1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Wake up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: DJ Envy Angela, Ye, Charlemagne the guy. We are the 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We got some special guest joining us today. Yes, 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: indeed we have the great the legend Viola David. She's 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: back of morning. We have to do so they do. 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: Did I say right to Bed I hadn't practiced it, 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: like he's gonna get it wrong? I said, yeah, I 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: don't care how many times he practices. That guarantees gonna 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: get it. And Gina Prince Bythewood, good morning, Good morning 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: from the show. From the movie The Woman King Excited, 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 1: just feel bigger than a movie. This feel like an event. 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: It is moment the movement. Yes, how difficult was it 13 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: for you to get in that type of shape, because 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: from the premium, I mean it was it was a lot. 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: It looked like you did your own stunts and everything. Yes, 16 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: we did, and it was a lot. Hour and a 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: half of weight training every day and heavyweights because they 18 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: wanted me to be really bulky so you could believe 19 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: I could take down two hundred and fifty pound men. 20 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: Three and a half hours of martial arts after the 21 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: weight training, you know, weaponry training, you know, punching elbows, 22 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: running ten point zero on the treadmill, wow, which you know, 23 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: you know when you you you start running, you uh, 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: your your heart rate goes up and you lose oxygen. 25 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: And I'm over fifty. So the fact that I'm alive 26 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: and sitting here is a testament somebody to try you 27 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: hold hold up. That's a powerful feeling to be able 28 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: to just really transform your body like that. You think 29 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: you'll incorporate this training like just forever into your life 30 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: now some of that. Yeah, we still work out together, 31 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,639 Speaker 1: all three of us, so they come to my house 32 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: and we could plain. Yeah, you know. But you know, 33 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: for me and Touso can attest to that, it's getting 34 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: in to the mindset of the warrior, that mindset of 35 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: either you fight or you die. Yeah, you know, because 36 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: as actors, you can't just transform the body. You have 37 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: to transform even um inward. Yea. We are, after all, 38 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, playing people and um, 39 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: I mean I don't know. I don't walk through my 40 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: life except with my child. It's if you come, you 41 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: know from my child, I'll try to kill you. But really, um, 42 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: every day I don't have fight or die sort of spirit. 43 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: So for people that don't know, let's break down what 44 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: the Woman King is about. So you're really good at this. Now. 45 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: It's the story of this incredible group of elite female 46 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: warriors who defended the kingdom, defended their people at a 47 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: time when they were at the great crossroads which way 48 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: they were going to go? And yeah, it just tells 49 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: the story of this incredible kingdom that that was different 50 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: than any other kingdom and all of Africa. And it's 51 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: based on a true story, right, because this this is 52 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: the real life doorm logic. Yeah right, absolutely, Um, Yeah, 53 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: that's the incredible thing. These women were real. So many 54 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: of us have never heard of them, never were taught 55 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: about them. So to be able to go to the 56 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: movies see yourself reflected up on screen, how you've never 57 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: seen it heroically, we think it's gonna be a game change. 58 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: It's exciting for me because I've never seen black women 59 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 1: in a role like this, you know, and I love 60 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: movies like three hundred and a Pacalypta when you see 61 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: all the fighting, running, excitement, But to see like these 62 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: powerful black women, I just feel like this is something 63 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: that is life changing for us. You know, I saw 64 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: that you said Gina that when you read the script 65 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: you knew even before you finished that you wanted to 66 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: do this movie. Yeah, for real. Five pages in um wow, 67 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: it's written that these women rise up from the grasses 68 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: about to go ham on on some men who took 69 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: their women prisoner. And for me, my mindset athlete wanting 70 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: to put us up on screen, I wanted to see 71 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: that image. I wanted to be the one to shoot 72 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: that image. Yeah. I'm glad y'all did this too, Because 73 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: you know, I'm a big comic book guy, so I 74 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: always knew the door Malija was based off a real 75 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: you know, crew of women, but I never did the 76 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: research on it. I never went to go look about 77 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 1: the Dohmie Amazon. So this is a great educational piece, 78 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, Lla, you produced this also, right my 79 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: production company with my husband Julius Tennant, we produced the movie. 80 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: We fought for it for seven years, you know, seven years, 81 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: seven year fight. It's always hard to get a movie 82 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: done in Hollywood. Any anyone has a hard time, but 83 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: us especially have a hard time. Do you think this 84 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:49,559 Speaker 1: is going to start a shift in Hollywood where instead 85 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: of the narratives of like you know, the enslaved we 86 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: get those stories all the time. We'll get more of 87 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: these stories. Seawan our warrior's spirit. We have to m 88 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 1: I said, it's time. And it's what we love so 89 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: much about this film against So many of us are taught, 90 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: certainly in America, that our history begins with enslavement and 91 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: there was so much more going on before that, um 92 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: where we truly do come from kingdoms and warriors and kings. 