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INTERVIEW: Cory Hardrict Speaks On Chemistry With Meagan Good, Tyler Perry's Praise, Fatherhood + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is the j n V. Jess Hilarischalla meane the guy.
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  Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
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  Speaker 2: in the building.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: He walked in looking like he's the leader of a.
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  Speaker 2: Group, Stellar R and B group, colorialregric Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: How are you feeling.
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  Speaker 3: I'm blesseding Holly favored. Man, I'm on the Breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: Club, blessed black and Holly favored. Les's black and Holly favored. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I love that you got the new movie, Divorcing Black.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Perry's new movie came out today today. How does
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  Speaker 1: it feel, man? It feels surreal. It feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: a new artist right now. You know, I got this
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  Speaker 1: new great energy in my life. You know, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like God got his hands on me and I'm ready
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  Speaker 1: to take you to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: You've been doing.
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  Speaker 2: This is great over thirty years and it still feels new.
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  Speaker 2: You don't feel like an og in it now?
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  Speaker 1: Nah, I don't, because I live like a simple I'm
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  Speaker 1: real simple off like when you don't see me like
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  Speaker 1: acting like It's just like I'm simple. I stay disconnected
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  Speaker 1: to everything. I just feel like I go like, what's
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  Speaker 1: the next job? I just keep my head down and
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  Speaker 1: keep going. Then when I go out to like Essence
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  Speaker 1: and then people love and they's saying all his work,
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  Speaker 1: then it makes it makes you feel good to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your people appreciate you and they love what
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  Speaker 1: you do, and that makes me want.
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  Speaker 3: To keep going.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know when you got one, like like you know,
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  Speaker 1: you do a role like this and you be like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, I got one, I got one.
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  Speaker 3: I love Tyler period. Man.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me an opportunity. He called me up and
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  Speaker 1: Megan Good told him that I was a great actor
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  Speaker 1: and he said, if you had a chance to pick
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  Speaker 1: one actor who you working with?
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  Speaker 3: She said, Corey Harder. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler called me one morning and he was like, look
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  Speaker 1: Coritous Tyler, period, that same deep voice.
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  Speaker 4: Did you believe it when he first called it? You
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  Speaker 4: know it was him? Or he was like, man, because you.
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  Speaker 1: Know them scam people be calling you a lot, so
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  Speaker 1: you don't know, but it was really him And I
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  Speaker 1: had to get my voice right.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, I'm a fan of your.
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  Speaker 1: Work, and I was just like wait, who's paying him, Well,
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  Speaker 1: not paying he's already billionaires. Aint nobody gonna pay him
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  Speaker 1: to say that. But I was like, wow, you know
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  Speaker 1: he wants to work with me. And I read the
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  Speaker 1: script and it was all on the page and I
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  Speaker 1: felt like it was a character I've being played, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, I can do some justice to this role.
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  Speaker 3: I was ready to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you say working with a good coach star
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  Speaker 1: like Megan Good is like having a good dance partner.
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  Speaker 1: I said that dance partner. I thought you said dance
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  Speaker 1: parton good tennis man if. I said that, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: she is great because.
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  Speaker 2: I know megand I say that.
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  Speaker 1: Essentially, you're just saying that you having chemistry with Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we had.
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  Speaker 3: Great chemistry because I've known Megan.
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  Speaker 1: We did an independent film and we we we've seen
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  Speaker 1: each other in passing, always root each other on. So
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  Speaker 1: when we worked, we had good chemistry and it was
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  Speaker 1: already you know, that energy was already there and it
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  Speaker 1: just carried over to the film.
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  Speaker 3: Even though we played two opposites.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, it's crazy chemistry that we need for the
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  Speaker 1: protagonists antagonists And who my Dallasy is. He's a he's
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  Speaker 1: a bad. He's a wild boy. He's crazy, but that's
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  Speaker 1: necessary in film. You need that crazy dude.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say, you know, for people that that
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  Speaker 2: don't know it just came out today, tell people what
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  Speaker 2: the film is about.
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  Speaker 1: Two divorced couples going through you know, different gist of families.
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  Speaker 1: My family sports me, but even though I'm wrong, they
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  Speaker 1: never tell me I'm wrong. You know, which is not right?
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  Speaker 1: You got you know, your family. I was by your side,
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  Speaker 1: but no, you gotta tell him he's wrong. And Dallas
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  Speaker 1: just didn't know how to treat people. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it stems from his childhood trauma dealing with you know,
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  Speaker 1: his different abuse that he's went through, and he's never
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  Speaker 1: knew how to heal and never knew how to treat people.
