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Tony-winning HBCU grad, Kenny Leon, directs Lifetime’s “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia” biopic · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: guest is Kenny Leon, a c AU graduate. Kenny's a
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  Speaker 1: Tony Award winning and Emmy nominated Broadway TV and film
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  Speaker 1: director and as the director and co executive producer on
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  Speaker 1: lifetimes highly anticipated gospel biopic Robert Roberts presents Mahela. The
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  Speaker 1: new movie premier Saturday, April three, a a PM story
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  Speaker 1: Tony Ward nominee SAG and Grammy Award winning actress Danielle Brooks.
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  Speaker 1: As the music legend and civil rights trailblazer Maho Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most celebrated gospel figures in US history.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be discussing in conversations about Mahee Jackson, the movie,
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  Speaker 1: and his career, Tony Award for Best Director of a Play,
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  Speaker 1: Raising in the Sun, directing The weirdst Live on NBC,
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  Speaker 1: and FENSIS, just to name a few. Please work with
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  Speaker 1: the money making conversation see au Proud Kenny Leon, How
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  Speaker 1: you on, Kenny, I'm great and blessed and thanks for
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  Speaker 1: to being with you today. Well, you know, Kenny, I uh,
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  Speaker 1: your career has always you know, when Steve Harvey not
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  Speaker 1: moved down to Atlanta Star Broadcasting down here in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand seven, your name has always been a top of
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  Speaker 1: conversation and as a groundbreaker, a person who was going
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  Speaker 1: to be making a difference behind the camera in UM
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood and Broadway especially, talk about that journey from an
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  Speaker 1: HBCU to where you've accomplished your goals now. But I
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  Speaker 1: think when I steps foot in the Atlanta University Center
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  Speaker 1: and on the campus of Clark Atlanta University, it was
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  Speaker 1: a moment that changed my trajectory. You know. I was
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  Speaker 1: a political science major, a theater minor, and I met
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  Speaker 1: people who were a little bit older, like Samuel Jackson's
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  Speaker 1: wife's Lutonian Richards and Jackson and met folks like Spike
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  Speaker 1: Lee and Angela Baskett and myself grew up in the
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  Speaker 1: same hometown, so we had a little we had a
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  Speaker 1: little harm and renaissance, you know, back in the early eighties.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's sort of been the product of historically
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  Speaker 1: by a college UH gave me. I could put my
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  Speaker 1: hand on the dream. I could say that's possible. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when I met people like the great Mayor Jackson, who
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  Speaker 1: black mayor of Atlanta, or I met my first minister there,
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  Speaker 1: Dr Joseph Lowry, or when I met the great John Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so all these people have made it possible
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  Speaker 1: for me to become the artist that I am today,
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  Speaker 1: which has allowed me to to to to do fourteen
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  Speaker 1: Broadway shows, to do many television films, to do the
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  Speaker 1: live musical Hairspray Live is Live. But I always say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I stand on broad shoulders. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: stand on that generation that came before me and that
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  Speaker 1: historical Black colleges UH have reminded me how important it
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  Speaker 1: it is to not only to grow academically, but to
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  Speaker 1: grow culturally socially, which is what historical Black colleges do.
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  Speaker 1: And they also make dreams come true. You know this
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  Speaker 1: really is um a band of year for HBC, especially
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  Speaker 1: in your twenties. Do you do you have a sense
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  Speaker 1: wife suddenly became the forefront of why suddenly like corporation
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  Speaker 1: finally discovered and wanted to donate to HBCUs. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: asking you to have a definitive question, but I found
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  Speaker 1: it compelling that in the twenty the year of the COVID,
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  Speaker 1: a year of black unrest, that HBCUs started finally getting
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  Speaker 1: the corporate donations and seed money to UH for to
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  Speaker 1: push young students just like yourself to academic success by
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  Speaker 1: giving them funding. Any any thought to that, well, if
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  Speaker 1: I give it a little thought, I think that it's
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  Speaker 1: no accident that all of this happened, uh post George
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  Speaker 1: Floyd and post Brianna Taylor, and it's just just a
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  Speaker 1: moment in the beginning of a revolution and awakened here
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  Speaker 1: in our country. And it's unfortunate that it took many
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  Speaker 1: more lives than that, it took many more years and that,
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  Speaker 1: but something happened when American corporation saw that need on
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  Speaker 1: George Floyd's neck and to see that life lead in
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  Speaker 1: a very real way that was undeniable. But if you
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  Speaker 1: were a black, white Asian, it didn't matter. And I
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  Speaker 1: think corporate America saw that as a defining movement. And
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  Speaker 1: and of course historical black colleges are directly tied to
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  Speaker 1: black souls and black lives. So unfortunately it's taken many
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  Speaker 1: minies more lives than then the loss of life with
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  Speaker 1: George Floyd. But I think that was defining moment, and
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  Speaker 1: all I can say is that thank god the corporation
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  Speaker 1: woke up, and thank God that many more of us
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  Speaker 1: realized that it's not just okay to have great lives
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  Speaker 1: and great careers, but it's also tied tied to the money.
