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Breaking Cycles, Facing Truth: Is God Is Sparks Raw Conversations on Black Womanhood · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Jewish.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: and everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you don't lie about that, right Lauren.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, y'all, it's Laura La Rosa and we are here
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  Speaker 2: for the latest with Laura Rosa. And we are on
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  Speaker 2: the latest scene, which is the Is God Is premiere
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  Speaker 2: here in New York City now its God Is Is
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  Speaker 2: in theaters May fifteenth. But tonight we take you behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes of one of the premiers to the world
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  Speaker 2: and to us as the journalist in the media. In
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  Speaker 2: the conversations that it sparks everything from generational trauma, to
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  Speaker 2: black women dealing with their anger, to us dealing with
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  Speaker 2: our families and all the things that come with them,
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  Speaker 2: and some hard truths about what it takes to break
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  Speaker 2: generational curse following the successive sinners. This play that has
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  Speaker 2: now turned into a movie adaptation by a black woman,
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  Speaker 2: missed Alisia Harris.
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  Speaker 3: It's It's It's going to take over.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited for you guys to see the film,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm more excited for you guys to get to
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  Speaker 2: the conversations we have tonight starring Vibo k Fox, mss
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  Speaker 2: Erica Alexander and so many more.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get into it. Hey, y'all, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: It's Laura La Rose here with the as with Lorna Rosa,
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  Speaker 2: and today we are on the latest scene, which is
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  Speaker 2: that Is God is premiere here in New York City
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  Speaker 2: and I am joined by the beautiful miss Tessa Thompson.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, how you so wing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm so well, Thank you, Harry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing amazing. I mean, it's lively here, y'all looking good. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we about to go see this film, so jumping right in.
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  Speaker 2: So I know you wanted to producers on the film.
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  Speaker 2: Right for you picking this up as a producer, why.
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  Speaker 5: Oh goodness, I think because I started my company, Viva
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  Speaker 5: mod with the hope to produce stories for and by
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  Speaker 5: black women that allow us to be all of the
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  Speaker 5: things that we are, and this piece sort of exemplifies
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  Speaker 5: that tenfold. I think Alicia Harris is a real visionary writer, director,
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  Speaker 5: and this incredible cast are.
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking at because I'm looking at my beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: Cast over there, me Fifica, just all of them, and
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  Speaker 5: so I'm just so excited to bring it to audiences.
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  Speaker 3: So this one of the things that really stot out
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  Speaker 3: to me is number one.
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  Speaker 2: Black women in their relationship with their mothers and how
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  Speaker 2: you know, up and down and very like all over
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  Speaker 2: the place that can be, but the love that's at
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  Speaker 2: the center of it for anyone who has had a
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  Speaker 2: very I wouldn't even say trouble, but a very imperfect
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  Speaker 2: relationship with their mother. As a black woman who was
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  Speaker 2: learning that their mom was just doing the best she
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  Speaker 2: could but also managing her own anger and her own trauma,
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  Speaker 2: what would you say to them after this film?
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  Speaker 5: Goodness, I would say, you know, we One of the
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  Speaker 5: themes I feel like that is in this film is
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  Speaker 5: the trauma that we inherit from our parents. And I
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  Speaker 5: feel like one of the things that feels hopeful at
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  Speaker 5: the end of this movie, through all the blood, sweat
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  Speaker 5: and tears literally, with all the bloodwat and tears literally,
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  Speaker 5: is that at the end of it, we can sort
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  Speaker 5: of break the cycles. We don't have to we don't
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  Speaker 5: we We inherently, I think, particularly as black women, take
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  Speaker 5: on those struggles in that trauma. But the truth is,
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  Speaker 5: our freedom is so precious and sometimes it just means
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  Speaker 5: you have to let go of all of that and
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  Speaker 5: live for yourself and on your own terms, And I
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  Speaker 5: think that would just be my sort of message, I suppose,
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  Speaker 5: which is that like, of course we always have each
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  Speaker 5: other's backs, but also first and foremost, like take care
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  Speaker 5: of yourself.
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  Speaker 6: Girl.
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  Speaker 2: What is Tessa Thompson letting go of today in her life?
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  Speaker 2: Not the right this day, but like in this era
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  Speaker 2: of Tessa Samson right now?
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  Speaker 3: What are some things that you've had to learn to
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  Speaker 3: let go?
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  Speaker 5: I think letting go of this idea that you're doing
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  Speaker 5: it alone, you know, really inviting in community, calling on
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  Speaker 5: your support.
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  Speaker 3: What's so with us? Why we always trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: it out? I'll buy herself.
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  Speaker 5: Allow yourself to admit that you don't have it figured out,
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  Speaker 5: that things are hard, that you're tired, that you need
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  Speaker 5: some extra support. I think that's something that I'm really
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  Speaker 5: allowing myself to lean into, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I know you on Broadway.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So first of all, I know this film actually
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  Speaker 2: is derived from actual play, you know, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: in just being in that space from in front of
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  Speaker 2: the cameras and now behind the cameras, talk about how
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  Speaker 2: important it is to archive media or art that is
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  Speaker 2: actual live theater.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I mean, you know, that's one of the things
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  Speaker 5: that's so exciting about this film is that we're bringing
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  Speaker 5: it to audiences in a theater and listen. I love
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  Speaker 5: to stream, I love to be on streaming as an artist.
