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Speaker 1: Black Households is set? Is pancakes on a Saturday? Like
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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, any day of regular.
Speaker 1: No for Black Households like that was a treat.
Speaker 7: That was a Saturday.
Speaker 1: I survived off of like tasty cakes, quarter waters for Saturdays.
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Speaker 1: acting royalty or quest Love Supreme today, welcome incomparable Madam
Speaker 1: Kimberly Victoria Field. What's like supremes? Finally?
Speaker 6: What an intro? Finally? Man we've been trying to do.
Speaker 1: I know we've been doing five minutes intro.
Speaker 6: Wow, thank you for that intro.
Speaker 5: Get better little TV for real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seriously, no, seriously, we have so many questions that
Speaker 1: asking so little time. So, Kim, where were you born Harlem?
Speaker 6: Right here?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 6: And I'm Kim. I was born Kim Victoria, not Kimberly.
Speaker 1: Kim Victoria, Yes, just Kim is okay.
Speaker 6: Yes, we will request love you can call me.
Speaker 1: No, no, we were not to give the proper respect
Speaker 1: respect due. What were your memories of Harlem? How long
Speaker 1: did you live there?
Speaker 6: Six years really from zero to six?
Speaker 1: So what what what were your memories of Harlem growing up?
Speaker 1: Is it anything close to the centerfied?
Speaker 6: Well not the gingrified, right, No, but I mean like
Speaker 6: my building is still there, My park is still there,
Speaker 6: my beloved Saint Nicholas Park, the the whole grass lawn
Speaker 6: that we used to slid down in you know, cardboard
Speaker 6: boxes because who had or you get them old busted
Speaker 6: up tires and you'd slide down the cracks on the
Speaker 6: sidewalk in front of my grandmother's building, which was six
Speaker 6: fifty four Saint Nick. So you know, it's nothing but
Speaker 6: love the other dad one in front of my elementary
Speaker 6: school ps. Ninety two. Really yep, still looks the same.
Speaker 1: Any other notable peers of yours growing up in that.
Speaker 6: Area or I don't remember where they lived, But Danielle
Speaker 6: Spencer who played Deal on What's Happening, So basically my
Speaker 6: mom and a whole bunch of other amazingly talented actors
Speaker 6: would go to acting school in Saint Philip's Church. Alfan
Speaker 6: used to hold his classes there, the Alphan Theatrical Ensemble,
Speaker 6: And so basically all of like the dopest actors on
Speaker 6: the planet were in New York and in that environment
Speaker 6: in the early seventies, and so you know, some of
Speaker 6: them who had kids, they couldn't afford babysitters like us,
Speaker 6: And so we would be at the at the acting classes,
Speaker 6: imitating what we saw our parents doing to keep ourselves entertained.
Speaker 6: And so Danielle was there because her stepdad Tempell got
Speaker 6: rest to saw he was there. And and your mother
Speaker 6: was a part of this troop.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so we would be remiss. Are you tired
Speaker 1: of people coming up to you saying how much their
Speaker 1: mom is Your mom has traumatized them all their lives
Speaker 1: cackle right now, But I got I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: thought about it and the Okay, yes, of course, now
Speaker 1: that we're adults, we know what acting is. Yes, but
Speaker 1: let's take it back like thirty years or whatever. How
Speaker 1: many of your friends were traumatized at the side of
Speaker 1: your mom.
Speaker 4: For those that haven't seen good times, Oh god, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm just kidding. Kim's mother played uh, Penny, well, Penny.
Speaker 4: But what was the character's name?
Speaker 6: I can't remember, Missus Gordon.
Speaker 4: Missus Gordon, Yes, her name was, Yeah, she was Plenty's mom.
Speaker 4: Penny of course was was Janet Jackson and the Penny
Speaker 4: was being abused by her mother.
Speaker 5: And what iron I said.
Speaker 4: Miss Missus chip Fields played the hell out of that,
Speaker 4: Yes she did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that hit.
Speaker 4: If I ever see in the street, you know, it's
Speaker 4: a hat, tip of the hat and you know, what
Speaker 4: do you need? What can I get for you?
Speaker 1: So you're just saying that watching your mother and these
Speaker 1: workshops prompted you to.
Speaker 6: Also not No, that was just the intro and and
Speaker 6: kind of the environment to just be exposed to it all.
Speaker 6: It wasn't until I actually saw her and saw the environment. Uh,
Speaker 6: when mom was doing Hello Dolly with Pearl Bailey on
Speaker 6: Broadway and on tour that I really started getting a
Speaker 6: sense of all that goes into this, you know, and
Speaker 6: the people who were a part of the craft and
Speaker 6: makeup and hair and wardrobe and sets and props and
Speaker 6: all of that. And then when you see it all
Speaker 6: come together as a little kid, you know, looking at
Speaker 6: it on stage, and that's that's really what what got
Speaker 6: me into it.
Speaker 1: So was it commercials first? That?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: What was your very first commercials first? First? So with
Speaker 1: technology not being as advanced as it was back then,
Speaker 1: where you just speaking to.
Speaker 6: A still bottle still? Okay, Yes, I was, you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: it was just just a bottle that was just there.
Speaker 1: Oh, another course left first. So I'll say that Baby
Speaker 1: I'm Back was technically the first sitcom I was allowed
Speaker 1: to watch. Okay, I wasn't allowed to watch TV much
Speaker 1: back then. Yeah, because you guys came on right after
Speaker 1: the Jacksons and in seventy six seventy seven the Jackson's.
Speaker 6: Had Yes, they did the specials.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Arriety show. So you were I think your character
Speaker 1: was Angie, yes, uh, and Baby I'm Back with it
Speaker 1: was Damon Wilson's Damon. Yeah, I never that's how he
Speaker 1: pronounce his name, demon like he was a Shakespearean actor.
Speaker 5: He may have been.
Speaker 4: He was a preacher too, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jamond Wilson and the great What's Your Brother? On the show? Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know what became of him whatever, but yeah,
Speaker 1: my mom loved Denise Nichols. I guess everybody was.
Speaker 6: Everybody, yes, and everybody's uncle loved Oh. He was so
Speaker 6: happy when I got that job.
Speaker 5: Really, everyone until the heat of tonight, yeap.
Speaker 7: Up until I mean, well that's when the last time
Speaker 7: he really started to start seeing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm like, why are you starting? So that was
Speaker 1: your very first sitcom? Yes, so how easy was it
Speaker 1: for you to adjust to that environment?
Speaker 6: It was definitely a learning experience, you know. For example,
Speaker 6: I didn't know about continuity, and so we did a
Speaker 6: scene and I was supposed to come into the kitchen
Speaker 6: area from having been awakened, and so we did the take,
Speaker 6: you know, one time, and then I thought I was
Speaker 6: backstage and I thought, well, if I was asleep, my
Speaker 6: hair should be a little messy, so I must my
Speaker 6: hair and then it came out and they were like,
Speaker 6: cut who touched her hair. So that was the first
Speaker 6: time I learned about continuity. Yeah, absolutely, and things like,
Speaker 6: you know, don't look in the camera and don't laugh
Speaker 6: at your own jokes and don't laugh at other people's
Speaker 6: jokes and you know, stuff like that, and so it
Speaker 6: definitely was a lot of fun, you know, but it
Speaker 6: was it was on the job training because I had
Speaker 6: never done a series.
Speaker 1: Before, and by that point you moved to Los Angeles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So what was that transition like because the seventies, I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of people don't even realize that for
Speaker 1: a lot of African Americans, like you know, we've only
Speaker 1: known the current environment that we're in right now for
Speaker 1: just fifty years. So I'll say for at least the
Speaker 1: first ten years, I'm sure that it was a learning
Speaker 1: curve for anyone in Hollywood in the seventies. Sure, kind
Speaker 1: of trekking uncharted territory that wasn't previously available to them
Speaker 1: any decades or time before. So what was it like
Speaker 1: coming Like, where were your memories of moving to LA Like.
Speaker 6: Well, I went to school back at PS ninety two.
Speaker 6: I went to school that morning, and when I came
Speaker 6: back to our apartment, the little few things that we had,
Speaker 6: including like my little easy bake oven and you know
Speaker 6: those like everything, my view Master. Everything was packed up.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a whole lot. And my mom said, we're
Speaker 6: moving to La tonight. I was like, without no, just
Speaker 6: because we hadn't done I just went to school like
Speaker 6: any other day.
Speaker 5: So why did y'all end up moving to La So.
