Speaker 1: Every Day Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm feels for y'all.
Speaker 1: Dune Morning, everybody in the j n V. Jess hilarious,
Speaker 1: Charlamagne the God. We are the breakfast Club. We got
Speaker 1: a special guest in the building in the tail or
Speaker 1: pull there, Williams. That's your middle name?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You welcome? How are you doing? Beauty in Black Season two?
Speaker 4: How does it feel like all of this look because
Speaker 4: I'm gonna watch this this episode one?
Speaker 5: Okay? How does it feel to have it continue?
Speaker 4: Because you know a lot of shows live for one
Speaker 4: season two seas.
Speaker 5: How does it feel to have it continuing? You know,
Speaker 5: I feel very grateful.
Speaker 4: I think when you're able to have a second season,
Speaker 4: that's one thing, but then to have a second season
Speaker 4: and the fan base continue to grow and people are
Speaker 4: excited bigger. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm grateful, but I'm excited.
Speaker 4: It's been fun. So I'm just enjoying.
Speaker 6: It as life change. Because you know, Beauty and Black
Speaker 6: is on Netflix. It's a big show. Like, have you
Speaker 6: felt the change?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Actually I think season one, not that I was kind
Speaker 4: of in denial, but it's like, you know, this might
Speaker 4: be a moment it passes I've been acting since I
Speaker 4: was thirteen, so it's like, Okay, enjoy it. But then
Speaker 4: this season it does feel different. The visibility that I
Speaker 4: have is different places that I go. It's no longer like, oh,
Speaker 4: you're familiar.
Speaker 5: It's like cam and they're huckey and it's like whoa.
Speaker 4: I'm not used to that having to kind of move
Speaker 4: a little bit different. But I think I always thought
Speaker 4: it would happen. You know, if you keep acting and
Speaker 4: a show is popular, it would happen. But nothing can
Speaker 4: really prepare you for.
Speaker 1: That shift, right, Yeah, I want to go back, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind. So you're from Houston, Texas. Yes, and
Speaker 1: you got into acting at a young age. You said thirteen,
Speaker 1: what made you like the arts? What made you love
Speaker 1: the arts?
Speaker 4: I think I've always been creative as a kid. I
Speaker 4: like playing pretend who doesn't. But it was my first
Speaker 4: movie that I was in. I was auditioning at the time.
Speaker 4: After Katrina the Tax Credits came to Louisiana, so it
Speaker 4: brought a lot of films to the South, and Welcome
Speaker 4: Home Roscoe Jenkins was being filmed there. I got a part,
Speaker 4: and I loved acting, but when I got on the
Speaker 4: set and saw the sound stages and the crew and
Speaker 4: like what it takes to actually make a movie. I
Speaker 4: was like, Oh, I just want to do this for
Speaker 4: the rest of my life. And I just kept going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you produced too, right I do? So what
Speaker 3: have you learned about and right?
Speaker 6: So what have you learned about yourself as an artist?
Speaker 6: Wearing all those different hats? Producing, acting, writing?
Speaker 4: The biggest thing that I cannot do them all by myself.
Speaker 4: I know that there are people who are experts in
Speaker 4: what they do, who love writing, and I honor whatever
Speaker 4: people love the most. And I think that's why I
Speaker 4: like producing, because it's like I can pick and choose. Oh,
Speaker 4: you're fire at this, let's all come together and putting
Speaker 4: it all together is the fun part from me. Now,
Speaker 4: what I want to ask you about the show is
Speaker 4: right because, like I said, I've been watching since first episode.
Speaker 5: Do you ever look at the script right and be like,
Speaker 5: all right, this is fun? Come on, come on, come.
Speaker 1: You must look at it all the time.
Speaker 4: I think when we were getting ready for season two
Speaker 4: and Tyler was like sending us the scripts at a
Speaker 4: full clip, like it's like we're getting two episodes in
Speaker 4: a day.
Speaker 5: It's like, dang, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: And he's sending these scripts and I'm reading it genuinely, like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, it's crazy. It keeps you on your toes.
Speaker 4: It's a it's as fun to film it, probably more
Speaker 4: fun to film it than it is to watch it.
Speaker 5: And your your character in the beginning, you start off shy,
Speaker 5: You're not standing up for yourself. He was pissing me off.
Speaker 5: I was like, Kimmy, gets your shit together.
Speaker 4: These people coming for you, and then you just turn
Speaker 4: into a natural born kill Bill character. You just you
Speaker 4: just out here, you know? Now, what is your ritual
Speaker 4: to get ready for that? Because it seemed like it
Speaker 4: didn't really take much. I guess to be shy, is
Speaker 4: that's your real demeanor?
