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RonReaco Lee Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest. He's live in studio today, as recently
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Speaker 1: started in the stars comedy Serious Survivor's Remorse, in which
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Speaker 1: he was nominated for several nuble A CP Image Awards.
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Speaker 1: He started the BT comedy series Let's Stay Together Up
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Speaker 1: n Such a Sister, That's when we bonded many many
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Speaker 1: years ago, ABC's in the Motherhood, and had a recording
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Speaker 1: role on Foxes The Good Guys. His breakout role was
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Speaker 1: opposite Denzel Washington and the award winning feature of Glory,
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Speaker 1: and he started opposite Viola Davis and Tyler Perry's Madea
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Speaker 1: Goes to Jail. He's on the show today to talk
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Speaker 1: about this new b et plus First Wives Clubs. First
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Speaker 1: Wives Clubs, the hilarious new nine episode comedy series that
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Speaker 1: follows a group of women living in New York City
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Speaker 1: who created a sisterhood as a result of they failed
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Speaker 1: marriage trials and tribulations. Please work on the money making conversations.
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Speaker 1: I know it's called a little brother, good friend, men
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Speaker 1: t he's all of those things. More importantly, this is
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Speaker 1: I told him before the show this I was. I
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Speaker 1: was reluctant to have him sitting next to me because
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Speaker 1: I love him so much, and I was I would
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Speaker 1: try to get him the call in, but he showed
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Speaker 1: up anyway. Please welcome to the show, Rico late oh
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Speaker 1: Man studio. Man, Man, you got me feeling old. Man
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Speaker 1: took it back to Gloria. Oh my goodness. Man, guy's
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Speaker 1: good man. I've been I've been in the game. I
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Speaker 1: mean you're working actor. I means you're a small business person.
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Speaker 1: That's true. And that's why I've been letting people know
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Speaker 1: who coming, specially from entertainment, because I didn't really understand
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Speaker 1: the value because of social media. You know, it makes you,
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Speaker 1: guys be entrepreneurs because you can sell your brand and
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Speaker 1: market your brand and you have the statement, how's the
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Speaker 1: effect of social media had? You know? Because you started
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Speaker 1: before social not man long before it. Uh you know,
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Speaker 1: I was reluctant. I fought toothing now. I mean when
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Speaker 1: I was doing uh, let's stay together, like man, you
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Speaker 1: gotta get it. But I ain't doing nothing. I came here.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna act, That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go home. I'm gonna sere with my family and uh man,
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Speaker 1: when happens, people was opened up fake accounts and I
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Speaker 1: was laughing about it or whatever. And then this one
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Speaker 1: individuals started to really interact with people. I think I
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Speaker 1: was at the Neighborhood Awards went in and uh, he
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Speaker 1: was was responding toil believe it was LaToya lucking on
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Speaker 1: my behalf, and so somebody like hit me up. I
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Speaker 1: think it was my man. Christian Keys was like, hey man,
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Speaker 1: you really need to do something about this because whoever
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Speaker 1: this is, this dude is seriously imperson, ain't you. And
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Speaker 1: so I open up my first account and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's one of the things. You know, I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: get better at it because it is a necessary I
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Speaker 1: don't wanna call it evil, but it's definitely one of
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Speaker 1: those things that you have to be on top of
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Speaker 1: your game and the cross social media, but especially today
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Speaker 1: because sometimes it could determine job. Oh it breaks my heart,
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Speaker 1: but yes, you know, they're looking at your funds, they're
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Speaker 1: looking at your your feed, and they kind of they're
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Speaker 1: seeing what type of reach you have, and so yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's somebody that's got more reached than you, and that
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Speaker 1: that that's just so true. And that's so that doesn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily mean that they have the working skill all the chops.
