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Kron Moore of Tyler Perry’s ”The Oval” - GET TO KNOW HER! · The Demia Avery Show

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listen I'mma jump right into because we
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have a lot to cover listen guys this is
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a busy woman so we're going to try to to
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to get it all in here really good so
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anyways first we know that the oval this
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is the new season this is the new season
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that's how are you feeling that the fans
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are still Fanning with you girl they
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they still got that over itch tuning in
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each and every week how does that make
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you feel amazing you know I never in a
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million years you know I've I've wanted
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to act for a long time and I've been
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acting for quite a few years and I never
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got into it for the fame but for the
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love of the the craft the love of the
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art and like my life changed pretty much
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overnight with theal especially being
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that it's shot in Atlanta and I happen
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to reside in the Atlanta area it's just
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like Tyler Perry is like everything here
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right so it's just been amazing to have
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been received so well and for us to have
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maintained our audience for this is our
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sixth season W gosh yeah and you know
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it's it it
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feels validating you know in since um
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and to know that people enjoy it so much
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like I mean and it's crazy because I'll
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be anywhere I I like to travel so I'll
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be anywhere in the country or even
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overseas and will like fan out and I
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guess I'm still haven't I still haven't
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settled into that so out I'm looking
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around like oh who is it who is it I'm
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oh me yeah like I was at I was in New
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York for the um when Jay-Z had his
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exhibit at the library in Brooklyn the
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hve exhibit and I'm walking along and
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this guy had a really heavy Parisian
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accent and I'm just like and he's he's
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Fanning out and I'm just like it I don't
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do do you know who I don't think like no
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no no the over the I'm like oh my God
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she's just like we love you I'm like wow
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yeah amazing so it's I'm so
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incredibly grateful for our fans they
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they've been with us and hopefully we'll
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pick up more um as things go along and
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as the story changes and evolves so I'm
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grateful for it you know the fans you
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know what I love because I I I watch you
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know I'm a social media a holic so your
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fans have been with you from the very
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beginning so they're they're watching
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you from the very first episode of the
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oval up until now so they're like I
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think they think they really really know
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you like I think they think Victoria is
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is
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real some of them do do they and those
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encounters are pretty interesting I
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bet I bet I bet they've been pretty
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interesting uh I love it I love it so
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listen I got an odd question for you now
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let's put Tyler Perry's vision for
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Victoria aside okay if Kon Moore had the
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pen where or how would you like to see
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Victoria's character progress or take
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shap I think uh she would still be messy
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uhhuh but I think um I would make her a
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bit more refined and Polished and then
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you just see Pops of the you know yeah
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the hook come up every now and then um
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and I would like to actually see
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her actually take power over the yeah I
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mean I would like to actually and
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because it seems like she's been putting
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out fires all over the place for the
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entire run of the show I would like to
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see her actually calling the shots and I
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would also like to see her with a
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um uh kind of an ally a woman Ally a
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female Al now that would be
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interesting yeah because I don't think
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the audience has seen Victoria yet in a
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genuine
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uh like girlfriend relationship yeah
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yeah so I I think she she she is uh
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manipulative and conniving uh to get
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what she wants right but it interesting
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I think to see her kind of you know have
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some some black girl Unity or some girl
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yeah I love that I'd love
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that H that's something to think about
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but okay so listen
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now you've been you've been acting for
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quite a while um even before the oval
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even though people may not know that or
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think that or
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whatever what would you
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say that um would be be one of the
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biggest lessons that you've learned so
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far from from your career what would you
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say will be one of the biggest lessons
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that you've
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learned um there are two big lessons uh
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there's so many but the two that stand
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out to me right now are um number
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one there's no there's no place for
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huus in this in in this industry you can
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not make assumptions based on what you
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feel about yourself or how you know
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um yeah yeah you really need to
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be be humble and
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also
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um be
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kind to everyone because people don't
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who don't work I I I would I'd like to
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say I'm a kind person anyway but I've
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seen how you know interactions happen on
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set between the Actors and The Crew or
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the actors and um background actors
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and um it's not always pretty and I'm
