1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: What's up? 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 2: Its way up at Angela. 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 3: Ye, I'm here, and y'all know my guy Carlos King 4 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 3: has been guest hosting, and how could I not have 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 3: you here? While we talked to Mona, Scott Young, Jesse Smollett, 6 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 3: and Jabari Redy. 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 2: And now the reason the. 8 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 3: Three of them are here is for The Lost Holiday. 9 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 3: That's a new movie that's going to be limited released 10 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 3: in theaters AMC theaters correct, correct Friday, Friday? 11 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: All right, so let's get into it. 12 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:36,279 Speaker 3: So, Mona, this is something that you're executive producing, producing, producing. 13 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 4: Yes, trussa small Wood, shout out to Mega my media. 14 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 4: And Jesse's a super massive movie. Okay, that is actually 15 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 4: the name of his production. Absolutely a super massive movie. 16 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 4: So even if the movie ain't that good because it's 17 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 4: produced by a super massive movie, then you know, exactly that's. 18 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: A smart move though, yes smart. 19 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: Super massive is good in many ways, exactly. 20 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: Many many ways. 21 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 5: So whatever whatever industry we. 22 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 3: Do, you're super massive no matter way. 23 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 4: All right, I'm sorry, Should I move out of. 24 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 6: Yeah? 25 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 3: Now, Jabari I mention before the BET Awards with Jesse, 26 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 3: he was there. You guys were promoting Bee Boy Blues 27 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 3: and Mona you were involved in that too. 28 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: Absolutely, this is the family. This is the family. 29 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, you guys do great work together. Because Angela I 30 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 6: was watching the movie and it's really good. Hopefully gay 31 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 6: black man. I appreciated the fact that we're telling stories 32 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 6: that really can resonate to us. You know, the character 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 6: vibicat Fox is playing is a mom who isn't too 34 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 6: aware of what her son is going you know, through 35 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 6: in his personal life. And the sort of dynamic that 36 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 6: your character plays along bificault character is super funny. 37 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 5: It really is. 38 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 4: It's so funny because we've been screening. We screened at 39 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 4: a BFF in Miami and London. We did a screening 40 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 4: in d C. So you have people from all walks 41 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 4: of life, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and every single person 42 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 4: has been able to take something away from you. We 43 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 4: did a screening in Atlanta and there was this incredible 44 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 4: testimony by that one young lady who talked about, you know, 45 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 4: just having been in the foster care system and it's 46 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 4: strange from her own mother and seeing herself in the characters. 47 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 4: So that's what I think is so special about this moment. 48 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 3: Well, let's discuss what the movie is about. So for 49 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 3: people who haven't seen it without giving too much away. 50 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 3: And by the way, I saw that you had my 51 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 3: guy from the Office, like one of my favorite favorite. 52 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 5: And just did this this beautiful cameo and he listened. 53 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 5: He opens. 54 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 3: I love that y'all got him on there, because yes, okay, 55 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 3: but what's. 56 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: His name in Realize? 57 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 5: Leslie David Baker? 58 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 3: All right, Leslie David Baker. How did you even approach 59 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 3: him and get him for that role? I just have 60 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: to know because the Office and curb your enthusiasm, of course, 61 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 3: but Vibica was on that. You know, those are some 62 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 3: of my favorite shows. So talk to me about how 63 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 3: that happened. 64 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 5: He became my friend. I randomly. 65 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 7: I have the most random encounters with people, and then 66 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 7: they become my friends. I was driving one day and 67 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 7: I don't know what I was going through, but I 68 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 7: was driving. 69 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 5: And he pulls up on the side of me. 70 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 7: We're about to make a left onto Cold Water Canyon 71 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 7: from Ventura Boulevard in LA and I'm about to make 72 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 7: a left and he pulls up side of me and 73 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 7: he says, he says, like he said, he said, pick 74 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 7: up your head, young man, And I looked over it no, No, 75 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 7: I think I was looking a little he says, I 76 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 7: was looking a little down right, and so he said, he, yees, 77 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 7: pick up your head young man. 78 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 5: I look over. I'm like Stanley. 79 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 7: So I'm like, why Stanley in the office giving me 80 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 7: like from the off and give me a pep talk. 81 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 5: And then he hit me up. 82 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 7: No, I hit him up on social media and I said, hey, like, 83 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 7: I was actually going through it and you said pick 84 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 7: your head up. 85 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 5: And I appreciate that. 86 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 7: And we just started chatting and became friends, and a 87 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 7: couple of years later we were doing this film and 88 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 7: I called him. I actually called him for another project 89 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 7: that we did and he said yes to that. So 90 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 7: when I called him for this, he said yes, but 91 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 7: only if I can do a. 92 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 5: Scene with Ms. Villica. Oh, and I said, and then 93 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 5: I went back to the Draum. 