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Best Of Full Interview: Morris Chestnut & Emayatzy Corinealdi Talk 'Reasonable Doubt', Sex Symbol Status, Female Leads + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is the j Envy Jess, Hilary is Charlamagne the
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  Speaker 2: guy we are the breakfast Club. Jess is all maternity
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  Speaker 2: leave so long.
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  Speaker 3: The roaster is filling.
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  Speaker 2: In, and we got some special guests in the building.
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  Speaker 2: We have Morris Chestnut, he's here, and we have Coronaldi.
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  Speaker 2: Did I say your name right? I gotta start like this, Emma.
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  Speaker 2: Does Charlomagne look anything like Marris?
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  Speaker 4: To talk reasonable?
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  Speaker 2: I want to start there because he's been talking so
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  Speaker 2: much he thinks he's more reasonable.
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  Speaker 1: Doubt after that, and then, if.
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  Speaker 5: I knew this was going to come up, I was
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  Speaker 5: prepared for this. I've heard your eyes a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Now here's the couple.
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  Speaker 1: One eye, couple, both eyes.
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  Speaker 6: Both beautiful, chocolate bald headed men.
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  Speaker 3: I see that resemblance. You see a resemblance, and that
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  Speaker 3: what I just.
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  Speaker 7: Thought, okay in the factory model.
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  Speaker 1: Just the fact tails scared said.
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  Speaker 2: Now, does it bother you when when this this brother
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  Speaker 2: over here that looks nothing like you claims that he's you.
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  Speaker 1: For his birthday, he post pictures of you.
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  Speaker 8: I'm telling you, somebody came to me on the streets.
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  Speaker 8: I said, no, I wasn't on the street.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 8: I was at a hotel, was at the valet and
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  Speaker 8: one of the values said, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 4: He look like Charlamage, he said, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Charlete Mane. I don't know if he was trolling.
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  Speaker 4: Glasses.
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  Speaker 1: I know he didn't have glasses, you know, but it
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  Speaker 1: did happen. It did happen.
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  Speaker 4: Did Yeah? Didn't. That didn't go the way I thought?
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  Speaker 3: You got fantastic?
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  Speaker 7: What what roles excite you nowadays? Mars, You've been.
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  Speaker 1: In the game so long, you know what this role
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  Speaker 1: did excite me? It really did? You know? The one
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  Speaker 1: thing I love.
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  Speaker 8: First of all, she's incredible, I mean she's incredible at
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  Speaker 8: what she does. Incredible actress, I mean she's incredible. But
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  Speaker 8: the whole production, so the production starts, you know with
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  Speaker 8: on ex Collective. We have you know, black female executives there.
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  Speaker 8: And then of course Carrie Washington's company is producing Simpson Street,
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  Speaker 8: Simphon Streets producing it top notes there Rama Mohammad, black
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  Speaker 8: female showrunner. All the scripts were on time. Before I'd
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  Speaker 8: never gotten scripts on a show like that this early.
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  Speaker 8: I would get a script were like we was we
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  Speaker 8: would be on the second day of an episode and
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  Speaker 8: get a script for the next episode that normally never happens,
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  Speaker 8: so everything was topping and then working with her in
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  Speaker 8: the cast.
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  Speaker 1: This role did excite me.
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  Speaker 2: Now for people that don't know what is reasonable doubt about,
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  Speaker 2: because on season two, so if they don't know, what
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  Speaker 2: is it about, break it down.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's about this high powered, you know, black
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  Speaker 5: female attorney, you know, who was about her her business.
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  Speaker 5: You know, she handles all of her business when she's
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  Speaker 5: when she's in the office, when she's in court, you know,
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  Speaker 5: but she's trying to juggle it. You know, she's a mother,
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  Speaker 5: she's a wife, and sometimes you know, some of the
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  Speaker 5: balls drop out of the air, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: She she fails at times, and she makes questionable decisions,
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  Speaker 5: makes mistakes at times, you know, But it's about this woman.
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  Speaker 5: It's about this marriage, this black marriage. You know, we
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  Speaker 5: get to see them trying to figure it out. We
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  Speaker 5: get to see them making mistakes, We get to see them,
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  Speaker 5: you know, really living their life in this way that
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  Speaker 5: we don't often.
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  Speaker 3: Get to see on television.
