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Kyla Pratt stars as "Randi" in FOX's "Call Me Kat" & Disney+ "The Proud Family: Louder & Prouder" · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: is one of my favorite people. Her name is Kyler Pratt.
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  Speaker 1: Kyla has crafted longevity as an actress since starting her
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  Speaker 1: career as a young act at a young age and
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  Speaker 1: a mass success in numerous comedies from TV sitcoms, the film.
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  Speaker 1: She will be reprising a role in the Proud Family
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite and the Baby Jung in the
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  Speaker 1: reboot The Proud Family Louder and Prouder for Disney Plus
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  Speaker 1: As I Please, it's coming out this year. We'll talking
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  Speaker 1: about that. She's currently started on Fox is the in
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  Speaker 1: the Rod called Randy and a Fox series called Call
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  Speaker 1: Me Cat. You can catch it every Thursday night on Fox. Please,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. For the very first part, Calf,
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  Speaker 1: you're looking at You're looking groovy. It is that the
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  Speaker 1: kind of old groovy groovy groovy. That's cool. Good. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, you look fantastic. And because in this
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  Speaker 1: television age and you look like I'm seriously you can
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  Speaker 1: look like you can probably still play a young teenager.
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  Speaker 1: You look fantastic. Color. I get that a lot. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy you wanted you because we got the battle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because it's a it's an industry about the
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  Speaker 1: youth and your ability to maintain you know. It's like
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  Speaker 1: I always check people say you look good for your age.
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  Speaker 1: When they're saying to me, you know, I'm standing next
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  Speaker 1: to somebody like you, they go your dad or your grandpa. So,
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  Speaker 1: but you look fantastic anything you're doing because you've been
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  Speaker 1: locked down on COVID to keep your spirits up and
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  Speaker 1: keep physically motivated. Um, it's been difficult. Um. Actually, when
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  Speaker 1: everything started happening, I was actually supposed to shoot the
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  Speaker 1: pilot for called me cat and they called and they
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  Speaker 1: were like, um, everything's been shut down. UM. In the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of months is really really hard. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: staying on top of your eating because I'm an emotional
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  Speaker 1: eater and I'm like food. But m after like a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months, you know, I kind of had to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get it together and say, Okay, what am
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  Speaker 1: I putting in my body. I'm also not exercising as much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also not getting a lot of vitamin d UM.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I'm healthy just in case,
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  Speaker 1: you know, come in contact with anything COVID like, so
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  Speaker 1: I can fight it off. And I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: start putting better things in my body and and started
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  Speaker 1: getting physically active again and just making sure I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: laying down and chilling all day. You know, some days
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  Speaker 1: you gotta do that, but then you gotta get back
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  Speaker 1: on some type of schedule and it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't fall off too hard because it's gone. Everything's
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  Speaker 1: gonna open up and then what you're gonna looking crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I gained weight too, I really did gain weight. I
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  Speaker 1: was like my wife, she was, You're hungry, yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I was eating breakfast, launching dinner and I never
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  Speaker 1: do that. So but guess what, I was sitting around
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  Speaker 1: a house watching TV, watching Tiger King all the stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, just different shows on Fox, ABC everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because Coben had put me in a lifestyle
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  Speaker 1: I had never done. In my face, I couldn't control
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  Speaker 1: my movements and so uncertainty and so we all trapped
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  Speaker 1: into that, and so you know, you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying I was depressed, but I was in a way,
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  Speaker 1: um confused about when I went out in public, how
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  Speaker 1: to our interact properly? And and then I read your stories.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're based in California, and California is like
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  Speaker 1: the COVID capital of the world right now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the with the recent surge and productions being shut
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  Speaker 1: down and things like that. How do you like? You said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, taking vitamins and watching what you eat, but
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  Speaker 1: you're still living that lifestyle. Is the media over extending
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  Speaker 1: the story or you or you can live uncomfortable you
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  Speaker 1: you move out comfortably in l A. Um no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you tell I don't like being too
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  Speaker 1: close to people anyway. I like my space. I had
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  Speaker 1: funny I went to the grocery store and I had
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  Speaker 1: this shirt on that said back up if you can
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  Speaker 1: read this, you too close. And somebody was like, where'd
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  Speaker 1: you get that shirt? And I was like, I've had
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  Speaker 1: this shirt for about five years. It's had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the pandemic. I like to you know, I
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  Speaker 1: like a little distance. I like personal space. And I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people don't understand that. Also, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I do it bye bye rules. And I do think
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  Speaker 1: that safety is very important. UM. If someone needs me
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  Speaker 1: to marit, wear a mask. If thing that masks are
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  Speaker 1: protecting us in some way, of course, I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 1: what I need to do. UM. I have um older relatives,
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  Speaker 1: I have young children. UM. I believe in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: making sure that we're not spreading this thing even further.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of crazy that people are still, um,
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  Speaker 1: moving just any way that they want to, and um,
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  Speaker 1: not thinking about others. Um, sometimes you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 1: do what you gotta do, but if you just don't
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  Speaker 1: want to sit in the house, Because I really feel
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  Speaker 1: like this time really, UM, I was talking to my
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  Speaker 1: mom about it this morning, how it forced a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us to slow down and focus on things that
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  Speaker 1: we weren't really focusing on, and um, this was a
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  Speaker 1: time to do that. And UM, we all went through
