Full Transcript for GABRIELLE DENNIS

Brown costume. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:26.879 That's hilarious. 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.039 We uh people don't know this about you. 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.520 You fight like they don't know you did stand-up. 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:32.159 Yeah. 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:32.560 You know? 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:34.719 That's how I know y'all do the stand-up speaker. 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:35.919 Hilarious, too. 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.599 Do you still do stand-up or ever think about doing it? 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.159 I think about it because people always ask me, when you get back on that stage. 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:43.120 It's because you funny. 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:44.080 You one of them. 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:45.840 Yes, you know, I stay on your head about it. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:46.719 You was one of my favorites. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:47.680 Yeah. 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.960 But it's just one of those things, like when I first started, we were just saying how like I moved out here in 06. 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.319 So when I was doing stand-up, it weren't that many females. 00:03:56.479 --> 00:04:04.319 So for me, it was very much so like, gotta get on the stage, gotta get this time, do all of the things because the goal was to get on camera. 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:09.520 You know, we had all these comedian examples of people that were doing stand-up and then they got their own sitcoms. 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.599 So that's the route I was hoping to go. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.560 And then it got to the point, like, uh, we need to pay our bills. 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:14.960 Right. 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:17.279 Stand-up don't really pay like that. 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:22.399 Like, you get paid a little bit here and there, you know, if you hit a stage and certain cities pay you more, la la la. 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:29.759 But it just got to the point where like acting started picking up, and so that schedule was so different. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:38.639 I feel like more people now can do kind of juggle, but I feel like back then it was like you either suffered at the acting or you suffered at the stand-up, because if you were trying to do both, something was going to fall off. 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:52.560 It wasn't a it wasn't a lot of y'all back then, but I I remember you are one of the the quintessential uh like visions that I remember because you, Justin, and Brisha stand out like so extreme for me. 00:04:52.720 --> 00:05:02.480 And I would say probably Tiffany too as high-level uh character work that would happen on stage always translates to film. 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:06.399 It was like everybody be like, man, you gotta go up there and talk about your family if you want a movie. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:07.360 I was like, No, you don't. 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:09.040 You have to be really good. 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:13.040 You I I have to be able to I can watch, I was like, oh, that person's in full character.

00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:16.959 You're in full mode then, and I saw it translate then. 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.279 What uh I don't even know where to start with you. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:21.279 Where uh where did you grow up? 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:23.600 Yeah, that's my point. 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:25.360 Uh that's my London tapping in. 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:26.079 That's your London. 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:26.879 Where you're from? 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:27.839 Yeah, where you're from. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.639 Um, I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and that's my roots. 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:35.920 I would say I was born in the Midwest. 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:40.240 I was raised in the East Coast, and I lived life out on the West side. 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:43.040 So because I lived in DC for a while. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:44.160 For college. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:44.720 Mm-hmm. 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:47.120 Uh you went to Howard. 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:47.519 Yeah. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:47.759 Yeah. 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:49.120 She was like, she would go look good. 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:54.160 It's the age school, and this is the one. 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:55.600 The one, the original. 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:56.000 Yes. 00:05:56.319 --> 00:06:01.519 The fact that the um it where is I have to know where your training is at. 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:04.639 Well, I went to a performing arts school. 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.800 Um, so it was a fourth through twelfth grade program. 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:13.920 I didn't finish the program because my mom pulled me out and sent me to like a magnet program where I studied communications, and then that's what I went to study in college. 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.480 So actually, I didn't think I would be in front of the camera. 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:20.480 I thought I was gonna have my own production company, production studio, do family-friendly content. 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:23.759 Like that, those were the goals when I was in college. 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.600 And everybody was like, you know, that you're gonna need a lot of money to have your own studio. 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:28.959 That's a ridiculous plan. 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:29.920 Right, right. 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:35.759 And then, you know, you look at people like a Tyler Perry who was homeless at one point, and then look where he's at now. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:42.879 So, you know, it's just about I'm e I easily let people get in my ear instead of following the, you know, the the map. 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:51.839 But at the end of the day, God is the ultimate, you know, guide in in anything that I had planned for me, because I actually I thought it was gonna be a ballerina first. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:52.560 Oh, wow, really? 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:54.480 I was a ballerina in my performing art school. 00:06:54.639 --> 00:07:00.399 So I trained as a dancer and I also did uh music theater and like acting, drama classes, and all that. 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:09.680 But my goal was to move to New York and you know, go to like New York Ballet or go, you know, Alvin Ailey, like those were the dreams, and do, you know, some Broadway. 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:13.519 But that dream deferred, you know, it was like a little a little detour. 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:20.000 But yeah, so the training was kind of like you had to be a triple threat where I grew up in in the school that we were trained in. 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:27.199 So anytime like a commercial, a movie, stage place, anything came to town, they came to our school first to audition the kids if they needed children. 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:27.680 Wow. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:37.519 So my first professional on stage, like after, no, equity, equity gig, union gig was um fences. 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:45.680 So I played the little girl right now and fences, and the guy that played Troy was the original um lion from the movie The Whiz. 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.600 So for me, I was like, I've been made and playing with the Wiz man. 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:54.319 So um, yeah, so I kind of like that training kind of started early. 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:59.600 And then of course, I mean, it's God gift, you know, it's a gift that I don't take for for granted. 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:04.079 And like you just have to constantly pour into it and be aware of it and and nurture it. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:33.360 And um, so in college, because I minored in theater, um, I took a few classes, but then I also I think I studied life, like part of part of things I knew when I couldn't always afford classes or things, like I know going to a park, going catching a train, observing human interaction and how people move, I feel like it served me well later on with like sketch comedy, you know what I mean, with doing stand-up, that improv and how to like move and interact with people. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:38.720 Um, and that's part of why I started doing stand-up because I was like, I really couldn't afford acting classes when I first got here. 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:46.240 So to me, like that crowd work, getting those butterflies out of your system, and it was the closest thing I can get to stage in LA, you know what I mean? 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:47.039 Like to the theater. 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:50.559 So as a theater kid, I was like, oh, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be in front of these people, you know? 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:52.879 Yeah, I'm gonna get these jokes. 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:53.279 Yeah. 00:08:53.600 --> 00:09:01.600 So well, I remember talking to you before, and you was telling me how Jamie Foxx is such a huge influence on you. 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:08.480 So talk about that because I think we we we come from doing stand-up and acting and stuff like that. 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:18.159 And I think the reason why people be asking you about doing stand-up so much, because we found you doing stand-up, but your goal was

always to get to the acting. 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:18.559 Yes. 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:18.960 Right? 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.919 But talk about like what Jamie Foxx means to you. 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:25.360 Oh my gosh, Jamie Foxx to me is the ultimate entertainer. 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:26.080 You know what I mean? 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:33.679 And I think coming from the school training that I had, you were expected to be a triple threat, and you were not, there were no limitations set on you. 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:38.960 So some of it was good and bad because you get on a real world, like they're not casting black people to play. 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:46.720 You know, like we had um universal casting, so we would have like a black anti and a white anti cast, and like it was very mixed, you know. 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.480 So there was no limitations set on you, you just kind of shoot for the stars. 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:55.039 So for me, somebody like a Jamie Foxx, it's like no holds bar. 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:55.759 You know what I mean? 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:57.279 Like, if you got the talent, flaunt it. 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:01.519 Like, if you got the talent, share that gift with people because you never know what it means and how it touches people. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:14.240 So the fact that he was able to do stand-up comedy, the fact that he was able to get his own sitcom, the fact that he did sketch on like pivotal, you know, right zeitgeist kind of situation with In Living Color. 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:20.240 Then he went on and then went to do blockbuster films, like to do Ray. 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:26.480 Yes, it's like, dude, and then you're gonna drop some albums on us too, like and you can act on the scene and play the Tinkly Tinkles? 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:27.360 Like, what are we doing? 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:31.440 Like he he is such a beast. 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:43.759 Like, I would love to work with him, but just even if that opportunity never blesses me, he has blessed me as an artist, just being able to see him fearlessly go after all of those things and not just do them, but do them well. 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:45.200 That's the part. 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:46.960 Like, he's so good at whatever. 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:48.159 He's yeah, he's high levels. 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:51.039 Oscar's, you know, Oscar's grammar, he's done it all. 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:54.559 And one of the best stand-up, one of some of the best stand-ups uh ever. 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.120 The uh I have to I have to ask this. 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:01.200 So you're in a uh a school early for training. 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:11.039 You're I'm gonna assume that your parents are very pivotal in in their encouragement of um of how they're of how you're moving through this space that they that they were supportive. 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.120 Or at least there has to be some kind of decision making that goes into you going to perform in art school. 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.840 I think a part of it was my mom always said I was a ham. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:18.720 Okay. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.720 So she was just trying to trying to find a place for me to have that outlet of all that energy. 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.679 Like I was taking dance before that. 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:37.279 So like I was in like the little classes, like you know, you're four years old, you go to class and ballet and do all the other things at like local school, but then I think it just was a it was a big deal in our city. 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:37.759 Got it. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:49.120 So you had to get you had to audition, you had to actually like audition for all of the, I can't remember if it was all the ones that interest you, or you, but there was like a minimum amount you had to audition for because you needed to excel at least three things. 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:52.960 So I remember being very horrible when it came to the art. 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:55.200 My little stick figure didn't. 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:04.559 Uh but you had to sing, you had to dance, you had to, if you played an instrument, if you were going to shop and like building sets, like you had to have, I guess, samples of that. 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:05.200 I don't know. 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.279 But creative writing, like there were so many different uh disciplines. 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:16.960 So I think for her, it was just like, let me find a place for this girl because she's there's something in her, and I'm trying to funnel where that goes. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.759 And again, it was a big deal in our in our town. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.519 So, but I was the kid, like one of my cousins. 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:28.240 Um, I don't know if she was turning 16, 13, 14, 10, I don't know, whatever it was. 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.559 I was having a full-blown concert. 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.720 I was the unpaid entertainment that I'm sure she wished would go home. 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.120 But I had the kids waving, like singing. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:38.240 We did the whole album. 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:45.840 Like it was it was so fun, but like I was just always this energetic, like artistic kind of situation. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:47.120 Okay. 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:50.399 I want to get, I know, because I know BT, he wanna get to it. 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:51.200 No, go ahead. 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:52.720 I want to talk. 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:58.240 We look we want to hop on Nemesis because I feel like, you know, that's one of the reasons why we wanted to have you here. 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:09.279 Um because it's rare to be, it's so much content on TV and social media, and to be on something that's like cutting through in number one on Netflix. 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:15.120 And you know, so I wanted to talk about your process of even booking Nemesis. 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:16.399 So