Speaker 5: Like are you shy? You don't really talk a lot? No, okay,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 4: I'm just the most talkative person in the world. I'm
Speaker 4: more reserved. But it's not because I'm shy. I'm just
Speaker 4: more observant. But to not stand up for yourself is
Speaker 4: very different for me. That was actually a process. When
Speaker 4: we went in for the callbacks and I was having
Speaker 4: a conversation with Tyler, he was like, I know you
Speaker 4: could do strong because we worked together before.
Speaker 5: He was like, but can I see you do this?
Speaker 4: And I was like, I mean, yeah, of course I
Speaker 4: can try the vulnerability part.
Speaker 5: But I was like, but do I want to do that?
Speaker 5: Like why can't you do this?
Speaker 4: He was like, if you just trust me with the story,
Speaker 4: it's gonna go somewhere that no one is gonna expect this.
Speaker 4: She's gonna be a boss. And I was like, okay, okay,
Speaker 4: well I could do the victim thing.
Speaker 5: I could. I could figure that out.
Speaker 4: So he challenged you, Yeah, absolutely, because I'm not a
Speaker 4: person that backs down from confrontation or if somebody's doing
Speaker 4: me wrong, you will.
Speaker 5: Know that you don't me wrong.
Speaker 4: So with Kimmy, I was frustrated too, but I think
Speaker 4: that propelled the story even more so now in season two,
Speaker 4: it's warranted.
Speaker 7: How did you get into like Tyler Perry's universe because
Speaker 7: you were in divorce and black and now you're here
Speaker 7: with the you know, with the beauty and black, Like
Speaker 7: how did you?
Speaker 5: How did that happen for you? You know, it's funny.
Speaker 4: I went to school in Atlanta knowing that I wanted
Speaker 4: to act. I went to Clarke Atland university, and I
Speaker 4: just knew I was gonna be in something Tyler Perry
Speaker 4: in school, and that didn't happen. I went to school,
Speaker 4: came went moved to LA and it was just an audition,
Speaker 4: a normal audition for a different film that he was doing.
Speaker 4: And I went into the callback. And typically at a callback,
Speaker 4: they'll tell you the director of the writer will be
Speaker 4: in the room. They didn't say that.
Speaker 5: I thought it was just going to be Kim Coleman.
Speaker 4: So I walk in and Tyler Perry's right there and
Speaker 4: he's like, hey till he come on in just and
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 5: Like, what are you doing here?
Speaker 4: But I did say that I was very professional and
Speaker 4: I did it. He was like, I only want to
Speaker 4: see the first scene. Already saw your second scene on
Speaker 4: the tape. Go and I like took a breath and
Speaker 4: I did it, and he was like, where are you from.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm from Texas and he was like,
Speaker 4: let me see the second scene. And I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't know what just happened, but I got it
Speaker 4: and I ended up getting divorced.
Speaker 5: In the Black, it was a different movie.
Speaker 4: They were like, we want to keep you on hold
Speaker 4: for this one, but are you open to reading another film,
Speaker 4: And I was like sure, and I thought that he
Speaker 4: was going to ask me to do an audition for
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 5: They said, if you want to insure is it.
Speaker 6: Pressure when you see somebody like Tyler walking in the room.
Speaker 6: Do you have to gather yourself a little bit?
Speaker 3: Is it different?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: It is different because I respect him a lot. I'm
Speaker 4: very inspired by how he moves, just all that he's built.
Speaker 4: So you do have to take him inute and kind
Speaker 4: of breathe. I think when it's somebody you admire.
Speaker 5: But you snapped right into it, or did you stutter?
Speaker 5: Did you mess up?
Speaker 2: Stutter?
Speaker 5: But I did after I was like, what, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what's up.
Speaker 4: How long did it take y'all to Voice in the Black?
Speaker 4: I know that's the movie that was my joint too,
Speaker 4: But how how long did it take y'all to film that?
Speaker 5: It took us six days to film the whole movie.
Speaker 5: To film the whole movie, because you know, it's always
Speaker 5: out there at Tyler party, be having y'all here. He'll
Speaker 5: start at nine am two and y'all be done at
Speaker 5: ten times.
Speaker 4: Season two of Beauty and Black all sixteen episodes in
Speaker 4: twelve days.
Speaker 5: Jesus.
Speaker 1: Do you like filming like that, like fast, get it
Speaker 1: out the way, or do you prefer a little time
Speaker 1: to breathe, a little time to rest, to reset, or
Speaker 1: do you just knock it out?
Speaker 4: We had time to think about its problem. I'm adaptable
Speaker 4: working with different directors, working on different shows, different whatever.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like coming into somebody else's house. If
Speaker 4: this is how y'all do it, cool, I'll assimilate.
Speaker 2: How long are those days?