93 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: So with the success of this, it has to open 94 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: that door. Actually keep that door open that Black Panther 95 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: kicked open for us, and we want to keep that 96 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: door open for others to tell these stories. We had 97 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: John opit the other day. He said, boyeah, yeah. He 98 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: said this was his easiest role because he said he 99 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: was which role, which rob he was working, Because he said, 100 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: you guys did the work, and he said it was 101 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: amazing watching guys really got the play. He said, he 102 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: loved it and he felt very comfortable. On said because 103 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: there was so many black women around. Yes, oh yes, 104 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: he said, y'all would tell him if he had crusted 105 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: his lips. You know, he was very excited about that. Now, 106 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: the thing about John that was amazing about his involvement 107 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: is he normally obviously he's a leading man. Yeah, um, 108 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 1: but he came aboard this. He used his power to 109 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: help us get this mate, help us get that green light. 110 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: He obviously wondered what vie, but that was big. He 111 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: just wanted to be there to support black women and 112 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: he was incredible and set. He came when he wasn't shooting, 113 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: just to watch, to take it in, to take in 114 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: the environment. So he was a king. How many knows 115 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: did you get before you got there? Yes? And what 116 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: reason would they give you to say this isn't going 117 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: to work or we're passing. Well, it's it's any number 118 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: of things. It could be fighting for the actors. Okay, 119 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: a black actress, especially dark skinned black actress, is not 120 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: going to have the same resume as a white actor. Okay, 121 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: so then you have to fight for them, because everything 122 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: is about what you've done before, how much money that 123 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: movie made that you did before. You have to fight 124 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: for the director. You know, the studios approved directors, who 125 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: are the Steven Spielberg's, the Christopher Nolan's, the David Fincher's. 126 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: They have their own movie. They don't have to do 127 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: a woman king. You know, you have to fight for 128 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: the budget. You have to fight, you know what, You 129 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: have to fight for everything, even hair and makeup. Okay, 130 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: because there's no precedent. I just have to add this 131 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: because Gina said it, so I have to keep it going. 132 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: It's the whole idea of support and supporting is different 133 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: than just helping. Supporting is carrying. You're always that net 134 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: that's always there. And the thing about our movies, this 135 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: is a predominant black female lead movie. There is no 136 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: white savior in it. If you do not PLoP your 137 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: money down to see the movie, then it is going 138 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: to be really hard for the next black artist to 139 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: come into that room and get a movie Greenlo, it's 140 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: going to be ten, fifteen, twenty years because we will 141 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: set a president that we did a movie that y'all 142 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: didn't want to see, right, and and it's as simple 143 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: as that. It's not like, Okay, we just didn't want 144 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: to see this movie. No, you don't want to see 145 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: dark skinned women um driving the narrative in a global 146 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: box office. That's all. When people have that conversation about diversity, 147 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, that's great, but you got to spend 148 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: them dollars too. You want more diversity, you gotta you know, 149 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: when these movies dropped, you gotta go see them elusively 150 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: in theater. So that which, by the way, I'm going 151 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: to see it on Saturday. So I have a whole 152 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: day plan to go see it on Saturday when I 153 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: arrived to where I have to fly out to and 154 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: so we're making a date to go with my girls. 155 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: But I want to encourage everybody to go see it 156 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: because we're still used to things now, you know, streaming 157 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: and being able to rent it at home, but go 158 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: to the theater. It's such a great experience, And I said, 159 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: this is something you have to see in the theater. Also, 160 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: on top of everything else, it's a hell of fun movie. Yeah, 161 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: about to say, and from the very beginning, you don't 162 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: have to wait. You're gonna be dropping off that roller 163 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: coaster from the very beginning. So sneak your snacks to him, 164 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: bring that big bag, you know, because I have four 165 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: daughters and no sharlomans four daughters, so I want we 166 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: want to take him and see him. I was gonna ask, 167 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: does it make you nervous with everybody? You know, kind 168 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: of scared a movie theaters? They're not back yet, like 169 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: we should be Does that make you nervous at all? 170 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, it is a it is 171 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: a I just I don't know what's gonna happen. You know, 172 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: certainly Top Gun brought people back, right, Um, actually Spider 173 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: Man right before that brought people back. I think it's 174 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: it's about the incentive of is this interesting enough? Get 175 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: out of your bed, climb into the car and go. 176 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: But as you know, you mentioned, this really is an 177 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,839 Speaker 1: experience to go see and and we want you to 178 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: see it on the big screen, and we want you 179 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: to have that communal experience of everybody yelling at the screen. Fun, 180 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: it's fun. What what what do roles like this makes 181 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: you feel about American patriarchy and the roles they tell 182 00:09:50,960 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: us men and women are supposed to play. You got 183 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 1: some swords in the back if y'all want to find 184 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: right now? Um? Sorry, a question again, like what do 185 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: roles like this make you think about just American patriarchy 186 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: and the roles they tell us men and women are 187 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: supposed to play? Well, um, it's not necessarily it's just 188 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: American patriarchy. I think it's globally, Um, you see it 189 