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Adriyan Rae Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: was a former track star. Okay, it's really important to
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Speaker 1: note she's an athlete because she's starting in a new
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Speaker 1: episode new series that she's very athletic, was discovered on
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Speaker 1: a on YouTube as a singer. Not that here here
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Speaker 1: was a former track star now, but was discovered on
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Speaker 1: YouTube as a singer. Now she's a model because she's
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Speaker 1: very attractive, a rioting actress in Hollywood because you know,
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Speaker 1: somebody patched her in. On the interview, she just called
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Speaker 1: me director. Somebody patched her in, So she's big timing.
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Speaker 1: You've seen her work on f on f X, Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: bt S, American Soul, the movie super Fly, and Fox
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Speaker 1: Musical Drama Star. She's on the show to talk about
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Speaker 1: her career huh, which I really love, talking about the
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Speaker 1: hashtag love and lightheart, love and Lightheart and soul scholarships,
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Speaker 1: the ups and downs of Hollywood, and her new sci
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Speaker 1: fi series which I am in love with, Vagrant Queen.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation. Adrian Ray. Hello, Hello, Hi,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. First of all, thank you
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Speaker 1: for coming on the show. Adrian, I'm happy to be here. Now.
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Speaker 1: Where are you based there right now? And Angeles? Okay? Cool? Now?
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Speaker 1: The TV show? Mm hmm, I love it. Are your
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Speaker 1: character Elita is uh? First of all, I don't want
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Speaker 1: to drop the gun because you know, when you see
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Speaker 1: something you tend to overtalk the show a lot. Did
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Speaker 1: just tell me about your character Elita? Well, Elita is
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Speaker 1: a young queen. She was deemed queen at a very
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Speaker 1: young age queen and denial though right when you say that, No,
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Speaker 1: she's um. She's a young queen who at a young
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Speaker 1: age her monarchy was overthrown, and because it was overthrown,
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Speaker 1: she was you know, cast out, and she's been on
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Speaker 1: the run for all these years of her life. And
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Speaker 1: by the Republic's overthrowing her monarchy that she led to
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Speaker 1: the death of her mother and her father. So um,
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Speaker 1: she has resentment towards you know, the monarchy and and
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Speaker 1: the crown in general. Okay. So so that means that
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Speaker 1: you are a reluctant queen. Okay, cool knock. Now you
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Speaker 1: have two sidekicks on the show. You have all I
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Speaker 1: want to say. She's uh. First of all, Isaac. He's
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Speaker 1: a person who you um uh stole his ship and
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Speaker 1: he shot you. Okay. And then you have a maid
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Speaker 1: and a main character. Is interesting because we know she's gay.
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Speaker 1: But then it's always seems to be a moment that
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Speaker 1: there may be something else between you and her, but
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Speaker 1: somebody interrupts. It's kind of like a it does she
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Speaker 1: like a maid? Is she trying to flirt with a maid?
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Speaker 1: Because we know a maid which way she rolls? But
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Speaker 1: we don't know which way Alita rolls, and so the
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Speaker 1: first five episodes got your board, meaning Rashan McDonald going
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Speaker 1: over here, Mmm, is that potential romance between Alita and
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Speaker 1: a maid? Can you give me that to dot dot
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Speaker 1: dot or do I need to keep looking at the
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Speaker 1: various episodes to find out. Well, as you continue to watch,
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Speaker 1: it will become more clear. I mean, it's it's the
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Speaker 1: view that we've given to that. Um. In regards to
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Speaker 1: the show, we literally gave it the seeing view as
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Speaker 1: the character. So the audience see how this goes just
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Speaker 1: like the characters do. UM. But I would say to
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Speaker 1: you the key is to look at Alita in the
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Speaker 1: may when they're not looking at each other or they
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Speaker 1: don't like when amazed looking away, look at Alita and see,
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Speaker 1: I'll be looking, I'm looking at I'm looking, I'm looking.
