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Michael Hyatt stars on FX’s “Snowfall,” also seen on The West Wing, The Wire, OZ, The Kill Point, True Detective, Ray Donovan, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: for me, Fair for me? When next yes is Michael Hyatt.
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  Speaker 1: She was born in England to just making parents. At
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  Speaker 1: the age of ten, she immigrated to the United States
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  Speaker 1: with a mother and two siblings, living in Maryland and
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  Speaker 1: later you Washington, d C. She went on to study
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  Speaker 1: acting at HBCU Howard University for undergraduate degree. Her numerous
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  Speaker 1: television credits include Get This, The West Wing, The Wire,
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  Speaker 1: The Kill Point two, Detective Ray Donald, Crazy Ex Girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: and most recently, That's Just a Few. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: act like that's it. It's just a few. She was
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  Speaker 1: recently seen I Just saw on TV in the movie
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  Speaker 1: with Denzel Washington, The Little Things. She is currently starring
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth season of f X hit series Snowfall.
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  Speaker 1: You Gotta watch it. It airs every Wednesday at ten
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  Speaker 1: pm on FFX. Please walk with the money making conversations.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy, the interviewer. I'm so happy to see
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful smile, Michael Hyatt. Just keep smiling. Smile for
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  Speaker 1: this interview, because I'm never gonna see you smile this
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  Speaker 1: much in any of the roles that you do. But
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  Speaker 1: you're doing so brilliantly, and you have this beautiful smile.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, your your beautiful woman personality wise and
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  Speaker 1: things you've done in your career. Let's let's let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about let's get started. Because of I'm a big advocate
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  Speaker 1: of HBCUs and Howard Universities right there, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the Harvard University of HBCUs. Tell me why you
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  Speaker 1: went there and walk away with some of your experience,
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  Speaker 1: because we all know the Vice President of the the United
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  Speaker 1: States is on Howard graduate. Talk about that experience, Michael, Um,
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  Speaker 1: Howard was, in hindsight, a tremendous experience. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I I, my mom went went to Howard University, and
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  Speaker 1: I I was not a good student in high school
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  Speaker 1: at all. I was you know, I was a D
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  Speaker 1: average at best, and I barely got out of high school.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was it was, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: my mother's legacy that really got me into Howard. And
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really appreciate it until because I just wasn't
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  Speaker 1: thinking like that. I was a silly teenager. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: when I got there, the then dean of the school
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  Speaker 1: said to me, look, let's just be real. You are
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  Speaker 1: here because of your mother, but you would stay here
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  Speaker 1: because of you, So you need to make a decision.
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  Speaker 1: And I walked into the theater in ira Aldridge Theater
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  Speaker 1: at Howard and immediately the energy of the space just
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  Speaker 1: took me over and I knew that this is where
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  Speaker 1: I belonged, and my world, my consciousness changed immediately. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I had found myself, I found my calling. I had
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  Speaker 1: found where I belonged. And you know it was it
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  Speaker 1: was tough academically just for me to get a grip
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  Speaker 1: and catch a clue about what was needed for me
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  Speaker 1: from me, but I will tell you, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: and then I I joined society, deal with society, divine intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: versatile artists and just had so many wonderful experiences as
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  Speaker 1: an African woman surrounded by African people. I did not
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  Speaker 1: understand its depth in my spirit until I went to
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  Speaker 1: graduate school at n y U, which is a completely experience, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know or whatever. And it was when I showed
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  Speaker 1: up there that I realized just how much I got
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  Speaker 1: from Howard University. And I have a son who's ten.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to an HBCU may not be Howard, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know whatever he do he because I understand how
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  Speaker 1: important it is for my African man son to be
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by himself, um, to live and swim in that power,
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  Speaker 1: that greatness before he sets out into the world. It
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  Speaker 1: was a tremendous difference and it has served me throughout
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  Speaker 1: my life. And then which is you've lived and living
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful life before we get to f X. You
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  Speaker 1: know when when when we talk about gifts, because I
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  Speaker 1: talked about that at the top, you know, and you said, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: I went to college and basically got to college because
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  Speaker 1: my mom provided with an opportunity. But I got there
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  Speaker 1: it was either sink or swim, and singer swim tied
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  Speaker 1: to my efforts. But your talents. When did you really
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  Speaker 1: realize that this this acting? And then in the college,
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  Speaker 1: but then when left college when it really started thinking
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  Speaker 1: and this is what I want to do for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my life. Um. I you know, I am
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  Speaker 1: a late bloomer. I have been surrounded by the art
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  Speaker 1: my whole life. My father was an actor in Jamaica
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  Speaker 1: and in England, and my mother is a museum director.
