WEBVTT - LS Episode 481: Coordinate This (Feat. Eva Marcille & Zuri Pryor-Graves) 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:03.920 What's up the service. I'm Angela Yee, I'm J. J. 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:05.359 Maguire, I'm Jeordie. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.120 Jor, I'm Zuri Prior Graves, and. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:08.480 I'm your girl, even morself. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.079 And this show didn't even start, and I feel like 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:13.960 we already did have that. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.400 Because happening. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.120 But let's just make sure we're all familiar with who 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.640 everybody is here, because Zuri Pia Graves, you are an 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.759 intimacy coordinator I am, and a mental health expert. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:25.720 I am clinician. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.560 Yes, yes, like run it down because I don't want 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.280 to miss anything you. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.320 I mean, those are those are the two main things. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:36.080 But I'm a sexuality educator and I used to be 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.000 a sexuality a sex. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.320 Therapist, sexuality educator. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.120 Well when I was doing it, I used to write 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.240 curriculum for sex education in schools. And it was also 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:52.000 at a time where HR policies didn't include language around 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:58.440 transidentities and all these sur revising corporate pr policies to 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.120 make sure that they're inclusive. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.880 Of well, they're about to throw all that out, girl, 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:10.640 because the way times are looking. Sheeshuh and Eva, before 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.880 we even started this, we were talking about eats, lay 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.200 love and of course you know, we are excited for 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:16.800 all the Kings men to all. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.399 The queens Men, sorry, all the Queen's Men coming back 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:19.919 on November. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.440 There's so many kings in there, though, I get it. Listen, 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.039 the Kings came there. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.520 We actually yesterday yesterday, me, Jordan and Gigi were at 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.480 my house and we were watching like binging Everything Eats 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.200 Lay Love, but also catching up on season three so 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:35.640 then we could get ready for season. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:36.640 Four of All the Queens. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.920 Thank you and listen. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.000 When when we were looking at like the preview of 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.440 what happened on the previous season, we were like, well, no, 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.319 let's run that back again because we need to catch 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.840 back up because I don't even remember this, you know how. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.120 It is just so much happening. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.320 There's so much happening. And that's what I love about 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.240 doing TV and film. I always thought say that entertainment, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.240 especially actors and TV and film, we satisfy two things. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.360 We there make it relatable, which is why reality TV 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.240 became such a big thing. Or watching yourself. When you're 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.680 watching your favorite TV shows like Living Single. Back in 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.800 the day, it was relatable, right, like that's your aunt, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.639 that's your mom, that's you, And then the other thing 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.240 we look for is an escape from like whatever our 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.920 life is, the election, breakups, just whatever. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.640 You just need an escape from reality. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.960 And so that's what I feel like TV does, and 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.240 that's what I enjoy doing as an entertainer, is bringing 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.120 all of those things to the forefront. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:34.880 Thank you, madam. Do you guys have an intimacy coordinator 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:35.560 on set? 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.440 Is groceries? Okay? 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.480 You have to show when I found out that you 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.640 were bringing an intimacy coordinator. You have no idea how 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.720 excited I was, because it is the one question a 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.280 lot of actors are asked when they do work that 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.480 is not PG and the show like mine, has every 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.160 letter it's like PG, M. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.600 A, t Z exactly right. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.560 So it's like we come out Thanksgiving Day, get ready 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.000 to get stuffed. We have two episodes for you, whether 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:11.120 or not for your kids, And in that there is text. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.000 There's a lot of what intimacy looks like in different versions, 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.240 and so people are often asked. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.120 I'm often asked, you know, like how you don't scene 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:22.960 like did he really like? 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.280 And I try to explain it the best way I 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.600 can I know. On All the Queen's Men Season two, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.280 A white Coastar and I had a love scene on 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:41.080 a jet and some things, and. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.960 Then you gave back that diamond necklace. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.320 Because Angelou wee can buy our own diamonds. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:46.880 I get it. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.920 But I'm just saying like, it's okay. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:51.200 You're right, it's okay. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.520 But in that scene people often ask like what was what? 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.280 So you're the person that I am used to leaning 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.840 on at work that it's like, I know you're having sex, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:02.520 like do you want. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.520 To keep it wrong? Do you want like a one piece? 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.200 Like do you want a body double? Do you want 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.080 a body double? That's often a very big thing. I'm like, oh, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.720 that bottom half wasn't me. You saw me with the 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.480 d string like my trailer. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:21.839 Right. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.760 So not, but the amount of comfort that actors are 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:31.720 provided with intimacy coordinators. I mean I can look back 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.440 at my sex scenes and I choreographed it to a 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.400 te so I have it video tape five six times 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.400 and jogging pants prior to so there was no question 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:44.039 of like, do ain't no tongue slipping here? Like I 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.400 was supposed to move my head that way to you know, 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.840 And so it's but it's you that taught me that 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:51.960 or the intimacy of coordinators. 