94 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 7: I was like and wrote that damn scene with him, 95 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 7: and because it's just you know, he's just a wonderful 96 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 7: human thing. But every single person in this film was 97 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 7: was it was a phone pick up. You know, we 98 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 7: didn't have we didn't have it in the budget to 99 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 7: pay a cast in the. 100 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 5: Record, you know what I'm saying. 101 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 7: So so we basically this was cast between myself and Jabari. 102 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,799 Speaker 7: Jabari with Jabari is the one that brought us Brittany's Brittany. 103 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 7: Brittany as Hall plays my sister. You know, it's just 104 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 7: it really is a family, a family film, but it's 105 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 7: also created by a family. 106 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: Okay, I love that. 107 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 7: That's good. 108 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 6: So Jabar, let's talk about your character, because a lot 109 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 6: happens in the first couple of minutes. 110 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,679 Speaker 5: Give it away, But what drove you to doing this movie? 111 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 8: First of all, call from Jesse, you know, but beyond 112 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 8: the call, it was as many topics that it covered. 113 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 8: You know, it covered the same gender loving couple, it 114 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 8: covered the same heterosexual couples, it covered different relationships of family. 115 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 8: So I was very inspired to you know, really play 116 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 8: along all the things that it had to offer. And 117 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 8: you know, we really don't get that nowadays, especially with 118 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 8: the concept with what was going on on black black, 119 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 8: same gender loving couples leading a movie. So it was 120 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 8: just really fun to do. And I was also very excited. 121 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 5: You know. 122 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: It's interesting because Carlos and I had a conversation it 123 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 3: wasn't even about this movie, but behind the scenes, we 124 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 3: were talking about a show that you had Carlos. Maybe 125 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 3: you want to expand on that and how difficult it 126 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: is to get you know, the movies made that it's 127 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 3: same gender and that all so they can be critically acclaimed, 128 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 3: but are the numbers there? 129 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: Are they commercially? 130 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 8: Yeah? 131 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 6: I was telling her how to show with Jason Bosen 132 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 6: and Derek Curtis. You know a mary you know, gay 133 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 6: black couple on Netflix called Styling Hollywood. 134 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 5: Oh, I used to love that show. Yeah, good, that 135 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 5: was good. I love Jason. No, they're amazing. 136 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 6: The show lasted for one season because on Netflix, your 137 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 6: shows are seeing in one hundred and ninety countries and 138 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 6: unfortunately the reach was yea, yeah, yeah. And I was 139 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 6: telling Angela that, you know, when it comes to having 140 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 6: movies unscripted shows as well, it is challenging to have 141 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 6: movies and unscripted shows green Lid that features that. 142 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 4: Features solely, like I tried as well for a very 143 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 4: long time. It's so funny before legendary. 144 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know if you remember this. 145 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 4: I had a show that was about the ballroom scene, 146 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 4: right because I thought it was so fascinating when you 147 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 4: talk about family, that entire culture is about family, you know, 148 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 4: becoming a family, and I always thought with all of 149 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 4: the things that you have to go through to become 150 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 4: part of a house, right, that it had an inherent 151 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 4: like competitive element to it. 152 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: So I was like, there's a great formatted show. 153 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 4: And could not get anyone, not even Logo that was 154 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 4: at the time the network for the community. 155 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: They would not even bite into it. 156 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 4: And so for me personally, it's always about shining a 157 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 4: light on and providing a platform for you know, marginalized 158 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 4: And I'm doing air quotes because it's only perceived marginalization, right. 159 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 5: We are all part. 160 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 4: Of the wider humanity. So the fact that we still 161 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 4: have to you know, segregate ourselves in that way. Oh, 162 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 4: this is a movie for the LGBTQ community. This is 163 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 4: a black movie. Like, my goal every day is just 164 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 4: to do good projects that tell the stories that are 165 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 4: relatable across all people. And that's what I love about 166 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 4: the way just right. Yeah, you read that script and 167 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 4: it didn't you know, you forget even with B Boy 168 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 4: Blues that oh. 169 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: Wait, this is the same sex couple. It was just 170 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: a loving couple. 171 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 2: It was just a guy that was kind of an asshole. 172 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, but we audated. We've all dated, toxic people. 