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Chloe Bailey’s Darkest Role Yet: Inside The Making Of Strung · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegrown that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: and everybody, you know, if you don't lie about that?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: All right, y'all, we're here in New York.
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  Speaker 3: We're at the Strong premiere in New York. Are y'all
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  Speaker 3: going somewhere else after this? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Because this is the best, This is the best stop, Like,
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  Speaker 1: this is the best pace you'll take the movie.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't argue with that because.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly because I'm here. And thank you guys. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna be doing a Q and a.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: Thank y'all for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I know, literally, y'all saw me before and after sleep
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  Speaker 1: look amazing, as Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Got the uber in this morning. You let me get that.
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  Speaker 3: You look good. Okay, y'all heard that. Period.
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  Speaker 1: So we're about to go to this premiere and people
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  Speaker 1: already have seen the movie about the sun we walking right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Are you excited for the reaction?
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  Speaker 5: Of course, always.
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  Speaker 4: It's always been. It's a crowd pleaser.
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  Speaker 1: You get to watch to react like you're not like
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  Speaker 1: you get to listen to them like ooh ooh we.
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  Speaker 4: Did in Miami. That was the most exhilarating experience.
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  Speaker 3: At that Black Film Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, ye, yeah, okay, all right, well we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see what New York is given we we up for?
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that the American Black fan festivals a time,
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  Speaker 1: so it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was New York would be good. I'm sure, So
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  Speaker 3: let's go on it now now.
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  Speaker 1: Alrighty, While they're figuring out the Mike's situations, I'm one
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  Speaker 1: on the roads of how you guys doing tonight? So
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  Speaker 1: we are here to celebrate something really, really, really special.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Malcolm d Lee and Chloe and all of
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  Speaker 1: their team. As you guys saw in the movie, they
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  Speaker 1: work really hard to put this together and really hard
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  Speaker 1: to tell the story and enter into a space that
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  Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, it's like everybody wants thriller and
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  Speaker 1: suspense and scary right now, but I love to see
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  Speaker 1: us doing it. So we are gonna have great conversation,
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  Speaker 1: great community today and I'm gonna get into their business
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. You'all ready for that, alrighty, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna bring out the amazing guest of the evening, Malcolm
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  Speaker 1: de Lee, director of the film, and if Chloe Valley
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  Speaker 1: are super scarly the actress, yes, no, not working right,
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  Speaker 1: now yet carry yes already, y'all, so let's get into
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  Speaker 1: the conversations.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, you'll project, yeah, we well, I'll project.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So what were you guys most excited about when
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  Speaker 1: when bringing this story to life?
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  Speaker 7: HM, I don't know, Like, listen, I I I I
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  Speaker 7: read the script. I thought it was really forward leaning.
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  Speaker 7: Oh here we go, I I I was. I was
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  Speaker 7: very much reading the script and I just you know,
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  Speaker 7: I kept throwing bay.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you don't always do that when you're when
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  Speaker 6: you get a script that somebody says.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we wants you to do this or whatever, but
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  Speaker 4: be very boring. I did a part of those those experiences.
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  Speaker 6: So the script just kept me intrigued, and I thought, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: let's here's my opportunity to try.
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  Speaker 4: A different exercise, different muscle. And so that's what I
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  Speaker 4: really wanted to do.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, I knew that I needed to have
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  Speaker 6: somebody who would be a strong, leading lady. And you know,
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  Speaker 6: I met Chloe on the set of Fight Night, and
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  Speaker 6: I was just like, I was in.
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  Speaker 4: Love with her. I thought she was so so she's
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  Speaker 4: so sweet, so nice.
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  Speaker 6: And then I looked at some of her work and
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  Speaker 6: I was like, oh, she'd be a great lead for this,
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  Speaker 6: you know. And and then she she she loved the script,
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  Speaker 6: so I was like, let's made it happen.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so grateful that we got to do it together.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, thank you everyone for coming this evening
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  Speaker 2: and dassing the film.
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  Speaker 4: It needs so.
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  Speaker 5: Much to Thank me more for being here with us, sweets.
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  Speaker 3: I would be nowhere else but here.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you alcome for directing an amazing film.
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  Speaker 4: I am so.
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  Speaker 5: Thrilled to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: And I still remember that day when we met on
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  Speaker 2: the set of Fight Night. It was still dark in
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  Speaker 2: the warehouse and I was like, Oh, it's really cool.