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  Speaker 1: different emotions of how to do it. But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people, you know, don't want to work on themselves,
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  Speaker 1: so they don't want to sit at home with themselves
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of figure out, Okay, well what can
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  Speaker 1: I do to better me? You know, they like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I want to do this, and I want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I have in tantrums and stuff. Um, but I really
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  Speaker 1: took the time to to work on me and things
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  Speaker 1: that I need to get an order in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Um mentally, physically, mentally, physically everywhere, you know, every aspect
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  Speaker 1: and just focus on that. But no, we're not we're
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  Speaker 1: not knew moving like normal coming from this household. We
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  Speaker 1: we're like, what excuse me, drop it on right there,
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  Speaker 1: thank you? Or even where you're doing the show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming you're actually you take the pilot coming out of
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  Speaker 1: COVID taping the series. How is this set? You know,
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  Speaker 1: because you still gotta be funny, you still gotta be
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with everybody around. It is a comedy, and so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know my background on thing you do.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do a table read with every script? Do
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  Speaker 1: they do a table and they do it via zoom
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  Speaker 1: or do it do it live with the table reads? Well,
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  Speaker 1: now we shot the pilot during the pandemic, and we're
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  Speaker 1: still shooting the series right now. Uh, they have all
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  Speaker 1: these extra rules, everything that's put in place. I basically
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  Speaker 1: get here and makeup done and have to put a
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  Speaker 1: mask and a shield back on my face. So it's
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  Speaker 1: constant touch ups. Um. But for a table reads right now,
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  Speaker 1: we do zoom table reads. Um. There's a lot of producers,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of writers that we haven't even met
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  Speaker 1: yet in person. Um, they've just been watching us on
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  Speaker 1: the cameras and um, it's it's weird. Um. But of course,
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  Speaker 1: the only time that we're able to be around each
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  Speaker 1: other is when we're shooting and when we're rehearsing, and
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  Speaker 1: you would it's weird sometimes because we'll we'll be next
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  Speaker 1: to you. We'll they'll be like, no, you guys need
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  Speaker 1: to be closer together for the shot, and we're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can, I can be close to the Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: can Okay, And then um, with us actors, if you
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  Speaker 1: if you do, if you have to be closer, you
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  Speaker 1: have to kisser, you have to hug. Um, you're extra
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  Speaker 1: tested that week. Um. I've had days where I've been um,
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  Speaker 1: I've had to do three tests in one day, um,
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  Speaker 1: just to make sure that we keep us safe and
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  Speaker 1: our crew safe and UM. Yeah. So it's it's been
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  Speaker 1: weird because you're kind of trying to develop these characters
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  Speaker 1: when you can't really relax. So UM. That's why a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us were a little anxious with the show
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  Speaker 1: coming on because we're like, how did this happen? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I hope everything went great because every thing is moving
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy on set, but I'm happy with it.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched it last night and I enjoyed it. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. And you know, like I said, now
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  Speaker 1: are you the tallest person on the show man that
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  Speaker 1: I am a very um you know it's a short lady. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and usually I am the shortest, but I think Miam
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  Speaker 1: and I are around the around the same height, and
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  Speaker 1: Leslie shorter than I am, um, but fells on, so
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  Speaker 1: it looks like I'm way taller than them when I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Would you carry your newfound height? Well, okay, because because
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that emotional You've got it in the
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  Speaker 1: relationships that you built on the show with your leading lady,
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  Speaker 1: who's Emmy nominated from The Big Bang Theory. What's crazy
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  Speaker 1: is that, Um, this project came to me, UM from
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  Speaker 1: and UM, just to even get the opportunity to be
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  Speaker 1: in the same room as people that you know you
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: can learn from, UM was an amazing This thought of
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the possibility of being able to do that, and then
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: to actually be able to become a part of the
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: show and work with these people that, when I tell you,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: did not disappoint in any type of way. Maam is
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: literally like literally does everything, and she's so sweet and
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: gracious and a human being, and to to you know,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I've been in this business for a very long time,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: and I've worked so much and there's not a lot
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: of times where I come across people where I'm like, Okay,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I have to watch everything this person is doing because
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: she is doing like she's doing everything and she's doing
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: it great. So you know, I just I feel so
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: blessed to be a part of a situation with people
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: who have worked so successfully for so long but are
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: also amazing human beings that show that you know, you
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: don't have to be crazy to make things work. I mean,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you gotta be a little crazy, but but the good crazy, well,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: we know you're crazy. Penny Proud. Okay, Penny Proud. Did
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you think it would come back? Um? I didn't. I
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: didn't think a lot of people. For years. My voice
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: hasn't changed at all, literally loved. Somebody's like, do your
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: kids listen to you? Because when you're talking, you don't
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: sound like nobody's mama. You sound like a little part
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Like first of all, yes, they do listen to me.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Any way, No, I never thought that. Um. I mean
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you've been hearing different things here and there, and so
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: many things are getting rebooted and remade, and so of
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: course I didn't, you know, think that it was I
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: heard talks, but I didn't think it would be a possibility.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: And um then I got the call from Ralph Farquar
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and Bruce Smith and they basically said they wanted to