Speaker 6: Mom had been there when she toured with Hello Dolly,
Speaker 6: and she just felt like that area had more opportunities
Speaker 6: work wise. Harlem in the early to mid seventies was
Speaker 6: a lot different than it is now, and so Mom
Speaker 6: just thought that that was going to be a better
Speaker 6: look for us, and so she she, you know, packed
Speaker 6: us up and we went out there. One of the
Speaker 6: other guy persons who was a part of the acting
Speaker 6: troupe that Alfan had was Laurence Hilton Jacobs, and him
Speaker 6: and my mom were like brother and sister, and so
Speaker 6: when we came out to La he was like, you know, Chip,
Speaker 6: I got you and a guy Kimmi, and you know,
Speaker 6: whatever you guys need. And so what you're talking about
Speaker 6: right there, you know that there was really no blueprint
Speaker 6: and everybody just kind of, you know, that village holding
Speaker 6: it together and figuring it out. Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 6: because he had gone out there and booked Welcome Back,
Speaker 6: caught her, and so he knew kind of the ropes.
Speaker 6: But it was still different for you know, a female
Speaker 6: and a female with a little kid. And so we
Speaker 6: moved and got an apartment eventually in West Hollywood, and
Speaker 6: then Mom started working. Then I started working.
Speaker 5: How does that work?
Speaker 7: That's what I was wondering, because I'm like, you guys
Speaker 7: are both working actors. Of course her more than you, right, right,
Speaker 7: But how does she do that? How is she mom
Speaker 7: an agent manager in her own career? Right?
Speaker 6: Well, she was never. No, she was she was mom
Speaker 6: And it stopped right there. And one thing I always
Speaker 6: to this day, I'm marvel at like like Mom had
Speaker 6: me when she was eighteen and and and you know
Speaker 6: it's like she's such a good parent, but she knew
Speaker 6: nothing about parenting. She was a kid herself, and you know,
Speaker 6: just just how did that? How did she know the
Speaker 6: stuff to teach me and to pour into me and
Speaker 6: to know things like, hey, she is not my competition,
Speaker 6: She's my child, especially when we are you know, both
Speaker 6: at you know, at some point we both began working
Speaker 6: my Aunt Pat, my mother's sister, was an integral part
Speaker 6: of all of this. Mom asked her to come out
Speaker 6: and to move to LA And so my aunt Pat
Speaker 6: was actually the one who was on my on set
Speaker 6: with me all the time I was working up til
Speaker 6: I was eighteen. She would travel with me to all
Speaker 6: my appearances and everything.
Speaker 1: Wow. Man, so it's I guess you can say that, Well,
Speaker 1: that's weird because I always thought she was your manager.
Speaker 1: So but that's that's good that she had the insight
Speaker 1: at least to to put some distance, no distance, because
Speaker 1: most parents don't do that, like they either live their
Speaker 1: dreams through their kids or yeah.
Speaker 6: And she and she was not that, you know. And
Speaker 6: she also she never stopped parenting me even though she
Speaker 6: was finding her way as a parent. You know, one
Speaker 6: time I had said it was like maybe the second
Speaker 6: or third season of Living Single, Facts of Life. And
Speaker 6: she had raised me to be a really good kid,
Speaker 6: like don't talk back, be very disrespectful. You know. I
Speaker 6: had home training and she said to me one day,
Speaker 6: can me clean up your room? And I promise, y'all,
Speaker 6: I promise, y'all. I was not trying to be smart.
Speaker 6: It was a genuine question when I said, isn't that
Speaker 6: what we have a housekeeper? And I really was love
Speaker 6: and then sure enough, before I could finish, I got
Speaker 6: popped in my mouth.
Speaker 5: That's my next question. I wanted to know if you
Speaker 5: was a baby.
Speaker 6: Okay, that wasn't a whooping baby, because I was a
Speaker 6: good kid, but she caught me in my mouth.
Speaker 4: In your book, you're talking about a situation when you
Speaker 4: were on set and you had to talk back to
Speaker 4: a parent and you weren't really sure how to do that.
Speaker 6: Exactly. I had to talk back to missus Garrett and
Speaker 6: Jermaine Jackson episode and my mom was like, no, no,
Speaker 6: it's okay, you can do.
Speaker 5: This now here.
Speaker 6: This is fine.
Speaker 5: But she knew.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I wasn't talking back, but it
Speaker 6: was just that sense of we're not You're not going
Speaker 6: to be that child, you know, And then she called
Speaker 6: Then the top it off girl, she called the studio
Speaker 6: and talked to one of the producers and said, I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: but Kim won't be returning as as two D any longer.
Speaker 6: She doesn't know how to deal with this. And yeah, when.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 6: That's something Yeah, absolutely, and of course him, being a parent,
Speaker 6: was right there with her and said, okay, Chip, no problem,
Speaker 6: we understand. Tell her thank you so much for her
Speaker 6: time and everything. And of course they were dealing with
Speaker 6: being They were parenting me to make sure that I
Speaker 6: didn't start tripping at age you know, eleven or twelve
Speaker 6: or whatever it was. And I was like, oh my bad,
Speaker 6: I didn't know. No problem, I got it, my socks,
Speaker 6: got it, my toys, put these away, you know, and
Speaker 6: that sort of.
Speaker 1: Absolutely I always wondered, like, what's the what's the power
Speaker 1: dynamic where you're an established person at your job but
Speaker 1: you still got to come home and take the garbage out?
Speaker 5: That's right?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well it keeps you grounded. I mean, think about
Speaker 6: when the Obamas won and Michelle was like, but you're
Speaker 6: still taking the babies to school in the I know,
Speaker 6: you just became, but you take your babies to school.
Speaker 6: I mean there's certain things that you know conceptually, no
Speaker 6: matter if it's fame or or or whatever it is
Speaker 6: being connected to, some form of groundedness has to be
Speaker 6: in play. Otherwise you turned.
Speaker 1: Up from chrisis when Randy Jackson was on the show.
Speaker 6: Which one he not dog got it okay.
Speaker 1: No, and he was saying that they had just did
Speaker 1: four sold out out nights at the Forum and got
Speaker 1: home back to Xino and you know, like, there it's
Speaker 1: your turn that you didn't take the garbage out and
Speaker 1: he's like, I just played sold out con to that,
Speaker 1: and then Joe's like what you say? Okay?
Speaker 6: So right?
Speaker 1: What was what was the.
Speaker 6: By the way, I mean, Randy Jackson was my that
Speaker 6: was everything. He was everything to me. That was my crush. Yes,
Speaker 6: oh my god. Listen when they let him sing on
Speaker 6: can you feel it?
Speaker 4: Right there?
Speaker 6: I was the only one in the Forum screen.
Speaker 1: As a working actor? What was the Hollywood shuffle process?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: I love when you asked that question that way.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 1: No, no, dude, it's like, yeah, like what was the
Speaker 1: process like, now, of course you were lucky enough to
Speaker 1: land key memorable roles in your career, but or in
Speaker 1: the average could you talk about the audition process? And
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like even as an established act, like did you.
Speaker 6: Still have to absolutely you still have to audition? And
Speaker 6: it was there was a big part of it that
Speaker 6: was on almost like family Reunion because you go in
Speaker 6: Hey t Show, Hey Jada, Hey Vivoica you know, and
Speaker 6: it's like kind of the yeah, you know, because at
Speaker 6: that time it was, you know, just a handful of
Speaker 6: roles and we were all going out for them, you know,
Speaker 6: and some of them you knew, up, yep, this one's
Speaker 6: got deh, yet this is gonna be yours and you
Speaker 6: know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Well, what was it like in your younger years, Like
Speaker 1: were you still worn after commercials?
Speaker 6: And sure, I'd still audition, but not as much. Number one,
Speaker 6: when you're on a series, and see, you have to remember,
Speaker 6: in that day and age of television so to speak,
Speaker 6: a season was twenty four episodes, so you were busy
Speaker 6: for a much longer period of time than you know nowadays,
Speaker 6: where it's like, oh there's six episodes, there's eight episodes.
Speaker 6: So you know, then you were doing TV movies, so
Speaker 6: I would do like the ones I did with Gary
Speaker 6: Coleman and that sort of thing. And at that point
Speaker 6: I didn't have to audition, you know, Children of Divorce
Speaker 6: or the ones with Gary Coleman. I didn't have to
Speaker 6: audition for those.
Speaker 1: Was there, ever, did you feel like a feeling of security, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got through this year. Was there always like a
Speaker 1: midpoint season where are you checking the Nielsen ratings every
Speaker 1: twelve seconds?
Speaker 6: Too young? I was, I was too young.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 6: I was really just into again, make sure I had
Speaker 6: good grades, make sure I was professional, make sure I
Speaker 6: was a good kid. And so my priorities were not
Speaker 6: about that part of the industry because I just I
Speaker 6: was too young to really focus on that and the
Speaker 6: things that I did that were important to me, aside
Speaker 6: from the kids stuff. I really enjoyed being around the
Speaker 6: crew and learning from them. You know, it's like it's
Speaker 6: like a kid being around musicians and they love music.
Speaker 6: You're just going to keep gravitating tourism every chance you get.
Speaker 6: And so that was really, you know, my lane right there.