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  Speaker 5: And when I got the script, I was so enamored
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  Speaker 5: by it.
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  Speaker 2: I love thrillers, I love suspense, and I loved how
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  Speaker 2: like the instruments were used as weapons, and I was
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  Speaker 2: really intrigued by that, and I just was. I gravitated
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  Speaker 2: towards it. So I'm happy we were able to pull
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  Speaker 2: it off and it's now out into the world.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The movie is a wild ride, right y'all? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: y'all was in here like, uh uh girl, what right? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So it's a very wild ride. Talk to me about
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  Speaker 1: how you guys juggle all of the different tones throughout.
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  Speaker 1: So for you, you know, being on camera as leading actress
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  Speaker 1: and get into that and then as director, how did
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  Speaker 1: you balance?
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  Speaker 2: I think Malcolm did a really great job at keeping
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  Speaker 2: us on track and helping us tell the story that
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to tell, especially when you know, when we're
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  Speaker 2: filming all the scenes and emotions are all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to have someone like, Okay, let's keep it
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  Speaker 2: afloat and you know, guiding us to where we need
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  Speaker 2: to be. But I think it's also a testament to
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  Speaker 2: his directing because he allowed it to be a collaborative
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  Speaker 2: effort where we were also able to pour our hearts
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  Speaker 2: and souls into the character. And I remember even at
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  Speaker 2: the dinner table scene, it was on the iconic Miss
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  Speaker 2: Lynn Whitfield's coverage and she nailed it. She ate it down,
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  Speaker 2: and Malcolm was like, Okay, do something crazy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: feel it completely, go above and beyond.
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  Speaker 5: Then you know, just gave her a fun take.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what he let us do, you know, feel
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  Speaker 2: it and never really.
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  Speaker 5: Get stapled to one emotion or feeling.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's what really pulled the best out
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  Speaker 2: of us.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say, like, you know, if that seemed
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  Speaker 6: in particular, like you know, Chloe was just so amazing,
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  Speaker 6: you know in having to just display all those emotions,
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  Speaker 6: cause I mean that could have been a very like
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  Speaker 6: boring scene with you just you your ear, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you know, talking about the plot of the movie and
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  Speaker 6: the and the in in what in what they were
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  Speaker 6: up to, but like the way she reacted and you know,
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  Speaker 6: like the herbags were ever with her rest of the
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  Speaker 6: actress really made it saying I mean, so I I
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  Speaker 6: I you know, listen.
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  Speaker 8: It was again a different genre for me, but you know,
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  Speaker 8: I approached every movie the saying in terms of like
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  Speaker 8: establishing tone first, like let's make sure that, like I'm
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  Speaker 8: very clear about the tone I'm trying to set. And
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  Speaker 8: it was nice to not have to cut to the
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  Speaker 8: joke on this movie, to just like let the.
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  Speaker 6: Characters breathe and you know, let uh uh a certain
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  Speaker 6: rhythm be established with it.
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  Speaker 9: And you know, it's it's you know, it's a it's
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  Speaker 9: it's a thriller. It's it's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 9: you know, a coming of age story, you know somewhat
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  Speaker 9: to a to a degree as well. So I just
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  Speaker 9: wanted to try my hand at it, Chloye.
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  Speaker 1: When I hear you say, uh that Malcolm, let you
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  Speaker 1: guys like not be stapled to the script in in
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  Speaker 1: script and uh how you know coming into it it
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  Speaker 1: was set up to be. I'm wondering, like, was were
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  Speaker 1: there any moments that we saw on screen that were
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  Speaker 1: like just you naturally like not I guess you would
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  Speaker 1: call that improv too, even though it's not like comedy,
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  Speaker 1: but like things you added that weren't in the script
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  Speaker 1: at the moment that made it to the final it.
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  Speaker 2: Did and even during ADR, like a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: would be like kind of mumbled under my breath, like
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  Speaker 2: almost like how I would react.
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  Speaker 3: In the moment because I got that loss in the scene.