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Speaker 1: But because engagement, UM, followers mean something part that your
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Speaker 1: eyeball halls and has never been proven that is the case,
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Speaker 1: because otherwise a lot of these people, these amazing following
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Speaker 1: basis will have platinum albums and want her to million
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Speaker 1: allar movies. But it does say something that people do
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Speaker 1: resonate with your voice, with your bread and so so
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Speaker 1: that's something you're working on as a businessman. You're working
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Speaker 1: on that. More importantly, I wanted to talk about something
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Speaker 1: I felt miserably good, the balance life. You know, and
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Speaker 1: uh and and you you talk about that whenever we
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Speaker 1: talked about having the balance life, talk about being able
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Speaker 1: to deal with being a celebrity working actor and having
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Speaker 1: a balance life. You know, it's tough. I got married,
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Speaker 1: I got two kids, I got a four year old
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Speaker 1: and five year old. Um, you know part of why
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Speaker 1: I actually uh and actually because of you. I remember
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Speaker 1: when uh, when we first really started working again, you
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Speaker 1: got of too many in your wing. I was amazed
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Speaker 1: at the fact that you had a really nice place
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Speaker 1: in l A. I love it. You had two cards,
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Speaker 1: you had your airport card, and you had this nice truck.
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Speaker 1: And you see him and I take the airport. I
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Speaker 1: just drive out to the airport on Fridays after the
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Speaker 1: show and then I shoot back home Monday morning. I said, man,
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Speaker 1: you can do that. I said, you can live in
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Speaker 1: Houston and work in l A. I never get he said,
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Speaker 1: ron Rico, you ain't got to give l A all
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Speaker 1: your money and I and it always stuck in my head.
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Speaker 1: So I said, when I could, it's gonna caught me
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Speaker 1: a career back in the A. Get that in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and eleven, um, And then what happened was, you know,
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Speaker 1: the BT show I was doing, Let's Stay Together is
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Speaker 1: shot here, and I literally was blessed to walk right
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Speaker 1: out of that in the survivrashy More It's it's shot here,
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Speaker 1: and a few other gigs that I had here. So
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Speaker 1: my family got really used to dad, you know, going
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Speaker 1: to work and coming home and um, and so now
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Speaker 1: I traveled a little bit more. It's been it's been
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Speaker 1: an adjustment. But listen, it's been many of days where
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Speaker 1: I've gone to work on a Friday morning and realized
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Speaker 1: I had, you know that evening off and flew home,
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Speaker 1: literally booked a flight, went straight from work to the airport,
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Speaker 1: flew home laterly for one day. I'm back, you know,
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Speaker 1: back at the airport Sunday. So you know, you just
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Speaker 1: kind of suck it up. You do what you gotta
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Speaker 1: do to get back to the family. It's tough, but
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Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's what you gotta do. So
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Speaker 1: I try to keep a balance and been fortunate to
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Speaker 1: do so. It's really important because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: what's that shutdown time? Because if you throw to the
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Speaker 1: brand and we just entertainment, it can be fracturing. You know.
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Speaker 1: We we think we headed down this road and of longevity,
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Speaker 1: and they can pull the carpet on it. So that's
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Speaker 1: why that balance is important. Yea, I was looking at
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Speaker 1: Jobio and so it was talking about directing. Yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: and that's I've read that now. Just my eyes went, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I gotta talk to him about this because it's a
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Speaker 1: it's it seems to be a natural for you talk
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Speaker 1: to me about it. Um, I don't you know if
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Speaker 1: quite has kept I've been wanting the direct now that
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Speaker 1: you mentioned it. Man. One of the second film I
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Speaker 1: did was Glory, Uh with Denzel you know, it's a
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Speaker 1: wig director that Matthew Brodery and Morgan Freeman starts, you know,
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Speaker 1: the stellic cast. But I can honestly say I was
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Speaker 1: interested in directing back then. I remember coming back and
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Speaker 1: comes to my friends and man, we're gonna make a
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Speaker 1: little movie. And I had contest man, I Fisher Price.
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Speaker 1: You know Fisher Prices, but Fisher Price made this little
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Speaker 1: cheap cam quarter uh. And he said, I was like,
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Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do. Man'm gonna put you.
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Speaker 1: I think it was my home I had a Homeboy
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Speaker 1: na't Joe, and home One ain't Leon. I said, Joan,
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Speaker 1: put you in the shopping cart, man, and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: do a dolly shot and we're just gonna roll down
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Speaker 1: the sidewalk. It's like eleven or twelve years old. So
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Speaker 1: it's been in my blood. One of direct man every
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Speaker 1: show minus Sister Sister, and he didn't really start to
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Speaker 1: like bets, let's stay together. I started biting at the
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Speaker 1: bit man trying to get them to let me direct.
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Speaker 1: It didn't work out. Begging on Survivors and Wars. You know,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna let you do. You know, fifth season, fifth season.
