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Nakia Bryant's Inspiring Journey in the Film Industry · Yeah Buddy! Podcast

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Yeah, Pepper told me that you take this equipment to houses.
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Yeah, yeah, I can. I didn't know that. Yeah. I've been like, ah.
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But if we do it again, I have somewhere in Sacramento to go.
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Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, yeah.
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Music.
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All right cool yes yes yes y'all what is going on this is your man buddy rami
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and we are back at it with another episode of the yeah buddy podcast and this
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giving out trying to give them a whole bunch of social media promo,
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media promo, newspapers, all that good stuff.
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So it's going to be a fun time. And we're going to have a whole bunch of industry people up there.
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Vacaville, yeah. Vacaville at the Journey Theater. I think that's what they call it now.
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But yeah, that should be cool. There's going to be, yeah, we're going to have
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a couple of agents up there.
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We're going to have some people from iHeartMedia up there, film commissioners and stuff like that.
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So, I mean, even you actors, stuff like that comes through the network.
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That's right in my county.
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Mm-hmm. Absolutely. Yeah.
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Like I said, this episode, every episode of the Yeah Buddy podcast,
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I always try to bring some of my friends in the entertainment business.
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We could just chop it up, you know, talk about our journeys in the entertainment
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business, see what we got coming up.
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And this episode is like no other. This episode, we have a very special guest.
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She is a award-winning actress.
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She's in movies such as the independent film Mad as Hell, which is on Tubi right now.
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She has upcoming movies called Mama Don't Take No Mess and Cocaine Roach.
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Cocaine Roach. forget to get into she's also a published model
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she's been in a couple magazines and she is a ambassador for a clothing line
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called just strong so i want y'all to make a lot make a lot right now for my
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good friend miss nakia and bryant in the building tonight no worries thank you
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for having me thank you i'm glad you're here glad you made it all the way up
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from where was it susan yes.
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How's it drive it wasn't actually too bad okay don't try wasn't too bad a little
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bit a couple pockets but that's about it okay cool cool so me and you we met
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at the sacktown movie buff,
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Mixer. The Mixer. Big Sexy Brewing Co. Yeah. Yes. How was it?
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How was your experience taking in that film festival?
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I haven't been to a film festival in a while. And that was absolutely amazing.
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So much fun. Great location.
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Good food, by the way. Oh, the barbecue?
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I didn't get my own, but I was eating off of maybe Pepper's Blade.
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Yeah, I'll see the prices. Yeah, I see the prices for them.
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I say, you know, I would just say, what's that? Can I try to like five people?
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No, but it was it was great. It was a lot of fun. A lot of faces I hadn't seen
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in a long time, including Bunny.
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So, yeah, I've done some work with her before, but that I hadn't seen her in a year or two, maybe.
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And it was great to see her again and so many other people i had interviewed
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i was a co-host of a podcast last
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year as well and there were two artists there that i was glad to see so,
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okay cool yeah shout out to bunny stewart bunny stewart's definitely a good
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friend of the the yeah buddy podcast she's been on here we interviewed her she's
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always good time good energy good spirit when you're around bunny and stuff
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like that yes yeah but that mixer was cool Cool,
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because I don't know how often you come out to like Sacramento to mix and mingle with the people.
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I know you said it's been a while, but usually we don't get that type of turnout when it comes to.
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Yeah. I mean, it was very good to see a lot of the people from different pockets
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of like the film community just come together and just like start that drama.
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Network networking with industry attorneys, directors, producers and writers,
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as well as, you know, Robert Parham from our films. I mean, a couple other artists
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that were in our films as well.
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He really kind of sort of tends to work with the same people and help develop
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them as artists if they're not already seasoned.
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Just helps develop them a lot along the way.
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And yeah, it was great. It was great. I had so much fun. Yeah. You saw the musician?
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I did see the musician there. He was awesome, too.
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I was so busy on this side, but I did hear him on this side.
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So it was great to just vibe out, you know, just totally vibe out.
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I know I think I've seen, I know I've heard that voice before and I've seen his face before.
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So it was great to hear him out there. Yeah, it's always good.
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I think his name was the Philharmonic. I hope I didn't mess that up.
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See, that's what I was talking about. I should have wrote it down,
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but he is an amazing artist.
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Yeah, yeah, no, yeah. It was definitely, definitely good vibes,
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definitely good energy. G shout out to Kiera for throwing on a wonderful film mixer.
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I'm not, well, a film mixer, but that the film festival went on through the whole entire weekend.
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And that was at the, the IMAX theater.
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Yes. And your film that you're in mad as hell Sunday.
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Yes. It's right on Sunday, the 13th. Yeah. I believe that's what it was. Yes.
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So many other great films throughout the weekend as well. And I believe they
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had a celebrity party too.
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It's that Saturday night. So did you miss it? Yeah, I don't think I got that invite.
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I was there on Saturday, but I didn't get that invite.
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No, I got the invite, but that's the thing about driving, you know,
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and I didn't, I just didn't rent a hotel or anything.
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So I come out on Friday for the mixer and I said, well, I can come out on Saturday.
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If I do, I'm just going to have to stay the night out here.
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But I just came out for a little while and just went on home.
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But yeah, there was a nice little party that they had. I'm sorry.
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No, I think I know what you're talking about, though. It was like the Miss Glamorous.
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Well, they had a whole bunch of events going on. Yeah, a whole bunch of stuff,
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yeah. They had a whole bunch of stuff going on, which is good.
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Sacramento's, the whole art scene and entertainment scene had really started
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to build up out here in Sacramento.
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And then, so like I said, you had the film Mad as Hell. Yes.
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In the film festival. Well, not only was it in the film festival,
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but it also took home a couple awards.
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Yes, it did. It took home Best Director and Best...
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Supporting actor and then best supporting
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actress okay yes yeah so yeah
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you want you want best supporting actress i did
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yeah don't be so bad i was a bashful let me tell you let me just tell you because
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because it's so embarrassing i didn't expect to hear my name right so when i
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did hear my name i can guarantee you the soles of my feet grew numb i could
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not feel the bottom of my feet.