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  Speaker 2: And when we did ADR, Mom was like, Okay, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit you've said there, but I want the audience
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  Speaker 2: to hear what you said, so I would go over
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  Speaker 2: and over dub it in ADR and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: She didn't wanna say what the fuck? I had to
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  Speaker 4: pull that out of her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cause the see I know, the the the final
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  Speaker 1: scene where you guys are at the table and you're
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  Speaker 1: like you're trying to get the information out of you
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  Speaker 1: drinking the water. I was like, she acts like that
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  Speaker 1: in real life, Like I could just see you react
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  Speaker 1: in that way. So when I heard you say that,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I wonder if that was just her
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  Speaker 1: natural reaction.
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  Speaker 3: In the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about you know, the the film and
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  Speaker 1: how compelling of a spectrum and paints for black women. Right,
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  Speaker 1: so you go from like the matriarch of the family
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  Speaker 1: all the way down. Let's talk about how did explore
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  Speaker 1: those different identities shape the emotional core of the story
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  Speaker 1: and the different dynamics between the characters.
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  Speaker 4: W boy, that's a that's deep question.
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  Speaker 3: You want to break it down, you want to go
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  Speaker 3: one after the other.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, I mean what I loved about this film
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  Speaker 2: and all of the characters is that there was not
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  Speaker 2: one stereotypical black woman, and it showed all of us
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  Speaker 2: in all shapes.
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  Speaker 5: And forms and levels. You know, Laila, she was broke,
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  Speaker 5: she had asked for.
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  Speaker 3: Racist, but she was broken.
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  Speaker 2: Then you had Miss Lynn and Anymani and Marcus, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were at the top of their game, so successful.
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  Speaker 5: Then I loved how it showed Coco.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she was a nurse, and it showed us
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  Speaker 2: in all shapes and forms, and I really loved that
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  Speaker 2: no one was really a villain, like even Layla. She
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  Speaker 2: you really were rooting for her, but then you also
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  Speaker 2: were like, what the hell is your problem? And I
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  Speaker 2: loved how it showed how raw we are as human
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  Speaker 2: beings and how yes, we might be good one moment,
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  Speaker 2: but we also have some faults and some moments where
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  Speaker 2: it might not be so tasteful. So I love how
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  Speaker 2: it explored that in every way in dynamic.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say that a lot of the characters
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  Speaker 6: live in the gray you know area. You know, clearly
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  Speaker 6: there are villains. I mean, you know, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 6: what's her name is?
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  Speaker 2: Characters.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say, yeah you can, you.
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  Speaker 5: Can like understand her. I'm like, okay, she's trying to protect.
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  Speaker 4: Her Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, like, you know, it's it's very interesting, like
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  Speaker 10: you know that the dynamic of the audience when they
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  Speaker 10: when they're you know, they're they're like looking at Leila
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  Speaker 10: like what are you?
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  Speaker 4: Why are you doing that? I mean, I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 11: And then when you know, she you know, she gets
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  Speaker 11: the big reveal of the violin at the at the
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  Speaker 11: baby shower and you know, you know, uh Imani smiles
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  Speaker 11: like tramphantly and we did Someone's just like clap like, yeah,
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  Speaker 11: that's what you.
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  Speaker 4: Get, Layla. And then you know, then you know she's
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  Speaker 4: also attacking, like oh my god, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 12: So then but then so I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 12: of ebbs and flows with Layla's journey, and like, you
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  Speaker 12: know with that that we're rooting for her and that
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  Speaker 12: we're also like feeling sorry for her, you know, and
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  Speaker 12: obviously by the end you're like, oh, you.
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  Speaker 6: Understand you've made some mistakes, you know, just as y'all
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  Speaker 6: all younger people do, you know, And it's part of
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  Speaker 6: the the journey of of of you know, coming of age.
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  Speaker 1: When I watched it, throughout the different characters that I did,
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  Speaker 1: go from like oh, like, er, how crazy are you
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  Speaker 1: or how stupid are you right now?
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  Speaker 3: To I get it.
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  Speaker 1: You're just doing what you gotta do to get by,
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  Speaker 1: even if I wouldn't do that, like you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. And I think I know, for me as
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  Speaker 1: a black woman watching it, I was like, I got women.
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  Speaker 3: In my family that did some crazy things.
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  Speaker 1: But they will always say it was they thought it
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  Speaker 1: was the best idea that they had at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: just doing what they knew to do. So like when
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  Speaker 1: you figure out your parents are actually people and not
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  Speaker 1: just your parents right now, talk a little bit about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with this being a black leg cast, which
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  Speaker 1: was very powerful, how that brought like a distinct in
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  Speaker 1: uh energy, and how it shaped the film and the
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  Speaker 1: characters to move throughout the thriller in a certain way.
