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INTERVIEW: Ryan Destiny Talks 'The Fire Inside,' Claressa Shields, Acting & Music, Keith Powers + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning.
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Speaker 3: Everybody is DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamage the guy. We
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Speaker 3: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
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Speaker 3: the building. He's been all over the news the last
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Speaker 3: couple of days. Ladies and Gentlemen, Clarissa Shields, she's actually
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Speaker 3: playing Clarissa Shields and the new film The Fire Inside,
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Speaker 3: which comes out Christmas Day.
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Speaker 1: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have Ryan Destiny.
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Speaker 2: Welcome, Good morning.
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Speaker 4: How are you?
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Speaker 2: How are you feeling?
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Speaker 5: I'm feeling good. It's an early morning. I'm on LA times,
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Speaker 5: so it's really early.
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Speaker 2: Is it hard to get up and do press?
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Speaker 5: A little bit? Sometimes if the timing is is weird
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Speaker 5: like that, just because I'm used to a different time zone.
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Speaker 5: But other than that, I'm good. How long go?
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Speaker 2: Does y'all film The Fire Inside?
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Speaker 5: That was in twenty twenty two? Okay, we started to
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Speaker 5: film in twenty twenty right before the pandemic, but then
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Speaker 5: we got shut down and then all that as well,
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Speaker 5: so we popped back in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 3: You're boxing, I'm sorry, well you boy? Were your boxer
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Speaker 3: or were you training? Did you so you had to
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Speaker 3: learn boxing. How difficult was that?
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Speaker 1: Because I seen the preview and I'm like Jesus.
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Speaker 4: And when Clarissa was here, she said that was the
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Speaker 4: thing that that had to be on point the most
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Speaker 4: to boxing.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, Yeah, it was very nerve wracking, but it was.
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Speaker 5: It was a lot I think just because I wasn't
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Speaker 5: a boxer or just an athlete in general, like that
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Speaker 5: wasn't my thing, but but I think it was. It
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Speaker 5: was good because I was a little scared and that
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Speaker 5: that helped just me go for it even more, you know.
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Speaker 5: And I trained for months with my boxing coach and
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Speaker 5: it was like he was like textbook boxing coach. I
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Speaker 5: sparred a little. But also we have the studio being like,
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Speaker 5: don't hurt her. So it was also just them not
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Speaker 5: wanting me to actually get hurt. But so, do you
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Speaker 5: think you got hands in real life or just on
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Speaker 5: your Everyone keeps asking me that I really.
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Speaker 6: Don't know, y'all said, yeah, I mean you, Clarissa.
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Speaker 2: Now might run down on you.
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Speaker 5: I feel like everything will just like disappear if I
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Speaker 5: actually have to get into a fight. So I don't know,
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Speaker 5: we'll see, we'll not.
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Speaker 3: See you would run or you would just get into
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Speaker 3: like I just feel.
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Speaker 7: Like you go blame like you know, like I just said,
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Speaker 7: there's a role to you. This is not what you
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Speaker 7: want to do.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, like if it's on camera, for sure, but outside
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Speaker 5: of that, I don't know. I don't. I don't do this.
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Speaker 2: Have you ever been in a fight real? No? No?
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Speaker 5: Never? And that was one of the first things Clarisa
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Speaker 5: asked me. She was like, have you ever been in
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Speaker 5: a real I'm like, girl, No, absolutely not, that's not me.
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Speaker 5: And that scared her a little bit at first, but
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Speaker 5: after she actually saw it, she cried all the all
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Speaker 5: the things and was really happy.
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Speaker 6: How did you get that? Did you you audition for that?
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Speaker 6: Or they just pitch you?
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Speaker 5: Oh my god. No, it was an audition process like
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Speaker 5: anything else, and they saw so many people and I
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Speaker 5: knew it was going to be competitive, just because the
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Speaker 5: story itself is incredible and also the people behind it
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Speaker 5: are really great. So yeah, it was just like the regular,
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Speaker 5: regular thing. And I didn't think I was going to
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Speaker 5: get it when I went into it, which I think
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Speaker 5: helped because I didn't overthink everything. Yeah, you know how
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Speaker 5: I usually.
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Speaker 6: Do so well.