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  Speaker 5: Along with the courtroom drama of it all, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we get to see her really in her element because
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  Speaker 5: the show is loosely based on Sean Holly. Yeah, she's
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  Speaker 5: a very high powered defense attorney in LA you know,
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  Speaker 5: and so we have all of those elements. It's a
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  Speaker 5: good blend of the courtroom drama with the character driven
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  Speaker 5: kind of piece.
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  Speaker 1: You shdn't have that business in court? Is that the business?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, she does what she got to do anywhere,
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  Speaker 5: anywhere and everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Did you sit with Sean at all?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? Oh yeah, before we start a filming.
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  Speaker 5: We you know, she invited me to her home and
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  Speaker 5: you know, we sat and we talked for hours. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I got to really pick her brain about how she
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  Speaker 5: chooses the cases that she decides to take on, because
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  Speaker 5: that's the thing, you know, we really I think nailed
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  Speaker 5: that in the show, with the kinds of cases that
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  Speaker 5: Jacks chooses to accept can sometimes cause issue with her
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  Speaker 5: friends or her family.
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  Speaker 3: You know, why are you.
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  Speaker 5: Not defending black women? Why did you choose to defend
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  Speaker 5: this man? And that's what Sean is about, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and that's something that I admired and wanted to know
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  Speaker 5: a little bit more about what goes into her selecting
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  Speaker 5: the kind of cases that she chooses to represent.
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  Speaker 4: Is it hard to leave your character on set?
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  Speaker 3: Is it hard? No?
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  Speaker 5: No, I've learned how to just make the separation.
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  Speaker 3: I've learned how to make the separation, and.
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  Speaker 5: Especially with someone like Jack's you know, she she has
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  Speaker 5: a lot going on, you know, so I'm thaithful to
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  Speaker 5: just leave that there and go home to normalcy.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 7: I wanted to ask actors, like, when you have to
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  Speaker 7: play a traumatic scene, right, like when Ricky gets killed
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  Speaker 7: in Boys in the Hood, Being that they played that
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  Speaker 7: so much on TV, does that trigger you when you
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  Speaker 7: see it?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 8: Do you feel that doesn't trigger me? One thing that
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  Speaker 8: did trigger me when I did The First Best Man.
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  Speaker 8: It was the first time that I had to be
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  Speaker 8: such an emotional spaceically, when I did the wedding scene,
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  Speaker 8: I was crying and I had to be in an
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  Speaker 8: emotional space.
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  Speaker 1: For so long.
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  Speaker 8: That triggered me for just even thinking about it for
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  Speaker 8: at least at least five to seven years.
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  Speaker 4: What about when y'all did the TV show.
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  Speaker 1: See I was See.
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  Speaker 8: I had already you know, as an actor, I had
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  Speaker 8: grown and I kind of let some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 8: It's you know, as actors, you know, we use our
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  Speaker 8: trauma in our pain to get there. So I, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I kind of worked, you know, on that, but it
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  Speaker 8: triggered me for a long time on the first Best
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  Speaker 8: Man because you ever.
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  Speaker 4: Get tired of it? Because Boys of the Hood was
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  Speaker 4: so long ago.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever realize how impactful that was going to
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  Speaker 2: be when you when you shot it?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't.
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  Speaker 8: I had no clue because when I when I, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I was a lead in the movie that nobody knew
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  Speaker 8: who I was and knew who Cuba was. You know,
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  Speaker 8: people knew who Ice Cube was, Angela wasn't Angela, Nia
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  Speaker 8: wasn't Nia. I mean, everybody was, you know, just popping off.
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  Speaker 8: So I didn't think it was gonna be that big.
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  Speaker 7: Now, that's interesting what you said about the Best Man
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  Speaker 7: because to being a role when the TV show came
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  Speaker 7: where in that iteration of it, you know your wife
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  Speaker 7: was deceased. Yes, you had to tap into that emotion
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  Speaker 7: of being a man who lost their wife.
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  Speaker 8: How did you leave that at home? Well, so it's uh,
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  Speaker 8: leave that on the set. Yeah, yeah, so it's okay.
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  Speaker 8: So so that was the first best Man I had that.
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  Speaker 8: So the second Best Man was tough because she was
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  Speaker 8: battling cancer, and I had to do a lot of
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  Speaker 8: emotional scenes then. So I've just learned to manage kind
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  Speaker 8: of those emotions. I've learned to deal with some of
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  Speaker 8: that trauma in a different way now. And actually it's
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  Speaker 8: actually acting is pretty much therapeutic because you're able to
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  Speaker 8: release certain things. And so over the years, that's that's
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  Speaker 8: what's happened.