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  Speaker 1: So I was surrounded by artists that just a what
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  Speaker 1: it was, just an is in my life. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: then I, you know, went to Howard and I was
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  Speaker 1: in this world and then when I finished Howard, it
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  Speaker 1: was just it just was I didn't know what else
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  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, I knew how to survive, because
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  Speaker 1: every artist needs to know how to survive, but it
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  Speaker 1: was just a clear understanding from my my it was
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  Speaker 1: and knowing it was a calling. I knew that it was,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't know how, And I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: any artist knows the how. And I always tell people
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to know how. You don't need to
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  Speaker 1: know when how cool. You just need to say yes
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  Speaker 1: to whatever it is your truth is, and by saying
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  Speaker 1: yes you it will flow through you. That is how
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  Speaker 1: I have found. I didn't calculate any of this. I
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  Speaker 1: knew that I would be successful, but the how I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea, or the when I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: And it has been a roller coaster, there's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: about it. I have learned as I have gone and off,
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  Speaker 1: and I have learned the demons within myself that I
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  Speaker 1: had to heal in order from me to embrace the
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  Speaker 1: success that was willingly waiting for me. So it's been
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  Speaker 1: a journey emotionally, spiritually, and artistically from me to get
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  Speaker 1: to where I am. But I always knew in my
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  Speaker 1: being where I belonged. Wow. And when we look at
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  Speaker 1: the crew, I'm talking to Michael Hyatt, she star one
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  Speaker 1: of the one of the many stars of the series.
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  Speaker 1: UH Snowfaller's or facts that you can watch every Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: ten pm. Your character, real estate agent, getting you know
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  Speaker 1: your son, drug dealing, you know your husband? Or community activists. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I lived in l A fifteen years. So you say
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  Speaker 1: south Central, I knew exactly what you're talking about. When
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  Speaker 1: you say Lamert Park, I knew exactly what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: So the story lines made sense to me and often
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  Speaker 1: times sad to me, because I knew exactly all those
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  Speaker 1: communities were affected by crack and this and they it
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  Speaker 1: was basically a true storyline where the government was selling
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  Speaker 1: drugs that they sold in the black community in this
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  Speaker 1: case South Central, Watts and the Jungle and used that
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  Speaker 1: to buy fund and Nickaragren war efforts. And I didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's talk about your character and and build and
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  Speaker 1: why is it important? Because this whole serious bore off
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  Speaker 1: the backs of John Singleton, who was no longer with us.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your relationship with John singletons, how you
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  Speaker 1: were brought into the project, and then let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the growth of your characters the first three seasons leading
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  Speaker 1: into the fourth season. Um, the job came as a
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  Speaker 1: simple audition. It's how I've gotten most of the work
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  Speaker 1: that I've done. It was, you know, my manager said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's something coming along my table, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you should look into it. So I auditioned. I
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  Speaker 1: had no I mean, I heard that John was was
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  Speaker 1: associated with it, but you know, I didn't know John
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  Speaker 1: Singleton at the time. I certainly was a fan of
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  Speaker 1: so many people are, but that in and of itself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was a job. I was unemployed and
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  Speaker 1: I was looking for a job. You know, I take
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  Speaker 1: the romance out of it because I think sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: romance creates a separation between the artist and the work.
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  Speaker 1: So I try my best when I'm telling my story
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  Speaker 1: to take all the fluff out of it so that
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  Speaker 1: it is recognizable to my fellow artists, and it it
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  Speaker 1: is perceived as attainable because it absolutely is. Um. So
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  Speaker 1: I what once I got the job, I I needed
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  Speaker 1: to understand because I had been a part of a
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  Speaker 1: story like this before, you know, being the wire. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to have an understanding of where is this going? UM.
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  Speaker 1: And John was so wonderful and he came into my
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  Speaker 1: trailer and sat me down and said, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 1: the arc of her story. We don't know the new
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  Speaker 1: you know the details. You know, we flitch out with
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  Speaker 1: flush out with every seat with every episode. UM, but
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  Speaker 1: this is the arc. And once I understood, once I
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  Speaker 1: understood that this woman represented his own life, the women
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  Speaker 1: in his life, various women in his own life, in
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  Speaker 1: his own world, that I felt more comfortable because I
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  Speaker 1: know that I'm connecting to somebody that many people will
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  Speaker 1: understand and and will will recognize and identify with. That
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  Speaker 1: was important to me. UM. So you know, once once
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  Speaker 1: John laid it out, I was on board. And and
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  Speaker 1: I mean this, this role Sissy speaks to every mother.
