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Skyh Alvester Black talks "All The Queen's Men," Debbie Allen's impact, being homeless and more! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Barrid Carret before hanging up his dancing shoes for acting classes.
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  Speaker 1: how he got an actor who had to make him
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  Speaker 1: get an acting is celebrating his latest gig these days.
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  Speaker 1: Scott started a new PET series, All the Queensmen. Lem
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  Speaker 1: Gonna tell You One More Time. All the Queensmen one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite series right now on TV right now. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: y'all know I don't just say that. He also played
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  Speaker 1: in a fan favorite Jacobe on the BT series Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Perry's Sisters. Scott would also be starting an upcoming legal
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  Speaker 1: drama Lace as he pursues his acting career. He was
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  Speaker 1: homeless three times and sometimes this is what this episode
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  Speaker 1: is about. You know, we talk about faith, We talked
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  Speaker 1: about your dream and achieving it, but sometimes it Couples
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  Speaker 1: are set back, and some backs can be turned backs
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  Speaker 1: where he did not turn back, and he's on the
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  Speaker 1: show to talk about his career and most importantly all
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  Speaker 1: the queens. Man, please must my man Sky vs. Black?
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, sir? You know what? So so man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm phone our phone with all my interviews. But the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I've been looking at your face man for
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  Speaker 1: like a think a secutive episode. That's how riveteen. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I laughed. I'm gonna tell you about the series.
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  Speaker 1: It was dramatic. It was the ladies were empowered. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the female characters were empowering. Uh and and
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  Speaker 1: it just led me to believe that there's something a
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  Speaker 1: different writing style. Kim Fields was she the primary director.
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  Speaker 1: She directed a prominent amount of episodes. Kim Fields the
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  Speaker 1: actress Kim Fish. She directed four episodes Deuce Deuce also
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  Speaker 1: directed two episodes, and Matt Barnes directed two episodes. So
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  Speaker 1: we had a great plethora of different visions that all
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  Speaker 1: came together to make this like cohesive, you know, beautiful masterpiece.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely you hear nothing negative you about this. I'm teking
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  Speaker 1: my laugh. I thought that, uh, I thought Eva, who
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  Speaker 1: was the star of this show, she is Madam. Uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, I remember I was growing up. It was
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  Speaker 1: a movie I saw called a Truck Turner. It was
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  Speaker 1: an old star like Hayes and and it was a
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  Speaker 1: character kind of like Mattamus. It was played by Lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: hur Or from Star Tracks. She was the lead character.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she didn't take no gruff man, I'm and
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  Speaker 1: she talks mack and she cuts you out, and it
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  Speaker 1: was like, it's so different from her character. But it
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  Speaker 1: was like the first time I ever saw a character
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  Speaker 1: where a woman was like, you know, had our place
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  Speaker 1: and showed strength. And then let's talk about the Madam
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  Speaker 1: character because she she's introduced very early on into the series.
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  Speaker 1: Because you meet the upfront. Talk about that relationship and
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  Speaker 1: also your character from the standpoint of developing it and
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  Speaker 1: being able to carry it through this arc. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: that it was first and foremost all. I always say
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  Speaker 1: to even that we have such a great chemistry on camera,
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  Speaker 1: and um, I believe that's because once we got our
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  Speaker 1: work and we understood what was going on in the
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  Speaker 1: entire series, we realized that these two characters are more
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  Speaker 1: bonding on the commonality of pain, meaning that we're both
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  Speaker 1: ostracized from our families. And the Madam character is such
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  Speaker 1: a vital and strong character because she's you see a
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  Speaker 1: woman where a lot of people in society don't really
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  Speaker 1: get to see a woman running a business and also
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  Speaker 1: being and also being a caretaker. And Um, I always say,
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful part about this show is that it's not
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  Speaker 1: a strip of show. It's a show based on humanity.