Speaker 1: Here's a fact a lot of question I had. I
Speaker 1: remember when it first came on the air, there was
Speaker 1: a larger ensemble cast and then it was just whittled
Speaker 1: down to the four of you. What was what was
Speaker 1: the thought process or like what made that transition happen
Speaker 1: because at one point, like Molly Ringwold was part of the.
Speaker 5: The Cat bigger housemember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, way bigger, but I never I mean now, it's
Speaker 1: like when you watch television, you got to watch every
Speaker 1: episode and binge watch every second of it, whereas back
Speaker 1: then it's just like, oh, it's on its horn. But
Speaker 1: I never understood what was what was the decision factor
Speaker 1: behind turning a seven castle to pay?
Speaker 6: Nothing was quite that. But basically, we had a half
Speaker 6: hour show, and it's a lot of characters to service
Speaker 6: in a half hour. And so after we did that
Speaker 6: first season, they the network execs, evaluated it and felt
Speaker 6: that there were just too many people to try to
Speaker 6: focus on in twenty two minutes. And so then it
Speaker 6: became okay, well, what if we changed some of the diet,
Speaker 6: the dynamics, you know, changing the amount of people that
Speaker 6: are there. You mentioned it being a bigger house, So
Speaker 6: the that main set was more like the common area,
Speaker 6: the commons or something like that, and so then they
Speaker 6: shifted it to something that, you know, they had more
Speaker 6: They felt they had more storyline ideas. So the idea
Speaker 6: of the peace fill the yes yes, and so the
Speaker 6: idea of like the cafeteria where you could still have
Speaker 6: the all the kids coming and going, but it still
Speaker 6: was more interesting than just having the common area and
Speaker 6: us living above it. So that was that was the idea.
Speaker 6: Now that was one of the few times I remembered thinking,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna probably get cut too, because I'm the black kid,
Speaker 6: and black people always get cut first. That was like
Speaker 6: one of the first times I've had a well, that
Speaker 6: was a horror movie to me, that people's.
Speaker 1: Getting you guys knew that the pendulum non pendulum, that
Speaker 1: the guillotine button was about the depressed and somebody was leaving.
Speaker 6: Not quite like that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: When we heard that there was a pick up, and
Speaker 6: everybody was, you know, ecstatic, and then they said, yes,
Speaker 6: the show has been picked up, but there's been some
Speaker 6: changes that have been made. These girls are not coming
Speaker 6: back to the show. You're gonna come back, This one's
Speaker 6: coming back on the phone. On the phone. Yeah, so you're.
Speaker 1: Waiting for a phone call and you didn't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the facts of life for real.
Speaker 5: You always knew you was the lone black girl in
Speaker 5: the room.
Speaker 6: No, not like that. That was one of the few times.
Speaker 6: That's why I said, it was one of the few
Speaker 6: times where I really registered the idea of being the
Speaker 6: black girl, being the black person. And that was very
Speaker 6: early on. But but for the most part, one I
Speaker 6: wasn't taught to look through, you know, the lens with
Speaker 6: color I everybody was just people, not fire, just not
Speaker 6: invited exactly been there.
Speaker 1: But in retrospect, yes, in retrospect though, or in hindsight
Speaker 1: you being a first living a life of being a
Speaker 1: first or whatever. What was the environment like on the set?
Speaker 6: It was great? Really, it really was great. Everybody was
Speaker 6: It was a level playing field, truly, truly, like even
Speaker 6: as the youngest, I didn't feel like the baby, you know,
Speaker 6: like Tuty felt that more than Kim did. Does that
Speaker 6: make sense? Yeah, oh good, because I didn't have nothing else.
Speaker 1: What was the average working like.
Speaker 6: Well, as a minor, you can only work, you know,
Speaker 6: a certain number of hours a day, and then you
Speaker 6: also have to go to school. So we would go
Speaker 6: to school in the morning. And by the second season,
Speaker 6: when Nancy arrived, Nancy and I were in studio school together. Mindy,
Speaker 6: her family wanted her to stay in her school environment,
Speaker 6: and so she would come to work after Lisa was
Speaker 6: already what do you call it, she had taken the
Speaker 6: proficiency test or whatever, so she wasn't in school anymore
Speaker 6: even though she was sixteen. Uh. And that's also really
Speaker 6: a huge contributing factor to why Nancy and I are
Speaker 6: so close and were so close, even though to DM
Speaker 6: Joe were not Nancy and I are. I'm oh, my gosh.
Speaker 7: I just thought it was in my mind, has always
Speaker 7: been because that's because that show was.
Speaker 6: But I spent actually more time, far more time than
Speaker 6: any with anyone than with Nancy, because you're in studio
Speaker 6: school and so you start roughly about two hours before
Speaker 6: everybody even comes to work us school.
Speaker 1: I always wanted to know what, Yeah.
Speaker 6: So you're in, you know, like one of the rooms
Speaker 6: in the production office. When we filmed for three seasons
Speaker 6: at Universal Studios, we were in a row of trailers.
Speaker 6: Uh so there was facts of life, different strokes, one
Speaker 6: day at a time, silver spoons. We were all in this,
Speaker 6: not together, but we were just in a row of
Speaker 6: trailers that you know, were separated by a door. But
Speaker 6: we were all right there.
Speaker 4: I would have had so much fun.
Speaker 6: It was great.
Speaker 1: Show.
Speaker 6: Each show has a different teacher, uh and so, and
Speaker 6: depending on you know, if the grade levels of the kids,
Speaker 6: if there are multiple kids on a show, you might
Speaker 6: have different tutors to cover different ages. But Nance and
Speaker 6: I had the same tutor, Margaret god Reshearsal. Margaret was
Speaker 6: our tutor for the whole time. Uh, and so you know,
Speaker 6: you you go and you you you have two hours
Speaker 6: of school. Then when everybody comes to work, you literally
Speaker 6: man are ping pong back and forth between school and
Speaker 6: and rehearsal until you've done enough hours in the day
Speaker 6: because you have to be in school for three hours
Speaker 6: a day and then you can be in this rehearsal
Speaker 6: hall or filming full time. Now what they end up
Speaker 6: doing is like if you're on a hiatus week. Those
Speaker 6: are tough because there's no outlet. You're there and you
Speaker 6: go to school and then you have to what you
Speaker 6: call bank time, so you might be there for like
Speaker 6: five hours doing school because when you're in production on
Speaker 6: your filming day, you might only get twenty minutes of
Speaker 6: school and which is the minimum that you have to
Speaker 6: be there, and then they pull from your hours in
Speaker 6: the bank so that you still have your time.
Speaker 1: Someone is there literally clocking like a union person like baby.
Speaker 6: We used to have booth time and Margaret time. And
Speaker 6: Margaret if it was booth time, was like in the
Speaker 6: control room where the producers would go, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 6: lose Kim in five minutes. We have to get this
Speaker 6: scene done or you know that sort of thing, and
Speaker 6: Margaret time was, y'all have to finish now. I don't
Speaker 6: know that that that that clock's not right. My clock
Speaker 6: says it's nine o'clock now, and so you've got to
Speaker 6: pull the plug.
Speaker 1: Are they still doing that system today or is that.
Speaker 6: Back then to a certain extent, you know, because the
Speaker 6: labor laws they got such a bad rap from, you know,
Speaker 6: earlier generation, so they tried to be better at it.
Speaker 6: But when our son Quincy was in the Pride and
Speaker 6: Prejudice movie for a Lifetime this past summer, he filmed
Speaker 6: it at the end of last year and I was
Speaker 6: set mom, and I was in the trailer and you know,
Speaker 6: there was his tutor and all those things, and I
Speaker 6: actually took video and showed it to Nancy. I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: my god, your nephew's at studio school right now.
Speaker 1: Are they all? Are? They?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I was asking because during like I just never understood
Speaker 1: and always sort of frowned. And first of all, yes,
Speaker 1: I commit that. You know, I'm very bad at punctuality
Speaker 1: and time and all that stuff. I'm working all myself, boss, Bill,
Speaker 1: you know this. So when working on Hamilton, I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that they are also very antal retentive with time.
Speaker 1: So like they there was always a on set person
Speaker 1: with a stopwatch and say if like George Washington had
Speaker 1: to re sing a part over again, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well we have six minutes and thirty seconds, guys, until
Speaker 1: up now it's five minutes and fifty seconds. And I'm
Speaker 1: just like, look, this is working on cast album. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they're also anal and you know there's like actual
Speaker 1: people whose jobs it is just to look at the
Speaker 1: stopwatch absolutely and enforce rules of which as a black person.
Speaker 6: I'm like, but the unions are to your point, really,
Speaker 6: you know they're there to really protect the artists, is
Speaker 6: what you know, the idea of the union is, and
Speaker 6: so being able to protect, making sure that that you know,
Speaker 6: you're not overworked and all of those things. So they
Speaker 6: are sticklers.
Speaker 1: So does that leave you enough time to actually study
Speaker 1: your lines and or you guys just given sides and
Speaker 1: you recap them for two seconds and right.