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not talking about like necessarily on
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the set of Tyler perod but just in
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general yeah i' that
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um I prefer to treat everyone the same
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so if you're the star of the show I'm
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going to treat you the same as I would
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the janitorial staff the custodial staff
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because it takes
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everyone to make a project work you know
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no matter there are no small roles so
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just because you're behind the camera
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you know I feel as though there should
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be no special treatment you know be
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treated equally special yeah now would
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you say with your role as Victoria do
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people have a misconception of you like
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automatically think that that's who you
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are is that like all the time all the
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time yeah all the I have a really qu a
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funny story like okay so my um
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my friend well I'm not my friend my my
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my partner uh got a call some weird call
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from one of their friends
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and he
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said
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that they were arguing so his brother
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called and his brother had a friend of
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his on the on on the line and they were
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talking they were talking politics right
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and they were going back and forth that
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back and forth and then my partner's
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brother called him and he said will you
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tell this man cuz you know all about
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politics whatever will you tell this man
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that you know such and such isn't going
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on in in in the government he's like
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because I know you know all about these
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things and then
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uh the guy got on the phone he's just
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like this guy doesn't know what he's
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talking about you know the brother of my
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partner um friend got on the line he's
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like he doesn't know what he's talking
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about and he was just like oh man you
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know I I I really don't want to get into
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politics with you and so my
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partner's my partner's
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brother said you know this this this man
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is with my um uh my sister-in-law
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remember I told you about her he was
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like oh oh oh Victoria from the oval he
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was like never mind never
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mind up my house he was serious wait
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what oh my gosh for those who haven't
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had an opportunity to uh meet me in
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person or you know catch me on you know
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a live or an interview or whatever I'm
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the biggest goofball I
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know I love to laugh I I love to have
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fun and my character is a true depart my
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personal character is a true departure
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from Victoria so yeah and I'm so glad
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that you said that because I know you I
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know you and it's so funny because I
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think
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um who was it was somebody that I know
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and and I it was somebody's relative and
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they was like I said oh she's such a
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sweetheart and they was like oh but
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she's so mean I said that's her care you
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do understand that that's her character
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on the show but it's so funny that they
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just
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attach you know attach now do you think
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that
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that how can I put
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it does that hurt you anyway like when
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you when you go to meet different people
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does do by them
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automatically putting that on
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you I don't think it causes any harm I
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think
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that um I'm pretty good at disarming
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people relatively quickly okay yes this
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is like you know they might see you know
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what they might see Victoria show up but
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then when I start interacting with them
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they're just like
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oh cool you know kind of thing yeah yeah
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very cool very cool now listen I know
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that and and and a lot of people
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probably don't know that you had a
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background in
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theater and that you can actually
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sing yes
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that you can that you can that you can
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actually sing and you have a background
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in theater and you know you've had a
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career way before the oval and and all
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and star girl and and things of that
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sort what would you say would be more
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challenging is it is it is theater more
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challenging is you know feel more
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challenging what would you say be is
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more challenging for you uh they're two
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different animals
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right so you know coming from yes I am a
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theater baby so and as a matter of fact
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that was one of the first questions that
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Tyler asked me the first time we spoke
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he's like uh have you done any theater
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and I'm just like I come from the
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theater World um so I I'll say that both
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have their own challenges um theater
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and in regard to the level of
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preparedness you have to have like
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there's no opportunity for you to get a
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redo so if you you a show for a weekend
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or for three years you have one
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opportunity to
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perform that piece for that particular
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audience so you know the show is going
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to be different every single time yeah
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you know get you know the audience is
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going to get something different because
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the actors
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um you know they they they they evolve
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and they they learn more about
