Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Anthony Anderson & Marsai Martin Talk Chemistry, Dynamic Roles, Black Sitcoms, New Movie + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
- 0:04Speaker 1: ej Envy.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Just hilarious, Charlamage, the God we are to Breakfast Club.
- 0:08Speaker 2: We got a special We had a special guest.
- 0:10Speaker 1: In the building.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Just one is just running a little late. The first
- 0:13Speaker 2: special guest we have is Anthony Anderson.
- 0:15Speaker 1: What's going on, baby? How you feel?
- 0:17Speaker 2: I'm good?
- 0:17Speaker 1: I'm good, All right.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Marseille Martin was supposed to be here. Butuld you say
- 0:20Speaker 3: you blame yourself for her?
- 0:21Speaker 4: You know, it's my fault that she has become the
- 0:24Speaker 4: star that she is. And I don't blame her, but
- 0:27Speaker 4: she she Hollywood today. You know, we had to start
- 0:30Speaker 4: this at nine fifteen and it is now what time
- 0:33Speaker 4: is it? Nine thirty one?
- 0:34Speaker 1: She's sixteen minutes late.
- 0:36Speaker 3: When y'all are filming together, because y'all end the new
- 0:38Speaker 3: movie together G twenty twenty. When y'all filming together, how
- 0:40Speaker 3: do you get out of the rhythm in mind state
- 0:43Speaker 3: of Black Kids? Because y'all did that for so long? Yeah,
- 0:46Speaker 3: you know what, that was something that we never really.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Discussed while we were on set.
- 0:50Speaker 4: You know, Viola, you know, requested me to be her husband,
- 0:54Speaker 4: and then they were looking for someone to play our
- 0:56Speaker 4: child or children, and I told them to hire Marseille,
- 1:00Speaker 4: and never once did Marseille and I discuss the rhythm
- 1:03Speaker 4: that we have had because we have a great shorthand
- 1:06Speaker 4: with one another for eight years and one hundred and
- 1:08Speaker 4: seventy five episodes of Blackish.
- 1:10Speaker 1: But you know, I made it.
- 1:12Speaker 4: I wanted to make sure that no one confused that
- 1:15Speaker 4: or saw us falling to that pattern just as actors
- 1:19Speaker 4: and knowing someone the way that we do. And I
- 1:23Speaker 4: hope we didn't, did you guys? You guys see the
- 1:25Speaker 4: movie yet I see something? Okay, I don't think. I
- 1:29Speaker 4: don't think we did, you know, And that's something that
- 1:30Speaker 4: we never discussed with one another. But it's something that
- 1:33Speaker 4: we talked about, you know, since we've been out doing
- 1:35Speaker 4: press and people ask us that question.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Let me ask a questions an actor, Right, do you
- 1:39Speaker 3: like when interviewers watched the movie beforehand? Because I feel
- 1:42Speaker 3: like sometimes I try to watch bits and pieces, but
- 1:44Speaker 3: I don't try to watch the whole things.
- 1:45Speaker 1: I feel like I get a whole movie.
- 1:46Speaker 5: With you before it comes out.
- 1:49Speaker 4: Because you're ruining. You probably couldn't keep them a fucking secret.
- 1:55Speaker 4: You've been a nigga that stitching on everybody in the neighborhood.
- 2:00Speaker 4: I know that THATGA watched the movie first.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Because you want to talk to the person about what
- 2:03Speaker 1: you saw. Yeah. Yeah, no, Actually, that way you have
- 2:05Speaker 1: context and you know, we can talk about this.
- 2:07Speaker 4: It's like, yo, and when it's so yeah, I like
- 2:10Speaker 4: it when when when they do that way we can
- 2:12Speaker 4: have an informed conversation about the work that we did
- 2:15Speaker 4: and all that, and then you can talk about it's like, Yo,
- 2:17Speaker 4: you was whacking this and you know, I was like, okay, cool, No,
- 2:19Speaker 4: you don't want to be honest? Why I used to
- 2:23Speaker 4: I used to do that. Yeah, that's the Charlamagne to
- 2:25Speaker 4: God that I know.
- 2:27Speaker 3: But I don't like doing that because I know I
- 2:28Speaker 3: don't want to mess up with nobody money, because I
- 2:30Speaker 3: know how hard it is to get these movies made right,
- 2:33Speaker 3: and so at least I like the movie to live
- 2:34Speaker 3: a few weeks.
- 2:35Speaker 4: Yefore, I didn't say shipped on the movie. I just said,
- 2:38Speaker 4: you know, maybe sen or two before I just just
- 2:41Speaker 4: say ship on the movie.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Shot Man.
- 2:44Speaker 4: When you did this, man, I didn't believe that. That
- 2:45Speaker 4: wouldn't believe it. But when you got, when you got
- 2:47Speaker 4: your ass kicked, got you got you.
- 2:51Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I was gonna say I wanted to go
- 2:52Speaker 2: back to Blackish, right, I know, we talked about it
- 2:54Speaker 2: a bunch of times. But why don't you think they
- 2:57Speaker 2: make more? I would guess sitcom was like that, Like,
- 3:00Speaker 2: you know, growing up, I had, you know, Different World
- 3:02Speaker 2: Cosby Show, but my kids had Blackish. Yeah, why don't
- 3:05Speaker 2: you think they make more sitcoms like that? Because they
- 3:07Speaker 2: do well, they do.
- 3:13Speaker 1: I don't know, man.