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: back in South Africa as well, Um, just from my history, 190 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: I know that the shows that I've been been on 191 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: in South Africa were extremely hard to be commissioned because again, 192 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: dark skinned black women aren't syllables as far as people 193 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: are concerned, And um, this, I think this movie will 194 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: show the opposite. It shows, you know, the humanity of 195 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: the dark skinned black women. It shows that we are 196 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: people who are talented, We've got something to a value 197 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 1: to add, and that whatever the system has deemed as 198 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,079 Speaker 1: the standard isn't necessarily true. What about executives that studios 199 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: who didn't know the story, did they say this could 200 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: never be true. There would never be a group of 201 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: women who were, you know, fighting like this. Did anybody 202 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 1: say that? Um? Well, I think the world would say that. 203 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: I think that, you know, we have a narrative that's 204 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: out there that says that there's a lot of things 205 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: that we can't be. You know, we can't be muscular, 206 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: we can't take down a two hundred and fifty pound man, 207 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: you know, Um, we can't be humanized. Um, we can't 208 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: be a lot of things. And I think that the 209 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: best movies that we have our movies that disband all 210 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: of that. And I think you're gonna see it because 211 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: I let me tell you something, I felt good in 212 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: my body for the first time. I felt like this, 213 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: I mean as as I mean, come on too, so 214 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 1: you're I mean because it served me. It really did. 215 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:52,719 Speaker 1: At first, I was like, Gene, I wants to be 216 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: in a bulk up. I can't be walking around him 217 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,439 Speaker 1: all up. And then all of a sudden, it's a 218 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 1: sense of pride. Do we define them in entity if 219 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: we define womanhood? And that's what we have to do 220 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: um as black women, because you know, when going to 221 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: acting school, I was always taught if you're not ninety pounds, 222 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: you don't look, you know, like a ninety pounds you know, 223 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: blind hair, blue white woman, then you're just ugly. You're 224 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: just not feminine. You're not a woman. This just blasted 225 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: a whole through that Blase previews. Definitely made me feel 226 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: like I gotta go work out. And I saw that 227 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: you guys posted the woman who actually trained you are McClean. Yeah, 228 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: so is there gonna be like some type of video 229 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: that everybody. I think that's a great idea because I'm 230 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: saying the first thing I saw, I was like, I 231 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: need to um the woman workout the video is coming. Yeah, 232 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: you think that's a good idea about you better be 233 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: ready for her, and you know I'm not yet. What 234 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: I want to say is that because people might think, oh, 235 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: only woman need to do this workout, we had hero 236 00:12:52,080 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: On Jordan working out with gay vomiting as well. You 237 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: decided to work out with them. Yeah. Did you want 238 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: to punish yourself or wasn't one of those things you 239 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: wanted to see how hard the workout was? No, you 240 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: didn't have to. Yeah. The thing is I joined because 241 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: I knew how hard it was having, you know, trained 242 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: as an athlete, and I needed to be like, if 243 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you to do something as a director, 244 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: I should be willing to do it myself. Um. But 245 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: also before every film, I trained just to get stamming 246 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: and built up my mind and my body, and here 247 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: I had free trainers, So I'm gonna take advantage. And 248 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: you're an athlete already, right, Love and basketball that was 249 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: based on your life. Yeah, that's so dope to me. 250 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: I was just watching that last week again because you 251 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: know it's always on. You really played a man for 252 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: his heart in real life. There was some that was 253 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: a movie people didn't think would work either when Yeah, 254 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: now everybody turned that one down too, and that's a 255 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: classic classic that my favorite movie. Gin know, I wasn't 256 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: important for a woman, especially a woman of color, to direct. Man, 257 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: it had to be from our point of view, our 258 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 1: lands what I brought to it. Like as a director, 259 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: it's a vision, it's my vision. What do I want 260 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: the audience to see? How do I want these women portrayed? Um? 261 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: I just think somebody else who didn't have the love 262 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: of our people love with these women, they may have 263 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: made a movie that was just about kick as women 264 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: killing and that's it. But I wanted to show our humanity. 265 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: I knew we needed to see our humanity. And that's 266 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: that's the thing why more of us have to tell 267 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: our own stories, is because our lens, we're putting a 268 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: camera on what we want to see. Um. And it 269 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: makes a huge difference too. So how wast how important 270 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: is it for Black Americans to have a connection to 271 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: the motherland? I think so from what I've observed m 272 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: and I talk about it with most of my friends, 273 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: is there is an identity that was stripped from African 274 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: Americans when you know they were taken from this land. 275 00:14:55,320 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: I have a confidence in me that I I cannot 276 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: possibly fathom, you know, what life would be like without 277 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: knowing who I am. You know again, I was talking 278 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: to my friend about this the other day that yes, 279 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: we had apartheid, and you know, we have our own 280 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: system that oppressed us, but we still knew where we 281 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: came from. I can say I am of the Zuluk tribe, 282 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: you know, King Shaga, and I can trace my history. 