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  Speaker 1: You know, money, money, money, money says a lot, so um,
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  Speaker 1: you still have a long way to go. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful group called Black Theater, united with people like
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  Speaker 1: Billy Billy Porter and Arthur McDonald and Sean and Bryan
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  Speaker 1: Stiff Mitchell, those of us who have been a part
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  Speaker 1: of this generation to have the opportunity to do go away.
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  Speaker 1: But we want to make it possible for our children
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  Speaker 1: and grandchildren to to get more to what it's just
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  Speaker 1: and right. We still have a long way and the
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  Speaker 1: money still is disproportionate. Yes, and so it's a good moment,
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  Speaker 1: but we got a long way to go. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you responding on that. Let's talk about your movie project,
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  Speaker 1: Robin Roberts presents Mahela. When you can in two heads,
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  Speaker 1: we actually have three roles in that you're an actor,
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  Speaker 1: the director, and co executive producer. Talk about first of
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  Speaker 1: all getting the project on your table. How did it
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  Speaker 1: come to you? Because I know it would be something
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  Speaker 1: because we've been really blessed with some great um auto
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  Speaker 1: you know biopics, you know, specifically a great team like
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  Speaker 1: the Clark's Sisters. I just saw the Areta Genius series,
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  Speaker 1: which was fantastic. The pleasure of seeing this your object
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  Speaker 1: prior to this interview, which is fantastic. And I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm at that age where her life was part of
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  Speaker 1: my life from a musical standpoint. You know, I was
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  Speaker 1: there when Dr Martin Luther King died. I was there
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  Speaker 1: doing the civil unrest and all those things. What was
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  Speaker 1: the compelling part of this opportunity when it was presented
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  Speaker 1: to you? Well, actually it happened. Number one. I want
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  Speaker 1: to say that it's about time. It's about time that
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  Speaker 1: these women have their stories told. And we have so
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  Speaker 1: many other stories, you know, out of b Wales, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, We Fanny lew Hammer, we need
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  Speaker 1: those stories told on the big screen. But for me,
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  Speaker 1: I was doing The Soldiers play on Broadway, and when
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  Speaker 1: Broadway was shut down last year March twelfth, I came
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  Speaker 1: back home to Atlanta and out of nervousness, nervousness, uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: because I felt like a story telling is the antithesis
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  Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen, especially a live Broadway theater gathering in
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  Speaker 1: a small old theater with a thousand people, with people
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  Speaker 1: on stage, you know, speaking doubting at each other. So
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know when we would come back when when artists,
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  Speaker 1: when our lives would come back, and so out of
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  Speaker 1: that uncertainty, I woke up every morning listening to the
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  Speaker 1: music of Mahellia Jackson on it because my mother was
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  Speaker 1: a Southern uh Christian singer and she used to make
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  Speaker 1: us go to church eight days a week, so I
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  Speaker 1: came from that background. So somehow listening to Mahellia Jackson
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  Speaker 1: it comforted me personally. COVID nineteen started, so so I
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  Speaker 1: did that, and then I would pray for an hour,
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  Speaker 1: and then I would meditate for an hour. Our only
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  Speaker 1: recently learn how to meditate, but somehow meditation made me
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  Speaker 1: understand how small I am at the universe. And then
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  Speaker 1: I would ride my Peloton bike for an hour. I
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  Speaker 1: would do that every day for seven weeks. I did that,
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  Speaker 1: and in the end of the seventh week, I got
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  Speaker 1: a call from Robin Roberts Antonia Lopez from Lifetime to
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  Speaker 1: offer me the Jackson h story for Lifetime, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what do you know, I have been waking
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  Speaker 1: up listening to this music every day. No, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that. We know you did still magnoice for us
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  Speaker 1: and we love that, so we want you to tell
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  Speaker 1: the story and I felt it was divine inspiration that
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  Speaker 1: I would tell this story. And so sometimes it's not.
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  Speaker 1: The first part is excuse me to tell our stories.