- 3:13Speaker 4: You know, when Kenya and I looked at the landscape
- 3:15Speaker 4: of television, you know, at the time before we created Blackish,
- 3:19Speaker 4: we looked at what was missing from television for us,
- 3:23Speaker 4: and we miss shows like The Cosby Show. We missed
- 3:26Speaker 4: a different world. We miss shows just even going further back,
- 3:31Speaker 4: you know, good times the Jefferson's all in the family
- 3:35Speaker 4: that have points of view and characters that were irreverent,
- 3:40Speaker 4: uh uh, and and that you know, you knew where
- 3:43Speaker 4: you stood with them in honesty and authenticity. You just
- 3:47Speaker 4: can't make that up, you know what I'm saying. What
- 3:50Speaker 4: we did with Blackish was our life. It was me
- 3:52Speaker 4: and Kenya, we sat down and she's here, ladies and gentlemen.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Morning. Oh my god. It was worth the way good morning.
- 4:03Speaker 1: It was worth her way, be honest with you.
- 4:06Speaker 4: He was just talking about He definitely was, you know,
- 4:12Speaker 4: you know, and I told him I created this monster.
- 4:15Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what happened before you walked in back.
- 4:17Speaker 4: In for a seconds back and four seconds back and
- 4:19Speaker 4: four seconds I was here talking and just realized and
- 4:22Speaker 4: just like she ain't here.
- 4:23Speaker 1: She just threw your hold on.
- 4:27Speaker 4: Wait when when we sure you can use that excuse? Yes,
- 4:31Speaker 4: when you watched it, you're gonna see her just slam
- 4:33Speaker 4: your mic down. As I was saying that you're not here,
- 4:36Speaker 4: she smelled that ship down.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Baby, don't believe.
- 4:40Speaker 6: Not gonna put it back? Hold on, hold on, Yeah,
- 4:45Speaker 6: that's good.
- 4:47Speaker 1: You good, Okay, you want him to the right. Anthony
- 4:50Speaker 1: was answering the question. He didn't want to answer anyway.
- 4:52Speaker 4: He came.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Down. Okay, where you are the black daddy? Not that
- 4:58Speaker 1: just landscape of television. You know those things you.
- 5:01Speaker 4: Know just can't be created out of thin air. And
- 5:03Speaker 4: it's just about us telling our authentic stories and and
- 5:06Speaker 4: and that's what it was.
- 5:07Speaker 1: That that's how it was born. We would all love
- 5:10Speaker 1: to see shows in that vein.
- 5:11Speaker 4: We would all love to see shows like Blackish, and
- 5:14Speaker 4: and and my wife and kids, and Bernie Mac and
- 5:17Speaker 4: all those shows that I talked about. But you know,
- 5:19Speaker 4: they they come once in a lifetime. I shouldn't say
- 5:22Speaker 4: once in a lifetime, you know, once in the in
- 5:23Speaker 4: the generation or whatnot when it's something as great as that.
- 5:26Speaker 4: Because when we our show was like a breakthrough, and
- 5:30Speaker 4: it allowed other shows to happen, you know, you know,
- 5:34Speaker 4: fresh off the boat, you.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Know, uh yeah, yeah, right, you know you know, uh
- 5:45Speaker 1: Carmichael Show.
- 5:46Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, not not not that it
- 5:49Speaker 4: was us that created that, but it was us that
- 5:51Speaker 4: created that avenue for other networks. It was like, oh,
- 5:54Speaker 4: this is working over there for them. We need our
- 5:56Speaker 4: own version of that. Uh and and that and and
- 5:59Speaker 4: and that's how that's how it happens.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Man.
- 6:00Speaker 4: But you have to have authentic stories and you know
- 6:03Speaker 4: with people that uh people want to watch and see
- 6:06Speaker 4: on television.
- 6:08Speaker 3: Both of you and by all to play ex military
- 6:10Speaker 3: in this film. When she called you, you say, Okay,
- 6:12Speaker 3: I gotta get in some type of shape because I
- 6:14Speaker 3: know Viola gonna be in shap.
- 6:16Speaker 1: He wasn't in shape. Figure all you read the script.
- 6:26Speaker 1: I got my ass kicked that but no, no, you know,
- 6:31Speaker 1: I thought I was.
- 6:32Speaker 4: I thought I was in decent shape to to portray
- 6:34Speaker 4: whatever it is that they needed me to do in
- 6:37Speaker 4: in this film.
- 6:38Speaker 5: And it was.
- 6:38Speaker 1: It was cool, It was great.
- 6:39Speaker 4: But yeah, when you get a call from not just Viola, Davis,
- 6:42Speaker 4: Viola is an egot, man. I mean, you know when
- 6:44Speaker 4: when somebody likes that, like that requests you, you know,
- 6:48Speaker 4: you have to show up and show out.
- 6:50Speaker 1: And I believe that's what we all did.
- 6:52Speaker 5: Marseille included, Yeah, how was it shooting in South Africa
- 6:55Speaker 5: because y'all were in Cape Town?
- 6:58Speaker 1: How was it?
- 6:58Speaker 6: You know, it was beautiful. I loved it. Was my
- 7:00Speaker 6: first time in Africa as.
- 7:02Speaker 1: A whole, so you're welcome.
- 7:04Speaker 6: Yeah, it was all right, it was it was new.
- 7:11Speaker 7: It was very new to me, and I enjoyed every
- 7:14Speaker 7: every minute of it. And we got to experience it
- 7:17Speaker 7: from any different points of view. Literally, h We got
- 7:21Speaker 7: in and it was winter there in summer.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Here right yeah, yeah, the other side of the hemisphere.
- 7:28Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so that was a lot.
- 7:30Speaker 7: We got to experience, like the South African wind storms
- 7:35Speaker 7: that they haven't which I had no idea was a thing.
- 7:38Speaker 6: And then we went on strike. Then we came back
- 7:42Speaker 6: and it was summer there in winter here.
- 7:44Speaker 5: So now did that affect the continuity of what y'all
- 7:47Speaker 5: were doing the film?
- 7:49Speaker 6: I don't think it was that bad. You didn't even notice.
- 7:52Speaker 1: It wasn't It lasted a few months, but it wasn't bad.
