Latest / The Breakfast Club / The Breakfast Club BEST OF - 90s Stars - Jasmine Guy, Morris Chestnut, Jaleel White + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
- 0:03Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
- 0:05Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Yo yo yo Jess, Hilarry ass Semarini.
- 0:09Speaker 3: It's Thursday. Hopefully you had an amazing Christmas. Hopefully it
- 0:13Speaker 3: was with some family. Hopefully you got a chance to
- 0:15Speaker 3: rest a little bit. Today's show is all about nineties
- 0:18Speaker 3: stars all right now. Charlamagne will lie, he will say
- 0:21Speaker 3: he looks like this guy, but he'll be joining us
- 0:23Speaker 3: this morning.
- 0:24Speaker 2: The real Morris Chestnut will be in the building.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Also Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison, our guy, Julia White and.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Also Rosee Bardez.
- 0:32Speaker 3: Yes, it's all about nineties stars all on today's show,
- 0:35Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Get your ass up. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
- 0:39Speaker 2: ready right ray Yo, Charla Magne, Daffy, what up are
- 0:43Speaker 2: we lying?
- 0:43Speaker 4: This is your time to get it off your chest?
- 0:45Speaker 2: I got an indoor pool, door pool. We want to
- 0:48Speaker 2: hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
- 0:49Speaker 5: We can get on the phone right now.
- 0:51Speaker 6: He'll tell you what it is.
- 0:52Speaker 7: We lie.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Hello, who's this going on?
- 0:55Speaker 5: In great day? The money from truly?
- 0:58Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up? Dame Philly get it off your chest, you.
- 1:00Speaker 5: Know, real fast. I'm gonna get this south to wait
- 1:02Speaker 5: for v because I'm a truck driver.
- 1:04Speaker 8: Man, he hugged the horm but he's breaking up.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Yeah, we ain't hit a horme. Man, you got to
- 1:08Speaker 2: do the time.
- 1:09Speaker 4: Want it again. If you need to hear, you blow
- 1:11Speaker 4: you hear?
- 1:12Speaker 5: Hey, y know Charlie that you guys chill.
- 1:16Speaker 4: I want you to go.
- 1:17Speaker 2: You don't want to call up here talking about you
- 1:19Speaker 2: want to blow for invY. That was like something that
- 1:21Speaker 2: she was calling out. Man, we know what you man,
- 1:24Speaker 2: you know, don't let him take our joil.
- 1:26Speaker 5: But look, hey, yo, but Charlotte made I wanted to
- 1:28Speaker 5: give you flowers, you know, the mental health and all that.
- 1:31Speaker 5: And my cousin is actually Rachel, Rachel Edwards. I want
- 1:35Speaker 5: to get versed out out too. She was like, I
- 1:37Speaker 5: want you want to call it up When I was working.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Up there, Oh man, I was with Rachel last night.
- 1:41Speaker 4: Rachel.
- 1:41Speaker 2: We was out last night. I love Rachel my heart.
- 1:45Speaker 5: We had thanks again and she was was all together
- 1:49Speaker 5: with Jamaica. You know what I mean, Rachel?
- 1:51Speaker 1: You hey, oh yeah, yeah, I've had I've had Rachel's
- 1:54Speaker 1: mama's oxtails before.
- 1:56Speaker 5: Yeah, Joe, you should have saw, man. She looked like
- 1:59Speaker 5: she cooked, like she was cooking and cooking for orphaned.
- 2:02Speaker 5: That's what she do.
- 2:03Speaker 4: That's that's what's up.
- 2:05Speaker 9: Man.
- 2:05Speaker 5: And I ran in the I ran in the death
- 2:08Speaker 5: before pr Man around twenty twenty. I don't know if
- 2:12Speaker 5: you remember. I was a dude from Kelly and you
- 2:15Speaker 5: was like, you probably brought these flying roachures in Paly
- 2:18Speaker 5: with you.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Oh my god, no, I don't remember that.
- 2:20Speaker 2: You're you bought roaches.
- 2:21Speaker 9: I don't remember.
- 2:23Speaker 5: It would be bigger. It would be bigger as flying
- 2:25Speaker 5: roaches in pr that was running from them.
- 2:28Speaker 10: Oh my god, no, I don't remember that. It sounds
- 2:31Speaker 10: like something I said.
- 2:32Speaker 5: Oh my god, no, but you I ain't gonna lie.
- 2:35Speaker 5: You was cool as hell. I thought you would have
- 2:37Speaker 5: been boogie or something. No, never that you was cool
- 2:40Speaker 5: as hell.
- 2:41Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 2:41Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, man, I thought that. That's all I wanted
- 2:44Speaker 5: to say.
- 2:45Speaker 4: Man, we appreciate my brother.
- 2:46Speaker 5: I thought that I got through.
- 2:47Speaker 9: Man.
- 2:48Speaker 5: I love y'all though, Man, listen to y'all every day.
- 2:50Speaker 1: In the morning, I will I will have a good one.
- 2:54Speaker 6: Brother.
- 2:55Speaker 4: Hello, who's this?
- 2:56Speaker 3: Heys Neil up Neil to get it off your chest.
- 3:01Speaker 6: I'm so mad. Over the weekend, I ordered from mac
- 3:06Speaker 6: and I ordered to sign up and that's cocaine.
- 3:09Speaker 4: I love this kissed me.
- 3:13Speaker 2: What is she saying about cop with that baby in
- 3:15Speaker 2: the background? She said, coach? She wanted a coach a
- 3:17Speaker 2: jacket and its too it's too too big. We'll stop
- 3:21Speaker 2: ordering from Timu. You want to you want to buy.
- 3:23Speaker 11: That coat for six It was from Macon and I'm
- 3:26Speaker 11: so mad because I usually don't even buy stuff that's expensive.
- 3:31Speaker 5: I wanted to treat myself.
- 3:32Speaker 4: What's it called from? Who? What's it called? What's called
- 3:35Speaker 4: maca makay? What's that?
- 3:37Speaker 6: Just?
- 3:38Speaker 10: You mean micah m I c A s.
- 3:41Speaker 6: No macad m A m A c k A.
- 3:46Speaker 10: I don't know what that is? Okay, how much was
- 3:47Speaker 10: that coat?
- 3:50Speaker 4: No?
- 3:54Speaker 12: You just spent eight ninety on a coat and you
- 3:56Speaker 12: just had cyberdals and black Friday.
- 3:58Speaker 10: It's eight hundred and ninety, yes, eight ninety.
- 4:03Speaker 12: Pea cod I know, But what kind of code is it?
- 4:06Speaker 12: Is a bubble cold the trench coat?
- 4:07Speaker 4: What is it?
- 4:08Speaker 6: It's a it's a suffer.
- 4:10Speaker 12: You bought a puffer for one thousand dollars a puppet
- 4:13Speaker 12: where you live at.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Wow, what that puffy?
- 4:16Speaker 12: You think that puffa gonna keep you warm in these
- 4:18Speaker 12: New York streets.
- 4:21Speaker 2: That's crazy. It's too small. You could have brought. You
- 4:26Speaker 2: could have brought two north faces.
- 4:28Speaker 12: Right amount of man, put a hoodie under it and
- 4:31Speaker 12: wed proud a thousand all investments.
- 4:33Speaker 6: That what I was thinking.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but I love you.
- 4:40Speaker 4: You might even want to rob you for that cold.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Get it off your chest.
- 4:46Speaker 3: Eight hundred five eighty five one O five one. If
- 4:48Speaker 3: you need to vent, hit this up now. It's the
- 4:49Speaker 3: Breakfast Club.
- 4:50Speaker 4: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to
- 4:57Speaker 4: get it off your chest, whether you're mad or black.
- 5:00Speaker 3: I hate the way that you walk, the way that
- 5:01Speaker 3: you talk, I hate the way that you jet everything.
- 5:04Speaker 3: When he is best, call up now eight hundred five one.
- 5:09Speaker 4: Not just me, I'm with the coach of philing.
- 5:11Speaker 6: Hello, who's this yoldest Rode from New Orleans?
- 5:15Speaker 2: Rob from New Orleans?
- 5:16Speaker 4: What's up? And get it off your chest?
- 5:17Speaker 6: What's that? And good morning fella? Good morning, good morning,
- 5:19Speaker 6: Brother's club, good morning, selling man, good morning, good morning,
- 5:23Speaker 6: good morning Jess, good morning, Envy. I want to get
- 5:26Speaker 6: up my test man. This is my first year amiversary
- 5:29Speaker 6: when I got married one year ago today.
- 5:31Speaker 10: Congratulations, congratulations, sir.
- 5:34Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you. I want to give a shock
- 5:36Speaker 6: to my wife's jazz sleep right now. So when she
- 5:38Speaker 6: went up, you know we're our we're our behind. So
- 5:41Speaker 6: I woke up there to get off my test. I
- 5:44Speaker 6: love your baby, happy first year anniverstity.
- 5:46Speaker 2: But y'all doing today anything?
- 5:48Speaker 6: Man, We better have a whole day. Whatever she want
- 5:50Speaker 6: to do today, dedicate to her. So we about to
- 5:52Speaker 6: be about to do whatever whenever she get up. We
- 5:54Speaker 6: want to have a whole day, wine and dine whatever
- 5:56Speaker 6: she want to do. So it's it's it's up, it's up.
- 6:00Speaker 6: I woke up just to do this. I said my
- 6:02Speaker 6: love for five club this morning to do this. This
- 6:04Speaker 6: is this is the first thing when she wake up
- 6:06Speaker 6: this morning. I'm gonna play this in the morning at sixteen.
- 6:08Speaker 4: Oh, you got a whole day plan?
- 6:11Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a whole day. I got
- 6:12Speaker 6: a whole day plan. We took the day off today.
- 6:15Speaker 6: We got our day cause we bring on baby girl
- 6:17Speaker 6: to day camp. And we started with the Brothers Club.
- 6:20Speaker 6: We ending. We ended with whatever whatever we do, we're
- 6:23Speaker 6: gonna do what. You know, I just want to shout
- 6:25Speaker 6: out my baby girl, happy one year at the bresh
- 6:27Speaker 6: of my baby.
- 6:27Speaker 2: All right, brother, have a go with manutager your day.
- 6:29Speaker 6: Yes, sir, appreciate y'all.
- 6:31Speaker 3: Get it off your chest. Eight hundred and five eight
- 6:33Speaker 3: five one o five one. If you need to vent,
- 6:34Speaker 3: hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.
- 6:36Speaker 4: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Everybody is DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamage the Guy. We
- 6:44Speaker 3: are the Breakfast Club and we got a special guest
- 6:46Speaker 3: in the building, the legendary Jasmine Guy. Welcome back, Good morning.
- 6:50Speaker 2: How you feeling.
- 6:51Speaker 10: I felt great.
- 6:52Speaker 13: I love doing your show the last time and I
- 6:57Speaker 13: got a lot of positive feedback.
- 7:00Speaker 4: You come on.
- 7:01Speaker 10: It was a different kind of interview though than there you.
- 7:05Speaker 13: My daddy was like you were a little too comfortable,
- 7:09Speaker 13: like they were at your house. Champagne, right, yes, champagne
- 7:14Speaker 13: whatever that was.
- 7:16Speaker 10: I didn't even like it, and I was drinking that.
- 7:19Speaker 13: But my father said that you would put more in
- 7:22Speaker 13: when I was looking at Kadeen.
- 7:26Speaker 10: That's what he said.
- 7:27Speaker 13: He said, whenever you looked at Kadeen, he poured more
- 7:30Speaker 13: in there. So I'm I'm thinking I'm just drinking one
- 7:32Speaker 13: glassy swaanty whatever.
- 7:42Speaker 10: But I'm drinking anyway, seven o'clock in the morning. Embarrassing,
- 7:45Speaker 10: is that you talking? He was just sitting back there.
- 7:49Speaker 10: I'm just laughing.
- 7:52Speaker 13: No, No, it was good because you ask questions that
- 7:55Speaker 13: people don't usually ask. You know, we get the same
- 7:58Speaker 13: questions over and over actually about a different world.
- 8:02Speaker 4: And you've done so much more since since.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Absolutely, like right now, you want your first Emmy this year,
- 8:08Speaker 1: that's congratulations.
- 8:10Speaker 10: Went for the Chronicles of Jessica Woo. Yes, that was
- 8:14Speaker 10: a trip.
- 8:14Speaker 13: So I was going to Mexico to hang out with
- 8:17Speaker 13: my girlfriends, and I land and I get all these
- 8:22Speaker 13: texts from people saying congratulation on your Emmy nomination, and
- 8:26Speaker 13: I really thought people would messing with me.
- 8:29Speaker 10: I didn't even call them back. I said whatever.
- 8:33Speaker 13: I wasn't even and then when I realized I really
- 8:37Speaker 13: had been nominated, I.
- 8:39Speaker 10: Thought it was for the show Harlem.
- 8:41Speaker 13: Okay, Chronicles of Jessica Woo I had done. True, it
- 8:45Speaker 13: was before COVID. It was a long time ago, and
- 8:49Speaker 13: I only worked on it for a day. It was
- 8:51Speaker 13: a very interesting project to me because the production company
- 8:57Speaker 13: was a couple, a small black production company. The superhero
- 9:02Speaker 13: in the piece had autism, but her powers that whatever
- 9:07Speaker 13: put her on.
- 9:07Speaker 10: The spectrum made her a superhero.
- 9:10Speaker 13: Their daughter had an autistic child anyway, So I said, well,
- 9:14Speaker 13: I'll do it because I know after this they're going
- 9:16Speaker 13: to need distribution. And who knew that's what you know.
- 9:21Speaker 13: What I'm saying, my love for them and what I
- 9:26Speaker 13: know about, you know, pitching ideas. You're gonna need a name.
- 9:29Speaker 13: I know I've heard it all, and I said, well,
- 9:32Speaker 13: I'll be your name. This is gonna be good. And
- 9:34Speaker 13: it was a short series, like a wepisode series.
- 9:38Speaker 10: The other Oscar.
- 9:40Speaker 13: Nomination I got was also from an independent black company
- 9:44Speaker 13: and it was my nephew, Emmett. And I played em
- 9:48Speaker 13: Matill's aren't on the night that he was taken from
- 9:51Speaker 13: their home, and I was like, oh, I do not
- 9:55Speaker 13: want to go to Mississippi. And I'm telling you we
- 9:57Speaker 13: stayed right down the street from when he got abducted.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Missisippi still got that same energy.
- 10:04Speaker 10: Thank you.