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Speaker 1: So definitely definitely a little a little, a little sexual
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Speaker 1: tension and things like that. Elina is a pan sexual. UM,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, there's definitely some sexual tension in some googly
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Speaker 1: hard eyes. And it's always that moment. Good writing, as
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Speaker 1: they say, good writing because and you're a very good actress,
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Speaker 1: by the way, I won't compliment you you know, when
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Speaker 1: you found out your mother was alive, you know, a
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Speaker 1: t are dropped immediately and I went and you know
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Speaker 1: it wasn't one of those you know, I'm gonna tell you. So,
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Speaker 1: I'm a type of person when I cry. You know,
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Speaker 1: I can't talk and cry at the same time. So
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Speaker 1: you know I do want to type crying and talking. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and so and so I'm looking at you just dropping
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Speaker 1: these tears and still maintaining vocal control. How do you
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Speaker 1: do that? Adrian Um actually worked with a vocal coach,
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Speaker 1: and you know that's skill, right, that's a skill you
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Speaker 1: have to learn, right, well, not necessarily, but it does
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Speaker 1: help to have diaphragm control, regardless of in your breast control.
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Speaker 1: It's all control of the breathing. So you're saying I'm
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Speaker 1: a loser, mis right, that's right there, Sam, a loser.
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Speaker 1: I can't because because I can't cry and maintain vocal control.
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Speaker 1: You know, I have these these these heavy breathing. You
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Speaker 1: just got it. You just gotta control that diaph so
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Speaker 1: tighten up the tightened up the gud. But see, I
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Speaker 1: have not. I was not a track star. I didn't
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Speaker 1: have that, you know, because one thing about a track star.
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Speaker 1: You had that diet fram right that that six pack,
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Speaker 1: when you turn that corner, the knees coming up near
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Speaker 1: that chest, you're gonna be right now, So don't you
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Speaker 1: do me on my own show. Now, this interview is
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Speaker 1: going bad for me right now. She's already told me
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Speaker 1: in other shape, I can't keep my breath. So let's
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Speaker 1: talk about this series now. First of all, you know, um,
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Speaker 1: when the when the opportunity came for me to interview you,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, we were in the meeting and
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Speaker 1: I looked you up online and I just started. I
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Speaker 1: know her from Atlanta, and I knew from American soul,
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Speaker 1: and of course star. Now you are the star of
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Speaker 1: this series, vagrant queen. That is an enormous responsibility. Talk
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Speaker 1: walk us through the steps of auditioning and when you
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Speaker 1: first was realized when it told you you was going
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Speaker 1: to be the star to show and you've been cast
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Speaker 1: as the lead. Talk us about that, because this is
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Speaker 1: something I would commit. Tell them before you answer the response.
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Speaker 1: I just want to tell you something, honestly, when I
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Speaker 1: watch you, you're so talented. Secondly, I realized that there's
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Speaker 1: a high level of innocence in you that you're doing
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Speaker 1: what you love and and you're being blessed to deliver
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Speaker 1: it in this show. And the fact that you're doing
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Speaker 1: it at such a young age and on a show
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Speaker 1: that's high profile, a high budget, and a lot of sets.
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Speaker 1: It's really wonderful. Now you can respond, thank you. Um So,
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Speaker 1: I got the audition from a manager and he sent
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Speaker 1: over the side. I immediately tried to get into the
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Speaker 1: world of Vague and Queen. So I read the comic,
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Speaker 1: I read the side, and I read the pilot script,
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Speaker 1: which really all of it helps because the writer, Jim
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Speaker 1: um She's she's amazing and amazingly talented, and she really
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Speaker 1: did a great job but taking that comic book because
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Speaker 1: it's an adaptation, to taking that comic book world and
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Speaker 1: really turning it into a TV adaptation, and you could
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Speaker 1: really find the two worlds to be the same when
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Speaker 1: you go from the comic to the television series. So
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Speaker 1: I really found, you know, the comics to be very helpful.
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Speaker 1: So I went and built my character and instantly fell
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Speaker 1: in love with her, instantly resonated with her words. I
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Speaker 1: was off book as in, um My, the words that
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Speaker 1: they gave me to audition with were memorized very fast,
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Speaker 1: and um. From doing that, I did my audition. You know,
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Speaker 1: I just went out there and I had funds and
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Speaker 1: I did what I thought. You know, it was funny
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Speaker 1: and fun and you know what I wanted to do
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Speaker 1: when I wanted to bring to the character. And luckily
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Speaker 1: and amazingly well the whole career of team. They really
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Speaker 1: liked my audition. So they called me in for a
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Speaker 1: callback with some tweaks, and I sipped over another tape
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Speaker 1: because at this point our show, Lennard was in South
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Speaker 1: Africa and I located in Los Angeles, so he did
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Speaker 1: it yourself to too self tapes. And then I get
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Speaker 1: a phone call from my manager and he tells me.