- 7:55Speaker 1: It wasn't bad. Yeah, we didn't have to reshoot anything.
- 7:58Speaker 4: You know, we were able to stop that at a
- 8:00Speaker 4: great place in the film and come back and pick
- 8:02Speaker 4: up what we left off. And it was up to us,
- 8:04Speaker 4: you know, as actors and what not to be professional.
- 8:07Speaker 4: Was like, all right, well, I can't go back to
- 8:09Speaker 4: eating the doughnuts, you know. I gotta I gotta be straight.
- 8:12Speaker 4: I gotta keep this right.
- 8:14Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, how is it dealing with Anthony? Because
- 8:16Speaker 2: he's been in your life for so long? Right, and
- 8:18Speaker 2: this is when you're a lot younger, you're twenty years old, now,
- 8:21Speaker 2: how is it dealing with.
- 8:24Speaker 6: I've been through this before before.
- 8:32Speaker 3: I was from the heart.
- 8:42Speaker 6: It's always, will forever be like my bonus dad. I
- 8:47Speaker 6: love him so much. He's he's seen me from ever
- 8:50Speaker 6: since basically I came out the.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Wound to now, not that far back. I mean, your
- 8:55Speaker 1: real daddy has something to do with that.
- 8:56Speaker 6: Yeah, well I was eight.
- 8:58Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, true, it's been a minute, and I mean
- 9:01Speaker 7: it was it was so much fun and honestly it
- 9:04Speaker 7: was filming once again.
- 9:07Speaker 6: It just was like picking up where we left off.
- 9:10Speaker 4: But I want to say this about Marseille. Marseille came
- 9:12Speaker 4: in an auditioned for Blackish at eight years old. Yeah,
- 9:17Speaker 4: I witnessed her greatness. Everything that the world is seen
- 9:20Speaker 4: right now, I witnessed this at eight. And I pulled
- 9:24Speaker 4: her aside and I told her this and this is
- 9:27Speaker 4: where she is. And I also told her that one
- 9:29Speaker 4: day I'm going to be coming to her and begging
- 9:31Speaker 4: for a job. So I just need you to remember
- 9:33Speaker 4: this moment right here. So when I come to you,
- 9:36Speaker 4: you got my back. And she was like, I got you.
- 9:39Speaker 1: You had a childhood, Marseille.
- 9:41Speaker 7: Yes, oh for sure. I mean it looks different from
- 9:45Speaker 7: many people. I mean, I feel like everyone has a childhood.
- 9:48Speaker 7: It just looks it just looks different.
- 9:50Speaker 1: For me.
- 9:51Speaker 7: It was just I've always even before the show, I
- 9:53Speaker 7: grew up around so many adults in my life.
- 9:55Speaker 6: I grew up with my grandma, my great grandma, and
- 9:59Speaker 6: like everybody.
- 10:00Speaker 7: House so and I was an only child for most
- 10:01Speaker 7: of my life, so jumping into a show that was
- 10:05Speaker 7: basically the same thing.
- 10:07Speaker 6: I mean it was. It was nothing new.
- 10:09Speaker 4: She had an old soul. My nickname, my nickname for
- 10:12Speaker 4: Marseille is a little Coretta. I gave years old little. Yeah,
- 10:16Speaker 4: she embodies all of that. Yeah, that's a little coredda
- 10:19Speaker 4: right there.
- 10:20Speaker 2: Sure you promised a call when she turned sixteen?
- 10:22Speaker 1: Was that true? I mean, everybody want to talk about that.
- 10:25Speaker 1: I did you followed through? I did you followed through?
- 10:29Speaker 1: I didn't follow No, I promised you.
- 10:31Speaker 6: I wondered for you.
- 10:34Speaker 1: But first off, she ain't got the driver's license.
- 10:36Speaker 6: Okay, I was.
- 10:38Speaker 1: I'm a responsible parent, responsible parents.
- 10:42Speaker 6: He didn't know that for a minute though, he just didn't.
- 10:44Speaker 1: You don't think. I keep in contact with your mama
- 10:46Speaker 1: and your daddy talked to him.
- 10:49Speaker 6: But still they like, oh, Marll, you got a license, But.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Do you have a license?
- 10:53Speaker 6: I don't.
- 10:59Speaker 1: She didn't just have a car. She has a vehicle.
- 11:01Speaker 6: I have a car, but I haven't got to stop.
- 11:08Speaker 4: Them.
- 11:08Speaker 1: What you got?
- 11:09Speaker 4: I have something the world don't need. She has a
- 11:14Speaker 4: luxury vehicle, but no, not even a license. She didn't
- 11:17Speaker 4: even got a drivers permit.
- 11:19Speaker 6: Okay, let's have a drive.
- 11:21Speaker 1: You know we call that, we call that niggash. Have you.
- 11:29Speaker 6: You need me, Carolyn Johnson, listen, it's there.
- 11:36Speaker 7: Whenever, whenever I decided to take that, I definitely said
- 11:40Speaker 7: I wanted to get it before I turned twenty one.
- 11:42Speaker 6: I can't be I can't be legal in these spaces.
- 11:45Speaker 1: And you've been in these streets. And and she no
- 11:49Speaker 1: longer wants the car that she asked me for, so
- 11:50Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm off the hook. She she wanted a
- 11:54Speaker 1: purple electric car. I'm not going to mention the name,
- 11:56Speaker 1: but you wanted a purple electric car, purple, and I
- 11:59Speaker 1: was going to get it for shopping.
- 12:00Speaker 3: I know.
- 12:00Speaker 4: I literally I went to the I went to the
- 12:02Speaker 4: electric car place and and and built it for her
- 12:05Speaker 4: and all that.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I did. What do you have now? I have ury,
- 12:13Speaker 1: fossil fuel, love it to get from point appointment. Many
- 12:18Speaker 1: like sports stop stop stop. I know it's but they
- 12:25Speaker 1: don't need sports luxury. He really isn't dead.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Okay, go tell us about twenty Tell me about that
- 12:34Speaker 4: g wagon you got since we talked about.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Because I got give me that's.