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  Speaker 1: This is the sperience, whether whether the issue is UH.
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  Speaker 1: You know that your son is dealing you know, crack
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  Speaker 1: or cocaine. Those are just symptoms, Those are just side things.
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  Speaker 1: Really we're dealing with the struggle of UM, the evolution
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  Speaker 1: of your child, you know, the transition from childhood to manhood,
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  Speaker 1: the transition from you setting his path to him taking
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  Speaker 1: the reins and creating his own path. And who hasn't
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  Speaker 1: fallen and needed to get up in whatever way, and
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  Speaker 1: and the journey of how that works. And then the
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  Speaker 1: journey of the woman herself. Who is she outside of
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  Speaker 1: being this young man's mother? Now he is at an
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  Speaker 1: age you know he once you send them off to college?
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  Speaker 1: The empty nest syndrome, the who am I outside of
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  Speaker 1: being the mother? And then the journey of of of
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  Speaker 1: of how do you navigate continuing to because you don't
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  Speaker 1: throw them away? Right? How do you navigate continuing to
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  Speaker 1: hold onto them but needing to let them go? And
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  Speaker 1: then the journey of a relationship with with the men
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  Speaker 1: that you have known since you were a young child,
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  Speaker 1: a young teenager. Uh, and and then that relationship falls
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  Speaker 1: Administration for Children and Families and the Council. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: do a fantastic job. And you know, we we we
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  Speaker 1: talked about these characters. You know, when I look at
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  Speaker 1: the it feels like I'm watching Every time I watch
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  Speaker 1: an episode of it feels like I'm watching a short movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way it's shot, the greediness, the language. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a problem with the in word, don't
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  Speaker 1: look at it, don't don't watch no fall. Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: they there there's there's adult language. And I'm just talking
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people will see cable they don't.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's why I love about this series, because,
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  Speaker 1: as they say, the script is real, the tonage is real,
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  Speaker 1: the characterizations there is there is violence on this and
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  Speaker 1: and I've never seen a black drama like this on television,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's unique, you know, like because why
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  Speaker 1: I was something different. You know, Wire was the different different,
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  Speaker 1: but this right here was it was different because it
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  Speaker 1: was tied to a family. And you guys are this family.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I relate to the parenting aspect of
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. What the where? The wire was about
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different people being caught up in the
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  Speaker 1: drug It was about politicians. It was about the police
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and then how they would manipulate
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  Speaker 1: numbers and say they were doing good and they weren't
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  Speaker 1: doing good. This is about you, in particular, because you
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  Speaker 1: taught Alter I would do whatever I need to do
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  Speaker 1: to get my son out. It's about you and your
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  Speaker 1: relationship with your son. Please tell us about that relationship. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Franklin is you know as a mother, Um, you you
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  Speaker 1: watch your child grow, you can see their greatness UM,
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  Speaker 1: from very young right, UM, and Sissy has always seen
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  Speaker 1: Franklin's greatness. She always knew she saw her husband in
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  Speaker 1: her child. She saw the leader that her husband, Alton
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  Speaker 1: is in her son, and she knew it was only
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  Speaker 1: a matter of time that he would do great things. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and her whole life she's been invested in that reality.
