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Melissa L. Williams Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: for entrepreneurship in entertainment. My next guest is a talented
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  Speaker 1: actress and singer who was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: You know I'm from Texas so I can talk like that.
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  Speaker 1: She right above me, right above me. She moved to
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta for college and attended an hbc Uth School Clark
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic University, where she majored in theater, and then moved
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  Speaker 1: to Los Angeles and has been booking television shows, films,
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  Speaker 1: and commercials every since. She is now starting in the
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  Speaker 1: news Tyler Perry series and it is entitled Tyler Perry's
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  Speaker 1: Ruthless Please Walk up to Money Making Conversation. Melissa L. Williams,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Wow. That was a great first of all,
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  Speaker 1: you deserve it, you know, and you're you're out here,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I always tell people a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are stopped based on fear, stop based on people's expectations,
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  Speaker 1: on projections of what they should be doing in their lives,
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  Speaker 1: in their life. And here you are in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: I've been there several times. Uh. Eat some great appecue
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  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City. By the way, I've been there some
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  Speaker 1: good papers. Yea. So how do you get to Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: to Los Angeles from Oklahoma City? Ha ha? How think
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  Speaker 1: your dreams be so big in Oklahoma City? Oh well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that's how you know it's your gift
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  Speaker 1: when when nobody or nothing, you know, circumstances can stop
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  Speaker 1: you from attaining it. I feel like my purpose I
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  Speaker 1: found it at a young age. My purpose on this
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  Speaker 1: earth was this to tell a story, um, whether it
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  Speaker 1: beauty characters or my own. And that's why I think
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  Speaker 1: that God has given me such a powerful testimony because
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  Speaker 1: it is definitely one that I feel can transform other
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  Speaker 1: young black women actors or even just people who live
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  Speaker 1: in small town you know. I feel like my story
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  Speaker 1: would transform that thinking at least enough to um make
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  Speaker 1: them believe that they can do it, just because of
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  Speaker 1: you know, where I'm from and where I grew up
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  Speaker 1: as well, right, And I think I appreciate you saying
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  Speaker 1: that because you know, people look at the big city
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  Speaker 1: New York, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, now Los Angeles, that's where
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  Speaker 1: you go to achieve. You you either from those type
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  Speaker 1: of cities or you're born in those types of cities
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  Speaker 1: where the real talent is just like in anything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it comes from everywhere. You're part of that, one of
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  Speaker 1: the limbs on the tree, that fruit that we need
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  Speaker 1: to grow. And so when you made the decision to
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  Speaker 1: go to Atlanta for college, that was the first major
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  Speaker 1: decision you had to make because you would leaving home
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Atlanta, Georgia, which we know. I've
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  Speaker 1: been in Oklahoma City and I said that joking earlier,
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  Speaker 1: but I was for real. I know the black population there.
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  Speaker 1: Now you come into a market where we know is
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  Speaker 1: truly an African American market. What was that like? What
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  Speaker 1: was that transition for you? Oh? It was definitely a
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  Speaker 1: culture shark. I mean, you know, there are black population
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  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. You can count on your on your on
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  Speaker 1: your one hand, on one hand, you know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: mix up a lot a lot of space. We will
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  Speaker 1: take up a lot of space in Oklahoma, but there
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  Speaker 1: are black people. So I will just sell that miss
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  Speaker 1: right now. People always ask me, oh, I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: black people live in Oklahoma, and I'm like, yep, yep,
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  Speaker 1: because here's one right here. So uh, I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: for me, it was a cultural shock because Atlanta obviously
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  Speaker 1: is about that culture and black love and black history
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  Speaker 1: and black restaurants and black owned businesses and black owned designers,
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  Speaker 1: like it's everything black, and that's what I wanted, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I I the reason why I even found out about
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  Speaker 1: like college in Atlanta. Is because I was impacted on
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  Speaker 1: by a movie called Drumline. I saw that in high
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  Speaker 1: school and I was like, I want that experience. I
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  Speaker 1: want in all black experience HBCU. I want I want
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  Speaker 1: to see the girls dancing like that. I was the
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  Speaker 1: drum Line have rhythm, like I want to be around that.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked it up our Line, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I was so ready to, you know, move forward. I
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  Speaker 1: thought there's a school on drum Line was a real school.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked at the school that and it went to,
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  Speaker 1: and I found out that it was false obviously created
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  Speaker 1: for the movie. But hey, I'm in Oklahoma, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I found out that Okay, they filmed it in