- 12:41Speaker 4: That's right.
- 12:42Speaker 1: I love Mary.
- 12:45Speaker 4: Tell him it's bulletproof, like like the president's beasts, like
- 12:49Speaker 4: your mama's can tell him's bullet.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Tires.
- 12:53Speaker 6: Let's promote, Let's promote.
- 12:54Speaker 4: Okay, I thought from promoting your your g wagon. No,
- 12:57Speaker 4: let's talk about this movie G twenty that starts stream.
- 13:00Speaker 4: I mean globally, yeah tomorrow, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, globally.
- 13:06Speaker 4: We just don't make regional movies. We make global movies.
- 13:09Speaker 3: Going to ask you about that, Anthony, because I feel
- 13:11Speaker 3: like your international presidence has grown tremendously.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Have you been intentional about that?
- 13:15Speaker 4: Always been intentional about that, man, And you know what
- 13:18Speaker 4: it started when I started making movies with Jet Lee
- 13:21Speaker 4: twenty some years ago. You know, first one was Romeo
- 13:24Speaker 4: Must Die, and that really was just on a global scale.
- 13:29Speaker 4: And then to be able to work with some of
- 13:31Speaker 4: the people that I've worked with in almost thirty years, man,
- 13:34Speaker 4: you know, with Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Jim Carrey, the
- 13:36Speaker 4: Fairly Brothers, Martin Scorsese, you know, just people like that.
- 13:40Speaker 4: It just continues to grow and get bigger. Yeah, so
- 13:44Speaker 4: it really been intentional. It was also intentional to move
- 13:47Speaker 4: away from the comedy at one point to do more
- 13:51Speaker 4: dramatic roles.
- 13:52Speaker 1: So I wouldn't just be type cast. It's just a fat,
- 13:54Speaker 1: funny dude. It was like, no, this is what I do.
- 13:57Speaker 4: I've been training at this since I was nine years old.
- 13:59Speaker 4: So let me really show you my range and what
- 14:01Speaker 4: I can do. And so I was able to do
- 14:03Speaker 4: that by doing shows like Law and Order and The
- 14:05Speaker 4: Shield and movies like Hustle and Flow and The Departed.
- 14:09Speaker 1: And things like that. All of those were strategic moves.
- 14:12Speaker 5: Yeah, and speaking of range, how was it seeing Viola
- 14:17Speaker 5: Davis in her action hack?
- 14:23Speaker 1: It's not real.
- 14:27Speaker 6: It's definitely not an act.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Let me know, I said she's a hack. No, I
- 14:31Speaker 1: didn't say it. They were like, she's an act.
- 14:37Speaker 6: I didn't know what you said.
- 14:38Speaker 5: It was.
- 14:38Speaker 1: It was.
- 14:39Speaker 6: It was amazing.
- 14:41Speaker 1: You've seen Viola cry on screen and all that. We
- 14:47Speaker 1: didn't even made a joke about her and her snop
- 14:48Speaker 1: bubbles and tears on Blackish. It was it was great.
- 14:53Speaker 3: You know, you don't talk about the old snop bubble enough.
- 14:55Speaker 3: That was like Denzel's glory too.
- 14:56Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 14:58Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but working with Viola was a dream come true.
- 15:03Speaker 4: And uh, I mean, look, she's an e good Yeah. Yeah,
- 15:07Speaker 4: it's they're only about eighteen e gods in the world,
- 15:10Speaker 4: and you know we got to work with one, uh
- 15:13Speaker 4: in a very special way.
- 15:14Speaker 1: How did they make you step you acting game up? Marcia?
- 15:17Speaker 7: I mean, I mean obviously, when you you jump into
- 15:21Speaker 7: something unprepared, you just you just kind of want to Honestly,
- 15:26Speaker 7: in that said, it was the most comfortable set to
- 15:28Speaker 7: be in, especially with something that was so challenging and
- 15:32Speaker 7: so different. But what I loved about Viola is she
- 15:36Speaker 7: is she She feels like a family member already.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Tell the world how you made Viola work in the
- 15:44Speaker 1: scenes that you was in with her, You tell them
- 15:46Speaker 1: how you made her work? Tell her, Tell them how
- 15:49Speaker 1: you made Violin David step her game up. I was late.
- 15:52Speaker 1: This is why my late Marseillan, you would be sitting
- 15:59Speaker 1: here if you didn't, because he got work and anyways
- 16:09Speaker 1: seen the movie yet little corredit and was right. Get
- 16:14Speaker 1: made Viola working and seeing.
- 16:16Speaker 7: When you see when you see the film and you
- 16:18Speaker 7: see the character arc that my character goes through within
- 16:23Speaker 7: her relationship with her mother, it's it's a story that
- 16:26Speaker 7: I wanted to tell for a very long time.
- 16:28Speaker 6: And to be able to.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Have that nail color again. This is the fourth nail color.
- 16:35Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go and finish your story. Go on. I
- 16:39Speaker 1: just I love them. Y.
- 16:42Speaker 7: Yeah, So it was it was very special to be
- 16:45Speaker 7: able to tell that story with Miss Viola.
- 16:49Speaker 6: I mean it was, it was really special.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Respect.
- 16:53Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, I'm saying that Miss Viola was here doing
- 16:56Speaker 4: this interview, you wouldn't showed up seventeen minutes late.
- 17:02Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. In New York, what I mean,
- 17:05Speaker 1: I didn't go to see you last night.
- 17:06Speaker 5: A lot of traffic going.
- 17:08Speaker 1: On because I was outside outside. I was outside you outside,
- 17:12Speaker 1: I'm outside.
