Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to have my next guest next to
Speaker 1: me in studio. You see him or you've seen them
Speaker 1: more Broadway, in television, in film, How.
Speaker 2: Stella Got Up? Groove Back All American?
Speaker 1: Okay, the Best Man one two, as far as the one,
Speaker 1: two and three, because I don't think codemn it is one,
Speaker 1: two and three.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: The list goes on. Brown Sugar can't forget all of that.
Speaker 4: He's here to talk about some new projects he's involved.
Speaker 2: In as well.
Speaker 1: The one and Only Tay Diggs in the house, My brother, Man,
Speaker 1: how's it really going?
Speaker 3: Man, it's going well.
Speaker 5: I've heard that you own all this and that that
Speaker 5: makes me that that warms my heart.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, Now that we are coming up as a
Speaker 5: group and starting to take responsibility and ownership, that's good
Speaker 5: for you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate man, thank you so much. But you know what,
Speaker 1: you ain't too damn shabby yourself. You're doing some big things.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about what you're about to do.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing something about a new talent competition series coming up.
Speaker 2: Talk about that for a.
Speaker 3: Second, Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 5: I've always loved watching you know, American Idol and the
Speaker 5: Voice and America's Got Talent. I've always wanted to be
Speaker 5: a judge on one of these programs because I think
Speaker 5: I have what it takes to uh to uh, you know,
Speaker 5: to lend my my talent and an experience never been
Speaker 5: asked and uh, miraculously this this uh, this, this opportunity
Speaker 5: presented itself. It's called Second Chance Stage. And me and
Speaker 5: two other judges, we are blessed enough to watch all
Speaker 5: these people who have another opportunity at their big dream.
Speaker 5: So for whatever reason, they had to postpone whatever talents
Speaker 5: they were gifted and uh and deal with life. Some
Speaker 5: people had to take care of you know, sick family
Speaker 5: members or you know people that that had died, or
Speaker 5: you know, they ran into.
Speaker 3: Money issues, so they had to postpone their dream, a
Speaker 3: dream deferred.
Speaker 5: We give them another chance and and the stories are amazing.
Speaker 5: You know, we get to judge them, we get to
Speaker 5: give them suggestions, but to hear the stories that these
Speaker 5: people have been through, it's quite emotional and I'm very
Speaker 5: excited about that the show.
Speaker 1: What kind of a judge is You going to be?
Speaker 1: Because remember, you.
Speaker 2: Know, back in the day when they had American I
Speaker 2: on stuff like.
Speaker 4: Youse see Simon coll and he just looking at people
Speaker 4: you don't have it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you just don't have no chance whatsoever, and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. What kind of judge are you gonna be?
Speaker 3: I won't lie.
Speaker 5: I want it to be that kind of judge. But
Speaker 5: I'm too emotional. I don't know if it's my age
Speaker 5: or the fact that i'm my father. I just I
Speaker 5: hear these people's stories in it, and it gives me
Speaker 5: a completely different perspective. So I'm far more empathetic than
Speaker 5: I thought I would be. I mean, I tell him
Speaker 5: like it is, but you know, I can't.
Speaker 3: Help it be affected by what these people have to say.
Speaker 2: And what kind of stories.
Speaker 1: I mean when you talk about being a storyteller and
Speaker 1: telling their stories, because you're basically justifying the fact that
Speaker 1: they're getting the second change essentially right. Yes, these stories
Speaker 1: give us an idea of how compelling some of these
Speaker 1: stories are.
Speaker 3: One art, it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 5: There was this one woman who she's a stand up
Speaker 5: comic and was everything was going her way. She was
Speaker 5: hitting other clubs in the city and then her mother,
Speaker 5: I think she was hit with dementia, so she had
Speaker 5: to completely pull out. And it's also just a testament
Speaker 5: to you know, the quality of life that these people
Speaker 5: have where they put themselves second and they put their
Speaker 5: you know, the people that are important to them first.