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  Speaker 1: And society has this taboo upon meloxioetic dancing, and they
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  Speaker 1: have a taboo on you know, just how certain people
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  Speaker 1: may get their money, which Madam does. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, there's an integrity to Madam when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to humanity, you know, just really take not judging people
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  Speaker 1: and and taking them in. And I always say the
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  Speaker 1: silent character of the show is club eating. Club beating
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  Speaker 1: is a safe haven where all of these social misfits
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  Speaker 1: come with no judgment and hold each other down. And
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  Speaker 1: Madam has supplied that and myself as coming in as
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  Speaker 1: her um, her nephew, am Um. The casting process, it
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  Speaker 1: was written first and foremost, I have to shout out
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  Speaker 1: Christian Keys, thank you, thank you, thank you to Christian Keys,
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  Speaker 1: because it's based on his book Ladies Night. Um, if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know, and Christian wrote All the Queen's Men,
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  Speaker 1: I think, um, I don't. I don't want to miss
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  Speaker 1: quote the amount of years, but he wrote it pretty probably,
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  Speaker 1: I think about roughly ten years ago. For and the
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  Speaker 1: Amp character was supposed to be Christian's breakout role. And
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  Speaker 1: Kristin actually plays the concierge on All the Queen's Men
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  Speaker 1: and he's also executive one of the executive producers, so
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  Speaker 1: he wrote this character. And he told me, he said,
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  Speaker 1: once I saw your audition tape, that's a that's a
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  Speaker 1: He's like, it's like, he got it. You understood it.
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  Speaker 1: And I really did at that time when I auditioned
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  Speaker 1: for Ampler far audition for Assistance and um, at that time,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't in the one bedroom apartment with two other people,
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  Speaker 1: and I just understood the circumstances of this kid ruining
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  Speaker 1: to get out of you have a chance at life,
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  Speaker 1: like have his piece of the pie. And I did
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  Speaker 1: not know what went into prison for based on the
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  Speaker 1: audition side, but what I did, I said, there's something
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  Speaker 1: about because in the first probably ten minutes of the show,
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  Speaker 1: he runs to apologize why is he doing that? That
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  Speaker 1: obviously showed to me that that's not a bad kid.
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  Speaker 1: That that's not a bad kid. That was a kid
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  Speaker 1: that felt victim the circumstance. So I built this whole
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  Speaker 1: back story on twenty years old. And all I knew
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  Speaker 1: is that he came out of prison after nine years.
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  Speaker 1: I said, this is not a bad kid. And and
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  Speaker 1: getting this series and getting the rest of the scripture
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  Speaker 1: wasn't He is actually a victim of circumstance from one
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  Speaker 1: bad choice. And and he's actually upper class and upper class, um,
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  Speaker 1: upper middle class kid, probably upper class, upper class in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Atlanta is built on it's the South, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's built on Black excellence and and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a certain level of moral upper level, moral decorum in
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  Speaker 1: certain circles. And that is where it comes from. And
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  Speaker 1: and Am became a victim of his father's ambition. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times, and a lot of times, as
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  Speaker 1: young black men or even black men period, we're not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to feel, We're not allowed to be vulnerable. We're
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  Speaker 1: not allowed to say, hey, I don't feel okay. We
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  Speaker 1: have to mask it and we have to just make
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  Speaker 1: it work. And so Amp was always just trying to
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  Speaker 1: a piece his parents, make his dad proud of him.
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  Speaker 1: He's in my mind he was an athlete, a d
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  Speaker 1: one athlete, coming out of school, high school, full ride everything,
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  Speaker 1: but he had a drinking problem. Let's hold that point
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  Speaker 1: right there. Because of the fact that I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to reveal too much. I want people gotta watch you.
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  Speaker 1: You're a good talker. Now now Scott talking to Vesta Black.
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  Speaker 1: We're interviewing on this series, the exciting series on bt
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  Speaker 1: UH plus series streaming lines called All the Queen's Men.