Speaker 5: Twelve hours? Well, no, it's not bad, and then you're done. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he just pretty much just count on y'all knowing
Speaker 4: y'all lines, because that's pretty much you know, all the
Speaker 4: retakes and cut and do it again. Yeah, y'alla, y'all
Speaker 4: don't have none of that. No, I mean, very sparingly.
Speaker 4: If he said can I please get want more? He'll
Speaker 4: be like yes, depending on who you are.
Speaker 1: Before, like can I get him a line now?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sometimes, or even with some of us, with the wonderful,
Speaker 4: wonderful cast everybody, can I get one more?
Speaker 5: He's like, I got it? No, I got it. And
Speaker 5: you just gotta trust.
Speaker 3: What role of project has challenged you the most and why?
Speaker 4: Definitely beauty and black, the sheer speed at which we're
Speaker 4: filming it, and then also, uh, particularly in the first season,
Speaker 4: being somebody who is playing somebody who is sex trafficked,
Speaker 4: somebody who is so beaten down the things.
Speaker 5: At the time, I was.
Speaker 4: Planning my wedding, so it was like, I don't have
Speaker 4: this life experience, but I have to go there every day.
Speaker 5: Scene after see, seen, after seeing.
Speaker 4: It was like for a whole week, I'm just crying
Speaker 4: in every scene and getting beat up.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a lot, but it stretched me as an
Speaker 4: artist knowing that I can do that.
Speaker 5: If somebody says, cry right now, I could do that.
Speaker 4: If you need me to do that, I can go
Speaker 4: there and jump back into what I have to do
Speaker 4: in my normal life and stay sane.
Speaker 1: How did your now husband deal with it? Because you
Speaker 1: were in a role, and I'm sure you were in
Speaker 1: a character. I'm sure it wasn't your planning a wedding.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be happy, joyous, but now you're diving
Speaker 1: into this character. So how did he handle that?
Speaker 5: Oh, like a champ.
Speaker 4: He is a surgery resident right now, which is a
Speaker 4: very grueling schedule as well, So I think it was
Speaker 4: a lot of mutual respect. If I got home before him,
Speaker 4: or if he got home before me, he make dinner.
Speaker 4: If I got home, I bring him dinner from set.
Speaker 4: It's just like we're in the trenches together. So he
Speaker 4: actually loved the how rigorous the schedule is because sometimes
Speaker 4: on other shows, you know, I might do a couple
Speaker 4: of scenes. It's you know, we're not doing surgery. We're
Speaker 4: not dealing with life or death. Even on a difficult day,
Speaker 4: it's still a blessing.
Speaker 5: To be there.
Speaker 3: I thought he was a surgical resident.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 5: I'm saying what I do.
Speaker 2: So how you got time to cook?
Speaker 5: He's a good man?
Speaker 1: I tell him, said she cooked? He said, I take some.
Speaker 2: Sad dog.
Speaker 1: I cook him.
Speaker 5: I learned how to cook a few years ago to cook.
Speaker 3: You ever bring anything home from work like lunch.
Speaker 4: Slack, bringing snacks, drinks and stuff, candy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, congratulations you got married.
Speaker 4: No, I was asking you going back to my question,
Speaker 4: how do you get.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 5: I don't like seeing anything from his job?
Speaker 2: So he does be bringing stuff on.
Speaker 1: You'll come down with blood all over, like eyeboy, look
Speaker 1: at this.
Speaker 2: Whole now.
Speaker 5: You said you gotta cry.
Speaker 4: You have to cry a lot on set and everything
Speaker 4: like that. How do you get into that? I know
Speaker 4: it's nothing other than you being a great actress, right,
Speaker 4: but like, how do you get ready for that? Like
Speaker 4: what's your ritual to go into that role when things
Speaker 4: start going crazy for you on the show and they
Speaker 4: get crazier for you. Yeah, definitely the preparation before filming.
Speaker 5: I think it's a treat because we shoot so fast.
Speaker 5: Tyler gives us all of the scripts for the.
Speaker 4: Season, and that's typically not that we typically don't have
Speaker 4: that on a different type of TV show, So I'm
Speaker 4: able to kind of prepare for it like a movie.
Speaker 4: I know exactly where I am, a lot of notes
Speaker 4: on my personal scripts, so I know where to dive
Speaker 4: in because we're shooting out of order. And also the
Speaker 4: wonderful team at TPS. The crew is phenomenal, from wardrobe
Speaker 4: to the script supervisors. We have readers, people will help
Speaker 4: us kind of get on track to know where we are.
Speaker 4: But the work that I do before can get me
Speaker 4: into the mode. And then I love music too, so
Speaker 4: I have playlists and songs and different things to help.
Speaker 6: You said something earlier til you said you know it
Speaker 6: helps you to stay sane. What do you do to stay.
Speaker 5: I have a great therapist, yes, so number one.