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Speaker 1: He says, can I speak to Alida? And I just
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Speaker 1: start freaking out. I'm in Rows. I gotta get out there.
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Speaker 1: I gotta get out the store, like the grocery store
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. But they're just be staying like Ralphs everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Raps aren't everywhere. Ralphs is a big It's like crowbars
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Speaker 1: or publics. It's based in Los Angeles. Five. I've really
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Speaker 1: lost fifty. It's really big. Okay, continue, I'm in the
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Speaker 1: grocery store and I get out and I have to
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Speaker 1: you know, have my whole moment and then tell me
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Speaker 1: that I book it, and you know that that feeling
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Speaker 1: was just amazing. And none of it actually hit me
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Speaker 1: that I was the lead in a woman of color
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Speaker 1: lead in the sci fi series l g pt Q
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Speaker 1: plus representation. None of that really hit me in the moment.
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Speaker 1: All of it was just like home, man, I booked
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Speaker 1: a show, and that's just like where I was living
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Speaker 1: in the moment. And as I got you know, to
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Speaker 1: South Africa, as I got started in it's costum it
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Speaker 1: all started like unraveling and like, oh I am I
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Speaker 1: am the actual lead. I am the vagrant queen. I
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Speaker 1: am a woman of color leading a sci fi series.
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Speaker 1: And you know, but as much as it could seem,
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Speaker 1: you know, scary to someone, um, it wasn't. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: terrifying or scary to me because I didn't see it
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Speaker 1: as like something that could possibly turn negative at all.
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Speaker 1: So because of the way I embraced it, it really
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Speaker 1: allowed me to, um just live in that space and
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Speaker 1: embrace it and flourish within it. And I'm just super
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Speaker 1: grateful and humble to be able to play such an
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Speaker 1: impactful role, a powerful role that has so much representation
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Speaker 1: on so many different levels. You know, you we're living
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Speaker 1: level can deter other opportunities at their level. And so
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Speaker 1: Black Panther delivered over the of her and uh and
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Speaker 1: also open doors. I'd like to believe for opportunities like this.
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Speaker 1: And when I see what you're doing. You know, I
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Speaker 1: saw the first episode and it's like, if you're a
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Speaker 1: the character type tone because she's an anti hero. She
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Speaker 1: her her teammates, her sidekicks, you know. And Isaac is
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Speaker 1: an ass. She ran out and started uh krip walking
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Speaker 1: in the parking lot. She was so happy. She's just
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Speaker 1: doing her things. But right now when she's doing on
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Speaker 1: this show is telling us about her new series, which
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Speaker 1: is on sci Fi on Thursday nights at eleven Eastern
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Speaker 1: that's when I watch it every Thursday night. I've seen
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Speaker 1: the first five episodes of Vagrant Queen and the fifth episode.
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Speaker 1: You know, each episode gets better. The fifth episode may
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Speaker 1: be mad because it really you know, what's what's what's
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Speaker 1: the villain's name? Last us? What's the villains? The villain's
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Speaker 1: name Lazaro, Lazaro. You know he is an evil, evil guy. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. This series is. You know,
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Speaker 1: they beat up people. There's some blood in the series now,
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Speaker 1: and there's some campiness which which should be called humor.
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Speaker 1: And there is uh teamwork. There's a lot of backstabbing,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of lying, there's a lot of I
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Speaker 1: thought you said this, I thought you was This is
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Speaker 1: a lot of unforeseen directions for the characters. And you
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Speaker 1: think you're going into the direction their lives that are lost,
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Speaker 1: their lives that are lost, that more lives that are lost,
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Speaker 1: and then it windlers are all down to where you're
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Speaker 1: at right now. You're you're out the episodes five, I'm believing,
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Speaker 1: and you're ready to save the galaxy? Correct? I can't
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Speaker 1: speak on that. Oh my goodness, I sent you off, Adrian,
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Speaker 1: and you're just gonna leave me hanging out there. I
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Speaker 1: don't think I'm telling the series. I think I'm just
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Speaker 1: happen to five now, episode five, I would think that's
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Speaker 1: the attitude you're gonna have moving forward. Crazy man, he
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Speaker 1: got the the ORB that you you didn't have time
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Speaker 1: to get the information on how to use it. And
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Speaker 1: then I was saying he knew how to use it.