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Speaker 1: I didn't get a fifth season, so I can't get
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Speaker 1: a chance to direct there. But I was fortunate to
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Speaker 1: direct the short film Um. Actually one of my coach
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Speaker 1: stars Jessie Usher, another good brother, Kelling the King. They
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Speaker 1: formed the production company got hold of a really really
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Speaker 1: nice short film and I literally had told I said, listen,
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Speaker 1: I realized that, you know, you got put stuff out
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Speaker 1: in the universe. And when that opportunity come now, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I hadn't said no to a few other things,
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Speaker 1: but I said to myself, I said, God, if I'm
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Speaker 1: giving the opportunity to direct, I don't care what it is.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying yes, sight unseen. And I did. When they
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Speaker 1: called me if, I was like, yep, I ain't read
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Speaker 1: the script. I was just like, I'm gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: And that was a heavy piece. It was a dramatic piece,
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Speaker 1: but it confirmed everything in me, like directing is That's
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Speaker 1: what I want to do. Now let's go back to
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Speaker 1: you and I really let um you know, sister um um,
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Speaker 1: young talented guy comes in. Yeah, still young and talent
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Speaker 1: when that resume says otherwise, And we cast you as
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Speaker 1: a love interest for one of the twins Tea in
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Speaker 1: Tomrrow and and it was just it was like really
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Speaker 1: big opportunity, but there were no guarantees, and you just
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Speaker 1: was to me, was just on on this huge learning curve.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to soak up so much information tell
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Speaker 1: us about that that time frame and leading up to
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Speaker 1: where you're at right now. Well, but I was a
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Speaker 1: fresh out of water man. I think I had blown
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Speaker 1: an audition probably a month before for motion. I had
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Speaker 1: froze up and got all the way to produce a
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Speaker 1: session with those y'all don't know your succession is like
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Speaker 1: like the final final audition, and and if you're not,
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Speaker 1: if you've never been in one, it can be very overwhelming.
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Speaker 1: That room you know, probably had you can have anywhere
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Speaker 1: from ten to fifteen people, writers, directors and lots of
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Speaker 1: right in there. So it was it was overwhelming, and
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Speaker 1: I did. I kind of folded under pressure. So when
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Speaker 1: sister sister came around, I remember saying, listen, if I
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Speaker 1: get this opportunity again, I'm knocking out the park and
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Speaker 1: uh it Rashana. He made it sound real simple, like
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Speaker 1: I came in audition, I got cast, n they made
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Speaker 1: your boy jump through the hoops. I probably have four
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Speaker 1: auditions before I got to read with Tire and U.
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Speaker 1: You know, I got cast and Uh, I think even
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Speaker 1: the first day it was it was an adjustment because I,
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Speaker 1: you know, four camera sitcom is a different beast. You know.
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Speaker 1: I had started off doing movies in Georgia, so all
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Speaker 1: those things like they just they didn't compare like what
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Speaker 1: you have to know, the beats, the energy, the timing,
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Speaker 1: all of that was just new to me. And and
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Speaker 1: I did. I hung around. They brought Dean Richmond in
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Speaker 1: probably later that the course of your Cosm show played,
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Speaker 1: but and um, and he was great. He was you know,
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Speaker 1: he was you know, we were closer in age. And
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Speaker 1: I learned a lot from him. I learned a lot
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Speaker 1: from him, but it took me a minute to find
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Speaker 1: like what's my funny gonna be? And and you helped
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Speaker 1: me with that because when you're around really that's that's listen,
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Speaker 1: when you're around funny people. And if you watch really
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Speaker 1: like talented people, um, like Martin for example, if you
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Speaker 1: watched that show a lot of Martin's you know martin isms,
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Speaker 1: if you will, uh, it becomes infectious and other people
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Speaker 1: will start to kind of inhabit his his way of
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Speaker 1: being funny. And you see it a lot of times.
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Speaker 1: And one of the things I always say to Rashaan
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Speaker 1: in the in the nicest way, he let me know
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Speaker 1: that the role that I was going down to kind
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Speaker 1: of find my comedy, it wasn't right. Like in other words,
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Speaker 1: I was really just kind of emulating Dion a lot
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Speaker 1: of times to to kind of to kind of hit
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Speaker 1: my jokes. And Rashan put me to the side. One
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Speaker 1: day we was at craft service. He sat me down
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Speaker 1: on these and I don't know what he's gonna say.