- 17:13Speaker 6: My opinion this morning was sixty.
- 17:15Speaker 4: Five, Good morning America. My driver pulled up. I was
- 17:17Speaker 4: walking into the hotel.
- 17:19Speaker 6: You're also a man who just puts an outfit on.
- 17:22Speaker 6: I got I gotta like make you know what it is.
- 17:26Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the last movie.
- 17:30Speaker 1: That you right now.
- 17:41Speaker 7: But no, I mean, honestly, we know what the mother
- 17:44Speaker 7: and daughter dynamic looks like for many many people.
- 17:47Speaker 6: I mean, I go through with my mom. My mom
- 17:50Speaker 6: went through with her mom.
- 17:52Speaker 7: So to be able to tell that grounded story within
- 17:55Speaker 7: this action packed world, and I mean the super high
- 17:59Speaker 7: stakes with your mother being the president, I mean it's
- 18:02Speaker 7: it's it's very it's a very special thing.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Have a question for you. I'm sorry. How old is
- 18:08Speaker 1: your oldest child?
- 18:10Speaker 5: Twelve?
- 18:10Speaker 1: Twelve? Yes, your son? Right, yep?
- 18:12Speaker 4: How is that dynamic with you? You know Marsell is
- 18:15Speaker 4: talking about the dynamic between you know, daughter and mother. Yeah,
- 18:18Speaker 4: you know you you had a dynamic with your mom
- 18:20Speaker 4: and whatnot. How was that dynamic for you as a
- 18:23Speaker 4: mother with your with your son?
- 18:25Speaker 5: We are very close, were close. He is nothing that
- 18:28Speaker 5: he won't tell me now. At first, it was a
- 18:30Speaker 5: phase that he went through where he was very close,
- 18:32Speaker 5: very guarded, you know, and it took a while, it
- 18:35Speaker 5: took the pandemic for him to open up, like you know,
- 18:38Speaker 5: that's when I actually said and got to really know
- 18:41Speaker 5: who he was and who he was growing int.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Be you know what I mean.
- 18:44Speaker 5: So yeah, we were closed, were okay close?
- 18:47Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 18:47Speaker 6: Very sweet?
- 18:48Speaker 7: Thank you.
- 18:48Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 18:49Speaker 7: I definitely learned within this time of like be jumping
- 18:53Speaker 7: into my twenties and being able to understand my parents
- 18:57Speaker 7: more and having more of those like deeper intellectual comes
- 19:00Speaker 7: is about just life as a whole, friendship, relationships and
- 19:03Speaker 7: all that. It's like you learned that your parents are
- 19:07Speaker 7: it's their first time living too. Yeah, Yeah, they're just
- 19:10Speaker 7: people and they are that's the first time of them
- 19:13Speaker 7: having a twenty year old daughter and going through these things,
- 19:16Speaker 7: and and they had a life before you got here
- 19:19Speaker 7: and somebody before they were your parents, and they had
- 19:22Speaker 7: a revelation.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Like that in the movie. So the kind of when
- 19:25Speaker 1: you realize that it was like a real how would
- 19:27Speaker 1: you know? You didn't see the movie watch I feel
- 19:33Speaker 1: like I spoil it, so it's.
- 19:36Speaker 2: For you mentally, Like you don't want to like have
- 19:38Speaker 2: the ask somebody questions if you've seen it, because you
- 19:41Speaker 2: give it away for everybody.
- 19:44Speaker 6: I always wanted to get.
- 19:48Speaker 1: Away.
- 19:49Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but you did have that revelation in the film, yes.
- 19:52Speaker 7: Exactly, which is why I was more excited to tell
- 19:54Speaker 7: the story because I was It felt like I was
- 19:56Speaker 7: going through that in real time.
- 19:58Speaker 2: So yeah, I wouldn't know as a.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Just a regular person, how do you deal.
- 20:02Speaker 2: With just life with even with dating, because it's almost
- 20:04Speaker 2: like you have two parents, Like does he have to
- 20:06Speaker 2: meet the guys to or it's.
- 20:08Speaker 5: Almost like you got too dads. I met him, Yeah, yeah,
- 20:14Speaker 5: someone he.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Drives one of them cars right there, though I didn't
- 20:25Speaker 1: say who he was.
- 20:26Speaker 6: Okay, why you give a clue.
- 20:28Speaker 1: Do you have a god dad?
- 20:30Speaker 7: I do, and he's and he's a firefighter like he's
- 20:33Speaker 7: also I'm not multiple, listen, I grew up with like
- 20:42Speaker 7: multiple figures in my life.
- 20:46Speaker 1: To stop, just stop.
- 20:47Speaker 2: You ever have to know, it's just just just you
- 20:50Speaker 2: just take it.
- 20:50Speaker 1: You got it.
- 20:51Speaker 6: I'm like, you can't, you can't stop. We can't stop
- 20:53Speaker 6: the madness.
- 20:54Speaker 1: I just turn it on when we're together doing stuff
- 20:56Speaker 1: like this. We have a great relationships of your careers?
- 21:00Speaker 1: Can you Anthony me? Wow? I should tell you?
- 21:04Speaker 2: There you go?
- 21:05Speaker 1: I said, who hates more credit?
- 21:06Speaker 6: Who you give credit? I was more credit for my career.
- 21:09Speaker 6: I mean myself.
- 21:13Speaker 1: I got what he was saying. Yes, Yes, I get
- 21:15Speaker 1: what he was saying.
- 21:18Speaker 6: Myself. He's he's he saw it from a very early
- 21:21Speaker 6: age and saw the impact.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Yeah, you would have heard that had you got your
- 21:25Speaker 1: on time. That was at the beginning.
- 21:29Speaker 3: I was, I was.
- 21:30Speaker 4: I can't just waxing poetically about talking about how I
- 21:34Speaker 4: saw your greatness, said eight. When you walked in there
- 21:36Speaker 4: was just a light around you.