- 10:06Speaker 13: I was gonna say, I felt ghosts, you know, And
- 10:09Speaker 13: I did it, and they got nominated for an Oscar night.
- 10:12Speaker 13: When the director called me, he was a graduate student
- 10:15Speaker 13: from NYU Film School. His mentors with Spike Lee and
- 10:19Speaker 13: Casey Lammon's right beautiful brother, the and the crew and everybody.
- 10:24Speaker 13: I had a great artistic experience. But when he told me,
- 10:28Speaker 13: you know, we got nominated for an Oscar thought he
- 10:31Speaker 13: was messing with me.
- 10:33Speaker 1: That says a lot though, like about how you know,
- 10:35Speaker 1: I guess black actors and actresses are conditioned in Hollywood
- 10:39Speaker 1: that when they get told that they're even nominated, they
- 10:41Speaker 1: don't believe it.
- 10:43Speaker 13: But when you ignored long enough, you got the message.
- 10:46Speaker 13: I got the message. If you're not nominating a different world.
- 10:51Speaker 13: Debbie Allen, Susan fails our wardrobe department, any other actor
- 10:56Speaker 13: on that show. I stopped focusing on y'all giving me
- 10:59Speaker 13: my props. I know who gives me my props. And
- 11:03Speaker 13: I told the actors, I said, we just got to
- 11:06Speaker 13: be good, you know, forget all these accolades or whatever.
- 11:09Speaker 13: They obviously do you know how many times they said
- 11:13Speaker 13: to me, even on I think I did Dennis Miller,
- 11:16Speaker 13: remember Dennis Milana talk show. He started with, so how
- 11:20Speaker 13: does it feel being between number one and three? And
- 11:24Speaker 13: I was stunned because I just sat down. You know,
- 11:27Speaker 13: you come out all cute, and what I was like
- 11:30Speaker 13: he said that wasn't a good lead in question.
- 11:32Speaker 10: I said, no, it wasn't.
- 11:33Speaker 2: You're talking about Cogye and Tears.
- 11:35Speaker 13: Everybody said we were number two because we came between them, okay,
- 11:39Speaker 13: and that was the first question.
- 11:40Speaker 10: That was the message.
- 11:41Speaker 13: That was the message that we got as actors as
- 11:44Speaker 13: you know, performers, and we never got our props for
- 11:50Speaker 13: not just the acting, but it was Debbie Allen, Susan
- 11:54Speaker 13: fails me.
- 11:55Speaker 10: Three black women in charge of that show. You know
- 11:59Speaker 10: what I mean. We could have been on.
- 12:00Speaker 13: The cover of Essence, and I just knew who really
- 12:04Speaker 13: saw us and who really understood us.
- 12:08Speaker 10: It's the same way you said, just look, okay.
- 12:11Speaker 13: So Carcy Warner, our producers also produced a show with
- 12:17Speaker 13: Whoop the Goldberg called Bagdad, Cafe Grace, under Fire in
- 12:21Speaker 13: the Roseanne Show and the Cosm of Show right, so
- 12:24Speaker 13: we're one of five.
- 12:26Speaker 10: They never asked us to do anything.
- 12:29Speaker 13: They asked Roseanne Barr to sing the national anthem, in
- 12:32Speaker 13: which she grabbed her crotch because she can't sing.
- 12:35Speaker 10: But we got five singers on our show.
- 12:37Speaker 4: That's crazy.
- 12:37Speaker 13: You could have had don me Kree, you know, never,
- 12:41Speaker 13: I don't know. I just got things we got things
- 12:44Speaker 13: on our own, and I never felt a part of
- 12:47Speaker 13: that network.
- 12:48Speaker 10: Then when I.
- 12:49Speaker 13: Saw what happened with Friends, I was like, yo, that
- 12:53Speaker 13: would have helped us. It would have helped us with
- 12:55Speaker 13: work after the show. It would have given us some props,
- 13:00Speaker 13: you know, that we could have used for future projects.
- 13:04Speaker 13: I pitched a lot. I have my own production company
- 13:07Speaker 13: after a Different World. All of my projects were rejected,
- 13:11Speaker 13: but then I started to see them.
- 13:13Speaker 4: That was wow. You know what I mean.
- 13:15Speaker 10: It's like a bad relationship.
- 13:17Speaker 13: After a while, you gotta understand, Okay, I ain't what
- 13:20Speaker 13: you want.
- 13:21Speaker 4: All right.
- 13:21Speaker 2: We got more with Jasmine Guy. When we come back,
- 13:23Speaker 2: do move.
- 13:24Speaker 4: It's to Breakfast Club.
- 13:25Speaker 2: Good Morning.
- 13:25Speaker 1: Breakfast Club was saying it was such a privacy in
- 13:29Speaker 1: the nineties, so to get those stories from that era
- 13:32Speaker 1: when she talks about you and talk and just your friendship,
- 13:35Speaker 1: just that friendship of black Hollywood.
- 13:37Speaker 4: It's just like.
- 13:38Speaker 13: Man and now I was like privileged enough to hang
- 13:41Speaker 13: with them because there's so much younger than me.
- 13:44Speaker 10: You know, it was just easy.
- 13:46Speaker 13: You know, her birthday party and we went to the Dragonfly,
- 13:51Speaker 13: which was funk night that night.
- 13:56Speaker 10: I liked me some funk, obviously, I'm like, it's funck night.
- 14:00Speaker 12: I can fly.
- 14:01Speaker 13: But and you know, accepting of me because well, I'm
- 14:06Speaker 13: sixty two. So when I'm on the show, I'm twenty five,
- 14:09Speaker 13: twenty six, twenty seven.
- 14:10Speaker 10: They eighteen nineteen.
- 14:12Speaker 13: Now it's not a big deal. But back then, I
- 14:15Speaker 13: wasn't hanging out with no you know. I remember I
- 14:18Speaker 13: went to a restaurant with Cree and as we were
- 14:21Speaker 13: walking to the restaurant, she said, do they card?
- 14:25Speaker 10: I said card?
- 14:26Speaker 13: I mean I never I had never been carded because eighteen,
- 14:30Speaker 13: you know, I said, how old are you? She said,
- 14:33Speaker 13: I just turned eighteen. I said, what the hell am
- 14:36Speaker 13: I doing hanging out with? Are you kidding me? Kadem too,
- 14:43Speaker 13: I saw them as kids, I like grown ass man
- 14:46Speaker 13: when I was young, thirty thirty two. But now that
- 14:52Speaker 13: they have embraced me, I appreciate it because they kept
- 14:56Speaker 13: me current and kept me interested because they, Jada and Cree,
- 15:01Speaker 13: are out the box thinkers. They bring creative ideas to
- 15:04Speaker 13: the table that I never would have thought of. And
- 15:07Speaker 13: I love that and and of course you know, keeps
- 15:11Speaker 13: me laughing.
- 15:11Speaker 4: What about Pawk?
- 15:13Speaker 10: And I would like that too? He always had ideas.
- 15:16Speaker 13: I felt so unaccomplished, you know, because he would say
- 15:21Speaker 13: something and then do it. I would tell him an
- 15:24Speaker 13: idea and not write it and not finish it, or
- 15:28Speaker 13: it's still like on my shelf. Mostly I wanted him
- 15:31Speaker 13: to know that I felt he was a great actor.
- 15:35Speaker 13: And I heard the murmurings of oh, he's just being
- 15:38Speaker 13: himself or whatever. They're just writing on his fame as
- 15:41Speaker 13: a rapper. I said, everybody that raps ain't acting on there.
- 15:45Speaker 13: There were a lot of rappers that had movies that
- 15:48Speaker 13: man can act. Yeah, I mean his performances were after
- 15:53Speaker 13: Chang and I just wanted him to know that and
- 15:56Speaker 13: not listen to that.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Well, you were afraid during that time, like when you
- 15:59Speaker 1: took poking after he got you feel like, what have
- 16:01Speaker 1: they come looking for him?
- 16:03Speaker 13: And yeah, there were times because of the the regularity
- 16:08Speaker 13: of my going in and out of my apartment, I
- 16:12Speaker 13: felt like it would be easy if I had been
- 16:15Speaker 13: on the radar for anybody to you know, follow me
- 16:18Speaker 13: or come up. And so there was that. And I
- 16:21Speaker 13: didn't live in a secured building like a doorman building,
- 16:25Speaker 13: and I was scared of the like I had never
- 16:30Speaker 13: seen a real bullet wound, just you know, on TV
- 16:34Speaker 13: like NHYPD Blue and when I played a badass in
- 16:37Speaker 13: this movie. But I was concerned about that, you know,
- 16:40Speaker 13: actually caring for the wounds and making sure he was
- 16:43Speaker 13: gonna be Okay, n he should have been in the
- 16:47Speaker 13: hospital for at least two or three more days on antibiotics.
- 16:51Speaker 2: Everybody has walked out.
- 16:52Speaker 3: He signed himself out, so you had to help him
- 16:53Speaker 3: out and help meet and help him get himself back together.
- 16:55Speaker 13: But he when he left Bellevue, he went to his
- 16:59Speaker 13: girlfriends and he realized it was equally accessible.
- 17:04Speaker 10: He just felt like a sitting duck in the hospital.
- 17:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you talk about this on since this
- 17:09Speaker 1: is my last question, Like when's the last time you
- 17:10Speaker 1: spoke to him, like before you die, you remember the
- 17:14Speaker 1: last conversation in your head or the last time you
- 17:16Speaker 1: saw him?
- 17:16Speaker 13: And I was visiting a Feini and Stone Mountain when
- 17:20Speaker 13: they had a house there and he came through. Now
- 17:22Speaker 13: this is after he had been in prison for eleven months. Okay,
- 17:26Speaker 13: I've seen him for a while. Yeah, Star, I saw
- 17:29Speaker 13: him at the house. That was the last time.
- 17:31Speaker 2: Do you remember the conversations? Personal?
- 17:33Speaker 13: It was just like hey, you know, and he was
- 17:35Speaker 13: like I'm strong, now because he was infirmed. So he
- 17:39Speaker 13: wanted me to see his you know, little prism push
- 17:42Speaker 13: up muscles, knuckles were all black from doing it on
- 17:47Speaker 13: you know he wanted.
- 17:48Speaker 10: I was like, yeah, you look good.
- 17:51Speaker 13: And then he went out with his friends and you know,
- 17:53Speaker 13: I hung out with a fainting The thing that really
- 17:56Speaker 13: hurt my feelings about him getting shot like that he
- 18:00Speaker 13: was with me.
- 18:00Speaker 10: I thought I was helping and go.
- 18:03Speaker 4: To the next part of his life, like grow.
- 18:07Speaker 13: I was like, we're gonna go to prison and then
- 18:09Speaker 13: get shot again. And I knew that second shooting wasn't.
- 18:14Speaker 13: The wounds he had the first time were in his.
- 18:16Speaker 10: Appendages, not in his lungs. I'm so disappointed. Yeah, and
- 18:24Speaker 10: he told me he was gonna it wasn't gonna make
- 18:27Speaker 10: it past twenty five. I always thought he was just
- 18:29Speaker 10: talking all the time.
- 18:31Speaker 13: That's legend put that in the book. I was like,
- 18:34Speaker 13: I'm not writing a book about you. Stop telling me that.
- 18:40Speaker 13: I'd be like, I'm never telling anybody anything about this experience.
- 18:46Speaker 13: I thought it was ridiculous for him to say he
- 18:48Speaker 13: wasn't gonna live past twenty five.
- 18:51Speaker 10: I treated him like I treated my little cousins that
- 18:54Speaker 10: make these statements about life. Yeah, so that hurt.
- 18:59Speaker 2: I can't wait people to your story. You lived a life, guy,
- 19:01Speaker 2: and I got to watching him since this Sunday, March
- 19:04Speaker 2: twenty four.
- 19:05Speaker 4: Always Pleasure. I love you so much.
- 19:08Speaker 2: You are a cultural icon. We appreciate you so much,
- 19:11Speaker 2: we value you.
- 19:12Speaker 4: Just thank you, Always you.
- 19:14Speaker 2: It's Jazmin guy. It's the Breakfast Club.
- 19:16Speaker 4: Good morning morning.
- 19:18Speaker 3: Everybody is the j en Vy, Jess hilarious, Charlomagne the guy.
- 19:22Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club. Jess is all maternity leave,
- 19:25Speaker 3: so long the ross filling in and we got some
- 19:27Speaker 3: special guests in the building. Yes, indeed we have Morris Chestnut.
- 19:30Speaker 3: He's here, and we have Amaya Coronalvy. Did I say
- 19:33Speaker 3: your name right?
- 19:36Speaker 4: Why the fun?
- 19:38Speaker 2: I gotta start like this, Emma. Does Charlomagne look anything
- 19:42Speaker 2: like Morris? Ches here to talk reasonable doubt?
- 19:47Speaker 3: I want to start there because he's been talking so
- 19:49Speaker 3: much he thinks he's more reasonable doubt. After that, and
- 19:52Speaker 3: then I know the reasonable doubt does look anything.
- 19:56Speaker 8: I knew this was gonna come up. I was prepared
- 19:59Speaker 8: for this. You would I've heard squint your eyes a
- 20:01Speaker 8: little bit down.
- 20:02Speaker 4: Here's the couple.
- 20:04Speaker 14: One eye couple, both eyes, both beautiful chocolate bald headed men.
- 20:09Speaker 2: I see that, Yes, you see a resemblance.
- 20:12Speaker 8: And that what I just thought, Okay.
- 20:17Speaker 4: Scared in the factory model.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Just the fact, Scar, I.
- 20:23Speaker 3: Said, Now, does it bother you when when this this
- 20:28Speaker 3: brother over here that looks nothing like you claims.
- 20:30Speaker 12: That he's you.
- 20:31Speaker 2: For his birthday, he post pictures.
- 20:32Speaker 4: Of you, just not telling you.
- 20:34Speaker 9: Somebody came to me on the streets. I said, no,
- 20:38Speaker 9: I wasn't on the street.
- 20:39Speaker 4: You're right.
- 20:39Speaker 9: I was at a hotel or sat the valet and
- 20:41Speaker 9: one of the values said, that's what he said.
- 20:43Speaker 2: He said, he looked like Charlemagne, he said, he.
- 20:45Speaker 4: Said, Charlemagne.
- 20:47Speaker 9: I don't know if he was trolling dim.
- 20:53Speaker 4: Glasses.
