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Darrin Dewitt Henson Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: long time since I met this brother man many many years.
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Speaker 1: My next guest is a three time in Double ACP
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Speaker 1: Image Award nominated actors, actor, producer, author and motivational speaker.
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Speaker 1: You've seen him starting shows like movies like Soul Food,
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Heights, Stump the Yard, and he also can be
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Speaker 1: seen on the U m C new drama series Double Cross,
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Speaker 1: the original series not streaming right now on u MC.
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Speaker 1: He is currently one of the stars on Carl Weber
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Speaker 1: and b T. Plus. It was on BT Now it's
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Speaker 1: on b T plus. The Family Business as Orlando Duncan.
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Speaker 1: Hear me, Orlando Duncan, He's dangerous, y'all. The charismatic son
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Speaker 1: of LC Duncan even more dangerous played by Anie Ernie
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Speaker 1: Hudson and the Mama Valerie whoa Charlotte. Well, this show
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Speaker 1: was incredible. The Dunctors are a prominent family from Jamaica
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Speaker 1: queens who owned an exotic car dealership called Duncan Motors.
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Speaker 1: By day, they are on an upstanding family. By night,
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Speaker 1: they live a dangerous secret life and it's about sex, murder,
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Speaker 1: more sex, mafia, more sex, drug cartels. The Duncans are
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Speaker 1: a ride or die family. Please walk with the money
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Speaker 1: making conversation. He plays the character Orlando Ducking, but his
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Speaker 1: real name is Derethy with Henson. How you domber brother,
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Speaker 1: It's good to be love that that's the beautiful and
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Speaker 1: she does you know, you know, you know there is
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Speaker 1: you know, man um, you know just seeing your career
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Speaker 1: man soul food did with my girl Felicia Henderson and
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Speaker 1: just uh coming on the show when I was managing
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey and all those years just talking and just
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Speaker 1: seeing your career man, and it's it's a body of
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Speaker 1: work man that you have to be proud of. Huh. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm appreciative, you know. I was able, very very
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Speaker 1: early on to watch very successful people, and as you said,
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Speaker 1: not just successful financially, but success mentally, since that's spiritually.
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Speaker 1: And what I found is that that comes from um
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Speaker 1: what we do often. You know, what's done in the dark,
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Speaker 1: is done is shown in the light. So when you're
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Speaker 1: working when nobody can see you, then it gets shown
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Speaker 1: in the light. I believe those people are are the
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Speaker 1: blessed ones. And UM, so I don't I don't wait
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Speaker 1: for anybody to acknowledge me or recognize me. They'll see
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Speaker 1: the work, um when it appears. But the work has
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Speaker 1: to be done when nobody is watching. Well, guess what
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Speaker 1: know that too in your social media, you're walking down
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Speaker 1: the street, you're buying groceries. You are a very recognizable face, now,
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Speaker 1: aren't you, sir, Yes, sir, and I and I'm thankful
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Speaker 1: for it and I appreciated you know, all the way
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Speaker 1: from dance to choreography to now acting and and and offering.
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Speaker 1: I'm just uh, you know, I've been given the ability
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Speaker 1: to be inspired to do all of these things, and
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Speaker 1: so I just do them. I just do them. I
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Speaker 1: get it done. Well, let's let's talk. Let's let's go
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Speaker 1: Webber's the family business. Now you MC new drama Double Cross.
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Speaker 1: Tell us about that and what time and data comes? Yes,
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Speaker 1: Double Crosses streaming live right now on the U m
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Speaker 1: C network. Um, everybody knows that Bob Johnson that his
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Speaker 1: want Darren Hinson to play this detective and uh, oh man,
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Speaker 1: it was it was beautiful. You know a lot of
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Speaker 1: your audition for your next job. And so you know,
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Speaker 1: in a lot of way, I've been blessed to have
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Speaker 1: done many different movies and TV shows by um Call
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Speaker 1: and Response. So what that simply means is my work
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Speaker 1: is now speaking for itself. And I've been blessed to
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Speaker 1: the UMC network. We have six episodes there and it's
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Speaker 1: the first of this kind. This type of show has
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Speaker 1: shows that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Speaker 1: UM and I think impactful shows because of the topic
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Speaker 1: at hand. And so again it's it's it's something that
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Speaker 1: I'm very very proud of and we are already looking
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Speaker 1: forward to the second season and are greenlet in the
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Speaker 1: second season. Wow, that's really good. Important because I always
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Speaker 1: and say, hey, man, I gotta I gotta check coming,
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Speaker 1: because I can plan differently. Well, sometimes I've been on
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Speaker 1: over after three because I stay uncertainty of this basin
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Speaker 1: And how how have you mentally been able to deal
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Speaker 1: with that over the years? Darn well? You know I learned,
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Speaker 1: Um it was suddenly after the c C the second season.