173 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 5: We've all you know, experienced that, so I feel like, yeah, 174 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 5: that's the. 175 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 7: Way to I also find that the problem is a 176 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 7: lot of times is you may find it more difficult 177 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 7: for somebody to license or purchase something based on a story. 178 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 7: That's why, for instance, B Boy Blues, I can't tell 179 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 7: you that B Boy Blues would have been made had 180 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 7: we not gone and done it. That was self financed 181 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 7: by myself, only my company, and so so I don't 182 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 7: know that if it were if I tried to go 183 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 7: into a corporation or some sort of network or studio 184 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 7: and get money for that, I don't think that I 185 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 7: would have gotten it made. So I think that bet 186 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 7: stepped in Mona literally walked it into be et, but 187 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 7: it was already made. And then as far as the 188 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 7: Lost Holiday, again, I don't know if we would have 189 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 7: gotten anything like this green lip, but we greenlited ourselves. 190 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 7: So I think that as long as we keep doing that, 191 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 7: because a lot of these space that are very broad 192 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 7: they're too they're too small for gay storylines. And then 193 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 7: a lot of this, a lot of the places that 194 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 7: are broad enough for gay storylines, they're not broad enough 195 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 7: for black gay storylines. So just pushing that forward, showing 196 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 7: that we are so much more alike than not is 197 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 7: really what our goal has been with all of these projects. 198 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 4: I hate, yeah, I hate the term normalized right right, 199 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 4: right right, but it's really just about creating a space 200 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 4: for all stories to be That's just what the agenda 201 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 4: is good stories. And this is a good story. The writing, 202 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 4: the directing, the acting, you know, and. 203 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 3: I love I love the fact that we started off 204 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 3: not liking Vivica right because that was like, but that 205 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 3: was to her. She did a great shot. 206 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: Owns that role. And you know that woman, We've all. 207 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 4: Her everything from the nuance facial expression. She is brilliant. 208 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 3: Shout out to Vivocated, the wonderful yes she did, Yes, 209 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 3: she did, Yes. 210 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 5: She did. 211 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. 212 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 3: Just to see like the progress that she makes, you know, 213 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 3: I think it was I had no idea where it 214 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 3: was going to go. So that's why at first, when 215 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 3: I actually watched some of it before I brought it in, 216 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 3: I started it over because I was like, come on, Carlos, 217 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 3: I didn't know if he was going to be able 218 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 3: to stay and do the interview. 219 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 6: But you know, after watching, I was like, I got 220 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 6: all right, that's wonderful. This is my community and I 221 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 6: wanted to make sure that I co signed that people 222 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 6: should go and watch this movie. It's really fascinating interesting 223 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 6: to see our stories being told. So thank you Mona 224 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 6: for also hoping for It takes allies to really help. 225 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 5: Us get these things to the finish. Absolutely. 226 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 3: Why was it important for you guys to have this 227 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 3: in theaters? I know it's a limited release in AMC, 228 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 3: but why was that important? 229 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 4: Well, because of the support that's needed. Right this was 230 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 4: an independent project. We need people to go out and 231 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,439 Speaker 4: support these movies because that's how we're able to get into, 232 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,319 Speaker 4: you know, the mainstream buyers and the distributors. 233 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: But we needed to go. 234 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 3: Out and create some momentum around Okay, so it's not 235 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 3: going to be somewhere else right after that? Is it 236 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 3: still creating momentum by having the limited release. 237 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 4: Because we want people to go out, We want them 238 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 4: to be talking about the movie, and that allows us 239 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 4: to walk into these buyers with some leverage. 240 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 3: Because I'm it's done, it's packaged. It's an amazing project. 241 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 3: I would think this would be an easy sou I 242 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,599 Speaker 3: thought that it was a limited release in theaters and 243 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 3: then right after that we'll be able. 244 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: To Well that's the goal, girl, that's the goal. 245 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 5: But here's the thing on top of that. 246 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 7: It also is a thing of this is the type 247 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 7: of project that I want to see in theaters. It's 248 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 7: when I was growing up. If I had seen these 249 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 7: type of films, I would have had a different understanding 250 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 7: of myself much earlier on. And I think that I 251 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 7: want for people who will watch a project like this 252 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 7: to have the same experience when they were in the 253 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 7: in the theaters watching Soul Food, when they were in 254 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 7: the theaters watching Still Magnolia's. I want them to have 255 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 7: that experience, and they should. I don't want us to look. 256 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 7: D Boy Blues was incredible and it went to be 257 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 7: et plus and that is that is wonderful. But for 258 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 7: this film, I really wanted people to be able to 259 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 7: have the theater experience, and that to me is it's 260 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 7: special to be able to see representation on the big screen. 