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  Speaker 1: He plays uh. He plays a young man, like he said,
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  Speaker 1: he made a mistake and who has to find his
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  Speaker 1: way back into life. And he places the nephew of
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  Speaker 1: a Her character name is Madam and she owns a
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  Speaker 1: club and the club is filled with male dancers. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're if you're a fan of Magic Mike, you
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  Speaker 1: know this is the same thing. But it's just African
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  Speaker 1: Americans who are The lead character is a female, not
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  Speaker 1: a male, okay. And her bodyguard is a female not
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  Speaker 1: a male. Okay. The decisions that all made from a
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  Speaker 1: operation standpoint, made by women. It's an empowering show from
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  Speaker 1: that standpoint. And this is why I really liked this series.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why because I'm older than you, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to see television grow from a different perspective,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, like finstance, Mafia movies have always seen
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  Speaker 1: to cross over and be accepted. You know. The violence,
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  Speaker 1: the coolness, the slickness, the family you know, always was
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  Speaker 1: brought into And what we've seen since power has come
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  Speaker 1: on is that now they're allowing us to tell our stories.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the general public, even black people, allowing
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  Speaker 1: us to tell our stories from a standpoint of dizzy Papa, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Okay, So now they're allowing us to tell
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  Speaker 1: our story. And that's why I really like this because
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  Speaker 1: it has credibility to it. This is this is no
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  Speaker 1: different than you know, when, when when when? When I
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  Speaker 1: s Q did players long time ago? Okay with Bernie Matt,
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  Speaker 1: But it's but it's it's the credibility and the crafting
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  Speaker 1: and the styling, and the fact that now we don't
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  Speaker 1: have precedents, we can see things that are like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can buy into this, and that's why I really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed guy. I really enjoy your role and enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: characters and the fact that man, this is like you said,
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  Speaker 1: it is a club filled with misfits, but they're relatable
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  Speaker 1: misfits because they all caught up into a world that
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  Speaker 1: they kind of trapped in. They can leave, but they trapped. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And and and because people care for them too. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's like a family atmosphere. And I'll go back,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back to what you said. Um, as far
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  Speaker 1: as you know, Madam being Madam and being usually the
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  Speaker 1: kid comes out. He's a trouble kid, that was and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, that's not the case, that is not the case.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Um, you do get to see. It brings
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  Speaker 1: you into the eyes of this already established world and
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  Speaker 1: so now as the viewer, you're kind of navigating this
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  Speaker 1: new thing through's eyes. And that is what I loved
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  Speaker 1: That m has such a innocence and almost a night
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  Speaker 1: in a tade to what is going on. And he's
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  Speaker 1: also being schooled on, um, how to open up himself,
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  Speaker 1: because you can see he's not very open, but you
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  Speaker 1: see the learning. And I love that Am. I always
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  Speaker 1: call him the viewer's character, the viewer's character because because
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  Speaker 1: you're learning how this goes, just as Ample is learning
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  Speaker 1: how it goes. So that was pretty cool. To me. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's go to my male dances. Now, my boys,
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  Speaker 1: you know my boy, my boy, Midnight Face free go.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Come on now, number four
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  Speaker 1: Blue can't forget Midnight Blue Man. Okay, now let's let's
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  Speaker 1: go and be real here. Now. Was any of these
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  Speaker 1: guys dances before or the dancers their dancers? Right? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Face gotta be a dancer, the face, um Face who's
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  Speaker 1: played by Keith Yep, he's a real dancer. Doc who's
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  Speaker 1: played by Michael Bolware is a real dancer. Midnight who's
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  Speaker 1: played by Germany is a real dancer. In El Fuego
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  Speaker 1: who's played by De Rone, real dancer Frego. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Face doesn't he does some moves on that floor. Man,
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  Speaker 1: when he flipping this ille. This is what he do
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  Speaker 1: for a living. That's what he that ain't somebody told
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  Speaker 1: him about to do that? He didn't feel this out
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  Speaker 1: on the dance flow, and he did it. I said,
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  Speaker 1: this boy is doing this for a living. Actually, all
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  Speaker 1: of the guys solos were, even though we do have
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  Speaker 1: a choreographer, John Silver for the group numbers, but all
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  Speaker 1: of the guys solos were actually choreographed by themselves and
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  Speaker 1: that was a cool part. That's a cool part that
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  Speaker 1: I think with this show is so authentic because those
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  Speaker 1: guys lived that life. Yes for reading, and that is
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  Speaker 1: what That's why I feel there's a draw to the
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  Speaker 1: show because they know the world and I love it
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  Speaker 1: to see that they We were able to get people
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  Speaker 1: who are authentic to this art form because it is
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  Speaker 1: an art form and I had to learn it and
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  Speaker 1: you know the fun part about this series, man, and
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  Speaker 1: it's funny. I'm just telling everybody I was entertained by it.