Speaker 5: So she, uh, this comedian, she just you know, stopped
Speaker 5: doing what she was doing and started living with her mother.
Speaker 5: And finally, once her mother was on the right track
Speaker 5: and she she started to have those thoughts again, maybe
Speaker 5: I should give this another shot.
Speaker 1: When would you what's your most memorable second chance? All
Speaker 1: of us have received second chances in life in some point,
Speaker 1: in some capacity. When you think about yourself, your life,
Speaker 1: what would you what would you qualify as a second chance?
Speaker 3: I was, I thought you stumped just now.
Speaker 5: But my son, my son to me is uh is
Speaker 5: the ultimate second chance because uh, you know, just living
Speaker 5: life with with my first marriage and these relationships, I
Speaker 5: can see where where I could have maybe stepped differently
Speaker 5: or or or or you know, acted more a little
Speaker 5: bit more intelligently or with my heart and my son
Speaker 5: is that is that second chance? He's he represents to
Speaker 5: me all of all of the good. So thank you
Speaker 5: for asking me that. That that makes me look at
Speaker 5: that relationship and in a different Well, you can't.
Speaker 2: Just met you your son.
Speaker 1: I mean that brother wants to shine.
Speaker 2: Diggs, little hooper, little point guard.
Speaker 5: He's uh, you know, we reclassed him so we could
Speaker 5: get bigger. You know, he's got his uh as private
Speaker 5: private coach James, and you know, training his muscles.
Speaker 3: He's got a we got a whole he's got a
Speaker 3: whole crew behind him.
Speaker 1: That's actually going to be very very helpful because when
Speaker 1: you're young and you're doing it. When you're young, they
Speaker 1: not only teach you how to build muscle, get strected,
Speaker 1: what have you.
Speaker 2: They also teach you about stuff you need to avoid.
Speaker 1: I walk around in my fifties down with knee injuries
Speaker 1: because I was playing on cement all of those years and.
Speaker 4: Stuff like that. You know, they guard you against that
Speaker 4: in this day and age. So I think that's very
Speaker 4: very helpful.
Speaker 1: But getting back to you, I want you to take
Speaker 1: a moment to really reflect on all the work that
Speaker 1: you have done. As you reflect on your career and
Speaker 1: what you've been able to achieve, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about where you are now and the road you had
Speaker 1: to travel to get here.
Speaker 5: You're good, man, good, I feel I feel good. It
Speaker 5: took me a minute because you know, in my day
Speaker 5: and age.
Speaker 3: We grew up and it was like white Hollywood and
Speaker 3: black Hollywood.
Speaker 5: And for the longest time, you know, we were taught
Speaker 5: black Hollywood wasn't enough so I would be making it.
Speaker 5: But then I would and I would be proud and
Speaker 5: I would have pride. But then it was always like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I want to be like a will. I got to break,
Speaker 5: I got to cross over, got a cross over. And
Speaker 5: it wasn't until just recently where now I'm old enough
Speaker 5: to really appreciate, you know, young people coming up to
Speaker 5: me saying you were in the classics, like, you know,
Speaker 5: I grew up watching my mother watch you, and now
Speaker 5: I'm watching you and and now I want to be
Speaker 5: an actor, or now I want to do this or that.
Speaker 5: But but realizing that, you know, the work that we've
Speaker 5: done has an effect on people, and now I'm I'm
Speaker 5: proud of that. You know, where it used to just
Speaker 5: be let's climb, let's climb, let's climb until I'm I'm
Speaker 5: I'm good as they say I am. But now it's
Speaker 5: different and I'm very very proud. I'm very proud.
Speaker 2: So you never took time to smell the roses until.
Speaker 5: No, we were taught, you know, you know, just keep moving,
Speaker 5: you know, just uh, you know, my mom would say,
Speaker 5: And now I'm realizing other other other parents would tell
Speaker 5: their children this. You got to be like, you got
Speaker 5: to be five times as good as as they are.
