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Rushion Interviews Netflix series star of “Raising Dion,” Alisha Wainwright, talks season 2, boxing, and relationships! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My guess is Alicia Wainwright. A little background on her
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Speaker 1: Haitian Jamaican received a degree in botany at the University
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Speaker 1: of Florida. She also worked in Panama for the Smithsonian.
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Speaker 1: Now she's an actress who currently starts on the hit
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Speaker 1: Netflix series Raising d M, which is trending by the way,
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Speaker 1: season two officially on Netflix. The hitting Netflix series is
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Speaker 1: executive deduced by Michael B. Jordan and Charles D. King
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Speaker 1: good Friend of Mine, and it's based on the comic
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Speaker 1: book series of the same name, Raising d M. Raising
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Speaker 1: Deon little background on the show, uh follows the story
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Speaker 1: of Nicole played by Alicia Waite Right and her son
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Speaker 1: Dion Josiah Young after Dion starts to manifest several mysterious
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Speaker 1: superhero libilities. If you saw the first season, she was
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Speaker 1: she was tormented by that. You know, a lot of
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Speaker 1: tears flowed for her in that first season, a lot
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Speaker 1: of crime. Two years later, now after defeating the Crooked Man,
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Speaker 1: and he's back. Jason Ritter is back, but we want
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Speaker 1: to be really in the details of how he's played
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Speaker 1: out in the second season. Season two follows DN as
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Speaker 1: he continues honing his pals with the support of his mom,
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Speaker 1: and a new potential love interest that'sn't introduced on the show.
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Speaker 1: But please welcome to money Making Conversation Master last incredibly
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Speaker 1: talented by the way, talented Alicia rngway. How are you doing, Alicia,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing very well. Thank you so much for that introduction. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, Alicia, I got to see you. Um, I
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Speaker 1: saw you know in the first season, and um, everything
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Speaker 1: is by growth and everything is by natural. But last night,
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Speaker 1: you know, I got to see the finale last night,
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Speaker 1: So it was just so happened this weekend. I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it popped on my radar to start watching and this
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Speaker 1: interview wasn't even scheduled yet, and so I started watching it.
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Speaker 1: And you are a natural. I don't know, you know,
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Speaker 1: I want to say a complimented because I want to
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Speaker 1: insult anybody out that acting. But there's something there's a
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Speaker 1: quality about your acting. There's really seems so that conversational.
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Speaker 1: Can we talk about that and talk about you know,
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Speaker 1: because you started over here in science and now you're
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Speaker 1: in acting. I started in math and now I'm entertaining.
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Speaker 1: Talk about that journey a little bit. And also what
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Speaker 1: did you hone your acting skills. UM, Wow, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I would say that I think one of the benefits
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Speaker 1: I have in my acting career is that it's not
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Speaker 1: my first career. I was able to live a full
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Speaker 1: life UM with you know, travel and and kind of
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Speaker 1: immersing myself in the science world, and along the way,
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Speaker 1: I just learned a lot about life. I learned a
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Speaker 1: lot about myself. And you know, some of my peers
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Speaker 1: who were trained very classically in UM acting in theater,
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Speaker 1: they have a different set of skills that can maybe
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Speaker 1: give them a different range. But for me, the ability
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Speaker 1: to be like very natural and authentic is probably one
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Speaker 1: of my Like I don't know, it's like the best
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Speaker 1: I have to offer. But yeah, I would say that
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Speaker 1: that having you know, a life outside of entertainment has
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Speaker 1: absolutely helped shape my skill set. Whereas UM, a lot
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Speaker 1: of my peers they learn on the job. You know,
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Speaker 1: their life was was kind of the career that they
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Speaker 1: made for themselves, so they didn't get the chance to
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Speaker 1: maybe travel for pleasure or you know, have outside interests
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Speaker 1: beyond things that were completely focused on acting, if that
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Speaker 1: makes sense. So where did the acting training come from?
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Speaker 1: For you? Okay, we got that, we got the Education Universal, Florida,
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Speaker 1: says Botany the life experience in Panama. One of your
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Speaker 1: places where you was at Smithsonian Where did they acting
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Speaker 1: start to develop with high school college where Um, So
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Speaker 1: I took an acting class when I was in college.