Speaker 6: So when you're doing a movie, then you know you
Speaker 6: shoot bits of it every day, but on a multi
Speaker 6: camera comedy like that, then you you film just kind
Speaker 6: of once or twice a week, so you have the
Speaker 6: script and you rehearse the whole thing over and over
Speaker 6: and over.
Speaker 1: Okay, so as a teenager, let's let's push on in
Speaker 1: the years. No, I'm trying to cover every every aspect
Speaker 1: of your career. Was there a general fear of Hollywood
Speaker 1: trappings that have sort of sort of grabbed everyone? You
Speaker 1: seem to, at least in my eyes. You got out
Speaker 1: of it unscathed and you know, without a scratch or
Speaker 1: I don't know, but like, how hard was that to
Speaker 1: avoid in such a decadent time period social media?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Right, yeah, it was. It was. There was a
Speaker 6: part of it that was really easy because I was scared,
Speaker 6: meaning I was I was that kid that was like,
Speaker 6: I don't even want to try weed because I'd be
Speaker 6: that one person that they find out, oh my god,
Speaker 6: it can't kill you if you puff. Once we didn't know,
Speaker 6: and now God rest her soul, you know. So I
Speaker 6: was like, so, you know, it's like, I'm not going
Speaker 6: to try that, and certainly not anything stronger than that.
Speaker 6: But but basically I just felt like I didn't want
Speaker 6: to be a has been At eighteen, I clearly remember
Speaker 6: having that thought, you know, as you get fifteen and
Speaker 6: sixteen and you you know, you're just becoming a young adult.
Speaker 6: And I remember thinking, I'm not going to be a
Speaker 6: has been at eighteen, and I'm not gonna let my
Speaker 6: village suffer because I'm a statistic. My village has put
Speaker 6: way too much in me for me to go out
Speaker 6: like that. That's that's not an option. So that's how
Speaker 6: I avoided. Now. I'm not unscratched, not not at all.
Speaker 6: It's just I didn't have some of those monumental tragic incidents,
Speaker 6: you know, that sort of thing. But I certainly had
Speaker 6: struggles and challenges. That's why I start my book with
Speaker 6: the piece from Langston Hughes. Well time, I'll tell you
Speaker 6: life for me been no Crystal stare because people think
Speaker 6: they look at me and they go, oh, she ain't
Speaker 6: been through nothing.
Speaker 5: You was the first. How could you not go through something.
Speaker 6: Exactly?
Speaker 5: The whole woman, the woman.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: She been my friends, she just didn't know.
Speaker 1: How well, not how important, but how hard was it
Speaker 1: to shake the T word?
Speaker 6: I love you for that man?
Speaker 1: Once once the series ended, what eighty six.
Speaker 6: Eight nine, eighty eight, eighty eight, seventy nine to eighty eight, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, first everybody remembers the first show
Speaker 1: they ever recorded when they got a VCR. So I
Speaker 1: got my box over writing in time for the Eldbarge episode. Well,
Speaker 1: we talked about this when it was on our show,
Speaker 1: that's right, yeah, yeah, so it was first. Like back
Speaker 1: when you in the eighties, when you got a VCR,
Speaker 1: you recorded any and everything because, like you know, you
Speaker 1: didn't want to miss anything.
Speaker 4: So we used to have like the mountains of EHS tapes,
Speaker 4: like this is a Saturday lineup, pile, this isday lineup.
Speaker 6: Wait, funny, Maxwell just sent me a text of a
Speaker 6: PI make sure of like just piled like like piles
Speaker 6: of VHS and and cassette and he's like, I got mine.
Speaker 6: You know you got shorts. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: If you think about it, we are like as a species,
Speaker 1: we're the most documenting, never going back to watch people
Speaker 1: like the amount. Oh wait, that's for Maxwell. Yeah, wait
Speaker 1: with a floppy disc?
Speaker 4: You have stuff In comments.
Speaker 1: Kim just showed us her phone and Maxwell's center photo
Speaker 1: of a bunch of VHS, a cassette and a floppy disc,
Speaker 1: which reminds me of that to this day. To this day,
Speaker 1: uh d'angela still creates his music on his A s
Speaker 1: R ten and needs floppy discs bs.
Speaker 5: Uh he just said again.
Speaker 1: But my point being that, Uh, when when the series
Speaker 1: was over, how hard was it to to shake the
Speaker 1: character as far as figuring out what you're going to
Speaker 1: do next?
Speaker 6: Well, thankfully the character had grown up. So you know,
Speaker 6: I wasn't like a Shirley Temple type of of of
Speaker 6: of child start trapped in you know, being a child.
Speaker 6: So so and I had gone to college, and you know,
Speaker 6: I'd gotten my degree, so I stayed busy number one,
Speaker 6: So my mind wasn't idol and I wasn't just kind
Speaker 6: of trapped my own self.
Speaker 1: What did you major in it, Pepperdine?
Speaker 6: I double majored in broadcast journalism and TV and film
Speaker 6: production and a minor in religion.
Speaker 1: Wow, what whoa why did you use?
Speaker 6: I wanted to go to San Diego State, but I
Speaker 6: couldn't go out of state for school or out of
Speaker 6: out of town for school because the facts life was still.
Speaker 6: Did you wear that from me?
Speaker 5: Oh you got on your head.
Speaker 6: It's just facts.
Speaker 1: Oh crash. Not even shout out to Dan Ricky h Now,
Speaker 1: I did this weird thing when I meditated in the
Speaker 1: morning and it was like the first word I saw,
Speaker 1: so wow, okay, I did facts. And then when I like,
Speaker 1: I grabbed a whole bunch of letters and whatever comes
Speaker 1: out in my hand, I was just like, I'll use that.
Speaker 5: I swear to God, that's next level of meditation.
Speaker 1: Then again, like I didn't know crown.
Speaker 6: Or what, but look how connected we are that I
Speaker 6: permeated your meditation time see and and you and and
Speaker 6: you had me on your mind.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: I don't think you ever left.
Speaker 1: I don't even read the calendar in the morning. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, wait, I'm going to work right. Oh, oh, Kim,
Speaker 1: I'm playing.
Speaker 5: Although he's been asking me almost once a week, so
Speaker 5: when's is cam? Did you get cam?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think because it's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sadly true. How do you decide which crown
Speaker 1: to wear each day?
Speaker 5: Different ones?
Speaker 1: Steve, Steve, Steve Anyway, No, I totally forgot I was
Speaker 1: wearing a crown in my head.
Speaker 6: I interrupted you. What were you saying no?
Speaker 1: No about Pepperdine.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 6: So I wanted to go out of state and I
Speaker 6: couldn't go out of state, And then I couldn't even
Speaker 6: go out of town because Fact's life was still filming
Speaker 6: when I started college, because I took seventh and eighth
Speaker 6: grade together, so I got out of high school a
Speaker 6: year early. So I was still done Facts Life when
Speaker 6: I started college. And so we had done the Australian
Speaker 6: movie and then I started school.
Speaker 1: Well, this was fun. I remember the Paris one. I
Speaker 1: was on punishment for the other one.
Speaker 6: Man, weren't we older? How was you on punishment?
Speaker 1: Then we don't want to Paris. I remember being in
Speaker 1: trouble that Paris was like, wait, eighty Irish tried right.
Speaker 1: I was two of those special Facts of Life trips
Speaker 1: was on punishment.
Speaker 6: For so okay, the other one I was. I was
Speaker 6: seventeen eighteens. I don't even want to know.
Speaker 1: Why you was. No, no, no, my bad. Y'all went
Speaker 1: to Hawaii.
Speaker 5: Everybody went to Hawaiian.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Hawaii went to Hawaii and you saw they took
Speaker 6: their hairdressers.
Speaker 8: Because here's here's here's something weird.
Speaker 1: Okay, so don't say we won't get we will in
Speaker 1: a second, Okay, Okay, so APOLOONI and I have a
Speaker 1: really good mutual friend in Chef Gordon, who lives in Mali.
Speaker 1: And one of Apple's favorite thing is to uh what
Speaker 1: do when you go I don't say thrifting when you
Speaker 1: go to the thrift stories to antique, right, And somehow
Speaker 1: and and somehow, Appollonia wound up with Roxy Wrokers polaroid,
Speaker 1: uh scrap book of when the Jeffersons went to wh No,
Speaker 1: she just like always had it and that's how I
Speaker 1: introduced her to to Lenny and Zoey to get the
Speaker 1: book back.
Speaker 5: So she's had it for Miss Roxy's hair was straight
Speaker 5: and white.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so those on those special episodes, you guys were
Speaker 1: allowed special amenities for your.
Speaker 6: Well facts of life.
Speaker 5: I wasn't.