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Speaker 1: Isn't in my fire? Am I what what's going on?
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Speaker 1: And he in the most loving like big brother. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna get some constructive criticism that it might stink a
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Speaker 1: little bit right now, but brother man on down the road,
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Speaker 1: you're really gonna be appreciative. And let me tell you,
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Speaker 1: it's one of the best piece of advices anyone has
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Speaker 1: ever given me. And you just told me, listen, here's
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Speaker 1: your position, here's his position. He can't play your position,
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Speaker 1: you can't play his. So you just define your position
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Speaker 1: and play it. And you did. And you did. Brother.
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Speaker 1: That was some like key advice in my career at
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Speaker 1: a young age to just make sure I kind of
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Speaker 1: forged my own path and and you've been doing it
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Speaker 1: ever since. And that's the beauty of it. What basically,
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Speaker 1: I was just telling them just listen, just listen. And
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Speaker 1: that's why a lot of actors fail. They come in
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Speaker 1: with these pre made up notions off going his role
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Speaker 1: and what do it like? It's not listening. And one
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Speaker 1: of his greatest skill set is his ability to comprehend
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Speaker 1: the moment. That's one I saw that right off. I went,
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Speaker 1: if you just listen to the scene, then he would win.
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Speaker 1: And that's all stop stop thinking, you gotta be this
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Speaker 1: and loud to scene. The evolved and he just was
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Speaker 1: just fantastic everything. That's why you can share a scene.
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Speaker 1: We just watching it because back then I had to
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Speaker 1: say nothing that was mute, but now it was. It
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Speaker 1: was such a valuable lesson. That's just one of many
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Speaker 1: that you've that you've been partnered on me. Man, that
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Speaker 1: absolutely we're here with Rodrico Lee. When this next break,
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Speaker 1: I gotta do what they told me, I gotta do
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Speaker 1: what you gotta do. I gotta talk about the first place.
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Speaker 1: The next break, we'll be back with more of ron
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Speaker 1: Rico Lee again. I'm so proud. I'm so so happy,
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Speaker 1: Uh believe me, Man, emotionally just seeing you sit here,
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Speaker 1: and I remember the times we had in my my
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Speaker 1: big place in l a Wen. Come by, you come by,
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Speaker 1: looking outside, you stay here. I go, yeah, this man,
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Speaker 1: come on inside. But this park at the front man
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Speaker 1: in that place, it was out steady as this gentleman
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Speaker 1: sitting next to me. We'll be back with more money
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Speaker 1: making conversations. Oh this is great. You're listening to money
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Speaker 1: making conversation. Sitting next to me is running Recoli. He's
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Speaker 1: here to talk about the hilarious new nine episode commedy
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Speaker 1: series's on b et Plus. It's about a group of
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Speaker 1: women in New York City who created a sisterhood as
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Speaker 1: as a result of their felt marriage, trials and tribulations.
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Speaker 1: This is a takeoff of an eighteen nine six movie
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Speaker 1: to start Diane Keaton. Very funny movie by the way,
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Speaker 1: the movie uh Goldie Han and uh Bette Miller, Yeah yeah,
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Speaker 1: Bette Miller, and so remake so hard man and then
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Speaker 1: do then you're doing African American man put another spin
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Speaker 1: on it. So yeah. Tracy Oliver is e A. C.
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Speaker 1: Oliver wrote this. She ran the show. Yeah, man, it
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Speaker 1: was it was cool. I remember when it hit the
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Speaker 1: trades and you know, you read stuff and you don't
12:43
Speaker 1: think there about it. And then they sent me. They say, man,
12:46
Speaker 1: you put yourself on tape, and put myself on tape
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Speaker 1: and um. And then initially they were like, oh no,
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Speaker 1: this it's not gonna go as well as like work
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Speaker 1: and you know everything. And then, especially now that I'm
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, have to put myself on tape a lot
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Speaker 1: of times. There's some tapes you do, and you're like,
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Speaker 1: there's some tapes you do. You'd be like, all right,
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Speaker 1: let me. It's what they say about this one because
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Speaker 1: in my heart of heart, so I felt like I
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Speaker 1: had I had delivered. However, when they conceived the character,
13:08
Speaker 1: he was a lot different with me and uh and
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Speaker 1: so you know, my performance required them to think outside
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Speaker 1: the box a little bit. And I was very fortunate
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Speaker 1: that Tracy Oliver and those guys decided, listen, we can
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Speaker 1: make this work. So I got a call from my manager.
