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Christina Milian discusses first days of acting to starring in Netflix's new movie "Resort to Love" · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: to call decision makers. My next guest is Christina Million.
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  Speaker 1: She's a budding as they say, budding multi media talent
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  Speaker 1: and enterprises and music, fashion food. You know she just
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  Speaker 1: opened the ben A Box and restaurant in April in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Studio City. I'm very familiar with Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: She's a star in television and film. She was recently
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  Speaker 1: seeing the two other film projects on Netflix, the hit
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  Speaker 1: romantic comedy movie Falling in Love and the musical drama
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  Speaker 1: series Soundtrack. In the new movie Result to Love, Christina
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  Speaker 1: Million plays an inspiring and singer Erica on the journey
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  Speaker 1: to find herself in Paradise. The movie is produces fifteen
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  Speaker 1: tag fifteen time Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys.
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  Speaker 1: Christina and I have worked many times together on sitcoms
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  Speaker 1: like The w B Sister Sister Steve Harvey Show and
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  Speaker 1: Christina the first leading role in two thousand three with
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Love Don't Cost the Things. I was there,
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  Speaker 1: I saw, So let's catch up as we just got
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  Speaker 1: a new Netflix film, Result to Low and discuss an
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  Speaker 1: enterprising career because he's multi fascinated please working with money
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  Speaker 1: making conversation for the very first time, Christina Willy Young,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing? That was the best intro. I
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  Speaker 1: was having a good time listening my goodness. Well, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, I'm awesome. How are you? I'm doing great? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, you look fantastic. And when my wife
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  Speaker 1: and I we saw the movie last night and we
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  Speaker 1: get that out the box straight off, you know, because uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, romantic comedies and they really to me jumped
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  Speaker 1: off during the pandemic because we were sitting at home
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  Speaker 1: and gotta gottahead a lot of good time. But you
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  Speaker 1: seem to have found a niche. But when you find
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  Speaker 1: these niches in romantic comedies, you always had some beautiful location.
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  Speaker 1: And I think your last one is in New Zealand, right, yes,
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  Speaker 1: my last one was New Zealand. This time, this time around,
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  Speaker 1: I was this beautiful island called Mauritius and it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's the south of Africa. It's an island south of Africa,
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  Speaker 1: and it's one of the most gorgeous, most beautiful places
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  Speaker 1: I've ever been to. Its paradise, well, it came across
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  Speaker 1: its paradise and it really it really impacted what I
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  Speaker 1: felt was your brand. At the very top of the movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give away the movie because but where
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  Speaker 1: your career took that backslide was so funny. And but
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  Speaker 1: what I what I've learned and watching your growth as
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  Speaker 1: an actress, you know, it's been that um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have to do do things in here. You had
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  Speaker 1: to show your skill as a singer, and you did
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  Speaker 1: an amazing job. And then you have to show different
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  Speaker 1: levels as an actress. You had to show, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a sensitive side, and you have to show a side
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  Speaker 1: of I can do better. I believe I can do better.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do better. And then when you had
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  Speaker 1: to make a turn or make decision about yourself emotionally,
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  Speaker 1: I think where a lot of people get in these relationships.
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  Speaker 1: I've been into these relationships myself, Christina where I want
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  Speaker 1: to move on, but I can't move on, and let's
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  Speaker 1: talk to us about that character. And you get in
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  Speaker 1: your script realizing the these levels that you have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with. In the Netflix movie results of lave Yes, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's definitely the different conflicts that she personally
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  Speaker 1: has to deal with. Um. It's one of the main
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  Speaker 1: things is like a lot of this is all rooted
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  Speaker 1: and it comes from the heart. And I feel like, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with my character Erica, you know, one of
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  Speaker 1: the basis is of her characters that she loves music.