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Speaker 1: I think it was called acting one oh one for
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Speaker 1: non majors it was, and there was like that, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty much you know. It was at an elective
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Speaker 1: class that I took and the teacher thought I was
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Speaker 1: really bad, and like it was just it didn't necessarily
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Speaker 1: make me feel like this was something I could ever
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Speaker 1: take seriously. But it was my first real attempt at
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Speaker 1: like is this something that I like? But I kind
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Speaker 1: of got shot down. UM. And then later on when
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Speaker 1: I ended up leaving UH the Smithsonian and leaving kind
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Speaker 1: of my work as a scientist and moving on to
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Speaker 1: actually wine, I thought I wanted to be a winemaker,
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Speaker 1: and so I was living in Sonoma. I met a
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Speaker 1: couple of people who steered me towards an acting class
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Speaker 1: UH in San Francisco at the time, and so I
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Speaker 1: started taking classes there for UM beginners and then quickly
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Speaker 1: got a sense of the things that were making me
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Speaker 1: seem very green. UM that I just didn't know because
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Speaker 1: I didn't have the education and acting um. But it
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Speaker 1: was incredibly impactful to me, and it helped give me
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Speaker 1: a lot of the tools I use now whenever I
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Speaker 1: approach you know, my work when it's interesting, because so
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Speaker 1: because I'm just trying to get to the root of
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Speaker 1: the acting. You know, because you took that class. It
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Speaker 1: was a disaster in college, and then you over here,
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Speaker 1: we want you brought to venture into wine making here
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Speaker 1: and then somehow you take this acting class in the
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Speaker 1: San Francisco area. Was it always in the back of
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Speaker 1: your mind something that's a child that you thought about doing?
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Speaker 1: Because I was. I would tell you, like personally, I
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Speaker 1: chose his career as a stand up comedian, But I
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Speaker 1: never thought about that at all in my life. It
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Speaker 1: was just something. I went to college and it fell
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Speaker 1: into my life and I loved it, even though I
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Speaker 1: pursued I got the math degree. But after I worked
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Speaker 1: at Ivan a couple of years, I went, this is
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Speaker 1: not what I want to do from a creative standpoint.
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Speaker 1: I realized I was boxed in. It feels like creatively
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Speaker 1: that's what was that what drove you to acting? Uh? Okay,
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Speaker 1: So when I was maybe five, I was in a
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Speaker 1: public grocery store and my woman had suggested to my
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Speaker 1: mom to maybe take some pictures and put me into
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Speaker 1: some kids modeling. Um, but she's a single mom and
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Speaker 1: you know, carding your kid from Fort Laud Adults Miami
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Speaker 1: for auditions and stuff. She quickly learned that that's not
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Speaker 1: a kind of lifestyle she was interested in. So I
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Speaker 1: had the understanding and the taste of it very early on.
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Speaker 1: But then my mom was like, you know, it's a
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Speaker 1: better use of my money and time to put you
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Speaker 1: in karate and gymnastics and tennis and all of these things.
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Speaker 1: So I had a very well rounded up bringing that
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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with acting, but I still had
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Speaker 1: that little nugget in the back of my head. So
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Speaker 1: as time we're on I kept, you know, looking for
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Speaker 1: someone to validate the curiosity I had. And every time
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Speaker 1: I would do that, people would be like, what are
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Speaker 1: you doing, Like, you're stay in your lane. And it
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Speaker 1: wasn't until I moved out to the Bay Area that like,
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Speaker 1: basically I had to hey money for a class for
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Speaker 1: someone to look at me and be like, no, we
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Speaker 1: actually I think there's something there. And I just latched
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Speaker 1: onto that teacher's encouragement and my peers in the class
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Speaker 1: their encouragement. And I used that to kind of catapult
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Speaker 1: myself forward. When when did the lightbulb go off for you?
