WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Tika Sumpter Talks Sonic, Tyler Perry's Influence, Interracial Marriage + More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.520 Wake that ass up in the morning. 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.119 The Breakfast Club Morning, Everybody's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:08.360 the guy. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.360 We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:10.760 in the bill. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.040 Indeed always quiz get the money when she's here, Ladies 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.560 and gentlemen, Tika something welcome, Thank you morning, Tka. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:18.239 How are you feel? 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.760 I love your show one and I'm happy to be back. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:21.200 I'm good. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:26.040 How are you blessed? Black and holly food. I didn't 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:27.240 know your real name was Euphemia. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.319 Yeah, it's Euphemia. It's a Greek goddess. She was a 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.320 martyr and my dad named me that. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.520 Okay, Yeah, So Latika latique is where you get tika from? 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.560 Yes, you femia latik. My grandma somehow figured out teak. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.800 It's like a tiki bird, a black teaky bird in Florida. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.880 So you fema latik someter but sumter. But in school, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:47.640 I would be like, they'd be like, oh for me, 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:52.680 I'd be like, just Tika. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.840 Would you learn what you fema? You fema? 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.360 Met you fhemia femia? 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.040 Well I looked it up because I was like, what 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.280 is that? And oh and I met some like Greek 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.760 people and they were like, Faia, that's Greek. And I 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.520 was like, oh, okay, cool, and I looked it up 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.120 and I was like, oh, my dad kind of you know, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.360 thought of me as this beautiful human being. He saw 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.800 the future confidence nothing because I thought it was I 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.880 thought it was a terrible name and it was too 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.920 big for me, and I'm like, I don't know what 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.240 this is. You know, you're in Queens and you're like 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.840 and the teacher's like uphamia u canuba, Like You're like, 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.440 oh God, just call me Tika. So it did nothing 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.280 until now, until like my older age. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.839 It all worked out. And how did you get into acting? 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.320 Come from queens? Like what made what was the acting bug? 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.480 Oh my gosh, it's crazy because you don't see anybody. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.600 I mean, my sisters actually were dancers, like when they 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.839 danced in videos back in the day and like kid 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.240 in Play like MC light all that stuff. So I 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.200 like saw pictures, like I stole pictures from them and 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.760 took them to school and was like she's eating this person, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.559 you know, or but so I saw it from Afar, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.920 but I didn't know that I can actually do it. Honestly, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.400 I used to love watching cartoons and things like that. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:02.920 I only knew I could do it when I went 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.680 to Long Island and I heard of this woman named 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.320 Mariah Carey who's from Huntington, and I was like, Oh, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.639 that's interesting. And so I started going on the L 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.960 I R R. Long Island Railroad to New York and 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.280 taking classes. But I didn't know that I can do it. 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.480 I just saw the TV and I was like, this 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.680 is a job, like you know, you don't know it 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.079 until you can see somebody, yeah, or you see somebody 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.560 else who's actually doing it. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:27.640 You know. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.800 And your parents believe back then, because I mean they 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:30.560 had to take you, right. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.359 My parents, No, my mom didn't know what the hell 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:37.959 I was doing was going to because I used to 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.680 work at a movie theater. So I had my own 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.200 money to do it and take classes. But like she 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.600 trusted me. I was a very trusting child because my 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:47.960 siblings made all the mistakes. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:54.919 And she was like, okay, exactly. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.400 And so I would go to New York and on 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.799 the weekends take classes and and and it wasn't until 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.919 I moved to New York to go to Marymount Manhattan College. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.160 I couldn't afford it. It was too expensive. I don't 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.040 know why I chose a private college. And I told 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.120 my mom that I was leaving and I'm going to 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.360 try acting, and she was like, what is First of all, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.440 where's your four to one? Like, you know, I grew 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.280 up in that kind of environment. My mom was a 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.040 corrections officer at Rikers, So you know, she's like, what's 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.600 the plan because we don't know anybody who acts, who's 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:25.280 making any money. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.560 Yeah, I was gonna Actually, when do you feel like 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.440 you like your breakout moment? When do you feel like 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:32.320 you actually made it? 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.560 I feel like there are many different breakout moments for 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.360 different people, right. And I remember quitting my job in 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.760 New York. I worked at a private members club and 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.600 I was just done, Like I was done with people 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.160 being inconsiderate and entitled and talking to me sideways. I 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.960 literally walked out like just I didn't tell anybody. I 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.120 just left and I'm like crying down the street New 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:56.960 York moment, and the ladies like are you okay? 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:57.480 I'm home? 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:00.440 Stop. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.360 It was a white lady, must look that bad. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:05.320 Something's wrong with. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:07.680 Lady. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:08.680 She was like are you okay? 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.440 And I was like okay, you know, and you know, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.480 I auditioned for this show called One Life to Live 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.719 at the time, and you know, my ex at the 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.400 time was like, look, how about you go for your dream. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:22.880 This is the first time I've ever felt like I've 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.920 had like a fall somebody to fall back on. And 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.159 he I was like, go for my dream. He's like, yeah, 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:28.560 I'll take care of everything. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:29.640 You go for your dream. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.120 But that only lasted a week because then I. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.000 Can take care of you for one week. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.080 No, it only lasted a week because I've booked. 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:51.520 A job for seven days. Yeah, you know. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.800 Yeah, so I booked One Life to Live and after 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.039 that I never had to like waitress or do any 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:56.720 of those things ever. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:57.040 Again. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.360 I love that you worked at a movie theater, you know, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.000 because you know, when think back on your life, you 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.160 look at all of these different moments that kind of 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.480 gave you signs. Did that give you a sign back then? 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.320 Yeah, it was the closest thing I had to like 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.240 what I wanted my reality to be. And so, yeah, 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.719 I worked at a movie theater for a while. It 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.839 was United Artists, it's not and it's no longer around. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.680 But I would get my mom some free movies. I'd 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.159 give her a free candy and popcorn and all that stuff. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.040 So yeah, it was one of those things where I 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.440 was that was the closest I ever got to what 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:27.120 I wanted to be. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:29.840 Yeah, that's right. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.840 You played Michelle Obama a few years ago. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.839 I did, Well, how was that? 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.039 Did you get to pick her brain? 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:36.400 And all? 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:37.200 I didn't. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.480 I didn't we got the okay to do it because 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.200 you know, we definitely didn't want to step on anybody's toes. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.440 But it was just from the point of view of 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.600 you know, before she became Michelle, you know, like their 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.600 first date. And so it was something that I produced 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.159 and we took to sun Dance and we sold it 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.880 to Mirrimax at the time, and you know, it worked 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.120 out and my friend Richard Tanny wrote script and I 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.720 got to work with my friend Parker Sawyers. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:04.440 So it was it was. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.000 Really fun to do and and I feel that that project, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.159 like it was very close to my heart. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.400 Didn't come out before after becoming her. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.240 Book, way after before. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.240 Before, before before before you didn't have nothing to work on. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.120 Well, yeah, he had, he had wrote his books already, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.800 but she also her brother wrote a book, so I 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.400 got to like understand the inside of who she was 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.400 before she became the Michelle Obama, you know, And so 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.720 that was more fun for me because I wasn't trying 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.120 to replicate who she is now. I had to kind 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.880 of get an idea of who she was before that, right, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.520 and she was his boss. So the their first date 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.159 was definitely like you know it was. It was walking 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:44.599 the line. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:45.719 You get canceled with that to day. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.040 Your person got your boss, though, can't your boss you 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:52.200 out here in the workplace? 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:53.680 Oh, human resources? 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.880 It was a double standing. Maybe it was different when 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.120 it's a woman and the guy. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.000 I just feel like, where do you meet your significant 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.040 another nowadays? Like nobody goes to bars. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.840 Nowadays. It's the toughest thing, Like you can't. I'm not 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.840 gonna say you're not allowed to because you don't watch 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.920 the human resource video that they make you watch every week. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:18.760 You got somebody and. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.920 I met my man in the bar. I did, yes, yeah, 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:22.640 two years ago. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.920 I met guys in the bars. But I'm just saying 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.880 that's when you used to go out, you know. But yeah, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.120 most of it was at work. So for me to 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:30.840 now tell us. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.200 About the sonic, the hedgehogging, and it. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.680 Was that dirt installment because you're not. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.720 It's well, it is a person, but it's not a person. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:37.320 It's animation. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.760 So yeah, I mean it's it's incredible what they do 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.760 and how they make them look. The first one was 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.680 just like a golf tennis ball. I was like connecting 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.040 with the second Sonic two, it was these huge three 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.240 D cutouts of like me talking us talking to Sonic 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.280 and Tails and all that stuff. And then the third 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.840 one was like these huge puppeteers who actually had like 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.480 talking to us as their voice as each Wress and 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.080 Keanu and whoever else, And so yeah, it grow, it 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:05.440 grew as the budget grew. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.400 On the same room or is it like is it individually? No, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.520 they're in the same room. Okay, they're in the same room. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.240 Not not not the voiceover part, Like they do their 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.960 part separately, like Ben Schwartz who does Sonic and all 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.520 that stuff, they do it in a booth. But for 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.360 us to make it real, they bring these like puppeteers 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.120 and like we're like, I love you Sonic or Knuckles 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.800 is like I don't understand you know. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:28.480 That kind of thing. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.800 And so yeah, we get to like act across from 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:31.840 real actors. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:32.800 Do you like it? 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.280 I love it weird, like you're talking to a muppet 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.560 and I know one time you're talking to a tennis ball. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.520 I know, but it's like using your imagination, right, Like 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.720 the closest thing to creativity is play. So I mean 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.480 that's what you'd get to I got to do it, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.360 and I feel like I'm the coolest mom ever have 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.200 daughter who's eight, is like she saw like she saw 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.680 it and she's like, thank you so much, mom, And 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.640 then all her friends were like, your sonic's mom. Yes, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:02.440 I feel like I have different street Crid. She's eight 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.480 years old playing not at all with or without you? 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.600 Without you? 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.280 When they first booked you for that, did you what 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.199 made you say I want to do this because it's 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:14.600 totally different than what you've done before. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.000 What made you want to do that? 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.760 Well, honestly, they asked me to come read at like 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:24.120 a huge paramount table reading all the executives. Everybody was there, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:28.440 and I was like, do y'all y'all want me to 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.600 come read with you guys? That's awesome, And so then 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.880 they offered me the job. I wanted to do it 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.480 because I wanted to do something that my daughter can 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:35.080 actually watch. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.800 I feel like everything I do is. It's like she 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.560 can't really watch it. So how is it working with 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:46.720 Jim Carrey? Oh, doctor, yes, which nobody else could play 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.840 that role. And he plays two roles in this. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.480 He plays his own grandfather and then the grandson, and 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.240 so he's in First of all, I grew up watching 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.480 him on in Living Color. Yeah. Same, And so to 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.559 see somebody who you look up to for so long 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.280 the first one, I was like, oh my god, Jim 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.720 Carrey and he's like, all right, let's let's talk about 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.840 the script and like all the things and what do 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.080 you think about this? And help like write this joke? 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.040 And I was like, what's me? No, I can't help 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.160 with anything. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:15.520 You write that, you know. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.120 But it was really cool that he kind of embraced 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.360 us and he's just super normal. Now it's like, oh 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.960 that's Jim, you know. Yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:24.640 a dream come true. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.720 I wonder when you have you know yourself and then 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.439 you have stars of that magnitude like Keanu and Jim, 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.040 do they need to be seen clearly? 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:33.120 Not? 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:33.360 Right? 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:34.400 Do y'all need to be seen? 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:35.520 What do you mean? 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:36.240 And what like? 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.160 As far as like being on the screen, like it's 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.200 your voices, but it's. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:43.480 Not oh them, yeah, I mean you see Jim on 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.240 the screen, you see what he does. I think with 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:50.160 Keanu and Idris, you know their voices, so you don't 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.440 have to. People are excited that it's Keanu and Idris, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.120 you know. And but also you know, the characters that 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.440 they're playing are super iconic, so it's like they you 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.120 know it, it's great that we have them, we love them. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.000 But also like the characters are the gamers are like, 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.080 we're down for the ride. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.200 But do you tell people? Is you like if somebody 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.959 like I love that character, you'd be like, you know, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:10.440 that's me. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:12.160 But you see me. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.920 I'm not. No, I'm not a cartoon. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:20.079 I have never seen it because you was talking like 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:20.960 you were the voice actors. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:25.920 I know I'm talking to like the characters on screen, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.360 like Sonic and Tails. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.559 And Knuckles because he the only one that's not really 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.360 not real. He was I'm real who so yeah, and. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:35.640 Knuckles he knew Sonic wasn't real. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.000 I know Sonic and Knuckles not. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.360 Oh, you just thought the whole movie, the whole thing 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:40.920 was No. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.440 No, it's live action, like there you know, James Marson 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.480 and me and you know other people are real. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:48.480 Jim Carrey is real. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.560 Yeah, so be just confused. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.560 I never got it. I never got into the sonic thing. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.040 Actually what caught me with the trailer for Knuckle one time, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:01.840 but that was on TV. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.880 Yeah that was a series. Yeah that was. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I talked earlier that your mom 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.439 just allowed you to go right, Yeah, that was your 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.959 your son and daughter daughter. Because your daughter get older, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.600 would you let her just go and say go ahead? 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:25.600 These days? I mean it's hard. I do. Like we 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.839 went like camping one and she's like, I just want 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.160 to go. We did. We went camping. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:35.559 Queens, but we went to like auto camp. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.120 It was like a glamping Yes, it's like in a community. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.680 She's like, I want to walk over. She's very independent. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.320 I think it's really important to allow your child to 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.200 have some access to independence because I feel like or 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.360 you can be kind of clobbering them and like, you know, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.439 I feel like I used to when I was in 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.760 Queen's I would go down the block until the lights 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.760 start and it was like Tica come home, and I 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.960 just felt like, I that's how you learn, that's how 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.360 you learn how to fight for yourself. I remember getting 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:09.360 jumped by my two friends. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:09.080 That day. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.120 They're like, te could come over here. I'm like, what. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.520 You got hit with? The come outside? You're not gonna 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:21.240 jump you coming. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.200 Going to somebody's house. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:26.760 The girls are like, y'all gonna fight? What What did 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:27.079 you do? 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.000 I didn't do I am I was a very sweet child. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.360 I did not do anything. I think they just wanted to. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:34.400 I don't know why they wanted to fight me. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:36.600 She got jump. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.360 Let me tell you my adrenaline when they told me 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.160 the girl. I wish I could say her day because 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.880 I remember. That's how impacted. I remember everybody's name. And 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.720 I was like, I'm gonna fight her. And she was 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.160 big in my big. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.360 Like big back of like like. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:56.720 Like Diesel big back, and I was like my adrenaline 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.600 shot to my heart. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.240 And I remember taking her hand. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.319 There was a thorn bush, swinging her throwing her in 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.440 the thorn bush, and she being like, I don't want 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.920 to fight you. I was like what, Like it was 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.720 a weird It was like I was in a dream 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:12.760 and I don't know where the power came from. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.920 I'm like, wasn't an angel because it was not me. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:15.600 It couldn't have. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:26.720 Been me, yeah, and I walked away alive to jump. Well, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.040 they were all around me, so it was like it 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:34.560 was a setup. They didn't they didn't jump me one 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.120 on one, but the other my friends were around me. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.880 And I was like, I don't understand that. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.000 Smart you took the biggest one out first. So once 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.760 they see everybody stories. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.600 She asked me the other day, she asked me the 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:54.680 day She's like, she did ask the other day, mom, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:55.680 have you ever been drunk? 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.800 And I was like, what was she watching? I want 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.600 to ask all the questions. I'm just open with my child. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.320 I really am, and not in a way where it's 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.120 like inappropriate, but like I was drinking a beer at 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.040 home one night and we were talking. She's like, have 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.600 you ever been drunk? And I was like, my husband's like, yes, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.240 she has, and he tells her the store and she's like, wow, 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.920 we want to know. I've been drunk many times. You 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.120 don't want to know that was my past life. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.480 It's funny though, because you talk about how you came up, 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:27.880 but it's like, yo, we can't do that with our 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.560 kids nowadays. I don't feel comfortable to letting my kids 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:31.120 just go out. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.640 And I mean, you know that lady who got arrested 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.200 for letting her ten year old walk. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.800 He was walking to the store. Yeah he's ten. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.680 And that was in the South too. Well, he walked nothing, 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:44.280 he walked. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.160 He walked to the store, and they came to arrest 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.440 her to say he was in Somebody called the cops 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.720 he was in danger. And you know most states have 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.120 that law. There's like only four that don't, Like, I. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.240 Didn't even know that that. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.080 Yes, yeah, it's like a child endangerment or something like that. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:01.760 But like I'm like, you can't even let your child 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.320 walk to a store, which is crazy. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:08.320 So many times. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:14.720 Oh my gosh, an Astra credit, Yeah, exactly exactly. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.280 And you worked with Tyler Party on a few projects. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.040 I did, and I noticed that, you know a lot 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:20.720 of actors that work with him say that that was 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.760 the first time that they ever got paid what they 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:23.240 were worth. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:24.400 Was that the same for you? 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.800 I I'm lucky in this industry. Like for the jobs 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.920 that I have had, I've been paid very well and 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:37.360 he has continued the process for me. And so I 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.920 feel super grateful because even now, like I brought a 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:41.920 I was trying to get a project made for five 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.760 years and I had it with different production companies and 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.880 I co wrote something with a friend of mine who's 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.920 a writer on Pea Valley, and I brought it to 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.080 him and within days he calls me. He's like, I'll 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.920 direct it. This is the first time he's ever directed 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.240 something that he didn't write. And he's like, you you 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.320 produce it for like, you really go out and produce it, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.240 which I love. He's like, so, I'm co writing, producing, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.240 and starring in a film that Amazon sisters in Italy 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.239 and Amazon bought it and so we're finishing it in 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.760 Italy in April. So and he said yes in June July. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.240 We started in September. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:17.600 Congratulations. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.800 Kyla is a great dude, man. I don't think he 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.440 really gets the flowers with a credit that he deserves. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.280 I think he gets it, and he gets it from 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.720 the people that matter to him. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:26.359 You know. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.080 I think you know, there's obviously a group of people 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:31.840 who don't like what he does, but you don't have 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:32.280 to watch it. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.320