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Speaker 1: They said, look, don't shave, don't work out, don't get
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Speaker 1: a haircut. And I thought they had wrote another character
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Speaker 1: something cause they was trying to find something for me
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Speaker 1: on the show. And they said no, no, no, they
13:31
Speaker 1: want you to play Gary. They just they're gonna roughly
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Speaker 1: up a little bit. I mean they talked about put
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Speaker 1: me in the fast dude. Uh, they talked about all
13:37
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But it was great because they really
13:38
Speaker 1: get a character a bit of a journey, and that
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Speaker 1: was the first time that's ever happened. So we had
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Speaker 1: a good man. We shot in New York at beginning
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Speaker 1: apartment metro card so like there's nothing like it was
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Speaker 1: a dream come true. I was there for about three
13:52
Speaker 1: months and you couldn't tell me anything. Man. We got
13:55
Speaker 1: to the point where I was I was gonna come
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Speaker 1: up starting my damn and go here and may have
13:58
Speaker 1: breakfast on over man, and I'm gonna go, you know,
14:00
Speaker 1: get back to Brooklyn do this that just you know,
14:03
Speaker 1: And it was amazing that you could get around that
14:06
Speaker 1: city like that. We're never getting the car, know the music,
14:08
Speaker 1: maasing thing. New York is my favorite tip as far
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Speaker 1: as power. You know, it's just I remember when I've
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Speaker 1: moved up there to do stand up comedy and I
14:16
Speaker 1: would come out that subway realized I was in New York.
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Speaker 1: It's so powerful and the fact that you can you know,
14:22
Speaker 1: I would tell people you can walk from your apartment
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Speaker 1: New any by the time you get into the strip light,
14:28
Speaker 1: you're gonna get some clothes, some foods, man, everything, everything
14:31
Speaker 1: you need, everything you need because it's that type of city.
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Speaker 1: And and it gets what by the way, you could
14:35
Speaker 1: be new and nobody would even think, especially if it's
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Speaker 1: a certain time of day. But that's New York City.
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Speaker 1: So going up there for three months, getting to realize
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Speaker 1: that this is the big apple up there. So meeting
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Speaker 1: the cast, let's talk about that. Uh you have my girl,
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Speaker 1: uh just jil yeah yeah yeah uh. And then you
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Speaker 1: have Ryan Mitchell that day who's married to my man
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Speaker 1: Sterling and Kay Brown. You had a yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I love that dude. Man man, And listen when I
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Speaker 1: say this, it's however cool you think he is raised
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Speaker 1: that to like the tenth power, like this cat, all
15:17
Speaker 1: the accolades, he's made history. But when I tell you
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Speaker 1: one of the coolest, most humble man, that brother right there,
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Speaker 1: I gotta beat him because everything I see him and
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Speaker 1: and he's he's in that special role he's in he's
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Speaker 1: in the rock, and he's in the next level and
15:32
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So so that's her husband, that's her husband,
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Speaker 1: that's her husband, and that we had met at the
15:37
Speaker 1: image words about a year and a half before so,
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Speaker 1: and then even then he was cool man, you know.
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Speaker 1: So So anyway, uh, the one thing about doing self
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Speaker 1: tapes and things of that nature, they don't require and
15:47
Speaker 1: then required chemistry read. So I literally flew out to
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Speaker 1: your very nervous because listen, this I tell people was
15:53
Speaker 1: First Wives Club and the husbands were optional, like you
15:55
Speaker 1: know what I mean, they could be interchanged, they could
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Speaker 1: be cut. We really need them, no, you know, so
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Speaker 1: I literally when I packed my bags, I didn't wanna
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Speaker 1: tell my wife what I was doing. I really want
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Speaker 1: to ma' gonna run out to New York real quick
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Speaker 1: for this a little audition, but it was ultimately a
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Speaker 1: table read, and I knew how important it was, you know,
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Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, Michelle and I
16:12
Speaker 1: had to have some believable chemistry. So I was really
16:16
Speaker 1: stressed going into that table read because we hadn't I
16:19
Speaker 1: never met her before. What was your character? What was so?