take us through that process. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:17.120 Was it an offer? 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:18.000 Was it an audition? 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:19.039 Was it a self-tape? 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.639 No, even with all my credits, I'd be out here auditioning, okay? 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:23.600 And proudly. 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:24.720 You know what I'm saying? 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:30.159 Because I always feel like you I pray to stay in a space of humility. 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:35.360 So for me, sometimes getting an offer takes away the joy of earning it. 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:36.159 You know what I mean? 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:37.600 Um It does. 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:38.080 I know. 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:39.120 You know what I'm saying? 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:40.639 I mean, we love a good offer though. 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:41.519 Yeah, let's be clear. 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:43.919 But you almost feel like, do I really deserve it? 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.639 Or I gotta prove myself that I'm supposed to be here. 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.559 Well, I think it's just something about winning that, like that grind, you know what I mean? 00:13:50.639 --> 00:14:00.720 Like when we first moved out here, like the grind where you're in your car, you got seven outfit changes, and as a woman, I got my have a curly wig for commercials, and then I got a straight wig for the drama, and then you know what I'm saying? 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.240 You got seven different headshots. 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.399 You're ready to like go out there. 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:05.759 It was it was a jungle. 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.840 Like, you would spend your whole day driving around the town city looking for work. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:15.519 Because I would say my full-time job was an auditioner, and occasionally I, you know, book a job. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:16.559 You know what I'm saying? 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:17.440 Yeah, yeah. 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:23.600 So for me, I think just being able to like earn and win and like, you know what, I did that. 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:24.720 There's no question. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.399 So for this, for Nemesis, I absolutely auditioned. 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.759 The funny thing, it was my first in-person audition since I think 19. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.720 Because when I did a Black Lady schedule, that started in 19. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:38.080 Then the pandemic hit in 20. 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:38.399 Wow. 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:42.799 And then I worked throughout the pandemic, and then everything had been on tape since. 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:46.399 So literally, that was my very first in-person audition. 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.559 I missed the first round because I had finally got that nasty COVID last year. 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:51.200 Oh, wow. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:52.480 And I was like, you know what? 00:14:52.799 --> 00:15:04.639 I don't want to go in and be like, in my mind, because I'm so dramatic, and like a germophobe's like, I'll go in and I'll take out the whole EP staff and casting, and they'll all hate me and I'll get black bulbs. 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:09.440 Um, so I just kept my little butt home until I stopped testing, and then it came back around. 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.879 It was one of those things where you feel like what's meant for you is for you, you know what I'm saying? 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:17.919 So I got to go in, um, test with Matthew, and just had a ball. 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:26.000 Like being in an audition space, like in person and not in my in my living room, with I may or may not be dressed properly halfway down. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:27.360 You only go see this much. 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.039 I might have on, you know what I'm saying? 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:38.720 I might have on my slips, I might have on, you know, some slippers and like pajama pants, chilling, but up top, I'm like a whole blazer and like hair makeup, but it's like, what are we doing? 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:44.879 So to be able to go in the room um and to do that was was just dope, you know. 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.120 Uh you had two auditions. 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:49.519 I think it was just the one. 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:51.039 I went in and then they sent the tape off. 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:52.720 Because like I said, I missed that first round. 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:53.840 No callbacks. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.120 That's what we'd be learning on this show. 00:15:55.519 --> 00:16:00.720 But because I had missed that first round, had I had I went to the first round, it would have been two auditions. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:07.360 But because I missed this first one, I got to go in straight to producer's um the whole room where everyone was in the room. 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:14.240 And then from there, I I remember when I got the job being able to test with some of the Malik character and stuff like that. 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:16.000 So it was it was it was a little fun. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.960 So shout out to our cast, amazing casting directories, amazing casting. 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:22.480 Uh I mean, while we're that's a great transition. 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:29.279 Tell me about um working within the the brilliant brilliance that is Courtney Kemp. 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:37.120 Um she has a uh a I I've said this multiple times, but I really truly believe it. 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.759 There's stuff that had happened, there's shows that we've seen, and a lot of people are trying to redo that. 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:57.440 I say that Donald Glover, uh 50 and Courtney, and uh Issa are the only people that if not the only people, it feels like they're making a concerted effort to make new understandings, especially of the urban uh space. 00:16:57.759 --> 00:16:59.759 BT said the rest of y'all creatives ain't shit. 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.000 I just feel like they're copying.

00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:10.720 Not all of them, but it you know, it feels like she has a pulse on something, and that's why it's connecting. 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.440 Can you uh speak to just working with her? 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.079 I love a good boss lady. 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:17.279 I'm I be trying not to cuss. 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:18.559 I'm working on my cussing. 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.240 Um, but I love a good boss, like you know what I'm saying? 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:28.400 And I looked up to Courtney, the likes of someone who can kick down the doors the way she did. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.799 You know, like you said, there's so much content now. 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.039 Like growing up, we didn't have this much content. 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:38.720 Like you're really every day fighting to just people even know you're on the dial and then to actually tune in. 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:40.799 And then keep tuning in, you know what I'm saying? 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:50.160 Um, so for her to be able to kick down the door the way she did with power and for that to blossom off into all of its, you know, extended legs, um, it was great. 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:55.839 So, so when I got the uh audition came in my email and I was like, oh, Netflix, okay, very familiar with these people. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:57.759 Courtney, very familiar here. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.599 Um, I would love to get more familiar. 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:07.920 So it was just like, boom, it was just like this explosion of excitement of like, I was like, Anna in person, like it was like so many elements happening, but uh she's dope. 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:13.920 I feel like she's actually absolutely figured out this formula that works, that signature Courtney. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.039 It's like it's very energetic, it's very entertaining. 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.839 It's really beautiful, it's very bingeable. 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:25.279 You know, she knows how to dangle that carrot in her friend, like, uh, did you you say you want something? 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.960 You better tune into the next episode if you want to see what happens next. 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:29.680 You know what I'm saying? 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:30.559 It's all here too. 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:31.359 I hope you're ready. 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:42.799 And then and then the way she's so hands-on with like the hair, the makeup, the wardrobe, the she's so just being able to see her work on set is is awesome. 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:52.079 And and and and to be able to, I've been very blessed to have a lot of badass women be able to witness that first hand, from Issa to Robin Thede, you know, to Courtney A. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:19:08.799 Kemp, you know, so um to just see her take control of that set and earn the respect that she deserves, you know, and like people just really wanting to to make her happy and to give her what it is she needs because we're all dialed in and tapped into that vision. 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:10.240 Um so it was fun. 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:10.960 It was a lot of fun. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:16.480 So uh I'm assuming that you've you've seen the show uh in in its entirety. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:22.319 When you're shooting it versus when it comes out, when you're shooting it, do you feel oh this is a hit? 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:24.799 Everybody, stop what you're doing right now. 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:26.880 Make sure you subscribe to Killin' It Pie. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:27.759 Boom. 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:30.079 I just I think I just assumed it would be. 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:32.559 Now you never know to what level, right? 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:35.839 But I just assumed the marriage just made sense. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:43.039 Like, as soon as I saw her announcement years ago about her getting an overall at Netflix, I was like, oh, they tapped into something for real. 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:50.160 And I don't think I don't know, or I guess I assume they would know the magic because we're all riding the coattail of according to Kimps fan base. 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:51.200 You know what I'm saying? 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:57.920 People are tuning into Netflix for the majority to witness the magic again, you know. 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:03.359 So um I think when you're filming it, you're like, this is dope. 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:06.880 It doesn't, for me, it didn't feel like a show a lot of times. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:08.400 It felt like we were filming a movie. 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:29.440 Um I felt like I felt essentially like eight little one-hour movies because it was the production value from a TV space was very intense and high quality, and like sometimes there were six-day work weeks, you know, filming on the weekend, shutting down downtown, shutting down Century City for a shootout, like so many things that were happening that it didn't feel like your run of a meal series. 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:36.640 I was like, oh, they're really they're investing in this in a way that I've not witnessed firsthand, I think, on any other show I've done. 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:46.559 Because typically when you're doing that level of heists and you know, robberies and shootouts and stuff like that, those are usually reserved for like your pilot. 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:51.839 Yeah, because you're trying to get the show sold and then your season finale because you want people to tune back in and hopefully get a pickup. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.160 Yeah, people will be wondering, like, why episodes two through seven were born and shit? 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:57.920 It comes down to budget. 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:04.480 So they usually spend all the money on the pilot and then the season finale, and maybe the second episode before the season finale. 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:04.960 But yeah. 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:09.839 Yeah, but I felt like this one there was this level of like energy