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  Speaker 4: I love to watch it as my own self.
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  Speaker 5: But I think these moments that we can come together
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  Speaker 5: and be in a cinema together and take in art
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  Speaker 5: and storytelling is so powerful. It puts us into community.
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  Speaker 5: I remember when I went to go see Centers for
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  Speaker 5: the first time in seventy millimeter in England and the
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  Speaker 5: like whole theater was just filled with beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Young black folks and just that sense of can unity.
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  Speaker 5: And so I'm really hoping in the same way that
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  Speaker 5: I'm so grateful to the audiences that are coming out
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  Speaker 5: and seeing me on Broadway now that people come out
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  Speaker 5: and see this film in theaters, because it really does
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  Speaker 5: change sort of the experience of taking in the work
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  Speaker 5: that we get to do it together.
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  Speaker 2: How it Center's open up things on a back end,
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  Speaker 2: Like you're in a producer role now right Like I
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  Speaker 2: feel like people are having so many conversations about what
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  Speaker 2: can be done in cinema and in films because of
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  Speaker 2: how many people came out for Sinners Is there are
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  Speaker 2: you seeing a shift on the back end side.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I hope. I feel like these things sort
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  Speaker 5: of come in waves. But for so long in Hollywood
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  Speaker 5: there was this idea that blackfaces don't travel particularly globally,
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  Speaker 5: and it's just like undeniably untrue.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and so I think.
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  Speaker 5: We we have to dispel that myth by also coming
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  Speaker 5: out and supporting these films when they're here, and particularly
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  Speaker 5: works like this is God Is, like Sinners Is an
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  Speaker 5: original piece of work with an almost all black cast
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  Speaker 5: that is talking about all ideas in new ways, you know,
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  Speaker 5: And we have to support those films when they come
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  Speaker 5: out because frankly, they just make room for more films
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  Speaker 5: like that, you know, when they when they succeed, Like
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  Speaker 5: when these films like this succeed, we all succeed.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Sna, I have the amazing and the uncomparable the
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  Speaker 2: reason why we are even here and why we're able
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  Speaker 2: to get this bible of literature.
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  Speaker 3: That we're going to see on this screen.
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  Speaker 2: Introduce yourself to the audience and tell a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about you know, why is God Is went from the
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  Speaker 2: theater to the film.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, So my name is Alicia Harris. I'm writer, director,
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  Speaker 7: and one of the producers of this film. The reason
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  Speaker 7: that this film translated from the from the stage to
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  Speaker 7: the screen is that there was great interest in it.
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  Speaker 7: I felt really affirmed by the way that people responded
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  Speaker 7: to the play. I felt really excited as an artist
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  Speaker 7: to see how we could expand the play. And also
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  Speaker 7: one of the producers, Jenick sa Bravo, said to me,
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  Speaker 7: you should direct this.
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  Speaker 3: This is your story.
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  Speaker 7: I hadn't even thought about it until that, so I
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  Speaker 7: just got to go full throttle. Luckily, I had the
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  Speaker 7: support of all the army of people who got behind
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  Speaker 7: me and beside me to make this movie. And it's
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  Speaker 7: been a thrill to take on the assignment of flexing
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  Speaker 7: differently into this story.
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  Speaker 2: So I read some of the producer's notes production notes, right,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of what I heard from you and
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  Speaker 2: you just said it here like this is your story.
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  Speaker 2: But when I was reading your notes, I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I feel her, because it was like, there's this conversation
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  Speaker 2: or multiple conversations that you want to have, but you
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  Speaker 2: feel like you shouldn't as a black woman. It's like
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  Speaker 2: we shouldn't talk about the fact that, like, I'll be angry.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like that we shouldn't talk about the fact that,
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  Speaker 2: like family brings you trauma sometimes and you're put in
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  Speaker 2: positions right of all of the things that you could
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  Speaker 2: have dived into from your own story that you've been
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  Speaker 2: afraid to talk about her face. What was the most
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  Speaker 2: important for you to put in your work that you've
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  Speaker 2: done with is god is.
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  Speaker 7: I think the most important thing to put inside of
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  Speaker 7: it was this question about what it cost someone to
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  Speaker 7: seek revenge, what it costs to carry that anger, because
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  Speaker 7: I think we have a right to the anger. I
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  Speaker 7: think to say to black women, especially that we shouldn't
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  Speaker 7: feel angry, or to pathologize us because of our anger,
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  Speaker 7: it's dehumanizing. But I also think there's another side of
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  Speaker 7: allowing some of the freedom of that very human emotion,
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  Speaker 7: which is, like, what does it begin to cost you
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  Speaker 7: to carry that emotion that's not harming the person who
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  Speaker 7: harmed you, Now you're.
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  Speaker 3: Doubly harmed, you know.
