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Nafessa Williams Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: they're right. But we're gonna get to her right now
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  Speaker 1: because she probably just really just talk. She got time
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  Speaker 1: to a busy person. My next guest is born and
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  Speaker 1: raised in the super Bowl City, Philip and one of
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  Speaker 1: the stars of the new seat of your hit superhero
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  Speaker 1: series Black lights. She plays the role of Anisa Pears
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  Speaker 1: a k A. Thunder, the Passionate and quick Way, your
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Black Lightning, and she's the co owner of
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Dreaming. Saturday Dreaming is an online fashion boutique inspired
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  Speaker 1: by women who are following their dreams and embracing their
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  Speaker 1: individuality along the way. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation
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  Speaker 1: the Fisa Williams. Thank you, what a warm what a
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  Speaker 1: warm welcome? Or you know, if you if I would
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  Speaker 1: have said more, but I got nervous because you were
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  Speaker 1: talking and cheering in the background. You know, there are
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  Speaker 1: rules to introduction the feast something the rules. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: know you're on this popular Sei. Let's let's let's get
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  Speaker 1: to let's get to this series. First of all, we're
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  Speaker 1: yet right now where all you're talking to me from,
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  Speaker 1: I'm home and home is home is right now Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: or Atlanta, Georgia. Okay, you could have come in studio
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  Speaker 1: and did this interview girl this, I'm really mad now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really mad. Now to make you mad, don't make
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  Speaker 1: me mad. Because you're a superhero. You're superhero, You're thunder.
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  Speaker 1: Thunder can make a difference. Now, let's talk about We've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of things to talk about. Your your
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  Speaker 1: your your give back programs, uh, your uplifting programs by
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  Speaker 1: Saturdays dreaming, let's talk about it. It's some of the
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  Speaker 1: shows you've done before. But let's talk about Black Lightning.
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  Speaker 1: How you auditioned for that role and how it is
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  Speaker 1: so it's changing the game for uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: all know about Black Panther, we all know about that,
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  Speaker 1: but Black Lightning is has carved out his own niches
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  Speaker 1: is playing very well on net Lix. I followed it
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  Speaker 1: that I went from C did you know you're hot?
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  Speaker 1: When Netflix picked you up a quickly. That's a good
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  Speaker 1: sign right there that you've got something going on. So
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  Speaker 1: tell us about how did you audition and how your
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  Speaker 1: life has changed that you've been associated with black light Well,
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  Speaker 1: I got the call from my manager about a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half ago that I had this audition called
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  Speaker 1: black Light Man. I didn't. I never I never heard
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  Speaker 1: of black Lightning. Never knew that we even had a
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  Speaker 1: black superhero along with his family that was a part
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  Speaker 1: of the DC universe. Never knew, So I go, I
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  Speaker 1: never knew either. Don't worry about it. I never do.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew. But I get the script and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, first of all, knowing that Mara instantly mckill
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  Speaker 1: were at the helm of it all and they were
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  Speaker 1: the writers and the executive producers. I knew that this
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  Speaker 1: would be a good show because their work speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of their work, always wanted to
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  Speaker 1: work with them. So I was first excited to read
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  Speaker 1: the script because I knew they were attached to it.
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  Speaker 1: Read the script and I was like, I just appreciated
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  Speaker 1: the story. Most superheroes you see are, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: their early twenties, and here with black Lightning, you have
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  Speaker 1: a middle age man with the family who is a
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  Speaker 1: high school principle. We've just never seen or heard this
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  Speaker 1: story before, and I appreciated the strong bold and independent
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  Speaker 1: female characters that they created within this world. So I
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  Speaker 1: went in for the job and I was like, listen, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: y'all looking for me. I felt so connected. I felt
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  Speaker 1: so connected to the character and felt so connected to
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  Speaker 1: the story that I just really went in so focused,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, just go in and let them know
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  Speaker 1: that you are her. And that was just the goal,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to go in and show them that I
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  Speaker 1: understood this character and that I was really wanting to
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  Speaker 1: give my voice over to her and I under you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just said everything about her world, so um, coming
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  Speaker 1: from a city like Silly, I understand some of the
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  Speaker 1: problems that that that the city Freeland faces within the
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  Speaker 1: show and just wanting to be a voice for that
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully start change, you know, with within our country,
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  Speaker 1: within our cities. And um, that was pretty much my
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  Speaker 1: my my audition process a minute this week. She said
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good information because I want to continue
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  Speaker 1: a story, but I want to feel people in the background.