Speaker 4: And I think I'm overall a pretty even person, So
Speaker 4: just continuing to stay grounded and on my feet. If
Speaker 4: i know I'm getting overwhelmed, I'll take a second to breathe.
Speaker 4: I meditate daily. I'll meditate on set if I have
Speaker 4: a break. Every morning, I have the same routine. I
Speaker 4: listen to jazz, I get my green teeth, like just
Speaker 4: trying to control as much as I can and sometimes
Speaker 4: a chaotic environment and then coming out of that when
Speaker 4: we rap. I'm done with Kimmy, I'm done with whatever
Speaker 4: character I'm playing, and I have my own playlist of
Speaker 4: my own music that's like brings me back.
Speaker 6: I wish y'all could have talked to people who are
Speaker 6: like on Days of Our Lives and Guiding Light and
Speaker 6: all those shows back in the day, because I wonder
Speaker 6: if the process was the same for them as it
Speaker 6: is for y'all, because those shows used to come on daily,
Speaker 6: so I'm sure they used to tape a lot. And
Speaker 6: I know that y'all think Tyler got a lot of
Speaker 6: traumatic shit. Them shows had some wow storyline show like
Speaker 6: people were getting buried a live heop was getting possessed
Speaker 6: by demons.
Speaker 2: So I just wonder if they had to.
Speaker 6: If they ever could even decompress at least y'all get
Speaker 6: the opportunity. I wonder if they ever did.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's somewhat similar to us. They're
Speaker 4: shooting a lot of scenes in one day. Shout out
Speaker 4: to Debbie Morgan because she came from that world. I mean,
Speaker 4: she's been on everything, but it was just the job.
Speaker 4: I think they probably handled it the way that we
Speaker 4: do because.
Speaker 3: Y'all know, y'all the new stories.
Speaker 6: I tell people that all the time, Tyler Perry stuff
Speaker 6: that's the new stories, like our grandparents, Like I'm going
Speaker 6: to watch.
Speaker 2: My story that story.
Speaker 5: Yeah, people are invested.
Speaker 1: Do you laugh at some of the fight scenes sometimes?
Speaker 1: Because those are the things I feel like they love
Speaker 1: him all over the internet.
Speaker 4: The back and forth, the one liners, the actual fighting.
Speaker 4: Those might be the most difficult to stay in character because.
Speaker 1: Cause you gotta laugh.
Speaker 4: Yes, Like, as a cast, we all are people that
Speaker 4: really like each other. We enjoy being at work, we
Speaker 4: enjoy and have a great time together, and there's.
Speaker 5: Very little levity in love and every.
Speaker 1: Theme that we do. I don't know how y'all take
Speaker 1: you serious? I don't know what show was that one
Speaker 1: scene when the two dudes getting a fight and one
Speaker 1: du hit and he spent Aundrey I said, it wasn't
Speaker 1: that one, but it's a Tyler Perry. But his fight
Speaker 1: scenes always class hilarious. Which one is that he just
Speaker 1: be spinning?
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know, you know what they
Speaker 5: got sis? Maybe that was Brothers.
Speaker 8: Look.
Speaker 4: The funniest saying was when well, first of all, no,
Speaker 4: who laughed when Varney kept saying I'm your bitch?
Speaker 5: I mean, who laugh? Who laughed? So you know I
Speaker 5: would get fired that day. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Fruit Fruitcake. I'm like, yeah, yeah, fruit Cake.
Speaker 4: I read all of the scripts, but then I just
Speaker 4: focus on what I have to do because it's it's
Speaker 4: it's a lot. So I forgot that that was even
Speaker 4: a thing until I was watching it. And so I'm
Speaker 4: watching it like everybody else does, and.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 4: And I think they actually got a little heated. They
Speaker 4: have to take take a step back after Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think I saw Julian or or Terrell talk about that.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Okay, So they had to take a b yeah, damn, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's very It's very intense some a lot of them.
Speaker 5: A lot of the scenes are very intense.
Speaker 7: I was saying, I know you talk about how different
Speaker 7: here real life is from Kimmy's, but what did you
Speaker 7: learn about surviving versus living, like actually living from Kimmy's character.
Speaker 5: That's a good question.
Speaker 4: I think I've always known or been informed about trauma responses,
Speaker 4: being in therapy and also being an advocate for youth
Speaker 4: and foster care, certain training that I have to go through,
Speaker 4: like or had to go through. I understand how people
Speaker 4: react and respond to certain things. But I think what
Speaker 4: Kimmy taught me is just a little bit more empathy
Speaker 4: for the decisions that people make, because that's the work
Speaker 4: of an actor, is justifying what somebody is doing and
Speaker 4: making it real. I have to make it real to
Speaker 4: me to play it. So I was asking myself, like,
Speaker 4: why why would.