283 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: I can take my confidence in that my king fought 284 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: a B and c to see X Y Z it happened. 285 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: And so for African Americans that was taken from them. 286 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: And so there's I am noticing this constant search for 287 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: something that cannot be filled by anything that this space 288 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: might hold, and tracing whatever Africa might be the answer 289 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: to that. Miss Davis and Gene, I love answer that 290 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: question too. Um, Well, what we What we didn't tend 291 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: on this film, because oftentimes you hear a little bit 292 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: of a conflict, is that we wanted this cast to 293 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: come from all over diasporat. So we had African American actors, 294 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: South African, West African, London, Jamaican, Ugandan. We wanted all 295 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: of them to come together so that it was black 296 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: women telling the story of our ancestors together, and of 297 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: course you celebrate each other's cultures, but it was Black 298 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: women as a as a collective, and that's a vibe 299 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: we wanted on set, and that's what we wanted to 300 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: put up on screen and helpful inspire to stop the 301 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: division because we all came from the same place. Yeah. Well, 302 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: I've felt like I've spent my whole life running and 303 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: chasing and trying to find me, you know, because I've 304 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: been defined by a culture that really has had a 305 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: very definitive idea of who I was, and it's been 306 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: negative in order to control, in order to just suppress. 307 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: And so when I went to Africa for the first 308 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: time when I was twenty five, it changed my life. 309 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: It just blew once again a hole in it. I 310 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: was coming from Juilliard, where the big thing was disappearing, 311 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: trying to become a perfectly white actor with speech training 312 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: and trying to lose weight, which never happened. And I 313 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 1: don't know why I was trying to make it happen. 314 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 1: But once again, that's when I went to Africa. I 315 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: saw the why. That's what I saw. I saw the why, 316 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 1: and I can't say that I'm not still in search 317 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: of because I'm not African, so I don't know what 318 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: tribe I'm from. I still don't know that. I don't 319 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: know that I'm Zulu. I don't know you know what 320 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: my great great great great great grandfather could have done. 321 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 1: But I just know that there's something else out there 322 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: that I was is that America. UM has not given me. 323 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,719 Speaker 1: If from sycroline like me, so it's probably worth African. 324 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: I didn't mind. I'm westh African, Senegal, Kenny was Saul 325 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: and Sierra Leone. That's my no. See, I'm Kenyan Cameroon. Yeah, 326 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: oh wow, Okay, I was gonna ask, you know, for 327 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: people that don't understand you guys have to fight so 328 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 1: much for to put your product out of what you wanted, 329 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: whether it was this film or loving basketball, why do 330 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 1: you continue to fight and not let go? Because it 331 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: would have been easy to say, you know what, let's 332 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: go to another movie. But in all those cases, the 333 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 1: movies that you did became classics and the fact that 334 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: our people love them, So why is it so important 335 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: to continue to fight even if they say no and 336 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,959 Speaker 1: shut you out? UM? I mean, it was easy just 337 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: to let go. It is um because if I don't fight, 338 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: they won't get made, and then we won't see ourselves. 339 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 1: And that is absolutely my goal is to put us 340 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: up on the screen to be inspired by. UM. I 341 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: learned early on in my career it just takes one yes. 342 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: And that's the thing. Fight, fight, fight till you get 343 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: that one yes. And you do that when you're doing 344 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: things that you're passionate about. The passion fuels to fight. 345 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: If I was doing stuff where I just thought, well, 346 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: maybe Hollywood would buy this, UM, then it's easy to 347 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: give up. But UM, I tell stories that means something 348 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: to me, that's going to mean something to us, and 349 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: I'm passionate about how do you know when it is 350 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: time to let go? Like when like we all have 351 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 1: a passion that we like or something that we love 352 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: maybe the world might not love, and be like, maybe 353 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: it's time to let that go? When when do you 354 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: have that mind? Right? If ever, I've never let go. 355 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,479 Speaker 1: I do very few movies because when I do it, 356 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: it's something a story I have to tell. It feels 357 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: like the woman came from what I've been seeing one 358 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Everybody that I know, one 359 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: of my friends is like, I gotta go see it 360 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: again because the movie theater was so loud from people 361 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: responding this experience, you know, it was She's the one 362 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: that went, and she said, that's the only problem. I'm 363 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 1: going to see a movie for black Rotten Tomatoes. I've 364 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 1: seen the amazing reviews and people are saying, this is 365 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 1: like a life changing movie. Did you brace yourself to 366 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: think that maybe people wouldn't accept it before I came out, 367 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: because you know, you don't know what people's responses are 368 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: going to be initially, and it was something that was 369 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: hard to get done. It's something we haven't seen before. 370 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: You you can believe in something wholeheartedly, and I believed 371 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 1: in this cast. I believed in in the story. I 372 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: believe in what we were doing. But no one sets 373 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,360 Speaker 1: out to make a bad movie. That's a hary thing. 