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Dorien Wilson (2nd Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: gonna bounce TV network. It's called in the cut and
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Speaker 1: I gotta I'll be remiss if I don't mention my
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Speaker 1: boy Bentley Evans, who created the show Man. Uh you
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Speaker 1: know when I say why, he's special to me. Brought
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Speaker 1: me up to the Jamie FOXX Show as a co
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Speaker 1: executive producer. One of the major moves in my life
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Speaker 1: in this business because you gotta have people help with
20:24
Speaker 1: as an African American guy. And and so let's talk
20:28
Speaker 1: you've been on the show before talking about in the
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Speaker 1: cut updated because you mentioned and Stone and Just Stone,
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Speaker 1: who's crazy by the way, in real life and on
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Speaker 1: this TV show. You know if you don't know and
20:38
Speaker 1: Stone and Stone crazy, Okay, a good crazy though. That's
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Speaker 1: my girl. Yeah, she placed my sister on the show. Um.
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Speaker 1: But let let me go back to to Bethley. Um.
20:52
Speaker 1: That is another one of those relationships that that you know,
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Speaker 1: you you don't have those type of relationships in this
20:59
Speaker 1: business that often they come far and few between. Bentley
21:03
Speaker 1: is that dude who is groundbreaking for one and he
21:06
Speaker 1: never forgets somebody and you are a part of that
21:10
Speaker 1: that that family, that niche. But I worked with him
21:13
Speaker 1: many many years ago on Martin and everybody that is
21:16
Speaker 1: associated with our show has worked with him in the past.
21:21
Speaker 1: That and some capacity or another. Um, but it's a
21:25
Speaker 1: beautiful niche. Kalidakalida Smith plays my my wife on the show.
21:31
Speaker 1: And many of you guys know Khalida from the Bernie
21:34
Speaker 1: Max Show. She played the wife on the Bernie Max Show.
21:37
Speaker 1: Um and John Marshall Jones, he was the father on
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Speaker 1: A Smart Guy. Um, and he plays my side in
21:44
Speaker 1: the barbershop. And uh. Rounding out the cast is Ken Lawson,
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Speaker 1: who my comferend from the Parkers. You know, so we
21:53
Speaker 1: go that far back and that's my dude right there.
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Speaker 1: I have worked with him for almost twenty iv years
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Speaker 1: and I have never seen this cat come in mad, angry,
22:05
Speaker 1: upset or what have you. Um, you know, always a
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Speaker 1: good vibe and or you know, just um and and
22:12
Speaker 1: if he does, we don't know it. Let's put it,
22:15
Speaker 1: you know, same going guy delivers the line to professional
22:22
Speaker 1: and uh, I got I gotta, I gotta bring up
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Speaker 1: Lara Hayes now lay Miss Laura is hilarious on the
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Speaker 1: show that that's my girl right there, but she kind
22:34
Speaker 1: of grounds everybody and just this is the stuff that
22:38
Speaker 1: you don't see from Laura on the show is some
22:41
Speaker 1: of the funniest. But anyway, Um, so it's a great cat.
22:48
Speaker 1: Also Dorian Rnand who plays uh Kalita's sidekick in her
22:55
Speaker 1: beauty salon. But it's a wonderful cast. Everybody has been
22:58
Speaker 1: in the business for I'm teen years and so we
23:02
Speaker 1: have to, um have that foundation we've all worked together
23:07
Speaker 1: before because we do thirteen episodes in eleven days. Thirteen
23:12
Speaker 1: episodes in the eleven days. Yeah, it is. It is
23:15
Speaker 1: a killing is it long? Are the days where we
23:18
Speaker 1: have well week to shoot an happened you know, you
23:21
Speaker 1: know in front of yea yeah, yeah, they in front
23:25
Speaker 1: of the audience, audience, whatnot. No, we're cranking this out.
23:29
Speaker 1: I have anywhere from ten to uh seventeen scenes a day, um,
23:35
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's long hours. But we already
23:37
Speaker 1: have that foundation, um, and everybody's professional, so we're we're
23:42
Speaker 1: able to you know, crank it out and get it done.
23:45
Speaker 1: Anything enables me to do a lot of other things, um,
23:48
Speaker 1: you know for the rest of the year. We just
23:51
Speaker 1: finished our seventh season. Awesome. Awesome, then some of the
23:54
Speaker 1: guests get your girl Loneo coming on the show this year.
23:58
Speaker 1: If anybody saw Dolomite is my main is my name?
24:01
Speaker 1: My god? Just a little Neil is one of those
24:04
Speaker 1: The fact that you have a little nail and lrd
24:06
Speaker 1: Hayes on the set at the same time. It had
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Speaker 1: to be Yeah, it's crazy you have to separate them
24:13
Speaker 1: and like a little kid, but just a comedy. I mean,
24:17
Speaker 1: they threw out the script basically with it, you know.