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta on a college campus, which happened to be um
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  Speaker 1: An HBCU. So in the A U C Center that
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  Speaker 1: makes up more House Stemming in Clark, Atlanta. You know,
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  Speaker 1: all of the campuses are on one campus there in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: So I applied to Spellman, I applied to Clarks, I
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  Speaker 1: got a sas to Clark, and I went to Clark
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  Speaker 1: and congratulations because that that that was a seed for
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  Speaker 1: while we were talking today and uh, because you know
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  Speaker 1: HBCUs I'm a part of a lot of camp pins
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  Speaker 1: with HBCU. I didn't attended. I didn't attend an HBCU,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm such a fan of bringing the quality of
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  Speaker 1: educated people that their brand awareness that hbc uses given out,
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  Speaker 1: especially in Hollywood. All the wood is really being overrun
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  Speaker 1: by HBCU graduates, which is really positive as well as
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  Speaker 1: the I'm sure you're finding it out as well, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And so with that being said, I am, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: something that I'm I'm proud to to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of it as well. And I'm I'm glad that people
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  Speaker 1: are mentioning that because it only puts my business in
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  Speaker 1: our HBCUs. You know, like at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: college is a business. If I ain't nobody going and
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  Speaker 1: nobody's showing, and you ain't like we need the ABC
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  Speaker 1: used to be in the business. So yeah, I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: that people are, like I think lean away when you um,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are coming out mentioning that in
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  Speaker 1: their journey or story, and I think that's important. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I had to mention it in your story in
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  Speaker 1: your journey. My executive producer, she's from Hampton, you know,
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  Speaker 1: me right every every time I do this show. Now, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get anybody mad because it may
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  Speaker 1: seem like I've drifted off into a personal conversation about
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  Speaker 1: your life. Do you have a show coming out? Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Perry is ruthless? Before we talk about that show, the
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  Speaker 1: seed of your character was planted in his other shows
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  Speaker 1: they're over now. It was really interested. I would reading.
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  Speaker 1: I always trying to do additional research and what they
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  Speaker 1: sent over to me, and I was reading this article
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  Speaker 1: and he was talking about you know, you said Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Perry was a genius. You said this guy was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you say that about Tyler Perry Because that's
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  Speaker 1: what I truly believe. I think he is amazing. I
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  Speaker 1: think he is genius. Any man who can write greate producer. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, let me just start from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: My background is theater major. But I did uh continue
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  Speaker 1: educating ation under the Media Production program. So I twitched
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  Speaker 1: my major, okay, because I was like, I need to
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  Speaker 1: learn the behind the scenes because later on down the line, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just having the theater major isn't going to
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  Speaker 1: be enough. So I need to learn how to produce.
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  Speaker 1: I need to learn how to edit. I need to
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  Speaker 1: learn learn how where did the rights go? So I
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  Speaker 1: have good lighting? Right? Um? So I learned all that.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm saying that to say any man that can
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  Speaker 1: at his level, I'm talking about Netflix skills. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about cable bt own uh now with this streaming service
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  Speaker 1: that he's partnered with, the b t V E T plus. Um,
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  Speaker 1: anything I can write, create, produced, and direct and steel,
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  Speaker 1: you know, be a personality themselves with them India Tour.
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  Speaker 1: That's a genius in my eyes. And if anybody wants
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  Speaker 1: to to disagree, I love to talk about it. I
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  Speaker 1: love to talk about it. I won't I won't disagree.
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  Speaker 1: I will not disagree at all. Okay, I just like
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the relationship up because of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you know, everybody needs to toot that horn. It's
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  Speaker 1: not tied to just he gave me an acting shot.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing it over and over. The thing like about
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Perry's that he does all these things and you
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  Speaker 1: talked to him, it's the same guy he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't change. Did some walk on the stage floor
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  Speaker 1: and he's some little weird dude or some over energized person.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same individual. That's that's to me is amazing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being that he built his career, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Medea and all that stuff as an actor playing
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  Speaker 1: a female role or female character over the top. But
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  Speaker 1: he's so centered. Now, let's talk about the series. Is
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  Speaker 1: it's not centered. It's Tyler Perry's the Oval. Okay, Now, okay,
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  Speaker 1: like I got to talk about this show. If you
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  Speaker 1: have not seen this show, everybody, Okay, the lead characters,
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  Speaker 1: the guy looks like Bradley Cooper, the lead character. That's
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  Speaker 1: the president, the president. It's it's a it's a dysfunctional show.