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  Speaker 1: She has this passion for music and it's been her
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  Speaker 1: first love since she was a child. She's willing to
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice anything, including her love life, to pursue this music
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  Speaker 1: career with the hopes that it would be successful. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in her shoes before, and I still understand
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  Speaker 1: to this day. Um, you know, and it's and it
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  Speaker 1: really takes like the right person honestly to actually alter
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  Speaker 1: the direction or how that how that plan and how
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  Speaker 1: that idea actually um plays out. Um. One thing like
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  Speaker 1: obviously I get to sing in the movie. I love that,
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  Speaker 1: But I felt like she was a real person and
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  Speaker 1: a real person in a situation that is so awkward
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago that was you know, back then you
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  Speaker 1: thought was the love of your life all the way
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  Speaker 1: motion that you might not even expect. Things like that
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  Speaker 1: do happen these days. So UM, I love that she
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  Speaker 1: was a real girl who's faced with the conflict. UM,
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  Speaker 1: and she doesn't she doesn't out the gate say like
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna face this conflict that I'm gonna go for it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna change this, Like she just actually uses her
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  Speaker 1: all right, well I gotta do something different. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: make it better. Um. So you know, or maybe just
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  Speaker 1: like don't have to think about it, and that she's
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  Speaker 1: come running with probably the hardest thing that you know,
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  Speaker 1: So UM, I love all the conflict and I love
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  Speaker 1: did that movie and I worked together with Nick Cannon,
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  Speaker 1: I was really proud of my work when I saw
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  Speaker 1: it for the first time, Like I really had a
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  Speaker 1: real whole acting role. It was cool. It was more
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  Speaker 1: than just two lines. Well, it was more than so
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  Speaker 1: it went from that to the whole movie. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: all know that ups and downs, Like you know, your
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  Speaker 1: singing career, you like like in the movie you lost
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  Speaker 1: your deal just a little funny as in the movie,
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  Speaker 1: of course the movie was hysterical, how that that that
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  Speaker 1: singing opportunity went away? But in the in the process
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  Speaker 1: of playing the inspiring singer, you really got to sing
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  Speaker 1: this movie? Oh yeah, I did. I did. I did,
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  Speaker 1: and you know with Alicia Keys being a producer, you know, implementing,
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  Speaker 1: you know those elements of music. There's like six different
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  Speaker 1: songs I sing in the movie. Um was. It was
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  Speaker 1: something that was exciting for me because I got to
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  Speaker 1: get in the studio again and um I had to
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  Speaker 1: show what Erica like has been, you know, working her
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  Speaker 1: butt off for and what what what she what she
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  Speaker 1: does for a living. And so I was really happy
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  Speaker 1: to play her character and play her role because technically
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  Speaker 1: I was fulfilling this void of like I missed being
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  Speaker 1: in the studio and I'm missing not music and people
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  Speaker 1: hearing my songs. So now I get to marry the two,
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  Speaker 1: my acting and my singing together in this movie. And
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  Speaker 1: a Christine Million, very talented singing entrepreneur, actors who you
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  Speaker 1: know singing. And then this is this is a little
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  Speaker 1: physical comedy in this as well, okay, and then also
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  Speaker 1: just traditional comedy. And it's also a romantic theme and
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  Speaker 1: But she plays it all the way to the threw
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  Speaker 1: me off because I didn't know where she was gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just let you know, that was some good acting
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't know. She saw My wife and I
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  Speaker 1: saw because we saw what she supposed that when but
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  Speaker 1: when you get these parallel emotions that you have to
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  Speaker 1: play out, then you have to be this really good singer.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna just tell everybody because she does the
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  Speaker 1: singing so well, it wasn't a denial of her ability
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  Speaker 1: that she was in the location and she was just
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  Speaker 1: like down on her luck and she shouldn't be there
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  Speaker 1: because she was so good at what she did when
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  Speaker 1: she sung in the movie. So talk about that physical comedy,
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  Speaker 1: talk about that parallel emotions, emotional run that you have
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  Speaker 1: in there, and dealing with pulling all this together for
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  Speaker 1: a great movie that you're doing on Netflix. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I say overall, I think it's you know, I love
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  Speaker 1: to entertain the people, the physical the physical element of comedy.