- 21:37Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 21:38Speaker 5: Yeah, what does the Blackish reunion look like?
- 21:41Speaker 4: I don't think it's ever going to happen, Say, don't
- 21:44Speaker 4: show up the things. We would love to have it,
- 22:01Speaker 4: we would love and I hope we have a Blackish
- 22:04Speaker 4: reunion soon.
- 22:06Speaker 3: Been since the show DW three years ago, going on
- 22:09Speaker 3: three years.
- 22:09Speaker 6: Yeah, I was seventeen going on eighteen.
- 22:13Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, close as everybody the cast got. Everybody still
- 22:16Speaker 5: keep in touch.
- 22:17Speaker 7: Yes, my my twin Miles. He's truly my best friend.
- 22:21Speaker 1: Playboy CARDI now, yes, yes, he's in.
- 22:25Speaker 6: His Playboy CARDI era love him.
- 22:30Speaker 1: No, no, no, outside white.
- 22:36Speaker 4: Play okay when I'm calling my man playboy, yeah, yeah,
- 22:44Speaker 4: but no, I don't want to put that on him.
- 22:48Speaker 7: We have a friend group, like all together, and we're
- 22:51Speaker 7: working on some things as a whole.
- 22:52Speaker 1: And did you call him back last night? Did your
- 22:54Speaker 1: face time after we were I.
- 22:56Speaker 6: Went to sleep, you know, so I'll be on my phone,
- 23:02Speaker 6: but we talk all the time.
- 23:03Speaker 1: How much it dis role.
- 23:04Speaker 3: Scratch you, Anthony, because you know, you said it's a drama,
- 23:07Speaker 3: and like you are known for the comedy, and you're
- 23:08Speaker 3: also playing.
- 23:09Speaker 1: Like the the natural role. Yeah, like man is not
- 23:13Speaker 1: an actor.
- 23:13Speaker 4: The woman is like the head of the household in
- 23:16Speaker 4: this one, and I'm not He's asking questions.
- 23:20Speaker 1: I get it. He didn't he didn't see nothing.
- 23:24Speaker 4: So you know, again it goes back to, you know,
- 23:28Speaker 4: the dynamic between Marseille and I, you know, not falling
- 23:31Speaker 4: into that shorthand that we have. And you know, I've
- 23:34Speaker 4: been a part of some great films with action in them.
- 23:37Speaker 4: I've never been a part of an action film and
- 23:40Speaker 4: so I just had to be prepared for that to
- 23:42Speaker 4: make sure that it was believable. And it's not all
- 23:44Speaker 4: that's just and up there going through the motions and
- 23:47Speaker 4: doing that. So you know, I showed up, you know,
- 23:50Speaker 4: as I could. And to answer your question about you know,
- 23:53Speaker 4: it's it's role reversal.
- 23:55Speaker 1: You know.
- 23:55Speaker 4: Normally, you know, the man is the president of the
- 24:00Speaker 4: United States, you know, and and and and and the
- 24:03Speaker 4: first lady is being the nurture.
- 24:05Speaker 1: So these roles were reversed, you know, and you rarely
- 24:08Speaker 1: get to see that, you know.
- 24:10Speaker 4: And and I was playing the nurturing role in this
- 24:13Speaker 4: character or with this character from my children and allowing
- 24:16Speaker 4: the power, not that women don't have power, use that
- 24:20Speaker 4: power and have that power in films, but allowing Viola's
- 24:24Speaker 4: character to have that power and wield it and not
- 24:28Speaker 4: be emasculated by it. And just understand that I'm standing
- 24:31Speaker 4: next to this right here. We are in this together.
- 24:33Speaker 4: But she has her role and I have mine. So
- 24:36Speaker 4: I just wanted to make sure I showed up for
- 24:38Speaker 4: that and and not fall flat. And so people's like, Okay,
- 24:41Speaker 4: that was believable.
- 24:42Speaker 1: That that was real. Could you be in a relationship
- 24:43Speaker 1: like that in real life? I could.
- 24:45Speaker 4: I'm secure in my masculinity, in my manhood and who
- 24:48Speaker 4: I am and what I bring to the table. So yeah,
- 24:51Speaker 4: I could definitely be secure in a relationship.
- 24:53Speaker 1: You have to have the money and.
- 24:54Speaker 4: Power, it doesn't matter. Wait, we're a team, you know,
- 24:58Speaker 4: we're a unit. Were working on this together.
- 25:00Speaker 1: It's not you do no.
- 25:02Speaker 4: Just like in any marriage, in any relationship that we
- 25:05Speaker 4: have that it's a give and take. It's an ebb
- 25:07Speaker 4: and flow. It's like, Okay, I'm here doing this, you're
- 25:09Speaker 4: doing this, you know.
- 25:10Speaker 1: So yeah, how did that work for you?
- 25:11Speaker 3: Month say, because you're the boss, Yeah, you've got your
- 25:13Speaker 3: own production company, you are bosing whatever.
- 25:16Speaker 1: Yes, you know, how would you want the man to
- 25:18Speaker 1: show up?
- 25:19Speaker 6: Oh?
- 25:21Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 25:22Speaker 6: I think.
- 25:24Speaker 7: Honestly, I think it's uh communication and listening and understanding
- 25:31Speaker 7: and a willing to understand. I feel like at times
- 25:35Speaker 7: I've had a multiple conversations with a bunch of different people,
- 25:39Speaker 7: and I think the main thing is them ready to
- 25:41Speaker 7: respond without actually listening and understanding what the whole situation.
- 25:45Speaker 1: You hear a race car driver guy, and.
- 25:48Speaker 6: He's really he's really great at that, honestly, like great.