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  Speaker 1: Right that the Obamas have left the White House and
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  Speaker 1: it this far family has moved in. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about, folks, This functional at the steroid level
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  Speaker 1: has moved in. Okay, Okay, the President and the first
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  Speaker 1: lady she's black, he's white. Okay, they do not they
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  Speaker 1: do not get controversial, they do not get along the
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  Speaker 1: least develop their problems that she's black, he's white. For
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  Speaker 1: these people, that's the least of the problems on the show.
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  Speaker 1: That is like minor league that that quickly becomes a
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  Speaker 1: non issue compared to the other problems that they have
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  Speaker 1: going on. Did they have a daughter? I gotta talked.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell the doughters, she's crazy. Okay. The mama
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  Speaker 1: actually tastes the dollar on the show, tastes her in
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  Speaker 1: front of people, eat the white out, in front of
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  Speaker 1: the in front of the security. You don't care. The mama,
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  Speaker 1: her mama, her actual mom, not the step mama. Her
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  Speaker 1: actual mama, tases her own daughter. Mama, the mama. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: she has her she burst two kids, two kids, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now your daughter. Now, this is Tyler Perry's over office.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give everything away, but I gotta set
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  Speaker 1: these characters because we're gonna get to Yeah, we got
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  Speaker 1: we still got to let them watch it now, Okay, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you know me. I'm not gonna bust Tyler Perry's bubber.
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  Speaker 1: But there's enough crazy in his own this show. Enough
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  Speaker 1: drug dealing going on, this show, enough enough sex going on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean sex sex, sex, sex is going on. This
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  Speaker 1: show is ridiculous. Oh my good man. And then your character,
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  Speaker 1: well that's got to be that's got number one TV.
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  Speaker 1: He does. I'm telling my why. Then your character. You're
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  Speaker 1: part of a coat, she's saying, because you know she's
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  Speaker 1: she could you know she could really sing. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: she causally throws in these notes along the way, humming, humming.
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  Speaker 1: She has a child with the with the son of
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  Speaker 1: the butler at the White House, but she has a
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  Speaker 1: twin sister. Ain't gonna go no, I'm not gonna go
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  Speaker 1: any further than that that she has a twin sister.
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  Speaker 1: So she plays two characters in the oval. Am I
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  Speaker 1: am I right now? But if you can correct me, Melissa,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong. No, you're right. I'm just I'm just listening
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  Speaker 1: to smiling Okay. Cool. So so, so it's all set up.
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  Speaker 1: So picture this. Like I said earlier, the Obama's gracious,
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  Speaker 1: the epitome of elegance has left the White House and
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  Speaker 1: part hood, part trailer park, part uh foolishness, part uppity.
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  Speaker 1: Deputy stupidity as moved in. So the staff at the
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  Speaker 1: White House they caught off guard. They're not they're not
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  Speaker 1: what we'll go on in the next episode. And we
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  Speaker 1: get to the next episode, it gets more crazy. You
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  Speaker 1: know what you have said, none but the truth me
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  Speaker 1: lessa tell us about your character and more detail. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's uh, let's let's talk about this journey of this
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  Speaker 1: new series because it's twenty four episodes. Correct, yes, it
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  Speaker 1: is the twenty four episodes. It will be coming out
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  Speaker 1: on d et plus, which is d e t s
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  Speaker 1: hooked on the Oval when it came out on BT
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  Speaker 1: and that was really like an adult soap. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they are. Oval really is what what exactly is? Ruthless?