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  Speaker 1: She mentioned Mar Brock and her husband now Mars, some
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  Speaker 1: of the work that mar has done, his girlfriends being
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  Speaker 1: Mary Jane the game. Just to know a little history
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  Speaker 1: about her writing sample and you know, uh in the
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  Speaker 1: new series on own and so that's them. Okay to
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  Speaker 1: know that about that, Okay to show black Lightning. She
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  Speaker 1: has a sister, and she has a mom, and she
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  Speaker 1: has a dad. That's the family dynamic that she's talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and that the encompasses black Lightning. In her father's role,
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  Speaker 1: he's a high school principal. Now her character is a
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  Speaker 1: very defiant character. And initially on the show, Um, the
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  Speaker 1: character is is a gay character. Now initially on the show,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to ask about this, and as we
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  Speaker 1: go through the interview process, she had a relationship. But
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  Speaker 1: I thought in the beginning at bogged down the show
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  Speaker 1: because the show succeeds based on the family dynamic and
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  Speaker 1: how they all come together, because she has a sister
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  Speaker 1: who's reluctant to be a superhero. She just wants She
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  Speaker 1: just wants to have kids. She wants to be a
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  Speaker 1: normal person, and she's she's trauma tized. In the series.
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  Speaker 1: Now thunder Thunder all about being a superhero. She's all
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  Speaker 1: about taking her power and and and and saving the community,
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  Speaker 1: fixing the wrongs in the community. Of fact, her father
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  Speaker 1: has to calm Thunder down. Now you can continue continue
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  Speaker 1: you're excited, you can continue Thunder Thunder. She understands and
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  Speaker 1: she learns that she has these superpowers, and you see
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  Speaker 1: her through the first season trying to navigate and develop them.
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  Speaker 1: And once this lightbulb goes off of understanding how her
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  Speaker 1: powers work, she gets really really excited and really passionate,
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  Speaker 1: and she believes that this is a gift from God
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  Speaker 1: and she is to used it to save people who
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  Speaker 1: can't say themselves. So that is her logic behind, you know,
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  Speaker 1: wanting to go out and use the powers that have
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  Speaker 1: been given to her. Um and as you said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: my sister on the show played by China and the
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  Speaker 1: claim she has a totally different feeling about having these powers.
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  Speaker 1: She thinks that it makes us freaks and she's not normal,
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  Speaker 1: and she just, you know, this doesn't really understand and
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  Speaker 1: why her life has been you know, changed in the
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  Speaker 1: in the major way that it has been. And you
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  Speaker 1: can see, you know, throughout the season where I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to convince her that we have to use our God
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  Speaker 1: given powers. And as you spoke on Black Lightning, you know,
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  Speaker 1: dealing with the fact that his daughter has these same powers,
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  Speaker 1: not the same powers, but you know they have been
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  Speaker 1: given special abilities and just trying to you know, navigate
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  Speaker 1: through that world of of protecting them. But also, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have to train them because it is what it is,
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  Speaker 1: and if I trained them, then hopefully, you know they'll
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  Speaker 1: they'll you know, be as well off as possible when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the whole superhero world. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's really a show about a family first,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not it's not that you're reminded that they're
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  Speaker 1: superheroes until you see them in their costumes, when you
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  Speaker 1: see them actually out fighting crime and saving people. But
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  Speaker 1: it's really a show about a family and you know,
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  Speaker 1: going through family problems and them trying to overcome them together,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was really cool because you don't see
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  Speaker 1: a superhero, you know, with his family, as I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 1: you you know, you usually see this young superhero flying
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  Speaker 1: and jumping all around, and you have this family of
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  Speaker 1: superheroes and and that's just an amazing concept with a
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  Speaker 1: really cool idea. And kudos to everyone over at d
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  Speaker 1: C and Tony, Isabella and Trevor who created you know this,
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  Speaker 1: this this character. Yeah, let's let's talk about this show
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  Speaker 1: here about Rushawn McDonald's Black Lightning experience, because it's really
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  Speaker 1: all about me. Really, you know, I'm a fan. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a fan, Okay, So so I'm seeing it being promoted.