- 25:53Speaker 1: Being racecar driver, great at being what you need, vulnerable understanding. No,
- 25:57Speaker 1: he is, you know, I get that from from the
- 26:01Speaker 1: two or three conversations that I have with it.
- 26:03Speaker 7: Yeah, he's great, And I mean I think what's what's
- 26:06Speaker 7: important is is that because if he was not, I.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Was gonna run him off embarrassing, just being real, Hey man,
- 26:16Speaker 1: you're not good enough. But he is.
- 26:18Speaker 6: He's the best.
- 26:20Speaker 1: And look at she smiles and like what she talks about.
- 26:24Speaker 4: He was face turning him in the car yesterday and
- 26:26Speaker 4: I was, oh my god. I had to snatch the
- 26:28Speaker 4: phone and talked to him. I was like, what's up,
- 26:30Speaker 4: play boy?
- 26:30Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 26:31Speaker 6: Man?
- 26:31Speaker 5: So he is your your your calm, like you know,
- 26:33Speaker 5: it's a lot of hype.
- 26:36Speaker 6: He's my patience.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Yes.
- 26:37Speaker 5: I was gonna say star, yes, yes, ability and patient.
- 26:42Speaker 1: It was a great thing to say about me.
- 26:43Speaker 6: Thank you, sure, patience, instability.
- 26:49Speaker 1: I love you.
- 26:50Speaker 6: I love you.
- 26:51Speaker 1: Too, and that's dope, that's my girl right there.
- 26:54Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 26:54Speaker 7: I mean, I think that's the most important thing that
- 26:57Speaker 7: a lot of men kind of lack, is vulnerability, being
- 27:01Speaker 7: able to have that emotion too and have this kind
- 27:04Speaker 7: of like stance as what a man should look like.
- 27:08Speaker 6: So my therapy is important, Like I got home is
- 27:11Speaker 6: so important.
- 27:12Speaker 3: I got homegrowns to say they refuse the data. Guy
- 27:14Speaker 3: who's not in therapy, I hasn't gone.
- 27:15Speaker 7: To some type of okay, yeah, or even having the communication,
- 27:18Speaker 7: but honestly too, I don't know. I've also seen guys
- 27:22Speaker 7: that have therapy that take it the wrong way and
- 27:24Speaker 7: it's like she told me to do this and I'm
- 27:27Speaker 7: doing it like it's it's It can look like so
- 27:29Speaker 7: many different things, but I think just being as open
- 27:32Speaker 7: as possible to have that communication is like the top
- 27:36Speaker 7: priority for me. So as long as you're listening and
- 27:39Speaker 7: hearing me and know what's going on in my life
- 27:42Speaker 7: and reassurance is everything.
- 27:44Speaker 6: So that is important.
- 27:47Speaker 5: I know you got your production company and everything you've
- 27:49Speaker 5: done a lot, that's not my question. It sounds like
- 27:59Speaker 5: when you first told me that you had a production company,
- 28:01Speaker 5: I was like, you know what, I'm going to be
- 28:02Speaker 5: auditioning for you. It was like, I'll see you there, and.
- 28:08Speaker 6: I mean, shoot the thing that they.
- 28:17Speaker 4: No, it wasn't.
- 28:18Speaker 5: I didn't even ask nothing yet, Damn. I wanted to know,
- 28:21Speaker 5: what else did you want to do? You know, you
- 28:23Speaker 5: at a very young age, you've done so much. Yeah,
- 28:25Speaker 5: you've still got a lot more life to live and
- 28:26Speaker 5: a lot more career to go. What else do you
- 28:29Speaker 5: want to do?
- 28:29Speaker 7: I think seeing how far my creativity can get and
- 28:34Speaker 7: how broad it can be. I feel like what I
- 28:36Speaker 7: love about creating TV and film is like you're basically
- 28:39Speaker 7: building these new worlds to where it can be in
- 28:43Speaker 7: touch to reality as much as possible or not. And
- 28:46Speaker 7: I think what that's what I love about just what
- 28:48Speaker 7: we do is it feels so real, but it can
- 28:52Speaker 7: truly be whatever you want, whatever comes to mind. So
- 28:56Speaker 7: I would love to kind of just continue to build
- 28:58Speaker 7: worlds that people can live in, understand and it be
- 29:03Speaker 7: timeless and can last forever.
- 29:06Speaker 6: As president.
- 29:09Speaker 1: Create this world.
- 29:12Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean I'm working on my festival right now,
- 29:15Speaker 7: which is very world building for me, which is very exciting.
- 29:18Speaker 7: It'll be it's called say Summer Cookout, and it's a
- 29:22Speaker 7: it's a destination type of festival. So the first year
- 29:25Speaker 7: was in Atlanta, second years it was in DC. This
- 29:28Speaker 7: year it'll be in Houston in August thirty first.
- 29:31Speaker 1: So what do we do.
- 29:35Speaker 7: It's a black owned businesses vendors from it's like Texas
- 29:39Speaker 7: based vendors. This year we have performers of course that
- 29:42Speaker 7: is from and catered to that community. And it's HBCU centered.
- 29:46Speaker 7: So I think that is something that I've always wanted
- 29:49Speaker 7: to do. It's a it's an avenue that I feel
- 29:51Speaker 7: like is so untouched and mostly overlooked, and I'm very
- 29:59Speaker 7: excited to and also be in touch with with, I
- 30:03Speaker 7: mean adults, new adults my age, you know, going through
- 30:06Speaker 7: the same things. I mean, even though I'm doing this
- 30:08Speaker 7: and you see a camera on my face, there is
- 30:11Speaker 7: no difference between that person. So and it's no phones.
- 30:16Speaker 7: It's no phones. The first year we did no plus ones.
- 30:19Speaker 7: It was literally come as you are and to be
- 30:22Speaker 7: able to have these celebrities and these these students want
- 30:27Speaker 7: to become them one day or do something in that
- 30:29Speaker 7: light and they have real conversations at the cookout.