from the beginning. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:17.599 Because I think the first frame, we're already inside the world of the criminals, like at the at the uh Halloween party. 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:21.279 Yeah, you know, and so we they she just rips the page off. 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:44.000 So shout out to Courtney and and and and to Tani, her her her business partner and life partner, um, being able to just really create this world in this safe space for us, just being I mean, she she has a she has a touch because one of the things I remember when watching power and uh you know just like digesting that space, and you can see it in Kanan, you can see it in Tommy Show, you can see it, and you see it in Nemesis. 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:48.960 It's like one, this show is gonna be everybody's gonna be dressed to the T. 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:51.039 These fits gonna be fantastic. 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:51.599 I don't care about it. 00:21:52.960 --> 00:22:03.599 Yeah, the the the the the visuals will be at a very high quality, even though Nemesis has you can feel the The Netflix of it, but it's be it's a beautiful show. 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:19.599 Like some of the shots in the cinematography when they come in with the mask, and it's just like it's very, it's very what's and then character-wise, every character has enough on them to have the turns that make you invested in everybody. 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:24.319 It's like you thought that that the gangster's wife was like this, but then there's this. 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:26.640 You thought the gangster was like this, and then there's this. 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:43.680 And even with with your character, so once you start getting into the minutiae of your character, and you and you keep you get to reading further out into the script, uh, how much did you know or did you s did it as the pages turned, it was r unre unraveling for you? 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:46.960 Well, we did um we had the luxury of doing table reads. 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:56.000 You know, a lot of times we a lot of shows do away with that for budget reasons and time and all that stuff, but we we were blessed to have the table reads um every week or every two weeks. 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.240 I can't remember how, because we were we were shooting, each director got two episodes. 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:02.799 So Mario Van Peoples did the first two. 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:11.200 So you really beyond that first two, you didn't really have a lot of information as far as hard copy on the page. 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:15.279 Like we would discuss backstory, we would discuss where they could potentially go and things like that. 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:18.799 But it wasn't until you'd be in the table, be like, oh, this is where we're going. 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:19.279 Okay. 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:24.880 And it would be funny, like um, when someone dies or something, like, oh, y'all done kill me off, you know. 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:26.799 And it'd just be like that kind of energy. 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:35.920 So the the table reads were very fun because for me it was like our chance to kind of be in the as the viewer, seeing it for the first time. 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:39.920 We weren't seeing it, but like hearing the words and understanding the world. 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:57.680 And a lot of times that was the only time I was actually seeing some of the cast, because I really only work really with Matthew, um, you know, and with uh Cedric, who plays Noah, my son, um, and yeah, with Jeff, who plays Malik, and and with and Cleo, who plays Ebony, but for the most part, I wasn't really working with the rest of that world. 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.319 So they kept us very separated. 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:05.920 Um, and it was funny because Alan did not talk to Matt. 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:11.039 I think the first time they talked was on set in their like thoroughly talked. 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:11.839 You know what I mean? 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.519 He he wanted to keep his artistic choice was to keep that distance with them. 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.359 So it was so funny to be the sometimes I would be at uh what do you call it? 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:31.920 Um where the trailers are, uh at base camp or on set, like there was the scene we did at the baseball game, I mean the basketball game, and the peep, the stank eye they was getting him from across the room, but like in character. 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:36.319 But I was dying laughing because I was just like, they're so vested. 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:36.880 Yeah, they're gonna be. 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:45.039 Like this about to be real good because I know whatever they're if they're giving me this and they're not even talking, they're across the room from each other. 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.079 Yeah, so it was just so fun. 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:53.200 I I couldn't wait to see like what they were working on, like actually when they actually got to meet up for the first time. 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:55.920 So when doing the scene at the gala was really fun. 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:56.480 Beautiful. 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.240 Now, so how method do you get when it comes to acting? 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.839 Because uh part of you are you're like you are a comedian. 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:08.000 There's a part of you that's a comedian, versus that so I feel like so. 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:21.119 For me, I could like jump in and out, and I heard Jamie Foster jump in and out, but then you have other people, they like, no, if I'm playing the time period, like I heard Lorenz Tate say this, like when he was doing Dead Presidents, he was only listening to music from that era, and he's staying in character. 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.039 And so what's kind of your process when it comes to when you're approaching your roles? 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:29.920 I don't get too method in the sense of like I'm very much so like you

where I'm like, am I crazy? 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:32.559 I can just turn it off and on sometimes, you know what I mean? 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:43.599 It's like you're ha ha ha ha ha crying, and you're like, all right, so um, I want chicken for lunch and I wanted it, like it's like girl, you know, but there are times like when I did Whitney, that was the scariest one because I just didn't have a lot of time. 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:50.319 Um, so I was constantly in like watching videos and and and soaking up information in between takes. 00:25:50.400 --> 00:26:07.200 So I feel like that was the one I was probably the most immersed in that world, but like for the most part, it's just I just try to do as much work as far as my preparation is to just be prepared when I get to set so I can be loose and move how because as a comedian, like the improvisation, all of that. 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.200 You know, we love to try to fit in a button. 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:11.440 Yeah, we love when they get one of our ad libs in. 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:12.880 We like, yes, I got it. 00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:14.720 Um, that's a win for us. 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:17.359 So um, for me, it's just about being prepared. 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:25.920 So when I get to set, I can just flow and like find things that it doesn't feel stale as stale because you're finding things with your partner in that moment. 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:32.079 Oh, anybody watching a button is like the last like joke or something that you may say at the end of a scene. 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:34.079 That you kind of most of the time you made it up. 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:34.400 Right. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:37.519 Yeah, it's not normally on the page of something that you came up with. 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.480 But we wait a minute, you just blew my mind. 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:42.559 What do you okay? 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:46.799 You know, because I've told you this multiple times. 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:55.359 I don't think there's been a better depiction of Whitney Houston than the one that Gabriel Dennis did in the Bobby Brown story. 00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:56.720 Argue with your mama. 00:26:57.279 --> 00:26:57.759 That's right. 00:26:58.720 --> 00:26:59.359 That is my opinion. 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:00.000 Don't come to me. 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:01.680 That is my opinion. 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:02.799 Put me on it. 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:06.000 Put as soon as you write that, put BT Kingsley says. 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:07.200 Thank you. 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:10.400 Please, what do you mean you didn't have that much time? 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:11.440 I need more information. 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.200 No, like I told you, you know, Jamie Foxx is like who I look up to and aspire. 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:18.640 So, like the Ray, what he did with Ray was so amazing. 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:26.799 And I remember watching the behind the scenes of him spending time with Ray, playing the piano with Ray, like hanging out, like really encapsulating his entire vibe. 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:32.960 So I was like, oh, obviously I couldn't hang with Whitney, but I was like, I'll have time to like really like dive in and get in there. 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:33.599 Nope. 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:35.519 I got a call on Saturday. 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:40.480 I was out in an open house looking at houses, just minding them, you know, it's a Saturday. 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:51.440 I got this call that I had actually booked the job, so excited, but like literally in like milliseconds, it went from a excitement to a fear, like, oh, it's about to get real. 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:52.160 You know what I mean? 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:53.119 Like, this is Whitney. 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.599 She's so highly adored and people love her. 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.920 Um I can't do wrong. 00:27:58.079 --> 00:27:59.359 Please let's not do wrong. 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:01.039 So you just instantly start praying. 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:02.799 So that was on a Saturday afternoon. 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:07.759 They were like, okay, so we'll follow up with you on information, but you'll you'll fly into Atlanta next week. 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:10.480 I was in Atlanta on Monday. 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:17.759 I got this, I was at the table read and got the script on Wednesday, and we were filming the next Monday. 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:25.839 So I had that script from Wednesday through, from Wednesday on, but literally I had that much time to like lock it in. 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:29.119 And my first scene, I think, was with Woody. 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:30.160 We were arguing. 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:31.920 I think it was their breakup scene. 00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:39.039 And when I tell you I was steeressed, and I remember they had like background, like uh behind the scenes camera people, and they wanted to ask questions. 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:39.759 I said, today? 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:41.039 Do we gotta do it today? 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:41.759 I don't have it. 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:44.319 Like, you know, you're just so dialed in and focused. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:58.960 Like I literally was trying to find the littlest minutiae of like moments that felt like her, you know, because you don't and it's this borderline, because as a comedian, you don't want to cross over into a feeling caricatry. 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:04.000 You don't want to feel like you're you're making fun of, or like, so there was so much prayer, bro. 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:05.359 I that's really what got me through. 00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:08.240 Like, so so okay, let me be more specific. 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:15.200 There is an image and an understanding that we have of the amazing talent that is Whitney Houston. 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.079 There is a very she is totally in tune with it. 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:26.480 She knows what I'm giving to the world and the energy that I'm