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Speaker 1: As far as acting, I'm speaking right now to Alicia
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Speaker 1: wain't right, one of the stars of an incredibly popular
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Speaker 1: series of Netflix li Flix Skulls, Raising Dion. She plays
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Speaker 1: ther mom to the character Dion. It's a very fun
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Speaker 1: take on raising the family she's parenting. Uh continue and
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Speaker 1: he was who's now has superpowers? How do you handle
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Speaker 1: that as a parent? You know, when when you know
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Speaker 1: that kid can blow through a wall or a fly
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Speaker 1: around the room, and all these different skill set that
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Speaker 1: this young boy has. So it's a really fun take
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Speaker 1: on that. But I want to say something about your mom.
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Speaker 1: She may not have taking you down between Fort Laudo
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Speaker 1: Dale in Miami, but she did set you physically in
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Speaker 1: the right way, taking these karate classes, taking these tennis classes,
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Speaker 1: because you're really physical, especially in the second season. Talk
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Speaker 1: about that. I mean, so, the showrunner, Carol Barbie, and
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Speaker 1: I have such a great rapport and initially when the
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Speaker 1: show was first written, before I even became attached, the
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Speaker 1: character was a dancer, and for me, dance is not
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Speaker 1: the most accessible skill. I do think I have rhythm
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Speaker 1: and whatnot, but like you got a walk, now you
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Speaker 1: got that walk, Now you got you, you got a
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Speaker 1: bowl walk about you? You know, like okay, okay, I
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Speaker 1: learned that for the character, you know, and like I
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Speaker 1: I did what I could to use the feeling that she's,
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Speaker 1: you know, a dancer, but you know, Nicole's character has
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Speaker 1: been classically trained in modern dance for many, many years,
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Speaker 1: and that's just something you can't pick up in uh,
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Speaker 1: in a couple of months. So the showrunner, who absolutely
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Speaker 1: felt for me and how hard I worked for the dance,
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Speaker 1: she knew that I had aways been interested in boxing
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know that sort of aspect of like
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Speaker 1: stunt work and stuff. So she was like, this is
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Speaker 1: a fantastic way to incorporate into Cold more into the
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Speaker 1: storyline because she can be a little bit more defensive.
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Speaker 1: And it made sense that if there's a two week,
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Speaker 1: two year hiatus between season one and season two, Nicole
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Speaker 1: would be doing everything she could to be the best
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Speaker 1: version of herself, and that includes taking self defense classes
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Speaker 1: and boxing classes and things like that. So it kind
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Speaker 1: of all kind of fell together. But yeah, I've I've
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Speaker 1: always been a pretty athletic person. I ran track in
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Speaker 1: in high school. I mean I run now, and I've
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Speaker 1: picked up boxing later in life. But it's such a
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Speaker 1: fun tactile skill. And you know, if you're interested in
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Speaker 1: action shows and stuff like that, you end up carrying
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Speaker 1: that with you from show to show. Well, it's fun
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Speaker 1: because the reason I liked it the physicality being introduced
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Speaker 1: with you boxing, and you know, because you are going
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Speaker 1: to fight and I always, I always do. Okay, where
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Speaker 1: did you get that skilled from? Where? Where did that
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Speaker 1: pop up from? What did that ability to fend off
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Speaker 1: people pop up from? But I see it when you
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Speaker 1: when you're you, you're hitting the bag. You know you
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Speaker 1: you look like you're looking athletic. You don't look like
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Speaker 1: a weak mom or complaining mom because the first season
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Speaker 1: and no complaints. You know, you're very emotional the first season.
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Speaker 1: A lot of tears, A lot of tears flowed for
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Speaker 1: you in the first season because he was caught off
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Speaker 1: guard by all these skills. You know, the dad was
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Speaker 1: out of this young man's life. What do I do
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Speaker 1: if it was like a classic character going a fish
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Speaker 1: out of water? That this is not the life I expected,
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Speaker 1: you know, if my life has been flipped upside down,
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Speaker 1: That to me was the first season and the second season.
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Speaker 1: It feels like you understand your life, you're trying to
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Speaker 1: still trying to take control of you, like because you're
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Speaker 1: still trying to be a parent to this young budding superhero.
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Speaker 1: But the physicality was brought in because certain scenes required,
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Speaker 1: and I felt it was authentic your thoughts, well, thank
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Speaker 1: you for saying that. And and I think the showrunner,
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Speaker 1: you know, season one was kind of written as a character,
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Speaker 1: and then over time I infused myself into season one
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Speaker 1: season two. I feel like the showrunner really wrote the
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Speaker 1: show knowing like Alicia Waynewright's sort of interest and skill set.