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  Speaker 7: Were you a fan of Reasonable about season one?
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  Speaker 1: I was because I literally I was on it.
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  Speaker 8: I was playing a Saturday basketball game and one of
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  Speaker 8: one of the guys there he was like, oo, he said,
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  Speaker 8: we normally after we play, he's you know, we talk
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  Speaker 8: about stupid stuff, dud stuff in the gym or whatever.
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  Speaker 8: And then he just said, hey, you guys seen the
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  Speaker 8: show Reasonable Doubt. And I knew about the show because
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  Speaker 8: I knew Elie was on and I knew AM, but
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  Speaker 8: I hadn't seen it yet. He was like, man, it
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  Speaker 8: was just so odd to hear him say that on
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  Speaker 8: the court. You know what I'm saying, And so he said,
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  Speaker 8: you got to check it out, and so yeah, so
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  Speaker 8: before I did the show, I was definitely fan because
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  Speaker 8: I watched it because.
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  Speaker 1: He told me to.
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  Speaker 5: And what was harder for you? Because Jackson is different
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  Speaker 5: season one versus season two. What was the harder draw
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  Speaker 5: for you as an actress, like pulling from the experiences.
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  Speaker 6: Was it harder for season one or harder for season.
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  Speaker 3: Two for you?
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  Speaker 5: I think I would definitely say season two, just because
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  Speaker 5: of you know, she's showing a lot more vulnerability as
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  Speaker 5: a result of what happened in season one. Yes, you know,
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  Speaker 5: so that just it required, just like Morris was saying,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I got to pull from some of those places,
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  Speaker 5: you know, that kind of thing. So it was it
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  Speaker 5: was more of a challenge in that way. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I had to decide to open myself up.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of times when you see people in the
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  Speaker 2: soap opera world, they never leave the soap proper world,
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  Speaker 2: but you did so cool. So break down the soap
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  Speaker 2: proper world and what got you in the soap proper
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  Speaker 2: I will first I want to know how you got
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  Speaker 2: into acting. Because you're a military child. Usually that means
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  Speaker 2: you're traveling all over the place, your parents are heavy
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  Speaker 2: into education. What got you into acting from the start?
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  Speaker 3: It was something that I always loved.
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  Speaker 5: I always loved, but I didn't know that it could
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  Speaker 5: be a choice to be a career, you know, And
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  Speaker 5: for a long time, it was just fun, just a hobby.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought that I had it planned out. I
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  Speaker 5: was going to go to law school. I was going
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  Speaker 5: to be a lawyer. My father wanted me to go
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  Speaker 5: to the military, but I said, Okay, I think I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to.
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  Speaker 3: Be a lawyer.
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  Speaker 5: But in high school I had a girlfriend who also
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  Speaker 5: wanted to be a lawyer, and we had our whole plan.
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  Speaker 5: It was going to be Cornaldi and Sweety incorporated, you know.
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  Speaker 5: But I realized, thankfully, before you know, graduation, Okay, no,
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  Speaker 5: I don't really want to be a lawyer. I'm not
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  Speaker 5: trying to go to law school like she was taking
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  Speaker 5: it serious and all out these SATs.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, am I doing all that? A lawyer? Now?
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  Speaker 3: She's a lawyer now. So we went in the right path.
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  Speaker 5: I realized, No, I think I just I like the drama,
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  Speaker 5: like the suits and you know, all of that in
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  Speaker 5: the courtroom. And so that's the moment when I knew,
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  Speaker 5: and I kind of started pursuing it at that point.
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  Speaker 5: And this was in I graduated high school in Jersey.
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  Speaker 5: My last two years were out there in Kansas that
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  Speaker 5: was all over the place, and then went back to
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  Speaker 5: Jersey and really started studying and back and forth up
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  Speaker 5: here to New York all my off off off Broadway
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  Speaker 5: classes and all of that, and then that was it.
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  Speaker 4: That was it.
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  Speaker 5: And my first role was that that role in Young
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  Speaker 5: and Arrest, and that was because that was my mom's show.
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  Speaker 5: And she said to her, you know, that was me
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  Speaker 5: making it. She says, you got to get him young
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  Speaker 5: and directed run the restles until Victor I said Hi.