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  Speaker 1: The second part is who's telling that story. So, as
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  Speaker 1: a Black Christian, uh Mail I was able to be
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  Speaker 1: the one to tell a version of the Maheya Jackson story.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, Okay, how are you going to tell
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  Speaker 1: that story? Kenny Leon? Okay, I want to tell it
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  Speaker 1: through the lens of COVID nineteen. I want to tell
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  Speaker 1: it through the lens of the fact that Mahay Jackson
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  Speaker 1: lived during the nineteen eighteen pandemic, and she survived. She
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  Speaker 1: lived through the Great Depression of nineteen twenty nine, she
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  Speaker 1: lived through World War one, World War two, the Civil
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  Speaker 1: Rights movement. She was the inspiration for Dr King's I
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  Speaker 1: Have a Dream speech. So I want to tell a
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  Speaker 1: film about a woman, a beautiful historical figure who was
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  Speaker 1: not knocked down ten times but got up eleven. So
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  Speaker 1: on Easter Weekend, when America looks at this film, I
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  Speaker 1: want them to find themselves in it. I want them
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  Speaker 1: to say, oh, if she could get knocked down and
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  Speaker 1: she got up, I can I can get up? You know,
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  Speaker 1: she overcame that I can overcome this COVID nineteen. I can.
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  Speaker 1: I can find my purpose in life. I can help
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  Speaker 1: make the world better. So I'm always trying to not
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  Speaker 1: present in this situation. Not a iopic, not a history
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  Speaker 1: of lesson, not something that's removed, not a museum piece.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do something that inspires us now, to
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  Speaker 1: do something with our lives today. You know, and I
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  Speaker 1: I agree because I felt, you know, I felt she
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  Speaker 1: was an entrepreneur. Didn't know that about her um she was?
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  Speaker 1: She was, she was, her faith was tired, want her
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  Speaker 1: to present the God. And when that type of commitment
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  Speaker 1: was it, was it an asset or hindrance to her relationships?
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  Speaker 1: You did the research? Tell me about it. I think
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  Speaker 1: that she was authentic and that's what draws people to her.
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  Speaker 1: They almost think that even in her singing, that she
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  Speaker 1: has a direct line to God, and everybody wants that
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  Speaker 1: admire that. They're like, sounds like she's not even singing.
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  Speaker 1: And you can tell you I'm not trying to entertain people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do. Now. Her
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  Speaker 1: life is not your life, so want to do her life.
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  Speaker 1: But she's doing her life. The best she knows how
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  Speaker 1: and she was I wanted to hit on the fact
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  Speaker 1: that she was trying to find love and she was
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  Speaker 1: married twice and the person she really loved she never
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to marry him. So it's like, that's
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  Speaker 1: that life resembles ours. We are all flawed, we are
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  Speaker 1: human beings, we're we're not God. And that's what she
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  Speaker 1: u She understood very much, and I thank her for
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  Speaker 1: the lessons lived. And also because I was a friend
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  Speaker 1: of Yolanda King, I'm sure like she had many friends,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew her and we worked together, and so
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  Speaker 1: I also want I want to please her looking down
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  Speaker 1: on this, I want her to say, wow, you really,
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  Speaker 1: you really, you really talked about Dad in a good way,
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  Speaker 1: and you really talk showed the power of friendship between
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  Speaker 1: Dr King and and Mahelia. And also I love the
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  Speaker 1: storyline they had to do with Mahelia's first husband, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they divorced need in her life, and I think so
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  Speaker 1: many times we just throw people out of our lives
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  Speaker 1: don't want to have anything to do with that person,
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  Speaker 1: And I think life is is not like that all
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  Speaker 1: actors that I challenge you to find any inauthentic moment
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  Speaker 1: e r dot Ai. It was amazing watching her, but
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  Speaker 1: see a vision of what they think you should be.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what this whole movie is. The It's a
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  Speaker 1: path that you feel that you will want to do.
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  Speaker 1: That was the That was the from the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: this movie to the end. That was the telling truth
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  Speaker 1: about Mahalia Jackson. And we always hear people motivating each
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  Speaker 1: other nowadays, but that resonates today. That was a powerful
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  Speaker 1: message that you had throughout this movie, right. I think
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  Speaker 1: you for saying that it's like and and and some
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  Speaker 1: of us like I look at you, I look at
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  Speaker 1: you living living that truth and you in your world,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I appreciate that, and some people it's
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  Speaker 1: like my mother says, it's like some people don't realize
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  Speaker 1: that other people don't have votes about their life and
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  Speaker 1: their choices. You know, you don't have a vote, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. You know, people don't have a
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  Speaker 1: vote about how you find love. People don't have a
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  Speaker 1: vote about where you go to church. People don't have
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  Speaker 1: a vote about that. And so many of us just
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  Speaker 1: give up out power to that, and what happens. We
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  Speaker 1: become lesser. We become a lesser gift to the world.