Speaker 5: And if you're trying to be five times as good,
Speaker 5: there's no time.
Speaker 3: To smell the roses. You're too you're too.
Speaker 5: Busy trying to be five times as good as an expresses.
Speaker 5: So now I'm still on my hustle. But but I'm
Speaker 5: not I'm not letting that pass. I'm appreciating. I'm listening,
Speaker 5: you know, to the to the compliment.
Speaker 1: Did you ever take a moment to define or classify
Speaker 1: what exactly was five times better as you were on
Speaker 1: that grind? Because a lot of times I feel, i know,
Speaker 1: in my life, when I'm on that grind, just like
Speaker 1: you just finished talking about, you get lost because all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it's like, well, what's really what's really success?
Speaker 1: I thought this was success and then I achieved it,
Speaker 1: but I don't feel fulfilled.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: After this, but damn it, I got it, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel fulfilling.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: What did qualify that five times better for me.
Speaker 5: Another great question for me what I could control was
Speaker 5: and I used to get fun of it. I used
Speaker 5: to I used to get made fun of how I
Speaker 5: how I presented myself. So my mother was a teacher,
Speaker 5: so I would listen to how she would speak. She
Speaker 5: made sure I was reading all the right books. I
Speaker 5: would watch how they they would talk and interact with
Speaker 5: each other, so I had that.
Speaker 3: I had that down.
Speaker 5: No one was ever gonna come to me saying, you know,
Speaker 5: well he doesn't really speak.
Speaker 3: I got made fun of people to say I spoke white.
Speaker 5: But if you put me in a room with white
Speaker 5: people and they could have mess with me, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. I knew I held myself accordingly. And
Speaker 5: you know what I loved about my mother. She used
Speaker 5: you know, prominent African Americans, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, you know,
Speaker 5: and she was like, you need to be like this,
Speaker 5: you need to be like these people. That's that's that's
Speaker 5: that's that is what is required of you. So so
Speaker 5: once I got that under my belt, it was a
Speaker 5: trip with you know, my identity. Because the cast from
Speaker 5: the hood, they didn't really get it at the time.
Speaker 5: You know, so I was. There was always this disparity
Speaker 5: of I'm like you, but you're not accepting me. But
Speaker 5: then you think I'm trying to be like them, but
Speaker 5: I'm trying to move us forward. There was a whole
Speaker 5: bunch of that, and it was thank thanks to people
Speaker 5: like you, me seeing cats that you know are cool
Speaker 5: but then still articulate, and you know, growing up it
Speaker 5: was it was rough, but luckily the right people were
Speaker 5: in front of me. And you know, I really feel
Speaker 5: like the universe, you know, kind of laid a path
Speaker 5: for me that everything now is starting to make sense
Speaker 5: and I can, you know, relate this to my son
Speaker 5: and he gets it.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about what you just finished explaining, and depressure
Speaker 1: and what you do to really qualify, just establishing yourself
Speaker 1: as one of the best, if not the best, having
Speaker 1: that peer pressure trying to sort of pull you back
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. There's a lot of cats out
Speaker 1: there who wish they accomplished half of what you've accomplished,
Speaker 1: particularly in the act, you know, in the world of
Speaker 1: acting and what have you. I'm wondering what advice would
Speaker 1: you give to them, based on the experience that you've
Speaker 1: had to endure and ultimately overcome in order for them
Speaker 1: to have a chance at succeeding today's day and work
Speaker 1: because times have changed so much over the last.
Speaker 3: Couple of decades.
Speaker 5: I would say, keep your head down, keep moving, and
Speaker 5: I would say listen to your uh, your inner voice,
Speaker 5: and keep the energy, keep keep moving forward, because a
Speaker 5: lot of people will stop me, you know, at a
Speaker 5: street corner, outside of an interview or whatever, and say,
Speaker 5: do you have any advice for someone? And I never
Speaker 5: asked anybody, and we didn't have time. We just moved forward.