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  Speaker 7: So I think that that feels like pretty critical question
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  Speaker 7: to sit with.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it'll also spark conversations intergenerationally with like mothers,
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  Speaker 2: grandmother's daughters, right because I think about some of the
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  Speaker 2: things that like I unknowingly took on just because of
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  Speaker 2: the people I loved, And now that I'm an adult,
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  Speaker 2: I'm un learning those things to kind of create my
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  Speaker 2: own life for myself. But it's hard, Like, it's very hard,
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  Speaker 2: especially as a black woman, right, you feel like you're
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  Speaker 2: leaving the people that you love.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, as black women who are going to watch this
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  Speaker 2: film and start thinking about that, what do you say
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  Speaker 2: to them when it comes to setting boundaries with family
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  Speaker 2: and knowing that, like our moms were doing just the
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  Speaker 2: best that they could do. Yeah, I think personally it's
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  Speaker 2: important to think about who they are now and what
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  Speaker 2: they were facing them. As we become adults and see
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  Speaker 2: our parents as adults, I think it helps us to
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  Speaker 2: humanize them and give them grace for what they went
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  Speaker 2: through and try and build and love with them now.
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  Speaker 3: However, there are some parents who.
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  Speaker 7: Unfortunately might act up like the MoMA in this story,
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  Speaker 7: you know what I mean, who you need to have
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  Speaker 7: a strong boundary with, And I think it's important to
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  Speaker 7: take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to get through that conditioning.
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  Speaker 7: As you said, of like your job is to hold
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  Speaker 7: down the community, hold down your family and look at
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  Speaker 7: yourself and handle yourself. But I think it's important, it's
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  Speaker 7: critical to everyone's survival that black women care for ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a conversation here too that comes from
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  Speaker 2: like the guilt of being the black women and your family.
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  Speaker 2: Who has to free the family from something? Right, So
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  Speaker 2: what do black women take away from that when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to that conversation.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I hope that they take from that that
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  Speaker 7: that isn't their job just because they've accomplished something to
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  Speaker 7: bring everyone else out. People make their choices. I think
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  Speaker 7: it's good to be helpful, but to a point, it
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  Speaker 7: isn't anyone's job to save everyone. No, you're not a
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  Speaker 7: super person. You're a now superhuman. You are a human being.
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  Speaker 7: That's not what the movie is trying to say. This
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  Speaker 7: is me personally. I'm not trying to give anybody a message.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, I think it's important that we take care
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  Speaker 7: of ourselves is the headline.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, and I'm so excited for the world to
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  Speaker 2: see this. And congratulations. All right, y'all, So we are here.
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  Speaker 2: It's Laura Rosa for the Latest with Laura Rosa, and
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  Speaker 2: today we are on the latest on scene, and we
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  Speaker 2: are at the God Is God Is premier here in
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  Speaker 2: New York City. Now joining me is one of the
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  Speaker 2: superstars of the film. So first I want you to
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  Speaker 2: introduce yourself to the audience, and then I want you
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  Speaker 2: to tell them a bit about your character that you
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  Speaker 2: play in the film.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Hi, my name is Mallory Johnson, and I play Anaya.
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  Speaker 8: And Anaya is one of the twins who is burned
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  Speaker 8: severely on her face. She's a lot more quiet, she's
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  Speaker 8: a lot more reserved, She's sensitive. She is not the
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  Speaker 8: twin who is abrasive like Ray sne Is. She's kind
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  Speaker 8: of takes a back seat in terms of the relationship.
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  Speaker 6: She's less of the mouthpiece and more of the thinker.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: And in the film, you and your sister set out
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  Speaker 2: to kind of correct some generational wrongs, right. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the things I thought about is, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you are siblings, when you're an eldest child, youngest chio,
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  Speaker 2: each child experiences a household or a life, even if
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  Speaker 2: you guys are grown up together very differently. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think your character, you know, the twin that
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  Speaker 2: you play, what do you think that she most experienced
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  Speaker 2: that her twin did not that she learns from that
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  Speaker 2: kind of empowers her once you guys set out to
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  Speaker 2: correct some of those generational wrongs.
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I think that in the dynamic that they have,
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  Speaker 8: you know, Anaya being the one who is always pulling
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  Speaker 8: race scene off the ledge.
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  Speaker 6: There's this really beautiful.
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  Speaker 8: Line that she has in the film about she always
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  Speaker 8: has to pull race scene back when she goes too far.
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  Speaker 8: And I think that there's something that can be learned
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  Speaker 8: from growing up and having to you know, having someone
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  Speaker 8: in your life who is it's hard to explain.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I relate to this so much.
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  Speaker 2: She's almost like her her barrier, like her godsend, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I before y'all meet God.
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  Speaker 8: It's like it's almost like they have this codependent relationship.
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  Speaker 8: And it's easy to assume that Anaya needs Racine, but
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  Speaker 8: I think it's actually reversed. I think Racine needs anayas
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  Speaker 8: so much, and I think that she relies on her
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  Speaker 8: to stay with her, to stay in this bubble, and
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  Speaker 8: I think that Anaya is trying to break free, break
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  Speaker 8: free from the bubble with her until you know, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to give away y'all.