374 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: As a director and probably for actors, it's a leap 375 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: of faith. Um. But to be on the other side 376 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: of that, UM, is kind of amazing. And I mean, 377 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: I have two boys that I have three scary screenings, 378 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: the first one showing my husband the first person and 379 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: he'll be honest as he should be. Um. Did I 380 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: did I did I make a good movie? Or did 381 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: I fuck up? And then the second scariest one is 382 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,479 Speaker 1: showing my two boys because they're gonna be honest, but 383 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: also to do this kind of thing, you've gotta be away. 384 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: It has to mean something. And so do they watch 385 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,959 Speaker 1: it and are they proud of the work? And both boys, 386 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 1: cash Us and Toussaint they loved the movie, and they've 387 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: watched it twice, so they loved it more the second 388 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 1: time because I think the same thing you see, there's 389 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: so much coming at you when that first time that 390 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: they just really got to see more things. It just 391 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: doesn't feel fair to have to convince a bunch of 392 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: coachurally cluelest white people about why all stories are so important. 393 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: She's like, well, you said it. You are you to 394 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: want to be in this movie when you saw the script. 395 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: So I only saw the script during my audition process. 396 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: I first I had like a general meeting with GV 397 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,719 Speaker 1: Productions to just Tenant about his husband and twenty nineteen 398 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: who told me about the story. And I was shocked 399 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 1: because I am South African. This is a story that 400 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: happened in Africa, and I'd never ever, ever, ever ever 401 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: heard of it and Julius, you know, the heart that 402 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,239 Speaker 1: he had for the story and telling me about it 403 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 1: made me absolutely fall in love with it. And then 404 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: on top of that, it was action and there would 405 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: be an opportunity to work with Viola, and I was 406 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: just like, oh my gosh, I need to do this, 407 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: even if it means I'm just like wiping the screen. 408 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: You I was just like wipe the screen in an 409 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: out type situation. And eventually got a chance to audition, 410 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: and then I saw the script and I was just like, 411 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: I can't because you know, I'm so like fairly new 412 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: to this industry and mentally, I've prepared myself to you know, 413 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 1: like I'm gonna have to put in the time. It 414 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: should take, you know, at least like five years, ten 415 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 1: years to get to a place where I would qualify 416 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: to auditions for something like this, you know. And it 417 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: was an amazing script, and again I was just like, 418 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: I need to do my best. That's all I can do. 419 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: And then after my audition, Gina wished me like with 420 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: my career, which was heartbreaking. Now, you know, y'all, why 421 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: would you beat it? I in her audition, I literally 422 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: knew um immediately that she was not we but so 423 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: I knew it in my gut, my heart, my soul. 424 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: But I still need to be to see her. I 425 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: needed Julius to see her. I needed the studio um 426 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 1: to see her. So I couldn't say so, I said, 427 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: good luck. I've been sincere because I've seen such amazing 428 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,439 Speaker 1: things for her. She was a generational talent for real? 429 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: How was that process was not at all? Not at all. 430 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 1: So after reading the script and having had a creative 431 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: meeting conversation with Viola about the script, very chill, very 432 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: just like give and take. And I was grateful for 433 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: that opportunity because you know, prior to working, while hearing 434 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: off this production and watching her interviews, I identified her 435 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: process of working as the same as mine, which meant 436 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: which for me was like, oh my gosh, I'm not 437 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: crazy if I do stuff like this. And so to 438 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: have her be that, to have that creative conversation, to 439 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: have her then, you know, after having gotten the role, 440 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: have her call me to discuss the script, exchange ideas 441 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: was absolutely amazing. Train with her, suffer with her, and 442 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: you know, um and yeah, just Viola is an absolute clown. 443 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 1: Like people don't know that she is an absolute, absolute 444 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: clown one. There was never a time where you feel like, 445 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I have to prove myself to her. 446 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: Oh I have to keep up with her. It was 447 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: just it's a beautiful give and take. I feel like 448 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: a movie behind the scenes, things that were happening while 449 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: you guys were on set. Oh my god, I remember 450 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: both for you. The food, yeah, the lack of Yeah. No, 451 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: it was bad Black women with bad food. No, not bad. 452 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: It's not bad food, but you know it's it's It 453 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: was a very strict chicken. But every once in a 454 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: while you got the fish sandwich with the multi grain bread, 455 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: and I'd always run after Leshauna, who plays a Zogie, 456 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,959 Speaker 1: and she would be tearing that sandwich up, and I said, like, Shanna, 457 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: give me something that fish sandwich. I'm gonna dig that, 458 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: and she's like, get a white It's like both y'all 459 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: sick of grilled chicken at this point. Oh, I mean, 460 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: it doesn't make me go to the bathroom seed pudding. 461 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: I feel like a movie like this creates a different 462 00:25:55,800 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: level of sisterhood. You know the other film Absolutely, Tina, 463 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: did you eat those things too? Are you just training? 