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  Speaker 1: So it is heartbreaking that when she when she sees
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  Speaker 1: him take this turn, m and you see this struggle
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  Speaker 1: UM with him constantly trying to you know, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about the change from episode two to episode three, UM,
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  Speaker 1: where when she decides I'm going to help you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because she tried. She tried to do the moral thing
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  Speaker 1: of walking away and shutting the door and saying I
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  Speaker 1: am not with you, UM, and it didn't work. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you tried. You tried a tactic, You're trying to save
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  Speaker 1: your child, and it didn't work. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: woman who is going to walk away from her child
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  Speaker 1: for real, for real. And when he got shot, it
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  Speaker 1: was it was unnatural. She went to his aid and
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  Speaker 1: now and there was a discussion that that we didn't
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  Speaker 1: film that. There was a discussion with Franklin and Sissy
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  Speaker 1: where Franklin says, momm trying to better our community. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to do the great things that we deserve. And
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  Speaker 1: I understood that, and it's a nice step way to
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  Speaker 1: get there. But one nobody knew that this is what
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  Speaker 1: it would turn into. Franklin certainly didn't. We had no
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  Speaker 1: conscious he had no nobody in the country had any
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  Speaker 1: idea that Crack was going to evolve in the way
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  Speaker 1: it does. We didn't have. This was a first of
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  Speaker 1: its kind. So um I understood what he was doing
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  Speaker 1: and why he was doing it because it follows the
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  Speaker 1: same path as his as his father, and I was
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  Speaker 1: there with Elton during the Black Panther journey, so I
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  Speaker 1: get it. So now it is I understand the core
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  Speaker 1: of what you're doing. Let me help you try my
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  Speaker 1: best to do what I can to help you heal
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  Speaker 1: this and get out of this so that we can
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  Speaker 1: get back to our lives. And it's just that constant
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  Speaker 1: investing in your child because you believe in their greatness
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  Speaker 1: if we can just get out of this mess, you know.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: And that's just the constant back and forth that happens
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: with this family, with so many families, you know, the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: beauty of this series. And you know we're talking about
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: your family. But you have Irene who plays the investigative
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: reporter that her character builds this season and when she
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: gets information about what's really going on, and like I said,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you know, in a way, Franklin is caught up in
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: something that that was bigger than him. He didn't know
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: about what the government was doing. He didn't know that
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: this was a calculated fundraising activity that the Reagan administration
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: back it was tied to Oliver North. You know all
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: these names you could you can flip through the pages,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: just the stories right there. Oliver dorth He the one Helm,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the whole Niko rob drug and selling drugs and guns
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and for those campaigns and wrong Reagan they knew about
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: all this going on. So again the black community was
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: being used. Yes, they were selling drugs, but guess what
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: they were selling drugs and being fed drugs, cheap drugs
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: by the way on the counturally low prices, so they can,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: so they can for military effort. And so you had Irene,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: then you have Teddy Gustavo who's crazy, and then you
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: have all these that that's what makes a series so
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: unique because I don't have to focus so much on
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: your family. And poor Leon he's trapped, he got Scully,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: his situation, all these born through all these characters. It's
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: all these characters. They are so colorful that it's really
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: like I said, it's like watching the movie and it's
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: so intense. And you know the scene where you was
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: caught up with the police officer, you know that was
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I felt so nervous for you, Michael, I felt I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: felt like, oh my god. You know, talk about that moment,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: not revealing exactly what went on, but my god, you
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you saw that scene and I thought something bad was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: gonna go down. It's a bad thing go down, but
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: not like we expected. But talk about preparing yourself for
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: those moments because if FX is allowed to see no
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: snowfall to keep it real, yeah yeah, um, preparing for that,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: preparing for anything that comes up in this gut wrenching show.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: You really just have to well, I just I can't
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: think about it too much. Really, I mean, in order
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: to do this kind of work for me, I have
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to throw ego out the window, um, and just allow
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: myself to be very raw. Um, and whatever comes from
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that is what's gonna come. And and in in that
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I trust that I know that it is the truth
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: because I'm not trying to do anything. Um, I learned
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: my lines. I understand obviously, I understand the story that
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: The wonderful thing about this story, um, is this this
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: show is that it is filled with some tremendous writers.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: So it makes the work so easy because I don't
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: have to second guess what's on the page. I can
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: fully lend myself to the words on the page because
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: they right so beautifully, they write so truthfully. Um, and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: then you know what, it is uncomfortable. You know this
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: scene has already been aired so I can talk about it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: It was incredibly uncomfortable. It was all night. It was
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: take after take. It was you know, in those damn
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: handcuffs and in a graveyard. It was just how did
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: they shoot you? Bang in your head though? When you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: was in the back seat, in the back seat of
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: this thing, over and over and over and over. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: think I had a little knogg but shoot for a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: few more days or something. So it was fine. And
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: they kept saying, Michael, are you okay? Okay, I'm just
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: because because soon as I said, you know, because you know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I've cast so many I've been fortunate to be part
