WEBVTT - The Blessing Is In The Journey (w/ Tray Chaney) 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.720 Good morning, good afternoon, and good ignorant. You're tuned into 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.840 the Vitamin D Podcast and I'm your host on day 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.000 here to get you excited about your life so that 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.440 you can live life on purpose and for a purpose. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:16.960 It feels good to feel good right now. If this 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:21.000 is your first time tuning in, welcome. Vitamin D is 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.280 a multi vitamin for your mind, your body, and your soul. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.760 And on this podcast, I have inspirational conversations with everyday 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:35.159 people and celebrities just about life, love, relationships, dreams, goals, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.560 just shadow night on what it is and what it ain't. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.760 Now we get real because when we talk about shutting 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.519 the light, that's on the good, the bad, and then different. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:46.320 Because if you want to be better and you want 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.880 to do better, you gotta see better and you only 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.720 can see better by actually stepping in the light and 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.640 doing you. Now, one thing that I always say on 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.560 the Vitamin D Podcast is how you are your greatest asset, 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.279 because this is all about putting a deposit in your 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.720 life bank account, because if you look at it, you've 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.560 got deposits and you've got things that are liabilities. It's 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.600 about a balance and that's what this is so thank 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.800 you for joining my dream, thank you for joining me 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.839 on this journey, but more importantly, thank you for depositing 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:20.119 your life bank account. Now I'm excited today, Like coming 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.760 up right now, I am going to share a conversation 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.880 with you with the the gentleman name Trey Cheney. He 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.280 starts in abouts TV hit series Saints and Centers. It 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:36.800 airs Sunday's nights, nine eight Central. Now, the show is phenomenal. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.600 It's so much drama, it's rivening. And in this conversation, 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.760 I am breaking down his character, Kendrick Murphy. It's a 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.080 character that you love to hate, a character that you 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.360 can understand that in life has trials and tribulations. But 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.320 trying to start with some new isn't that something with life? 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.600 How you can sometimes allow your past to dictate where 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.960 you are. But you know, years ago, when I lived 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.040 in New York, I was talking to this gentleman, a 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.520 Raphael Gordon, and he's sure a quote with me. He said, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:08.280 your location, it's not your destination. Let me say it again. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:14.359 Your location is not your destination. Where you are right 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:19.200 now doesn't dictate where you're going. But the key is 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.440 you have to move and that's the entire thing this 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.160 conversation about is with Track about the movement. You know, 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.480 one thing that he spotlights that I just want to 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:33.640 highlight in this entire episode is that he said, the 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:38.680 blessing is in a journey. Can you catch it? The 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.880 blessings in the process to keep moving forward? And that's 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.840 what this conversation is about. When it's talking about facing 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.720 your fears, when it's talking about taking the jump, when 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:53.680 it's talking about rewriting your future. Yeah, we're dickens e 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.799 and it feels good. So I want to make sure 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.679 that you understand the complexities of who you are. So 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.160 let me stop yeapping and let's go straight through it. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.640 All right, So get excited because I too, So without 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:11.000 further ado, it's time for your dose of vitamin D. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:22.160 Right with me and get excited. Hello done? How Mr Train? 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.919 What's up? How are you doing? I'm good? But the 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.920 question is I'm looking at you. You look fine, But 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.760 are you okay? I saw in your social media you 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.040 got in an accident. Yeah, it was crazy. Done. I 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.800 was on my weight to one audition UM Tuesday and 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.560 I'm going through a green light and out of nowhere 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.000 a car runs the red light and he was a 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.320 drunk driver. So the impact of the car, you know, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.680 hit my car. DI did three sixty in a very 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:55.080 very busy intersection of Atlanta. And you know, I wasn't 0:03:55.360 --> 0:04:00.280 I wasn't panicking. I just was like, Okay, God, if 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.560 this is how this is gonna go, then okay. But 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.840 at the same time, I'm fine. I am on big rest. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.600 After I do this, I get back in the bid, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.400 you know what I'm saying. So then my body, my 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.400 body been aching. But at the same time, I'm just, oh, really, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.480 did you go to the doctor. Oh yeah, I'm in 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.400 thirty Yeah, the car is replaceable. But I'm just glad that, 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.760 you know, God spared my life. And you know, my insurance. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.640 I got great insurance. My uh my people were taking 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.040 care of everything. I probably have a brand new car 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.719 in a couple of days. I'm not really you know, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.880 God is good. You know what I'm saying that, I'm 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.800 like and I'm like, yo, if this was everything is 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.800 going so great right now. It's almost like that that 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.600 Yan Yang effect, you know, And it's like when that 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.000 when it's life, prepare for the darkness, but get through 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.120 it at the same time. So I'm fine. You know 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.400 what I'm saying today? What what are you trying to 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:02.279 do today? What do we what do we listen? Because 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.720 I got chills all over my body. That's love. Yeah, um, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.839 so well, I guess let me just tell you because 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.680 we're walking in the same vein right now. This is 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.800 what vitamin D is all about. Vitamin DID is all 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.000 about shedding light, and the light is gonna cut on 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.480 the good and the bad. And it's designed so that 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.600 you can live life on purpose and for a purpose, 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.040 so that you can get excited about your life. That's 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.479 what's up. Welcome, Mr Tray and I did the research 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.240 on with vitamin dse things for with Dawn Day And 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.320 I said, you know what, I can't wait to talk 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.080 to This's just you know what I'm saying, so we 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:39.839 can really come. Yeah. Well, I'm excited to have you on, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.880 Mr Trey Cheney. We're gonna be talking about your show 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.279 Saints and Centers. It's on Bounce TV. Yeah, amazing, the 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.320 episode just premiered last night. There's a lot we need 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.279 to talk about. But first, you know, tell me about you. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.560 Now you from the DMV. Now I'm from Detroit, but 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.359 I did go to Howard. So I was, I was 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.200 over there in a little cluster moment. Tell me about 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.400 who you are? You well, yeah, I, um, I'm Trade Cheney. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.320 You know what I'm saying. I'm from Forestville, Merlin, represent Washington, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.600 d C. Started in this business at a very early age, 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.000 eight years old as a hip hop artist, as a dancer, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.280 you know, um, being affiliated with O G s like 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.080 Big Daddy, Kane, Rock Kim. You know what I'm saying, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.640 like some of those those guys that I still I'm 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.640 connected with, d Nice, you know. And um, I want 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.839 to say that continue the hip hop, you know, dancing 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.440 and wrapping continued all over d n V and and 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.640 in different cities. And then I want to say, at seventeen, 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.200 lady by the name of Linda Townsend, UM, who was 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.120 a talent agent out d C. She was like, yo, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.359 I could tell that you're not stage right, you know, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.200 because you're getting up on stage, you're performing. You should 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.440 think about becoming an actor. And my thing was, I 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.200 always wanted to make the transition from hip hop artists 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.320 to actor anywhere. So I said, I was already kind 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.240 of like preparing. I was, you know, walking in that purpose. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.920 I was fulfilling my dreams on stage, which I knew 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.560 would eventually turn into acting. So I told her that 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.599 was something that I definitely wanted to do. I was 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.520 interested in it, and I got my head shots done, 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.200 I got resumes. I started, you know, remembering monologues because 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.640 as a writer, you know, I always look at scripts 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.680 like songs because it has to flow, you know. So 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.360 I'm like, Yo, this is what I'm gonna do. Um, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.400 anything that you sent me on, whatever I need, I 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.080 can remember it like that. And she said, the first 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.840 audition that I'm going to submit you for is the Wire. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.440 She said, The Wire is a it's an HBO pilot. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.000 If anybody else that is listening that, I don't understand 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.400 what the pilot is. It's not necessarily picked up yet, 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.560 but it's on the verge of being picked up, you 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.160 know what I'm saying. So I remember going in. That 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.480 was my first audition, first job I ever booked as 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.200 an actor. I went in the paper associates, I read 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.000 for the character we bay got a call back David Simon, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.240 Nina Noble, Robert Colesbury wrestling piece to him who actually 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.680 created my character poop Um. I go in, I read 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.640 the monologue. Three weeks later they were saying, you didn't 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.080 get casted for we Day, but we cast at you 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.760 for this character named Malik Kukar. So The Wire premier 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.520 in two thousand two. That was the first time I 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:22.760 had ever you know, the whole celebrity lifestyle, getting paid 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.280 to show up at events. Um, I mean it was 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.680 it was so fresh, and Newton was yeah. So so 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.760 with The Wire, you know, I lasted on the show 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.520 for all five seasons, um two thousand to the two 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.600 thousand and eight. And you know, from there, that was 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.280 when I said, you know what, I'm already taking this serious. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.280 Then I took, you know to Tor Smith Acting Workshop, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.480 the Tesaw class, and I really you know, and and 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:46.960 and it's funny because some of the students in there, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.360 they were like, what are you doing in here? Like 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.600 you're on the Wire, And I'm like, in order to 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.920 be the best, you know, I never could stop training. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.960 I can't stop training. So I want to train as 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.199 much as possible, because, like I said, in order to 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.480 be the best, you gotta study, you gotta work hard, 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.720 you gotta be dedicated, and you gotta have consistency. So, 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.840 you know, after The Wire, then Streets with Meet Mill 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.000 you know that premiere on BT. This was at the 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.839 beginning of Meek's career when you know, before he became 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.520 the superstarter he is now. Um did that with Jamal Hill, 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.320 then James E. Boy with James Woods being Rains, Murray, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.680 Louise Parker, Um, and then you know, just getting into 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.560 the creative side of what I wanted to do as 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.840 a director and as a producer, started putting out my 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.240 own content. You know, during the time what people would 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.560 consider these shows and these movies that I was on mainstream, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.040 it was a time where they wasn't coming quick. So 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:41.600 I said, you know what, I'm gonna create my own 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.839 I'm gonna get out in the streets or Washington d C. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.040 I'm gonna shoot my own films. I'm gonna sell them 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:50.280 off the trunk of my car. That buzz created the 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.320 call from George Pierre, who cast me for Saints and Centers. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.080 So it was just you know, with me, it was 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.520 always about being attached to the process because a lot 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.640 of people don't understand the blessing is in the journey. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.680 You know what I'm saying. You sound like my barber, 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.840 do you know? Louis t Pal. The name sound familiar. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.440 He's a barber. He's from the DMV he you know, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.160 and not like everybody's gonna know everybody, but he has 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.200 his family come from a line of barber's. But what 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.200 he says, he always says. He says, the journey is 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.280 the experience, and the experience is the journey exactly, because 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:26.880 that's what it is. You know, a lot of actors 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.280 and a lot of artists, sometimes they get so caught 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.080 up on the outcome, you know, and we have to 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.680 eliminate the outcome and just do the work because I 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.320 don't care how long it texts. As much as you 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.560 do the work, the reward will eventually come, and it 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.240 comes in different forms. It comes in different ways. For 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.920 me as an actor, when I read for almost every 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.760 show that you might see on television, then if I 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.560 don't get it, I'm not discouraged because something else, greater 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.360 come come on. And it's so interesting. You're talking about 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.559 the first project with the wire, and it's just how life, 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.720 how you can come into one door, but God can 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.840 lead you through the back door. And it just even 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.760 reminds me of when I applied to go to Howard. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.960 I did not even get accepted. But see, it's that 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.320 go get her attitude that you know, picked you up 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.400 to say, let me produce and do my own project. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.760 I want ahead and I wrote the school and because 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.000 I'm a great student, whatever, the testing didn't happen. But 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.360 it's that go to attitude that you talk about with 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.800 your dream because I guess if you had a mindset 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.559 that you're going to already arrive, then you don't have 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.880 to keep going. Hence we don't arrive until we die, right, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.880 and then it just echoes the whole sentiments of Michelle 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.360 and Bond. We're consistently becoming. And that's why every moment, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.120 every day is the gift, because that's why we have 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.080 to be so present. Wow, it's not ever presented. The 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.720 energy is is trading off through this, through this, through 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.200 this interview. You know, thank you for receiving me. I 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.120 don't even look at this as an interview. You know 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.079 what I'm saying, we're just chopping it up. Is King 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.280 and Queen reference. You know what I'm saying, right, Supreme, Yeah, 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.079 I mean you came and I was like, but it's 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.160 so interesting because sometimes it is that way when you 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.360 gotta go through the back door, because sometimes you gotta 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.560 see something that maybe everybody else can see, or that 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.560 moment that you said, let me produce. You have to 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.760 get this whole view so that you can actually see, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.040 encompassing with the vision that you have for your life. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.000 I had to pick up the experience because you know, 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.000 a lot of times it's a lot of people around 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.160 us in our circles and even people outside of our 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.199 circles who might not see like you said, we see, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.559 but we have to prove them wrong. We have to 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.559 jump out here, even if we fall on our face. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.600 It's not necessarily falling on your face. Every experience is 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.480 a lesson. You didn't fail, You just learned a lesson, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.680 and now you know what to do going forward and 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.360 moving forward. So for me, it's it's more like like 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.720 I said, getting attached to the process and never getting 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.600 emotionally attached to the end result. This business is full 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.320 of emotions. People get mad over any little thing. If 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.120 if you don't call an industry person back, they might 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.160 feel some type of way. You can't you don't know 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.680 what another person is going through in their life, you 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.679 know what I'm saying. That's like the day we've been 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.600 on here. I'm still upbeat, even though with the cards 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.600 and then with everything that went on, it was a 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:08.560 reason why it happened because something else, greater is getting 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.720 ready to happen. And I and I truly believe that. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.400 Even being on here with you, you know what I'm saying, 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.400 it's it's it's amazing to connect with somebody who I 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.439 feel like I've known for for years, you know what 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.560 I'm saying, And and we trade energy and we're talking 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.320 and we you know, chopping it up. Anybody's watching, they're 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.000 feeling that, you know what I'm saying. So we ain't 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.839 doing nothing but inspiring and motivate because I mean, actually 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.520 it's actually that's what we're designed to do. Just be 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.200 a light and addify each other. If you think about it, 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.720 if I addif you addify me, yo, we can all 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.079 be done. But here's the thing. You got to realize 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.200 that you gotta uncover some things. That's the light. And 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.280 it coincidnes of what you were saying when you first 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.960 came up and is joining you said, Hey, sometimes it 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.560 is the ending in Yang. It's the understanding that you 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.240 gotta be deserted in order to get to the dessert. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.120 You gotta know how sweet it is when you get there. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:02.120 So after watching season premiere, I don't know why this 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.840 word is on my spirit. I want to say that dichotomy. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.040 I want to just use it. And I don't even 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.840 think he's gonna think economy of the situation. Right. The 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.119 thing that's so interesting on what I love about your character, Um, 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:19.920 Saints and Centers. This is season five and your characters 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:29.560 like Kendreck, Kendreck, Kendrick, I feel Kendrick and Kendrick I feel, well, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.680 let me let me back up. Okay, you are such 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.680 a man who walks in authority of self, UM, and 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.600 just checking out some of your pictures and videos on 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.200 social media and just following you understanding the importance of family. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:46.800 There are some things that I can reflect in your 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.600 life that I see in your character. So I wanted 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.760 you to tell us a little bit about Kendrick. Well, Kendrick. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:56.040 Kendrick is basically, Kendrick is broken. Now, don't get me wrong, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.160 He's a He's a broken guy, broken character that wants 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.400 to build and have a relationship with his long lost 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.040 family that did not want to have nothing to do 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.800 with him. As you can see from season one, all 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.000 the way up to now, which is people are going 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.920 to see a lot in season five. The ease is 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.240 up a little bit. But at the same time, this 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.440 man wants to have a relationship, like I said, with 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.600 his family. And every time you think something is going 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.560 right in Kendrick's life, it just takes the term for 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.280 the worst. But at the same time, it's the lesson 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.680 and the experience that Kendrick learns which still makes him 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:36.160 a main to just keep going. Now, for me, I've 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.600 really got a shout out Nigel Campbell, the show runner, 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:44.560 and the writer, and and and Courtney Miller because these guys, 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.720 you know, Courtney is the director and the writer, and 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.960 they capture elements of who Trade Cheney really is as 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.960 far as family goes. Because of course, you know Patrice 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.720 Fisher who plays Stay Shakunting Game, she plays my love 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.200 interest on the show. And we we got a baby, right, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.800 we all gotta baby. Yeah, But at the same time 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.560 she's pregnant. You know, I'm thinking, you know what I'm saying, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.520 this my child. As you can see with the movie, 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.080 he's seeing some of the stuff that was revealed. But 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.240 my real life trade change. I've been married going on 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.640 seventeen years to my wife on two amazing kids, my 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.120 son Milec, my daughter Martine, and my granddaughter who's the 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.960 new addition to the family, morocc. So with thank you. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.280 So with that, it sort of helped me to understand 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.240 Kendrick a little more in this season of you know, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.840 his development and him wanting to become a father and 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.560 his happiness for his lady and and just I told him, 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.960 I said, this was this, this this fifth season and 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.400 some of my best work because y'all actually wrote who 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.760 I am and I was able to put that in 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.480 kindred despite all of the craziness that you still want 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.920 to see with this character. So you know, I'm just 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.560 I'm honored. You know, it's something about the term season 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.080 five because hold on before you reach and don't be 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.960 trying to skip over Kendrick like that. Hola, hola, hola. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.640 So the part that I feel that, at least for me, 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.199 that resonated really well. Um, what I received is that 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:18.040 Kendrick is this loving guy at the core, and it 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.480 was something that you know, I was talking to Jasmine about, 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.919 you know, Christine, and you know, it reminds me of 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.720 a song. You know, A saint is nothing but a 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.639 center who fell down and got up. That's the fact. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.800 And I can see it now as I'm looking at 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:38.280 all the characters, because nobody is necessarily evil per se. 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.639 But as you know, as Jasmine like to put it, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.840 you know, we are all here to be a lamp 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.360 to alight, to edify God's life. So we're just encased 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.119 in this and understanding that these things transmit through us 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.280 in different ways. And it's like, I can see this 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:58.399 with this brother who is trying to do right God, dog, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.359 but he failed. What's going on? It's it's the cards 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.320 that he was dealt, you know. And and sometimes in life, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.400 with a lot of times in life, I'm not gonna 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.520 say sometimes, because we all are dealt certain cards on 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.480 a daily basis that we have to, like you said 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.639 in the beginning, understanding, we have to be able to 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.840 steal every single emotion that comes with it. We have 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.800 to be able to accept it and digest it and 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.680 then figure out how we can move on. So with Kendrick, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.040 you know, always thinking, you know that that he's on 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.879 this right track and something just comes up and just 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.359 hit him, you know, I mean, Kendrick has been buried alive, 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.200 you know, by his own grandmother, He's been sad, he's 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.199 been shot, you know. So, so going through all of 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.280 these emotions to see what we're actually going to see 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.600 this season is going to be, I want to say 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.600 the turning point. I mean, because you know, Niage and 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.199 Cortney had me doing things on this season that I've 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.960 that I've never done on screen, and I'm like, oh no, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.399 they challenged me this season like I got challenged. But 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.600 at the same time, I stepped up to the plate 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.160 and I stepped up to the challenge gym. I think 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.840 we talked about earlier when I said, in order to 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.840 be the best and get it my own, you know, 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.200 this is this is what you're gonna see what Kendrick 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.720 Murphy is season. I'm giving him my own, you know 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.880 what I'm saying. So, and that's and that, and that 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.280 goes along with the different characters that I'm playing in 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:30.080 scenes with me and Jacks, Jasmine Burke, Christie plays my sister. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.480 So the substitution for that is how much I really 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.240 loved my sister changes changing, and how much I really 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.879 love Jasmine Burke off screen, you know, with Clifton Pile 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:46.600 playing my dad, you know how much how much you Rex, Rex, 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:51.960 get out of Rex, Get out of my face. You 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.840 you know. And Vanessa Bell callaway, she come on, she's alleged. 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.120 She just caught. She trying to be right, She trying 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.000 to be right, she try and her mother gonna throw 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:05.040 hard with the left hook like that. Secrets what Black 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:08.920 families got? So many secrets? You know what? That's it. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:14.400 That's a real strong part of black familis like you said, 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.720 we do, we do got we do got some secrets. 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.159 But at the same time us coming together as black 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:24.600 families and and really understanding each other. It just keeps 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.240 boiling down to how we understand things, how we handle things, 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.000 and how we move forward with things. But see, let 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.000 me come in and challenge you're here because I mean 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:35.440 the things like there's gonna be that if you haven't 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.520 watched to what are going to be revealed? As far 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.040 as the secrets are things that secrets that I feel 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.000 like a lot of families have. But it's this whole 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.240 idea of a protection. Now it isn't to say that 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.600 you know, the intentions were to be negative, but it's 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:53.160 like the results and while we do come together as families, 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.280 I'm not sure if we have the kind of conversations 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.760 that we need. And because we are used to having 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.320 an exercise in that versations, a lot of things can 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.359 be misinterpreted. And therefore, which I feel often had was 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.639 happening in this uh the show, is that a lot 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.720 of people are held to unimaginable standards. Yeah, they held 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:19.000 to unimaginable responsibility standards, and and and going off of wood, 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:24.240