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themselves and their characters and you
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know they add to or take away from so
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you know it's challenging in that regard
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yeah
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um and it's it's it's definitely a time
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commitment if you do theater it's just
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like you you have to be locked in um
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yeah and then film and television
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there's a little more grace because you
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know we take things oh to typically
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now but typically we get we take things
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over and over again and then they turn
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the cameras around and adjust the
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lighting and we take you know the same
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scene so it can take hours to do one
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scene in fil and so um for that it's
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challenging now coming from the Tyler
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Perry Camp because we move so fast it's
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just like just taking so
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long we should have been now kind of
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thing yeah but I mean it's it's it's
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just challenging and And in regards to
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me adjusting to the tempo uh
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of now I wonder if you know when you go
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to your your next project and things
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don't move as quickly how would your how
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would you react to that because you be
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like you probably would be like let me
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why is this take it
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why is this taking so long you know I
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wonder how you would react to that whole
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thing because you kind of went through
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that you well not kind of but you've
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gone through that whole Tyler
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Perry get it get it get it let's get it
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and let's get it done you know so uh I
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have I have had uh some acting
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opportunities you know during the course
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of me being with Tyler Perry and it has
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in my initial thing is just like why is
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this taking so long but um
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um it's kind of enjoyable because you
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get a you can you get a chance to
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breathe and you know I get a chance to
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um play a little bit more my castmates
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and my character because we take it so
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many different times I can make
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different choices each time oh love that
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love that now is there a SK I'm sorry go
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ahead no it affords me that latitude and
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so that's that's something that um I
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appreciate about being on other sets
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yeah now is there a skill that you wish
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you had learned or you would like to
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learn to help your career like I don't
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know martial arts or or something like
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that let's see I've taken martial arts
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um I would say weapons
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training which is something i' I've
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begun uh gotten like my I haven't dug my
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feet all the way into it but okay
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training and
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um stunt
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training nice jar mentioned stunt
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training and I I I've always wanted to
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you know you know be a kick butt kind of
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actor literally you know I want to have
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you know action role and it's cool
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because I'm seeing so many I'll say m
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what what people would consider
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mature actresses you
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in in in action roles you know you have
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you know your rajie P
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Henson um I think Angela bassard still
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dabble I mean so you're seeing women you
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know who are a little bit more mature
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but you know they can still give Charlie
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Faron you know yeah okay so if if there
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was a movie you had wish that you could
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have played in what would that what
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movie would that have
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that's a good one
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um I'd say black panther really yeah and
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what in what role would that have been
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oh gosh now that's that
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that oh no no no black pther yes but let
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me let me modify that my first choice
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probably would have been woman
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King yes yes yes I don't gosh she is an
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amazing actor please please forgive me
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please forgive me I cannot remember her
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name but she's written so many things
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but she was she was kind of she was the
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the the daughter
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of yeah yeah oh my gosh it wasn't she
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amazing she's amazing in everything I've
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seen her in but yeah to have dedicated
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as much time and effort to learn how you
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know to
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to to fight and you know to to
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to be a warrior I think that's that's
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amazing that that's that's pretty
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special so I I I would love to do
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something like that oh that would have
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been awesome I would have Lov you know
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what role I would have love to seen you
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play What's oh and I feel like you now I
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can't think of her name uh what's the
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the role that play next
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to kind of the assistant to
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um oh my gosh what's the what's the lead
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what's the lead uh of the of the movie
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woman King oh Viola Davis Viola Davis
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what was the the lady that played her
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her right hand you know what okay now I
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gotta Google
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it yes ah I know who you're talking
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about
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yes I would have loved to seen you play
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that yeah yeah yeah yeah
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um okay l
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so okay her role but then uh Lana Lynch
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yes yes she played
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isogi yeah yeah
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yeah tough
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boy she was tough and and her acting was
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so on point she brought so many colors