Speaker 6: And that's why when that wind blew to these bangs
Speaker 6: looked like all to be damned and my mother was like,
Speaker 6: oh never again. That's the one time she was kind
Speaker 6: of managers and was like, my baby will not be
Speaker 6: looking like that if you guys go anywhere else.
Speaker 5: Did they have a hairdresser for you?
Speaker 6: Yes, like joe Anne Stafford. Baby, that's who created the
Speaker 6: sig zag part. That's right, Heat of the night, Right,
Speaker 6: did you want that?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 5: How do you know that?
Speaker 4: Read the book? And then I did google afterwards.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't just say because you pioneered for me
Speaker 1: like the the even though people now are sort of
Speaker 1: crediting like salt and pepper for the mushroom is Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: she had no like I felt like you were the
Speaker 1: pioneering what's that.
Speaker 6: Called the page boy the page boy circle.
Speaker 5: I thought that halle Berry cut was a page boy, right.
Speaker 1: Single, I'm talking about her facts of life, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: The mush mushroom, right, yes, And I mean I had
Speaker 6: bangs that big barrel on the curl curlin iron. So yeah,
Speaker 6: but the zig zag part picked all of my styles,
Speaker 6: was joining, but they didn't take joy in the Paris
Speaker 6: and old Kim.
Speaker 1: Say, it's good to know that. See when we go
Speaker 1: in on location and I'm after big and fleet like
Speaker 1: you afro, don't come let me. It's just as much
Speaker 1: of the character on the show as I am.
Speaker 8: That's right.
Speaker 6: And then when we went to Australia, Kim was laid
Speaker 6: though Kim Kim had her hair tight.
Speaker 1: On that one.
Speaker 6: But I took my hairstylist.
Speaker 5: Was that a really?
Speaker 7: Was you a relaxer or was that a blowout? I'm sorry,
Speaker 7: I just always had that question. Press yes, okay, it
Speaker 7: took a while. Does she ever, did you ever get
Speaker 7: your hair chemical up?
Speaker 6: I don't think so, I don't think my mom. I
Speaker 6: have to ask my mom.
Speaker 5: That was good to watch.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that wooden spoon on my ear, that's what
Speaker 6: I really remember. And the blue grease, No, because it's
Speaker 6: thank And now back to.
Speaker 1: Believe we are we are the rabbit Hole Kings on
Speaker 1: the show good So, as I was mentioned earlier, and
Speaker 1: you know, and I know that people seem to think, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm talking out the side of my neck, but not
Speaker 1: many people know that the reasons that Friends exist is
Speaker 1: because the creators of Friends, my great pals at NBC
Speaker 1: where I currently work to this day, what my job
Speaker 1: and benefits. It's okay, No, well, you know, I thought
Speaker 1: it was Brendan Tartakoff's last move. He had a chance
Speaker 1: to have uh living single or an NBC. But they
Speaker 1: were like, well, we have enough black shows already. We
Speaker 1: already have Labelle's Up all Night, and we have the
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince of bel Air, and we have L's in
Speaker 1: the house, so maybe three is enough, you know, and
Speaker 1: we still have Cosby in a different world. So that's
Speaker 1: that's a lot of blackness. So we'll pass on this one,
Speaker 1: and he was like, I don't know something about this
Speaker 1: show and the chemistry they have, and I guess the
Speaker 1: decision was, well, let's create the white version of living single,
Speaker 1: and thus that's how Friends came to be.
Speaker 4: Is that correct?
Speaker 1: I did not know that, which it is is no, No,
Speaker 1: I'm asked Brandon if she said no?
Speaker 5: He said it. He admitted it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, even jump in the grave and get him.
Speaker 1: I don't know that, you know, Joe when Emmys and Taro.
Speaker 4: I knew Joanne won the Emmy because I read the
Speaker 4: book and then I did googlefter tartakov I actually remember
Speaker 4: when he died. Yeah, I actually remember when he died.
Speaker 4: I was like probably like eleven or twelve, but I
Speaker 4: remember that shout out damn.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well that's uh, that's what I'm surprised to have
Speaker 6: Tartakoff connected to Friends.
Speaker 1: Well, even whoever whoever was the president of NBC in
Speaker 1: ninety two ninety three admitted it on like one of
Speaker 1: those like panel things. Yes, I'm getting and thus the
Speaker 1: reason why jay Z made the Moonlight video with all
Speaker 1: the Black Friends characters.
Speaker 5: I didn't know is that. Okay, I didn't know. I
Speaker 5: didn't say that. I just didn't know that he was
Speaker 5: up on his pop culture trivia like.
Speaker 1: That it's quasi common knowledge. But uh, were you aware
Speaker 1: of those facts at all?
Speaker 6: Not those particular facts from other facts.
Speaker 5: What what I know, uh is that.
Speaker 6: Uh Yvett created this this this brilliant show and Evett
Speaker 6: had a deal with Fox to develop a show with
Speaker 6: Dana and Kim Coles Lativa and Kim Coles. I don't
Speaker 6: know what the preamble was prior to that. What was difficult,
Speaker 6: you know, and a bit of a challenge to work
Speaker 6: through sometimes was that both friends of Limit single was
Speaker 6: Warner Brothers, and so, you know, oftentimes real talk, we
Speaker 6: we kind of felt like that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bill, looking up, I want you to you right,
Speaker 1: I'm partly insulting as I'm listening to you, like, yeah, continue,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 6: So sometimes we kind of felt like the redheaded stepchild
Speaker 6: right right now, from from the standpoint of we were
Speaker 6: you know, quote unquote first and you know, if you're
Speaker 6: able to inspire people to create great content, great, what
Speaker 6: do they say? You know something is the highest form
Speaker 6: of flattery, imitation, That's it. He came with that quick
Speaker 6: to google that, but being able to you know, when
Speaker 6: my kids wake up from nightmares, the first thing I
Speaker 6: say is what's your truth? Speak your truth, know your truth,
Speaker 6: and we know our truth bottom line, So we don't
Speaker 6: have to have anybody validated and do memes about it
Speaker 6: and start a hashtag campaign and used.
Speaker 5: To because we're just starting shitting people copying.
Speaker 6: Well, there's that, there's that part, But at the end
Speaker 6: of the day, that's the part that was the most frustrating,
Speaker 6: you know, to be a part of the same production,
Speaker 6: the same studio essentially, uh and to be treated so
Speaker 6: grossly different in terms of pay, in terms of you know,
Speaker 6: there's there's a this is a true story. One day
Speaker 6: we came to work in the set. The sound stage
Speaker 6: was freezing, and even things like, you know what the
Speaker 6: big Warner Brothers is the main Warner Brothers lot, and
Speaker 6: then they have the ranch. Who do you think filmed
Speaker 6: at the main lot? And who do you think filmed
Speaker 6: at the ranch?
Speaker 1: The ranch was the better option and not the better option?
Speaker 6: No, the ranch was you know kind of that that
Speaker 6: out the way. The ranch is not the big studio,
Speaker 6: that's right, that's right. So we came in there and
Speaker 6: the sound stage was freezing and they said that they
Speaker 6: weren't going to turn the lights on, and so we
Speaker 6: had to rehearse in these big, big puffer coats and
Speaker 6: stuff because they were saying that they didn't want to
Speaker 6: spend the money to turn the lights on and or heat.
Speaker 6: And that's when we actually that that was the one
Speaker 6: and only time that we collectively said we're not coming
Speaker 6: to work. We're not going to do that because at
Speaker 6: this point, this is a safety hazard. Meanwhile, meanwhile the
Speaker 6: other folks walk off to get a million per episodes
Speaker 6: and it's like they want money, we want heat. If
Speaker 6: that don't sound like an episode a good time.
Speaker 7: So it was a whole black woman in that moment,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, Not even then the seventy six,
Speaker 7: you know, and so so, so you.
Speaker 6: Have those moments where it's like, never mind all the
Speaker 6: other stuff that goes around the comparisons, those are the
Speaker 6: moments where it's like that.
Speaker 7: Can you ask them, I just real quick, I just
Speaker 7: want to know since you knew this, right, My question
Speaker 7: is because usually on the opposite side, the other people
Speaker 7: have no idea.
Speaker 5: What the other folks are going through. So was it
Speaker 5: the same way?
Speaker 6: I don't know. I never met that ran into that.
Speaker 6: They probably we weren't. We weren't at the lotch so
Speaker 6: we didn't. We didn't run into them in the comments.
Speaker 5: So somebody told them, you know, your show is based
Speaker 5: off the show called Living Single. They'd be like, what
Speaker 5: the you know?
Speaker 1: A well, okay, I know that there there have been
Speaker 1: a few times on these episodes that you directed, Yes,
Speaker 1: and often, like when I watched shitcoms, like a key
Speaker 1: character will go away for a vacation, right, this week
Speaker 1: she went on a convention and direct, right, how one?