- 20:55Speaker 9: I know he didn't have glasses, you know, but it
- 20:57Speaker 9: did happen. It did happen, y'all, didn't.
- 21:00Speaker 1: That an't the way, y'all?
- 21:06Speaker 8: Fantastic?
- 21:07Speaker 2: What roles excite you nowadays?
- 21:09Speaker 4: Marsh You've been in the game so long, you know
- 21:12Speaker 4: what this role did excite me? It really did? You know?
- 21:15Speaker 4: The one thing I love?
- 21:17Speaker 9: First of all, she's incredible, I mean, she's incredible at
- 21:20Speaker 9: what she does. Incredible actress. I mean she's incredible. But
- 21:24Speaker 9: the whole production, so the production starts, you know, with
- 21:27Speaker 9: ONX Collective. We have you know, black female executives there,
- 21:31Speaker 9: and then of course Carrie Washington's company is producing Street
- 21:36Speaker 9: Simpson Streets producing it top not there, Ram and Mohammad,
- 21:40Speaker 9: black female showrunner. All the scripts were on time before.
- 21:44Speaker 9: I've never gotten scripts on the show like that this early.
- 21:48Speaker 9: I would get a script like we was. We would
- 21:50Speaker 9: be on the second day of an episode and get
- 21:53Speaker 9: a script for the next episode that normally never happens.
- 21:56Speaker 9: So everything was topping. I didn't working with her in
- 21:57Speaker 9: the cast. This role did.
- 22:00Speaker 3: Now for people that don't know what is reasonable doubt about,
- 22:03Speaker 3: because you're on season two. So if they don't know
- 22:06Speaker 3: what is it about, break it down.
- 22:07Speaker 14: You know, it's about this high powered, you know, black
- 22:10Speaker 14: female attorney, you know, who is about her business. You know,
- 22:13Speaker 14: she handles all of her business when she's when she's
- 22:16Speaker 14: in the office, when she's in court, you know, but
- 22:18Speaker 14: she's trying to juggle it. You know, she's a mother,
- 22:19Speaker 14: she's a wife, and sometimes you know, some of the.
- 22:22Speaker 8: Balls drop out of the air, you know what I mean.
- 22:24Speaker 14: She fails at times and she makes questionable decisions, makes
- 22:28Speaker 14: mistakes at times, you know, but it's about this woman.
- 22:31Speaker 8: It's about this marriage, this black marriage.
- 22:34Speaker 9: You know.
- 22:34Speaker 14: We get to see them trying to figure it out.
- 22:36Speaker 14: We get to see them making mistakes. We get to
- 22:38Speaker 14: see them, you know, really living their life in this
- 22:41Speaker 14: way that we don't often get to see on television.
- 22:43Speaker 14: Along with the courtroom drama of it all, you know,
- 22:46Speaker 14: we get to see her really in her element. Because
- 22:49Speaker 14: the show is loosely based on Sean Holly. Yeah, she's
- 22:53Speaker 14: a very high powered defense attorney in La you know,
- 22:56Speaker 14: and so we have all of those elements. It's a
- 22:59Speaker 14: good blend of the courtroom drama with the character driven
- 23:03Speaker 14: kind of piece.
- 23:03Speaker 4: You say, half of that business in court? Is that
- 23:06Speaker 4: all the business?
- 23:07Speaker 14: I mean, she does what she got to do anywhere,
- 23:09Speaker 14: anywhere and everywhere.
- 23:11Speaker 4: Did you see with Sean at all?
- 23:13Speaker 10: Yes?
- 23:14Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
- 23:14Speaker 14: Before we started filming, we you know, she invited me
- 23:16Speaker 14: to her home and you know, we sat and we
- 23:18Speaker 14: talked for hours. You know, I got to really pick
- 23:20Speaker 14: her brain about how she chooses the cases.
- 23:23Speaker 8: That she decides to take on, because.
- 23:25Speaker 14: That's the thing you know, we really I think nailed
- 23:28Speaker 14: that in the show with the kinds of cases that
- 23:30Speaker 14: Jacks chooses to accept can sometimes cause issue with her
- 23:34Speaker 14: friends or her family. You know, why are you not
- 23:36Speaker 14: defending black women? Why did you choose to defend this
- 23:38Speaker 14: this man? And that's what Sean is about, you know,
- 23:41Speaker 14: And that's something that I admired or wanted to know
- 23:43Speaker 14: a little bit more about what goes into her selecting
- 23:46Speaker 14: the kind of cases that she chooses to represent.
- 23:48Speaker 2: Is it hard to leave your character on set?
- 23:50Speaker 8: Is it hard? No?
- 23:52Speaker 14: No, I've learned how to just make the separation. I've
- 23:56Speaker 14: learned how to make the separation, and especially with someone
- 23:58Speaker 14: like Jack's, you know, she she has a lot going on,
- 24:01Speaker 14: you know, so I'm faithful to just leave that there
- 24:03Speaker 14: and go home to normalcy.
- 24:05Speaker 6: You know.
- 24:05Speaker 1: I wanted to ask actors, like, when you have to
- 24:07Speaker 1: play a traumatic scene, right, like.
- 24:08Speaker 2: When Ricky gets killed in Boys in the Hood.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Being that they play that so much on TV, does
- 24:13Speaker 1: that trigger you when you see it?
- 24:14Speaker 9: Like, do you feel that doesn't trigger me? One thing
- 24:17Speaker 9: that did trigger me when I did The First Best Man.
- 24:20Speaker 9: It was the first time that I had to be
- 24:22Speaker 9: such an emotional spacially. When I did the wedding scene.
- 24:24Speaker 9: That was crying, and I had to be in an
- 24:26Speaker 9: emotional space for so long. That triggered me for just
- 24:29Speaker 9: even thinking about it for at least at least five
- 24:33Speaker 9: to seven years.
- 24:34Speaker 4: When y'all get the TV.
- 24:35Speaker 9: Show, see I see, I had already, you know, as
- 24:39Speaker 9: an actor, I had grown and I kind of let
- 24:41Speaker 9: some stuff. You know, it's you know, as actors, you know,
- 24:44Speaker 9: we use our trauma in our pain to get there.
- 24:47Speaker 9: So I you know, I kind of worked on that,
- 24:50Speaker 9: but it triggered me for a long time on the
- 24:52Speaker 9: first Best Man.
- 24:53Speaker 2: Because you ever get tired of it? Because Boys of
- 24:55Speaker 2: the Hood was so long ago.
- 24:56Speaker 3: Did you ever realize how impactful that was going to
- 24:59Speaker 3: be when you when you shot it?
- 25:00Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't.
- 25:01Speaker 9: I had no clue because when I when I, I mean,
- 25:04Speaker 9: I was a lead in the movie that nobody knew
- 25:06Speaker 9: who I was, and no one knew who Cuba was.
- 25:09Speaker 9: You know, people knew who Ice Cube was. Angela wasn't Angela,
- 25:13Speaker 9: Nia wasn't Nia. I mean, everybody was, you know, just
- 25:16Speaker 9: popping off. So I didn't think it was gonna be
- 25:18Speaker 9: that big.
- 25:19Speaker 1: Now, that's interesting what you said about the Best Man
- 25:21Speaker 1: because to being a role when the TV show came
- 25:24Speaker 1: where in that iteration of it, you know your wife
- 25:26Speaker 1: was deceased. Yes, you had to tap into that emotion
- 25:30Speaker 1: of being a man who lost their wife.
- 25:33Speaker 4: How did you leave that at home?
- 25:34Speaker 9: Well, so it's uh, leave that on the set round? Yeah, yeah,
- 25:38Speaker 9: so it's okay. So so that was the first best
- 25:41Speaker 9: man I had that. So the second best man was
- 25:43Speaker 9: tough because she was battling cancer and I had to
- 25:45Speaker 9: do a lot of emotional scenes then. So I've just
- 25:48Speaker 9: learned to manage kind of those emotions. I've learned to
- 25:53Speaker 9: deal with some of that trauma in a different way now.
- 25:56Speaker 4: And actually it's actually acting.
- 25:58Speaker 9: It's pretty much therapeutic because you're able to release certain things.
- 26:02Speaker 4: And so over the years, that's that's what's happened. Were
- 26:04Speaker 4: you a fan of Reasonable Doubt?
- 26:05Speaker 2: Season one?
- 26:07Speaker 4: I was, because I literally I was on it.
- 26:09Speaker 9: I was playing a Saturday basketball game and one of
- 26:11Speaker 9: one of the guys there he was like, oo, he said,
- 26:13Speaker 9: we normally after we play, he's you know, we talk
- 26:16Speaker 9: about stupid stuff, dude, stuff in the gym or whatever.
- 26:18Speaker 9: And then he just said, hey, have you guys seen
- 26:20Speaker 9: the show Reasonable Doubt? And I knew about the show
- 26:22Speaker 9: because I knew Elie was on it, I knew Amians.
- 26:25Speaker 9: I hadn't seen it yet. He was like, man, it
- 26:27Speaker 9: was just so odd to hear him say that on
- 26:30Speaker 9: the court, you know what I'm saying, And so he said,
- 26:32Speaker 9: you got to check it out. So yeah, So before
- 26:33Speaker 9: I did the show, I was definitely fan because I
- 26:35Speaker 9: watched it because he told me to.
- 26:36Speaker 10: And what was harder for you?
- 26:37Speaker 11: Because Jackson's different season one versus season two, what was
- 26:41Speaker 11: the harder draw for you as an actress, like pulling
- 26:43Speaker 11: from the experiences. Was it harder for season one or
- 26:45Speaker 11: harder for season two for you?
- 26:47Speaker 14: I think I would definitely say season two, just because
- 26:51Speaker 14: of you know, she's showing a lot more vulnerability as
- 26:54Speaker 14: a result of what happened in season one. Yes, you know,
- 26:56Speaker 14: so that just it required just like Morris was, you know,
- 27:00Speaker 14: I got to pull from some of those places, you know,
- 27:02Speaker 14: that kind of thing. So it was more of a
- 27:05Speaker 14: challenge in that way. You know, I had to decide
- 27:07Speaker 14: to open myself up.
- 27:09Speaker 3: We got more with Morris, Chesnut and Miati. When we
- 27:12Speaker 3: come back, She don't move. It's to Breakfast Club, Good Morning.
- 27:14Speaker 2: Owning Everybody.
- 27:14Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarius, Charlamagne, the Guy we Are
- 27:18Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club were still kicking it with Morris Chestnut
- 27:21Speaker 3: and Miati Coronaldi. Of course, Reasonable Doubt Season two is
- 27:24Speaker 3: on Hulu everywhere. Now, Emma, you started off in soap operas.
- 27:28Speaker 3: Most people never leave that soap opera world, but you did.
- 27:31Speaker 3: So break down the soap opera world and what got
- 27:33Speaker 3: you in the soap opera I will first I want
- 27:35Speaker 3: to know how you got into acting. Because you're a
- 27:37Speaker 3: military child. Usually that means you're traveling all over the place.
- 27:40Speaker 3: Your parents are heavy into education. What got you into acting?
- 27:43Speaker 14: From the start, it was something that I always loved.
- 27:46Speaker 14: I always loved, but I didn't know that it could
- 27:49Speaker 14: be a choice to be a career, you know. And
- 27:52Speaker 14: for a long time, it was just fun, just a hobby.
- 27:56Speaker 14: And I thought that I had it planned, doubt. I
- 27:57Speaker 14: was going to go to law school. I was going
- 27:59Speaker 14: to be a lawyer. My father wanted me to go
- 28:01Speaker 14: to the military, but I said, Okay, I think I'm
- 28:04Speaker 14: gonna be a lawyer. But in high school I had
- 28:06Speaker 14: a girlfriend who also wanted to be a lawyer, and
- 28:09Speaker 14: we had our whole plan. It was gonna be Cornaldi
- 28:11Speaker 14: and Sweeny Incorporated, you know. But I realized, thankfully before
- 28:15Speaker 14: you know, graduation, Okay, no, I don't really want to
- 28:18Speaker 14: be a lawyer. I'm not trying to go to law
- 28:19Speaker 14: school like she was taking it serious and fill out
- 28:21Speaker 14: these SATs.
- 28:22Speaker 8: I'm like, am I doing all that?
- 28:23Speaker 2: Is she a lawyer?
- 28:23Speaker 6: Now?
- 28:24Speaker 14: She's a lawyer now? So we went in the right path.
- 28:27Speaker 14: I realized, No, I think I just I like the drama.
- 28:29Speaker 14: I like the suits and you know, all of that
- 28:31Speaker 14: in the courtroom. And so that's the moment when I
- 28:33Speaker 14: knew and I kind of started pursuing it at that point.
- 28:36Speaker 14: And this was in I graduated high school in Jersey.
- 28:39Speaker 14: My last two years were out there in Kansas. I
- 28:42Speaker 14: was all over the place, and then went back to
- 28:44Speaker 14: Jersey and really started studying and back and forth up
- 28:47Speaker 14: here to New York all my off off off Broadway
- 28:50Speaker 14: classes and all of that.
- 28:52Speaker 8: And then that was it.
- 28:53Speaker 2: That was it.
- 28:53Speaker 14: And my first role was that that role in Young
- 28:57Speaker 14: and Arrest, and that was because that was my showing.
- 29:00Speaker 14: She said to her, you know, that was me making it.
- 29:04Speaker 14: She says, you got to get him younger. Directed run
- 29:06Speaker 14: the restless until Victor I said Hi. And so the
- 29:09Speaker 14: bitter sweet moment about that for me is because my
- 29:12Speaker 14: mom passed before that happened, before she got to see
- 29:15Speaker 14: And so as soon as I got on the set,
- 29:16Speaker 14: I said, Victor, I just got to tell you know,
- 29:18Speaker 14: my mom just loves you so.
- 29:20Speaker 8: And that was a small that was a really small role.
- 29:22Speaker 14: And I think that's how I the reason why didn't
- 29:24Speaker 14: get caught up in it and staying there because it
- 29:26Speaker 14: was a small role, but it was truly one of
- 29:29Speaker 14: the most meaningful ones to me to this day because
- 29:31Speaker 14: of that.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Wow, that's so alarmed for your first your first scene,
- 29:35Speaker 1: Mars is a sex scene. Do you ever have to
- 29:40Speaker 1: tell these studios not to not to objectify you?
- 29:43Speaker 2: Because we heard MEPhI Man.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Once said he always, you know, pushed back against his
- 29:47Speaker 1: sex symbol status. You ever have to tell these studios like, look,
- 29:50Speaker 1: you know, I know I'm Mars chestnut.