Speaker 5: She not just leave? Why would she not die?
Speaker 4: And she's trying to survive, That's exactly it. So the
Speaker 4: stakes that people go through to simply try to survive
Speaker 4: on top of the things that they've already been through.
Speaker 4: And I think it made me very appreciative and very
Speaker 4: empathetic for the things that the.
Speaker 5: Decisions that people make.
Speaker 4: It doesn't necessarily make them right, but like, if we
Speaker 4: know everybody's story, you can probably rationalize it a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, you got the script, is there was there ever
Speaker 1: a moment and you be like, oh, hell no when
Speaker 1: you read something like nah, this is not this is
Speaker 1: not it will be like, let me call Tyler see
Speaker 1: if we could change this.
Speaker 3: You ain't gonna answer that. Don't let him Tyler Perry
Speaker 3: Villain read Tyler Perry Villain.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: Actually, there were things that I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: this is horrible, especially in season one some of the
Speaker 4: things with Kimmy and Roy, Kimmy and Jewels that dynamic.
Speaker 4: But it was more so questions I need to understand
Speaker 4: why why? And he's always very open to to talk
Speaker 4: to me about why in the show, right, why do
Speaker 4: you why do you feel like Kimmy is having a
Speaker 4: hard time not trusting her.
Speaker 5: Now husband.
Speaker 4: That is actually a very big difference between me and Kimmy.
Speaker 4: I'm probably a little too trusting. Like that was a
Speaker 4: question that happened on set. Tyler was like, if somebody
Speaker 4: were to just give you five thousand dollars wouldn't you
Speaker 4: be like, what's the catch?
Speaker 5: I was like, not me. It was like, you're so innocent?
Speaker 4: Maybe but learning again the trauma informed responses that Kimmy asked.
Speaker 5: Why would she trust him?
Speaker 4: He just met her, I know, but he also did
Speaker 4: a bunch of things for her to help her.
Speaker 5: What is the catch?
Speaker 3: You would take any of that home?
Speaker 6: Though?
Speaker 3: You would be like you sure you still at the residence?
Speaker 5: Never never with him? Never with him.
Speaker 4: Maybe if somebody randomly gave me five thousand dollars, I'm
Speaker 4: might be like why, But not with him Organs.
Speaker 1: You know they.
Speaker 5: She's gonna come back then Organs.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: But although right now and in the beginning, I did
Speaker 4: feel like that, I felt like, no, I don't trust
Speaker 4: him because I felt like that.
Speaker 5: Super Then when you look from a viewer.
Speaker 4: Standpoint, when you look and you see all the bullshit
Speaker 4: that's going on outside of it, and he can't even
Speaker 4: trust his family.
Speaker 5: They don't trust each other. It's so much going on,
Speaker 5: and he about to die. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5: Who can he trust? He find this girl and he's like,
Speaker 5: who is Kimmy?
Speaker 4: She feels like she can't trust him, but he's showing
Speaker 4: and proven that he can be trusted at least, you know,
Speaker 4: for the greater good of what's happening, the grand scheme
Speaker 4: of things. Right, you want your sister back, you know, well,
Speaker 4: Keimmy wants her sister back. She wants out of this
Speaker 4: whole game. And it's things that he don't know either.
Speaker 4: He didn't even know about the night club situation or whatever,
Speaker 4: until you know, you made.
Speaker 5: Certain things relevant to him.
Speaker 4: Now he know, he's like, okay, he is using, but
Speaker 4: he still needs you and he still wants you to
Speaker 4: trust him.
Speaker 5: Why does it take so long for you to trust this, nigga?
Speaker 5: I mean, you're right, You're right, You're right.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but still keep in mind from episode one
Speaker 4: of season two to episode sixteen, I think it's only
Speaker 4: been two to three days, it is.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, Damn Tyler, to your point, she is.
Speaker 4: I think she's warming up to him. Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: she's warming up. And I would hope that in part
Speaker 4: two or beyond that maybe she'll give him a chance.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't want to ruin anything.
Speaker 1: How do you criticism?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: But you see how passionate she is, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: people come up to you passionate all day long. Right,
Speaker 1: how do you handle criticism online? People might not liking
Speaker 1: a character that, Yeah, how do you handle that?
Speaker 4: That has been a new adjustment, Like to the question
Speaker 4: you asked me earlier, and honestly, I made a decision
Speaker 4: before the project even came out that.
Speaker 5: If I can look at one negative.
Speaker 4: Comment and it ruined my day or I feel like
Speaker 4: I need to justify something or different, then I need
Speaker 4: to respond to every single person showing love. Everybody's saying
Speaker 4: that they love the show or whatever. And if I
Speaker 4: can't respond to all of them, I don't need to
Speaker 4: respond to negativity because I'm not that type of person.