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  Speaker 2: I keep telling y'all it is so hard and talk
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  Speaker 2: to y'all about the film because I think something that
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  Speaker 2: is like, you know, to first it's a play and
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  Speaker 2: then it's adapted into a film.
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  Speaker 3: Right, It's so visual and the.
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  Speaker 2: Story is so deep. It's hard to talk about it
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  Speaker 2: in nuanced it.
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  Speaker 3: Is it really is.
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  Speaker 8: And and and also I don't want to give away
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  Speaker 8: too much. I think there's so many surprises. Even though
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  Speaker 8: the trailer has been out and people are like so
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  Speaker 8: excited about the trailer, it's nothing like it's it's nothing.
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  Speaker 8: You haven't seen anything yet, And I promise you you
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  Speaker 8: can't even guess what happens, you know, and I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to give too much away. I want
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  Speaker 6: people to.
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  Speaker 8: Come and watch it and be surprised by what Alicia
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  Speaker 8: has done because it's just so brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: My last question to you is is you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: when you're dealing with revenge and it's something that was
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  Speaker 2: passed down through generations or any generational trauma, you become
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  Speaker 2: not only a victim, but you become a weapon.
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  Speaker 3: And what ways do black.
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  Speaker 2: Women who are dealing with trauma that wasn't their own
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  Speaker 2: but they have no choice to face it. In what
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  Speaker 2: ways do you feel like we should protect ourselves from
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  Speaker 2: going from victim to weapon?
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  Speaker 8: Hmmm, it's a good question, something that I'm dealing with
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  Speaker 8: in my own life. You know, it's hard, it's hard,
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  Speaker 8: right because we want, we want to deal with our
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  Speaker 8: anger directly and we don't want to let it consume us, right.
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  Speaker 8: And that's what I think becoming a weapon is. It's
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  Speaker 8: like we we guard ourselves. We armor ourselves so much
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  Speaker 8: that we become very, very sharp, but it's not really
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  Speaker 8: who we are.
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  Speaker 6: We're really just scarred internally.
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  Speaker 8: We are scarred internally and and these these girls are
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  Speaker 8: a great rivers of that because they're scarred externally as
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  Speaker 8: well as internally. And I think that in Naya specifically,
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  Speaker 8: is a really good example of how, you know, even
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  Speaker 8: even with all the trauma that you endure and the
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  Speaker 8: generational curses and the generational traumas, the cycles, the cycles,
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  Speaker 8: the cycles that we are stuck in as a people,
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  Speaker 8: as women, you can always break free.
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  Speaker 6: You can tell your own story.
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  Speaker 8: And I hope that when audiences see this they have
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  Speaker 8: a moment of catharsis and release and realize that any
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  Speaker 8: story that you have told yourself about who you are
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  Speaker 8: and what you come from and what you can do
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  Speaker 8: and what your limitation is is can be rewritten at
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  Speaker 8: any time.
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  Speaker 3: In your life it or you ate that up. You
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  Speaker 3: ate that up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so make sure you guys go and check
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  Speaker 2: out the film Is God Is. I'm trying to tell
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  Speaker 2: you guys, like this is like the Bible that the
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  Speaker 2: black girls need right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's crazy to say that because my grandma going
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  Speaker 2: to watch this and be like we need to sit
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  Speaker 2: down and talk. But my mom, I love you, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the Bible. I'm talking about like bye,
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  Speaker 2: you know. All right, thanks for joining me, girl, and
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: joining me is one of the stars of the film, Okay,
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: delivering a very very charged performance, to say the least.
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  Speaker 3: Give me introduce yourself and tell us a bit about
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: your character. Yes, my name is.
• 15:14
  Speaker 9: Kara Young, and I am racing and is God Is
• 15:19
  Speaker 9: Racine is navigating the world.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: For her sister and herself.
• 15:25
  Speaker 9: You know, we both have burns, but our burns look
• 15:28
  Speaker 9: different and Anaya's burns are on her face, which makes
• 15:34
  Speaker 9: it so that I'm I have a different, uh experience
• 15:40
  Speaker 9: in the world when people look at me, and so
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: I'm holding a lot for the both of them, for
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: the both of us rather, and that might look like
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: a different an intricate spectrum of what somebody would say
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: that I'm the rough one and Anaya is the quiet one.
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  Speaker 9: Yet we both possess different sensitivities that manifest in different ways,
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: and in my way is to defend and protect and and.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Navigate talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, okay, so there's a lot that you said
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: that I want to unpack and a little bit of
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: the time that we may have. First thing is is
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: that I noticed it was the difference in you guys burns, right,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: physically the difference right, And I think that that says
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of black women who are like, we show
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: up looking different every day, but like we might feel
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: that same burn but you just, I mean, you know,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: you never know until you get to connect with someone.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: So for you and your role, what did you learn
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: about the fact that people show up differently but we
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: all are experiencing something very common.
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: Well, I think that for me, the burns really truly
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: represent an amalgam of things. But one thing is, you know,
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: the traumas that exist on us and inside of us.
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: And in the beginning of this film, these young women
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: men don't know the They know that they were burned,
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: and they know that it happened together and that it
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: was an event, but they do not know in which
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: or the why, the how or the when.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: And when they get.