putting out for my music and my videos and my visuals and wherever you see me and interviews and so on and so forth. 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:39.519 And then there's the Whitney that we knew loved Bobby Brown, that they were tight tightly knit, and there's the when it was those little random cameras, uh, that you get to see them interact and see the other side of her. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:48.079 And there is a video that has been circulating forever with you and Woody playing Whitney and Bobby, and it's it's like a one-on-one. 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:53.039 They put them, they like literally sync them up, and it is undeniable. 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.319 And I was like, no, you was able to tap into something else. 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:03.599 Character, what happens for you, what is the process for you to get into something that deep and stay grounded? 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:07.359 Well, for that one, I mean, also just Whitney was fun. 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.880 Like people I knew her that I got to talk to that knew her, they're like, Oh, she would like you. 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:13.279 She's funny, she's fun, she's this, that, and the third. 00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:19.039 And so it was really just trying to tap into some of the stuff that felt a little more relatable to us in this room. 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:21.759 Because we cannot relate to the Whitney Houston. 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:23.119 We can't relate to the voice. 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:24.079 It's only one of them. 00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:24.880 You know what I mean? 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:35.200 So that larger than life on a pedestal that we had her, it luckily I didn't have the the hard work of like trying to recreate those moments. 00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:35.599 Yes. 00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:37.279 It was more of the behind-the-scenes stuff. 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:48.160 So it was really trying to dial it back and be like, okay, how is a mom, how is a wife, how is a friend, how is a um an artist going through pain in this moment, those are the things we can relate to. 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:50.880 We can relate to pain and heartbreak and frustration and all that. 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:52.400 You got the human elements of her. 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:52.799 Yeah. 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:54.079 That might be why I love it so much. 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:54.400 Yeah. 00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:59.359 So it was more of like, because I know like the director was very adamant, like, are we gonna be doing little to no makeup? 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.000 And I was like, oh, you know, Whitney was beautiful, right? 00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:03.279 Like, what are you what are we talking about? 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:03.920 You know what I'm saying? 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:10.240 But it was it helped strip some of that facade of like, I'm acting now, it's time to lock in. 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:14.880 You know, so um I thought it was a a great experience. 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:24.799 Um, shout out to the entire the Bobby Brown store family, you know, from Jesse Collins on down, and like to Bobby Brown being there himself. 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:33.599 Um, I remember the scene where um she he passed out, and he was like, he remembers her checking to see if he was breathing. 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:39.119 So like there was like little moments that I was able to take from him and add that, like, boy, you you breathed. 00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:46.079 I don't even think he knew what she said, but he remembered her checking to see if he was breathing, and that's how she knew he was like he was alive. 00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:48.240 So she thought he was just messing around. 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:51.200 So, you know, it was just kind of this great moment. 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:58.640 And and and when you're playing someone with an addiction, you for sure don't want to trample on it feeling like it's it's a joke. 00:31:58.799 --> 00:32:09.839 You know, having experienced that, not myself, I've never been addicted, but like having been close to an addiction before, you know, you take that seriously because you know how it rocks a family. 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:13.920 And you had somebody great to play with because Woody is fully Bobby. 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:14.559 So dumb. 00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:21.200 You know, um tell it tell us what it's like working with him in that time when you got because you guys are both taking on this journey together of two icons. 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:22.160 Oh, absolutely. 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:26.720 I mean, he he held all of the weight though, you know, because it was the Bobby Brown story. 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:32.079 And I remember being very specific, talking with the cast before, like, yo, it's our job to support this man. 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:33.440 You know, we gotta lift him up. 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:38.640 This is he is our leading man, and we have to do all of the things we do to show up for him. 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:49.680 And Woody's one of those people you just want to cheer for and want to win, and having seen him do so good in the new edition story, it was like, so you kind of already had his essence and understood where he was coming from. 00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:51.279 And he's just also this very gracious. 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:55.759 I remember our test, he was like, I think he told me, he's like, Yeah, that's the one I want. 00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:58.079 I know that we just locked in immediately. 00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:03.440 So um, Woody and it's we're still close to this day, like that's fam. 00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:06.559 Like, it was it was just good to see him win. 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:13.440 And I remember um Sandy McCree, who played uh Bobby Brown's mom, she one day I was so tired and I was ready to go home. 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:14.480 She's like, no, no, no, come. 00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:17.599 They were filming one of the concert, one of his concerts. 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:19.119

And I was like, okay, let me stop in. 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:22.160 When I tell you, Woody put on a show, okay? 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.759 So that was like the closest I would have ever gotten to see a Bobby Brown in his heyday. 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:26.799 Woody killed it. 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:34.079 And I was like, okay, this is actually helping my character see how magnetic Bobby Brown was as a performer. 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:40.400 Because I think the you know, the beginning of their relationship, it was like her being mesmerized by him also as this. 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:41.759 He was Bobby Brown. 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:42.079 Yeah. 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:43.279 He was the Bobby Brown. 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:44.400 The Bobby Brown. 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:47.119 I wonder, did you receive any backlash? 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:47.599 No. 00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:48.079 Okay. 00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:49.440 And I was terrified. 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:49.759 Yeah. 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.319 Now, because mind you, I still had, hell, I still have Janae's thank on me. 00:33:54.400 --> 00:34:00.000 So with the black community, I was like, oh, I was so nervous when it dropped that first night. 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.319 But people received it with open arms. 00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:05.680 Um, I just, I don't know, I got a lot of love from that. 00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:14.000 So that meant a lot because it was just, it was definitely one thing I was like, ooh, tonight, these next two nights, is either my career begins or it was my final chapter. 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:14.559 Farewell. 00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:14.880 Thank you. 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:16.000 I mean, yeah, go ahead. 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:16.480 Yeah. 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:26.320 Uh I had a question because you do work so consistently, and a lot of it is, I feel like, self-tapes, or at least for a long time. 00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:29.760 You said from like 2019 to 2021, 25. 00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:30.480 Yeah. 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:31.920 It was self-tapes. 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:42.719 I want to know are there any tips or techniques you feel like you was using, whether it's lighting, microphone, anything that you felt like a reader, you know. 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:43.519 No. 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:45.360 You like that guy? 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:50.079 I really do. 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:53.519 So, and what I hate, I don't know why all actors, this is a trigger for us. 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:55.679 The full body slate, what are we doing? 00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:56.400 Why? 00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:57.760 I had to reset the camera. 00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:10.000 Like, it's just so much responsibility being like the camera person, the in charge of the lighting, editing it, sending it off, us finding a reader, all of those things when you just want to show up and do what you do and walk away. 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:18.079 So for me, I don't necessarily I think the biggest tip I would have is adjusting the attitude because for me it was about you still have to have fun with it. 00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:22.000 Just as if it was, you know, it's like, okay, so don't look at it as a stage performance. 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:26.320 I used to look at auditions as like this is I'm going to the stage, I'm going to perform today. 00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.679 And my audience is very small, but I'm going to give y'all a performance. 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:33.840 So now it's just like, okay, well, I'm shooting a movie today or I'm shooting an episode of TV. 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:38.880 Whatever it is that clocks in there to make you have fun, because if you're enjoying it, they're enjoying it. 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:44.320 That energy has to be in sync with what the outcome you want it to be. 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:49.920 So if you're not having fun or you don't want to do it and all these things and you're dredging it, then you won't want to work. 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:52.320 You're gonna dredge working. 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:53.199 You know what I'm saying? 00:35:53.360 --> 00:36:01.280 So to me, it was just about getting the whole pandemic funk off of me and just really dialing in and being like, you know, you can have fun with it. 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:05.360 And I will say the zooms for me were always easier than the self-tapes. 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:07.280 Um, I think I had better luck with those. 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:11.519 Because I don't think I ever really I think I'm also like frugal. 00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:16.960 So I was like, I ain't paying nobody, we'll be on tapes and we're gonna record this in the crib and y'all, you know, you can see me, right? 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:22.239 You know, because they would also say, well, as long as we can see you, it doesn't have to be, you know, high, highly produced, but then I would see my friends. 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:24.400 I was like, oh, y'all really doing it right. 00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:28.800 But that's why that's what I'm about to say because I've seen people, they like shoot scenes. 00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:30.079 Like they'll shoot the scene. 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:32.719 It ain't them just standing in front of the wall anymore. 00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:34.639 They're like, no, I'm in the dinner room. 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:37.679 I'm gonna have a camera, a swooping shot. 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:38.559 You know what I'm saying? 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:40.400 Like, it's say that in the other direction. 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:41.039 Don't do this. 00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:42.800 I'm exactly what they be doing. 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:43.840 Booking like a mug. 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:45.760 They got a crane, they got a crane, they gotta. 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:46.719 I'm like, what the hell? 00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:49.440 But even so, even if it's not all that, it's just the lighting. 00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:59.440 Sometimes, like, so if you're doing, I just got one set, but I have a