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And this is where Bunny comes in because I was so grateful that she was standing
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in the place that she was standing in because I stopped and I gave her a hug
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because I said, oh my gosh, Bunny, I don't know. I don't think I'm going to make it over there.
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But she was just so, you know what I'm saying? The energy that she gave,
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she probably just gave me another burst of energy to just go,
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but I couldn't feel my feet.
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And then I just don't even remember my speech because I don't even think I included
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everyone that I really wanted to.
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So shout out to everyone that I love that I was supposed to say my daughters
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were there too. And I totally like blanked out on them as well.
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But I know they love me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, and it was just an honor,
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really, really, really an honor to receive that award. Mm-hmm.
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Really, really. And so in the movie, well, you get people, I didn't get a chance to watch the movie.
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I saw the trailer for it. It looked pretty crazy. It's something about,
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like, some, I don't want to go too into detail.
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I don't want to best play it. Well, best supporting actress really is just someone
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in the film that provides glue.
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Like, it's a piece of glue to the film. Mm-hmm. My role wasn't very big and
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I really had just one crazy line.
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But I think what Rob does really well when he's mentoring in films is timing.
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And then, you know, this line, these lines that he just looks,
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he's like, no, this is probably going to work for you if you say this.
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But it was really all about camera angles and timing in that.
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And my character, Miss Cresswell, you know, she lasted a little bit in the film.
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And then there were a few flashbacks of her.
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But it was really, I can't, I don't, I think it was just the timing in that.
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Because I would love to be mad as hell too, if that's what they're going to
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do. So interesting to see how that goes. Because I definitely asked not to die.
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Yeah. Madder as hell, that's what we call it. Yeah, I definitely didn't want
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to die. But, you know, I was at a point where I called him...
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I, you know, I said, hey, what do you have for me? You know,
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I mean, he said, well, I might have something, but I don't think you're gonna,
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you know, he's like, I don't think you're gonna like it.
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And I was like, I don't, I don't, I don't care. Just call me back.
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Like, what is it? And he was just like, you know, do you have a great wig?
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Do you have this and that? And
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trying to just study that character because I'm not that old quite yet.
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But I was trying to figure out on YouTube how to, you know, one of the assistants
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there, we were trying to figure out how to do it, you know, because we're not
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like those sort of artists, you know, with the makeup.
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But I tried to make it as believable as I could.
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Yeah, that's what they all say, because I did see the trailer and what I was
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looking at, where's the Kia at? And then I went back and I was like, oh, she.
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And so that's what's been happening to me probably since the movie come out.
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You know, I've had to like, but that's me right there. I swear it is.
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And also to my weight loss journey as well. As I was filming that,
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I was definitely a lot bigger back then than I was now.
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So you can see the journey that I've also. Also, so follow me on social media
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because you can see the journey that I've taken and just getting my health back
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and my fitness and my body, you know, my body back and stuff like that.
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But, yeah, I just try to embody that character.
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But that was me this entire time. And I said, Rob, no one's going to know.
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Like, how will they know? How will they know? You know, so.
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But that's the power of great acting. that's the power of great acting being
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a great you know character actor committing you know committing to the committing
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to the role committing to this character that you're playing because like you said it was.
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It didn't look like you at all. Like everybody goes, well, she has like glasses,
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this old gray wig, just, you know, just playing it up and stuff like that.
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Yeah. I know you talk about like doing like research and stuff like that.
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What is normally like your process of getting into a character,
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especially something that's so far like from who you are naturally as a person?
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Well, it depends on how many lines I have. I'm just slowly increasing,
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you know, my visibility in the films that I'm starting to do now.
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I was usually just like a visual part of it or created a scene or the aesthetic
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of it, not just because I was cute or standing back.
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Most of the time, too, I was in the character and people didn't even know that
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was me as well. So I'm just now starting to to get more into that.
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But so far, I just read the script and just see what I can, you know,
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what I can do with the character, really.
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And the research is not all Googleable.
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You know, it's it's mainly someone that you've known or that you've come across in your life before.
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You know, whether it's a teacher or even someone at the grocery store that has
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a slang when they talk or just the way they do their hair or something like that or whatever.
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You've seen someone like that before. Yeah. And you just have to tap into it.
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Yeah. I think everybody grew up at one point in time had a neighbor that was
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like a Miss Cresswell somewhere.
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Yeah. Like that. So maybe didn't do a Miss Cresswell did. But yeah, Miss Cresswell.
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Nosy. Nosy neighbor. The nosy neighbor. The nosy neighbor.
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Yeah. And so how how did you get started into acting?
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Oh, well, I was in my first play at third grade.
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So in my third grade teacher, she missed Diana Colombo.
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I'm still looking for, by the way, if she's out there, you can speak to her
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because she really took the time to she just really took the time.
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She say you have something and I want to keep putting you in things.
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So my first play was The Witch, actually, in Snow White.
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And I was like, you know, I had instantly went through this nose thing and I
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was like, oh, they just chose me because my nose.
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Right. But no, I had to put some aesthetic on it anyways.
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But it was really the walk. And it was how I studied the character.
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I had seen the movie already, obviously, because it's a Disney movie.
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I was 10. So I think I've seen it. I had seen it before.
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But the costume was different.
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And I changed up her walk a little bit as I was walking into the auditorium.
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And it really people started clapping and stuff.
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And I was like, I don't know. And then my lines came out and there wasn't many,
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but I just delivered them in a way that, you know, people enjoyed it.
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But that was the start of it.
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And I think I did a couple other plays with her. And then, of course, in church.
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I did some stuff in church, you know, my grandma had us in church and stuff.
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So and then high school and then I did sports. So I was into sports after that,
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like big time, big time basketball player.
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And then high school, high school, my drama teacher kicked me out.
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So I think I was a little too much for whatever he I don't know what it was.
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He just, you know, tapped me on my shoulder and said, you know, well,
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I think he was trying to say you need to go to an
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art school maybe but he didn't say that he just
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said you know i don't think this is i don't think i can
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help you here you know something like that something along
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the lines i gave him like this music tape that i worked really hard on like
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trying to the cassette the double cassettes and you know how you have to stop
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record stop record then try and get everything on i'd like work really hard
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because i had to do a monologue and music you know he just said give Give me
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whatever it is that you have of, you know, you doing.