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of production like that, and I go, she banged her head? Okay,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: how many times did he shoot the scene her banging?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Because he applies to break? So I knew that was
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: like in my mind, I watched this team and said
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: when because it shot it this way, No, I think
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: she banged her head. I tried my best. I mean,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: you know, they don't have me doing a bunch of
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: stunts and stuff. But I mean, you know, it's it's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: just I don't I don't want the buffers and the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: stunt doubles or all that stuff. If I can do it,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: if it's remotely doable, I'm just gonna do it because
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just more truthful that way, you know. Unfortunately,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: when I got to see you know, all of the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: North on trial, you know about this whole situation where
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: That's why I said that you're taking a true story
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and putting in a dramatic series and you're playing it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Some characters may be redeveloped, so may be fictional, But
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the beauty of it, this is a story about a
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: mother's passionate love for her son trying to get him
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a way out and in the process is she wrong?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Is Michael? Is your character wrong? Is Sincy's character wrong
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: in her approach? Because you know he does some things,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: especially to those bookstore owners that was really cold. But
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: but tell us is Sincy? Are you? Are you wrong
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: for leading them in that direction? Are you just so
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: determined to get him out? Boy? Oh, that's that's a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: deep question. And the only way I can answer it
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is um wrong? Is in the eye of the viewer.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: But I tell you what though, I yes, Sissy has
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: compromised a great deal of herself. And it does not
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: feel good. You know, it does not feel good. Um,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Cissy has been compromising from you know, even taking this
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: job as the the manager, the property manager, um with
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: with for tofus who is as crooked as they come.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: H turning a blind eye to that because why I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: need to put food on the table. And and at
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: your husband, right, I mean, and and you know, but right,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and and it's it's it's it's almost making okay, yeah,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you know. And then and then that gentleman whatever his
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: name was. I mean, there is no doubt that Sissy
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: looks at herself in the mirror and realizes that this
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: is not who she ever desired to be, ever meant
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to be. But it's a means to an end. And
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: it is my son. And if I don't, who the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: hell am I going to be that day when I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: turn away and say no, I'm not doing it anymore
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and I wake up and my son is dead? What
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: what kind of life? Who? Who? Who would Sissy be?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: And when when she was faced with that reality that
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: death is the next option for her child. She had
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to compromise. But you know it's it's it's always with
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the understanding that I'm doing this. I'm taking two steps
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: back because I'm gonna take three steps forward and because
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: of that vision of the steps forward for Cissy, it's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: worth it. Wow, mother knows best is I don't always
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: know best, just trying are damnedest to make things work.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: This is true, but in the sense because you give
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: him artists you you you hear your husband complaining, So
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: mother knows best. There your son, you're directing him to
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: do certain things, whether he and what you you're saying.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: You're trying to get him out. Like I said, the
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: beauty of this series is that it gives you so
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: many different ways to portray how this community is. Because
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: you have a book show on us where you take
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: away that's a different form of drug deal and you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: take them out of their lives bilihoods by doing the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: deal that they thought was an honest deal. So that's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: a way of just taking the community and you told
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: them to get that deal done. Your husband, Alton tells
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you mother knows best that Hey, you're dealing with a crook,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a snake in the grass, you go stop that. I'll
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to get my son out of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: this mess, out of this world and get his life right.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: But the beauty of it all is is that is
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: in nineteen five. You can catch it every Wednesday. You're
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: an amazing actress. Uh you have a beautiful smile. I
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: don't see it that much on this episode, but my
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: my god, you are a mother that I would want
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: because guess what, You're taking care of it. And you
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: know when I look at shows like this, you know,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: because here's here's I'm going. This is my compliment all
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: my life. I've always wanted a black godfather all I've
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: like all my life. I wanted to see it play
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: out where there was love tied to the violence, and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: why the violence, because this is a good story to ellen,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and I finally got. I wanted my soprano. Okay, I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: have it. I have it in Snowfall. I have my soprano,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and and and thank you and thank you for allowing
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: me to enjoy a series. Thank you for getting me
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: involved your So it's hard for Leon. I don't know
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen to him. Poor boy helped a little cracker.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Now he's sleeping on the streets. You know you. They're
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: platting his half, brighting this half so many stories that
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: are gonna get herself killed. I don't know this newspaper again.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: What I love about this show is I have so
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: many times I can turn on the show. I know
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be two or three solid story lines that
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: gonna get me emotionally involved. But more important to the the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: storyline that I cared the most about is your relationship
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: with your son. Thank you, thank you, thank you so
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: very much. I am grateful to have the opportunity to
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: reach you and all of us. I am so grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for watching us. Absolutely and I'm gonna watch
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• 32:14
  Speaker 1: parents and Britain and came over in tens. She went
• 32:16
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• 32:20
  Speaker 1: He's gonna go to HBCU, preferably Howard. But if he
• 32:23
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• 32:26
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