, I'm sorry.

757
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 2: You know, if I ever did something to make you

758
00:37:32,780 --> 00:37:36,420
Speaker 2: feel this way or that way, then I got to put.

759
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,900
Speaker 1: That in the work. So I'm grateful for that.

760
00:37:38,980 --> 00:37:42,180
Speaker 2: My mom has taught me it's OK to apologize for

761
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,220
Speaker 2: things and let that ego out.

762
00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: When it comes to your children, I think it's super important. Oh, man.

763
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: People don't talk about that enough. No. Parents get an ego.

764
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: They do. They think this is how it's supposed to be. Yeah.

765
00:37:55,780 --> 00:37:58,589
Speaker 1: You're going to you represent me. That's right. You know,

766
00:37:58,650 --> 00:38:00,509
Speaker 1: put all that stuff on there. That's right. And I

767
00:38:00,550 --> 00:38:04,310
Speaker 1: know I know that. Like, you know everything. You know,

768
00:38:04,330 --> 00:38:05,130
Speaker 1: that's really it.

769
00:38:05,170 --> 00:38:09,350
Speaker 2: Like, I've lived long enough to know more than you.

770
00:38:10,450 --> 00:38:13,710
Speaker 1: But I don't always think that's true. I think our

771
00:38:13,810 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 1: kids teach us so much. Even at your baby's young age?

772
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:18,820
Speaker 2: Yes.

773
00:38:18,940 --> 00:38:20,580
Speaker 1: What does she know about? Yes.

774
00:38:21,180 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 2: My child teaches me so much. I'm trying to think

775
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 2: of a specific moment, you know? I feel like there

776
00:38:27,940 --> 00:38:31,270
Speaker 2: was one time when Free was just like, it was

777
00:38:31,350 --> 00:38:33,770
Speaker 2: something I was upset about. And she was like, Ma,

778
00:38:34,250 --> 00:38:38,390
Speaker 2: it's not the end of the world. And I was like, dang, girl.

779
00:38:39,570 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: They can't be saying stuff. They do. They're so wise,

780
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: you know? And free. And free, yeah. And free. And free.

781
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:50,020
Speaker 1: I love that.

782
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,260
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a gold star. And I think she's reminding

783
00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 2: me to stay present. We're in a world where we're

784
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,739
Speaker 2: always on our phones. And for me, always working, trying

785
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 2: to do the next thing. And My kid is like, Ma,

786
00:39:02,219 --> 00:39:03,859
Speaker 2: your phone. Please put it down.

787
00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:04,940
Speaker 1: What is that?

788
00:39:05,380 --> 00:39:11,130
Speaker 3: You talked about your purpose to inspire something. There's so

789
00:39:11,170 --> 00:39:14,390
Speaker 3: many people trying to find purpose, right? And everybody always says,

790
00:39:14,790 --> 00:39:18,149
Speaker 3: find the thing you're passionate about. And then it doesn't

791
00:39:18,170 --> 00:39:18,910
Speaker 3: feel like work.

792
00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:20,710
Speaker 1: A lot of people always preach that. They do. They do.

793
00:39:20,770 --> 00:39:24,310
Speaker 1: They preach that, but not everybody finds that. No, they don't.

794
00:39:24,350 --> 00:39:24,690
Speaker 3: Right.

795
00:39:24,790 --> 00:39:26,589
Speaker 1: You found that young, I think, right? I found it

796
00:39:26,650 --> 00:39:29,870
Speaker 1: super young. And I feel for those people that don't.

797
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: have that.

798
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,470
Speaker 2: I think we're so unique, you know, that we knew

799
00:39:36,510 --> 00:39:38,290
Speaker 2: what we wanted to do early.

800
00:39:38,310 --> 00:39:41,650
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Because I feel for people who are trying to

801
00:39:41,730 --> 00:39:45,549
Speaker 1: figure it out. It's hard. It's hard out here.

802
00:39:45,630 --> 00:39:47,430
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say to it.

803
00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: No, I don't.

804
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,660
Speaker 2: Because I just feel so lucky that God has given

805
00:39:51,700 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 2: me a path. And I think, for me, I've just

806
00:39:54,140 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 2: always been driven, you know?

807
00:39:56,020 --> 00:39:56,700
Speaker 1: Yeah.

808
00:39:57,420 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 2: To, even when I was broke, I'm still going to

809
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 2: figure this thing out to make it move.

810
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 3: So you've been on this grind since, like, you've had

811
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,689
Speaker 3: this clarity about what you wanted to do since you're, what,

812
00:40:07,810 --> 00:40:08,170
Speaker 3: how old?

813
00:40:12,070 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 2: I mean, I knew that I wanted to be an

814
00:40:13,340 --> 00:40:15,950
Speaker 2: actor when I was young, but I didn't take it

815
00:40:16,110 --> 00:40:17,540
Speaker 2: seriously until I.

816
00:40:20,750 --> 00:40:23,630
Speaker 1: I didn't take it seriously until I realized I had

817
00:40:23,670 --> 00:40:24,569
Speaker 1: to pay my rent.

818
00:40:24,610 --> 00:40:28,750
Speaker 2: I was like, I graduated school and I was like,

819
00:40:28,950 --> 00:40:32,700
Speaker 2: oh snap, like, I have to eat with this job,

820
00:40:32,739 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 2: you know? Like, it's not just fun, you know? Because

821
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 2: I'm a theater girl at heart. Like, that's my first love. Like,

822
00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:41,180
Speaker 2: my goal was never to be this huge star in

823
00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:42,020
Speaker 2: a TV film.

824
00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:43,540
Speaker 1: I prayed for that.

825
00:40:43,580 --> 00:40:45,500
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm cool with doing that, but it was always

826
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: the stage for me, which they don't get paid anyway,

827
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,390
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? So, It wasn't until then

828
00:40:51,410 --> 00:40:54,569
Speaker 2: I was like, I got to take this seriously. But

829
00:40:54,590 --> 00:40:56,670
Speaker 2: I've always known I wanted to do this.

830
00:40:56,870 --> 00:41:00,530
Speaker 1: But yeah, I was young. What is that spiritual connection

831
00:41:00,830 --> 00:41:04,989
Speaker 1: from the work to purpose?

832
00:41:05,010 --> 00:41:10,290
Speaker 3: I don't know, because you talked about improvising that moment

833
00:41:10,310 --> 00:41:12,310
Speaker 3: and your mom coming up. I just wonder what that

834
00:41:12,390 --> 00:41:15,140
Speaker 3: feels like to be able to pull from something greater

835
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 3: while you're trying to exercise a gift.

836
00:41:17,820 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: Because it's a gift, right? It's a gift, Angie. What

837
00:41:20,340 --> 00:41:25,219
Speaker 1: I do, if I didn't have it... For us mere

838
00:41:25,260 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: mortals who don't have that gift and can't tap into that,

839
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,380
Speaker 1: what does that feel like when you're in it? What

840
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: is that? Acting is my breath. It is.