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: That letter, they are able to excavate and navigate what is,
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: what has what becomes known to them, that is that
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: is told by their mother, which is that their father
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: did this to them. And so what I think is
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: what's interesting is that when we first meet them that
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: they don't know where it comes from, yet it is
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: living on them, which I think is a sort of
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: a representation of our traumas that live inside of us.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: That we don't know where that it comes from, and
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: that that it's always burning, and that the representation of
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: it is is it's always there. But you know, when
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: we meet our mother, you have to think about the
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: about the generational traumas that live within all of us
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: and what the how that's carried down And again, we
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: don't know the source of the thing, but it is
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: inside of us.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Girl, Yes, y'all have to go see this movie.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: There's so much Oh my god, I can talk to
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: you about being the sibling who has to take on
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: a shield everything, but also what we just talked about.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I feel like there's so much I don't know, there's
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of comfort that I think black women and
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: black people in general will feel and watching this from
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: beginning to and so congratulations.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, sister. I appreciate.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Hey, y'all, it's Laura the Rosa here for the latest
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: with Laura Rosa, and we are on the latest scene
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: at the is God Is premiere here in New York City,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: and joining me is one of our favorites, Smiths, Erica
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the Icon, Eric Zenda, Alexander.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I'm so good to see you.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: It's always good to see you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: You love so well and you gotta get everybody at
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: the breakfast club, my love.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I will, I will. You know we've been watching your show.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: We've been watching the you Know Everything You've Yes, Yeah, that,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: but also the rewind podcast that you do Yes yes, yes,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: well those reliving single yes, And I want to before
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: we get into the movie, I want to ask you,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: do you feel like you know what you guys have
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: done with the podcast? Do you feel like that's all
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: we need? In the archiving of what television and film
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: was for that error or do you feel like you
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: guys deserve more like another shot at it, maybe like
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: a movie or something to get back together really nice.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: I mean, listen, I was the person who was not
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: for that, But I think that it's not sort of
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: going over the same material or feeling like you're doing
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: the same thing if the movie or the project looks
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: like it's grown. So it depends on execution, is everything.
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: We'll see.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: What about some of the conversations that it's brought up
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: for you that you hadn't had before.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Like I watched the episode with TC.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: And I remember you he found out in real time
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: some things that you were championing for that he didn't
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: know about. And I watched the episode with Queen Latifa
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: and like, you know, just hearing her story. Have there
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: been any conversations off the podcast from the ones you've
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: had on the podcast that are new even though you
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: guys have been friends for so long because of the podcast.
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: Well, most of the stuff that we talk about is
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: new because you can work with people and not really
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: know them, and you know, hindsight is insight. You need
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: twenty twenty in order to talk in a different way.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Many of us.
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: We were depressed when we were there in different stages.
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: We were also dealing with new found sort of fame
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: at different levels, or disappointment, maybe not feeling like you
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: were being taken seriously, you're all doing that in real time,
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: and you also need growth to mature. So we're talking
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: about those things like it's new because it is.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: One moment were about the film. I mean one question
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: about the film. I think they're about to pull you.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: So you played the healer? Yes, yes, fine, yes, divine
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: right now. I think that this film has such a
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: nuanced conversation about spirituality, which you're allowed to do, not
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: allowed to do.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: When you're dealing with it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: But a lot of our deep cinematic films always center
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: around the Black church and church in general.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Why do you think that is.
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: Because black people's own well, let's just say, our only
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: pain pill was religion.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: It was proof of life.
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: They in a way distorted it the minute they took
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: us into those dungeons on the shores of Africa and
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: put churches above that to start to radicalize us and
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: change our thinking and make them us think that we
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: were with even though we didn't know the language that
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: we had no power, because then we didn't.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: After a while, the only power you had.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: Was the faith in tomorrow and in not this earth,
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: but some other place where you'd be happy. It was
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: there to keep people for years, peasants, slaves and everything silent.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I think that what happened is.
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: That they started to learn and the clergy to read,
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: and then suddenly those same things that they could use
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: against us became the weapon that we were going to
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: use for a force of freedom and peace. And that's Martin,
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: Luther King and John lu Is In all those people.
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: So what you use as a weapon sometimes becomes the
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: weapon against the other people.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I love it. I wish I could actually one more,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: but they grabbing you. Thank you so much. I always
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: love talking to you. Thank you. I'll see you as that. Hey, y'all,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: it's Lauren la Rosa.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: We are here at the Is God Is Premiere in
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: New York City and I'm joined by the amazing mischionel Mone.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: How are you doing. I'm a wonderful always look wonderful too.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: What are we wearing today? What are we doing today?
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: I'm wearing a bodie. A bodie is one of my
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: favorite designers to.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, I love the bag, I love the texture
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: and everything.
• 22:32
  Speaker 11: Is God is Like, this is a Gothic Southern Western film.
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: It's an original and I'm so honored to be a
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: part of it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I thought about first when
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I saw the title is God Is. I was like, Okay,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: this is about the challenge what we think we know
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and what we've been taught to know, and teach us
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: how to navigate in between the two of those. And
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I feel like you're a person that's always having a
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: conversation and pushing the boundary of like.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: What should be and what you want to be. How
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: does this film for you convey that to black women?