261 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 3: You know, let's go talk about what is the last 262 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 3: movie y'all went to the movie there to to see. 263 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 7: Oh the Burial with my little sister and Jamie Fox 264 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 7: because that was in limited theaters as well, and then 265 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 7: they went to streaming. That's the last film that I saw. 266 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 5: I'm a movie vib. 267 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 6: I went to go see Speak No Evil last Saturday. 268 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: I can't even remember. 269 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 5: I'm not actually I missed that. 270 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 3: Because I'm saying honestly, like when you think about it, 271 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 3: because I used to go to the movie so much 272 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 3: and I still do. I'm gonna go see Pharrell's movie. 273 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely gonna go see Smile Shout out. 274 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 4: Missy Elliotts rhymes there represented in that. Oh you're talking 275 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 4: about the Lego movie Lego Pie Piece. 276 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 7: I want to go see Halle Berry's movie just I 277 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 7: can put on a wig because she was doing that 278 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 7: whole like everybody. 279 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 5: Go see her movie. Way, I think that is so fun. 280 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 3: So things like that I think really up, Like when 281 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 3: people were going to see I mean, the Barbie movie 282 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 3: was such a big deal when it came out, but 283 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 3: people really got dressed up, or like Sex and the City, 284 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 3: you know the movie. People got dressed up to go 285 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 3: out and go to the movies. And the experience is 286 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 3: different now because I feel like when I go to 287 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 3: the movies, I need to be able to order drinks 288 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 3: from my seat. 289 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 2: Yes, no way, you. 290 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 5: Are so theater spoiled. 291 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I am. 292 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 2: It's a special. 293 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 5: Thing, but yeah, it's fun. 294 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 2: All right. 295 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 3: Well, let's talk some more about, you know, just the 296 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 3: whole plot of this movie, because, like I said, we're 297 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 3: not giving away too much, but were there certain scenes 298 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 3: for you Jabari that were emotional? 299 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: While all these. 300 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 8: Things were emotional because the movie embodies so much feeling 301 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 8: like laughter, of sadness, grief, of forgiveness, grace, like it 302 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 8: embodies a whole range of emotion. And you know, my, my, 303 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 8: my castmates are so such professionals in the craft, so 304 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 8: you know, you got to bring it and they bring. 305 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 5: It right back. You brought it though, thank you. 306 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 8: So it really allowed to exploration of you know, of 307 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 8: feeling and truth and reality. 308 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I just think about the flashback scenes. 309 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 7: Oh my god. 310 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, Like to me, I can't even imagine the grief 311 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 3: of like losing your partner. You know, that has to 312 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 3: be something that is one of the hardest things besides 313 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 3: I think losing a child, because yeah, you know that's 314 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 3: something that should that's like the most devastating thing according 315 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 3: to the natural order of how things should happen, right right, right, 316 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 3: You know, you don't want to have to deal with that. 317 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 4: And I think just so when you talk about, especially 318 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 4: in your community, when you know you would lose a partner, 319 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 4: you get extra Yeah. 320 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 5: That's exactly what we were so inspired by. 321 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 7: That is so I tell this often that I have 322 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 7: so many mentors that are in their sixties or even seventies, 323 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 7: who particularly in the at the height of the ages 324 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 7: pandemic in the eighties, and they lost their partners, they 325 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 7: lost their their their life partners, and maybe were extracted 326 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 7: from their legacy. 327 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 5: We're not allowed in room, were not allowed to go 328 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 5: to the funeral. 329 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 7: Maybe their family kind of stepped back in and took 330 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 7: them out of the. 331 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 5: Life. 332 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 7: That yeah, and that is such a it's so unfortunate. 333 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 7: So it kind of is you know that. And I 334 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 7: was also inspired by my mother. I keep saying that 335 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 7: this film was absolutely inspired by my mother. As a 336 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 7: black woman who married into a non black family in 337 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 7: the seventies and raised us in the eighties and the nineties, 338 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 7: it was not always easy to navigate that and my 339 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 7: father was not speaking to my grandmother for a very 340 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 7: long time, and when he passed, that's when I saw 341 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 7: my mother and my grandmother bond. So that really is 342 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 7: what we see here in this film, and one of 343 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 7: the lines that I tell Vivica's character of do you 344 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 7: know how better our lives would have been if you 345 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 7: had actually been a mother? And you