841
00:41:34,739 --> 00:41:38,189
Speaker 2: It is everything to me. It connects me to people.

842
00:41:38,630 --> 00:41:41,489
Speaker 2: It helps me to relate to people. It helps me

843
00:41:41,570 --> 00:41:45,370
Speaker 2: to help people reflect on their own lives, me reflect

844
00:41:45,450 --> 00:41:47,390
Speaker 2: on mine. I think.

845
00:41:48,550 --> 00:41:50,690
Speaker 1: the whole thing is, I don't know, man, I ain't

846
00:41:50,730 --> 00:41:51,630
Speaker 1: trying to get cheesy.

847
00:41:51,650 --> 00:41:55,250
Speaker 2: And I think it's so cheesy, like the power of

848
00:41:55,489 --> 00:41:57,910
Speaker 2: art and like art reflects life and dah, dah, dah, dah.

849
00:41:57,930 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: It's so cheesy, but it's so real though.

850
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,779
Speaker 2: Like it's so real what we do, you know, I, I,

851
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:10,140
Speaker 2: this is, there's so many stories that I have heard

852
00:42:10,340 --> 00:42:13,299
Speaker 2: from doing this for so long, like a starting in

853
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,589
Speaker 2: orange is a new black and meeting inmates, you know,

854
00:42:16,750 --> 00:42:19,950
Speaker 2: or doing Color Purple and meeting women who have been

855
00:42:19,989 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: abused and talking about that. Like you talked about with

856
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,940
Speaker 2: the lady, that comic book who related to me, you know,

857
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 2: and saw herself.

858
00:42:28,140 --> 00:42:31,540
Speaker 1: It's just trillions of stories that I carry with me.

859
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,420
Speaker 2: And to be a griot and to share those stories,

860
00:42:34,860 --> 00:42:38,450
Speaker 2: putting them back into the world is such a powerful thing.

861
00:42:38,469 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: And I'm such a I've been saying this. I'm an empath.

862
00:42:44,580 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 2: I feel people so heavily. I might not always have

863
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,049
Speaker 2: the words. And I wish I was a wordsmith. Like,

864
00:42:50,110 --> 00:42:52,649
Speaker 2: I used to look at people like Lupita.

865
00:42:52,130 --> 00:42:55,589
Speaker 1: And Uzo Adubin. I'm like, y'all just speak so eloquently.

866
00:42:55,670 --> 00:42:58,980
Speaker 1: Laverne Cox. Like, I want you to... But that's not me.

867
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: That's okay. And I'm okay with that, right? Now I'm

868
00:43:02,940 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: okay with that.

869
00:43:03,580 --> 00:43:06,300
Speaker 2: That was part of my learning journey to be okay

870
00:43:06,340 --> 00:43:09,500
Speaker 2: with who God created me to be because those people

871
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 2: will relate to.

872
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:15,109
Speaker 1: Me and we here, right? We here. But getting back

873
00:43:15,150 --> 00:43:17,250
Speaker 1: to what I was saying. I think everybody needs to

874
00:43:17,290 --> 00:43:20,630
Speaker 1: learn that lesson. To be themselves. Yeah, like you are

875
00:43:20,670 --> 00:43:22,549
Speaker 1: who God created you to be. You are. I had

876
00:43:22,570 --> 00:43:22,810
Speaker 1: learned that.

877
00:43:22,830 --> 00:43:25,390
Speaker 2: The sooner you lean into that, And that's what you

878
00:43:25,450 --> 00:43:26,469
Speaker 2: actually brought me right back to.

879
00:43:26,469 --> 00:43:29,469
Speaker 1: Sorry, this mic pack is stabbing me in my back. Oh, no. Sorry, go, go, go.

880
00:43:29,489 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 2: But you brought me back to what we were talking

881
00:43:31,820 --> 00:43:35,359
Speaker 2: about is like being an empath. Like for me, I

882
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,979
Speaker 2: feel people's energy so strongly and the things that they've

883
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,620
Speaker 2: been through, I feel them so strongly. And so I just,

884
00:43:43,460 --> 00:43:46,130
Speaker 2: I put it into the work. Even if you watch

885
00:43:46,170 --> 00:43:51,130
Speaker 2: me watch and play or a film, I am, I literally,

886
00:43:51,730 --> 00:43:54,850
Speaker 2: I will literally be moving like this. When I watch it, like,

887
00:43:54,870 --> 00:43:58,910
Speaker 2: I'm just like, because.

888
00:43:57,390 --> 00:43:59,850
Speaker 1: I just take it. I take it in like in

889
00:43:59,890 --> 00:44:03,710
Speaker 1: a different way. I don't know. It's weird. It's so weird.

890
00:44:03,730 --> 00:44:06,250
Speaker 1: It's not weird. It's so weird. It's your process. It's

891
00:44:06,270 --> 00:44:10,030
Speaker 1: my process. It's your process. Yeah. I feel people very strongly.

892
00:44:10,170 --> 00:44:12,290
Speaker 1: We got to do some IRL bowl. Should we do

893
00:44:12,310 --> 00:44:14,140
Speaker 1: that now? How are we on time? I don't know.

894
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: So many things. I feel like everything goes so fast here.

895
00:44:18,450 --> 00:44:21,290
Speaker 1: And you're a podcaster now. I'm a podcaster now. Why

896
00:44:21,310 --> 00:44:23,489
Speaker 1: did you want a podcast? Girl, I've been doing this

897
00:44:23,510 --> 00:44:27,210
Speaker 1: for years and nobody knew. You were potting to yourself.

898
00:44:27,270 --> 00:44:29,110
Speaker 1: I was potting to the world.

899
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,140
Speaker 2: So in 2011, I really had been doing this a

900
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 2: long time, but nobody knew.

901
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: 2011, I graduated from college and was not working. Nobody

902
00:44:38,620 --> 00:44:39,100
Speaker 1: was hiring me.

903
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,870
Speaker 2: And I worked at a restaurant and I was able

904
00:44:41,930 --> 00:44:47,069
Speaker 2: to garner $ 356 or so to get a camera. And

905
00:44:47,180 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 2: what was happening, I was like, man, there has to be,

906
00:44:50,060 --> 00:44:54,420
Speaker 2: I must not have all the answers, right? So let

907
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,010
Speaker 2: me interview people that are where I want to be.

908
00:44:57,730 --> 00:45:00,549
Speaker 2: So I started to interview all of these actors that

909
00:45:00,570 --> 00:45:03,870
Speaker 2: were working. And I literally went to Julia, I asked

910
00:45:03,910 --> 00:45:05,670
Speaker 2: them for a space. They let me have their space

911
00:45:05,750 --> 00:45:06,150
Speaker 2: at Julia.

912
00:45:06,210 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: I had no mics, had no lights. It looked horrible.

913
00:45:09,570 --> 00:45:10,310
Speaker 1: But I did it.