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  Speaker 1: I know. In fact, I didn't know that uh Mara,
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  Speaker 1: the slave family had been involved, was involved in it
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  Speaker 1: at all. I just saw this and my first thought
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  Speaker 1: was they would not have the production quality. It's a
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  Speaker 1: black show. I thought they wouldn't have the production quality
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  Speaker 1: to deliver the special effect. That's that was my first thought.
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  Speaker 1: Rushin had already made some preconceived thoughts that he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna watch thoughts. These are my thoughts. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just trying to be honest, you know, I said. You
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  Speaker 1: know they probably you know they do. You know, they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get on the hype of the Black Panther
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  Speaker 1: dropping this little black show in and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't wasted my time because I'm a superhero nut by
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  Speaker 1: the way, this week, okay, okay, So so then my
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  Speaker 1: wife she knows I'm a superhero nut, so she says
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  Speaker 1: she watches the premiere and then she goes, you better
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  Speaker 1: watch the show. I go, why you best watched the show?
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  Speaker 1: You're missing something? I said, really really well whatever. So
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  Speaker 1: she for three weeks went by. I didn't watch the show,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and she's watching it and giving me kind
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  Speaker 1: of like updates. Will you stop telling me I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna watch the show? So I wish, she said. She
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  Speaker 1: set me down. I binge watched the first three episodes.
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  Speaker 1: I've missed and have not missed an episode since. You
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  Speaker 1: can give me. Give me a quiz right now, a
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  Speaker 1: black life, and I passed. That's how much of a
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  Speaker 1: fan I am because I'm telling you why, because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that, first of all, the villains are fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: The villains are fantastic. That's key to me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: do the villains have credibility? Do do they throw fear
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  Speaker 1: in you? Do? They do? They? Do? They do? They
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  Speaker 1: map out? And then all of a sudden there is
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  Speaker 1: innate danger that the secret can I get out? And
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  Speaker 1: then the dynamic between their their their parents because they're divorced,
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  Speaker 1: and she divorced him because he was a superhero, because
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  Speaker 1: she didn't want to deal with the pressure of him
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  Speaker 1: fighting crime the same thing her father. She I love
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the daughter got a little to mama
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  Speaker 1: and her I'm talking about the younger daughter. And then Thunder,
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  Speaker 1: who I am interviewing right now. She got all daddy
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  Speaker 1: and her. She all about saving the community. She all
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  Speaker 1: about stepping out there. She Chiller were right now, she Thunder,
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  Speaker 1: but she realizes that she can't because the people know
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  Speaker 1: how to attack and know how to get the family.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the superheroes can't tell her who they are.
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  Speaker 1: That's why superheroes really can't have loved ones. That's why
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  Speaker 1: this show works because the fact that they are family
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that let's let's put his way. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be like the Cosby's superheroes because they the fathers
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  Speaker 1: of principle. I'm just telling you listening, the fathers of principles.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. That's a really recognized and good job. The
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  Speaker 1: moms are scientists. She's a doctor, so that's another high
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  Speaker 1: profile profession. So you have two people who got two
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  Speaker 1: beautiful daughters once in high school. Wants wants your characters
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  Speaker 1: finished college? Correct? No, No, she's still currently in medical school.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, boy, your boys stand on top is gay
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  Speaker 1: and so and so the thing about it is that
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  Speaker 1: when I'm looking at these characters and watching it play out,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you went in. You say, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a vision board. You said, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted, this is who I am going to be.
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  Speaker 1: I want this role, And how many times did you
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  Speaker 1: audition for this role? So I went in for at
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  Speaker 1: once and I didn't hear anything in almost two weeks
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  Speaker 1: went by, and I was like, well, damn, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I had a really good audition. Why didn't I
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  Speaker 1: hear anything. You know, typically you know, you hear a
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  Speaker 1: callback within either a few days or maybe a week,
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  Speaker 1: and not not all cases because in the film industry
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  Speaker 1: things can change. But for the most part, I expected
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  Speaker 1: to have heard something bad. I felt like I had
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  Speaker 1: a really good audition. And then two weeks go by,
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  Speaker 1: I hear nothing. And then then and then I get
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  Speaker 1: a phone call that I didn't have a callback, that
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  Speaker 1: I had a screen test. So I skipped a callback
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  Speaker 1: and I went straight to the screen test where which
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  Speaker 1: is when you read with the other characters who they are. Girl,
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  Speaker 1: you're too much? Really a superhero? It really are superhero
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  Speaker 1: doing your thing. We're gonna be back with more My
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  Speaker 1: interview with the incredible superhero star of Thunder called Thunder
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  Speaker 1: on the hit TV c W TV series Black Lightning.