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  Speaker 1: So when you don't deal with that, like mental health issues,
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  Speaker 1: it carries over into your adult life.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what happened with him.
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  Speaker 1: So he loved her, but he didn't know how to
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  Speaker 1: and he you know, he kind of sabotaged the marriage
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  Speaker 1: even before it got.
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  Speaker 3: Going and she had to leave. It was enough, you know, And.
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  Speaker 1: I like, outside Corey looking at that situation, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: she gotta be happy got to do what's best for you,
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  Speaker 1: and that's his character.
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  Speaker 3: She did that. Aba.
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  Speaker 1: So do you feel like y'all got typecasted because you
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  Speaker 1: know both of y'all did go through high profile divorces.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I'm an actor.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've been doing this Charlot Magne for like
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  Speaker 1: thirty years, and I know when I see good work
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  Speaker 1: on the page, and it just so.
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  Speaker 3: Happened that that happened in my life.
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  Speaker 1: But what happened was I pulled from my experience, the triumphs,
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  Speaker 1: the strategies, everything, and you know, and what I do,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm great at. And I said, I'm gonna put
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna embody all those channel, all those feelings and
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  Speaker 1: emotions and I'm gonna just put it into the camera.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let the work speak for me. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really speak much about personal life. It matters, but you
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  Speaker 1: don't know about the fruit that he's You know, when
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  Speaker 1: you talk about the unhill trauma you had to deal with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing this role, did that trigger anything in you?
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  Speaker 1: Because you know, and I heard you talking about it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna call my therapist today. Hit a
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  Speaker 1: little spot.
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  Speaker 3: No, I was talking about the character for you personally.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, no, I'm like I said, I'm I'm an
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  Speaker 1: I'm an actor. I know how to just go from
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  Speaker 1: zero to one hundred when that camera's going. So I've
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  Speaker 1: been doing this, you know. So No, I didn't. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't channel anything. I just said, this is a great project.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I watched What's Love Got to Do with It,
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  Speaker 1: studied Ike, you know, channel little Ike Turner, and then
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  Speaker 1: I watched clips of some of my favorite actors and
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  Speaker 1: in movies, and I just went for it entirely. Gave
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  Speaker 1: me the freedom, took the handcuffs off me. And that's
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  Speaker 1: rare for filmmaker, especially of that caliber, to say go.
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  Speaker 3: For it, just do you.
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  Speaker 1: And when he did that, I really went for it.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people are receiving it really well.
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  Speaker 2: You hesitated, Allen when they called you said, the name
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  Speaker 2: of the movie is Divorce and Black and everything that you.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna know this name. Didn't know the name at all.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really know the name until I got down there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and started seeing, you know, because it was
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  Speaker 1: initial D I T B.
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  Speaker 3: Then but I put it together, like, wait, what does
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  Speaker 3: this mean? I said, damn? They're gonna start saying, start
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  Speaker 3: saying something.
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  Speaker 1: But I said, you know what, I'm an actor, like
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go do what I love. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta take care of my babies, you know, and I
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  Speaker 1: love to act. That's it. But it's it's tough, right
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  Speaker 1: because you're out here and put for you and making
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  Speaker 1: y'all out here promoting this movie, and it makes people
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  Speaker 1: want to ask about your personal situation.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as they should because they want to know.
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  Speaker 1: But my whole thing is my real life, is my
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  Speaker 1: real life, and you know, I just don't. I've never
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  Speaker 1: been that way, even being in a situation married, I
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  Speaker 1: still never. I always protected my kids, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I protected her as well, because I feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: a man's duty, you know, whether you're together or not,
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  Speaker 1: it's always protect her even though no matter.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on, I just don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't fall into the pressure, Like you can't pressure
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  Speaker 1: me into putting no one down and saying this is
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  Speaker 1: what happened or they did me like never that you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's always going to be unconditional love with me because
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  Speaker 1: I definitely want her to win and she wants me
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  Speaker 1: to win. And we know the truth and that's just
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  Speaker 1: why I leave it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have to call it and say, look, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just let you know we're doing this movie it's called this,
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  Speaker 2: but it has nothing to do with that, because no,
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  Speaker 2: she just texts me.
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  Speaker 3: And says, she's very proud of me. You know, she's
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  Speaker 3: so proud of me.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The world don't know that, and they don't see that.
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  Speaker 3: They don't need to. So it's all. It's all like love,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's all.