Speaker 5: So part of me wants to say, if you're worried
Speaker 5: about what somebody else is going to tell you, your
Speaker 5: head's not in the right place, keep moving. When you
Speaker 5: keep moving, you'll you'll find yourself, you know, next to
Speaker 5: other people that well, you can just watch them. You
Speaker 5: don't have to ask, you can just watch. I like
Speaker 5: how this cat's moving, I like how this category. Who's
Speaker 5: this dude who's talking about sports? Listen to his vocabulary? Okay,
Speaker 5: I can speak.
Speaker 3: Like that, you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, but when people are it's sedentary, what's that mean?
Speaker 5: When you're when you don't when you staggering, those are
Speaker 5: the ones that are like, well, what can I do?
Speaker 5: What can you do?
Speaker 3: You should be already doing it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: I like the cats that are like I see you
Speaker 5: at the top.
Speaker 3: I like them cats.
Speaker 4: I don't like the cat that's say I'm gonna take
Speaker 4: your spot.
Speaker 2: See now you're ignorant.
Speaker 1: Now, I ain't doing a damn thing to help you
Speaker 1: because you're trying.
Speaker 2: To take my job. You ain't trying to join me,
Speaker 2: you're trying to replace me. That's just a dumb thing
Speaker 2: to it, don't you What did you say?
Speaker 4: What you say?
Speaker 2: Hey, man, you know I like that better than not
Speaker 2: moving at all. That's fair, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 5: And then then they're not not moving at all. At
Speaker 5: least you're moving because you know energy will come back
Speaker 5: to you.
Speaker 2: What's the best role you've played?
Speaker 5: Man, it's corn if I'm like, oh, father, you know
Speaker 5: what I had to play. I had to play the
Speaker 5: dressing drags, headwigging, the angry inch. It's just crazy play
Speaker 5: where it had to be in high heels and a
Speaker 5: wig and make it was. I had to sing, I
Speaker 5: had to dance, I had to act. It was on Broadway.
Speaker 5: That was crazy. And then uh but then there's the
Speaker 5: you know, the best man that just that crew.
Speaker 3: It's like going back to school.
Speaker 1: Morris Chestnut, you know, I mean, Lord, have mercy. I mean,
Speaker 1: just bring it back. Memories, Just bring it back, memories.
Speaker 1: Stella House, Stella got a group back.
Speaker 3: That was the first one.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was with Angela. I mean it was
Speaker 2: we must we must acknowledge. That was with Angela Basset.
Speaker 5: You understand What did that do for you, Carol Man? Well,
Speaker 5: that I was right on I was right on schedule.
Speaker 5: For me, that was like the universe telling me, all
Speaker 5: I keep moving, You're you're on the right path. I
Speaker 5: learned so much from from her and whoopeed and uh
Speaker 5: and I just knew to keep to keep going, to
Speaker 5: keep going.
Speaker 1: When you say you learned so much from them, what
Speaker 1: was it?
Speaker 5: They acted like they belonged there, you know, and was
Speaker 5: I wasn't used to that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: You know, we were raised, you know, not not not
Speaker 5: to say that they weren't polite, but when they when
Speaker 5: they were on set, you could tell it was their set.
Speaker 3: And uh.
Speaker 5: And you know it's tough coming up where you want
Speaker 5: to be polite and you want to make sure you're humble.
Speaker 5: You know, you read the Bible and you say turn
Speaker 5: the other cheek, and you don't want to speak too
Speaker 5: loudly or come off rude. But you know, I saw
Speaker 5: at that early age that these were strong, black, prominent
Speaker 5: women who were to be taken very seriously. And that
Speaker 5: was that mental life.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that you bring that up, because obviously I
Speaker 1: know Lea Long a little bit. She's been absolutely wonderful
Speaker 1: to my daughter. I really really treasure her. Angela Bassett
Speaker 1: is a legend in this business. And you would hear
Speaker 1: like you just said, you know, they owned the set,
Speaker 1: and like they didn't take any mess, they didn't play
Speaker 1: any they.