Speaker 1: How is that? How is that negotiated? And how hard
Speaker 1: is it to direct? And or really the real question
Speaker 1: is how welcome characters have to leave to go on
Speaker 1: vacation to direct their own things? Like why can't you
Speaker 1: also be there at the time?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: You know what's funny is I remember when Anton Williams
Speaker 6: and Ron Howard and those guys started directing like Happy Days,
Speaker 6: and you'd see, like you just said, you know, Podgy's
Speaker 6: going off to the right because he was directing Regime
Speaker 6: didn't go anywhere Regime. But the first time I directed
Speaker 6: an episode of eleven Single, I was the BT story.
Speaker 5: And I was like, wait a minute, what happened to
Speaker 5: the rules?
Speaker 6: What I'm I'm directing and I'm the best story wait,
Speaker 6: And really they try to do that because it's a
Speaker 6: lot to direct an episode, and then you've got to
Speaker 6: put yourself in it, you know, and then you've got
Speaker 6: to have your stand in to be you. And then
Speaker 6: when you're in it, then you have to make sure
Speaker 6: that the assistant director or stage manager is watching. So
Speaker 6: it's just it's a lot instead of just being in
Speaker 6: one scene and then you go away and then you
Speaker 6: can really focus on that, you know. And for the
Speaker 6: type of sitcom that we were doing, this was when
Speaker 6: they would have a control room and so you'd actually
Speaker 6: leave the sound stage go to another part of the
Speaker 6: building to you know, where we're basically master control was
Speaker 6: where you're talking to the cameras and all just everybody
Speaker 6: and all the monitors are there and you're switching shots
Speaker 6: and things like that.
Speaker 1: She's determined that as well. Yeah, so it's a big
Speaker 1: giant division of.
Speaker 5: Absolutely which makes Tyler Perry look even more genius than
Speaker 5: his way. I guess, yes, no, I know, but he does. Yes,
Speaker 5: you can't take it away.
Speaker 1: You don't have to defend it. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, Tyler, you know he's making power moves. Yes,
Speaker 1: Steve clear in my throat. In the hindsight, what lessons
Speaker 1: or valuable lessons have you learned in your career that
Speaker 1: you wish you knew then at that at that particular
Speaker 1: time period or you're fine with your outcome and yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like everything happens for a reason. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so even now, like I'll see someone that has done
Speaker 1: better than me in my career or whatever, and like
Speaker 1: maybe at that moment, I'll be like, oh man, I
Speaker 1: wish I wrote that song or something like that. But
Speaker 1: then I feel like I'm on the path I'm supposed.
Speaker 6: To be on exactly.
Speaker 1: But if there's something like, Okay, I wish I knew about, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's some real like it's about to I'm not. I've
Speaker 1: known you for all my life, all right. I really
Speaker 1: wish i'd gotten early in the game on like stocks
Speaker 1: and investments, way earlier in my career. I'm on it now.
Speaker 5: We all do a mirror shoot.
Speaker 1: But you know, had I known then when I know now, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't left at askton Coat. You were like,
Speaker 1: what's it? I mean, get out of here? Like that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, but like, what things do you wh
Speaker 1: she I.
Speaker 6: Wish I hadn't worn braces so long because fucking over
Speaker 6: bites are sexy. Now what the hell like Live Live Tyler?
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, just like, isn't that like a thing?
Speaker 5: But not her daddy, He's got one, but I didn't
Speaker 5: bring him up right.
Speaker 7: We talked about physical things. Can I ask you a
Speaker 7: question that I read? And I'm so curious just as
Speaker 7: a woman, a bountiful, plentiful woman.
Speaker 5: Yes, why do you? Why did you have to get
Speaker 5: two reductions?
Speaker 7: And I know one of them was covered on the
Speaker 7: Living single, but yes, I'm scared for myself.
Speaker 6: Uh well, the first one was just physically. I was
Speaker 6: five ft tall and and so just I'm still in
Speaker 6: but my I had a lot of back issues with that.
Speaker 6: Then yes, look at the pictures of us together, look
Speaker 6: how like I mean like because she's and I always
Speaker 6: wear heels when I'm on the show.
Speaker 5: Speak exactly, Prince, You're big on It's just something big
Speaker 5: about you.
Speaker 1: I'm a guy, I'm dumb.
Speaker 6: But the second one was for aesthetics. I just felt
Speaker 6: like I'm just you know, being on camera so much
Speaker 6: and I just wasn't wasn't wasn't pleased. But you know,
Speaker 6: but I mean, the the procedures have come such a
Speaker 6: long way. Don't be scared. If that's what you want
Speaker 6: to do, go for No. Well yeah, but then what
Speaker 6: do you want to do it? Then don't do it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought about it.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's funny because guys go but why would
Speaker 7: you do that? But we all know sometimes you just
Speaker 7: want to wear one sports bra, or sometimes you just
Speaker 7: want to run, or sometimes you just want to stand.
Speaker 5: Straight and you know, have your shoulders down. It's hard.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: I was answering the questions because you know, because.
Speaker 1: Yes, you were. Wait, it just hit me. You on
Speaker 1: your Instagram. You put up a photo that kind of
Speaker 1: blew up, blew my mind, and it's you at west
Speaker 1: Lake Studios. Yes, casually, uh, visiting Michael Jackson while recording
Speaker 1: Thriller during the p y T background vocal sessions. Yes,
Speaker 1: was that just like just like a regular Tuesday, just
Speaker 1: about Hey, what are you guys doing? That's nice?
Speaker 6: So Janet, it was one of the times when she
Speaker 6: was on different strokes and this was yeah, and she
Speaker 6: had asked Mindy and I because again different strokes facts Life.
Speaker 6: We all filmed in the same right there, in the
Speaker 6: same areas, and so she asked us if we wanted
Speaker 6: to hang out and go to the studio because Michael
Speaker 6: was recording. Sure, So we show up and he was recording,
Speaker 6: like you said, the backgrounds for p y T. And
Speaker 6: James was there and mister Jones was there and uh
Speaker 6: m hmmm, uh what LaToya was the toy Janet Bunny
Speaker 6: Bunny Home.
Speaker 1: Stephanie is Frill Sprill.
Speaker 6: Yes, So they were all there and they were like, hey,
Speaker 6: you know, we're at this part where we're doing the
Speaker 6: column response and the p y T saying no, no, no,
Speaker 6: want you guys all get in there. Okay, So we
Speaker 6: all go in the studio and we do this yes
Speaker 6: and we do the no no nos and mister Jones
Speaker 6: is the but I hear an anchovy. I never forget
Speaker 6: that he's a anchovy. And so we all was there
Speaker 6: was like everybody, come on out, just come on out.
Speaker 6: And then it became like you know, being picked for
Speaker 6: the sport at school. Okay, you you you and you
Speaker 6: go back in.
Speaker 5: Outside looking in.
Speaker 1: We'll take the girl. You guys take them mirror. Yeah,
Speaker 1: manager man, that's funny.
Speaker 6: I was team manager of our baseball team at Burbank High. Really, yeah,
Speaker 6: but I'm sure it's not funny because of what you
Speaker 6: were Just.
Speaker 4: It's funny.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I'm still here. Funny, I'm still here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure Grant Woods could see me. Now
Speaker 1: you regret, you regret all them out. I was a
Speaker 1: good first baseman. I know the sports, right, Steve, I.
Speaker 4: Understand we're calling out childhood bullies, all right, Shane.
Speaker 5: Yeah, An.
Speaker 6: I started that.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry she was little, Dan me.
Speaker 1: Any other casual flexes like that, No, yeah, we shall
Speaker 1: all be scared of anyone smaller than us, bigger dudes.
Speaker 1: I'm like whatever, but small people they have something to prove.
Speaker 1: Any other casual flexes that you've had in your life
Speaker 1: so far? Now, Red like, oh yeah, here's printing his cadillagers.
Speaker 6: You know when Johnny Gill and I met, it was
Speaker 6: in the Glendale Galleria and we've been friends ever since.
Speaker 6: And I just did a promotional thing for my Christmas
Speaker 6: movie there and they were like, you grew up in
Speaker 6: this area, do any special memories? And I'm like, you
Speaker 6: know what, I met Johnny Gill here and they were like,
Speaker 6: oh my god. And then he and I text each
Speaker 6: other and joked about it.
Speaker 1: John is everywhere. Yes he's uncle Johnny.
Speaker 5: Oh so this are and this time you are directing
Speaker 5: and starring at the yea, this.
Speaker 6: One I didn't direct.
Speaker 5: I epeed it.
Speaker 1: But yes, so what has this whole experience been like
Speaker 1: doing the Christmas movie? And oh my goodness, and how
Speaker 1: did you orchestrate this well with this one?
Speaker 6: You light up my Christmas a lifetime And I've been
Speaker 6: in development for a couple of projects for a while now.