914
00:45:10,410 --> 00:45:14,550
Speaker 2: And those people were Corey Hawkins, Tiana Paris, Davon Joy Randolph.

915
00:45:14,590 --> 00:45:17,580
Speaker 2: I had some Tony winners that were, I was interviewing

916
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,020
Speaker 2: and asking them questions simply like, should.

917
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 1: I do my hair this way? How do you audition?

918
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 2: Did that end up getting Orange is the New Black.

919
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: And I was putting them on YouTube and I had

920
00:45:27,980 --> 00:45:32,070
Speaker 2: probably like 25 likes or views. And then my manager

921
00:45:32,110 --> 00:45:35,609
Speaker 2: at the time was like, sis, where you're going, this

922
00:45:35,850 --> 00:45:38,750
Speaker 2: is not matching. You know, the quality isn't matching. And

923
00:45:38,810 --> 00:45:39,650
Speaker 2: so I stopped.

924
00:45:40,230 --> 00:45:44,430
Speaker 1: And so cut to 2022, 2023, I got the bug again.

925
00:45:44,469 --> 00:45:46,220
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to do this again.

926
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 2: So, cause I now got some money, right? And now

927
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:50,820
Speaker 2: the quality about to match.

928
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: I got a little paper.

929
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,259
Speaker 2: And so I brought four guests and I had a

930
00:45:55,340 --> 00:45:57,230
Speaker 2: crew and I was super excited about it.

931
00:45:57,700 --> 00:45:59,580
Speaker 1: And then I presented it to my team and they

932
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:00,380
Speaker 1: was like, Danny.

933
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,500
Speaker 2: Yeah, um, The quality matches now, but we think you're

934
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 2: about to be Oscar nominated and we think maybe this

935
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,020
Speaker 2: might not be the time. So I said, let me

936
00:46:11,060 --> 00:46:13,859
Speaker 2: tell y'all something. If I get Oscar nominated, I won't

937
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 2: put it out. And if I do get Oscar, no,

938
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,490
Speaker 2: if I get Oscar nominated, I won't put it out.

939
00:46:19,820 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: And if I do get it, If I don't get,

940
00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: and then if you don't. If I don't, then let

941
00:46:25,620 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 1: me say that again. Y'all go clean that up. Yeah,

942
00:46:27,860 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: of course.

943
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,299
Speaker 2: If I do get Oscar nominated, I won't put it out.

944
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,980
Speaker 1: And if I don't get Oscar nominated, I'm putting this out. Yeah.

945
00:46:36,140 --> 00:46:38,550
Speaker 1: I get Oscar nominated. So I didn't put it out.

946
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: Were you disappointed because you couldn't put it out? No.

947
00:46:42,060 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 1: But you know what?

948
00:46:42,739 --> 00:46:45,430
Speaker 2: I was disappointed in myself for not following through with

949
00:46:45,469 --> 00:46:45,970
Speaker 2: it anyway.

950
00:46:46,050 --> 00:46:46,260
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.

951
00:46:46,810 --> 00:46:50,190
Speaker 2: And so that's why here I am for the third

952
00:46:50,250 --> 00:46:53,540
Speaker 2: time now following my gut. And I put it out

953
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 2: and I'm so proud of the intermission podcast.

954
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,300
Speaker 1: Come on now. Yes.

955
00:46:58,540 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 2: The intermission is a play on words to remind people

956
00:47:02,180 --> 00:47:04,490
Speaker 2: of what is their intermission. And I've had great guests

957
00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:07,950
Speaker 2: like Ludacris come on and Candy Burris and Duran.

958
00:47:08,790 --> 00:47:10,670
Speaker 1: Who's been a guest on your show. I love doing

959
00:47:10,690 --> 00:47:12,830
Speaker 1: it so much. He's so great. Gives the best advice.

960
00:47:12,870 --> 00:47:14,989
Speaker 1: He's so warm and amazing. Yeah.

961
00:47:15,130 --> 00:47:17,620
Speaker 2: So it's been a great experience and I'm excited to

962
00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:18,310
Speaker 2: expand it.

963
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,299
Speaker 1: Yeah. Then you're going to keep going. What is that

964
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: like when you win? First of all, you have like

965
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:27,580
Speaker 1: EGOT potential, clearly. Yes. EGOT nominee. You're EGOT nominee. Yes.

966
00:47:28,020 --> 00:47:30,140
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. I can't believe I'm one of them.

967
00:47:30,460 --> 00:47:34,730
Speaker 1: It's amazing. You're going to be a mess. What? Win

968
00:47:34,770 --> 00:47:37,730
Speaker 1: one of those awards. When you actually... I'm going to

969
00:47:37,750 --> 00:47:39,150
Speaker 1: be a hot mess. I'm going to be a hot mess.

970
00:47:39,210 --> 00:47:41,330
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm going to be able to talk.

971
00:47:41,770 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 2: I was watching the interviews yesterday.

972
00:47:43,620 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: Because you have so much built.

973
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 3: You say you don't care about the awards, but you

974
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:52,290
Speaker 3: have so much built up, like, starry eyed I'm not.

975
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,299
Speaker 2: Gonna say that I don't care about getting them cause

976
00:47:55,390 --> 00:47:57,850
Speaker 2: I do care like I do want one I'm actually

977
00:47:57,930 --> 00:48:00,009
Speaker 2: not one of those actors that sit around being like

978
00:48:00,550 --> 00:48:03,950
Speaker 2: I don't care whatever leads me to the like that's

979
00:48:03,989 --> 00:48:06,790
Speaker 2: not what I mean cause the truth is I do

980
00:48:06,870 --> 00:48:10,450
Speaker 2: care I would love that that would be amazing to

981
00:48:10,530 --> 00:48:11,569
Speaker 2: get to that point what would you say what would

982
00:48:11,590 --> 00:48:14,710
Speaker 2: you say The funny thing is I ain't thought about it.

983
00:48:16,130 --> 00:48:18,290
Speaker 2: I haven't thought about it unless like when- You didn't

984
00:48:18,310 --> 00:48:18,850
Speaker 2: think about.

985
00:48:18,730 --> 00:48:20,630
Speaker 1: If you won an Oscar? I was about to say.

986
00:48:20,730 --> 00:48:21,549
Speaker 1: I was about to say.

987
00:48:21,570 --> 00:48:25,850
Speaker 2: I wrote it like probably the week that the Oscars

988
00:48:25,890 --> 00:48:29,029
Speaker 2: was about to happen. I wrote something, yes. But I

989
00:48:29,070 --> 00:48:34,259
Speaker 2: didn't like, it's not memorized. As soon as I didn't win,

990
00:48:34,300 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 2: I just deleted it and I'm like moving on, you know?

991
00:48:36,980 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 2: So I don't keep it like that. Like I would

992
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,820
Speaker 2: thank my mom and my family and God, but.

993
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 1: I don't know.

994
00:48:42,380 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 3: I don't know.