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Speaker 4: The tough way to prepare for the role mentally physically
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Speaker 4: or emotionally, because you know what you think about Clarrisis's life,
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Speaker 4: she had a very very very so mentally, physically or emostally.
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Speaker 5: What was it was?
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Speaker 6: All of it.
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Speaker 5: It was all very very new and different from me,
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Speaker 5: and just a challenge across the board, which I liked,
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Speaker 5: you know. I wanted that. I wanted something that would
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Speaker 5: push me and you know, do something that I've never
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Speaker 5: done before, have people see me in a different light.
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Speaker 5: That was something that was very important to me. But mentally,
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Speaker 5: I think that was something that I had to really
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Speaker 5: hone down on because having the confidence of an athlete
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Speaker 5: is just a whole other beast that I don't think
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Speaker 5: a lot of people think about, and then having the
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Speaker 5: confidence of a boxer is another level, you know. So
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Speaker 5: I just wanted to make sure I could grasp that
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Speaker 5: because she's just superhuman to me, you know. So, Yeah,
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Speaker 5: all of the things were were very very difficult mentally,
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Speaker 5: I think that was probably the most if I had
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Speaker 5: to choose.
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Speaker 1: So I was gonna say, how was Clarisa during the filming,
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Speaker 1: because she's very intense. Yeah, and when she was.
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Speaker 3: Up here, she you know, she talked about how she
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Speaker 3: wanted to be perfect like her life, right, So how
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Speaker 3: was she when?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 1: Was she easy to talk to? Say, well, how was
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Speaker 1: your life during this?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, she was very easy to talk to and she
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Speaker 5: was a really open book with me, which I appreciated
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Speaker 5: a lot. There's also a documentary about her life that's incredible,
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Speaker 5: and it was like my notebook, my bible on set,
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Speaker 5: you know. I referred back to that so many times
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Speaker 5: and it was so helpful because it's just so raw
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Speaker 5: and it's a front row seat into how she is
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Speaker 5: with her family, her friends, with her coach Jason, And
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Speaker 5: it was so great to pick up on those things
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Speaker 5: because it's one thing to talk to her as she
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Speaker 5: is now and how old she is now, But she
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Speaker 5: was kind of a different person too a little bit
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Speaker 5: at sixteen seventeen, you know, So to have that with
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Speaker 5: some thing that I definitely went back to and was
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Speaker 5: really helpful for No. No, it was also still pandemic
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Speaker 5: key times. But she was also training, i think in
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Speaker 5: that time, also in another country, so it was it
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Speaker 5: was a lot of things happening. But No, she didn't
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Speaker 5: actually go.
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Speaker 4: How tough was it to release the spirit of Clarissa
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Speaker 4: Shield so to speak?
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Speaker 5: Not too tough. I think it's still in me a
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Speaker 5: little bit, but you know, in a good way.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 5: I think I've walked away from these from this experiment
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Speaker 5: with just a new confidence in myself that I don't
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Speaker 5: think I had when I entered it, you know. And
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Speaker 5: I think that I have heard a thank for that.
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Speaker 5: You know, she is somebody that really speaks life into
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Speaker 5: you and also speaks life into herself. And I thought
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Speaker 5: that that was something that I needed, you know, to
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Speaker 5: have and to take. And I think that that stayed
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Speaker 5: with me and stuck with me, which I'm really happy about.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: I've seen the preview during I think it was Wicked
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Speaker 3: or Glady too, probably both them. So it said Christmas
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Speaker 3: Day right, and I was excited for the preview. I
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Speaker 3: mean the preview was a long preview.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was dope.
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Speaker 3: Well, Christmas Day? Does that worry or make you nervous
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Speaker 3: or scare you in this industry? Because I'm like, Christmas
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Speaker 3: is a time where families are together, they're at the house,
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Speaker 3: and to come out on Christmas Day has to be
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Speaker 3: like I was like, why Christmas Day?
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Speaker 5: Apparently it's a good thing day if you go to
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Speaker 5: the studios that's like a prime day for them. And
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Speaker 5: I think it's also just because a lot of families
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Speaker 5: don't have much to do and the theaters are open,
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Speaker 5: and you know, everybody takes their family and like goes
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Speaker 5: and has a good time. So I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 5: I'm hoping that a lot of people do do that
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Speaker 5: because it is something that I think is for everyone
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Speaker 5: in all ages. So everyone literally can go. So I'm
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Speaker 5: hoping that that happens. You know. I think it's such
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Speaker 5: an incredible story that needs really to be heard and supported.