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  Speaker 11: You know.
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  Speaker 6: The script was was really Alan was the writer of
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  Speaker 6: the script, and he wrote, I thought, uh, a really
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  Speaker 6: good script.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I don't think it was like it was.
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  Speaker 6: It was certainly had its DNA and in blackness and
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  Speaker 6: also African American and African culture.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I wanted to I like, I really
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  Speaker 4: appreciated that about the script.
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  Speaker 6: And so it wasn't like, oh, like these characters were
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  Speaker 6: white and we made them and we just you know,
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  Speaker 6: cast the cast of black you know, uh characters. You know,
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  Speaker 6: these characters were inherently you know, written in the movie
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  Speaker 6: to be African American. You know, it's happened to be
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  Speaker 6: aspirational and upscale and what have you.
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  Speaker 4: So to me, it's just you know.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of the in the same vein of what the
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  Speaker 6: movies that I've done in the past, you know, in
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  Speaker 6: terms of like characters being again aspirational, educated and but
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  Speaker 6: but in some ways accessible.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly, Layela is very accessible character.
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  Speaker 10: You know, she's she's the every woman in this movie,
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  Speaker 10: whereas you know Lynn and and and and Lucian are
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  Speaker 10: a little bit more like, oh, they're a little more
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  Speaker 10: forty twenty.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, I think that's just the way that
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  Speaker 6: the script was written and wanted to embody that. It's
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  Speaker 6: funny too, because even though it's a blum House movie,
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  Speaker 6: that is not a Blumhouse house.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a lot of times the Blumhouse house are
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  Speaker 4: very very creepy looking, and I was like, we ain't.
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  Speaker 4: We ain't got to you know, gild the lily on
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  Speaker 4: that we could just let it be.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was creepy as alday.
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  Speaker 6: It's kind of antiseptic way. You know, everything was very
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  Speaker 6: clean and they had its place or whatever. So you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's different than like what a creepy houses you said,
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  Speaker 6: a creepy kid inside.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's chandelier in the bathroom. The bathroom scene, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh they are I mean, they're going through
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  Speaker 1: some craziness, but they living they're having a good time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, now talk to me a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I know that you know this going into the
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  Speaker 1: thrower lane, I'm a little bit different for you. What
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  Speaker 1: was one of the things that you learned from this
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  Speaker 1: film that you'll take back into the other genres that
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  Speaker 1: you're most comfortable in.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I'm comfortable in this one too. I mean
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  Speaker 10: I think it's it's interesting the whole time. And I
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  Speaker 10: go through this on every movie and like is this working?
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  Speaker 2: Is this?
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  Speaker 6: Is this?
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  Speaker 2: Is this?
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  Speaker 4: Like how does this? What is this thing about? Like,
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  Speaker 4: like is this is this? Is this communicating? And with
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  Speaker 4: this one, I was I was probably more sure than
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  Speaker 4: any movie I've done in a long time.
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  Speaker 10: So I'm just like, well, I haven't done this, And like,
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  Speaker 10: you know, with a comedy, you know what you're going
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  Speaker 10: to get if you if you if you set up
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  Speaker 10: a laugh boom, they're laughing right. With a drama or
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  Speaker 10: like a psychological thriller, you just kind of like are
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  Speaker 10: feeling how the audience is feeling and are they Are
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  Speaker 10: they with you?
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  Speaker 4: Are they with the characters?
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  Speaker 6: So you know, I one of the one thing I
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  Speaker 6: have to know that, like you know, Blumhouse has their
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  Speaker 6: own you know, rules and the way they you know,
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  Speaker 6: make their movies, and they're like, well, like, for instance,
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  Speaker 6: one of the things they said was, you know, don't
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  Speaker 6: don't do so much music, and I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm trying to established some tension or whatever.
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  Speaker 13: And I was like the actually doing so much doing
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  Speaker 13: so good. I'm like, okay, I'll try it. And I
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  Speaker 13: tried it. It was totally against my instincts and I
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  Speaker 13: was and it didn't work. You know, the audience was
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  Speaker 13: and the both of the will emit.
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  Speaker 6: You know that the audience is all is right because
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  Speaker 6: the audience is always right. They are, especially in a
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  Speaker 6: genre movie like this, They're always looking anything that's like.