995
00:48:43,060 --> 00:48:45,900
Speaker 2: I think like, I think you gave advice to me

996
00:48:46,020 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 2: earlier and you was saying like leaving room, like be prepared,

997
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,919
Speaker 2: but leave room for something to happen. I think that's

998
00:48:51,980 --> 00:48:54,109
Speaker 2: what the experience would be. Like I would leave room

999
00:48:54,180 --> 00:48:57,510
Speaker 2: to see where it led, you know?

1000
00:48:57,570 --> 00:49:00,210
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like what the room felt like. I love that

1001
00:49:00,250 --> 00:49:03,580
Speaker 1: when actors do things and they like, Like they're reacting

1002
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: to the room in real time and you can feel

1003
00:49:05,460 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: that energy. Let's see what happens. I can't wait to

1004
00:49:07,739 --> 00:49:09,950
Speaker 1: see it for you. Oh, thanks, Angie.

1005
00:49:10,070 --> 00:49:12,770
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Speaker 1: All right, this is our voice note segment presented by

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Speaker 1: Boost Mobile. We have a caller. Hi, Danielle. Hello.

1023
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Speaker 3: I want to know, as someone who embraces fashion and

1024
00:50:08,630 --> 00:50:13,790
Speaker 3: confidence and sexy, you performed earlier at Tiana Taylor's burlesque show.

1025
00:50:14,550 --> 00:50:16,970
Speaker 1: How did Tiana get you to do that? And how

1026
00:50:17,030 --> 00:50:19,620
Speaker 1: did you tap into your sexy? And where are the photos?

1027
00:50:19,980 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 2: Girl, they're hidden in a secret closet.

1028
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: So, wait, the question is, how did Tiana get me

1029
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,150
Speaker 1: to do that? Well, she's Tiana Taylor and she's one

1030
00:50:32,190 --> 00:50:33,370
Speaker 1: of my good girlfriends.

1031
00:50:33,450 --> 00:50:35,629
Speaker 2: And when she was Oscar nominated, we spent a lot

1032
00:50:35,670 --> 00:50:36,470
Speaker 2: of time together.

1033
00:50:36,630 --> 00:50:38,850
Speaker 1: You did? Yes, we did. And I was helping usher

1034
00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:42,050
Speaker 1: her into this thing because you need a friend. Yeah.

1035
00:50:42,250 --> 00:50:45,500
Speaker 1: And so she was helping me, too. And she was like, girl,

1036
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: come on. going to do this thing with me? And

1037
00:50:47,460 --> 00:50:48,980
Speaker 1: I was like, are you for real? She's like, yeah,

1038
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,380
Speaker 1: we're going to fight you out and everything. Come on.

1039
00:50:50,860 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: I said, all right.

1040
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,859
Speaker 2: And I love just being spontaneous. And so she said,

1041
00:50:55,890 --> 00:50:58,310
Speaker 2: I want you to host this and this is what

1042
00:50:58,330 --> 00:50:59,549
Speaker 2: you're going to wear and this is how your hair

1043
00:50:59,570 --> 00:51:01,230
Speaker 2: is going to look and who doesn't want to be

1044
00:51:01,270 --> 00:51:03,670
Speaker 2: dressed by Teyana Taylor?

1045
00:51:03,690 --> 00:51:05,830
Speaker 1: I don't know. It sounds like a good time and

1046
00:51:05,850 --> 00:51:07,850
Speaker 1: she's amazing, but... What'd she put you in?

1047
00:51:08,050 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 2: Girl, I had this red corset on. My legs was out.

1048
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:16,580
Speaker 2: It was bodiced with feathers. It was so beautiful. I

1049
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 2: enjoyed that. And how did I tap into my sexy?

1050
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,220
Speaker 2: To be honest, it's not hard.

1051
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:27,670
Speaker 1: Talk your shit, dang. Okay, like, talk your shit. Yeah,

1052
00:51:27,850 --> 00:51:30,330
Speaker 1: it wasn't hard. Especially in a red corset.

1053
00:51:30,690 --> 00:51:34,590
Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm performing. So it's easy to perform for me.

1054
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: How does a woman... Is there a trick for a

1055
00:51:40,500 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 1: woman to tap into her sexiness? Is there? Oh, yes. Oh,

1056
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 1: there is. It's a vibe, Angie. Okay, tell me. It

1057
00:51:46,420 --> 00:51:50,980
Speaker 1: starts internally. First of all, you need to lift the girl. Oh, shit.

1058
00:51:51,060 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here. What is this? That's supposed to... I know.

1059
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: I be around too many boys. No, you got to lift, honey.

1060
00:51:56,500 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: You got to arch. It's something about an arch that

1061
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: makes you feel... I don't know.

1062
00:52:01,530 --> 00:52:06,029
Speaker 2: More powerful, more into your body. And so I think

1063
00:52:06,070 --> 00:52:09,670
Speaker 2: if you start from that energy, and it's a flow.

1064
00:52:09,690 --> 00:52:12,730
Speaker 2: I think I do know how, when I was single,

1065
00:52:13,110 --> 00:52:15,150
Speaker 2: your girl knew how to bring all the boys to

1066
00:52:15,170 --> 00:52:15,550
Speaker 2: the yard.

1067
00:52:15,610 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: You did. I did, I did. You brought your husband

1068
00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:20,259
Speaker 1: to the yard. I brought a lot of people to

1069
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: the yard.

1070
00:52:24,620 --> 00:52:26,779
Speaker 2: I can't do that now i can't do that i'm

1071
00:52:26,820 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 2: off the market but yeah it's an energy that you

1072
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 2: just gotta bring it's a confidence and a lot of

1073
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 2: women be lacking it but i'll be ready to teach

1074
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:36,420
Speaker 2: like i'll be actually.

1075
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,089
Speaker 3: All right what is the course give them the one-on-one

1076
00:52:38,130 --> 00:52:39,790
Speaker 3: what so you it's the it's the art.

1077
00:52:39,670 --> 00:52:41,830
Speaker 2: The arch in the back lift the breast it's the

1078
00:52:41,910 --> 00:52:44,509
Speaker 2: movement it's how you talk like you have to it's

1079
00:52:44,550 --> 00:52:48,870
Speaker 2: the directness it's an eye thing you know what sorry

1080
00:52:48,910 --> 00:52:50,730
Speaker 2: mom but it's like Like when you really want to

1081
00:52:50,750 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 2: connect with somebody, it's like an I fucking thing.

1082
00:52:53,620 --> 00:52:56,219
Speaker 1: So yeah, you got to like lean into it, you know?

1083
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 2: And sometimes you got to do the lip thing, which

1084
00:52:59,040 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 2: is a.

1085
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,850
Speaker 1: Little like, hold on, I can't do it now.

1086
00:53:02,590 --> 00:53:04,370
Speaker 2: But you know, just like talking and....

1087
00:53:06,610 --> 00:53:07,950
Speaker 1: Just a little bit of that.