16:22
Speaker 1: Gary is a Gary is an interesting dude. I mean,
16:25
Speaker 1: he's he's kind of a nerdy, butting up and the glasses.
16:31
Speaker 1: That's that's Gary Gary. When we meet Gary, Gary is
16:33
Speaker 1: in the middle of just being a straight nerd. But
16:36
Speaker 1: the flip side was that he stepped outside of marriage
16:39
Speaker 1: and he got caught up. And when we when we
16:42
Speaker 1: discovered he's really fighting to get his family back. So
16:44
Speaker 1: he's in he's like in one of them, please baby,
16:47
Speaker 1: baby please. Yeah, and nerdy, nerdy, nerdy on top of that,
16:51
Speaker 1: and she like, you know what, So she go out
16:53
Speaker 1: and I think it's the pilot episode. She meet her
16:56
Speaker 1: somebody and she go out and get her a little
16:58
Speaker 1: revenge night in and I was at the ball. Yeah,
17:02
Speaker 1: so you know it's uh, yeah, I know my wife watching.
17:05
Speaker 1: I didn't know you was. You played the dog in
17:08
Speaker 1: this and I say, yeah, you know, this is you know,
17:10
Speaker 1: it's a different role for me. It's interesting that she
17:13
Speaker 1: says that because, you know, because the character doesn't look
17:16
Speaker 1: like it will go there. And that's what that's actually
17:18
Speaker 1: what I liked about it because he definitely and I
17:20
Speaker 1: think that's what caught uh the bree who has played
17:24
Speaker 1: by the ship, I think it caught her off, you
17:27
Speaker 1: know me, Yeah, yeah, but me exactly. But no, he
17:33
Speaker 1: you know, he fell short and has to well has
17:35
Speaker 1: to make a man. But yeah, it's it's cool. Man.
17:39
Speaker 1: The character really goes on the journey, and I kind
17:41
Speaker 1: of see over nine episodes just in the course of
17:43
Speaker 1: them trying to repair their marriage. Um, we see him
17:46
Speaker 1: kind of clean up a little bit, starts to date again,
17:49
Speaker 1: you know, starts getting kind of a light little trim
17:52
Speaker 1: and you know, so over time they started, let me
17:54
Speaker 1: get a little here because that little light, little light
17:56
Speaker 1: line unto Chris. And so by the time we get
17:59
Speaker 1: to like that ninth episode, you know, he's on fire.
18:02
Speaker 1: He's kind of you know he listen, you saw that
18:05
Speaker 1: the nerdy look. So he had a long and I
18:07
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm on fire, but he's you know,
18:10
Speaker 1: there's there's some smoke. There's a lot of smoke because
18:14
Speaker 1: because I was talking about it because in the beginning
18:16
Speaker 1: it's a lot of hair on your face. It is.
18:18
Speaker 1: They wouldn't let me. Oh, I couldn't stand it, man,
18:20
Speaker 1: And I've never been wanting to have this, like you know, crazy.
18:23
Speaker 1: I remember must dad was long, man getting untime I
18:25
Speaker 1: talked to somebody, feel like I had stuff in right
18:29
Speaker 1: because I was. I was looking at all the all
18:30
Speaker 1: the clips. I was going like, it's that hair, like yeah, man,
18:35
Speaker 1: it was. I couldn't stand it. Man. My kids. Was
18:37
Speaker 1: looking at me like that. He don't cut that because
18:39
Speaker 1: I was pretty much fine on every weekend. But know
18:42
Speaker 1: when they first let me get that first little light trim,
18:47
Speaker 1: But no, it was cool, man. It was nice to
18:49
Speaker 1: do something where I had to do much hair and makeup.