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  Speaker 1: As an actor, you know, before you take on a role,
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  Speaker 1: do you have to empty out everything you might be
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  Speaker 1: going through personally to fill yourself up with this this role,
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  Speaker 1: this character?
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  Speaker 3: Like empty?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean like this whatever you're dealing with,
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  Speaker 1: because like let's just say, oh, I get, I got
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I do?
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  Speaker 1: I do I empty it all out on the camera
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  Speaker 1: so when you see it, it's coming from a real place.
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  Speaker 1: That's the therapeutic side that I use. I use it
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  Speaker 1: as therapy to get it all out. What if you
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  Speaker 1: got to get into a dark space, Like what if
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  Speaker 1: you're a happy, joyful person but you got to get
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  Speaker 1: into a very dark Most of my characters been dark.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just shooting people, you know, biting people, knows
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  Speaker 1: off shit.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I stepped like, that's what I do. That
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  Speaker 3: was like, that's what I do.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I know how to play that guy really well,
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  Speaker 1: street guy, you know what I'm saying. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: at home playing that character. So it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: an easy transition for me when I get these characters.
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  Speaker 2: So on the other side, is it easy to get
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  Speaker 2: out those characters?
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  Speaker 3: Yes and no.
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  Speaker 1: When I did a lot of I did like five
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  Speaker 1: or six action films, and that was tough with all
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  Speaker 1: the shooting and sometimes you know, I feel like you
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  Speaker 1: got the PTSD from here and all and ducking you know.
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  Speaker 1: I remember I used to walk around the house, look
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  Speaker 1: around the corners, you know, like you know somebody over there.
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  Speaker 1: That's just me.
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  Speaker 4: It's just me dad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you got to answer the door with a
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  Speaker 1: deep voice like who is it? You know, you got
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  Speaker 1: to put that tongue like it's just but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, but no, I know how to I know
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  Speaker 1: how to channel it and move it to the side
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  Speaker 1: when I have to. But yeah, what was the most
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  Speaker 1: challenging scene for you? I would say the most challenging
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  Speaker 1: scene was roughing up Megan because I've never put hands
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  Speaker 1: on a on a woman in my life, so that
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  Speaker 1: was hard. So I had to ask her you okay,
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  Speaker 1: like touching her like a hand, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: had to throw over the kitchen and I felt bad
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  Speaker 1: because I was like, how I'm gonna do She's fragile,
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  Speaker 1: but she said, Corey, go for it. I got been
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  Speaker 1: doing this. Be an actor played Dallas Service the character.
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  Speaker 1: I did that and so that was cool. And then
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  Speaker 1: Miss Debbie Morgan, that was hard as hell man walking
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  Speaker 1: into the y'all didn't see them.
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  Speaker 3: I can talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to give it away, it's
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  Speaker 1: a scene. I have a Miss Debbie Morgan, know, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Debbie Morgan, and I'm and I had to grab her.
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  Speaker 3: I had to call out a name and she's like, baby,
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  Speaker 3: grab me, like she grabbed my hand. And when she
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  Speaker 3: did that, then I did not grab her.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting because you said you studied, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Laurence Fishburn and what's love got to do with it
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to studying real thinks that you probably could
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  Speaker 1: watch like you mean, I don't want I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just saying that I'm sure that. Sadly,
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  Speaker 1: there's videos out there actually domestic you know, so I like,
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  Speaker 1: but I was a character, you know, so that's not
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  Speaker 1: Laurence Fishburn, and I'm playing a character.
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  Speaker 3: So people should know the difference. So when I watched them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I know they know the difference. But like
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  Speaker 1: when you're when you're tapping into something as an actor,
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  Speaker 1: is it better to tap into something you see somebody
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  Speaker 1: do on screen already or real life? No, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen that, like in real life, you know, real life
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence. So no, I have not, but I can
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  Speaker 1: go to film and watch it, you know. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I pulled from most of the time the movies.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've been doing this for for over thirty years. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: Now you just said something that made me think, is this.
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  Speaker 4: What you always did?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 4: You said? I asked making hey, do you mind? Back then?
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  Speaker 2: Was it did you ask? Or was it just like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing my part and this is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But now it seems like I hear more and more
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  Speaker 2: actors saying, let me ask, first, do you mind if
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  Speaker 2: I do this to you? Even though it's in the script,
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  Speaker 2: let me speak, Did you always did that?
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  Speaker 1: Or it was always I've always been like considerate of
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  Speaker 1: a woman or anybody on set. You know, I pride
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  Speaker 1: myself and being a professional. You know, I've never had
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  Speaker 1: an HR case in my life. You know, name is clean.