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And I don't know. That's funny because I got kicked out of high school drama
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class, too, as well. Yeah.
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So I don't know. I think that's what the most talented people is not getting
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kicked out. He's like, I'm giving you an unofficial promotion. Now you go off. Right.
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Because that he in front of everyone tapped me on my shoulder. Yeah.
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You need to come with me. He's like, all right.
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And then you talk a lot about work with Robert Parham. I know you've worked
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a lot together. Y'all known each other for, what, close to 20 years now or something?
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Oh, since 2005. 2005, yes.
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He was actually my work manager, like a jobby job, jobby job.
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He was my work manager for about two years maybe, and then said that he was
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writing, had his own film company.
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That's actually my very first film, The Difference, that I don't know if he
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wants people to see or not, but it's not bad at all. It's just the beginning
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of me really on screen with lines and stuff.
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And that was the first time he was teaching me about, as I said,
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timing and product placement, because I think he has his own products that he
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has in some of his movies.
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And there was this barbecue sauce scene that I kept getting wrong.
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And he kept saying, cut, move your finger, cut, move your finger, cut.
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Can you turn? I was like, what is wrong with my finger? So my fingers were so
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long that it didn't matter what I did.
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The label was not fully shown.
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So but then I eventually, of course, I got it. But, you know,
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it was a really good film about different scenarios that he had written about
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real life situations that I think still resonate today, you know.
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And so how, so start off with 2005, what other projects have y'all,
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y'all, cause y'all collaborating on, I feel, I see your IMDB and stuff like that.
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It almost feels like he just has you attached to like almost like every film. Almost all of them.
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Yeah, I've done some outside work. So in the because I'm from the Bay Area.
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So prior to that, or even in 2009, I was a part of the Headbanger Accessory
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Movement, where these three beautiful young ladies from Oakland had this line
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of these earrings. It was all about face and earrings.
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And I did their fashion show. And they have three promo commercials,
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I want to say on YouTube right now, if you guys want to see them.
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So I did that with them. And then I did a web series with Razzmatazz Filmworks
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out there in the Bay Area.
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Just a trailer, but it was great training as well because, you know,
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everything is always, I'm always learning, you know, that's one thing.
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So I can't wait to teach others, you know, what I know. But yes,
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predominantly most of his movies, if you haven't seen the short,
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was one of the first, well, second projects I was on working with him.
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And that's called Buster Jones, the movie.
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Okay, I saw that. Yeah, we did that out in Santa Cruz.
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And you know any time in between it's just
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because i was just told no on other
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auditions or you know i just had
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to work you know i had to actually work a job
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or something like that you know just to pass time so yeah because i think that's
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something that people don't understand especially up here in northern california
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bay area even more so in sacramento is just how much there's not really a strong
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film industry up here so you got to do those types how you say And just the
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rejection is, it's crazy.
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I'm like the poster child for real for no, because even when I was 19.
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So also to, I trained with lights, camera action when I was 19,
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20 and 21 in San Francisco was called lights, camera action, where we did improv.
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I used to be really good at voices and accents and Brit, like Brit, Britain.
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I mean, I can do, I can do some things, you know, and even singing voice impersonations
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and, and just things like that. that so we did a lot of that.
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And then just work the scene, you know, just auditioning. And we all kind of
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did it together and stuff.
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So I'm in trained and did workshops and had acting coaches back then. So that was pretty fun.
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No, that's what I was going to kind of segue into and stuff like that.
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Because you say you had like a whole group that you guys would go out, audition with.
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It's kind of like you had like that support system and something similar that you got with Robert.
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Robert can you kind of like I guess just speak to to that
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the importance of having that that that network of
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people that is just close to you that could give you not only
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just guidance but that that support for not
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just the entertainment side of things but just just life in
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general the ups and downs yeah so I
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don't know I don't honestly there's a thing I don't know
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much about Robert's personal life because we
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really just work together well whether.
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I am in front of the camera or behind the scenes
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I've done some PA work some directors I
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mean I've done pretty much everything behind the
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scenes as well which is also a good thing like you
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know he is very instrumental in teaching
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that part of it as well so but
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it's always good to have you know a group
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of people that you know you can count on you know they'll show
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up you know they'll show out if they need to but
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you know you're there to produce you know
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some good quality work um to
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the best of our abilities and some will say hey do
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this do that a little differently or like yeah
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you knocked it out and it's it's really
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it's really welcoming in this industry you
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know yeah because it doesn't it happens so often
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a little bit but um it's always good
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to make friends and and if they are going to be loyal friends
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and they're all really willing to do the work
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right because you're just here to to make great films and
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so yeah i welcome that for sure but it's always a good thing to have yeah it's
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all yeah because you said with all the rejection that you have yes like it's
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also good thing how you talk about like you kind of keep it just like from strictly
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professional with somebody because I feel like family, if they're not really involved,
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but not only family, but friends as well, if they're not really involved in
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the industry or what this is.
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They don't really understand. They don't. And the time away,
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you know, is not understood.
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You know, it's just a lot. But it all works out. You know, if you stay grounded,
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you know, it all works out.
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So we share similar experiences just from being an artist's standpoint, being an actor.
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There but what's it like like if you want to give advice or just
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set some type of knowledge to to women that
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want to pursue this whether something's that you could just just your experience
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and stuff like that because I don't I'm not really because this is a male-dominated
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it is a male-dominated industry so I don't know I you know honestly I've been
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rejected more than I've been accepted in a lot
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of scenarios and auditions and things of that nature.
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Like my biggest, I think my biggest, and this is really quick,
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but the biggest network that I auditioned for, I auditioned for MTV's Road Rules back in the day.
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And I've definitely auditioned for Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model.
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I think I did that twice in the Bay Area.
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So, and I didn't get it, but I just kept going. You know, that's all I can say
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to young people is to just keep going.
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And in between time, just keep mastering your art.
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If this is what you love, it's good to try new things.
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But just stay focused and just keep just keep practicing your art.