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  Speaker 1: She's change in my life. Girl. I need, I need
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  Speaker 1: to be rescued. And in fact, I'm mad at you
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  Speaker 1: because you're in Atlanta and you could have been in
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  Speaker 1: the studio. Super fan. This for Sean McDonald, she's still
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  Speaker 1: on the phone. Born and raised in this super Bowl City,
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl City, the Philadelphia, home of the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: She's one of the stars of the new CW hit
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  Speaker 1: superhero series Black Lightning. She plays the character Thunder, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean she brings to Thunder and a big daddy
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  Speaker 1: name Daddy on the show name is Lightning. That's where
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  Speaker 1: you get this Black Lightning. Their family dynamic as a
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  Speaker 1: mom has a younger daughter who's uh, who's dealing with
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  Speaker 1: her powers evolving. And I want to bring it back
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  Speaker 1: to the show so we can talk about the series,
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  Speaker 1: but also I want to get into your boy, your
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  Speaker 1: personal life, uh, the things that you're doing called Saturday Dreaming.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that entrepreneurship side of you, because that's
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  Speaker 1: what money making conversation is about, is about entrepreneurship and entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: We've really come to entertainment side of you. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about that entrepreneurship side of you and um, because you're
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  Speaker 1: really a superhero in that line of work too. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Yes, So Saturday Dreaming, I'm sure you guys
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  Speaker 1: have all heard of the store Forever, Yes, yes, So
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  Speaker 1: I was always inspired by that store because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I remember my days of being in college. I remember
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  Speaker 1: my days of first starting out in the industry and
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  Speaker 1: not really having you know, the budget to shop, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way I may have wanted to, but I knew
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  Speaker 1: I could always go to Forever twenty one with just say,
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  Speaker 1: fifty bucks and put an entire book together. And I
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  Speaker 1: was always inspired by the idea of that and always
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  Speaker 1: wanting to, you know, provide that same experience for for
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  Speaker 1: for other women. Young women following their dreams in schools,
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  Speaker 1: just starting their careers may have not had the budget
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  Speaker 1: to look like, you know, they've made it already, right,
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  Speaker 1: you can come to Saturday Dreaming and you can accomplish that,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's for the woman, the young girl
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  Speaker 1: boss who's following her dreams. But what's the because that
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  Speaker 1: she's already made it, and you can come to Saturday
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  Speaker 1: Dreaming and you can shop on the budget, you can
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  Speaker 1: be inspired, and you can look fabulous all while doing that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I teamed up with my best friend
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  Speaker 1: since I was thirteen years old, and you know, we
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  Speaker 1: we started Saturday Dreaming about two and a half years
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  Speaker 1: ago and it's going well, it's going three. And the
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  Speaker 1: mission was to make it affordable for for young women
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  Speaker 1: who are you know, following their dreams and not having
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  Speaker 1: the budget, but you know, having enough to where you
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  Speaker 1: can come to Saturday dream and then we're gonna take
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  Speaker 1: care of you or we're gonna make sure you can
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  Speaker 1: do it affordably and you know, just give you that confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that now. Did you started this idea
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  Speaker 1: before black lighting? So you was like, so, so, what
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  Speaker 1: were you in in your life at that point? You know,
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  Speaker 1: you still auditioning then you're about to start this, Uh
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, there's a business seven dreaming. Yeah, I was auditioning,
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  Speaker 1: and I was also saying, you know, don't wait for
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  Speaker 1: anyone to give you a job to start making money.
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  Speaker 1: Don't wait, you know, for things to happen if you're
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  Speaker 1: inspired by this idea just started. You know, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to think of myself as an entity and and I
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  Speaker 1: have many business ideas and you know, many business plans
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  Speaker 1: that I will execute and this was just one of them.