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.159 So I applaud you and I appreciate you. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.200 Yeah, tell us a little bit about what you do. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.360 Absolutely, So, I mean that was such a good run down, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.000 especially including body suits and different things. But the main 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:04.920 thing I feel like is that people are not actually 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:09.280 having sex. So a lot of actors get questions all 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.400 the time like that, No, but what we do is 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:13.960 we do our best to try to make it look. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.360 Like they are while keeping them safe. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.839 So coming to even being like, hey, what are you 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.000 comfortable with in this scene in terms of what are 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.440 you wearing? You know, what are the movements that we 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:27.839 can work out and developing really repeatable and really specific 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.120 actions that are associated with those sex scenes. And that's 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.159 what we do with our actors, and we do a 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.680 lot of other things like behind the cameras to make 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.200 sure legally that these actors are protected and that the 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:40.280 production is protected. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.320 I'm talking about protection time because they literally like ladies. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.799 You heard of commandos, Yes, okay, I'm like a big 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.919 underwear kind of girl, So I don't wear those in 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.599 my personal life. But there's not a sex scene you 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.599 do without like like everything's coming. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.640 That's like it's like the little thin panty. It takes 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.400 over everything, like so you can't see it. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:03.920 So if you want to wear those cute dresses or 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.520 the sides are cut out. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.520 The regular I know where you could buy. I thought 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:07.599 it was something special. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.080 One of those breathe right nose strips. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.719 Yeah, like they covered it like completely, but this is 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:15.240 the gag. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.840 The men wear them too, Yes, the men. They put 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:24.479 their stuff in it. They pushing back there. No, seriously, like. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:29.320 They put their stuff in a pouch like and they 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.280 tie it on there and then and then they push it. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.479 Around so there is like no space. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.360 Like so if you hear someone like, oh I got 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.600 a rouser this happened, it's with a take down, it's you. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:42.520 Know, fifty people in the room. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.560 And yeah, people say that it's kind of awkward with 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.479 everybody watching you, And I'm sure do you also coordinate that, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.479 Like I don't want as many people on set because 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:51.760 that can be uncomfortable too. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:52.800 And that's called a close. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.919 I was gonna saying, I've always had a clothes set. TP. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.840 Shout out to TP, but he is very sincere about 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:05.400 like Karen Man only and the necessary actors like that's it, right, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.600 So it's very it makes it makes it very comfortable, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.320 and then intimacy coordinaries. 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.000 I don't feel like now as a model because I 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.400 feel like models tend to be more comfortable with their bodies. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.320 And there for sure, but something between your legs and 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.520 your body is very different. So like if we have 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.840 the change as girls in here right now, like I 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.560 would need to go into the room, I'd take my 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.720 shirt off, another shirt on. Y'all got boobs, you know 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.120 what I'm saying, Like we all know areola's. But if 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.280 I'm supposed to have like a man in between my 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.640 legs right now doing something, put his. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.640 Head right here a lot on the on all the queens, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.280 it was, I wasn't running for it. But what's good 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.440 about you is that you always get to shut everybody down. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.400 Like I know you've had your your sex scenes, but 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.920 they're not as like it's not like you're having sex 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.280 with a bunch of people, because I feel like if 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:51.880 it was a man running a strip. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.320 Club, he would be fucking everything. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.720 Well, let's talk about that, because if you flip this 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:00.000 whole show upside down and may like the valley, we're 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.280 the women are the objects and the men are more 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.360 of the leadership position. It's a whole other show, which 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.560 is what makes all the Queen's men so dope because 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.560 I see Angela, I see you, I see you, I 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.120 see you because we are bosses women in our own rights. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.080 So I get to play a role where I take 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.080 from all of these boss women everything I know, the savvy, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:28.480 the cunniness, attacked, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.720 And how you kill people, you know, women to do. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.880 You know, we had an idea to watching the show. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.000 We were like, now, have you been to a male 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.079 reviews show in real life? 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.560 Because these ladies have. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:50.640 So yes, yes, okay, I've hosted them before that to 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.640 one one. How long ago is that? 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.200 And it was in d C. No. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.800 So my idea was, and I was telling Giz while 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.240 we were I said, for this new season, at some point, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.080 we should have the guys come and really do a 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.640 male review show at medics, like a fun one with 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:12.679 industry people. Yeah, and all women like inside the club 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.080 trying to get in, like let's know you are you because. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.160 We'll get to know where's that who's splitting up the money. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:22.760 This is a good promotional thing though. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.920 It's beautiful because imagine, like how many women have never 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.240 been to a male review show, just talking to them 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.600 about it because I've been before, because I posted and 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:31.640 it was really fun. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.640 Canny Birds Dungeon part Yeah, no one ever was that. No, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.920 it was as my Girl, it was, and Michael bau 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.079 Wire was a part of it. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:42.880 Who's in our show? 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.280 That's yeah, that's what that's the stage heard about. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:57.400 She's like, okay, Tyler Perry, but no, bo, what I 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.360 think is dope about him And the reason why I 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.160 call him bow Wie because the first day we started working, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.800 Kim Phils was directing us and we were just rehearsing, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.440 and I pulled him to the side because I know 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.560 how it is to be prejudged. I know how it 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.360 is the people to have some kind of expectation of 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.559 me or idea of me, and it really sucks because 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.800 I'm just me and nine times out of ten, you've 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.240 got a better version of me today than yesterday. And 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.840 please don't let the man yesterday tell you my story. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.000 So when it comes to bow Wire, when I met him, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:30.920 I asked him, said, what do you want to be called? Like, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.280 how do you want me to address you? And he said, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.080 my name is Michael. Okay, I said, so, how would 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.880 you what do you want to call you? Michael Bolois 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.160 call me Michael. So at work, I'm so used to 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.040 him being called Michael, You're like, who yeah, or I'll 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.280 call him bow Wire And that's where bo I guess 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.520 Bolow came from. But he's the consummate professional. He's an 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.679 absolute dallface, and he is one that had no actings experience, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.360 but what he did have is the authenticity of the 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.120 life of what really happens like. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:03.240 And he knows it. 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.200 So there was no script to tell him how to 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.360 poffy him, right, you know what I mean? And Tyler 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.520 did a really good job at bringing in both season 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.640 actors and then season dancers and making us learn what 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.240 that marriage looked like to make a create a great show. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.000 Yeah now there you also work on Reasonable Doubt, Right, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.400 I love that show. And it's back, coming back for 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:28.360 season but three. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.439 Now I hope you think, yeah, oh yes, yes, yes, 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:33.160 a couple of days. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.160 Yeah, they just announced it's coming back. Wait is this 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:35.760 season four? 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:37.839 Okay? 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.400 This is the one with more chestnuts? 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:41.680 Is that the one person? 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:44.520 Yeah? 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:44.920 I mean. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:52.280 But okay, so, and there's definitely some steamy scenes absolutely, okay, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:53.320 all right, perfect. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.439 I'm excited for that new season to start. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.000 Yeah, it was an amazing show to work on. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.640 When did they start having these intimacy coordinators on set? Like, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.520 because I feel like this wasn't something that was a 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.520 thing prior to this a few years ago. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:12.280 It was so twenty seventeen was me too. Twenty eighteen 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.560 people started to get together to try to figure out 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.959 what this was going to be. I think by twenty 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.200 nineteen is when people were implementing intimacy coordinators on sets. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.480 So that's like Pee Valley Season one. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:27.560 Was twenty nineteen and they had an intimacy coordinator and 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.199 a lot of things were picking up at Tyler Perry Studios, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.280 a lot of films and TV picked up. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.520 On it in Atlanta, which was really good. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.840 And then it so forward with these sets they really 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.440 are and thinks to Taller Perry, I feel like because 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.080 he'd be going it. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.760 Well, Tip just looks out for his people in every 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.319 single way, like in every way from food to transportation 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:53.040 to the into no question, but a lot of people 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.880 figure like I'll get the check, but so if they 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.079 don't have my food, like it's okay if my trailer 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.480 is not you know, right, it's like make sure every 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.480 everything across the board. And even if the scene is 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.200 written like as an intimacy coordinator, you know, written where 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.200 it's supposed to be a little bit more provocative or 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:11.000 like I'm supposed to. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:12.199 For all love boob in there. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.360 If I'm not a love boom filling it this today, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.360 then that parts out right. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.480 The show goes on. Everyone's fine, like it's. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.400 Not a it's not a big He's not trying to 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:22.559 convince you I was thinking of it. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:22.800 Ever? 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.200 Do you everybody here see Fame? Remember that play where 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:27.840 she's sitting in front of the camera. That that is 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.480 such a powerful scene where he's like telling her to 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.360 take off her shirt and she's crying because she doesn't 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:34.920 want to do it. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.239 You got to see the movie Fame. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.600 But that scene right there is Irene Karat and it's 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.480 like really and she doesn't want to do it. Because 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.800 sometimes people will tell you they get convinced to do 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.520 things that they're not completely comfortable. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:48.160 Call me too. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.960 Yeah, it was the whole me too movement, like the 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.240 idea of discomfort but still having to do it because 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:55.720 you want your job and you want to do you 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.560 want all the rest of your job. You just don't 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.199 want to do that, right. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.880 Yeah, you know, and then people would be like, well, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.800 you agree to it, why didn't you say something at 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.040 the time, because I hear people say stuff like that, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.000 and I can think of so many times that we 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.679 all did something and didn't say anything at the time, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.880 but we were not comfortable, and then it's like damn. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.200 You feel like it is an intimidating thing, and sometimes you. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:18.760 Feel a little powerless in that moment. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:19.840 And that's part of. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.440 Our job is to try to dismantle the hierarchy of things. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.440 And especially in Atlanta where there are so many projects 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.760 that are indie films or smaller projects where they're inviting 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.720 all these young black actors, they don't a lot of 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.320 times you know what to ask for. They signed contracts, 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:38.080 and the contracts have these really really broad nudity. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.720 Clauses and things like that, and then they get on set. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.960 They might be they've already flown in, they're put up 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:45.280 and everything, and then they get all. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.000 Their scripts right and they're like, wait, I agree to 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.440 do that. You're like, ooh, I don't know about So 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:51.640 that happens. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.720 You get every single scene, even if it's not my scene. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.240 You know, every scene of intimacy that's gone and on, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.720 you know where it's scheduled in the day, Like my 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.400 attorney had to sign off Max husband. My attorney signs 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.040 off on every single I mean, even if it's just 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.320 a kiss, if it's a pat on the butts, there's 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.440 no way to mint any of this. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:15.280 That's great. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:15.600 Yeah. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.680 Is that how most projects are or is that just 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.200 you know, we'll see. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.120 Do you think that Tyler Perry is way more intentional 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:23.920 than the average, Well, I. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.320 Know Tyler is way more intentional than I mean, I 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.080 worked around COVID and Tyler was in a bubble and 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.280 we got tested three times a day and couldn't start 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.000 work for two weeks quarantine just to ensure like his 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.600 level of protection. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.240 All the way around. But I think it has I mean. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:48.040 He protects everything he does very well and protects the actors. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:49.920 That's why when you hear an actor talk about like 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.400 working with Tea, it's like there is absolutely no comparison. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.520 I saw when I interviewed Debbie Morgan, I saw you 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.600 left an She was talking about getting her salary and 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.000 how he gave her more money after like. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.840 They I was at Disney World through my three kids 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.960 one year maybe yash year a year before last, and 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.360 he calls me and he's like, what do you make 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.440 Here's a race and the and I already had a 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.160 guaranteed raise in there. It was way more than the guarantee, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.680 just like off the strength, like you've been working, Like 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.360 when I tell you Tyler's heart and his generosity, what 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.800 he does versus what he has to do in comparison, 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.040 because I did Young and the Restless, I was on Smallville, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.000 I done. Everybody hates Chris like I've ran the gamut 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.440 of television shows. There is nothing, no comparison that compares 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:39.800 to working that's amazing. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:41.000 There really is it. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:42.960 And that's why I saw people in the comments, like 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.440 y'all be wanting to slam Tyler Perry on social media. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.840 I can't nobody tell me anything bad about Tyler Perry. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.920 You can't tell me anything at all because Tyler. If 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:53.440 you work after Tyler. 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:54.720 Is because you want to, not because you have to. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:56.600 That's real, that. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.640 Like real talk, like you keep working because you love 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.880 the art. But as far as him taking care of you, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.199 you're good. Your ability to tolerate other sets, I'm like, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.800 why are we still here did. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.399 You get the role in the first place? As madam? 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.280 I got a phone call. Tyler called me and said, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:13.080 I have a script. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:17.520 It's different, very different, very different, but I know you 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:18.080 can hold it. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.080 I'm gonna send it to you. Read it, let me 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.600 know what you think and what was your first reaction? Damn. 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.479 My first reaction was like, Yo, this is a boss 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:35.159 and the clothes be top ten. I have to shout 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.760 out if you've seen your body on a fashion My 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:39.399 next fting is. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.200 You can't wait because she is a beast. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.639 But Rihanda Verene has worked with TP for quite some 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.480 time and as you see him elevate his production, he 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.880 does it in every department. And Rihanda, Oh she kills it. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.560 She kills she knows black women's body, she knows women, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.240 she knows close you know, just period, that's all Randall. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.480 She's doing an amazing Everything looks so nice on you. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:07.879 Thank you, it's fire. 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:08.640 I like both. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.520 But I like your style there, but I also like to. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.320 See like on my regular me. 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.399 Yes, you could do both, get you that could do? 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:18.199 That's a character. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.720 I play a character and it still looks amazing. I mean, yeah, 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:23.000 it's aspirational. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:24.640 Yes, and there are a lot of women that are 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:24.919 like that. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.640 I mean, look at who was just on the bill 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.399 for nominee for president. I mean there are black women 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.680 that are out here bossing up and are power suits 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.359 every single day trying to change the world. 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:37.400 You know what I mean? 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:43.719