friend where he, when he does the lighting, there's a different move for a drama, one hour, if it's an intense scene. 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:00.480 Like, so it sets you in. 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:01.840 Like, okay, what are we doing here? 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:02.960 It sets you apart. 00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:14.880 So I think I don't think I'm the best person to ask because I'm real basic with my self-tapes, but like a Zoom is better because to me, I'm very good at inner interaction and feeding off energy. 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:19.039 So, okay, but but no, you you wanted to be able to ask because you be working. 00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:21.920 So, so let me ask this then. 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:28.400 Because I I I remember trying to book more, I remember I called Justin and London, just people I knew that worked a lot. 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:30.719 Um, what is your process? 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.840 Uh A, once you get the audition, do you read the whole scripts? 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.960 And do you do you read the just the sides? 00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:46.159 And B, the second part of that question is how much are you doing in preparations before you ever get the the new thing? 00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:51.199 Like you know that somewhere there's an audition coming in four months that you don't even know about. 00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:53.679 What are you doing in preparation of that? 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:57.679 Well, if answer your first question, a lot of times you don't even get the full script. 00:37:57.760 --> 00:37:58.880 Sometimes you may not get it. 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:00.239 You may only get the size. 00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.400 When you get the full script, it is a luxury. 00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:04.320 But I'm I'm really good at asking questions. 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:05.920 I always say ask, ask, ask questions. 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:07.679 Because which version of the script are we? 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:09.679 Are we in draft seven or are we in draft one? 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.880 Because with that information, some things may have changed. 00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:16.800 So it's nice to know, like, you know, and if you have questions, don't be afraid to ask. 00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:22.239 So if there's something in the scene that's not clear to you, especially when you don't have the script, what was the moment before this? 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.039 What's the relationship with this uh employee? 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:26.320 Like, what are the dynamics? 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:37.039 Because sometimes you just get your character breakdown and a description of what the project is, like, you know, this that's a multi-camera, whatever, about whatever, you know. 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:41.519 Um so but when you get the get it, it is a luxury to read the full script. 00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:52.559 But for me, my process, when I get the sides, before I do anything, I'll read the character description and then I'll pull up the sides and I record myself reading it for the first time. 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:56.320 I want to know what instinctually I just do reading it cold. 00:38:56.639 --> 00:39:02.239 And then that way, if if something in that moment happens that sparks like, ooh, that felt good. 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:10.960 That felt natural, that felt organic, that felt right for whatever that thing is, then I can try to recreate that when I'm rehearsing and like practicing. 00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:15.440 But a lot of times I just like to know because I don't know what I don't know what the pages say. 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:17.599 And that's how in real life, you don't know. 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.159 Before I came into this room, I didn't know what the conversation was gonna be, just like in real life. 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:31.039 So I try to read the script as the first time as raw as possible, but then also like if I make a facial expression, if I do something that like takes me back because I'm hearing the words for the first time. 00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:32.079 You know what I mean? 00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:34.400 So I use that as as like a little trick. 00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:41.599 And then the other question is just I guess in just preparation, it's just staying, staying ready. 00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:42.639 You know what I mean? 00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:47.360 Like whether that's acting classes, whether it's getting on stage, whether it's you still take acting classes? 00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:51.920 I haven't taken acting class in a minute because like again, COVID, everything kind of stopped. 00:39:52.400 --> 00:40:04.000 Um, but even when I was gonna say people who can't afford a class, I always tell people watch TV, watch movies, watch whatever medium that you want to be in, that's studying. 00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:08.800 Because the sitcoms of nowadays aren't the same sitcoms of what we grew up on. 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:10.079 Martin ain't on no more. 00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:10.400 Right. 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:15.119 There's a different kind of, you know, that's know the difference from a single camera and a multi-camera. 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:19.599 Like, so just watching the medium that you want to be a part of makes the world a difference. 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:22.079 This makes all the sense of the world. 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:24.480 And uh, who's the other person that uh cream? 00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:28.320 Cream said that the same thing, he said you gotta watch what's on. 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:30.400 Because other show every show has a different rhythm. 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:34.719 And I just keep playing back in the head, all the people that I know that don't work that much, just telling me. 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:36.719 Yeah, watch on TV because I want to be on it. 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:38.239 Well, I'm gonna watch it if I want to be on it. 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:39.039 I was like hilarious. 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:39.760 That's how you

can't. 00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:40.800 You know what I'm talking about. 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:43.599 I was like, you I wish you would go in. 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.880 My example I gave is I went in for Marvelous Mrs. 00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:47.440 Mazel. 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:49.599 I said, if you haven't seen this show, how would you know? 00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:54.239 How would you what would you this show the rhythm and the timing is so tone? 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:59.039 It's the tone, I was like, you would be totally off like, well, I don't want to watch, because I want to be on the shows. 00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:00.000 Why I'm watching shows? 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:04.400 But even beyond just the tone and like the rhythm and things, it's the look. 00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:06.880 So like, if you don't know what Mar, you know what I mean? 00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:08.079 Yeah, what you wearing. 00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:10.719 What you're wearing, the the energy, the vibe. 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:12.000 Like, is it a sleepy town? 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:13.519 Is everybody's energy like this? 00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:15.679 Or is everybody like, oh my god, you know what I mean? 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:17.360 Like, what are what is the energy like? 00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:27.840 And as a woman, sometimes I remember um I never got the luxury to audition for uh Shadar Arms, but I heard some friends that were, I remember coaching some people before, she don't do wigs. 00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:32.719 That's information you need to know because if you show up on that tape with that dog on wigs, she'll be like, next. 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:52.559 I don't I don't know if that's the real thing, but like little tidbits of information that you learn if you're watching a show, like, oh, this director, this producer, this show is really into short hair or women with uh sex appeal or women that feel more natural and muted, or like you just start to learn a creative, like like we were talking about Courtney A. 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:52.800 Kemp. 00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:55.280 You kind of you learn her energy and her vibe. 00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:59.920 It's gonna be a whole different ball game than if you watch Golden Girls. 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:11.039 Actresses, act actors are such a very interesting you feel so you boy. 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:18.239 You, London, Gabrielle, you're so uh I feel like thought. 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:24.079 Like the conversation I'm having with you feels like a conversation I would have with any scholar about anything. 00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:31.519 But it's because you understand the communication of human nature because you have to portray humans in real life and make them grind it, which makes you a good actor. 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:41.519 So it's like these nuances that you're talking about speak to how you build character, but they also speak to how what you deliver, what comes comes out. 00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:47.039 So in that same world, you because you you brought it up, so I want to make sure we touch on this. 00:42:47.280 --> 00:43:02.719 When you do the game and you and you end up in this character, and you feel the energy, because black people make you who whoever like just used a joke about that, about black people make you whoever they saw you on on TV. 00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:14.559 How is that uh being a part of a show that iconic and and being that character, how tell me how it how it feels after it it's happened, it's out, and it becomes this huge thing. 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:15.920 You're talking about the game? 00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:16.719 Yes. 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:22.159 I mean, it's a full circle moment in the sense of like I'm back on such a a hit show. 00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:25.679 I mean, prayerfully, this one continues as long as the game did. 00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:28.880 Um, and I'm back with a little bit of haters. 00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:31.280 Welcome back. 00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:38.400 Um like dead ass, like when I got the game, I was so excited for that show because I was a fan of the show. 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:42.719 Um, and you know, when you get we go in, I had no idea that Janae was gonna be around that long. 00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.599 Like I was I went in to audition for I think it was two or three episodes. 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:46.880 That was the arc for that character. 00:43:47.119 --> 00:43:48.000 She probably wasn't. 00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:50.639 You just really I don't know. 00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:58.079 I think there was something, I don't know if it was that or they had lost another, there was another character, I think, that they had wanted to go that route and they lost her to another show. 00:43:58.159 --> 00:43:59.760 So then they had to reintroduce a new character. 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:05.679 Character, as I think he was he started dating someone else, and then she got a she got a a a big job. 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:06.000 Right. 00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:11.119 And so then here enters Janae, and I think they they at some point they wanted him to have a baby mama. 00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:13.199 I just didn't know it was gonna be my character. 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:13.920 Sorry. 00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:17.199 Um so cut to job security. 00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:18.880 So I was like, okay, cool, this is great. 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:25.199 And you know, as an actor, you're like, oh, I'm on a show I love, like it's people are watching it, like all of the things. 00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:27.920 And then I started realizing, oh, people recognize me. 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:36.480 Like I had to, I was at the 99th center because I used to shop at the 99 center because when I moved here, I was like, Y'all 99 cents store got purple? 00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:37.679 Like, what are we doing here? 00:44:38.159 --> 00:44:42.559 Um And then I got to the point I was like, uh oh, y'all are judging me because I'm in the 99 cent store. 00:44:42.800

--> 00:44:43.920 She ain't doing as good as we thought. 00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:47.760 I was like, dang, now I gotta get him out the uh 99 cent store. 00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:49.199 Move up to Target. 00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:51.039 He played his baby mama, made it. 00:44:52.400 --> 00:45:11.840 So it was just funny to go from like overnight just kind of being recognized, and then it turned like when that character dropped the bomb of being pregnant, and then that journey of like people, because and I grew to understand the reason people were so frustrated with La character is because she was a new into the mix. 00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:24.960 Now, maybe if Janae existed from the pilot on, I would have got a little less slack because, but at that point, we already a year and a season and a half rooting, wanting them to be together, then the Drew thing happened, and then this happened, and then they're like, we want them together. 00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:33.519 So when I tell you the amount of slack that I was not prepared for, I was like, Janae need to get in the boxing class. 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:36.320 They won't let me be nothing else. 00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:42.480 And I remember getting like a lot of hate at one point, like, you shouldn't have had that. 00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:44.159 I was like, so we're killing babies now? 00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:46.880 Like, they like they was mad, like, why you had that baby? 00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:47.840 You shouldn't have gotten rid of the baby. 00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:52.960 I was like, first of all, all of that heat, keep it over there because it's all make-believe. 00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:54.480 It's all make-believe. 00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:58.960 Both uh Tia and Pooch are married with their own children in real life. 00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:03.519 The sabers aren't real, Sandyoga doesn't even have a big uh football team. 00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:10.719 So it's like this whole thing, and then it got really ugly at one point where it was personal because it became team light skin, team dark skin. 00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:10.960 Yeah. 00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:14.639 And it became a comparison of how we looked and all of these things. 00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:16.880 And it was like, bruh, I'm just acting. 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:19.280 Like, I did not do this to y'all. 00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:23.280 This is the I wish the writers could take the heat, because they the ones to write the stuff. 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.119 We just show up and do the work. 00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:28.159 Like, I'll be one to redirect it, like, yo, be better than them, bruh. 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:30.400 But it it took a while. 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:35.119 Like, I feel like now I can laugh at it, but at one point I really because that's how I stopped doing stand-up because of it. 00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:35.440 Oh. 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:42.639 Like it was to the point where, like, I remember being at one, I didn't like people to introduce me with