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Speaker 1: Now he has ultimate power. I don't even know how
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Speaker 1: you're gonna tackle him, because even though you are blood,
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Speaker 1: the Queen or the king or whatever, you still on
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Speaker 1: have the orb. He has it now. So now episode six,
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Speaker 1: which I have to watch this Thursday night at eleven
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Speaker 1: o'clock on Sci Fi Channel, I'm just I'm talking to
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Speaker 1: Adrian Rage. She should starve frakon Queen a great, great series.
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Speaker 1: Or people reacting to you like I'm reacting to you. Um,
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Speaker 1: everyone reacts differently. Oh am I reacting? You know, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be like a little a little fan.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm talking about, am I am? I? Okay? Cool?
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Speaker 1: Thank you, because you have a great series. Now, before
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Speaker 1: we got to the great series already, nor Bio, you
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Speaker 1: were discovered on YouTube as a singer. How does that happen? Uh,
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Speaker 1: divine intervention, I suppose because I had like no YouTube
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Speaker 1: subscribers or anything like that. I just suse house cooking
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Speaker 1: on Instagram. No one followed, and uh, they went to
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Speaker 1: the YouTube and checked out the song, and then they
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Speaker 1: actually worked at um they worked at Radar, which is
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Speaker 1: a subdivision of Epic Records, and they showed their boss
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Speaker 1: and their bosses like Burner and let's let's have her
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Speaker 1: sing for us and let's talk to her, and uh,
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Speaker 1: yeah we were And it's from there. But that's that's
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Speaker 1: literally how I started getting into the entertainment industry. And
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Speaker 1: from there, you know, I I being w some sets
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Speaker 1: and things like that. I found out about acting, and
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Speaker 1: because I was in Atlanta, you know, that's black Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: And I remember being on a video set and doing acting,
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Speaker 1: like as like like lead acting, and they were like
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Speaker 1: pretty good at this, and I was like, I don't
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Speaker 1: know what I'm doing, and they're like, you know, you
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Speaker 1: should really try because you're in Atlanta and should at
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Speaker 1: least just you know, give it a try sense you're here.
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Speaker 1: So I was like okay, and then I found my
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Speaker 1: mentor Carl Payne, who yeah, and he took me under
19:39
Speaker 1: his wing and just taught me so so so very
19:41
Speaker 1: much and not forever grade of the Carl and uh
19:43
Speaker 1: he started me with you know, Stanislavsky, Sella Adler and
19:46
Speaker 1: those those techniques. So the first thing Carl did with
19:49
Speaker 1: me was trained. I know often people when they turn
19:52
Speaker 1: and they say, I want to be an actor, And
19:54
Speaker 1: that's that's fine if that's your passion. It's a beautiful
19:56
Speaker 1: thing that you found that. But the first thing is
19:59
Speaker 1: not needed to I need to get head shots and
20:01
Speaker 1: find the act, find the agent and go book a role.
20:03
Speaker 1: The first thing you need to do is train because
20:06
Speaker 1: um as I h as I read in a beautiful
20:10
Speaker 1: interview by Brittany who is one of the stars of Boomerang.
20:14
Speaker 1: She said, it is it is your talent. It's like
20:19
Speaker 1: an agent will get you in the room, yes, but
20:21
Speaker 1: your talent will keep you in the room. Your talent
20:25
Speaker 1: will get you booked. So that's that's the important thing
20:28
Speaker 1: that you really need to call today. Well, let's go
20:32
Speaker 1: back to the show now, bounce back and forth because
20:36
Speaker 1: a different points I went back. Now the sets, now,
20:39
Speaker 1: this is one that has impressed me about the show,
20:41
Speaker 1: because when you do a show like this, you know,
20:43
Speaker 1: one of the things that can destroy a show is
20:45
Speaker 1: to set uh, which was tied towards the acting, the
20:50
Speaker 1: the I guess, the fight sequences, the special effects, and
20:55
Speaker 1: your show does a phenomenal job. Talk about the sets
20:59
Speaker 1: that and where you guys are shooting the show. Well,
21:03
Speaker 1: the steps are absolutely phenomenal, like you said, and we
21:05
Speaker 1: shoot in kick Out, South Africa, which offers just a
21:09
Speaker 1: huge variety of terrain to work with. I mean from
21:12
Speaker 1: episode five you see the dunes in Atlantis and then
21:15
Speaker 1: all the way to the beautiful mountains that you see
21:17
Speaker 1: in episode three where I go meet Clive, all of
21:20
Speaker 1: these are actual mountains and dunes. They're not c g ied.