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  Speaker 1: I've never got fired from a job in my life.
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  Speaker 1: So I pride myself and being a professional and respecting
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  Speaker 1: the whole workspace and environment and doing my job. So
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I would have done this years ago, but
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: now it's a little it's tight because everything is different.
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  Speaker 1: You know, even we had a little intimate scene, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really like that. I had to say, like, you're okay.
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  Speaker 4: You know, even though it's in the script.
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  Speaker 3: I had to. I had to. You never I had to.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, I did that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to make sure my scene partner is
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  Speaker 1: comfortable working with me, and I make them feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and that that brings out their best work because they
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  Speaker 1: know I'm there to handle business.
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely no.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Megan told me one time, she said that
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  Speaker 1: taking on you gotta watch what roles you even take
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  Speaker 1: nowadays because people think you're that character man.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, Charloe Man. The movie came out at three am.
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  Speaker 1: I had about probably sixty masters like I hate that nigga.
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  Speaker 1: No really, but they said, I love you Corey, but
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  Speaker 1: I hate like they really, So I said, I did
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  Speaker 1: my job, that's right. Yeah. So he's gonna have a
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: he's gonna have a good shelf life. And if it
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: can do it, you know, Lauren, we were talking earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence got the matrix after What's Love? We got to
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  Speaker 1: do with it. If they could do that, then I'm
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  Speaker 1: all for it. But I need people to know Corey's
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: that's Dallas. Let's please don't run up on me on
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: the street. Yeah, because you got idiots out here who,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 3: Don't follow me.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: In the LA airport, they said, why you kill Tupac?
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  Speaker 4: Man? He was serious.
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  Speaker 1: Hold, I'm gon take my glasses though, He said why
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  Speaker 1: you kill? And I looked at him like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: know he's playing with me, right. He followed me to
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  Speaker 1: the damn gate man, and he was like, Man, why
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  Speaker 1: you set him up? Man? Why you do that?
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  Speaker 3: I said, Man, are you serious?
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  Speaker 1: Like you had to get the extra littles? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I said, Man, come on now, I don't even the brother.
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  Speaker 3: That's a movie. Don't you know this? Like I have nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I just play the character, and I don't think they do.
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  Speaker 1: When when when Meighan said that to me, I thought
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  Speaker 1: she was tripping too, But then I'm like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: can see that in this in this era, or like
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: a movie I did, Brotherly Love that's done really well.
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  Speaker 1: For like the younger generation, they always be like.
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  Speaker 3: Why the quincy Q? I don't you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's a movie.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that means we're doing our jobs and
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  Speaker 1: you know already imm it taste life. And if I
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  Speaker 1: got to keep doing that, then I'm I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: short change the craft because the person feels a certain way,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go.
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  Speaker 3: It's like all or nothing. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I know you got to go soon, But I'm always
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  Speaker 2: interested how you got into acting, Like what was that
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  Speaker 2: thing that said this is.
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  Speaker 4: The and I want to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You're from Chicago and you could have did anything in
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  Speaker 2: this world, but you got into acting.
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  Speaker 4: What was the reason and why?
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: The reason was my mother I got in trouble. Me
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: and my brother got in trouble. And Oprah Winfrey was
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: having an open casting call for a movie called There
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Are no children here. It was a long time ago
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: on the West side of Chicago. I had a thousand
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: kids in line. My mom took us down. I'm like,
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: we ain't rather wait in this line.
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: You know nothing about acting at the time.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: I was a shy kid. I didn't really want to.
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: I was I was basketball.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: I was a hooper, you know. So she made us
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: wait because we got in trouble on this line. They
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: picked me and my brother to be in a movie.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: For like two months, I had one line like a.
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: Hey, that was all I That's all I had.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: And after I did that, and then being able to
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: see Oprah, you know, and just looking at her like
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: she didn't even look real. It was like, man, Oprah
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: was the biggest thing in Chicago around it still is.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: But I got, I caught something to say, Wow, I
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: could possibly do this, you know.
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: I got.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: So that was my mom and she's in heaven or
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: with her heart right here, you know what I'm saying.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: I lost her when I was pretty young, but she's
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: the like driving force behind all my passion and living
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: out these dreams.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Have you seen no pra after that and told her
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: the story, No, no, not at all. I saw Gail
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: and she was at the script she was of the
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: premiere with next to Tyler, and she was telling the
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: dude who was whooping my ass?