know that's what 346 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 7: so many go through, not just because of sexuality, but 347 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 7: because of race, because of religion, because you know, you know, 348 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 7: so that is that's definitely something that inspired us for 349 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 7: the film. 350 00:15:58,120 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, let me ask you this because it's interesting when 351 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 4: you trust me, I know, did you feel that there 352 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 4: was something in the movie that kind of connected to 353 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 4: an element of your life? 354 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I was gonna say, even with my father 355 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 3: being Chinese, when my grandfather passed, he wouldn't speak to 356 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 3: me or my brother our whole lives because my father 357 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 3: married a black woman. They didn't want the kids, They 358 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 3: didn't want my aunts and uncles to come to the 359 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 3: wedding or anything. And so even like he had suffered 360 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 3: from a stroke and we could see that, you know, 361 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 3: the end was near, and my dad would be like, oh, 362 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 3: sit next to your grandfather, but he was not having 363 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 3: a Wow. 364 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, even in all of that. 365 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 3: But my grandmother wasn't really like that, But I feel 366 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 3: like she would kind of follow behind what my grandfather 367 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 3: wanted and so once he passed, it was but it 368 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 3: was already just so like you know, strained. 369 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 5: I feel like absolutely so. 370 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 4: And that's when this movie, you know, we hope people 371 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 4: take away from it that, you know, it's about family, 372 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 4: finding family, you know, loving each other while you're here 373 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 4: and while they're here for you to love on them 374 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 4: and appreciating that. And then you know, forgiveness, nay, not 375 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 4: only yeah, the other person, for forgiving yourself. 376 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 7: Because the sad reality of the situation is is that 377 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 7: someone may pass unfortunately without you getting to say everything 378 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 7: that you wanted to say, and dare I say, without 379 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 7: even being able to make amends with someone maybe that 380 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 7: you have fallen out with, and that is so unfortunate. 381 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 7: But even still, there's still work that you've got to 382 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 7: do because you're still here, so you have to do something. 383 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 7: You have to try to make amends, if not with them, 384 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 7: then at least with the situation because you're here, So 385 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 7: what are you going to do with yourself for the 386 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 7: rest of your life? 387 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: Right? 388 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that's a great point because I know so 389 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 3: many people we are strange from certain family members and 390 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 3: it's not an easy thing. And forgiveness is sometimes difficult 391 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 3: because there's a lot of pain that comes with that. 392 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 3: And I also feel like, you know, certain the older generation, 393 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 3: they're not as open to going to therapy or doing 394 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 3: things that they need to do to work on themselves, 395 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 3: or being even open to having conversations. And you know, 396 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 3: it is something that you can't turn back the hands 397 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 3: of time and if something does happen, are you going 398 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 3: to live with regrets from that? 399 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: So many themes we touch on in the Last Theaters. 400 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 3: Being cremated, like what do you want to do after whatever? 401 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 3: That is something that came up in the movie and 402 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 3: I was like, man, you know, I don't know, like 403 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 3: I haven't thought about is that something that I wouldn't 404 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 3: want to do? 405 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 2: But these are things that we are real life conversation. 406 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 5: But that's what it's here for. Though. It's like we're 407 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 5: not pastors, we're not preachers. 408 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 7: We're just artists who are here to like hold up 409 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 7: a mirror and just be like, yo, Angela, you thinking 410 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 7: about that? 411 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 8: Now? 412 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 5: You think about that? 413 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 7: You know, like I want to be wrapped in sheet 414 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 7: cloth and plant it into a tree. So I really 415 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 7: do I want to be I want to be I 416 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 7: want to be buried and then I want a tree 417 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 7: planting over me. 418 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 5: So I could be a treat. Okay, that's what I want, y'all. 419 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 7: So if you see anybody and they're doing the other stuff, 420 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 7: tell them to put me under the. 421 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 5: Tree that Yeah. 422 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 3: Now, Jesse, I have to ask you, you know, everything 423 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 3: that you've been through, do you have to ask yes, 424 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 3: by getting into getting back into Hollywood, do you feel 425 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 3: like okay? Because I do think the best thing to 426 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 3: do is keep working and keep going, and you can't 427 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 3: stop doing that. So do you feel like things are 428 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 3: getting better? You feel like okay? You know, people are 429 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 3: more receptive now because it was a tough time. 430 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 7: It certainly was a tough time. I mean unless anybody 431 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 7: was living under a rock. Yeah, it's been rough. But 432 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 7: you know, this is what I do. You know, I 433 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 7: create art, and I hopefully create art that affects people 434 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 7: in a really important, impactful and loving way. Anything else 435 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 7: for me is just noise. Even if the rest of 436 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 7: the world has not moved on from it, I am 437 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 7: in the process of moving on from it. So all 438 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 7: I can really do is keep working, is keep keeping 439 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 7: myself mentally healthy and physically healthy and you know, spiritually healthy. 