Speaker 2: Didn't play any games. You weren't going to bully them,
Speaker 2: push them around.
Speaker 1: You hear the same thing about the Denzels of the world,
Speaker 1: the Morgan Freeman's of the world. You know, you hear
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I've even heard stuff like that about you.
Speaker 1: And I used to go like this, that means a
Speaker 1: brother don't play.
Speaker 2: I mean that mean he about his business and you better.
Speaker 1: You better be about your business or it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a proper all right. I mean, do you like having
Speaker 1: that reputation? Is this something that an actor or you
Speaker 1: know or an actress is leery about because it could
Speaker 1: potentially affect your work.
Speaker 5: What about that it could it could especially with with women,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And then with with black women.
Speaker 5: You know, there's this there's this idea that you know
Speaker 5: when when a woman is uh direct, that she is
Speaker 5: a b you know what I mean. But but it's slowly,
Speaker 5: it's slowly changing, and and I love.
Speaker 3: To see it. I love to see it. I love
Speaker 3: I love strong.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the Best Man because it's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite I mean, I mean my favorite, my
Speaker 1: favorite I don't mean.
Speaker 2: To throw this at you. My favorite scene was.
Speaker 1: When Morris what Morris Chestnut w ch you're saying in
Speaker 1: the first one, right and.
Speaker 2: About the throw you over the damn balcony.
Speaker 4: His wife was my favorite seed because Terrence Howard comes
Speaker 4: up and.
Speaker 1: There he and he goes like this, al Bab, al bab,
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna do that, bab, you ain't gonna do that.
Speaker 1: You gonna marry a beautiful woman, a woman that loves.
Speaker 2: You and only you.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was like, yo, I c I mean,
Speaker 4: that was my favorite character and the Best Man because
Speaker 4: he was he said, coming.
Speaker 2: On, comeback desk Joe lbab. Oh, it's hilarious. It was hilarious.
Speaker 2: You know that. I love I absolutely love that movie.
Speaker 2: How do you compare the three the three best minutes?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Man, they they they It happens on its own, it
Speaker 5: really does. Once I get in the same room with them,
Speaker 5: we immediately just uh, it's like riding a bike, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean? And uh, we those characters just
Speaker 5: come right back to us. And thank god, the writing
Speaker 5: is such that, you know, we just have to say
Speaker 5: the words and and and show up and everything else
Speaker 5: kind of happens.
Speaker 1: Is it true that the Wonderful Night small mannered Neil
Speaker 1: Long slapped the living in that scene?
Speaker 2: That is that true?
Speaker 3: Is so true? That was? That was? That was a
Speaker 3: good lesson for me to Yeah, a lesson to me now, just.
Speaker 2: For everybody to notice or to try to interject.
Speaker 4: But that was after you got your ass kicked by
Speaker 4: more Right, and then you were because you were supposed
Speaker 4: to be getting with near that night. You understand, you
Speaker 4: were supposed to be cheating on Sonati and then and
Speaker 4: then after that you came back to the house, but
Speaker 4: you were all beat up, and she was all in
Speaker 4: the mood, ready to go friends, you know, and you
Speaker 4: just ruined everything.
Speaker 2: So she really slapped you.
Speaker 3: She did, and it wasn't it wasn't scripted.
Speaker 5: Wow, And you know, I just come out of drama
Speaker 5: school and I was just so so so offended that
Speaker 5: she was.
Speaker 2: She would not tell me ahead of time.
Speaker 5: But it was one of the best choices, Uh, one
Speaker 5: of the best choices that was made in that film.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes you just gotta, you know, improve and go
Speaker 5: with you what you feel.
Speaker 1: You brought up black women, and you talked about the
Speaker 1: roles and the perceptions that they have in the stigmas
Speaker 1: they have.