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Speaker 6: So everyone go out.
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Speaker 2: They got four daughters. It was like once you open
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Speaker 2: the gifts and everything ain't.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, food, so that's a good day.
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Speaker 4: What is?
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Speaker 7: Because I know you love music too, you're a singer.
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Speaker 7: Would you like most acting or singing?
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Speaker 5: I can't choose. I really cannot choose. I really love both,
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Speaker 5: and they both have a sense of freedom that I
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Speaker 5: really appreciate, and just the creativity that I get to
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Speaker 5: have with both of them and being able to push myself.
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Speaker 5: It's very different. They're in two different worlds in my mind,
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Speaker 5: but I really do appreciate both. So hopefully, if I'm
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Speaker 5: blessed enough to be able to continue to do both.
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Speaker 5: I would. I would love to do that. So we'll see.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, because you got into music because of your dad, right.
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Speaker 5: My dad is a singer. Yeah, and he started when
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Speaker 5: I was you know. I mean he started way before
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Speaker 5: I was born, but I was in the studio with
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Speaker 5: him when I was a baby and all those things,
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Speaker 5: so he definitely inspired me.
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Speaker 4: I don't remember the group he was in, and I'm old.
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Speaker 4: I was born in nineteen and seventy eight. I don't
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Speaker 4: remember guests. Do you remember guests?
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Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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Speaker 6: Get kind of you gotta look up.
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Speaker 5: Guess they had a song called Shoeby and a good
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Speaker 5: a few good other ones too, but you know, they
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Speaker 5: didn't like have a big, big moment, you know. So
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Speaker 5: it was also I think he started at Warner Bros.
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Speaker 5: And then went to Death Row and that's just a
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Speaker 5: weird transition too. And when I think that was like
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Speaker 5: their first time signing singers, I think that, yeah, And
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Speaker 5: I think it was right before it was right before
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Speaker 5: everything happened with Tubac and Biggie, So it was not
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Speaker 5: the greatest time. Yeah, And things kind of went a
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Speaker 5: little left with Sugar and everything, but it was it
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Speaker 5: was a great, great, great group, and he's so so
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Speaker 5: talented and he's still singing it and doing his thing today,
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Speaker 5: So I'm proud of him.
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Speaker 2: Did he want you in the industry?
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Speaker 5: I think he just always supported it, you know, and
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Speaker 5: he saw something in me and him and my mom
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Speaker 5: just always uplifted me and and been there and there
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Speaker 5: to protect me too, because they also can see how
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Speaker 5: crazy it can get, you know, so they were always
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Speaker 5: in my corner and always always there.
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Speaker 4: What's the guidance they've they've provided as far as this
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Speaker 4: industry wise, Like, what, what's some of the best advice
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Speaker 4: you've given you?
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Speaker 5: I don't know if there's something in particular. I think
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Speaker 5: it's just me making sure I'm protecting myself, you know,
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Speaker 5: and watching out for myself in these rooms and especially
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Speaker 5: within the music industry can just get a little shaky.
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Speaker 5: It's it's a lot better, I think now, because there's
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Speaker 5: a lot more awareness around the weirdos that are out
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Speaker 5: there freak all. It's a lot it's a lot different now.
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Speaker 5: People are people are checking it out and seeing what's
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Speaker 5: wrong with it. So but before, you know, people could
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Speaker 5: get away with a lot more things. So I definitely
9:44
Speaker 5: made sure that I didn't put myself in any sort
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Speaker 5: of position and knew when to walk away from something
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Speaker 5: as well. So yeah, and how.
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Speaker 6: Are you and Keith?
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Speaker 7: I know y'all were, uh, y'all were dating, and then
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Speaker 7: it was speculating that y'all broke up because y'all took
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Speaker 7: down each other pictures.
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Speaker 2: And we love y'all.
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Speaker 6: We love y'all, So what is the status for that?
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Speaker 7: Now?
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Speaker 5: We're really good, great, yeah, and we support each other
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Speaker 5: so so much and what we're doing, and you know,
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Speaker 5: the industry is just crazy, so it's nice to separate
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Speaker 5: the two, you know. So I was just a little yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Because we get scared of stuff like that. We love y'all,
10:21
Speaker 7: and I mean we is in like not.