440 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 7: And I have been working very, very hard in every 441 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 7: single element of myself. So you know, people are going 442 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 7: to say what they want to say. And I hope 443 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 7: to God you know, I can't lie to you and 444 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 7: sit there and be like, Oh, it doesn't it doesn't 445 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 7: bother me if they just brushes right off. Now it 446 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 7: bothers me. Sometimes it hurts my feelings. Sometimes it really 447 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,719 Speaker 7: pisses me off. But at the same time, there are 448 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 7: so much more important things that I know factually the 449 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 7: world needs to see. 450 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 5: And so I'm not interested. 451 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 7: In necessarily giving everybody what they want, but I will 452 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 7: give them what they need. 453 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 5: And that's the truth from me and some good art. 454 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:23,479 Speaker 5: That's all I can do. 455 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 3: And that is forgiveness for you, because people have made 456 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 3: jokes and comments, and like you said, they can be 457 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 3: really hurtful. 458 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 5: But now that you're I ain't forgiving sh. 459 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 3: You're running to people, and I know that there's times 460 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 3: that like maybe somebody now it's like, oh, yeah, I 461 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 3: want to get him on the show. 462 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 2: I want to do X, Y and Z. How are 463 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 2: you with that? 464 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 3: Because like you said, forgiveness is one of the themes 465 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 3: of this movie. 466 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 7: Ask over there, I'll publish this. How many times it's like, no, 467 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 7: but you know what you do. 468 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 4: Say because I think like you're full of crap right now, 469 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 4: because I have heard you so many times say I 470 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 4: get it. I unders stand why people have thought the 471 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 4: things that they've thought. 472 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 5: You know, Look, I mean that's the that's that is 473 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 5: very true. Look at the end of the day, no, no, no, 474 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 5: I can, I can, and I do. 475 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 7: But at the same time, you know, I get Here's 476 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 7: the thing, as far as the public goes, I understand 477 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 7: why they would feel the way that they did based 478 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 7: on the narrative that was spun and then on top 479 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 7: of it, the way that it was served in such 480 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 7: a horrendous, egregious way that it's just not. 481 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 5: Did not happen, you know what I mean. 482 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 7: But at the same time, so I understand that when 483 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 7: I take out my emotions, I'm a very emotional person. 484 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 5: I'm a cancer. I'm a very. 485 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 7: Very emotional, very very emotional I am if I whatever. 486 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 7: But people think that that just means that you're sad 487 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 7: when you're cancer, like, no whatever feeling I feel, you know, 488 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 7: And so I understand that on a public on a 489 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 7: public level, as far as media or people like that, 490 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 7: I don't have have to talk to you if I 491 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 7: don't want to, Like, I'm not going to go to 492 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 7: your show and just do it just because I need 493 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,719 Speaker 7: to promote the movie. There are really great people around 494 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 7: that are nice, that ask questions that they need to 495 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 7: ask that they do need to ask. You know, that 496 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 7: give me an opportunity to explain certain things, and I 497 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 7: appreciate that. But if you're going to come to me 498 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 7: in a way that is malicious or vindictive or the gotcha, 499 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 7: gotcha situation, no, and I know who that is. And 500 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 7: those are the shows that you have not seen us on. 501 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. 502 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 5: Things. 503 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 6: One of the biggest things in this movie is love 504 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,959 Speaker 6: and Mona Scott Young and I recently did an interview 505 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 6: on my podcast where she gave me so much insight 506 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 6: about her relationship and does love and all those things. 507 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,439 Speaker 6: So I want to ask you, Jessine Jabari, are you 508 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 6: guys in love? 509 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 5: Wait? 510 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 2: What no came up from. 511 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 5: Understand your question? We just trying to understand your question. 512 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: Is also got. 513 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 2: Lightweight because he's single and so he's trying to do 514 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 2: some digging. 515 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 5: I'm the best ones. 516 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 8: Answer first, I'm unavailable and I'm in love. 517 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 5: Some being like that's right to a wonderful man named Sean. 518 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 3: Okay, no, she lets us know. We love se Let's 519 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 3: got don't forget the young, forget right, don't forget the young. 