1088
00:53:08,390 --> 00:53:11,989
Speaker 2: You just got to know. You got to have it.

1089
00:53:12,070 --> 00:53:15,170
Speaker 2: It's an energy that you have to bring into this. Now,

1090
00:53:15,210 --> 00:53:17,569
Speaker 2: if that's what you want. If that's what you want.

1091
00:53:17,650 --> 00:53:19,750
Speaker 1: Of course. If it's not what you want. Then don't

1092
00:53:19,790 --> 00:53:22,410
Speaker 1: do it. Don't do that. Don't take the rules. Don't

1093
00:53:22,450 --> 00:53:24,350
Speaker 1: do the rules. Okay. If that's what you want.

1094
00:53:29,230 --> 00:53:32,839
Speaker 3: But as an actress, you probably have to do that

1095
00:53:32,900 --> 00:53:35,240
Speaker 3: in many ways. Like, you have to tap into your sexy.

1096
00:53:35,260 --> 00:53:36,219
Speaker 3: That's how you do it, right?

1097
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: But, like, you have to tap into your sad sometimes. Yeah.

1098
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:44,720
Speaker 1: Or your, I don't know. Anger. Anger. Or, you know,

1099
00:53:45,620 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: frustration or whatever.

1100
00:53:47,140 --> 00:53:49,819
Speaker 2: There's so many emotions and things, you know.

1101
00:53:49,860 --> 00:53:53,710
Speaker 1: How do you tap into anger? Ooh. How do you

1102
00:53:53,750 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: tap into anger? You just. imagine something that pissed you

1103
00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:01,060
Speaker 1: off yeah do you really is that a real thing.

1104
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,380
Speaker 2: For sure I think that's one of the things that

1105
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,100
Speaker 2: we learned at Juilliard is use if you can use

1106
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,859
Speaker 2: from your own experience you know what I'm saying like

1107
00:54:09,969 --> 00:54:13,430
Speaker 2: if someone pissed me off the other day you know

1108
00:54:13,450 --> 00:54:16,190
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep that with me I do like I

1109
00:54:16,430 --> 00:54:19,049
Speaker 2: we we I do I might keep it in my

1110
00:54:19,110 --> 00:54:22,090
Speaker 2: back pocket for when I'm in a scene with somebody.

1111
00:54:21,630 --> 00:54:24,030
Speaker 3: Does that help you in real time when it's happening

1112
00:54:24,210 --> 00:54:26,379
Speaker 3: like Like if somebody pisses you off, you go, oh,

1113
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 3: that's good.

1114
00:54:26,780 --> 00:54:29,050
Speaker 1: Cause I can use this. I can use this. I

1115
00:54:29,070 --> 00:54:30,219
Speaker 1: don't think, no, no, no, no.

1116
00:54:30,570 --> 00:54:34,770
Speaker 2: I am self-aware, but I don't process life like that.

1117
00:54:34,910 --> 00:54:36,969
Speaker 2: I think what happens is when I'm, you know, when

1118
00:54:37,010 --> 00:54:39,950
Speaker 2: you're in that rehearsal process or when you're going over

1119
00:54:40,250 --> 00:54:44,610
Speaker 2: your film script, that's when you like, oh, this reminds.

1120
00:54:44,170 --> 00:54:45,090
Speaker 1: Me of that moment.

1121
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,620
Speaker 2: When that woman wouldn't get out of my way or

1122
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 2: when that lady told me to take my bag down

1123
00:54:51,260 --> 00:54:54,910
Speaker 2: because on the plane the other day, this woman told me, oh, no,

1124
00:54:54,989 --> 00:54:55,750
Speaker 2: I was going to put my.

1125
00:54:55,670 --> 00:54:59,010
Speaker 1: Bag there first. I was like, the heck you mean?

1126
00:54:59,430 --> 00:55:01,630
Speaker 1: And I took it down. Okay.

1127
00:55:01,770 --> 00:55:04,950
Speaker 2: When it's time and I'm looking at the script, it

1128
00:55:04,989 --> 00:55:06,820
Speaker 2: will remind me of moments like that.

1129
00:55:07,020 --> 00:55:09,060
Speaker 1: Yeah. You took your bag down? I did.

1130
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:09,150
Speaker 2: Why?

1131
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,790
Speaker 1: Why? Because I let her have it. I let her

1132
00:55:13,810 --> 00:55:17,070
Speaker 1: have it. I let her have it. I know. And

1133
00:55:17,090 --> 00:55:18,710
Speaker 1: you really know why, Angie?

1134
00:55:18,770 --> 00:55:21,290
Speaker 2: Because I've gotten into it with people on the plane.

1135
00:55:21,890 --> 00:55:24,330
Speaker 2: And people think I'm Ms. Sweet, and I am Ms. Sweet.

1136
00:55:24,350 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 2: But when I'm sour, I'm sour. Don't think they didn't

1137
00:55:27,380 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 2: hire me to play Tasty for a reason. So I

1138
00:55:30,300 --> 00:55:34,380
Speaker 2: had to restrain myself because I almost got kicked off

1139
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 2: the plane before.

1140
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,940
Speaker 3: Oh, so you trying to be extra nice so that

1141
00:55:37,980 --> 00:55:39,489
Speaker 3: you don't have to be not nice.

1142
00:55:40,870 --> 00:55:45,969
Speaker 1: You got it. So they got you fucked up if

1143
00:55:45,989 --> 00:55:49,700
Speaker 1: they think you're a pushover. Okay. I get it. Okay.

1144
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: All right, in real life, what are you most proud

1145
00:55:52,020 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: of about your career?

1146
00:55:53,620 --> 00:56:00,910
Speaker 2: Oh, I am most proud that my career is... I

1147
00:56:00,969 --> 00:56:03,750
Speaker 2: am most proud that my career has expanded the way

1148
00:56:03,790 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 2: that it has. I've been able to do comedies, dramas, TV.

1149
00:56:10,020 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 2: I've been able to do comedies, dramas, TV, film, Broadway, Shakespeare, cartoons,

1150
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:21,740
Speaker 2: animated stuff, and comedy, excuse me, comic books.

1151
00:56:22,530 --> 00:56:23,660
Speaker 1: I've just done everything.

1152
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:31,290
Speaker 2: And podcasting now. But everything that I've done has been

1153
00:56:31,370 --> 00:56:35,089
Speaker 2: of a certain standard. I'm very proud of keeping that

1154
00:56:35,170 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 2: standard high and not losing myself in this business.

1155
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's not always easy. In real life, what is

1156
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: something that you used to be embarrassed about, but now

1157
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: that you own? It's a little tricky. I used to

1158
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:55,170
Speaker 1: be embarrassed about? Oh, God. She grabs her head like, what? Because,

1159
00:56:55,190 --> 00:56:57,250
Speaker 1: you know, you be having long days and you be like, oh,

1160
00:56:57,310 --> 00:56:58,890
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't think. If you don't know,

1161
00:56:58,910 --> 00:57:00,860
Speaker 1: we can go to the next one. Okay, let's go

1162
00:57:00,890 --> 00:57:02,910
Speaker 1: to that. Too hard to think about that one? Yeah.