464 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: Sometimes she bought us pies though. I was bad every 465 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: once a while because in stop having because they have 466 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: it's like fresher than every so every once a while 467 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: because I knew how hard they were working. Um, I 468 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: would slip them au pie. I'm not gonna lie. I 469 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: would eat some candy laid and plumb it in my 470 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: mouth and then wake up and go, why did I 471 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: do that? I had my stuff in So can I 472 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: talk to you by other did you read these reviews 473 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: or look at any of those? I know you normally 474 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: don't do that, but with this one, I can't do it. 475 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do It's really good. I'm one 476 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: of those people. I have a little bit you know 477 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. Can I cuss a little? 478 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: Of course, because I'm a little bit full of shit 479 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: Because at first I'll say I can't take compliments, you know, 480 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: it's about the work. And then if you don't compliment me, 481 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: I'm like, they didn't say anything. Don't you want people 482 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: to recognize? No, it's human nature. Like literally, we can 483 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: have fifty great reviews and then there's one hater and 484 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: then you focus on that, and we don't want to 485 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: do that. We know what we did. We're proud of 486 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: what we did. We don't want anyone to do. But 487 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: I have to say and too, so you can attest 488 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: to it. Gina. Two, it's so so great being with sisters. Yeah, 489 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: I mean, and all of us were different, Yeah, but 490 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: absolutely you're in the room and you know, you know that, 491 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: you know that, you know that we have each other's back. 492 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: You know, you know, just like the agoge, we are 493 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 1: gonna fight for each other, We're gonna pull for each other, 494 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: We're gonna hope for each other, you know. And my god, 495 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,239 Speaker 1: you just don't get that all the time you go 496 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: out in the world. You're like, come on, sister, you 497 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: know what's hard? Yea, why are you doing this to me? 498 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: I mean, you know we can get into that, but 499 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 1: this the joy of my life. Come on. I saw you, 500 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: David say that you know this movie's performance will be 501 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 1: judged in a way that films with white directors and 502 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: cast won't. Can you can you elaborate on it because 503 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 1: it's never been done before. And what I find in 504 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: general is that we're scrutinized. Image and message sometimes is 505 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: more important than execution. You know, it's got to mean something, 506 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: and what does it mean, what is it saying? Are 507 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: you insulting us? You know? Um, it could be any 508 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: number of things, because it's the first Whenever you're the 509 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: first one out of the gate, you just have to 510 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: go through that plate of glass. But I know that, 511 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: I know that, I know that, I know that no 512 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: matter what, even with the scrutiny, you'll have a damn 513 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: good time for two hours. In six minutes in that theater, 514 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: you just are. You're gonna laugh, you're gonna cry, you 515 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: gotta stand up and cheer. I don't care if you're 516 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: a white man, don't care if you're a white woman, 517 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: one black woman, black man. You are gonna be on 518 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: your feet and you're gonna sit with these women and 519 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: you're gonna root for them. What did you What do 520 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: you learn about our story as black people by doing 521 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: this film? Like something you didn't know? There's nothing I 522 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: mean other than the story of the AGGI. For me, 523 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: it felt right. I know that we're human. I know 524 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: that we're all of those things. I want to show 525 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: other people what we are. You know, I always say, 526 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: if I can sit with Robert de Niro in any 527 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: Martin Scorsese movies, if I could sit for two hours 528 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: forty minutes with a Meryl Street for Julian Moore or 529 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: a Cape Blanchet. Then you could sit with me. You 530 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: could sit with Tusso, you could sit with Lashawna, you 531 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: could sit with Sheila. You could sit with us and 532 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: understand that we're complicated. We are as women, as black women, 533 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: We're not just all just strong nurturing. I mean I 534 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: played a lot of strong nurturing women. I was gonna ask, 535 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: when do you guys get a chance to wind down? 536 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: You know, we've just seen you a couple of months 537 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: ago with your book and TV shows and more movies 538 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: more like Blacks, and do you I mean, I for 539 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: really need a nap. And I'm because after Old Guard 540 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: I went straight into this. UM, but I had I 541 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: was gonna take a break after the Old Guard, and 542 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: then the script came. It was like, damn, I'm not 543 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 1: getting a break. UM, but I'm I'm looking forward to that. 544 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: But also my mind's always going, I already know what 545 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 1: I want to write next, so UM, I will take 546 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: a little time. But then yeah, like I love what 547 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: we do, um, and I still do, and I never 548 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: want to lose that. What about you miss Davies. She 549 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,959 Speaker 1: looks like you want a vacation for some more And 550 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: I'm going straight into Hunger Games. I mean the Hunger Games, 551 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: which is awesome. Director of Friends is Lawrence awesome role, 552 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: the villain role. But you know what everyone's always saying, 553 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 1: you know, you gotta be ambitious. Sometimes you've got to 554 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: be ambitious about rest. Yeah, about nurturing your soul and 555 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: your heart. You know, they say that the only way 556 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: to treat being overwhelmed is to do absolutely nothing. It's 557 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: in those spaces that you just that you find who 558 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: you are, even that you connect with your life and 559 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: don't feel guilty about it. Sometimes we feel like if 560 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: you're not being active and working, it's a bad thing. 