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  Speaker 1: What exactly? Yeah? What exactly? Like I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the Oval was more like an adult soap op? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what exactly is Tyler? Perish Ruthly, what exactly is the
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  Speaker 1: theme of that and what drives the energy of the characters,
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  Speaker 1: because we can get a more a little more detailed
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  Speaker 1: in building enthusiasm because as I am enthusiastic and there's
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  Speaker 1: about the Oval, they should definitely be enthus because your
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  Speaker 1: character was very dynamic and it was developed on the
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  Speaker 1: Oval show. So being this smart person than he is,
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Berry spends it off. This characters this character off.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us about the dynamics of your character that
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  Speaker 1: was on The Oval, because I didn't want to give
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  Speaker 1: that away too much. I want you to be able
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  Speaker 1: to express that in your own words and then transition
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  Speaker 1: and over the new show. Okay, okay, So my character
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  Speaker 1: in uh The Oval that hasn't spent off is named Ruth.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth has a baby with Barry, who is Um, the
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  Speaker 1: son of Nancy Um Nancy which is the house the
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  Speaker 1: house basically the house grandmother right now because her husband
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: works for the White House, he's the butler. His name
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: is Richard. So Um Ruth comes and she's like she
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: wants her child because Barry has full custody at the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: moment because of Ruth path and she's like, I want
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: to see my my daughter, and that turned into her
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: kidnapping her daughter with her cult members and taking her back. Um,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So Ruthless is going to show you where she's taking
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: her back too. So basically Ruthless is Ruth's character, UM
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: taking her daughter to this cold and you're going to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: be getting an inside look of this fanatical underground world
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: that is the rocket issue that's saying the call wow.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: And it's all shot in Atlanta. It's all shot in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Atlanta on his studios. Um. It's it's literally I think
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I think I'm right. Um.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: This is like the first series that he shot like
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: on location. So he made an actual compound for the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: cal just for the show. And when I tell you,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: just like walking on the ground of it, it's pretty,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: it's pretty eerie. So he's gotten it down to even
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just like the aesthetics. UM, and people are going to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: feel the eeriness of it because at the end of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the day, like this is someone was telling in this
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: earlier but it's it's kind of like speaking to that
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: fear of um the unknown. Because the new books on
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Netflix types and cult, You're gonna get hundreds of documentaries
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: on cults that are either inactive or active or we
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: don't know they're active, you know what I mean. So
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: like these are it's a thing. It's just no one
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: brings it to the forefront. But I think that, um,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: this show is is going to be pioneering for Tyler
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Perry because it's deefinitely out of the box and and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: almost out of the out of the comfort zone of
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: like doing the lighthearted comedy. You know what you did?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That would a fall from grace with me because of
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the fact that, well, that's what I'm saying, this is
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a new way. So he started with a fall from
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: grace and we got all when he's six million of
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: those Netflix eyes on that, and that just made me
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: even more say, I know Ruthless is going to have
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: people just the same because it's on the same as
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to say, he's going the same way with it, just
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the drama, thriller, horror type. Right. No, nothing, I never
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: take for granted any talent. And you are a talent
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: when you're doing characters. And I can tease about your characters,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: but there's work involved in auditioning for this character. Tell
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: us that whole process and and when you got the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: role and then also the announcement of the new series.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Let's let's first talk about I could like to live
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: my my fans, know how who wanted who aspire to
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a world of entertainment or the level of acting and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: acting that's a job, So talk about that whole process.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Oh well, it's definitely definitely. I was definitely job and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: it's definitely a journey one that you've got to have
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: faith for. So um, I moved to California after I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: after I finished the college in Atlanta, and I came
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: out here knowing nothing, and you know, I do no theater,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: so I was extra in Atlanta, and that's like the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: most experience I had had on like a TV or
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: film set, professionals set. So when I moved here, I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: just started doing a lot of research on like you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: wanting to get your head shots, what I do Actors
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: go on to to submit themselves for auditions. And once
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I started getting all this material and knowledge by just
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: doing it the research myself, I was like garnering results.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: My first role that I was on the game, and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: that was from me submitting myself and my picture. It
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: was a head shot. It wasn't professional. I had nothing
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: on my resume, but Jay selected me and then the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: delimma is me having to get back to Atlanta to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: do the audition, you know, and so it was another fight,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and I think that, Um, it's just it takes this.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I think any career, any career with longevity, takes that
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: fight in that drive, uh, because it's not always gonna
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: be up. It's up and down. You know, a journey
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: is up and down, and so if you have that fight,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you'll be able to survive at all. And I think
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that's that's what my journey has taught me. It's built
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: my character as a person to be able to withstand
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: like all the nose until you get the big yes,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: which right now for me is this moment. So for Ruth, um,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I auditioned for the Oval for another character and never
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: audition for Ruth. So what character character did your audition for?