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  Speaker 5: And so the bitter sweet moment about that for me
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  Speaker 5: is because my mom passed before that happened, before she
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  Speaker 5: got to see and so as soon as I got on.
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  Speaker 3: The set, I said, Victor, I just got to tell
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  Speaker 3: you. You know, my mom just loves you so.
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  Speaker 5: And that was a small that was really and I
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  Speaker 5: think that's how I the reason why I didn't get
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  Speaker 5: caught up in it and staying there because it was
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  Speaker 5: a small role, but it was truly one of the
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  Speaker 5: most meaningful ones to me to this day because of that.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, that's so alarmed.
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  Speaker 4: Your first your first scene Mars is a sex scene.
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  Speaker 7: Do you ever have to tell these studios not to
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  Speaker 7: not to objectify you?
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  Speaker 4: Cause we heard MEPhI Man once say he always, you know,
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  Speaker 4: pushed back against his sex symbol status.
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  Speaker 7: Do you ever have to tell these studios like, look,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I know I'm Maris Chestnut.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be.
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  Speaker 6: We would know the difference.
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  Speaker 4: Or do you ever feel like it being objectified? Maybe
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  Speaker 4: it is a better question.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see that that way. You know.
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  Speaker 8: It's almost like because people sometimes they ask me, they say,
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  Speaker 8: do you get mad when people call you Ricky all
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  Speaker 8: the time?
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  Speaker 1: And people see me on.
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  Speaker 8: The street, And honestly, the one thing about me is
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  Speaker 8: that I have never ever forgotten where I come from, right,
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  Speaker 8: and and when I was an actor, just starting out,
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  Speaker 8: trying to get an agent, just trying to get a part,
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  Speaker 8: just say oh, just somebody cast me. I just want
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  Speaker 8: to be seen. I want to be known so I
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  Speaker 8: can get more work. And so it just so happens
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  Speaker 8: that that role that I was, that I was dying
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  Speaker 8: to get to be able to get more work, was
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  Speaker 8: a role that it was. It was a it was
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  Speaker 8: a blessing that it's still still relevant and people still
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  Speaker 8: refer to it to this very day. So now just
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  Speaker 8: because people say Ricky almost every day, I'm not going
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  Speaker 8: to turn around and say, oh man, I hate when
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  Speaker 8: people call me Ricky because I was so I would
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  Speaker 8: desire it so much. So to your question about you know, studios,
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  Speaker 8: I don't think they objectify me.
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  Speaker 1: I think that.
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  Speaker 8: I've been in the business a long time and the
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  Speaker 8: younger Morris would not have imagined that he would be
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  Speaker 8: here to this very single day after all these years.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm just I'm I'm just blessed, and I'm very
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  Speaker 8: appreciative of the fact that they still want to cast me,
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  Speaker 8: because in our industry, you know, no one really retires
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  Speaker 8: from our industry. Our industry retires us the phone stops ringing.
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  Speaker 8: So as long as the phone is still ringing, I'm
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  Speaker 8: gonna keep picking up.
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  Speaker 1: And I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: But it's one thing to be a great actor what
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  Speaker 7: you are, but it's another to be considered a heart drop.
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  Speaker 4: Right, It's only like a kind of like it's like
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  Speaker 4: Denzel Mars. Who else puts in that lane historically? Mm hmmm?
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  Speaker 4: Who else?
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  Speaker 1: Michael B.
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  Speaker 9: Jordan's Michael, Yeah, he kind of say from Queen Sugar,
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  Speaker 9: Dark Skin.
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  Speaker 6: Queen Sugar.
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  Speaker 2: Is the he's there.
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  Speaker 6: Where we're at right now. But I think, honestly, you didn't.
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  Speaker 9: It's y'all level of it's like maybe two or three
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  Speaker 9: that are to go to mainly you though, like you get,
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  Speaker 9: you do get a lot of the posts and stuff
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  Speaker 9: online don't come from Charlemagn's instagram.
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  Speaker 8: I think to the answer to that question is for me,
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  Speaker 8: I don't. I don't focus on it because you know,
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  Speaker 8: it's it's this is the type of industry. There's you know,
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  Speaker 8: there's there's there's gonna be somebody else tomorrow, there's gonna
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  Speaker 8: be somebody else the next day.
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  Speaker 1: So I just focused. Honestly.