Speaker 5: Anyway.
Speaker 4: I would say, like, I'm a pretty optimistic person. I'm
Speaker 4: a realistic person, but like I have a lot of
Speaker 4: drama and like stuff in my life, so I can't
Speaker 4: even worry about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like I can't.
Speaker 4: There are people that I trust to give me real feedback,
Speaker 4: like what is the real assessment?
Speaker 5: And then we keep it going.
Speaker 3: You said it was kind of hard.
Speaker 6: I'm saying the word victim, but you said it was
Speaker 6: kind of hard to play of I guess a victim
Speaker 6: like role. So as the character, Yeah, with the character
Speaker 6: as the character evolved, was it easier for you to
Speaker 6: go from victim to vindicate it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, But I think one it is just easier to
Speaker 4: play somebody not in that situation. I have more life
Speaker 4: experience as a person who was more empowered. But I
Speaker 4: think in wanting to protect her, that's why I was
Speaker 4: having such a difficult time, like, oh my gosh, why
Speaker 4: is this happening in her? Being able to have that
Speaker 4: vindication and play that out so soon into the second
Speaker 4: season is a real treat as an actor. I feel
Speaker 4: like with a lot of characters that begin one way
Speaker 4: and then they grow into this boss, we might see
Speaker 4: that over like three four or five seasons, but with her,
Speaker 4: it happened kind of quick, So it's it is fun
Speaker 4: to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: I do like that.
Speaker 5: I do like that quick turnaround of character development. That's cool.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you know, you spoke about it earlier,
Speaker 1: you having help on setting people talking to you got
Speaker 1: in through the script, But I always wondered, is it
Speaker 1: easy to talk to like a human traffic victim before
Speaker 1: to get their feeling, to get their mindset of why
Speaker 1: and how and when? Because I'm sure from your side
Speaker 1: you don't understand because you've never been in that situation,
Speaker 1: so it's easy to you know, find that out. Is
Speaker 1: that something that you've done when it came to.
Speaker 4: These roles, Yeah, because I was having a difficult time
Speaker 4: understanding why not just leave?
Speaker 5: I would rather be dead than deal with that. I would,
Speaker 5: but that's not Kimmy.
Speaker 4: So I did speak to somebody that had been through
Speaker 4: a situation like.
Speaker 5: That, and a lot of times people trafficking.
Speaker 4: I think is a very formal word to describe what
Speaker 4: can happen to people and they don't even know until
Speaker 4: they're trying to get out of it. So doing research
Speaker 4: online YouTube is a great resource, just trying to understand
Speaker 4: the mindset not only of how you got in the situation,
Speaker 4: why you stayed in it, but what did it take
Speaker 4: to get out? And that's the real resiliency. Obviously, Kimmy
Speaker 4: is in a fictional world and the sugar daddy with
Speaker 4: no sugar came and took her out. But for a
Speaker 4: lot of people, that is a mindset shift that needed
Speaker 4: a lot of help, a lot of support, a lot
Speaker 4: of work to get out of that lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Did you understand it more after having those conversations and
Speaker 1: doing that research. Yeah, absolutely, How was it?
Speaker 6: How was it received by the person though, because that's
Speaker 6: a person's real life and you're talking to them, you know,
Speaker 6: trying to get I guess game for a role. How
Speaker 6: did they receive you even asking them the questions?
Speaker 4: Oh, I already knew, already knew her and she was
Speaker 4: open because she's past that now.
Speaker 5: But I mean it is a with that situation.
Speaker 4: It was like a pimp situation, not necessarily human traffic
Speaker 4: king when you're thinking somebody's being kidnapped and whatever. But
Speaker 4: she was open I think to get out of that.
Speaker 4: Most survivors not would be open to be exploited, but.
Speaker 5: To share that story especially.
Speaker 7: Yeah, have you had other women that are currently going
Speaker 7: through that or that have recently gotten out of those
Speaker 7: situations reach out to you and like is that a heavyweight?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: On social media they have, particularly more so in for
Speaker 4: a season than this season. And again, as an advocate,
Speaker 4: I just want to help everybody.
Speaker 5: I try to like connect.
Speaker 4: People to resources or if you can't text or you
Speaker 4: can't do something, then I could text for you, and
Speaker 4: then people I wouldn't hear from them or whatever, so
Speaker 4: that that is difficult, but I just pray for them.
Speaker 5: How is it working with the legendary Otis?
Speaker 4: Otis is still look good mans ever since I watched your.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's wonderful. Like he walks in, he's just so
Speaker 5: New York. He be like, good morning, good morning, queen,
Speaker 5: good morning queen.