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  Speaker 1: I was, uh, their sympathy and the Amp character played
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  Speaker 1: by Sky. There is romance between Sky and Dime and Diamonds.
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  Speaker 1: She's the DJ kind of like the force of the house.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that there, uh the you know it. Playing Blue
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  Speaker 1: is like this fearless bodyguard. Everybody's fears, everybody's fearless in
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  Speaker 1: this whole role and and it's like it's it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those roles. It's one of those shows that where
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  Speaker 1: you just challenged to step up. You know, if you
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  Speaker 1: ask for it. If you if that's what you want,
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  Speaker 1: to demand it and then put forth the effort to
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  Speaker 1: achieve it. And that's how you see your character developed
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  Speaker 1: as you go into the halfway house and we see
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  Speaker 1: you starting to one. I like the way they brought
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  Speaker 1: your character along. It didn't jump out too fast. You
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  Speaker 1: wanted to try to go the route of what you
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  Speaker 1: talk about that transition in the AMP character in the
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  Speaker 1: series All the queens Men. Well, yeah, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: I really really love that. I love AMP character arc
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  Speaker 1: because you know he is coming out of I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: everybody wants to call you a chill multiple cameras, so
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  Speaker 1: don't worry. We'll editing and be clean, irrelevant, clean, okay, cool. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I do love M's character art because you have to
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  Speaker 1: realize it's coming out of prison after nine years. So
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: All the queens Man takes place the current day, So
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: that was two thousand and twelve. So now when he's
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: coming out, obviously he's been in prison. Milling over is
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: what happened to him and how he wants to just
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: come out and do better and be better. But now
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you see him coming on, like you said, he's like,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: how can I take the road over straight? And now
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: how can I just be better? How can I see
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: he away from trouble as much as possible, and then
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: he starts to see that in warning a better life
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: for himself and also being ostracized by his family. He
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't have mom and that anymore. Wait now I can
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: maybe I'll start this new life because sixty days later
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I have to go and get it. I'm gonna be
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: out of the halfway house and I have to make
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: decisions on how do I become a man that is
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: that self of this ship And one of the best
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite lines in the whole show, and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it, you'll see it. If you
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: have seen it, it's where Amp has it. Amp says
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: he's starving the dime and he says, but do you
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: think this is really me? And that one line shows
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you who Amp is. He really, really, really is a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: goal getter and he's gonna make it happen. But he
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: still has this underlining just morality thing like I'm gonna
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: do it, but a going to do it by enemies, necessary,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: gonna sacrifice, and I want to do it right. But
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: she also asked you. She also comes back and ask you,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: this is what you really want? Okay? Yeah, she challenges
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you because she said, once you get in, you're not
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: gonna want to go back, and there's a lot of work.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: She reminds you that there is still work. It looks good,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: it's it's worked to entertain, it's work to make them
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: develop this clientele. That's the the of this whole conversation
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is that no matter what you do in life. That's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: why I was able to take portions of the story
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and applied if you want to be a banker, if
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you want to be an engineer, you want to go
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to college, if if that's what you wanna do, you
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you pointed your life in that direction. Work is tied
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to it. And that's the same thing with your career.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Despite setbacks, being homeless three times, being in a place
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: with U living with two people and on one bear
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: room which are similar to the halfway house, or you
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: had no problem with somebody is sleeping in the room
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: with you because that was a familiar consciousness. That's why
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I feel confordable with your character now that it is out,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you know, the premier September nine, How has the public
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: reacted to your character and to the show man. I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: will be honest with you and say that, um, we
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: had a brief chance to speak before we went live,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and the reactions have been so overwhelmingly positive. Right, it's such,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: it's so gratifying. I literally walk around and I've been
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta for the past week and people say, oh,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: that's up, and some people and some people get offended
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: about that. I don't I've done at all because last
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: year I was parking cars. I was valet parking cars
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: from seven pm at night to in the morning so
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I could audition in the daytime to be able to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: be blessed enough to get a role that actually um