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and dimensions
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character uh yeah I can see that uh see
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that yes yes I love it I love it now
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effort to to I really wanted you on here
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because I wanted people to know more
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about you I wanted people to see beyond
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what they see on the TV every week and
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know I know the funny side of you I've
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seen the the Sil you know the silly side
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of you the serious side of you just the
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different facets of you and I just
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wanted to play a little game with you
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well first a couple of questions and
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then we're gonna go to a little game and
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it's just a little fun so if you don't
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mind okay first before we get into the
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game I'm just going to mention a couple
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of subjects and you just tell me what
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you feel about it and in this way people
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get a chance to know you is that okay
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yeah okay so the first
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thing is I know you're a big lover of
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the
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Arts in general so let's talk about your
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love for the Arts let's talk about
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that um
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oh I I developed a love for not just
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Performing Arts but art in general so
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you know paintings
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sculptures
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over the course of our
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quarantine
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um dur during Co it was a um it was an
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outlet for me and I didn't know what I
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was doing I just picked up a paint brush
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and got some canvases and some materials
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and just started
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creating and it it just became sort of a
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therapy for me and
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um interestingly
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enough I was working on this huge piece
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um and it's a three panel sculpture wall
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wall sculpture
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and my um my my younger brother my my
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only sibling passed away while I was in
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the middle of it and it was therapeutic
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to it took me a while because like I was
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in the middle of it but it took me a
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while to get back to it um but it it it
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made me feel good to to finish it yeah
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and to you know see it on my wall and
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um yeah and then I'm just like wow this
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is is this is cool and so I just kept
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doing more and more projects and hang
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some of them in the wall and some of
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them I'm just not ready for people to
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see just yet okay some friends and
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family have come over and they've
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they've seen my work on the wall and
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they were just like what artists is this
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I was like well whose name is signed to
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it they're just like you did that I'm
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like yeah gota a you ever gotta let
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everybody see it or you want it to be
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something
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personal I I think I I think I share
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with people my my friends have
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encouraged me to um to enter an exhibit
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okay people have asked me have asked for
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commissioned nice so nice see how you
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introduce it is you take a picture of
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yourself and you know you do all these
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beautiful pictures and then do it at
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next two your paintings and and then see
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if everybody starts saying stuff about
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the pain yeah you know what I like like
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that
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yeah but yeah it prompted me to you know
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I I've always been a lover of the Arts
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like you know I love museums every new
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city I go to I always want to go to the
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museum but
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um yeah it just it just made it it grew
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my interest and so now I go to exhibits
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all the time and there's there's a lot
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to be appreciated for self
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expressionism um because everybody is so
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different everybody has a different from
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point of view and it's just interesting
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to get a peek into people's psyche and
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put that into their art so I I love it I
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love it okay now this is this is kind of
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crazy this is this is Off the Wall okay
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who is your favorite superhero and
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why my favorite
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superhero y'all don't don't laugh um is
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Wonder
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Woman she has been my favorite superhero
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since I can remember since I was a wee
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bitty little girl um and so I'm talking
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about Linda
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Carter y yeah she she's she's she's
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wonderful I'm talking about Linda Carter
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um because I felt as
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though even though she wasn't a brown
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black or brown girl she represented so
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much strength and um Power
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and
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composure that I just I wanted to grow
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up and be like that I'm just like I want
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I want to be able to walk into a
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situation and people underestimate me
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and but for me to command the
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room and just to take it over if need
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be badass so I you know has always been
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my favorite favorite superhero I love it
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I love it okay stuffing or dressing for
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the
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holidays that's an interesting
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question yeah okay so it's always been
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dressing but two years ago I hosted
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Thanksgiving at my
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home and I have two young women who uh
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are a big part of my life they were just
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like oh we don't do dressing we do
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stuffing I was like okay we'll make it
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then I don't know what I don't I don't
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know anything about that and it was
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delicious it was delicious it was like