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  Speaker 8: I just try to focus on doing the best job
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  Speaker 8: I can as an actor with his job, and if
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  Speaker 8: that comes with it, I'm appreciative of it. If that's
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  Speaker 8: what people say, I'm appreciative of that.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't focus on that.
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  Speaker 8: I just have to focus on the work because that's
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  Speaker 8: going to keep me here longer than being a you know,
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  Speaker 8: if people consider sex and the real more.
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  Speaker 2: Is shutting up. Was the sexiest man alive in twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: The reason I got to say that because sometimes he
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  Speaker 2: puts his face there and.
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  Speaker 4: I've never done that.
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  Speaker 7: But if you wanted to call him the sexiest man alive,
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  Speaker 7: that's fine. If you want to use you to do that.
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  Speaker 7: I've never done that.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to ask, how does your wife deal
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  Speaker 2: with it all, you know, with women hollering when you're
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  Speaker 2: allowed and the comments.
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  Speaker 1: How does she how does she handle it?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, my wife is a star in our
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  Speaker 8: family for sure. I mean she's the one that uh,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, she's a star in the family and she
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  Speaker 8: does it. And I'm a homebody. I'm home all the time.
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  Speaker 8: And honestly, the older I've gotten, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: she's she's just not even. She's not stressed by it.
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  Speaker 8: She's not even. She's just not she's not really interested
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  Speaker 8: in the industry. She's it's like we've been together a
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  Speaker 8: long long time and so you know, she knows what
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  Speaker 8: it is. You know, I'm not going nowhere, hopefully she's
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  Speaker 8: not going anywhere. But uh, it's she's she's cool with it.
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  Speaker 8: What about your kids, That's a good that's an interesting question.
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  Speaker 8: We've never really had the conversation about it. My son
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  Speaker 8: has made has made comments about it.
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  Speaker 1: Does he have jokes?
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  Speaker 8: No, No, he doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't, he doesn't
• 14:39
  Speaker 8: have jokes. He doesn't have jokes about it. Well, so
• 14:46
  Speaker 8: that's good. Question we have. We have my son, and
• 14:51
  Speaker 8: my son's uh twenty six years old right now. He
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: just turned twenty seven, and we just basically have a
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: lot of father son conversations and and my conversations are
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: more gears towards preparing him for life and and and
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: trying to get him to see the world from different perspectives,
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: primarily from a from a business perspective, a young man
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: who's gonna be taking care of a family perspective. And
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: he'll make comments just in terms of when I'm trying
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: to explain certain things to him how things go in life.
• 15:28
  Speaker 8: He feels. Sometimes he'll make a comment like, well, you
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: haven't had to.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Deal with such and such because such and such.
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: You know, but you know, And I keep having to
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: tell him, I keep it having to remind him that,
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: you know, I you know, I slept in a room
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: with my brother until I mean we were I was
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: in the room with my brother until we went to college,
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: and we couldn't even open the door. It was so
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: tight in a room. If we had bunk beds withut
• 15:52
  Speaker 8: the bunk bed down, we couldn't even open the door.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: So I didn't. I didn't.
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: I wasn't born into this, you know, And so there's
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: a lot of disciplen and hard work. So that has
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: and a blessing you know from God. But discipline, hard
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: work that has me where I am today.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: What did y'all two learn from each other on set?
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Well, I would say I definitely learned, you know when
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: I heard when they told me that they were you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: when they asked me how I felt about Morris coming
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: on to the show number one, I was just excited.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's Morris the chestnut, you know.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's true, you know, just it's just he
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: brings a level of professionalism and ease, but yet very
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: just approachable and kind and giving, you know what I mean,
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: in a way that you just may not expect for
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: someone who's been in the business for so long, for
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: someone who knows that they have this particular status, you
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. But he didn't have any of that,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: you know, So I definitely just appreciated and respected that
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: you know about you.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate.
• 16:56
  Speaker 8: So the one thing you know on a set, number
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: one on the call sheet is the heartbeat of the set.