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: has impacted people like I've forgotten countless DM say, Hey,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: your story and your struggle has inspired me. Your character
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: inspires me because going back to what you said, anything
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you want, you can do it, but it requires a
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: level of work and sacrifice, and you have to be
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: okay with the working hard and sacrifice. That's really important
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to understand that. You know, let's let's talk about the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: shift to this career here. You know, you know you're
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a good looking guy. Are you in shape? You know?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: You know? And now you're on now, You're on Now
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: You're on the TV show where you really got to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: be in shape because the guys like for real, man,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: for real, you know because you you look at guys, guys,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: but you know when you walked in the room when okay, okay,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I got I gotta do a little bit more work
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: with these guys around me because they know I got
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: trainers after this, Hey, man, I said, I said, boy,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I said, that's why. That's why I enjoyed Man. And
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I'll be wrong if I don't bring up Trouble. If
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I don't bring up the Trouble character, we have not
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: done this interview correctly. I apologize. She's in. She's one
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: of the sweetest, sweetest people you ever wanted me. She's incredible. Yea,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And Trouble is a character that comes into the show.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: She's a female that you don't want to miss. Um Again,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the show is diverse. It allows you to share different lifestyles,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: accept different lifestyles, laugh at different lifestyle be brought into
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the emotional mistakes that we make, not only the lead character, Madam,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: but also the relationship that Blue has, and also the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: relationship the decisions not only that the main characters make
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: on the show, but the the the co starring characters
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: make on the show. That's what I really like about
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the show. I really like the fact that, uh, for
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: me to on a Sunday afternoon. I'm just telling you
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: for real, now, I'm not a guy who likes to just,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you know, just sit down and watch show after show
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the show. I was brody. I if it would have
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: been eleven, twelve, thirty four, I probably would have watched them.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I probably would. But Tim was it. Ten is an
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: incredible number. So I gotta ask you that. Okay, we's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: ten through twenty. Okay, well we're leveling through twenty. Where's
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: going on with that? Man, don't do me wrong? Now
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: say something crazy? Well, I guess that is up to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the people. Okay, And if y'all keep streaming to keep
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: watching it, y'all will prey to God from mine from
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: y'all wants to gods. Is in my mouth to God's is.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Get Tim through twenty and see in two, three, four
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: or five six seven, Like you know, um, anything, it's possible.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: But I do know that it's getting an overwhelmingly positive
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: response and everybody's happy. So when everybody's happy, that's a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: sign for soon hoping to contuning. You know, I'm waiting too.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, all this This is a very
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: physical show, you know, very touched, very close. We know
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: by COVID, we know about that the standards that Tyler
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Perry himself implemented at the studio that he does. How
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: was this tape and how was the testing process to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: make everybody in the cast feel comfortable? Um, so that
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you know, it's crazy. I never feel the show outside
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: of COVID. When my career really kicked off, it started
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: with Sisters. So by the time I shot all the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Queen's Men, I had already film systems, so I was
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: very used to being comfortable at Tyler Perry Studios. I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: always say Tyler perry Sudios for me is like a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: dog did because, um, it's the safest place on earth,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: because we tested even before we left our home states.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: We had to quarantine and test. Then we had another
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: test before we got on the plane twenty fours before
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: then we had another test soon as we got there. Um,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: then we were sequestered to our own separate areas, and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: then we tested literally I think every two to four days.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: And now it's even testing more frequently just because you
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: know the various um delta variants and all that stuff.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: So you feel completely safe, and we were not allowed
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to be outside of the actual studio property, so we
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: had everything you could be war I mean food trucks.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Tyler was even generous enough to give us after wrapping.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: It was only after wrapping for two hours still alcohol
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: truck um and catering on catering grocery stores. So it
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: was very comfortable. Like nobody felt any kind of There
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: was no point, at no point where you scared or
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: felt you were at risk. So it was incredible. I personally,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I like that way. I don't want to well, you