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  Speaker 1: And I love acting, but I love fashion just as much.
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  Speaker 1: So this was an outlet for me to walk in
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  Speaker 1: that side of my dream. So now you're you're you're
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  Speaker 1: interesting because like I said, you know, you're attractive, So
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  Speaker 1: the modeling aspect of your life, I can understand that.
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  Speaker 1: But you're working in the d a's office. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: was working in the d a's office. I thought I
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  Speaker 1: was returning just to could turn this office right. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and I was working in the homicide unit, so I
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  Speaker 1: sat in on actual homicide trials and cases and help
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  Speaker 1: do something you at that point, how old were you then?
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  Speaker 1: I was, I was still in college. I was nice
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen twenty. This is about a year before I
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  Speaker 1: graduated college. So yeah, I was working in the d
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  Speaker 1: a's office and I thought I wanted to be a
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  Speaker 1: lawyer and it was great, but I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to really follow the visions and the dreams
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  Speaker 1: that got you know and still don't use from when
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  Speaker 1: you were a kid. And I had an audition. Well,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I was working at the law firm. See you you're funny,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: so you do why you're funny because you've got a
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: good story, but you all over the place. You know,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: first of all, you know, you're modeling, and then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're you're at the d a's office.
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  Speaker 1: Now your audition. Okay, so you so you were acting
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and working at these offers at the same time and
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  Speaker 1: going to college and going to college. I was yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, I have an audition.
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  Speaker 1: I asked him if I could take off. I went
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  Speaker 1: anyway and five and that was That was the best
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  Speaker 1: day of my life and the beginning of the rest
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  Speaker 1: of it. So so this would always tell people, because
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  Speaker 1: I love this part of the story. I would tell people,
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  Speaker 1: there are twenty four hours in a day. Learn to
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of every hour. And that's what you're telling
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  Speaker 1: me that you did with your life and you're still
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  Speaker 1: doing with your life. There was a point in your
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  Speaker 1: life where, even at that young age two, you're a
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  Speaker 1: conscious decision. Look norm in college. I know I want
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  Speaker 1: to act, so I gotta work on that craft. I
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: want to audition, and I'm at the d But we
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  Speaker 1: all knew that the d a's office wasn't what you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be. That's not the place you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be so so they actually did your favor, did your
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  Speaker 1: favorite by firing me. And that was the first day.
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  Speaker 1: Since that day, I started going to New York and auditioning,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and then I booked the soap opera One Like to Live.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: And you know, things just took off for me because
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you because you finally was giving one. Since so people
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: operating on that B plan. So you you put everything
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  Speaker 1: in the A plan, aid everything. There is no B plan.
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  Speaker 1: Planing B is to make plan a world. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Now she's getting girl. I keep telling she got some jewels. Man,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you just let her talk long enough. She's gonna change
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  Speaker 1: the world now, because because that's what I tell people,
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  Speaker 1: you hold them. I remember I left IBM to do
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  Speaker 1: stand up comedy. In the back of my mind, it
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: was like I could always go back to IBM, you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I always felt that. But but that was the wrong
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: thought process because if I wanted to stand i'd be
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I should have stayed. Understand that if you want to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: go back to something and it's tempting you to go back,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: go back. But if you quit it, that was a
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: reason you quit the problem. You there was no going back.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: So des office gone you got one like to Live?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: How did you get to the West Coast? I got
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to the West Coast. So I booked the series regular
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  Speaker 1: on on one like to Live, and then, if you
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: can remember, one, Like to Live got canceled and it
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: was replaced by the A Food of food reality like
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: a food talk show. I know about that you. So
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: we got canceled. The shoe came on, so I was
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I was so devastated. I was like, oh my goodness,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Like what am I gonna do? And I was like,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: you know what, now it's time to take what's on
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: your resume and go to l A. So I went
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to l A. I tried it out for about a month.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I booked two jobs and I was like, I called
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: my family and was like, I'm not coming back to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the East Coast, like I'm staying here and here we
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: are today. Okay, but you in Atlanta though? Are you
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: based in the Atlanta? Yeah? I'm here in Atlanta because
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you know, we're feel in the show here. Okay, cool,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: all right? You know I was just about to get
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: on your case. There's now now when y'all started taping,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: when does it rap? And then we talked about black
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: lightning by the way, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, so we
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: started taping. We're about we're now in our third episode
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and we wrap up I believe early next year, give
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: or take. Okay, cool, So let me set the stage
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: for the show. Okay, we'll where it ended. Okay, y'all
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: was running down the street. All came to the front
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  Speaker 1: of the house. You know, everybody's kind of got back together.