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  Speaker 1: I love watching others to the physical element of comedy.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of male actors do that. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: classic um like uh Saturday Night Live actresses do that
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  Speaker 1: from like the early beginnings to like you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's there's typical rom com and you could just play
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  Speaker 1: it safe and you could just tell a story or
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  Speaker 1: you could have fun doing it. And I love to
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: laugh my butt off. I want to cry, laugh, laughter, tears.
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  Speaker 1: I want to cry sometimes. I want to experience it
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  Speaker 1: all and if um, if it's sometimes it means going
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  Speaker 1: out of the box and not being afraid to like
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  Speaker 1: alter who you are in your own persona. UM, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's important as an actor to do that. UM
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  Speaker 1: you wanna you want to bring the highs and the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: lows um being on? Yeah, absolutely so. The physical element
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  Speaker 1: of comedy I really enjoy doing. And I learned a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that even from my last director, Roger tumble
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  Speaker 1: On Falling in Love, because he was a really fun
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  Speaker 1: director and he really like he showed me. He showed
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  Speaker 1: me a couple of moments by other um, great comedians
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  Speaker 1: to like implement into my last movie. He was like,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: check this out, and he's like, do your own thing
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: to it. But this should inspire you. And since then
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  Speaker 1: I've just been just unafraid and fearless about just being
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  Speaker 1: out of my shell and having fun. And if they like,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: if they do, if they don't, then cut it out,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: cut it out and I'll do something else. It's fine,
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  Speaker 1: But at least I tried. That's what that was the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: thing I wanted to do. UM. And then um, what
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: was the other questions? She was carrying dual emotions throughout
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  Speaker 1: the movie. They're kind of like, oh, your boy here
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: because I thought you had missed up the right person.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: In fact, it was one moment my wife screamed at
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the TV when you thought you was about to do
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  Speaker 1: something with your ex fiance. She said, no, really, you
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  Speaker 1: did a great job to talk about that whole run there.
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  Speaker 1: Because as I'm telling something Christian talking about and just
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  Speaker 1: trying to throw some shine on you because it's a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: good interview, I'll just let you know, Wow, girl, you
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  Speaker 1: got it. And it's a blessing to see from two
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  Speaker 1: thousand three and just to sit down in my home
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  Speaker 1: and see you on the screen again leading a movie.
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  Speaker 1: You all the start of this movie, and that cares
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  Speaker 1: a lot of weight. And to see you carry these
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: lines and bring credibility to it and then throw a
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  Speaker 1: mislead on your boy is a testament to where you
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: are in your life. That's what I wanted to find out.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: How were you able to do that? I want? I
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: love that it's unpredictable, and I think that's important because
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: we can watch a lot of romany comedies and know
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: exactly I watched them sometimes and I'm like, I know
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, This's gonna happen, and that's gonna happen
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: next blah blah blah. This is the story maybe because
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I've done them so many times. To me, because I've
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: watched them so many times, but I like the the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: factor of being un predictable. And in this case, you know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you've got two brothers, You've also got another woman. There's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a like a quadruple kind of love triangle that's here. Wait,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: not a quiete quadruple. It's not even a try angle.
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  Speaker 1: I love quadruple there, you know, something like that. It's
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: happening between four people that that sounds really kind of crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but most important between her and the two guys that
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: she's like, she can either go backwards or she can
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: move forward, but she's still at the end of the day,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: needs closure, and I think it's important that she's trying
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to figure out what that closure is. Um. Of course
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: hope hoping not to break a happy home. But maybe
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: her happy home is with her ex fiance. We don't know, um,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: but it's it's that's where she needs to explore and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to find out and sometimes we don't have those answers.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: We have to figure it out ourselves. So well, you
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: don't break too many hearts in the process, and you're
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: proud that you was able to. Like I said, we
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: see these movies, you track them out. You know what's
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. But again, the overall cast was fantastic, good
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  Speaker 1: looking people by the way, you know, except walls and uh.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And so let's talk about this shift gears a little
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  Speaker 1: bit because this is money making conversations. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you are an entrepreneur. And the pandemic came out last year.
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  Speaker 1: It's still going on right now. I shouldn't say it
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: came out because we're still dealing with the issues now
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen. And you open a restaurant this year,
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  Speaker 1: Benja Box, now Benja's if you don't know what Ben's.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I'm from Houston, Texas, so very familiar with the Benas.