Speaker 6: And then they said, we really want you on the
Speaker 6: air this year, just bottom line, and that that really
Speaker 6: meant a lot to me to have a network executive
Speaker 6: say that, after this many decades, you know, in the
Speaker 6: top it off and we want you to be the
Speaker 6: leading lady. You're the start and you know, you're not
Speaker 6: the friend, you're not the boss, you're not the sister.
Speaker 6: And so that just really just did something for me.
Speaker 6: Of course it would. And so they said, we have
Speaker 6: a script. We have this writer that we really like.
Speaker 6: She's got the script. If you like it, let's put
Speaker 6: you in pre production and go. And so I read
Speaker 6: it and I loved it. We made some tweaks to it,
Speaker 6: and they said, great, go up to Vancouver. Here you go,
Speaker 6: and we had this amazing six weeks up there, fifteen
Speaker 6: days in production and we have this beautiful, amazing movie
Speaker 6: called You Light Up My Christmas.
Speaker 1: Wait, fifteen days in production, but six weeks to edit
Speaker 1: shoot or Yeah.
Speaker 6: So there was pre production, you know, where you are
Speaker 6: casting and location shooting and wardrobe and designing the characters
Speaker 6: and all that. And then they by the time they
Speaker 6: saw the dailies bits of you know, the things that
Speaker 6: we had been filming, they said, oh, we love this.
Speaker 6: We're moving your production. Your air date up two weeks,
Speaker 6: okay to December first. So the Sunday after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: How was it being back with your cohorts?
Speaker 6: And it was fun. You know, it's not like we
Speaker 6: haven't been together since, you know, eighty eight. I mean
Speaker 6: we we certainly we're sisters and so we've seen each
Speaker 6: other over the years. Our children know each other, you know. Again,
Speaker 6: we're all you know there chat thread, Yes, there is,
Speaker 6: but the living single one is better.
Speaker 5: She's really been killing it. I just had to say
Speaker 5: that while you were here. Yeah, I mean that she's
Speaker 5: been doing a lot of dramatic roles.
Speaker 6: Alexander has been my hero for a long time. And
Speaker 6: then she's like, oh, Kim Fields, please be quiet. Let
Speaker 6: you call me a little Fields because she's you know,
Speaker 6: much taller than me.
Speaker 4: But by the way, girl, my mind is blown. The
Speaker 4: fact that there's a living single group chat right now.
Speaker 1: I know we actually thought about it all that group chat,
Speaker 1: I mean appropriate group chats, well you know ours.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm like, does big Les ever drop in? Because
Speaker 7: I mean for nothing, but she she's a part.
Speaker 5: She is, but no, okay, sorry, that's all right, that's
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 6: But it was great being an executive producer being able
Speaker 6: to say to them, hey, guys, because I called each
Speaker 6: one after I got the go ahead from from Lifetime,
Speaker 6: because I said to Lifetime, I'd really love to, you know,
Speaker 6: invite my sisters to be a part of this, because
Speaker 6: you know, the holidays about family and nostalgia and memories,
Speaker 6: and I think it'd be a really cool look. And
Speaker 6: we'd had we'd had two scenes in this ice skating rink,
Speaker 6: and I said, what if we, you know, kind of
Speaker 6: have them there is like this is their ice skating
Speaker 6: rink that they either own or manage and work there
Speaker 6: and we call the ice rink Charlotte for Charlotte Rent
Speaker 6: and so they were like, yes.
Speaker 4: Go please ask and so I called, we're talking about.
Speaker 6: Thank you and they said yes, and so we and
Speaker 6: then I said to them what kind of character would
Speaker 6: you like to play, you know, and here's our ideas
Speaker 6: for its story. You know, what, what do you think?
Speaker 6: And so it was really great to have them collaborate
Speaker 6: about their special appearances and things like that. And like
Speaker 6: Lisa's character in the movie, she's named after Nancy's daughter,
Speaker 6: Mindy wanted to name her character Rose for her grandmother.
Speaker 6: There's a food drive component in the movie because Nancy said,
Speaker 6: I think that compassion and kindness are just something that
Speaker 6: people miss nowadays. Is that something you can put in
Speaker 6: your script? It was like, yeah, sure, you know. And
Speaker 6: then we've got little fun inside jokes and things like
Speaker 6: Lisa mentions, you know, having a delivery from Edna's edibles,
Speaker 6: you know. So there's just a whole bunch of fun
Speaker 6: little touches there.
Speaker 1: In addition to Brilliant's going to be in trouble. I
Speaker 1: was waiting for that, you know what.
Speaker 6: We tried a couple and it was like, oh, that
Speaker 6: one's too on the show if it didn't feel organic, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 6: but we did try.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, see, so what.
Speaker 4: What is before you go? You mentioned you asked I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but I just want to get this let's
Speaker 4: get right. I just want to ask this question before
Speaker 4: I lose it. You said you asked everybody else what
Speaker 4: kind of character they wanted to play? What kind of
Speaker 4: character do you want to play?
Speaker 1: Well? Thank you?
Speaker 6: I played you mean in this movie.
Speaker 1: In any movie or in general? Well, yeah, what's actually
Speaker 1: that wasn't my question? Sorry, no bucket listing, Like, is
Speaker 1: there anything that you haven't done that you wish to do?
Speaker 6: Absolutely? The ironic thing about being in the industry for
Speaker 6: over forty years is that there's still a lot of
Speaker 6: characters that I have not played because I number one,
Speaker 6: I started when I was a kid, So you only,
Speaker 6: you know, for a certain period of time, you can
Speaker 6: only play kid characters. Uh, And then being on long
Speaker 6: running shows, I mean it's a blessing, but then you're
Speaker 6: those characters. So there's a lot of characters that I
Speaker 6: want to play. There's more genres that you know that
Speaker 6: that are being unearthed and created that I want to
Speaker 6: be a part of so, like the whole graphic novel world,
Speaker 6: I can't wait. There's something that we're working on and there,
Speaker 6: you know what, we love working together. And that's another
Speaker 6: thing with the whole reason why I asked my Fax
Speaker 6: Life sisters. I really have had a great track record
Speaker 6: working with a lot of great people and so being
Speaker 6: able to ask them, you know, to be a part
Speaker 6: of something that I'm doing, now, that's that's that's a
Speaker 6: great you know, feeling to be able to do it.
Speaker 4: Don't well, I just remember another story from your book. Yes,
Speaker 4: can you tell the story of when you were cast
Speaker 4: a storm in x Men?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: You mean you were?
Speaker 4: It's such a waful.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I don't read all the detail and stuff. I'll
Speaker 6: just gloss over it and be like, Okay, I got it.
Speaker 6: It's a horrible thing. It's horrible, I know, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 6: And so I got an audition that came and my
Speaker 6: manager says, have an audition for x men. Uh, And
Speaker 6: he sent me the information and I was so excited
Speaker 6: and they said its storm and I was like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, hell, he's not going to do this anymore.
Speaker 6: What the hell's wrong with her? But oh, well, one
Speaker 6: you know, one man's trash, another man's treasure. I mean,
Speaker 6: I went through all the you know, little colloquialism. So
Speaker 6: when I go into an audition, I really prep for it.
Speaker 6: And so I had my boots and I had my outfit.
Speaker 6: I mean, I was going in and then I went
Speaker 6: to read where the location was for the for the audition.
Speaker 6: Turned out it was for a voiceover for the animated series. Yeah,
Speaker 6: she wasn't going nowhere. Storm was not available, and if
Speaker 6: it was, they were not taking for your ass, king
Speaker 6: for you. But yes, I love creating characters. I absolutely do.
Speaker 6: And so even like tomorrow, I'm excited we're dropping on
Speaker 6: Mylifetime dot com as well as on their YouTube channel.
Speaker 6: We're dropping a short film called Designing Emma, and it's
Speaker 6: all about how we created the character for the Christmas movie,
Speaker 6: for hair, makeup, wardrobe, just everything designing Emma. Because that again,
Speaker 6: I go back to our earlier conversation. I love creating characters.
Speaker 6: That's what drew me into this when I saw other
Speaker 6: people doing that as a kid. So any character I've
Speaker 6: not yet played, I'm doing a new series at the
Speaker 6: top of the year, I can't I can't tell you
Speaker 6: what it is just yet. But it's really exciting. But
Speaker 6: in a way, it's still kind of uncharted territory. Even
Speaker 6: though it's a comedy. Even though it's you know, certain
Speaker 6: things that I've done, there's still a great deal of
Speaker 6: it I haven't done. If I haven't done it, you
Speaker 6: can believe I'm probably gonna say yes because I just
Speaker 6: I just love that, you know. And even with this
Speaker 6: character in this lifetime movie, being able to place one
Speaker 6: who is dealing with discovering, rediscovering, rekindling a romance, going
Speaker 6: after the issues of family legacy, uh, and dealing with
Speaker 6: your inner light, and you see everybody around you just
Speaker 6: kind of like numb is the new joy and it's like, no,
Speaker 6: that's not, no, we we have we have another level
Speaker 6: of life and lifestyle and and laughter enjoy to tap into.