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Speaker 6: Them the girls.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, people my age.
10:27
Speaker 2: Know what you're talking about.
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Speaker 7: That's why it was my question.
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Speaker 6: Okay, thank you.
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Speaker 4: How much has your life changed over the last five
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Speaker 4: or six years though, like you know, the success you
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Speaker 4: had with Star, Like you know, every everybody wants to
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Speaker 4: start a movie. We'll talk about that in the second week.
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Speaker 4: How much has your life changed over the last five
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Speaker 4: or six years.
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Speaker 5: It's funny because I mean I started the process of
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Speaker 5: the movie five years ago, so it's just been it's
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Speaker 5: just been a lot of ebb and flows. I think,
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Speaker 5: you know, the pandemic has changed the industry a lot,
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Speaker 5: and it's changed the way that I have seen myself
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Speaker 5: in it and having to maneuver how I go about things,
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Speaker 5: if that makes sense. So it's definitely something that I've
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Speaker 5: grown from and I'm starting to just realize what's most important.
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Speaker 5: And I have to remind myself of that a lot,
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Speaker 5: just because I think you can get caught up and
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Speaker 5: just all of the noise and what you should be
11:22
Speaker 5: getting or what you haven't gotten yet. And so I
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Speaker 5: think I'm just trying to go with my gut and
11:29
Speaker 5: continue to do things that I'm really proud of, because
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Speaker 5: with this project is probably the most proud that I've
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Speaker 5: been of something, and I really want to continue to
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Speaker 5: feel that way. So I'm just letting that sort of
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Speaker 5: guide me more than anything else.
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Speaker 2: What does success look like for you in this business?
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Speaker 5: I think it's kind of like what I just said.
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Speaker 5: I really want to feel like I continue to do
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Speaker 5: things that really matter and have an important message, you know,
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Speaker 5: and it doesn't have to always be so heavy, But
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Speaker 5: I definitely want to represent for a lot of girls,
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Speaker 5: a lot of black women, and hopefully if I can,
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Speaker 5: you know, be a part of projects that have a
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Speaker 5: great narrative behind it and put us in a great light,
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Speaker 5: then I'd be very very happy And hopefully, you know,
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Speaker 5: that can continue to happen. But I think success varies,
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Speaker 5: and if I'm happy and I get to a point
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Speaker 5: where I feel a bit more at peace with everything
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Speaker 5: in a way, you know, I'm also very aware of
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Speaker 5: accepting the fact that things won't always be just positive
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Speaker 5: and great all the time, and I think, you know,
12:38
Speaker 5: getting more and more into that place is something that
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Speaker 5: I think is successful in itself.
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Speaker 3: So did you hear when Chloris was up here, when
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Speaker 3: she was saying, at first she didn't think you were
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Speaker 3: good for the part, but then after I guess meeting
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Speaker 3: with you and seeing she was like, oh, you're the
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Speaker 3: only person that can play that part.
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Speaker 1: So how did you feel when you heard to say that?
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Speaker 5: I mean I heard it before. You know, she was
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Speaker 5: very vocal with me when we first started talking.
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Speaker 2: Because I don't want you to.
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Speaker 7: I couldn't say nothing she can cats, that's crazy.
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Speaker 5: She was just like, well, she's really pretty, you know.
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Speaker 5: I didn't really know what else could you know, come
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Speaker 5: from that? And I respected it. You know, there's not
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Speaker 5: like there's this you know, big amount of work that
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Speaker 5: I have out there that showcases that side of me.
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Speaker 5: This is the first of that. So I understood it,
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Speaker 5: and I knew that I was just gonna work work,
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Speaker 5: just really really hard on making sure that I executed it,
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Speaker 5: you know, to the best of my ability, and hopefully
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Speaker 5: I did that, and her crying solidified that she approved.
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Speaker 5: So I think that I'm very very happy with it
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Speaker 5: all now.
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Speaker 3: But she closed off at first though, was she closed
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Speaker 3: off like I really don't want her playing it, And
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Speaker 3: then it kind of she kind of broke down and
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Speaker 3: was like, oh, she really is dope.