561 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: But you need that to like refresh yourself. It's trauma base. 562 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: You don't feel like you deserve to rest. But that's 563 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: what they say. Being busy is a trauma response. A 564 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: lot of times it is. I was gonna ask you about, 565 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: you know, with the book, to you like, you gave 566 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: so much of yourself in your book. Was that exhausting 567 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: or exhilarating both? Okay, there are some things in that 568 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: book that I it really cost me to write. Yeah, 569 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 1: it did, and to share it with the world, people 570 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: that you don't know. But then an incredible thing happened, 571 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: which is, I don't care what you have to say 572 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 1: about me. This is who I am, the good and 573 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: the bad, the the mess, the beauty, the joy. And 574 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: that's what I have always been ashamed of. And now 575 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it's like, that's saying the privilege 576 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: of a lifetime is being who you are. And so 577 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: that was that was the genesis of the book. But 578 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: it did cost me. When you say it cost you, 579 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: you mean like personally or like would people your family, 580 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: It cost me to just put it on paper. Wow, 581 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 1: it did writing about my mom, you know, writing about 582 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: a very personal event, my abortion when I was twenty 583 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 1: eight years old, that was a really really The fact 584 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: that I even just said it now makes me want 585 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: up just writing about that, but writing about it honestly 586 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: and not from a political perspective but a personal a 587 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: personal perspective, which is more of a paradox um. Yeah, 588 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: you do help so many people that we got so 589 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: many calls, special nails, comments with people. You opened up 590 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: so much where they felt it felt relatable, like they 591 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: were going through it and they felt like somebody else 592 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 1: was on their side, somebody else has been through it. 593 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: It allowed them to have a little freedom like we 594 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: got it with so many and the book it feels 595 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: like you're opening the door to a therapy session, like 596 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: the the things you would tell you therapists and not 597 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 1: share publicly. But it seems like we're eaves dropping in 598 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: on a therapy session, which which which, which in itself 599 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: will make you feel vulnerable. Well, I think that everybody 600 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: has to find a home. They have to find home 601 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: home meaning that place, that sacred space within you, that 602 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: where you find your piece, where you find a joy 603 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: that is totally just separate from the world. And that's 604 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: what I've always been in search of. And I realize 605 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 1: it's because I have to own my story. You know. Yeah, 606 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 1: I know you guys are doing a runner, you gotta go. 607 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 1: But I just wanted to know, were there any part 608 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: of the movie that you had to take out because 609 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: you know, you might shoot twenty hours a movie, but 610 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: you got that you wanted, that you didn't want to 611 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: take out, but you just had. Well, the beauty of 612 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,360 Speaker 1: this I can say, like my director's cut is um 613 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 1: is only eight minutes longer and that's how it should be. 614 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: The movie up on the screen. I've always said, as 615 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: a director, I have to believe everything up there. So 616 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: if I'm fighting with the studio, if they want me 617 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,959 Speaker 1: to cut something that I don't believe in, I'm gonna fight. 618 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: I can't not do that. So, um yeah, the movie 619 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: up on the screen is what I wanted to put. 620 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 1: I mean the original like if I put everything in, 621 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: it was three and a half hours, um, and so 622 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 1: only I have that copy. Um, but it wasn't you know. 623 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: Sometimes less is more and when you start to shape 624 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: it and shape it, themes, characters, they just pop more 625 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 1: and so but it takes me a minute to get there. 626 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 1: I have ten weeks where director's cut, and for the 627 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: first five weeks I'm not cutting anything, and then you 628 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: get less precious and less precious, and again less is more? 629 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: What is what is best for the film? How crazy 630 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 1: is that fight? Though? Right? Because you're a director, you 631 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,439 Speaker 1: see a vision. It's your vision, is what you want 632 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 1: And then the man cause and says the white man. 633 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 1: You say the man, okay, we want you to do this, 634 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: so we want you to do that, but it's not 635 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 1: your vision. This is my vision. This is my ship. 636 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: That's how difficult exactly how I sound in the room, 637 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: and it's, uh, that's the thing. Like I came in 638 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,399 Speaker 1: with the vision. Y'all knew what the vision was going 639 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,400 Speaker 1: in um and it's it's it's it happens every single time. 640 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,359 Speaker 1: And then slowly but surely people try and then your 641 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,879 Speaker 1: vision and that's where the fight comes in. That's and 642 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: I feel like so many young filmmakers come in and 643 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,759 Speaker 1: think they have to bend, but for me and that 644 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,800 Speaker 1: whole thing of pick your battles, but with vision, there's 645 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,360 Speaker 1: no pick in your battles. Every battle you have to 646 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: win or you're gonna look up on screen and see 647 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: something you don't recognize. And after all that we went through, 648 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 1: the beauty of this was when I'm fighting to protect 649 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: and to save scenes, I knew that they were behind me. 650 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: I knew that they'd be in the fight with me, 651 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 1: and that's an incredible gift. But at the end of 652 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 1: the day on this movie, I will say I was 653 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,439 Speaker 1: told by the head of the studio, you know, they 654 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 1: have final cut, but listen to our notes, just like 655 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: take them in. Don't just blow them off, but take 656 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,800 Speaker 1: them in. But other than that, we are going to 657 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 1: give you your cut. This is gonna be a film, 658 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,520 Speaker 1: and that doesn't always happen. I've got two more questions, 659 00:36:58,600 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: only had one, but you made me think of something. 