Speaker 6: And so that's a lot of you know, what my
Speaker 6: character in this movie is, but really just anything I
Speaker 6: haven't done, I'm all in for.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, inspirational words from Kim Fields. Kim Victoria Fields.
Speaker 5: That's right, I see now, Kimberly, No.
Speaker 1: Kim Victoria Fields. Wait real quick, well there's two minor questions. Yes,
Speaker 1: now that Atlanta, which I assume is still your home
Speaker 1: base for now kind of.
Speaker 6: Because we still you know, have a place here. Harlem
Speaker 6: is home. Harlem is where you know in my heels.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, okay, Well, now that Atlanta has uped
Speaker 1: its game and be sort of the industry factor with this,
Speaker 1: with this giant studio system in its backyard, do you
Speaker 1: think that will change at all for opportunities and as
Speaker 1: far as work is concerned with actors and production.
Speaker 6: And well, a lot of cities have stepped up the game.
Speaker 6: I mean, just being in Vancouver for as long as
Speaker 6: we were there and just all the work that's there,
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, I'll be right back. I'm gonna just
Speaker 6: go get my kids in my bed. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: I can't wait to do more stuff there and get
Speaker 6: a place there. I mean, it was, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 6: I loved it. And Tyler's had other studios there, so
Speaker 6: this is not his first go round with this, and
Speaker 6: Marvel has you know, set up there, and there's.
Speaker 1: A lot set up in Atlanta.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a lot of production. I think that's that's
Speaker 6: out there, okay, and smaller companies who do a lot
Speaker 6: of movies swirl films they do about I don't know,
Speaker 6: Jesus twenty movies a year or something, so a lot
Speaker 6: of production has been there. But you know, an actor's life,
Speaker 6: for the most part is really the gypsy life. You know,
Speaker 6: you go where the work is. There's so much work
Speaker 6: in Spain, there's work in Florida. I mean, it really
Speaker 6: is just if you're able to have the lifestyle to
Speaker 6: commit to it. And our kids are great because they're like, yeah,
Speaker 6: we got a tutor, We're good where we're going.
Speaker 1: All right, my last this is my last random question
Speaker 1: unless you have another one.
Speaker 4: I mean, is this question about dear Michael and he
Speaker 4: loves me? He loves me not at all.
Speaker 1: Sort of but go ahead, you can go go ahead.
Speaker 1: No you first.
Speaker 4: Question, well, I mean, okay, yeah, you put out these
Speaker 4: two singles and was it one single or two? I
Speaker 4: can't remember two? Well, I wasn't sure if it was
Speaker 4: two releases or right, and yeah, he loves me and
Speaker 4: he loves me not And dear Michael, can you explain
Speaker 4: how that all came about in nineteen eighty Yeah?
Speaker 6: Sure, It's so funny because just yesterday I was telling Adrian,
Speaker 6: my leading man in Uh you Light up my Christmas.
Speaker 6: Uh that the gentleman who wrote got to be there
Speaker 6: wrote Dear Michael.
Speaker 1: How David and.
Speaker 6: Yes, Elliot Wilensky, but Hal Davis also produced both of
Speaker 6: them and the stuff with me. Uh And so you
Speaker 6: know it's it's the eighties. It was a time where
Speaker 6: everybody if you were a teenager on TV, then you
Speaker 6: were making a record. I mean it's just that the
Speaker 6: seventies and eighties, just all the kids. Ralph Carter had one.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you don't remember that, you lie, somebody
Speaker 1: swindled the cowboy guy. You don't remember that rat that Gary?
Speaker 1: I brought that twelve and I found it in Portland.
Speaker 4: I remember our Founds of Weberos breakdance record.
Speaker 1: Nah, Gary Coleman, did he spent the last of his
Speaker 1: money on this rap record? Well, he was like a
Speaker 1: wrapping cow.
Speaker 5: Sorry for that rat hole.
Speaker 6: I wanted you to not bring that up. And because
Speaker 6: we were talking about when we were kids, so everybody
Speaker 6: you know was doing that. And this was also when
Speaker 6: um Thriller was popping out, and so you know he
Speaker 6: was about to win all the awards and everything. So
Speaker 6: the people at Motown was like, oh, you know what
Speaker 6: we should redo dear Michael and get somebody to sing it,
Speaker 6: because remember Michael did it first, and it was as
Speaker 6: if he was reading a fan letter. So they had
Speaker 6: the brilliant idea of what if we have someone that
Speaker 6: it's actually them and their fan letter. And at that
Speaker 6: time I was just about the only black girl available
Speaker 6: around that was on TV whatever. They was like, you uh,
Speaker 6: and so they asked me to do it, and I did,
Speaker 6: and then that did so well beyond just kind of
Speaker 6: the gimmick of he's winning, you know, all these awards
Speaker 6: and this is you know, a big deal, and and
Speaker 6: I could carry a tune. So they said, well, let'st
Speaker 6: follow up single, and then that one blew up on
Speaker 6: the dance charts and then it was like wow, I
Speaker 6: was performing at the trump a cannon.
Speaker 4: So that what was there any any thought of doing
Speaker 4: more music or no, no.
Speaker 6: It was I was.
Speaker 1: I was good on it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, until I did my my smooth jas spoken word,
Speaker 6: which is still want to just for me as an artist,
Speaker 6: truly one of the greatest things I've ever.
Speaker 4: Done, and impossible to find, by the way, it is,
Speaker 4: you know what will.
Speaker 6: I will just send you the tracks I can I
Speaker 6: can do that. Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 1: Stop it.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, there is only one link.
Speaker 1: I want to seriously, this is what I'm obsessed with
Speaker 1: finding out. Do you have a copy of that Jermaine
Speaker 1: Jackson paper and shape bust.
Speaker 6: You are Jesus.
Speaker 4: No I do not.
Speaker 1: You didn't take it home, I said anything.
Speaker 6: No, Nor do I have any of regime's wigs. Next,
Speaker 6: did you keep.
Speaker 4: Anything from those sets, either either Living Single or Class No?
Speaker 1: None, okay, not even a sharene doll.
Speaker 4: No, you know what.
Speaker 6: No from Living Single?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: Wow, I been master, Reggie. That is so funny.
Speaker 5: You are in baby.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: But when I did my when I did my final
Speaker 6: episode of Living Single, uh, the prop guys gave me
Speaker 6: the large mug and saucer that regime I would always.
Speaker 6: I love drinking hot cocoa and tea and stuff, and
Speaker 6: so any chance I could in a scene, I would.
Speaker 6: And so they gave me that. And it says yes,
Speaker 6: and it says we'll miss you very much, we love you.
Speaker 6: So I do have that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're properly given a send off.
Speaker 8: Yes, not.
Speaker 1: Just came in to work and saw the cake one day.
Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, no, no, that was planned. Yes,
Speaker 6: that's another episode of.
Speaker 1: Well miss Fields, I appreciate you coming here.
Speaker 7: Finally, finally, can I thank him? Can you pass this
Speaker 7: on to your mom, to your sister. Thank you guys
Speaker 7: for your time and your energy with us on these
Speaker 7: te because even people forget, but Alexis, we were watching.
Speaker 5: So I just want to thank you for that.
Speaker 6: I will share.
Speaker 5: It takes a lot.
Speaker 6: I will tell her, thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you on behalf of the QL S fan Sugar Steve,
Speaker 1: that's name. Do you want to know Steve? Steve has
Speaker 1: been engineering hold on the Burger King.
Speaker 4: I'll tell the story. I have diabetes, that's all, and
Speaker 4: we have to and we have to rap.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 4: That's that's a longer story.
Speaker 1: He became my engineer and there gave him. Perhaps perhaps
Speaker 1: it wasn't as savory as it is right now. And
Speaker 1: after three months of work with each other, Steve has
Speaker 1: to start getting this sold. The shots. Look, there was the.
Speaker 8: Never seen I never seen the spit take.
Speaker 5: I don't want to laugh, I swear don't. But as
Speaker 5: you said, he's drinking sugar now.
Speaker 1: He was my engineer for doing like the Common records
Speaker 1: and the D'Angelo Voodoo records. And once he became my
Speaker 1: full time engineer. He sort of after my diet and
Speaker 1: we used to go to the best old food spots
Speaker 1: in Philly. And then three months and that did you
Speaker 1: get struggle?
Speaker 7: Yes, everything to take time to apologize to Michelle and
Speaker 7: everybody is getting built right.
Speaker 1: Now on behalf of Sugar Steve, Boss, Bill and Faith
Speaker 1: Bill uh fan take. I hope you're doing lit cigarettes,
Speaker 1: Brother and light Kim. Thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: on the show.
Speaker 6: Thank you for having me. This is fantastic, of course.
Speaker 1: Love signing off. We will see you next time on
Speaker 1: the next go round, of course, Love Supreme. For more
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