Speaker 2: To fight off and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And I imagine working with your own people who look
Speaker 1: like you, share your cultural identity, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 1: can be a huge plus. But some would say it's
Speaker 1: also a plus to work with folks who are very,
Speaker 1: very different, because it forces you to display your range. Yes,
Speaker 1: which brings me to All American. Yes, okay, And I'm
Speaker 1: wondering juxtaposon or comparing the two being amongst the cast
Speaker 1: and crew with Best Man compared to All American, was.
Speaker 2: There a distinct difference? Did it call for a different
Speaker 2: challenge for you. Oh sure, sure, I mean it is
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 5: You know, it's different when you're working with family, right,
Speaker 5: when you're working with with people that are just nice,
Speaker 5: but it's always lending itself to improvement, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. All American was greatest because it was so diverse.
Speaker 5: It was so diverse, and a lot of what we.
Speaker 3: Were dealing with on the on the program.
Speaker 5: These were issues that people have to deal with in
Speaker 5: real life, having to deal with diversity and race and
Speaker 5: you know, uh, identity, all of that.
Speaker 3: So it was it was a real was a real blessing.
Speaker 2: Did you like being a football coach?
Speaker 3: I did? I did?
Speaker 5: You know, I consider myself athletic, not an athlete. My
Speaker 5: kid is an athlete, but I got to kind of
Speaker 5: pretend and uh and when he was coming up, we
Speaker 5: would watch the show together.
Speaker 3: And he would correct me and plays and it was
Speaker 3: it was awesome.
Speaker 1: How did that assist you with your parenting of your kid,
Speaker 1: who you say as an athlete?
Speaker 5: Very very much so, just seeing how I was forced
Speaker 5: to watch other coaches and and you know how we
Speaker 5: have a wonderful supporting cast that did stunts and hearing
Speaker 5: those stories. My assistant Troy Troy Brookins played in the
Speaker 5: in the NFL, and you had to tell me, you
Speaker 5: know what, how how he was raised. And so now
Speaker 5: I have this, all these different people to draw from
Speaker 5: and apply that to to parenting, because as you know, athletes,
Speaker 5: they're built different, you know what I mean, And you
Speaker 5: gotta I gotta treat him different. He's got a he's
Speaker 5: got a mind, and he's hungry. So I gotta let
Speaker 5: that animal out. So I'm not you know, there are
Speaker 5: times when I'm a little bit less disciplinary and I
Speaker 5: let him get to get a little big on on
Speaker 5: on the court and let you know, let him kind
Speaker 5: of roar.
Speaker 2: And how old is he then?
Speaker 3: Fifteen?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you know he's not he's not of age
Speaker 1: yet where he could drink.
Speaker 2: Alcohol is kid, no, no, no, no, but.
Speaker 5: He can he can show he shoulders me like I
Speaker 5: can feel his weight, I can feel his way to
Speaker 5: when I'm in the kitchen and he's passing me.
Speaker 1: I was asking that question. I was asking that question
Speaker 1: because I'm reading about some bourbon that you got right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was wondering about that. I mean because
Speaker 1: you know you you out there doing that thing. And
Speaker 1: Dave's got some bourbon to market and promote. People gonna
Speaker 1: take a sip of that. But you know that's what
Speaker 1: I'm asking about.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Yes, me Harold's Paranol, More's Chestnut uh
Speaker 5: and uh and Malcolm malcolmy Lee we uh ownership.
Speaker 3: We we have this this this bourbon sable.
Speaker 4: More smooth brothers over the bourbon la y'all, y'all what
Speaker 4: y'all trying to do?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: What trying to do out there?
Speaker 5: We're trying to explore, you know, stretch out, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. Expand I'm thinking that's been fun.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 1: And one of the other things that I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up with something that you got going on with
Speaker 1: Anthony Anderson, because I mean, this is this is the whole,
Speaker 1: the real, the fox is the real full Monty. I
Speaker 1: needed to talk about that for a quick second too,
Speaker 1: because I mean, literally, there's no exaggeration.
Speaker 2: These people showing the ass. It's showing the ass.