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah? I mean I think what you know, if Shakespeare
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: had or Hamlet had their poetry, Alicia Harris has her
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: poetry for black women and for the human experience, you know,
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: to be or not to be like is God is?
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Is that?
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: I think that this is one of the most original
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: films I've ever seen. And the script just really blew
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: my mind, one of the best that I've actually ever read.
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: I literally was like, if the way I'm reading this
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: right now is shot exactly just how I'm seeing it
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: in my head. Then this is gonna blow a lot
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: of people's minds. And honestly, it's exceeded my expectations because
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: it's tough as a writer, even as a musician or
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: a singer to find your tone, and she found her tone.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: She found like.
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: A thing that people are going to want to come
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: to all the time. So I just think it's so
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: important that people go to the theaters May fifteen, like
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: physically show up. How we showed up for sinners show
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: up for is God?
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Is?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: What about?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: You know? Because I know you know a lot of
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: what at least's doing is it's the angry black woman
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: trope right in that conversation. A lot of times you're
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: taught to run away from that, to submerge that. But
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: now I'm hearing more black women be like, no, I'm angry,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and you gonna hear about it? Right, So what about
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: that conversation in this context and from the scripts?
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: How do you think that that is? This flips that
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: narrative on its head.
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: Well, I think that you know, this movie deals with
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: a lot of emotions from pain, revenge, vengeance. It's fun
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: at times, it's funny, it's dark humor and I think
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: that we as people when we're dealing with like something
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: as traumatic as I mean, this is their father was
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: a monster. He tried to He literally tried to kill
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: his new his first wife. I play the new wife, Angie,
• 25:02
  Speaker 11: But he tried to kill his first wife and his
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: two kids.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: This is a monster. This is a person.
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: Who is who is like a destruction to society and
• 25:11
  Speaker 11: to Black women. And I can't tell Black women how
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: to feel about that and what kind of revenge they
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: need to get to handle what has happened to them.
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: So I think that this film gives you a spectrum
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: of many ways of how we're all dealing with the
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: destruction of man, the destruction that man has caused two women.
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: And I think that it's so timely, especially as we
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: think about the women in our lives that we know
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: who are survivors, the women that we don't know, no
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: matter what race you are, when a woman is not
• 25:51
  Speaker 11: taken care of or abused at the hands of a man.
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: It's been going on for so long, I can't tell
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: I can't tell another woman to that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: And a lot of times, and like older conversations, I
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: think about my mom and my grandmama and how much
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: they had. They had no idea, not even no idea,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: but they couldn't say it was abused. They just had
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: that was just way, a way of life. And then
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: they had to raise a black woman.
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: Right yeah, no, no, no, we're not standing by that. And
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: I think Alicia Harris wanted to make it very clear
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: that it's all it's not okay to have to tell
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: black women who are the survivors that they have to
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: suppress their feelings about being abused. Ever, so I think
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: she does it in such a poetic way.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: That and and and.
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: Away the whole space for all the emotions because it's
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: his family and we're talked to love family, But what
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: does that mean when you love your mother and she
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: asked you to get revenge for her against your.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Father who gave you life.
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: Like it's a very complicated story, and I think that
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: people are going to talk about it as they should
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: with their families, with their friends, like go see it
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: so that you can you can have that conversation with
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: your loved ones.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Love it. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Hey, y'all,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: what's up.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: It's Laurna Rose here for the latest with Laurla Roza
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: and we are the latest on scene here at the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Is God Is premiere in New York City. I had
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: with me one of the cast members from the film,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and I am so excited.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I'll introduce yourself to the audience.
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: My name is Josiah Cross.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, So Josiah, I'm really excited to talk about this film.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: But I know we can't give too much away right exactly.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: But my question for people to actually got a chance
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: to act in this was when you were reading the scripts, right,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: because I got to read production notes. I got to
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: watch a bit of it, but before I watched it,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I read the production notes and I felt like I
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: was reading like a.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Like it was just I'm like, these are notes and
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: they moving me.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Right, So when you first read the scripts, do you
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: remember your initial feeling like did it hit you spiritually?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Spiritually?
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: Would I would say yes, And that's not just like
• 27:54
  Speaker 12: just because you said that yes, but it's more of
• 27:57
  Speaker 12: like I think that I don't want to, you know,
• 27:59
  Speaker 12: just include like, uh, the normal answer people will say.
• 28:02
  Speaker 12: But I was raised in the church, you know what
• 28:04
  Speaker 12: I'm saying. And I think that this twist even in
• 28:07
  Speaker 12: the name is something that's you know, controversial, controversial about
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: including faith, and you know, spirituality in your art. And
• 28:16
  Speaker 12: I think for me as an artist, I think the
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: number one thing that draws me to any.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Piece of work is the spirituality of it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: And I think that, you know, without giving too much away,
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: I think that it's it's kind of like an oxymoron
• 28:30
  Speaker 12: sometimes growing up black in the church. You know what
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: I'm saying, You're you're called upon these these these virtuistic,
• 28:37
  Speaker 12: kind of moralic kind of missions for your life as
• 28:42
  Speaker 12: an individual.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: And you say that, what do you mean, like what
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: like the things that you can and can't do?