21:23
Speaker 1: I mean the most c g I is like extra
21:25
Speaker 1: moons added into the sky. So um, you know it
21:29
Speaker 1: looks of another galaxy, not yours. But yeah, we uh
21:36
Speaker 1: we we for sure, no, we for sure had a
21:39
Speaker 1: lot of fun filming in all these different places, and
21:42
Speaker 1: it was just beautiful that one place in the Motherland
21:45
Speaker 1: had so much to offer regarding not just the scenes
21:50
Speaker 1: and the sets, but also the talent. There's a lot
21:53
Speaker 1: of South African actors who are a part of our
21:56
Speaker 1: casting crew, are part of our castin. Yeah, and it
21:59
Speaker 1: was just it was just a beautiful, beautiful thing to experience. Well,
22:03
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be remiss if I don't talk about
22:06
Speaker 1: the makeup because the makeups phenomenal. The makeup design and
22:10
Speaker 1: all that is crafted very well. And that's what that's
22:13
Speaker 1: what excites me about this show. First, I'm a sci
22:15
Speaker 1: fi person and you're watching sci fi. But but to
22:19
Speaker 1: support you as a lead on an incredibly well produced,
22:23
Speaker 1: crafted series is important because of the fact that you're good.
22:27
Speaker 1: You're really, really good at what you do. Now, there's
22:30
Speaker 1: a lot of physical fight scenes, there's a lot of running,
22:34
Speaker 1: there's a lot of jumping. Talk to us about that
22:36
Speaker 1: training process. Well, luckily, like you say, stated, I've been
22:41
Speaker 1: an athlete all of my life. Um, I've been playing
22:43
Speaker 1: to hockey since I was five, running track, basketball, all
22:47
Speaker 1: these things. So I was able to have you know,
22:49
Speaker 1: that coordination, center of gravity, all of those things naturally
22:52
Speaker 1: within my being. But I had an amazing stunt like crew,
22:58
Speaker 1: and you know, they trained me. I had a personal
23:00
Speaker 1: trainer as well, who training with boxing and kinesthetic and
23:03
Speaker 1: dynamic training. The kickboxing and you know, as actors, it
23:08
Speaker 1: is our job to make sure that we stay in shape.
23:10
Speaker 1: But I didn't know I was going to get an
23:11
Speaker 1: action hero role. So you know, my my training had
23:15
Speaker 1: to shift from just going to the gym with dowing
23:17
Speaker 1: cardio to actually like punching and kicking and working out
23:20
Speaker 1: in a different way, more athletic building a way. So, um,
23:25
Speaker 1: that's what my training consisted of. Uh. We shot six
23:27
Speaker 1: days a week. I trained three the five times a week,
23:32
Speaker 1: and I had one day to myself everyday every week. Now,
23:37
Speaker 1: with that being said, did you get any bruises or
23:41
Speaker 1: did you get thrown off on any of the Uh?
23:44
Speaker 1: Any the acting the physical scenes are are because I'm watching,
23:47
Speaker 1: I'm trying to it's that her fighting is that? How
23:49
Speaker 1: making that kick? Is that making? How make that throw?
23:51
Speaker 1: Is she being thrown around? How did that work out
23:54
Speaker 1: for you physically? In all the action scenes? Um, I
23:58
Speaker 1: actually did ninety percent of my stunt. Okay, come on,
24:04
Speaker 1: my girl, So I did not need percent of my stunts,
24:08
Speaker 1: and I did injure myself. You know, there's there's small
24:12
Speaker 1: little injuries like cuts or things like that that happened.
24:15
Speaker 1: But I've never I've never really like genuinely hurt myself,
24:19
Speaker 1: like badly. I did, you know, some bumps and bruises,
24:24
Speaker 1: but all of which I'm just I didn't even tell
24:26
Speaker 1: anybody about it because I wanted to continue to do
24:28
Speaker 1: my stunt. I was like, no, I'm fine, just just
24:31
Speaker 1: just manned up there. Hey, don't worry about I'm good.
24:33
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. Well, well,
24:36
Speaker 1: I'll just let you know that this is I'm just
24:39
Speaker 1: having fun talking to you because you know, I'm talking
24:42
Speaker 1: to the start of the series and you're answering inside questions,
24:47
Speaker 1: except you know what's going to happen after episode five.