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: know the thing about watching your character, watching you develop,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and uh, first of all, I'm I'm gonna do my duty,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: you know, and tell im I'm gonna feature on my
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Motivational Monday segment because your story is a as a
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: dancer and h ballet training with Mr Copeland, the famous
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: ballet living based out of New York, you know, being
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: able to share this state the lime light has already
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: have been there. But I want to just talk about
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: making that transition because sometimes we get focused in this
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: is what I do, and then somebody comes along into
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: your life and say, you know you can do more. Indeed,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: but sometimes that doubt comes into our lives and say
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: why you are well, because that means that you're you're
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: going into an unknown and that's what stops people. The
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: unknown part. Now, Debbie Allen came into your life and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: push you talk about that, and so people who are
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: listening and watching the showing understand the value of people
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: seeing a person's greatness and then acts asking them to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: act on it. Yeah. So, um, some years ago when
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I um, when I used to ask the rod carry
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Mrs Allen was the artist and director and choreographer, and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: even before that I had done some work with her
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and she slipped at me and she said, honey, you're
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: an actor. I'm gonna make you an actor. And I said, now,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you're not. That's not me. She said, honey, you don't
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: know who you are yet. And she was so right,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and she literally from the beginning she took me under
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: her wing and she gave me parts in her stage place,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and it was it became this kind of like, oh,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: this is cool. But then with the training and everything
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: like that, I started to find this kind of I'll
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: be honest, it became an obsession for me. And sometimes
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I always put God first, and that's just me. Sometimes
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you have to surrender to what you think you want
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and follow what will God has for you in your life.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: And I always say when I pray, specifics matter because
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I remember being a kid and I was like, I
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: want to be on TV. I want to be a star,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I want to do it up and actually I wanted
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to sing. But when I prayed, I prayed, I said,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I want to be on TV and that was my destiny.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: And I felt like God gave me an angel in
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Debbie Allen to notice what was already going to be
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: my destiny down the line and walk fully in purpose.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: And I'm a true believer of that, and it is
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the best feeling ever. I never personally planned to be
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: an actor, but I'm so glad that I was able
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: to acquiesce to the prayer for my life and and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and after I acquiesce, I'm not gonna say it was easy,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of nose, there's an the rejection,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of this. Like again, nothing worth happening
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: is easy. Nobody makes it. Overnight, I was watching an
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: interview with Denzelians and years of being over that success
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and it took, and it took me about so um
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: again sometimes you gotta listen. You gotta listen. When you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: do listen, keep going. Yeah, I hope you all of
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you listening to me. Man Great, you're super talented, you're handsome,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you're humble. It comes across on the screen and uh,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you gotta probably out there. Man. I was, you know,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: thoroughly entertained. And you know, I'm just so happy that
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: television is allowed with the streaming platforms allowed for black
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: content to be shown like this. Because we was under
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the old four Man great, content like this would not
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: be seen because he was in the streaming allows this
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: format to come out, you know, all the Queen's men,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you know, my man Sky that's the black is a Star, Okay,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: And ten episodes I watched one after the other. After that,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I laughed. I was entertained. I was like, man, this
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: is really really good. And and thank you man for
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: coming on money for a good conversations. So thank you
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: for having me now. I'm so grateful. I am so
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: grateful for your time because I know, you know, everybody
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: has something to do in today, So thank you for
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the morning to talk to you. I appreciate it. Oh no,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: it was worth it because I, like I said, man,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I would like said, I always a joy what I do, man,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: but I always have a good My energy level goes
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: up when I see young talent like you that that
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I involved in really really cool project. I think that
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a groundbreaking I think this is a groundbreaking series. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to see the guys and definitely I'm gonna reach out
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to get more of them on my show so I
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: can help promote this. I wanted renew. That's my goal.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: My goal is to get a renew. Okay, Scott, thank
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you for coming on Money Making Conversations. Okay, thank you
• 31:53
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