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  Speaker 4: Slightly snacks of a clue. They're like, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 1: I was doing that to your earlier? I talked to
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  Speaker 1: them earlier at the breakfast club and it was so
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  Speaker 1: many things. After the interview, I was like, wait, because
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  Speaker 1: did this mean something?
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  Speaker 3: I was like, no, not at all, but you know.
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  Speaker 6: You have you have to like you they're very delicate
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  Speaker 6: movie comedies and movies like this very delicate, so like
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: the slightest like you know.
• 14:32
  Speaker 10: Like overplaying of something or underplaying or something, you'll lose
• 14:36
  Speaker 10: the audience while all the audience will be ahead of you,
• 14:39
  Speaker 10: and you don't want the audience to be ahead.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: You want them to be like trying to figure it out.
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: But at the same time people be.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: All the head.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the music in the film,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: because I mean it's literally like the heart of the
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: story essentially, right. So you you said that, you know,
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: you decided to go back to making sure that there
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: was a lot of the music in the film.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you' like when I talk about I'm talking about
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: the score, songs in the movie that were inherent to like,
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: like for instance, like when when Chloe and and I'm sorry,
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: when Layla and Marcus first meet.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: You know, like those.
• 15:12
  Speaker 10: Songs were written into the movie, although not all the work,
• 15:15
  Speaker 10: but they were at least at least this that sequence
• 15:17
  Speaker 10: was and that was like their love language. They're both
• 15:22
  Speaker 10: you know, music lovers, and that's how he got her
• 15:25
  Speaker 10: the life You'll be intrigued or what have you. And
• 15:27
  Speaker 10: then you know, we had Ali Shahi Mohammad and Adrian
• 15:31
  Speaker 10: Young through the score and they did just this phenomenal
• 15:33
  Speaker 10: job with just you know, the tones and the you know,
• 15:36
  Speaker 10: the everything about about you know, the tension that I
• 15:40
  Speaker 10: wanted to feel, and in some stuff was just like
• 15:43
  Speaker 10: a little offbeat, like you know, even some of the piano.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: Chords that they were playing were like a really out
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: of tune piano and I was like, huh, why why'd that?
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: And and but it just worked, you know what I mean.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: So music is always important.
• 15:55
  Speaker 10: To me in the movie, and then a movie like
• 15:57
  Speaker 10: this where music is so you know at the fourth
• 16:00
  Speaker 10: which is you know, how Lala coachs and how Lala communicates.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: It was it was not an easy thing to do
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: because you have when you're doing a movie that has
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: so much music in it that's on screen performance, there's
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: a lot of pre recording that has to be done
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: and they're right.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: Correct, and so like it was, it was it was
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: a lot of.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Pressure on on clone. I'm it's like, okay, here's a
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: magicalson that the song.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: We're gonna play the opening song, and we're gonna do
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: the shoots on day one, and so you'll you'll learn
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: the violent.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: You'll be right you've been when did you learned the
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: by Olympius? Great, you'll pick it up.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that was a challenge.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: But we did it and it turned out really well,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: and I'll forever be proud.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Of Well, you gotta let the people know what you're
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about the fact that you went and
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: you did lessons again because you hadn't played since the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: fifth grade? How long did you have to go back
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: and do the lessons and everything to prepare for this one?