- 29:51Speaker 2: You can't be.
- 29:55Speaker 10: Explained, we would know the difference.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Do you ever feel like it being objectified maybe is
- 29:59Speaker 2: a better question.
- 30:00Speaker 4: I don't see that that way. You know.
- 30:01Speaker 9: It's almost like because people sometimes they ask me, they say,
- 30:05Speaker 9: do you get mad when people call you Ricky all
- 30:07Speaker 9: the time, and people see me on the street, and honestly,
- 30:10Speaker 9: the one thing about me is that I have never
- 30:12Speaker 9: ever forgotten where I come from, right, and and when
- 30:16Speaker 9: I was an actor, just starting out, trying to get
- 30:18Speaker 9: an agent, just trying to get a part, just say oh,
- 30:21Speaker 9: just please, somebody cast me.
- 30:22Speaker 4: I just want to be seen. I want to be
- 30:24Speaker 4: known so I can get more work.
- 30:25Speaker 9: And so it just so happens that that role that
- 30:29Speaker 9: I was dying to get to be able to get
- 30:31Speaker 9: more work was a role that it was.
- 30:34Speaker 4: It was.
- 30:34Speaker 9: It was a blessing that it's still relevant and people
- 30:37Speaker 9: still refer to it to this very day. So now
- 30:41Speaker 9: just because people say Ricky almost every day, I'm not
- 30:43Speaker 9: going to turn around and say, oh, man, I hate
- 30:44Speaker 9: when people call me Ricky.
- 30:46Speaker 4: Because I was so I would desire it so much.
- 30:49Speaker 9: So to your question about you know, studios, I don't
- 30:53Speaker 9: think they objectify me.
- 30:55Speaker 4: I think that.
- 30:57Speaker 9: I've been in the business a long time and they
- 31:00Speaker 9: the younger Morris would not have imagined that he would
- 31:03Speaker 9: be here to this very single.
- 31:04Speaker 4: Day after all these years.
- 31:07Speaker 9: So I'm just I'm just blessed and and I'm very
- 31:11Speaker 9: appreciative of the fact that they still want to cast
- 31:14Speaker 9: me because in our industry, you know, no one really
- 31:18Speaker 9: retires from our industry. Our industry retires us the phone
- 31:21Speaker 9: stops ringing. So as long as the phone is still ringing,
- 31:24Speaker 9: I'm gonna keep picking up. And I appreciate it.
- 31:25Speaker 1: But it's one thing to be a great actor what
- 31:27Speaker 1: you are, but it's another to be considered a heart drop. Right,
- 31:29Speaker 1: It's only like kind of like it's like Denzel Mars,
- 31:32Speaker 1: who else punts in that lane historically?
- 31:39Speaker 2: Michael B. Jordan's Michael, Yeah, he was.
- 31:42Speaker 4: Trying to say that, I know.
- 31:45Speaker 10: From Queen Sugar, Dark Skin. Queen Sugar.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Is the he's there.
- 31:54Speaker 4: Where we're at right now.
- 31:55Speaker 10: But I think, honestly, you did.
- 31:58Speaker 11: It's y'all level of It's like maybe two or three
- 32:00Speaker 11: that are to go to mainly you though, like you
- 32:03Speaker 11: get you do get a lot of the posts and
- 32:05Speaker 11: stuff online. A lot of them comes from Charlomy's Instagram.
- 32:08Speaker 9: Shut up, I think to the answer to that question
- 32:12Speaker 9: is for me, I don't. I don't focus on it
- 32:15Speaker 9: because you know, it's it's this is the type of industry.
- 32:19Speaker 9: There's you know, there's there's there's gonna be somebody else tomorrow.
- 32:22Speaker 9: There's gonna be somebody else the next day. So I
- 32:25Speaker 9: just focused. Honestly, I just try to focus on doing
- 32:28Speaker 9: the best job I can as an actor with these
- 32:30Speaker 9: job and if that comes with it, I'm appreciative of it.
- 32:32Speaker 9: If that's what people say, I'm appreciative of that. But
- 32:35Speaker 9: I don't I don't focus on that. I just have
- 32:37Speaker 9: to focus on the work because that's gonna keep me
- 32:39Speaker 9: here longer than being a You know, if people consider
- 32:42Speaker 9: sex and more.
- 32:43Speaker 3: The real more is shutting up. Was the sexiest man
- 32:45Speaker 3: alive in twenty fifteen? Reason I got to say that
- 32:47Speaker 3: because sometimes he puts his face there and ask like.
- 32:49Speaker 4: I've never done that.
- 32:50Speaker 1: But if you wanted to call him the sexiest man alive,
- 32:52Speaker 1: that's fine.
- 32:53Speaker 2: If you want to use me to do that, I've
- 32:56Speaker 2: never done that, y'all want y'all, I'm going to ask,
- 33:04Speaker 2: how does your wife deal with it all?
- 33:05Speaker 3: You know, with women hollering when you're allowed in the comments,
- 33:09Speaker 3: how does she how does she handle it?
- 33:10Speaker 6: Well?
- 33:11Speaker 4: I mean, my wife is a star in our family
- 33:13Speaker 4: for sure.
- 33:13Speaker 9: I mean she's the one that h I mean, she's
- 33:17Speaker 9: a star in the family, and she does and I'm
- 33:19Speaker 9: a homebody.
- 33:20Speaker 4: I'm home all the time.
- 33:21Speaker 9: And honestly, the older I've gotten, you know, I mean,
- 33:25Speaker 9: she's she's just not even. She's not stressed by it.
- 33:28Speaker 9: She's not even. She's just not she's not really interested
- 33:31Speaker 9: in the industry. She's it's like we've been together a
- 33:34Speaker 9: long long time and so you know, she knows what
- 33:37Speaker 9: it is. You know, I'm not going nowhere. Hopefully she's
- 33:40Speaker 9: not going anywhere. But uh, it's she's she's cool with it.
- 33:43Speaker 9: What about your kids, that's a that's an interesting question.
- 33:46Speaker 9: We've never really had the conversation about it. My son
- 33:49Speaker 9: has made has made comments about it.
- 33:51Speaker 2: Does he have jokes?
- 33:53Speaker 4: No, No, he doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't
- 33:55Speaker 4: have jokes.
- 33:56Speaker 9: He doesn't have jokes about it. Well, so that's a
- 34:02Speaker 9: good question we have. We have my son, and my
- 34:06Speaker 9: son's twenty six years old right now. You know, he
- 34:10Speaker 9: just turns tow seven, and we just basically have a
- 34:13Speaker 9: lot of father son conversations, and my conversations are more
- 34:17Speaker 9: gears towards preparing him for life and trying to get
- 34:22Speaker 9: him to see the world from different perspectives, primarily from
- 34:26Speaker 9: a from a business perspective, a young man who's gonna
- 34:30Speaker 9: be taking care of a family perspective. And he'll make
- 34:33Speaker 9: comments just in terms of when I'm trying to explain
- 34:37Speaker 9: certain things to him how things go in life.
- 34:40Speaker 4: He feels.
- 34:42Speaker 9: Sometimes he'll make a comment like, well, you haven't had
- 34:46Speaker 9: to deal with such and such because such and such.
- 34:48Speaker 9: You know, but you know, and I keep having to
- 34:50Speaker 9: tell him. I keep it happen to remind him that,
- 34:53Speaker 9: you know, I you know, I slept in the room
- 34:55Speaker 9: with my brother till we went to college, and we
- 34:58Speaker 9: couldn't even open the door was so tight in the
- 35:00Speaker 9: room we have bunk beds with put the bunk bed down.
- 35:02Speaker 9: We couldn't even open the door. So I didn't. I didn't.
- 35:05Speaker 9: I wasn't born into this, you know. And so there's
- 35:08Speaker 9: a lot of discipline and hard work. So that has
- 35:11Speaker 9: and a blessing you know, from God. But discipline, hard
- 35:14Speaker 9: work that has me where I am today.
- 35:17Speaker 3: All Right, we got more with Morris Chestnut and Miyazi Carnaldi.
- 35:20Speaker 2: When we come back, don't move. It's to breakfast club,
- 35:22Speaker 2: Good morning. Everybody is the j n V. Jess Soliris, Charlomagne.
- 35:26Speaker 3: To God, we are the Breakfast Club Law on the roster,
- 35:28Speaker 3: filing in for Jess, and we're still kicking it with
- 35:31Speaker 3: Miati Cornality and Morris Chestnut. Of course, reasonable Doubt. Season
- 35:35Speaker 3: two is on Hulu now, Charlamage, What.
- 35:38Speaker 2: Did y'all two learn from each other on set?
- 35:40Speaker 4: Oh?
- 35:40Speaker 8: Well, I would say I definitely learned.
- 35:43Speaker 4: You know.
- 35:43Speaker 14: When they asked me how I felt about Morris coming
- 35:45Speaker 14: on to the show number one, I was just excited.
- 35:48Speaker 14: I mean, it's Morris the Chestnut, you know. I mean,
- 35:51Speaker 14: it's true, you know, just it's just he brings a
- 35:53Speaker 14: level of professionalism and ease, but yet very just approachable
- 36:02Speaker 14: and and and kind and giving, you know what I mean,
- 36:05Speaker 14: in a way that you just may not expect for
- 36:07Speaker 14: someone who's been in the business for so long, for
- 36:10Speaker 14: someone who knows that they have this particular status, you
- 36:13Speaker 14: know what I mean. But but he didn't have any
- 36:15Speaker 14: of that, you know, So I definitely just appreciated and
- 36:19Speaker 14: respected that you know about you and I.
- 36:22Speaker 9: Appreciate So the one thing you know, on a set,
- 36:25Speaker 9: the number one on the call sheet is the heartbeat
- 36:28Speaker 9: of the set. The set goes, how the number one
- 36:30Speaker 9: goes If the number one is not feeling good today.
- 36:32Speaker 9: The set's not gonna have a good day. If the
- 36:34Speaker 9: number one is not a good person, it's not a
- 36:36Speaker 9: set that you want to be on. She is literally
- 36:40Speaker 9: one of the best number ones and that I've.
- 36:42Speaker 4: Ever worked with.
- 36:43Speaker 9: She she I mean, this is is so hard because
- 36:46Speaker 9: when you're when you're when you come to a set,
- 36:48Speaker 9: you know, we have the scenes, we have our lines,
- 36:50Speaker 9: and we and we have to worry about our character.
- 36:52Speaker 9: And she knew everybody's name on the set, everybody's name.
- 36:56Speaker 9: And I've been on set. I've been on set right
- 36:58Speaker 9: now for six months. I still on even probably about
- 37:00Speaker 9: seven names out of like one hundred people. And that
- 37:03Speaker 9: was just so impressive to me. And it was really
- 37:07Speaker 9: she was really inspiring to me just to see how
- 37:09Speaker 9: she was doing that. And she made me mad one
- 37:11Speaker 9: day because I always like to be when they call
- 37:13Speaker 9: us to set, I like to be the first one there.
- 37:15Speaker 9: And she beat me one time. I said, oh, I
- 37:16Speaker 9: can't have that. I cannot have her beat me to
- 37:19Speaker 9: set because I gotta be there. Yeah, I said, I got,
- 37:21Speaker 9: I can have that. So she's just in everything that
- 37:24Speaker 9: she does, and she with all of that, you know,
- 37:27Speaker 9: she had her daughter there. She's taking care of her daughter.
- 37:29Speaker 9: She has, you know, she's carrying the load on this show.
- 37:31Speaker 9: She did it so gracefully, eloquently and just an incredible actress.
- 37:35Speaker 4: So I just have a huge She's inspiring.
- 37:38Speaker 2: Now, was there somebody you talking about?
- 37:40Speaker 4: Number ones?
- 37:40Speaker 3: Is there somebody that you say, no matter how much
- 37:42Speaker 3: they pay you, you without saying names, that you just won't
- 37:45Speaker 3: do a movie with them because they just don't act, right?
- 37:47Speaker 14: Oh No, No.
- 37:51Speaker 3: No, theod because someone popped into my head.
- 37:56Speaker 8: But I don't that's just based off of what you hear.
- 37:58Speaker 4: I don't know, you know what I mean.
- 37:59Speaker 5: I don't.
- 37:59Speaker 8: I can't jump someone based on that. So no, I
- 38:01Speaker 8: wouldn't say that.
- 38:02Speaker 3: Morrison, Oh oh yeah, I have I have one, you know.
- 38:09Speaker 9: Yeah, he doesn't. I'm not sure if he's I don't
- 38:12Speaker 9: think he's done anything too much lately. But yeah, it's Yeah.
- 38:16Speaker 9: It can be a really, really really bad set. It's
- 38:19Speaker 9: just not a good it's not a working it's not
- 38:22Speaker 9: a free working environment to be an artist when you
- 38:26Speaker 9: have everyone walking on eggshells and this person just dictates
- 38:32Speaker 9: the whole mood, just the of the set, and it
- 38:35Speaker 9: just makes it so challenging, not even to just do
- 38:38Speaker 9: your job just to even be there, because we spend
- 38:42Speaker 9: twelve thirteen hours a day. It's like a family. You know,
- 38:46Speaker 9: you spend more time on a set than you do
- 38:48Speaker 9: your family.
- 38:48Speaker 10: So yeah, I mean, I say, I have a question
- 38:51Speaker 10: for you.
- 38:51Speaker 11: I had heard Eric Alexander talk about how when black
- 38:54Speaker 11: women play strong roles on TV, it boxes them in.
- 38:57Speaker 11: It's like a good thing because your representation, but it
- 38:59Speaker 11: can be a bad and because it boxes you into this,
- 39:01Speaker 11: like you always have that power, you always have to
- 39:03Speaker 11: be tough and rough.
- 39:04Speaker 10: Do you think about that when you're picking roles?
- 39:06Speaker 11: I know, because Jackson's becoming a household now household emaw,
- 39:09Speaker 11: like people love the show. Do you think about that?
- 39:11Speaker 11: Do you think how that will affect you? Has that
- 39:13Speaker 11: been you know, something you and your team I talked about.
- 39:16Speaker 14: You know, I understand what she's saying about that because
- 39:18Speaker 14: that is you know, it's it's almost can even be
- 39:21Speaker 14: a stigma even that's placed upon us as black women.
- 39:24Speaker 14: But it's not something that I think about because there's
- 39:27Speaker 14: an element of it.
- 39:28Speaker 8: That is true. It's there.
- 39:29Speaker 4: We are strong.