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Speaker 1: So I think, you know, season one, she is very emotional,
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Speaker 1: she is very raw because she has a lot being
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Speaker 1: piled onto her. But then season two she has that
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Speaker 1: confidence of a having defeated something that was an incredible obstacle.
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Speaker 1: And then to her kid is living, he's thriving, and
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Speaker 1: so she she has a job, she has disposable income,
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Speaker 1: like she's able to provide for her kid in the
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Speaker 1: way that she wasn't even thinking she could do. Season one.
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Speaker 1: So you know, in those two years, she's taken so
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Speaker 1: much and made so much more out of it. And
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Speaker 1: I think when you know you have that drive and
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Speaker 1: you have that confidence, it's kind of the baseline for
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Speaker 1: your success in life. And I think you see that
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of season two. We'll be right back
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Speaker 1: with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: Ji Young, the young man who plays the role of Dion.
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Speaker 1: Talk about him. Uh, I know this is this He's
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Speaker 1: not he's not part of this anyvie, but he's part
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Speaker 1: of this interview. Your role in just communicating with him,
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Speaker 1: being a parent, being trying to keep structure in an
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Speaker 1: unreal world, and but also realizing that romance is coming
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Speaker 1: back into your life and dealing with that as a
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Speaker 1: person who wants to expand your emotional life, but the
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Speaker 1: primary emotion has always been your son. Talk about your role,
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Speaker 1: Josi Young, Well, I mean just I they found him.
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Speaker 1: You know, they did a huge, huge nationwide search for
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Speaker 1: for this character, and they found him, and he was
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Speaker 1: so raw and so fresh, and I think as the
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Speaker 1: years have gone on. It's been really beautiful to see
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Speaker 1: him grow and not only grow in his skills, but
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Speaker 1: grow in his confidence and in his understanding of how
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Speaker 1: the industry works. And you know, he has a great
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Speaker 1: support system in his family, and I think working with
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Speaker 1: child actors, it's really important to have parents that are
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Speaker 1: very hands on, who are very um encouraging of their
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Speaker 1: kid and creating a safe space because the industry is
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Speaker 1: a lot, you know, especially now with social media and
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Speaker 1: like the things that these kids can read on the
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Speaker 1: internet and the things that they can learn about themselves
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Speaker 1: from people that they don't know. I think you have
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Speaker 1: to have a really strong foundational like boundary systems set
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Speaker 1: by the parents to make these kids happy and healthy
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Speaker 1: because it's a lot of exposure, especially now with social media.
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Speaker 1: But you know, being his mom has been so much fun,
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Speaker 1: and it's just it's gotten i want to say, it's
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Speaker 1: almost gotten easier over the years because as he's gotten
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Speaker 1: more comfortable and he's just kind of dialed in, like
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Speaker 1: his professionalism, it's just flows very smoothly. That first season
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Speaker 1: was a little hard because it's almost like you're teaching him,
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Speaker 1: so he's learning and then he's also performing, so the
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Speaker 1: weight on his shoulders was just insane. It's an it's
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Speaker 1: an insane expectation to put on one child for six
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Speaker 1: months who has never done this before. And so we
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Speaker 1: try to approach him with like joy and grace and
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Speaker 1: the best we could. But like, I know it was
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Speaker 1: really hard for him, and I know it was really
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Speaker 1: hard for his family to like watch him have that
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Speaker 1: weight on his shoulders. But the season too, he just
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Speaker 1: he just absorbed it. And it's just such a little
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Speaker 1: man now, and it's kind of it's kind of crazy
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Speaker 1: to see because it's like who are you? You know,
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Speaker 1: Like when I met you, you didn't know some of
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Speaker 1: the most basic things, and like here you are like
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Speaker 1: just kind of nailing it. And he's really honed in
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Speaker 1: his skills. And I don't know, I'm really proud of him,
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Speaker 1: and I'm proud of the show that we make because
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like this's his his
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Speaker 1: real life, you know, and he's growing and he's learning
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Speaker 1: and he's creating the core of who he is now.