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Had a week and a half.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: To prepare before we shot the first scene in Cape Town.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Y'all give it up for that because she played that violin.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Okay, I I've called out this off. I'm really trying
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: for you.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm the type of person who watches the movie
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, Okay, this is off, this isn't matching.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: And I was like, Chloe, you cannot be a musician
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: in a film about music and not doing.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: The violin properly, Like that is just not okay. So
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: I really put a lot of pressure.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: On myself as well as a musician, and I'm happy
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: that I had a little bit of musicianship in my back, Pope,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: because it definitely helped me.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Not a little bit.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Talk a little about that for both of you guys, though,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: because another like just sitting here, talk listening to you
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: guys talk about the music aspect of it, I'm like,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: it's you know, God does this thing where everything that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: you do aligned for like this one next thing you're
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: going to do, and you don't even know what's happening, right,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: So you being able to learn that violin like that
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: in about a week. We've watched you master music and
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: instruments for years now, so I mean you probably could
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: have did it in your sleep. But as you're mastering that,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: within that we d is there any point where Chloe's like, Okay,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I see what you were doing here, because now I'm
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: walking into this role and I can do it effor
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: s effortlessly.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: When I receive that, and I thank you for that
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: kind compliment, I think, Uh.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: For me, I was just ready to go.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Really drown myself in this experience, and I constantly wanna
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: be challenged and pushed so that I can continue to
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: grow and be better. And I could definitely say I'm
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: a better actress after filming this movie than I was
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: coming into it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: And I think because I was.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Stretched like in all directions, that I now have all
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: these different tools and notes and things that I picked
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: up on that I could just you know, attached to
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: my tool belt.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: So I definitely think God was like.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Ha ha ha I.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: He always has those little moments, and I'm gripful that
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I was able to pull from a little bit of
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: experience for this.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well you did an amazing job.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Now talk to me, uh Chloe a little bit about
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the action sequences. My favorites them down And you did
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: all your own stunts.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, but there was a stunt double who did like
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the extra hard falls or like you know, the actual
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: hitting of the ground or things like that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: But other than that, yep, it was me.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: So what when was the preparation was so crazy?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was me. What was the preparation like for that?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Because that was new for you as well, Like you've
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: acted before, but this is intense.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I had done stunt work a couple of times in
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the past, and I'm an adrenaline junkie, so I was
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: ready that. That's the most exciting part for me. And
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: when they teach you, like the stunt choreography, it's almost
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: like dance choreography.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: With boxing, it's like you're learning a dance step.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: So we had stunt practice for about a week before
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: we shot in Cape town and then it was go,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: go go, and I had a time like, of course
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: it was freezing on the beach and I was like, oh,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: but once the camera went on, I was like, yeah,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: so those.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Were my favorite.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: I'm an adrenaline junkie for real. No, I will say
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: that that Chloe like she runs the gamut of.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: Emotions in this in this movie, you know, like she
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: has to be physical, she has to be violent, she
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: has to be sexy, she has to be innocent, she
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: has to be emotional, so you know, and she's worked
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: every day.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: You know, she had no days off. Well that's expected,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: you know, there was, and so we really put her,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: told her and gave her a warning. I said, this is.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, this was like but but every day she
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: was like I wasid, okay, we gotta before you call it, you.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Got to come in a little bit earlier than She'd
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: be like really.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: Okay, all right morning, how everybody doing, like always above
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: the of positivity?
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: And I really loved that about her, And you know
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: she was.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Really she just very much bright or died like really
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: just kind of gave it her all the whole time.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: How important was that energy for the rest of the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: castle where her being like number one on the call.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: She a kind of sit in that tone.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Listen, you know, I think you know, Floyd's a great example.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: She had a great you know, a great scene partners,
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: particularly with Lynn Whitfield, you know, who was like a
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: veteran and and and you know, you know, a great
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: scene partner for her.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: You know, the same thing with with.
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: You know, Lucy and was like a just also you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: just mister positivity, right, even though he has to be
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: kind of mean and violent in.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: This movie, he's like, you know, like every time he
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: breaks characters like oh, you know, like just just like
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: a like a sprite, you know, like just jumping around
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: the set.