- 39:30Speaker 14: We've had to be strong for so long for so
- 39:32Speaker 14: many reasons, So you know, it's not something that I
- 39:35Speaker 14: feel like I have to lead with or something that
- 39:37Speaker 14: I have to be cognizant of, because I don't. It doesn't,
- 39:42Speaker 14: it doesn't. It doesn't bother me in that way, you
- 39:45Speaker 14: know what I mean? And so I think I do
- 39:47Speaker 14: choose roles, not necessarily. If I see a role and
- 39:51Speaker 14: it says, Okay, she's a strong woman, that would have
- 39:53Speaker 14: you You know, I know, I'm going to put my
- 39:54Speaker 14: own spin on it, and I may not feel like
- 39:57Speaker 14: she's strong in the way that they think she's strong,
- 40:00Speaker 14: you know what I mean, So I can make a
- 40:01Speaker 14: different interpretation, interpretation on it.
- 40:04Speaker 4: Gotcha, I know y'all got to go. So I got
- 40:06Speaker 4: my final question.
- 40:07Speaker 1: Other than when I'm around Mark my, do you ever
- 40:10Speaker 1: walk in the room and say I'm the most handsome man?
- 40:14Speaker 4: No?
- 40:15Speaker 14: No, did say that one day when we were.
- 40:24Speaker 2: That I don't want to. You're in the family Feud video, right,
- 40:27Speaker 2: Jaycon's family?
- 40:28Speaker 10: Yes?
- 40:28Speaker 4: How was how were you casting for that?
- 40:29Speaker 2: Are you cool with the family?
- 40:31Speaker 14: Ava a direct?
- 40:35Speaker 8: I think that's how we met.
- 40:36Speaker 10: We met at.
- 40:39Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we did. It was when you were there.
- 40:45Speaker 10: I didn't.
- 40:45Speaker 8: I didn't.
- 40:49Speaker 4: I was like five years yeah.
- 40:51Speaker 14: Something like that, young watching the movie or something and
- 40:55Speaker 14: the fight it was, that's what it was.
- 40:58Speaker 8: But yeah, that's how that came about. But Abe was
- 41:00Speaker 8: the director.
- 41:01Speaker 2: Yeah, Astu. Well, we appreciate you. I know you guys
- 41:02Speaker 2: got a run Doubt.
- 41:04Speaker 9: I want to say something to you guys. I really
- 41:05Speaker 9: appreciate what you guys are doing for the culture. I mean,
- 41:08Speaker 9: I see the guests you guys have on to see
- 41:09Speaker 9: the topics that you guys talk about, and I appreciate
- 41:13Speaker 9: what you guys doing because, especially now in our community,
- 41:15Speaker 9: you talk about therapy a lot.
- 41:17Speaker 4: I love that you.
- 41:17Speaker 9: Guys bring up a current topic, current event, topics, politics,
- 41:21Speaker 9: and so you guys are I was really excited to
- 41:24Speaker 9: come back because I've been here before, but I was
- 41:25Speaker 9: really excited to come back because I appreciate you guys,
- 41:28Speaker 9: what you guys are doing for the culture.
- 41:29Speaker 4: So thank you, guys.
- 41:30Speaker 2: Thank you very much much.
- 41:31Speaker 3: Reasonable Doubt Season two is out now on Hulu. Ladies
- 41:34Speaker 3: and gentlemen, it's the Breakfast Club. It's Mores Chesnut and
- 41:36Speaker 3: Emma Yati Coronali.
- 41:37Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Close the Breakfast, Good.
- 41:40Speaker 4: Morning, it's time for Donkey.
- 41:41Speaker 2: It's a read. But you're so good at charlamade. Wants
- 41:46Speaker 2: charlamadel Man.
- 41:50Speaker 10: Who do you give a dusky O to day? To them?
- 41:52Speaker 1: Yes, don'gy to Dayvid goes to a twenty one year
- 41:54Speaker 1: old woman named Juniper Bryson, and she's been charged with
- 41:57Speaker 1: the sale our purchase of a child and she is
- 42:00Speaker 1: currently being held on the thirty thousand dollar bond because
- 42:02Speaker 1: she tried to sell her house on Facebook.
- 42:06Speaker 4: Let's go to ABC thirteen Eye Witness News for the report.
- 42:08Speaker 8: Please she led us on to believe that we were chosen.
- 42:12Speaker 7: Wendy Williams and her husband were one of many families,
- 42:14Speaker 7: according to court records, hopeful to be the parents of
- 42:17Speaker 7: this beautiful baby boy born on September twenty fourth. The
- 42:20Speaker 7: only difference between Williams and the other families is she
- 42:23Speaker 7: was in the delivery room with twenty one year old
- 42:26Speaker 7: Juniper Bryson. Williams didn't know Bryson, neither did the other
- 42:29Speaker 7: prospective parents. They just responded to Facebook posts asking for
- 42:33Speaker 7: someone to adopt Bryson's baby. Bryson chose Williams, she believes,
- 42:37Speaker 7: because she was local and Bryson went into labor early.
- 42:40Speaker 7: She stayed at the hospital for three days with Bryson
- 42:42Speaker 7: and the newborn who tested positive for drugs, munting to
- 42:45Speaker 7: court records. But then Williams says she started getting messages
- 42:49Speaker 7: on Facebook from people saying Bryson was trying to sell
- 42:52Speaker 7: the baby. After finding out what she did, Williams contacted
- 42:55Speaker 7: CPS and police were called. Investigators obtained conversations with at
- 42:59Speaker 7: least seven people on social media where they say Bryson
- 43:02Speaker 7: was asking for money in exchange for the baby, including
- 43:06Speaker 7: this one where she says, quote, I'd ask for a
- 43:08Speaker 7: minimum of one hundred and fifty bucks up front.
- 43:11Speaker 4: That's it, one hundred and fifty.
- 43:13Speaker 2: I gotta get a discount if the baby test positive
- 43:15Speaker 2: for drugs.
- 43:16Speaker 1: Okay, sot a meth, little crack baby. I'm not paying
- 43:18Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty Yeah, one hundred dollars. That's fit
- 43:20Speaker 1: nothing more than nothing less. Now, look, she's twenty one
- 43:22Speaker 1: years old, and I have a theory that after the
- 43:24Speaker 1: year two thousand, they really just started making any old
- 43:27Speaker 1: kind of human. Okay, I think God sold the company
- 43:29Speaker 1: the company that makes humans. God sold it. Let them
- 43:32Speaker 1: keep the name of the designs, but the ingredients don't
- 43:34Speaker 1: hit the say. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not
- 43:36Speaker 1: gonna sit here and act like the humans.
- 43:37Speaker 2: I grew up with was much better.
- 43:38Speaker 1: Okay, I grew up in the era where some humans
- 43:40Speaker 1: would have babies and then throw the babies in a dumpsterum. Okay,
- 43:43Speaker 1: Tupac wrote a whole song about it, Brenda's Got a Baby,
- 43:45Speaker 1: and that was based on a true story. So I'm
- 43:47Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and act holy at it now.
- 43:49Speaker 1: But this is exactly why women should be able to
- 43:52Speaker 1: have abortions if they want one. Okay, Texas has some
- 43:55Speaker 1: of the strictest abortion laws in the country. Abortion is
- 43:57Speaker 1: completely banned, except for limited circumstances. This twenty one year
- 44:00Speaker 1: old girl has to carry the term. She reaches out
- 44:03Speaker 1: to a family connection asking if they know any families
- 44:05Speaker 1: looking to adopt.
- 44:06Speaker 2: Imagine looking for a plug for adoption. That's what she did.
- 44:09Speaker 4: She was looking for a plug for adoption, an adoption booster.
- 44:13Speaker 1: But exactly and she didn't even go about the process
- 44:16Speaker 1: of doing the adoption right, so she ended up putting
- 44:18Speaker 1: her baby on Facebook marketplace. You can buy a furniture
- 44:21Speaker 1: home to core rugs and newborn babies all on Facebook
- 44:24Speaker 1: Marketplace now. I asked Lauren Lorossa earlier if there was
- 44:30Speaker 1: any newborn babies on Facebook marketplace. I just asked you
- 44:32Speaker 1: to look. I don't know. Maybe this is normal and
- 44:34Speaker 1: we don't know about it.
- 44:35Speaker 11: I ain't see none. I also checked sheen a baby baby,
- 44:38Speaker 11: come get this baby. I checked TMU for baby daddy.
- 44:40Speaker 11: I ain't seen none of them available.
- 44:42Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Now what's interesting to me about this situation
- 44:45Speaker 1: is Juniper posted in a Facebook group aimed at connecting
- 44:48Speaker 1: birth mothers with prospective adoptive parents. So you know, she
- 44:53Speaker 1: indicated that she was located in Houston, but willing to
- 44:56Speaker 1: travel if an arrangement could be made.
- 44:58Speaker 4: This poor girl really thought that this is how this works.
- 45:02Speaker 1: Okay, I just get in a Facebook group with mothers
- 45:04Speaker 1: looking to be adoptive parents, and I sell this seven
- 45:07Speaker 1: pounds four houns born to a joy to the highest bidder.
- 45:10Speaker 1: She was literally at the hospital waiting for the highest bidder.
- 45:13Speaker 1: You had to pay extra for the placenta, but she
- 45:16Speaker 1: would sell you the newborn below market rate. Now authorities
- 45:19Speaker 1: were notified after social media users raise concerns about the
- 45:22Speaker 1: legitimacy of the adoption. I've never claimed to be the
- 45:24Speaker 1: highest graded weed in the dispensary, but unless something has
- 45:27Speaker 1: changed drastically in the world. No adoptions happen on Facebook.
- 45:30Speaker 1: You just heard Lauren say, you can't go on Facebook
- 45:33Speaker 1: marketplace Okay.
- 45:34Speaker 4: To buy a baby.
- 45:35Speaker 1: They don't have no babies for sale, and you don't
- 45:37Speaker 1: get paid for adopting a child. And it's illegal to
- 45:40Speaker 1: receive payment for putting a child up for adoption. So
- 45:42Speaker 1: it's nothing left to see here, folks. Please give Juniper
- 45:46Speaker 1: Bryceon of Houston, Texas the biggest Hea hull. Now, just
- 45:53Speaker 1: you know, hypothetically, if you were to buy a new barn,
- 45:58Speaker 1: where would you want it from?
- 45:59Speaker 4: Timo? Was I probably go sen Geene?
- 46:04Speaker 10: Right?
- 46:04Speaker 11: Yeah, I feel like I know more people who've ordered
- 46:06Speaker 11: off machine, so my baby would be legit.
- 46:08Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 46:09Speaker 1: And then you know what, Timu, if they show you
- 46:11Speaker 1: the picture of the baby, the baby ain't gonna look
- 46:12Speaker 1: the way it looks and when you get it.
- 46:14Speaker 11: Yeah, I feel like Sheen, you can like you know,
- 46:16Speaker 11: how you wait until you post photos of your baby
- 46:18Speaker 11: to all the all the the features and all that coming.
- 46:21Speaker 10: How they be waiting.
- 46:22Speaker 11: But Sheen, I think they would show you all that,
- 46:24Speaker 11: like you would get the before, the after, you get
- 46:26Speaker 11: to know who the.
- 46:26Speaker 1: Dad is, all that you don't want a little Ti
- 46:28Speaker 1: MoU face baby, little t move face baby, and be
- 46:32Speaker 1: where you order it from, forever, forever twenty one.
- 46:36Speaker 2: Where you get your wakes from.
- 46:37Speaker 4: That's all I get in.
- 46:37Speaker 11: Oh, it's from a nature of savage artistry. You know,
- 46:40Speaker 11: custom unit, custom a unit.
- 46:42Speaker 1: Don't never order a baby from that. Don't ever order
- 46:48Speaker 1: up baby from there.
- 46:49Speaker 11: She don't make baby, she makes beautiful units.
- 46:52Speaker 10: Busy. I know that's right. The girls from Delaware get
- 46:54Speaker 10: busy with the hands.
- 46:55Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you for that. Donkey to day
- 47:00Speaker 4: Breakfast Club Morning.
- 47:03Speaker 3: Everybody's DJ Envy Jess, Hilarryous, Charlamagne and the guy. We
- 47:07Speaker 3: are the breakfast Club Laurna Rosa filling in for jests.
- 47:10Speaker 3: And we got a special guest in the building. Yes,
- 47:12Speaker 3: indeed we got Jalil White.
- 47:14Speaker 2: Welcome.
- 47:14Speaker 4: What's up, fact, How you feeling man? I'm doing great, man,
- 47:17Speaker 4: I rear a good man.
- 47:18Speaker 1: Good to see you, Bron'll see you, brother. You got
- 47:19Speaker 1: your new book, Growing Up Arcle, a memoir. I've always
- 47:23Speaker 1: loved your story, though, because you know you already a
- 47:25Speaker 1: pitted me of taking advantage of a moment. He's an opportunity, right,
- 47:28Speaker 1: because you were so only supposed to be on one episode,
- 47:30Speaker 1: the episode How'd that Happen Again?
- 47:35Speaker 15: Charlamagne, I was I was just a black kid at
- 47:37Speaker 15: one of the Sega Jackson start.
- 47:38Speaker 4: It really wasn't that deep.
- 47:40Speaker 15: My dad told me that I could get one of
- 47:41Speaker 15: anything whenever I got a job, because I was resisting
- 47:44Speaker 15: going on auditions. At this point, I was all five
- 47:47Speaker 15: foot four of me, was ready to play basketball.
- 47:48Speaker 4: We all getting basketball talks at some boy.
- 47:51Speaker 15: And I wasn't booking jobs at age twelve too much
- 47:54Speaker 15: because a lot of the stereotypical roles.
- 47:56Speaker 4: I just wasn't fitting it. My profile I had, like I.
- 47:59Speaker 15: Said, at braceist on five four, and I saw this
- 48:02Speaker 15: audition come through and I was like, I can get
- 48:04Speaker 15: the shot.
- 48:05Speaker 4: What was it? What was it? What did it say?
- 48:07Speaker 15: The description I included in the book was just, you know,
- 48:10Speaker 15: nerdy character. As a matter of fact, I was described
- 48:12Speaker 15: as a Rick Moranis type. So that just shows you
- 48:15Speaker 15: what the writer's room was already doing the cast of
- 48:18Speaker 15: the Black Kid and asking for Rick Morani's type. So
- 48:20Speaker 15: I actually read that literally, and then I went and
- 48:23Speaker 15: got the Best of Saturday Night Live VHS tape that
- 48:26Speaker 15: we had in our house and I found Ed Grimley
- 48:28Speaker 15: and I basically was doing a black kid's version of
- 48:31Speaker 15: Ed Grimley, and it wasn't really a good impersonation, quite frankly,
- 48:34Speaker 15: but because nobody thought that was my inspiration, it became mine.