Speaker 5: I mean, explain, explain this what's going over with us
Speaker 5: all for a good cause, for for for cancer awareness.
Speaker 5: Me and Anthony Anderson, you know, Tyler Posy, you know
Speaker 5: a bunch of people got together and we do a
Speaker 5: dance that's choreographed where it's the stifties. But we're doing
Speaker 5: it to make people more aware and to hopefully convince
Speaker 5: folks to get out there and get tested for testicular
Speaker 5: and colon cancer or nothing.
Speaker 3: We need it.
Speaker 1: We needed the thing that really, you know, I remember
Speaker 1: when it was a scene and you know, in the
Speaker 1: Best Man, when you had your shirt off and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and Nea Lung's just looking at you like, Lord,
Speaker 1: have mercy. And I often wonder where people like yourself
Speaker 1: and others who are in Hollywood and in shape, you know,
Speaker 1: the male model, I call them Zoolander.
Speaker 2: It's Morris chest nothing. This is a true story.
Speaker 1: I'm at an event right and literally this is the
Speaker 1: true Morris Chesnut, Michael Ealy, Boris Kojo, Lord Jesse Williams,
Speaker 1: and me not damn it.
Speaker 4: If there was ever a place that I found out
Speaker 4: of place, it was that I'm like I said, you know,
Speaker 4: I said, man, I look horrible compared to this crowd
Speaker 4: right here. I don't want to be around any of y'all.
Speaker 4: Right now, you got that height, man, Do y'all.
Speaker 1: Ever think about I mean, being a sex symbol?
Speaker 2: Do the fellas pay attention to that. Do you like that?
Speaker 2: Does that make you more money in Hollywood?
Speaker 5: I'm sure it does. I'm sure it does. But you know,
Speaker 5: like I said, I was raised in the church and
Speaker 5: you were always taught to be humbled, don't don't think
Speaker 5: too highly everyself. And you know, I started out really
Speaker 5: scrawny and skinny and insecure. So I've had to build
Speaker 5: myself up. And then sometimes you know, when when when
Speaker 5: you're really successful or when you're you're you're blessed enough
Speaker 5: to be successful, you you wonder if you're even supposed
Speaker 5: to be there. So I've had to do the opposite
Speaker 5: and just like talk myself up and yeah, I'm somebody.
Speaker 5: I deserve to be here.
Speaker 3: Does it deserve to be standing next to Boris Kojo?
Speaker 1: Does it inspire you to be in the best physical
Speaker 1: condition possible?
Speaker 2: Is it the work? Is it the perception of how
Speaker 2: you're looked at? Is it the artistry? Or is it
Speaker 2: being a parent to an athlete?
Speaker 3: It's that? Is that? It's that? Yeah, my son inspires me.
Speaker 5: And now he's old enough to kind of poke me
Speaker 5: in my little right minute.
Speaker 2: What's six pact that?
Speaker 5: So let me get this right, you work out so
Speaker 5: you can eat right, And I said, yeah, I said,
Speaker 5: that's that's not the way to do it.
Speaker 3: Pop, leave me.
Speaker 2: Alone, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Look, man, I couldn't let you leave out of here
Speaker 1: because without bringing up a list, because I've sort of
Speaker 1: put together my own list of the leading ladies that
Speaker 1: have worked with Tay Dagg's and I sort of rated
Speaker 1: them in my favorite Would you mind if I did that?
Speaker 1: If I did that in front of you, We're gonna
Speaker 1: put it right up on the board right here.
Speaker 2: Give me number.
Speaker 4: Five on the lift, please that I got right there, please.
Speaker 1: One of the elite actresses in the business, no question
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: She's hilarious. Yes, she and Regina.
Speaker 2: And Phenomena Yo. Yeah, and Phenomena. Oh you see that
Speaker 2: right there, Lisa Ray. Okay, second movie, I got it.
Speaker 2: But but Lisa Ray was somebody.