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: So I mean, you know, like Chloe, uh, you know,
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: had had the most to do, but you know, everyone,
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: we had a really really great cast.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: I'm very thankful for all of them.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: And I do think you also have to give credit to.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Yourself for putting together an environment of positive people as well,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: because it wouldn't run the way it did without the
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: production and the crew. And I wouldn't have ran the
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: way I did without my manager made with me.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: She was there with me every.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I would go home.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: You got this you got this, So I definitely it
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: was such a community.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Family effort and we really.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Put her all into that film, and I'm happy that
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: you can tell and see it because not one person
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: was like lacking. Everyone gave their all. And I kind
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: of shared this earlier, and I think I was so
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: enamored by this because it taught me that no matter
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: how high you get, you still have to put your
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: all into everything. It was miss Lynd Whitfield like even
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: when the camera was not on her, when the coverage
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: was not on her, she was giving it one hundred
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: percent just so she could feed you what you needed
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: to properly bring what the scene needed. And that was
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: incredibly inspiring to me because other sets I've been on,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: other great actors I've been next to, I hadn't seen
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: that right, so she like she still has the passion
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: and the fire in her eyes for acting, and that
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: was really cool to see, especially with her being such
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: a legend in the game.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Right, So that was that was really inspiring for me.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I kind of I love that you get to experience
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: that in real time. I think that that's like the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: best teacher but also the best like it inspires you,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: like even as a like watching miss Lane would feel
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: navigate her career all these years as a woman, a businesswoman,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a titan that she is getting to see that up close.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Probably d you walked away feeling like, Okay, here's the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: things I need to make sure that I guess you
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, talk a bit about. I mean,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you guys are in Cape Town. I'm sure that there's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of behind the scenes moments. You just talked
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: about the amazing community that Malcolm Delee puts together. What
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: were some of your favorite behind the scenes moments or
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: stories that You're like, I'll always remember that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Can I share this one?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: In the moment was frustrating, but it's one of my
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: favorite memories from filming.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Remember when I.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Had the car with the door, so we had to
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: get the shot with the blood splattering on me, right,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: and it was gonna be it had to be like
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the one because we didn't really have the time to
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: clean myself up or whatever.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: It was like three am, right, I was almost like.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: The last yeah, almost the last shot or.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Second the last shot of the night. So I'm like, okay,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: I'm ready. I'm pumped up, you know, I'm like my
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: boxing prepared me.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: For this the slam of car door with the fake
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: head and you know, the blood splattering, and they said
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: it would taste sweet like candy, so I wasn't too worried.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I kept doing no blood because like, what the hell's
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: going on again?
• 24:13
  Speaker 14: What's that mean?
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, God, what's going on?
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, no, no, you're that you're that high?
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: But no, she was like, what what's going on? Can
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: we get this trap leader?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I was like, got ready, make some blood come from somewhere.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I had to keep it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was, she was serious.
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: It was because you know, I was, I'm like outside
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: of the you know the shot, you know, the camera
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: far away and.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Like, you know, you call things out, but things are
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: happening and rolling the cameras and you say, okay.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: Now and like they did, did you see the house?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: They like so that, you know, the special fist people
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: go like get the you know, the blood flatter.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: But I think it worked in our favorite it was
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: by the time.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: That was real frustration on the thirtieth Pinton.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: It really helped and that's one of my favorite memories.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that was tough. That was tough.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: She she came through.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about like, you know, we're here with
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: with an audience. I ask you, guys, uh, you know,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: when you're out and getting to see people enjoy the film,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: what's your favorite part about that?
• 25:23
  Speaker 14: I tell you, Like, it's it's it's like one of
• 25:25
  Speaker 14: my favorite parts of the process of watching audiences enjoy
• 25:29
  Speaker 14: the movie and not knowing what's what they're they're about
• 25:31
  Speaker 14: to step into, Like you know, the moment for me
• 25:37
  Speaker 14: that you know, I mean, one of them is certainly
• 25:39
  Speaker 14: when we find out that Marcus is the is the
• 25:43
  Speaker 14: is the husband?
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Like that's a moment for the audiences.
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: They're like, they're like because they're like, Okay, I know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: I'm gonna see this guy again somewhere sometimes but then
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: forget about it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, gives the tact to kid and she
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: said she's got to do all this work with this
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: family and no, and she settling it and no, little
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: girl does He's not so creepy. She said, Okay, let this.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Marcus, marcuscome, Oh, it's him right, So like I love that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: And of course the other myaus moment is when Lynn's
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: putting her hands on his waist and people are like,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: oh oh hemn and.
• 26:19
  Speaker 13: Feel me Like when I read that in the script,
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: I was like, oh shit.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I was like, I cannot wait to do this movie.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: I have to do this and show this in the
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: day because people have gotta go nuts.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you have. You guys enjoyed the conversation.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys gave New York a moment to
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: enjoy the film.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I enjoyed the film thoroughly. Congratulations.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: I'm gla Yes, we worked really hard on it. It's
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: coming out Friday, Yes, on Peacock Peacock.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: Exclusively, So please tell your people get the word out.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: You're really counting on you to like just get the
• 26:57
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• 26:57
  Speaker 6: The movie and like just you know, you tell me,
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: you tell folks you liked to throw us social media
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: and tell us.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: To tune in on Friday.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Yes, and you know, like let's get let's get some
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: watch parties going and put some stuff out on social media.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 27:11
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• 27:17
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• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Brilliant.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Thank you you are eating so nice. Girl, your best