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Because when you know, 520 knows when there's going to be a yes,
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you know, there's going to be a yes, if you just keep going,
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if this is what you want to do.
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And morally grounded, you know, I mean, listen,
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art is art and we all love to be as women like sensual and sexual and all of
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those things, but not the quick way,
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you know, let it take time and grow into yourself as a woman.
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Yeah set boundaries know when to because you're
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going to hear no so many times just understand it's okay for you to
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say no like if there's something that comes up that pops up you'd be
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like i don't i haven't got work in so long this isn't really something that
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i'm comfortable with doing but i want to work you just got to understand that
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it's okay to say no sometimes yes it is and it's okay to say yes to know to
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people who are always told yes it's okay to say no and just let Let them whatever,
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you know, you can't control what they think about you, honestly.
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And most of it's not true. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Most of it's not true, you know, especially when you call other people out on
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things, just whatever it is. Most of it's not true.
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You know, you just have this opinion about it or you have actual facts,
23:43
but it's just not true. You know, so you just got to just rise above all that.
23:48
Nice. And so you said you had auditioned for entire bases, like in America's Next Top Model. Yes.
23:54
Once we talk about that, but that also just your modeling journey in general, did you start modeling?
23:59
Well, you was active for since a child. So you saw that you just gradually got into doing modeling?
24:03
Link well so this is the thing i was never ever really
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tall enough to do like runway right so
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i think it was like five eight or nine and above and i'm barely i'm five almost
24:15
five seven so i knew that all the modeling that i would get would probably be
24:20
either in print or magazines or something like that but i still went out 2004
24:25
she still has those archives she was definitely in the
24:28
bay area i don't know if you've been to the great mall in
24:31
milpitas but you have to go there it's
24:34
it's just this phenomenal mall it's super huge
24:37
but i did in 2002 and then 2004 was my last audition for that but i mean i still
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just like went for it i don't know i maybe she changed the height requirements
24:49
i think she made some changes maybe towards the end but i don't know i was too
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late for that. But it was a great experience. Trust me.
24:57
I'm on those audition tapes if she has them archived. Yeah, for sure.
25:03
Yeah. Well, they do like the behind the scenes, like the documentary of like
25:07
the whole history of America's Next Top Model. You'll just pop up in there and stuff like that.
25:11
Yeah. But I was 17 in Alameda.
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Norma Payton Henning signed me, but that was really short lived because shortly
25:18
after that is when I did the lights camera action that really took us around
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the Bay Area and I gained some experience.
25:25
That's how I found MTV's Road Rules.
25:29
And I didn't get that either, but that's all right. But I remember just standing
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in those massive lines, just massive lines.
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I didn't even know this many people existed in San Francisco.
25:42
But we're out there auditioning and coming back to the office still with our heads held high.
25:49
And what can we do next to...
25:53
You know to to to fix i mean you know what
25:56
can we do next for our next audition to make ourselves stand
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out a little bit more yeah it's always just about taking taking that experience
26:03
adding on to and then like say just pushing for the next one yeah push it for
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the next opportunity that's what no means next opportunity so yep yep and then
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that's a good one yeah see yeah yeah see next,
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opportunity yeah i don't know where i got that from but i heard it from somebody
26:21
i took it that I'll pass it all to you.
26:23
Thank you. I'm going to pass that on to you. Next opportunity.
26:27
You, so you do mostly print. I see some of the work that you had done,
26:30
like the photographer, I saw most of your pictures were like vert, right?
26:34
Or some of them I saw. Yes. So I have work with, there's a Sacramento photographer
26:39
who's absolutely amazing.
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Tori Scroggins photography. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He does good headshots.
26:45
Yeah. Tori does amazing work and he's so creative.
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Yes, just a few others that I've done just to help build.
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And when I was younger, just to help build resumes or just build mine resume.
26:58
But really just in the past year, yes, Vert and I did two shoots together.
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We just did two last year and then it just got picked up by so many of them.
27:09
I was like, whoa, what is this, Bert?
27:11
But he's just like, let's just roll with it, you know? So we are going to do more soon.
27:17
Soon, soon, soon. And you've been published, published in like magazines and
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stuff like that. Published, yeah.
27:22
Yeah, those are on my link tree though, too. If you guys go to my Instagram,
27:26
go 1Nikea underscore Nicole and click on my link tree. You may have to just
27:31
purchase a digital copy, which I think is like seven. I don't know.
27:35
It's not that expensive.
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But support, support. That's the most important. Yeah, it's just support.
27:38
There's, I think, seven, six or seven of them on there and also a Christmas edition as well.
27:45
So I was very proud of that because we did it. Yeah, we did a Christmas shoot
27:49
and I was just unsure of what I was.
27:51
You know, when you're just unsure of what you're wearing, those are the ones
27:54
that are that are going to do some things.
27:57
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was very unsure. where i was like i don't know about
28:00
you know i don't know but he's like no let's do it this is this is gonna do
28:04
some stuff yeah the christmas one i did see the christmas one and i was going
28:08
scrolling through and stuff like that and i was like they had like the picture
28:11
of like all the models and stuff like that i was like look at my like but yours
28:15
definitely popped out it popped out,
28:17
probably because i was the only one of color yeah maybe yeah that that that
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that too yes Yeah, she was the black Mrs. Claus.
28:24
Yeah, it was in there. Yes. And I was excited to do all of that.
28:29
You know, I'll take it. You know, I'll take it because we put it out there for
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everybody. But that's just who picked them up.
28:37
So does that stuff like that into your mind?
28:40
Like when you're like on these like these film sets and acting,
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do you see these portfolios and stuff like that?
28:48
There's not too many people of color. a lot of times. I feel like it's getting
28:52
better now, you know? But it's still just this.
28:57
Like I said, we're representing something that's bigger than us when we're putting
29:03
together these film projects.
29:05
It's tricky because, I mean, I don't know, there may have been a point or a
29:08
time where just people of color, this just wasn't what they wanted to do.
29:13
You know, that can also, I also thought of it that way.
29:17
However, it is, yeah, there was a very strong lack of diversity for a lot of projects.