- 48:38Speaker 2: Did you get the second genesis? I was just always curious,
- 48:42Speaker 2: did you want to act?
- 48:44Speaker 4: Acting was just something that I just didn't after.
- 48:46Speaker 15: I mean doing this, I was three, So you know,
- 48:49Speaker 15: did you want to do anything that your parents got
- 48:51Speaker 15: you started when.
- 48:51Speaker 4: You were three?
- 48:52Speaker 15: It was just it just came naturally. I didn't resist it,
- 48:54Speaker 15: and I enjoyed it. Of course, you always joined and
- 48:56Speaker 15: enjoyed getting a day off of school to go someplace
- 48:58Speaker 15: and and yeah, exactly and have some fun. But as
- 49:02Speaker 15: I got to be around the age of twelve, I
- 49:04Speaker 15: didn't really want to act more.
- 49:05Speaker 4: I wanted to play play basketball.
- 49:07Speaker 15: But once I got the show, then I started getting
- 49:10Speaker 15: reps in at a different pace. And now, once you
- 49:13Speaker 15: get reps in, you prove yourself good at something proficient,
- 49:16Speaker 15: Like I remember the exact episode where I'm like.
- 49:19Speaker 4: Oh, this is fun and this audience is my toy.
- 49:22Speaker 15: And the episode is called the Big Fix where I
- 49:24Speaker 15: took Lower on a date for the first time because
- 49:27Speaker 15: Eddie needed to pay off a bet and I leveled
- 49:30Speaker 15: this French restaurant.
- 49:32Speaker 4: Now, before we get to episode.
- 49:33Speaker 15: Yeah, that's the first episode where I'm like, I can
- 49:36Speaker 15: hear the audience different. I can see it in my
- 49:37Speaker 15: eyes when I watched the episode.
- 49:39Speaker 3: Before we get into that part of it. Is it
- 49:41Speaker 3: true that you tried out for Rudy Huxtable that boy?
- 49:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I did the root.
- 49:44Speaker 4: That's the naint. Rudy was poor boy.
- 49:45Speaker 2: Oh wow, it was poor boy.
- 49:48Speaker 15: So there was a debate there, and you know, he
- 49:50Speaker 15: obviously went out over the network at the end, and.
- 49:53Speaker 4: And Kisha got the roll. How did you get Oh,
- 49:55Speaker 4: it came down to me and her. That's it.
- 49:57Speaker 15: They auditioned us all day. I actually never forget that audition.
- 50:00Speaker 15: They always bring in like two or three options for
- 50:02Speaker 15: each role. But they put us in one room.
- 50:05Speaker 4: For like several hours and kept paring us.
- 50:07Speaker 15: And going in and out, and then at the end
- 50:09Speaker 15: they said, hey, listen, we are pressed for time, so
- 50:11Speaker 15: we will take you. You, you, and you and the
- 50:13Speaker 15: rest of you. Thank you for coming out. So you
- 50:15Speaker 15: had all these crying kids just pouring out of that
- 50:18Speaker 15: building that had been there all day.
- 50:20Speaker 4: And I remember my mom was like she just had a.
- 50:22Speaker 15: Huge reaction to that. She was like, do you ever
- 50:24Speaker 15: react like that to losing an audition?
- 50:26Speaker 4: Again?
- 50:26Speaker 2: Are you crying?
- 50:27Speaker 1: Oh?
- 50:27Speaker 15: We every I mean, that's a cold way to lose
- 50:29Speaker 15: a job when you're seven years old.
- 50:31Speaker 10: Did you really understand it to be picked right in front?
- 50:34Speaker 15: And I've been right in front because generally it happened.
- 50:36Speaker 15: You know, your agent will call you or your agent
- 50:38Speaker 15: didn't call you. And my mom was never the type
- 50:40Speaker 15: to call the agent also and be like did we
- 50:42Speaker 15: or did we not get the job?
- 50:43Speaker 4: And a lot of parents do that.
- 50:44Speaker 11: But did you really understand at seven years old, like,
- 50:46Speaker 11: oh my god, I'm losing this job? This is like
- 50:48Speaker 11: what this could be?
- 50:49Speaker 4: Well?
- 50:49Speaker 10: Were you were just like a kid and it was
- 50:51Speaker 10: like no, so you cried like what did you think?
- 50:53Speaker 4: No, Well, we were supposed to move to New York. Oh,
- 50:56Speaker 4: so they were.
- 50:56Speaker 15: They had already talked to my parents through our agent
- 50:59Speaker 15: and everything, and my dad was trying to figure out
- 51:01Speaker 15: because he was just graduating from dental school.
- 51:04Speaker 4: At the time.
- 51:04Speaker 15: My dad was trying to figure out how to do
- 51:07Speaker 15: this from New York. They had practically said the job
- 51:09Speaker 15: is yours and then a little girl came walking in.
- 51:11Speaker 4: Damn.
- 51:12Speaker 15: I mean they do that kind of stuff all the
- 51:13Speaker 15: time now that I'm adult and I know that, but
- 51:15Speaker 15: at the time, it was just it was just very shocking.
- 51:17Speaker 15: And then you've become a big fan of the show, right,
- 51:20Speaker 15: so you're looking at the show and it's like, oh, man,
- 51:22Speaker 15: that could have been me.
- 51:24Speaker 4: You're doing that, But that passes too.
- 51:26Speaker 2: Especially when you end up with your own iconic role
- 51:29Speaker 2: in the future.
- 51:29Speaker 4: Right. I didn't even look at it that way, seriously,
- 51:31Speaker 4: I just during that time show.
- 51:33Speaker 15: I'm telling you, man, it's wild to watch fame now
- 51:36Speaker 15: because everybody kind of believes like they can have a
- 51:38Speaker 15: famous moment and it should come easy to them.
- 51:41Speaker 4: But back then, like you know, if you.
- 51:43Speaker 15: Got a chance to meet Magic Johnson, you got a
- 51:45Speaker 15: chance to meet Chatty Jackson in person. They were inaccessible,
- 51:48Speaker 15: they were all talented, they were you know, there was
- 51:52Speaker 15: an aura.
- 51:52Speaker 4: Literally.
- 51:53Speaker 15: I remember the time I met Michael Jordan for the
- 51:55Speaker 15: first time and he crept up behind me at the
- 51:56Speaker 15: Magic Johnson Midsummer Nights Classic, and it's just like he
- 51:59Speaker 15: literally had like this little glow around him, this black
- 52:02Speaker 15: Jesus glow around him, and and it's different now, it
- 52:05Speaker 15: really is.
- 52:05Speaker 4: So you didn't think you could be that. You see
- 52:07Speaker 4: what I'm saying now, I don't think that.
- 52:08Speaker 2: I don't think there is real celebrity now.
- 52:10Speaker 15: Oh now, no celebrity has completely been deluded. Yeah, it
- 52:13Speaker 15: really is. I'll disagree and say, there's still some people
- 52:16Speaker 15: who have it.
- 52:17Speaker 4: I can you know, I can see it.
- 52:18Speaker 15: There's some people where they walk in and they have
- 52:20Speaker 15: that natural it factor where it's like, okay, you just
- 52:22Speaker 15: you affect the room, you know what I'm saying. Like
- 52:24Speaker 15: even when Will Smith used to come in or the
- 52:26Speaker 15: NBA All Star Games, when Will was in the room,
- 52:28Speaker 15: it was just different.
- 52:29Speaker 2: That's just arato.
- 52:30Speaker 15: Yeah that's exactly so. But that's but that's traditional celebrity
- 52:34Speaker 15: this stuff. Now, like I said, it's just it can
- 52:35Speaker 15: feel real temporary and it's like you ain't got the
- 52:37Speaker 15: it factor, but you got the light on.
- 52:39Speaker 10: You did.
- 52:40Speaker 3: The cast like you because you went from just supposed
- 52:43Speaker 3: to be one episode to taking over the whole thing.
- 52:47Speaker 3: So did they like it? There had to be some
- 52:49Speaker 3: resentment a little bit. It's like Lord nerdy kid coming
- 52:51Speaker 3: in here, Like I said, it was, it was. It
- 52:53Speaker 3: was weird at first.
- 52:54Speaker 15: The kids and I we worked it out the easiest
- 52:56Speaker 15: because they had to hear a lot of.
- 52:58Speaker 4: Things that some of their parents who even saying.
- 53:00Speaker 15: And you know, when you're a kid and you're hearing
- 53:01Speaker 15: what your parents are saying, you're just gonna follow suit that.
- 53:04Speaker 4: But Darius and Kelly and I we became brothers and sisters.
- 53:07Speaker 4: That's our puberty.
- 53:08Speaker 15: So I just feel like the division really kind of
- 53:09Speaker 15: took place more along the lines of the adults were
- 53:12Speaker 15: the adults and the kids were the kids.
- 53:14Speaker 1: You would think that at some point in life people
- 53:16Speaker 1: would understand that y'all are a team and it doesn't
- 53:18Speaker 1: matter who the star of the team is if the
- 53:20Speaker 1: team is winning.
- 53:22Speaker 4: Yeah, but the magic words you say is you would.
- 53:24Speaker 2: Think, yeah, yeah, but I would it.
- 53:25Speaker 4: I mean, after all of these years, we haven't learned that.
- 53:27Speaker 2: Even when you use the Shaq and Kobe.
- 53:28Speaker 15: Example like that's you know, you can't change the way
- 53:31Speaker 15: people are gonna think when they when they're coming from
- 53:32Speaker 15: a place of ego. You know, I did a lot
- 53:34Speaker 15: to extend our run because the reality was.
- 53:37Speaker 4: She was about to get canceled. I know, but that
- 53:39Speaker 4: in fact, I get it.
- 53:40Speaker 15: You can say that I don't need to to lean
- 53:43Speaker 15: in on that, you know, but you know, whether if
- 53:45Speaker 15: it was keeping my hair to cut the same way.
- 53:47Speaker 15: I mean, it got to the point where I was
- 53:48Speaker 15: sick of my own haircut or staying out of the gym,
- 53:51Speaker 15: not working out, you know that sucked and playing basketball
- 53:54Speaker 15: and finally in my scene they change the pants. Yeah,
- 53:56Speaker 15: they maybe change in the final season. It was like,
- 53:58Speaker 15: no more jeans. He doesn't wear any gens. So I
- 54:00Speaker 15: was doing things that was.
- 54:04Speaker 5: You.
- 54:08Speaker 4: I read that about to get messed. What was your bulge.
- 54:14Speaker 2: About this out.
- 54:17Speaker 4: Talk over you?
- 54:18Speaker 11: I mean, he wants to talk about your balls. I
- 54:20Speaker 11: want to be I want you said were coming. I
- 54:23Speaker 11: was getting there. I was one little fishing statement. You
- 54:25Speaker 11: jumped to the bulge, did go ahead? You jumped on
- 54:28Speaker 11: down his fins, go ahead.
- 54:29Speaker 4: To work it out. When we come to the package.
- 54:34Speaker 2: Regular it's crazy, y'all. Don't get to sit here.
- 54:37Speaker 4: He gives it off waiting for that off back to
- 54:43Speaker 4: the bulls. That James bottom line, they just said no
- 54:46Speaker 4: jeans in the final season.
- 54:48Speaker 2: They didn't tell you why they said no jeans in
- 54:49Speaker 2: the final.
- 54:53Speaker 11: Ball can tell you that it was getting a little
- 54:55Speaker 11: awkward to see the bulge.
- 54:56Speaker 10: That's what the pote said.
- 54:57Speaker 4: Jesus, they said, no jeans.
- 55:00Speaker 10: Do they come to your parents and say that or
- 55:02Speaker 10: did they come directly to you.
- 55:03Speaker 15: Know at that point, I mean, come on, I'm on
- 55:04Speaker 15: saying I'm taking I'm getting notes from producers and you.
- 55:07Speaker 1: Know that's a funny ass note to tell somebody that's.
- 55:12Speaker 10: An uncomfortable note.
- 55:14Speaker 4: We don't know.
- 55:15Speaker 11: I feel like you said it in private, like you
- 55:17Speaker 11: pulled my family to the side and we have a
- 55:19Speaker 11: very closed discussion.
- 55:21Speaker 4: Talk about your son's bultit wild Bright.
- 55:25Speaker 3: We got more with Julio White, a k a. Steve
- 55:28Speaker 3: Kele when we come back, don't move. It's to Breakfast Club.
- 55:30Speaker 3: Good morning morning everybody, Iss dj Envy, Jess, Hilarrys Charlamage
- 55:34Speaker 3: the guy we are the breakfast Club law La Rosa filing.
- 55:37Speaker 2: And for Jess was still kicking it with Jalio White.
- 55:40Speaker 2: You know, Steve Erkele.
- 55:41Speaker 3: Now we were talking about when you were turning into
- 55:42Speaker 3: the star. Right, So at first you didn't have a
- 55:45Speaker 3: dress room. Now you got the biggest dress room. So
- 55:48Speaker 3: how was that change?
- 55:51Speaker 4: Money?
- 55:51Speaker 2: I'm so money change.
- 55:52Speaker 15: Well, the thing about money, which was cool is that
- 55:54Speaker 15: my mom was so petrified the show would get canceled anyway,
- 55:58Speaker 15: that she never bought a new car for the first
- 56:00Speaker 15: four seasons of the show.
- 56:02Speaker 4: You know, my mom was that.
- 56:03Speaker 15: I think that's why I'm so passionate about the protective
- 56:06Speaker 15: job that my parents did. They did so much to
- 56:09Speaker 15: try to keep me attached to normal life, right, you know,
- 56:13Speaker 15: they didn't get new cars themselves.
- 56:15Speaker 4: My mom demanded that I went to public school. I
- 56:17Speaker 4: went to public school.
- 56:18Speaker 15: During the entire time, but they't but we didn't have
- 56:23Speaker 15: cell phones. We didn't have all we had cell phone
- 56:25Speaker 15: but they were big bricks at that time, but we
- 56:27Speaker 15: didn't have smartphones to invade the privacy to that degree
- 56:30Speaker 15: and let everybody know.
- 56:31Speaker 4: What school he goes to, at least on a nationwide level.