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Speaker 1: right there, so I know she, I know where she
19:28
Speaker 1: got that from. Then you had that fur coat on,
19:33
Speaker 1: that furk on, that half fur coat on. Then you
19:36
Speaker 1: had that yellow jacket, man, that was cool yellow jack.
19:42
Speaker 1: Then you had that orange jacket. Man. All I know
19:45
Speaker 1: is man that I knew they stepped up because I
19:47
Speaker 1: saw the first season and I came back because that's
19:49
Speaker 1: the first thing I got to ask, darn man, your clothing,
19:53
Speaker 1: you know, is outstanding. It fits your brand, it fits
19:56
Speaker 1: the it fits the killer and the sexy guy that
20:00
Speaker 1: you are because you're not trying to look like you
20:03
Speaker 1: trying to. But I expect that to be you exactly.
20:08
Speaker 1: Orlando is a diversified man. And as I said, you know,
20:12
Speaker 1: when he walked into a room, you know, all eyes
20:14
Speaker 1: turned to him, and that's really what it's about. You know,
20:18
Speaker 1: when he shows up, he's making a statement. So every
20:21
Speaker 1: time he makes a move. If you remember when he
20:24
Speaker 1: wore the jacket the fur, his father else said, what
20:28
Speaker 1: is that? He says, it's my coat. He says, but
20:32
Speaker 1: what is it? He said, Yeah, but I look good
20:34
Speaker 1: and it's all right, you know what I mean. So
20:36
Speaker 1: it's like he can do that. Yeah, you know, and
20:41
Speaker 1: he said, he said, yeah, you're the boss, and he's said, yeah,
20:44
Speaker 1: you're right, I have the boss. And so you know
20:47
Speaker 1: he does things the way he wants and you know
20:49
Speaker 1: he always walks with his protection in case anybody wants
20:52
Speaker 1: to act up or act out. And so you know,
20:54
Speaker 1: Orlando is the cats that he's quiet, but he's always
20:58
Speaker 1: aware of his round, is what he's doing, where he's going,
21:02
Speaker 1: and the things that he can't control. You know, he
21:05
Speaker 1: makes sure that he puts himself in a position to understand, um,
21:11
Speaker 1: what he must do next. It was always good. He hasn't.
21:14
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Darrend Watson. He has a show on
21:17
Speaker 1: u mc uh the streaming right now, already been renewed
21:20
Speaker 1: called Double Cross, but we're talking about this new series
21:23
Speaker 1: that's airing right now on BT Plus. It's called The
21:26
Speaker 1: Family Business. He's a member of the Duncan family, which
21:29
Speaker 1: is a powerful family that rides through Duncan Motors. That's
21:34
Speaker 1: what everybody says. It's exotic cards. But at night they
21:37
Speaker 1: got a sister. Where you got we got London, you
21:40
Speaker 1: got pairs their sisters. Then you got Sasha, she's the niece.
21:45
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the sexiness is great. But before we
21:48
Speaker 1: get into those characters, how did you get the opportunity
21:50
Speaker 1: to get this role? Darren? Yeah, it's it's amazing because
21:56
Speaker 1: Tridestine Films actually UH produces the oh and um and
22:02
Speaker 1: you know, I I have a relationship with Endy and
22:05
Speaker 1: Trey and Veronica and and uh and you know, I
22:09
Speaker 1: remember I created this vision board. You know, as as
22:13
Speaker 1: I said, Darrende with Henson is a man who likes
22:16
Speaker 1: to evolve, darrend with Henton as a man who likes
22:19
Speaker 1: to grow and diversify. And I remember one day sitting
22:22
Speaker 1: down and I said, I need to create a new
22:25
Speaker 1: vision board. So I sat down and I wrote out
22:28
Speaker 1: this vision board, and I thought about people that I
22:30
Speaker 1: wanted to work with, and um, you know, I had
22:34
Speaker 1: a bunch of different names on the vision board and
22:39
Speaker 1: it was it was amazing because I wrote Armanda Santy
22:43
Speaker 1: on my vision board. He did this movie years ago
22:46
Speaker 1: called Mambo King and UH with Anthonio Vendett. I said,
22:50
Speaker 1: I loved that film, that film, and so I put
22:54
Speaker 1: Armanda Santy on my vision board one of the people
22:58
Speaker 1: I put on my vision board to work with. About
23:01
Speaker 1: three weeks later, I get a call from Andy Brown.
