WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Ryan Destiny Talks 'The Fire Inside,' Claressa Shields, Acting & Music, Keith Powers + More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.520 Wake that ass up in the morning. 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.320 The Breakfast Club Morning. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.319 Everybody is DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamage the guy. We 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:11.200 are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.600 the building. He's been all over the news the last 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:18.560 couple of days. Ladies and Gentlemen, Clarissa Shields, she's actually 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.000 playing Clarissa Shields and the new film The Fire Inside, 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:23.320 which comes out Christmas Day. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:25.400 Ladies and Gentlemen, we have Ryan Destiny. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:26.599 Welcome, Good morning. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:27.320 How are you? 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:28.080 How are you feeling? 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:32.240 I'm feeling good. It's an early morning. I'm on LA times, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:33.160 so it's really early. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.080 Is it hard to get up and do press? 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.320 A little bit? Sometimes if the timing is is weird 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.760 like that, just because I'm used to a different time zone. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:44.600 But other than that, I'm good. How long go? 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.040 Does y'all film The Fire Inside? 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.280 That was in twenty twenty two? Okay, we started to 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.279 film in twenty twenty right before the pandemic, but then 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.920 we got shut down and then all that as well, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.000 so we popped back in twenty twenty two. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.800 You're boxing, I'm sorry, well you boy? Were your boxer 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.639 or were you training? Did you so you had to 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.080 learn boxing. How difficult was that? 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.759 Because I seen the preview and I'm like Jesus. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.039 And when Clarissa was here, she said that was the 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.000 thing that that had to be on point the most 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:12.440 to boxing. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.680 Absolutely, Yeah, it was very nerve wracking, but it was. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.160 It was a lot I think just because I wasn't 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.240 a boxer or just an athlete in general, like that 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.840 wasn't my thing, but but I think it was. It 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.040 was good because I was a little scared and that 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.120 that helped just me go for it even more, you know. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.520 And I trained for months with my boxing coach and 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.280 it was like he was like textbook boxing coach. I 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.399 sparred a little. But also we have the studio being like, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.640 don't hurt her. So it was also just them not 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.880 wanting me to actually get hurt. But so, do you 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.480 think you got hands in real life or just on 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.040 your Everyone keeps asking me that I really. 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:54.080 Don't know, y'all said, yeah, I mean you, Clarissa. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:02:00.640 Now might run down on you. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:05.640 I feel like everything will just like disappear if I 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.960 actually have to get into a fight. So I don't know, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:09.760 we'll see, we'll not. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.919 See you would run or you would just get into 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:13.040 like I just feel. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.760 Like you go blame like you know, like I just said, 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:17.280 there's a role to you. This is not what you 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:17.920 want to do. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:18.960 Yeah. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.800 Yeah, like if it's on camera, for sure, but outside 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.600 of that, I don't know. I don't. I don't do this. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.000 Have you ever been in a fight real? No? No? 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.560 Never? And that was one of the first things Clarisa 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.360 asked me. She was like, have you ever been in 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.360 a real I'm like, girl, No, absolutely not, that's not me. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.120 And that scared her a little bit at first, but 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.960 after she actually saw it, she cried all the all 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:43.359 the things and was really happy. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.680 How did you get that? Did you you audition for that? 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:46.640 Or they just pitch you? 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.080 Oh my god. No, it was an audition process like 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.480 anything else, and they saw so many people and I 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.320 knew it was going to be competitive, just because the 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.640 story itself is incredible and also the people behind it 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.880 are really great. So yeah, it was just like the regular, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.639 regular thing. And I didn't think I was going to 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.480 get it when I went into it, which I think 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.640 helped because I didn't overthink everything. Yeah, you know how 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:09.400 I usually. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:09.800 Do so well. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.960 The tough way to prepare for the role mentally physically 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.320 or emotionally, because you know what you think about Clarrisis's life, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.359 she had a very very very so mentally, physically or emostally. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:19.120 What was it was? 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:20.320 All of it. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.240 It was all very very new and different from me, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.200 and just a challenge across the board, which I liked, 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.480 you know. I wanted that. I wanted something that would 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.079 push me and you know, do something that I've never 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.240 done before, have people see me in a different light. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.920 That was something that was very important to me. But mentally, 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.480 I think that was something that I had to really 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.640 hone down on because having the confidence of an athlete 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.160 is just a whole other beast that I don't think 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.400 a lot of people think about, and then having the 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.000 confidence of a boxer is another level, you know. So 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.600 I just wanted to make sure I could grasp that 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.520 because she's just superhuman to me, you know. So, Yeah, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.600 all of the things were were very very difficult mentally, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.120 I think that was probably the most if I had 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:09.640 to choose. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.720 So I was gonna say, how was Clarisa during the filming, 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.600 because she's very intense. Yeah, and when she was. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.240 Up here, she you know, she talked about how she 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.840 wanted to be perfect like her life, right, So how 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:20.479 was she when? 