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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I always you know, people
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Speaker 1: are always like it's you know, never work with kids,
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Speaker 1: never work with animals. But like I do think like
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Speaker 1: when you work with kids, Okay, but like when you
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Speaker 1: work with kids, you really have to remember like they're
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Speaker 1: little people, and the things you do and say around set,
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Speaker 1: they're going to carry with them for a long time
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Speaker 1: and it's going to shape the way to think about
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Speaker 1: the industry, the way they think about themselves. So as
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Speaker 1: best as I could, I tried to, like, you know,
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Speaker 1: participate in an environment where he was happy and could
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Speaker 1: thrive and do really good work. So I I do
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Speaker 1: hope that that translates on screen. But does you know
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Speaker 1: outside of work, he's just this weekend? Well, is it does?
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Speaker 1: Because your relationship you know, at the beginning of the interview,
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Speaker 1: I was just talking about how talented you are as
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Speaker 1: far as the little nuances, especially in your relationship and
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Speaker 1: parenting him. I really believe there is a there is
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Speaker 1: a mom's son parent or relationship there that's played out
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Speaker 1: because you have your face. You make little gestures and
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Speaker 1: your face, with your eyes, with your lips, with your nose.
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Speaker 1: It is you know. I'm not saying you're you know,
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Speaker 1: you're twinkling your nose like you make somebody disappear. I'm
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Speaker 1: just saying that you play more into the reality of
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Speaker 1: what's more than what's written, and that is so special.
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Speaker 1: And I always say, when I'm watching television, I'm watching
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Speaker 1: a movie and somebody's making me smile because they've stepped
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Speaker 1: beyond the pages and they're entertaining me. You do that
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Speaker 1: so well, and and I do see you being the
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Speaker 1: next ten years state. Of course you already start. And
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Speaker 1: I've been blessed to be able to see this happen
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Speaker 1: over the last thirty years and just to see it
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Speaker 1: on this screen one episode after the next episode. That's
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Speaker 1: the one thing about Benji Benjes allows you to just
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Speaker 1: really chart the person's progress through the series, how they
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Speaker 1: develop characters. And you do such an amazing job those nuances.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure I'm not the only one that's telling
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Speaker 1: you this. When people talk about your future in this business,
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Speaker 1: Alicia wain't right, what are your thoughts? Wow, dang, I mean,
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Speaker 1: thank you for saying that. I think that's so generous.
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Speaker 1: When a generous thing to say, I I would say, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, putting your head down and doing the work
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Speaker 1: and not um, doing your best to not let the
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Speaker 1: nose um make you feel like your dreams are not possible.
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Speaker 1: I think as you climb up the ladder of roles
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Speaker 1: and projects and things like that, it never gets easier,
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Speaker 1: and there's always something higher than what you're doing. And
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Speaker 1: I think I've learned that this feeling will always be
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Speaker 1: there in in in my industry, And so if you
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Speaker 1: don't stop and appreciate what's happening to you right now,
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Speaker 1: your entire life will constantly be looking for the next
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Speaker 1: rung of the ladder. And I try very hard to
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Speaker 1: approach each day like it could go away and this
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Speaker 1: could be the best it could ever get. So that
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Speaker 1: being said, how do you make your time on set
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Speaker 1: the most pleasurable? How do you form these connections because
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Speaker 1: you might never see these people again, maybe the show
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Speaker 1: doesn't get renewed. Like That's kind of how I approached
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Speaker 1: my work because I have seen careers evan flow, and
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Speaker 1: if you can't just roll with it but continue to
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Speaker 1: do your best work, um, you could find yourself reflecting
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Speaker 1: on your life and your career and feel like, you know,
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Speaker 1: I didn't really enjoy it, And I do feel like,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've had ups and downs in my career,
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Speaker 1: but I ultimately am very passionate about what I do
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Speaker 1: and I enjoy what I do um and I think
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Speaker 1: if you keep doing that, you're successful. It's just inherent.
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Speaker 1: And so of course I have big, lofty dreams for myself,
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Speaker 1: but I can look at myself right now and feel
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Speaker 1: very satisfied. Well, I'm very satisfied that you are a star.