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: And she was like, get on, Benji. She was staying
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: in my ear trying to get my like she was like,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: you a bad man. I was like, Yo, there's a movie.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: No, but I love it.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: I love all that. Do you hear from your mother now,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: like through dreams she's with me.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear talking to me. I really do. I do.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: And that gives me strength to keep going. You know,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: my mom and my children, you know, and I know
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I got them. It's like, I really really know they
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: gonna be fine. How was it a justin the like,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: you know, still having your career but now being in
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: a co parenting situation speaking to the kids, cause i'saw,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: you had just think you had one of your kids
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: with you to be Yeah, my son Kreedy, Yeah, he
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: was a thirteen ward thirteen he got to meet an
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Eli Chop he saw a gun like he was excited.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: But like I said, we have a great copaying relationship
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: and it's about the kids.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: End of the day, it's about the kids, and we're
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: doing we're doing.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Great in that in that area, and like I said,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I just I want everybody happy, man, and I.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Support that just happiness.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: What's it like sharing those moments with your with your
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: child at the BT Awards because you know he's he's
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: happy to be there with you. But then when he
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: sees the nli chop or a gun and you're like, hey, no.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: He was trying to act super cool around me.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I was like, kree gone. I'm like, Son, don't get
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: the picture. He was like, dad chill. He called me
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: man like dad chill man.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I was like, what you just called me man?
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: Talk like that man, would you? He's like he was
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: like front, no me. And I'm just like, come on, son,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: you're acting all cool.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Call you broke cause that's the new thing.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: They bro called me bro but not then he called.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Me chill man.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, Son, I'm a chill because right
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: now I can't I want to mess up your energy
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: because you're in a good space right now and he's
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: got inSpot every boy going. The next morning, he woke
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: up trained in two hours in the backyard. Video showed
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: me the FaceTime like Dad, look, you know I really
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: want to go to the NBA, you know, so I said,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: if that can give him that spark, man, that's what
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I wanted. He wants to go and I looking, I
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: tell him, you can do anything in this world you
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: want to do. And it's something on People. I was
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: doing an interview and we always say hard work, dedication,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: and then we finished up with I got God on
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: my side and he said it on the People magazine. Wow.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's that's what's uping man.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: So how are you as a dad? Like you said
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: your n called you bro before. Yes, yeah, your girl
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: dad as well. So that means you get emotional the
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: times always. It's always emotional with my kids. I'm going
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: to say, but so so talk about that a little bit,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: like meaning, raising kids in this industry and having kids,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: how has it changed your life? It's changed my life
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: because I got to walk with a certain responsibility on
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: how I move, and I pride myself in that, like
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: you know, because I got somebody count on me, like
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: some little people count on me. So Daddy can't make
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the wrong move, Daddy gotta stay on swivel. Daddy can't
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: get caught up in no mess. Daddy gotta protect the
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: mama regardless you know what I'm saying. So that's just
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: how I live my life. You know, That's how I live.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And when when your son called you, bro, what was
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: your reaction? What did you say when he said Bro?
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I said, you called me that again? Boy?
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Beat yours if you ever call me that? So you know,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: but I talked to my dad or my son like
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: that because it's tough. I got to give him that
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: that that James Evans good times, Like I believe in
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: old fashioned you know, your friend, you my friend second,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I'm your daddy first, so don't forget it. I'm not
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: your friend first, daddy second, I don't.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I don't play that.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I think the biggest issue for us is uh. I
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: can't speak for us everybody, but you know sometimes with
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: black men, we I always say my dad raised me
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: out of fear and not love. That's just because he
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: didn't want me to make the same mistakes that he made.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: And being aware, I believe the first generation that gets
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the luxury of healing. We have to show, show, show
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: how to lead, how to parent with love and not fear. Yes,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I agree, it's all about love and fear because you
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: do crazy things out of fear and it won't. It's
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: just like that can't be healthy. So you gotta move
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: with love. You gotta move with the good, pure intentions.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And like I said, but you gotta tell you. You gotta
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: be honest with your kids too, you know. I try
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to tell them what the real world looks like and
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: what it really is, because my kids are very spoiled.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You know. First class, I didn't fly playing until I
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: was seventeen, and that was coach all the way in
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the back. I ain't get on until I was twenty
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: one one.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I was seventeen or eighteen. But he
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: knows about you know, sushi, the first class and emirates
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and fun.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: In sushi. But Lafuna, he knows like he in at
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: an early age. But I said, son, Mommy and Daddy
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: worked for this. You gotta work. Man, don't know. If