660 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:04,720 Speaker 1: When you make these films, what's more important? Vision? Our intention? Vision? 661 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 1: Vision drives everything. Every single decision, whether it be wardrobe, 662 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,719 Speaker 1: whether it be who I hire, who I cast, where 663 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:17,840 Speaker 1: we shoot. Every single decision starts with that vision. And 664 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,759 Speaker 1: one question too, I just wanted to ask. Part of 665 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 1: the story is also Africans assisting in the slave trade. 666 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: Was it harder to get those roles filed because nobody 667 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 1: want to play that role? I would think unless some 668 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,279 Speaker 1: people like being a villain. It was about we're being 669 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,320 Speaker 1: truthful with the story and every single role is necessary 670 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 1: and it is brave to take on a role like 671 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,479 Speaker 1: that and props. The hero finds Tiffin who who played 672 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,160 Speaker 1: the Oh I was about to run the movie. Wow, 673 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: there were a couple roles, but it's important because it's 674 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,719 Speaker 1: important to tell the story and we need we leave 675 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: those people. But we were gonna go in and tell 676 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,840 Speaker 1: the truth. I think that's gonna be new to a 677 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 1: lot of people, especially a younger generation. You're gonna be like, 678 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:09,279 Speaker 1: really everything desisted enslaves, right, Yeah, I mean the globally, 679 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:14,239 Speaker 1: every single civilization participated in some way, you know. Um, 680 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,040 Speaker 1: But for us it was um having our women, our 681 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 1: grogie women, and in this she represents those within the 682 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 1: kingdom who were pushing for change, and that's what they 683 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 1: ultimately do. So my final questions for all three what 684 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,799 Speaker 1: do you want the most? What do you want people 685 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:35,319 Speaker 1: to take away from the woman king too? So um 686 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: So what it did for me was, um, give me 687 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 1: a stronger voice. Um, Because and I've said this before 688 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,640 Speaker 1: that before ding those projects, I didn't realize that I 689 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,399 Speaker 1: lived my life apologizing for existing. And through this, through 690 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 1: partnering with Viola and Gina and telling the story and 691 00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 1: my character, who's so assertive, so spirited, determined, you know, 692 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: who knows who she is and what she wants, I 693 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 1: found my voice. But also the whole process of getting 694 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 1: this project done made me realize that, you know, we 695 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 1: have desires, we have dreams, we know what we want, 696 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: but there will be a fight, Like a fight is guaranteed, 697 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,520 Speaker 1: and ours is to push through it. So whatever it 698 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,640 Speaker 1: is that you feel your purpose to do, the resistance 699 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,680 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you're not supposed to be doing that. 700 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,400 Speaker 1: You just need to fight through it. There will be scars, 701 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,799 Speaker 1: but it's it's part of the journey. For me. It's 702 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: it's only three things. I want you to leave enlightened 703 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,760 Speaker 1: because you're you're learning about yourself, You're learning about these women, 704 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:42,440 Speaker 1: inspired by these incredible women and the story in this environment, 705 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: and then empowered to I take in see yourself reflected heroically. 706 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,279 Speaker 1: Know that we all have this innate warrior within us. 707 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,960 Speaker 1: It's squelched oftentimes when you're a women and go out 708 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:59,879 Speaker 1: there and fight. Miss Davis. I never want to tell 709 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,680 Speaker 1: the audience with the takeaway. They who knows how it's 710 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,160 Speaker 1: going to land on them? I have no idea, but 711 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,439 Speaker 1: I know that I have a twelve year old daughter 712 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,480 Speaker 1: who saw the movie and she cried profusely, wow, okay, 713 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,879 Speaker 1: and then she said she was so proud of me. 714 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,239 Speaker 1: And then I get all of her text messages on 715 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,319 Speaker 1: her phone. She showed me a text message that she 716 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,719 Speaker 1: was going back and forth with a friend who had 717 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: also seen the movie, and they said, oh, wasn't she great? 718 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,320 Speaker 1: Wasn't too so great? Wasn't like Sean? Oh my god? 719 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:39,759 Speaker 1: It was literally art and then she says, and I'm 720 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,880 Speaker 1: not just saying that because it's my mom. So she 721 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,520 Speaker 1: showed me the text message and I said, thank you 722 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 1: so much. I text her back because I'm on the 723 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,800 Speaker 1: road and I said, thank you so much, my baby, 724 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:55,160 Speaker 1: and then I wrote in all caps, ah gogie with 725 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,040 Speaker 1: exclamation point and then I waited, waited, wait, and I 726 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,560 Speaker 1: got a buzz on my phone and the response was husu. 727 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,840 Speaker 1: And I thought that that was awesome to inject and 728 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:12,680 Speaker 1: my daughter what I didn't have that sort of spirit 729 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,279 Speaker 1: of the warrior. It's like whatever you dream, whatever you 730 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 1: dream is beyond fear. Yeah, you know, And that was 731 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,520 Speaker 1: everything brought me to tears. A man, go support the 732 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 1: Woman King this weekend. Everybody King now it is Davis. 733 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,880 Speaker 1: Thank you guys for joining us so much. And do 734 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,640 Speaker 1: you ever have to back your son down every once 735 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,400 Speaker 1: in a while, like he thinks mom lost and just 736 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:36,960 Speaker 1: like you know it gets give me this basketball. I 737 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 1: have to back this little boy to bawn. You know. 738 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,799 Speaker 1: The last time I played, uh, he was fourteen and 739 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:49,160 Speaker 1: he legit beat me and I was like, because I've 740 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,600 Speaker 1: seen him plays. Thank you well, Thank you so much, guys. 741 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,239 Speaker 1: The Woman King is the breakfast local morning. Thank you,