520 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 3: So it's been a year for you. 521 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 6: Okay, congratulations, thank you, thank you, thank you. 522 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 5: I'm yeah just about you? Are you? 523 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 7: Are you dating to Carlos and unavailable and deeply in love? 524 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 2: Wow? 525 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 5: Okay, been going on, leave me alone. Let's talk after 526 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 5: the show. 527 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 3: That makes me feel like he can't say a date 528 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 3: because it's with people who might think, no, I'm kidding, 529 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 3: was talking about it, but we've been together. But you 530 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 3: know what, honestly, but that's not an easy thing. Mona's 531 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 3: got young to achieve to be in, you know, in 532 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 3: this business doing the things that you've been doing, going 533 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 3: on the road, going on to have since somebody that's 534 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,919 Speaker 3: understanding of all of that too, that's that is all 535 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 3: going on. 536 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 4: That's really what it boils down to, having somebody who's 537 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 4: secure enough to see what your destiny is and to 538 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 4: support that unconditionally. 539 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 7: And he does because listen, we get emails all the 540 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 7: time from Sean handling things we needs. 541 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 5: He's businessman. 542 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 6: I was like Mona's understudy. 543 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,439 Speaker 5: You know, Mona has taught me so much in this business. 544 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 6: And what I will say is watching this phenomenal woman 545 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 6: build this business. 546 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 5: And one thing she checked me on our interview. 547 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 6: Because I said like, well, how does it feel to 548 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 6: be like, you know, the bread wunner. 549 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 2: She said, wow, Carlos, because you know a messy. 550 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 5: Questions and she said, we built this company together. 551 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 6: And that's what made me realize when it comes to 552 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 6: the excellence that she you know, entails with everything she does, 553 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 6: is because she does have somebody and they work alongside 554 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 6: each other. 555 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 3: Now, listen, having the right partner is so important because 556 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 3: that person can either bring you down, stress you out, 557 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 3: make you unable to work, you know, and steal money 558 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 3: from you who. 559 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 2: Knows you. 560 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 5: Are? You know what I stress? 561 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 4: I talk about all the time when I speak to 562 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 4: women and they're like, oh, how did you have children 563 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 4: and pursue a career and have a real I would 564 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 4: never have been able to do it right if I 565 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 4: did not have someone there that I could trust, that 566 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 4: I didn't have to think about, that didn't stress me out, 567 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 4: get into any dumb ship that was gonna have me, 568 00:25:49,440 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 4: you know, so not Cotton Woods. Listen, don't do that. 569 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 4: Have no relationship. Kirk and Rashida have a relationship that 570 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 4: works for them with them, do you know? 571 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: That's what I say? 572 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 4: Well, listen, and if that's part of what works for them, 573 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 4: then so be it. 574 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 7: Right. 575 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 4: They know who they are, they know who they are 576 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 4: to each other, they know what their relationship is, they 577 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 4: know what their limitations are and what they are willing 578 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 4: to put up with and deal with. Right, who are 579 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 4: we to sit at home and decide what she should 580 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 4: leave him? She should do whatever the hell makes her happy. 581 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: But that's reality. 582 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 5: People are going to. 583 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 3: Do that. 584 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:35,360 Speaker 5: Personally. 585 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 6: And one thing I will add to that is Kirk 586 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 6: and Rashida, in my opinion, and you may agree with me, 587 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 6: they are tailor made. 588 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 5: For each other. 589 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 6: Yes they are. I have never met two people who 590 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 6: are more perfect for each other. It doesn't make sense 591 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 6: of the world. 592 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 5: And I but it doesn't. 593 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 6: Yeah, But when you know them and you've been around 594 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 6: them and you see them, they are ying and yang. 595 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,120 Speaker 4: They are like absolutely, And there's something to be said 596 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 4: for how long they've been together, how many years they're 597 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 4: going on? I don't know thirty plus thirty, right, So listen, 598 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 4: my mind they're doing some. 599 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 3: But my my business right and now, Jesse, you have 600 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 3: a new song out too, by the way, I want 601 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 3: to make sure we talk about that as well. 602 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 2: All right, So does this. 603 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 3: Mean a full length album, because I know singing is 604 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 3: your love as well. 605 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 7: Yes, there is a full length album that has already 606 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 7: completed and has been for a little bit. But you know, 607 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 