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you don't work, you can't. You're not gonna get none
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of this. You can't rely on daddy, like I will
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: take care of you with my kids. But I'm like,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: come on, that private That fifty five thousand dollars school
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: tuition ain't no joe, you know.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Now My daughters just got.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: In kindergarten, same school, so I'm like, son, that's I'm
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: doing that for you, So you got to do something
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: that's the other struggle because because my daughter's the same way,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: my youngest eight and five. My favorite airline is Emmors,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you know, and I like Jet Blue, and you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I want to go back to Zanas Bar And it's like, whoa, you.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: So but you open their eyes though, yes, but there's
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: also a part of you that feels like you want
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to instill some type of little struggling, little struggle.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: You remember the pork and beans and hot dogs.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: They don't come from that, you know, sugar sound like
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: it's just like I want him to have that sometimes
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: taking Chicago, take them to the Project.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I want him to see that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Now they order State can get my steak medium, please,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I'm like medium, I used to get it well.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Done, its system.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But do we really want that for our kids? I don't.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: But it's kind of like I want to trick them
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: like I want it. But I know, you know, like, man,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: my kid's gonna be fine, but just give them a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: little balance.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: My kids order Uber eats when they're hungry. We'd have
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: to go and make something, taking something if there was
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: something to make, if it was something to make, but
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: they eat now. I'm just gonna a Chick fil a today, Dad, Yeah,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And we say, okay, it's different, all right, baby? But
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: are we setting them up for success or is it
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: like feil Like that's what I'm saying, like because I
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: didn't have that, like I know how to go get
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: it like.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Whatever, you can throw me out and survival mode. I'm
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: sure you guys as well.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But I guess I do get afraid sometimes I.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Pray my kids are I pray constantly to raise trauma
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: free kids? So why would we ever eat? Why? I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: always think myself, why do I want to, you know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: show them any type of trauma? Like why why do
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I want that? You know, when I'm when I'm trying
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: so hard to get it out of me. You know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: did you ever think that you would? Were there any
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: any doubt that I might not make it out with Chicago?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: A lot of times, A lot of a lot of
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: crazy stories. Got a gunpull a lot, it's a lot
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: of those. We'll be here all day like I made
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it out by the grace of God. You know, I've
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: got the song songs forty sixteen. We still knowing I'm God.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I've been wearing the blood of Jesus on this hand
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: for thirteen years, got aill on it. So but I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: still cuss. I'm still real, you know, I look a
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: man line let him know I'm a grown ass man.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You know, it's just me. I don't need thirty people
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: with me, you know. So it's just like, but I do.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I do love God and know I'm still here because
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: of God and I got a purpose to fulfill. You know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: what does your support system look like? Like? Just you, Corey.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm working on it. My kids. Not a
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: big one, you know, but I'm working on it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I'm just now getting like team behind me is telling
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: me to celebrate myself.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I don't really know how.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I wasn't never really used to celebrating me. I was
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: always what's the next job, or what's the next thing,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: or keep moving or that's not good enough or you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: because I forty some movies, I still felt like not
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: appreciated sometimes, you know, like man, you know, but but
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: this is the first one where I feel like mister
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Perry was just like, you know, told me he loved
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: me the other day, hugged me. I'm so efing proud
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: of you, you know, and to hear him say that
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: gave me some confidence to say I'm doing I'm doing
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: all right. Do you feel and appreciate it?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Because you got It's like you're the face that everybody
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: knows but might not know their name.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Like you're that face, like.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: They know that's held me from what's his name again?
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Like you are that, but you've been in every damn
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: near moved every every morning.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Way to make a brother feel good. It's the truth.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Though that was fine, No, it's changed it. Look they
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: saying my first and last name, they chase, they were
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: chasing me, and I was just like, you know, they
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: was naming all these projects and characters.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: And then time we did Good Morning America and they were.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Corey Harder so it felt it felt good. But I
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: really don't do it for somebody to know my name.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I really work because I love it, and I act
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: because I want to impact peoples lives and change their
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: lives just with the entertainment side of it, and I
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: want to always be memorable. I don't do it for that,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: but you know, I'm ready to step into what's what's
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: necessary for the next part to elevate this thing because
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I do feel like I'm one of the best actors
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: in the world. That's how I feel, like that quiet
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: confidence I do.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I do feel that way. Do you feel like.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: You don't get the credit you deserve as an actor?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I'm not looking for it. I don't know you're not
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: looking for it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: But do you feel that way?