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I auditioned for Lily that Lily uh, Sierra Peyton is drawn. Um,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: So I auditioned for that and then I got a
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: call back for that and his other shows. This so
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I had died for both of the shows, and he
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: flew us all out to do that in Atlanta. We
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: did it at his studios and that was the first
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: time I had entered with Mary Studios um, and he
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: offered me the role of Denise. So then call from
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Tyler Harry. Huh. He offered used a roll of Denise. Yes,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I got that was my first. Then I got a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: phone call crazy daughter huh No, no, no, Denise, Denise
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: is the mistress to roll. That's right, that's right. They
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: got beat up. That's right, that's right, right. Yeah, yeah,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: so Denise. That was my first. He offered me that one.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And then and then I got a phone call um
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: from a number I didn't know, and I didn't answer,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and then I got a text in the text said
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: it had to carry here. I'm trying to reach you,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and I was lying stop stop stop stop. And so
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you got a phone call he nobody calling you, ain't
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: nobody calling you? And you have not to answer a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: certain phone number. Now do you answer number? I aswer everything.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I asked everything I know to stay. No. Sorry, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: don't know you buy I don't say that real quick,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: but less I'm telling you, so you better stop all that.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know that, but I'm not gonna answer, okay,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: because some of those calls come from offices and the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: officers don't have texting capabilities. Okay, Oh is that what
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: it is? Yes, ma'am. I'm telling you. I think that
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: my for me for me. Um, this is how this
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: is my my motto. It's just important. And I don't
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: have your number thing, and people just like otherwise. Huh.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I love you. I know something. I can't say that.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I can't say anything to you. You submitted yourself to
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the game with no representation and got and got an audition,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and you got your behind to Atlanta and you got
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: cast on the show. So you got the tudacity, you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: got to drive. But if somebody called you from a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: number you don't know, answer, okay, answer it might be Rishan,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: might be Rishawn calling you. I might be calling and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: looks like, well, now that I know that it might
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: be used. Always continue a fantastic story. Continue. I'm enjoying it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Come on, my listeners are enjoying it too. Okay. So
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: then he calls me, so I missed the car. I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: called him back, and he just starts, you know, talking
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: my way because obviously he knows my number. Let me
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: tell you something, Perry is a very smart man. He
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: didn't say hello when I when I called him, we
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: just started talking. He said, all right, cool, I'm about
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to start my vacation, but I have a little time.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And I said hello, and he said, alright, cool, I'm
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: about to start my vacation, but I have a little time.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: So you're playing Denise in my new show that oh well,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I really want you to. And he just kept talking
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is really dun Perry.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And so then I just listen no, because that listen
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: You have to remember as an actress, right, we're used
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to going to auditions, um and going home and going
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: on with our lives. Because if you dwell on one audition,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: you lose your mind. So that's why I was like, yeah,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I did audition for these things, but no way, he's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: calling me right now, you know. So um uh he
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: called me and he says all these things. He's like,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I want you to play roots. I don't want to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: work with Peo for a long time. I'm doing a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: spinoff and I think that would be a better role, see,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you know, for your range. And I didn't want to
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: like to think about it, take a time think about it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I said, well, first of all, hi, Tyler Perry and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: then I had a cousin and then I said yes,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the answer is yes, and he's like, no, just think
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: about it. You know, it was fourth of July at
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: that time, so it's like this, you know, spend the holiday,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: think about it. Checks me in the morning with your
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: with the answer, I'm like, did you just see? All right?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, okay, Mr Perry, I
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: will pray on it and i'll text you in the morning.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: He said okay, and I did that and I sleep.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: In my spirit it was confirmed. Could you sleep? That's all?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know hot fast can daylight comes
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: in the morning? I know. I was like, I was
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: like those kids waiting for the first day of school
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: with their hands on their on their cheeks, just looking
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: out the window. That was me. I was like, come on,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: come on, let it be appropriate time, six seven am,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in appropriate, Hi, Mr Perry, I'd like to roll for
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And that's how I went. It
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: was a tech and he text me back and he's like,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: sorry the blindside you, but this is gonna be really fine.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'll be in touch with you.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: And I was like, whoa wow, congratulation, what a great
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: story and an honest story. And your career is honest
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: based on honesty and supreme hard work and not letting
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: people doubt you and not telling you that you're going
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: in a certain area you can't accomplish your dreams and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you're willing to travel. Not just from Oklahoma. You went
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to Atlanta, a new area, Los Angeles. Like you said,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: all you arrived with with your dreams and determination. And
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: then you came back to Atlanta and you know, steal
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: with your dreams and your determination. And that is a
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: testimony that I want everybody to hear. But before we go,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Melissa L. Williams. She's to start the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: new Tyler Perry's Ruthless series. Tell us how and where's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: it coming on and when does it start? And it
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: starts Marching eighteen. Tell us more details before we wrap
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: it up. Thank you so much for Jump for saying that.
• 29:39
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  Speaker 1: the show is called Rutus March nineteen. You're there, they'll
• 29:59
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• 30:05
  Speaker 1: spoiling it for you. That's all I gotta say, my friend,
• 30:08
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• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I got you back. Okay, I got back, and your
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: star don't change your hard work. That's a testimony that,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Uh I when I look in the mirror or even
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: when I'm tired, I realized I have to go on
• 30:23
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• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and that should take advantage of it. And so you're
• 30:28
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• 30:30
  Speaker 1: In this new series called Tyler Perry's Ruthless Again, I'm
• 30:34
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