29:25
Projects, me personally being sent all over the place because I'm like, I'm blind,
29:30
but they're, you know, they have me doing all these other things that feel as
29:34
though, you know, I might be capable of doing, which I'm, I'm very proud of
29:38
everything big and small that I do always.
29:42
So I don't know. I, every time I go into a room, I see someone that looks like
29:47
me, at least one or two people.
29:49
And that, I don't know if that's good or bad, but I'm sure there There was a
29:54
time when there were none.
29:55
Yeah. So, you know, yes, I've seen numbers increase, definitely.
30:00
And, you know, your writers and your directors, if they're just solely making
30:04
movies for Black people, yeah, everyone show up and support.
30:10
Okay. Yeah. Nice. And do you have a favorite? Favorite?
30:15
Modeling shoot that you had been on okay yeah
30:17
this is past Christmas one that I mean you
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know that was really fun because I never done a Christmas shoot
30:23
before and I you know I mean you just
30:26
have to put yourself into that space of
30:29
Christmas the space and my birthday's in December too so I
30:32
had to like just become this Christmassy person versus
30:36
you know if I was just modeling an outfit or you
30:39
know just a fashion thing but Christmas has a character
30:42
to it so I had to like bring a character to it
30:45
so that was really pretty much one of
30:49
the funnest that i've been to so far and when did they when did
30:52
you shoot that because it was it wasn't in december it was in december was
30:54
it december yeah it was in december it was probably right after
30:58
my birthday's december 3rd so it's probably like on the 8th okay okay yeah it
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was probably like on the 8th yeah that's cool little birthday gift yeah it was
31:05
like on the 8th and so yeah and then um i got the notice that i got into these
31:09
publications so i you know i'll take that too yeah what was that like where
31:13
you You just like flip through a magazine and then you're just like, that's me.
31:16
Yeah. So, I mean, personally, I've only purchased one of them.
31:20
And yes, it is very awkward because I have brothers.
31:23
So sometimes I'm like, yeah, I'm the only girl and I'm the baby.
31:27
So sometimes I'm like. Like who took this picture?
31:30
No, but sometimes I'm like, I mean, I know my oldest brother used to change
31:35
diapers, but still, you know, I'm different now.
31:40
It's just like, and then like, you know, I don't know. I don't think about it,
31:44
but I think about it. But I just don't want my brother.
31:48
It's like you don't think about it, but you think that other people are thinking
31:50
about it. Yeah. Well, this them in particular, right?
31:55
I don't want them to see my nipples or anything like that. But I mean, look, I'm an adult now.
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So art is art. Art is art. Art is art. What can you say?
32:07
And then so what is it like also like not only just see yourself in like magazines,
32:10
But now, like, also, like I said, with the acting, working in films,
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like, because I said, the maddest hell is at the IMAX.
32:16
Do you get, like, a different rush from seeing yourself in a magazine compared
32:19
to seeing yourself, like, on the big screen? Oh, yeah. It's so different on the big screen.
32:24
I think this is our second or third showing on the big screen.
32:30
So I did go out to Las Vegas and there was a screening there.
32:34
And that's when I first met Cinda.
32:37
Cinda Williams. Williams and I was just in awe of her because who has not seen Moe Better Blues?
32:43
And, and then I have these shoes that, you know, so we were going out to dinner and,
32:48
And, you know, she wanted to take off her heels. Right. So I had this rental
32:51
car. I was like, oh, I got these shoes in my car, like these flats,
32:54
you know, that I drove in and stuff.
32:55
And so I gave them to her and I wanted her to sign them.
32:59
I don't think she signed them, but she still had her feet in them.
33:01
And then I took them back. So I still have them on my closet.
33:05
Like these are Cinda, Cinda Worthy's, you know.
33:08
But it is it is different to see a magazine, though, because then because because
33:14
you always have it there, you know, you keep looking through it.
33:16
If you watch a film, you watch a film, you get this rush.
33:19
And then, you know, in an hour or two, the film is over. And so it's a little
33:25
different, but I love them both.
33:27
I love them both. I love them both. So and it's good to see people around and their reactions to it.
33:34
So I'm just looking forward to doing more. Yeah.
33:37
Yeah. And you get that overall for the most part. I assume people like support
33:41
what you're doing, the people closest to you. Yeah. Nice. Nice. Yeah, absolutely.
33:45
Yeah. I am just overwhelmed with had a great week after, you know,
33:51
winning that trophy. I was like, oh, my gosh, I had a really great week after that.
33:55
And still to this day, because I'm here, you know. So, yeah, everyone is like,
34:01
you know, yes, you've been working towards this for a very long time or,
34:04
you know, just congratulations or, you know, hugs and kisses and stuff.
34:10
Yeah. Is that that validation?
34:13
Yeah. So where is the trophy? Where do you keep the trophy at now?
34:16
Yeah. So I have this mantle.
34:19
Well, both of my parents are in spirit right now. So I have this area,
34:24
you know, that I dedicate to them.
34:25
So I just put it up there next to them.
34:29
Yeah they're looking up and having like oh that's my
34:32
baby yeah see so on the speech I really wanted to
34:35
you know I wanted to say so much but then
34:37
I couldn't because I knew they were there in spirit and I really wanted
34:40
to say you guys can't see them and I can't see them but I know that they're
34:44
here you know I really wanted to give that moment yeah so thank you for this
34:49
opportunity because you know I was like oh what did I what was I doing yeah
34:52
that was that was the Oscar moment right there we was like tears pour yeah so
34:56
next time hopefully there will be more to come there will be more Plenty more, plenty more.
34:59
Yeah, and I'm just going to have to get better for y'all.
35:03
Yeah, yeah. That's it. Keep growing. Yeah, just got to keep getting better.
35:07
Yeah. And I know you're going to have plenty of opportunities because you got
35:09
a couple of interested projects coming up that I really want to get into and talk about.
35:14
Okay. So we have Mama Don't Take No Mess.
35:18
And then we have Cocaine Roach. Yes. And I fell out of my chair when Rob called
35:24
for that. Yeah, because I have a small role in here, but I was supposed to play
35:28
another role that was a little bit bigger and better.
35:31
And I just said, I don't know.
35:34
Yeah. You know, like, I don't know.