• 28:46
  Speaker 12: Exactly That's exactly what I was trying to say, Thank you,
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: miss Leros.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: No no no, because I'm I'm I'm I'm hearing you,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: and I'm thinking about the trailer in the fact that
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: it trump so.
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: Like that that's kind of like, I don't want to
• 28:56
  Speaker 12: say fight, but something that I've dealt with in my
• 28:58
  Speaker 12: personal life, you know, kind of the spirituality of my
• 29:01
  Speaker 12: own pursuits, revenge, things that I believe our destiny and
• 29:05
  Speaker 12: my own individual pursuit. And I think sometimes the road
• 29:10
  Speaker 12: that you take or by means of what you're carrying
• 29:13
  Speaker 12: something out. Sometimes you blurn along with your spirit, spirituality
• 29:16
  Speaker 12: and your faith, et cetera, which is what you see
• 29:19
  Speaker 12: in this film.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: So after you know, going through the script, after you
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: know actually acting on the movie is here and it's out.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: What because I always her actor said that like there
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: was a piece of the character that sticks with you,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: like you kind of kind.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Of shake it off.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: What stuck with you most from your character that you
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: were shaking off or something you kept with you that
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: you're going to get jos I use is not in
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: his day to day.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:38
  Speaker 12: I think what I think me and Alicia spoke about
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: in initial conversations about the project was what keeps people
• 29:48
  Speaker 12: in anything, What keeps you doing your job, what keeps
• 29:50
  Speaker 12: you around your family if you're a family person, et cetera.
• 29:53
  Speaker 12: And I think something that I was drawn to was
• 29:56
  Speaker 12: the things that personally keep me grounded.
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 29:58
  Speaker 12: Something you know specifically todied to this movie is loyalty
• 30:02
  Speaker 12: and allegiance. And I think for my character's position and
• 30:06
  Speaker 12: his role and his impact, I think that in either
• 30:09
  Speaker 12: direction positive and negative, I think loyalty and allegiance is
• 30:12
  Speaker 12: something that is it's a it's a guiding light or
• 30:16
  Speaker 12: star for my character got You.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can't wait until y'all see it.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I cannot, Yeah, I can, I wait until y'all see
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: this film.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, O Side for joining us.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Hey, y'all, it's Laura La Rosa here for the latest
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: with Laura Rosa and I am joined by the Icon
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: the Legend. We are on site right now for God
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: is the premiere here in New York City, and I'm
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: with Mss Bevy Smith.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: How are you doing.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be here, obviously to be here with.
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: You, but also I've always seen the film and I'm
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: absolutely obsessed with it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, so let's get into a couple things, right, So
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: let's get into the film.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, I know we can't give too much away.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: But so much to give away?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but okay, just in nuanced conversation as a black woman,
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  Speaker 2: what was the number one thing you took away or
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  Speaker 2: you walked away from this movie saying I'm no longer going.
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  Speaker 13: To do Ooh, i am no longer What did I
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  Speaker 13: learn from this movie in that regard? See, I learned
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  Speaker 13: more positivity, Like I learned like I am my sister's
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  Speaker 13: keeper for real, for real, that's what I took from it.
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  Speaker 13: I also took from it like your instinct, follow your gut,
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  Speaker 13: your instinct as a woman, you have to always when
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  Speaker 13: you're encountering people that seem like devilish spirits, don't ignore that,
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  Speaker 13: run the other way, don't run towards the danger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So those are the things that I kind of
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  Speaker 1: like took away from it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, I mean what you're talking about when
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  Speaker 2: in relation to the film, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it is like this is almost like a like write
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  Speaker 2: a passionate passage story for black women who are becoming
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  Speaker 2: and I think at all different levels we become at
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  Speaker 2: some point as you're becoming, right as Bevery Smith is
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  Speaker 2: becoming and your entering into new chapters, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's sometimes it's like they go low, we go high,
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  Speaker 2: you know, having to.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to really do that. I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: that's we're not doing that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what I was getting too in your own
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  Speaker 2: personal career.
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  Speaker 1: And you're.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I've heard in your own personal career.
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  Speaker 2: I watched your show we see you in the band,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: So you're doing all these things right. Has there ever
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  Speaker 2: been a time where you've had to say, no, I'm
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: not what you just said, like setting your boundaries, drawing
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  Speaker 2: your boundaries, trusting your instinct.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all the time, all the time.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, it's important to thine own self be true,
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  Speaker 13: is what Shakespeare said. And it's so important for all
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  Speaker 13: of us to learn who we are so that we
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  Speaker 13: can be true to ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you know who you truly are.
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  Speaker 13: Who you are at your core, then you have a
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  Speaker 13: compass that nobody can't turn you around.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You can never get lost
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  Speaker 1: if you really know who you are at your core.