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Speaker 5: I mean maybe maybe to Rachel our director or maybe Barry,
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Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know who. She was, you know,
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Speaker 5: vocal about that really all the way to but she definitely,
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Speaker 5: like I said, she asked me if I could fight,
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Speaker 5: and I knew that scared her when I said no.
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Speaker 2: So I didn't scare you. She asked me that, like,
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Speaker 2: why is she just randomly I.
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Speaker 5: Would know it was fair, you know, this is her life,
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Speaker 5: this is her life story. So I really. I understood
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Speaker 5: the caution, you know, so I didn't take offense to it,
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Speaker 5: but it definitely put some pressure on me. And I
14:21
Speaker 5: was like, if she don't like this, it's gonna be real,
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Speaker 5: real awkward. So I knew that it was it was important.
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Speaker 3: You train before y'all started feeling like, how long did
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Speaker 3: y'all train before y'all even turned the Cameron?
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Speaker 5: So it was a little split up. I did three
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Speaker 5: or four months the first time, and then when we
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Speaker 5: shut down, I had to do it all over again
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Speaker 5: for three or four more months. So all in all,
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Speaker 5: it was like six seven months I think in total,
14:46
Speaker 5: which I appreciate looking back on because before it felt
14:50
Speaker 5: like everything was crashing down when you know, the pandemic happened.
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Speaker 5: But I think that time really helped. And I went
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Speaker 5: into weight training the second go round too, and it
15:00
Speaker 5: just it just made me even more sharp, I think.
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Speaker 5: So it was good for me.
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Speaker 2: Did delays help her hurt?
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Speaker 5: Did what?
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Speaker 2: Did delays help or hurt? The film?
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Speaker 6: I think it helped.
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Speaker 5: It helped, like in so so many ways, even with
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Speaker 5: Brian he came in the second go around and.
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Speaker 2: Brian Tyry Henry paper boy from Atlanta.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, he's so incredible and I'm just so thankful
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Speaker 5: that he wanted to do this as well. And he
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Speaker 5: really was someone that was just amazing to work with
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Speaker 5: and like a brother to me now. So I love
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Speaker 5: him and I think that we really hit it off
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Speaker 5: as soon as we met, and I think it shows
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Speaker 5: on the screen, which is really good. And yeah, I'm
15:39
Speaker 5: excited for people to see that.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 7: Do you feel like you get your just due as
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Speaker 7: a young black woman in entertainment because you've been you've
15:46
Speaker 7: been working a little while and you are one of them,
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Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 6: So you do you ever feel like that that you
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Speaker 6: get your you just do?
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Speaker 5: I mean I also feel like, you know, I still
15:55
Speaker 5: have so much to do, So it's a little weird.
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Speaker 5: I go back and forth between you know, wanting people to,
16:03
Speaker 5: I guess, see me and see the work that I've done,
16:07
Speaker 5: but also I have an understanding of how there's been
16:11
Speaker 5: so many other people, you know, that have worked even
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Speaker 5: longer than me and still haven't gotten there. So it's
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Speaker 5: a little bit back and forth for me, you know,
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Speaker 5: and I just am I guess in the headspace of
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Speaker 5: when it's time, it's time, When it's your time for
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Speaker 5: people to see you, they will. So I'm hoping with
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Speaker 5: this film in particular, because it speaks to that a lot,
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Speaker 5: I think, with Cloressa herself and not getting her respect
16:36
Speaker 5: and just to and not getting her flowers when she
16:39
Speaker 5: should have back in twenty twelve. So I think that
16:43
Speaker 5: it's a reflection of that. And I'm hoping that a
16:46
Speaker 5: lot of people and our people do go out to
16:49
Speaker 5: the theaters to see because I think that it just
16:53
Speaker 5: would mean so so much, you know, and I don't
16:56
Speaker 5: know if people truly understand how important even that is,
16:59
Speaker 5: you know, showing up, because it really really does so
17:03
Speaker 5: so much, you know, and for the people in the
17:05
Speaker 5: industry to see, like, oh, people really do want to
17:08
Speaker 5: see stories like this, you know.
17:09
Speaker 2: If your stories don't be made, I don't spend the
17:11
Speaker 2: money at the box.
17:12
Speaker 5: Office, right, they really don't. So I'm hoping people understand
17:15
Speaker 5: the gravity of that. So it's a little bit of
17:19
Speaker 5: always a balance between knowing that I have a lot
17:23
Speaker 5: more to go and a lot more to show.