18:52
Speaker 1: You know, I just can't get your work put my
18:54
Speaker 1: clothes on. They because it was early early look very
18:58
Speaker 1: stylid early. Gary was easy breeze man makeup artists. And
19:01
Speaker 1: here Stot is loving me. Now, let's talk about the
19:04
Speaker 1: other characters on the show, Scott's characters. Scott. Yeah, but
19:08
Speaker 1: all all the women in the show have issues with
19:11
Speaker 1: their men. They do, they do, they do. That's the
19:13
Speaker 1: that's the basis of the show. Isn't an empowering show
19:16
Speaker 1: for women? Oh? Absolutely absolutely, And I love what other
19:19
Speaker 1: thing it does too. It shows how important sisterhood it
19:21
Speaker 1: is for women to have each other's bags and listen
19:23
Speaker 1: to communicate, and their relationships together aren't perfect. So we
19:27
Speaker 1: kind of see over the course of nine episodes that
19:29
Speaker 1: they have to deal with some things because in the
19:30
Speaker 1: beginning there's been some distance between them, and then based
19:34
Speaker 1: on Jill Scott's character and she kind of gets in
19:36
Speaker 1: brawled in a bit of a one of those what
19:38
Speaker 1: do you call them TMZ moments, they all kind of
19:41
Speaker 1: come to her aid and then at which point we
19:43
Speaker 1: discover that they're all kind of in the midst of
19:46
Speaker 1: their own struggles. So it's really it's really dope, Like
19:48
Speaker 1: it looks at three different relationships, all in the midst
19:52
Speaker 1: of a bit of a storm. But I like it
19:53
Speaker 1: because it was a Martyn I yeah, you know the
19:58
Speaker 1: fact that you could have done that script like when
20:00
Speaker 1: you add the TMC little the musical ever and things
20:03
Speaker 1: like that, the lifestyle elements and stuff like that, and
20:05
Speaker 1: you guys looked to me and felt authentic. Now, interesting
20:08
Speaker 1: thing about this is that it's on BT plus, the
20:11
Speaker 1: streaming network. Now, that's what is that? That's that's kind
20:14
Speaker 1: of what you know, you've been on the cable, you've
20:15
Speaker 1: been on traditional restaurant TV. Now in that streaming world,
20:19
Speaker 1: which means that the person can watch all episodes at
20:21
Speaker 1: one time. Binget, Yes, how's that? That wasn't the take
20:24
Speaker 1: on that? Well, it's new. And the thing about it
20:26
Speaker 1: was when we when the show was conceived, it really
20:29
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, it was kind of conceived that at
20:31
Speaker 1: a sister network, Paramount Networks. We all signed on. We
20:33
Speaker 1: were on Paramount Network, and then as we started to
20:36
Speaker 1: shoot and BT was kind of finalizing their deal to
20:38
Speaker 1: to kind of launch BT plus, they needed original content,
20:41
Speaker 1: so they actually, you know, opted to kind of bring
20:44
Speaker 1: it over to BT plus. It was all very new
20:46
Speaker 1: to us. As they were kind of lining out the
20:48
Speaker 1: details of BT Plus, we were learning on the fly.
20:51
Speaker 1: But I can honestly say I got the app, uh
20:54
Speaker 1: probably right when it right on the nineteen, and it's
20:56
Speaker 1: a great app. And and I can honestly say after
20:59
Speaker 1: going through it and checking out some of the stuff,
21:01
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really a lot of content. There'll be
21:05
Speaker 1: more content to come. They got bigger uh, Tyler Pearis
21:08
Speaker 1: got a show that he's doing not on b T plus,
21:10
Speaker 1: but I'm sure they'll be offered on there at some point.
21:12
Speaker 1: But you know, they got there, They got their Housewives
21:15
Speaker 1: and Housewild. I mean, it's it's a lot of a
21:16
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of content. Because because I dialloaded
21:19
Speaker 1: yeah you know, you know, yeah, you go support I know,
21:22
Speaker 1: because of the fact that that's the brand, that's that's unique. BET.
21:25
Speaker 1: If they can't stream, nobody can stream from an African
21:28
Speaker 1: American perspective, and it's also be a place where you
21:31
Speaker 1: can actually get the home of the African American boars.
21:34
Speaker 1: And that's this is a signature show with original content
21:38
Speaker 1: that's being launched on b G Plus, which letting them
21:40
Speaker 1: know that we're not just bringing you old reruns of
21:43
Speaker 1: old African American signals from the seventies and the eighties
21:46
Speaker 1: and the nineties. That's really really wonderful, but it's still
21:49
Speaker 1: for your brand. That's a that's a new law. It is.
21:52
Speaker 1: It's different. Uh. You know, obviously we talked about that
21:54
Speaker 1: social media game plays heavily. You know what I mean,
21:57
Speaker 1: You gotta get it out there is you know, we
21:59
Speaker 1: live in a digital but your handles the word double
22:02
Speaker 1: ry across the board. I g Facebook, Twitter, all that
22:05
Speaker 1: you hit me up and I'm trying to get better.
