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

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