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  Speaker 1: And then your business partner has Louisiana roots. So talk
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  Speaker 1: about going into the restaurant business and why did you
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: go in business with this particular partner. Give us some history. Um, So,
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  Speaker 1: my best friend and I we used to live together,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: were roommates and she and I both have just very
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurial kind of attitudes and and just like we love something,
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  Speaker 1: we're very passionate about it. We didn't we we study it,
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  Speaker 1: We know the details of it with strategized every thing
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  Speaker 1: before we actually pursue it and um, and then after that,
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  Speaker 1: it's about the pursuit of making it succeed. So we
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  Speaker 1: watched each other pursue our own little businesses and things
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  Speaker 1: throughout the years. And when we were roommate and we said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Sunday, we gotta do something together. We need
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  Speaker 1: to create a business the two women. This is. It's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: gonna be based on where we live. We live in
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Studio City, California. We know friends here, people we we
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: have to do something, but we know our friends will
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: become a part of and help us to help it grow.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: So we were like, let's do bakery, Let's do this,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: let's do that. And one day she had a foundation
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: in Louisiana where we would rebuild homes from Hurricane Katrina,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and we were out there. We would go get Bignet's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and it was us with all our girlfriends and we're
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: eating Beignet's. We're going back from more beignats. And then
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: We're like, hold on, we need to bring Benyar's to
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  Speaker 1: l A. What are we doing? We're tripping? And so
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: we started to really not only because we love beignets,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: we started to figure out what the business of it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: What you know, what the price, you know, what it
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: costs this that, you know, what what it costs to
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: actually start up the business. How much you would make
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: in the end, how much you know, all the money
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that goes out? What what helped? Do we want to
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: be a brand or do we just want to be
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: one you know, one location. You know, the idea is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to overall become a a large brand. We want to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: be um, we want to be posted everywhere, to be
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: honest with you, And we started it over two years ago. Um.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: We started with you know, we got our trademark done,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: we figured out our recipe. We launched in l s
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  Speaker 1: U Stadium. We had just big old friar uh you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: big old pop oil in it and the you know
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the gas you know, the little gas thing on the side,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and my friends family was serving it. Two people there
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and then we decided to do a food truck. So
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: we did a food truck to about a year and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a half ago two years ago and since then now
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we've opened the store in the studio City, we have
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a Kiosk in Glenn, we have another truck that's also
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: in Louisiana, and that's all happened in two years. So
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: we feel very fortunate. Um sooner or later we'll be franchising,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: but right now we're really just making sure quality control,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: that we have the best, um, you know, quality, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: that we're giving our very best before we actually uh
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: franchise out. Now now you're just doing big or you're
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: doing sandwiches, you're doing other pastries. Can you stick to
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: one thing that we're good at. Its powdered benya, powdered
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  Speaker 1: sugar benyon And sometimes it's best to stick to one
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: thing and be great at it rather than uh than
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: you know, having your hands and everything. Well that I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: love that. I love the whole concept. But the fact
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that you like you said, you did like you said
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  Speaker 1: a budget, you got your trademark, you did quality to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: control and so that's the business side of you. Is
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that eventually going to become a dominant side of your
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: career or the love of music, the love of acting,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and you is balancing it out of course, being a
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: family your mall, yeah, you know all that. That's a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: huge balance for you all across the board. So where
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: do we stand now moving forward? From from going forward,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: it's pretty much gonna stay about the same. To me,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's an equal balance. I think my career also helps,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: um helps highlight my entrepreneurial side as well as it
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: goes the other way around. UM, So it's more about
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: like what else is going to happen from them, even
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: on the film and the entertainment side. I mean, who knows,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I might direct more, I might produce more and not might.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I know that's the plan and that's what I will
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: do eventually. But right now my focus is my to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: entertain and also to to really grow this brand, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: um it's going very well. And I think, uh, I know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know myself to stop doing one thing over
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the other for sure, especially when it comes to entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll always be doing it for my whole life.
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