WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Taylor Polidore Williams Talks ‘Beauty in Black,' Relationship With Cast, Tyler Perry, Acting Career 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.920 Every Day Breakfast Club. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:06.120 You know, I'm feels for y'all. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.440 Dune Morning, everybody in the j n V. Jess hilarious, 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.760 Charlamagne the God. We are the breakfast Club. We got 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.159 a special guest in the building in the tail or 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:16.920 pull there, Williams. That's your middle name? 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:17.079 Right? 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:17.239 No? 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:26.160 You welcome? How are you doing? Beauty in Black Season two? 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.240 How does it feel like all of this look because 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:33.600 I'm gonna watch this this episode one? 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.040 Okay? How does it feel to have it continue? 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.239 Because you know a lot of shows live for one 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:41.199 season two seas. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.880 How does it feel to have it continuing? You know, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:45.519 I feel very grateful. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.240 I think when you're able to have a second season, 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.520 that's one thing, but then to have a second season 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.680 and the fan base continue to grow and people are 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.760 excited bigger. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm grateful, but I'm excited. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.320 It's been fun. So I'm just enjoying. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.000 It as life change. Because you know, Beauty and Black 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.560 is on Netflix. It's a big show. Like, have you 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:06.640 felt the change? 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:07.480 Yeah? 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.200 Actually I think season one, not that I was kind 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.440 of in denial, but it's like, you know, this might 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.560 be a moment it passes I've been acting since I 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.240 was thirteen, so it's like, Okay, enjoy it. But then 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.320 this season it does feel different. The visibility that I 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.440 have is different places that I go. It's no longer like, oh, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:29.080 you're familiar. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.880 It's like cam and they're huckey and it's like whoa. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.400 I'm not used to that having to kind of move 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.559 a little bit different. But I think I always thought 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.760 it would happen. You know, if you keep acting and 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.520 a show is popular, it would happen. But nothing can 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:44.679 really prepare you for. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.720 That shift, right, Yeah, I want to go back, if 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.120 you don't mind. So you're from Houston, Texas. Yes, and 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.640 you got into acting at a young age. You said thirteen, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:54.440 what made you like the arts? What made you love 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:54.880 the arts? 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.480 I think I've always been creative as a kid. I 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.440 like playing pretend who doesn't. But it was my first 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.360 movie that I was in. I was auditioning at the time. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.960 After Katrina the Tax Credits came to Louisiana, so it 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.600 brought a lot of films to the South, and Welcome 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.680 Home Roscoe Jenkins was being filmed there. I got a part, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.720 and I loved acting, but when I got on the 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.799 set and saw the sound stages and the crew and 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.840 like what it takes to actually make a movie. I 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.600 was like, Oh, I just want to do this for 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.160 the rest of my life. And I just kept going. 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.800 Yeah, because you produced too, right I do? So what 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.280 have you learned about and right? 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.639 So what have you learned about yourself as an artist? 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.440 Wearing all those different hats? Producing, acting, writing? 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.200 The biggest thing that I cannot do them all by myself. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.760 I know that there are people who are experts in 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.639 what they do, who love writing, and I honor whatever 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.000 people love the most. And I think that's why I 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.239 like producing, because it's like I can pick and choose. Oh, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.280 you're fire at this, let's all come together and putting 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.639 it all together is the fun part from me. Now, 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:03.959 what I want to ask you about the show is 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.720 right because, like I said, I've been watching since first episode. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:08.880 Do you ever look at the script right and be like, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.040 all right, this is fun? Come on, come on, come. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.000 You must look at it all the time. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.280 I think when we were getting ready for season two 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.400 and Tyler was like sending us the scripts at a 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.880 full clip, like it's like we're getting two episodes in 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:26.160 a day. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:27.720 It's like, dang, what are you doing? 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.600 And he's sending these scripts and I'm reading it genuinely, like, 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.480 oh my god, it's crazy. It keeps you on your toes. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.640 It's a it's as fun to film it, probably more 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.120 fun to film it than it is to watch it. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.360 And your your character in the beginning, you start off shy, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.000 You're not standing up for yourself. He was pissing me off. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.040 I was like, Kimmy, gets your shit together. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.960 These people coming for you, and then you just turn 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.520 into a natural born kill Bill character. You just you 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.440 just out here, you know? Now, what is your ritual 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.520 to get ready for that? Because it seemed like it 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.440 didn't really take much. I guess to be shy, is 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:05.240 that's your real demeanor? 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.080 Like are you shy? You don't really talk a lot? No, okay, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:09.280 I wouldn't say that. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:13.680 I'm just the most talkative person in the world. I'm 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.040 more reserved. But it's not because I'm shy. I'm just 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.320 more observant. But to not stand up for yourself is 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.960 very different for me. That was actually a process. When 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.719 we went in for the callbacks and I was having 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.640 a conversation with Tyler, he was like, I know you 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.360 could do strong because we worked together before. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.160 He was like, but can I see you do this? 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.960 And I was like, I mean, yeah, of course I 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.480 can try the vulnerability part. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.400 But I was like, but do I want to do that? 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:41.919 Like why can't you do this? 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.640 He was like, if you just trust me with the story, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.600 it's gonna go somewhere that no one is gonna expect this. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.919 She's gonna be a boss. And I was like, okay, okay, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.240 well I could do the victim thing. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.640 I could. I could figure that out. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.800 So he challenged you, Yeah, absolutely, because I'm not a 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:01.600 person that backs down from confrontation or if somebody's doing 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:02.400 me wrong, you will. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:03.279 Know that you don't me wrong. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.880 So with Kimmy, I was frustrated too, but I think 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.920 that propelled the story even more so now in season two, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:09.800 it's warranted. 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.279 How did you get into like Tyler Perry's universe because 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.040 you were in divorce and black and now you're here 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.080 with the you know, with the beauty and black, Like 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:18.479 how did you? 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.440 How did that happen for you? You know, it's funny. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.520 I went to school in Atlanta knowing that I wanted 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.040 to act. I went to Clarke Atland university, and I 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.080 just knew I was gonna be in something Tyler Perry 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.360 in school, and that didn't happen. I went to school, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.360 came went moved to LA and it was just an audition, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.640 a normal audition for a different film that he was doing. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.000 And I went into the callback. And typically at a callback, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.320 they'll tell you the director of the writer will be 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:46.839 in the room. They didn't say that. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.240 I thought it was just going to be Kim Coleman. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.680 So I walk in and Tyler Perry's right there and 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.240 he's like, hey till he come on in just and 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:52.680 I was. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.800 Like, what are you doing here? 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.240 But I did say that I was very professional and 0:05:58.240 --> 0:05:59.320 I did it. He was like, I only want to 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.159 see the first scene. Already saw your second scene on 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.880 the tape. Go and I like took a breath and 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.719 I did it, and he was like, where are you from. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:09.800 I was like, I'm from Texas and he was like, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:11.840 let me see the second scene. And I was like, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.200 I don't know what just happened, but I got it 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:16.880 and I ended up getting divorced. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.200 In the Black, it was a different movie. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:19.800 They were like, we want to keep you on hold 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.200 for this one, but are you open to reading another film, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.240 And I was like sure, and I thought that he 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.359 was going to ask me to do an audition for 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:26.640 that one. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.640 They said, if you want to insure is it. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.640 Pressure when you see somebody like Tyler walking in the room. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:31.880 Do you have to gather yourself a little bit? 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:32.400 Is it different? 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:33.120 Yes? 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.800 It is different because I respect him a lot. I'm 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.960 very inspired by how he moves, just all that he's built. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.880 So you do have to take him inute and kind 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.440 of breathe. I think when it's somebody you admire. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.479 But you snapped right into it, or did you stutter? 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:48.159 Did you mess up? 