- 56:33Speaker 15: So you know, I would pop into school like every
- 56:35Speaker 15: two weeks to three weeks, and you know, that was
- 56:38Speaker 15: something I actually enjoyed doing, kind of like a magic
- 56:40Speaker 15: trick because I could go in and I could take tests,
- 56:42Speaker 15: I could raise my hand, I could answer answer questions
- 56:44Speaker 15: from the teacher, and my peers are looking at me like,
- 56:46Speaker 15: how do you know this stuff? It's like I study
- 56:48Speaker 15: on set too. How was school did you ever get
- 56:50Speaker 15: bullied because people.
- 56:51Speaker 4: Looked at you.
- 56:51Speaker 2: You know, that's the whole thing. There's the whole thing.
- 56:54Speaker 15: It was like the first school I was attending at
- 56:57Speaker 15: the time, I was the only black kid at the
- 56:58Speaker 15: entire school, which was our we two. It was half Asian,
- 57:01Speaker 15: it was half white, and now it's sense taking over
- 57:03Speaker 15: all Asian. When I'd go back and past that school,
- 57:06Speaker 15: and you know, that's all, you know, the usual stuff.
- 57:09Speaker 15: Can I touch your hair and you know, not getting
- 57:11Speaker 15: invited to buy Mitzvah's and all that kind of stuff.
- 57:13Speaker 15: And then that all changed as soon as I got
- 57:14Speaker 15: on the show. Hey you want to go to the
- 57:16Speaker 15: Laker game with me? And you know, my mom wants
- 57:18Speaker 15: your agent number. She thinking about putting me in the business.
- 57:20Speaker 15: And now I'm suddenly so popular. So I left that
- 57:22Speaker 15: school and then I went to what I like to call, like,
- 57:24Speaker 15: you know, the Joe Clark School, the lean on Me Light.
- 57:27Speaker 15: In that case, I was just I stood out a
- 57:29Speaker 15: little too much and it also raised my hand too much.
- 57:32Speaker 15: And I had a teacher that liked me, and I
- 57:33Speaker 15: liked this last of the two. And you know at
- 57:36Speaker 15: schools like that, they don't like those kind of relationships.
- 57:38Speaker 15: So ran into problems there. And then my mom found
- 57:42Speaker 15: the school that was the porch that was just warm
- 57:45Speaker 15: enough for me. And in three bear story analogy and
- 57:48Speaker 15: and now was South Pasadena High School, and they kind
- 57:50Speaker 15: of had to sprinkle everybody.
- 57:51Speaker 4: It was Asian, it was Mexican, it was black. It
- 57:52Speaker 4: was wonderful.
- 57:53Speaker 15: And I had a great principal named Ben Rameirez may
- 57:56Speaker 15: he rest in peace, who just you know, kind of
- 57:58Speaker 15: went out of his way to make sure that I
- 57:59Speaker 15: was always welcome on camp.
- 58:00Speaker 11: So, because even in your book you talk about having
- 58:03Speaker 11: your dressing room kind of like set up like aress.
- 58:06Speaker 4: Room, My dreasu room was cool addressing you.
- 58:08Speaker 10: Really wanted to go to the NBA like that was
- 58:10Speaker 10: like brill.
- 58:10Speaker 4: It was about going to NB I was a huge
- 58:11Speaker 4: I mean listen, if you grew up in the nineties,
- 58:13Speaker 4: the NBA just this was different.
- 58:14Speaker 12: Man.
- 58:15Speaker 4: It landed on your life.
- 58:17Speaker 15: Man, it was it was everything got so I, you know,
- 58:20Speaker 15: I once I started gaining some influence, you know, you
- 58:22Speaker 15: could do certain things. And the set decorator for our
- 58:24Speaker 15: show transformed the second room in my dressing room into
- 58:28Speaker 15: an actual NBA locker room. So I had all the
- 58:31Speaker 15: different lockers and you know, that's where I would change
- 58:34Speaker 15: and get ready for the show.
- 58:36Speaker 1: Wow, you know what I wanted to did the cast
- 58:38Speaker 1: members on Family Matters? Was it a level of hate and.
- 58:41Speaker 2: Jealousy and envyingus inviianis Indianists are?
- 58:45Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
- 58:46Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Your chance to get him
- 58:49Speaker 4: up are in hindsight? Were you really difficult to work?
- 58:53Speaker 13: No?
- 58:54Speaker 2: Absolutely not. You know because Reginald Johnson said that.
- 58:57Speaker 15: Okay, okay, so let me make it easy for you.
- 59:00Speaker 15: How come you never heard that from the kids? Kelly
- 59:02Speaker 15: speaks Arius is everywhere is everywhere? How come you never
- 59:05Speaker 15: heard of real again?
- 59:06Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 59:06Speaker 4: You know, when you when you leave a show.
- 59:08Speaker 15: First of all, the difference between movie started and TV
- 59:10Speaker 15: startum is when your movie start, you still star, even
- 59:13Speaker 15: if you don't have a movie out. When you a
- 59:15Speaker 15: TV star, unless you're on TV.
- 59:16Speaker 4: You're not a starting. And that's just the way the
- 59:18Speaker 4: business treats.
- 59:18Speaker 15: So I think people go through a lot of personal
- 59:20Speaker 15: trauma sometimes after a show is gone off the air, divorces, investments,
- 59:24Speaker 15: maybe they go right, et cetera, et cetera. And it
- 59:26Speaker 15: causes people to look back on things with kind of
- 59:28Speaker 15: a jaded look, and it was like, man, we had fun.
- 59:31Speaker 4: We did.
- 59:31Speaker 15: Even the pictures I picked out for the book. You know,
- 59:33Speaker 15: I wanted to show pictures of us chilling. You know,
- 59:36Speaker 15: I wanted to show me, Reggie and Darius, you know,
- 59:39Speaker 15: chilling in Paris when we shot two episodes in Paris.
- 59:41Speaker 4: We're the only black show to ever shoot in Europe.
- 59:44Speaker 4: That was a big deal.
- 59:45Speaker 1: You know.
- 59:45Speaker 4: We had this I'll never forget.
- 59:46Speaker 15: We had this giant, twelve thousand dollars meal at the
- 59:49Speaker 15: top of the Eiffel Tower.
- 59:51Speaker 4: As a cast.
- 59:52Speaker 15: Oh, I'm glad you asked. My mom took that bill
- 59:55Speaker 15: and handed the production because she had the cloud.
- 59:57Speaker 4: To do that. But Joe Bury's there, Reggie there, Well,
- 1:00:00Speaker 4: we was balling at the top. But again you balling.
- 1:00:03Speaker 15: So you know, it's almost kind of like when you
- 1:00:04Speaker 15: hear Scotti Pittman talking about the Bulls.
- 1:00:06Speaker 4: Now, it's like, Scotty, you can't say nothing nice about
- 1:00:08Speaker 4: the bulls?
- 1:00:10Speaker 12: Have you?
- 1:00:10Speaker 4: He was rock stars? You and Mike didn't kick it
- 1:00:13Speaker 4: at all?
- 1:00:14Speaker 6: You should That's how.
- 1:00:15Speaker 10: You remember it.
- 1:00:15Speaker 11: Have you recently talked to any casts, because I know
- 1:00:17Speaker 11: Joe Marie pay and like she had come out and
- 1:00:19Speaker 11: said that you guys had a little whatever.
- 1:00:21Speaker 4: That's what you fight each other.
- 1:00:23Speaker 10: Yeah, Like, can you first of all clarify that story
- 1:00:25Speaker 10: because that's just a while.
- 1:00:27Speaker 4: No, there's just there's nothing to clarify.
- 1:00:29Speaker 15: I'm talking about a coworker of over thirty years ago,
- 1:00:32Speaker 15: and I was a miner.
- 1:00:33Speaker 4: You don't think if there was any validity of that,
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: they wouldn't have come out.
- 1:00:36Speaker 10: I'm like, wow, so nothing happened.
- 1:00:38Speaker 14: I mean.
- 1:00:40Speaker 4: No, but I'm not I'm not getting in it back
- 1:00:42Speaker 4: and forth.
- 1:00:43Speaker 15: I'm sorry, I'm just doing too good getting it back
- 1:00:45Speaker 15: and forth, you know, with a woman who's over seventy
- 1:00:47Speaker 15: and I've been kind of like mentally ingrained.
- 1:00:49Speaker 4: To not fight with my elders, Like, all right, that's
- 1:00:52Speaker 4: the way you saw it. Cool, it is what it is.
- 1:00:54Speaker 11: Well, she recently said on the stage, I think where
- 1:00:56Speaker 11: I forget where they were at, but the cast was there.
- 1:00:58Speaker 11: You weren't there, and she said that, like, you know,
- 1:01:00Speaker 11: she wished that you were there, and if you were there,
- 1:01:02Speaker 11: she would hug you, and she kind of you know
- 1:01:04Speaker 11: that whole thing.
- 1:01:05Speaker 10: So have y'all talked or why.
- 1:01:07Speaker 15: Does what she have to say hold so much more
- 1:01:09Speaker 15: validity than what my other cast members have to say,
- 1:01:12Speaker 15: I'm just curious.
- 1:01:13Speaker 10: I think, oh, I think that the age thing does
- 1:01:15Speaker 10: play a factor. What you say, you know what I mean?
- 1:01:17Speaker 10: I think that definitely plays a factor as well.
- 1:01:19Speaker 11: But I think she's one of the first people that alleged,
- 1:01:22Speaker 11: like the bad stuff that I saw come out and
- 1:01:25Speaker 11: be like, man, we should just hug it out.
- 1:01:27Speaker 10: I wanted to know. It made me wonder like, have
- 1:01:28Speaker 10: y'all talked, like what changed?
- 1:01:30Speaker 15: So the people that I talked to regularly is Kelly
- 1:01:33Speaker 15: and Darius Neggain. I don't call them Laura Netty, so
- 1:01:35Speaker 15: I you know, I called Kelly about this book, you know,
- 1:01:38Speaker 15: and we spoke.
- 1:01:38Speaker 4: Extensively, and you know, Kelly called me two weeks ago.
- 1:01:41Speaker 4: But it's weird for us. By the way.
- 1:01:42Speaker 15: Also when we go out and eat or anything like that.
- 1:01:45Speaker 15: You know, we like little back rooms and stuff like
- 1:01:47Speaker 15: freak out exactly if people saw if people saw me
- 1:01:49Speaker 15: and Kelly just at Crustaceans in Beverly Hills, what it
- 1:01:52Speaker 15: tends to turn into a big Hey, can I get
- 1:01:54Speaker 15: a selfie?
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: Fast?
- 1:01:55Speaker 4: So you know, data, so you know, we keep it private.
- 1:02:05Speaker 15: But I have a very good relationship with all the
- 1:02:07Speaker 15: cast members who've ever wanted a relationship with me beyond
- 1:02:10Speaker 15: the show, and I don't have anything negative to say
- 1:02:13Speaker 15: about Reggie when people ask me who is your favorite
- 1:02:15Speaker 15: scene partner? I'm like the chemistry I had with Reginald
- 1:02:18Speaker 15: vel Johnson. I remember the episode where it clicked for us,
- 1:02:22Speaker 15: It's called Box Card Blues, when we were stuck in
- 1:02:24Speaker 15: the train together all these cows and Steve is just
- 1:02:27Speaker 15: getting on his nerves, and you know, Reggie just couldn't
- 1:02:30Speaker 15: look at me without breaking up, without you know, without
- 1:02:32Speaker 15: breaking character, and we just we developed this amazing chemistry.
- 1:02:35Speaker 15: But adults are adults and they're going through adult things too.
- 1:02:38Speaker 15: And also I'm a kid, so you know what I'll
- 1:02:40Speaker 15: tell you one way, maybe I could have been annoying.
- 1:02:42Speaker 15: I dribbled my basketball everywhere. If I was in school,
- 1:02:45Speaker 15: did you let what need you all said?
- 1:02:47Speaker 4: Boom boom? Basketball? Basketball? Basketball? But adults get annoyed when
- 1:02:50Speaker 4: a kid is just dribbling and bouncing the ball all
- 1:02:52Speaker 4: over the place. Is that difficult old you to talk
- 1:02:55Speaker 4: about thirteen fourteen years old?
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I would feel like adults
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: would have a little bit more.
- 1:03:01Speaker 15: I'm approaching it from a very self where you know standpoint.
- 1:03:05Speaker 15: So I'm like, okay, yeah, no, that's and I remember
- 1:03:07Speaker 15: Joyce Web, one of our script supervisors, be like, oh
- 1:03:10Speaker 15: here it comes with the basketball, just like okay, you know.
- 1:03:14Speaker 15: I'm like, but if that's that translates twenty five years
- 1:03:17Speaker 15: later to being difficult, I'll take it.
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: We got more with Julia White when we come back.
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club.
- 1:03:27Speaker 4: Warning.
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: Everybody is dj n V Jess hilarious, charlamage the guy
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: we are the Breakfast Club Lord and the Rosa filling
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: in for Jess. We're still kicking it with Julia White
- 1:03:35Speaker 3: aka Steve Erkle. Now let's talk about your first kiss.
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: Let's talk about your first kiss, because everybody you're getting
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: arrested and nowadays if that was.
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: So because he's a guy, oh and only they don't
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: do that to guy exactly. So break down your first kiss,
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: seventeen years old on set.
- 1:03:52Speaker 4: He's ahead of me on this one.
- 1:03:54Speaker 5: No.
- 1:03:54Speaker 15: We had a we had a scene man where you know,
- 1:03:57Speaker 15: Steve and Eddie get hot at the dice table and
- 1:03:59Speaker 15: they're rolling to die and this woman is supposed to
- 1:04:02Speaker 15: give me a kid just planting on on me before
- 1:04:03Speaker 15: my last dice roll, and during rehearsals all week, she had.
- 1:04:07Speaker 4: Just pretty much given me a pack.
- 1:04:08Speaker 15: It was just a pack, yeah, because you just go
- 1:04:10Speaker 15: through the motions, but with that hot live studio audience there, man,
- 1:04:13Speaker 15: she just yeah, she gave me the whole she bang.
- 1:04:15Speaker 15: And so when I pulled back, this was your first time,
- 1:04:17Speaker 15: because yeah, I had never kissed the girl.
- 1:04:19Speaker 10: I said, how did you know what to do?
- 1:04:21Speaker 6: I did.
- 1:04:21Speaker 4: I wasn't. First of all, I wasn't even planning for that.