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Nah, they'll give it to me when they're supposed to.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Like I get underrated, and how come you ain't any
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: more movies that I get compared to people? But I'm
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: like people you compare me to I love and my friends.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You know, God gives time, like the time is different
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: for everybody, you know, but I feel like my time
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: is now.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Though.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: What's your dream roll? What role do you want to
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: do or who do you want to play?
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Is it an action figure?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Is it? What?
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: What's your dream role?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I really haven't thought it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I used to want to play Barack, but then they
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: did a movie by Barack and I was like, oh,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I can see that.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I can see it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I can see it too from Chicago. But now I
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: just want to play like I want to play black
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Jesus say the world, like know, I want to really
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: do that, like in a human way, like say, people
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: help people, you know, just let people know that you
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: know that we're gonna be all right, you know, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I can. I'm the one that can make sure everything's okay.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I want to play that character, whatever that character may be.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: How do you stay focused nowadays being a single man
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and you know, being on television and being in movies
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure women are you know, coming at you
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: on Breakfast Club with a blazer on, no shirt, thirst trapping.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: No I'm not.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I ain't thirst trapping.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I said, I want to hit him with that.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Rick James, I want to hit him with that.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Rick James, you know my man out there. He told
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: me he's like, yeah, light skinned brothers always coming on
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: shirt on. But I said, I got.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Dark, dark skin energy brother. I have like a dark
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: skinned dude. But yeah, I'm like whatever, man, But no,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: I'm not dating. It's just I'm focused on my kids.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm dating.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Because when I'm not trying to work or handling business,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get my body right. I'm real into
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the health conscious, like I eat well, you cry out, therapy, massages, physical.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: There, so'm I do that and my children, you know.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: So no I'm not. I'm focused crowd.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: That's the ice ice. Yeah, so does that really work?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I do IV drips. Yeah it does work. Yeah, it
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: does work.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: It gets inflammation like out of your body like I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: slipped at work this year. There's a whole other thing.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And but it's all good. Somebody tell me. It gives
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you a sense of clarity like like yeah you do, Yeah,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you do get some clarity, like you feel free, like
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: it opens up everything. Bullshit immune system like they said
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: those at doorphins, doorphins whatever, they boost everything. Yeah. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: was doing this movie therapeutic for you?
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it was just for the subject matter, you know,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: even though Dallas is no way like Corey Hardrick. And
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I want people to know that because you know, I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: got some messages that I saw too, and they gonna
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: be talking. But if they don't recognize that I'm an actor,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I've really been doing this.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I've been to Oscar, you know twice. I've been in
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: a bunch of movies. It's made over billions of dollars.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: But like you say, I haven't really been visible. Now
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like I got a publicist. Now she's here, Michelle,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: if I got a manager sailor, like, I got some
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: strong black women behind me.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: So it's like, did you not have that before?
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Nah? I didn't didn't have it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Oh that's why you hesitate when I asked you what
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the support system look like when you say you're working on.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: It, Yeah, I'm working. This is all new.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I've known them both for a while, but this is new,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and they're you know, they're like my community who's trying
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: to inspire encourage me. So sometimes it's still hard for
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: me to believe it who I am. And that because
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: you because you lost your mom, that's at your early age.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I would say that's some of it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I'm just dealing lost my brother like fourteen years ago
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to gun violence in Chicago. That's why Chicago, when we
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: bring that up, is kind of like a touchy, you know,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: because that brings back memories of tragedy and pain, you
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: know when I think about Chicago, but it is, you know,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: it happened, and you know, I just I'm doing my
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to honor them to this day. And I mean I
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: lost my stepdad a few years ago as well, who's
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: like my dad as well. So it's just been a
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: lot it's been a lot, and then you know everyone
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: knows the other thing, and so it gets tough, but
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it is what it is. Do you have to adjust
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to bringing people around because you probably condition yourself to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: be such a I'm closing owner. Yeah, I don't trust nobody,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: like it takes a while to get into like my
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: space or you know, just to let you in there.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: So I'm like I said when I said I'm working
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: on it, I'm really like working on it now, like today.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: But I do see light at the end of the tunnel.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's clear's day now, like.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Where I'm going, Like I've developed strength, like a certain
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: strength where I feel like I can't nothing stop me. Now.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I'm actually stronger than I've ever been at this moment
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: in my life. I'm always scared for actors, though only because,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: like you know, they always say staying busy as the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: response to trauma. And when you're acting, you totally escape yourself.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: You don't even have to be you or deal with you.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: So when you not active and you finally got to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: just sit down and deal with you, oh my gut, right,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, yeah, because I give it all