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:53.360 Stutter? 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.839 But I did after I was like, what, yeah, yeah, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:57.800 that's what's up. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.160 How long did it take y'all to Voice in the Black? 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.279 I know that's the movie that was my joint too, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.680 But how how long did it take y'all to film that? 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.960 It took us six days to film the whole movie. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.120 To film the whole movie, because you know, it's always 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.720 out there at Tyler party, be having y'all here. He'll 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.600 start at nine am two and y'all be done at 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:17.119 ten times. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.080 Season two of Beauty and Black all sixteen episodes in 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:21.760 twelve days. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:22.440 Jesus. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.240 Do you like filming like that, like fast, get it 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.040 out the way, or do you prefer a little time 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.520 to breathe, a little time to rest, to reset, or 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:29.760 do you just knock it out? 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:34.040 We had time to think about its problem. I'm adaptable 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:38.000 working with different directors, working on different shows, different whatever. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.320 It's kind of like coming into somebody else's house. If 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.320 this is how y'all do it, cool, I'll assimilate. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:43.720 How long are those days? 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:51.320 Twelve hours? Well, no, it's not bad, and then you're done. Yeah. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.600 So he just pretty much just count on y'all knowing 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.600 y'all lines, because that's pretty much you know, all the 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.560 retakes and cut and do it again. Yeah, y'alla, y'all 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.800 don't have none of that. No, I mean, very sparingly. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:04.640 If he said can I please get want more? He'll 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.080 be like yes, depending on who you are. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:10.800 Before, like can I get him a line now? 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:11.200 Yeah? 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.400 Sometimes, or even with some of us, with the wonderful, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.840 wonderful cast everybody, can I get one more? 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.080 He's like, I got it? No, I got it. And 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.320 you just gotta trust. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:25.480 What role of project has challenged you the most and why? 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:32.840 Definitely beauty and black, the sheer speed at which we're 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:37.760 filming it, and then also, uh, particularly in the first season, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.240 being somebody who is playing somebody who is sex trafficked, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.839 somebody who is so beaten down the things. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:46.079 At the time, I was. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.280 Planning my wedding, so it was like, I don't have 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.760 this life experience, but I have to go there every day. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.120 Scene after see, seen, after seeing. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.480 It was like for a whole week, I'm just crying 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.000 in every scene and getting beat up. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:57.640 It was. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:02.000 It was a lot, but it stretched me as an 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.120 artist knowing that I can do that. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.600 If somebody says, cry right now, I could do that. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:08.920 If you need me to do that, I can go 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.960 there and jump back into what I have to do 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.480 in my normal life and stay sane. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.320 How did your now husband deal with it? Because you 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:15.640 were in a role, and I'm sure you were in 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.880 a character. I'm sure it wasn't your planning a wedding. 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.280 It's supposed to be happy, joyous, but now you're diving 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.000 into this character. So how did he handle that? 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:23.320 Oh, like a champ. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.560 He is a surgery resident right now, which is a 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.959 very grueling schedule as well, So I think it was 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.240 a lot of mutual respect. If I got home before him, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.800 or if he got home before me, he make dinner. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.760 If I got home, I bring him dinner from set. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.920 It's just like we're in the trenches together. So he 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:46.120 actually loved the how rigorous the schedule is because sometimes 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.079 on other shows, you know, I might do a couple 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:52.120 of scenes. It's you know, we're not doing surgery. We're 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.480 not dealing with life or death. Even on a difficult day, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.080 it's still a blessing. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:56.200 To be there. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.120 I thought he was a surgical resident. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:09:58.600 He is. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:09:59.520 I'm saying what I do. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.240 So how you got time to cook? 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:02.800 He's a good man? 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:08.200 I tell him, said she cooked? He said, I take some. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:10.559 Sad dog. 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:12.600 I cook him. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.840 I learned how to cook a few years ago to cook. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.080 You ever bring anything home from work like lunch. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:28.040 Slack, bringing snacks, drinks and stuff, candy. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.400 Yeah, absolutely, congratulations you got married. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.560 No, I was asking you going back to my question, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:46.080 how do you get. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:43.880 All the time. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.760 I don't like seeing anything from his job? 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:48.800 So he does be bringing stuff on. 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:54.360 You'll come down with blood all over, like eyeboy, look 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:54.560 at this. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:57.839 Whole now. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:58.880 You said you gotta cry. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.720 You have to cry a lot on set and everything 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.240 like that. How do you get into that? I know 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.320 it's nothing other than you being a great actress, right, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.120 but like, how do you get ready for that? Like 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.840 what's your ritual to go into that role when things 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.520 start going crazy for you on the show and they 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:21.080 get crazier for you. Yeah, definitely the preparation before filming. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.240 I think it's a treat because we shoot so fast. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.360 Tyler gives us all of the scripts for the. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.560 Season, and that's typically not that we typically don't have 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.360 that on a different type of TV show, So I'm 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.200 able to kind of prepare for it like a movie. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.560 I know exactly where I am, a lot of notes 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.880 on my personal scripts, so I know where to dive 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.480 in because we're shooting out of order. And also the 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.319 wonderful team at TPS. The crew is phenomenal, from wardrobe 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.440 to the script supervisors. We have readers, people will help 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.679 us kind of get on track to know where we are. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.320 But the work that I do before can get me 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.520 into the mode. And then I love music too, so 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.560 I have playlists and songs and different things to help. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.680 You said something earlier til you said you know it 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.199 helps you to stay sane. What do you do to stay. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.080 I have a great therapist, yes, so number one. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:16.880 And I think I'm overall a pretty even person, So 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.079 just continuing to stay grounded and on my feet. If 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.000 i know I'm getting overwhelmed, I'll take a second to breathe. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.880 I meditate daily. I'll meditate on set if I have 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.880 a break. Every morning, I have the same routine. I 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.000 listen to jazz, I get my green teeth, like just 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.160 trying to control as much as I can and sometimes 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.840 a chaotic environment and then coming out of that when 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.560 we rap. I'm done with Kimmy, I'm done with whatever 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.600 character I'm playing, and I have my own playlist of 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.360 my own music that's like brings me back. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.360 I wish y'all could have talked to people who are 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.120 like on Days of Our Lives and Guiding Light and 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.680 all those shows back in the day, because I wonder 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.760 if the process was the same for them as it 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.320 is for y'all, because those shows used to come on daily, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.080 so I'm sure they used to tape a lot. And 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:06.600 I know that y'all think Tyler got a lot of 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.440 traumatic shit. Them shows had some wow storyline show like 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.640 people were getting buried a live heop was getting possessed 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:13.280 by demons. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:14.840 So I just wonder if they had to. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.080 If they ever could even decompress at least y'all get 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:19.680 the opportunity. I wonder if they ever did. 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.800 I mean, I think it's somewhat similar to us. They're 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.679 shooting a lot of scenes in one day. Shout out 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.679 to Debbie Morgan because she came from that world. I mean, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.840 she's been on everything, but it was just the job. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.360 I think they probably handled it the way that we 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:37.000 do because. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:37.960 Y'all know, y'all the new stories. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.520 I tell people that all the time, Tyler Perry stuff 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.160 that's the new stories, like our grandparents, Like I'm going 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:43.679 to watch. 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.280 My story that story. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:46.800 Yeah, people are invested. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:48.960 Do you laugh at some of the fight scenes sometimes? 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.679 Because those are the things I feel like they love 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.440 him all over the internet. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.200 The back and forth, the one liners, the actual fighting. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.040 Those might be the most difficult to stay in character because. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:02.520 Cause you gotta laugh. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.560 Yes, Like, as a cast, we all are people that 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.760 really like each other. We enjoy being at work, we 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.559 enjoy and have a great time together, and there's. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.920 Very little levity in love and every. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.600 Theme that we do. I don't know how y'all take 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.760 you serious? I don't know what show was that one 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.280 scene when the two dudes getting a fight and one 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:25.640 du hit and he spent Aundrey I said, it wasn't 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.800 that one, but it's a Tyler Perry. But his fight 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.880 scenes always class hilarious. Which one is that he just 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:30.320 be spinning? 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.080 I don't know, I don't know, you know what they 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.480 got sis? Maybe that was Brothers. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:34.720 Look. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.960 The funniest saying was when well, first of all, no, 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.320 who laughed when Varney kept saying I'm your bitch? 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.560 I mean, who laugh? Who laughed? So you know I 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.760 would get fired that day. I'm not gonna lie. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.360 Fruit Fruitcake. I'm like, yeah, yeah, fruit Cake. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.160 I read all of the scripts, but then I just 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.480 focus on what I have to do because it's it's 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.240 it's a lot. So I forgot that that was even 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.040 a thing until I was watching it. And so I'm 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:06.680 watching it like everybody else does, and. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.480 I'm like, what is going on? 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.720 And I think they actually got a little heated. They 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.120 have to take take a step back after Yeah, I 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.200 think I saw Julian or or Terrell talk about that. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:26.960 I'm sorry, Okay, So they had to take a b yeah, damn, Yeah, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.160 it's very It's very intense some a lot of them. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.120 A lot of the scenes are very intense. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.960 I was saying, I know you talk about how different 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.120 here real life is from Kimmy's, but what did you 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:42.360 learn about surviving versus living, like actually living from Kimmy's character. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:45.360 That's a good question. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:55.360 I think I've always known or been informed about trauma responses, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:01.840 being in therapy and also being an advocate for youth 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.480 and foster care, certain training that I have to go through, 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.640 like or had to go through. I understand how people 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.800 react and respond to certain things. But I think what 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:18.479 Kimmy taught me is just a little bit more empathy 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.400 for the decisions that people make, because that's the work 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.080 of an actor, is justifying what somebody is doing and 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.720 making it real. I have to make it real to 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.880 me to play it. So I was asking myself, like, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.120 why why would. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.400 She not just leave? Why would she not die? 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.240 And she's trying to survive, That's exactly it. So the 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.560 stakes that people go through to simply try to survive 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.800 on top of the things that they've already been through. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.840 And I think it made me very appreciative and very 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.120 empathetic for the things that the. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:47.080 Decisions that people make. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.120 It doesn't necessarily make them right, but like, if we 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.760 know everybody's story, you can probably rationalize it a little bit. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.640 Well, you got the script, is there was there ever 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.440 a moment and you be like, oh, hell no when 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.400 you read something like nah, this is not this is 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.320 not it will be like, let me call Tyler see 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:03.160 if we could change this. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:10.000 You ain't gonna answer that. Don't let him Tyler Perry 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.480 Villain read Tyler Perry Villain. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:15.919 No. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.280 Actually, there were things that I was like, oh my gosh, 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.439 this is horrible, especially in season one some of the 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:26.359 things with Kimmy and Roy, Kimmy and Jewels that dynamic. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.600 But it was more so questions I need to understand 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:34.360 why why? And he's always very open to to talk 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.199 to me about why in the show, right, why do 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.359 you why do you feel like Kimmy is having a 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:40.840 hard time not trusting her. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:41.760 Now husband. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.240 That is actually a very big difference between me and Kimmy. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.399 I'm probably a little too trusting. Like that was a 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.879 question that happened on set. Tyler was like, if somebody 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.639 were to just give you five thousand dollars wouldn't you 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:55.600 be like, what's the catch? 0:17:55.640 --> 0:18:01.440 I was like, not me. It was like, you're so innocent? 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:07.840 Maybe but learning again the trauma informed responses that Kimmy asked. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.800 Why would she trust him? 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.520 He just met her, I know, but he also did 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.560 a bunch of things for her to help her. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:16.520