my credits because I wanted to earn the laugh. 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:43.360 You know what I mean? 00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:48.559 So I remember at one of these rooms working out, like in the valley somewhere, and it was like a table of girls. 00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:51.280 And and this had happened a few times where I wasn't sure what they were saying. 00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:56.079 This time I could hear, every time I was getting on stage, people were trying to figure out where they knew me from. 00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:59.039 Because back then I was baseball cap, tennis shoes. 00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:02.000 Like, I would try to keep it really low key as a female comedian. 00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:04.960 I wanted to feel, I don't know, I guess just trying to blend and fit fit in. 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:09.360 Um, but I remember them like that is our nodes. 00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:16.880 And doing all of the people once I'm at the comedy store, and I just let her. 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:20.639 No, this is on the main stage. 00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:27.920 I'm like, we got a problem, we want to go outside and black people love to be a couple of people. 00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:34.400 So I just addressed it for the first time, and it was funny and it hit, but I was like, okay, that was weird. 00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:44.639 Um, but it was just interesting to see like how for me it did adjust a lot of like how I was moving as Gabrielle because I didn't like being identified as this character. 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:45.440 You know what I mean? 00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:46.960 So I was like, I stopped doing stand-up comedy. 00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:51.920 I started backing out of standup comedy because I was like, people don't look at me as funny right now. 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.800 They're looking at me as drama and it's a problematic situation. 00:47:54.960 --> 00:48:00.960 I was like, I'm not getting through to y'all because the first 35 to 45 seconds, y'all aren't listening to a word I'm saying. 00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:04.559 Because y'all trying to figure out who I am and where y'all know my voice. 00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:10.559 So, okay, now on the flip of the love, did you ever get to embrace it? 00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:13.199 And there was a lot of Janae love as well, but you know haters just be loud. 00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:14.159 Yeah, absolutely. 00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:19.840 But uh, but did you get to ever embrace the like a Comic Con coming off of Luke Cage? 00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:21.519 Because it's another iconic moment. 00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:23.679 You are now in the Marvel universe. 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:26.159 Uh these fans That got canceled too soon. 00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:27.519 Yeah, yeah. 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.960 Those fans are aggressive and intense. 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:37.519 Uh did you ever get to experience the not with Luke Cage because I didn't I didn't get to really finish that. 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:43.679 Like, you know, I wore

those Afropucks like one time and then it was cut to black, and then we never came back. 00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:47.039 So I was supposed to be like the main villain the next si season. 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:47.679 Absolutely. 00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:50.079 And I never like that's definitely a job unfinished. 00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:51.679 I would love to go back and put those afropucks on the back. 00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:52.639 Are they talking about bringing it back? 00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:53.920 Right? 00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:55.039 They're talking about bringing it back, right? 00:48:55.840 --> 00:48:59.280 No one's called me, but if they do, epidemic, you go get me called. 00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:02.880 I'm a part, that little crispy part down here pop them. 00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:04.800 So Daredevil is back. 00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.679 Uh I just saw him pop up recently. 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:09.199 So he stays working. 00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:10.400 Show dude both. 00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:10.880 No, no. 00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:13.119 He popped up in the show. 00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:14.480 Oh, in Daredevil. 00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:16.079 Yeah, it's Lou Cage, right? 00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:16.960 Nice. 00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:19.039 Yeah, so he got called comic. 00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:23.920 I wanted to ask about this because if you don't end up being storm, you know I'd be trying to campaign for you to be storm. 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:24.320 Oh, yeah. 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:26.239 I don't think they will give it to me. 00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:27.599 I said what I said. 00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:28.559 I mean, I appreciate you. 00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:30.559 I wish you were in casting or producing. 00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:33.599 But see, this is what people always gotta realize too. 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:38.960 Sometimes you get hired because you're not the A-lister, because it goes back to budget. 00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:49.920 The reason I booked Rush Hour above these other bigger stars, there was a tad problematic, but also I was way cheaper. 00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:55.119 Paying me whatever amount they was paying me is much cheaper than paying this A-lister. 00:49:55.360 --> 00:49:57.440 Yeah, but don't sell yourself short either. 00:49:57.599 --> 00:49:58.239 I appreciate that. 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:03.920 You know, like, yes, you can be you are more affordable, but it's like you don't, they don't have to pay you either. 00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:04.559 That's true. 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:05.519 Yes, that's true. 00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:08.880 I mean, but uh but but but in the same respect, that's what I'm saying. 00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:10.559 By storm, you like they not. 00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:11.519 And let me fix it. 00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:12.639 I was gonna say, let me check myself. 00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:15.599 It's probably better, like let's I receive that blessing. 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:16.719 You have all the things. 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:18.480 She's you you uh I am a comic book. 00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:21.679 And as a former dancer and fight choreographer, I can get in there. 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:23.760 I am a comic book nerd. 00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:26.079 You have all the things to encapsulate her. 00:50:26.159 --> 00:50:27.920 I don't just I never am gonna gas you. 00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:28.880 Be a Marvel nerd. 00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:30.159 I'm a Marvel nerd. 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.000 But that would that be a world where they would I've already played somebody in the Marvel world. 00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:35.280 I know it was in the TV space. 00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:38.239 Well, Netflix owned those rights at the time, so absolutely that's true. 00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:39.599 Robert Downing Jr. 00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:43.440 play Iron Man, and now he's playing Doctor Doom. 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:45.840 Because we're we're we're Robert Downing Jr. 00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:47.679 And you are Gabriel Dennis. 00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:54.480 That's you are the Gabriel Dennis, and we're and we're and like you said, for what you said, Marvel tends to do that. 00:50:54.559 --> 00:51:00.880 They might not, they might go with somebody who's not dun dun dun dun dun dun right out the gate for them, but has all the talent in the world. 00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:02.800 Well, right into Marvel, you and Nolie Fear. 00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:03.440 That's right, we're right. 00:51:03.679 --> 00:51:04.800 This is going to start a campaign. 00:51:05.119 --> 00:51:05.760 Tag Marvel. 00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:08.400 I'm ready to kick some ass. 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:09.119 Hold on. 00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:14.000 So this is the question I did have, which is you've been working so consistently. 00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:17.199 What have you done with your money? 00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:17.760 Okay. 00:51:18.559 --> 00:51:18.800 Oh, yeah. 00:51:20.159 --> 00:51:20.719 I know he liked this. 00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:23.039 I know he'll like this because we he loves to talk about money. 00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:29.360 But I I think people ought to know the importance of not just what do you do? 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:30.559 I ain't even gonna say my thoughts. 00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:34.880 What do you feel like you've done, whether it's investing, spending, whatever, with your money? 00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:36.800 I've always been good with my money. 00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:42.320 Like, if if I wasn't doing this, I'd probably be an amazing accountant or money manager or something. 00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:44.960 Um but I'm not a spender. 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.440 I don't really like shopping because I hate trying on clothes. 00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:50.320 That's what my least favorite thing is wardrobe fittings when it's time to work. 00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:52.400 Because you've been wardrobe fitting for like three hours. 00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:55.039 That is torture to me sometimes. 00:51:55.360 --> 00:52:08.159 But um,

for me, I think the biggest thing I did for myself was when I booked Rosewood, because I've been driving my college car um for all this time, and I bought myself my first truck. 00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:10.079 So I got me, you know, a little Land Rover. 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:13.199 I was like, okay, I'm gonna do the things, a little Range Rover, you know. 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:14.000 And I loved it. 00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:16.159 So it was nice because it was like the commute. 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:21.760 I had a long commute, so it was nice to have a new vehicle to kind of do that, and and to be like, all right, girl, you made it. 00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:22.800 You finally done did something. 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:23.280 You know what I mean? 00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:24.480 It felt like I earned that. 00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:27.920 Um, and then that's about the biggest thing I've done for myself. 00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:30.719 But I I'm I'm great at saving money. 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:31.519 Put that money. 00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:35.199 I was just telling my TV son, put that money in a high yield savings account. 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:39.599 You'd rather it sit there earning a little little something than nothing. 00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:42.079 Um, because those banks are using your money. 00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:43.920 That what do you think the stocks are doing? 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:44.960 Like, that's your money. 00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:45.440 Right. 00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:51.360 So um, and your FDIC is short up to$250,000 per account. 00:52:51.519 --> 00:52:56.079 So, like, I mean like I'm the type of person, I'll open up a credit card because they're giving away money. 00:52:56.239 --> 00:53:05.519 So if like my SAG dues are due and you're giving$750 or$1,000 to open a credit card and spend X amount of money, I was like, I'm about to spend this money anyway, so why not? 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:11.440 Oh now it's a dis I just look at it as like I just got a discount on my dues or like whatever big bill you might have coming up. 00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:13.599 Like that's that's the type of thing I'd be preaching to my mother. 00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:15.920 And then you take the points and use it for something else. 00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:20.960 This part, you know, get you a little free flight or fly your fly a family member out or something like that. 00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:23.599 Like I've I flown my mom a few times on on points. 00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:27.039 So um I'm I and I and I used to be cheap. 00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:28.719 People are like, no, you were just frugal. 00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:29.840 I can say cheap. 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:32.639 That was part of my my stand-up bid at one point, you know. 00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:38.079 But it was like I respect the dollar bill, you know what I mean? 00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:41.679 So I have a relationship with money that it's all about respect. 00:53:42.079 --> 00:53:44.239 And um I treat money nice. 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:46.800 Like I also hide money from myself. 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:48.559 I don't count my money. 00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:49.039 Yeah. 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:51.599 So I'll I I got a check now that it's expired. 00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:54.239 I was like, I gotta ask, oh, so I can deposit this check. 00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:57.840 But it's just one of those things where that's how y'all know she's making money, everybody. 00:53:58.320 --> 00:54:06.880 When she got expired checks, you're like Well, I'm just saying in the sense that I make sure the the stuff is paid, like the stuff that has to get paid all the time, that's accounted for. 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:07.280 Right. 00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:09.599 All the other stuff is like, put that off to the side. 00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:10.159 Don't put it in the city. 00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:12.079 Not cashing that check is almost like a savings. 00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:12.960 It's like I can see it. 00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:13.440 It's like all the things that I've got to do. 00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:14.639 Except it should have been earning interest. 00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:34.000 Yeah, but people need to know about that because a lot of times people get on these TV shows and they'll just start buying a bunch of stuff, but they're not investing, they're not putting it in a 401k, they're not putting high your interest savings account, they're not buying any real estate or whatever the case is. 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:43.760 I don't give a damn if it's artwork, you know, but somewhere to park your money so it's making money for you because these shows eventually come to an end. 00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:54.239 And depending on if you're fortunate enough to hop on another show, you want to be able to know that your money is working for you while you're not currently on something, if if that if those times come. 00:54:54.400 --> 00:55:00.880 But only because, like I said, you work so consistently, I just wanted to kind of let people know kind of how you was managing your money. 00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:01.599 Yeah, yeah. 00:55:02.159 --> 00:55:02.559 Not spending. 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:04.800 Don't spend your money. 00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:11.519 I mean, I've invested in real estate or like, you know, done the uh save the 401k situation. 00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:17.360 Um, I forgot what they call it, it's not 401k, but just being smart and paying your taxes. 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:18.480 Yeah, pay them taxes. 00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:19.280 Pay them taxes. 00:55:19.679 --> 00:55:20.719 Because you don't want that call. 00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:23.920 Um yeah, just being responsible as as much as you can. 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:29.199 I mean, I've I've been kind of taking care of myself since I was 16, so it's kind of like second nature of just like making sure bills are paid. 00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:30.800 Yeah, I was gonna say that too. 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:40.800 You uh you have a a strong