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  Speaker 1: And I appreciate Mahellia Jackson for just like I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna try to be the best version of me. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I could be, because everybody else is spoken for. You
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  Speaker 1: know the interesting about I got a couple of more
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  Speaker 1: questions would ask you, But when you do take on
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  Speaker 1: a project like this, because you've done big projects to
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  Speaker 1: work with Big Canter, but this is a story that
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  Speaker 1: crosses generational decades, how do you, as as a director
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  Speaker 1: co executive, if you're working with the writer, how do
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  Speaker 1: you pull this story together so it doesn't lose substance,
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't drift into too much in one direction.
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  Speaker 1: Because I felt her life being portrayed right in front
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  Speaker 1: of me. I felt the racism that she faced. I
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  Speaker 1: felt nervous when she drove in the South. You from
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  Speaker 1: the South, I'm sure you felt that. A relatable storyline
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  Speaker 1: tell us about some of the parts of putting together
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  Speaker 1: a generational talent. Like I told you before we go
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  Speaker 1: on ask she's like the Aretha frankl of gospel. To me,
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  Speaker 1: she's a genius. You know, she was pulled out of
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  Speaker 1: school early in her educational period. She wasn't she wasn't
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  Speaker 1: trained in music, but the gifts God gave her drove her.
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  Speaker 1: And like a wreatha, she was tied to the church
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  Speaker 1: and she believed in God. She had those blessings and
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  Speaker 1: understood the value of the blessings. Talk about putting this
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  Speaker 1: old project together so we all can appreciate your work, Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that the road map was just laid
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  Speaker 1: out for me. I think it was divine inspiration for
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  Speaker 1: me to do it. I think sometimes in life you
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  Speaker 1: just have to see what's in front of you. It was.
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  Speaker 1: It was just there, and it's like it's like they
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  Speaker 1: say in the film, Um, you know, God's God's trying
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  Speaker 1: to talk to us. But we just can't here. And
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those situations where I thought I
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  Speaker 1: heard God. I thought I heard God said, Okay, Broy,
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  Speaker 1: shutdown your storyteller. I'm gonna bring this Mahellia Jackson's story
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  Speaker 1: to you, and I need you to tell it in
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  Speaker 1: a very singular vision kind of way. I need you
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  Speaker 1: to go up against the people at Lifetime. Not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them are African Americans. I need you to
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  Speaker 1: tell them what vision you're gonna do. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to tell them who's gonna act in it. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to put together an ensemble of actors that you
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  Speaker 1: believe in and don't worry about anything else. Everything else
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  Speaker 1: is annoying it now. I received that before before I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: got the project, and every step of the way, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I did, and everything worked out. Is like those
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  Speaker 1: five main actors, they're all they all actors that I've
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  Speaker 1: worked with before. How they got to Canada, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know how Danielle got involved. That was magical as well,
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  Speaker 1: so every and finding even myself acting in it. That
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  Speaker 1: was not my intent to act in the in the film,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: but all those things happen, and I think that there
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: was Certain projects are just annoint it. You just have
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  Speaker 1: to listen and follow through. So this is one of
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  Speaker 1: those things where I'm not even worried. I'm not worried.
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  Speaker 1: I want the ratings to be high. I want everybody
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: in Saturday Night, but I'm not worried worried about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it because I know that number one,
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  Speaker 1: I did the best I could do. Number two, I
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  Speaker 1: told the story I was trying to tell. I am
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  Speaker 1: totally happy with it. I can drop the mic and
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  Speaker 1: walk away and anything else that I feel about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like that's the human side getting in the way.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'm just thinking about spiritual and what our
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  Speaker 1: responsibility is to each other and what my job as
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  Speaker 1: an artist is. I got the I got the writer
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  Speaker 1: I wanted, I got the actors I wanted, I got
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  Speaker 1: the camera people that I wanted, And I feel that
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  Speaker 1: the story is consistently true to itself. And I think
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  Speaker 1: we honored the great Mahellia Jackson's life in a big way.
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  Speaker 1: I think we honored Dr King's life in an honest,
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  Speaker 1: authentic way. And I think we didn't run away from
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  Speaker 1: those things that weren't great. I think we represented all
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  Speaker 1: those things. That were part of being human, you know.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And Mr we we we talked about divorce, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about cancer, we talked about his directing me. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about friendship, you know. And at one scene you have
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  Speaker 1: Mahellia Jackson, who who says, you know, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know who you mess with it, I'm a Hellia Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't nobody. You know. That was a moment. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's I saw. We do as humans sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we say crazy things to the people we love most.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's a movie about a woman who's knocked
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  Speaker 1: for all of us. Um. So you know, I have
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• 21:18
  Speaker 1: scuse the word excuse only my fault. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great movie. I saw it. I'm compelled to
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