Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow, how are you? I'm
Speaker 1: doing really well. I was just gonna say the same thing.
Speaker 1: I know, so, uh, you have two movies out. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: What the hell won't he do it? He will do
Speaker 1: it all the time. And I just said to myself,
Speaker 1: I was like, boy, better heard up, can get another
Speaker 1: job because I'm gonna have a whole year where nothing
Speaker 1: comes out. You know how this goes. It's beast or famine, right, right?
Speaker 1: So how did you do that? You shot one movie Monday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Friday number on Thursday. Yeah, Sunday too. They had me
Speaker 1: working on a Sundow No. I actually, um, it's just
Speaker 1: the timing of the release stage worked out this way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's great, that's great. And okay, so when you people,
Speaker 1: you got Eddie Murphy, Julia, Louis dreffe Is, Jonah Hill.
Speaker 1: I've worked with all of them, uh and Kenya two. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: but see what you you got to actually work with
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy. When I worked with Eddie was it was
Speaker 1: not even professor too, and I pretty much worked with
Speaker 1: a tennis ball because he was some days I'll get
Speaker 1: one Eddie Murphy, but he was he was you know,
Speaker 1: all in the makeup is greeny, and then it's exhausting.
Speaker 1: So sometimes the off camera stuff, I know, the tennis
Speaker 1: ball thing, I did that with Martin Lawrence. I mean
Speaker 1: you kind of with Big Mama's Hopes, right, same kind
Speaker 1: of concept. He was there, he was there for every
Speaker 1: single shot. Wow. Yeah, no prosthetic makeup in this one.
Speaker 1: So he was there and he was wonderful, and I
Speaker 1: was so excited to finally be old enough to play
Speaker 1: his wife. For years it was like, oh no, you're
Speaker 1: too young, like you know, right, and now the men
Speaker 1: always get the younger women. So here we are there
Speaker 1: you go. So and then your other movie, uh missing, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of like, uh you like the Black
Speaker 1: Woman Liam Neeson and taken right, that was storm Read
Speaker 1: because she's on a mission to find me. And you
Speaker 1: know what's great about the film is everything is shot
Speaker 1: through some sort of technical device. So it's either an iPhone,
Speaker 1: a ring cam, you know, a secret phone that's like
Speaker 1: planted on set somewhere. So every every rule that I've
Speaker 1: learned about, you know, film and television, I had to
Speaker 1: throw out the window because there were no overs, there
Speaker 1: were no it was just shoot and don't ask questions,
Speaker 1: because if you ask questions, you will be more confused.
Speaker 1: So I just had to trust the process. I would
Speaker 1: have been like with the camera's like, hey, get that
Speaker 1: from under my chin I had, I had Mum's Atlantis.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, shoot me from a fan. And I tell
Speaker 1: you there's a moment in the film that actually applies
Speaker 1: to exactly what you're saying where I had to like
Speaker 1: shoot my own coverage in on the cell phone and
Speaker 1: I'm like going like this, I'm like, nope, don't roll
Speaker 1: it yet. Nope, no, no, no, okay, there we gonna start.
Speaker 1: A woman knows her light and her angles after a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time. Yes, well, this is as I think.
Speaker 1: It's a it's it's great to see, you know, a
Speaker 1: black woman in this this type of role. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like taking over like a drama thing. So like
Speaker 1: maybe you can like take over like the John Wick.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, it could be like John Wick is
Speaker 1: like they killed her edges and now she wants the binge. Yes,
Speaker 1: no more lace front. That's right. As long as I
Speaker 1: can wear this code, I'll play whatever character it is.
Speaker 1: Fancy you are very fancy me along, well, you know
Speaker 1: what happened as I went to Dubai right before I
Speaker 1: came here to see Beyonce, and she was incredible. I
Speaker 1: was like literally crying. Wow, I was crying in the audience.
Speaker 1: I'm like a true fan, and that was my first
Speaker 1: Beyonce concert, so to see it in Dubai was like
Speaker 1: one of those moments that I will remember for the
Speaker 1: rest of my life. So everything in Dubai is blingy,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of not blingy, but everything I packed
Speaker 1: kind of okay. Then we go, okay, we go, but
Speaker 1: everything I packed was blingy. So I'm sorry, but it's
Speaker 1: just okay, I got it. I got to ask you
Speaker 1: something real quick. I have to ask you something because
Speaker 1: because I know how how it goes. So recently, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read it that there was a headline right where
Speaker 1: you said, I quote black movies and black famous only
Speaker 1: hold us back. Yes, you want to clear that shit
Speaker 1: up because you know it's not written with those because
Speaker 1: you know they take one headline and take me to something.
Speaker 1: So that again, let me see that again. Turns like
Speaker 1: the black movies and black famous only hold us back? Okay,
Speaker 1: So what I mean by you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: But so for them, for the white people in the audience.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is, if we continue to
Speaker 1: practice this idea of separatism, we continue to divide. And
Speaker 1: I will always and forever hold my fist up because
Speaker 1: I understand the experience. But I also believe that the
Speaker 1: more we understand about one another, and the more accepting
Speaker 1: we are of one another, this thing called art should
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