7: now we're now I'm confident to put it out, So 608 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 7: probably by the end of the year or top of 609 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 7: next it definitely will be out. But the first single 610 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 7: is my Mind. It's on the it's on the soundtrack 611 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 7: of It's on the it's in the film The Lost Holiday, 612 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 7: and among other other songs of mine. So yeah, we're 613 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 7: back to music. A large part of the reason why 614 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 7: I am even sitting here though, honestly, is and able 615 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 7: to and came back outside and like stop hiding up 616 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 7: in my apartment and back and up in Harlem. Like 617 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 7: it's just it's really because of Mona. Mona is the 618 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 7: one that would call me and say, yeah, it's true. 619 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,399 Speaker 7: Mona is the one that came to me and was like, 620 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 7: you've got to go outside, You've got to you know, 621 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 7: you got to live your hands. Yeah, she would literally 622 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 7: call and be like let's go, and I'd be like, well, 623 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 7: I don't want to let Scout boats Scout. And you 624 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,479 Speaker 7: know what, So she really is, she really is that person. 625 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 7: And this is the thing. It was before we were 626 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,959 Speaker 7: really working together, you know, it was before so it 627 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 7: wasn't like she was trying to get anything from me. 628 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 7: She wasn't trying to like, she wasn't trying to be like, yo, 629 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 7: come do a reality show or anything like that. She 630 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 7: really was. She became my friend. And and you know, 631 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 7: I've been held up and pushed in a loving way, 632 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 7: pushed by Mona and Tresa and Vivica and Sheila and 633 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 7: my mom who's an executive producer on the film, and 634 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 7: all of these black women that are so powerful in 635 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 7: their own right, and decided to cut out all of 636 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 7: the noise and just be like, you've got to go 637 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 7: and you've got to do what you do. 638 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: And just be like, you're incredibly talented. Thank you, stand in. 639 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 5: That, thank you. 640 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 6: Yes, would you do a reality show? 641 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 7: Just never Carlos, Well, I don't know, Carlos, Bring me 642 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 7: the contract and we'll see what they're paying. 643 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 4: If he was gonna do a reality show, we'd be 644 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 4: doing it. 645 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 5: Yeah. 646 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 7: Yeah, I think Mona was like if I if I 647 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 7: was going to do it, that I would, I would 648 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 7: do it with with her. 649 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: They they've been reaching out to him. I know. 650 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 5: Everybody has has reached out. Everybody has reached out. 651 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 7: I mean but even before everything, you know, my family, 652 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 7: you know when I remember when the Kardashians popped on 653 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 7: the scene, and then that became a thing of like, oh, 654 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 7: who's the next who's like the black the black family 655 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 7: that we can do this with. So we were We've 656 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 7: been approached for years. I think that we're just far 657 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 7: too private of a family. 658 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 2: I love your sister. I don't know her person, I 659 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 2: love her. 660 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 5: She is my favorite actor. I am not biased the. 661 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: Whole damn family. 662 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 4: Because then his brother and sister have a show where 663 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 4: they do makeovers and they design. 664 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 5: They did done. 665 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 2: I'm doing my backyard. 666 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 5: Right now, wait hold on the next season. 667 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 2: Like literally, while we sit here. 668 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 5: My back they did. They did Mona's backyard, they did 669 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 5: Heather B's backyard. They did. Come on and they did. 670 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: A fantastic job. 671 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 4: And you know, I'm a control free right I know, 672 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 4: I left and they did and I came in and 673 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 4: it's beautiful and I hate the fact that I haven't 674 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 4: been home. 675 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: I was out on Torols summer, so I didn't get 676 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: a chance. 677 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 5: To my backyard. But you'll be able to do like 678 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 5: winter barbecues and stuff. 679 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 3: Okay, thank you guys so much. 680 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. 681 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 3: And Friday limited in theaters the Lost Holiday. You can 682 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 3: listen to some new Jesse small up music on there 683 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 3: as well. And thank you again. Very good to see 684 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 3: you again, Mona. Always a pleasure. Thank you so much 685 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 3: for having us and Carlos. You know I love when 686 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 3: you sit in so thank you. 687 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 6: Thanks for having me here, like to be surrounded by friends. 688 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 2: Might come guest host one day. 689 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: I don't know I would be. 690 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 4: I told you that the last time I know you 691 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 4: booked and I was like, you got Carlos. 692 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 6: Oh my god, I'm kidding. 693 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 5: You can tell me. Y'all are real friends. That's a 694 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 5: real friendship. 695 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 2: Thank you guys. 696 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 5: Wall