23:03
Speaker 1: She said, brother, I got something for you. I said,
23:06
Speaker 1: talk to me Andy. She said, you know we're working
23:09
Speaker 1: with car Webb. We did it there with car Webb
23:12
Speaker 1: for all of his books. And we're gonna be shooting
23:14
Speaker 1: a movie for family Business, and we want you to
23:18
Speaker 1: play the son of Ernie Hudson. And I said, come on,
23:24
Speaker 1: I said, stopped playing with me? And she said no,
23:26
Speaker 1: she said, and she explained about the exotic car business
23:30
Speaker 1: and of course the underground business. And I said, Andy,
23:33
Speaker 1: send me the script. I want to read it. I said,
23:36
Speaker 1: but based upon what you what you're saying, I can
23:39
Speaker 1: almost tell you you know what I'm saying. This is
23:41
Speaker 1: something I'm gonna love to do. I said, tell me
23:43
Speaker 1: who else is involved? She said, get this out of
23:46
Speaker 1: mind Asante. I said, come on, man, and see. So
23:51
Speaker 1: that's why it's important to write down your vision and
23:55
Speaker 1: make it plain, because the law of attraction is very,
23:58
Speaker 1: very real. And when I got the script, I've read it.
24:02
Speaker 1: I mean, you you just don't say no. It's like
24:05
Speaker 1: There'll Washington being given the American Gangster script, like you
24:09
Speaker 1: just don't say no. And when I got the script,
24:13
Speaker 1: I read it. I called to back the next day
24:15
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm in. And so immediately it was
24:20
Speaker 1: Ernie Huston, Valley Pediford, Amanda Sante you know, and and
24:24
Speaker 1: the rest of the cat and I became Orlando Duncan
24:28
Speaker 1: when the contracts were signed and the history of the
24:33
Speaker 1: family business, uh and call Weathers the family Business Tried
24:37
Speaker 1: Destined had begun. And then of course b Et picked
24:42
Speaker 1: it up as a series because we were shooting it
24:45
Speaker 1: for a movie, I know, but b Et fell in
24:48
Speaker 1: love with it and said, no, we want this as
24:51
Speaker 1: our series. And then when b Et signed it in
24:55
Speaker 1: the Family Business premiered, it became like the super Bowl
24:59
Speaker 1: Champs for b T Man. I'm just telling you that. Uh,
25:03
Speaker 1: you know, I've watched the series grow from the first episode.
25:08
Speaker 1: I watched the characters developed, and I can see the
25:10
Speaker 1: more the money being invested into the series and all
25:13
Speaker 1: that stuff. You know. Listen. The two things I really
25:15
Speaker 1: like about the series some of the things that you
25:18
Speaker 1: guys have dropped into this series that I don't normally see.
25:20
Speaker 1: I love that NASCAR diversity episode. Mm hmmm. I thought
25:24
Speaker 1: that was small and very time to talk about that. Yeah,
25:28
Speaker 1: it's genius. It's it's again it's the mind of car
25:31
Speaker 1: Webber and bringing NASCAR into it. You know, NASCAR now
25:35
Speaker 1: as black drivers, so why not acknowledge NASCAR and and
25:39
Speaker 1: their diversity program, and that's exactly what we talked about
25:42
Speaker 1: on the show. You know, diversification is incredibly important and UM,
25:47
Speaker 1: so they brought that in which which also brings a
25:50
Speaker 1: much larger audience in you know, NASCAR is huge and
25:55
Speaker 1: UM and and to speak about the genius of Car Webber.
25:57
Speaker 1: As you can see, we also have Latino players on
26:01
Speaker 1: the show. UM. You know Yadi Rivera who plays Consuela
26:05
Speaker 1: Mario Rivera is on the show. You know what I'm saying.