35:37
I know this is going to be a great film, but I didn't know how to dedicate myself to it, right?
35:43
Because that would have taken some research, too, and I think a little bit of
35:46
training to get that right.
35:48
And so I have a role in there. and actually
35:52
the thirst so tori scroggins is
35:55
in that one too in cocaine roach we actually did
35:58
we're still doing a vampire film called the
36:01
thirst okay so we've definitely i think we filmed about 75 percent of that i
36:08
don't know rob can if he's able to comment or watch if my daughter's on facebook
36:13
he's gonna be he's gonna be he's gonna be we're gonna interview him on a podcast
36:16
soon So I think we're about 75,
36:20
80 percent done with the thirst.
36:22
And so I was able to work with Tori again in Cocaine Roach.
36:26
So I have this cameo. I have a really cute cameo in there.
36:30
And so, yeah, that's a that's always a great one.
36:34
And yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I saw the trailers to to some of them
36:39
and I've helped on a few different sets with that as well.
36:41
So it should be it should be a really fun film action I think it's action because
36:46
Rob loves action yeah yeah that cocaine roach I just like you take the you take
36:51
the aspect of cocaine bear and you just replace it with roaches and it's there's
36:56
a few other ones too I think there's like cocaine um.
37:01
Yeah, there's a couple. Yeah, there's a couple. Like Cocaine Crocodile.
37:04
Yeah, and I said Roach, though. Rob Roach. Yeah.
37:08
Yeah, he thought it would be funny. And that's fine. Yeah. And still filled with action.
37:13
Elyse Hollywood Evans is in that one as well. Gary L. Turner,
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who won Best Supporting Actor, is in there as well.
37:21
Skeet Skeet is in that one. That's his name. Skeet.
37:26
That's his name. Oh, Skeet Skeet. All right. Skeet. And yeah,
37:30
it should be fun. There's going to be some laughs in there.
37:33
I'm sure there's going to be lots of butt kick in and just like a good old time.
37:38
Elise really, really does a great job in this one.
37:41
Cool. And what do you do? Like both you play in front of the camera and behind
37:45
the camera as well? Yes. Okay. Oh, absolutely.
37:48
I have to sometimes, you know, not because I'm forced to, but I have to be involved with something.
37:55
Yeah. You know, whether if it's lighting, sound, whatever, whatever it is that,
38:00
you know, is needed sometimes, especially I don't have anything else to do.
38:05
I'm like, can I just come on set and help you guys out a little bit if my role is done on set?
38:10
You know, but yeah, I love to do both.
38:13
No, that's cool. Because I said
38:14
being on a being on a film set or even like you say, put it on a play.
38:17
It's just like you're just being around family the whole time.
38:20
I mean, you just, you just really want to soak up that atmosphere and that environment
38:23
and that energy because like once, once it, once it wraps and everything is
38:27
done, you just be like, yeah, it's done.
38:30
What am I going to do now? Yeah. So yeah, I just try and involve myself with,
38:34
with a lot. And, and I have a few projects. I think I'm a.
38:38
Hmm. I want to create my own film and direct and, you know, write,
38:43
obviously write my own scripts.
38:45
And and I've just been working on those for a very long time as well.
38:49
So now is my now is my time to just start reaching out to people and,
38:54
you know, making the connections that I really need to make to make to make more films. Yeah.
39:00
No, I definitely think, say, just from winning the award,
39:04
having all these films working, like I said, both in front of the camera,
39:08
behind the camera, you definitely have the resume now to go out,
39:12
like I said, do whatever it is that you want to accomplish, whether it's like
39:15
going out, find an agent, you know, some type of representation.
39:18
Do you want to join the union, be a member of the Actors Guild? Oh, absolutely.
39:21
Yeah, absolutely. I may be eligible already and not even know it.
39:25
Yeah. Yeah. So I may already be and I'm switching, looking for a new management,
39:31
you know, just new management.
39:32
I'm just doing things a whole new way now.
39:36
So, yeah. Nice. Nice. And then you also, I don't know if you still are,
39:40
but saw like on your TikTok, I think it was that you like an ambassador for. Yeah, for Just Strong.
39:46
So Just Strong is just a clothing line for women, everyday women who,
39:52
you know, just go through every day, the life's ups and downs.
39:57
And wearing that shirt just keeps us, reminds us to just be strong.
40:02
You know, you're strong, just be.
40:04
You know, you don't have to do anything extra. And I've been.
40:08
I've been working with them on and off for the past couple of years,
40:12
but now I may start doing a lot more with them.
40:15
So, yeah, I've been slacking on that a little bit, but I need to get.
40:19
It's all good. You're busy.
40:21
When you wear so many hats, it's hard to dedicate the time to everything.
40:26
I've been slacking a little bit on that. It's all good.
40:27
They'll be OK. Once you come back, you let them know, like, oh,
40:30
you just let you know I won this award and I got all this going.
40:32
And there's a discount code, too.
40:35
I believe it's on my Instagram or if you check out.
40:37
I think it's like an IKEA 03 or something like that.
40:41
I might have to. I'll double check that for you guys. And it'll be on my Instagram
40:45
or my Facebook. But there is a checkout code.
40:48
You know, if you go, it's different workout clothes because it's like,
40:52
you know, it's that time away from home or, you know, when you're really in
40:58
your self-care mode and working out, having going for a walk in something.
41:02
Comfortable you know that's really what it is okay
41:06
and what all goes into the process of becoming an ambassador
41:09
for this one in particular i think
41:12
i had to write something like what is does it mean to be a strong or what does
41:19
it mean to be a woman who juggles life like if you have children if you are
41:23
married you know you're working you have a career i think i had to write something
41:28
for them Okay, cool. So yeah, you get exemplified.
41:31
Yeah, I think they reached out to me like, we like your look,
41:34
you know, we like something. And then they sent me these email questions.
41:37
And I think, I got to double check that, but I think I had to write what I thought
41:42
it meant to be a strong woman in this world today.
41:46
Yeah. So you exemplify what it is that they're looking for. You're just like,
41:50
yeah, this is what we're looking for. Cool. Yes.
41:53
Awesome. And then, so one thing I always do before we like, you know, wrap.