24:51
Speaker 1: You know that's the only thing you see. You're not
24:53
Speaker 1: gonna which up. Cool. I respect that of it. We're
24:55
Speaker 1: gonna get a relationship going here. You know, ventual on
24:57
Speaker 1: future interviews. You know you're gonna let me in a
24:59
Speaker 1: little bit more secret. Let's talk about your scholarships. You know,
25:02
Speaker 1: the shift here because this is the side of you
25:05
Speaker 1: that I always like to talk with with by especially
25:07
Speaker 1: people in entertainment. I call it a balance life, you know,
25:10
Speaker 1: being able to you know you're focused on your career,
25:13
Speaker 1: but what are you doing for the community. What what what? What?
25:16
Speaker 1: What keeps your mind active when you're not acting or entertaining.
25:20
Speaker 1: It's called the hashtag love and light, heart and soul
25:23
Speaker 1: scholarship tell us about that. Yeah, so this scholarship, I
25:28
Speaker 1: must say, is so so so close to my heart. Um.
25:32
Speaker 1: As I previously stated, I am a certified laboratory scientists
25:36
Speaker 1: and I went to school and studied tradition assistant studies
25:39
Speaker 1: as well. So I have degrees, and I know what
25:41
Speaker 1: it's like to be a first generation college student. I
25:44
Speaker 1: know what it's like to go to college and your
25:47
Speaker 1: parents are like, that's amazing. I don't we don't know
25:49
Speaker 1: how we can pay for that, but that's amazing that
25:51
Speaker 1: you got in and you just try to figure out
25:53
Speaker 1: a way to make this work. I remember that anxiety
25:56
Speaker 1: that I had. I remember the stress that I had
25:58
Speaker 1: every Sylvester in the midst of finals, because that's when
26:01
Speaker 1: it's all winding down, worrying about if I'm going to
26:04
Speaker 1: have enough money to live on campus, if I'm gonna
26:07
Speaker 1: have enough money for books, cannot even pay my scholars
26:09
Speaker 1: to my tubition, will be able to come back. That's
26:12
Speaker 1: just the fear. I genuinely I didn't like it at all,
26:16
Speaker 1: And as someone who has been blessed to be able
26:20
Speaker 1: to live in my passion and have the financial stability
26:24
Speaker 1: to give back, I feel like it's my duty to
26:26
Speaker 1: actually help students. They don't have to go through these things,
26:30
Speaker 1: and if I can do something about it, I'm going
26:32
Speaker 1: to help. So the Love and Life Media, Heart and
26:35
Speaker 1: Soul Scholarship is my way of getting back to the
26:38
Speaker 1: community in that way. So the Heart Scholarship is for
26:42
Speaker 1: the heart of our country, and it is for students
26:44
Speaker 1: who are interested in things in the medical field, whether
26:47
Speaker 1: that's nursing, p a OT, occupation of therapy, um as
26:52
Speaker 1: a doctor, as a nurse practitioner, all of those things.
26:56
Speaker 1: And it's for people who you know, come from I
27:00
Speaker 1: the privileged areas. You have to have a certain criteria
27:02
Speaker 1: for you t p A. And then you had the
27:05
Speaker 1: Soul Scholarship, which I believes for the soul of our nation.
27:08
Speaker 1: It's just the art, the art speed your soul. So
27:12
Speaker 1: for those are those people who want to go into
27:15
Speaker 1: you know, cinematography, directing, they want to go into school
27:18
Speaker 1: for theater, that's a scholarship that's available for them, and
27:23
Speaker 1: we're working very hard to get that off the ground.
27:25
Speaker 1: Amiss this COVID nineteen pandemic, but we're really working on
27:30
Speaker 1: it to get it off the ground. My friend, I
27:34
Speaker 1: want to thank you for coming on my show. She's
27:36
Speaker 1: the star of the hit sci fi series sci Fis
27:41
Speaker 1: on sci Fi Network. I shouldn't say sci Fire serious.
27:43
Speaker 1: It's on the Sci Fi Network every Thursday in eleven Eastern.
27:46
Speaker 1: You can catch her uh the star of Vagrant Queen. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Two sidekicks Isaac and Amy, and they're fantastic. I laugh.
27:54
Speaker 1: I enjoy um. First of all, your wonderful interview. By
27:57
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Speaker 1: job with gold Talk forever, but again we all have
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