relationship in a lot of different spaces as far as the different uh networks or houses go, because I mean you it's this has been going on for a while. 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:43.440 You was on the Teen Summit. 00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:48.000 So it's like the Teen Summit to Netflix, you've seen the ebbs and flows. 00:55:48.239 --> 00:56:00.719 Do you have uh uh I don't want to say do you know where we're going, but just in your navigation of the different um studio spaces, have you seen the changes? 00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:04.159 Do you do you is there a way that you like it to be the the most? 00:56:04.239 --> 00:56:06.800 Is there a way that just like if you're all the different platforms? 00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:07.760 Yeah. 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:13.280 Like streaming versus You know, it's terrifying to be quite honest. 00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:24.960 Um I feel like not just our industry, I just feel like so many industries are being take over, taken over by the ease of AI, the greed of corporations, the the simplifying of things. 00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:31.760 So I think like that whole strike that we went through, the writer's strike, and then we went through the actor strike, like that was an eye-opener for me. 00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:36.719 So it was kind of like this moment where it was like, oh, I am shook, you know, like the things that I started. 00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:38.719 I've really seen you out there marching and stuff, yeah. 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:43.199 Yeah, but it's like it was this wake-up call, you've invested so much of your life. 00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:46.719 Like I've been doing this now, um, what did I say, with twenty twenty years we've been here. 00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:55.679 So it's like and then you just look up and it's like, wait, y'all can just digitally create actors and put them in places and stuff like that. 00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:02.480 So there's a fear, I think, that somewhere, and I think it's closer than what people think it really is, you know, that turn. 00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:09.519 Um and then I think also it's it's there's some scary things where you feel like there were so many and now everything's merging. 00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:11.039 There's so many mergers happening. 00:57:11.199 --> 00:57:11.280 Right. 00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:12.800 So it's like, well, what does that look like? 00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:21.199 Does that now mean there's we've had this plethora of content and the uh you know, spoiled in in that, and now it's like, okay, so are we gonna get smaller? 00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:28.719 Like, so there's there's like I think not a doomsday prepper, but it's just kind of like part of the saving money thing back to that. 00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:32.960 It's like you just don't know what can happen um with the industry. 00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:46.480 So the hope is we'll continue um giving uh options and and content that uh crosses all of the spectrum so that there's something out there for everybody. 00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:48.239 And I think that's the beauty of entertainment. 00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:52.079 It's like, you know, people with mad at us to the strike, like why they why are they striking? 00:57:52.159 --> 00:57:52.800 Why they mad? 00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:56.639 You ain't gotta take the job, you ain't gotta sign that contract, you ain't gotta get paid this, da da da. 00:57:57.199 --> 00:57:58.239 They complain and they make it so much. 00:57:58.400 --> 00:57:59.920 First of all, we're not all Tom Cruise. 00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:06.800 You know, there's there's literally maybe three percent of the actors that make real, real money. 00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:11.280 Everybody else is still waiting tables, having second jobs, doing all of the things. 00:58:11.519 --> 00:58:22.159 So I just feel like I don't even know what I was going where I was going with this, but the whole point at the end of the day is the hope is that we continue to be able to work and to fuel things. 00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:27.920 Oh, that's what I was gonna say, because like for example, with the pandemic, how were people getting through that? 00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:29.519 It was through entertainment. 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:32.719 They were watching hours upon hours upon hours of content. 00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:33.119 Right. 00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:40.239 And I get people that compliment and thank me all the time about getting them through surgery, getting them through a rough time, getting the da-da-da. 00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:46.960 You know, so we're not curing diseases, but we are heal helping heal the world in some kind of way. 00:58:47.039 --> 00:58:58.320 And I know it sounds very cheesy and whatnot, but you know, especially as comedians, like giving somebody a laugh, like bringing joy to somebody's day, you don't know how that can be a pivot in somebody's life. 00:58:58.400 --> 00:58:58.480 Yeah. 00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:03.119 How that can make them put that bottle down, have them make them make that choice and not go out and slap their boss in the face. 00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:03.920 Like, who knows? 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:05.119 You know what I'm saying? 00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:10.320 You could be doing all this life stuff, and literally sometimes just uh that little break of tail. 00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:19.119 Okay, I was going through all the stuff, I was dealing with all this stuff, let me just watch a show and get away, and I'm just gonna, I'm a binge nemesis, and I'm just here for some hours. 00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:21.039 It's a good escapism. 00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:23.760 Y'all been asking how can y'all support killing it? 00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:25.280 Well, we got an answer for you. 00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:25.840 We got one. 00:59:26.079 --> 00:59:26.559 Cash app. 00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:27.199 Boom. 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:31.519 We are independently produced right now, and we're paying for this to give y'all a great show every week. 00:59:31.679 -->

00:59:33.119 Y'all be asking about a Patreon. 00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:34.880 You don't even have to, this ain't even much of my channel. 00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:36.960 Just go and put something in there right now. 00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:40.000 You should look at us like a collection plate at church. 00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:42.320 We digitally passing it to you right now. 00:59:43.039 --> 00:59:43.920 And with your help. 00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:44.960 And with your help. 00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:47.199 You can feed three three Negroes. 00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:49.599 I gotta fly on my forehead right now. 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:50.639 It's right there on the screen. 00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:50.960 You see. 00:59:51.199 --> 00:59:51.920 We got a game of it. 00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:54.880 It's called Kill It or Let Live. 00:59:54.960 --> 00:59:55.280 Uh-oh. 00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:59.199 I should have done a Mary Screw kill for you, but Kill It or Let Live. 00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:00.559 I'm gonna throw out a topic. 01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:03.199 You know, you're gonna say, if you like it, you're gonna say let it live. 01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:05.280 If you're not messing with it, you're gonna say kill it. 01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:05.519 Okay. 01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:07.280 All right, kill it or let live. 01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:17.679 You get to star on your own TV show, movies, and stand-up special if you want one, for the rest of your life on Netflix. 01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:24.320 But in order for you to accomplish this, you gotta allow Tony Henchcliffe to do a roast for you. 01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:27.920 And he gets to pick all the comics on your day's. 01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:29.199 Live. 01:00:30.639 --> 01:00:31.920 Run me my check. 01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:32.960 Run me my check. 01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:35.280 No, Daniel Bellatoni or his friends. 01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:38.159 I'm gonna have some ear pods in they won't see me behind my wig. 01:00:41.679 --> 01:00:43.119 I'm looking at the laugh. 01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:46.320 Run me that, run me those contracts. 01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:47.360 Ah, that's fire. 01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:48.079 That's great. 01:00:48.239 --> 01:00:50.159 Okay, kill it or let live. 01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:52.960 Men trying to holler at women at the gym. 01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:58.800 I don't go to the gym, so uh I would say kill it. 01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:01.039 People just want to be there doing what they do. 01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:02.639 The gym is very intimidating. 01:01:02.719 --> 01:01:03.599 That's why I don't like going. 01:01:03.679 --> 01:01:05.199 I don't go to the gym, I work out at home. 01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:05.599 Yeah. 01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:07.599 You like, I just don't gym. 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:08.079 I don't. 01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:10.320 As a former dancer, it just feels like work. 01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:11.199 And I don't like that. 01:01:11.440 --> 01:01:12.639 But you work out, you work out, right? 01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:12.960 No. 01:01:13.119 --> 01:01:14.159 Oh, okay, natural. 01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:14.480 Okay. 01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:15.199 No, no, no. 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:16.000 Okay, we see you. 01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:17.039 I think I well, no. 01:01:17.280 --> 01:01:18.000 But you eat right. 01:01:18.079 --> 01:01:20.480 What you you don't have no regimen? 01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:22.159 Well, that's a blessing. 01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:22.960 Boy, boy. 01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:24.719 It'll catch up, I'm sure. 01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:25.440 Eventually. 01:01:26.159 --> 01:01:27.119 All right, this is my last one. 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:28.800 Kill it or let live. 01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:32.320 You get to travel anywhere in the world for free. 01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:33.360 Twice a year. 01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:38.559 But every time you get cast on a TV show, you get killed off on the first episode. 01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:39.840 Kill that. 01:01:40.559 --> 01:01:41.519 You don't want to travel. 01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:42.480 You don't want to travel. 01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:45.519 That's what that's one place I do spend my money. 01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:46.400 I'm gonna go on a trip. 01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:46.800 Yeah. 01:01:48.960 --> 01:01:52.880 Because with my special and my movie, in my show that I'm starring in after the uh roast. 01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:54.880 Yeah before my own travel, okay? 01:01:55.599 --> 01:01:55.760 Right. 01:01:55.920 --> 01:01:56.320 Straight up. 01:01:56.480 --> 01:01:56.800 Straight up. 01:01:56.960 --> 01:01:58.559 Never got me paid, paid. 01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:05.360 Uh uh Zoe, uh, so I got uh Kee Three, Kill Five. 01:02:05.599 --> 01:02:06.639 Sublime List. 01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:08.639 So I'm gonna start listing this off. 01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:10.000 Keep three, kill five. 01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:13.920 So you're gonna three eight in an order, and I just, as you go, I gotta figure this out. 01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:14.639 Yeah, it is. 01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:16.559 You don't know what's coming next. 01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:24.639 It's all suppressed, uh, and the topic is sitcoms. 01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:25.039 Okay. 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:26.000 All right. 01:02:26.639 --> 01:02:27.440 Number one. 01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:29.360 My wife and kids. 01:02:29.679 --> 01:02:30.239 Stays. 01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:31.039 Wait, what's the word? 01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:33.760 You keep it my keeping my wife and kids. 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:35.440 All right. 01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:37.519 And mind you, it might be some bullshit on the show. 01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:39.280 Because I still watch my wife and kids to this day. 01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:40.000 I think it's hilarious. 01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:40.880 It's one of the best shows. 01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:42.239 I don't know if you notice or not. 01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:42.800 I bring that show up. 01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:43.840 Yeah, I mean, it's a great show. 01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:47.760 When I