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: give it a go. And I'm like, hey, like, okay,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: anybody else playing Penny, So y'all have we better figured
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: this out? And and you know, brought everybody along for
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the ride. And it's been tough because, um, we actually
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: started recording right before the right when the pandemic was happening,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and so we had to start recording everything at home.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And uh, it's difficult to record at home when you
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: have kids that are not in school and they loud
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: like their mama. So we're figuring this out though we're
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: making it happens. I'm like, maybe just for a few minutes,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: he's trying to get up part in the show. That's
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: what I know what they're trying to do. Now let's
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: talk about this, this this character. You know when you
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: talk about recording at home, you know this is not
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: pick up your phone with your cell phone recording at
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the home. They sent you some special equipment. How did
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that work out? Oh? Yes, we had to get the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: right mics, um, the right Uh everything that needed to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: go into a computer. And I literally, when I tell
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you this computer thing. Before this pandemic, I knew how
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to ask some right email and uh, I knew how
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: to write to message, but as far as anything else, no,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: So I've learned so much. Um. I had to learn
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: different tools and how to record myself and and even
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: having I don't even know the name of the things
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that they sent, Like I had the abounce thing that
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I had to put behind the microphone and I had
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to put I went to visit my grandmother had to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: put pillows on top of it to make sure that
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the sound was the sound quality was good. Like, they
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: sent us so much stuff, and I'm like, Luckily my
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: man is uh the recording artist, so he knows how
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to cook up all that stuff. And I was like, Okay,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I don't have to um cry today. So luckily I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: had the help that I needed. But yeah, they sent
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: us everything. When you know, you have to learn sometimes.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And so the thing about it is that when you
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: get it, to get an opportunity. So you know, I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: looked at the this is Disney Plus where I just
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: saw sold that Jamie Fox uh animazing, which is really great.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Is I've seen it twice. It's really fun. And then
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I hear about this announcement, uh, you know, the return.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: IMN just call it the return of Penny Proud. You
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: know family Louder and Prouder. So when I hear Louder
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and Prouder, I hear volume. I hear that they're gonna
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: be all over the place. But we know your Disney
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Plus so you're not gonna get extreme. What does Louder
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and proud of me? But to me louder and prouder.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I feel like when I was recording The Proud Family
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: back in the day, I had no idea what I
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: was a party. I was fourteen years old, and I
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: didn't realize the things that we were talking about in
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the messages that we were giving young kids watching UM
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: watching the cartoon. And I feel like Louder and prouder.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Now it's like we it's like Proud Family two point oh.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: We basically upgraded the conversations that are gonna be happening.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: And I'm surprised to some of the things that you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Disney Plus is allowing us to do. But you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: we have to do those type of things if we
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: want to maintain the authenticity of being the Proud Family,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: we have to come through with the messages. We have
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to come through with the knowledge. We have to come
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: through with the real things that need to be said
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and leads to be taught and learned about, especially in
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: our community. So I just feel like there's a lot
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of different storylines that people are gonna be like, what,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: But you know that it's it's teaching young, teaching me young.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Interesting thing about your career because I've been fortunate to
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: watch your career, you know, I've been fortunate to be
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: on set with you and watch the professionalism, watch you
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: watch how you at a young age and and and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and that's a young nager and become a young adult.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: That's longevity. And you know, you have people who want
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to get into business, can you give them any advice
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: or any thoughts to the process of what this business
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: can offer. You offer you for opportunity, but what you
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: have to give or sacrifice to be successful in this business. Uh,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: this business is a very difficult one. UM. I always
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: tell people, please only get involved if it's something that
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you have loved for that you love, um, fame and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: all that popular stuff, and that doesn't really it's too
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: much going on to just want that. Um. And then
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: also it's it's practice, it's studying, it's taking it seriously,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a very difficult. It's like it's
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: mentally it can be completely draining. And I know a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: lot of people looking at me and they're like, oh,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you're you know you you turned out so well when
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and I said you know. That's because I was able
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to recognize when things were too much for me or
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: when I need to just change how I looked at
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: things mentally, Like in this business, you're gonna be told
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: no a million times, and it's gonna make you question yourself.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: It's gonna make you rethink everything that you know about you,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and you have to get stuck in your head that hey,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep getting told no, But that doesn't mean
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that I'm not good, that doesn't mean that I'm not
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: worth it. It It just means that that one thing wasn't
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: meant for me, and now I'm on the hunt for
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the next thing. And uh, I know someone asked me recently,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: like what did you audition for that you didn't get?