- 1:04:23Speaker 15: I know you're supposed to put your lips together, but
- 1:04:24Speaker 15: I didn't know that anything else was really supposed to
- 1:04:26Speaker 15: happen to them.
- 1:04:27Speaker 4: I wasn't. I wasn't seasoned it was.
- 1:04:31Speaker 15: And so she does it, and my whole my thinking
- 1:04:35Speaker 15: at the time was do not break character, do not
- 1:04:37Speaker 15: ruin a good take. You know, That's what you just
- 1:04:39Speaker 15: kind of taught as as a comedic actor and as
- 1:04:42Speaker 15: a kid. And so when I went to my dressing room,
- 1:04:45Speaker 15: I just kind of involuntarily tears start coming down my
- 1:04:47Speaker 15: face because I was just like, that was weird. And
- 1:04:49Speaker 15: then my dad corners me and he's like, what's wrong.
- 1:04:51Speaker 15: Exact the producer comes back, like what's wrong? And it
- 1:04:53Speaker 15: was just like, you know, like she put her tongue
- 1:04:55Speaker 15: in my mouth.
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: I'm surprised your mother, and you know, it was so funny.
- 1:05:00Speaker 15: Everybody says that, but it was like my father was
- 1:05:02Speaker 15: present and was dealing with the issue, so there was
- 1:05:05Speaker 15: no reason to inject. And once it was revealed what happened,
- 1:05:09Speaker 15: they all started laughing.
- 1:05:10Speaker 2: Not the mento movement, my dad, my dad, my dad's left.
- 1:05:16Speaker 4: No, do not find this woman, do not troll this
- 1:05:19Speaker 4: woman at all.
- 1:05:21Speaker 15: No, I'm serious, because it's like that's one of the
- 1:05:22Speaker 15: things that I'm very protective of is we have to
- 1:05:25Speaker 15: embrace what double standards were, leave them in the past.
- 1:05:28Speaker 4: But it's okay, like I can laugh at it.
- 1:05:30Speaker 15: I'm saying, like from the time that it happened to
- 1:05:33Speaker 15: my dad and the executi producer coming in to me
- 1:05:35Speaker 15: walking back out on stage to do now the next.
- 1:05:37Speaker 4: Scenes, even the crew Hot five, she put it on
- 1:05:40Speaker 4: your young fellow. You hung in there, you did your thing,
- 1:05:42Speaker 4: and it was like it was very clear to me.
- 1:05:44Speaker 15: All the signals that I was getting was that might
- 1:05:47Speaker 15: have been yucky the way it went down, but apparently
- 1:05:50Speaker 15: I'm going to get a lot.
- 1:05:51Speaker 4: More of that. So Cheesemo says, yeah, okay, all right,
- 1:05:53Speaker 4: go with the flow.
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: What about the trauma you went through because it was
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: immediately after that scene they told you that you can't
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: wear pants anymore.
- 1:05:58Speaker 4: You know what, I see, I see how you're doing.
- 1:06:02Speaker 4: You'll be here. We tip your waitresses.
- 1:06:07Speaker 11: I know in the book you talk about the meeting
- 1:06:09Speaker 11: that you had with the exact about the remaker to
- 1:06:12Speaker 11: spin off the reboot. Your version that you wanted to happen,
- 1:06:16Speaker 11: in my opinion, was way better. I don't know if
- 1:06:18Speaker 11: you want to say it, want people to read the book,
- 1:06:19Speaker 11: but was way better than what they had pitched to
- 1:06:22Speaker 11: you than you Will we ever get that, and can you?
- 1:06:24Speaker 10: Could you do that on your own?
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: Listen?
- 1:06:26Speaker 4: First of all, you can't do it on your own.
- 1:06:28Speaker 6: You know.
- 1:06:28Speaker 15: That's the thing about television that people have to respect.
- 1:06:31Speaker 15: It's the only art form I feel that still has gatekeeping,
- 1:06:34Speaker 15: still very.
- 1:06:35Speaker 4: Much in place.
- 1:06:36Speaker 15: And you can either be bitter about it or you
- 1:06:37Speaker 15: can fight the good fight and look for the person
- 1:06:39Speaker 15: that's gonna be your champion.
- 1:06:40Speaker 4: That's just it is what it is.
- 1:06:42Speaker 15: I was never offered a reboot. I always want to
- 1:06:43Speaker 15: make that very clear, and even my vision for the
- 1:06:45Speaker 15: show that I have.
- 1:06:46Speaker 4: It's not about me.
- 1:06:47Speaker 15: It's about three dimensional characters that would actually resonate and
- 1:06:51Speaker 15: translate in twenty twenty four. Because I worked for the
- 1:06:54Speaker 15: producers who coined the phrase jump the shark. Bonsie jumped
- 1:06:57Speaker 15: the shark, You jumped over a shark, right, those are
- 1:07:00Speaker 15: my producers, the exact same producers, So you're not going
- 1:07:03Speaker 15: to invite me to jump the shart again. I was
- 1:07:05Speaker 15: offered a blind contract and half my pay of what
- 1:07:09Speaker 15: I got for the last episode, and there was no
- 1:07:11Speaker 15: consideration given to the adults that actually have such a
- 1:07:15Speaker 15: large opinion over what terms they would return to. I'm
- 1:07:18Speaker 15: like the way they were being discussed was, well, you know,
- 1:07:21Speaker 15: Harrod and Carl will come by and they'll visit the
- 1:07:23Speaker 15: new family every now and then, Like Hollywood doesn't really.
- 1:07:27Speaker 15: They engage talent when they need talent, they pay talent
- 1:07:31Speaker 15: when they need talent. And this isn't even a black thing.
- 1:07:33Speaker 15: I don't want this to turn into a black thing.
- 1:07:36Speaker 15: I'll hear guys like Chris Pine or whatever, who's you know,
- 1:07:38Speaker 15: He's like, I don't know what they're going to do
- 1:07:40Speaker 15: next with Star Trek, Like I love playing the character,
- 1:07:42Speaker 15: but when they call me.
- 1:07:43Speaker 4: They called me, so I'd.
- 1:07:45Speaker 15: Love the opportunity to make the show that I envisioned.
- 1:07:48Speaker 15: That was never turned down. It was never pitched. I
- 1:07:50Speaker 15: was just offered a blind contract and around that they
- 1:07:54Speaker 15: were going to develop the reboots.
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: Now, you never there. I was watching an interview you did,
- 1:07:58Speaker 2: and you said you never got invited. None of the
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: Hollywood parties.
- 1:08:01Speaker 4: No, no, I mean I didn't.
- 1:08:03Speaker 15: I would do a lot of nice parties, but not
- 1:08:05Speaker 15: none of the like the stuff that started gaining a
- 1:08:07Speaker 15: lot of steam on on on social media, like you
- 1:08:10Speaker 15: know the Rock Nation brunch or or obviously you know
- 1:08:13Speaker 15: you're talking about my man, you know, the Diddy parties
- 1:08:15Speaker 15: or whatever.
- 1:08:16Speaker 4: Like Noah, nothing organically not did you used to get invited?
- 1:08:20Speaker 4: You got to calm down, You.
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: Got you gotta go.
- 1:08:24Speaker 4: You gotta calm down.
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: You just around.
- 1:08:28Speaker 15: We just we're going to slow it down for a second,
- 1:08:31Speaker 15: you know what I'm saying. So sometimes you can just
- 1:08:32Speaker 15: be driving too fast. You're not paying attention to the
- 1:08:35Speaker 15: to the you know, speed, to the speed exactly. We're
- 1:08:39Speaker 15: in a thirty five zone right now.
- 1:08:40Speaker 4: What happened to Julia?
- 1:08:41Speaker 6: Man?
- 1:08:42Speaker 4: How Judy just walked up stairs.
- 1:08:43Speaker 15: Talked about it, So I know there were a multitude
- 1:08:46Speaker 15: of factors that went into her departure from the show
- 1:08:49Speaker 15: that I blame all on her mother. But as a performer,
- 1:08:53Speaker 15: they weren't giving her storylines. She wasn't the best at
- 1:08:55Speaker 15: delivering a joke.
- 1:08:56Speaker 4: You know.
- 1:08:57Speaker 15: Sometimes they would give her material and it would just
- 1:08:59Speaker 15: fall flat. And if you fall flat and run through,
- 1:09:02Speaker 15: they're gonna rewrite you. And you know, we're kids back there,
- 1:09:04Speaker 15: so you know, kids, that's the thing. You can't roast
- 1:09:06Speaker 15: each other nowadays, at least not in public. But trust me,
- 1:09:09Speaker 15: kids are still roasting each other. That's never going to
- 1:09:11Speaker 15: go away, right, So you know, we'd be sitting in
- 1:09:13Speaker 15: the background and they're like, and.
- 1:09:14Speaker 4: She blows the layup. You know.
- 1:09:15Speaker 12: It was just like.
- 1:09:19Speaker 15: You know, and it's just like, you know, you can
- 1:09:21Speaker 15: only mess up so much and be arrogant about it
- 1:09:24Speaker 15: in the Fird code in the Mercedes Too before somebody
- 1:09:27Speaker 15: says enough of this, you know, And in this situation,
- 1:09:30Speaker 15: I really felt like, you know, Jamie was born to
- 1:09:32Speaker 15: a mother who put herself before her daughter, and she
- 1:09:35Speaker 15: had ideas of grandeur that weren't necessarily very realistic, and
- 1:09:38Speaker 15: it sucks for Jamie that she has to wear that
- 1:09:40Speaker 15: scarlet letter for the rest of her life. And I
- 1:09:42Speaker 15: hope that Jamie finds peace outside of show business. To
- 1:09:45Speaker 15: be quite honest, you know, this show business can start
- 1:09:47Speaker 15: to make you think that this is the only way
- 1:09:49Speaker 15: to make money, this is the only way to live,
- 1:09:51Speaker 15: Like if it didn't I talk about that with Jonathan
- 1:09:53Speaker 15: Brandis because he passed away and he took his life
- 1:09:56Speaker 15: and I just I was very close to him at
- 1:09:58Speaker 15: that particular time, and I saw some of someone that
- 1:10:00Speaker 15: was really putting too much emphasis on what this business meant.
- 1:10:04Speaker 11: To his existence on her For one, Myra Michelle Thomas, Yes,
- 1:10:10Speaker 11: every time that girl, I know, I was going to say,
- 1:10:12Speaker 11: every time you talk about her, it's very emotional for you,
- 1:10:14Speaker 11: and like I feel that that's your girl, right Or
- 1:10:17Speaker 11: was I want to know off off camera when you
- 1:10:20Speaker 11: guys developed your relationship that we didn saw on camera
- 1:10:22Speaker 11: because it was so believable, what was that off camera relationship?
- 1:10:26Speaker 10: Like and like building that for the characters on camera?
- 1:10:28Speaker 10: Like how did you guys cause you were so young?
- 1:10:30Speaker 14: Dad?
- 1:10:30Speaker 12: No, just you know.
- 1:10:31Speaker 15: Michelle started off playing malcol Jamal Warner's girlfriend on The
- 1:10:35Speaker 15: Cosby Show, so she was always older than me. So
- 1:10:37Speaker 15: even though she was so small and bubbly and you know, big,
- 1:10:40Speaker 15: but she was I looked at her like a little sister.
- 1:10:43Speaker 4: I'm like a big sister. Yeah.
- 1:10:44Speaker 15: We just had this amazing chemistry. My mama loved her too,
- 1:10:47Speaker 15: so that always that that made things easy. And she
- 1:10:51Speaker 15: just made it her business to always want to always
- 1:10:53Speaker 15: want to hook me up with somebody. And she introduced
- 1:10:55Speaker 15: me to Martha's Vineyard, you know, spending summers there, and
- 1:10:59Speaker 15: we just had an amazing chemistry. She was just and
- 1:11:00Speaker 15: she was just down.
- 1:11:02Speaker 4: Like everybody knew Michelle.
- 1:11:03Speaker 15: Everybody knew Michelle in the music business, everybody music just
- 1:11:06Speaker 15: everywhere we went, people loved Michelle. And unfortunately she passed
- 1:11:10Speaker 15: away to summit cancer and that was just a very
- 1:11:13Speaker 15: emotional time because we just knew what she was going
- 1:11:15Speaker 15: through as an actress. So during the time when she
- 1:11:18Speaker 15: went out, I just I wish that there have been
- 1:11:20Speaker 15: some better opportunities for her, you know what I'm saying, Like.
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: We want people to buy the book Growing Up Oracle,
- 1:11:24Speaker 1: but you know, it is it is interesting to see
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: how much of the love y'all created off camera.
- 1:11:29Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it was.
- 1:11:30Speaker 4: It was real love man like you know, I get it.
- 1:11:33Speaker 15: Yes, it was bumpy in the beginning, especially with the
- 1:11:35Speaker 15: adults and uh and and the parents were some of
- 1:11:38Speaker 15: the kids.
- 1:11:38Speaker 4: But that's my puberty.
- 1:11:40Speaker 6: You know.
- 1:11:40Speaker 15: Darius is out here while in the times, and you
- 1:11:42Speaker 15: know he and I we slide each other's dms.
- 1:11:45Speaker 4: But that's my brother.
- 1:11:46Speaker 15: I mean, we've all had, you know, brothers or whatever,
- 1:11:49Speaker 15: frat brothers or college friends, you know, bugging out or whatnot.
- 1:11:52Speaker 15: But you don't abandon that cat. You still take it
- 1:11:54Speaker 15: as call and y'all just laugh it off. And that's
- 1:11:56Speaker 15: what my relationship is with with Kelly and Darius. It's
- 1:11:58Speaker 15: very brotherly and says, you know, I'll always defend our
- 1:12:02Speaker 15: entire cast actually for the.
- 1:12:03Speaker 4: Work that we did. That's what it is.
- 1:12:04Speaker 3: Well, Jalil White, ladies and gentlemen, growing a pleasure with
- 1:12:07Speaker 3: my brother out right now makes you pick it up.
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: Breast cloud now good morning pointing.
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: Everybody is dj En v Jesse, hilarious, charlamage the guy
- 1:12:16Speaker 3: we are the breakfast club.
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: Or leave us on a positive note.
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: The positive note is simply this man reminds yourself that
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: winning an argument, are proving your point really gets you
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: nowhere in the long run, win through your actions, not
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: your words.
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: Have a blessed day, Breakfast Club.
- 1:12:29Speaker 4: It is you don't finish, So y'all done.