was trying to be a writer, that was my spec script I wrote when I was trying to get into the program. 01:02:48.239 --> 01:02:48.800 Wow, yeah. 01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:49.360 Yeah, I love it. 01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:50.480 It's one of my favorites. 01:02:50.719 --> 01:02:51.679 Fresh prints. 01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:53.199 Keep it. 01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:54.960 Wait, wait, how many do I get? 01:02:55.199 --> 01:02:56.320 You only get three. 01:02:56.559 --> 01:02:57.199 Yeah, I know. 01:02:58.639 --> 01:02:59.519 You know what I'm saying? 01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:00.320 You don't know it. 01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:01.440 You want to keep the three? 01:03:02.639 --> 01:03:02.880 All right. 01:03:03.360 --> 01:03:03.760 All right. 01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:05.519 Homeboys and out of space. 01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:07.599 Bye-bye. 01:03:08.159 --> 01:03:08.880 Bye bye. 01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:10.559 I'm like, that's just absurd. 01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:12.960 Moesha. 01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:14.639 Mo to the. 01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:16.079 Bye bye, Moisha. 01:03:18.480 --> 01:03:19.679 Malcolm Eddie. 01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.480 Oh, bye-bye, Malcolm Eddie. 01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:24.480 Remember, you only got one more left. 01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:26.320 What number are we on? 01:03:26.639 --> 01:03:28.639 We we got I got three more options. 01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:30.639 But you only got one more to pick. 01:03:33.280 --> 01:03:34.880 Jamie Foxx show. 01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:39.599 And you said you love Jamie. 01:03:40.079 --> 01:03:41.199 Oh, because I'm still up. 01:03:41.519 --> 01:03:43.679 The one that I'm waiting for has to be on the list. 01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:44.400 All right. 01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:45.360 Maybe. 01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:46.800 So it better be on this list. 01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:48.400 Or we're gonna have to edit this. 01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:50.559 Martin. 01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:51.360 Kate! 01:03:54.719 --> 01:03:56.320 And then the last one was Thea. 01:03:57.440 --> 01:03:58.800 That's hilarious. 01:03:59.440 --> 01:03:59.840 That's a solid. 01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:03.119 You did good. 01:04:03.920 --> 01:04:05.199 So you kept my wife and kids. 01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:06.559 You uh kept Fresh Prince. 01:04:06.639 --> 01:04:07.920 You got rid of homeboys and out of space. 01:04:08.079 --> 01:04:08.639 I don't know why. 01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:10.719 You got rid of Moesha, Malcolm, and Eddie. 01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:12.159 You kept uh you got rid of Jamie McCoy. 01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:13.760 Flex Alexander go beat your ass. 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:17.519 I never bring up the other one. 01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:18.400 What's the other show? 01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:19.199 Which one? 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:22.559 Uh with him and One on One. 01:04:22.719 --> 01:04:23.599 I never bring up one on one. 01:04:23.679 --> 01:04:24.000 One on one. 01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:25.199 One-on-one was a good show. 01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:25.920 One on one respect. 01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:26.559 I never said that. 01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:27.840 I never said one on one. 01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:29.280 Uh final question. 01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:30.079 Yes. 01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:35.360 You are killing it right now in so many different avenues. 01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:37.199 You you know I I adore you. 01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:41.360 I think you're one of the most uh amazing actresses we have working right now. 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:42.400 I I believe that. 01:04:42.639 --> 01:04:44.320 Um and good person. 01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:46.320 And and a great human being. 01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:47.360 Always good people. 01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:50.079 What does it look like? 01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:53.440 What does it look like for you to be killing it career-wise? 01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:58.000 Is it uh is it movies, is it action films, is it behind the camera? 01:04:58.159 --> 01:04:59.599 What does it look like for you? 01:04:59.840 --> 01:05:00.639 It's all of that. 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:01.920 Yeah, it's all of that. 01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:03.280 Like I really want to do movies. 01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:06.320 You know, you got your foot feet wet in that space. 01:05:06.719 --> 01:05:08.800 Um, I would love to do films, I would love to do action. 01:05:09.039 --> 01:05:10.880 It's like I just want to use all of my tools. 01:05:11.199 --> 01:05:12.000 You know what I'm saying? 01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:17.920 So I wanna I was like, do I just I guess I gotta start writing and creating my own stuff and pitching things. 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:20.880 Um because like I said, I went to school for TV production. 01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:26.559 So it's like putting on the director's hat again, uh, producer hat, writer hat, all of those things. 01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:29.119 And creating the worlds that I wanna be in. 01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:41.440 Um utilizing the opportunity to sing in a character, doing the opportunity to dance or fight or do whatever in a character, but like action, all of that, and just more characters that y'all love and not hate. 01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:46.719 I was like, I worked so hard to get Janay Alameda, boom, Candace. 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:53.519 I was like, but yes, it's it looks like all of that, bro. 01:05:53.599 --> 01:05:59.840 I just want to work, I wanna stay in that space, like fueling, I feel like with the purpose that I'm here. 01:05:59.920 --> 01:06:01.840 Like people are always like, you, you, you, you, you. 01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:02.800 I was like, it's not me. 01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:04.320 It's not it's it's not me. 01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:05.440 Like, you know what I mean? 01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:09.599 Because if I were able to map it out, there'd probably be different choices I've made. 01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:17.840 God put me right here, and I'm just gonna stay praying and being grateful and and showing up and doing my best every time. 01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:19.760 I want you to get a black

corset. 01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:22.960 I want you to get some long, tall black boots. 01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:23.440 Okay. 01:06:23.599 --> 01:06:25.199 I want you to get a white wig. 01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:26.400 Long, white wig. 01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:27.360 It's a white contact. 01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:28.320 I'll do that for Christmas. 01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:28.880 Uh Halloween. 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:33.840 And I want you to send it to the to the team and say y'all send it out. 01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:35.039 All right. 01:06:35.519 --> 01:06:35.840 All right. 01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:36.719 I'll get in line. 01:06:36.960 --> 01:06:37.920 Stormy, stormy. 01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:41.920 Hey man, this has been another amazing episode. 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:44.559 Please uh give us your comments at the bottom, man. 01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:48.079 Make sure you're watching all the amazing stuff that we have uh going on. 01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:49.519 Make sure you like, comment, subscribe. 01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:50.480 Like, comment, subscribe. 01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:52.159 Gotta gotta like, comment, subscribe. 01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:56.400 Uh, and uh, man, please tell the people where to find you. 01:06:56.719 --> 01:06:58.559 Oh, um, on Netflix. 01:06:58.880 --> 01:06:59.360 Oh, Netflix. 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:00.800 Tell the people what you got going on. 01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:06.559 Literally, some reruns of the upshalls and uh uh, you know, nemesis is out. 01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:09.119 Um, some old spice commercials out there running around. 01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:10.960 We're talking about the old spice. 01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:11.519 Oh, we got to. 01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:12.719 We got to be able to do that. 01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:14.400 That's one of the biggest credits, is the yeah. 01:07:14.559 --> 01:07:16.000 No, I love a commercial conversation. 01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:16.480 Yeah. 01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:18.079 Commercial king. 01:07:18.320 --> 01:07:21.599 Um, and then yeah, just on Instagram, not really. 01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:22.480 I have an account. 01:07:22.559 --> 01:07:27.599 I don't really be on there like that though, but when I'm working, you're making it right. 01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:31.039 Um, but yeah, just just catch me out. 01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:32.639 And maybe I'll be back on stage soon. 01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:34.320 Oh, we would love to see you. 01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:34.719 Yeah, man. 01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:35.760 She'd be killing on stage. 01:07:36.159 --> 01:07:37.039 She does, she's hilarious. 01:07:37.199 --> 01:07:38.960 Uh, I'm one of your hosts, BT Kingsley. 01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:39.840 Justin Hyas. 01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:40.880 Linda Brown, we love you. 01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:42.480 Linda's still on assignment right now. 01:07:42.559 --> 01:07:48.079 Make sure y'all watch a new uh season of Canaan and ladies and gentlemen, Gabrielle damn it! 01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:51.039 Thank you very much. 01:07:51.679 --> 01:07:54.159 Yay! Welcome to