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  Speaker 13: And so for me, that's the most important thing that
• 32:59
  Speaker 13: I really want to get a course to women, to
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  Speaker 13: young people in general, but especially young women. And that's
• 33:05
  Speaker 13: the reason why I'm doing in Bed with Betty, because
• 33:07
  Speaker 13: I don't want y'all to feel lost. I want y'all
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  Speaker 13: to know there's a lot of different twists and turns
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  Speaker 13: in life, and it's okay to feel like I don't
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  Speaker 13: know what's next.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to feel like that.
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  Speaker 3: You never feel okay when you're in that though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you never do. You never do.
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  Speaker 13: But I want you to know that it's not the
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  Speaker 13: end of the world to feel like that if you're
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  Speaker 13: blessed with creativity, if you're blessed with a lust and
• 33:28
  Speaker 13: a zest for life, you're going to always continually be evolving.
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  Speaker 13: If you're not evolving, then you're stagnant, and if you're stagnant,
• 33:35
  Speaker 13: then you're like just dying real slow.
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  Speaker 3: I love sit here. I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like when I read production os for
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: this film, when I see the film, the first thing
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  Speaker 2: that I thought about, too was like even that feeling
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: of like having it feel like you gotta figure it
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: all out is very generational. Yeah, and you think about
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: it as like, you know, as ambition or as like
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: motivation until you get old enough to realize that there's
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: some trauma in that too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: I think that we live in a world that's so
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  Speaker 13: driven by capitalism, so that we don't really appreciate the
• 34:09
  Speaker 13: not knowing. We don't appreciate their discovery, we don't appreciate
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  Speaker 13: the curiosity.
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  Speaker 1: We that's not really rewarded in this world.
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  Speaker 13: You have to be like I'm this, I'm that hands down,
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  Speaker 13: that's all I know.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is. And and that kind of definitive
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: delusion because it's a delusion when you.
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  Speaker 13: Think you can still stand ten toes down and know
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  Speaker 13: where you're going exactly. They always say, if you want
• 34:37
  Speaker 13: to see God laught, make a plan.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe that, Tell me about it, Tell me
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  Speaker 3: about it. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 13: That's the beauty of what you've been doing with your career, right,
• 34:45
  Speaker 13: You've been making plans and then God will shift them
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: and and but you've learned to trust yourself and.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: To go anyway even if you don't know what's coming next.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's crazy.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I think that I'm learning to retrust myself every time
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I present. And it was something like you know how,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: like it's not even the pivot. It's like literally like
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: things just change and you have to trust that like
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: at any point, at any level, like you got yourself here,
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  Speaker 2: you can figure it out.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: You're gonna figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about Sarah Jake s Roberts about that.
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  Speaker 13: Wow, Yeah, yeah, we all go through it. And as
• 35:16
  Speaker 13: someone who is fifty nine years old and who is
• 35:19
  Speaker 13: going through it yet again, like I had my first
• 35:22
  Speaker 13: big shift in my life at fourteen, then I had
• 35:24
  Speaker 13: another one at thirty eight, and now I'm having one
• 35:27
  Speaker 13: at fifty nine, so it's I guess I do it
• 35:29
  Speaker 13: every twenty years or so, so I'm not mad at that.
• 35:33
  Speaker 13: The next one will be when I'm Mady.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: But we love you and we love to watch the
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Shift because it always gives us great confidence and content.
• 35:41
  Speaker 13: Okay, yeah, so speaking of the Shift, I'm on the
• 35:43
  Speaker 13: ship with Todd Bouchamp and I also have my own show,
• 35:46
  Speaker 13: in Bed with Bevy on YouTube.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Oh my next guest is Sonny Anderson.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Really god, Oh, I'm gonna tune in and tell them
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: when the show drops where they catch it?
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Is it? What's the YouTube channel?
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Okay? My YouTube channel is the g H E E.
• 36:01
  Speaker 13: Bevy Smith and we have new shows every other week
• 36:04
  Speaker 13: on Tuesdays at nine pm. So the next one that's
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: coming up is Sunny Anderson Tuesday, which is that?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: What day is that May? I mean April? What April twenty?
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: I forgot it was even April.
• 36:16
  Speaker 13: Today is Monday tomorrow, It's Tuesday. Episodes drop every Tuesday
• 36:19
  Speaker 13: day and the last, the last Tuesday in April is
• 36:22
  Speaker 13: Sunny Anderson.
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  Speaker 1: And it's good because she had just her show on
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Food Network.
• 36:27
  Speaker 13: The Kitchen got closed down after forty seasons.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is like how.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Wazzy is that and what she's doing with it is great.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: But we're going to tune in.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: And I appreciate you for all the words always in
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: real life too, No, I appreciate you.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Already. Also. That has been the carpet here in New
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: York City.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: We're actually in Brooklyn, right And you know, when you
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: go to Brooklyn, you start telling a lot of truth.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: So you guys have heard a lot of truths tonight.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: You've heard a lot of storytelling. You've heard a lot
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: of the Why go out in theater. It's May fifteenth
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: to see is God is? And come right back here
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  Speaker 2: where you're done, get in those comments and tell me
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: what you guys think about it. I'm Lauren la Rosa
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: here for the latest with Laura l Rosa. I'll catch
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  Speaker 2: you guys in my next episode.