41:57
The episode we're not gonna do it yet but just just the heads up
42:00
just let you know i do like what we call them out rush more okay so
42:03
that's gonna be like your top four actresses or filmmakers
42:06
or models just you know people who who inspired
42:10
you or who you saw on tv or movies or in
42:12
the magazines that inspired you or motivated you to
42:15
to to pursue this career but uh before
42:18
we get on today i said we had the cocaine roach uh the
42:21
thirst that's coming out soon yes mama don't take
42:24
mama don't take no mess i saw the trailer for that that was some like 70s
42:27
like blaxploitation like badass pam greer type
42:30
of yeah and we just did the trailer
42:33
for it and i think i'm pretty sure there's a script but
42:36
it's really all about schedules right now um
42:39
it's really all about scheduling because he robert
42:43
is really specific about who he wants to play this and
42:46
that and this and that so i think sometimes it's really all about scheduling um
42:49
getting those actors in you
42:53
know and taking the time with these independent feature
42:56
films or feature films so it's really all about um
42:59
scheduling and you know
43:02
other than that yeah yeah so but the character like
43:05
i saw like the characters they are all some like some some
43:08
badass women so i've seen so i've seen you with two different lights
43:10
i've seen you as this old lady getting dying and then
43:14
now you just like this badass chick with this gun and stuff like that
43:17
vampire i think there's also another other
43:20
film that's being in production right now in the bay area
43:23
i don't know if i'm supposed to talk about it we decided.
43:25
To decide the nda or something like that i don't i.
43:28
Know a little bit but not too much but.
43:31
I didn't ask what i can and can't say about it or at least my role in it so.
43:36
I know there's something there for me i'm just you know you're just it's like
43:40
just show up to wait sometimes you know in this business so there's that and
43:45
then did i say i was a vampire So you'll see me as a vampire and I have a really cool promo pic for that.
43:52
Yeah. Old Lady Vampire. Buster Jones was the Pam Greer because my counterpart
43:57
was the Farrah Fawcett in that film or in that short.
44:02
Yeah. Cocaine Roach. I don't think. Yeah. Nothing in there.
44:07
Just a cameo of it's more like a Stanley thing.
44:11
You know, you go in, you know, you see this person and then they're out.
44:14
But there's no small roles, no small roles. Yeah, no small roles. everybody
44:18
plays a part in telling this whole story because you like i said you did miss
44:21
cresswell it was like i used to have a small role but it was enough for people
44:25
to recognize it and you win yes best supporting actress so as long as you do
44:29
your thing you put in the work and stuff like that you know you you never know
44:32
what could happen yes okay so yeah like a so we,
44:37
cocaine roach yeah i just just the name of that alone i just can't see it's
44:41
gonna it's gonna draw Draw people in.
44:44
Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to bring people in. And I think it's going to do extremely well.
44:49
Yeah. Just probably because of the name. But there's going to be so much in
44:54
it that you're going to see action wise comedy.
44:58
Just all of that. All your favorite characters, actors that you see in most
45:02
of Robert's movies are going to be in there doing their thing again.
45:06
You know, just in there shining and bringing characters to life.
45:09
Because who i say marley because marlin is in that movie marlin kennedy he was
45:14
yes he was yeah me and him did a short film probably back in like 2015 called
45:20
like the two gamers so like what i was,
45:22
going through like it is basically just two movie about two best friends one
45:26
dude was the slacker stoner person that was me and then marla was just like
45:30
this this you know not uptight but just very like by the book type of person
45:34
and stuff like that and we're just waiting in line to kind of, like,
45:37
buy this video game. It is, like I said, it's a short film.
45:41
You know, it co-starred Petrie Byrd, who was the bailiff off of Judge Judy.
45:46
But like I said, it's good to see...
45:49
Like him like i said just start like when we worked together as a short film
45:53
now him still doing still acting still doing his thing it's like just how small
45:57
of a circle how small of a community this is to where like we could always just
46:02
fucking it's so easy to root for each other to want to see each other win because
46:06
it's it's a beautiful thing with like i said just,
46:09
for a meeting you at the film mixer i'm like well i don't really know who you
46:13
are or stuff like that but then i said doing my research and then now find out
46:16
how many different type of connections as we all truly have and stuff like this.
46:20
Being a part of this field community is...
46:23
We should all be working all the time. We all should be.
46:26
Yeah, for as much like confrontation or like beef and friction that we have, we all know each other.
46:33
But if we don't, at some point in time, we're going to know each other.
46:36
So just get along with everybody, man. Just get along with everybody.
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Support everybody's dream and stuff like that. It's so easy. So easy.
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That's the easy part. Yeah, that's the easy part. For some reason,
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it's the last thing that people want to do,
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but it's the easiest thing you can do is give someone a word of encouragement
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or pick someone up that needs a ride,
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you know, that doesn't have a ride to set or, you know, just anything like that's
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kind of the easier part, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Okay, cool. So now we're going to get into it. We're going to get into the Mount Rushmore.
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I think I have drum rolls on here, but I ain't set them yet.
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But yeah, the Mount Rushmore, your top four entertainment business influences.
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Okay. Well, listen, growing up, my movie selections were just all over the place,
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but I was definitely into Marvel and DC.
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So Tim Burton was one of the very best of that.
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I feel Tim Burton creatively, stuff looks so different to him and it translates
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different on screen, the creativity that he has. So I really like him.
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And like I said, also to like to Stanley, just the DC and the Marvel universe of characters.
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I remember cutting school and going to see Batman for the first time,
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like 10 times in a row, you know.
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So who else? Oh, I love a female wise like Ava DuVernay as far as her ability
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to storytell and to capture just moments in time,
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especially for people that look like us.
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She is like phenomenal at that music or like either one. Either one.
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Yeah, because I know you sing. I know you sing as well. So musically, like I just get into rap.
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I'm out. I don't know. I'm like a Bay Area, West Coast kind of gal.
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So, you know, Ice Cube is definitely up there. I mean, I don't know.
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Like before I listened to just everything Bay and West Coast.
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I love Easton. I love it. You know, but initially, you know,
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that's what like feeds to me there because that's where I grew up in the Bay Area.