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:20.680 You know? 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.360 Was she easy to talk to? Say, well, how was 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:23.040 your life during this? 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.560 Yeah, she was very easy to talk to and she 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.200 was a really open book with me, which I appreciated 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.680 a lot. There's also a documentary about her life that's incredible, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.920 and it was like my notebook, my bible on set, 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.760 you know. I referred back to that so many times 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.400 and it was so helpful because it's just so raw 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.080 and it's a front row seat into how she is 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.920 with her family, her friends, with her coach Jason, And 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.920 it was so great to pick up on those things 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.200 because it's one thing to talk to her as she 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.520 is now and how old she is now, But she 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.440 was kind of a different person too a little bit 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.760 at sixteen seventeen, you know, So to have that with 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.880 some thing that I definitely went back to and was 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.760 really helpful for No. No, it was also still pandemic 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.080 key times. But she was also training, i think in 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.160 that time, also in another country, so it was it 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.880 was a lot of things happening. But No, she didn't 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:17.400 actually go. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.320 How tough was it to release the spirit of Clarissa 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:21.240 Shield so to speak? 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.720 Not too tough. I think it's still in me a 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.720 little bit, but you know, in a good way. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:28.159 You know. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.040 I think I've walked away from these from this experiment 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.120 with just a new confidence in myself that I don't 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.320 think I had when I entered it, you know. And 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.840 I think that I have heard a thank for that. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:44.560 You know, she is somebody that really speaks life into 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.280 you and also speaks life into herself. And I thought 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.560 that that was something that I needed, you know, to 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.320 have and to take. And I think that that stayed 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.880 with me and stuck with me, which I'm really happy about. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:56.720 Now. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.800 I've seen the preview during I think it was Wicked 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.120 or Glady too, probably both them. So it said Christmas 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:04.840 Day right, and I was excited for the preview. I 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:05.960 mean the preview was a long preview. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:06.760 I thought it was dope. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.479 Well, Christmas Day? Does that worry or make you nervous 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.520 or scare you in this industry? Because I'm like, Christmas 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.000 is a time where families are together, they're at the house, 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.479 and to come out on Christmas Day has to be 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.360 like I was like, why Christmas Day? 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.320 Apparently it's a good thing day if you go to 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.400 the studios that's like a prime day for them. And 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.240 I think it's also just because a lot of families 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.240 don't have much to do and the theaters are open, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.279 and you know, everybody takes their family and like goes 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.960 and has a good time. So I'm excited about it. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:38.640 I'm hoping that a lot of people do do that 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.880 because it is something that I think is for everyone 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.640 in all ages. So everyone literally can go. So I'm 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.120 hoping that that happens. You know. I think it's such 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.680 an incredible story that needs really to be heard and supported. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.120 So everyone go out. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:57.760 They got four daughters. It was like once you open 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.400 the gifts and everything ain't. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.640 Yeah, food, so that's a good day. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:05.520 What is? 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.480 Because I know you love music too, you're a singer. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.840 Would you like most acting or singing? 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.960 I can't choose. I really cannot choose. I really love both, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.720 and they both have a sense of freedom that I 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.360 really appreciate, and just the creativity that I get to 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.360 have with both of them and being able to push myself. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.240 It's very different. They're in two different worlds in my mind, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.280 but I really do appreciate both. So hopefully, if I'm 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.640 blessed enough to be able to continue to do both. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.800 I would. I would love to do that. So we'll see. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.200 Yeah, because you got into music because of your dad, right. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.080 My dad is a singer. Yeah, and he started when 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.760 I was you know. I mean he started way before 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.800 I was born, but I was in the studio with 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.400 him when I was a baby and all those things, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.520 so he definitely inspired me. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.200 I don't remember the group he was in, and I'm old. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.080 I was born in nineteen and seventy eight. I don't 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.920 remember guests. Do you remember guests? 0:07:58.960 --> 0:07:59.760 I don't remember. 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.840 Get kind of you gotta look up. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.360 Guess they had a song called Shoeby and a good 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.680 a few good other ones too, but you know, they 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.120 didn't like have a big, big moment, you know. So 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.600 it was also I think he started at Warner Bros. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.040 And then went to Death Row and that's just a 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.080 weird transition too. And when I think that was like 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:23.400 their first time signing singers, I think that, yeah, And 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.960 I think it was right before it was right before 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.200 everything happened with Tubac and Biggie, So it was not 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.680 the greatest time. Yeah, And things kind of went a 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.720 little left with Sugar and everything, but it was it 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.920 was a great, great, great group, and he's so so 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.240 talented and he's still singing it and doing his thing today, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:44.719 So I'm proud of him. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.040 Did he want you in the industry? 