1163
00:57:04,070 --> 00:57:06,330
Speaker 1: I know. Because I don't get embarrassed by much. You don't?

1164
00:57:06,670 --> 00:57:10,590
Speaker 1: Because I'm okay with failing. I'm okay with getting things wrong.

1165
00:57:11,330 --> 00:57:16,740
Speaker 2: So I don't get embarrassed about things that often. Or

1166
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:18,070
Speaker 2: I just can't think of nothing.

1167
00:57:18,380 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: No, I'm okay with being wrong and failing. What is

1168
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:22,660
Speaker 1: something that you're still working on?

1169
00:57:23,690 --> 00:57:26,130
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I've been working on a lot of things.

1170
00:57:26,170 --> 00:57:28,090
Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty well.

1171
00:57:28,110 --> 00:57:30,090
Speaker 1: That's probably why I'm like, yeah, maybe. I ain't got

1172
00:57:30,110 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: to work on shit. Bitch, you got to work on that. Nice. No. Oh,

1173
00:57:35,460 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: I'll go this direction. Mommy guilt.

1174
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 2: Oh. I am working on not having so much mommy

1175
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,890
Speaker 2: guilt and wife guilt, like being away from home.

1176
00:57:45,270 --> 00:57:47,110
Speaker 1: They don't put the pressure. Well, my daughter puts the

1177
00:57:47,130 --> 00:57:48,510
Speaker 1: pressure on me sometimes, but.

1178
00:57:49,190 --> 00:57:52,010
Speaker 2: I'm just feeling like when I get home from working,

1179
00:57:52,030 --> 00:57:53,570
Speaker 2: I got to do this and I need to cook

1180
00:57:53,770 --> 00:57:56,010
Speaker 2: and I need to throw these clothes and got to

1181
00:57:56,110 --> 00:57:56,810
Speaker 2: take free school.

1182
00:57:56,830 --> 00:57:59,130
Speaker 1: And I do all those things. But there's just this

1183
00:57:59,270 --> 00:58:02,230
Speaker 1: pressure to make sure that everybody feels you're trying to

1184
00:58:02,290 --> 00:58:05,370
Speaker 1: make up for. Yeah. And then you're going to be exhausted.

1185
00:58:05,410 --> 00:58:08,530
Speaker 1: I'm so tired. Yeah. I got to work on that.

1186
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:09,970
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1187
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:14,410
Speaker 1: What is the answer to that then? Sit my ass down.

1188
00:58:14,830 --> 00:58:17,490
Speaker 2: Like, when I get home, stop thinking you got to

1189
00:58:17,510 --> 00:58:18,510
Speaker 2: go do everything.

1190
00:58:18,590 --> 00:58:23,310
Speaker 1: Just go to bed. Just watch a TV movie, a show, whatever.

1191
00:58:23,370 --> 00:58:26,790
Speaker 1: Just sit down. Sit down. You don't have to do nothing.

1192
00:58:27,110 --> 00:58:28,990
Speaker 1: That is what I need to work on. Yeah, because

1193
00:58:29,010 --> 00:58:30,990
Speaker 1: what are you trying to prove? Why?

1194
00:58:31,270 --> 00:58:33,850
Speaker 2: Nobody's asking me to. But I think I'd be so

1195
00:58:33,910 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 2: worried that... And two years from now, my husband is

1196
00:58:37,450 --> 00:58:39,590
Speaker 2: going to be like, you weren't there. Or my daughter,

1197
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,300
Speaker 2: when she's a teenager, you didn't show up. You know,

1198
00:58:42,780 --> 00:58:44,300
Speaker 2: I think I'm worried about the future.

1199
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,460
Speaker 1: But worrying.

1200
00:58:46,540 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 3: It's crazy, though, because you could worry about all the

1201
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 3: things you don't want to do to your kid. And

1202
00:58:50,060 --> 00:58:52,020
Speaker 3: then the thing when they're older that they had a

1203
00:58:52,060 --> 00:58:54,420
Speaker 3: problem with is not even something you're thinking.

1204
00:58:54,180 --> 00:58:55,260
Speaker 1: About right now.

1205
00:58:55,420 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 3: Well, you overcompensated in one way. So now they feel

1206
00:58:57,660 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 3: the other way about something.

1207
00:58:58,860 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: You just you just got to try your best. Yeah.

1208
00:59:01,540 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: Thank you. What is your.

1209
00:59:04,950 --> 00:59:07,250
Speaker 1: What about your pet peeves, your real life pet peeves

1210
00:59:07,650 --> 00:59:09,650
Speaker 1: or triggers? Something else.

1211
00:59:09,900 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 2: People, the thing that will set me off is people

1212
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 2: hurting people. Deal with your own shit. I do not

1213
00:59:20,140 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 2: like that. If you're having a bad day, you put

1214
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 2: your bad day on somebody else.

1215
00:59:25,060 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 1: That is the biggest pet peeve. What do you do

1216
00:59:28,780 --> 00:59:29,790
Speaker 1: when somebody does that to you?

1217
00:59:31,140 --> 00:59:33,700
Speaker 2: Tell them that they doing it to me. I will

1218
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:35,540
Speaker 2: tell them you're putting your heart on me. Does that

1219
00:59:35,580 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 2: really have anything to do with me? And that's not fair.

1220
00:59:38,500 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 2: It's not fair. Like I don't deserve to have a

1221
00:59:40,420 --> 00:59:42,820
Speaker 2: bad day because you're having a bad day. And most

1222
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 2: of the time I'm trying to help you have a

1223
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,420
Speaker 2: better day. So if you actually just told me you're

1224
00:59:46,460 --> 00:59:50,260
Speaker 2: having a bad day, maybe I would know. Let me

1225
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,540
Speaker 2: help them have a bad day or a good day.

1226
00:59:53,490 --> 00:59:55,650
Speaker 1: You know, let me help them have a good day. Yeah.

1227
00:59:56,070 --> 00:59:59,990
Speaker 1: Instead of treating me bad. Yes. For sure. That's horrible.

1228
01:00:00,010 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: People do that. That's pretty bad. All right, boo. Go

1229
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: into the bowl. Catch a couple of real life questions.

1230
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,620
Speaker 2: What's one part of parenting no one warns you about?

1231
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:16,180
Speaker 2: I was kind of being more selfish in this answer

1232
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,790
Speaker 2: and not thinking about parenting, but about being... how your

1233
01:00:19,830 --> 01:00:24,230
Speaker 2: body changes. And I think sometimes Hollywood makes us think

1234
01:00:24,250 --> 01:00:26,570
Speaker 2: that our body's going to bounce back right away, and

1235
01:00:26,650 --> 01:00:27,190
Speaker 2: it doesn't.