26:08
Speaker 1: We got we got Luke, we got Luski Um on
26:12
Speaker 1: the show. Who people know from Soul Train, who's killing
26:16
Speaker 1: um you know his his his role as signor cruise UM.
26:22
Speaker 1: You know who's now in a wheelchair. UM. It's just
26:25
Speaker 1: you know, it's diversification on the show. You know, it's
26:28
Speaker 1: a diversified um. UM A lot on the show, actors
26:32
Speaker 1: on the show, and it appears to everybody. You know,
26:36
Speaker 1: the first season we had you know, Asian people on
26:40
Speaker 1: the show. And so you know Carl Weber and his mind,
26:44
Speaker 1: um and his genius um in writing, UM, and then
26:48
Speaker 1: Trey Haley's directing. It is just it really just goes
26:52
Speaker 1: hand in hand with the genius that we know to
26:54
Speaker 1: be the family business. And it's all held together by
26:59
Speaker 1: you know, super producer you know, Andy Brown, absolutely, you know. Yeah.
27:06
Speaker 1: And then then another thing that I noticed about the
27:09
Speaker 1: series was the use of the Nation of Islam type
27:13
Speaker 1: style the brothers. Yeah, that I've never seen that, I've
27:18
Speaker 1: never seen like this in a series, and I thought
27:21
Speaker 1: that was very uniquely put in there and style and
27:24
Speaker 1: poignedly placed. Talk about that. Yeah, well, we have two
27:28
Speaker 1: different types of brothers on the show. We have the
27:33
Speaker 1: Um with all due respect, with all due respect, we
27:38
Speaker 1: have you know, the type UM that we see on
27:42
Speaker 1: the show, Um, which we call um Um brother minister,
27:48
Speaker 1: who was presents a similar type, a similar type Nation
27:53
Speaker 1: of Islam. And then you have the extremist UM that
27:58
Speaker 1: brother in the Trench, Yeah, brother Hector in the Trench
28:01
Speaker 1: character who's you know, just extreme and street and you know,
28:07
Speaker 1: jail written and vigilantes, which is completely different from the
28:13
Speaker 1: representation of the brother brother minister, who's the peaceful um
28:21
Speaker 1: organized um you know, you know, type of Muslim UM.
28:27
Speaker 1: And you know, so that is more of a Nation
28:32
Speaker 1: of Islam type that he represents. And we can see
28:35
Speaker 1: that even Orlando took instruction and was under He's always
28:45
Speaker 1: take that advice and it's served him well all over
28:47
Speaker 1: the years. Absolutely, and we can see the chemists. He's educated.
28:53
Speaker 1: You know, he's a man of respect and honor. So
28:57
Speaker 1: we can see that, you know, show on the show. Wow,
29:00
Speaker 1: you know, I want to get a little bit deeper
29:02
Speaker 1: into this. Uh. As you know, I'm a fan of
29:04
Speaker 1: the show. As you can tell, I'm talking to uh
29:06
Speaker 1: darrend with with Wins Darren d with Henson. Excuse me,
29:11
Speaker 1: I got tongk tired after d with I apologized, Darren,
29:15
Speaker 1: But on the family Business, let's talk about you know
29:18
Speaker 1: some of the people I love on this. You got
29:20
Speaker 1: Tretch on the show, Lisa Ray on the show, My
29:24
Speaker 1: boy got killed with Clifton Pile on the show. Valerie Petroford,
29:28
Speaker 1: she's on the playing the Mama Charlotte on the show.
29:32
Speaker 1: Just just what of course, Ernie Hudson being the LC
29:36
Speaker 1: and my boy Michael John White he's in jail, he
29:39
Speaker 1: plays Vegas. Just just just a great, great talent man.