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  Speaker 1: Your younger sister, her powers are starting to evolve. She
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  Speaker 1: saved her father's life with her problems. She has kind
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: of like electricity, right, that's what she has, a kind
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: of like exactly, she has the same power as as
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: black Lightning. She's lightning. She's lightning because she here here
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  Speaker 1: he needed to the heart needs to be restarted. So
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: she had a jotap. So she for the first time
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: she used her powers intentionally. So we're there now. The mother,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: she's kind of like a comeback into the family, kind
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of like the Obi wan Kenobi. You know, she knows
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: she she has to be there. She has to accept
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the values and the and the purpose of her family
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: is being put here because black Lightning. She really because
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you know, early on, before you know, you go out
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: that fight. He come back beat up. She just couldn't
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: deal with the emotional trauma of that. Yeah, because it's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: like an addiction, heaven to heaven powers you know, can
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: be addictive. And she's like, I can't watch you go
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  Speaker 1: through the ups, ups and downs of your addiction. He
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: became addicted and she was, you know, in the middle
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of that. So she decided to leave. It was sad,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: but they're you know, they're trying to work on it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Will see how things go. Well, they're gonna go great.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And before we go, I want to talk about some
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of the get back program you work with, the Skid
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Role campaign do Let's talk about that before we go,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: because I want to just let everybody's shape or your lifestyle.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: You know that you do have time for the for individuals,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: your character that you just you do a TV really
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: transcend to your everyday life. Tell us about your efforts
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: in the community. Thank you. I just believe that, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it's our duty to serve and to give back, especially
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: when you've been blessed so much. Much has given, much
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  Speaker 1: is required, and I believe that the secreted service, you know,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and we're we're put here to bless each other in too.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You know, inspire and empower each other. And that's pretty
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: much my life mission, I believe. You know. Um, life
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: begins when you start to follow your dreams and understand
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: what your purposes. And in the once you understand what
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: your purpose is, your job next is to help the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: next person, you know, discover what THEIRS is and encourage
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: them to follow theirs. So um, that's just basically, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I try to live by that rule. I go down
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  Speaker 1: to ski Road while I was going when I was
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  Speaker 1: in l A. And I try to go when I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: when I you know, when I'm not filming, but it's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the Peggy Beatrice Foundation and we go down to Skiar Road.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: We closed, we feed, we pray, you know, just incur
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: sometimes just listen, you know, being a listening ear. And
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I love doing it. I'm most happy when I'm when
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: i'm serving and when i'm giving. So um, that's that's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: definitely one of one of my favorite things to be doing.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: And I get please keep doing it really quickly. Tell
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: everybody about Saturday Uh Dreaming one more time when we
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: close out the show, how they can find it and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: what exactly it is. Yeah, So Saturday Dreaming is my
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: own my online bou Seek. I'm a co owner with
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: my best friends in thirteen years old, so it's really cool.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I believe in building with your friends and and and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: you know, making your dreams together become a reality. So
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that's what Saturday Dreaming is. It's an online bout carter
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  Speaker 1: to young women who are following their dreams and you know,
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  Speaker 1: embracing their individuality, but but doing it in a you know,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Dreaming offer that platform for you to to to
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: look fly and and but on an affordable budget. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that was that was the mission. So you can follow
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: us a Saturday Dreaming on Instagram and definitely check out
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the website Saturday Dreaming dot com and uh yeah, post
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: your pictures tagged me. I want to see how you
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: look awesome. I want to tell you that Black Lightning,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: she's one of the stars. I wanna let you know
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that you're the only person I've ever interviewed from Black Lightning.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: That's not that's saying that I came to you first
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and you came back. You showed me love giving love
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: back to you. I love the show. I love all
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the characters. Keep winning, support I really really keep winning.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Everybody needs to watch the show. Watching and repeat it
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: on Netflix. It's a great show to watch. You you you
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: want to doalo and get caught up. Thank you, I
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