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So that's that's that. That spiritually, definitely like Maya Angelou,
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you know, every other day, if not possible, I try to just,
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you know, read something of hers or just to see her face because,
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you know, what she's been through and how she has really changed,
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you know, the way black people love on themselves. Yeah.
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So it's her movies and actors, definitely like Halle Berry fan.
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Queen Latifah fan, Whoopi Goldberg.
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Like I would really love to meet Whoopi.
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You know, just your classics. Yeah. Whoopi Goldberg is definitely an underrated talent.
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I don't know if I want to say underrated because she has so many awards,
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but I don't feel like she's celebrated like the way she she should be from being
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just like I say, a stand up comedian,
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doing the serious acting for like the color purple, being an activist for the community,
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always, you know, speak it up for, you know, people of color, black people.
49:59
And then like I said just all the awards she's
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won from an Oscar Emmy Grammy Tony it's just and for comedy I like Melissa McCarthy
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you know I gotta just watch a whole bunch of of you know have a lot of favorites
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that are just you know just for comedy definitely Melissa McCarthy I mean.
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There's just so many. That's just so many. Okay. Yeah.
50:24
We'll take that. So we have, that was about like maybe like three or four different
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Mount Rushmore's, but we take, we got the, we got Tim Burton on the DC side.
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You got Stan Lee on the Marvel side, the superheroes kicking ass.
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We have for the spiritual side, we have Maya Angelou. And have you ever heard
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her speak like in person?
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Did you get the opportunity to? I've not had the opportunity to, to hear that.
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Yeah. I've seen her one time. She was doing like a,
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like a college tour, just speaking i saw her up at um chico
50:52
state and i was all like i didn't really understand it then but i like what
50:56
she had passed away and then i you know i was seeing everybody like she did
50:59
she was this and she's about how did she resonate with the crowd there it was
51:04
interesting because like it's because it was chico i mean so chico's predominantly not black
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brown no no
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white yeah it is right
51:16
it is in the middle of the woods it's uh
51:18
it's just this i mean anybody that is for the
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most part like uh any other type of ethnicity outside of white is probably because
51:24
it's just a college town so they're there to go to school but like to actually
51:28
live there be a part of the community they're like nah this ain't us that's
51:31
not for us but just like i said just being but there was but there were there
51:35
was white people there too they were just is like taking it in and just like, oh wow.
51:39
So she resonated to, I mean, she spoke to black people, but she resonated to
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just everybody, which is something that I definitely took away.
51:48
And then we had Halle Berry, of course. Yeah, everybody loves Halle.
51:52
Halle, Queen Latifah, because I like her.
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You know she just gets in there and does
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it yeah yeah she was one of the first uh like
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female rappers to transition to having a
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successful acting career like yeah and
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then like with her and ice cube those that like kind of at the same time but
52:09
they was both and they like the the roles that they've gone on to do was so
52:13
different than the people who they really were like if you was to see like queen
52:17
latifah as like the equalizer you wouldn't look at her right you would look
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at her but she was a rapper you know right or say with like ice cube you wouldn't
52:24
look at ice cube I like Vivica.
52:26
I mean, I, you know, all of those films just growing up, you know,
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really, really transformed something in me.
52:33
And I remember watching Set It Off and like Vivica's character was really on
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screen the first time I had seen anyone, especially a woman get shot in the
52:44
back as she was running away.
52:45
Yeah. And I just don't think anyone picked up on that. But I definitely did.
52:50
Because I was like, Dad, why'd they do that?
52:52
Why did he just do that to her?
52:56
And so a lot of those roles, you know, all of these iconic actors now have done
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a really, really great job.
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And she has like 250 films on her IMDb.
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Mm-hmm yeah no she has a lot
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that is uh she is i mean you may not
53:13
see her on the the big screen like that as much or anything like that but her
53:17
her if you go to vivica's imdb it is it is yes it is like something like crazy
53:26
like that so she's just taking that is that is something that i would definitely
53:30
like you know strive to her,
53:33
I don't know if I mind about always being in these big blockbuster productions.
53:38
I would love to at least be in one.
53:41
But, you know, you just want to keep working, you know, and just making whatever
53:46
feels good to you. But that's a lot.
53:48
Yeah, it's a lot. I mean, that's a testament to really what having an active career is.
53:52
Because I feel like sometimes, especially with the Hollywood,
53:55
it's kind of glitz and glamorized to where you have to be in these big Hollywood movies.
53:59
Movies or you got to be on these big network tv shows
54:02
and that's what qualifies you as being um a successful
54:05
actor but it's not it's really just about putting in the work yeah
54:08
and being consistent you know that's yeah that's
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a consistent check yeah yeah she'll take those
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ones yeah so it's a consistent check it's a good enough story
54:18
i'll be okay i'll do it so she's probably at the top because
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i can't get past just 200
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and just i can't get past it you know like so yeah
54:28
she's definitely someone that i just strive to like you know
54:31
i want to do 300 now yeah yeah yeah yeah awesome so so yeah before we do wrap
54:37
up this episode was there anything that we want to i think we got everything
54:40
but was there anything that you wanted to hit on touch on before we before you
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do wrap up this episode no just thank you guys all for the love and the support and.
54:49
I'm just still in awe of everything it's only been a week but i'm still reveling
54:53
in it and And just go and check out all of my projects. I really,
54:58
really, really appreciate it. Yes.
54:59
So, yeah, Mad as Hell. Mad as Hell is on, I believe, like Tubi right now.
55:03
Tubi and Prime, I think. Yeah. Yeah.
55:06
And support independent filmmaking. That's really what it's about because they
55:10
tell some really dope stories.
55:12
They put a lot of heart, effort into what it is that they're making.
55:15
And then, like I say, those are the type of films that you'll look at and you'll
55:19
be able to watch and say, oh, okay, this is how I could make it at the level we're on, man. Yes.
55:24
You know, so I don't need no frickin' $10 million budget or all this or Disney or, you know.
55:31
Yeah, just have to keep creating and keep creating.
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And thank you guys. Just follow this journey. I will continue to keep creating what feels good to me.
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