29:44
Speaker 1: It's just out there. And Parish I think she just
29:47
Speaker 1: got cast as the new batwoman for c W. And
29:51
Speaker 1: so you know they're stealing talent from the show. Now
29:54
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that's amazing. You know, try Destin has
29:58
Speaker 1: done such a good eight job by bringing you know,
30:02
Speaker 1: people together. You know, Michael Ji White and I are
30:05
Speaker 1: very close with like brothers in real life, so he
30:07
Speaker 1: was a perfect pick to play my brother um Vegas
30:11
Speaker 1: in the show. And then of course our patriarch Ernie
30:14
Speaker 1: Hudson and our matriarch Valley Pediford are just I mean,
30:18
Speaker 1: value and Ernie together um as as husband and wife
30:22
Speaker 1: on the show are just I don't think it just
30:25
Speaker 1: gets any better. And when when when she kicked Sanya
30:29
Speaker 1: at the house, man I was I was saying, I
30:36
Speaker 1: don't know if he watched these other scenes, but boy,
30:38
Speaker 1: that's about the coldest seed I've seen a woman dude
30:42
Speaker 1: on TV to another woman. We've already voted her as
30:45
Speaker 1: an Emmy winner as far as we're concerned, I swear
30:51
Speaker 1: to you that's seen right there. She should get an
30:53
Speaker 1: Emmy called right she said, We're we're done here with
30:59
Speaker 1: the with the battery. That that says right there. I
31:05
Speaker 1: gotta get on the show to talk about that scene
31:06
Speaker 1: that right there alone, because because for the show, the
31:10
Speaker 1: reason it works is a family show. We all live
31:13
Speaker 1: in the same house. Y'all know, y'all deal, you're dealing
31:17
Speaker 1: with danger, we know. And the thing I like about
31:20
Speaker 1: usually you see the white series, make this happen, make
31:23
Speaker 1: it work like this, And to see a black series
31:27
Speaker 1: accomplished what we see all TV all the time, like
31:29
Speaker 1: the Sopranos and all the Godfather shows that are touchable shows,
31:34
Speaker 1: all these shows, and to see it being manipulated so
31:37
Speaker 1: well and being articulated and bring credibility because I'm telling you, brother,
31:42
Speaker 1: you know, when they dropped six episodes, I think the
31:44
Speaker 1: last second I watched them, I watched them, okay, and
31:48
Speaker 1: waiting for seven whenever that comes out. I don't know
31:51
Speaker 1: when that's dropping, but they need to hurry up because
31:53
Speaker 1: your boy when waiting. Look, we look, we're waiting to
31:57
Speaker 1: get back to work. But I gotta tell you when
31:59
Speaker 1: we were on that when she did that scene, the
32:01
Speaker 1: whole set was quiet. It was like, yeah, it was
32:06
Speaker 1: like every everybody. Everybody moved and walked away because it
32:12
Speaker 1: was like nobody was getting their hug when she had
32:15
Speaker 1: that knife in her hand, because everybody felt it. That's man,
32:21
Speaker 1: let me tell you, she made everybody walk out that
32:24
Speaker 1: house I'm gonna tell you that right now. And so
32:27
Speaker 1: that's what you get on the Family Business. You get
32:29
Speaker 1: people who come to work, you get people who come
32:33
Speaker 1: to play, you get people who come to lay it down.
32:37
Speaker 1: The Duncans ain't playing. Nobody came to to to to
32:42
Speaker 1: fall asleep. We came to put into the work and
32:46
Speaker 1: to create legacy on the show. And you know, I
32:50
Speaker 1: was telling somebody this the other day. I said, you know,
32:53
Speaker 1: Lightning has struck, you know, twice for me when it
32:58
Speaker 1: comes to family shows. You know, Star was blessed to
33:00
Speaker 1: get soul full and now I'm on the Family Business,
33:05
Speaker 1: which is which is the strong, beautiful, charismatic not to
33:10
Speaker 1: be messed with family. Lightning has truly struck twice for me,
33:15
Speaker 1: and so for me it's something that I really again,
33:18
Speaker 1: I'm incredibly proud of to work with these actors. You know,
33:22
Speaker 1: we got Tammy on the show, we got Michael. Let's
33:25
Speaker 1: talk about let's talk about the right quick old Tammy's
33:27
Speaker 1: character because I like what you guys did with our character.
33:29
Speaker 1: Because in the in the pilot episode, Harris hit her.
33:33
Speaker 1: You know, so I thought she's gonna play an abusive woman.
33:36
Speaker 1: But the new season she's not taking that stuff. I
33:39
Speaker 1: like the fact they made her strong because, like they said,
33:42
Speaker 1: like Junior said, before there was Paris, there was London.