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: into the camera. But when you go and you're done,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you just PLoP down and it's like, man, I'm exhausted,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like I'm drained. Like I'm drained,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Like what do I do to pick myself back up?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: That's why I just do a lot of things like
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: eating healthy that helps me out, like drinking some fasting
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and drinking juice, doing a juice.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Clean like that that gets me back.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Doing the foot treatment, like detox treatment with the foot treatment.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that's pretty much.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: It sounds like you're learning yourself all over again. Man.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's a good thing in a good way. That's
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: just in a good way.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Like people are like, man, I ain't never seen like
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you stepping out and you're doing all this stuff. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I feel like I got I have to now to
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: get to where I need to go.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It's just like I gotta do a little different, just
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: a small I'm not really changing who I am. It's
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: just I'm just letting people know that I'm I'm Corey Hardrick.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Bro We've been up here fifteen years and this is
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the first time you've been up here, so we've seen
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: the change and hopefully you'll come back.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I don't think i've been there before y'all interview I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: think y'all interviewed us for brotherly love. It was a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: proof of us. It was it was like four of us.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I've never been solo like. It was like a team
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: of us people.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: But I'm glad we're seeing you more.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Man, Thank you. I'm proud of y'all brothers doing it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you doing it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Man holding it down and culture.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Did you have chests here and you shaved them all
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: chest est talking about it?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Come home?
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Man's interesting to me.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Charlotte hit on with that pause.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Pause.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Man, when you're.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Doing the blazing no shirt, I'm like, okay, like you said,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Rick James, I'm just trying to but it gets a
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: little tricky when they glistened the chest. I don't do
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: nothing to my chest. Whatever my chests look like, that's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: what it's gonna look like. You don't want them to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: put No, you ain't putting nothing. You know when they
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: doing the makeup and you don't let them stay away
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: from the chest. They coming, They like, let me spring
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: on this a little bit, Charlemagne. No, I got to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: keep it growing. I'm a grown ass man. Don't coming
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: my yest man, Paul God crazy, he said the boss.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Now crazy man, I hit the boss. Jesus christ Man
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: is awpen and uncomfortable. All right, well, Corey, we appreciate you.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: For joining us.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: To check out the movie.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Though the voice in the black out right now, salute
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: to the good brother Tyler Perry. We do not give
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Tyler Perry the flowers he deserves.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: I love.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: This movie is gonna change. It's changing my career trajectory.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, when y'all see it, you're
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: gonna see what I was saying. We saw what Meghan
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: said about Tyler paying her the most she's ever been paid.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: She just hurt to Roger and say that I've heard
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you had to say that.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Did you tell you?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Pay me the most iver made in the film for
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: three weeks? Really ever?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: And I worked on films five months, seventy five million
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: dollar budgets three weeks.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: That's why I say he's a gift from God.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: He's amazing human being from God.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And I don't think people realize that. Maybe I'm wrong,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not in Hollywood, but doesn't that set of president
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Once you get that, that's your hope, your rate moving forward,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I hope. So, like like I said, I can just
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: being honest, I hope. So I would love to, you know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: double that or keep it pushing there and and and beyond.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like I'm on the right track
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: for that. My peripheral I saw.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: It just depends.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Is that a president moving forwards?
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, we go get that money.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but salute the talent because people don't do that, man.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And I love hearing those stories.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: I love hearing people.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Say that I had the Brad Pitt Eddy Murphy trailer,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: like the three levels I went in there.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: He had a bed or a water bed.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I'm saying you could live in his trailer they had
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: for me. That's how I knew. I said, I'm being valued.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. So that's why that's what brought
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: out my best work of being valued. Wow, thank you
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: so much for period more questions, ask me anything. When
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you look at this man right here, you Lorus Chestnut
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: before he looked like in the movie work.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: He Swiss.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: He looks like you're saying, you look like, say, he
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: looked like he called himself Morris. Just now now you've
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: seen the brother in movies with the brother like Charlottagne.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I don't you.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think you favor Morris Chestnut.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Well, we'll see it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, you might need lay stick a little bit, just
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: a little you know.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Why are you saying it like another man's like you're
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: saying you look like another dude.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Mark Morris said he gets mistaken for me. That's what
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: he said on Jennifer Moore.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Morris line his ass up, Morris, don't look ship like you.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Why are y'all doing that? More more? Stop that man,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: that's my man.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Choreogic Ladies and Perry's Divorce in Black on Amazon Prime
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  Speaker 4: right now. And it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: that ass up in the morning.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club