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what they're very different to me they
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might be the same to some people but
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they're they're very different but I
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like the texture you know they're
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there's a lot of texture there and and
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stuffing and and and dressing has always
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been my favorite part of the holiday a
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holiday meal as long as there is
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cranberry sauce I don't care if it's
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homemade or in a can if it's jell whole
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and and gravy love it give me all the
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carbs give me
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all I'll put the dressing next to the
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stuffing and put all this yes all the
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carbs okay I need your favorite old
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school
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artist oh um artist in terms of music
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yeah uh what
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genre uh let's go with
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R&B R&B
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my favorite old school
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R&B
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huh R&B
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specifically that's hard if I had to no
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he he's not R&B Stevie Wonder Wonder
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awesome okay so you said What genre so I
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have to ask okay how about let's let's
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go with like uh pop or Rock whatever you
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want to choose
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um that's tough can we do hip hop sure
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okay old school hip hop that's kind of
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hard too but um I would probably say MC
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light nice okay
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yeah okay love MC
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light yes yes I love it okay sugar the
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sugar going grits or
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no that's also an interesting question
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because for those of your audience
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members who don't know I'm from Detroit
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and in Detroit grits are more like a
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cereal like a hot and so we push I I
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grew up putting sugar on my grits okay
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and then when I moved to the South they
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were just like I'm
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me so there Savory in the South and so I
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have come to love my grits with you know
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salt and pepper and yeah butter um I
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don't know how I feel about sugar on my
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grits now since I've
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been okay spaghet then spaghetti because
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that's the same question because people
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have that same question about spaghetti
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what do you think you mean separate or
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together no no does sugar go on
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Spaghetti Su oh okay
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um to cut the acidity because I love
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spaghetti uhhuh acidity I will add sugar
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to my spaghetti sauce uh don't like put
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it on after it it yeah all right so last
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question here tell us something that no
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one else knows about
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you it could be something quirky it
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doesn't have to be
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serious something that people don't know
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about me is that I am a science nerd m
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yeah science and and and
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history yeah okay pread pre-physical
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therapy before I you know settled into
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my career so I I love all things it the
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the human body and planet and how we're
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all
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interconnected is amazing to me and it's
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just it's just so fascinating how I love
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it yeah how it all works together ah the
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prething I know no one knew that about
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you awesome awesome well thank you so
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much for playing the game with me so we
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got a lot out today and is there
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anything that you want everybody to you
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know else to know about what's coming up
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what's going on with you right now as
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far as your career is concerned what's
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coming up um you can shout out anybody
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that you want to thank right now just
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I'm giving you the floor to to take us
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out of here oh my gosh okay well I'll
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start with um I am an acting mentor and
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I'm currently partnered with get scen
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studios here in Atlanta and so I have
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several mentees and our our goal is to
30:48
help them achieve their goals so if they
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have a goal of of of obtaining an agent
30:54
or getting more auditions or you know
30:56
whatever it is you you know it's been
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rewarding watching my mines grow and
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actually you know meet those hit those
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marks and just be
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successful that's been amazing um I also
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have a a production company and we're
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looking to start our first project this
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year we were kind of postponed for a
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while for different reasons but we've
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got something on the table a deal on the
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table right now so we're working that
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out awesome
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um as far as my acting career I am
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working
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on allowing people to see me as my
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authentic self yeah
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um audience and casting directors so
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that they know I'm not like a monolith
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you know but we none of us are monolith
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and I I'd like people to to
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to see me more in a
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comedic realm I would love that I would
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love that yeah I I I'm really looking
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forward to this year I think there are
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going to be a lot of projects coming up
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um so yeah I'd like I'd like to do some
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comedy
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awesome okay well listen we a't gonna
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take too much more of your time we're
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going to get out of here please come
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back when your next project is coming up
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and let us know everything about it we
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love you I love you so so so so so so so
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so so
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much and we are out of here guys we'll
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talk to you later talk to you later Ken
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love you bye bye bye