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And it took me like ten minutes to think about
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: it because I was like, honestly after illip for something.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: If I haven't heard back, oh no, it's out of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's gone, and I'm on to the next thing.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I can't dwell on the past, you know. So if
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you want to get into a business like this, you
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: just gotta make sure ear is straight because a lot
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: of people don't understand that, you know, we're human beings,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: We're not machines, and we go through the same things
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that everybody else goes through. And if you want to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: do it, just keep hustling and fighting, and people gonna
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: tell you can't. Just like anything else, you gotta prove
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: them wrong. Well you, I'm proud of you, Penny, proud, okay.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: And I've seen I've seen the journey and I know
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you know, there's so many there's so many casualties out
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: there and you know what I'm talking about. And uh,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: and it's sad by that process because it's really can
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: be famous on the series and then all of a sudden,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you're constantly chasing that that series or that moment or
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: that opportunity, and like you said, you have to actually
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: walk away. You have to shut down and don't let
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: these negatives win. And if you let the negatives win,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I think that's when that's when you don't have But
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you've alway had a balanced life and I always tell
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: people on the show that it's important to have a
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: balanced life, that you are not consumed by what you
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: do but who you are, and you've always had that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: as part of your mantra telling Can you tell us
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: about that Penny Pig, teach me call. I've always, um,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I've always wanted to have it all and UM, I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: remember being younger and people like, don't have kids yet,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, first of all, what I want to do? Um,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: But I just feel like you have to have balance.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I understand that what I do for a living is
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: my job and I love it, and I'm very fortunate
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to be able to do something that I love. Um,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: it is not my complete entire life. UM. I am
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a regular person with an extraordinary job. And UM, it's difficult,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: especially in a business like this, because you, like you said,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you have those moments where you have the TV shows
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and you're on top, and the next thing you know,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: people are looking at you like you've never worked before,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and you're like, wait, what, Like I've been hustling and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I've been doing X, Y and Z, and what do
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you mean? And you kind of just have to, like
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I said, it's all it's all about your mental and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and understanding. Like I tell my kids all the time,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like, mommy has always wanted to be a mommy,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and mommy has always wants to be an actress. So
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: mommy has to juggle both if mommy's tired, so what
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: mommy gotta figure out when they're nappying, or you know,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: like just continue to you know, fight for your dreams
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and what you want to do, but also recognize that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: you know, one thing in your life is not everything.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: You know. I love you from a standpoint of who
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: you are, the brand you presented yourself, your beautiful more,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: beautiful mom, beautiful wife. She starts in the new series
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: on Fox every Thursday, call me Cat, but see I'm
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: always loved because my boy rand far Card, that's my
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: boy over there. Uh, the Penny prowd, the return, you know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: you know Ralph's coming with it. You know they playing games.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: If we're coming back, we're coming back hard again. Continue
• 26:37
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• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Want to thank you for taking the time to come
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: on money making conversations. And I enjoyed the series. And
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: if you happen to turn on the show and she's
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: on the screen with Leslie, Jordan's No, she has not grown.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Leslie is just the shortest man on national TV. And
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I probably have on hills. You'll do. You've got it
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: going on, you know, I know you'd got all these
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: kids going on. Okay, what you got it? Going on?
• 27:07
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• 27:17
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