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.160 I think he just always supported it, you know, and 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.320 he saw something in me and him and my mom 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.000 just always uplifted me and and been there and there 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.920 to protect me too, because they also can see how 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.560 crazy it can get, you know, so they were always 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.440 in my corner and always always there. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.120 What's the guidance they've they've provided as far as this 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.000 industry wise, Like, what, what's some of the best advice 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:07.520 you've given you? 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.600 I don't know if there's something in particular. I think 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:16.200 it's just me making sure I'm protecting myself, you know, 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.200 and watching out for myself in these rooms and especially 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.360 within the music industry can just get a little shaky. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.040 It's it's a lot better, I think now, because there's 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.199 a lot more awareness around the weirdos that are out 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:35.079 there freak all. It's a lot it's a lot different now. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.319 People are people are checking it out and seeing what's 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.400 wrong with it. So but before, you know, people could 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.920 get away with a lot more things. So I definitely 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.360 made sure that I didn't put myself in any sort 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.760 of position and knew when to walk away from something 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.280 as well. So yeah, and how. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:53.800 Are you and Keith? 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.120 I know y'all were, uh, y'all were dating, and then 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.520 it was speculating that y'all broke up because y'all took 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:00.600 down each other pictures. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:01.840 And we love y'all. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.040 We love y'all, So what is the status for that? 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:04.319 Now? 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.560 We're really good, great, yeah, and we support each other 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.560 so so much and what we're doing, and you know, 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.240 the industry is just crazy, so it's nice to separate 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:18.439 the two, you know. So I was just a little yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.360 Because we get scared of stuff like that. We love y'all, 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.800 and I mean we is in like not. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.360 Them the girls. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:24.600 Yeah. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.720 Yeah, people my age. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:28.400 Know what you're talking about. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:29.679 That's why it was my question. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:33.440 Okay, thank you. 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.839 How much has your life changed over the last five 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.960 or six years though, like you know, the success you 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.559 had with Star, Like you know, every everybody wants to 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.040 start a movie. We'll talk about that in the second week. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.160 How much has your life changed over the last five 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:44.880 or six years. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.920 It's funny because I mean I started the process of 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.320 the movie five years ago, so it's just been it's 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.160 just been a lot of ebb and flows. I think, 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.080 you know, the pandemic has changed the industry a lot, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:02.400 and it's changed the way that I have seen myself 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.320 in it and having to maneuver how I go about things, 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:10.920 if that makes sense. So it's definitely something that I've 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.960 grown from and I'm starting to just realize what's most important. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.560 And I have to remind myself of that a lot, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.000 just because I think you can get caught up and 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.480 just all of the noise and what you should be 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.480 getting or what you haven't gotten yet. And so I 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.280 think I'm just trying to go with my gut and 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.959 continue to do things that I'm really proud of, because 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.559 with this project is probably the most proud that I've 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.240 been of something, and I really want to continue to 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.400 feel that way. So I'm just letting that sort of 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:40.880 guide me more than anything else. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.040 What does success look like for you in this business? 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.080 I think it's kind of like what I just said. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.720 I really want to feel like I continue to do 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.880 things that really matter and have an important message, you know, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.560 and it doesn't have to always be so heavy, But 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:04.440 I definitely want to represent for a lot of girls, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.280 a lot of black women, and hopefully if I can, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.600 you know, be a part of projects that have a 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.760 great narrative behind it and put us in a great light, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.120 then I'd be very very happy And hopefully, you know, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.640 that can continue to happen. But I think success varies, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.680 and if I'm happy and I get to a point 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.280 where I feel a bit more at peace with everything 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.960 in a way, you know, I'm also very aware of 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.480 accepting the fact that things won't always be just positive 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.520 and great all the time, and I think, you know, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.720 getting more and more into that place is something that 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.560 I think is successful in itself. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.720 So did you hear when Chloris was up here, when 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.520 she was saying, at first she didn't think you were 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.520 good for the part, but then after I guess meeting 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.200 with you and seeing she was like, oh, you're the 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.600 only person that can play that part. 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:56.640 So how did you feel when you heard to say that? 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.160 I mean I heard it before. You know, she was 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.360 very vocal with me when we first started talking. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:04.920 Because I don't want you to. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.840 I couldn't say nothing she can cats, that's crazy. 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.320 She was just like, well, she's really pretty, you know. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.880 I didn't really know what else could you know, come 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.679 from that? And I respected it. You know, there's not 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.520 like there's this you know, big amount of work that 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.760 I have out there that showcases that side of me. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.679 This is the first of that. So I understood it, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.280 and I knew that I was just gonna work work, 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.960 just really really hard on making sure that I executed it, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.840 you know, to the best of my ability, and hopefully 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.959 I did that, and her crying solidified that she approved. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.880 So I think that I'm very very happy with it 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:42.400 all now. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.360 But she closed off at first though, was she closed 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.360 off like I really don't want her playing it, And 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:47.760 then it kind of she kind of broke down and 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.040 was like, oh, she really is dope. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:54.240 I mean maybe maybe to Rachel our director or maybe Barry, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.840 I don't know, I don't know who. She was, you know, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.480 vocal about that really all the way to but she definitely, 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.040 like I said, she asked me if I could fight, 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.920 and I knew that scared her when I said no. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.760 So I didn't scare you. She asked me that, like, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.600 why is she just randomly I. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:12.040 Would know it was fair, you know, this is her life, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.200 this is her life story. So I really. I understood 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:19.280 the caution, you know, so I didn't take offense to it, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.240 but it definitely put some pressure on me. And I 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.400 was like, if she don't like this, it's gonna be real, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:30.520 real awkward. So I knew that it was it was important. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.680 You train before y'all started feeling like, how long did 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.560 y'all train before y'all even turned the Cameron? 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.240 So it was a little split up. I did three 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.600 or four months the first time, and then when we 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.560 shut down, I had to do it all over again 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.720 for three or four more months. So all in all, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.960 it was like six seven months I think in total, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.280 which I appreciate looking back on because before it felt 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.680 like everything was crashing down when you know, the pandemic happened. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.040 But I think that time really helped. And I went 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.560 into weight training the second go round too, and it 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.080 just it just made me even more sharp, I think. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:04.200 So it was good for me. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:05.840 Did delays help her hurt? 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:06.560 Did what? 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.640 Did delays help or hurt? The film? 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:09.520 I think it helped. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.960 It helped, like in so so many ways, even with 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.000 Brian he came in the second go around and. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.760 Brian Tyry Henry paper boy from Atlanta. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.640 Yeah, Yeah, he's so incredible and I'm just so thankful 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.520 that he wanted to do this as well. And he 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.560 really was someone that was just amazing to work with 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.360 and like a brother to me now. So I love 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.080 him and I think that we really hit it off 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:36.920 as soon as we met, and I think it shows 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.640 on the screen, which is really good. And yeah, I'm 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:40.760 excited for people to see that. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:41.640 Right. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.640 Do you feel like you get your just due as 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.280 a young black woman in entertainment because you've been you've 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.720 been working a little while and you are one of them, 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:50.960 you know what I'm saying. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.360 So you do you ever feel like that that you 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:53.520 get your you just do? 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.840 I mean I also feel like, you know, I still 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.320 have so much to do, So it's a little weird. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.680 I go back and forth between you know, wanting people to, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.280 I guess, see me and see the work that I've done, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.040 but also I have an understanding of how there's been 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.480 so many other people, you know, that have worked even 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.680 longer than me and still haven't gotten there. So it's 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.960 a little bit back and forth for me, you know, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:24.080 and I just am I guess in the headspace of 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.800 when it's time, it's time, When it's your time for 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.280 people to see you, they will. So I'm hoping with 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.400 this film in particular, because it speaks to that a lot, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.760 I think, with Cloressa herself and not getting her respect 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.560 and just to and not getting her flowers when she 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.640 should have back in twenty twelve. So I think that 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.840 it's a reflection of that. And I'm hoping that a 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.160 lot of people and our people do go out to 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.160 the theaters to see because I think that it just 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.240 would mean so so much, you know, and I don't 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.520 know if people truly understand how important even that is, 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.560 you know, showing up, because it really really does so 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.479 so much, you know, and for the people in the 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.399 industry to see, like, oh, people really do want to 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:09.760 see stories like this, you know. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.920 If your stories don't be made, I don't spend the 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:12.800 money at the box. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.680 Office, right, they really don't. So I'm hoping people understand 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.119 the gravity of that. So it's a little bit of 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:23.120 always a balance between knowing that I have a lot 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.160 more to go and a lot more to show. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.280 You know, you said something earlier that made me think. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.000 You said, I can't remember how you worded it, but 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:31.960 you're not at peace with where you are. 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.880 I think it's just always a battle a little bit 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.720 with knowing that I want to do more, you know, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:46.800 so knowing that I haven't hit the spaces that I 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.119 want to yet. It's just kind of always feeling like, Okay, 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.520 I gotta work harder and I gotta do more, and 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.560 after this project, I gotta do this one and this 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.600 one to just show people. So I think that's what 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.520 I mean, and not exactly at Peace East, but learning 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.000 to be and learning to I guess, go with the 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.120 flows of everything and not to put too too much 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.879