- 30:32Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's something that I've truly wanted to do.
- 30:35Speaker 7: And then I'm on top of that. We have podcasts
- 30:38Speaker 7: of course, still movies coming up. I have a movie
- 30:40Speaker 7: coming out with Corney b Vance soon, which is very exciting.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Okay, we're not We're not. We're not. We're not here
- 30:45Speaker 1: to talk about she said, right.
- 30:55Speaker 6: Any which is amazing. And that's the next day coming out.
- 30:59Speaker 6: Just more world, old building things, things that challenge me.
- 31:02Speaker 1: And I'm going to challenge you from Okay, okay, it's.
- 31:07Speaker 6: Almost actually tell me what do you want to do
- 31:10Speaker 6: in the industry?
- 31:12Speaker 5: Horror movies and comedy?
- 31:13Speaker 6: Horror movies, comedy.
- 31:14Speaker 5: I got a little drama to me too, you know,
- 31:16Speaker 5: I just cry on cue all that. Just get a
- 31:18Speaker 5: live a couple of weeks ago. So yeah, thats acting.
- 31:27Speaker 7: Nothing.
- 31:27Speaker 1: What is that I'm listening to you?
- 31:29Speaker 6: Are you talking to me?
- 31:31Speaker 5: Okay, yadya?
- 31:35Speaker 6: I got you now that I know.
- 31:37Speaker 4: Sit here is the reason that I haven't been invited
- 31:40Speaker 4: to your little festival for the less of your little festival.
- 31:42Speaker 6: I love that festival definitely. It's exciting because we.
- 31:46Speaker 7: Are expecting like six to eight thousand, which is exciting
- 31:51Speaker 7: generation how to.
- 31:52Speaker 3: Actually have conversation and the network with people and look
- 31:54Speaker 3: people in the eyes and talk in a real way,
- 31:57Speaker 3: building a real community, not that digital social media.
- 31:59Speaker 6: Yeah, but you were invited. You've known since the beginning.
- 32:03Speaker 4: Okay, said no, knowing since the beginning, and then say, hey,
- 32:07Speaker 4: I need you to come talk to my peer group
- 32:09Speaker 4: or two different things. They have stars there and just
- 32:12Speaker 4: talk to people that want to be like them. One day,
- 32:14Speaker 4: I mean, what's up, I'll be coming all the thirty first,
- 32:16Speaker 4: I'll be in Houston.
- 32:19Speaker 6: That's another promise. Let's see.
- 32:21Speaker 1: She ain't got nothing else going on.
- 32:24Speaker 4: She had already shot herd cover shoot yesterday.
- 32:28Speaker 1: No, got nothing.
- 32:30Speaker 5: No, I definitely did not know what he's manifested.
- 32:34Speaker 1: I thought you just had all that under control.
- 32:37Speaker 6: I mean, sure, let's let's do it one day. I
- 32:39Speaker 6: did a lot of press yesterday.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 32:43Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to end with this, asked Anthony this
- 32:46Speaker 3: question earlier. But when you all film together, how do
- 32:48Speaker 3: you get out of the rhythm of blackish? Because you
- 32:50Speaker 3: all know each other so well personally and professionally.
- 32:53Speaker 1: It seems like it never leaves.
- 32:55Speaker 7: They definitely have to when you, you know, doing something
- 32:58Speaker 7: like twenty I think I think it touched back what
- 33:00Speaker 7: I was saying about creating a whole new world. I
- 33:02Speaker 7: think you're building a character for me. I'm building like, Okay,
- 33:06Speaker 7: where did she come from?
- 33:08Speaker 6: What is she?
- 33:09Speaker 7: What were the experiences that she went through to get
- 33:11Speaker 7: to this point now where she feels like she needs
- 33:13Speaker 7: to be rebellious or is this a new thing for her?
- 33:16Speaker 6: How new is it?
- 33:17Speaker 7: So I think these are all of these, all these
- 33:19Speaker 7: questions that I put in my brain before jumping into
- 33:22Speaker 7: a role, especially someone like Serena who's very multifaceted.
- 33:26Speaker 1: And kind of just not really they don't know who,
- 33:29Speaker 1: they don't know who Williams. When I watched it, I saw.
- 33:36Speaker 7: That I was just wondering for me, It's like, what
- 33:51Speaker 7: makes her different than any of the other characters that
- 33:53Speaker 7: I played.
- 33:54Speaker 6: So that's that's my take on it.
- 33:56Speaker 1: And she's do she was.
- 34:03Speaker 2: Said the typical she was, well, G twenty is streaming
- 34:12Speaker 2: now on Amazon.
- 34:13Speaker 4: That's just streaming now, streaming globally, telling me globally, we
- 34:16Speaker 4: don't make regional films.
- 34:18Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Marseille, Martin and Anthony, and I
- 34:21Speaker 2: thought you forgot about me. She told me to say
- 34:22Speaker 2: her name first, No she should.
- 34:26Speaker 4: You just did text me by showing up the way
- 34:27Speaker 4: that you did. They know who the real diva is.
- 34:31Speaker 4: I pie down to you.
- 34:33Speaker 1: You've earned it, Martilles. You have heard it first on
- 34:38Speaker 1: the She was the reason. She was the reason we
- 34:40Speaker 1: got the first three seasons of Black. I'm just gonna
- 34:43Speaker 1: give it.
- 34:44Speaker 5: It's going to be some somehow, some way. He play
- 34:47Speaker 5: your son.
- 34:53Speaker 1: So she can me science and then you gotta put me.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Let me make it a horror flea. It has to
- 35:04Speaker 1: be a horror flake.
- 35:09Speaker 6: That was all her.
- 35:10Speaker 2: It's the breakfast Club, good morning wake that ass up
- 35:13Speaker 2: her in the morning.
- 35:14Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club