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: The set goes, how the number one goes. If the
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: number one is not feeling good today. The set's not
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: gonna have a good day. If the number one is
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: not a good person, it's not a set that you
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: want to be on. She is literally one of the
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: best number ones that I've ever worked with. She she
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: I mean, this is is so hard because when you're
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: when you're when you come to a set, you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: we have the scenes, we have our lines, and we
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: and we have to worry about our character. And she
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: knew everybody's name on the set, everybody's name. And I've
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: been on set. I've been on set right now for
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: six months. I still only know probably about seven names
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: out of like one hundred people. And that was just
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: so impressive to me, and and it was really she
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: was really.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Inspiring to me just to see how she was doing that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: And she made me mad one day because I always
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: like to be when they call us the set, I
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: like to be the first one there. And she beat
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: me one time. I said, oh, I can't have that.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: I cannot have her beat me to set because I
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: got to be there. Yeah, said, I got I.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Could have that.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: So she's just in everything that she does, and she
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: with all all of that. You know, she had a
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: daughter there she's taking care of her daughter, she has,
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: you know, she's carrying the load on this show. She
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: did it so gracefully, eloquently and just an incredible actress.
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: So I just have a huge she's inspiring.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: There somebody you're talking about, number one?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Is there somebody that you say, no matter how much
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: they pay you, you without saying names, that you just won't
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: do a movie with them because they just don't act.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, because someone pops into my head.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: But I don't that's just based off of what you hear.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know, you know what I mean, I don't.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: I can't judge someone based on that, So no, I
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: wouldn't say that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Morrison.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, I have I have one, you know.
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he doesn't mean. I'm not sure if he's I
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: don't think he's done anything too much lately.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's Yeah.
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: It can be really really really bad set. It's just
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: not a good it's not a working it's not a
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: free working invironment to be an artist when you have
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: everyone walking on eggshells and this person just dictates the
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: whole mood, just the of the set, and it just
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: makes it so challenging. Not even to just do your job,
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: just to even be there, because we spend twelve thirteen
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: hours a day. It's like a family, you know, you
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: spend more time on set than you do your family.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean, I'll say I have a question
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: for you.
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: I had heard Erica Alexander talk about how when black
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: women play strong roles on TV, it boxes them in.
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: It's like a good thing because your representation, but it
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: can be a bad thing because it boxes you into this,
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: like you always have that power, you always have to
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: be tough and rough.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Do you think about that when you're picking roles?
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: I know, because Jackson's becoming a household now household em
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: now like people love the show? Do you think about that?
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: Do you think how that will affect you? Has that
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: been you know, something you and your team I talked about.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: You know, I understand what she's saying about that, because
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: that is you know, it's almost can even be a
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: stigma even that's placed upon us as black women. But
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: it's not something that I think about because there's an
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: element of it that is true.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: It's there. We are strong.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: We've had to be strong for so long for so
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: many reasons, So you know, it's not something that I
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: feel like I have to lead with or something that
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: I have to be cognizant of, because I don't. It doesn't,
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: it doesn't. It doesn't bother me in that way, you
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: know what I mean? And so I think I do
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: choose roles, not necessarily. If I see a role and
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: it says, okay, she is a strong woman, that would
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: have you You know, I know I'm going to put
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: my own spin on it, and I may not feel
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: like she's strong in the way that they think she's strong,
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean, So I can make a
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: different interpretation interpretation on it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Gotcha, Well, I know y'all got to go. So I
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: got to my final question.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: Other than when I'm around my do you ever walk
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: in the room and say I'm the most handsome man?
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: No?
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: No, I did say that one day when we willn't
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: say that, not doing You're in the family feud video, right,
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: jay Z's family?
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Yes? How was how were you casting for that? Are
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: you cool with the family?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: A direct?
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I think that's how we met. We met at Ava's house, Yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: We did.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: It was more chess now when you.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Were there, I didn't, I didn't.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I yeah, something like that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Young watching the movie or something and the fight it was.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: That's what it was. But yeah, that's how that came about.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: But Ava was the director.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we we appreciate you. I know, you guys got
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: to run.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: I want to say something to you guys. I really
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: appreciate what you guys are doing for the culture. I mean,
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: I see the guests you guys have on to see
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: the topics that you guys talk about, and I appreciate
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: what you guys doing because, especially now in our community,
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: you talk about therapy a lot. I love that you
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: guys bring up current topic, current event, topics, politics, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: so you guys are I was really excited to back
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: because I've been here before, but I was really excited
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: to come back because I appreciate you guys, what you
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: guys are doing for the culture.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So thank you, guys, Thank you very much.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Reasonable Doubt Season two is out now on Hulu. Ladies
• 22:10
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• 22:15
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