Speaker 1: Now you're saying the wood saying what I love the
Speaker 1: scene when Pops threatened you he was.
Speaker 4: Sitting there when he walked up there, because that's how
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be.
Speaker 2: That's how I'm gonna be. That's right now.
Speaker 4: That Lisa, She's something special, right, Okay, let me show
Speaker 4: you the next one, right, here, please give it to me.
Speaker 2: Now you see this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta do another something together.
Speaker 2: Here is the problem.
Speaker 1: How do you have the Best Man one, the Best
Speaker 1: Man Holidays two, and then the series on Peacock, a
Speaker 1: eight part series.
Speaker 2: And at no time then y'all get together? How does
Speaker 2: that happen?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: That's good writer.
Speaker 1: They keep it, they keep you feeding for that's a
Speaker 1: lot of that's a lot of feeling.
Speaker 2: Two movies in an eight part series.
Speaker 5: Now this is my I thought I was gonna marry
Speaker 5: her at one point.
Speaker 2: In real life before I met her. Right, Yes, she
Speaker 2: is special.
Speaker 1: I've always been a sonnihilated fan.
Speaker 2: She's a marvelous actress, beautiful woman. Now, No, that's number one.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's number one right there, that's number one.
Speaker 2: Yea, Angela. She's in the sixties. That's crazy, she's in
Speaker 2: her sixties.
Speaker 1: Courtney Vance brother man, love them Dailly, always shake his hand.
Speaker 2: Man, you're a very he That was my order right there.
Speaker 2: Understand in terms of it could fluctual. It's fluid, of course,
Speaker 2: because they are.
Speaker 3: I'm fluid to you.
Speaker 5: There we go, I feel, I hear you.
Speaker 1: I understand with them, I understand, I understand what what's
Speaker 1: next for you?
Speaker 2: Oh man?
Speaker 5: Uh, hopefully second season for this uh, second second chance
Speaker 5: stage and Sable getting Sable out there.
Speaker 3: Uh. And we're producing, producing a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 5: So so producer has become important, yes, like creating ownership?
Speaker 3: Right yeah, where I gotta get on that bus.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like Hollywood has sort of opened the
Speaker 1: doors for those opportunities for African Americans in this country?
Speaker 5: I think we kick are kicking it down, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean? And uh and slowly, you know, Uh,
Speaker 5: it's changing, it's changing. It's not going to be pretty though.
Speaker 1: What could be done by those outside of Hollywood to
Speaker 1: assist in helping them kick those doors.
Speaker 5: In getting on the same side, getting on the same team,
Speaker 5: putting putting your money back, you know, but back into
Speaker 5: into ourselves, you know what I mean. Ownership, like you said,
Speaker 5: making it so we don't have to ask permission.
Speaker 3: We can just show up. Oh I bought this, this
Speaker 3: is mine. Here we go, We got it.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Billy Babs, come man, what
Speaker 5: I'm saying?
Speaker 2: Almongst other things.
Speaker 1: The one of the only ten Diggs in the house
Speaker 1: right here was keeping it on and the pipage to
Speaker 1: talk to you.
Speaker 2: Proud of you, proud of.
Speaker 3: All the work that you're doing.
Speaker 1: You've been an incredible role model to so many, so
Speaker 1: many cats out there with the wonderful work that you've
Speaker 1: been doing throughout your illustrious career. And the thing about
Speaker 1: it for me is, as long as you've been around,
Speaker 1: I think you just getting started.
Speaker 2: Man, I think big things in the pub. So there
Speaker 2: you go.
Speaker 1: I like your d There we go walking up here,
Speaker 1: working your game, work on your game.
Speaker 2: Your pops, regardless of what you want to say. Your
Speaker 2: pops are ready to.
Speaker 3: Do this thing.
Speaker 2: You got to do your thing, okay, which
Speaker 1: I know you well, my man, all the best one
Speaker 1: of those T digs in the house right here and
Speaker 1: Stephen ex Smith show