24:22
Speaker 1: And that's why let's let's just back up and tell
24:25
Speaker 1: people a little bit of history about Ben Levins. Bi
24:27
Speaker 1: Levins created the Mardern Show, so he's used to working
24:30
Speaker 1: with a star who improvs. He created the Jamie Foxx Show,
24:35
Speaker 1: so he's used to working with another star who improv
24:37
Speaker 1: so when he and comedians, so he's used to working
24:40
Speaker 1: in an environment of trusting these individuals. So when so
24:45
Speaker 1: when Dorian says, you know, they all scripted, they throughout
24:48
Speaker 1: the script, that's a good thing because he's allowing them
24:50
Speaker 1: to do their things and bring the best funny possible
24:53
Speaker 1: and trusting the ability to pull it off. That's awesome.
24:55
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's what I said. He he knows all
24:58
Speaker 1: of us. We have a incredible writers who write for
25:03
Speaker 1: us as uh people, um, not just actors, um, you know,
25:07
Speaker 1: our characters or whatever. But they know what dorian strengths
25:11
Speaker 1: are and so they'll incorporate that in the script. So
25:14
Speaker 1: what we try to do is get what they put
25:17
Speaker 1: on paper first and then because this opportunity, the Just
25:23
Speaker 1: and seven and you know some of that stuff is
25:27
Speaker 1: the funny stuff. Awesome. Now I didn't got my girl
25:30
Speaker 1: Yo yo from kak Mirka and Love and Hip Hop
25:33
Speaker 1: Hollywood on the show. Uh you know, just just just
25:38
Speaker 1: this is this is really a wonderful story we're telling about. Uh,
25:43
Speaker 1: you know, people working together. Because throughout our whole interview
25:46
Speaker 1: we just talked about relationships. We talked about longevity. We're
25:49
Speaker 1: talking about transitional talent. Uh not you know, understanding that, hey,
25:54
Speaker 1: I will not be pigeonholed just to be an actor.
25:56
Speaker 1: I want to learn behind the scenes, even though there's
25:58
Speaker 1: more work involved than going behind on the scenes. But
26:01
Speaker 1: in the end, it's always good when you own a
26:03
Speaker 1: set at this stage, now knowing exactly what's going on
26:06
Speaker 1: behind the set, isn't it doing Yeah? Almost definitely. Uh.
26:10
Speaker 1: You know, it's so important to learn all parts of
26:13
Speaker 1: the craft. Um So you have the longevity, you know,
26:16
Speaker 1: I I did the acting thing for many many years.
26:18
Speaker 1: I want to write directed as well. Um so you know,
26:24
Speaker 1: um so I can keep on staying in this business
26:28
Speaker 1: because you know, being for real, they you know, there
26:31
Speaker 1: are far a few um parts for African American that
26:35
Speaker 1: you know for certain, um, you know in your genre,
26:39
Speaker 1: your your age group, your your ethnicity. UM, that's why,
26:44
Speaker 1: that's why whenever I see you, so whenever I see
26:46
Speaker 1: your TV on the film during I'm watching, because I'm
26:49
Speaker 1: I'm giving you all my Nielsen opportunities, all my Netflix views,
26:54
Speaker 1: anything that's anything that's on live, and I'm post you
27:00
Speaker 1: on my social media, you know, because that's how you
27:03
Speaker 1: know that that you know the thing about it is
27:05
Speaker 1: that I love you as a person, I love I
27:08
Speaker 1: respect you as an individual, and and and to bring
27:12
Speaker 1: you on this show as part of my process, you know,
27:14
Speaker 1: just just giving more opportunities to to just create make
27:17
Speaker 1: you relevant, to make you relevant. Your brand has has
27:20
Speaker 1: has as endless. Uh. You know, if we went back
27:23
Speaker 1: and show what you did on the Parkers, you'll be funny.
27:26
Speaker 1: If we went back and saw what you did on
27:27
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvard sitcom, you'll be funny. If you want
27:30
Speaker 1: to go to the Netflix movies, we just will talking
27:31
Speaker 1: about He's gonna be funny. If you want to go
27:33
Speaker 1: to the the Chair to Day and go Roshaun one line
27:36
Speaker 1: when he came on the screen gentry calling the gentry right,
27:43
Speaker 1: all right, I'm not, but you're not gonna do it.
27:46
Speaker 1: Come on my show story and act like I'm gonna
27:48
Speaker 1: fake this interview. I'm not gonna fake this interview. He's
27:52
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