Speaker 4: He's just great, and he's so grounded, and he's really
Speaker 4: really fun to work with. Back and forth, but like
Speaker 4: every scene that we have together is always so intense
Speaker 4: and horrible, and he's always like it's okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm fine, I'm fine. But it was
Speaker 4: good working with him. I love that favorite character on
Speaker 4: the show. I can't say yourself, I love I honestly
Speaker 4: love Horace. It's something about him, even in that hospital bed,
Speaker 4: I have faith that he's gonna get out. I love Horace,
Speaker 4: but I love Mallory's one liners. There's why I love
Speaker 4: all of them.
Speaker 5: That girl will be listening. She I love Malory. It's
Speaker 5: like love hate, but I do. I love her.
Speaker 4: I love her on the show, but no, Horace is
Speaker 4: my favorite. And he fine, and I'm right, but he
Speaker 4: he father fine, you know, takes very good care of himself.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, How do you see.
Speaker 3: The role of Kimmy shaping like the next phrase of
Speaker 3: your career.
Speaker 5: M I would hope that.
Speaker 4: The dynamic shift that Kimmy takes in the Journey of
Speaker 4: Beauty and Black would open up doors for me to
Speaker 4: play roles that I haven't played before. It's interesting that
Speaker 4: a lot of the roles that I played before are
Speaker 4: always I mean, I played an assassin, stripper, I've played
Speaker 4: a mean girl. I played things like that, and it's
Speaker 4: like there's so many more layers to me and things
Speaker 4: that I'm actually not like any of those. I haven't
Speaker 4: played a character that's like myself yet. So I would
Speaker 4: hope that she can keep exploring the dynamics of her
Speaker 4: and from that maybe Hollywood will take note and be like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I could see her as this too. Now, if you
Speaker 4: knew somebody right that wanted to be on the show,
Speaker 4: like one of your friends, and being as though you'd
Speaker 4: be around Tyland and I know he always looking for
Speaker 4: new actors and stuff, you know, how would you pitch
Speaker 4: to him, I got this girl want to be on
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 5: Is that something that you would do?
Speaker 1: What's wrong?
Speaker 5: Bright? I don't know you got friends replace you?
Speaker 4: Baltimore, for example, say he is looking for somebody else,
Speaker 4: you know, to be a stripper, really good at that.
Speaker 4: How would you say, yo, sala I got this girl.
Speaker 4: Does he allow for conversations like that, Yeah.
Speaker 5: He's very collaborative.
Speaker 4: I might be looking at the scripts, maybe a new
Speaker 4: season or something like, wow, there's a character I know
Speaker 4: somebody that would be great and and I would make
Speaker 4: a great promises person like.
Speaker 1: I would be would great.
Speaker 5: Crazy, just let me know, let you know, go ahead
Speaker 5: and you know, sliping the lord. You know, just it's
Speaker 5: been auditioning.
Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, you never got back to us, so just
Speaker 4: just you know, hit him great period.
Speaker 3: So many shows a real yeah, which one.
Speaker 5: I'll send them, you know, sisters and the which one?
Speaker 5: The one the oval? Yes, and then it's another one.
Speaker 4: Uh. It was like something like a war situation happening.
Speaker 4: It was one of the No, but I did want
Speaker 4: for that too, but it was another one. Damn it
Speaker 4: was another show.
Speaker 5: It was crazy.
Speaker 4: It was it was all the time, like eighty shows.
Speaker 4: Like I know what I'm saying, I've auditioned for all
Speaker 4: of them without.
Speaker 5: People even knowing.
Speaker 1: But so special for you.
Speaker 5: Okay, cool, I just just tell them. Yeah the interview,
Speaker 5: that's great, you get okay, I think you can be
Speaker 5: so much?
Speaker 8: What is this my last?
Speaker 5: I'm serious, but I forget.
Speaker 7: Oh oh, So you talked a bit about like when
Speaker 7: people come to you on the street and they have
Speaker 7: criticisms right when you guys so on the other side,
Speaker 7: like we see people criticize Tyler Perry's movies for different things.
Speaker 7: I know when Divorce in Black came out, people have
Speaker 7: so much to say and then the Amazon number dropped,
Speaker 7: numbers dropped, and y'all drove up the Amazon Prime subscriptions
Speaker 7: better than any other MGM movie. Right, So it's kind
Speaker 7: of like a checkmate. How does the cast feel when
Speaker 7: you're watching all that play out? But you can't really
Speaker 7: say anything? And like, what is Tyler Perry telling y'all?
Speaker 7: Like y'all get off the internet? Like how is he
Speaker 7: responding to that?
Speaker 5: In real time? He doesn't tell us anything.
Speaker 4: I think getting to know him and working with him
Speaker 4: and being on set he instilled in us you focus
Speaker 4: on doing what you do. There are people who are
Speaker 4: gonna talk, people are gonna love it, hate it. Whatever
Speaker 4: you do what God has intended for you to do,
Speaker 4: and that's all you should worry about.