1236
01:00:27,210 --> 01:00:30,390
Speaker 1: It doesn't. It takes time. It takes you damn near

1237
01:00:30,410 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: a year to have the baby. Yeah. Why do you

1238
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,060
Speaker 1: think it would take anything less than that? It might

1239
01:00:35,100 --> 01:00:36,220
Speaker 1: take more than that. Yeah.

1240
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:40,419
Speaker 2: It took me five years to get this jawline back.

1241
01:00:42,300 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: I'm so serious.

1242
01:00:43,500 --> 01:00:46,580
Speaker 2: So I think that's something that people aren't honest about

1243
01:00:46,620 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 2: with parenting.

1244
01:00:47,540 --> 01:00:51,180
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. How did you get the jawline back, by the way? Girl,

1245
01:00:51,220 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: I work out. I work out like crazy. I work

1246
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:57,340
Speaker 1: out like crazy. I love going to the gym. You do? Mm-hmm.

1247
01:00:57,580 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: I never understand those people. I'm a gym rat now.

1248
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:05,220
Speaker 1: You're a gym rat? I have gym friends. You love

1249
01:01:05,260 --> 01:01:08,070
Speaker 1: that about yourself? I do because I wasn't like that before.

1250
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:11,430
Speaker 1: Because I want to have that muscle. Yeah. I'll do

1251
01:01:11,470 --> 01:01:13,790
Speaker 1: it because I have to, but I never in my

1252
01:01:13,870 --> 01:01:16,750
Speaker 1: life have had the experience of, I love it here.

1253
01:01:17,210 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 3: And I see people have that, and I'm really genuinely

1254
01:01:20,340 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 3: envious of it.

1255
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:21,370
Speaker 1: I love it.

1256
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:25,300
Speaker 2: I think when you start feeling stronger, when you're not

1257
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,330
Speaker 2: as winded and things. I think the gym I go

1258
01:01:28,370 --> 01:01:30,990
Speaker 2: to has great instructors, so they be hyping me up.

1259
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:34,060
Speaker 2: And then when you start seeing that little definition here

1260
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 2: or that clavicle come back after not seeing it for

1261
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:42,330
Speaker 2: five years, you start feeling like, oh, snap. And I

1262
01:01:42,350 --> 01:01:44,669
Speaker 2: think my husband helped me a lot because he loves

1263
01:01:44,710 --> 01:01:47,990
Speaker 2: the gym. And men be intimidating women a lot in

1264
01:01:48,030 --> 01:01:51,550
Speaker 2: the gym. Not everyone, but that can happen sometimes. So

1265
01:01:51,890 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 2: he helped build my confidence to do strength training and

1266
01:01:55,740 --> 01:01:58,130
Speaker 2: things like that and not be scared anymore. to use

1267
01:01:58,190 --> 01:02:01,850
Speaker 2: like Smith machines and things because I used to run

1268
01:02:01,930 --> 01:02:04,090
Speaker 2: from that because I was like, somebody's going to judge me.

1269
01:02:04,130 --> 01:02:05,870
Speaker 1: Somebody's going to think I ain't doing it right. And

1270
01:02:06,230 --> 01:02:08,710
Speaker 1: he's like, who cares what they think? Like, do you?

1271
01:02:09,180 --> 01:02:12,420
Speaker 1: So that's really helped. So you need a good husband.

1272
01:02:12,460 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: You know, right? I know, right? Sorry. Everything's based around

1273
01:02:17,380 --> 01:02:22,300
Speaker 1: a man. Okay. Okay. What was the last thing? Oh,

1274
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,350
Speaker 1: I always cry. I'm going to cry, baby. Wait, let

1275
01:02:25,370 --> 01:02:27,050
Speaker 1: me see that one. Don't throw it away. That means

1276
01:02:27,070 --> 01:02:29,630
Speaker 1: something's real in there. It says, when was the last

1277
01:02:29,670 --> 01:02:30,630
Speaker 1: time you cried?

1278
01:02:30,650 --> 01:02:30,710
Speaker 2: Oh.

1279
01:02:32,130 --> 01:02:34,950
Speaker 1: I cry all the time. You do? I cry all

1280
01:02:34,990 --> 01:02:36,790
Speaker 1: the time. And I'm not ashamed of it anymore. When

1281
01:02:36,830 --> 01:02:40,910
Speaker 1: was the last time? Two days ago. Over what? Two,

1282
01:02:40,930 --> 01:02:41,650
Speaker 1: three days ago.

1283
01:02:42,190 --> 01:02:45,970
Speaker 2: When I met that young woman who told me that she, like,

1284
01:02:46,270 --> 01:02:49,410
Speaker 2: my story affected her enough to audition for a governor's

1285
01:02:49,430 --> 01:02:52,490
Speaker 2: school in Juilliard. And she actually got into Juilliard when

1286
01:02:52,510 --> 01:02:53,870
Speaker 2: they only accept 18.

1287
01:02:53,870 --> 01:02:54,490
Speaker 1: Was she crying?

1288
01:02:55,300 --> 01:03:00,140
Speaker 2: No. I was crying because, again, that's all I ever

1289
01:03:00,180 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 2: wanted was to affect people the way that others have

1290
01:03:02,540 --> 01:03:05,180
Speaker 2: affected me, where it's life changing.

1291
01:03:05,940 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: So the fact that I was able to help alter

1292
01:03:09,540 --> 01:03:10,180
Speaker 1: her life.

1293
01:03:10,940 --> 01:03:13,780
Speaker 2: She did the work that helped alter her life by

1294
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:15,100
Speaker 2: the way I was living.

1295
01:03:15,580 --> 01:03:21,930
Speaker 1: That's powerful. That's powerful. So I cried. How could you not?

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Speaker 1: I cried. I cried. I cried. It's also because it's

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Speaker 1: like you work hard. Yeah. So that's almost like the reward, right?

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Speaker 1: It's like. Yeah. It's like the reward showing up. So

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Speaker 1: it's not just also what you're doing hard, but it's validating.

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Speaker 1: So validating. Your purpose.

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Speaker 2: Especially for me. I grew up in a small town.

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Speaker 2: Like nobody was doing what I was doing.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Like I didn't see an example truly of like.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I could do that. You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: So the fact that I got to where I got

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Speaker 2: with Little Example, you know, I just am amazed at God.

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Speaker 2: I'm amazed that I was chosen to do what I

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Speaker 2: get to do at this level, like to get to

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Speaker 2: sit with you.

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Speaker 1: You know, like I'm very humbled by a lot of it.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Even though Duran told us we're not

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Speaker 1: supposed to use that word. Humble? Humble. He said it

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Speaker 1: on your podcast. He said it here that we shouldn't

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Speaker 1: say that? Yeah, he said, like, he talked about humility.

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Speaker 1: He did? My brain is fried right now. Can't be

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Speaker 1: too humble.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he said don't use the word because it's

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Speaker 2: making you, it's basically saying, shrinking yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, uh-huh.