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Speaker 1: I'm very satisfied and say that and tell that to
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Speaker 1: anybody who speaks. You know, the second scenes of Netflix
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Speaker 1: of Raisin Deon only magnifies what I'm saying, because the
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Speaker 1: opportunities and I'm gonna get past this pandemic and I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna just see one or two, one or two movies
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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return
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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. I do
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Speaker 1: want to talk about a couple of more characters in
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Speaker 1: Raising Dion to Uh. It's the second season I called
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Speaker 1: it is that Rome Flynn. He plays your love Inch
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Speaker 1: was Kevin and then you. Then your older sister just
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Speaker 1: camps herself into your life player by playing you. She's
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Speaker 1: so funny because I'm a big fan of her from
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Speaker 1: Bowlers and when she walked through that that just my
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Speaker 1: girl from Ballers and uh and so talk about their
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Speaker 1: relationship because it's in't a jobable series. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: every episode would like that for me. And I got
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Speaker 1: to the finale, I was thoroughly satisfied. And it sets
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Speaker 1: up for another great third season coming up. They they've
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Speaker 1: already set it up, y'all when this episode and you
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Speaker 1: know it's the third season and the characters crazy powerful.
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Speaker 1: So talk about the other two co stars. So Rome
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Speaker 1: came on very late. We almost weren't sure we're gonna
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Speaker 1: be able to get him because he was on a
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Speaker 1: show that kept getting delayed for COVID uh, and so
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Speaker 1: we weren't sure it was going to work out. At
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Speaker 1: the last minute it did. So I actually didn't meet
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Speaker 1: him for the first time until we were on set,
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Speaker 1: and he immediately in real life took to Josiah and
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Speaker 1: made it his priority to be almost like a real
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Speaker 1: life best friend mentor to him. And so that I
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Speaker 1: think so easily made him fit into not only the
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Speaker 1: shows like outside experience with the cast, but also what
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Speaker 1: you see on screen. Because Nicole appreciates Tevin because of
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Speaker 1: what he offers Dion and how much he cares about Dion,
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Speaker 1: And I think, like it would it just warmed my
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Speaker 1: heart to see how much Rome really took to Josiah
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Speaker 1: and like made it his priority to like spend time
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Speaker 1: with him and play with him and be his friend.
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Speaker 1: So Rome is a solid one for that and like
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Speaker 1: really took that on and I think it translates on screen.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, Jasmine, Jasmine Simon, she is what's what
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Speaker 1: we do on set is how we are outside of set.
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Speaker 1: She's always she's not She's like a couple of years
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Speaker 1: older than me, but she just has always treated me
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Speaker 1: like a big sister with that big sister energy and
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Speaker 1: is like giving me a hard time all the time.
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Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, she's teasing me in
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Speaker 1: this way that only a sister ken And it just
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Speaker 1: really comes on screen so perfectly for how we are
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Speaker 1: in real life. And I think, I think, what's what's
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Speaker 1: fun about that is is it feels very authentic. And
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Speaker 1: we used to the showrunner would joke that, like she
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Speaker 1: wants to make a mini series of just you know,
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Speaker 1: Nicole and and her sister Kei King on the Couch
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Speaker 1: because we do get a lot of pleasure out of
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Speaker 1: those scenes. Is amazing. Like I said, The Raising Dione
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Speaker 1: is season two on Netflix. To noteworthy executive producers on
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Speaker 1: this series names you maybe you may know Michael B.
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Speaker 1: Jordan and the incredible producer. Uh, this amazing African American guy,
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Speaker 1: black guy, Charles D. King. How he's just flipped the
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Speaker 1: script on Hollywood and bringing tremendous black content at the screen.
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Speaker 1: One of the leaders in bringing black content the screen.
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Speaker 1: And he's doing a big time. But he needs talent
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Speaker 1: to do a big time and he's found the brilliant
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Speaker 1: young actress. Because she's young and because she has a
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Speaker 1: lot of years in front of Alicia Wainewright. Uh, she's hey,
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Speaker 1: she's you're making. She had a degree in botani at
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Speaker 1: the University of Florida. She worked in Panama to Smithsonian.
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Speaker 1: Now she is a star in Hollywood. I want to
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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass, Alicia.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much. Thank you for taking the time.
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