17:25
Speaker 2: You know, you said something earlier that made me think.
17:27
Speaker 4: You said, I can't remember how you worded it, but
17:30
Speaker 4: you're not at peace with where you are.
17:33
Speaker 5: I think it's just always a battle a little bit
17:36
Speaker 5: with knowing that I want to do more, you know,
17:41
Speaker 5: so knowing that I haven't hit the spaces that I
17:46
Speaker 5: want to yet. It's just kind of always feeling like, Okay,
17:50
Speaker 5: I gotta work harder and I gotta do more, and
17:52
Speaker 5: after this project, I gotta do this one and this
17:54
Speaker 5: one to just show people. So I think that's what
17:57
Speaker 5: I mean, and not exactly at Peace East, but learning
18:01
Speaker 5: to be and learning to I guess, go with the
18:05
Speaker 5: flows of everything and not to put too too much
18:08
Speaker 5: pressure on myself. It's something that I want to get to.
18:11
Speaker 2: Now.
18:11
Speaker 7: Do you feel that way because you're looking at everybody else?
18:15
Speaker 7: Or is that's just something like inner for you because
18:18
Speaker 7: a lot of times people you can look at, you
18:21
Speaker 7: can measure your success where you are based on what
18:25
Speaker 7: you see others doing around you.
18:27
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, it's probably a combination.
18:30
Speaker 6: I think.
18:30
Speaker 5: Naturally you do compare yourself a little bit, but it's
18:34
Speaker 5: also when you see the potential that you have and
18:37
Speaker 5: you believe in yourself and know where you could go.
18:41
Speaker 5: Is it's something that I think I pay attention to
18:44
Speaker 5: a lot. I know, I know what I'm capable of,
18:47
Speaker 5: and even with this project in particular, there's a lot
18:49
Speaker 5: of people that didn't see it for me, you know,
18:52
Speaker 5: and probably wouldn't have even cast at me if it
18:54
Speaker 5: were in different hands. So I think it's just stuff
18:58
Speaker 5: like that where I know what I can do and
18:59
Speaker 5: I know what I'm capable of, So I do want
19:02
Speaker 5: to continue to push myself to those points, but also
19:06
Speaker 5: not get too caught up and looking at who's next
19:10
Speaker 5: to me and where they're at. So I think it's
19:13
Speaker 5: always a combo.
19:14
Speaker 2: They're probably looking at you, like, damn, coming.
19:17
Speaker 5: Out to go see Wicked.
19:20
Speaker 4: I want to go see this film, and I keep
19:21
Speaker 4: seeing the trailer. Damn, I need that look right there.
19:24
Speaker 5: I know, I know the rarity of it, and I'm
19:27
Speaker 5: super thankful for this time because even after the pandemic,
19:30
Speaker 5: I didn't think I didn't think it would be as
19:33
Speaker 5: possible for me anymore to get a movie out in
19:36
Speaker 5: the theaters, you know, because streaming hid an all time
19:39
Speaker 5: high during that time, and I'm like, oh man, you know,
19:42
Speaker 5: that's every actor's dream, is said to have a movie
19:44
Speaker 5: at the theater. So things like that I definitely I
19:49
Speaker 5: just put into perspective because I know how much of
19:51
Speaker 5: a blessing it is. And I'm just really grateful and
19:53
Speaker 5: thankful to be able to even say that.
19:56
Speaker 1: Charlmone you asked about Star.
19:57
Speaker 6: Hopefully we get a Star movie movie.
20:01
Speaker 1: Is that in the works?
20:03
Speaker 5: I mean, like I have answers, I really don't know.
20:06
Speaker 5: You know, Lee Daniels is always bringing it up, bringing
20:09
Speaker 5: it up to us and and different things that he
20:12
Speaker 5: has going on, but he has so many things going
20:14
Speaker 5: on all the time, and I don't know. I really
20:18
Speaker 5: I wish I had a better answer for everybody, but
20:21
Speaker 5: I don't because we're not okay with just it ending
20:23
Speaker 5: like that. It did end very abruptly. I agree, it
20:27
Speaker 5: was very weird, So I get it.
20:30
Speaker 6: My last question, so who plays pet Poost in the movie? Okay,
20:37
Speaker 6: never mind.