33:46
Speaker 1: She's a duncan. She was, She's a dunk and that
33:49
Speaker 1: could only go on for so long. And you see,
33:51
Speaker 1: she had a out of marital affair. Um and but
33:56
Speaker 1: we got to see what happened when that happens. You know,
34:00
Speaker 1: she she had an out of matter affair. But then
34:03
Speaker 1: look what happened. Look who he was, you know what
34:05
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So then yeah, so that that that was
34:08
Speaker 1: a lesson for her too, like don't don't step out
34:11
Speaker 1: of your barried what you ain't gonna mess with me? Man,
34:14
Speaker 1: act like I don't know your show. Brother, Okay, you
34:20
Speaker 1: call the day calling every day? Hey man. And I
34:27
Speaker 1: got to man because I was supporting this. Man, I'm
34:29
Speaker 1: supporting this. I just when I said, I when I
34:32
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I'm busy a lot and
34:33
Speaker 1: I saw these problems. Said it's my boy key character.
34:40
Speaker 1: Hey there, I said, Yeah, I said, we gotta get
34:41
Speaker 1: him on the show. I said, he find him. I
34:45
Speaker 1: got to talk to him this show on fire. When
34:48
Speaker 1: Uncle Lou died, you know, Lisa he really lost our
34:51
Speaker 1: blood had when when when Valerie came over there and
34:54
Speaker 1: snatched off our head. I'll tell you some Sasha. You
34:57
Speaker 1: know the reason I like these characters. You guys are busy,
35:01
Speaker 1: not just on family business, but y'all working on other
35:03
Speaker 1: episodes like The Young Lady and Sasha, she's on failor Unfair,
35:07
Speaker 1: which is on Netflix. You know, so so I love
35:11
Speaker 1: the fact, man, I just wanted to bring you on
35:13
Speaker 1: the show, not just one time, because I've always been
35:16
Speaker 1: a fan. I'm in my life in the point now
35:18
Speaker 1: where I can support people that I love. My brand
35:21
Speaker 1: is big now where people can come to me. I
35:23
Speaker 1: can have them promote their brand and promote product that
35:26
Speaker 1: they want to get out there in the streets into
35:27
Speaker 1: the general public on social media. And I just want
35:30
Speaker 1: to take your time and say thank you, man, because
35:31
Speaker 1: you give me a show that I enjoy that I
35:34
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing. You. Know. You're looking good. You
35:37
Speaker 1: are particularly, your hairline is tight, your muscles are right,
35:41
Speaker 1: your clothes on fire. And Valerie, I gotta get here
35:45
Speaker 1: on the show because I'm telling that scene right there
35:47
Speaker 1: when she was cutting that salary. Brother, We're through him, huh.
35:51
Speaker 1: We're gonna make that happen. We're through here our side, huh.
35:56
Speaker 1: I don't know what she's saying. We done, we done here.
36:01
Speaker 1: I have to fly that back. What'd you say? What's outside?
36:05
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. We call her mama all
36:07
Speaker 1: day long, dude, mama. And I love the way y'all
36:12
Speaker 1: because the first season her character wasn't as dominant as
36:15
Speaker 1: the second season. I just love the way they've all
36:18
Speaker 1: flushed out the women to be strong girl for the
36:20
Speaker 1: second season. All of them are playing. They have a voice.
36:24
Speaker 1: That's why I love what they did. Tammy, she's not
36:25
Speaker 1: taking her smack. She's slapping the hair. She's worried about
36:29
Speaker 1: eating the food, worried about sleeping. He might get shot.
36:32
Speaker 1: He don't. He's tippatouring around there. Because I didn't like that,
36:35
Speaker 1: I went, man, he can't. We can't do this, man,
36:38
Speaker 1: not in the day in London. London. London is a duncan. Yes,
36:41
Speaker 1: it was absolutely, absolutely so. D I mean, we're going
36:46
Speaker 1: to the third two minutes. May. I didn't want to
36:47
Speaker 1: take you this long, brother, but I wanted to just
36:49
Speaker 1: talk to you. Man. We won't ain't nothing good to
36:52
Speaker 1: get edited. Don't worry about that. But no, tell you
36:54
Speaker 1: people to get your banners to me D so we
36:56
Speaker 1: could promote your stuff and tell Valerie I gotta get
36:58
Speaker 1: her on my show. Man. I know these characters? Do
37:01
Speaker 1: I know these characters? I watch your show Family Business
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