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Speaker 2: Which is something I'm working on, not using that word,

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Speaker 2: but it's.

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Speaker 1: A good word. Yes, he did say that.

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Speaker 3: And there's something about that that translates to people when

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Speaker 3: they hear you talk like that as if you don't,

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Speaker 3: believe you're worthy so then what are you teaching somebody

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Speaker 3: about how they should.

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Speaker 2: Look exactly yes i'm trying to diminish that word from

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Speaker 2: my vocabulary humble wow because that's that has tripped me

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Speaker 2: up my whole life really oh yeah oh yeah so

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Speaker 2: you used to use it a lot yes and i

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Speaker 2: think i've made myself small because of that so i'm

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Speaker 2: working on not using it in the Just, you know,

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Speaker 2: like you say, breast up, arch that back, you know

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying?

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably tripped me up, too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Because if God gave you your gifts and you're working

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Speaker 3: hard and you're being obedient and you're doing all the things,

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Speaker 3: who are you to say you don't belong in a

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01:05:36,020 --> 01:05:37,940
Speaker 3: room or belong in some space?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me, I've just always been taught

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01:05:40,180 --> 01:05:44,010
Speaker 2: to not be braggadocious, you know, and Check your ego

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01:05:44,110 --> 01:05:47,530
Speaker 2: all the time. But my ego has actually already been

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01:05:47,570 --> 01:05:51,670
Speaker 2: in check. I've never thought that I was better than someone.

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Speaker 2: Have I always thought I was great?

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01:05:54,560 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 1: Yes. But better than? No. Equal? Yeah. Better than? No. No.

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Speaker 1: So I never had that issue. Oh. This is my

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01:06:04,060 --> 01:06:07,470
Speaker 1: favorite question in the book. Oh, gosh. When I tell you,

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Speaker 1: you're going to remember it. Okay. If God were to

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01:06:10,870 --> 01:06:19,910
Speaker 1: text you right now, What would it say? Keep it

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01:06:19,970 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: about me. Why?

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01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,900
Speaker 2: Keep it about me. Don't make it about yourself. Don't

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01:06:26,940 --> 01:06:30,980
Speaker 2: make it about other people. Keep it about me. I

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01:06:31,020 --> 01:06:32,900
Speaker 2: think what that.

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Speaker 1: Means is that ego thing.

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Speaker 2: It's about the work and what work I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: do is godly work. Let people see God in me.

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Speaker 2: So keep it about me, how you approach people, what

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Speaker 2: you say when they meet you.

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Speaker 1: Keep it about me. You know, that's that's just what

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01:07:00,650 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: I see. Keep keep it about me. How would that

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01:07:04,740 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 1: text make you feel if you got that today? Oh,

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Speaker 1: the text would make me feel like, okay, Lord, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I will listen. Like, yes, I got you. I got you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Because we talked a lot in this.

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Speaker 2: Interview about awards and being seen and feeling like that girl.

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Speaker 1: But it's really not about that. That's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Keep it about me. Yeah. I love that. I feel

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Speaker 1: like you've talked equally about that, too. Okay, good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it doesn't stand out to you, but it's

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Speaker 3: in there.

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Speaker 1: It's in there in everything that you talk about. Yes, yes.

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Speaker 1: I feel it in everything that you talk about. It's

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Speaker 1: part of your fabric, so that wouldn't beat yourself up. Okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely in there. Okay, good. I love that answer.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would say. Before you go, though, we

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Speaker 1: should Melba's. Yeah. You're doing a Melba's movie. A TV show, yeah.

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Speaker 1: A show, sorry. You're doing a Melba's show. By the way,

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Speaker 1: tell me the people connected.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Kenya Barris and Oprah Winfrey.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of like, is that like a guaranteed hit? Like,

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01:08:10,740 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: is that? I know nothing is guaranteed. It's a good combination.

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Speaker 1: Like a soulful, is it kind of like soulful? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it will be soulful.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's roughly, roughly soulful. based on Melba, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean? It's not going to be.

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Speaker 1: The base set in Harlem? Yes, for sure. But you're

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01:08:30,090 --> 01:08:32,170
Speaker 1: going to be here? Yes, for sure.

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Speaker 2: I lived in Harlem for a little bit. 116 and Madison. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I will be excited to be back coming

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Speaker 1: to Harlem. I lived here in New York for 14 years.

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Speaker 1: So even though I still have a Southern accent at times,

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Speaker 1: like I... I've lived in New York longer than I

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01:08:48,490 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 1: have any other place. Really? Yes. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I can say I'm a New Yorker, but I

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Speaker 1: would say... First of all, the way you threw that

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Speaker 1: little New Yorker in there. New Yorker, you know what

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01:08:58,290 --> 01:09:02,059
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Sweet. going to be playing Melbourne, Harlem, do

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Speaker 1: you have a go-to soul food order? Ooh.

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01:09:06,580 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 2: I mean, the combination needs to stay the combination, which

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01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:12,060
Speaker 2: is collard greens, mac and cheese.

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01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:16,729
Speaker 1: I actually prefer salmon, but I'd rather have fried whiting.

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01:09:17,170 --> 01:09:20,229
Speaker 1: Salmon's not the sequel everywhere, by the way. No, it's not.

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01:09:20,250 --> 01:09:21,970
Speaker 1: All salmons are not created the same.

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Speaker 2: So give me some fried whiting with bread. You know,

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01:09:25,850 --> 01:09:26,689
Speaker 2: you need some hot sauce.

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01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:27,110
Speaker 1: Of course.

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01:09:27,490 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 2: And then some cornbread on the side. Sweet tea would

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01:09:30,300 --> 01:09:33,580
Speaker 2: be amazing, but not great for my waistline. But I

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Speaker 2: would love some southern sweet tea and not New York

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01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:37,040
Speaker 2: sweet tea.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm offended. Why? What is a New York

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01:09:40,930 --> 01:09:43,170
Speaker 1: sweet tea? It's not sweet. A New York tea is

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01:09:43,210 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 1: like Arizona. That's disgusting. We're not sweet enough for you?

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Speaker 1: Y'all didn't get that right. Come on now. No, ma'am.

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Speaker 1: You don't have no yams in your order? No, I

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01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 1: don't like yams. I love a yam. No.

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Speaker 3: The yam, and when the little bit of the yam

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01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:00,050
Speaker 3: gets on the other stuff and it makes it like

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01:10:00,090 --> 01:10:01,370
Speaker 3: a little sweet, like the.

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Speaker 1: Come on now. Dismiss me with that. All right, well,

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Speaker 1: I hope that you keep it about him. Yes, I will.

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Speaker 1: I will. And I hope that he blesses you with

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Speaker 1: all the things that you want. It was a love

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01:10:15,570 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: to have you today. You're amazing. Okay, thank you. In

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Speaker 1: real life! This is Danielle Brooks in real life. Hey guys,

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01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 1: thanks for watching.

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