22:07
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get better. But I did. We did
22:09
Speaker 1: a lot of press in the last couple of weeks
22:11
Speaker 1: and so I got some posts for that and I'm
22:13
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna continue. I'm continue the post. I know,
22:15
Speaker 1: I gotta get better. You will get ready with the
22:17
Speaker 1: thing about this is that man, some people that's what
22:19
Speaker 1: they do and you one of those artists. You know
22:22
Speaker 1: what I'm saying from the standpoint of that you you
22:24
Speaker 1: were just so worried about which well, I know eventually
22:26
Speaker 1: you're going to be behindicing, You're gonna be directed, you
22:29
Speaker 1: gonna be writing and all that because I met that guy.
22:33
Speaker 1: You know, God is just giving you this path to
22:35
Speaker 1: be in front of the camera because you're a good
22:36
Speaker 1: looking God you understand your craft. But brother, I remember
22:40
Speaker 1: nanty two with Steve Harvey asked me to come on
22:44
Speaker 1: his show as a writer to sitcom. He said, man,
22:45
Speaker 1: but you're so talented as a stand up. I said,
22:47
Speaker 1: but I want to write. I want to produce because
22:49
Speaker 1: that that that's the path. You know, God can give
22:52
Speaker 1: you an option to be successful like something. That doesn't
22:55
Speaker 1: mean that's your ultimately gold. That's your path that you
22:57
Speaker 1: emotionally driven to go there. So I know any opportunities
23:02
Speaker 1: that I see that said, hey, man, coming director, coming
23:05
Speaker 1: system direct, and you're available, I'm gonna call you because
23:08
Speaker 1: because I read it now, I read it. Let me know, man,
23:10
Speaker 1: let me know, and I like you said, even assistant directing, shadowing. Man, Listen,
23:14
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to soak up knowledge. I shadowed a
23:17
Speaker 1: couple of years back, man, And that's the thing I
23:19
Speaker 1: continuously put it out there. It's like, I'm like a fit.
23:22
Speaker 1: I'm a fisherman. I love to fish, ain't I tell you?
23:24
Speaker 1: And I don't care where I go on set. I
23:26
Speaker 1: like to let people know that I fished, because that's
23:28
Speaker 1: how you meet other fisherman. Absolutely by that. By that ration, now,
23:31
Speaker 1: I like to let people know. Man, I're writing directing
23:34
Speaker 1: all of that, so that's how you meet people that say, oh,
23:36
Speaker 1: were you trying to come on over? Let me? Sally
23:39
Speaker 1: Richardson uh came and directed the episode. I'm all in
23:44
Speaker 1: her here because she here's an actress. Dude, she's on fire.
23:47
Speaker 1: You listen. I saw Andre last week. I said, we're
23:50
Speaker 1: Sally now like where this week? Sitcom drama? And the
23:55
Speaker 1: thing about it was, uh, survirus, and Morris was, maybe
23:59
Speaker 1: I would just I should say her third or fourth
24:01
Speaker 1: episode direct and she was still kind of getting her
24:04
Speaker 1: feet with however, a pro like a pro and um.
24:09
Speaker 1: And then from that, man, we started following each other
24:10
Speaker 1: on IM before I knew. Every time I turned around,
24:13
Speaker 1: she's prepping, she's you know, she's getting shot list together,
24:17
Speaker 1: she's doing she's doing that, and I mean just to
24:20
Speaker 1: watch her do her things that you brother. Man, Listen,
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24:29
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24:32
Speaker 1: me on money making conversations. I love you, brother, say that.
24:35
Speaker 1: I really say that, because Wow, this is a hard
24:38
Speaker 1: interview for me to do personally, because it's like watching
24:42
Speaker 1: the family member that that that I so cared about
24:47
Speaker 1: and then then had to walk away and let you
24:49
Speaker 1: do your thing and to come in the office, come
24:51
Speaker 1: into this space and say, man, I love you, and
24:53
Speaker 1: you see you love it back to it's a pleasure
24:56
Speaker 1: being here at any time. Man. You just you ain't
24:58
Speaker 1: gotta do nothing. Just called me. It cool. That might
25:01
Speaker 1: make conversation, y'all