20:38
Speaker 5: I don't even know. I honestly, I don't even know
20:40
Speaker 5: what's going on. I just woke up.
20:49
Speaker 2: Cis and it was right there. You know.
20:55
Speaker 5: I'm hoping that a lot of people, because a lot
20:57
Speaker 5: of these blogs and everything, have really picked this up.
20:59
Speaker 5: But I really hope they pick up the fact that
21:01
Speaker 5: she has an entire movie about her life.
21:03
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, feel that she's doing the right I see
21:06
Speaker 4: Clarissa doing the right thing, because all she's doing is
21:08
Speaker 4: promoting the movie.
21:09
Speaker 5: Okay, period, as she should.
21:11
Speaker 4: And I even hit her this morning and I told her,
21:13
Speaker 4: I said, you don't don't, don't get distracted. Yeah, you
21:15
Speaker 4: got a movie coming out of Christmas Day, and a
21:17
Speaker 4: lot of times when you go into that next level
21:19
Speaker 4: you'll start seeing all of these distractions playing with you
21:22
Speaker 4: in the moments.
21:23
Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah, I'm glad you. I'm glad you text her that.
21:27
Speaker 4: Are you concerned with any of the current drama like
21:29
Speaker 4: overshadowing the movie?
21:30
Speaker 5: No, not at all, especially because I know things bow over,
21:34
Speaker 5: you know, fairly quickly. With the Internet, it's always onto
21:37
Speaker 5: the next thing. But I know Christmas Day it'll be
21:41
Speaker 5: a really big time and I know the more and
21:44
Speaker 5: more people go see it, the more they'll talk about
21:46
Speaker 5: that I think, and how inspiring it is in itself.
21:50
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to see it.
21:52
Speaker 4: My last question, is there more pressure playing a role
21:55
Speaker 4: of an actual person versus playing a character.
21:58
Speaker 5: Absolutely, especially when they're still alive. You know, it's just
22:03
Speaker 5: like so so much because then people also have things
22:07
Speaker 5: to compare it to, and they're like if you don't
22:09
Speaker 5: get it, they're like, well, she didn't do this and
22:11
Speaker 5: she didn't do that. So yeah, there's there's a lot
22:14
Speaker 5: more pressure. But more than anything, I wanted her seal
22:18
Speaker 5: of approval and that that came with a lot of
22:21
Speaker 5: pressure as well. You know, when it's other people that
22:23
Speaker 5: aren't on the earth anymore, they can't really come back
22:28
Speaker 5: like you did it. You did it horribly.
22:31
Speaker 6: That is so funny.
22:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so that's scary. So I was definitely I
22:36
Speaker 5: was scared at first, for sure for her to see it,
22:38
Speaker 5: because I thought about her every single day on set.
22:41
Speaker 5: And so yeah, like I said, when I when I
22:44
Speaker 5: saw the video, there's a video of her reaction to it,
22:47
Speaker 5: and she was so happy with the boxing and so
22:49
Speaker 5: happy with the story and she literally cries every time
22:53
Speaker 5: she sees it now, And I just I couldn't ask
22:56
Speaker 5: for more. That's all I wanted.
22:58
Speaker 7: So you're saying the next person biopic that you play
23:00
Speaker 7: gotta be dead.
23:07
Speaker 1: I don't want just that.
23:10
Speaker 2: You meting with line like you did.
23:15
Speaker 1: Okay, Jesus Christ.
23:19
Speaker 3: The Fire Inside it's coming out Christmas Day, go see it.
23:23
Speaker 1: It's it's I mean, the previews look amazing.
23:25
Speaker 3: Like I said, I've seen Gladiated too, when I've seen
23:28
Speaker 3: Wicked and it was the preview flore It was just dope.
23:30
Speaker 3: My kids were super duper excited. I'm gonna see the
23:32
Speaker 3: day after Christmas. Christmas, my whole family come over, so
23:34
Speaker 3: we ain't gonna know.
23:34
Speaker 4: Where Christmas Day I'm gonna and I'm gonna use the
23:38
Speaker 4: first of Shields fans too. I watched the documentary on Netflix, like,
23:41
Speaker 4: I'm really into what she does so great.
23:43
Speaker 5: Well, you guys got to let me know how you
23:45
Speaker 5: feel about.
23:45
Speaker 6: It, please.
23:47
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23:50
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