Speaker 5: So for me even with the voice in the Black.
Speaker 4: That was probably when I changed my dynamic with looking
Speaker 4: at comments and like looking at Twitter and hashtags and
Speaker 4: things like that, because you know, I'm proud of what
Speaker 4: I do. And then you look and it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: you see negative things and it's like, I'm not even
Speaker 4: gonna let that consume me. I already did my job.
Speaker 4: So if that's how you feel about it, that's how
Speaker 4: you feel about it.
Speaker 5: But you why period? No, my wig was good. Oh
Speaker 5: the whole time. The hair department was great.
Speaker 3: I don't know. People complain about the wigs on Tyler
Speaker 3: Perry productions.
Speaker 4: Anyway, you kill the role you. I love Beauty and Black.
Speaker 4: I'm invested in the show. I'm not just saying so
Speaker 4: you can go ahead and tell Tyler get me wrong.
Speaker 4: I really do love Beauty and Black. I'll be in
Speaker 4: here telling him about about it all the time about it.
Speaker 4: This nigga is lying, Sarah, He is lying.
Speaker 2: The one thing.
Speaker 7: The gay guys remember it was something about it, but
Speaker 7: remember you could I remember.
Speaker 5: That's my favorite. That's about my other favorite. And that's
Speaker 5: all he well. The brother, oh my god, he's so funny.
Speaker 2: Was the first that the Median Black.
Speaker 1: That scene that was a fruitcake one.
Speaker 2: Right, that was when he when he dropped his pants.
Speaker 5: And I know you're gonna miss ask talking. Yeah, Black,
Speaker 5: I love about three months.
Speaker 1: That's what wanted to.
Speaker 5: Watch, trying to be on it too. That's the was
Speaker 5: that was definitely mean.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 7: Yes, That's how I found out about the shows, because
Speaker 7: you kept telling me about the If you watched it,
Speaker 7: you would know.
Speaker 2: I didn't want the first He's in the beauty.
Speaker 5: So so so what happened with yours?
Speaker 1: They thought he was?
Speaker 5: I know that first the first first season they got his.
Speaker 6: Car right hold on, Now that Beauty and Black is
Speaker 6: when somebody gets killed and then it's the old game.
Speaker 6: The club.
Speaker 2: Yeah, watching the script, but he wanted the man.
Speaker 7: Club at one point.
Speaker 5: Yeah he was.
Speaker 2: He was in the Script club, but then she got
Speaker 2: us hurd.
Speaker 5: You just really time I came in here talking about
Speaker 5: the gay scenes, first, he would have been.
Speaker 2: I watched a lot of Tier Priences, but it's just
Speaker 2: all a blurred. I'm like that because that was last
Speaker 2: year I watched it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could have watched the new Yeah, Kimmy, whatever
Speaker 4: he listen, I this Charles is does Charles do I
Speaker 4: always yes, I knew it.
Speaker 5: I should have mentioned that he's one of my favorite
Speaker 5: characters too, because he is funny.
Speaker 4: Funny, Yeah, I knew. I knew all that wasn't written down.
Speaker 4: I'm like Charles as is just impriving all that he's funny.
Speaker 7: Is there a date for the second part of the
Speaker 7: second season, Not that I know of yet.
Speaker 5: It's coming.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's that's for sure. I feel like last time
Speaker 4: it was a couple of months. So maybe at the
Speaker 4: top of next year.
Speaker 5: The people what they want to know. I've seen so
Speaker 5: many fake posters the dates. We don't have a thing. Okay,
Speaker 5: well I'll be waiting.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for joining us this morning.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Taylor, thank for having me.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to say, yeah, what's what's
Speaker 1: the middle name? Holla door, Taylor Williams. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: The way your career is going, it's gonna be a
Speaker 6: the time. He's never gonna forget your name, that's right.
Speaker 5: And you make sure you forget his.
Speaker 1: I won't.
Speaker 5: Yes, I do, Thank you, d J.
Speaker 1: And what school does she go to? HB Cut It
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter. Nobody went to that school.
Speaker 7: Delaware at University because she went to one and she
Speaker 7: and I know you did where he goes. You got.
Speaker 1: Remember that.
Speaker 5: That's what's Upke?
Speaker 1: You again. Don't look overre.
Speaker 5: I ain't going to college? Can Ken just looking like.
Speaker 2: You're gonna stop down playing?
Speaker 6: Brooklyn Community College, Baltimore, Bimore, Baltimorro She got hot, socis
Speaker 6: leave her alone.
Speaker 1: It's the breakfast club going. I'm sorry, Taylor.
Speaker 6: Every day a weak picks up the breakfast club.
Speaker 2: You don't finish the y'all done